Monday, December 17, 2012

Meeting of minds, meeting of hearts

It's much easy to weave ketupat but this evening, I saw why Allah chose certain people to lead.I saw the good sides of this person.I will not name who for fear of being accused of apple polishing, kaki kipas etc.Ahaks.But share with you, I must, so that you too will not anyam ketupat so easily as many of us. :)

Do you remember some time ago I blogged about Prof. Arif who had just recovered from cancer? Stage 4, OK?

Well, this evening I heard the full story from his charming wife, also an old friend.Mereka ni org Pakistan, rakyat Amerika.And Prof Arif sgt committed to Islam orgnya.Dia buat sekolah agama di US sebelum dtg kerja di UIA di mana dia serahkan jiwa raganya.Dia lah yg letakkan uia sebagai institusi yg telah mengeluarkan debaters taraf dunia.Kita bolot byk awards for decades.Antara yg di belakang kejayaan ini adalah Prof Arif.Sgt2 humble orgnya.No enemies.

Masa dia sakit dan terus dibawa anaknya balik ke New York to get the best treatment from world's top surgeons, para doctors ni semua berbelah bahagi sama ada nak buat surgery ke tidak.Ada yg kata tak payah..dah terlalu merebak the cancer.Mind you, semua surgeons ni Yahudi.But one of them said as a Muslim, you kena percaya qada and qadar so you must do the surgery.So he agreed.Dgn izin Allah..selepas setahun, dia boleh travel ke KL dan if I post you the pic, dia nmpk lebih sihat dari anak muda umur 20 tahun! Inilah rahmat Allah kpd hamba yg ikhlas dan berserah.I was so moved when his wife told me the story.

Yang lebih moving was when our colleague visited him while he was recuperating from his chemo and all in May.He was invited to join the uia team ke meeting with the UN.Apparently that gave him the semangat to fight back and live.MasyaAllah...kadang2 wht is a small gesture to us is a life giving for others.Masa nilah my perception of this other colleague berubah.We gotta understand turun naik seseorang itu adalah dgn ketentuan yang Satu itu so just go with the flow.

2 comments:

Mawar said...

Kak F
MasyaAllah!
Kisah yang mengilhamkan.

Faridah said...

Mawar: Sesungguhnya!