Seeking His Pleasure Through Patience

Assalaamu’alaikum everyone (:

Sigh. I’m really sick and tired of crying every morning hearing about the death toll in Gaza in the news. And I’m extremely outraged (trying to control my words here, Fisabilillah) of one particular spokeswoman. But that won’t solve anything right?

So what can solve it? Wallahu’alam. He’ll Solve it for us, I believe He Will (:

Just maybe not now, not tomorrow or in ten years. Maybe the only solution is His Punishment to the tormentors in the hereafter. That’s why we gotta be patient and unfortunately for this, we can trust only Him to Solve when He Knows is the appropriate time. Wallahu’alam.

But if you’ve got the power and capabilities to try and stop it, or at least save the people of Gaza somehow, you’ve gotta try. And call upon the ummah to help you out (:

If not, all we can do and that we’ve got to always keep on doing is  to pray for them. For our Gazan brothers and sisters to be strong and patient in facing this ordeal, and for us to be patient, and not act violently about it. That would just make things worse. May this ordeal only raise their status in Jannah (:

And one more thing. Let’s not discriminate the Jews for this. This Zionist regime pretty similar to the so-called mujahideens (soldiers) of Islam. They are NOT representative of all Jews.

Why do I say that?

1) Because it’s common sense. Judaism came from Allah, too, right? Just like Christianity and Islam. I strongly believe if the religion came from Him, there’s bound to be good people from among them who follow the actual (not necessarily original, of course) teachings.

2) Because the orthodox Jews have openly condemned Zionism.

Read their speech here:

http://nkusa.org/activities/Speeches/20081227.cfm

فَآَمَنَت طَّائِفَةٌ مِّن بَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ

 وَكَفَرَت طَّائِفَةٌ

As-Saff, 61:14.
And so [it happened that] some of the children of Israel came to believe, whereas others denied the truth.

In the Quran, just like for every other community, it is related that some of the Jews believed while others rejected faith. Here in Surah Saff ayat 14, God mentions the believing Jews first, then the disbelievers among them; a clear indication to us muslims to not fall into the falacy of hating someone or some community on account of their race/religion, or in this case, the passing felony of the nationalistic Zionism. Racism is not acceptable in Islam; anti-semitism is a form of racism but anti-zionism is not.
Let not your hatred for a people lead you into transgression, God loves not those who transgress.

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In other news, my dad’s recovering fast Alhamdulillah. He was warded on Monday cuz his blood pressure shot up, but he’ll be discharged in the afternoon today, Insya’Allah (:

But he still can’t work. And that’s a problem for my family cuz he’s a taxi driver, and a taxi driver’s income here in Singapore is dependant on how many passengers you get in a day. And I think we all know how bad the economy is now. Who wants to take a taxi when the fares are so expensive right?

On top of that there’s the taxi rent. So yeah, not much income.

My mum’s a freelance masseuse. So her income is dependent on the number of clients she gets per day as well. We haven’t been getting any income the past week since my mum was busy attending to my dad.

Alhamdulillah, my relatives have been helping us financially as much as they could, mostly for me and my siblings’ allowances. My friend’s dad had also given us some amount of money. Masya’Allah.

I’ll have to wait till my internship’s over so that I can get a part-time job somewhere. I’m planning to make it into a full-time job after I officially  graduate in May Insya’Allah. 

The money’s not going to be for me. Well, maybe part of it. But a bigger percentage would be for my family’s use. If you’re suspecting that I am the eldest kid, yeah, I am (:

In the meantime, all I need to do is to stay positive. That has always been the biggest challenge for me. And because I try my best not to depend emotionally on anyone, it’s harder that way, but it forces me to depend solely on Allah s.w.t. for emotional support.

Not that it’s not enough, but I realised why he created for us mates from  amongst ourselves (:

“And among His Signs is this, that He created for you mates from among yourselves, that you may dwell in tranquility with them, and He has put love and mercy between your hearts: verily in that are Signs for those who reflect.” 

Ar-Rum:21

Well, for now, I’ll have to learn to fully depend emotionally on Him. (:

It’s not a trust issue, really. But I’ve depended emotionally on people and things before, and I still do, but mostly on things now, and the end result is a whole lot of emotional pain for me.

So my conclusion is we can depend emotionally on people but not extensively. So to what extent? I believe it depends on each individual. (:

I don’t know whether this is truly ideal, but it is for me as of now.

Anyway, I’ve got this odd theory on money. Can’t share it right now though. Insya’Allah, I will soon (:

Kk, take care everyone!