Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom - said to be a good book on lessons in life. To the author, it is like a final thesis he worked on with his professor, Morrie, who is dying from an illness. Mitch visits his dying professor every Tuesday to talk about life and death.
The main idea is there lah...about how people in this world is chasing after things that are meaningless - like more money, bigger houses, nicer cars.. Being brainwashed by the media on these false necessities ( I sooooo agree with this!! macam boleh write a whole new topic just on this. but that, next time..), Ignoring or putting aside things that should be of more importance in life, plus what matters to people when they are dying. What is important to Morrie is the sincerity and love of the people around him. Of course that is in the perspective of a non-Muslim. A famous quote from the book is 'when you learn how to die, you'll learn how to live'.
But as a Muslim, it's like.. way more than that. It's not just about how you want to die. It's about what you want AFTER death. but of course a person doesn't think about what they want AFTER death, unless he has Iman. As we may be able to see, a person with no Iman, lives this life with not much regards to others or even to his own conscience, but a person with iman, and depending on his level of iman, lives his life with conscience and awareness. And this conscience and awareness encompasses everything he does in life, as how Islam is. Islam is a WAY of life.
So in my humble opinion, a better quote for us would be 'Your iman will show you how to live your life.'
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