Comments on: A Swan? or Shark? http://alaniah.com/swan-or-shark Islam. Education. 2Point0. Happenings. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:06:47 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: alaniah http://alaniah.com/swan-or-shark/comment-page-1#comment-14 alaniah Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:39:28 +0000 http://alaniah.com/?p=184#comment-14 wow! n masya Allah... a great comment by a great sister! thanks so much Mahirah dear, for not only dropping by but also for sharing ur thoughts. Greatly appreciate it! Well, a good analogy u've got there. And.. there might be 'sharks' around, but they just wont survive long being 'shark', i guess.. they will eventually turn into 'swans'.. hehe.. Yeah, so see u @ CLense II...insya Allah ! : ) wow! n masya Allah… a great comment by a great sister! thanks so much Mahirah dear, for not only dropping by but also for sharing ur thoughts. Greatly appreciate it! Well, a good analogy u’ve got there. And.. there might be ’sharks’ around, but they just wont survive long being ’shark’, i guess.. they will eventually turn into ’swans’.. hehe.. Yeah, so see u @ CLense II…insya Allah ! : )

]]> By: Mahirah http://alaniah.com/swan-or-shark/comment-page-1#comment-13 Mahirah Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:50:14 +0000 http://alaniah.com/?p=184#comment-13 Salaam Kak! Oooo it does look like a nice movie, but yeah I agree with you, I'd rather stay as a swan, to me to label ourselves as 'sharks' has a negative connotation to it, being a well-known, well-feared predator of the seas. The bag analogy is pretty interesting, it's like the pebbles and sand (I think there's another item but it escapes me for now) analogy whereby it's the people in our lives that matters the most. In this case he puts all the materialistic things in our lives at the very bottom of the bag and puts the people in our lives at the very top. I think it's contradicting final phrase referring to mankind as sharks. To me, it represents an individualistic, selfish perception of the purpose of life, the concept of "survival of the fittest" whereby one refuses to consider the effect the things he does on other people and is only concentrating on his own well-being, his own survival, something which is quite obviously prevalent in our society now. Wallahu'alam. Btw I just came across this website of yours, I didn't know you had one! MasyaAllah... great job sis! =D Hope to see you again at CLense Session II, InsyaAllah =)) Salaam Kak! Oooo it does look like a nice movie, but yeah I agree with you, I’d rather stay as a swan, to me to label ourselves as ’sharks’ has a negative connotation to it, being a well-known, well-feared predator of the seas.

The bag analogy is pretty interesting, it’s like the pebbles and sand (I think there’s another item but it escapes me for now) analogy whereby it’s the people in our lives that matters the most. In this case he puts all the materialistic things in our lives at the very bottom of the bag and puts the people in our lives at the very top.

I think it’s contradicting final phrase referring to mankind as sharks. To me, it represents an individualistic, selfish perception of the purpose of life, the concept of “survival of the fittest” whereby one refuses to consider the effect the things he does on other people and is only concentrating on his own well-being, his own survival, something which is quite obviously prevalent in our society now.

Wallahu’alam. Btw I just came across this website of yours, I didn’t know you had one! MasyaAllah… great job sis! =D

Hope to see you again at CLense Session II, InsyaAllah =))

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