waiting for hidayah.. or searching for hidayah?

I stumbled upon a friend's blog today. It discussed a topic of a famous Malaysian actor turning a new leaf for a better muslim life. Alhamdulillah! And I further read the comments people have towards this issue. Quite a number of them actually said " hidayah belum sampai" (hidayah is not here yet) or.. "tak sampai seru" (its not the time yet) when it comes to why they are still not ready to be a fullfledged worshippers of Allah.

And I am absolutely dissappointed with this. These young, healthy, clever people are saying the reason why they still do all the forbiden things are because 'hidayah' has not greeted them. O well, what if death greet you first?

Another half of the comments are full of flirty young girls saying "oh, I hope he will marry me and guide me to the right path" or "How nice it is to marry him, even it means I'm the 3rd wife". OMG. Dear ladies out there, we are born independent women. Created by Allah the AlMighty equiped with our own brains and abled bodies. Why do we need a man to guide us.. or marry us.. then only change? It is fantastic if we are lucky to marry a good muslim, but, why wait til then to get closer to Allah? Truth is, there are not many men out there who can guide you the way Rasulullah guied us all. So stop waiting around, pick up the Quran, go to the mosques, listen to talks of Islam, befriend good people, leave sins. O well, what if you never got married, or worse got married to an a-hole who knows nought about religion?

It saddened me how an inspiring blog entry did not touched everyone's heart as intended. People now are too superficial to dig deeper and think harder. Nowadays, people just look in the mirror to see how they physically looks like. No one ever reflect on how their insides are anymore. What a shame..

To another story.

I was somehow troubled yesterday after talking to this new colleague of mine who have failed to complete his postgraduate training program. The same one i hopefully will enroll in next year. He tried it 3 times and failed. Hence, he has to be kicked out of the program. And maybe kicked out by the employers too.

I hope my journey in this program is not as dramatic and depressing. I hope I will finish mine in 4 years time, no failure whatsoever and it'll be smoothsailing! Amiin.

"Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, The Beneficent, the Merciful. Owner of the Day of Judgment, ( Thee (alone) we worship; Thee (alone) we ask for help. Show us the straight path, The path of those whom Thou hast favoured. Not (the path) of those who earn Thine anger nor of those who go astray" (Alfatihah)