A note of the journey

a short chat about food

lailatulhidayah — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 23:43:19 +0000

What do you eat everyday? Do you think you have supplied enough nutrition for yourself?

In a few minutes conversation last night, when I was having my supper, a friend of mine was talking about the elements that is needed by our body.

my friend : What is that (while pointing at my plate) Is it fish?

me : No, it is chicken and egg.

myfriend : Ou, ya, they are good, have lots of protein.

me : (gosh, for this past few moths, I’ve never thought about nutrition in my dinner, just about the taste :p )

my friend : how is the kiwi juice? is it nice ? (there’s a bottle of kiwi juice on the table)

me : yeah, want to try?

my friend : no, thanks, just wanna see, is it one hundred percent natural? (then she looked at the back label of the bottle)

Humm…, she mumbled.

me : (don’t know what she’s seen, then I turned the label to me) and I noticed that my juice is only 10% natural fruit. but it’s tasty though :p . “I will be more careful next time I buy juices”, I promised myself.

myfriend : u know, we need to take more calcium in our age, that’s why I prefer ice cream rather than chocolate candies… (a couple of minutes ago, she gave away her chocolate candies to me and others and excitedly take ice cream bars in fridge)… -ps. the ice cream is more milky than the candies-

my impression is that she really care about what she eat ^_^ .good. I should have managed to noticed what I eat. Doesn’t need to have huge amount of food but more important is the quality, just like my friend. From what I’ve seen, she doesn’t eat a lot and mostly vegetables and fruits (but she loves chocolates :p ) and goes to the gym like everyday…. hm… sort of healthy life style..

Here we go, an old blog but new series…

lailatulhidayah — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:28:06 +0000

It’s been several months ago since the last time I write in this blog… Now I want to write here again, hopefully I can do it continuously…

Bekerja di Bank Konvensional

lailatulhidayah — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:13:05 +0000

Beberapa waktu lalu ada lowongan dari sebuah bank konvensional yang terkemuka. Hati ini pun bertanya-tanya, bagaimanakah hukumnya? Hasil membaca dan diskusi yang kemudian ku lakukan membuatku mantap bahwa sebaiknya kita menghindarinya.

Menurut Syaikh Bin Baz rahimahullah (rangkuman) :

Bekerja di Bank tersebut yang mengambil bunga dari pinjaman pokok dan denda keterlambatan membayar hutang seperti di atas, hukumnya tidak boleh (haram). Karena bekerja di Bank tersebut berarti bertolong-menolong dalam berbuat dosa dan permusuhan. Sementara Allah Subhanahu wa Ta’ala berfirman.

“Dan tolong menolong kamu dalam (mengerjakan) kebaikan dan takwa, dan jangan kalian tolong menolong dalam berbuat dosa dan pelanggaran. Dan bertakwalah kepada Allah, sesungguhnya Allah amat berat siksaNya”.[Al-Ma'idah : 2]

Dalam riwayat lain :

Jabir bin Abdillah r.a. meriwayatkan:

“Rasulullah melaknat pemakan riba, yang memberi makan dengan hasil riba, dan dua orang yang menjadi saksinya.” Dan beliau bersabda: “Mereka itu sama.” (HR Muslim)

Ibnu Mas’ud meriwayatkan:

“Rasulullah saw. melaknat orang yang makan riba dan yang memberi makan dari hasil riba, dua orang saksinya, dan penulisnya.” (HR Ahmad, Abu Daud, Ibnu Majah, dan Tirmidzi)

Sementara bagi orang yang sudah terlanjur bekerja di bank tersebut (merangkum dari beberapa ulama):

“Allah telah menghalalkan jual-beli dan mengharamkan riba, maka barangsiapa yang mendengar nasehat dari Rabb-nya lalu dia berhenti, maka baginya apa yang telah berlalu dan urusannya diserahkan kepada Allah. Maka barangsiapa yang kembali (memakan riba), mereka itulah penghuni neraka dan mereka kekal didalamnya. Allah akan menghapus (usaha) riba dan Allah akan melipat gandakan shadaqah dan Allah tidak suka kepada orang kafir dan orang yang berbuat dosa.” [Al-Baqarah : 275-276]

Jadi lebih baik segera berusaha semaksimal mungkin mencari alternatif pekerjaan lain tetapi tidak langsung berhenti sampai menemukan penggantinya sebab dikhawatirkan malah akan terputus nafkahnya yang kemudian menyebabkan anak istrinya terlantar. Jika hal demikian terjadi maka malah akan membuatnya tidak menjalankan kewajiban sebagai suami yaitu menafkahi keluarganya. Tapi yang ditekankan di sini yaitu berusaha semaksimal mungkin. Jika benar-benar tak ada jalan lain maka dibolehkan dengan alasan kondisi darurat.

Memang ada perbedaan pendapat dari beberapa ulama mengenai hukum bekerja di bank. Hanya dengan melarang semua umat muslim untuk bekerja di bank konvensional memang bukanlah solusi terbaik atas masalah ribawi di Indonesia ini. Itu saja belum cukupmembuat kita benar-benar lepas dari riba karena sistem ekonomi dunia yang sudah sedemikian kuat pengaruhnya. Yang ideal adalah mendirikan sebanyak mungkin bank-bank Islami sehingga mampu menampung semua pekerja bank konvensional yang berpindah dan juga membangun sistem perkenomian islam yang cukup kuat untuk mengimbangi sistem perkekonomian ribawi yang sudah sangat mengakar kuat di seluruh dunia. Semua itu perlu proses dan proses perlu waktu, tapi harus tetap diusahakan, secara bertahap, pelan-pelan tapi pasti, mulai dari hal-hal terkecil dan diri sendiri. Yang terpenting tekad dan niat untuk keluar dari kemaksiatan. Juga tentu saja persatuan umat tuk sepakat bersama-sama pelan-pelan memeranginya.

Namun satu hal yang jelas, yang pasti, dari sudut pandang yang masih mencari kerja, kalau ada yang lain dan bukan karena terpaksa, kenapa harus bank konvensional?

Wallahu a”lam bishshawab.

Mohon dibenarkan jika ada informasi yang salah.

Sumber :

Ustad Ahmad Sarwat, http://www.ustsarwat.com

Syaikh Bin Baz rahimahullah, http://abahzacky.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/hukum-bekerja-di-bank/

Fatwa-fatwa Kontemporer, Dr. Yusuf Qardhawi, http://selaksapelangi.multiply.com/journal/item/101/HUKUM_BEKERJA_DI_BANK_KONVENSIONAL_HALAL_-_HARAM

It’s been approved!

lailatulhidayah — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:45:00 +0000

Today is the day of my final assignment proposal presentation. Alhamdulillah… it ‘s been approved now, Thanks God.. Although it is not so smooth when some lecturers ask me continously while I can’t give satisfactioning answers, I was really been helped by my supervisor. She help me to explain my final assignments details. Thank Ma’am…luv u so much ^_^

And although I think my assignments is not so easy, I feel so ease now. Well, gonna get rest tonight. Yesterday I only slept for 2 hours. T_T . hope for the best…Ya Allah…hope this will be a good start for me …

Prepare for Final Assignment Proposal Presentation

lailatulhidayah — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:41:39 +0000

Today I practiced to have a presentation on Monday, November 15th . It will be my Final Assignment Proposal Presentation. I have to explain what I will do for my Final Assignment. Final Assignment is needed to be graduated as a bachelor. I hope everything will be fine on Monday.

My supervisor revised my presentation slide. I need to give more examples to make it clearer. Besides revising my slides, she also asked to me to practice speaking in front of her. It was shocking since I have no preparation before. Then I try my best to explain my slide and pretending that it was the true presentation. Well, I found it difficult to explain clearly. I lost my words. From that situation I plan to make such a draft for presentation scenario. Then after that I will follow what I will have planned. So it will be easier on Monday. Hope so…

hard decision

lailatulhidayah — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:15:47 +0000

in almost end of this day, I want to write some unimportant note about my today’s experience.
It is about a week ago I start to wonder when I’ll be graduated from these university. Environment, assignments and all of other pressure I got made me want to run away and go as fast as possible to go from here. But it’ll not be so easy. But besides all of that I found that it is sometimes comfortable to be here (at a place called LP), sometimes it is difficult and feels so heavy to think that I’ll left all my beloved friends here and some other considerations made me so confused….it brings me to two choice, first, to graduate fast but being pressed with all assignments and doing final task in the same time and also all other responsibilities in student organization etc, and second, is to be focus on doing all my responsibilities and assignments now and final assignments later in the last semester means that I’ll graduate a little bit longer( 6 months longer)…
after a long and frustrating assesment, (take a deep breath)… today I said to my supervisor that I decided to be graduated in June (means 6 months longer)…yeah..it is easy to say to her, but..after that…is this the right decision ??? don’t know…. just hoping for the best…

Pelangiku…

lailatulhidayah — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:27:29 +0000

hujan begitu deras mengguyur bumi
seolah tak ada waktu lagi
air itu tumpah ruah dalam sekejap
membasahi semua yang dilewatinya
manusia berlari berantakan
sambil menggerutu menyumpahi hujan

langit begitu mendung tak terbendung
seolah putri yang sedang murung
cerminan suasana hati ini
begitu hampa dan sepi
karena masalah itu tak bertepi

jika kita renungi
setelah hujan itu berhenti
kan muncul tangga bidadari
penuh warna warni
membelah bumi dari ujung kanan ke kiri

walau tak selalu ada pelangi
di balik derasnya arus masalah ini
suatu saat kan ada pelangi
yang menukar luka
dengan gegap gempita
tawa canda dan suka ria

sementara ku menanti
kan kunikmati hujan ini
beserta semua yang dibawanya
masih ada canda tawa dalam derasnya hujan
bulir air yang menyapa alam
membuat pemandangan indah di pucuk daun
membuat cukup persediaan
tuk bunga bermekaran
mutiara perak yang berlari bersamaan
menyapu bersih debu pegunungan
tak ada yang harus disesali
semua terjadi karena kehendakNya
membawa berjuta hikmah yang diselimuti lembutnya embun
kan kusibak embun itu
dan kan ku temukan pelangiku…

A step forward to be mature

lailatulhidayah — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:48:11 +0000

The right quote for me today maybe : “It is not important of what happen to you in this life, but what most important is how your attitude towards it” I have heard about this quote since I was in senior high school. But it seems like I really feel it today. So many things happen in the past 3 years. Things happened to me uncontrollably. I mean, it is so unpredictable. I can’t figure it out. It was so different with things when I was in senior high school. I could do everything I want. I know where this step will go. I know what I want. I work hard to pursue my dream. But something wrong is that I don’t make a second plan, so when I couldn’t get my dream, I lost my way. Desperate and sad, it was me at that time. It is only about 1 year ago when I finally believe that this was happening to me!! Now, when I feel I ‘ve lost my past personality, I think that is false. I know I can. It doesn’t matter what happens to me, what most important is how I can handle it… We can’t determine what will happen, we can only plan, so we have to learn how to face it and perform the best attitude towards everything cause anything can happen …

Satisfy All, is it really possible?

lailatulhidayah — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:52:28 +0000

Life is full of choices. Everyday we make many choices. And of course we have to be responsible to all we’ve decided to choose. That’s the difficult ones.
When you have decided to do something, you need to give commitment to it especially if it relates to many people’s business. The problem is when you have more commitment than what actually you can do. You can not say sorry to people when you can not come for them because of your other commitment to other people. Usually we can do this. We ask for their forgiveness and understanding. Sometimes it is okay, but everybody has their own limit of patience. They might be hard to understand or accept our position even when you had tried so hard to satisfy all. It is so hurt if they can’t understand when you can’t come because you’re at the same time is in another place doing your other responsibility. So what I can say is just “Don’t make too many promise or commitment”. In the end, we do unable to satisfy all the people

Defeated by the Small

lailatulhidayah — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:49:31 +0000

This is a story about monkey and winds. Once upon a time, there is a monkey that is very proud of himself, he is so arrogant. It made many winds don’t like the monkey. They decide to discuss about it. They arrange to make competition for winds to blow up the monkey from the place of its rest on top of a tree.

Catherine, tornado, el nina, stc had tried to blow it up, but they didn’t make it since the stronger they blow, the stronger the monkey hold the tree. Then when everybody give up, suddenly a small voice come out. It was a small wind who is being underdogged by other winds. She said that she will defeat the Monkey. Everybody laughs and no one believe her. But she continue her will. She gives her best effort but only small , soft and comforting blew comes out. No body feel surprised since she is only a small wind. But suddenly, the monkey fall asleep and lost its balance and…u konw what??? fall to the ground!! Everybody is shocked that only a small wind can defeat the monkey.
What does the story try to tell you ?
Sometimes when we get big trouble, we come close to the God, but when He gives us much pleasent, we become far away from Him, that is when we defeated by demonds.