My First Month in Korea as a Muslim
“Think about your life and daily routines. What is the reason of your existence? Are you meant to study half your life just to work the other half? Be attached to people just to get your heart broken? Get buried in the ground after all your worldly achievements, like nothing ever happened? Don’t you think there’s a purpose of your stay on earth? Something that will result in what happens after your death? Just stop for a while and think about it. Perhaps you will realise life is nothing but a temporary illusion that fooled people into believing in the creation instead of the Creator. There is more to your life. You have a much greater purpose. Don’t lose yourself by…
November Bersyukur / Grateful November
“Happiness is not about getting what you want all the time. It’s about loving what you have and being grateful for it.” Gak kerasa udah dua bulan terakhir sebelum tahun 2018 dan rasanya waktu berjalan cepeeet banget (ya kadang lama juga sih. Hahaha.) It has been more than 5 months after high school graduation and I will be 19 years old soon. Still doing nothing, as always. Banyak hal udah terjadi dari kegagalan-kegagalan, kegalauan(?), fase-fase when you feel like you’re on the edge of the world, kebahagian /ea, kesadaran akan banyak hal, penemuan atau pencarian jati diri, dan unexpected things lainnya. Tapi terlepas dari itu semua, I realized a lot of things that Allah is good and He wants the best…
The Beauty in Diversity
Yesterday I had a very interesting conversation with a friend of mine. We started from a multicultural group chat containing French, Iranian, Koreans, Turkish, Chinese, and me, Indonesian, who speak absolutely random and nonsense (but fun!). He is younger than me, quite the same age as my brother but I would say that he has a knowledge of more than teenagers here. So we replied to our snapgrams, and started to talk about languages. At first, I was pretty shocked because he explained to me very briefly about his native language. About how Persian is different from Arabic or the similarity of their old characters with Chinese characters. A lot of new things that I discovered (or am I just dumb…
Friday Reminder: Finding Inner Peace
Assalamu’alaikum!! (May peace be upon you) اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُم Ramadhan is coming very near already. Oh, didn’t you see that coming? So these days, recently, I felt like my iman (faith) has been decreasing gradually, astaghfirullah, and I kinda missing the peace during my prayers. Have you ever felt like… you just don’t feel it? I felt bothered and blamed myself a lot about it that I tried various ways but the ‘peace’ never comes back. Perhaps it’s because of the sins I realized or not realized I’ve committed in the past. Or it might be because my mind had been occupied with everything worldly that I forget the akhirah. But today I would like to share a few…
Pondering Over Al Qur’an
أَفَلَا يَتَدَبَّرُونَ الْقُرْآنَ أَمْ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبٍ أَقْفَالُهَا “Will they not then ponder the Qur’an or are there locks upon their hearts?”[Muhammad, 47:24] Astaghfirullahaladzim, Dear brothers and sisters, how many times do we complain in a day? How many times are we blaming the conditions we have in life? How often are we blaming our condition and being ungrateful of it? How many times we dedicated our times for Allah and pondering over Al Quran over 86.400 seconds He gave every day? Perhaps if we are able to see the size of the blessing coming, we will understand the magnitude of the battle we are fighting. But even if He allows us to see it, do you think we…
Trust Issues
I have a lot of trust issues. Every time I tried to trust people in the past, I’ve been let down, and now I thought it is easier and less painful to just rely on myself. I have always tried my best to see the good in others and expecting every single person in the world have a good intention. I’ve never thought that there is some evil in people (unless they have problems with their psychology or something). I’ve always believed that most people are good, and the pure evil ones only make up less than 2% in the world. I was really sure until I finally at this point where I questioned my own paradigms. Was I wrong?…
[Day 7] What is the hardest thing I’ve ever experienced
“I thought the hardest thing in life is about going through pain and heartbreak, when people started to say ‘you can’t forget your first love’, then why do people forget their parents?” I was pretty confused because…I don’t know what is the hardest thing I’ve ever experienced. I am not even experienced yet. I never see something like a burden to me. There is always ups and downs and life, and that’s just how life is. People said the biggest challenge in life is marriage. I haven’t experienced it yet, and I don’t know if my experiences are enough to call me experienced. As a 17 years old who knows nothing about the world and have zero experience in life, I’ll…
[Day 5] How important I think education is
Education is SO important like…even if it is so hard, you know the struggle, sacrifices, and the minutes to hours to years we spend our time in it People really should educate themselves. For their own sake. For everyone sake. For this generation sake. I wasn’t talking about the education system, because honestly…sorry to say, it is such a crap nowadays. I don’t even have to mention it, people would agree (except to some countries which their education system are superb, hands down). I have no idea, how schooling really works. So basically, we get to kindergarten at the age of 6 or 7 (you might also experience playground stage earlier) and then an elementary school for 6 years and every…
