#88

Alhamdulillah, I write again. I am happy because I can write here today.

My brother, our life are full by unpredictible thing. There are many happenings that happen to us and we don’t predict it before.

It show that we are weak. We are not strong. We are only human being. We are not God. So this way we need God in our life. But unfortunately, we often forget to God. We believe in God, but we don’t pray to God before we begin their activity. We are sure that God is exist in this universe, but we don’t ask His help, ask His protection from bad thing.

We often believe to our capabilty an potention until forget who has given us capability and potention.

May we always ask His help and protection to Him. Ameen.

Surabaya, September 23, 2016

Basmalah

My brother, Islam is perfect religion. No religion that has perfect teaching like Islam. In Islam, all of things are taught and managed. From going to bed for sleeping until we want to sleep again is managed by Islam.

Islam also pay attention to all of things from the smallest one like come in to toilet until the biggest thing like managing and controlling country.
Allah said in Al-Maidah, verse 3:  "This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islam as religion".

It show that Allah has perfected this religion and make this religion be approved.

Then, what is one of teaching from this religion?

One of islamic teaching is beginning all of activities by saying basmallah. Rasullah said: “ any significant act  that does not basmalah (begin ‘in the name of Allah’ ) is severed (narrated by Nasa'i).

From this hadits, muslim is taught to begin his activity by reciting basmallah. Bismillahirrahminrrahim. In the name of Allah, the most gracious and the most merciful.

By this reciting, the activity will be barokah and getting reward from Allah. Beside that, people who do this will always remember to Allah, so their  life will be protected by Allah.

Then, what is the benefits of basmallah?

These are the benefits that I quote from ustadz Ammi Nur Baits in konsultasisyariah.com:

1. Basmallah is opening al-Quran
2. When Rasulullah pbuh send letter to kings in order to convert into Islam, he begin his letter by basmallah.
3. Basmallah is content of letter from prophet Sulaiman to Balqis.
4. Basmalah is the beginning of ibadah activity.
5. Protection from devil in eating activity
6. Allah will keep from devil trick and disturbing in jima' (intercouse) activity
7. Our aurat (genetalia) will be kept from devil viewing
8.Protection from devil in opening valuable things
9.Protection from devil in staying overnight
10. Basmalah is requirement for allowing devil.


#InspirationfromQuran1

Surabaya, July 30, 2016

Refresh

We should refresh our spirit and  motivation. We must make our life is different than before. Change to be better. We will get happiness if we can do it.

My brother, we must make ourselves are useful to people and environment around us. We should not be burden to others. We should effort to help, not to be helped. We can be rich man then we spread our money to people who very need it like poor man, etc. We can own a lot of knowledge, so we can spread it to everyone.

We also try to make the best to all of our duty and mandate.


Surabaya, July, 30, 2016

#87

Alhamdulillah my brother, I write again. Two days I didn’t write here. But Alhamdulillah, I write again. I must thank to Allah. It is big mercy from Him.

My brother, I get new spirit again today. What is it? It is about ideal, about goal, about dream. We should keep our ideal eventhough we don’t get it yet. We should keep it. May be, we still don’t reach it because our dream “ wait” us in the suitable time. The suitable time is when we are suitable to reach it.

So, we must make us suitable with our dream. We must effort and be patient until we are suitable.

May we can get reach our dreams quickly. Ameen.

Surabaya, May 11, 2016

#86

Alhamdulillah I am happy again, because I write again here. I hope I can write here consistently.

My brother, I want to write about management of time. Really, management of time is very important. By management of time, we can do what must we do. We will not make our times be futile. We will do all of our times only for goodness.

So, management of times is management of ourselves. Manage or thinking, manage our feeling, manage our activity, etc.

Who can manage his time he can be success. Who can manage his time he will be winner. Who can manage his time he can create many creations. Who can manage his time he can be what he want.

My brother, I will try to practice this. If I can write here everyday, it mean that I can manage my time well. But if I can’t do that, so I still can’t manage my time well.

Ok, I will look it tomorow and days/months/years after tomorrow. I will look J.

Surabaya, May 8, 2016

#85

Alhamdulillah, today I can write again. Really, I am so happy. Because it make me sure that I can be consistent to write and write.

O yeah, I will tell you that one of program PENA Surabaya, “friday article” run well. It was published since yesterday.

PENA is acronim from “Penulis Muda Nusantara”, “Nusantara young writer”. Nusantara is other name from Indonesia. So, it is writing club or writing group. The members are young people who want to be writer. The members are in Indonesia, not only in Surabaya.

Alhamdulillah, I am one of member PENA. I also have sent my writing about “Ilmu dan Peradaban Islam”, “Science and Islamic Civilization”. May be it will be published two weeks later, because my writing is for third edition. First edition is Mr. Robin, second edition is Mr. Syamsul Alam Jaga, third edition is me, and forth edition is Siraj or Mukmin. How about next edition? I forget it. J

I also join API, “Asosiasi Penulis Islam”, “Association of Islamic Writer”. One of the program is wall magazine. So, the writing of API’s member will be publishe in wall magazine. There are two places for wall magazine. First, it is in library of STAIL and second in front of ZISWAF building.

May PENA Surabaya and API’s members can be consistent and can be good writer. Ameen.

Surabaya, May 7, 2016

#84

Alhamdulillah, I am happy now because I can write again here. I hope that I can write here everyday. Consistently. I don’t care about the quality. I don’t care, the readers will be satisfy or not when they read this writing. I don’t care that, because my target is not like that. My target is, how to write here consistently.

I know that may be I repeat my words here. But I think I need process. And this is my process. I know that I am not great writer in English. I know that and I realize that. But it is not impossible thing. I know that I am still stupid and get difficulty in writing by english. But if I write here consistently for 10 years, for example, I am sure that there will be progress in my self. The key is consistent.

The question is, can I write here everyday consistently until 10 years later? I know that it is so difficul. Moreover I must write everyday. Yeah, may be not everyday. But in one month 20 times or more. Yeah, it can be like that.

Hm, the date now is sixth of may 2016. So, 10 years later is sixth of may 2026. Wow. There are 12 months in one year. So in 10 years, there are 120 months. If in every one month I write here minimally 20 writings, so I will own 2.400 writings. Wow, it is amazing. Can I? If Allah give me long age, I will try to reach it. J

Surabaya, May 6, 2016