Losing...

Yesterday, my mom told me a shocking story. Her friend was taking care of her mother in her house. One day, her brother came by to visit their mother who was really sick at that time. However, things went opposite. Her brother suddenly fell and after a while, was confirmed to die.

Meanwhile, there was another shocking news. A flaperon found in Reunion(pronounced as re-yu-nee-yo) Island was confirmed to be the debris of MH370, a missing airplane since 8th of March last year. The families of the passengers on board seemed to be more sad and wanted more evidence to prove the expected crash.

From both stories, we can conclude that death is unpredictable. Death can come anywhere, anytime,  by any factors. I remembered one of the popular saying by Ramlee Awang Murshid in the Sunan novel series:

MATI ITU PASTI, HIDUP INSYAALLAH

"Death is confirmed, to remain alive InsyaAllah"

Also in surah Ali Imran, ayat 185:

                         Every soul shall have a taste of death...

So, everyone will die, no one can refute this. However, how to control ourselves when we lose our beloved ones? What if they are the ones in the MH370? How can we go on with our life without them?

To lose someone is one of the challenges that we have to go. Allah wants to test is whether our imaan is strong or not, whether we are able to accept the fate or not. The greater our imaan is, the greater the challenges. Just look at Rasulullah s.a.w. He was the greatest human being of all the universe, yet He had to face the challenges of losing the beloved ones, His dad, His mom, His grandpa, His uncle, His wife, His sons,... But he could go through all of them, because Allah knew he could.

In surah Al Baqarah ayat 286:

            Allah does not charge a soul except within its capacity...
Believe in yourself, you can do it!

Nothing is impossible.