Taken for granted

" When you take things for granted, the things you are granted,

get taken"

Today, I will not be blogging about who have taken ME for granted but to blog about what I have taken for granted. Recently, while I was studying for my Hadith exam this Sunday (make dua for me), there is one hadith I read during my revision that made me downhearted (not in a bad way, but somehow that feeling of disappointment towards myself). This is also a very famous hadith it's also known as "take 5 before 5", "The Prophet Rasulullah s.a.w advised to: Take benefit of five before five: Your youth before your old age, your health before your sickness, your wealth before your poverty, your free time before you are preoccupied, and your life before your death.

Narrated by Ibn Abbas and reported by Al-Hakim."

Basically, to summarise this Hadith, we have to take advantage of some things before losing them - and it is the 5 things that were listed. AND I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND IT NOW, LIKE NOW! There were two very important things I lost just in this week, 1) time 2) health

As I mentioned in previous posts, I had SO MANY THINGS TO DO. I even told a few of my friends that I can't hang out or go out for iftar with them this time round. (it's sad because some of my friends and I have this yearly tradition of going to Geylang bazar during Ramadhan every year since 4 years ago) Day by day, I lost time and more time and more time. One of the last few days, I sat crying doing my assignments because I just wanted TIME TO STOP. Just last Monday, I lost another thing that is very important, health. I have been so weak to even move around or even brain some of my revision and studying I needed to do DESPERATELY. Thus, I skipped school for a whole week, except for one day. I planned to visit the doctor today but I didn't have the energy to. And this really made me feel - hopeless. Like I just want to go back to the days where I was so FREE AND HEALTHY. That hadith really gave me a slap on how I actually TOOK THINGS FOR GRANTED. It's not that I didn't appreciate those times but it was more like I could have DONE MORE during those times. Then, as usual, we want to relate everything to RAMADHAN. So there is a video that has been circulating online (here is the link). It's really really really sad to think that I have lost ONLY my health and time in this beautiful month but there are people out there who are losing something BIGGER - a home, a life, a freedom and it does not stop there. And I keep asking myself, "Am I taking this for granted too? Am I taking whatever I have in Ramadhan for granted?" Sometimes, all these "random" shared videos and "random" readings of a hadith is not so random after all. Sometimes, it is a way of Allah s.w.t telling you the things you should keep in mind and reflect. And you can do that if you are aware and you realise and you keep an open mind and think about it. Everything is not a coincidence and I believe Allah s.w.t has its reasons for why He allows something to happen. It's either we KNOW why or we DO NOT KNOW why. And that too is up to Allah s.w.t to decide. Alhamdulillah, for another week of FULL of reflections. I feel so much more composed. I pray that Allah s.w.t guides all of us to be a better Muslim and to always keep us in His protection. Whoever who might be reading this, pray for me for my exams this weekend (Saturday for Uni and Sunday for Religious) in this weak state. ♥

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