Dahulu, saya pernah belajar bahawa ilmu itu pengertiannya ialah ketibaan makna pada diri. Kini saya makin mengerti pengertian itu. Ramai yang berkata, falsafah itu tidak jejak. Tetapi, ada yang menyangkal, falsafah Islamlah yang paling 'menjejak'. Puisi bahasa inggeris ini, saya pernah pelajarinya dengan mendalam ketika menengah atas. Tetapi, baru kini saya mengerti masuknya dalam-dalam. Itulah ilmu. Walaupun lambat memahaminya, tetapi gembira kerana berpeluang memahaminya.
The Road Not Taken oleh Robert Fros
| Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. |
