Start.

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious the Most Merciful.

I have been planning to start writing for a while now but it is very very hard to start a new thing and maintain it, to have a great perseverance. It’s always THE START – that is the problem. Once you started, it is gonna be easy and good.

For example like start exercising, once you start doing it the first time it is easy to do it on the second, third, fourth time but if you stop doing it constantly, you lose the momentum and you have to start again. Boom. You’re stuck in the laziness of starting AGAIN! Basically, do not stop. But it is hard right? To be istiqamah in doing something. And I so know myself for being so seasonal, one moment I like to read book, the next I just like to watch the documentary on YouTube or just watch Netflix for the whole week.

I know I wanted to start writing a blog for so many years ago. I’ve stopped for years. And I created a new blog last year and I did nothing. I had probably two posts and now I am starting again here!

I want to seriously start writing because I have been told for so many times that I am good at writing, alhamdulillah but I still haven’t start to write. I should start because I don’t know what I enjoy the most in life. Meaning, I don’t know what to do in my life. Although I have a job that I like, I mean it is okay, I’m good at it – but not that I love it and can’t wait to see tomorrow because I’ve got to do something that I love. I think many people are like this, we just go through days as it is. I guess I should start writing and see where this leads me. Besides, God give me the gift and I should put it to good use.

I pray that you will all find things that you are good at and love doing it, and yes take the courage to put it to good use. Aameen.

The thing is I don’t know what should I write about and when I am into something and want to write about it, it requires so much effort! I’m gonna pour my heart out for every piece. I don’t want to do just that or just enough that ‘hey, I posted a blog’. Also, when I start to write, I instantly face the writer’s block.

Recently I have been exploring myself to learn the Quran. I am not a native Arabic speaker. I do not understand the language, so I am learning. I also learn the importance of sharing the knowledge I acquire through this journey, so this will be a good platform for me to share – it also helps with my writing, to get ideas and topics to write. Hope this would be a good start in the journey of learning about God and writing. Please note that all the writings would be what I’ve learned in this journey.

All good things come from Allah, while evil comes from my own hands. Allah knows best.

I really hope that I could share how much fun it is to learn the Quran and understand the Surahs. How much fun it is to learn and discover new things, how fun it is to wonder and be curious to know more and when you started looking, Allah make it easier for you, and then you see things, you find things that you were curious to know. Sometimes you didn’t even look for it and yet, it is there right in front of you. Allah sends all the knowledge to you and this feels so wow, the journey is so beautiful MasyaAllah. I hope you could feel the same way. InsyaAllah.

I hope we will all be given more hidayah from Him, and His blessings.

Apart from sharing the journey to know Allah swt and the Quran, I will share any random things that I explore and curious in, that’s why I call this blog I shall explore (and my name is twisted in between).

May peace be upon you.

Love,
S.