A journey to the centre of qiblat- The flight

Well, greetings.

Not writing for long time makes me feel lack-of-mind. It is really great to share something right just on my mind. In this article, I'd like to share my great journey as Allah's embassy to the holy land.

It is such a very precious opportunity for me to join my parents to go to the holy land. Really, not everybody could go right there. Yeah, it really needs the calling right from your heart by Allah. Many people that has a lot of money couldn't just get theirself in the holy land. Yet, they haven't had their heart knocked by Allah. But the people with just barely enough and no more material spend their time to go to the holy land just in case to get Allah's ridho.

It was back in March 12th in the very early morning, i was woken up to get prepared for leaving. The very early morning here means a morning with still no sun risen up. 5 a.m I supposed. And that is not the right time to me for wakung up. As I struggled to get some consciousness, I went to the bathroom, took a shower, then i was well prepared.

Everything was prepared. It was 6 in the morning. We went to the airport, Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport. We departed to Jakarta at 9 am and arrived at 10 am. Actually, it takes 2 hours by plane to get to Jakarta, just only Jakarta is 1 hour behind Makassar.

At Jakarta, we had kinda like a briefing there. We gathered together with jama'ah from Maluku and Jakarta. We were having a briefing inside a hotel at the airport, having lunch, then wait for the next flight to Abu dhabi.

After waiting for several hours, we went to the waiting room, for another waiting. Just only, we waited not much long on the waiting room, compared with waiting on the transit hotel. Great! It was truly a waiting day for me, for the jama'ah umroh.

That was my longest trip using an aeroplane. I flied for 10 hours from Jakarta to Abu Dhabi. Fortunately, we flied with a very nice plane. We got great services, and the playlist, yeah, it is all my fave. Jamie cullum, kenny g, Jason Mraz, and many more.

Arrived at Abu Dhabi, I never considered it as a long long walking from the arrival spot to the waiting room for the next flight to Jeddah. It is a very big airport they had. Perhaps it is 10 times bigger than the Hasanuddin airport in Indonesia.

The airport has a good waiting room. We really were convenienced as the waiting room has its comfy chairs. The seats are really just like at the beach, so you could just lay yourself to have some rest there.

After waiting for not too long, we departed from Abu dhabi to Jeddah, King Abdul Aziz airport. It took two and a half hours flied on the middle-east sky straight to Jeddah. Still, with the same plane, it had great services right up there.

Jeddah. It was one of the biggest city that Saudi Arabia had. Walked out from the plane using stairs, I heard the I-don't-know-for-sure-what-it-is shouting at me. He is kinda bit like the airport officer, trying to inform me not taking too much time near the plane and get in the bus, since the bus will bring you right to the airport.

The act of the officer totally surprised me. I mean, come on, I am your guest here, came from far away, taking a plane for almost a day, than your first expression is shouting at me?! Great! Thank you!

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can't be found with your five senses, u just can feel it

Assalamu alaikum.

Waah, beberapa bulan berusaha menulis tentang apa yang ada dalam kepalaku, bukan tentang tengkorak, otak dan semua organ yang ada di kepala, mungkin lebih tepat disebut dengan nama benak atau pikiran, dan baru kali ini dapat terealisasi setelah berusaha belajar bagaimana menulis dengan sebenar-benarnya benar. Insya Allah.

Well, hal-hal seperti itu, pikiran, benak, jiwa, hati, hal-hal yang tak dapat langsung dimasukkan dalam nalar, karena tak dapat dilihat, tak dapat dicium, tak dapat diraba, tak dapat didengar, tapi dapat dirasakan.

Sama seperti dengan udara, udara tidak terlihat, tak dapat disentuh, tak dapat didengar, tapi kau dapat merasakannya, merasakan keberadaan dari udara itu. Kau dapat merasakannya dari angin, udara yang bergerak, atau dengan menghirup udara ke dalam rongga dadamu yang akan membesar dengan menghirupnya sebanyak mungkin.

Demikian juga dengan pikiran, dan hati yang ada pada manusia.

Yah, dengan akalmu, kau dapat menggambar hal-hal luar biasa di dalamnya, kau menghafal bentuk suatu hal, menyimpannya dalam ingatanmu dan mengembangkannya dalam pikiranmu. Ingatan menangkap semua yang dapat dilihat, didengar, disentuh, dicium, semua yang dapat diterima kelima indera, semua hal yang nyata, semua hal yang 'masuk akal'. Lalu mengembangkannya dengan akalmu.  Dan seperti itulah sifat dari suatu pikiran, benak, atau dalam bahasa arab disebut, akal.

Seperti dengan pikiran, dan udara. Hati tak dilihat dengan matamu, tak dapat didengar dengan telingamu, tak dapat dicium dengan hidungmu, tak dapat disentuh oleh kulitmu, tak dapat ditahu rasanya oleh lidahmu. Bahkan, letaknya pun tidak dapat diketahui dan kita tidak bercerita tentang organ hati yang dapat menetralkan beberap jenis racun, tentu saja.

Sekelompok rusa akan berusaha menyelamatkan diri mereka sendiri jika melihat predator berusaha memburu salah satu dari mereka. Rusa itu akan melonpat menyebar tanpa memikirkan satu sama lain jika melihat ancaman agar mereka tetap hidup. Sekelompok manusia jika mendapati diri mereka dalam ancaman, biasanya, mereka akan saling bantu membantu dalam mengatasi ancaman tersebut, bahkan salah satu dari mereka pun rela berkorban untuk mengatasi suatu ancaman itu sendiri untuk kepentingan yang lainnya.

Disitulah peran hati nurani dari seorang manusia. Hati nurani seorang manusia memiliki rasa kasih, sayang, cinta terhadap sesama, terhadap apa yang dihadapi dan dialaminya. Hal-hal ini yang membedakan kita dari makhluk lain ciptaan Allah yang lain.

Hati nurani dan akal memiliki sifat yang bertolak belakang. Akal hanya memerintahkanmu melakukan sesuatu yang logis. Hati nurani memerintahkanmu melakukan sesuatu yang benar, walaupun itu tidak masuk akal.

Kita hanya butuh untuk menyeimbangkannya dalam semua kegiatan kita sehari-hari. Karena tidak semua hal dapat diselesaikan dengan logika. Jangan terlalu menuruti ego akalmu. Kadang kita harus mendengarkan kata hati nurani kita. Karena hal yang ada dalm hati nurani adalah perantaramu dengan Allah.

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intro

Bismillahirrahmanirrahiim

Assalamu alaikum wr. Wb.

Greetings,

My name is Achmad Fauzan Madjid,

I loves to play basketball, to play musics, any musics, and really loves to go travelling.

I had just graduated from Electrical Engineering, Hasanuddin University. And that was my thoughest years I had on my life at all. So many things happened on me there. College really changed me a lot. Thank you UNHAS, for making my day-even not much beautiful-feels different. Not much beautiful of course, the beautiful day I had was in the high school. I am sure most of the people would say so.

I have a curiosity on things that really weird. And most of the weird things i know, came from the history, people's imagination(what i mean here came from books and films..), and any folk tales that been told by the elders.(as you should know, most of Indonesian likes to talk about that; magic, sorcerer, ghosts, etc). I dont know how I really get stucked up with things like this. But I like it.

I'd like to thanks to Flo, thank u R,, for helping me to make this blog(i really have no idea what the blog really is, you really help much ^_^).

Just for intro, i'd like you to know that this blog is made to write any information i got. Anything about my major,music,basketball, experiences, knowledge, naked science, and any other weird thing i had. So I hope this blog could be useful for me, and for all the readers itself.

I thought that's all for my introduction. Anyway,this is the first time I write a blog. Sorry for any writing errors I had.(you know,, practice makes perfect. Hahaa). Don't forget to leave comments on any entries I post.

Gracias..

F.M.

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