Art Of War

"Know yourself, know your enemy the victory will be certain. Know heaven, know earth the victory will be complete".

This is a famous quote from this book. Nice to remember. However, the best part is the idea inside is priceless. Some military leaders, corporate leaders, nations leaders, sports coach and even high level mafia read this book. This book has been made compulsory by Japanes company to be read by their young executives. This itself conclude the usefulness of its contents.

After reading this book for the second time (13 chapters, 3 pages or less in every chapter considered very brief BUT the idea inside is extemely rich and compact!) , I'm getting more interested in knowing how actually I can identify the 'enemy' in my life. Maybe I'm not really involved in a war which can give physical destruction to myself. But, each of us actually at war in our daily life. Worse, we're actually at war against one part of ourself, which islam always refer to nafs or hawa'. The evil side of our soul.

This is the enemy that stop us from doing any good thing. Wakeup late, too much eat, less motivated to do good things, procrastinating from doing right thing, stingy, wasting time, hot-tampered are among the army of this enemy.

This is enemy no #1, that every people has to confront continuosly before any other enemy is his life. This book, give me some idea on how to defeat him.