Mati Adalah Pasti...! Nafas terakhir...!
Assalamualaikum w.b.t.,
Hari ini banyak email diterima berhubung kematian Steve Job pengasas syarikat Apple yang terkenal dengan pengeluaran komputer, IPAD dan sebagainya disebabkan mengidap kanser... Wah! begitu kalut sekali apabila kematian orang-orang kenamaan yang terkenal seperti beliau... Namun adakah kita bermuhasabah yang kematian saban masa menghambat kita??? Peringatan ini semata-mata untuk diri ku yang selalu lupa dan malas untuk beribadah.... Hidup ini hanya sementara. Yang berkuasa mati, yang terkenal juga mati, yang zalim binasa, yang miskin ajal menjemput juga....
Dipetik sedikit ucapan beliau di Stanford untuk renungan kita, cerita kematian (rujuk yang diwarnakan merah):
"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Dipetik sedikit ucapan beliau di Stanford untuk renungan kita, cerita kematian (rujuk yang diwarnakan merah):
"When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering
that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered
to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything —
all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or
failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only
what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the
best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to
lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your
heart.
About
a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the
morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even
know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a
type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no
longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home
and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die.
It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the
next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure
everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for
your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I
lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy,
where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and
into my intestines, put
a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was
sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the
cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned
out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with
surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
This
was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I
get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this
to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but
purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people
who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death
is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is
as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention
of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way
for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from
now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be
so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t
waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which
is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the
noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most
important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They
somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is
secondary............."
Sesungguhnya perlulah kita bermuhasabah, hidup ini adalah persediaan untuk mati... maka rugilah jika dunia sebagai tempat persediaan hanya untuk keuntungan dunia semata. Hebat di dunia belum menjadi jaminan untuk menjadi TERHORMAT di akhirat...
Maha Suci Allah s.w.t. yang menciptakan sesuatu bukan dengan sia-sia...
Wallah hu 'alam.
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