Little Feet

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-Talisa Noor-

Friday, May 3, 2013

Islam Sehari-hari

Hari ini saya membaca buku komik yang saya beli beberapa hari lalu. Judulnya "Islam Sehari-hari", karya Vbi Djenggoten.

gambar dari sini

Buku ini tutur katanya cukup ringan, ceritanya menghibur, dan nasihat yang diberikan sangat mengena. Dalam buku ini, digambarkan kejadian-kejadian dalam kehidupan sehari-hari kita, mayoritas penduduk muslim, dan bagaimana beberapa hal tersebut, saking umumnya, tidak kita sadari telah melenceng dari ajaran Islam sebenarnya.



Menurut saya, buku ini enak dibaca oleh siapa saja, termasuk bagi yang nonmuslim. Bukan berarti apa-apa, hanya saja menurut saya buku ini memang ringan dan berisi hal-hal yang biasa kita sebut "universal values", nilai-nilai universal, seperti nilai-nilai tentang menjaga lisan dan tangan kita agar tidak mengganggu hak orang lain. Untuk hal-hal yang bersifat "khusus Islam" pun, seperti pandangan-pandangan Islam tentang aurat dan hubungan antara lelaki dengan wanita, digambarkan secara alamiah dalam buku ini, yang kalaupun kita tidak memiliki kepercayaan serupa, cukup membuat kita untuk paham dan memaklumi.

Salah satu babnya membahas hadits ini:
"Ada seorang laki-laki yang bertanya kepada Rasulullah SAW, 'Siapakah orang muslim yang paling baik?' Beliau menjawab, 'Orang yang orang-orang muslim lainnya selamat dari gangguan lisan dan tangannya.'" (HR. Muslim)
Hal ini membuat saya terpana sejenak.
"Orang yang orang-orang muslim lainnya selamat dari gangguan lisan dan tangannya."
Introspeksi yuk. Jangan-jangan saat mengendarai motor, kita ngebut dan membahayakan diri sendiri dan orang lain. Jangan-jangan saat mengungkapkan pendapat, kata-kata kita menyakiti orang lain. Jangan-jangan saat kita merokok, asap yang kita keluarkan merampas hak orang lain untuk menghirup udara segar.

Seandainya umat muslim di negara ini mau mengamalkan hadits ini, bayangkan dunia sekitar kita yang bebas polusi kendaraan, bebas tawuran, tak ada berita mengenaskan tentang saudara-saudara kita yang menjadi korban dari mereka yang salah paham dengan makna jihad... (Oya, kata-kata barusan saya gubah dari buku ini loh.)

Anyway, saya pribadi merasa nyaman dengan buku ini karena penulis tidak memaksakan pemikirannya kepada pembaca. Selain itu, cara menyampaikan nasihat-nasihatnya sangat mengena dan nasihatnya terlihat mudah untuk diamalkan. I totally recommend this book :)

Thursday, May 2, 2013

We were told to cross through zebra-cross

And I should say that I can't do that on this street. LOL. :)


I found them near my house. Such an amusement among the hectic life. :)

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Mini Heaven

 
 
I love Cornetto Mini :)

Great Time with Besties on Weekend

After some hectic weeks, finally I could make it to met with my old friends, yay :D

1. Saturday: My high school besties
Last Saturday, I made my journey to Bandung to visit my friends, Wulan and Sari. Wulan stays at Bandung, while Sari actually stays at Surabaya but she was looking for a job vacancy there. So, we made our mini reunion!

2. Sunday: My college besties
On Sunday, I met Andreas and Tifa and Nabil. We joint STAN English Club at college and we're just like family. Previously Andreas worked in his hometown at Karanganyar. Now he moves to Jakarta. Tifa works in Jakarta, she's just finished her pre-employment training. Nabil currently works in Jakarta too. And, there is also one of our best friends who moves near Jakarta. Yay! I'm so glad we're back together again :))
 Me, Andre, Tifa
 Me and Tifa

 Rossi brothers. LOL :D
 
:DD
 
Nanang. He works at Cilegon now. Hehehe.
 

It's amazing to see how time passed by. Now we are all older, but the bond is still there. I like the way we accept and respect one another. I think I find the similarity between my close friends from time to time: they don't make a big deal about differences. And I think that our friendship is beyond laughs and smiles. We did go through hard times together. We shared dreams and plans. We shared thoughts about almost everything.
To me, these guys are so precious.
Alhamdulillah, thank you, Allah, for this great friendship :)

Thursday, April 25, 2013

After Office Hour

Feel so tired so I think I have to do this.
 
Heheh. :))


Thursday, April 4, 2013

Long time no blog!

How I miss blogging!

I'm being crazily busy lately. Anyhow, thank God for these crazy reasons to live, working is one of my favorite activities now.

 


But I still wish for a holiday. Like, really. Haha.

Well, between my crazy (but fun) office schedule,  thank God I was also managed to add some activities on my weekend schedule, makes the whole schedule more crazy and more fun, heheh.

I had this STAN English Club gathering around early March:
from left: me, Tifa, Uzi

 the young alumni
 


And also Septri and Dirga's wedding, congratulations! :)


Attending the Artistic Speaking Workshop at @America, Pacific Place:

 

And also attending STAN Nation's Culture Pre-event as one of the panel judges of Culture Youth :)


Those activities are my "mini-journeys", like a journey but it's shorter and closer in distance, heheh. They helped me find joy and inspiration :)

Anyway, let's welcome April! Hopefully this month will bring more joy, happiness, and bless. And oh, have I told you that I just had a new boss starting this month? New chapter of my work life just begins. Woo-hoo!

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

My Spiritual Journey-part 1

I used to be a kid who didn't really obey religion rules. When in high school, I rarely prayed. At that time, I usually I prayed when somethings came up, like final exam or some competitions, or when there were school events which obliged praying. However, I changed. I'm trying to be a better person. Step by step, I started to pray 5 times a day, and then do sunnah prayers, and then read Al Qur'an. I'm still learning, and always be, though.

Anyway, the paragraph above is too short in explaining my spiritual life. Life has too many sides that even if we write it in a thick book, it's still not enough.

I recall Gladwell's Outliers, where it explains that opportunities and external factors, beside our own effort, make us what we are now. Like Bill Gates, he is smart and willing to learn, but that is not the only factor that makes him success. The opportunity of accessing a computer when it's not common at that time, makes him be.

Well, Bill Gates is a nice example of what happens when opportunity meets self-effort. On the other side, my story, perhaps is too far to be compared with Bill Gates. However, the point is, series of opportunities and external factors also makes me what I am now. In this case, what I want to share now is about my spiritual life. Don't worry, I'll share you another part of my life later. There are many to share, heheh.

And anyway, this is not me bragging about how religious I am. I share this because I'm just simply stunned and I think it's one of things that makes me realize how amazing a life is. How our past experience built our understanding, and mindset, about something.

Okay, ready?

...

Hum, I said I wasn't really religious, I rarely prayed when I was a teenager. My mom wasn't a religious person either. But then, she still sent me to a Qur'an learning center few times a week when I was in kindergarten.

In junior high school, I met a very impressive Religion teacher. It was the first time a person asked me, "Why do you choose this religion?" and it was the first time I realized, religion is something that needs our consent, unless we won't feel really belong to it. At least, that's what happen to me. This teacher, named Mr. Toha, was a really nice person. And he didn't force us to "don't ask and just believe". He also explained why he chose Islam. And I thought about that... And decide that this is the right thing for me. It doesn't mean that I bashed other religions or believes. Everyone just have right to decide and believe, based on the knowledge and information they obtain.

However, it's still a long way to go. My journey didn't stop there. At that time I didn't immediately pray 5 times and read Qur'an and do other religious activities. There are other experiences that step by step lead me to really believe and make me decide to do it right...