Ridwan Kamaludin, Just an ordinary hafidz?

My mother and I (right) interviewing Ridwan Kamaludin Al-Hafidz

Name                    : Ridwan Kamaludin Al-Hafidz

DOB                     : Garut, January 26th 1996

Gender                 : Male

Religion                : Islam

Height                   : 165cm

Employment         : College student

Hobby                  : Reading Al-Quran, playing football, singing

Address                : Kudungora, Garut

Educational background:

- Madrasah Ibtidaiyah cokro Aminoto

- Madrasah Tsanawiyah Darul Muta’alimin

- SMKIT Darul Abror

- Universitas Padjadjaran FIB literature majors

     Ridwan Kamaluddin, is my mother's colledge student in Padjadjaran University that is familiar called Urid. He is in fact a football fan that admire Ronaldo. In his Junoir High he wanted to make a band. But it changed 180 degree in Senior High School. He was borned in Garut, January 26th 1996 as the third child of four children, but unfortunately all his big brothers died when they was young, and this made him to be his parent's 'favorite boy'. I think because of that too, he then became a Hafidz, or in other words 'someone who has memorized 30 juz from Al Quran', because who can memorize 30 juz can insyaa Allah give their parents a crown in paradise, in the afterlife.

Ridwan (left) with his colledge friend

    But yeah, there are many hafidz in this world, but there is something that make this Arabic colledge student more special than others: He saw Rasulullah ﷺ in his dreams!! Masya Allah:')

     So, once upon a time, when Ridwan was still a senoirhigh scool student in SMKIT Daarul Abror, he contracted Thypus wich made him less energic and unwell. Because of that, he stopped to memorize the Quran, even if there were just 5 juz remaining. One day, he felt so very unhealthy that he thought it was his last day living in this world. When he fell asleep, he dreamt about a war, where he was a soldier. Among the troops, there was a handsome man that he never saw before. The man looked very manly and perfect on his horse. Then, a troop called that man "Ya Rasulullah ﷺ" Ridwan that heared that wanted to call Rasulullah ﷺ, but he can't speak all of sudden. "Ya Ridwan" A voice from the man infront Ridwan resusticate him "Irji' ilaa baitika wastamir hifzak" Go back home and continue your memorizing. After that, he tried to memorize again. When he finished his last ayat, he then recover from his illness. He wasn't the first hafidz in his school, he was the fifth actually.

     Just by dreaming Rasulullah ﷺ is a guarantee someone can enter the paradise insya Allah. But Ridwan wanted to do more kindness especially for the people around him. His dreams are to be an Ulama or a theologian and he wanted to pilgrimage all the resident in his village, a unique goal, hah? hehe. Oh yeah, he wanted to take a schoolarship to middle east too, pray for him, okay?:)

    What made me shame of myself is the only regret he got is that he didn't memorize from the beginning. He memorized 30 juz just in 3 years. All humans got 24 hours in a day right? Why can't we do the same thing like he did? He said to me that the key to fast memorizing is Ikhlas (motive just for Allah) and not to be lazy (And I am very lazy guyss). 'Fastabiqul Khairat' or 'competing each other in goodness'. Pray for me that I'll finished 30 juz when I graduate Senior High School:) Aamiin:'))

5+1 Slogans that shake the world

Do you know Rabi'a? Do you know Mohammed Morsi? But at least you must know egypt right?

In 2012, a new president was being chosen in the presidentical election in Egypt. It was the first time that Egypt held a election by democracy. Mohammed Morsi won with one percent more than his rival, shafik. 13,230,131 votes were obtained from Morsi's simple speech before the election. He shouted 5 slogan from Ikhwanul Muslimin, a politicalparty that has broght Morsi:

"Allahu GhayatunaaAr-Rasul QudwatunaaAl-Quran DusturunaaAl-Jihadus SabilunaaAl-Mautu Fiisabiilillah Asma Amaninah" 

"Allah is our purposeour Prophet ﷺ is our ExampleAl-Quran is our constitutionJihad is our pathPassing away in Allah's path is our highest ideal."

Mohammad Morsi, the truly President of Egypt

His slogan

Simple, but very inspirational.

But not long after that, Morsi is being coup by As-sisi, a commander in the army.

To support Morsi, Egyptian from across the county gathered in a place called Rabiah. They shouted the slogan with spirit, hoping the world will hear them. At that time, there were a clash between the army and Morsi's supporter. Many people died in this incident.

But, not only those in Egypt supported Morsi, all moslems in the world yelled out a slogan too:

"Kullunaa rabiah"

"All of us are Rabiah"

Rabiah besides the name of the place where it all happens has a meaning too: Rabia'ah in arabic means 4, and Rabia Al-Adawiyah is a women among the obedient servants to Allah.
She was named Rabi"ah because she was the fourth daughter.

So that's what I can tell you about 5+1 slogan that shake the world. Thank you for reading:))

"Kullunaa Rabi'ah"

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https://ms-my.facebook.com/WeWantDrMorsiToBeCairoPresiden#
http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabi%27ah_al_Adawiyyah
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/06/201262412445190400.html
https://www.islampos.com/apa-yang-anda-ketahui-tentang-simbol-rabia-75857/
https://it-it.facebook.com/ismashahalam/posts/532098616901308

"DEWA ATHENA VII"

February 21st 2015, the students of SMAN 3 Bandung, Indonesia organize an yearly event called "DEWA ATHENA". It's been held for seven times. Dewa Athena is an event that contains sport contest, like basketball, football, tug of war, relay, etc. We must participate in this event, because it will be entered in our sport score.

Sepadu Sepadan- Our Class and Family:)

At 06.15 WIB, we were gathered in Lapangan Bali were we usually do sport activities with white clothes as dress code. After that, we did the colour run: started from Lapangan Bali, Belitung Street, Sumatera Street, Aceh Street, Saparua, Ambon Street, Banda Street, Belitung Street, and finally back to Bali Street. Because I am a PMR member, I was assigned to watch in Banda Street as medical section, in case someone were hurt or fallen. Because of that too, I didn’t participate when my other friends were running, taking photos. And the saddest part is that I didn’t feel how to be stoned by colour bags until our white clothes been coloured with colours :( But in the same time, medical sections are needed in every event. (And besides my cloth wasn’t dirty at least haha). Alhamdulillah, nobody were hurt.

The colour run route
(the pict was taken from dara hehe:)v )

Charisma, Vialita, and Rimba holding X IPA 2 Sign

After all the PMR members gathered in the school for the briefing from kang Sami, I went to Lapangan Bali with my friends. At the way, I met kang Sami and some other people swarmed someone. When I came near, there was someone fainted. Because she was a girl, kang Sami said that I should bring her to the school. So I with the girls around there took her to the PMR room in theschool. It was quite far, and when we arrived we were really exhausted. Luckily, there was teh Alifia, the PMR leader, so she checked up the victim. It turns out that the fainted one didn’t eat breakfast at the morning before the colour run, and she had anemia too. We gave here a sweet hot tea and tell her to take rest for a while.

Times still running, and I realized that I participate in the football tournament. I ran to the Lapangan Bali, and when I arrived it hasn’t start. But because I’m still exhausted by running, Tanisha replaced me playing football for the first round. I played in the second round. But unfortunately, we didn’t win. Our dodgeball team didn’t win too. But at least, tahnks to Ghina and Halim, we won the Badminton tournament.

It was really fun. This was just the first day of the full Dewa Athena event. (Dewa Athena is held every week until it’s finished).

When they took this, I had a brievfing in the school:(

Dara and Airell replacing Afina and Halim as sportman and sportwoman

SEPADU SEPADAN, SEPULUH IPA DUA SEPULUH IPA EDAN :D

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Cat's Eye Nebula

                Is there any relation between a rose, a star, and our holy Quran? Maybe you will answer “All of them are beautiful”. It isn’t wrong, but is there something else that can bond them together?

                The answer is ‘A phenomenon that involves rose formed stars that is written in Al-Quran’. ”Hah?”. Still don’t understand? If not you can see in Q.S. Ar-Rahman 37:

“And when the sky splitteth asunder and becometh rosy like red hide”

                “When the sky splitteth asunder” it means Qiyamah or the Doomsday and “becometh rosy like red hide” means a scheme of colors (not just red) when the Doomsday comes with it’s asperity.

At September 18th 1994, the NASA took a photo from a nebula succesfully with the telescope Hubble. It is predicted to be a 1.000 years old star that died (Supernova). It was later presented in the American Astronomical Society in Tucson Arizona at January 11th 1995.

(For more information, you can access http//www.hubblesite.org  or http//www.stsci.edu)

           A confession from NASA said that if a star explosed, then it would make a form like a red rose. Even more, some people named this phenomenon as Oily Red Rose Nebula. A dying star can also be called Supernova.

Now, after some researches, scientist took some photos of dying stars again and found that the colors are green. Because of it’s lightening green color, scientist named it ‘Cat’s Eye Nebula’. And now you are asking, why did Allah explained a supernova with a red color? The answer is simple: the green color that you see in the photos is actually not the real color. The hubble telescope is been programed to color the picture based on what it comprehend, as example blue color stands for oxygen, etc.. A NASA scientist said:

"The colors in Hubble images, which are assigned for various reasons, aren't always what we'd see if we were able to visit the imaged objects in a spacecraft. We often use color as a tool, whether it is to enhance an object's detail or to visualize what ordinarily could never be seen by the human eye." 

‘Cat’s Eye Nebula’, How does it happen?

Because ‘Cat’s Eye Nebula’ is a little bit hard to write, i’ll write it down as Supernova (hehe sorry...). A supernova is a event that bigger that signify the death of a star and is bigger than a Nova. A dead star before it dies  glows million times brighter than usually it does. After some weeks or months, the died star will release a big amount of energy with a velocity of 30.000km/s that will cause a big explotion. The explotion is caused when the solar core stop or activate the production of energy through nuclear fusion. Once the stellar core is old stopped producing energy, then the star will undergo gravitational collapse and suddenly become a black hole or neutron star, and releasing gravitational potential energy that heats and destroys the outer layers of the star. A Supernova happens every one second in this universe.

And now the final question: What will happen if a star near earth exploads? Yeah, it’s just a matter of time that the Doomsday will come. So, maybe it’s time for us to think more about the afterlife. Wallahu A’lam bisshawab.

To close this article, let’s see the continuation of the verse above:

“So, which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?”

I think it’s enough from me. I am so sorry if there are many mistakes in this article. Thanks for reading ^_^... Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi Wabarokatuh.

 

http://www.alim.org/library/quran/ayah/compare/55/30/all-that-exist-will-perish-except-allah,-who-is-busy-in-heavy-tasks-all-the-time

http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bintang#Umur

http://www.alim.org/library/quran/ayah/compare/55/37/no-one-can-run-away-from-the-jurisdiction-of-allah-and-sinners-will-be-punished-in-hell#sthash.7LiZwrA0.dpuf

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Mochi~, a Japanese Culinary

Mochi

Hi friends=)) Did you read my last post about holiday? So, about two weeks ago, at the January the first, almost all people around the world are celebrating the transition from 2014 to 2015. Because of that day too, we were given holiday hehe... but now I'm gonna write just about new year in Japan. Beside all that fireworks, etc. there is a unique tradition too in Japan: eating mochi.

According to wikipedia, Mochi is Japanese rice cake made of mochigome, a short-grain japonica glutinous rice. About the history, some people say it comes from Tiongkok, but other says that mochi comes from japan. But it is a fact that mochi exist in japan since Heian periode (794-1885C) as a meal for the nobles at new year. Varied mochies were used as offerings for the caisars at religious ceremonies in the beginning of the 10th century. Based on historical records from 1070C, rice cakes were called "Mochii" with dobble i and new in the 18 century Mochi were written with just one i. The name "Mochi" itself comes from the word "motsu" that means 'hold something'. It means that mochi is given from the gods (in their opinion). Beside that, mochi is been related to the word 'mochizuki' (full moon) and 'muchimi' (sticky).

Mochi in an Japanese animation

Back there, before the samurais want to fight at a war to spirit them up people made them mochies. Because of it's size, mochi is easy to bring. And mochies gives stamina to the body too. But because nowadays samurai doesn't exist, Japanese men immortalize it to a tradition, mochitsuki, held every desember-january or at new year.

A little kid eating mochi

Presently, there are many kinds of mochies. From ice cream mochi until mochi soup with various flavor, like chocolate, green tea, strawberry, etc. Oh yeah, did you hear about 'Mochi Sukabumi'? People say that mochi came to Inonesia at the second world war by japanese armies. Mochi is known well-born in Sukabumi because the main military headquarters of japan was in Sukabumi. But like I said before, according to the other opinion, mochi came Indonesia from generation to generation by tionghoa people that settle mainly in Sukabumi. Wallahu A'lam hehe

Mochi Ice Cream

Mochi as soup

And now, the Mochi recept:) (notes: it's not the traditional way, it's from http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Mochi)

Ingredients:

1 lb Mochiko (glutinous rice flour, sometimes called sweet rice flour)

3 cups sugar

1 can coconut milk

1/2 can sweetened condensed milk (preferred for thicker sweeter mochi)

1 1/2 cups of water

A few drops of food colouring (preferably red)

Katakuriko (potato starch) (cornstarch is also a substitute or variation)

Steps to make

1. Assemble the ingredients and items needed to prepare the mochi.

2. Sift the Mochiko into a large bowl.

3. Add the cups of white sugar.

4. Add the unsweetened coconut milk. Do not stir.

5. Add the cups of plain water and a few drops of food colouring. Mix with a balloon whisk until the mixture is lump free.

6. Preheat the oven to 450f .

7. Line the cake pans with aluminum foil (bottom and sides), grease the foil with oil or spray.

8. Divide the batter into the three cake pans. Cover the batter with more greased foil so that the foil is touching the batter.

9. Bake for 1 hour on the middle shelf of your oven.

10. Let cool for another hour, then take off the top foil from one of the pans.

11. Dust a work surface with katakuriko (potato starch) and invert the mochi onto the surface. Very slowly and carefully peel off the other layer of foil, and be careful because it will try to stick.

12. Cut off the crusts around the edge of the mochi. As the cook's prerogative, you can snack on these while you prepare the final product.

13. Cut the mochi into triangles or squares.

14. Dust each mochi triangle or square on the bottom, top and sides with katakuriko. Do this until all of the mochi are dusted.

Sweet versions: Mochi can be gently rolled in desiccated coconut, dusted in cocoa powder or dusted with Matcha powder for eating as a sweet.

15. Serve. You should now have the yummiest thing you have ever tasted in your life.

Mochi can be served in soup. In Japan, mochi is served in a hot soup called ozonifor the New Year breakfast.

Mochi is great served with a little soy sauce and wasabi.

If serving as a sweet, be sure to have it with some Japanese green tea.

That's it ^-^. For traditional steps, you can see this (I copy pasted it fromhttp://simplymochi.com/2009/07/20/traditional-way-of-mochi-making-and-the-various-usages-for-it/):

First Step:  Soak polished rice overnight and then cook the rice until it is soft in texture. 

Second Step:  The cooked rice is now pounded with a huge, heavy, wooden mallet (kine) in a traditional wooden mortar (usu).   Mochi rice is very sticky and gets hard fast so it needs to be consistently wetted, pounded, and turned.  Because this requires a lot of physical power it is best to have two people taking turns pounding the mochi rice with the heavy mallets.  If you are ever in Japan, give it a try!  Not only is it great exercise, but you can say that you were part of a very old japanese tradition. 

Third Step:  After the rice has been pounded into a paste, it becomes a sticky mass which is now ready to be molded into various shapes for many uses. 

Traditional way to make mochi

And before I end my long story, you must be very careful when eating this one. This year, 18 people in Japan were been hospitalized and 9 died. So, don't be in hurry when eating mochi and don't take too much at once. For more info, you can read here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/indonesia/majalah/2015/01/150105_majalahlain_kuemochi_jepang

I hope you enjoyed reading this, sorry if there were some wrong things. Thanks for reading:)

3 Weeks Of Freedom

Hello everyone! How’s life? Like what you see right now, this time I want to write about ‘Three Weeks of Freedom’. A little bit weird title, but there is an explanation why I picked this: the word ‘Freedom’ here means freedom from that usually students would hate, like learning at school, meeting test, and the plenty homeworks everyday (but in fact, some of people are still enjoying this). But yeah, are we really ‘Free’? You’ll find the answer on the end of this text:D

So than reading my boring explanation, please read my story about my holiday. Please enjoy it.

Sorry for to discuss about this first, but do you like playing games? Maybe many of you like to play games, it can be computer games, online games, emulator games or games that requires an emulator, RPG games, boardgames, maybe traditional games, etc. But if there are lovers, there will be haters too. But this time I want to share about a great game with a great storyline too that I played along my holiday, ‘The Crooked Man’. A horror game about a man named David Hoover who just moved to a new apartement. He moved there hoping he will forget his ‘crooked’ life: The one who he wantto marry went away, his mother got an brain cancer, and his dream to be a pilot can’t be true because he is colour blind. Started from the beginning of the game, he was haunted from a creature that he named ‘crooked man’ because of his crooked neck. The goal of the game is to find the reason why the crooked man followed him. What happenedd? It will be a spoiler if I tell you the end, so I recommend you to play this game:D But really, this game inspired me to do the best in every situation even if our life is just ‘crooked’ hehe...

Now, I want to tell you about my friends in my mentoring group. “What is that?”, I know some of you are asking that question. Mentoring group is a group of some people that is lead by a mentor where those people are gathering together to discuss things, usually about our beloved religion Islam. But because it’s holiday, so my mentoring group was been stopped for 3 weeks. In that blank time, we made a little party in my friends house. We roasted some sausages and chicken, yummy. And after that we made some resolution for 2015. We spent around 6 hours, from 9.00am until 3.00pm. It was really fun to meet them, I hope next time we could do this again.

               

               

Silvester night. When people around the world are sitting together watching fireworks painting the night sky, I and my family went to Garut in the morning. It was quite peaceful, maybe because they aren’t sleeping overnight. There, we spent a night at Sumber Alam Hotel. The hotsprings was our first aim, beside it’s for relaxing our mind, taking a bath there could help me to make my backbones straight (I have a scoliosis). The view and the food there was also nice. We went back the day after that.

   

                Four days remaining, when the majority of students laid down on their beds and luxuriate the last four days, PMR, one of the extraculiculars in SMAN 3 held a camping that was hold in Ciwangun Indah Camp (CIC). We went there around 9 o’clock with an angkot and arived there at noon. When we arived, we played a mini game, then the boys went to the masjid (mosque) to do ‘jumatan’ while the girls are making the tent and bifak, a little tent made from ‘ponco’s. We maked a little ditch around our tent and the bifak, because we were scared it would rain that day. After eating, we got a mission to find and cure three people in CIC that are hurt with just one hint. After searching a while, we found all the victims. It was really fun. At night, we ate together our selfmade food with the upperclassmans and some alumnus. They shared some experiences about PMR. At night, (don’t really now the exact time because we aren’t allowed to wear clocks) we slept. But because the bifak wasn’t so warm (read: very cold) the boys couldn’t sleep. And circa 3.00am at the morning, some alumnus woke us up and asked us some questions about the reason joining PMR, our hopes, and what we gonna do for PMR. It was really dramatical. Then, we got a PMR pin to symbolize that we are recruited to PMR. We took some photos, eat (again), and went home after that. Even when we are just 7 people, it was really exiting.

  

                So, like I did explain, were it really freedom for us? Freedom is relative but the most important freedom is to be free from laziness and other stupid things. So, fill your holiday with positive things and don’t make it to ‘Three regretful weeks’ hehe.

               

                Sorry if there are some words that are not comfortable to hear, and thank you for reading:D