Redha

Redha. It is sure one word that is easily to be pronounced and said for every Muslims. However, out of curiosity how many out of them that really understands the word ‘Redha’? Them who really use the word Redha and actually mean it? I’m writing this because I think people don’t really understand the true meaning of Redha.

My ustaz taught us that Redha is actually when you give in to the situation after all the actions you have done has turned out to have no hope. This is what I interpreted from him but his meaning go way more deeper than this and I have no right sentence to describe of what he had said.

Why I’m suddenly interested about Redha? Well, turned out that the Staffs in my uni are not educated well about this term. And I am NOT happy with it because they just use this word as they like without really understanding its meaning. And this .. Pisses me off. Really pisses me off. No joke.

The story goes like this ….

Me and my friends have written petitions for a change of schedule in final exam for 2 subjects because it happens to coincide on the same day though 1 paper is in the morning and the other is in the evening. However, we found that these papers are our core subjects and they are quite heavy to be on the same day as we have other exams a day before. Most of our friends that deals with this same pressure signed it too. So, first we went to A&R as most of our friends told us that is the right place to go. Apparently, it was not. So the staff told us to go either to KIRKHS or Engineering Department. We decided to go to KIRKHS first as it is close to A&R. There, the staff told us to go to Engineering Department. We totally understood the reason behind it. So, off we go there!

There, the ‘Redha’ incident happened. The staff told us that we are the first to do this kind of petitions. The others before us gladly ‘redha’ with this kind of schedule and moved on and did their best. You see, I don’t like the kind of tone and word he said to us. In my opinion, students have rights. After all, University is the place to shape us to be the best person we could be. And from the way he said, it sounded like we are spoilt brats that can’t handle this kind of pressure of having 2 papers on the same day. If he could only be in our shoes, he’ll understand better. Guaranteed.

My rebuttal is that, we are NOT spoilt brats. By doing petitions, it doesn’t mean that it will be approved 100% as they are procedures to go through. We understood that. It’s just that, the petitions is our voices to the Department that we preferably do not like to have 2 papers on the same day. And if there’s any other way they can help to change it, we would gladly appreciate it. And … Regarding those batch before us, I’m not saying they are lazy. It’s just that, we have voices and we should voice it out. Because based on what I know, those people would be complaining about it and mocked the Department rather than doing something to change it. And that is not what defines me and what I wanted to be. The complaining brat. For me, it defines a cowardly act. So where’s the Redha in that?

My another point is that, we want to secure our pointers. We want to aim high and score high. If we are being pressured with 2 core subjects and is only having a gap of few hours, how can we secure our pointers? Our brains needs to relax and few hours of gap won’t help us at all. Besides, we want to enter and leave the exam halls with feeling that we have done the best we could do and the rest is all up to Allah SWT to judge our efforts we put in.

However ……..

If this petitions doesn’t get the attention from the upper management and is declined, then I would be in the state of ‘Redha’. Because we have done the actions. However, it was a vain attempt. But, hey! At least we did something rather than sit and complaining right?

And This is what I understand from Redha : The actions where you open heartedly accept though the attempt was in vain.

 

I hope whoever reads this (my lovely non-existent readers), you would do more research about Redha as I don’t want to mislead you guys. Because this is based on my own understandings.

 

 

 

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