What Is Your Goal In Life? (1)
9.42pmI can't hold myself to write tonight. I know this could impede my live-healthy-plan schedule, since i have to sleep well for at least 6-7 hours, and tomorrow morning i have to do my exercise. By writing late, I could impede my health, i know the risk and believe me, what i am about to write, worth the risks.
Have you ever asked yourself, when you are alone, driving to your office or at bus going to your office, watching yourself in the bathroom's mirror, watching TV at night, and suddenly slip into your mind, what are your actual goal in life? Have you?
When this came to me, and I was in a very certain way answer to myself, I want to have a big happy family, living in a big house, many cars, and much money to spend. And the next 5 seconds, I am thinking again, REALLY? What a lame goal! everybody would have the same goal as mine. If that would be the goal for people in general, so reaching it wouldn't be hard. Be a good person, build a career, just follow the flow, then you will arrive at your goal. Just be patient and carefully live your life.
Is that what you really want? Asked me to myself. Is that what makes you happy in this life? Does that goal fulfill your heart?
When I am truly thinking my goal again, NAAHHH, that goal doesn't fulfill my heart. Because what I want to reach has no guarantee for me and my family to be safe in Qubur and hereafter. Life in this world is not the end right? Life in this world is just a transit, where we would have time only for sipping our coffee and buying a gift. So short. In addition, as a Muslim we believe that we are going to live eternally in the hereafter after waiting several years in Qubur when our credit of life is not long enough to wait for Qiyamat to come. So, live successfully in this world, having all the things we want, is not serving the word eternal.
Then I asked myself again, then what is the thing that can lead to the true and long-lasting happiness? To answer this question, I need to load some memory where I can find, who I really am in this world? All I know, I am just a poor human where my Creator (a.k.a Allah swt) ordered me to be a leader in this world (Khalifah/Vicegerent)-look to Al-Quran in Surah Al-Baqarah verse 30-*, generally speaking, and individually, Allah swt wants me to pray (Ibadah)-look to Al-Quran in Surah Adz-Dzariyat verse 56-*. It is a basic method where I thought that I can specify my goal by describing the Creator's beginning purpose in creating me. As one of the creations, I think it is very common if I could be thankful that I was created and Allah swt as the creator gave me the chance to live in this world. Then comes to the thinking of the purpose of my creation, what is that I have to do in return? As I said earlier, Allah swt clearly describes in the Al-Quran that Allah swt created human to be Khalifah in this world and for us to pray. I think this is my goal. Khalifah and Ibadah.
But the goal is not that simple. In order for us to be Khalifah and to pray, we need a guidance. Because without guidance, we would harm others. And without understanding the manual book, we might push the wrong button and will make a massive destruction. And Alhamdulillah Allah swt did not leave us blank, Allah swt gave us Al-Quran to be the absolute guidance, meaning everything and everyone should take Al-Quran as their guidance, no other way. Since the knowledge of the Creator is imbalance with the creations, so the Creator needs to send a Messenger to clarify and translate Allah swt words into humanly language. This is where our lovely prophet had his part. But still, we have some problems, since the time gap is so huge between our era and to the era when Rasulullah saw lived, so we need to be sure the validity of the Hadits. Whether it is truly said by our prophet Muhammad saw or not. Whether the hadits is truly the actions of Rasulullah saw or not, and whether it is truly the approval of Companion's actions and expressions by Rasulullah saw. And as an addition, since human is so complex and developing, we might need the opinion of some truthful scholars to provide us with Ijma' Opinions based on Al-Quran and Hadits. Can you see? The goal is not that simple. Learning Al-Quran could be a life learning, looking for the best translations and try to correlate Al-Quran and Hadits (a.k.a As-Sunnah). Searching the hadits which categorized by scholars as Shahih. Also learning from what scholars have agreed upon matters where Hadits was not clearly describe it or even Hadits was not mention it at all.
And, jump into temporary conclusion that is my goal in life is to be Khalifah and exclusively Ibadah.
*Allah swt said regarding Khalifah: "And when thy Lord said unto the angels: Lo! I am about to place a representative (vicegerent) on the earth, they said: Wilt thou place therein one who will do harm therein and will shed blood, while we, we hymn Thy praise and sanctify Thee ? He said: Surely I know that which ye know not." (Al- Baqarah, 2:30)
*Allah swt said regarding Ibadah: "I did not create the Jinn and the humans but to ya'bodoon (submit to me)." (Adz-Dzariyat:56)
