Forgiving...

I still want to share about what had happen yesterday. It was such a great day for me. I am not good public speaker but I take a challenge to give a talk on health yesterday in front of big crowd. I already take my first baby step. No doubt it is a small step to a long journey but I felt great about it.

I always felt nervous when I need to do something but not yesterday. I practiced visualization that has been teaches by Prof Dr M when I attend her motivational talk.

For example, if you’re afraid about exam, just visualize in your mind everyday that you will sit in the exam hall, you will answer all of it correctly and you will left the hall happily. Always visualize it and you will encounter whatever things that happen in your life accordingly.

I practice it. I visualize that I will give a good talk in front audience, I visualize that I am a good speaker and I visualize all the good things that I will do on that day. Alhamdulillah, I manage to go through it.

I always believe that I am sick before this. But now I never think that I am sick. I believe that I am healthy. Beside that, I always felt that I am fat before this. But by starting to have a good visualization about myself, I manage to lose 4kg.

I always felt that I will never get married before. But now I always visualize everyday that I will married someone that can accept me as I am and will understand me in whatever things I do. I will have 10 cute and beautiful children. I visualize everything. I think visualization is such a good practice as you will face life positively. Beside that, I think visualizing a good thing is like making a prayer to Allah. It makes us to have good perception towards Allah.

Prof Dr M also said one thing that was so important. What should you do to make sure that you get everything that you want in life? You need to forgive others.

There is a great story in Islam about forgiving. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, was the most forgiving person. He was ever ready to forgive his enemies. When he went to Ta’if to call the people to Islam, its people mistreated him. They abused him and hit him with stones.

He left the city humiliated and wounded. When he took shelter under a tree, the angel of Allah visited him and told him that Allah sent him to destroy the people of Ta’if because of their sin of mistreating their Prophet. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, prayed to Allah to save the people of Taif, because what they did was out of their ignorance. He said, “O Allah, guide these people, because they did not know what they were doing.”

When he entered the city of Makkah after the victory, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, had in front of him some of his staunchest enemies. Those who fought him for many years, persecuted his followers and killed many of them. Now he had full power to do whatever he wanted to punish them for their crimes. It is reported that the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, asked them, “What do you think I shall do to you now?” They pleaded for mercy. The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Today I shall say to you what Joseph…” (referring to Prophet Yusuf, peace be upon him, as mentioned in the Qur’an, Yusuf 12:92) “…said to his brothers, ‘No blame on you today. Go, you are all free.” Soon they all came and accepted Islam at his hands. He forgave even Hind who had caused the murder of his uncle Hamza, may Allah be pleased with him. After killing him she had his body mutilated and chewed his liver. When she accepted Islam, the Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, even forgave her.

"Those who control their anger and are forgiving towards people; Allah loves the good." (Qur'an, 3: 134)