In The Name of Allah We Begin
Have you ever played video game? Have you ever been addicted to it? Like really addicted that you woke up in the middle of night, tip-toeing down the stairs, keeping your voices hushed, surrounded by the darkness, listening to the snores of everyone in the house, the rhythm of their breaths just so that you can play computer games until dawn without anybody nagging you?
Some people might have the experience, some might not, some didn't need to go to that extend to play video games because nobody cared to stop them. But everybody must have experienced the adrenaline rush from playing video game at least once.
right?
A lot of people, when asked to stop playing games will answer: "But I gain something/learn something from the games!"
Its true though. I did learn a lot from playing games.
Take the Sims.
(a game which I had few times played for 7 hours straight yo)
If you do play the SIMS 2, your Sims now have Wants and Needs. The company was trying and is still trying to make your Sims as humanoid as possible. Like human, they have Wants and Needs. Cool, huh?
But a lot of times, their WANTS are really - illogical. Such as; wanting to change jobs after getting the highest spot in the current career path chosen. Or wanting to flirt with a pretty lady when the Sim is married to another Sim who's much prettier in my opinion and have the skills of a master chef. (I was like; what the heck man? are you blind? etc.) Then you begin to hate that particular Sims and decided to make new Sims instead whose story's more interesting than the previous one. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Until you're bored and switched to WoW instead.
Aren't these Sims are similar to human? (albeit imperfect unlike us in creation)
A lot of times, our WANTS are so illogical. Sometimes, we even go against our
fitrah just to fulfill our
hawa. We turn our backs to Allah's order and have fun doing whatever He forbids us. And we expect Allah to give everything we wish for because we basically 'deserve' it. And we expect to get into Jannah on the ticket of 2 simple phrases
لا إله إلا الله محمد رسول الله
Aren't we a laughable species?
Imagine if you have a Sim just like yourself, would you actually want to keep the Sim in your SimVillage? or would you just create a better Sim and toss the old ones into the bin?
Dan Allah-lah yang Maha Kaya sedangkan kamulah orang-orang yang membutuhkan (Nya); dan jika kamu berpaling niscaya Dia akan mengganti (kamu) dengan kaum yang lain, dan mereka tidak akan seperti kamu (ini).
(Surah Muhammad, surah 47, ayat 38)
Tapi Allah tu sentiasa Ar-Rahman, Ar-Rahim. Manusia itu tidak dihukum terus tetapi diberi peluang untuk bertaubat. Malah berkali-kali. Sehingga manusia melampau-lampau dan lupa akan perjanjian yang dimateri sebelum lahir ke bumi. Sedikit sekali yang memilih jalan yang penuh duri itu. Wahal jalan yang luas itu diketahui membawa ke gaung penuh denga ular berbisa. namun hanya kerana jalan yang luas itu dihiasi pohon-pohon epal yang masak ranum maka kita melangkah senang, terlupa apa yang menanti di penghujungnya.
(ok, dah ter
mixed English and Malay)
But life is not a game.
If it is a game, we can stop playing, save the slot then continue whenever we want. But in this life, there's no such thing as Pause, Save, Shut Down, Switch On, Reload. Life goes on. every single breaths we take. Every seconds ticking by. Life goes on until Izrail comes to us. Then every single thing we've done will come back to us in a flashback.
When I played the Sims, whenever I need to do something important such as making decision for career wild card, or planning on proposing the girl of my/ my Sim's dream, I'd save first so that if anything doesn't happen with my plan, I can reverse it back by replaying.
It happened so many times (during that time when I was so addicted to the SIMS) that I wish I can reverse whatever had occured just like in Sims. Or I don't need to save this day in my database.
But there's no reverse. There's no such thing as "Nope, I'm not going to save this session because everything I planned didn't happen well. I'm going to redo it again."
Every single thing we've done is recorded. Even when you're playing the games and let the time flies away.
Nothing can be reversed.
The life of this world is nothing but a game and a diversion. The abode of the hereafter-that is truly Life if they only knew. (Qur'an, 29:64)
Know that the life of this world is merely a game and a diversion and ostentation and a cause of boasting among yourselves and trying to outdo one another in wealth and children: like the plant-growth after rain which delights the cultivators, but then it withers and you see it turning yellow, and then it becomes broken stubble.In the hereafter there is terrible punishment but also forgiveness from Allah and His good pleasure. The life of this world is nothing but the enjoyment of delusion. (Qur'an, 57:20)
*ERP... I'm not writing this to say I learn a lot from playing the Sims so you girls/guys out there can go play now. I regretted spending my late nights with Sims instead of Qiamullail. What will I do when Allah asks me about those times? Arghh....*
This world had never been able to satisfies me. I'm off finding one that will give me serenity abadan abada.
