Waste of Talent

Bismillah.

-Muhasabah Diri-

Sebuah pengingat untuk diri. Dari Quran for Young Adults Day 6. Bayyinah.tv.

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Another comment that might be hurtful but I think it's important. Cause I personally do feel the effects on it. It's that Fir'aun, the Pharaoh was an incredibly oppressive human being. He decided that He does not want a generation of young man to raise in Egypt, you know, of the Israelites, because too many of them will create ruckus and they will stand up against the tyranny of the King. So he did it to control the population of young man. So he would kill every other year he killed all the baby boys. That was his policy. Kill all the baby boys every other year. And question arises, why not every year? Well because he still needs some population to be his future slaves. So he doesn't want to get rid all the man, but he wants to keep the population down. Because too many young man, and you might have a revolution on your hands. Right?

Nowadays, you don't actually have to kill babies every other year to keep the population of man from becoming too high. You can just keep them from ever turning into man. You can just keep them stays at kid, keep them as boys by just handing them an iPad, and an iPad mini, and, you know, PS whatever. Just when they're like 3 years old. And they'll hold on to that sucker until they're like 25. Sitting on their couch playing video games,  all day. Watching movies all day. And not getting a job, not taking from their college life seriously. They're not taking their career seriously. Not taking their religion seriously. Not taking anything in life seriously.

I'm actually seeing cases like this. Parents have come up to me, "Ustad you need to talk to our son, he's 27 years old, he stays home all day, he yells at his mother, he watches video games, he's in movies, it's all he does. He's dropped out of school. He's doing nothing with his life. This is a new phenomenon. And he's not motivated to do anything."

You don't have to kill that kind of a boy. He's not a threat to any injustice in society. He's not gonna be a contributor. He's not gonna speak out against any kind of wrong in societies. He's as good as…. He's a about as mobile as the furniture he's sitting on. You know? What a waste of talent. 

What a waste of talent. You know?

The young generation has to realize the power it possessed. And young generation also has to realize the dangerous it's in. The danger you guys are in, is because we are living in time where entertainment is so widely accessible and so infinite. There is no end. You know, life time will end, and the numbers of movies will not. Your life time will end, and the numbers of video games will not. You will never have played all of them. Never. There's still gonna be more. Which means you can spent your entire life wasted away in this. And then your life amount will meant nothing. You know? This is why being from the ulul albab is so important. 

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Sudahkah kita paham apa yang kita miliki? Nikmat yang Allah beri? Waktu, kemampuan otak kita, fisik kita yang sehat, dll?

Sudahkah kita waspada terhadap ancaman dan godaan yang menyerang dari segala sisi?

Maukah kita menginfakkannya di jalan Allah? Untuk kebaikan diri kita sendiri?

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Wasma'u wa athi'u wa anfiqu, and listen and obey and spend, khairan li anfusikum, all of that is good for yourself. That's good for you. Listening is good for you, this right now, what are you doing? Listening, It's good for you. But after listening, what you have to do? Obeying, that's good for you. And then, you have to spend up on it. You have youth which means you have time, spend up on your time. Your parents they have money, spend up on your money. You have talents, spend up on your talent. And all of that you would do for whose good? Your own good. Allah doesn't benefit, you benefit. 

Nouman Ali Khan, Quran For Young Adults Day 9

Allahua'lam.

PS: hasil listening sendiri, mohon koreksinya kalau ada yang salah. disarankan nonton langsung serialnya, lebih dapet feel-nya kalau dengerin langsung daripada baca.