Hamka...

Bismillah, beginning of all goodness.

Officially, this is my first entry in english. So, I'm not really focusing on the grammar, just to make myself comfortable to articulate things in english.

Alhamdullillah, praise be to Allah. Today the weather is nice and everything seems to be fine.

Yesterday, I have bought a book from Pustaka Mumin bookstore in Putrajaya. Actually, I was searching for Hamka's book titled 'Falsafah Hidup'. But I ended up with a book written by his son, Rusydi Hamka who wrote about the life journey of his late father.

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Actually, I'm not yet finish reading this 396 page book. But after going through a few chapter from this book, I experienced different kind of feelings. At one time I feel like want to cry, and I laugh hardly on the other part of the stories. Thus I knew that this man have gone through ups and down in life. His life was not smooth and easy as we can observed from his smile. The tough and rough life has bring to us Hamka that we know today.

Hmm, Who is Hamka actually? What is so special about Hamka that many people talk about him  after his death even until now?

Frankly speaking, I do not know much about this great man. I tried to recall the first moment I started to know him was in my fouteenth. Our school invited a retired pilot to give lecture about the history before our country achieve independent in 1957. The pilot who had been a police during the second world war tell us about the hard life during that time. I love the lecture, it make me appreciate more for the pleasant live I'm living now. At the end of the lecture, the pilot told me that he had bought Tafsir al-Azhar which is the greatest contribution of Hamka to the muslim world. The pilot said that he have finish reading 29 volume of the Tafsir, but he still unable to finish the last volume. He don't know why. But I hope he have make it by now.

On that time, I was amazed with it. An Asian man can wrote a complete 30juz Tafsir?That is extremely awesome! But I just left that feeling behind until four years later, I came across Hamka name when I scroll down the newsfeed on facebook. There is a seminar held to remember Hamka. I followed this event from the social media. I listened to Ustaz Hasrizal lecture on 'Ibrah dan Teladan Tokoh Pembangunan Ummah Buya Hamka'. Such a wonderful input. So, I started to have back that 'awesomeness' feeling inside me. So I aim to read Hamka's book. For me, that is the best way to know about him directly. That is the whole point that urged me to buy the book.

Right now, I'm still young. I have strong desire and I have almost all the power I need in life that somehow do not help me much to be more careful and patience person. Thus, I believe that I have to learn it from the elderly who has passed the life test succesfully. And I know, Hamka is one of those.

Hamka,
His life is a silent teacher.
His words even his jokes is wisdom to be delivered.
And the knowledge that he left in his books is a great lasting treasure.

Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, is a gift for this ummah.

May Allah blessed Hamka and granted him Jannah. And may Allah bless us too.

Assalamualaikum.