Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Spring Semester 2011: A New Beginning…

   Assalamualaikum, readers (May the peace and mercy of Allah be upon you). Alhamdulillah (All Praises be to Allah) I just started my spring semester. As usual, everything moves slowly in the beginning of the semester since there aren’t many things to do and deadlines pushing. So my adrenaline is kind of extremely low. Spending my time in the library at 1 am in morning seems to be the weirdest thing ever in the world right now since the mid-terms and exams are still light-years away. I guess this is the life of a doctoral student, devoting life for the sake of knowledge. Many know that a life of a PhD student is so unilateral and has no volume at all. Everything is predictable and normal. No hot news, whatsoever.

    Even though many people devote their lives for the sake of knowledge and human development, they tend to forget about what they really are fighting for in life and why they are doing this and that. A big portion of us fail to answer the most fundamental question, “What makes us wants to devote our lives to this seemingly boring lifestyle?” Why don’t we take a couple of minutes to honestly think about this matter. Yeah… The answer is easy, it is our passion and we do it because we love it. We love everything that has to do with it. No matter how lame outside people may think, we proudly stick with it and whole-heartedly work towards the end.

     Yet the previous answer does not totally cover all the ground that needs to be covered. We cannot explain what will happen to all the knowledge and hard work you put when you die. Those discoveries of knowledge and piles of hard work probably will be continued by others or sometimes just left behind and forgotten in the passage of time. Believe it or not, it all comes down to the relationship between you and your Creator. He is the only one that justly counts every drop of sweats you produce and every ounce of hard work you put. Everything is counted unmissed.

     In the world of technology that we are living in right now, the society gages good work by looking at results and outcomes without particularly heed the unfruitful efforts. The unfruitful efforts are considered nothing but just uncherished wastes. What a sad, sad situation. That’s why Islam is the best way of life. In the situation where the work and efforts we put bear no fruits and results; they are still being weighed the way it should be from Allah’s perspective - as long as they are not wrong from Shariah’s viewpoints (Islamic jurisprudence). So let’s re-new our intentions in finding the light of knowledge and, at the same time, seeking the “redha” (pleasure) of Allah. InsyaAllah (With Allah’s will).


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