Everyone
has a dream or whatever is the
biggest target in his life that could make him feel proud and happy to achieve
it, despite some of them sounding ridiculous and impossible to achieve.
However, dreams are what can make a person can go ahead and work harder than
ever to achieve those dreams. My dream is to be a person who can restore the
glory of Islam that occurred approximately less than a century ago. The time
when Muslims were the most influential people in in all areas of human
civilization. Not in violence or warfare, but in science, diplomacy and other
subtle ways that can show the world that Islam has returned to become the
center of civilization that once took place.
Maybe you think
this is just nonsense when we talk about our dreams. Maybe you also think that
this is something that probably will not happen but I affirm once again that it
is a dream, a dream that came out of my little heart. A dream that will
continue to be my spirit to carry on maximizing what I could do for my religion. Maybe those earlier thoughts
are old-fashioned. It's up to what people say, but this is my dream. It will
not be easy to realize my dream. I have to go to school acquire the highest
achievement to show that here I am, a Muslim. I need to master more than one field
of science. Relationships with key people in multinational companies and
organizations that play a dominant role in the world will be needed to realize
my dreams. I will have to sacrifice not only material wealth, but also time and
all that I have to make my dreams a reality.
To achieve my
dreams, this is what I must do. First I will have to look for scholarships
abroad for a bachelor’s degree. I want to be able to study in Germany or Japan,
precisely in RWTH or at TITech. However, if that cannot happen then I have to maximize
myself excel at ITB and take the fast track so that I finish college quickly
and save time. After that I will get my
master’s and doctorate’s degree in foreign universities. There are 3
universities abroad which I have targeted, which are MIT (USA), TITech (Japan)
and the RWTH (Germany). By the time that I am 27 years old I want to have
acquired my doctorate and I will continue to study in Medina to deepen tafsir
and fiqh. While studying I will try to get a job in multinational companies. By
the age of 30, I should be able to write a commentary that became an
international reference which contains an explanation of all the Quranic verses
from the standpoint of science. In order to make people return to the Quran as
a reference, as a guideline and manual not only in terms of faith and divinity
but also in terms of science. The money that I get from the work and the books
or my work would be used to make a free educational foundation and an orphanage.
At the foundation I will raise new generations capable of reforming the world
in the name of Islam, so that this movement does not just last until the end of
my life, but will continue until the end of the world.
It is very difficult
to make my dream happen if I stand alone. Therefore, I created the foundations
so that my dream can happen through new generations that will be born. My dream
is a long-term one that will continue to reverberate and shouted to each other
keep the baton of struggle. I just want to be the trigger to mobilize others to
work together and realize the collective dreams and ideals of our community. If
the dream has not happened in my time, I'm sure it will happen through the
generations after me. Through my work I leave to them the spirit of struggle at
the top of my religion to show that this is us, and we were born as the best
Ummah.
That's a little
picture of my dream. A dream that may have been around for a long time and will
continue through me and generations after me. A holy struggle on this earth.
Prove our true identity. Again, you might think this is silly, old-fashioned,
maybe even too far-fetched. However, in the name of conscience I write, in the
name of burning fighting spirit I tell. In order for you to know and understand,
that this is not just limited to the words that are arranged into a story. But
this is a collection of vision and hope that will become apparent in time. And
it's definitely, definitely going to happen.
This
is my dream with all my beliefs. What about your dream?
