METTA

In one of those usual playful banters in the car with 4 children & 3 adults

Hazim: Hakim, stop it ah! You very naughty, I send you to metta school then you know!

Hakim: bleargh!

Me: Metta School? Only for special children (read: e.g. low IQ, with learning disability etc), right? Hazim, don’t be mean ok?

Hazim: Hakim should go there!

Hakim: bleargh!

My bro: yeah, don’t make fun of children like that k. They’d probably get to go to heaven first – don’t need to count deeds you know.

Hazim & Hakim: I want to go to Metta school

Me: I don’t think getting to heaven got anything to do with the school you attend. You are normal mah.

Kwang kwang kwang

Mortality

I was supposed to blog about KL. But decided not yet, not after reading in the news. An acquaintance passed away in an accident on a mountain yesterday. A mountain I climbed TWICE.

I can’t seem to get over it, ever since a friend sms-ed me yesterday about the news. No, not because I am close to this acquaintance of mine. He was after all, just someone I knew while I travelled along my educational path. But the fact that I KNOW him, makes it so much closer to home.

Past week’s reports about the death of the 2 NSmen in Taiwan, hit by a plane while in a STORE & the woman who was hit by a falling tree, struck a chord in me. Unfortunate incidences, you may say. But I believe they are but ENGINEERED. Engineered by none other but the Almighty.

We all know we are going to die. But we seem to keep forgetting.

Mortality strikes.

It is God [alone that has this power - He] who causes all human beings to die at the time of their [bodily] death, and [causes to be as dead], during their sleep, those that have not yet died: thus, He withholds [from life] those upon whom He has decreed death, and lets the others go free for a term set [by Him]. In [all] this, behold, there are messages indeed for people who think!39:42

May the families of those affected be given the strength to pull thru this difficult time, insya allah.

pic: summit at ledang