Ketika saya sedang iseng melihat blog dari teman-teman, saya menemukam link yang menarik, link ke blog dari Yusril Ihza Mahendra.

Dan saya adalah salah satu penggemar beratnya. Menurut saya, saudara Yusril adalah satu dari sedikit pemimpin di Indonesia yang patut untuk di contoh dan di teladani. Bahkan anak lelaki saya berikan namanya Muhammad Raihan Mahendra, dan tentunya anda tahu dari mana nama mahendra tersebut berasal.

Dua kali pemilu, salah memilih PBB, karena menurut saya Yusril adalah pilihan yang terbaik yang ada.

Yusril Ihza Mahendra

Sedikit komentar tentang blog dari Yusril, yang jelas di buat dari wordpress, adalah tampilan dari header atas yang bergambarkan mini seri yang dia bintangi, Laksamana Cengho. Terlihat jelas kalau mini seri Laksamana Cengho adalah salah satu dari obsesi dari Yusril.

Dari blog beliau, saya bisa lebih tahu tentang pribadi dan pemikiran dari seorang Yusril.

Mungkin seharusnya semua pemimpin harus memiliki sebuah blog pribadi, agar bisa lebih di kenal oleh rakyat.

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I don’t have much problems with most atheist people. Most of them doesn’t care much about what other people believes. But few of them are just looking for problems. They always say that religious people do not have logic, religious people only rely on their faith. While atheist people just too proud with their logic and sciences. It seem that their logic and sciences can explain and solved anything, and they are more superior than religious people.

To answer them, I have this beautiful movie on youtube. After you see this movie, do you still believe that there is no God?

Earth is just a dust in this universe, and this is just the universe that we know. What will happen in the next 50 years? Maybe they will find something million times bigger that the biggest thing today?

Do they still proud with their small brain and small logic? They can’t even find the cure for common flue.

Do they still proud with their small brain and small logic?

Not so long ago, people believed that the earth is flat, they believed that the earth is the center of the universe.

Do they still proud with their small brain and small logic?

Sciences changes everytimes, what the truth today maybe become obsolete tomorrow.

Can they see the big picture?

This universe is just too complex too run by it self, somebody have to manage it, and for religious people we call it God.

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Saya semakin hari semakin bingung dan takut, dengan semakin banyak orang yang mengaku sebagai ulama Islam, tapi ucapan mereka bertentangan dengan agama Islam. Apakah karena pengetahuan saya tentang Islam masih belum dalam, atau mereka sudah terlalu amat pintar sehingga susah di mengerti oleh orang kebanyakan?

Bagaimana mungkin mereka bisa mengatakan kalau Islam tidak melarang perbuatan homo?

Bagaimana mungkin mereka bisa mengatakan kalau muslimah bisa menikah dengan lelaki non muslim?

Sedangkan perbuatan yang jelas-jelas di perbolehkan oleh Islam di larang oleh mereka. Tidak percaya, apa ang terjadi ketika Aa Gym menikah lagi? Apakah perbuatan Aa Gym adalah perbuatan haram menurut Islam? Tetapi mereka beramai-ramai menghujat Aa Gym sambil membela kaum Homo yang jelas-jelas haram.

Saya rasa otak mereka sudah terbakar karena mereka sudah terlalu pintar.

Musuh Islam bukan orang bodoh, tapi orang pintar yang tahun benar tentang agama Islam. Mereka bahkan mungkin hapal Al Quran dan hadits. Tetapi dia menggunakan kepintaran mereka untuk memutar balikan kebenaran menjadi kesalahan, merubah yang halal menjadi haram. Mereka mengedepankan sebuah ayat, tetapi menyembunyikan ayat-ayat yang lain. Mereka menggunakan sebuah hadits tanpa menceritakan mengapa hadits tersebut ada. Mereka pintar tetapi tidak memiliki iman. Justru kepintaran mereka itu mereka pergunakan untuk merusak agma Islam. Merekalah musuh-musuh Islam yang utama.

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In one of the internet forum, someone give me the link to the Council of Secular Humanism.There is an interesting article, an interview from Free Inquiry Magazine with Arthur C. Clarke where his short biography can be found in here.

From the interview, I understand that Arthur C. Clarke is an atheist.

As from an atheist point of view, this is an interesting interview to read. The title also provocative as my opinions, “God, Science, and Delusion, A Chat With Arthur C. Clarke”

But while reading the interview, somehow I really surprised with the interview.

This is an interesting quote from the interview that surprised me.

FI: Do you see any value at all in the various religions?

Clarke: Though I sometimes call myself a crypto-Buddhist, Buddhism is not a religion. Of those around at the moment, Islam is the only one that has any appeal to me. But, of course, Islam has been tainted by other influences. The Muslims are behaving like Christians, I’m afraid.

FI: What appeals to you in Islam?

Clarke: Historically, Islam had a great deal of tolerance for other views and offered the world its priceless wisdom in the form of astronomy and algebra. And, as you know, Islam helped rescue Western civilization from the Dark Ages by preserving classical texts and transmitting them to the West. We, on the other hand, burned the library at Alexandria. If Islam hadn’t fallen into internecine warfare and had gone on to conquer the rest of Europe, we’d have avoided a thousand years of Christian barbarism.

So based on an atheist opinion or simply said based on Arthur C. Clarke opinions, that Islam has more tolerance and more respect for science rather than any other religions.

But sadly, from time to time, Islam become more corrupt because of some reasons. Some Imams or some leaders uses only few verses from Quran that will only benefits them, and disregards the others verses.

You must read Quran as a book, not only verses by verses.

I’m a logical person, and until today, I only see that Islam is the most logical religions compare to others.

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Beberapa hari yang lalu, saya mampir ke sebuah mini market di dalam Kota Wisata Cibubur.

Pertama kali masuk, saya terkejut, karena pas di rak tengah, dekat dengan susu kemasan, di pajang secara demonstratif belasan kaleng dan botol bir dari dua merk yang berbeda. Seingatku, tidak pernah ada mini market yang menjual bir (atau mungkin memang menjual?). Bir hanya di jual di supermarket besar seperti carefour dan hypermart, tidak di mini market.

Menurut saya, bir atau minuman yang mengandung alkohol lainnya, sangatlah tidak pantas untuk di jual bebas di dalam minimarket, apalagi biasanya minimarket ada di dalam perumahan.

Apakah ada tanggung jawab moral dari pihak mini market untuk tidak menjual bir kepada anak di bawah umur? Seperti anak SMP dan SMA. Apalagi biasanya mini market biasa di kunjungi oleh anak-anak. Penempatan botol bir secara demonstratif apalagi dekat dekat dengan susu kemasan, tentu sedikit banyak berkata kepada anak-anak kalau bir adalah sesuatu yang umum, yang lumrah.

Mungkin perlu dipikirkan kembali perijinan menjual minuman ber alkohol di dalam mini market.

Dan tentunya, kita bisa memilih akan belanja di mini market yang mana? Yang menjual minuman ber alkohol atau yang tidak?

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Dalam sebuah angkutan umum, saya melihat sepasang kekasih sedang berangkulan di kursi belakang. Tentu hal ini tidak terlalu saya perhatikan jika, sang wanita tidak mengenakan jibab.

Ketika jilbab tidak datang dari hati.

Seorang siswi sekolah Islam terkemuka di Indonesia, berjalan menuju ke arah teman-temannya yang sedang menunggu di tempat parkir. Tentu saja hal ini tidak terlalu saya perhatikan jika, sang siswi tidak berjalan sambil membuka jilbabnya.

Ketika jilbab di paksakan.

Seorang teman wanita berkata, bahwa dia mungkin akan menggunakan jilbab. Tentu saja hal ini tidak terlalu saya perhatikan, jika sang teman wanita tidak berkata karena kelihatannya jilbab sedang nge-trend sekarang ini.

Ketika jilbab menjadi perhiasan.

Alangkah indahnya, jika jilbab datang dari hati.

Bukan demi suami.

Bukan demi orang tua.

Bukan demi sekolah dan guru.

Bukan demi lingkungan sosial.

Bukan demi mode.

Tapi demi Allah semata.

Tapi, ini tentunya hanyalah pendapat saya.

Just before midnight, my mind tricked me.

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Once, one wise old man told me that Islam is to make our life much easier.

First, I don’t really understand, because in Islam there are so many rules to follow. How can those rules make our lifer easier?

Than I started to realized, that it is true. Islam actually makes our lives much easier.
Rules in Islam are to make our life easier, not to make our life more difficult.

Don’t believe me? These are some examples.

In Islam, we are not allowed to do adultery.

Why? Why we are not allowed to do adultery? Why that can make our life easier?

Adultery from wikipedia

Although the definition of “adultery” differs in nearly every legal system, the common theme is sexual relations outside of marriage, in one form or another.

If a woman pregnant because of adultery, who will be responsible for the child, for the child support, for the child legal status?

If there are more than one man? Who is the father?

We can do DNA test, but than is not make our life easier, is making our life more difficult.

Stick with your wife or husband, that will make your life much easier.

In Islam, we are not allowed to consume alcohol

When you get drunk, you’ll do something really stupid things that soon you” regret. That stupid things may fatal, to you or to others.

This is just example how fatal that stupid thing is.

Quote from http://www.car-accidents.com/drunk-driving-accidents.html

There are about 17,000 alcohol related car accident deaths in the United States each year, this means that there is a drunk driving death every 31 minutes. Alcohol was a factor in 39 percent of all fatal accidents and in 7 percent of all crashes in 2004.
Additionally about 248,000 people are injured in accidents where police reported that alcohol was present, thus one person is injured in a drunk driving accident in the US every 2 minutes.

That why Islam ban to consume Alcohol.

Without Alcohol, our life is much more easier.

In Islam, we are not allowed to eat pig/pork/swine

From Holly Quran Al-Ma’idah

Forbidden to you (for food) are: Al-Maytatah (the dead animals - cattle-beast not slaughtered), blood, the flesh of swine, and the meat of that which has been slaughtered as a sacrifice for others than Allâh, or has been slaughtered for idols, etc., or on which Allâh’s Name has not been mentioned while slaughtering, and that which has been killed by strangling, or by a violent blow, or by a headlong fall, or by the goring of horns - and that which has been (partly) eaten by a wild animal - unless you are able to slaughter it (before its death) ­ and that which is sacrificed (slaughtered) on An­Nusub (stone altars). (Forbidden) also is to use arrows seeking luck or decision, (all) that is Fisqun (disobedience of Allâh and sin). This day, those who disbelieved have given up all hope of your religion, so fear them not, but fear Me. This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed My Favour upon you, and have chosen for you Islâm as your religion. But as for him who is forced by severe hunger, with no inclination to sin (such can eat these above-mentioned meats), then surely, Allâh is Oft­Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Al-Ma’idah 5:3)

Why? Why Islam forbid muslim to eat pig/pork/swine?

Quote from http://www.islamic-world.net/sister/h1.htm

The pig is a scavenger. It is an omnivorous animal. It eats everything. There are many diseases carried from swine to man, particularly parasite infestations. Lately extensive research has been focused on senility-old age is characterized by hardening of inner lining of the blood vessels of the heart, brain etc. a process called atheroselerosis. When a clot forms, it results in coronary thrombosis or a heart attack, cerebral thrombosis or stroke.

According to medical research, the fat content in pork is more than any other meat (beef, mutton etc.) and it takes longer to digest. Dr. M Jaffer in an article in the Islamic Review (London) of January 1997 issue has listed 16 kinds of harmful germs, which have been discovered in pork in modern researches and the diseases, which could be caused by them. The number of patients suffering from tapeworm disease is the highest in the world among pork eating nations. Other diseases attributed to pigs are caused by tri-chinelia spirates and intestinal worms occupy first place among such nations too.

“One in six people in USA and Canada have germs in their muscles - trichinosis 8 from eating pork infected with trichina worms. Many people who are infected shows no symptoms. Most of those, who do have, recover slowly. Some die; some are reduced to permanent invalids. All were careless pork caters”.

Sure we can avoid those (some of them are deadly) diseases by cooks the fork very well, but then that will make our life more difficult.

There are so many good things that we can eat, why want to eat that bad for us?

There are many rules of Islam, if we know and study them, are good for us. To make our life easier and less difficult. Too many of them, I just take three as examples.

If I’m in difficult decision, I always remember that Islam supposedly to make our life easier, and Allah is the most merciful one.

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When browsing the web, I run across many forums and websites that full of hatred towards Islam and Muslim.

This is one of the website that full hatred towards Muslims, thereligionofpeace.com. They have more hatred in their heart than any other people that I know. Forget the Nazi’s, they look like kindergarten kids compare to this hateful people. (Warning, please be prepare when you about to enter that hateful website).

They say that Muslims are bad people, and Islam is not a good religion.

One of the example they gave is that terrorist attack in several places in Indonesia (including Bali) .

This is my logic.

Based on wikipedia that there are more than 222 million Muslims in Indonesia (1988).

Less than 100 or maybe less than 1000 Muslims in Indonesia going nuts and start blow things up.

And they start screaming that Muslims are bad people? And Islam is not a good religion?

What happen with the rest of the Muslim in Indonesia? They are still more than 222 millions Muslims in Indonesia that live their normal live just like any other people in any countries? They don’t blow things up?

Doesn’t that count?

If I can found more than thousands white racist in USA, with the same logic as they use, can I say that all white people in America are racist?

Knock, knock

Is there any brain in your head?

There are many, many Muslims are against terrorism. Here are some of the voices from Muslims that against terrorism.

Warning: Excessive thinking may damage your brain.

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The title of this post may be funny, why, does somebody else says that muslim not allowed to sing?

This blog not about muslim or Islam, but when someone ask me about this in one of internet forum, it hit me.

Why someone else saying that singing is not allowed in Islam? They also bring a few hadiths to prove it.

After a few questions and search in google, I found out that there are muslim that believe that singing is not allowed, but there are others who believe that singing is allowed.

This is a good reading about singing in Islam, specially the last one about the word ‘Haram’.

We do have differences in Islam, just like Syah and Sunni, Muhammadiyah and NU. But after all, we all Muslim, we all brothers.

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