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Kautsar in English

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Is that really smiling get reward as same as handouts.

For people who are happy, pleasure, having good situation, Smiling is easy to do. Even they can laugh. 

For people who have many troubles, showing smile and nice expression is hard to do. May be they can smile. But their expression show insincerity, like hide something behind it. I also difficult to smile when bad situation come.

Islam teach us to control our expression be well. Rasul PUBH was a person who have the biggest problem.

The problem which is from the families until statehood, worldly problem and everything in it until afterlife, personal problem until entire who follow him, daily habbits, manner, until problem in the heart and the mind.

But Rasulullah PBUH, was a person who always make the nicest facial expression. Sayyidina Jabir Radhiallahu ‘anhu said,

مَا رَآنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مُنْذُ أَسلَمْتُ إِلَّا تَبَّسَم فِي وَجْهِي

“since I’ve converted to islam, Rasulullah PBUH never see me except he smile”

(From Shahih Bukhari no. 250)

Apparently, Smiling can change to better mood and more relax. Let’s practise with people around you. When get complicated and brewing situation, then you keep smile. You enlighten the mood.

The prophet Muhammad PBUH said,

لَا تَحْقِرَنَّ مِنَ الْمَعْرُوفِ شَيْئًا، وَلَوْ أَنْ تَلْقَى أَخَاكَ بِوَجْهٍ طَلْقٍ

Don’t you underestimate a little bit kindness. Despite just meet your brother with nice facial expression.

(Hadist from Muslim no. 2626)

Besides, smile is contagious. Let’s try... Please smile to every people what you meet.

What’s happen after that? Automatically we get it back from them. And it can fix their mood. So, Rasul PBUH said again

تَبَسُّمُكَ فِي وَجْهِ أَخِيكَ لَكَ صَدَقَةٌ

Your smile in front of your brother, be Charity for you.

(Sahih from Tirmidzi no 1956)

Smiling is Sunnah. It means recomendation activity from Rasulullah. If we practise it, we get reward and nearer to Rasulullah at afterlife. And thereby we get syafaa (help) from him.

By : @kautsarmuhammad

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Improving arabic with translate dua.

After learning about Nahwu sharaf (grammar of Arabic). We can practise it with analizing structure of sentences and getting meaning from the words.

There are 2 kinds of dua. Dua inside of worship and duas outside of worship. Duas inside of worship are like iftita, i'tidal, ruku, sujd, dua tashahud in shalah, or some duas when we do umrah and hajj.

The other are dua after shalah, and duas when we say before and after doing anything.

Firstly, The benefits to translate dua are make us more preoccupied in worship. For example in Shalah, we read Alfatiha and understand it, we get meaning of Shalah. Or we have Beautiful dua at sitting between two prostrations.

رب اغفرلي وارحمني واجبرني وارفعني وارزقني واهدني وعافني واعف عنّي

It seem ordinary if we don’t understand the meaning. After we translate it. It is like asking from you to Allah to make us be better.

Oh My lord, forgive me, have mercy on me, guide me, support me, protect me, provide for me and elevate me.

Secondly, understanding the dua, ease to connect among remark and mind. Because I have heard from ulama, if our dua is just done by tongue, isn’t animated by mind, Allah would not accept it. The dua is useless.

If we want to ask to Allah, we must ask truly, All out. Because anytime and anywhere we need Allah. Don’t face to Allah like drunk man.

Specially For improving our mufradaat, we must read the dua loudly and frequently. After that, Use the word in other sentences. We can experiment with the word,Like creating new sentences, translating the articles, or talking with the word.

Success to learn arabic.

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Why I get married early

For a man like me, most people say I get married early. Although I’m twenty four years old. Some reason explain that I have more time to achieve higher education, and better carrier. That seem I have good quality for contributing my environment.

When I consider the situation of my family, environment and society, and this era, marrying is the best decision for me. Why...

Ever a question come to me. “What the best option to you: Continuing your study in university, working or building business, or what?”

Honestly, I love studying, reading text book, analyzing data, posting my journal. But I feel the system like university inconvenient with my learning method. Until now, I always sleep, bored, and tired when following the learning system. Difficult focusing and accomplishing whole study. That’s big problem. I have been thinking, is Continuing study important to me. could give the contribution in future...

but I get another path to improve myself. I like the culture of startup company. Always learn from anything, Start from data to get costumer’s heart. Coordinate and create the goal by remote system. And the most important, this can support my finance and keep touch with my family.

In the past, I dreamed to wander. Until success I will back, and enjoy my old age in my village. Same like normal people. But my mother always leave a message before I go, “When fulfilled your necessary there, please go back quickly. Because our sustenance was guaranteed by the Lord.”

“I get my happiness when I always can look you, and I hope your happiness is same. The way that you want is endeavor. Every endeavor can you reach. But you could get it here too.. near me.” Her message made me contemplate, how to create my future, what I must get in this life. So, Nothing wrong for trying leave with my family.

Something unexpected when I stay in my village.

When I stayed with parent, I always be a son. I’m so grateful. I can dedicate for them totally. Being their assistant, helping their work, and being a listener when they tell.

But I must be a man, who have responsibility now and future. I must learn more. Learn searching and giving for environment.

When I measured about financial family, Alhamdulillah, Allah give it more than we need. I’m the last child, could be autonomous. The big parent’s burden is almost nothing. Just for their daily. Problably, It can support for next my life, wedding. 

My parent is so old, about sixty five more. So, at this old they are tired easily, weaker than before. I hoped they can see my next family, and give them daughter in law.

Solving Problem

Every life, every people, and every moment bring us the problem. My Parent, sisters, and brothers, each have family and each their problem. We always circle with own problem. For me, if I have not my autonomous life, automatically I’m taken by their circle problem.  

For experience, it’s not wrong. But I need more, living with own life, create the own decision, own rule, and own goal. I need it to grow and improve.

 The Society.

I was grew up not at systemic place like pesantren, but at random society, rural culture, homogenous mindset. Relationship among man and woman almost no have border. far from islamic principle. Entertainment and media share unethical post. So, marrying could protect it.

 Hijrah

I’ve heard a qoute from someone, “If you want change your habbit and life quickly, change your society, look for what support your aim.” So, I decided to marry, look for the BFF.

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This season’s Torjägerkanone goes to Aubameyang for scoring 31 Bundesliga goals!

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I created this podcast at the morning. For the next, I attempt to continue at this time too. Everyone want to have the quality of life, such as more productive, able to create masterpiece, and getting quality time for his family. How to get and create it? Let listen this podcast.. Thank you. :)

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Persuing Money or Upgrading the skill

This is my worry now.. Among chasing money, or upgrading my skill. My aim is happy with my family and the job passionating for me. Family is number one. My carrier is just a tool to make happy. But it is not easy to create ideal condition. Seeking money is a responsible. Building good family need money. I attempt to manage my mind to get how and what should to do. Have You same worrying as me? 

 Check this podcast. Thanks for listening.

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Awkward was assumed Arrogant

Several days ago, there was Launching programs in my office. All of directors and Owner came and gathered. For they who have met before, the moment became reuniting and familiarizing. For people who are new comer like me, the moment is so useful to add networking.

Because I were new comer, I were attacked by tiny disease –awkward to meet and start speaking and create networking. Actually, the awkward came from underestimate to myself. Because I seldom have hanged out with the high officials. I have still though I’m different level with them. I still though Not good if I attempt joining and talking with them. It will a big trouble.

When I were controlling my partner’s stuff, suddently came a Director who is our partner. He came out from his car and came to front of me. I didn’t understand. Why I just frozen stiff and stared him. I said In my mind I hope he knows me and says hello.

My boss came from behind to meet him. When they shake their hands, my boss reintroduced me. “Sir, he is Kautsar. You still know him, don’t it?”

“Oh, Kautsar who has come to my home, and trained my staff, right? You seem arrogant.”  

This was first time I got criticism about my personality form high official. It was like getting spank. Pain and make me concious to change my character.

I realized it was wrong. As a host, I ought give him privilage, accepting and engaging him. I behave wrong way. Keep my awkward at mistaken position. Moreover he is old man. Evidently. Awkwardness can show vanity.

When I was a student, I succeed to throw the disease. Encountering lectures, bureaucrats, and high officials of university, made relation closely. I came, delivered a program to them, asked the input and help, it was ordinariness.  

This skill, is like work of muscles. If long time haven’t been training, it wanes slowly. Same with the skill: Negotiating, presentating, conventing the costumers and partners.

Maybe the suggestion for myself, when I will be a new comer again. for starting, I attempt to chitchat with them for breaking the situation. And then, I must try to talk important thing, make closing and dealing. After that, I learn to follow up, and keep in touch, share the positive information.

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Because Money

This month, I feel worried about my life. I worry with my finance, carrier, status of society. The worried come suddently dan spontantly. Something never I get. Maybe it is from outside.

Actually, I have gotten engaged since 2 years ago. I am recognized with different culture, but I like their culture.. they have more knowledge of islam. This is my culture dream.

My fiancee is third from five children. She has old sisters. Their husbands are ustad –who understand islam deeply, teach and persuade to people to know islamic way.

Maybe my worried come from here. Unconsciously, I have compared my life with them, husbands of my fiancee’s sister. They are ustad, They have leverage to society. Because in Acheh, ustad will public figure.

Sometimes, I feel (I hope it just my feeling) they expact to me more, but it will not be happen. They like politics, but me not. no similar at willness of politics I think it will be gap.

I hope it just whisper from Devils. Because I don’t know them more. What I thinking is different, probably.

Now, I passionate to create digital contents. Such as copywriting, editing pictures, making website, and learning online marketing. In Acheh haven’t good ecosystem to get more enthusiastic. Or I don’t join yet the group frequently.

My family look me like no have serious job. They always connect me at estabilished job, such as working at office, having time to work, and get constant salary. I hope too, but the real is not like that. I want to get estabilished job and I passionate there.

So, learning marketing online, and creating digital content don’t get money yet. I just to learn. I learn english to create contents and learn arabic to read islamic contents. no making money with it.

But, I will marry at september. I need money. Perhaps, this mindset distract and confussing me. I feel worry with my future. Something which no need to think but it came to my brain.

The next problem, I hardly consentrate to learn something. Anything can distrubt my focus easily. When I want to writing, lost my idea and enthusiasm, when I want to create podcast, i feel lazy... oh meeen. The end, something come and whisper ‘hey.. How about your carrier.

This night, I get hint to solve it. The words from R. Kiyosaki inspire me. It change my mind.

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Two youngsters with Quran

Fatih Sefaragic (@therealfatih), a youngster, 22 years old, lives in texas USA. He memorized Qoran perfectly since 12 years old. Subhanallah. Say Happy birthday for him, because March 1st is his birthday.

I know, to memorize Quran and to keep it is not easy. We must search condusive zone supporting the activity. Texas is not moslem area. And common american lifestyles can erase the memory of Qoran quickly. But Fatih can resolve the problem.

After he has finished memorizing Qoran, He has continued learning islamic study, has met frequently with Syeikh, his teacher and mentor. At the daily, he hasn’t joined and hanged out with his friends. He has focused learning Quran and Islam and teached people about it. He has choosing different way and not same with mainstream youngsters.

Similar approach with Muzammil Hasballah (@muzammilhb), from Indonesia. he’s 24 years old. I and he is from same city, Pidie-Aceh, but different school. He has chosen to not interact more with his friends. He has focused learning Quran, speech, joining competition, and something making achievement. And then he has shared his experience to others.

Muzammil hasn’t friends to dally, no making relation with many people. But he is famous untill now, because he used childish tiredly to take achivement, and made his parent proud to him.

We can learn more from their achievement, from their struggle.

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Behind Him

I often admire someone. He has achieved what I dream and I need. He has struggled and shared his experience. He has inspired me and people knowing him. He master his expertise deeply. When I admire my friend mastering English and Arabic, he can speak good accent and write grammarly. I admire the one build startup and know more about marketing. I is so expert there. I’ve known he learn more. He read, consult, ask, disipline, and share more and more. Mastering can be achieved quickly by teacher and guider. It’s more effective than autodidactly. I remind my teacher’s qoute “all of a day with the master is better than 1000 books.” Because we can ask his knowledge adn experience deeply. We can observe his habbit, coursety, straggle, and what his next dream. How he organize the partner and people surround him. He has been creating the ecosystem. It is certainly better than books. Sometimes don’t have time to read. You admire peole, you must learn the behind.

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10 Podcasts

Yeah, I succeeded to finish a quarter my challenge #40P60D, make 10 Podcasts. It’s not easy to consist. But I must appreciate myself. The time remains 28 days again. I need more energy.

I started to make the first podcast and posted it in 1 month ago. There were with the random topic and bad vocal. Until the third day I succeed posting regularly. But when I moved to another city because a job, the enthusiastic is down. I lost my time to make it again.

Something I had time to make it. But I got the bad situation and didn’t have Idea. So, I looked the case near me, wrote at my note. Looked for a quiet place, and made it again. Until now I get 10 podcasts. Yeah.

My aim creating the challenges is for improving my English quickly. This will make awkward, shame, underestimating myself to go away.

Creating Podcasts was helped by several apps: Trello, The app ease in sorting the task what to do, doing, and done.  Each card what we add and move to another list. Then can add describe, activity, comment and share to partners.

Besides, I use Smart recorder (for recording), audacity (for editing audio).

The ten podcasts have used random topics. But I have often mentioned about improving English, joining a community, creating the podcast, and watching the movie. You can listen it here.

10.      Don’t be Lazy 9.        Reading-Writing Reading-Speaking 8.        Haters 7.        Islamic way 6.       Community 5.       Carrier or family 4.       Make Discussion to be real 3.       Alone 2.       Grammar Nazi 1.       Improve your English

Opening : 40 Podcasts in 60 Days

I still have 28 days left to finish this challenge. For next episodes, I will take up about Islam, marketing, and building startup or company.

Beside I still learn to be obedient Moslem, I will discuss it because Islam has more valuable than Islamophobia call. I will tell what really Islam teaching.

For Marketing and building startup, I have more interesting to study deeply.

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With Writing

With writing, I can explain my restlessness. Anything will be happen in my life. Anything could into my mind. Sometime it is good, else will be useless. When I have gotten uncomfortable condition, which haven’t ought done, my mind have grumbling. Have Felt crowded in the brain. With writing, help me to throw it and move it to other media. To create and memorize my journey. I record my journey of life by writing story. I like to plan my life. I create target and the way to achieve it. For example, If I wanna be a enterpreneur. I would make the steps: first until seventh. Normally, at each step have problem. I try to solve it. And then, I’m interest to share the experience. Probably, the experience will be suggestion, tips, and lesson for other people. Keep my ideas. Ideas come and go suddently. If I’m getting inspiration now, perhaps at next time I willn’t get it entirely or will be vanished. So, the best way to keep it is writing. I don’t write whole, but enough the key words and make line to connect the dot. Because this is temporary. When I have a long time. I write detail, and post at tumblr. To persuade for good things. Person will be dead and the words will be immortal. So, I write with my words kindness, truth, and persuade people during I still alive. The life is shorter. Living by good words would have the good expression for arround. To correct my words. When writing I can look back what I do. The words were correct or not. Therefore, I edit it and choose the right words to explain. This train me to control my words. And thinking more before saying.

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With Writing

With writing, I can explain my restlessness. Anything will be happen in my life. Anything could into my mind. Sometime it is good, else will be useless. When I have gotten uncomfortable condition, which haven’t ought done, my mind have grumbling. Have Felt crowded in the brain. With writing, help me to throw it and move it to other media. To create and memorize my journey. I record my journey of life by writing story. I like to plan my life. I create target and the way to achieve it. For example, If I wanna be a enterpreneur. I would make the steps: first until seventh. Normally, at each step have problem. I try to solve it. And then, I’m interest to share the experience. Probably, the experience will be suggestion, tips, and lesson for other people. Keep my ideas. Ideas come and go suddently. If I’m getting inspiration now, perhaps at next time I willn’t get it entirely or will be vanished. So, the best way to keep it is writing. I don’t write whole, but enough the key words and make line to connect the dot. Because this is temporary. When I have a long time. I write detail, and post at tumblr. To persuade for good things. Person will be dead and the words will be immortal. So, I write with my words kindness, truth, and persuade people during I still alive. The life is shorter. Living by good words would have the good expression for arround. To correct my words. When writing I can look back what I do. The words were correct or not. Therefore, I edit it and choose the right words to explain. This train me to control my words. And thinking more before saying.

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#40P60D Callenge

For improving my english, I need to practise more. So tiny people in Indonesia speak english. Probably english just for tranger or foreigner visiting our city, for students want get scholarship, or the people who often go abroad.

Common people speak bahasa everyday. But I usually speak Acehnese, local language. Because my family, my friends, my surround speak Aceh in Aceh province. So, I practise my english at comunity, english club.

Futhermore, I create challenge to speak frequently. Make quantity first, then go quality up. Base of language is for communication. Just make to understand among speaker and listener. So, practising frequently purpose to throw vocabularies up. When I feel bad result, I need to learn, read, listen, and watch english contents more.

So, I create 40podcasts in 60days challenges , or #40P60D for short calling. Each eposides I tell different topic. Maybe I tell about hot issue, personality, my experience, story, ect. My speaking still bad, I’m sorry. It’s amateur. So, if you are patient, and listen well. Thank you very much. I hope you give feed back.

There are Podcast which I did:

4.       Make Discussion to be real 3.       Alone 2.       Grammar Nazi 1.       Improve your English Opening : 40 Podcasts in 60 Days

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5 love of Languages

How do you comunicate your love with someone or something. I mean it for general love, not only the couple. It’s like for God, Prophet, Parent, friends, soulmate, teacher, leader, etc.

I try to create 5 types to comunicate.  You can make priority what firstly to do. And then you explain your reason.

For me, the priorities are:

Act of service,

On my definition, love is about action, althought less words. At first, I valuate anything with action. Everyone can speak well and sweetly. But for action is different. I able to describe love with act of service is like The sun give its light to polar system without hoping to get back.

Quality time.

I can’t lie, When I love something, I expand my time more to what I love.  You can look this pattern for the others. I love my family, expand my time to them. Although I far from them, I speak on phone. Must to reflect, if we love our God, we must expand our mind and soul for reminding the God, insane anything to Him.

Gift

My experience, if we give something useful dan valuable for someone, they feel happy, exactly. I give a part my salary for mother. She is so proud. Whereas She have more than I give.

Words of affirmation.

For me, this includes on act of service. I like act then talk.

Physical Touch

I make limitation for it. I dislike do for girls, except for my wife and moehrem (anyone can’t marry with her, such as mother, sister, daughter, grandma etc)

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I Share this podcast because it is be my documentation, how prosess to improve my english.

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Resolution and Evaluation: Thank you 2016 & Welcome 2017

Many moments went on 2016. I started 2016  with several targets. I wrote at a paper and my tumblr to remind me at every months. Four priorities which I wrote to do:

Only 4 things, evidently it is not easy. There are new temptation and new responsibility which make targets of 2016 unperfectly.

1. Memorize Qoran until  7 juz, When I got the pattern consistenly, memorize Qoran became enjoyable. But my life was not flat. I have lost my memory of Qoran. It made me lazy, lost my time for Qoran because other activities. until I understood, securing what I have was more important than adding next memories. So, I failed to reach 7 juz

2. Score toefl 550, Started from 450 at December 2015, I wanted to reach 550 at this year. Until now, I never prediction test again. May be, I must start focusly during 3 month.

3. Married, Be married is God willness. This year be failure because I prioritate for my parent.  They went to mecca to do hajj. Then, The girl’s family is not ready in this year. So, I hope in next year will be real.

4. Writing 1 book, It is for motivating me to write consistently.  I write on my tumblr with good topics. And then I can publish it be a book. But, it is not be real.

Every target, must focus, make agenda and schedule detail. Every month at 2016, I evaluated the targets. Why they was be failure. Untill I realized that reach the targets need willpower and passion.

So, these are pictures which I created making targets.

I created it to make focus and to find a guide.

 It is the targets what breaked out from my head

 And this must finish on 2016.

At 2017, I will create resolution with some catagories. Because, I can’t reach a target and lost others.  It complete each other. So, I create 4 catagories: Worship, Skill, Finance & Career, And Creation. The top target is priority.

Worship

1) Finishing Al-Ekhlas Zikr, It have been my obligatory to finish it. 2) Adding memory untill 2 juz of AlQoran. 3) Memorizing and practising Duas. 4) Marrying

 Skill

1) Get toefl 550. It is for upgrading my english skill, not for applying scholarship and next college. But if I get information about suitable college for me. I will try. Like Marketing study on UK, USA or NZ, no problem. 2) Muhaddasah of Arabic. 3) Duplicate arabic & English Speaking ecosystem to another place.

 Finance & Career

1) marketing Online, it is important to figure out demand in internet. 2)building startup. If I get team. I will build it.

 Creation

1) 10podcast: Kauchitchat in english, tanggal 5 in Bahasa. 2) 1book