the sweetness of iman

Day in and day out.. I see more and more Muslims getting closer to their religion. Its great to see more people watching Islamic videos on youtube, forums, etc..

I see people discussing on  religious matter more and more everyday... Its great that the Muslims in Malaysia are becoming more interested in the religion.


It's great that people are going to the mosque, praying 5 times a day, fasting in the beautiful month of Ramadhan, reciting the Quran, going to hajj, etc...

We often discuss what we should do and what we shouldn't do, we often speak of how good if we do certain things, we always speak of the technical matters of reciting, the do(s) and the don't(s).. we speak about the sunnah, we discuss the huge matter of the religion and the Quran and the prophet...

But, we often forget one thing that is very, very, very important...

We kept forgetting about our heart.

Today I encountered this one situation... I saw a middle-aged man wearing a kupiah, talking on the phone shouting at the person on the line. Apparently, he was not happy because the person was late for 5 minutes and the reason the other person were late is because there was some communication problem.

Right after that telephone conversation (btw.. he was talking very harshly to the receiver) he put down the phone and walked away arrogantly. 

FYI- I  got to know, this man is a religious teacher. 

After watching the whole event...  I walked out the place and saw an Indonesian lady, a cleaner.. sweeping the floor..

Then, a cat came along making some sound (indicating that she is hungry) I saw the religious teacher walked pass the cat.. The cat made some sound to him and tried going around him. He pushed away the cat; "hishhh!!!!"

The lady saw the incident. She went straight to the cat, lifted the cat and later come back with some food. Obviously, the food that was given to the cat is her lunch and she gave about a quarter of it to the cat.


I went to the lady, smiled at her and asked.. "kak, itu makanan tengahari akak kan?" -"Sister, isn't that your lunch?"

and she smiled and replied; "kucing ni lapar..." "the cat is hungry..."


Amazed with her generosity, I smiled at her and said; "you are such a beautiful person"


While walking towards the car, I thought about the Indonesian lady.

What a huge heart she has, and I remembered the prophet once said. The biggest jihad of a man is to have a pure heart.

Once you have a good heart, insyaAllah, everything will fall in place. May Allah lead all of us to the right path and make us the people with iman.

Assalamualikum