Disaster - What can we do?

Wow, the latest news that I heard was about the earthquake in China that killed (until now) about 12000 people. Ya Allah…another disastrous tragedy. It seems like we were just stunned by the Nargis tropical cyclone that hit Myanmar a few days ago that killed about 30000 people, destroying the Irrawady delta (very densely populated and the rice bowl of Myanmar). That just reminds me back to the Tsunami that hit Banda Acheh at 2004 and killed thousands of people. These tragedies are catastrophic, just imagine the aftermath and all.

Those tragedies, natural disaster happened in other countries. Our neighboring countries. What about our country? Are we safe? What about our condition?

To think about it, anything can happen. As we can see, although in our country, Alhamdulillah, these big disasters does not or does not yet happen. But there are small disasters happening and starting to increase steadily…

Let’s not go too far. Why not just start from this year, 2008. The latest election…as we can see Malays, most importantly Muslims are not united and this is such a shame. I mean they all claim to improve the condition and life of Malays, of Muslims but as all of us can see, there’s not much of improvement. In fact, I think the political condition is getting worse.

And then about the economic status that is definitely decreasing. The increased price of oil, food, toll…everything is expensive nowadays. And to think that these problems happen in just a matter of a few months. Just think, even if we have money or we are rich but there is no food..what can you do? It seems like all the money that you have is invaluable rite?

This doesn’t include other problems including safety problems, social problems. I don’t feel safe in my own country. I mean with all the rape cases, robbery, murder happening everyday. Where is the value of a human life? Just a few ringgit…
And about social problems? Need I say more? Just read the newspaper. I’m sure there are news about it everyday.

So what can we do? Do you still want to live like this? I know that I don’t….
We have to do something rite to change our condition.

Just look at this ayat that I think a lot of people like to quote :

Bagi manusia ada malaikat-malaikat yang selalu mengikutinya bergiliran, di muka dan di belakangnya, mereka menjaganya atas perintah Allah[767]. Sesungguhnya Allah tidak merobah keadaan sesuatu kaum sehingga mereka merobah keadaan[768] yang ada pada diri mereka sendiri. Dan apabila Allah menghendaki keburukan terhadap sesuatu kaum, maka tak ada yang dapat menolaknya; dan sekali-kali tak ada pelindung bagi mereka selain Dia. ((Ar-Ra’d, 13:11)

So we cannot just pray to Allah and hope that everything will be Ok, everything will be alrite? Where’s the will? Let’s think about this together…