heart and a handful of salt

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh

Heart and a handful of salt.

One day, it’s a young man walked through the jungle with a surly face came to a wise man. The young man had a lot of problem in his life as if he wanted to walk away from this mortal world. He came to a wise man that lived in the middle of the jungle. When he got there, he asked the wise man ,” could you help me?? I had a lot of problem in my life, I couldn’t hold this on anymore, as though I wanted to die, please helped me”. Then the wise man only gave him a smile, then he took a handful of salt and mixed it in a glass of water then he asked the young man to drink the water. With full of confusion the young man drink the water, suddenly he said,” it’s briny, were u insane?” . Again, the wise man only gave him a smile.

After asking the young man to drink the water, he took another handful of salt and brought the man to the lake which is located in the middle of the jungle. When they got there, the wise man spread the salt out to the lake and he took a stick of wood and stir the water, then he asked the young man to drink the water. Spontaneously, the young man said,” it’s so fresh”, then the wise man asked him,” was it salty?”, the young man answered, “ no, not at all” , then the wise man give him a smile while saying,” do want to know why I do this??then the young main said , “ yes, of course, I don’t understand all of this stuff”. Then the wise man said,” let’s compare the salt as your problem and the lake as your heart , then if you put the salt on a glass of water, it will be salty for sure, but if you put the salt in a lake, there won’t be any salty anymore, but only fresh air you drink. You couldn’t face the problem due to problem of your heart, you couldn’t find any bigger place for your problem in your heart, so that you feel so terrible and no spirit in life.

Then , the young man got the wise man, and he tried to be the young man who accept the problem in his heart sincerely. The End


source : Mading Masjid Jami' Abu Beureu'eh Beureunuen.
translated by : Syahrial