Turunnya wahyu Tuhan yang bergelar "Al-Quran" kepada nabi besar Muhammad S.A.W adalah untuk menunjuk jalan ke jalan ilmu pengetahuan yang tertinggi bagi kesejahteraan semua manusia.
Maka adalah amat perlu dan "penting untuk kita mendalami dan mentelaah isi kandungan Al-Quran tersebut". Di antara isi atau doktrinnya adalah "soal moral, akhlak, perbuatan atau tindakan kita".
Dan perlu kita semua renungkan "kenapa soal perbuatan dan tindakan" kita semua "diberi tekanan dan keutamaan di dalam hadis dan juga Al-Quran?"
Di sepanjang kehidupan kita semua, sewaktu hidup di dunia dari mula - "kelahiran, berkembang jadi dewasa dan kemudian mati". Dalam kita semua melalui proses tersebut sebelum mati, semuanya bergantung kepada kelakuan atau perbuatan kita, sama ada kita gembira, dukacita atau sengsara. Sama ada kita seorang yang baik atau sentiasa melakukan dosa. Sama ada kita orang yang disanjung, dipuja atau dihina - Ingat! "Semuanya itu mengalir dari perbuatan kita sendiri."
Demikian kita manusia semua terikat dan diikat oleh "kesan dan akibah" oleh perbuatan kita sendiri. Oleh kerana kita semua tidak memahami dan menyedari hubungan... "sebab dan akibah". Maka kita semua terjerat dengan hawa nafsu, kebodohan dengan berseronok tanpa batas terhadap keseronokan dunia yang bersifat sementara, oleh sebab itu ada pepatah mengatakan:
"Beritahu saya dengan siapa kamu bergaul, nanti saya beritahu kamu; Siapakah kamu?"
"Lihat apa yang kita tanam, nanti kita peroleh apa yang kita tuai."
Yang kita tuai adalah 'akibah' dari hasil perbuatan kita sendiri - sama ada baik atau jahat.
Untuk pengetahuan saudara pembaca yang dikasihi - Semua 'akibah' ada atau terkandung di dalam perbuatan kita sendiri - Ingat!
Justeru ingat! Sebelum kita melakukan sesuatu tindakan, jika berpandukan ajaran Al-Quran dengan segala nasihat dan ajaran yang terkandung di dalamnya, "nanti kita semua akan mendapat kekuatan, petunjuk serta cekap dalam melakukan apa jua tindakan dengan kuasa perbandingan yang kuat untuk membezakan mana yang hak dan mana yang batal, mana yang baik dan mana yang jahat".
"Jika kita berbuat baik, hasilnya juga adalah baik".
"Jika menanam benih yang masam, hasil dari tanaman kita itu juga akan masam".
Ambil ingatan!
"Akibat dari setiap tindakan kita itu, terkandung atau terpendam di dalam tindakan kita itu sendiri".
Ingat contoh ini:
Ada sebuji benih yang sangat kecil. Kemampuan benih yang kecil itu, mampu membesar menjadi sepohon pokok yang sangat besar. Dan kemampuan menjadi sepohon pokok yang besar itu tersembunyi di sebalik benih yang sangat kecil.
Dan benih yang kecil itu pula berpotensi tumbuh mengembang menjadi sepohon pokok dengan berbatang, bercabang, berbunga dan berbuah.
Kalau kita semua perhatikan 'di antara' menanam benih di dalam bumi, perkembangannya sehingga menjadi sepohon pokok yang besar... hairan! Dari manakah pokok itu terbit dan muncul?
Saudara pembaca yang dikasihi!
Segala apa yang kita lihat di dunia ini adalah hasil 'tindakan'. Dan semuanya punya awal dan akhir - suka - duka - juga punya awal dan akhir - permulaan atau kesudahan (natijah). Ianya tidak boleh dipisahkan.
"Untuk itu kita manusia mesti menyedari betapa setiap kelahiran adalah sangat bernilai".
Tetapi malangnya kita manusia tidak menyedari itu semua. Memahami "hukum sebab dan akibah" (The Law Of Cause And Effect) adalah sangat penting.
Hukum "kesan dan akibah" bukanlah sesuatu yang jauh dan terpencil, ia ada pada semua manusia. Ia "berkaitan dengan tindakan dan perbuatan kita sendiri".
Begitu juga dengan 'dosa', ia bukan sesuatu yang berada nun jauh entah di mana, ianya juga berkaitan dengan tingkah laku dan perbuatan kita semua.
Ketaatan, keikhlasan, kejujuran dan kasih sayang juga ada kaitan dengan perbuatan kita masing-masing.
Jika semua kebaikan yang disebutkan di atas itu boleh kita amalkan, maka kita adalah orang-orang yang bijak - "Yang baiklah akan terhasil kerana menanam benih-benih yang baik".
Kita manusia tidak mahu berusaha untuk memahami dan meletakkan diri masing-masing ke arah tindakan yang betul dalam hidup sehari-harinya. Kita semua patut menyedari "mengaku beragama saja tidak cukup". Tindakan dan perbuatan kita itulah patut diperhatikan, kerana apa jua yang berlaku, natijahnya adalah dari perbuatan atau tindakan kita masing-masing. Ingat!
"Segala-gala dalam 'ciptaan' ini adalah berasaskan tindakan dan perbuatan, dari situlah terbitnya akibah, dari tindakanlah terbitnya segala ciptaan".
Ikut contoh ini:
Jika kita 'lapar', kelaparan itu akan membuat kita "bertindak untuk makan". Tetapi 'rantaiannya' mestilah kita perlu "meletakkan makanan tersebut ke mulut" kita, kemudian mengunyahnya, kemudian menyalurkannya ke dalam perut, diikuti dengan mencerna, dan seterusnya barulah taburan dihantar ke seluruh bahagian tubuh badan. Setelah melalui semua proses tersebut, barulah kita "rasa kenyang".
"Mengambil makanan adalah 'tindakan' (kesan), 'kekenyangan' itulah 'AKIBAH atau HASILNYA'".
Ketahuilah, di antara "tindakan dan akibah", beberapa proses perlu berlaku, perlu diketahui akibahnya. Mungkin cepat atau ia mengambil masa bertahun-tahun lamanya, mungkin sepanjang hayat kita.
Segala tindakan kita itu pasti akan kita sedari, cuma lambat atau cepat saja. Oleh itu nasihat saya; "Berhati-hatilah dalam bertindak!", agar ianya - "sentiasa berada di jalan yang lurus dan betul" atau 'baik'. Kita semua sepatutnya melibatkan diri kita ke jalan yang mulia dan terpuji dan menjadi contoh yang unggul "untuk agama, bangsa dan negara".
Ingat! 'Akal' kita yang jahat akan merebak ke seluruh tubuh badan kita, ia seperti kata pepatah:
"Sebutir batu kecil jika dilontarkan ke dalam kolam, ia akan menerbitkan gelombang-gelombang kecil dan merebak ke seluruh kolam tersebut."
Begitu jugalah "akal yang baik", juga memberi "kesan ke seluruh tubuh badan" kita. Akal yang baik akan bertindak secara baik, bercakap yang baik-baik, mendengar yang baik-baik, menyentuh yang baik-baik, melihat yang baik-baik.
Jika semua "tindakan kita tidak baik", "akibat atau kesannya" juga adalah "tidak baik".
Kini kita boleh lihat semua orang dengar khutbah, mendengar ceramah, ditazkirahkan, dinasihatkan, tetapi dari segi amalan, kita semua 'gagal' mempraktiskannya.
Kalau kita ingin lihat "kebenaran akan tindakan dan tindak balasnya (akibah)", cuba berdiri di hadapan 'cermin'; kerana "cermin tidak pandai menipu". Cuma ia pandai 'meniru'.
Buatlah apa saja di hadapan cermin, ia akan tergambar di dalam cermin apa saja perlakuan kita itu. Jika kita cuba menggertak di hadapan cermin, ia juga akan menggertak kita semula.
Kita semua perlu mengetahui, di dunia ini ada "tiga aspek tindakan" yang digelar "refleksi, reaksi dan gemaan", yang semuanya itu beroperasi secara tidak kita sedari.
"Selamat merenung, mengamal, dan menghayati!..."
From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
19 OKTOBER 2010
Next Topic: 1. "Husband And Wife. Marriage Is A Bicycle Made For Two"
2. "Malapetaka Alam dan Manusia"
Monday, October 18, 2010
Saturday, October 16, 2010
CONTRAST BETWEEN SCIENTISTS AND CREATOR AND SCIENTISTS UPSET THE BALANCE IN NATURE
In this world, 'birds' and 'beasts' lead regulated lives though they lack education; Why does man lack this sense though he is endowed with intelligence?
All religions teach only what is good; One should understand them properly and regulated one's life accordingly. If our minds are good, what wrong can we see in any religion?
Therefore no religion can ever be bad. That is why "the great scientist, Einstein" declared that:
"Religion without Science is lame, and Science without religion is blind".
Thereby stressing the need for judicious combination of Science and religion to serve the needs of humanity.
Today's man has learn to fly in the air like birds, and swim in the sea like fish. "But he has not learnt how to live as man on earth".
Science can teach man such things as flying in the air and swimming in the sea; "However, it is only religion but not science, that can teach him how to live as man on the earth".
So, if Science were to foster the all-round development of man, "it has to seek the aid of religion".
"Religion does not mean blind adherence to some benefits".
On the other hand, "religion helps man to attain the goal of human life based on discrimination and sacred values".
"All religions emphasize human values".
Religion is of immense help in fostering the integral development of the human personality. It underlines the unity in diversity.
True religion teaches the harmony, the essence as well as the goal of all religions is the attainment of the purity of mind and heart.
"Every religion has its own precepts and principles."
"But no religion preaches hatred, untruth or unrighteousness".
"Speak the truth."
"Practice righteousness."
Read Quran, read Bible or your Upanishaths. Similar sacred injunctions are to be found in all the other religions too.
Thus all religions emphasize the human values and serve as beacons for the proper progress and development of mankind.
But the present-day men in general, and the youth in particular, have forgotten our age-old culture and sacred values and are bidding good bye to God,.... "having been enticed by the modern Science and technology".
However, with the passage of time, scientists themselves are veering round to the view that the universe is being guided and "governed by some divine power".
The innumerable stars and planets in the universe are whirling at tremendous speeds. If they are to deviate even slightly from their orbits or their speeds, it would result in universal holocaust... "Who has ordained them to adhere to their speeds and orbits?"
To-day's Scientists are creating artificial satellites which are orbiting around the earth.
But these satellites are crashing down or catching fire in a few days or months, where as the planets in God's creation are "orbiting regularly since time immemorial, without any crashing, or catching fire".
As we all know, light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second. Even with such a tremendous speed, it takes lakhs of years for light to travel around the families or constellations of the sun and stars.
In the Milky Way that is visible to us, there are innumerable stars unknown to us. The light from some of the stars has not yet reached the earth, despite the lapse of aeons since their creation. Even Scientists are in doldrums to understand fully such aspects of creation.
"What a contrast between the Scientist who swells up with pride on account of discovering but a minute fraction of the mystery of creation, and the 'Creator' (GOD) who is running the whole universe peacefully, silently, patiently and lovingly without any pomp or pride!"
Not this alone. "The way this creation or Nature is functioning is amazing beyond words".
For instance:
The carbon-dioxide exhaled by man is being taken up by the plants and the oxygen released by the plants is being inhaled by man. Who has made this mutually beneficial arrangement in Nature?
Poet-Saints, have sung the praise of the Lord Almighty in the following terms;
"Who has watered, manured and grown the small shrubs and the gigantic trees in the crevices of the rocks in the mountains?"
"Who has painted the beautiful peacock and its tail with such attractive colours?"
"Who has designed the wonderful combination of a green body and a read beak for the parrot?"
The Scientist may explain away all such things as the "Law of Nature". But are these Scientists able to transcend Nature or to dispense with the materials available in Nature?
"THE SO-CALLED 'CREATION' BY THE SCIENTISTS"
Whatever the Scientists claim their 'creation' is only derived from the combination of the basic materials found in Nature. For example:
The Scientist produces water by combining hydrogen and oxygen. But then, which Scientist has produced or created hydrogen and oxygen?
These elements are produced by sunlight. In the same manner whatever the Scientist may produce "is based only on the permutation and combination of the already existing materials in Nature".
"This fact is conveniently ignored by most Scientists."
When one ponders over the mysteries or secret of Nature, even a fool will have to admit the existence of a divine power behind all these wonderful phenomena.
Let us consider another example. There are nearly 5.08 billion human beings in the world.
"But it is amazing that in such a huge population, no two persons look exactly alike. Which creator except 'GOD' can do this extraordinarily wonderful feat!"
The goods manufactured by the modern creators are all alike because they come out of the same world. What a striking contrast?
So, we has human or students should therefore, try to understand the mysteries of creation.
"SCIENTISTS UPSET THE BALANCE OF CREATION"
We are prone to take the creation for granted, thinking that it is but insentient Nature, thereby ignoring the "Sentient Principle" that regulates nature and imparts a proper balance among its various constituents.
"Scientists and Technologists in pursuit of selfish interests as well as of name and fame, utterly disregard the security and welfare of the society and the nation".
"By upsetting the balance in Nature, which results in various accidents, calamities, losses and misery to the public at large".
For example:
"The oceans contained air needed by the earth for more then ten years,
One lightning in the sky emits enough electricity required for the entire world for twenty years".
By building gigantic dams and storing huge quantities of water in one place, the earth goes down in that area and consequently goes up in another area,... like a see-saw.
The indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources by the Scientists and Technologists such as various types of mines for "extracting minerals, mice coal, petrol and other oils results in imbalance and pollution of the five major elements," leading to catastrophes like earth-quakes, and volcanoes, etc.
The rapid and excessive proliferation of industries, factories, automobiles, etc; with the attendant pollution of the atmosphere is responsible for the increasing incidence of diseases like "asthma, deafness, pneumonia and typhoid" etc. However, science per se is not bad; what is necessary is for man to put it to proper and judicious use.
"We must have faith in 'GOD'S' existence" :
Man of to-day have implicit faith and unquestioning belief in what the Scientists say; but, however much you may din into their ears, they have no faith in God's existence. "One simple reason for this is that in the dictionaries of all the languages, you find the words 'GOD' among other words".
Any dictionary contains only words which refer to things existing in the world such as birds, beasts and other living beings, as well as inanimate objects. Non-existing things do not have a place in the dictionary.
"The very fact that the words 'GOD' occurs in all dictionaries is enough to prove the existence of God".
Even if you have not seen or experienced some of the things included in the dictionary, there are another who have experienced them.
So, based on your limited experience you cannot deny the existence of anything mentioned in the dictionary. If you have not experienced God, there are other people who have experience Him and that is why the word 'God' finds a place in the dictionary.
About fifty years back, Scientists believed that there is no greater power than the atomic energy. They expressed the fear that if the atomic power is further split, it will to disaster. But now after exploring and experimenting during the last fifty years, the Scientists have been able to discover that there are greater powers than the atomic power.
Similarly, persons who presently have no experience of God may have such experience, say, after ten years, the power of God is all-pervading. You must firmly believe this. Without faith in God, human life would go in vain. To all Scientists out there - Along with "Physical Sciences" you should also try to understand the "Spiritual Science" to some extent at least.
From the moment of birth, man is engaged in a variety of activities for pre serving his way of life and achieving his goals. At birth, man, as a child has no bad qualities and is wholly innocent.
But as time passes, because of the type of food he consumes and the changes in his lifestyle, and the kind of association he develops, his dress and manners undergo changes. Along with these, he develops likes and dislikes. After getting 'educated', "they become very bad educated Scientists", he develops 'EGO' and 'PRIDE', passion and other bad qualities from head to foot. They acquire a strong hold over him.
As a consequence, he starts deluding himself that he is all-knowing and that there is none other 'Scientist' greater than him. Filled with the arrogance, he looks with contempt on others.
Today man appears to relish only pleasures derived from the senses. Every man is filled with various desires. As he grows, the surging vigour of manhood makes him headstrong. He fails to realize the true purpose of education... He develops ambition to become a "great Scientists" and "create destructive weapons", to become a great scholar, he is caught up in the bewildering maze of desires. As a result, he becomes a slave of his impure desire and "forgets his true human worth".
While birds and animals are content to live on whatever they can get, man alone has insatiable desires and is filled with greed. There should be a limit to one's acquisitiveness and desires.
"Excess of anything is harmful and should be avoided".
However, what we notice among the Scientist today is rampant selfishness and self-centredness. While they want to be respected and honoured by others, they will themselves show no respect or regard to others.
In the cosmic exhibition, you are seeing, hearing and experiencing, innumerable things. Your experience depression, confusion and disappointment... You have no contentment.
Please remember!
"Lack of contentment is the true loss. The man who is not content is continually experiencing loss".
There is no limit to desires. One feels hungry, another is thirsty. If the thirsty is offered water, he is not satisfied, he wants a cool drink. When he is given a cool drink, he is not satisfied, he wants ice cream. And so on... He is not satisfied with anything. There is no end to desires for material things in the world.
My advise!
"Don't cause pain, harm and unhappiness."
"Let all the worlds be happy."
"Righteousness is that which sustains the world, that which upholds the world."
Every object in the world has got certain unique qualities. The quality that is the vital essence of the objects reveals its 'righteousness'. For instance, it is the basic quality of fire to burn - burning is its 'righteousness'. When the fire losses its capacity to burn, it ceases to be fire and becomes mere charcoal. Sweetness is the inherent quality of sugar. If sugar loses its sweetness, it is no longer sugar but sand. The flower has natural quality of exuding fragrance. If there is no fragrance in it, it is no a flower.
"Without cultivating good qualities, can a person be a true human being at all?"
From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
16 OKTOBER 2010
Next Topic: 1. "Kesan dan Akibah"
2. "Husband And Wife. Marriage Is A Bicycle Made For Two"
All religions teach only what is good; One should understand them properly and regulated one's life accordingly. If our minds are good, what wrong can we see in any religion?
Therefore no religion can ever be bad. That is why "the great scientist, Einstein" declared that:
"Religion without Science is lame, and Science without religion is blind".
Thereby stressing the need for judicious combination of Science and religion to serve the needs of humanity.
Today's man has learn to fly in the air like birds, and swim in the sea like fish. "But he has not learnt how to live as man on earth".
Science can teach man such things as flying in the air and swimming in the sea; "However, it is only religion but not science, that can teach him how to live as man on the earth".
So, if Science were to foster the all-round development of man, "it has to seek the aid of religion".
"Religion does not mean blind adherence to some benefits".
On the other hand, "religion helps man to attain the goal of human life based on discrimination and sacred values".
"All religions emphasize human values".
Religion is of immense help in fostering the integral development of the human personality. It underlines the unity in diversity.
True religion teaches the harmony, the essence as well as the goal of all religions is the attainment of the purity of mind and heart.
"Every religion has its own precepts and principles."
"But no religion preaches hatred, untruth or unrighteousness".
"Speak the truth."
"Practice righteousness."
Read Quran, read Bible or your Upanishaths. Similar sacred injunctions are to be found in all the other religions too.
Thus all religions emphasize the human values and serve as beacons for the proper progress and development of mankind.
But the present-day men in general, and the youth in particular, have forgotten our age-old culture and sacred values and are bidding good bye to God,.... "having been enticed by the modern Science and technology".
However, with the passage of time, scientists themselves are veering round to the view that the universe is being guided and "governed by some divine power".
The innumerable stars and planets in the universe are whirling at tremendous speeds. If they are to deviate even slightly from their orbits or their speeds, it would result in universal holocaust... "Who has ordained them to adhere to their speeds and orbits?"
To-day's Scientists are creating artificial satellites which are orbiting around the earth.
But these satellites are crashing down or catching fire in a few days or months, where as the planets in God's creation are "orbiting regularly since time immemorial, without any crashing, or catching fire".
As we all know, light travels at the rate of 186,000 miles per second. Even with such a tremendous speed, it takes lakhs of years for light to travel around the families or constellations of the sun and stars.
In the Milky Way that is visible to us, there are innumerable stars unknown to us. The light from some of the stars has not yet reached the earth, despite the lapse of aeons since their creation. Even Scientists are in doldrums to understand fully such aspects of creation.
"What a contrast between the Scientist who swells up with pride on account of discovering but a minute fraction of the mystery of creation, and the 'Creator' (GOD) who is running the whole universe peacefully, silently, patiently and lovingly without any pomp or pride!"
Not this alone. "The way this creation or Nature is functioning is amazing beyond words".
For instance:
The carbon-dioxide exhaled by man is being taken up by the plants and the oxygen released by the plants is being inhaled by man. Who has made this mutually beneficial arrangement in Nature?
Poet-Saints, have sung the praise of the Lord Almighty in the following terms;
"Who has watered, manured and grown the small shrubs and the gigantic trees in the crevices of the rocks in the mountains?"
"Who has painted the beautiful peacock and its tail with such attractive colours?"
"Who has designed the wonderful combination of a green body and a read beak for the parrot?"
The Scientist may explain away all such things as the "Law of Nature". But are these Scientists able to transcend Nature or to dispense with the materials available in Nature?
"THE SO-CALLED 'CREATION' BY THE SCIENTISTS"
Whatever the Scientists claim their 'creation' is only derived from the combination of the basic materials found in Nature. For example:
The Scientist produces water by combining hydrogen and oxygen. But then, which Scientist has produced or created hydrogen and oxygen?
These elements are produced by sunlight. In the same manner whatever the Scientist may produce "is based only on the permutation and combination of the already existing materials in Nature".
"This fact is conveniently ignored by most Scientists."
When one ponders over the mysteries or secret of Nature, even a fool will have to admit the existence of a divine power behind all these wonderful phenomena.
Let us consider another example. There are nearly 5.08 billion human beings in the world.
"But it is amazing that in such a huge population, no two persons look exactly alike. Which creator except 'GOD' can do this extraordinarily wonderful feat!"
The goods manufactured by the modern creators are all alike because they come out of the same world. What a striking contrast?
So, we has human or students should therefore, try to understand the mysteries of creation.
"SCIENTISTS UPSET THE BALANCE OF CREATION"
We are prone to take the creation for granted, thinking that it is but insentient Nature, thereby ignoring the "Sentient Principle" that regulates nature and imparts a proper balance among its various constituents.
"Scientists and Technologists in pursuit of selfish interests as well as of name and fame, utterly disregard the security and welfare of the society and the nation".
"By upsetting the balance in Nature, which results in various accidents, calamities, losses and misery to the public at large".
For example:
"The oceans contained air needed by the earth for more then ten years,
One lightning in the sky emits enough electricity required for the entire world for twenty years".
By building gigantic dams and storing huge quantities of water in one place, the earth goes down in that area and consequently goes up in another area,... like a see-saw.
The indiscriminate exploitation of natural resources by the Scientists and Technologists such as various types of mines for "extracting minerals, mice coal, petrol and other oils results in imbalance and pollution of the five major elements," leading to catastrophes like earth-quakes, and volcanoes, etc.
The rapid and excessive proliferation of industries, factories, automobiles, etc; with the attendant pollution of the atmosphere is responsible for the increasing incidence of diseases like "asthma, deafness, pneumonia and typhoid" etc. However, science per se is not bad; what is necessary is for man to put it to proper and judicious use.
"We must have faith in 'GOD'S' existence" :
Man of to-day have implicit faith and unquestioning belief in what the Scientists say; but, however much you may din into their ears, they have no faith in God's existence. "One simple reason for this is that in the dictionaries of all the languages, you find the words 'GOD' among other words".
Any dictionary contains only words which refer to things existing in the world such as birds, beasts and other living beings, as well as inanimate objects. Non-existing things do not have a place in the dictionary.
"The very fact that the words 'GOD' occurs in all dictionaries is enough to prove the existence of God".
Even if you have not seen or experienced some of the things included in the dictionary, there are another who have experienced them.
So, based on your limited experience you cannot deny the existence of anything mentioned in the dictionary. If you have not experienced God, there are other people who have experience Him and that is why the word 'God' finds a place in the dictionary.
About fifty years back, Scientists believed that there is no greater power than the atomic energy. They expressed the fear that if the atomic power is further split, it will to disaster. But now after exploring and experimenting during the last fifty years, the Scientists have been able to discover that there are greater powers than the atomic power.
Similarly, persons who presently have no experience of God may have such experience, say, after ten years, the power of God is all-pervading. You must firmly believe this. Without faith in God, human life would go in vain. To all Scientists out there - Along with "Physical Sciences" you should also try to understand the "Spiritual Science" to some extent at least.
From the moment of birth, man is engaged in a variety of activities for pre serving his way of life and achieving his goals. At birth, man, as a child has no bad qualities and is wholly innocent.
But as time passes, because of the type of food he consumes and the changes in his lifestyle, and the kind of association he develops, his dress and manners undergo changes. Along with these, he develops likes and dislikes. After getting 'educated', "they become very bad educated Scientists", he develops 'EGO' and 'PRIDE', passion and other bad qualities from head to foot. They acquire a strong hold over him.
As a consequence, he starts deluding himself that he is all-knowing and that there is none other 'Scientist' greater than him. Filled with the arrogance, he looks with contempt on others.
Today man appears to relish only pleasures derived from the senses. Every man is filled with various desires. As he grows, the surging vigour of manhood makes him headstrong. He fails to realize the true purpose of education... He develops ambition to become a "great Scientists" and "create destructive weapons", to become a great scholar, he is caught up in the bewildering maze of desires. As a result, he becomes a slave of his impure desire and "forgets his true human worth".
While birds and animals are content to live on whatever they can get, man alone has insatiable desires and is filled with greed. There should be a limit to one's acquisitiveness and desires.
"Excess of anything is harmful and should be avoided".
However, what we notice among the Scientist today is rampant selfishness and self-centredness. While they want to be respected and honoured by others, they will themselves show no respect or regard to others.
In the cosmic exhibition, you are seeing, hearing and experiencing, innumerable things. Your experience depression, confusion and disappointment... You have no contentment.
Please remember!
"Lack of contentment is the true loss. The man who is not content is continually experiencing loss".
There is no limit to desires. One feels hungry, another is thirsty. If the thirsty is offered water, he is not satisfied, he wants a cool drink. When he is given a cool drink, he is not satisfied, he wants ice cream. And so on... He is not satisfied with anything. There is no end to desires for material things in the world.
My advise!
"Don't cause pain, harm and unhappiness."
"Let all the worlds be happy."
"Righteousness is that which sustains the world, that which upholds the world."
Every object in the world has got certain unique qualities. The quality that is the vital essence of the objects reveals its 'righteousness'. For instance, it is the basic quality of fire to burn - burning is its 'righteousness'. When the fire losses its capacity to burn, it ceases to be fire and becomes mere charcoal. Sweetness is the inherent quality of sugar. If sugar loses its sweetness, it is no longer sugar but sand. The flower has natural quality of exuding fragrance. If there is no fragrance in it, it is no a flower.
"Without cultivating good qualities, can a person be a true human being at all?"
From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
16 OKTOBER 2010
Next Topic: 1. "Kesan dan Akibah"
2. "Husband And Wife. Marriage Is A Bicycle Made For Two"
Thursday, October 7, 2010
DUNIA DAN SAINS PENGHIDUPAN - PROSES PERUBAHAN TERHADAP MANUSIA (Motivasi Alam dan Sains Kerohanian)
'Alam' (nature) umpama 'IBU'. Prinsipnya seperti 'keperempuanan'. Ia lebih menarik daripada seorang perempuan cantik, kerana perempuan sendiri tertarik terhadapnya 'alam'.
'Alam' merupakan "guru yang agung". Jika kita enggan mempelajari sesuatu daripadanya secara beradab dan baik, ia akan menghukum kita dengan
"menampar ke telinga kita dan menghantuk kepala kita".
Kita lihat alam, kita katakan ianya "Dunia Kebendaan". Dalam kepelbagaiannya pada setiap benda di dalamnya terdapat "keunikannya yang tersendiri".
Lihatlah "Kecantikan dan Keagongan Tuhan" melalui alam.
Untuk melihat kecantikan pandangan alam di sekeliling kita, janganlah dilihat dengan "mata kasar" atau "mata kebendaan"... Lihatlah ia melalui "mata dalaman" atau "mata hati". "Kerja-kerja seni oleh Tuhan, selaku pelukis seni alam, sehingga menakjubkan semua orang tentang pelukisnya".
Pendidikan yang diperolehi oleh semua manusia adalah melalui alam, dengan menganalisis dan mengkajinya secara mendalam. Sebab itu dikatakan alam umpama 'IBU'.
Tidakkah; "Di ribaan seorang Ibulah, Si anak itu nmempelajari seni penghidupan?"
Serupa juga 'alam' mengajar, mendidik, mengasuh manusia, bagaimana hendak maju dan berjaya, dengan bekerja keras untuk mencapai "ketenangan dan kesejahteraan" untuk semua.
"Berilah kebahagiaan, kesejahteraan, kasih sayang dan ketenangan kepada semua orang di muka bumi ini."
"Berkelakuan baiklah terhadap 'alam', melalui; pemikiran, kata-kata, dan perbuatan."
Alam adalah "Lukisan Ciptaan Tuhan", yang terbentang luas di hadapan "Galeri Tuhan", agar kita menyedari "Keagongan dan KebesaranNya".
Dunia yang sedang dihuni, "akan terhenti pada suatu hari nanti". Walaupun tiada siapa yang boleh meramal; "Bilakah dunia ini terjadi?" Tetapi ia mempunyai "asas realiti". Walaupun dunia ini 'maya' (illusi), tetapi di sebaliknya "ada kebenaran yang Hak", yang merentasinya, "yang tidak kelihatan dengan mata kasar", seperti;
"Seutas benang yang merentasi sekalung bunga, yang kelihatan hanyalah bunga-bunganya yang menjadi pujian dan pujaan ramai".
"PROSES PERUBAHAN TERHADAP MANUSIA"
Perubahan seseorang manusia adalah berasaskan "perubahan akal fikiran". Apabila proses perubahan akal fikiran berlaku, negara akan turut berubah, apabila negara berubah, dunia juga akan turut berubah, maka "perubahan mental perlu berlaku" pada setiap peringkat individu.
"Akal fikiran manusia semuanya, perlulah diselubungi dengan kasih sayang".
"Akal fikiran" manusia adalah suatu 'entiti' yang sangat menakjubkan. Apabila ia dipenuhi dengan "kasih sayang dan kebijaksanaan"... ia akan membuat seseorang itu "sangat suci dan baik". Jika ia berkeadaan
'jahil', natijahnya; "hanya akan menjadikan seseorang itu agen kehancuran dan kemusnahan". Sudah diperkatakan sejak lama:
"Akal fikiran itulah yang akan membuat seseorang itu menjadi hamba atau memperolehi kemerdekaan daripadanya".
Apa-apa jua perubahan yang ingin kita lakukan, sama ada dalam lapangan pendidikan atau apa jua, "akal fikiran" itulah "yang perlu diubah" terlebih dahulu.
"Tidak acuh atau tidak peduli, berkawan dengan orang-orang yang buruk kelakuan, tidak menghormati orang, angkuh, sombong, benci-membenci, dan cemburu".
Kesemuanya yang di atas itulah sifat-sifat yang "merendahkan martabat manusia", turun ke paras 'kebinatangan'. Untuk menghindarkan semua sifat-sifat jahat itu, adalah perlu bagi seseorang merenung dan memikir-mikir tentang... "MOTIVASI ALAM", yang mana banyak terdapat perkara-perkara baik yang boleh dijadikan iktibar dan pelajaran dari burung-burung dan lain-lain binatang seperti cacing, dan lain-lain serangga.
Seekor binatang biasanya dipandang hina dan keji, adalah 'keldai'. Tetapi terdapat beberapa kebaikan yang boleh dipelajari oleh manusia pada keldai tersebut.
"Nilai kesabaran yang terdapat pada 'seekor keldai', tidak terdapat pun pada seorang manusia. Apa jua beban yang dilonggokkan di atas belakangnya, dipikulnya dengan kesabaran. Ia juga sabar disebat punggungnya dengan tidak menghiraukan kesakitan. Walaupun ia dalam keadaan lapar dan kehausan, air mukanya tetap tenang. Justeru, manusia perlu belajar nilai-nilai kesabaran dari seekor keldai".
'Semut' pula sejenis serangga yang amat halus, banyak perkara yang boleh dipelajari darinya. Seekor semut mempunyai "kemampuan menjangka dan bersiap sedia". Dengan pengetahuan menjangka akan tibanya musim hujan, maka semut-semut tersebut sudah mula mengumpul makanan "tiga bulan" lebih awal.
'Labah-labah' pula, apa yang boleh kita pelajari darinya ialah; "sifat iltizam dan kesungguhan". Tidak kira berapa kali sekalipun sarangnya koyak atau musnah, ia tetap juga akan meneruskan membuat semula dengan tidak pernah berasa bosan atau jemu.
'Anjing' pula, selalu disifatkan sebagai binatang yang terabai dan tidak dipedulikan. Tetapi "sifat taat dan patuhnya", tidak terdapat pada binatang-binatang lain. Jika ia diberi sedikit makanan oleh seseorang, orang itu akan dihormatinya, iaitu dengan menggoyang-goyangkan ekornya dengan penuh kasih sayang. Sifat begitulah yang sukar diperolehi pada manusia sekarang ini. Malah dianggapnya seperti "melepaskan anjing tersepit". Adakah "pelajaran tinggi melangit membawa apa-apa makna?"
From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
08 OKTOBER 2010
Next Topic: 1. "Contrast Between Scientists And Creator And Scientists Upset The Balance In Nature"
2. "Kesan Dan Akibah"
'Alam' merupakan "guru yang agung". Jika kita enggan mempelajari sesuatu daripadanya secara beradab dan baik, ia akan menghukum kita dengan
"menampar ke telinga kita dan menghantuk kepala kita".
Kita lihat alam, kita katakan ianya "Dunia Kebendaan". Dalam kepelbagaiannya pada setiap benda di dalamnya terdapat "keunikannya yang tersendiri".
Lihatlah "Kecantikan dan Keagongan Tuhan" melalui alam.
Untuk melihat kecantikan pandangan alam di sekeliling kita, janganlah dilihat dengan "mata kasar" atau "mata kebendaan"... Lihatlah ia melalui "mata dalaman" atau "mata hati". "Kerja-kerja seni oleh Tuhan, selaku pelukis seni alam, sehingga menakjubkan semua orang tentang pelukisnya".
Pendidikan yang diperolehi oleh semua manusia adalah melalui alam, dengan menganalisis dan mengkajinya secara mendalam. Sebab itu dikatakan alam umpama 'IBU'.
Tidakkah; "Di ribaan seorang Ibulah, Si anak itu nmempelajari seni penghidupan?"
Serupa juga 'alam' mengajar, mendidik, mengasuh manusia, bagaimana hendak maju dan berjaya, dengan bekerja keras untuk mencapai "ketenangan dan kesejahteraan" untuk semua.
"Berilah kebahagiaan, kesejahteraan, kasih sayang dan ketenangan kepada semua orang di muka bumi ini."
"Berkelakuan baiklah terhadap 'alam', melalui; pemikiran, kata-kata, dan perbuatan."
Alam adalah "Lukisan Ciptaan Tuhan", yang terbentang luas di hadapan "Galeri Tuhan", agar kita menyedari "Keagongan dan KebesaranNya".
Dunia yang sedang dihuni, "akan terhenti pada suatu hari nanti". Walaupun tiada siapa yang boleh meramal; "Bilakah dunia ini terjadi?" Tetapi ia mempunyai "asas realiti". Walaupun dunia ini 'maya' (illusi), tetapi di sebaliknya "ada kebenaran yang Hak", yang merentasinya, "yang tidak kelihatan dengan mata kasar", seperti;
"Seutas benang yang merentasi sekalung bunga, yang kelihatan hanyalah bunga-bunganya yang menjadi pujian dan pujaan ramai".
"PROSES PERUBAHAN TERHADAP MANUSIA"
Perubahan seseorang manusia adalah berasaskan "perubahan akal fikiran". Apabila proses perubahan akal fikiran berlaku, negara akan turut berubah, apabila negara berubah, dunia juga akan turut berubah, maka "perubahan mental perlu berlaku" pada setiap peringkat individu.
"Akal fikiran manusia semuanya, perlulah diselubungi dengan kasih sayang".
"Akal fikiran" manusia adalah suatu 'entiti' yang sangat menakjubkan. Apabila ia dipenuhi dengan "kasih sayang dan kebijaksanaan"... ia akan membuat seseorang itu "sangat suci dan baik". Jika ia berkeadaan
'jahil', natijahnya; "hanya akan menjadikan seseorang itu agen kehancuran dan kemusnahan". Sudah diperkatakan sejak lama:
"Akal fikiran itulah yang akan membuat seseorang itu menjadi hamba atau memperolehi kemerdekaan daripadanya".
Apa-apa jua perubahan yang ingin kita lakukan, sama ada dalam lapangan pendidikan atau apa jua, "akal fikiran" itulah "yang perlu diubah" terlebih dahulu.
"Tidak acuh atau tidak peduli, berkawan dengan orang-orang yang buruk kelakuan, tidak menghormati orang, angkuh, sombong, benci-membenci, dan cemburu".
Kesemuanya yang di atas itulah sifat-sifat yang "merendahkan martabat manusia", turun ke paras 'kebinatangan'. Untuk menghindarkan semua sifat-sifat jahat itu, adalah perlu bagi seseorang merenung dan memikir-mikir tentang... "MOTIVASI ALAM", yang mana banyak terdapat perkara-perkara baik yang boleh dijadikan iktibar dan pelajaran dari burung-burung dan lain-lain binatang seperti cacing, dan lain-lain serangga.
Seekor binatang biasanya dipandang hina dan keji, adalah 'keldai'. Tetapi terdapat beberapa kebaikan yang boleh dipelajari oleh manusia pada keldai tersebut.
"Nilai kesabaran yang terdapat pada 'seekor keldai', tidak terdapat pun pada seorang manusia. Apa jua beban yang dilonggokkan di atas belakangnya, dipikulnya dengan kesabaran. Ia juga sabar disebat punggungnya dengan tidak menghiraukan kesakitan. Walaupun ia dalam keadaan lapar dan kehausan, air mukanya tetap tenang. Justeru, manusia perlu belajar nilai-nilai kesabaran dari seekor keldai".
'Semut' pula sejenis serangga yang amat halus, banyak perkara yang boleh dipelajari darinya. Seekor semut mempunyai "kemampuan menjangka dan bersiap sedia". Dengan pengetahuan menjangka akan tibanya musim hujan, maka semut-semut tersebut sudah mula mengumpul makanan "tiga bulan" lebih awal.
'Labah-labah' pula, apa yang boleh kita pelajari darinya ialah; "sifat iltizam dan kesungguhan". Tidak kira berapa kali sekalipun sarangnya koyak atau musnah, ia tetap juga akan meneruskan membuat semula dengan tidak pernah berasa bosan atau jemu.
'Anjing' pula, selalu disifatkan sebagai binatang yang terabai dan tidak dipedulikan. Tetapi "sifat taat dan patuhnya", tidak terdapat pada binatang-binatang lain. Jika ia diberi sedikit makanan oleh seseorang, orang itu akan dihormatinya, iaitu dengan menggoyang-goyangkan ekornya dengan penuh kasih sayang. Sifat begitulah yang sukar diperolehi pada manusia sekarang ini. Malah dianggapnya seperti "melepaskan anjing tersepit". Adakah "pelajaran tinggi melangit membawa apa-apa makna?"
From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
08 OKTOBER 2010
Next Topic: 1. "Contrast Between Scientists And Creator And Scientists Upset The Balance In Nature"
2. "Kesan Dan Akibah"
Friday, October 1, 2010
DRUG AND ALCOHOL ABUSE
More than one-third of our young adults currently use illicit drugs. The use of illegal drugs has grown to such proportions that it has "become a national crisis".
Drug and alcohol abuse is "an illness that has touched countless lives and families all over the world."
"It is the unsung war in my country 'Malaysia' in America and other countries all over the world".
There is no visible enemy to attack.
There is evidence of dying, the injured, or bombed-out buildings. "This enemy destroys from the inside-out".
"This enemy is self-inflicted and self-destructive."
The victims of this war are - men, women and children. Alcohol and drugs have eaten away their self-respect and destroyed the character. They are not physically dead, "but nevertheless they are dying within, a death of degeneration".
They become incompetent and lay lame in the arms of an uncaring society.
This illness is like a plague the has spread from child to child, adult to adult. The symptoms are related to... apathy.
The users lose interest in work, achievement, pride of self, and or country. They lose human dignity. They live in a state of depression and confusion when "artificial 'high' has died." Their thought and desires are driven by unfulfilled habit, the need to feel 'high' again.
"Today man is pursuing unrestrained sense craving. These pursuits drags man's mind into a gutter."
This war is unsung because it has a stigma - the stigma of shame and failure. Parents, teachers, priests and minister "often hide the illness when it touches their families, schools, or congregation." To sing out is an "announcement to the world that perhaps they have failed."
"These people are the character builder", the role models, of our nation. They feel responsible for the decline and decay of character that is self-evident in our country today. No individual, supportive of moral values wants to see the destruction of morality "that is associated with drug and alcohol abuse".
As long as we support the habit through silence, greater members of people become victims.
"More than one-third of American young adults currently use illicit drugs."
"More than five million American currently use cocaine."
The U.S. Surgeon General estimates the member of young people under 18 who are involved regularly with some form of illicit drugs to be in the millions.
Malaysian adults currently use illicit drugs keep on increasing, has grown to such proportions that it has become a national crisis. It is a hidden habit.
The welfare of the nation ultimately depends upon the quality and nature of individual.
Therefore, reforming the individual is of primary importance. Reforming the individual has two aspects:
First: "Weed out the evil thoughts and bad habits"
Second: "Cultivate good habit".
Who is responsible for this illness in Malaysia?
America or any other countries?
Moms, dads, brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunts, the Malaysian family, the American family or any other family. This excludes no-one.
We share this responsibility equally because it is destroying our world family.
"CONDEMN THE WRONG AND EXTOL THE RIGHT AS SOON AS YOU NOTICE EITHER
IN YOUR CHILDREN; THAT WILL SETTLE THEM ON THE STRAIGHT PATH".
Please remember!
Drug and alcohol abuse is a plague. "It doesn't choose or select its victims". No one is spared because they're a good parent, go to church, go to mosque, go to synagogue weekly, attend good schools, religious, or live in a certain location. It spreads to every household.
"It's like the darkness of night and falls on every home".
It is painful to watch someone destroying themselves. Who wants to admit their child has a serious problem, has broken the law, or injured another?
Parents only one the best for their children and "looking at our child's mistakes automatically requires self analysis". Reluctance or refusal to do the latter is often the barrier that keeps the closed on the facts.
Please note:
"Drug are deceptive, debilitating and dangerous, and they have deleterious consequences".
I repeat again...
"It is painful to watch someone destroying themselves."
When it is your child, the pain is intensified. For a mother, it is unbreakable. A mother's life is devoted to caring for the needs of her child and solving their problems. If the child has a bodily injury, one applies soothing medication and love.
But how does one help when their child grows-up and dosen't want it?
A home should be a place where you can rest from the turmoil and negativity that exist in society. The atmosphere should be somewhat harmonious and "filled with love, peace and understanding".
The purpose of our home "is to strengthen, renew, refurbish and refresh" us so that upon rising each morning, we can face the world with equanimity.
"It is possible for a single individual alone to achieve peace? If there is chaos and unrest all around you, how can you alone have peace? If there is no peace in the home or in the community, how can you have peace? Your peace is dependent on peace in family, in the society, and in the world".
You cannot be indifferent to the state of the environment in which you live. One who wishes to dig a well for pure water will choose a spot far from polluted or saline areas. If you want to achieve peace, you have to see that the atmosphere around you is conducive to peace.
This means that you have to cultivate the feeling that your individual peace is intimately related to the peace of the world.
Currently every home is in a turmoil, everybody is unhappy and would take their feelings out on everyone at home. Everybody prayed for it to become a loving home, filled with peace. And everybody knew this world be a reality someday. But my advise is, "please don't wait - do it now, redress and correct your family now," don't wait... "We live in instant society".
"We have instant cameras, instant food, instant news, even instant marriage and divorce".
Today, uncontrolled living habits and unrestrained social behavior are extolled as signs of freedom. It is really only freedom to slide down into the animal behavior from which man has arisen.
Spend your time in good company. When we make an inquiry as to what is the meaning of good company, we will come to understand it by saying that it is friendship with good people. You may ask what is the benefit that we will get out of such good company? "Man's good as well as bad features receive their final shape when he mixes with other members of the society". If you spend your time in bad company and wander about the streets like stray dogs, whistling like foxes, you will only be wasting your life... Please note! "Time wasted is life wasted".
The future of the country depends upon the condition and quality of the students. Students may be described as the very roots of the nation. Therefore, we must pour water of the divine force into the very roots. Students may also be compared to the creepers bearing flowers. If we allow these creepers to grow as they please, they grow in a wild and disorderly manner without beauty and symmetry. Therefore, we must prune each creeper so that its shape may be beautiful and it may not grow in a wild fashion without any beauty. The beauty of life depends upon our good habits. The period of student days is so sacred and most important in life.
So, the students must be disciplined in their minds and habits and must fill their minds with pure thoughts and try to enforce and put into practice all those good thoughts in day-today life and in their day-to-day activities. Only then can they attain the right stage of development.
"A better quality of life is much more than the material standard of living." Our children need a safe environment to live in.
Love must be regulated and directed by intelligence and discrimination or else it may cause even injury and defeat.
Please follow this advise:
"If someone in your family needs help... Get it!"
"If someone in your family needs to be informed... Do it!"
"If your child's behaviour is suspicious... Investigate it!"
"If your neighborhood is promoting prevention... Support it!"
Remember!... "If you hide addiction... IT STAYS!"
It is significant to note that drug trafficking have "even surpassed international oil trading as money spinner and is second only to arms trade".
The lucrative trade in drugs has made its distribution widespread and caused serious sosio-economic problem in both developed and developing nations. Drug traffickers are in fact known to be using complex corporate structures and dealing in intricate business transactions involving banks, trust companies, financial institutions and real estate firms.
"THE PROBLEM OF DRUG ABUSE"
During the early 1960s, the 'hippie' subculture swept the West making a deep impact on human civilization. A typical 'hippie' was seen as a young unkempt person wearing gaudy coloured casual clothes and long hair, advocating freedom of thought and expression, and rejecting many of the conservative standards and values of society... Smoking cannabis (ganja) was their favourite form of drug abuse.
Our local youths copied this lifestyle to a certain extent. Although with hindsight, we can say that the hippie movement did have some positive effects, its permissiveness paved the way for the greatest scourge mankind has even known: "Drug Abuse".
When drugs are abused, the result can be devastating - for the abuser, for those who care about him or her, and for society at large? Dependence on commonly abused drugs has become one of the leading public health problems. The escalating drug toll is quiet unacceptable... In terms of "wasted lives, distabilized families, and rising crime rates, quite apart from the high costs of funding research programs, rehabilitation centres and specialized law-enforcement agencies."
The severe harm addiction causes the human body and the difficulty of overcoming the problem are beyond doubt.
Repeated use of drugs can cause the user to become dependent on them. Physical dependence on a drug like heroin, for example; is characterized by increasing tolerance to the drug - that is, the user has to take ever larger doses in order to achieve the same degree of drug - induced euphoria, or 'high'. And this of course makes the withdrawal symptoms, (the often severe physical reactions the user may experience when denied the drug) much worse. Traditionally, drug addiction has been defined as physical dependence.
Today, the term drug addiction usually refers to a behavioral pattern marked by compulsive use of a drug and a preoccupation with getting it.
"Drug abuse" has been rated as "one of the world's greatest enemies". Society has ascribed the cause of this scourge to the moral degradation of our youths who have strayed from their normal family home environment to be enticed by influences outside the home. "Many use drugs as a means to escape from unhappy home situations."
Parents who are too busy to attend to the social and spiritual needs of their adolescent children often neglect them to the extent of driving them to seek solace in drug addiction. The lack of proper parental guidance and supervision and the low regard for values of life, such as morality and spirituality has to a large extent contributed to this negative state of affairs. Many addicts began with no intention what soever of becoming addicted but they were sadly mistaken when they became enslaved to the habit.
Drug abusers invariable progress on to hard drugs and 'mainliners' live under the perpetual threat of an overdose. The common habit of sharing needles to 'fix' or inject drugs into one's body system by hard-core 'mainliners', is "one of the principle causes of the spread of AIDS" now threatening the country.
According to reports a vast majority (98.8%) of addicts are men, with more than 80% of them aged 20 and 39 years. More than 41% of addicts cought the habit because of peer pressure, 36.8% were seeking pleasure on their own initiative, while 15.6% took drugs out of curiosity. Others became addicted to overcome mental stress (40%), as a result of medical treatment (1%) by accident (0.4%) and (0.1%) as sexual stimulant.
How can parents tell if their in the adolescent age group (12 to 21 years) are on drugs? Millions of parents are quite rightly concerned about this problem and worry about the appeal of drugs to youngster.
What they are obviously concerned about is illicit drug use? Your suspicious that one of your children is involved in drug-taking may be aroused by an unexpected change in his or her behaviour patterns. He or she may appear confused, have slurred speach, become aggressive, paranoid or depressed, suffer weight loss, display red eyes, drowsiness, reveal declining performance at school, etc.
If face with irrefutable evidence, it is best not to over dramatise the situation but to get the help of trained counsellors who will best know how to handle the situation.
"The worst action, would be to deny that the problem exists."
"ALCOHOLISM"
The term 'alcoholic' is hard to define exactly since people have different reactions to alcohol and the way they use it. It usually takes 10 to 15 years of drinking five or more drinks a day (less for woman) for a person to develop what might be called the full alcohol syndrome - that is, a state of physical dependence with serious damage to health and social relationship. In essence, alcoholism is not measured by the amount of alcohol consumed, but rather by the way a person uses alcohol to deal with life's problem, and its effects on one's physical well-being.
Alcoholism is a chronic illness which manifests itself as a disorder of behaviour. It is characterized by the repeated drinking of alcoholic beverages, to an extent that exceeds customary social customs.
Chronic alcohol abuse can damage all vital organs in the body. One of alcohol's most damaging effects is on the brain and mental disorders.
Pubs have mushroomed all over towns and are luring our youths to indulge in the drinking habit. Certain undesirable shows are known to take place in pubs and discos contrary to the license issued to such establishments exposing to the risk of the premises being raided by the police.
For person in the lower rungs of the social scale, toddy provides the much needed solace for them to relax. Quite a number of them however imbibe the brew in excess and as a result become drunk and boisterous thus creating domestic violence at home.
Many from the low income group also indulge in drinking 'samsu' distilled from rice. But what worries the authorities is the consumption of cheap illicit 'samsu' (distilled under most unhygienic conditions) by unwary drinkers, leading to many cases of death, that had occurred arising from drinking such toxic brews.
To experience worldly pleasure there must be an external object or partner but to gain mental happiness, it is not necessary to drink alcohol.
From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
02 OCTOBER 2010
Next Topic: 1. "Dunia Dan Sains Penghidupan - Proses Perubahan Terhadap Manusia"
2. "Contrast Between Scientists And Creator And Scientists Upset The Balance In Nature"
Drug and alcohol abuse is "an illness that has touched countless lives and families all over the world."
"It is the unsung war in my country 'Malaysia' in America and other countries all over the world".
There is no visible enemy to attack.
There is evidence of dying, the injured, or bombed-out buildings. "This enemy destroys from the inside-out".
"This enemy is self-inflicted and self-destructive."
The victims of this war are - men, women and children. Alcohol and drugs have eaten away their self-respect and destroyed the character. They are not physically dead, "but nevertheless they are dying within, a death of degeneration".
They become incompetent and lay lame in the arms of an uncaring society.
This illness is like a plague the has spread from child to child, adult to adult. The symptoms are related to... apathy.
The users lose interest in work, achievement, pride of self, and or country. They lose human dignity. They live in a state of depression and confusion when "artificial 'high' has died." Their thought and desires are driven by unfulfilled habit, the need to feel 'high' again.
"Today man is pursuing unrestrained sense craving. These pursuits drags man's mind into a gutter."
This war is unsung because it has a stigma - the stigma of shame and failure. Parents, teachers, priests and minister "often hide the illness when it touches their families, schools, or congregation." To sing out is an "announcement to the world that perhaps they have failed."
"These people are the character builder", the role models, of our nation. They feel responsible for the decline and decay of character that is self-evident in our country today. No individual, supportive of moral values wants to see the destruction of morality "that is associated with drug and alcohol abuse".
As long as we support the habit through silence, greater members of people become victims.
"More than one-third of American young adults currently use illicit drugs."
"More than five million American currently use cocaine."
The U.S. Surgeon General estimates the member of young people under 18 who are involved regularly with some form of illicit drugs to be in the millions.
Malaysian adults currently use illicit drugs keep on increasing, has grown to such proportions that it has become a national crisis. It is a hidden habit.
The welfare of the nation ultimately depends upon the quality and nature of individual.
Therefore, reforming the individual is of primary importance. Reforming the individual has two aspects:
First: "Weed out the evil thoughts and bad habits"
Second: "Cultivate good habit".
Who is responsible for this illness in Malaysia?
America or any other countries?
Moms, dads, brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunts, the Malaysian family, the American family or any other family. This excludes no-one.
We share this responsibility equally because it is destroying our world family.
"CONDEMN THE WRONG AND EXTOL THE RIGHT AS SOON AS YOU NOTICE EITHER
IN YOUR CHILDREN; THAT WILL SETTLE THEM ON THE STRAIGHT PATH".
Please remember!
Drug and alcohol abuse is a plague. "It doesn't choose or select its victims". No one is spared because they're a good parent, go to church, go to mosque, go to synagogue weekly, attend good schools, religious, or live in a certain location. It spreads to every household.
"It's like the darkness of night and falls on every home".
It is painful to watch someone destroying themselves. Who wants to admit their child has a serious problem, has broken the law, or injured another?
Parents only one the best for their children and "looking at our child's mistakes automatically requires self analysis". Reluctance or refusal to do the latter is often the barrier that keeps the closed on the facts.
Please note:
"Drug are deceptive, debilitating and dangerous, and they have deleterious consequences".
I repeat again...
"It is painful to watch someone destroying themselves."
When it is your child, the pain is intensified. For a mother, it is unbreakable. A mother's life is devoted to caring for the needs of her child and solving their problems. If the child has a bodily injury, one applies soothing medication and love.
But how does one help when their child grows-up and dosen't want it?
A home should be a place where you can rest from the turmoil and negativity that exist in society. The atmosphere should be somewhat harmonious and "filled with love, peace and understanding".
The purpose of our home "is to strengthen, renew, refurbish and refresh" us so that upon rising each morning, we can face the world with equanimity.
"It is possible for a single individual alone to achieve peace? If there is chaos and unrest all around you, how can you alone have peace? If there is no peace in the home or in the community, how can you have peace? Your peace is dependent on peace in family, in the society, and in the world".
You cannot be indifferent to the state of the environment in which you live. One who wishes to dig a well for pure water will choose a spot far from polluted or saline areas. If you want to achieve peace, you have to see that the atmosphere around you is conducive to peace.
This means that you have to cultivate the feeling that your individual peace is intimately related to the peace of the world.
Currently every home is in a turmoil, everybody is unhappy and would take their feelings out on everyone at home. Everybody prayed for it to become a loving home, filled with peace. And everybody knew this world be a reality someday. But my advise is, "please don't wait - do it now, redress and correct your family now," don't wait... "We live in instant society".
"We have instant cameras, instant food, instant news, even instant marriage and divorce".
Today, uncontrolled living habits and unrestrained social behavior are extolled as signs of freedom. It is really only freedom to slide down into the animal behavior from which man has arisen.
Spend your time in good company. When we make an inquiry as to what is the meaning of good company, we will come to understand it by saying that it is friendship with good people. You may ask what is the benefit that we will get out of such good company? "Man's good as well as bad features receive their final shape when he mixes with other members of the society". If you spend your time in bad company and wander about the streets like stray dogs, whistling like foxes, you will only be wasting your life... Please note! "Time wasted is life wasted".
The future of the country depends upon the condition and quality of the students. Students may be described as the very roots of the nation. Therefore, we must pour water of the divine force into the very roots. Students may also be compared to the creepers bearing flowers. If we allow these creepers to grow as they please, they grow in a wild and disorderly manner without beauty and symmetry. Therefore, we must prune each creeper so that its shape may be beautiful and it may not grow in a wild fashion without any beauty. The beauty of life depends upon our good habits. The period of student days is so sacred and most important in life.
So, the students must be disciplined in their minds and habits and must fill their minds with pure thoughts and try to enforce and put into practice all those good thoughts in day-today life and in their day-to-day activities. Only then can they attain the right stage of development.
"A better quality of life is much more than the material standard of living." Our children need a safe environment to live in.
Love must be regulated and directed by intelligence and discrimination or else it may cause even injury and defeat.
Please follow this advise:
"If someone in your family needs help... Get it!"
"If someone in your family needs to be informed... Do it!"
"If your child's behaviour is suspicious... Investigate it!"
"If your neighborhood is promoting prevention... Support it!"
Remember!... "If you hide addiction... IT STAYS!"
It is significant to note that drug trafficking have "even surpassed international oil trading as money spinner and is second only to arms trade".
The lucrative trade in drugs has made its distribution widespread and caused serious sosio-economic problem in both developed and developing nations. Drug traffickers are in fact known to be using complex corporate structures and dealing in intricate business transactions involving banks, trust companies, financial institutions and real estate firms.
"THE PROBLEM OF DRUG ABUSE"
During the early 1960s, the 'hippie' subculture swept the West making a deep impact on human civilization. A typical 'hippie' was seen as a young unkempt person wearing gaudy coloured casual clothes and long hair, advocating freedom of thought and expression, and rejecting many of the conservative standards and values of society... Smoking cannabis (ganja) was their favourite form of drug abuse.
Our local youths copied this lifestyle to a certain extent. Although with hindsight, we can say that the hippie movement did have some positive effects, its permissiveness paved the way for the greatest scourge mankind has even known: "Drug Abuse".
When drugs are abused, the result can be devastating - for the abuser, for those who care about him or her, and for society at large? Dependence on commonly abused drugs has become one of the leading public health problems. The escalating drug toll is quiet unacceptable... In terms of "wasted lives, distabilized families, and rising crime rates, quite apart from the high costs of funding research programs, rehabilitation centres and specialized law-enforcement agencies."
The severe harm addiction causes the human body and the difficulty of overcoming the problem are beyond doubt.
Repeated use of drugs can cause the user to become dependent on them. Physical dependence on a drug like heroin, for example; is characterized by increasing tolerance to the drug - that is, the user has to take ever larger doses in order to achieve the same degree of drug - induced euphoria, or 'high'. And this of course makes the withdrawal symptoms, (the often severe physical reactions the user may experience when denied the drug) much worse. Traditionally, drug addiction has been defined as physical dependence.
Today, the term drug addiction usually refers to a behavioral pattern marked by compulsive use of a drug and a preoccupation with getting it.
"Drug abuse" has been rated as "one of the world's greatest enemies". Society has ascribed the cause of this scourge to the moral degradation of our youths who have strayed from their normal family home environment to be enticed by influences outside the home. "Many use drugs as a means to escape from unhappy home situations."
Parents who are too busy to attend to the social and spiritual needs of their adolescent children often neglect them to the extent of driving them to seek solace in drug addiction. The lack of proper parental guidance and supervision and the low regard for values of life, such as morality and spirituality has to a large extent contributed to this negative state of affairs. Many addicts began with no intention what soever of becoming addicted but they were sadly mistaken when they became enslaved to the habit.
Drug abusers invariable progress on to hard drugs and 'mainliners' live under the perpetual threat of an overdose. The common habit of sharing needles to 'fix' or inject drugs into one's body system by hard-core 'mainliners', is "one of the principle causes of the spread of AIDS" now threatening the country.
According to reports a vast majority (98.8%) of addicts are men, with more than 80% of them aged 20 and 39 years. More than 41% of addicts cought the habit because of peer pressure, 36.8% were seeking pleasure on their own initiative, while 15.6% took drugs out of curiosity. Others became addicted to overcome mental stress (40%), as a result of medical treatment (1%) by accident (0.4%) and (0.1%) as sexual stimulant.
How can parents tell if their in the adolescent age group (12 to 21 years) are on drugs? Millions of parents are quite rightly concerned about this problem and worry about the appeal of drugs to youngster.
What they are obviously concerned about is illicit drug use? Your suspicious that one of your children is involved in drug-taking may be aroused by an unexpected change in his or her behaviour patterns. He or she may appear confused, have slurred speach, become aggressive, paranoid or depressed, suffer weight loss, display red eyes, drowsiness, reveal declining performance at school, etc.
If face with irrefutable evidence, it is best not to over dramatise the situation but to get the help of trained counsellors who will best know how to handle the situation.
"The worst action, would be to deny that the problem exists."
"ALCOHOLISM"
The term 'alcoholic' is hard to define exactly since people have different reactions to alcohol and the way they use it. It usually takes 10 to 15 years of drinking five or more drinks a day (less for woman) for a person to develop what might be called the full alcohol syndrome - that is, a state of physical dependence with serious damage to health and social relationship. In essence, alcoholism is not measured by the amount of alcohol consumed, but rather by the way a person uses alcohol to deal with life's problem, and its effects on one's physical well-being.
Alcoholism is a chronic illness which manifests itself as a disorder of behaviour. It is characterized by the repeated drinking of alcoholic beverages, to an extent that exceeds customary social customs.
Chronic alcohol abuse can damage all vital organs in the body. One of alcohol's most damaging effects is on the brain and mental disorders.
Pubs have mushroomed all over towns and are luring our youths to indulge in the drinking habit. Certain undesirable shows are known to take place in pubs and discos contrary to the license issued to such establishments exposing to the risk of the premises being raided by the police.
For person in the lower rungs of the social scale, toddy provides the much needed solace for them to relax. Quite a number of them however imbibe the brew in excess and as a result become drunk and boisterous thus creating domestic violence at home.
Many from the low income group also indulge in drinking 'samsu' distilled from rice. But what worries the authorities is the consumption of cheap illicit 'samsu' (distilled under most unhygienic conditions) by unwary drinkers, leading to many cases of death, that had occurred arising from drinking such toxic brews.
To experience worldly pleasure there must be an external object or partner but to gain mental happiness, it is not necessary to drink alcohol.
From Empty Hands,
A. Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
02 OCTOBER 2010
Next Topic: 1. "Dunia Dan Sains Penghidupan - Proses Perubahan Terhadap Manusia"
2. "Contrast Between Scientists And Creator And Scientists Upset The Balance In Nature"
Sunday, September 19, 2010
TUHAN MEMPAMERKAN KUASANYA DENGAN PELBAGAI CARA
Beriman kuat dan kukuh keyakinannya terhadap Tuhan adalah suatu 'nilai' yang sangat tinggi dan terpuji, yang patut ada di dalam setiap jiwa manusia.
Keyakinan itu mestilah berasaskan "sentiasa sedar bahawa Tuhan sentiasa saja bersamanya, mengekorinya, memerhatinya dan memantau segala gerak-gerinya walau di mana sekalipun kita berada".
Dalil dan madlulnya meliputi setiap sesuatu.
Bagi kita manusia, mampukah kita manusia yang sedang berada di alam yang begitu luas, gagah lagi hebat ini dengan segala 'ciptaanNya'... Tidak menyedari apa-apa, asyik berkhayal dengan harta benda dan kekeluargaan.
Mampukah dunia yang dengan segala ciptaanNya, yang terbentang luas ini kewujudannya dibawa oleh manusia.
Ingat! Semuanya itu perlu kita ketahui bahawa di sebalik universe yang maha luas lagi perkasa ini sebenarnya wujud "PRINSIP KETUHANAN" yang tersirat, yang mengandungi rahsia yang tidak difahami oleh 'akal' manusia!...
Ambil contoh:
'Api' yang terpendam di dalam sebatang sepohon kayu... di dalam 'kayu' itu sendiri. Jika "geselan berlaku antara kayu dengan kayu", ia boleh "menerbitkan api" dan membuat sepohon pokok itu terbakar dan hangus.
Semua orang tahu di zaman purba, memperoleh api adalah dengan gesekan atau geselan kayu dengan kayu.
Begitu juga dengan 'batu', dengan mata kasar, tidak terdapat 'api' di dalam 'seketul batu'. Tetapi apabila "digesel, dihantukkan dengan kuat, ia akan memancarkan 'api'" Tetapi apa yang terkandung di dalam batang-batang kayu tidak memusnahkan dirinya. Adakah itu kerja-kerja manusia?
Ambil lagi satu contoh:
Proses pemakanan yang kita makan setiap hari yang mampu menukarkan menjadi "setitik darah". Adakah itu juga ciptaan manusia?
Ingat! "Di dalam setiap apa juga terdapat, terpendam kuasa Tuhan", yang terus saja "menyingkap dan mempamerkan kuasaNya" dengan berbagai-bagai cara.
Lihat juga bunga yang berbagai-bagai rupa dan warna. Kita manusia hanya mampu membuat bunga plastik dengan meniru ciptaan Tuhan. Tidak akan ada seekor kumbang pun yang ingin mendekati bunga plastik ciptaan manusia. Jauh sekali untuk mengharumkannya dan menyebarkan bauannya.
Terdapat air yang enak lagi manis di dalam sebiji kelapa, siapakah yang menuang dan mencurah air di dalam buah kelapa tersebut? Adakah itu kerja-kerja manusia? Tidak! Hanya Tuhan saja yang boleh melakukannya!
Justeru, banyak lagi yang perlu kita singkap kalau kita seorang perenung dan pemikir. Ambil ingatan bagi yang jahil dan bodoh!
Ada masakah untuk kita bertelagah tentang kuasa? Kuasa apakah yang ada pada manusia yang cuba hendak berkuasa ke atas manusia dan cuba hendak memerintah dan mentadbir manusia?
Saya ingin menyentuh sedikit mengenai politik semasa yang gilakan kuasa!
"Apakah yang membuat seseorang itu bernafas?"
"Siapakah yang menempatkan janin di dalam rahim seorang ibu?"
"Siapakah yang menahan nafas seseorang yang sedang bernafas?"
Jangan jadi orang bodoh dan jahil, saya ingin ingatkan sesiapa juga yang sedang memerintah dan ingin memerintah, jangan mementingkan diri. Cuma ingat satu perkara saja!
"Kita tidak boleh mengurus nafas kita sendiri, kita tidak mengurus pertumbuhan dan perkembangan fizikal kita sendiri. Justeru, APAKAH yang hendak kita REBUTKAN?"
Ingat!... Kita semua adalah ditadbir, bukan mentadbir. Seluruh alam ditadbir oleh Tuhan, termasuk kita semua. Justeru, bolehkah kita cuba mentadbir alam dan manusia?
Oleh itu jangan buang masa dengan bertelingkah dan bertelagah. Kalau kita ingin memikir akan "Keagongan dan Kebesaran Tuhan"... mengumpat pun kita tidak sempat, jauh sekali menjanjikan sesuatu yang mengkhayal dan penuh igauan.
Yang boleh mentadbir alam ini adalah "hanya Tuhan"... Jangan sempitkan akal itu, buka minda dan hati masing-masing dengan seluas-luasnya.
"Selamat merenung, memikir, dan bertaffakur!..."
From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
20 SEPTEMBER 2010
Next Topic : 1. "Drug And Alcohol Abuse"
2. "Dunia dan Sains Penghidupan - Proses Perubahan Terhadap Manusia"
Keyakinan itu mestilah berasaskan "sentiasa sedar bahawa Tuhan sentiasa saja bersamanya, mengekorinya, memerhatinya dan memantau segala gerak-gerinya walau di mana sekalipun kita berada".
Dalil dan madlulnya meliputi setiap sesuatu.
Bagi kita manusia, mampukah kita manusia yang sedang berada di alam yang begitu luas, gagah lagi hebat ini dengan segala 'ciptaanNya'... Tidak menyedari apa-apa, asyik berkhayal dengan harta benda dan kekeluargaan.
Mampukah dunia yang dengan segala ciptaanNya, yang terbentang luas ini kewujudannya dibawa oleh manusia.
Ingat! Semuanya itu perlu kita ketahui bahawa di sebalik universe yang maha luas lagi perkasa ini sebenarnya wujud "PRINSIP KETUHANAN" yang tersirat, yang mengandungi rahsia yang tidak difahami oleh 'akal' manusia!...
Ambil contoh:
'Api' yang terpendam di dalam sebatang sepohon kayu... di dalam 'kayu' itu sendiri. Jika "geselan berlaku antara kayu dengan kayu", ia boleh "menerbitkan api" dan membuat sepohon pokok itu terbakar dan hangus.
Semua orang tahu di zaman purba, memperoleh api adalah dengan gesekan atau geselan kayu dengan kayu.
Begitu juga dengan 'batu', dengan mata kasar, tidak terdapat 'api' di dalam 'seketul batu'. Tetapi apabila "digesel, dihantukkan dengan kuat, ia akan memancarkan 'api'" Tetapi apa yang terkandung di dalam batang-batang kayu tidak memusnahkan dirinya. Adakah itu kerja-kerja manusia?
Ambil lagi satu contoh:
Proses pemakanan yang kita makan setiap hari yang mampu menukarkan menjadi "setitik darah". Adakah itu juga ciptaan manusia?
Ingat! "Di dalam setiap apa juga terdapat, terpendam kuasa Tuhan", yang terus saja "menyingkap dan mempamerkan kuasaNya" dengan berbagai-bagai cara.
Lihat juga bunga yang berbagai-bagai rupa dan warna. Kita manusia hanya mampu membuat bunga plastik dengan meniru ciptaan Tuhan. Tidak akan ada seekor kumbang pun yang ingin mendekati bunga plastik ciptaan manusia. Jauh sekali untuk mengharumkannya dan menyebarkan bauannya.
Terdapat air yang enak lagi manis di dalam sebiji kelapa, siapakah yang menuang dan mencurah air di dalam buah kelapa tersebut? Adakah itu kerja-kerja manusia? Tidak! Hanya Tuhan saja yang boleh melakukannya!
Justeru, banyak lagi yang perlu kita singkap kalau kita seorang perenung dan pemikir. Ambil ingatan bagi yang jahil dan bodoh!
Ada masakah untuk kita bertelagah tentang kuasa? Kuasa apakah yang ada pada manusia yang cuba hendak berkuasa ke atas manusia dan cuba hendak memerintah dan mentadbir manusia?
Saya ingin menyentuh sedikit mengenai politik semasa yang gilakan kuasa!
"Apakah yang membuat seseorang itu bernafas?"
"Siapakah yang menempatkan janin di dalam rahim seorang ibu?"
"Siapakah yang menahan nafas seseorang yang sedang bernafas?"
Jangan jadi orang bodoh dan jahil, saya ingin ingatkan sesiapa juga yang sedang memerintah dan ingin memerintah, jangan mementingkan diri. Cuma ingat satu perkara saja!
"Kita tidak boleh mengurus nafas kita sendiri, kita tidak mengurus pertumbuhan dan perkembangan fizikal kita sendiri. Justeru, APAKAH yang hendak kita REBUTKAN?"
Ingat!... Kita semua adalah ditadbir, bukan mentadbir. Seluruh alam ditadbir oleh Tuhan, termasuk kita semua. Justeru, bolehkah kita cuba mentadbir alam dan manusia?
Oleh itu jangan buang masa dengan bertelingkah dan bertelagah. Kalau kita ingin memikir akan "Keagongan dan Kebesaran Tuhan"... mengumpat pun kita tidak sempat, jauh sekali menjanjikan sesuatu yang mengkhayal dan penuh igauan.
Yang boleh mentadbir alam ini adalah "hanya Tuhan"... Jangan sempitkan akal itu, buka minda dan hati masing-masing dengan seluas-luasnya.
"Selamat merenung, memikir, dan bertaffakur!..."
From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
20 SEPTEMBER 2010
Next Topic : 1. "Drug And Alcohol Abuse"
2. "Dunia dan Sains Penghidupan - Proses Perubahan Terhadap Manusia"
Sunday, September 12, 2010
IF ONE CANNOT COMMAND RESPECT IN SOCIETY - OF WHAT VALUE IS HIS EDUCATION
Education is an ornament for man. It is his secret wealth. It Confers
prosperity and fame. It is the teacher of teachers. It is one's unfailing kinsman in foreign travel. It secures the respect of rulers more than wealth.
Education is the basis for leading a purposeful life in the physical world, in the realm of the mind and in society. It equips one with the mental strength and steadiness to face the challenges in life. It enables one to understand the myriad manifestation in nature.
It is only when one understands the powers of his mind that he can recognize the relationship between the world and the society. Real education should enable one to realize that mankind is one family.
It should help one to experience the unifying forces in society.
Unfortunately, education today is not promoting these objectives. We have no lack of intelligent men in the world today. There are any number of Scientists. It is because the intelligentsia and the Scientists have not been educated on the right lines that the world is plunged in chaos and disorder.
Education today is concerned mainly with "satisfying the senses" and "developing intellectual skill". Ignores the development of virtous qualities.
Despite the committees and commissions set up by Government to suggest reforms in education, no resolute efforts have been made to effect the necessary reforms. The main reason for this failure is the lack of unity. Unity is essential for any achievement. All the ills the nation is suffering from are due to the absence of unity and the preoccupation of ephemeral objectives. There is nothing that cannot be achieved through unity.
Education should promote discrimination and humility. The quantitative explosion in the number of educational institutions - schools, colleges and universities - has been accompanied by a corresponding decline in the quality of education. To have no respect for your betters, to be ungrateful to those who have fostered you, to revile even the teacher who taught you;
"Can this be called 'progress' in education?"
There is little evidence of morality in society. There is a general decline in character and conduct.
Can there be anything more unfortunate for the country? Most students are not aware of even the meaning of culture. Every country has their own culture... Is today unaware of the magnitude of its greatness.
Do you know that:
Culture refines the human spirit and makes one a complete human being... Today no attempt is made to understand the truth relating to the body, the mind and the Creator. Culture seeks to integrate the various aspects of daily life and develop a unified outlook.
Students should realize, culture is meant for all mankind to reveal to the world to path to the Devine.
Today, one finds that the virtues exhibited by illeterate villagers and uneducated folk in the rural areas are not to be seen among the educated urban population. In fact:
Wherever schools, courts and administrative offices have multiplied... that we witness an 'increasing' corruption, injustice and wickedness.
In seeking to lead a free and unrestrained life, people are falling prey to the desires of their senses. "Educational Institution, which should be heavens of peace and serenity", are haunted by fears of insecurity.
"The true aim of education is to prepare the student for a useful role in society with the help of the knowledge he has got and for leading an ideal life".
Science and technology have made great advances in recent years and have a prominent place in education. It is true that Science has helped to improve the conditions of living. But the harm it is doing outweights the benefit. Man has lost "peace of mind" and "the sense of security".
The growth of videos, radios, television, cinemas and air travel has been stupendous. But there is no sign in any growth in "Divine Vision".
With the result that daily life is becoming precarious.... Morality and justice have declined. This must be acribed mainly to the craze of aquiring modern Scientific gadgets.
Many middle class people, who have moderate incomes. Wish to acquire motor vehicles, TV sets and the likes which they cannot afford to buy from their regular incomes. "These leads to corruption and bribery".
Even "education has become expensive" and far beyond "the means of middle class earners", so, in addition, there is a tendency to show off before others, to appear to be better off than one really is.
This kind of ostentation is another cause of fall in moral standards among lawyers, doctors and other professional people. There is nothing wrong with Science as such. It is the way it is used that produces bad consequences.
In the reform of the educational system, it is necessary to ensure that students learn about the right use of Science. True education must enable one to gain ("realization of the Creator who creates their body and this universe").
Instead of emphasising this need, modern education creates many problems and dificulties for the students.
Acquiring a small fragment of knowledge, a student gets inflated notions of himself.
With this sort of conceit, he develops a contempt for his own culture. This is not what true education should aim at.
"Education should be divorced from job-hunting".
Its primary purpose should enable the educated person to lead an honourable and meaningful life in society.
If one cannot command respect in society, of what value is his education?
Education should make a man recognized his obligations to his parents and others who have made him what he is...! Gratitude is a supreme virtue. If one cannot be grateful to his parents, his education is waste.
Dear students!
In the pursuit of your studies, you must place the interests of the nation above your personal interests. The "receiving of a degree is not the end of education". Your education will be worthwhile only when you lead exemplary lives in the service of society.
"DUTY OF THE EDUCATED":
In ancient days high value was attached to educations and the students led simple lives. Their clothes and their manners were dignified. Today such simplicity and dignity are not to be seen among students or teacher generally.
Discipline is at a discount. More than ever it is essential for educated persons today to conduct themselves as men of honour and integrity and raise the moral level of the society.
Even in pursuing the spiritual path, the process should not be from "Nature to Spirit or God"; but from "Spirit or God to Nature". By seeking to master the forces of Nature through education, people tend to become "subjects of nature".
To all institution's, live up to the motto:
"Speak the truth: Be Righteous".
These injuctions must propperly understood. Adhering to 'Truth' means "living up to transcendental Truth which is the external verity that is true for all times - past, present and future".
"THE AIM OF EDUCATION SHOULD BE TO SERVE THE NATION"
The bonds of love that existed between the 'gurus' and the disciples in the past, do not exist today between "teachers and students". The 'guru' considered it his duty to teach the disciple what was most benificial for the latter and the disciple loved to render service to the 'guru' and carry out implicity his commands.
In those days the students were few and they received intensive instruction. Today the students are numerous and education is diluted.
"Far reaching reforms are needed in the educational system today".
The future progress and welfare of the nation depend upon how education is imparted. Students must be imbued with genuine... "Patriotism":
Starting with "love and reverence for the parents", students should "cultivate love and reverence for the Motherland".
And all education must be preparation for serving the nation.
To all policy makers, to all educationist and to all students:
Broden your vision. Cultivate the spirit of love. Being endowed with the human form, you must strive to develop human values and not stray away from the path of righteousness. Fill your minds with sublime thoughts and your hearts with divine feelings.
"Consider the entire society as your home only then you will realize genuine unity with all". Redeem your lives by revering your parents, honouring your teachers and developing a loving faith in 'God'. In this way, you can lead dedicated lives in the spirit of the injuntion of the Quran or Upanishad. Thereby you will grow in your self-esteem. Fill your life with 'joy'.
"Be happy - Make others happy - All will be happy".
Education must be regarded as sacred process and preparation of unselfish service to society. There are innumerable person in the world who are suffering from various physical and other disabilities. It is the duty of educated persons to serve them and help to relieve their suffering to the maximum extent possible.
This is the best form of service to the society. There is pollution in the air, in the water we use and impurity in so many things. You must use knowledge you acquire to purify what is impure.
Service to society must become the primary purpose of education. Students should devote their knowledge not only to earn a living, but to use their talents and energies in whatever walk of life they may be engaged, to render service to society in all ways open to them.
How can a student be regarded as a success if they cannot command respect in society. How can a student be regarded as a success if, at the end of the course, he knocks at the door of every office exhibiting the diploma he has secured, and clamouring like a beggar asking for jobs? Education has been conferred on him this disgraceful role. Can it claim that it has done its duty?
No. The educated person must serve the society, through sweat and toil. Education has to inspire youth to offer service, to sacrifice and to help. It must not inspire youth to amass money as its goal, and to travel farther and farther to earn and more of it.
What is the root-cause of all the disorder, chaos, crime, falsehood and violence that prevail in the country today? It is the behaviour of people contrary to the dignity of human nature that is responsible for the present situation. All the education that one receives has no relation to human values.
Please bear in mind:
Today, whatever prosperity one enjoys, whatever comforts one secures, all of them are derived from society. Some rules .... Code of duties have been laid down for ensuring that the wealth that is earned from society is devoted to benefit of society.
All one's action are based upon the tendencies of the mind. No change in any form of activity is possible unless the mind is changed.
From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321
12 SEPTEMBER 2010
Next Topic: 1."Tuhan Mempamerkan Kuasanya Dengan Pelbagai Cara"
2. "Drug And Alcohol Abuse"
prosperity and fame. It is the teacher of teachers. It is one's unfailing kinsman in foreign travel. It secures the respect of rulers more than wealth.
Education is the basis for leading a purposeful life in the physical world, in the realm of the mind and in society. It equips one with the mental strength and steadiness to face the challenges in life. It enables one to understand the myriad manifestation in nature.
It is only when one understands the powers of his mind that he can recognize the relationship between the world and the society. Real education should enable one to realize that mankind is one family.
It should help one to experience the unifying forces in society.
Unfortunately, education today is not promoting these objectives. We have no lack of intelligent men in the world today. There are any number of Scientists. It is because the intelligentsia and the Scientists have not been educated on the right lines that the world is plunged in chaos and disorder.
Education today is concerned mainly with "satisfying the senses" and "developing intellectual skill". Ignores the development of virtous qualities.
Despite the committees and commissions set up by Government to suggest reforms in education, no resolute efforts have been made to effect the necessary reforms. The main reason for this failure is the lack of unity. Unity is essential for any achievement. All the ills the nation is suffering from are due to the absence of unity and the preoccupation of ephemeral objectives. There is nothing that cannot be achieved through unity.
Education should promote discrimination and humility. The quantitative explosion in the number of educational institutions - schools, colleges and universities - has been accompanied by a corresponding decline in the quality of education. To have no respect for your betters, to be ungrateful to those who have fostered you, to revile even the teacher who taught you;
"Can this be called 'progress' in education?"
There is little evidence of morality in society. There is a general decline in character and conduct.
Can there be anything more unfortunate for the country? Most students are not aware of even the meaning of culture. Every country has their own culture... Is today unaware of the magnitude of its greatness.
Do you know that:
Culture refines the human spirit and makes one a complete human being... Today no attempt is made to understand the truth relating to the body, the mind and the Creator. Culture seeks to integrate the various aspects of daily life and develop a unified outlook.
Students should realize, culture is meant for all mankind to reveal to the world to path to the Devine.
Today, one finds that the virtues exhibited by illeterate villagers and uneducated folk in the rural areas are not to be seen among the educated urban population. In fact:
Wherever schools, courts and administrative offices have multiplied... that we witness an 'increasing' corruption, injustice and wickedness.
In seeking to lead a free and unrestrained life, people are falling prey to the desires of their senses. "Educational Institution, which should be heavens of peace and serenity", are haunted by fears of insecurity.
"The true aim of education is to prepare the student for a useful role in society with the help of the knowledge he has got and for leading an ideal life".
Science and technology have made great advances in recent years and have a prominent place in education. It is true that Science has helped to improve the conditions of living. But the harm it is doing outweights the benefit. Man has lost "peace of mind" and "the sense of security".
The growth of videos, radios, television, cinemas and air travel has been stupendous. But there is no sign in any growth in "Divine Vision".
With the result that daily life is becoming precarious.... Morality and justice have declined. This must be acribed mainly to the craze of aquiring modern Scientific gadgets.
Many middle class people, who have moderate incomes. Wish to acquire motor vehicles, TV sets and the likes which they cannot afford to buy from their regular incomes. "These leads to corruption and bribery".
Even "education has become expensive" and far beyond "the means of middle class earners", so, in addition, there is a tendency to show off before others, to appear to be better off than one really is.
This kind of ostentation is another cause of fall in moral standards among lawyers, doctors and other professional people. There is nothing wrong with Science as such. It is the way it is used that produces bad consequences.
In the reform of the educational system, it is necessary to ensure that students learn about the right use of Science. True education must enable one to gain ("realization of the Creator who creates their body and this universe").
Instead of emphasising this need, modern education creates many problems and dificulties for the students.
Acquiring a small fragment of knowledge, a student gets inflated notions of himself.
With this sort of conceit, he develops a contempt for his own culture. This is not what true education should aim at.
"Education should be divorced from job-hunting".
Its primary purpose should enable the educated person to lead an honourable and meaningful life in society.
If one cannot command respect in society, of what value is his education?
Education should make a man recognized his obligations to his parents and others who have made him what he is...! Gratitude is a supreme virtue. If one cannot be grateful to his parents, his education is waste.
Dear students!
In the pursuit of your studies, you must place the interests of the nation above your personal interests. The "receiving of a degree is not the end of education". Your education will be worthwhile only when you lead exemplary lives in the service of society.
"DUTY OF THE EDUCATED":
In ancient days high value was attached to educations and the students led simple lives. Their clothes and their manners were dignified. Today such simplicity and dignity are not to be seen among students or teacher generally.
Discipline is at a discount. More than ever it is essential for educated persons today to conduct themselves as men of honour and integrity and raise the moral level of the society.
Even in pursuing the spiritual path, the process should not be from "Nature to Spirit or God"; but from "Spirit or God to Nature". By seeking to master the forces of Nature through education, people tend to become "subjects of nature".
To all institution's, live up to the motto:
"Speak the truth: Be Righteous".
These injuctions must propperly understood. Adhering to 'Truth' means "living up to transcendental Truth which is the external verity that is true for all times - past, present and future".
"THE AIM OF EDUCATION SHOULD BE TO SERVE THE NATION"
The bonds of love that existed between the 'gurus' and the disciples in the past, do not exist today between "teachers and students". The 'guru' considered it his duty to teach the disciple what was most benificial for the latter and the disciple loved to render service to the 'guru' and carry out implicity his commands.
In those days the students were few and they received intensive instruction. Today the students are numerous and education is diluted.
"Far reaching reforms are needed in the educational system today".
The future progress and welfare of the nation depend upon how education is imparted. Students must be imbued with genuine... "Patriotism":
Starting with "love and reverence for the parents", students should "cultivate love and reverence for the Motherland".
And all education must be preparation for serving the nation.
To all policy makers, to all educationist and to all students:
Broden your vision. Cultivate the spirit of love. Being endowed with the human form, you must strive to develop human values and not stray away from the path of righteousness. Fill your minds with sublime thoughts and your hearts with divine feelings.
"Consider the entire society as your home only then you will realize genuine unity with all". Redeem your lives by revering your parents, honouring your teachers and developing a loving faith in 'God'. In this way, you can lead dedicated lives in the spirit of the injuntion of the Quran or Upanishad. Thereby you will grow in your self-esteem. Fill your life with 'joy'.
"Be happy - Make others happy - All will be happy".
Education must be regarded as sacred process and preparation of unselfish service to society. There are innumerable person in the world who are suffering from various physical and other disabilities. It is the duty of educated persons to serve them and help to relieve their suffering to the maximum extent possible.
This is the best form of service to the society. There is pollution in the air, in the water we use and impurity in so many things. You must use knowledge you acquire to purify what is impure.
Service to society must become the primary purpose of education. Students should devote their knowledge not only to earn a living, but to use their talents and energies in whatever walk of life they may be engaged, to render service to society in all ways open to them.
How can a student be regarded as a success if they cannot command respect in society. How can a student be regarded as a success if, at the end of the course, he knocks at the door of every office exhibiting the diploma he has secured, and clamouring like a beggar asking for jobs? Education has been conferred on him this disgraceful role. Can it claim that it has done its duty?
No. The educated person must serve the society, through sweat and toil. Education has to inspire youth to offer service, to sacrifice and to help. It must not inspire youth to amass money as its goal, and to travel farther and farther to earn and more of it.
What is the root-cause of all the disorder, chaos, crime, falsehood and violence that prevail in the country today? It is the behaviour of people contrary to the dignity of human nature that is responsible for the present situation. All the education that one receives has no relation to human values.
Please bear in mind:
Today, whatever prosperity one enjoys, whatever comforts one secures, all of them are derived from society. Some rules .... Code of duties have been laid down for ensuring that the wealth that is earned from society is devoted to benefit of society.
All one's action are based upon the tendencies of the mind. No change in any form of activity is possible unless the mind is changed.
From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321
12 SEPTEMBER 2010
Next Topic: 1."Tuhan Mempamerkan Kuasanya Dengan Pelbagai Cara"
2. "Drug And Alcohol Abuse"
Thursday, September 2, 2010
MENGAWAL LIDAH
Salah satu di antara disiplin yang sangat penting untuk seseorang mendekatkan dirinya kepada Tuhan adalah dengan... "Mengawal Lidah".
Ianya juga mesti dilakukan dalam lapangan "pemakanan dan percakapan". Tanpa pandai mengawal lidah, adalah mustahil untuk seseorang mampu mentaati Tuhan.
Bersama dengan kebanyakan binatang, burung-burung, tetapi kelebihan kita manusia, dikurniakan "lima deria". Setiap deria mestilah digunakan dengan berhati-hati. "Kita semua mesti tahu akan kemampuan dan keterbatasannya".
Kita juga perlu pandai melatih dan mengawalnya, sebagaimana kita juga pandai mengawal apa jua kuasa dan tenaga dalam kerja-kerja kejuruteraan kita sehari-hari. Sebagai contoh:
Seperti 'Api', bila kita pandai mengawal dengan segala kebijaksanaan, ia mampu menyumbang kepada banyak cara sebagai "suatu kemudahan".
Tetapi jika ia di luar kawalan kita, ia sangat bahaya dan boleh mencederakan kita semua. Ambil lagi satu contoh;...
Seperti 'pisau', atau 'tenaga elektrik'; Jika kita pandai menggunakannya dengan betul, ia sangat membawa faedah kepada kita. Jika tidak, ia boleh berlaku sebaliknya.
Saudaraku pembaca yang dikasihi!
Semuanya itu terpulang pada kita, cara kita menggunakan kebijaksanaan kita.
Pengajaran "Ilmu Kerohanian" sahaja yang kerap menekankan agar kita semua mesti tahu bagaimana hendak menggunakan "organ deria" untuk diaplikasikan dalam penghidupan kita sehari-hari.
"DUA KUASA PADA LIDAH"
Setiap "organ deria" yang diberikan oleh Tuhan kepada kita manusia, mempunyai fungsinya yang tertentu. "Tetapi hanya 'lidah' sahaja dikuniakan 'DUA' kuasa.
PERTAMA: Kuasa yang digunakan untuk 'bercakap'.
KEDUA : Kuasa untuk 'mengecapi rasa'
Di dalam Al-Quran atau Hadis, Tuhan mengingatkan kita agar berhati-hati "bila menggunakan lidah".
"Nabi menyanjung tinggi bagi orang-orang yang dapat mengawal lidahnya secara total". Kerana orang-orang yang dapat mengawal lidahnya... "Lambat laun ia juga akan dapat membentuk kesucian dan keteguhan hati", dan ia sentiasa ingatkan Tuhan.
Untuk mengawal lidah, bukan kerja mudah. Ia perlukan disiplin dan latihan yang ketat, di antaranya:
"Memerhati Kesenyapan, Menghadkan Makanan dan Kerap Berpuasa".
'Puasa' dan "menghadkan makanan" dapat membantu "kesihatan fizikal tubuh badan". Memakan makanan yang tiada batasan, akan memudaratkan tubuh badan. Makan yang berlebihan akan membuat kita "tidak cergas, lesu, kaku dan pemalas".
Jika kita fikirkan dengan memakan apa saja yang kita suka, dalam masa yang sama kita beribadah untuk mendekati Tuhan - Cara begitu sebenarnya "SALAH" DAN "tidak sesuai'. Justeru, ambillah satu langkah dan berazam serta berusaha "mengawal lidah". Jika kita sudah arif dan bijak "mengawal lidah" kita itu, nanti deria organ kita yang lain-lainnya akan dengan sendirinya "mudah dikawal".
"Memerhati kesenyapan" juga bukan suatu tugas yang mudah, "mengawal lidah dari bercakap banyak" juga salah satu di antara "memerhati dan mengawal kesenyapan". "Mengawal kesenyapan",yang agak lebih sukar adalah "mengawal celoteh akal" agar ia dapat senyap; adalah lebih sukar.
Dalam ertikata lain;
Apabila "akal kita itu betul-betul dapat disenyapkan"...., itulah yang dimaksudkan "Kesenyapan Sebenar". Begitulah di antara "amalan orang yang bijaksana (sages).
Kini ramai di antara kita cuba berbagai-bagai cara mengamal dengan segala larangan dan peraturan semata-mata ingin mendisiplinkan diri masing-masing untuk "mengawal lidahnya" dalam "lmu Kerohanian". Malangnya, ramai yang gaagal, tidak berkesan dan "tidak dapat mengawal lidahnya".
Untuk pengetahuan sidang pembaca, jika kita ingin "mengawal lidah" dan lain-lain deria, tidaklah perlu kita berusaha dengan bersusah payah hingga 'ketegangan'. Cuma kalau kita "pandai mengawal lidah" dengan betul, nanti lain-lain "organ deria" kita akan "terkawal dengan sendirinya".
Oleh kerana kita "tidak pandai mengawal lidahlah", maka ramailah yang "terjebak dan terperangkap" dengan 'lidah' atau "kata-katanya sendiri". Dengan itu berlakulah "perang mulut" dan "cuba menidakkan" apa yang telah dicakapkannya "melalui lidahnya yang tidak bertulang" itu.
Orang-orang "yang tidak pandai atau tidak mahu mengawal lidah mereka", boleh kita kategorikan sebagai orang-orang yang sentiasa:
"Emosinya kacau-bilau, selalu bersanggah dan bercanggah, selalu kebingungan, dan meracau-racau".
Ingat!
"Mengawal Lidah" bukan saja bermaksud "mengawal percakapan", tetapi juga "mengawal makanan".
Anda pembaca semua perlu tahu dan perlu ingat!
"Tidak ada kuasa yang paling berkuasa dan sangat berkesan: Adalah 'LIDAH' (percakapan)".
Sebab itulah, kita seboleh-bolehnya, secara tegas: "Membatas dan mengawal perbualan dan percakapan" kita.
Dengan sebab itu juga "orang-orang Mistik, orang-orang Kerohanian, atau orang-orang Ketuhanan" adalah "orang-orang yang Mengawal Ketat" akan 'pemakanannya', 'lidahnya', serta "pandai mendiamkan celoteh akalnya" - 'Akalnya' bebas dari 'celotehan', 'berceloteh yang bukan-bukan'. Ia memang "benar-benar senyap dan ia benar-benar pendiam".
Seperkara yang perlu diingat mengenai 'lidah':
"Lidah Lebih Tajam Daripada Mata Pedang dan Mata Pena".
Contoh:
Jika kita "memotong atau mencantas sepohon pokok" - pokok itu masih lagi boleh 'bertunas'.
Jika kita "mencantas sekeping besi dengan sebilah pedang yang juga berasal daripada besi" - ia masih boleh "dicantumkan dengan mematerinya".
Tetapi jika kita 'mengumpat' atau 'memfitnah' seseorang dengan 'lidah' kita, tidak mungkin kita boleh "mencantumkan silaturrahim" kita semula - malah ia boleh "memutuskan persaudaraan" kita hingga "tujuh keturunan".
Ada lagi satu kata-kata yang amat tua mengatakan:
"Percakapan atau perbualan" kita yang berupa "fitnah mengumpat atau tohmahan", juga boleh "membunuh dan mematikan kuman-kuman" yang berkeliaran di sekitar kita.
Cuba fikirkan betapa "beracunnya percakapan" kita yang tidak berasaskan "sopan dan adab terhadap percakapan" kita melalui 'LIDAH'.
From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321
03 SEPTEMBER 2010
Next Topic: 1. "If One Cannot Command Respect In Society - Of What Value Is His Education"
2. "Tuhan Mempamerkan Kuasanya Dengan Pelbagai Cara"
Ianya juga mesti dilakukan dalam lapangan "pemakanan dan percakapan". Tanpa pandai mengawal lidah, adalah mustahil untuk seseorang mampu mentaati Tuhan.
Bersama dengan kebanyakan binatang, burung-burung, tetapi kelebihan kita manusia, dikurniakan "lima deria". Setiap deria mestilah digunakan dengan berhati-hati. "Kita semua mesti tahu akan kemampuan dan keterbatasannya".
Kita juga perlu pandai melatih dan mengawalnya, sebagaimana kita juga pandai mengawal apa jua kuasa dan tenaga dalam kerja-kerja kejuruteraan kita sehari-hari. Sebagai contoh:
Seperti 'Api', bila kita pandai mengawal dengan segala kebijaksanaan, ia mampu menyumbang kepada banyak cara sebagai "suatu kemudahan".
Tetapi jika ia di luar kawalan kita, ia sangat bahaya dan boleh mencederakan kita semua. Ambil lagi satu contoh;...
Seperti 'pisau', atau 'tenaga elektrik'; Jika kita pandai menggunakannya dengan betul, ia sangat membawa faedah kepada kita. Jika tidak, ia boleh berlaku sebaliknya.
Saudaraku pembaca yang dikasihi!
Semuanya itu terpulang pada kita, cara kita menggunakan kebijaksanaan kita.
Pengajaran "Ilmu Kerohanian" sahaja yang kerap menekankan agar kita semua mesti tahu bagaimana hendak menggunakan "organ deria" untuk diaplikasikan dalam penghidupan kita sehari-hari.
"DUA KUASA PADA LIDAH"
Setiap "organ deria" yang diberikan oleh Tuhan kepada kita manusia, mempunyai fungsinya yang tertentu. "Tetapi hanya 'lidah' sahaja dikuniakan 'DUA' kuasa.
PERTAMA: Kuasa yang digunakan untuk 'bercakap'.
KEDUA : Kuasa untuk 'mengecapi rasa'
Di dalam Al-Quran atau Hadis, Tuhan mengingatkan kita agar berhati-hati "bila menggunakan lidah".
"Nabi menyanjung tinggi bagi orang-orang yang dapat mengawal lidahnya secara total". Kerana orang-orang yang dapat mengawal lidahnya... "Lambat laun ia juga akan dapat membentuk kesucian dan keteguhan hati", dan ia sentiasa ingatkan Tuhan.
Untuk mengawal lidah, bukan kerja mudah. Ia perlukan disiplin dan latihan yang ketat, di antaranya:
"Memerhati Kesenyapan, Menghadkan Makanan dan Kerap Berpuasa".
'Puasa' dan "menghadkan makanan" dapat membantu "kesihatan fizikal tubuh badan". Memakan makanan yang tiada batasan, akan memudaratkan tubuh badan. Makan yang berlebihan akan membuat kita "tidak cergas, lesu, kaku dan pemalas".
Jika kita fikirkan dengan memakan apa saja yang kita suka, dalam masa yang sama kita beribadah untuk mendekati Tuhan - Cara begitu sebenarnya "SALAH" DAN "tidak sesuai'. Justeru, ambillah satu langkah dan berazam serta berusaha "mengawal lidah". Jika kita sudah arif dan bijak "mengawal lidah" kita itu, nanti deria organ kita yang lain-lainnya akan dengan sendirinya "mudah dikawal".
"Memerhati kesenyapan" juga bukan suatu tugas yang mudah, "mengawal lidah dari bercakap banyak" juga salah satu di antara "memerhati dan mengawal kesenyapan". "Mengawal kesenyapan",yang agak lebih sukar adalah "mengawal celoteh akal" agar ia dapat senyap; adalah lebih sukar.
Dalam ertikata lain;
Apabila "akal kita itu betul-betul dapat disenyapkan"...., itulah yang dimaksudkan "Kesenyapan Sebenar". Begitulah di antara "amalan orang yang bijaksana (sages).
Kini ramai di antara kita cuba berbagai-bagai cara mengamal dengan segala larangan dan peraturan semata-mata ingin mendisiplinkan diri masing-masing untuk "mengawal lidahnya" dalam "lmu Kerohanian". Malangnya, ramai yang gaagal, tidak berkesan dan "tidak dapat mengawal lidahnya".
Untuk pengetahuan sidang pembaca, jika kita ingin "mengawal lidah" dan lain-lain deria, tidaklah perlu kita berusaha dengan bersusah payah hingga 'ketegangan'. Cuma kalau kita "pandai mengawal lidah" dengan betul, nanti lain-lain "organ deria" kita akan "terkawal dengan sendirinya".
Oleh kerana kita "tidak pandai mengawal lidahlah", maka ramailah yang "terjebak dan terperangkap" dengan 'lidah' atau "kata-katanya sendiri". Dengan itu berlakulah "perang mulut" dan "cuba menidakkan" apa yang telah dicakapkannya "melalui lidahnya yang tidak bertulang" itu.
Orang-orang "yang tidak pandai atau tidak mahu mengawal lidah mereka", boleh kita kategorikan sebagai orang-orang yang sentiasa:
"Emosinya kacau-bilau, selalu bersanggah dan bercanggah, selalu kebingungan, dan meracau-racau".
Ingat!
"Mengawal Lidah" bukan saja bermaksud "mengawal percakapan", tetapi juga "mengawal makanan".
Anda pembaca semua perlu tahu dan perlu ingat!
"Tidak ada kuasa yang paling berkuasa dan sangat berkesan: Adalah 'LIDAH' (percakapan)".
Sebab itulah, kita seboleh-bolehnya, secara tegas: "Membatas dan mengawal perbualan dan percakapan" kita.
Dengan sebab itu juga "orang-orang Mistik, orang-orang Kerohanian, atau orang-orang Ketuhanan" adalah "orang-orang yang Mengawal Ketat" akan 'pemakanannya', 'lidahnya', serta "pandai mendiamkan celoteh akalnya" - 'Akalnya' bebas dari 'celotehan', 'berceloteh yang bukan-bukan'. Ia memang "benar-benar senyap dan ia benar-benar pendiam".
Seperkara yang perlu diingat mengenai 'lidah':
"Lidah Lebih Tajam Daripada Mata Pedang dan Mata Pena".
Contoh:
Jika kita "memotong atau mencantas sepohon pokok" - pokok itu masih lagi boleh 'bertunas'.
Jika kita "mencantas sekeping besi dengan sebilah pedang yang juga berasal daripada besi" - ia masih boleh "dicantumkan dengan mematerinya".
Tetapi jika kita 'mengumpat' atau 'memfitnah' seseorang dengan 'lidah' kita, tidak mungkin kita boleh "mencantumkan silaturrahim" kita semula - malah ia boleh "memutuskan persaudaraan" kita hingga "tujuh keturunan".
Ada lagi satu kata-kata yang amat tua mengatakan:
"Percakapan atau perbualan" kita yang berupa "fitnah mengumpat atau tohmahan", juga boleh "membunuh dan mematikan kuman-kuman" yang berkeliaran di sekitar kita.
Cuba fikirkan betapa "beracunnya percakapan" kita yang tidak berasaskan "sopan dan adab terhadap percakapan" kita melalui 'LIDAH'.
From Empty Hands,
A.Rahman bin Mahadi
Labis, Johore
016-6020321
03 SEPTEMBER 2010
Next Topic: 1. "If One Cannot Command Respect In Society - Of What Value Is His Education"
2. "Tuhan Mempamerkan Kuasanya Dengan Pelbagai Cara"
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