Bersederhana Itu Kekayaan Yang Nyata

"Mereka yang bersifat kesederhanaan dalam semua hal tidak akan menjadi miskin..."

Jika perlu MARAH, marahlah..tetapi usah terlupa dengan perkataan SABAR .
Jika perlu MENANGIS, menangislah..tetapi usah terlupa dengan perkataan TENANG .
Jika perlu PATUH, patuhlah..tetapi jangan sampai hilang KEMERDEKAAN .
Jika mahu MISKIN, miskinlah.. tetapi jangan terlalu miskin, nanti mudah menjadi KUFUR .
Jika mahu KAYA, kayalah.. tetapi jangan terlalu kaya sampai terlupa perkataan SEDEKAH .
Jika mahu menjadi WARAK, lakukanlah ibadah sebanyak-banyaknya tetapi jangan terlupa keperluan DUNIA .
Kalau mahu sebuah KERETA MEWAH, belilah.. selagi mampu dan menepati keperluan SEMASA .
Kalau mahu 2 BUAH RUMAH, belilah.. asalkan jangan sampai tak tahu perkataan PUAS .
Kalau mahu MENIMBUN HARTA, bekerja-keraslah.. asalkan jangan sampai terlupa BERIBADAH .
Kalau mahu BERHIBUR, berhiburlah.. asal tidak sakan dan MENYALAHI SYARIAT .
Kalau mahu memPERKATAKAN HAL ORANG, berkatalah.. asalkan jangan sampai MENGUMPAT .
Kalau mahu CEMBURU dengan kejayaan orang, cemburulah.. asalkan anda pun BERUSAHA KUAT sepertinya .
Hidup sederhana akan memastikan anda tidak akan miskin selama-lamanya..
Bersederhanalah...dalam segala hal adalah titik kejayaan dalam semua perkara..

Orang yang terlalu pandai kadanag-kadang apabila bodoh.. terus sasau.
Orang yang terlalu kuat..kadang-kadang apabila lemah terus tidak berdaya..
Binalah harta sebanyak-banyaknya tetapi jangan sampai anda menjadi hamba kepada harta .
Binalah ibadah banyak-banyak, tetapi jangan sampai terlupa soal-soal dunia .
Binalah kedudukan ditengah manusia, tetapi jangan sampai hilang kepercayaan orang dan tercalar maruah diri .

Bukanlah seorang yang baik kalau beribadah sepanjang masa sedangkan untuk makan dan minumnya terpaksa meminta-minta. Seeloknya-eloknya.. bersederhanalah dalam beribadah lantaran bekerja itu pun ibadah, membuang halangan dijalanan juga ibadah, menasihati orang juga ibadah .
Orang yang bersederhana sentiasa terpandang dimata dunia. Dia tidak akan hina oleh kemelaratan dan tidak terlalu tersohor oleh kepopularitian. Dia terpandang sepanjang masa baik oleh orang yang hina mahupun orang yang mulia. Berkuasanya bersederhana bagaikan pakaian yang menjadi penebat pada rasa dingin dan panas yang membakar.

Sayidina Ali r.a. berkata, "Berkhairatlah mengikut kemampuan dan janganlah menjadi keluargamu hina dalam kemiskinan.."
Hendaklah bersedekah, jangan sampai jatuh miskin, menyimpan harta jangan sampai digelar Si Bakhil, beribadahlah jangan sampai semakin jahil..

Kata Sayidina Ali r.a. lagi, "Insan tidak akan melihat kesalahan seseorang yang bersifat tawaduk dan lemah lembut.."
Tawaduk dan lemah lembut adalah kesederhanaan yang nyata, membangkitkan kasih sayang dan menumbuhkan cinta tulus. Jika anda impikan penghormatan manusia, maka bersederhanalah dalam berbicara, berbatas-batas tatkala bergurau-senda dan menyimpan sebahagian kesukaan ketika terlalu gembira.

Bersederhanalah... adalah jawapan kepada segala-galanya...(dari e-mel)

Sadness that makes a difference

What a difference a sad event in someone's life makes. GEORGE CARLIN (His wife recently died...) Isn't it amazing that George Carlin - comedian of the 70's and 80's - could write something so very eloquent...and so very appropriate.

A Message by George Carlin:

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways , but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...

Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever.

Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
George Carlin

(from an e-mail)

A Story with a beautiful message!

Here is a short story with a beautiful message.

Little girl and her father were crossing a bridge. The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter, "Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river." The little girl said, "No, Dad. You hold my hand." "What's the difference?" Asked the puzzled father. "There's a big difference," replied the little girl. "If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may let your hand go. But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens, you will never let my hand go."

Hold the hand of the person who loves you rather than expecting them to hold yours...
This message is too short......but carries a lot of Feelings. (Anonymous)

Anak-anakku...

Telatah kanak-kanak memang boleh buat kita tersenyum, apatah lagi anak-anak sendiri. Semalam setelah Amir [7] selesai menghabiskan kerja sekolah, dia masuk ke bilik, terus naik katil dan berbaring... "Penat la papa. Amir rasa penat sama macam kerja ofis papa pulak." Pandai dia cuba memahamkan saya membuat perbandingan letihnya dia dan saya.

Fatin[4] pula berbaring berhampiran saya. Sengaja saya mencari peluang menyakat. "Papa rasa(antara perkataan kegemarannya untuk mendapatkan sesuatu dengan diplomasi) papa tak nak kawan Fatin. Papa nak kawan dengan brother Amir dan baby Arissa[11 bulan] saja. Sepantas dan dengan selamba dia menjawab "Sayang je la." Tak kawan tak apa, tapi masih sayang maksudnya. Tersenyum saya.

Arissa dengan telatahnya tersendiri. Apabila berbaring disebelahnya tangan kecil itu akan mengusap pipi saya. Dia menunjukkan rasa sayangnya dengan cara paling mudah difahami. Saya senyum lagi.

Semua ini bekalan semangat untuk bekerja lebih gigih bagi menyediakan mereka kehidupan seselesa mungkin. Kita semua berharap untuk memberi anak-anak sesuatu yang tidak kita perolehi sewaktu kita membesar tetapi kita sering terlupa memberi anak-anak apa yang kita telah perolehi.

Saya akan berusaha memberi mereka apa yang tidak saya kecapi semasa kecil tanpa melupai apa yang telah saya nikmati, kasih sayang ibu bapa dan keluarga.

Contentment

Have you ever, at any one time, had the feeling that life is bad, real bad, and you wish you were in another situation?Y ou find life make things difficult for you, work sucks, life sucks, everything seems to go wrong...

Read the following story... it may change your views about life: After a conversation with one of my friends, he told me despite taking 2 jobs, he brings back barely above 1K per month, he is happy as he is. I wonder how he can be as happy as he is considering he has to skimp his life with the low pay to support a pair of old parents, in-laws, a wife, 2 daughters and the many bills of a household. He explained that it was through one incident that he saw in India that happened a few years ago when he was really feeling low and touring India after a major setback. He said that right in front of his very eyes he saw an Indian mother chop off her child's right hand with a chopper. The helplessness in the mother's eyes, the scream of pain from the innocent 4-year-old child haunted him until today. You may ask why did the mother do so; had the child been naughty, had the child's hand been infected?? No, it was done for two simple words- - -TO BEG! The desperate mother deliberately caused the child to be handicapped so that the child could go out to the streets to beg. Taken aback by the scene, he dropped a piece of bread he was eating half-way. And almost instantly, a flock 5 or 6 children swamped towards this small piece of bread which was covered with sand, robbing bits from one another. The natural reaction of hunger.

Stricken by the happenings, he instructed his guide to drive him to the nearest bakery. He arrived at two bakeries and bought every single loaf of bread he found in the bakeries. The owner was dumbfounded but willingly sold everything. He spent less than $100 to obtain about 400 loaves of bread (this is less than $0.25 per loaf)and spent another $100 to get daily necessities. Off he went in the truck full of bread into the streets. As he distributed the bread and necessities to the children (mostly handicapped) and a few adults, he received cheers and bows from these unfortunate. For the first time in his life he wondered how people can give up their dignity for a loaf of bread which cost less than $0.25. He began to tell himself how fortunate he is. How fortunate he is to be able to have a complete body, have a job! , have a family, have the chance to complain what food is nice and what isn't nice, have the chance to be clothed, have the many things that these people in front of him are deprived of...

Now I begin to think and feel it, too! Was my life really that bad? Perhaps... no, I should not feel bad at all... What about you? Maybe the next time you think you are, think about the child who lost one hand to beg on the streets.

"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want,

it is the realization of how much you already have."

When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which has been opened for us. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that! we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

Please send this message to those people who mean something to you, to those who have touched your life in one way or another, to those who make you smile when you really need it, to those that make you see the brighter side of things when you arereally down, to those who you want to let them know that you appreciate their friendship. And if you don't, don't worry, nothing bad will happen to you, you will just miss out on the opportunity to brighten someone's day with this message.

(from an e-mail)