Ideas, my job, my stand

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be a good girl, ENFP, get progress, i decide my job, live your live, my time is important

lots of ideas are in my minds. Last night I slept for around 1 or 2 am. In the morning, the need of drinking the thoughts on. I did my morning routine as fast as possible and the sitting in front of my notebook to write. When I did my breakfast, I even listen to a video of double standard of freedom of expression.

I did that in my dialy routine, lately. When I do the dishes or making my meals, I listen to debate or lecture form scholar. The rage is about religion, life, reform, Islam, atheist, and so on and so forth.

I feel very blessed with bulk of time I have now. Hm, fyi.. I am learning cooking and doing Minangkabau Girl stuff in my hometown for couple of time. Outsiders may see it backwards, but not for me. hehe..

For me, now, learning to be a real girl is as important as learning about philosophical of life. You know what Beyonce says “Who run the world? Girls!” Hahaha

Back to my focus. This is not easy task to deal with to-be-good-minangkabau-girl activity, but knowing what will happen after this, I am now accepting the status quo that I have to learn. My time split for two: The practical of being a good minang girl and flourishing my kingdom of mind. One is practical other one is philosophical. At first it is seems hard, seriously. I used to concern to the second. But now, it seem happier, I am starting to enjoy the first one. I go running or walking for around 2 km every morning and that really boost up my passion to face my life. Not to mention, every time I  run I see several grave yard near the sidewalk. It brings benefit to me. The benefit is that, almost every morning, in this 8 days, I remember one thing that Steve Job thinks to set up the most priority things in his life which is : death.

This practical things to be a good girl is really benefited for my life. Now, i become more optimistic and passionate facing my life. In addition, it also add the sense of aware that I only have limited time in my life so I have to wake up, when the time demand me to wake up a.k.a wake up early for subuh prayer.

Usually when I am stay up late at night, in the morning I give up to the sleepy eyes, but not now. Not now…

My life is so priceless, thanks God, if feel it now. I try to ‘ignore’ the ideas of: You have graduate? Do this and this for your job. Um… wait? Job? I am an ENFP is not a person who will bent down on practical or common opinion if they do not suit my interest. Hm, and my interest is… reading, writing, sharing ideas, ideology talk. Being an author suit me best , I guess. So, what is my ‘job’ then. I am bachelor in education field. Yet, it doesnt mean I have to be a teacher, does it?

Back to the time I got now. I am really happy with the status quo of my life right now. I see my self is progressing to be a better daughter for parents and sister for my little sister. Has it reach the ‘perfect’ state? Nope, not yet. It still far. What I am saying is that I do the process and get the progress. That’s the key, do the process and get the progress

thanks for reading guys

Nurul Huda
Bukinttinggi

Double standard of freedom of expression

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Charlie Hebdo, Double standard policies, Freedom of expression, Tariq Ramadan in AlJazeera

As a debater, I often faced with motion of freedom of expression. I understand that people around the globe have freedom in expressing their thoughts. But now come to case of Charlie Hebdo, does that things is also taking into account?

let me put it in things

what to do with freedom of expression?
We should let people express their expression. They have right on that though.

what to do if they make fun of my religion?
Tough question, isn’t it? Then I have right to say that I dont like it. Wait, right to say?
Yes. Since I also have the freedom of expression, dont I?

Do world really fair on freedom of expression?
Nope, they have double standard.
Look, there is worker in Charlie Hebdo making fun of Jew and then that worker is fired within two week. And there is worker making fun of Islam Prophet and he is an Arab, and it was just all Ok, in other hand, not being fired by the company.
Dude, if you really stand up against racism then you should be agree to fight against all racism through out the world. Not merely privileging certain race if you really uphold anti racism.

The value of 12 people in French killed and hundreds in Iraq and Syria. Which one is heavier in the status quo?
Its supposed to be the same. Yet the media are so overwhelming in exposing the death of the 12 and as if there is nothing happening in Iraq and Syria because it happens dialy. The world is raging on what happen in the French and somehow ‘silent’ on what happening in the Iraq and Syria on  So, what  makes it different? They are human and the should be perceive and should be valued as the same. The value of the death in French are just the same as the value of the death of  other nations in other countries.

well, that is my position on the freedom of expression. I make this after I watch an interview in Al Jazeera with Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Oxford University. I really like the way he articulate his point of view in seeing the double standard of expression and his stand on justice and his anti racism mind.

thanks for reading guys 😀
Nurul Huda
Bukittinggi
28:2:2015

Reform!

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critic, poetry on reform, selftalk

reform!
reform!
reform!

echoing in the sky

reform!
reform!
reform!

echoing in the valley

reform!
reform!
reform!

echoing in the entire country

reform!
reform!
reform!

echoing in the chamber of study

reform!
reform!
reform!

wait…

a person in the mirror utter something

“reform you self first, before reform the world”

“reform! reform! reform!”
that figure chanting

Temanku

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perang pemikiran, war of mind

biar lusuh
dia, temanku telah cukup berusaha menyeret

orang-orang mau bilang apa
aku tetap akan berpendar
dan temanku akan ada di sini

hentikan
semua tusukan pikiran itu membuat kusut
menyayat dan menghujamkan di sumur yang tua dan terabai

boleh
jika kamu semua memang ada di gerbang
sambut temanku dengan senyum
sajikan banyak opsi

dan temanku senang

tunggu
jangan kau kira dia akan diam
dan meng iya semua kata

karena ada bebas di sana
bahwa temanku bisa memilih apa yang baginya bisa diterima
dan tak semua sikap itu bisa ia terima

cukup
sekarang temanku ingin satu

menjauhlah
temanku sekarang sudah bermula dewasa

sekarang dia menjaadi subjek
tidak lagi objek apalagi victim

dan kalian
akan tetap diakui sebagai sejarah
dan status quo masa lalu

tahukan kau siapa dia
temanku itu?

namanya
logika

oh ya,
dan temanku ingin satu

otoritas
dan itu penuh

I am here waiting (poem)

Tag

love poetry, waiting for a prince

I am here
waiting
for a prince to come

I am here
in the realm of blue pink and green
preparing my backpack to run

chasing the sun
not alone
but with someone

I am here waiting
choosing the best capital to bring
setting the best draft to make
planning the best plan to execute

I am here waiting
setting my sneakers that can fly

others are asking…
why should now I be in an isolated island?

they dont know
that here,
the big journey is about to start

I am waiting
for a prince to come

for chasing the sun
with my back pack
and sneakers that can fly

someone that has been set by Him
someone that I have met in the sky

I am waiting
for the prince
to come

Now call me a “philosopher”

Tag

#LearningIslam, #TurnIntoAction, Blood type B, Distracted mind, ENFP, finding peace, Ideas addict, Me Time, personalities, reading, Tahajjud effect, Tariq Ramadan, The Read meaning of Jihad by Tariq Ramadan

I’ve been around pretending I do not need to read and write. At least this 10 days, You know what happened? My head is just like hang. Kind of weird.

I read book but not as much as I want, I downloaded books by Tariq Ramadan, Karen Armstrong, and Malcolm X but I didnt read them yet. They are just that delicious and my distracted mind somehow blow me here and there and merely touch a finger tip of that books. And at the end I end up with a ‘desperation’ on ‘When can I read them?’

not to mention the book “you are not so smart” one which I have got the pdf as well. Book I am looking for a quite a while.

ouch..

I think I need to fight against my distracted mind which somehow bent my focus from the real focus I want. Kepoing on this website could be good productivemuslim.com to give a blood B type and ENFP person like me to cover my weakness.

This is should be a real tangible thing. Coz, somehow,  lately I delay on making planning, then not that much things happening in my life since I do not meet the planning. What to accomplish if there is no such a planning I made by my self then? Well, I make the planning the general one though, my life time planning yet the short time should be made as well at least once in a week.

Kind of many things to do, to see, to read, to experience, to talk, to plan, to execute, to think, to do, to share, to watch, to extract, to write.

Uh uh,  I see now. I should have a “Me Time” each day. Well, there is only ME and MY TIME where no one sees me. When?

LIke what I am doing right now, this is 3:43 AM and I awake 😀

Before I got to sleep, tell to Allah that I want to have my own time. That I face problem in managing ideas in my mind. That I need to talk with myself. That I need to ‘escape’ from ‘what are you doing’ eyes. That I need to establish confident within me and says: you can handle it Nurul.

This is it, the time after tahajjud. Everything like so free. I can read, surf things, watch and listen to any ideas I want. Lovely, lovely, without any distraction one: “Why are you doing this? Why dont you do that?”

I want to enjoy my life. But, to enjoy my life first, I my life with people around me should be settled first. In the extend of : I do the best  and done best with chores around me that have connection between me and people around. Things that I have to ‘strive for’ for a ideas addict like me. Well, life is a test, and that is my test.

Before striving with the chores around, then I have to make a settlement with my own self. How to deal with my I-am-hungry-for-notion mind? I have to feed my brain first and make her able to speak up,  by writing the notion I have, then I can face my daily life which is this case: facing people. Building what is inside me first then face the day 😀 Sounds interesting and peaceful.

You know what? I am inspired by a very cool notion from first scholar mention by Tariq Ramadan in one of his videos of Path to Justice”The Real Meaning of Jihad”

what is the end?
What you are you want to achieve in this world?
What you want to achieve in this life:

you want to achieve:
peace with Allah
peace with your self
peace with the world
. . . 

I am not justifying my weakness, gotto learn though.

Bacause after the knowledge is the execution of the knowledge

Beacause after the faith there is execution, conducting  good deeds.

Thanks for reading guys 😀

#learningIslam
#TurnIntoAction

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this post is not yet ended
you know what? I just do stalking on this post, then I got e brilliant answer of my question

“It’s not about the idea that you have, but rather the execution of that idea.”

phew,.. that’s tough. But awesome!

Eits, still I percieve that Ideas is important, yet the execution is equally important 😀 That what I got from that post.

Apakah Allah care sama saya?

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aku mah apa, Allah care sama kita, hidup, karena kita unik, manusia biasa, melawan malas, melawan rendah diri, motivasi mahasiswa, motivasi untuk pekerja

Mungkin pernah terpikir: manusia ada 6 milliar, dan itu banyak sekali. Dan saya hanya satu di antara sekian. Seperti satu butir pasir di sebuah pantai mungkin ya?

Lalu apalah artinya saya, hanya seorang manusia.Banyak manusia lain yg lebih pintar, lebih penting dan lebih kuat posisinya untuk berbuat baik. “Kalau aku mah apa..”

Mahasiswa atau karyawan biasa di tempat biasa dengan kehidupan yang biasa-biasa saja.

Ga usalah terlalu mendekat pada Allah, toh saya hanya orang biasa dg pangsa dakwah orang-orang biasa saja…

Nah, ini gimana?
Ga usah shaleh-shaleh amat, toh Allah banyak yg musti Allah perhatikan yg lain: 6 milliar kurang 1 orang.

Tunggu, benar ga sih Allah ga care? dalam Al Quran dikatakan bahwa Allah mengirim ke manusia malaikat penjaga. Ada yang jagain manusia. Katanya salah satunya dia yg jagain kita pas tidur sehingga ga jatuh dari tempat tidur. Dan itu berarti Allah care sama manusia: dikasih malaikat penjaga.

Tiap manusia diciptakan oleh Allah dengan skillnya masing-masing dan pembawaan karakter masing-masing. Each of us are unique. Nah, dengan diciptakan unique dan tak ada duanya dalam sejarah, maka itu bisa dilihat bahwa Allah care dengan kita. Allah ciptakankan saya, satu satunya di dalam sejarah manusia dan ga ada yang sama dengan saya.

Allah mengajak setiap manusia untuk ke surga. Yes, to each indivdual. Perhatikan bagaimana Allah buat settingan di keluarga, kampus, tempat kerja, bestfriend dll. Mungkin ga ideal tapi jika ditelusuri bisa ditemukan konklusi ” Pas banget dah kondisi lingkungan gw. Ini emang ‘maksa’ gw buat berubah. Wew..” Yoi, karena berubah itu berarti pindah dari satu titik dan ke titik yang lain dan kata anak fisika itu butuh gaya (force) dan itu butuh energi dan energi itu kerja dan kerja itu ga mengenakkan bagi mereka yang biasanya malas. #eh?

Apapun kondisinya sekarang, Allah telah menbuat settingan film bagi kita untuk melakukan perubahan sesuai skill dan karakter kepribadian kita. Kalau kata Nouman Ali Khan ” there are limitation in lifes. You wont get more happiness unless what Allah has prepare for you, and you wont get test in unlimited amount. You wont get test beyond what has been set for you. There is the limit of happy and sad you have.”

Dan Allah memberikan saya dan kamu kesenangan dan kesusahan sebagai ujian. Ujian itu diadakan untuk menaikan keimanan. Iman naik biar kalau meninggal masuk surga. Bukti Allah care adalah, Allah sudah prepare bermacam ujian untuk masing-masing invidu dan itu agar individu itu masuk surga. Dan kerennya, ga ada yang ujiannya persis sama. So, Allah care on each individual of us.

Trus, gimana dengan hidup saya yang biasa-biasa saja dan pangsa dakwah yang biasa-biasa saja?

Hidup di dunia ini cuma senda gurau. Dan yang kekal adalah di akhirat. Kalaupun yang terlihat adalah lahan dakwah yang biasa-biasa saja, maka, ya lanjut.. Intinya kan dakwah. Kita ga tahu objek dakwah yang mana yang akan memberatkan timbangan amal kebaikan di akhirat. Yang salah adalah bukan berdakwah ke orang biasa atau artis atau kaum birokrat atau kaum intelektual. Yang salah itu adalah kalau kita ga berdakwah

kalau merasa diri biasa-biasa saja sih boleh-boleh saja.Namun menilik dalam Al Quran “Kamu adalah kaum terbaik yang diciptakan untuk manusia“, maka sejatinya muslim ga boleh merasa dirinya “biasa-biasa” aja. Terbaik ding!

Eits, ini bukan klaim sepihak tanpa pembuktian. Nah, biar ga berasa biasa-biasa aja, galilah potensi diri dan kenali karakter hingga bisa difungsikan sebagai alat untuk menjadi genarasi terbaik bagi umat manusia.

Allah care sama kita. Allah ga tinggalkan kita sendirian tanpa petunjuk untuk hidup sebagai manusia dan hidup di antara manusia. Allah tinggalkan dan jaga untuk kita Al Quran. Kitab yang ayat awalnya adalah perintah untuk menbaca. Allah kirimkan nabi dari golongan manusia untuk kita sebagai prototype yang bisa di contoh. Dan kalau kata Fethullah Gulen, Allah berikan kita buku – segala sesuatu di alam semesta mulai dari daun, gravitasi, bahasa, psikologi, besi, laut, uranium- sebagai buku untuk kita baca. Semakin banyak kita membaca semakin banyak ilmu semakin banyak kemudahan dalam kehidupan.

orang berilmu hidupnya lebih mudah daripada yang tidak berilmu.

(loh jadi kemana-mana, hehe)

intinya: Allah care sama kita, dg menyuruh kita membaca dan menciptakan bahan bacaan yang disebut alam semesta sehingga hidup kita jadi mudah dan bermanfaat bagi sesama dan kalau ikhlas bisa masuk surga dan terhindar dari panggangan api neraka

Nurul Huda
Bukittinggi

17 Februari 2015

To write

Tag

to write, write your awesome day, writing is awesome, writing passion

hm, what an astonishing day I have today
gotto tell more on it,..
yet the time has reach this limit
insyaAllah after next several hours
I’ll write things

well, thanks for reading guys 😀

The Pursuit of Heaven (Part II)

Tag

doer, heavens, marriage, marriage need practicality, nouman ali khan, philosopher, practicality in life, yasir qadhi

Then how if the one has good character that I do not have? (the unanswered question in my post The Pursuit of Heaven (Part I))

Recently, I have a discussion with a friend of mine. My friend says that
“Marriage is not to complete each other but to strengthening each others. 
Do not make your spouse to complete you because the result of your marriage will be zero. See: 1+(-)1 = 0
What to do is to make the best of you in front of your spouse. You and your spouse strengthening each other. That’s it.” Less or more, that is what my friend says. And that is new notion of marriage.

Before, I think in marriage, we complete each other. It looks like the spouse I have will help me to cover my weakness. He does what I cannot do. Hehehe
But it is not.

That job called: Dealing with the awesome character my, or you guys’ future spouse is an awesome job to do. That job called: either you do make the be best of you, or you do make the best of you 😀 #maksa

Sort of that. Realizing this, bulk of things I have to pursue. I have to learn from other notions who has strength in the point where I have weakness in. As what Nouman Ali Khan in his videos “Discover your Identity”

to close this part, I have awesome notions from Yasir Qadhi “religion isn’t just abstract, it ‘s really changing the world in a possitive manner”

I means, any theories I seek, any philosophical arguments I have means useless if there is no real tangible effect to my surrounding. This a tough work to do: shifting from my ‘mind’ exercise to real contribution to my ‘physical’ exercise. A thoughts that I have agree for years that mind is more important that what people perceive as factual life in this case the matter that can bee seen and touch which is called physical world. Shifting this concept of realm is a mega-construction for a Nurul Huda.

I am not saying that I am totally ignore the physical world or the practicality in life, but the mind realm or philosophical things are just more attempting for me to surf.

So, what are the correlation of all of this to the pursuit of heaven?
Hm, let me try to cascade it

marriage : strengthening each other to be the best in front of spouse we have

heaven needs real tangible act : make what you now in your kingdom of mind into real tangible action is reality because religion is not only abstracts, it is changing the world into a positive manner.

well, that is my writing today
thanks for reading guys 😀 😀

so sorry if it is a bit serious and taste more personal. Hahaha

Belajar Memasak Masakan Minang (part 1)

Tag

agar perempuan bisa memasak, batu lado, belajar masak, Masakan Minang, minang cuisine, penyuka buku belajar memasak, ulekan versi Minang

 

“Gulai Ikan Jo Wartel dan Bawang Perai”

. . .
Tersebutlah saya yang belajar masak. Hm, ini cukup aneh. Seorang perempuan Minang belajar masak dan itu umur 24 tahun. Hah?

Bisa kok masak, namun masak- masakan minang hampir ga ada yang bisa semacam gulai, cancang even rendang. Wedew..

Ga ada waktu terlambat buat belajar kan ya? Dan dimulai di bulan Februari ini saya belajar masak dengan chef terkeren di dunia: Abak (Ayah. red). Dan juga Ibu saya.

Tersebutlah tadi mulai mengenal bumbu. Cara membedakan jahe dan lengkuas: dari baunya. Akhirnya saya bisa bedakan mana jahe giling dan mana lengkuas giling. 😀 Kekuatan pikiran ketika saya sedang menakar bumbu sama dengan kekuatan pikiran ketika saya sedang belajar grammar di bangku kuliah. 😀

hahaha

Tahukah apa yang paling berat saya lakukan di dapur? Menggiling bawang atau cabe secara manual. Manual itu menggunakan “Batu Lado” . Kalau di Jawa pakai ulekan, kalau di Minang pakai batu lado. Berbentuk oval dan ada batu sebesar telapak tangan untuk ‘menguleknya’. Di Minang, mengulek itu disebut menggiling. Nah, menggiling itu hampir sama ‘susahnya’ dengan menulis skirpsi. hehehe

Tadi saya disuruh Abak menggiling bawang merah, bawang putih dan damar. saya berujar histeris “Hah? Menggiling?”
Abak dengan bijaksana menjawab “Jika tidak Abak biarkan kamu menggiling sendiri, berarti Abak tidak sayang sama kamu”
Lalu saya berkata setengah tersenyum bersemangat untuk belajar masak “Iya, Bak”

Lalu saya gilinglah itu bumbu. Biasa, ada adegan menangis karena bawang merah yang digiling. hahaha

Setelah bumbu kelar, perkerjaan selanjutkan adalah memeras kelapa untuk menghasilkan santan. Ibu tadi menolongkan saya untuk memarutnya dengan mesin pemarut kelapa. Saya tukang memeras saja. Dan ini salah satu ‘pekerjaan’ ‘tetap’ saya jika di dapur. Sering di suruh ortu memeras kelapa.

Set, setelah itu abak mengambilkan daun-daun untuk gulai. Daun kunyit, sereh, daun salam, daun limau dan  daun ruku-ruku yang tersedia di halaman rumah. Abak saya keren kan?

Tadaaa.. selesai semua bumbu dan ikan serta wartel dimasukkan. Saya ga sabar mencicipinya. Wanginya dah mirip di restorant Minangkabau (Restorant Padang, red) Pada saat menyicip yang pertama “Eh, ada yang kurang”
set.. saya tambah garam.

Tiba tiba “Enak binggggitz!”
lalu saya cobakan ke Abak. “Garamnya sedikit lagi” kata Abak dengan wajah khasnya.
Baiklah, kalau begitu saya tambah garam setengah sendok teh lagi. dan Jenggg.. “Enak nya pas!”

ketika Ibu dan Abak mencobanya
“Masakan anak Abak, enak ternyata”
“Enak, Nur” Ujar ibu dengan wajah happy. Nur adalah panggilan rumah saya. Biasanya yang manggil Nur itu orang tua-tua, Abak, Ibu, Uni, Abang,  Mamak, istri-istri mamak.

Biasanya di kampus di panggil Nurul. Kalau di kelas di SMA di panggil Huda.

Senang sekali saya hari ini. Masakan saya dipuji oleh 2 orang terpenting di bumi saat ini: Ibu dan Abak saya

hahaha…
ahamdulillah…