{"id":2551,"date":"2019-07-14T20:40:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T12:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2019-07-14T20:42:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T12:42:55","slug":"the-importance-of-having-self-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/the-importance-of-having-self-control\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of having self-control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">I attended the workshop on improving our solat.\u00a0 Little that I expect that the ustaz will talk about self-control.\u00a0 He said that when we find ourselves having difficulty to stay khusyuk in our solat, it means that our heart has lots of layers of hijab.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why we can&#8217;t see &#8220;nur&#8221; from Allah.\u00a0 We are not living in the time of the Prophet Muhammad SAW and thus, it is easy to stay astray than to remain steadfast in our belief.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">He also advises us to be careful when using the social media and whatsnot.\u00a0 He exemplifies the way we can multiply sins through our fingertips.\u00a0 \u00a0The<strong> best<\/strong> way is to delete any information that could case misleading, chaos, fitnah, disharmony and such even though it might be true about a person or others.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In psychology, researchers have conducted numerous studies about self-control.\u00a0 One of the famous ones was by Walter Mischel on delay gratification.\u00a0 Of course, there are some criticisms about his idea and proposition, but it is worth while to reflect how important self-control in our life.\u00a0 It is not easy to maintain one.\u00a0 I do admit that.\u00a0 But, in the end of the day, it is about our efforts to stay in the right path.\u00a0 There would be four things that could divert our attention to the main goal of this life: 1) worldly matter, 2) people, 3) syaitan and 4) <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><em>nafs al-amm\u0101rah<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u0625\u0650\u0646\u064e\u0651 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u064e\u0651\u0641\u0652\u0633\u064e \u0644\u064e\u0623\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0651\u0627\u0631\u064e\u0629\u064c \u0628\u0650\u0627\u0644\u0633\u064f\u0651\u0648\u0621\u0650<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed the\u00a0<em>nafs<\/em>\u00a0that overwhelmingly commands a person to do sin.\u201d (12:53)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">May Allah continuously bestow His guidance upon us and let&#8217;s try our very best to be a better Muslim each day.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the workshop on improving our solat.\u00a0 Little that I expect that the ustaz will talk about self-control.\u00a0 He said that when we find ourselves having difficulty to stay khusyuk in our solat, it means that our heart has lots of layers of hijab.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why we can&#8217;t see &#8220;nur&#8221; from Allah.\u00a0 We are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/the-importance-of-having-self-control\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The importance of having self-control<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-random-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}