some people have their own priority

I'm writing this after i saw a picture of my friends from asis giving motivational talk to our junior. This is not the first time they did the talk, instead it was held many times before. But it's a small talk given by 3 three people or so mostly to inspire the junior. Often they did this before they are going to further their study overseas.

Recently one of my friends asked me whether i would like to do the same thing; give motivational talk to those asis students. As they know i was giving a motivational talk to my Semenda school (rural school) last summer break. And alhamdulillah the feedback from the student about the program also very good.

For me i have my own opinion on this matter. Giving motivational talk to anybody in order to inspire them to be good persons is a good thing and may ALLAH rewards who so ever who done so.

as Rasul saw said

Narrated from Abu Dharr (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Prophet (PBUH) said, "Allah, the Almighty, says: `Whosoever does a good deed, will have (reward) ten times like it and I add more; and whosoever does an evil, will have the punishment like it or I will forgive (him); and whosoever approaches Me by one span, I will approach him by one cubit; and whosoever approaches Me by one cubit, I approach him by one fathom, and whosoever comes to Me walking, I go to him running; and whosoever meets Me with an earth-load of sins without associating anything with Me, I meet him with forgiveness like that".
[Muslim]

As for me, i dont think that's a need for me to give a motivational talk to the asis students (may be u can say i'm not good enough to give motivational talk to them).

Or if i'm good enough (since there is a request), i'm not planning to do any motivational talk at asis, rather i would like to inspire those who need it more; those rural student. for me there is no point talking inspirational stuff to the malaysian's bright students.They already know it. There are more unfortunate students, mostly rural students that need our attention.

I'm not saying this to say that the motivational talk that they did is not effective. InsyaAllah many students benefit from it.

But rather it would be good if we could use our expertise to help more needy students. some say that to give a motivational talk to a rural student is hard. well what i can say, we are not giving the talk to change people, we just inspire them to change and moreover it's by Allah will a person change.

as Allah said in the glorious Quran "...Verily Allah will not change the (good) condition of a people as long as they do not change their state of (goodness) themself (by committing sins and disobedient to Allah)....... ( surah ar-ra'd 11)

But it's just my opinion and there is nothing wrong with giving inspiration to anybody. but since somebody asked about this i just state my opinion then.

cheers

jazakallah