My Graduation Day

A moment to remember

Rejeki Banyak dan Mencukupi

Pagi ini jakarta diguyur hujan, tidak begitu kencang seperti beberapa waktu yang lalu. Langit jakarta menjadi kelabu, dan udara sekitar menjadi dingin. Jakarta gelap dan lembab, tapi tidak disini, dihatiku .

Aku suka hujan, entah itu gerimis atau hujan lebat (terlepas dari macet, banjir, yup kita akan membahas kebaikannya saja). Salah satu alasan aku suka hujan adalah ini waktu-waktu istimewa saat-saat mustajab untuk berdo’a.

Dalilnya saya ambil dari sini :

Ibnu Qudamah dalam Al Mughni, 4/342 mengatakan, “Dianjurkan untuk berdo’a ketika turunnya hujan, sebagaimana diriwayatkan bahwa Nabi shallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam bersabda,

اُطْلُبُوا اسْتِجَابَةَ الدُّعَاءِ عِنْدَ ثَلَاثٍ : عِنْدَ الْتِقَاءِ الْجُيُوشِ ، وَإِقَامَةِ الصَّلَاةِ ، وَنُزُولِ الْغَيْثِ

“Carilah do’a yang mustajab pada tiga keadaan: [1] Bertemunya dua pasukan, [2] Menjelang shalat dilaksanakan, dan [3] Saat hujan turun.” (Dikeluarkan oleh Imam Syafi’i dalam Al Umm dan Al Baihaqi dalam Al Ma’rifah dari Makhul secara mursal. Dishohihkan oleh Syaikh Al Albani, lihat hadits no. 1026 pada Shohihul Jami’)

Begitu juga terdapat hadits dari Sahl bin Sa’d, beliau berkata bahwa Rasulullah shallallahu ‘alaihi wa sallam bersabda,

ثِنْتَانِ لا تُرَدَّانِ، أَوْ قَالَ: مَا تُرَدَّانِ، الدُّعَاءُ عِنْدَ النِّدَاءِ، وَعِنْدَ الْبَأْسِ، حِينَ يَلْتَحِمَ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضًا وَفِي رِوَايَة : ” وَتَحْتَ المَطَر “

“Dua orang yang tidak ditolak do’anya adalah: [1] ketika adzan dan [2] ketika rapatnya barisan pada saat perang.” Dalam riwayat lain disebutkan, “Dan ketika hujan turun.” (HR. Abu Daud dan Ad Darimi, namun Ad Darimi tidak menyebut, “Dan ketika hujan turun.” Dikatakan shohih oleh Syaikh Al Albani. Lihat Misykatul Mashobih)

Maka setiap kali datang hujan, aku ingin sekali mengkhusyu’kan diriku untuk berdo’a. Karena kita tak pernah tahu kapan Allah akan mengabulkan do’a kita. Jika keadaan tidak memungkinkan untuk berdo’a khusyu’ maka terkadang aku berdialog sebentar sama Sang Pemilik Hidup “Ya Allah engkau tahu apa yang tersembunyi dihatiku dan apa yang kuinginkan, kumohon berikan yang terbaik untukku” .

Kali ini ada do’a lain yang kupanjatkan, walaupun bukan do’a original dariku sendiri tapi tidak ada kesalahan jika kita mengikuti kebaikan sesorang.

Today My Life Begins

*deep breath

Why i start this post with words that seem pesimistic? no reason, but recently i really need to do something that i wont regret in future. And this night is ended become blog-walker, and found really good blog that inspire me (again) to do better things for now on (i really need to be istiqomah). May be you can go to this site too, i hope u’ll get inspiration from that blog.

Owh, and yesterday i watched a biopic and found good quote. “The result will be good when i do something with all of effort that i have, but when the result is not good, i wont regret it ” (Rain). So, the point is just do ur best shot for anything you do. We never know what will happen in the future even in the next seconds, just try to strive. “It’s very good when our dreams come true, but when it not comes, i will happy because i spend my life with it” (anonim), another quote that should be the best anesthetic to beat the negative thingking that always pop up in our mind. Life is not about something that always we thinking of, but something that we live in.

And Today My Life Begins, become the best soundtrack for me now. So… fellas let’s sing this song together

i’ve been working hard so long
seems like pain has been my only friend
my fragile heart’s been done so wrong
i wondered if i’d ever heal again

Don’t always be sorry!

Because the title is Don’t always be sorry, i wont say sorry for this posting . But, let me tell u something happened in my life recently, i hope u’ll be glad for me ^^. I ever told you that i will have my final test in this post and i really did make it. Thanks for everyone that gave ur pray for me, nothing i can pay for return, just my sincere heart that hoping  u’ll success for ur activity. Hope Allah will bless u all.

So, back to what i wanna share with u all. This is not my own writing, but i hope it can help u to understand about international culture. Not just for u that become indonesia representative in any activities but also it can help u who have hobby to travel around the world. Let’s learn this little thing about familiar word in our ears “sorry”.

Don’t always be sorry!

Hope my writing can bring a new perspective in life =)

I notice the word `sorry’ is often used by Indonesian to express politeness. It reminds me about an interesting experience when I was a student taking English class in a school in New Zealand. Okay, here is the story:

I joined The Big Siblings* program in Wellington, New Zealand. I had lots of friends from all over the world. Most of them were European like Austrian, German, French, Brazilians, and some parts in Asia like Japanese, Korean and Chinese. My friend and I were the first Indonesians.

Most Asians said `sorry’ for almost every single thing. I knew they just wanted to be polite as it is part of their culture, because I did it too, hehe.. For example, when somebody passed you and accidently jogged you. You may be the one who said sorry.. Another example: when we were having `International Lunch’, the students had to cook or bring any traditional dishes of their country of origin to the school. (I made nasi kuning, using an instant mixed ingredients..hehe).  If we knew there’s a person who wanted to taste our dish, but found there was nothing left. We’d like to say sorry, wouldn’t we?! But that’s not our fault she/he ran out of our food! That is his/her fault why she/he didn’t take it earlier, though.

 One day, I was backpacking around in New Zealand with an Indonesian, a German and a French.  We rented a car and travelled from one city to the others in South Island. During the trip we talked about our culture, how romantic French language sounds, how unorganized Indonesian language is, and many other things. Then, my French friend said to the German: “I don’t understand why many Asians say sorry very often. I don’t see anything wrong with what they do, so why they are sorry for everything”. The German replied: “I also don’t understand, but I notice that”. I and my Indonesian friend just stared at each other, and smiled.

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