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Humanity is Complex, but We Can Understand It Little by Little



When many people push others to accept what they believe, at that time, they won’t learn from it; they are conditioned to be like what they believe to be true. What they get is what they listen and accept, not from something they experienced. This is the fatal concept to learn other people in every perspective they have.

Learning others is unique and complex process to get the full understanding among certain people in our surroundings. They have to interact directly, communicate spontaneously, share unlimitedly, and feel with them honestly. The powerful understanding will be done through these ways, so they could say more about people they meet every day.

They will find the way on how minimize obstacles among them. They will get the best way on how to respect others as the key for the final decision. They will get the essential approach of marvelous interaction toward people with their differences in belief, religion, point of view, neighborhood, and goal of life in a very good way. They need to interact and communicate as often as possible to understand the gap toward two or more different beliefs. 

Friday, April 19, 2013
Posted by Ilham Nugraha

True Love of Islam



No religion urges its followers to adopt mutual love, affection and intimacy like the religion of Islam. This should be the case at all times, not just on specific days. Islam encourages showing affection and love towards each other all the time. Love in Islam is all-encompassing, comprehensive and sublime, rather than being restricted to one form only. There is love of the religion of Islam, upholding it and making it victorious and the love of martyrdom for the sake of Allah The Almighty as well as other forms of love.

Sanggar Anak Matahari is the greatest example of the true love of Islam toward street children, orphan children, and unprivileged children. Sanggar Anak Matahari is a place behind Bekasi Rail Station in West Java, Indonesia, which accommodates those who have limitation of education. The sense of love created in every single activity, communication, interaction, and their way of sharing one another without looking by one eye. Their happy faces carved in our heart.

They study together, share together, learn how to love the creatures of God, and thank to the blessing from God with the principle of Islam. The value of love is coming as they realize to help each other in a very limited strength. The help is never stopped; it is continuing until the end of the day. They always stand to raise others up in the darkness of silence to the delirious of betterment.   


Posted by Ilham Nugraha

Understanding in Differences



We may have the different perspective about particular people, clubs, or even religions. We easily prejudice others as we know it deeply but we keep the wrong pattern of point of view toward it. That misbehavior could create conflict and gap among us. Furthermore, the trifling rumors outside are conveying irresponsible fact in life.

We like assuming and prejudicing like the concept of stereotype. We conclude certain people like what we heard from other people. We treat people like what we know about their behaviors from other people. We talk about them like what we listen from other people. We almost do these in our lives.

What you have done is not true at all. The understanding of certain people needs observation, communication, approach, interaction, and experience with them. We cannot get findings just by listening from others, copying from others, and repeating from others. We are near to the failure if we deny those things.

It is the same way to know about certain people with different backgrounds, pattern of education, environments, and religions. We need to be there to share, communicate, respect, feel, and contribute with them. We have to do those things to surely say and tell others that differences are not the obstacle to embody the mutual understanding between you and those you think about.   

Posted by Ilham Nugraha

The Power of One



Everybody will feel the same thing, called strange, when one of us come to the new place of community or society. Some people may choose to keep away from that place because there are so many differences in it. They feel the different sense of belonging in the particular community or society. They are different, unique, and exist. The only question is why those differences should be diminished.

We are naturally different in born in this world. We cannot deny that fact in our life. However, there are many people neglecting this issue so that they miss the value of life. Life is for everyone. Life is in the rights. Life is valuable; know and recognize the same creatures of god. Life is in the name of respect to all people from the various statuses, religions, races, and communities.


As the highest value in our life, tolerance and valuable manner come together in each side of our neighborhood. My community puts those issues on how we respect others and hold the commitment to the positive goals. The commitment of being one as the power of belonging rendered into the applicable ways to accommodate togetherness on the variety of statuses and religions among people in that community. In the end, we together need one another as the emblem of comfort. 

Posted by Ilham Nugraha

Sweety, the Country of Joyful


“All people can eat whatever they want without worrying about the price and disability to buy it”



Three boys and five girls were telling us about the amazing country that they called “Sweety”.  Since they were inspired from the famous film of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, the country they dreamed was about the same like that film. They emphasized that everybody could eat everything in that country because all things were made from chocolate, sugar, and cakes. They wanted to show us that this country was great for everyone who lived there because there were no people who suffered from malnutrition. People wouldn’t be fat because all nutrition were measured in detail of calories and fat in it. People don’t have to worry about the food. They want to show us that everybody can eat the same food together without worrying about the price or disability to consume it. Everybody has the same right to eat it for their satisfaction in their lives.

Posted by Ilham Nugraha

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I am the recipient of Indonesian Scholarship Program of PBU (Program Beasiswa Unggulan) 2010, tutor at English Club SMKN 1 Kota Bekasi, volunteer teacher at Sanggar Anak Matahari in Bekasi, and volunteer and facilitator at Islamic Street Children Community of Kampung Mede in Bekasi.

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