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Beautiful Landscape of Mutun Beach and Tangkil Island – part 3 of 3 : The Island

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Summer. What does summer mean to you? Maybe most of you will think summer is hot or summer is life with glimmering sunny day or a time that you can go outside more. But, here in tropical country there is no season like that. Oh, maybe there is always season like that every day in a year. So I never exactly experience a summer day before.  For me, maybe summer means play. Summer means travelling. Ultimately, summer means beach and sea. Pictured above: The Beach on Tangkil Island Continuing the other two part, here I will present you the island of Tangkil in front of Mutun Coast, Lampung. If you don’t read the past part, head to part 1 : the Coast and part 2 : the Sea or you will regret it.  Mutun Coast and Tangkil Island both are a famous beach travel site on Lampung, Indonesia. The Sumatrean beach near Sunda Strait give you a nice sensation of calm sea and wind. It’s a perfect place to do a summer holiday or summer camp. Tangkil Island …

A-Z Archive: U! Challenge ~ Umbrella

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This week is letter U. U can be ukhti, unicorn,  underwear, or umbrella. But I don’t have yet saw any unicorn and I will never post my or anyone underwear here in this blog. Because I haven’t married yet, posting a photo of ukhti (religious muslim women) here will probably make me suffer in real life with gossip, rumor, jealousy, and dead sentence roaming around me. So probably umbrella is the best choice.

Travel theme: Summer ~ Monas

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As you probably know, here in this tropical country like Indonesian, there is no such thing as season. There is no summer, fall, winter, or spring. We originally have two season: rainy and sunny. We originally have two seasons actually: wet/rainy and dry/sunny, penghujan and kemarau in Indonesian. Penghujan is April to September, when there’s mostly rain (and prob.flood) in that time. Kemarau is October to March when there’s mostly day with bright sun in that time. But due to global warming (maybe), now we face the same phenomenon all time of the year. Random weather. So, when Ailsa invite me to join her photo challenge themed summer, I was blank. Even the official one give that theme one week later. I have no experience in summer yet. But It is a travel theme, isn’t it? Then, I decide to post a photo about my trip to National Monument, Jakarta. Jakarta is very hot, an embodiment of summer, maybe. National Monument (Monas) is our country proud of independence.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Hands

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Hands, it is this week’s photo challenge. It seems the theme is getting hard and harder every weeks, doesn’t it? Hands can be instrumental in a photo – they emphasis, they hide, they reveal. They can be the star of the show, or just a prop to help the main attraction stand out better. Okay, it is true. But the problem is It is never crossed in my mind, to take a photo of hand. I have no idea how to take a nice picture of hands. Hmm… Crawling my database, I just got these three picture. Not gorgeous, but hope you like it.

Utamakan Ukhuwah : Dan Kisah Dua Masjid di Belakang Rumah

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Ikhwah artinya bersaudara. Menurut Hasan Al-Banna, Ukhuwah Islamiyah adalah keterikatan hati dan jiwa satu sama lain dengan ikatan aqidah. Ukhuwah adalah konsekuensi dari takwa dan merupakan salah satu bentuk ghirah kita terhadap agama. Pembukaan : Utamakan Ukhuwah Konsep ukhuwah dalam islam ini sangat tinggi. Level pergaulan sesama muslim itu seharusnya setingkat dengan level sahabat. Hubungan persaudaraan antar mukmin mempunyai pertalian yang sangat erat dan bisa lebih kuat dari persaudaraan karena keturunan. Hal ini disebabkan persaudaraan ini timbul karena adanya persamaan aqidah. Tidak seperti hubungan persaudaraan atau persahabatan lain yang biasanya timbul karena adanya persamaan kepentingan. Persamaan kepentingan itu bisa hilang. Ketika hilang, bisa saja yang tadinya sahabat itu saling mencaci. Persaudaraan atas persamaan aqidah islam – selama aqidahnya lurus – akan langgeng sampai akhir hayat. “Sesungguhnya orang-orang mukmin adalah ikhwah (bersaudara); karena itu, damaikanlah antara kedua saudaramu”. [QS. al-Hujurat/49:10] Yang terjadi di masyarakat kita sekarang ini adalah seringnya saling berseteru hanya karena masalah fikih. Yang satu mencap yang lain sebagai orang aneh atau bahkan ahli bid’ah. Padahal seringnya fiqih yang dipermasalahkan ini adalah masalah remeh atau dua …

Akar Konflik : Mengapa Islam Banyak Tertimpa Masalah?

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Konflik yang Dihadapi Islam Seperti yang kita lihat sekarang ini, Islam banyak sekali menghadapi masalah. Dia seperti diserang dari semua arah. Dari dalam ada banyak mahzab-mahzab yang orangnya, bukan mahzabnya, sering kali bertengkar satu sama lain. Partai-partai saling tidak mengakui satu sama lain. Orang islamnya sendiri pun banyak yang tidak berislam dengan benar. Rakyat banyak yang klenik. Dakwah ditolak. Bid’ah merajalela. Dari pinggiran, eh ada yang ngaku-ngaku jadi nabi. Penerus Muhammad lah. Jibril lah. Al Masih lah. Yah, saya sebut pinggiran karena mereka berlabel islam, berbentuk seperti islam, mengaku islam, tetapi pada dasarnya bukan orang islam. Mereka membuat agama baru. Dari luar islam, serangan banyak dilakukan. Ada Islam Liberal, berlabel islam, berbentuk bukan islam, dan dasarnya bukan menganut sistem islam. Ada lagi kelompok yang lebih jelas permusuhannya seperti yahudi dan anteknya. Banyak sekali musuh islam. Islam kini merupakan sorotan dunia. Di luar sana, islam dicap teroris. Di beberapa negara yang mengaku demokrasi malah mendiskriminasi penganut agama ini. Namanya agak kearaban dikit, dicurigai. Beberapa kasus malah berusaha memusnahkan islam dari daerahnya. Penganiayaan, pembantaian. Konflik di timur tengah apalagi. …

Beautiful Landscape of Mutun Beach and Tangkil Island – part 2 of 3 : The Sea

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In the last week post, I talked about the beautiful beach-tourism site located in Lampung, Indonesia : Mutun Beach and Tangkil Island. This week, I will tell you the second part of the story with some photograph included, of course. Umm, actually this week post have more picture than story. Hope you enjoy it. If you have time, please come to Indonesia and go to this beach in Lampung. Pictured abouve: Mutun Beach from the Sea Standing from the coast, we can only imagine the beauty of the sea. Maybe we can see a part of it but we will never know the true nature. But when sailing we can feel the air and the emotion of the sea. Seeing through the horizon, we will notice how small we are and how vast the earth is. Seeing through the water we finally know the beauty inside the sea. Renting the traditional motor boat, we can go to the island of Tangkil at fifteen to twenty minutes ride. There is always boat ready to escort us to the …

Photo Challenge : Reflection

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Photo Challenge, especially the weekly one, is very addicted for the bloggers. It’s a great way to share your photo to the world, and draw some eyes to your blog. It’s awesome and seeing those photograph from the blog universe brings calm to my eyes. So, when the official WordPress Dailypost Weekly photo challenge is late to give it’s challenge, some wonder why. One person, Ailsa on wheresmybackpack then stood to give what that hungry blogger wants : a photo challenge. The theme is reflection. Some people has aswered the challenge and give some great photograph. Just like Vladimir Brezina said: “Well, when there was no official challenge posted for more than a day, people took matters into their own hands. No doubt there are other informal challenges out there, born at times like these, that we don’t know about. It’s like in a nomadic tribe—people will follow the leader they like best at the moment, but they might desert to another when that leader seems stronger. This time it was Ailsa that organized the tribe”. I my self was …

Weekly Photo Challenge : Blue ~ Compilation

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This week photo challenge is rather late isn’t it. Yeah, the late turns out to be a rather hard theme. The theme now is blue. But for a while, seeing the theme, i just want the challenge is rather later. Why is that? Because almost all of my blue collection, namely “the Sea”, are just collected to the continuation of the Beautiful Landscape of Mutun Beach and Tangkil Island – part 1 of 3 : The Coast post, namely “the Coast”. I plan to publish it on Saturday. Hope this week theme will be long enough and cover the Saturday part. Hey, it’s late isn’t it. We must delay the next week theme for compensate the time we lost for this weeks. That way, I will have two submission in this weeks theme. KHekhekhe… For now, I just post what I can. It’s not a great photo but maybe you will enjoy it. I take the photo years ago when I was in high school.