#048 | Authority
"Only you can solve that thing."
Salam guys,
While I’m writing this, I baru je dapat news this guy Head of Shariah MIDF just passed away at 2.30 this morning. I met him during a training last time.
Bila I buka profile dia tadi, I knew that dia dah buat yang terbaik dalam bidang dia.
That’s the topic for today, Authority.
You nak jadi orang biasa-biasa, buat kerja asal siap, hantar, atau you want to be the best in your field?
Masa Khutbah Raya Haji baru ni, I macam shocked kejap bila Khatib cakap, pihak musuh bekerja sungguh-sungguh, sampai diorang boleh salurkan keuntungan pada negara itu.
Dan hasil duit-duit itulah digunakan untuk bom saudara-saudara kita.
Look, I memang tak suka bila tengok orang cakap, “Buat apa cari duit banyak-banyak, cukuplah untuk family.” Sorry to say, that mindset is very selfish.
I dah tulis banyak kali sebelum ni, Minimalism is not about less, less, less, Minimalism is about less on the unimportant things, and MORE on the important things. And my idea of minimalism revolves around the hadith:
Sedekah jariah,
Ilmu bermanfaat
Doa anak soleh
Because after my father passed away last time, I nampak spek my father. And I realized, spek pakai hari-hari pun tak boleh bawa ke sana. These 3 je boleh bawa ke sana.
I’ve talked about this dalam Newsletter #46 Life Priorities.
Look, nak sedekah banyak, kena ada banyak. Kenapa fikir sekadar cukup untuk family?
Siapa nak tolong Palestine kalau semua ada mindset macam ni?
And I’m not asking you to just work, work, work, work, work, sampai lupa family. Tengok balik kat hadith tadi, nbr 3, doa anak soleh.
Look, I’ve talked about this dalam #46: Life Priorities, ibrah surah Yusuf. Kalau you tak spend time dengan anak, anak you takkan cerita mimpi dia dekat you. Dia hanya bercerita dekat orang yang dia trust.
How is he or she gonna trust you if kalau setiap malam after balik kerja, you lebih prefer spend time dengan fon you instead of spending time with them?
Minimalism is about LESS on the unimportant things; penting sangat ke update dalam social media tu, sampai tak boleh nak berhenti scroll?
Marah ni… haish..
Ok, let’s cool down.
So last week (#47 Purpose) I talked about Imam Nawawi. So I checked balik kitab Riyadus Saliheen, sebab dekat introduction kitab ni dia briefly talked about his life.
In previous newsletter, I cerita tentang one of the purposes Imam Nawawi adalah kumpulkan 40 hadith.
Bukan tu saja, yang dia buat. Riyadus Saliheen pun dia yang compile. And all of these:
So Imam Nawawi, masa dia kecik, ada seorang Shaikh ni (Shaikh Yasin bin Yousuf Marakashi), dia dah nampak Imam Nawawi ni akan jadi religious scholar. So dia pesan kat cikgu Imam Nawawi, then cikgu ni bagitahu ayah Imam Nawawi, long story short ayah dia hantar dia untuk belajar di sebuah madrasah di Damascus.
And guess what?
Founder and patron madrasah ini adalah seorang trader.
Look, buat apa nak duit banyak-banyak? So that you boleh buat sekolah untuk seorang yang bijak pandai, belajar and then tulis kitab yang masih orang harini refer to.
One thing I nak highlight:
As a routine, he used to sleep very little at night. When the sleep overtook him, he would lean and slumber for a while against the support of books. After a short duration he would again be hard at this scholastic pursuits.
Apa I nak sampaikan adalah, this guy work hard untuk achieve level dia. Dia tahu dia bijak, and dia still work hard dalam bidang dia.
Baru ni I update lecture Nouman Ali Khan dalam The Quran Notes Newsletter:
Do whatever good you can do now, based on your ‘shaakila’.
What is ‘shaakila’?
Allah told every one of us to work hard according to the "shaakila": the predisposition, the shape, the form, that he has been created with.
Meaning, I have been given a different set of skills, a different set of genetics, different set of talents, different strengths than you. You were given a completely different kind of mind, a different kind of opportunity, a different kind of genetic makeup; you were given something else.
The first thing is, Allah said, ‘work in accordance with what you have been given’. [17:84]
- The Quran Notes Newsletter: #093 Find The Gift Within You
Semua orang ada different skills, ada different abilities, different genetics; kita semua ada kelebihan berbeza. And kita perlu work hard according to that ability.
Bila kita scroll, kita asyik nampak kelebihan orang lain, dan kita lupa kelebihan kita. “Hmm dia tu, boleh lah.. Aku ni, hmmm…”
You ada kelebihan you, tapi you asyik tengok orang lain lagi hebat.
Sebab tu I suruh tutup social media, work on yourself. You spend time dengan social media, social media tu yang jadi berharga. Tengok nilai stock FB. You spend time dengan diri, diri you yang jadi berharga (I explained more about this dalam Majalah Minimalis #8).
Let’s tengok balik zaman Islamic Golden Age. Kebanyakan mereka pakar dalam beberapa bidang (we called it as ‘polymath’)
Ibn Sina: Dia pakar dalam Medicine, Philosophy, Science, Poetry. And dia paling dikenali sebagai the author of The Canon of Medicine.
Al-Khawarizmi: Mathematician, Astronomer, Geographer. Paling dikenali sebagai the founder of Algebra.
IbnKhaldun: Historiography, Sociology, Economics, Demography, Political Science. Paling dikenali sebagai the author of Muqaddimah (tebal gila buku Muqaddimah ni, I pernah tengok kat library dulu):
Apa I nak sampaikan adalah, walaupun diorang pakar dalam beberapa bidang, but diorang dikenali dengan ONE THING.
Look, I’m not asking you to become a polymath, pakar dalam 2-3 bidang.
But, Authority adalah, you be the best in your field, sampai orang kata, "Only YOU can solve that thing."
Plumber, be the best plumber.
Ghostwriter, be the best ghostwriter.
Buat karipap, be the best pembuat karipap. Bukan karipap angin
Just any field. Post ni bukan untuk pekerja Megah Holding saja.
The Path to Mastery
I know this newsletter is getting longer, but bear with me, if you care about being the best in your field.
I nak share 1 buku, Mastery by George Leonard.
He said, path to mastery; kita nak jadi pakar in anything, either sport, atau any skill, atau any field, graph dia macam ni:
Garisan mendatar itu dipanggil ‘plateau’. Time ni lah kita buat macam-macam, kita put effort, kita work hard, tapi tak nampak hasil.
Setahun dua tahun buat tak jadi, don’t just quit. That’s how you differentiate yourself dengan orang biasa.
Dalam buku ni ada share 3 jenis orang yang tak sabar dalam path to mastery:
1) The Dabbler
The Dabbler, bila dia start something, dia sangat excited. Benda tu works out. But then, dia akan jumpa ‘plateau’ (garisan mendatar, which is, mula tak nampak hasil, mula start boring). Pada tahap tu, dia akan quit, and say “Maybe this isn’t for me.”
p.s: Yang tulisan & arrow merah kat image image bawah ni, I draw it myself
2) The Obsessive
The obsessive ni pulak, dia obses. Dia taknak jadi nombor 2. Dia suka result, it doesn't matter how to get them, just get it fast.
Dia sangat tekun, lepas kelas dia tunggu cikgu still tanya soalan, dia tanya buku apa kena baca, video apa kena tengok, untuk cepat dia belajar.
Dia buat progress sangat cepat, but once dia hit ‘plateau’, dia tak boleh terima. Kalau The Dabbler tadi akan quit, tapi The Obsessive akan doubles his effort. Dia push diri dia, dan bila jatuh, akan sangat sakit, and he eventually quits.
3) The Hacker
The Hacker ni lain sikit. Dia prefer untuk maintain saja.
Dia tak look forward untuk jadi lebih baik. Dia buat asal siap. “At work, he does only enough to get by, leaves on time early, takes every break, talks instead of doing work, and wonders why he doesn't get promoted.”
So, kita taknak berada dalam ketiga-tiga kategori ni.
Just konsisten, and keep going upward. Dia takkan berlaku dalam sekelip mata.
Jangan mudah terpengaruh dengan iklan “Sales naik RM2 Juta dalam masa 2 bulan” . Yang dia cerita tu 2 bulan, yang 10 tahun belakang tabir tu dia tak cerita, faham? I talked about this dalam Newsletter #30: 10 Years Overnight Success
Keadaan harini membuatkan semua benda kita nak cepat.
Order Grab, terus sampai depan pintu.
Nak cari apa-apa kat internet, Google, terus keluar
Sakit kepala, makan ubat terus lega, “Anda rasa saya ada masa untuk sakit kepala?”
Progress kita to mastery, untuk jadi pakar dalam bidang kita, akan ambil masa.
Question: Who would you like to be? Jadi biasa-biasa, atau luar biasa?
Kalau you pilih luarbiasa, kurang-kurangkan scrolling.
Alright, love you guys.
- Faaz
p.s: Same thing like in previous newsletter, I don’t feel like reading through this, over and over again. Sorry if there were any spelling mistakes, or grammar mistakes. I’m a bit rushing these few months.
Whenever you’re ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:
Majalah Minimalis: Download Majalah Minimalis secara percuma + get free mini course on Declutter Your Life.
30-Day Declutter Journey: An online self-paced course to help you to stop scrolling mindlessly and start focusing on your purpose.
(Selagi kita tak decide apa yang kita nak capai sekarang, selagi tu kita akan tetap scroll phone…)
Newsletter kali ini adalah yg terbaik sy prnah baca. Terima kasih Faaz.