Listen

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

Listen. Listen. Listen.

Everyone was talking about that. I was curious. So, I went searching and found the video. At first, I was more to Bavani's (is it?) sides. But, it's not really about who's right and who's wrong. It's about attitude and manners.

When I scrolled over the newsfeed on facebook and found Ustaz Hasrizal's post regarding the 'Listen' issue which was shared by Aiman Azlan, it really woke me up.

Be rational.

An arabic proverb if I'm not mistaken says that we need both, the spirit of youth and the wisdom of the old.

It is good that our generation nowadays did not only listen and somehow brainwashed, but can speak out their opinions out loud. Though, we miss the important thing that every each of us must have. It's manners.

Me myself, is not good at voicing out opinions in a polite way. I also tend to hurt people's when I'm trying to say what I think is right and what I think is wrong. But yes. Mistakes happen. Say sorry. Put down your ego or it will eat you back.

Have you ever strongly stand to your opinion, neglecting others opinion and somehow it turns out that you was wrong, all your hard work suddenly destroyed just because you don't want to listen to others?

So. Listen.

But don't just only listen. Filter out what you're listening too. Learn to differentiate right from wrong. Listen to different opinions. Don't make decisions without thinking thoroughly.

A lecturer (a few actually) once said that, students nowadays are much different from the students before. We were more outspoken, the students those days were more to the quiet type and just listen. But students now don't really know how to communicate with others. We are lacking from communication skills.

Not like their putting blame on us but it's our environment that make us don't really know how to speak. We usually communicate through the net, where's there no tone. Only flat words without intonation and sounds.

Moreover, we need good example. Our best example is Rasulullah s.a.w. But how many of us  has really took him as our example? As our idol?

Well. Parents, teachers, leaders. These people should also present themselves as a good example for us the young generations.

A lecturer said "what if you went overseas and other people ask, where you're from, when you said you're from Malaysia, & they'll said, oh I know that, I saw your parliament throwing chairs everywhere in you tube"

Where are you going to put your face?

When people doesn't feel ashamed anymore, they lose their faith. (a hadith if I'm not mistaken)

"What if a lecturer does that to you in class? What will you do?"

I don't know what to say when the lecturer ask that question. I probably loses respect to that lecturer after that. I know that we should have respect to a teacher, especially who's teaching us, but you only gain respect when you give respect. You get what you give.

Still. It will be better to keep calm, forgive and forget.

Elders are elders. Respect they should have.

It's not a good thing to assault people in any way either directly or indirectly regardless what mistakes they make and what age they are.

By the way. You don't solve problems by neglecting or run from it. We don't blame the hand for robbery, it's the robber who chose to do it.

Let's ponder on it & try to apply into our life (The only translation that I can think of for "renung-renungkan & selamat beramal")