Follow Through with the Do

In the name of ALLAH the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful

Dear friends, can I ask you some questions?

Do you have a dream?

Did you once have a dream?

I was amazed to read and listen of the failures and hardships that various famous people had borne (bring) in their pilgrimage to the top. It will make me enthusiasm to move forward when I facing a problem or any difficult situation. It reminds me the word…

“Wherever you may be, no matter your lack of resources, regardless of your apprehensions (worries), whatever they say, and whatever the odds, just do something to get yourself moving in the right direction. Action is the key; inertia has never made anyone great”
(Wes Beavis, author of motivational book)

Yeah, that is true!

To be a good Muslim or become the person we dream of being, we have to commit ourselves to a course of action. I repeat ACTION! By doing action, it will keep us move and expose us to the possibility of success.

Nevertheless, others prefer to avoid the possibility of the embarrassment from making a mistake or rejected. That is true! Nobody appreciates being rejected but people who are success will escape the potential of rejection by deciding to do nothing that would expose them to the possibility. If we want to do something or change significant with our live, we must stick our head up.

I am not denied that feelings of apprehension (worries) always accompany people who step out of the comfort zone. The anticipation (expectation) of upcoming discomfort causes many people to turn their backs on the life-changing challenge that lie one step before them. So, what happens to these people? Nothing! Nothing exciting ever happens to them. They stay safe in the comfort zone, only ever thinking about something new and exciting. They may be said;

“Oh, I might do this….”

“Oh, I might do that…”

“One day I’ll try this…”

But for all their thinking about doing something, they never actually do anything! They talk, wish and dream, but they never taste the sweetness of new experiences because they never “follow through with the do”!

It reminds me the verse in the Quran said:

“O Jamat-ul-Momineen, do not make tall claims which you cannot substantiate. You must do whatever you say you will. Harmony in what you say and do is the only proof of truthfulness of your Eiman. According to the Divine Law it is most loathsome and questionable that you say you will do something, which then you do not do”.
(As-Saff: verse 3 & 4)

And one proverb said:

“Action is power than word”

Some people feel that their plan is not very grand compared to what others have produced. That may be true, but have you ever heard that anyone whose first composition went to number one in the charts; or whose first story was made into a movie; or whose first speech was to the United Nations; or whose first laboratory experiment created a cure?

Therefore, I want to bring you back to sirah. Are you still remembered the story (sirah) of the prophet Muhammad saw and his friends opened Makkah? We can take a lesson from that story which implied that everyone of greatness has stories of humble beginnings. That is what makes them great. They realize where they have come from and what it takes to get where they are now. They know it didn’t happen by an accident, and while the scenery on their journey may be unique to them, they know their experience has one thing in common with all others. It started by deciding to emerge from the comfort zone and do something!

To never “FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THE DO” increases the probability that later in life we may live with regret that we didn’t try harder to become what we dreamed. Thus, I want to keep on remind especially myself and all friends, instead of us just thinking and talking about doing something let’s we “FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THE DO”…

“LET’S FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THE DO!”

~mutiara-mutiara bertaburan~





References
1) Beavis, W. J. 1994. Become The Person You Dream of Being. United States of America. Powerborn Publishing. pp. 41-61.

2)http://www.parvez-video.com/quran/summary/surah_as_saff/index.asp