"I can guarantee, out of all the three hundred participants of this assembly, 95% of them will futur (kecundang) the moment they touch the land of Malaysia"
I can still remember, while attending an annual spring season assembly organised by one of the Islamic Societies in the UK, one of the participants, during the muhasabah slot, projected his opinion on the steadfastness and consistency among participants in striving for Islam.
To my dear friend who sat next to me during the muhasabah I said "Awat lah mamat ni nak kena ckp benda2 macam ni, bukan kah percakapan itu satu doa? Tak optimistic langsung"
A father, who works hard to raised his children and earning RM500 per month has a very large family. He takes care of his family well, with the children were given considerable amount of basic education. The children were brilliant, but due to the financial constraint, the father had made a tough decision by pulling his eldest 17 year-old son out from school.
A teacher, who teaches her 35 students wholeheartedly, felt happy when some of her students pass the SPM examination with a flying colour result. Though she had taught, educated and enlightened the students in her class equally, yet there are some who unfortunately did not manage to get good result.
A spring season Islamic assembly participant, who throughout the program was the key team player, has participated very well in all group discussions, talks and debates. He’s in fact a very good speaker, whose speaking skill is so good that he has elated and motivated others as to strive for Islam. As he was sponsored by one of the local’s biggest investment firm for his study, immediately after his 3-year graduate study, he was summoned to work with the firm for quite a number of years. It has been few years now, and due to the work commitment, he has yet to contribute any to the strive that he was talking about previously.
A juak UMNO, who throughout his 3-year study was a Malay Cultural Society president, has organised quite a number of Malaysia Nights. Those Malaysia Nights were very successful indeed. He directed the drama, dikir barat and the dances on his own. He himself is a good choreographer, hence the presentations were very lively and real. He was sponsored by the local central bank, hence upon coming back to Malaysia, he worked with the bank wholeheartedly. He once said to his manager that despite the low pay that he is earning, his loyalty to the bank is indeed boundless. What a silly statement! Yet, despite his hectic life in the very fast pace working environment, he managed to spend his time and contribute for his UMNO club. Last time I heard, he had successfully organised a program for his prep college’s current students.
The father is not a futur father despite of his failure in giving a complete education to his son. Indeed SPM is not really a good indicator of peoples’ success. One of the riches man in Malaysia, whose contribution to the society is abundance in value, did not even finish his SPM. But his parents had taught him very well. The father is surely not futur father, is he?
The teacher, despite her inability to make all of her students pass with a flying colour result is surely not a futur teacher, is she?
The juak UMNO, despite his futile endeavour organising the Malaysia Night which was greatly condemned by the Islamic assembly, in his own course of race survivorship is surely not a futur leader, is he?
And for the participant, despite all of his pung-pang pung-pang, so far has done nothing on what he said previously during the spring assembly; can we simply say that he is one of the 95%? And surely the person who preaches others on what he himself not practice is indeed facing a great problem.
And the other participants? You decide yourself, please. After one year of being in Malaysia, the 95% prediction is indeed correct.
My advice: Don’t be too long in the metamorphosis phase, as for the larva not too come out after a certain period, it may well rather be a prey for the birds.
p/s: The quotation above is a kisah benar. The watak-watak (i.e. father, teacher, MCS president, participant) are khayalan penulis semata2.
