The Moon and The Star

21 Sept 1996 was Mr Moon and Miss Star first date. Miss Star had noticed Mr Moon for quite some time as Mr Moon loved jogging by the route near Miss Star’s planet. However, Mr Moon only noticed Miss Star after the pencil box incident. And a few more other incidents that happened around the earth and the sun, resulted with them getting closer.

Despite the fact that Mr Moon did not meet Miss Star’s prince charming criteria and Miss Star, did not really qualify as Mr Moon’s sweet-long-await-dream-princess, they fell in love. Mr Moon was very much In love with Miss Star. He was willing to give up everything and anything for Miss Star. He even transformed from a not-so-and-don’t-know-how-to-be-romantic person to the most-romantic person on the earth and the sun. And he could even draft a poetry for Miss Star :) Miss Star was very happy.

Thus, Mr Moon proposed to Miss Star to become his first wife. Although Miss Star loves Mr Moon, she was not so sure about marriage as she felt like she got thousand of things that she still need to do on earth before getting married. However, Miss Star was firm with the decision after Miss Star’s mom told her that Mr Moon was the perfect candidate that Miss Star could not afford to lose.

Therefore, Mr Moon and Miss Star get married on 26th Aug 2000. Miss Star cried on her weeding day because she realized that she could no longer always be with her family. She was also afraid of the fact that she had to dedicate her life to her husband. Poor Miss Star...her tears ruined her make up.....

Although Mr Moon and Miss Star loved each other, they often fight and quarrel and the frequency of this event, increased after marriage. Fortunately, Mr Moon was a very patient partner.

When Miss Star get angry, Mr Moon will be quiet.
When Miss Star cried, Mr Moon will be quiet again.
When Miss Star upset, Mr Moon will again be very quiet.
Due to this circumstances, Miss Star then get tired...

The journey of Mr Moon and Miss Star continued with the born of their son, Mr Phlegmatic. If you find Mr Moon having the personality of a calm-patient-sweet person, Mr Phlegmatic is a more calm-more patient-more sweet person. This was not a surprised as Mr Phlegmatic was a carbon-copy and the better version of Mr Moon. Only that Mr Phlegmatic is too calm and often mistaken as too slow. Mr Phlegmatic join the group of Mr Moon and Miss Star on 24 May 2001.

So now, there are Mr Moon, Miss Star and Mr Phlegmatic in the house on earth. Along the journey, Mr Moon and Miss Star frequency of fighting had gone really low. The frequency is really reduced until Mr Moon and Miss Star were wondering on whether is it because
a) life is getting boring until there is nothing to be debate about or
b) because they finally understood each other very well or
c) it is just simply because Miss Star is getting older and having less energy to fight.

Hence, their life is more stable and peace and prosperous.

But this environment did not last for long, on 6 Sep 2004, Miss Star delivered another baby. It’s a girl, Miss Heaven. She is called Miss Heaven because of her incapability to hear and to see the world.

(Note: If you can’t enjoy the world, it means, you will go straight to heaven once you leave the world)

Since, Miss Heaven was an unexpected, special gift to Mr Moon and Miss Star, for a couple of years Mr Moon and Miss Star was very busy fitting, squeezing, and adapting to both Mr Phlegmatic and Miss Heaven.

Today, Mr Moon and Miss Star had been married for 11 years. Mr Moon and Miss Star had a mutual understanding on their dreams and path of life. They had decided on the plan and the sacrifices that they had to make in order to achieve their dreams.

Mr Moon, in order to achieve the dream, is now living somewhere else, coping with his job. He is very busy coping with his work to realize the plan and dream and to make sure that his group had enough to eat, to spend and to live, while he is climbing the ladder towards the dream. Can’t always be there for his love, Miss Star is one of the sacrifices that he can’t avoid.

Miss Star is now in the mode of a relaxing and going through a happy, too normal and too much spare time that leading to boredom life. Miss Star top priority is now Mr Phlegmatic and Miss Heaven. Hence, anything that Miss Star wishes to do, she must make sure that Mr Phlegmatic and Miss Heaven is not neglected.

Mr Phlegmatic is now the body guard of Miss Star. His rules is more stringent than Mr Moon. Wherever and whenever Miss Star wished to go and to do must be reported to him.

Miss Heaven, despite of her incapability to see and to hear, had become the night watch for the group. She will sleep in the day and will stay awake at night together with a giant yellow snail and a giant red ant to make sure that the group was safe at night. So, at night, Miss Star is having a giant baby, giant snail and giant ant to protect the colony.

With this, Mr Moon and Miss Star life was complete. Even though, their productivity is really slow, the body guard (Mr Phlegmatic) and the night watch (Miss Heaven) really colored their life.

Hence, Miss Star is no longer wishing for the stars and is very grateful to the Master of the Universe for lending her Mr Moon, Mr Phlegmatic and Miss Heaven to accompany her in this short journey of life. She wishes nothing more than a reunion of her, Mr Moon, Mr Phlegmatic and Miss Heaven in the eternity life after death in heaven.

To:
Mr Moon and Miss Star – Happy Anniversary!!

Balance?

Always I’ve been thinking on how to align life, between dunia and akhirat? How to be balance? How to perform well in both? Or should we only be the best for akhirat and leave out dunia? Be the best for akhirat because that is compulsory and for dunia, is only optional? How should we do it? Can we be wanting both, dunia and akhirat. Can the dunia activities also leading to akhirat and vice versa? Can both be synergize?

The answer is yes. I’ve seen people that perform well, dunia and akhirat. It is difficult to explain this in words until I’ve read the books written by Prof Dr Muhd Kamil Ibrahim and Dr Ridzwan Bakar. Thank you very much Norhidayah for sharing these valuable, resourceful books that to me is able to describe how to be excellent, dunia dan akhirat.

Hence, below are the words written by Prof Dr Muhd Kamil Ibrahim, in one of the books “Bila pintu hati terbuka” ...

"Mulai hari ini – jika anda mahu mendengar nasihat saya – saya mahu anda bangun bersolat malam, minta ampun, bertaubat dan berdoa kepada-Nya. ALLAH telah berjanji akan memakbulkan segala pemintaan yang kita mohon dengan syarat kita lakukan dengan penuh keikhlasan, dalam ketakutan dan mempercayai yang DIA Maha Berkuasa. Jika kita gagal sekalipun, kita akan reda kerana kita sepatutnya mempercayai yang ALLAH lebih tahu apa yang tidak kita ketahui.

Pergantungan kepada ALLAH merupakan kunci kepada kekuatan dalaman seseorang insan".

Yes, that is the key, pergantungan kepada ALLAH. That will lead the way to be excellent in both dunia and akhirat...InsyaALLAH...