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Building a home

Trailing the footsteps of Ibrahim (as) and Muhammad (saw) Synopsis for speech at IMEA, Enschede, Netherlands As muslims, we believe in the importance of intention (niyat). Intention makes everything counts, either as a good deed or an evil act. Innocent action like eating can have a wide spectrum of value. It can bring a reward [...]

Memaafkan, Mengikhlaskan, dan Melupakan

[pernah dikirimkan ke milis Pengajian Eindhoven] Ada diskusi yang cukup panas di milis tetangga tentang PPI Eindhoven. Tidak perlu saya ceritakan bagaimana jalannya diskusi itu, tunggu saja pengumuman resminya.Salah satu topik yang saya ingin ceritakan adalah sentilan Kang Agus Yodi agar saya “menghilangkan kegengsian, memaafkan, dan melupakan” dalam menyikapi apa yang sudah terjadi. Karena sebab [...]

Asides

If Moses had gotten the Ten Commandments on a floppy disk, it would never have made it to today. (Dag Spicer, curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, The NYTimes Circuit, 26-Mar-2009)

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists

“The wrath of God is the only way I can describe it. I’m used to seeing roofs off houses, houses blown over. These houses were down to their foundations, stripped clean.” said Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, after surveying tornado damage there.

James Madison said, “If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one.” In Indonesia, …, well no comment.

Setelah empat belas hari menunggu, akhirnya saya bisa menikmati kembali berita-berita dari Bandung. Harian PR tampil dengan wajah baru dengan koneksi yang tampaknya lebih kencang.