REVIEW OF MY FAVORITE VIDEO

 

My favorite video that I would like to review today is "Why can't we be happy for people?" narrated by Aida Azlin which is the owner of the youtube channel. She started off the video by telling a story about two types of pregnant women. The first one will announce publicly the news about her pregnancy and the second one refuse to do the same. When the second type of person is asked about the reason of refusal to announce it's because she is suspicious and has trust issues on other people. She is worried if she uploads in the instagram, facebook or twitter, her friends will be envious. Her relatives will say bad things to her. Hence, she is afraid to share anything that makes her happy to others.

It is very irony, isn't it? When it's time for us to be happy, we should hide it from people. When we are sad, we should hide it from people too. Thing is, why can't we be happy for other people? Why we feel threatened or feeling off when something nice happened to ther people? Aida said, in the video, when we have such thinking, it is like we are saying to Allah "Allah you have made a mistake. I should have been the one getting that instead of him or her". Other than that, the hatred feeling out of other people's happiness is also like we are implying that Allah has limitations and has only certain amount of resources, power. This is because we think if Allah has given such kind of blessing to someone, then the amount of blessings left is lesser to go around. In reality, this is totally wrong and ridiculous. Nauzubillahi min dzalik.

It is ridiculous because firstly, Allah never makes mistakes. If he has decided to give you, then that's the best for you. And if he withholds, then surely, that is also the best for you. Whatever it is, we must remember that we are always in good hands. Secondly, Allah's resources is beyond our imagination. His abundance is unlimited. No matter how much he gives, and gives and gives, there is still more than enough to go around. Allah's abundance will never run out or dry up. It's not like a store where everything is limited! If we see anyone blessed, be happy, and know that your time will come too. As long as we don’t learn to be sincerely and genuinely happy for other people, then we too will never be happy. Don’t forget to practise gratitude daily to keep us reminded that we are actually very blessed with different blessings and keep in our minds that everyone has their own portion of rezeki. The blessings are not necessarily the same. Some have good family, some have good friends, some can easily understand their studies, some are able to wake up early to pray fajr, some are able to join volunteering activities. There are so many indeed and it's not our right to nitpick which one is best when Allah is the one who knows what is best for us.

 

As a normal human being, I know we cannot escape from mistakes. Whenever we have that envious feeling, we must quickly doa for the person and for ourselves such as "Ya Allah, may you continue to bless all of us in abundance and protect our hearts from any ill-thought and resentment" and "Ya Rabb, may you make it easy for all of us to strive in your path and may you continue to remind us that what you've given us is more than enough". I hope we will always share our good news with well-wishes and congratulatory prayers without negative feelings such as envy or jealousy or hatred. If it's still happening, we have to keep on cleaning our hearts and work on our level of gratitude to Allah SWT. Because if we don't we will never be happy.

I think that is all frome me for this activity. Thank you!