Sunday 5 December 2021

Takwah is the Secret of Cycling Around the World Safely

https://youtu.be/Lb4CGMirBNI

She was a girl who was scared of so many things. It did not stop her from cycling around the world, safely. This is the power of being paranoid, the basis of real safety. When in doubt, take extra precautions such as switching on all lights when going to the toilet. 

Just because most probably she will not suffer from harm in her own home when going to toilets at night, there are cases of people getting hurt. Just like Murphy's law. Anything that can happen, will happen. It should not stop her from going to the toilet at night. Too inconvenient to wait for daylight and will create worse health problems.

Watch her YouTube channel and learn from her experiences. 

She is actually practising Takwah, as written in the Quran. Takwah is clearly defined in Surah Yasin. The word is translated to "fear", and "takut" in Malaysia, actually translated in many Malay translations and note the closeness of the words. Arabic, "taku", Malay, "takut". However, Muslims tend to translate Takwah as submission to God which is forbidden in Surah Yasin, in the subsequent 2 sentence. The full sentence is to fear what will come in the future and what had passed.