The Tea Cup

Story: The Tea Cup

 

        There was a couple who used to go to shop in the beautiful stores. They both liked antiques and pottery and especially teacups. One day in this beautiful shop they saw a beautiful teacup. They said, "May we see that? We've never seen one quite so beautiful." As the lady handed it to them, suddenly the teacup spoke.

"You don't understand," it said. "I haven't always been a teacup. There was a time when I was red and I was clay." My master took me and rolled me and patted me over and over and I yelled out, "let me alone", but he only smiled, "Not yet."

"Then I was placed on a spinning wheel," the teacup said, "and suddenly I was spun around and around and around. Stop it! I'm getting dizzy!" I screamed. But the master only nodded and said, 'Not yet."

Then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I wondered why he wanted to burn me, and I yelled and knocked at the door. I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as He shook his head, "Not yet."


Finally the door opened, he put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. "There, that's better," I said. And he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag. "Stop it, stop it!" I cried. He only nodded, "Not yet."

Then suddenly he put me back into the oven, not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed. I cried. All the time I could see him through the opening nodding his head saying, "Not yet."

Then I knew there wasn't any hope. I would never make it. I was ready to give up. But the door opened and he took me out and placed me on the shelf. One hour later he handed me a mirror and said, "Look at yourself." And I did. I said, "That's not me; that couldn't be me. It's beautiful. I'm beautiful."

"I want you to remember," then, he said, "I know it hurts to be rolled and patted, but if I had left you alone, you'd have dried up. I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled.

I knew it hurt and was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't put you there, you would have cracked. I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would have hardened; you would not have had any color in your life.

And if I hadn't put you back in that second oven, you wouldn't survive for very long because the hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished product. You are what I had in mind when I first began with you."

Almighty ALLAH SWT knows what He's doing (for all of us). Almighty ALLAH SWT will mould us and make us, So that we may be made into a flawless piece of work To fulfill His good, pleasing, and perfect will.

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Thanks & Best Regards,

The Unhappy Young Lady

The old Master instructed the unhappy young lady to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it. "How does it taste?" the Master asked. "Very bad" Said the lady.

The Master then asked the young lady to take another handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake and when the apprentice swirled his handful of salt into the lake, the old man said, "Now drink from the lake."

As the water dripped down the young lady's chin, the Master asked, "How does it taste?" "Good!" remarked the apprentice. "Do you taste the salt?" asked the Master. "No," said the young lady.

The Master said, "The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount we taste the 'pain' depends on the container we put it into. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things..... Stop being a glass.  Become a lake!" 

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Thanks & Best Regards,

Shakir

Failure Opens The Greatest Doors to Success

Sometimes, a single failure can open the greatest doors to success. If you face an obstacle or fail at a particular point, never be saddened or grieved. Instead prepare yourself for the most amazing journey. Perhaps, just perhaps, Allah will redirect you through another route; a shortcut you never knew of, which will take you through breathtaking scenery and vast open space. Perhaps, just perhaps, it was better you failed because what you were aiming for was nothing, absolutely nothing, compared to what He has in store for you and will soon show you on this path.

Trust yourself at the point of your failure. But more importantly, trust the One Who allowed that pitfall to occur. Know that there is a reason for it, and right now, the reason may be veiled from you for a greater reason. Trust that things will turn around and the One Who was leading you then is still leading you now and is still in control of your affairs, even though your hands have left the steering wheel.

Trust Allah and keep going. Open your eyes to the different doors, ways and avenues that He opens for you. You will always see that whatever happened, was truly for the best.

… Because sometimes you see, it is a single failure that opens the greatest doors to success.
Alhamdulillah ♥

What Do We Have To Complain About?

 

A lesson to be learnt to move towards our goals working hard with determination and positive attitude...Truly inspiring read on

IS GIRL IS UN  Touching the sky without arms. Talk about inspirational, what strength of character, perseverance and just get on with it without complaining..... What do we have to complain about?      ,_.___

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90/10 Principle

When something upsets you, you just have to say to yourself, "90/10" and it puts it all in perspective.   This took me less than a minute to read and is a great reminder of an EXCELLENT, simple principle.

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
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Best Regards,
Shakir.