By The end of the year

Guys..

This year will be immediately ended, just in the next couple weeks we will enter New Year, it means we will face new episode to arrange new steps in our life, evaluating our previous targets and drawing new ones for the upcoming year.

You know, I’m often disturbed by the changes of the years, coz I think time goes faster then I hope. William James said that the anxiety to face the speed up of time is related to age, the older we are then the worrier we will be. May be it could be right but for me my anxiety and my sadness is because so many targets have been drawn hasn’t been finished or hasn’t been realized yet. Every years I often left kind of ‘bad result’ in the year peak.

This year is not extremely different from the previous year. I didn’t do good work with my targets. Consequently many targets even never been done like recitation of qur’an that I targeted (1) one Juz for a year (no result at all), also improvement of my carrier seems to be stuck in its place. what a sad..:(.

but besides of that bad news, there are some good news. one of my targets [and it’s the greatest one] I can achieve this year is GETTING MARRIED. Alhamdulillah I’m doing well with this target. ;). also some good activities that either I did or I pioneered this year, such as :

- Al Balagh – it’s a great experience to be a mentor in Al Azhar Islamic School for 3 months.
- Britzone English Speaking Club - I just join this group for around 3 months but now I become one of the Committee members.
- Private teacher - this year I became a private teacher for 3rd grade students of elementary school for all lessons, especially Reading Qur’an but just lasted for 4 months and I gave up because I couldn’t even influence him to ‘be with me’ (he is very undisciplined child).
- Volunteer Teacher at La Tansa – still going on and I allocate my time to be more active in attendance.

the bad news is that this year I left some of my activities I was dealing with in the previous year, like Gamada and Team Solid DIKLAT DT, actually it’s not because my will to quit from such activities but because of a vacuum exist of the organization itself.

That’s a brief evaluation by this year-end, I hope I will make good improvement in the coming years by being more commitment to my targets. Hopefully..:(

New Visitor

Last Saturday, BZ was visited by 68 years old Mr. Arief - I forget the complete name – but it doesn’t matter. It has been two weeks he supervised BZ before joined the class.

Who is he you said? Well from the introduction I catch that he was with Ms. Meutia Hatta Found LIA in the seventies. Don’t know much about his previous activities, he just said that he is in retirement but sure that he’s the one who knows well about English from his good Pronunciations, and word orders while speaking but not master it, as he said that no one can master English even the Native coz English is language which has the largest number of vocabularies – more than 2 millions- that impossible to be learned by heart. He also said he will do something to help BZ in improving English especially in Phonetic side but he will need 2 months to observe BZ before doing that ‘project’.

He reminded me actually with some of my lectures, I could say it Dead lectures I really hate - phonetic, semantics, syntax and all deal with linguistics – that he said quite important in English – in Professional context not amateur.

yeah…again and again I should feel guilty to my academic background. This actually is my responsibility to know, to study about such linguistics skill but you know what happen to me today?? I even don’t understand well any single of it??. people say, never say to late to study, but life speeds up so fast that make me getting older and older, limiting my time, absorbing my memory gradually, and make me become hard learner rather than a fast one. Frankly speaking I am regretful of my neglectful time during my university years. Completely regretful..!!

Is Terrorism A Muslim Monopoly?

Videos of Lectures and Debates [Dr. Zakir Naik]: Is Terrorism A Muslim Monopoly?

This event took place in Mumbai in front of a jam packed crowd, at the Shanmukhananda auditorium on 11th Sept 2006. Dr. Zakir Naik also gave a similar lecture at Jeddah in the last week of September, 2006. Dr. Zakir Naik said that historic records proved that a large number of terrorist acts in the 20th and 21st century were committed by non-Muslims. The so-called global phenomenon of "Islamic terrorism/militant Islam" was a creation of the western governments and their media outlets, he said.

"Politics lies at the heart of labeling Muslims across the globe as perpetrators of terror acts, " he added.

Dr. Zakir, who is one of the Muslim world's leading and most prolific speakers, quoted from the scriptures of other religions and proved that associating killing with Islam is incorrect."It says in the Book of Numbers that whoever worships other than God should be killed, " he said, referring to the Bible, yet such militant verses were conveniently ignored by the Western media.

"In every religion there are black sheep and the media keep putting these people forward. This is a media conspiracy and a way of pushing people away from Islam." he added.Dr. Zakir Naik said, "No religion encourages terrorist acts or violence. The word 'Islam' itself means 'Peace, obtained by submitting yourself to the Almighty'. Anyone, be it Muslim or non-Muslim, who kills an innocent Muslim or a non-Muslim, kills the entire humanity.

However, Islam goes a step further to say that if one saves innocent lives, the whole of humanity is saved. Injustice is the root cause of terrorism..."He continued, "Palestinians are called terrorists just because they are fighting to get their land back."

By citing examples of LTTE (in Sri Lanka), IRA (in UK), Lord's Salvation Army, which trains the young children to conduct terrorist attacks, and many other non-Muslim terrorist outfits he further said that, the lives claimed by these outfits are more than the ones by the Muslim terrorists.

Dr. Zakir said Naxalites/Maoists across India and the LTTE in Sri Lanka were non- Muslim terror organisations, which had had developed pan regional bases beyond national boundaries. Other such non-Muslim terror outfits included the United Liberation Front of Asom, National Democratic Front of Bodoland and All Tripura Tiger Force in the Northeast, Naik noted.

Drawing on international examples, Dr. Zakir said that the Japanese Red Army, Lord's Salvation Army and the ETA in Spain were also non-Islamic in character and composition."So nothing is more removed from truth as to suggest that Muslims have monopolized terrorism, " said Dr. Naik.

He said the Irish Republican Army, which was considered to be terrorist group, has a history of 100 years of violence against the British, but the British government doesn't seem to be scared about them as they are about radical Islamic groups.

Besides, he also mentioned, "Even a single killing by a Muslim is condemned by Islam, whatsoever the reasons."

Source: www. Biharanjuman.org