Expressions....

Salam, All praise be to Allah SWT for inspiring me to write this piece of mind. Sometimes we let emotions rule us. That blocks our ability to think objectively. Why, I wonder that we give in more to emotions rather than logic, sense & objectivity? Rather than be as calm as possible and pray to Allah SWT so that we can be calmly guided & find out why our assistant made a mistake in her work, we shout at her. We ask her why, how come, who, when and many many more whys... If that assistant has a wit like a lawyer and nothing to lose, then she'll probably outsmart us. But she'd be polite, apologetic and won't look at us in the eye or stares blankly at our face with her mind going with whatever negative thoughts in her head. What if we be calm, knowing that we too have had our moment being on the other side of the desk. It was painful for us at that moment, right? Wouldn't you want for someone not to go through the experience? I think as a decent human being, we woul...

Salam, This is a work of fiction. All praise be to Allah SWT for inspiring me to write this piece of mind.   do we lie? probably not. do we not tell the truth? maybe half of the time. half of the time? explain. we filter the things we are about to say to people because we don't want to hurt their feelings. true or false? true. .... because we are scared of the feedback we're about to receive - especially when we give them bad news. true or false? true. explain more please. .... because we keep some of the truth to ourselves for what ever reasons. Maybe to trick the person for what ever reason. Maybe we don't want the people to know our true intentions.  Let's say a bank offers you an attractive interest-rate personal loan, and you believe that you can really use the money for some emergency reasons. So, it's basically a supply-and-demand thing, which in this case the demand is severe compared to the supply. You need the bank more than the bank needs yo...

Salam, All praise be to Allah SWT for inspiring me to write this piece of mind. Owning up is the most difficult part when it comes to making mistakes. Once you tell yourself that you’re also to be blamed and that you’ll resolve this, that’s a very good start. Plus the necessary humbleness and not pointing fingers at her or anyone else. Once you realized that, thank Allah SWT for the guidance as He has guided you to realize the mistake and giving you the inspiration to correct the mistake and mustering the courage to own up and tell the boss, client or whoever else you need to about the mistake(s). There’ll be other experience and other mistakes. You’ll approach them with the newfound knowledge and experience to handle another mistake or even better, to prevent the same or similar mistake from happening. Nothing happens without Allah SWT's Will. You have grown wiser, with Allah SWT's Will. Insha Allah.  Allah SWT knows best. May we all be guided by Allah SWT, insha Allah. Am...

Salam, All praise be to Allah SWT for inspiring me to write this piece of mind. This is a work of fiction. so many people close to me had passed on over the years. relatives and friends. the most heart-crunching passing was of course of Mak - my late mother, who passed away in 1995.  as we live our lives, people around us get really sick and passed on. it's a sad thing, especially when we're close with them. what's sad about it is the 'missing'. missing the faithful departed, which is an attribute wired to us human beings. as we grow older, our uncles and aunts began to leave us. maybe some friends too. that's understandable because we have learned to accept the fact that their time has come, by Allah's Will.  some of my friends have their own kids leaving them. i can only imagine what great sadness to have them outliving their children.  sometimes when we see our older loved ones getting sick, such as an untreatable cancer, we pray to Allah SWT and hope aga...

Salam, All praise be to Allah SWT for inspiring me to write this piece of mind. This is a work of fiction. yeah. about likes.... as in 'likes' in socmed. can only speak for myself and probably people like me in a manner of thinking... i like for very very different reasons. sometimes i 'like' because i want that person to like that i 'like'.. maybe to a point that everything he/she puts there i 'like'. so let's say that person puts up 20 posts... no matter how silly that post can be, I 'like' some people actually cares how much likes they're getting for number of reasons...  acknowledgement acceptance friendliness and all sorts of other things and that list is in-exhaustive.  So.. this person who likes that i 'like' .... let's call this person X. Some day X posts something really nice and X gets like 50 likes... much more than X's 10 to 15 'likes' every time X posts. Out of that 15, 7 will be from X's family, 4...