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Sunday, 5 October 2014

Kelemahan Iblis dan minset

Dulu waktu sekolah rendah, kalau DATANG LAMBAT, kena denda kutip sampah sekitar kawsan sekolah.

Naik sekolah menengah, kalau DATANG LAMBAT, pengawas ambik nama dan cikgu disiplin akan sebut nama waktu perhimpunan. Kena denda juga kutip sampah atau cuci tandas.

Masuk universiti, kalau DATANG LAMBAT ke kuliyyah, lecturer potong 'carry mark'. Ada juga yang terus tak boleh masuk, lecturer kunci pintu.

Bila dah bekerjaya, kalau DATANG LAMBAT, bos akan marah, bonus dan kenaikan gaji terjejas. Bahkan kalau selalu sangat, HR akan hantar showcause letter.

Tapi...
✅Kalau DATANG LAMBAT solat jemaah, samada tertinggal rakaat pertama atau bahkan kalau datang ketika tahiyyat akhira, Allah tetap beri ganjaran 27 kali pahala. Tak kena tolak jadi 20, 10 atau 7. Tetap juga 27. Cuma pahala afdhalnya yang mungkin berbeza di sisi Allah..
✅Allahuakbar... Betapa Allah sangat sayangkan hambaNya..

Ustaz Azhar Idrus Berkata

Kita relax and bace ni Perbualan antara Rasulullah & iblis..
Rasulullah bertanya : “Apa yg kau rasakan jika melihat seseorang dari umatku hendak solat?”
Iblis menjawab : “aku merasa panas dingin dan gementar”
Rasulullah : “kenapa?”
Iblis : “Sebab setiap seorang hamba bersujud 1X kepada Allah, Allah mengangkatnya 1 darjat”
Rasulullah : “jika seorang umatku berpuasa?”
Iblis : “tubuhku terasa terikat hingga ia berbuka”
Rasulullah : “jika ia berhaji?”
Iblis : “aku seperti orang gila”
Rasulullah : “jika ia membaca Al-Quran?”
Iblis : “aku merasa meleleh laksana timah diatas api”
Rasulullah : “jika ia bersedekah?”
Iblis : “itu sama saja org tersebut m'belah tubuhku dgn gergaji”
Rasulullah : “mengapa boleh begitu?“
Iblis : ”sebab dalam sedekah ada 4 keuntungan baginya, iaitu :
1. Keberkahan dlm hartanya,
2. Hidupnya disukai,
3. Sedekah itu kelak akan menjadi hijab antara dirinya dgn api neraka,
4. Terhindar dari segala macam musibah akan terhalau dr dirinya.
Rasulullah : “apa yg dapat mematahkan pinggangmu?”
Iblis : “suara kuda perang di jalan Allah.”
Rasulullah : “apa yg dapat melelehkan tubuhmu?”
Iblis : “taubat org yg bertaubat”
Rasulullah : “apa yg dpt membakar hatimu?”
Iblis : “istighfar di waktu siang & malam”
Rasulullah : “apa yg dpt mencoreng wajahmu?”
Iblis : “sedekah yg diam2”
Rasulullah : “apa yg dpt menusuk matamu?”
Iblis : “solat fajar”
Rasulullah : “apa yg dpt memukul kepalamu?”
Iblis : “solat berjemaah”
Rasulullah : “apa yg paling mengganggumu”
Iblis : “majlis para ulama”
Rasulullah : “bagaimana cara makanmu?”
Iblis : “dengan tangan kiri dan jariku”
Rasulullah : “dimanakah kau menaungi anak2mu di musim panas?”
Iblis : “dibawah kuku manusia”
Rasulullah : “siapa temanmu wahai iblis?”
Iblis : “penzina”
Rasulullah : “siapa teman tidurmu?”
Iblis : “pemabuk”
Rasulullah : “siapa tamumu?”
Iblis : “pencuri”
Rasulullah : “siapa utusanmu?”
Iblis : “tukang sihir (dukun)”
Rasulullah : “apa yg membuatmu gembira?”
Iblis : “bersumpah dgn cerai”
Rasulullah : “siapa kekasihmu?”
Iblis : “org yg meninggalkan Solat Jum'at”
Rasulullah : “siapa manusia yg paling membahagiakanmu?"
Iblis : “org yg meninggalkan solatnya dgn sengaja”
AllahuRabbi..  Jom KONGSI sebarkannya biar bagi 1 dunia tahu kelemahan iblis

"MINDSET"
Sebelum sang ayah menghembuskan nafas terakhir, dia
memberi pesan kepada kedua anaknya :

“Anakku, dua pesan penting yang ingin ayah sampaikan
kepadamu untuk keberhasilan hidupmu”

“Pertama : Jangan sesekali menagih hutang daripada sesiapa pun”

“Kedua : Jangan sesekali tubuhmu terkena terik
matahari secara langsung”

5 TAHUN BERLALU:

Sang ibu menjenguk anak sulungnya
dengan kedudukan perniagaannya yg sgt mendukacitakan.

Si ibu pun bertanya “Wahai anak sulungku kenapa kedudukan perniagaanmu demikian?”.

Si sulung menjawab : “Saya mengikuti pesan ayah bu…

Saya dilarang menagih hutang drpd siapapun
sehingga banyak hutang yang tidak dibayar dan lama²
habislah modal saya..

Pesan yang kedua ayah melarang saya terkena sinar
matahari secara langsung dan saya hanya hanya ada sebuah motorsikal, itulah sebabnya pergi dan pulang
kerja saya selalu naik teksi”.

Kemudian sang ibu pergi ke tempat si bungsu yang
keadaannya berbeda jauh.

Si bungsu sukses
menjalankan bperniagaannya.

Sang ibu pun bertanya “Wahai anak bungsuku, hidupmu
sedemikian beruntung, apa rahasianya…?”

Si bungsu menjawab : “Ini karena saya mengikuti
pesan ayah bu..

Pesan yang pertama saya dilarang
menagih hutang kepada siapapun. Oleh karena itu
saya tidak pernah memberikan hutang kepada siapapun
sehingga modal saya tetap kukuh”.

“Pesan kedua saya dilarang terkena sinar matahari
secara langsung, maka dengan motorsikal yang saya ada
saya selalu berangkat sebelum matahari terbit dan
pulang setelah matahari terbenam, sehingga para
pelanggan tahu kedai saya buka lebih awal dan tutup
lebih lewat”.

Perhatikan..
Si Sulung dan Si Bungsu menerima pesan yang SAMA,
namun masing² memiliki penafsiran dan sudut pandang
atau MINDSET berbeda.

Mereka MELAKUKAN cara yang
berbeda sehingga mendapatkan HASIL yang berbeda
pula.

Hati² lah dengan Mindset kita..

Mindset positif memberi hasil menakjubkan, sebaliknya
mindset negatif memberikan hasil menghancurkan.

The choice is yours..!

Thursday, 27 March 2014

Zen Habbits: You are not worse than other people

You are not worse than other people

Posted: 26 Mar 2014 08:21 AM PDT
By Leo Babauta

I was talking to a loved one yesterday about her fears, and several times made the comment, “Everyone has these fears. Everyone.”

And this is true. The fears and problems you have are not unique to you.

We all have them, usually secretly, oftentimes even hidden from ourselves.

We think we’re alone in our fears, but we’re not. We all share them, a common thread that connects us as humans.

We think we’re worse than others in our failures, but we’re not. Everyone has the same failures, everyone is ashamed of them, no one can avoid them. They are a part of who we as human beings. And not wanting these failures to be a part of us is also human.

Everyone else has the same fears you have: fears of failure, of embarrassment, of uncertainty, of discomfort.

Fear of not being good enough.

Everyone else has the same failures you have: procrastination, selfishness, jealousy, insecurity, not being happy with ourselves, not being disciplined, being afraid and shying away from the difficult and terrifying.

You are not alone.

You are not worse.

You are human. And in your failures and fears and weaknesses, you are connected to me, to everyone else on this planet.

Zen habbits: The Busy Person’s Guide to Reducing Stress

The Busy Person’s Guide to Reducing Stress

By Leo Babauta

Stress is one of the biggest causes of health problems in many peoples’ lives: it can cause heart disease, depression, anxiety attacks, sleep problems, auto-immune diseases, weight problems and more.

But we’re busy — how do we drop the stress levels down while still getting our jobs done, taking care of ourselves and our families?

The busy person might have no time for weeklong meditation retreats, mini-vacations, or weekly counseling sessions. So what can be done?

I’m going to be brief about this: there are five small things you can do. A few shifts in mindset, a couple actions that take only a couple minutes. These won’t solve the most severe stress problems, but they’ll help most of us.

Be completely in one task. Instead of being in the stressful task-switching mode, take your next task, let everything else go, and just be in the moment with this one task. Let yourself be immersed in this one task, letting go of the feeling that you need to quickly rush through it, that you need to get on to the next task. There will always be a next task — the nature of task lists is that they’re neverending. So let those other tasks come later. Just be in this one task, like it’s your entire universe.See your ideals, & let go of control. Fear is causing you to be stressed, not external factors like your job or family problems. Those external things are just a part of life, but they become stressful when you fear failure, fear people won’t like you, fear you’re not good enough, fear abandonment, and so on. This fear is based on some ideal (and you fear not getting that ideal): you have an image that you’re going to succeed, be perfect, have people like you, be comfortable all the time. These ideals are a way to be in control of the world that you don’t actually control, but they’re hurting you by causing fear and stress. Instead, let go of control. Be OK with chaos and uncertainty, and trust that things will work out. You’ll fear less and be less stressed.Accept people & smile. We get upset at other people because they don’t meet our ideals of how they should act. Instead, try accepting them for who they are, and recognizing that, like you, they’re imperfect and seeking happiness and struggling with finding happiness. They’re doing their best. Accept them, smile, and enjoy your time with this person.Take a brief walk. When things are getting stressful, take 2-3 minutes to take a walk and clear your mind. A short walk does wonders.Do short mindfulness practices. You don’t have to meditate for 30 minutes to get the benefits of mindfulness. You can do a quick body scan (see how your body is feeling right now) in 10 seconds. You can pay attention to your breath for 30 seconds. You can watch your thoughts, fears, ideals for a minute. You can walk mindfully, paying attention to your body, your feet, your breath, your surroundings, as you walk. You can do each of these kinds of mindfulness practices in little bits throughout your day.

And beyond: If you have extra time after doing those things, I have a few other recommendations that will help. Eliminate unnecessary tasks on your todo list, reduce your commitments by saying no to people, start a regular 5-minute meditation practice,eat healthier, exercise regularly, spend some quality time with loved ones, get more sleep, drink tea.

I should note that many people cope with stress in unhealthy ways — alcohol, smoking, drugs, unhealthy eating, lashing out at people, watching TV, procrastinating. Ironically these cause more stress. Instead, learn to cope without these crutches.

Zen habbits: Being Mindful of Your Stress

Being Mindful of Your Stress

Posted: 24 Mar 2014 07:11 AM PDT
By Leo Babauta

Yesterday I had to drive somewhere, which I don’t do much anymore, and it was a fascinating experience.

I kept checking in on my body, and finding myself clenched, as if ready for an attack.

My entire torso would be tensed, my neck and shoulders were scrunched up, my face was tight. For no good reason other than I had to react to a lot of cars around me.

And so, noticing this, I was able to relax in that moment. Straighten up, let my muscles stop clenching themselves, breathe, smile. Instant calm, because I knew there was nothing actually attacking me.

This is a skill I’ve been getting better at, though I’m far from perfect: becoming aware of when my body is tensed up. It’s a cue, something that indicates what’s going on in my mind, and a way for me to look into what I’m stressing out about and decide whether I really need to be in fight-or-flight mode.

Some of the cues I’ve learned about myself: a clenched jaw (happens a lot), face is scrunched up (eyebrows like I’m mad, mouth is frowning, cheeks tensed), neck and shoulders tensed, sometimes entire torso tensed, legs might be stiff like I’m bracing myself, hands might be clenched sometimes.

And so, during the day (when I remember, which isn’t always), I will check in on these cues. And very often I’ll see them tensed up.

This tells me something’s going on, so I check in with my mind: what are you stressing about? And often it’s something like other cars or people getting in my way, or I’m getting competitive in laser tag or go carts (my daughter’s birthday celebration yesterday), or someone is frustrating me, or someone on the Internet is being less than enlightened (I know, that’s pretty rare).

So when I see that going on, I can see that I have an ideal, an expectation, that other people or life in general aren’t living up to. And I realize that’s a completely made-up ideal that I don’t need to hold on to, and I can just accept this moment. And when I do, nothing is so bad. (Read a short guide to dealing with stress.)

Or sometimes I just relax my body, unscrunch my face, unclench my jaw, breathe and smile, and that’s all I need to get the world in order again.

Zen habbits: What if You Didn’t Have to Worry About Yourself?

Zen habbits

What if You Didn’t Have to Worry About Yourself?

Posted: 21 Mar 2014 07:35 AM PDT
By Leo Babauta

Have you ever had people annoy you at work? Or maybe family members whose little habits bothered you? Have you been frustrated by a store clerk or waiter, or maybe another driver? What about frustration with your kid, or spouse?

How can we become more tolerant, find calm in the middle of all of these annoyances and frustrations?

For me, when I remember, the answer lies in getting outside of myself.

Nearly every moment of every day of our entire lives (more than 20 million seconds for me) is spent worrying about ourselves. We are preoccupied by concern about ourselves: am I doing the right thing, will I mess this up, will I be able to meet deadline, what do other people think of me, am I good enough, why is this happening to me, how can I get better, why don’t people listen to me, why don’t they treat me better, why can’t they get out of my way, why is my body so fat, why don’t things go my way, am I missing out on things?

But what if we were freed of this worry about ourselves?

What if, for a little while, we could assume our selves were being taken care of, comforted and protected and accepted?

What if we could stop this Thinking About Self for awhile, and do something else?

Wouldn’t this be a bit liberating? Wouldn’t it be nice to get free of this preoccupation that has taken up our entire lives?

I, for one, welcome this opportunity.

So what happens when we are freed of worrying about ourselves? We can now start looking in on other people, and finding out what they’re like, what they’re going through. It turns out, they are suffering just as much as we are. They are constantly worried about the same things, wanting to be happy but worried about themselves and wondering why this stranger (you) is always acting irritated with them.

We can see this suffering, and understand what it’s like, because we’ve just come from our own minds, where the same kinds of things have been going on for years. We can empathize.

We can also want them to suffer less, and maybe comfort them, give them compassion.

Returning to our own minds, arms full of this new information and empathy and compassion … we can maybe be more tolerant when someone doesn’t behave “perfectly” (as if we ever behave perfectly ourselves), when someone is rude or slow or loud. Maybe we can even act kindly towards them, give them a mental hug and see how we can help them.

Of course, it’s easy to return to our self-preoccupied state. I always return here, because it’s such a strongly-ingrained mental habit. But I can see this happening sometimes, and try to get out of the little space that’s my self-preoccupied mind.

Even for the briefest moment, this little bit of floating around can bring a small measure of lightness and happiness. And if you practice it repeatedly, it’s a liberation like no other.

Zen Habbits: The Universe of a Single Task

Zen Habbits

The Universe of a Single Task
Posted: 18 Mar 2014 07:43 AM PDT
By Leo Babauta

In the neverending rush of our day, what does one little task matter?

It is everything.

We speed through each task as if it’s nothing, looking already to the next task, until we collapse at the end of the day, exhausted. Having spent a day cranking through nothings.

That’s one approach, and I’ve done it many times. But here’s another: make each task its own universe, its own specialness. Then every moment of your day is ridiculously important and wonderful and powerful.

Here’s a process for one single task, whatever you have in front of you right now:

Pause and consider. Why are you doing the task? Because it’s on your list, because someone sent it to you? Or because it will make a difference in the world, help make someone’s life better? Is it a compassionate act? Is it part of a project that matters? Know why you’re doing something, and then imbue the task with that intention.
Notice your fear. Sometimes, we resist a task, procrastinate on it. I mean, not you, of course. Most other people procrastinate. This procrastination is rooted in fear, and so the trick is to see the fear, to feel it in your body, to accept it as part of you and not “wrong”. Then to give it compassion, and act anyway, in the moment. Don’t let your mind run away from the task.
Make the task your universe. Have you ever been reading an article (like this one) and had the urge to switch to something else? This urge pushes itself on us, all day, because of the nagging feeling that there’s something else we should be doing, something else more important, more fun, that we might be missing out on. Instead, forget about those something elses. Make this one task your everything, and give it the space to fill up your entire mind. Put yourself fully in this one space, and pretend there’s nothing else.
Stay with the task. Even with this task becoming your universe, there will be the urge to run away. This is fear again. Don’t let it rule you. Stick with the task, even just for a couple more minutes. Be curious about it: notice its qualities, wonder how it will go if you stay with it, don’t think you know everything about it. Pay attention, and see what it’s like.
Bow when you’re done. Don’t rush off to the next task, but instead pause. Create a tiny bit of space before you move on to the next thing. Wash your bowl. Check the task off your list. Breathe, and see how your body is feeling. Now consider what task you should do next, not just because it’s in your inbox or task list, but because it matters.

Friday, 1 November 2013

Saying no

Say No to Get Control of Your Life

by Bill Lampton

Is it hard to say no to to others? Always being agreeable might be nice on the surface, but it can have serious consequences. Here are four tips to make it easier to say no.

In the Broadway musical Oklahoma, a character named Ado Annie sang, "I'm just a girl who can't say no, I'm in a terrible fix." How right she was. The word no is the most powerful word you can use, and not being able to say no can bring disaster.

Bosses who can't say no will create confusion. If you tell everyone they can take next Friday off, you'll have an empty office.The employee who can't say no loses out. You will take on more tasks than you can handle. Even worse, your supervisor may spot you as an individual who lacks self-respect and initiative, and will pass you over at promotion time.

In the family, if you say yes to a beach vacation--when you silently prefer the mountains--your disappointment can grow into resentment, spoiling the family outing.Saying yes all the time threatens friendships. "Want to play bridge?" a neighbor asks. If you agree, yet despise playing cards, you will become a poor guest.

Consumers must say no. It's fine to tell the appliance company that no, you can't wait at home four hours for a service call. Insist on knowing the specific time the repairman will arrive.

We could list many more examples. Bank officials can't say yes to everyone who applies for a loan. Coaches can't let everyone play, no matter how much the wannabe athletes plead. If you own a business, you cannot let all of your delinquent accounts enjoy an additional ninety days to pay.Maybe you wonder how you can say no without jeopardizing relationships.

Use these tips:Assure the person that you respect his or her request, and that your decline isn't personal. "Sounds like a very good project, Joe, yet my packed schedule won't allow me to participate."  

Explain why your refusal benefits both of you. Declining membership on a committee, say: "I'm going to be traveling extensively. If I accepted, I couldn't attend meetings or do volunteer work. You'll benefit more by getting someone who will be available."  

Invite the other person to help you make the decision. Let's say your boss gives you a big assignment. Respond with: "Here's a list of what you have me working on already. If I take this new assignment, I'll have to drop something. Please tell me which projects deserve top priority."  

If you can't do everything someone wants, offer some service: "No, I can't be responsible for four Rotary Club programs in February, but I can be in charge of one if that will help."Whatever your strategy, don't suffer from Ado Annie's "terrible fix." Protect your schedule, your life balance, your integrity, and your relationships by declining when you need to. Isn't it amazing how much a two-letter word can improve our lives?

Bill Lampton, Ph.D., Communication Consultant and Speech Coach, "Helping You Finish in First Place." Visit his Web site, Championship Communication.

Call Dr. Lampton: 678-316-4300 

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