There was a young-Islamic student who was sitting on the edge of an Islamic school bench. His face showed that he was facing problems and feeling so pathetic. His wise teacher saw the student, came close to him and asked “Don’t you see there are many beautiful things in this world?” The teacher continued “Where is your grateful face?” Then, the student responded “Lately, I’ve been facing so many problems, that’s why I seem so pathetic, Syaikh.” Smiling and looking at his sad face, the teacher prompted “Bring me a handful of salt, son!” The student did what his teacher ordered and returned to him. Then the teacher instructed him to pour the handful of salt to a glass of water and ordered him to drink. “What did it taste?” The teacher asked, “It tasted really salty and made my stomach ill.” The student answered. After that, the teacher ordered him to bring a handful of salt again and took him out to the nearest lake around his school. The teacher would prompted him to drop off the salt into the lake water. Looking for a kind of low stone, the teacher ordered “Now, drink and taste how the water is!” Then the student responded “The water is really fresh, Syaikh.”This isn't unlike the previous which I drank before.” the student continued. “For you to know, every problem that befalls to someone is same in the degree. All of problems that befall to everyone are like a handful of salt. The degree is still the same, no more or less. Even in the early history of human, the problem encountered by one is no more than a handful of salt. The different is only on your heart. It depends on you. If you make yourself like a glass to resettle problems, the result will always taste salty. However, if you make yourself like a great lake, the result will always taste fresh. No matter how big your problem that you’re facing, it will not make you sad and pathetic.” The teacher conveyed a worth and important lesson and taught him how to face every problem wisely.***
***(The writing text above has been corrected)
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I tried to translate this story which is originally written in Indonesian. Thanks for you all who have spent a bit of time to read this one. I hope that you’ll find it useful. I’m sorry for my weakness in writing English, it’s possible you’ll find some errors in grammatical or inappropriate words that I used in the story above. I’m still learning for it.
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To dara gino
Terimakasih atas apresiasi yang telah anda berikan. Namun perlu untuk diketahui bahwa "The story above" bukanlah hasil imaginasi saya sendiri, melainkan memang benar adanya. Saya hanya menuliskannya kembali di dalam English version. Anyway, thanks again. I'm very happy if you found it useful and beneficial, and I hope so.
To setareh
Thanks a lot. You are too exaggerating about my writing, I'm not very good at writing. But, thanks again for you. It's nice to see you on my blog.
Selamat tahun baru Zanky, saya harap akan menjadi teman anda. Cerita anda bagus. Saya suka kebijaksanaanya. I hope to be one of your friends. I like the wisdom about that story.
To rysperski.
Thanks for commenting on my blog.
Oi there, folks
So..........if the school were not an Islamic institute, the teacher would assumably be a neer-do-well nincompoop who wouldn't give a damn how his student's face looked like even were he sitting at the very edge of the bench causing serious danger of falling off from it.....btw...Happy New Year...for Islam believers and non-Islam believers.
Thanks for reading. I'm really pleased with all of your corrections you gave to me. I'll consider that in the next writing English.
Nice to see you in my blog,
Best wishes,
Yeah, nice story indeed. Just think that it will come to pass, too! If that pupil is not wise, he wouldn't be able to grasp what his teacher is trying to convey through that activity.
Here are some of my corrections:
*** There is was a young-Islamic student who was sitting in on the edge of an Islamic school building. (I think it's not a building but bench).
*** Once His wise teacher saw the student, then came close to him and asked “Don’t you see there are many beautiful things in this world?”
*** Smiling and looking to at his sad face, the teacher prompted, “Bring me a handful of salt, son!”
*** The student would do did what his teacher ordered and returned to him.
*** Thanks for you all which who have spent a bit of time to read this one.
*** There This isn't is no salty unlike the previous I drank water from the glass previously which I drank before.