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Tulisan ini terinspirasi dari judul buku karya robert flaceliere yakni "Daily Life in Greece at the Time of Pericles". Begitu menarik dan tidak biasa. Sejarawan biasa menelusuri tentang peperangan, pergolakan, gerakan ideologis, atau mengungkap biografi pemeran yg muncul pada preistiwa-peristiwa penting di masa lalu. Tapi judul buku ini seakan2 hanya bercerita bagaimana seorang tokoh atau sebuah keluarga menjalani pagi hari yang cerah di athena, atau menu makan siang mereka, jenis2 hiburan, atau kehidupan religius para penduduk di suatu zaman keemasan, era pericles, alih alih menjanjikan hal hal di atas (kisah sengitnya pertarungan antar dua kubu, review senjata dan strategi perang, dsb). Judul tersebut menyadarkanku kalau sejarah itu tidak terbatas pada kejadian2 luar biasa saja..  tetapi mencakup seluruh peristiwa yang terjadi di masa lampau (termasuk merk kopi atau teh yang diminum oleh para pelakunya waktu itu). Ya, kisah dunia bukan hanya soal kudeta...

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Indeed, according to a study in 2010 , Harvard Business School survey of happiness in 136 countries found that people who are altruistic—in this case, people who were generous financially, such as with charitable donations—were happiest overall. And in fact, we had never found someone became stressed or even frustrated and poor because of doing charity. (happify.com) Even The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, ❝Charity does not in any way decrease the wealth and the servant who forgives Allah adds to his respect, and the one who shows humility Allah elevates him in the estimation (of the people).❞ [Sahih Muslim]

What is the value of a piece of date to you? For some people, a piece of date might only means 66.5 calories to fulfil their daily calorie need. But in Islam a piece of date is valued much more than that! How could it be? . The Messenger (ﷺ) said with regards to the charity that is given generally: .  فَاتَّقُوا النَّارَ وَلَوْ بِشِقِّ تَمْرَةٍ (‏رواه مسلم) . “And save yourselves from the hell fire even if it be with the piece of a date.” (Muslim) Meaning: giving it as a charity. it is a small charity but if it is given correctly with a good intention and a sincere heart for the sake of Allāh (سبحانه و تعالى), it could save the one who gives it from the hell-fire. . Indeed the giving of charity from ones pure wealth and from ones halāl earnings in the cause of Allāh (سبحانه و تعالى), is from the most excellent and the most virtuous of all the acts of worship. For indeed, just as there is ibādah of the limbs when you stand in prayer, or you help your mother with the ...

Giving has always brought out the best in people. No one in the history has become a poor after helping or supporting the society. James Bender, in his book How to Talk Well(New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1994) relates the story of a farmer who grew award-winning corn. Each year he entered his corn in the state fair where it won a blue ribbon. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. "How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked. "Why sir," said the farmer, "didn't you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I mu...

Welcome to the month of Dhul-Hijjah 1439H Praise be to Allah Who has created Time and has made some times like months or days and nights better than others, when rewards are multiplied many times, as a mercy towards His slaves. Imagine, you find a SALE with crazy price of your favorite stuff in a store, and you know that it rarely happens. But you also know that it lasts only for an hour while the store limits the number of the stuff you've been looking for. What are you gonna do? It's very little chance that you're gonna ignore that sale, isn't it? So what are we gonna do knowing that we are entering the month of Dhul-Hijjah, one of four sacred months in islam in which Rewards are multiplied for people who collect good deeds at the moment? Absolutely as a Muslim we would make sure that we don't miss any of these important occasion, because time is passing quickly. And among the special seasons of worship are the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah, whic...

Dalam bab yang berjudul “Pengertian Ushul Fiqh Ditinjau dari Kosakatanya” (pardon my translation) pada syarah waraqat yang membahas tentang ushul fiqh, kita bisa menemukan kalimat penulis matan yang menjelaskan apa makna dari “Ushul” dan juga “Fiqh” ditambah dengan bonus penjelasan tentang makna dari kata “Al Far’u” yang bahkan tidak kita dengar sebelumnya dari judul bab tersebut. Ushul : Sesuatu yang selainnya terbangun di atasnya a.k.a. Dasar / Pondasi Far’u : Sesuatu yang dibangun di atas selainnya a.k.a. Cabang Fiqh : - Pemahaman (secara bahasa)             - Mengetahui hukum syariah melalui          ijtihad (secara istilah) Kemudian pensyarah menjelaskan kenapa penulis matan menjelaskan makna ‘Far’u’ padahal ia sama sekali tidak terdapat pada ungkapan “ushul fiqh”... beliau berkata “Karena far’u (cabang) adalah lawan dari Ashl (Dasar), dan segala sesuatu itu akan terang benderang atau lebih dipahami jika disebut...

$1 might get you a can of coke in the US, a cone of ice cream in Croatia, or a sausage roll in Australia. But in developing countries, $1 goes further than that. For instance, in Indonesia, $40 could feed a family for a month, it means $1.5 per day! . That's very small amount compared to the US per capita expenditure a day. So you might want to try to have coke diet days and help many people with the dollars you've saved. It may only mean a sugar free days or a decrease in the risk of obesity to you, but for the needy, it would be a meaningful relief. . And as we've been taught, there's no insignificant deed in Islam Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to Allah is the most regular and constant even if it were little.” Al-Bukhari So, Small things aren't small at all in the Islamic point of view. In fact, it's bigger than ...