If We Should Protect Children Because They Are Vunerable, This Means You Would Protect Cruel Children

"Jika Allah berkehendak, Dia Mahakuasa untuk menciptakan semesta sekejap saja", tulis Imam Al Qurthubi, "namun Allah mengajarkan hamba-Nya tentang kelembutan dan ketelitian pada segala hal..."

Okay that's deep :)

Sang Nabi ﷺ Pun Berproses

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Salah satu inspirasi terbesar kehidupan Rasulullah ﷺ yang relate dengan semua orang adalah: betapa pentingnya sebuah proses.

Syaikh Hasan Diddou menyampaikan, "bahwa salah satu tiang yang menyangga kesuksesan Rasul ﷺ adalah At Tadarruj Al Marhaliyah", maknanya: berlevel dan berproses.

Baginda Rasul ﷺ menjadi manusia besar yang dipilih jadi utusan Allah tentu bukan dengan persiapan yang serba tiba-tiba.

Masa kecil dan remaja beliau menunjukkan pada kita semua bahwa Nabi ﷺ benar-benar dididik oleh Allah untuk jadi manusia yang kuat fisik dan mentalnya. Beliau ﷺ telah menjadi yatim sejak kecil, sang ibu wafat saat usianya 6 tahun, disusul sang kakek yang berpulang saat beliau 8 tahun.

Baginda Nabi muda telah bekerja mandiri sejak usia beliau 15 tahun, menggembala domba: yang ternyata hikmahnya pun luarbiasa.

Setidaknya, kata Ibnu Hajar Al Asqalani, Rasul muda dididik Allah sebagai penggembala domba dengan hikmah istimewa: agar terbiasa dengan kesepian, supaya memiliki sifat yang rendah hati, dan punya gambaran bagaimana cara memanajemen.

Rasul menjadi manusia hebat dengan proses.

Aku pun ingin bertanya padamu: bukankah Allah Mahakuasa untuk memenangkan Nabi Muhammad ﷺ 1 hari saja setelah beliau diutus menjadi Rasul ﷺ?

Ya, Allah Mahakuasa atas itu. Namun dengan hikmah luarbiasa, kita disuguhkan kisah perjuangan Nabi yang 23 tahun; panjang dan penuh tantangan.

Agar umatnya tahu bahwa berproses adalah cara kita mengimani sunnatullah. Allah adalah Rabb yang Mahabijaksana, Al Hakim. Dia menetapkan sebuah sistem dimana siapapun yang ingin berjaya; janganlah ia nafikan proses.

Bahkan, kau tahu kan? Langit dan bumi diciptakan dalam 6 masa.

"Jika Allah berkehendak, Dia Mahakuasa untuk menciptakan semesta sekejap saja", tulis Imam Al Qurthubi, "namun Allah mengajarkan hamba-Nya tentang kelembutan dan ketelitian pada segala hal..."

Maka, kawan, hargailah proses. Di situ sabar dan syukurmu terasa sangat bermakna.

Bekasi, 25 Januari 2023

Surah Yusuf is so beautiful. It teaches us the closest people can betray you, broken hearts can be healed with love, ease comes after hardship, being sad doesn't equal being ungrateful, and people of patience have beautiful endings.

Subhan'Allah

This indeed make my fickle determination strengthened :))

Abū ‘Imrān al-Jūnī:

“Whoever loves that his heart is enlightened for him then let him eat less.”

‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin Dāwūd:

“Eating a little aids in hastening towards doing good (deeds).”

Al-Hasan al-Basrī:

“Subhān Allāh! Does a Muslim eat until he cannot eat anymore?!”

Sufyān ath-Thawrī:

“If you want your body to be correct then sleep and eat less.”

[Jāmi’ al-‘Ulūm wal-Hikam (v. 2 p. 472)]

Al-Hasan al-Basrī:

“O' son of Ādam! Eat in ⅓ of your stomach, drink in ⅓ and leave ⅓ for breathing.”

[Jāmi’ al-‘Ulūm wal-Hikam (v. 2 p. 469)]

‘Amr bin al-Aswad used to leave a lot from his fill of food out of fear from it showing on his stomach.

‎‘Abdullaah ibn ‘Umar رضي الله عنهما:

‎“I have not eaten my fill of food since I embraced Islaam.”

[Jāmi’ al-‘Ulūm wal-Hikam (v. 2 p. 470)]

‘Amr bin Qays:

“Beware of (filling) the stomach for verily it hardens the heart.”

Salamah bin Sa’īd:

“Indeed a person would be rebuked for his stomach just like he was for his sins.”

Some of the scholars said:

“If you have a stomach then prepare yourself for some time until it reduces.”

Some of the scholars said:

“If you have a stomach then prepare yourself for some time until it reduces.”

[Jāmi’ al-‘Ulūm wal-Hikam (v. 2 p. 471)]

‎Ibn Rajab:

‎“Indeed the Prophet ﷺ and his companions used to remain hungry a lot.”

‎[Jāmi’ al-‘Ulūm wal-Hikam (v. 2 p. 475)]

TW for canon typical invincible violence but Me when bad dads and Adrienne lenker

I don't like it about Beverly either and Miriam Lass is actually Clarice too. And I hate the fact that the show make Hannibal like unstoppable, he got caught only because he let the police catch him because Will reject him. It's felt abdurd to me. They show us that police in there is stupid.

And I like the book one it's show that Will is smart enough to catch Hannibal despite him got stabbed. Both of them actually.

It’s a well worn trope at this point: a woman, her gun, and the killer. There’s nothing wrong with that, really - but how a thing is done matters as much as what is done.

So let’s compare and contrast. Beverly’s discovery of Hannibal’s nightmare basement is a clear homage to Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs. But there are a few important differences.

I think people forget that the situation in Silence of the Lambs was out of Starling’s control. She didn’t run in half-cocked trying to cowboy her way into a serial killer’s den - she shows up to ask him routine questions and he runs off. Her choices make sense in context. She has to pursue him, both as an officer of the law and because she knows the clock is ticking on Catherine Martin’s life. So she does, and she emerges a triumphant hero. She descends into hell and walks right back out again. 

On Hannibal, however, Beverly Katz is not behaving in a way that makes sense. Katz - who has been shown to be both brilliant and level-headed - goes to a suspected serial killer’s house in the middle of the night, by herself, and breaks in. She doesn’t tell anyone where she’s going. She dies trying to get evidence that she couldn’t even use because it was obtained illegally. 

It’s absurd. Are we really to believe that rational, calm Beverly Katz would behave like this? It disrespects both the intelligence of the character and of the audience. 

The saddest thing is that Katz could have easily been Hannibal’s Clarice Starling. She was the perfect candidate to take Hannibal Lecter down - uninvolved in his bullshit, clear-eyed, and formidable. Instead her arc has been cut off right as it was getting good. She was thrown away for a cheap shock that wasn’t actually a shock at all. What a waste.

Selamat tahun baru!

Kita akan meringis begitu kita tahu; di antara sorak sorai orang-orang berpesta menyambut 2023 itu, semuanya punya kemungkinan di tahun itulah perjalanan hidupnya akan berakhir.

Tapi kita semua juga tahu bahwa ada banyak kemungkinan-kemungkinan baik dan harapan tersemai di tangga waktu yang baru ini.

Berbahagialah mereka yang cerdas memuhasabahi dirinya; harap dan cemas beriringan hadir dalam hatinya, membuatnya optimis sekaligus siaga.

Jika kelak dianugerahi kesuksesan yang didamba, bersyukurlah kita barangkali tahun ini adalah waktu paling tepat setelah kita minta pada-Nya sejak lama. Allah pilihkan timeline paling pas.

Jika hari ke depan kita ada di "bawah", ketahuilah; at your lowest, you realize a lot.

Bekasi, 1 Januari 2023

Ranking of Kings punny names

Ok ok last post I’m making about Ranking of Kings.

I know lots of people picked up on Bosse and Hiling, but I just want y’all to know I see almost every single name as a pun:

Bojji. “bocchi” refers to someone who is alone

Kage. Literally means shadow

Bosse. Boss

Hiling. Healing

Daida. “dai” and “da” can both be written with the character for big. Possibly referencing he is son of Bosse, or the wishes for him to be king.

Miranjo. “Mira no jo”. Woman of the mirror

Bebin. “Hebi” means snake. And “He” with a tenten reads “Be”

Apeas. “Su-pi-a” (spear) backwards

Dorshe. “Shi-ru-do” (shield) backwards

Desuha & Despa. “Desu” is death. That’s all I got. “Ha” with a maru reads “Pa” so their names do look visually similar.

Ouken. “Ou” is king. “Ken” is sword.

Hokuro. Literally mole, like the one on his face.

Domas. Ok this one I was genuinely stumped but I’ve read someone interpreted it as “dumbass” and I love that.

Idk some of these might be a stretch? But I love overthinking pun names.

What pleases u in bed?

sleep