A cliche'~ Something I heard so many times uttered by so many people but I don't know why when I saw this particular phrase on a person's fb wall, it suddenly becomes mind-boggling~
Be happy with yourself~ That means be happy with myself~ How I appear to be~ And that means being in a comfort zone where I don't have to bother about my bad~ Just accept me for who I am~
Does that apply in any time in life~ I mean, should I be happy with myself when I'm not suppose to.. For instance~
Should I be happy with myself when I know I just perposely hurt someone~?
Should I be happy with myself when I'm so corrupt~?
My honest answer would be a NO NO!
I think I want to add some words to this phrase to justify it to my conscience...
My definition of integrity~ integrity is when I do right even when people are not looking and not knowing~ But if I go against this~ I should not be happy with myself~ I may appear to be good in the eyes of human being, but in reality only Allah knows~
My values and principles~ I have my own sets of values and principles~ Each of us does~ Those which are divine, those which are conditioned to me as I grow and those gained through experience.. Everytime I go against them~ that's when I should not be happy with myself~
Well there's many more actually but I guess these two are the strong points that when they are compromised then I should not be happy with myself. When I'm not happy with myself, it doesn't mean that I should succumb to agony and started hating myself~ NO~ But it means that it's time to call for reflection of the things I did wrong and in what ways can I compensate for it or avoid it later in the future~ a.k.a muhasabah~
So my newly added phrase would be
Be happy with yourself only when you know Allah is "happy" with what you do, Haziah
How can we make Him "happy" with us~? I think His prophet left us everything in the Al-Quran and sunnah~ Here's one of them..
"Those who (in charity) spend of their goods by night and by day, in secret and in public, have their reward with their Lord: on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve." (2:274)
But we can't be so sure if we are making Him "happy" right?? and I think that's why we are encouraged to do good constantly~
"Dan barangsiapa menghendaki kehidupan akhirat dan berusaha bersungguh-sungguh, sedangkan dia beriman, maka mereka itulah yang usahanya dibalas dengan baik" 17:19
O ya, actually this is a personal statement for myself hehe Just reiterating the things that I hold true in my blog to remind myself~ :D Saye budak baru belajar.. Kalo salah tolong tunjukkan :)
We are never meant to be perfect however Allah has given us the chance to choose our path in this temporary abode... Lets choose to improve in ways that we can~ everyday~
4 comments:
if i write
'be happy with yourself',
kalo aku la kan,
myb mksud aku,
'u shud be hard on urself but dont be too hard, take it easy, dont juz push it to the extent that u cant enjoy life anymore.but at the end of the day, we shud be what we shud be, what we wana be and still lead a happy and blessed life. ameen'
;-)
hik.
watcha tink babe?
nice2~
Hehe dats so0o0 true :) I just want to look at the phrase at another angle sbenanya hehe because sometime aku sndri pon akn buat sumting wrong and try to justify wat i did as right by saying "dis is who I am" pdhal hurm I was wrong~
=) hurm~ actually aku ni di pengaruhi oleh dat person yg wrote it on the wall la~ :P
i'm proud with you..ayat yang betul2 menyentuh perasaan..
peja tau x~ i wrote this a day before gg bace yg peja nye kesah sal org yg bwk air tuh~ hehe :P kbetolan lak~
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