Coupling : The Sources of Sins

Coupling is not a kind of detachable things in adolescent’s life nowadays. It is one of the sources of sins. Islam has prohibited coupling explicitly. In Islam, the activity is kind of prohibition which is commonly classified as “zinah”. Zinah is the second big sin in Islam. There are many kinds of zinah. There are zinah by our heart, zinah by our eyes, zinah by our hands, zinah by our lips and many more kinds of zinah. But the worst kind of it is having sexual intercourse. It is the same thing with doing a sin about 80 years. In Al-Qur’an, Allah SWT has explained, “Do not you approach something which can lead you to do zinah, because actually zinah is a kind of despichable acts and a bad way.” (QS. Al-Isra’ : 32). Our prophet, Muhammad SAW disagrees with coupling either. It is not without a reasons. He said, “Do not both of you (man and woman) come together in a place, because syeitan (the prince of darkness) will be the third of you.” He means that the activity (coupling) can give an encouragement to do zinah. It is also able to make a small sin becomes a big sin. There are many common activities in coupling, such as holding, hugging, kissing, and or even more like having sexual intercourse. Holding can encourage to do hugging, hugging can encourage to do kissing, kissing can encourage to do something more or even having sexual intercourse, the real zinah. Love actually is a kind of feeling which given by God, Allah SWT. But as moslem, we should know how to respond that kind of feeling. Beware of that kind of feeling, do not let it leads us to do zinah by coupling. Avoiding to have couple is kind of obligation for us as moslem.

Indra Yudianto

The Effect of Social Network

Today, there are many ways to communicate to each other outside. High technology tools appear to help us to communicate easily and quickly. The newest communication tool is a social network in which we can make friends by it, for example, Face book or Twitter. There, we just show our own picture with our personal identity and we can add someone who wants to be our friend easily. However, do you ever think that social network makes more problems for children? There are some reasons to keep away social network from children. First, the social network is available for adults. So, the features are only for adults and do not fix with children environment. It makes a bad lesson to their mental development. Second, there are many criminal actions, such as deception, robbing, violence and so on. Sometimes, children become a victim of the criminal actions. Besides, children can imitate these things in their social life. Third, connecting to social network web needs more money. Therefore, children use their own pocket money to connect if their parents do not give them. Actually, they get some bad habits to spend their money to something useless. Fourth, the important reason is social network can disturb their main duty as a child, like studying or helping their parents. Children usually lose their concentration and are lazy to study. They prefer to connect social network than studying. Thus, social network is a bad thing for children, because it makes more problems.  

TRYNING RAHAYU SETYA W.

Cell Phone is Dangerous for Children

Now cell phone is the most important thing in our daily life. Almost all people all over the world use it, not only adults but also children. They will agree that cell phone is very effective or helpful for their business. But I thing cell phone is dangerous for children under the age of 12 years old. Why ? First, the feature of the cell phone for children are the same with adult,s. For example, the cell phone is completed with WAP. WAP is a technology that link device such as mobile phone to internet. By using this feature, the children can download adult website, like games, pornography, adult picture etc. It influences their attitude and behaviour. The second reason is that the children waste much money. They have to buy credit for their cell phone. Actually they can save their money for something useful like buy book, dictionary and their stationary. The third reason is that the effect of radiation from cell phone is dangerous for health. The use of cell phone for long time can trigger than growth of cencer cell, intefery with ear health, skin and brain. Because the children immune systems are still develope and more sensitive to many things, the radiation of the cll phone can attack them easily. That is why the parents should not give their children a cell phone although it makes them easy to communicate.

Uswatun Khasanah

Early Marriage

Marrying has been an issue to the young people nowadays. Many young people got married at such early age, and I think it just fine. Marrying is your right to do. As a human being, we have a complete control of what we are desired to do as long as the activities are not making other people injured. Early marriage gives you a long time of a relationship with a full right of what you will do with you bride or bridegroom. You will have a longer time to spend with him/her. Early marriage is also the solution for those people who are no longer able to control their lust towards males or females. Especially in Islam, marriage is a way of controlling ourselves. I think this reason is not just suggested to the muslim people. There are actually some considerations for us to think about whether we want to get married at early age. Young people tend to put their emotion in the first place, rather than just be patient and think straightly. I think you will not possibly organize your family if you put your emotion first. You also need to have a strong mental just in case there are some unpredictable things happen to you and your family. I think those kind of things are only yourself whom known it well, not people around you. So, as long as you are ready and know the consequences, just get married.

M. Afif Amirul Mukminin

Valentine Day

People have known that valentine day is annual commemoration for love held on February 14. A lot of  people celebrate a valentine day to express their deepest love to their friends, family and their couple. They are not only christian but also moslem people. But actually moslem people should not celebrate it because of three reasons. First of all, valentine day is celebrated to remind the death of priest Valentine. He was sentenced to dead by the emperor Claudius II because priest Valentine performed marriages for young lovers in secret. It is ok for the christian people if they want to celebrate it. It is one of the way to remember the priest. But for moslem people, they should not celebrate it because in Islam, there is no valentine day. However, there is still some moslem people celebrate the valentine day to appreciate other people. The second reason, is that valentine day will waste a lot of money. For the moslem people who celebrate the valentine day have to buy some stuff like chocolates, candies, flowers and T-shirt. They have to give the stuff for their couple, friends and family because that is the tradition of  valentine day. In my opinion, they will spend a lot of money for the stuff. So if they want to save their money, they should not celebrate it. The third reason is that they could still show their love without celebrating the valentine day. They can show their love everyday. Because showing love is not limited by time and place. If they celebrate the valentine day, it means they only have love on that day and there is no love on the other days. All in all, valentine day should not be celebrated it by the moslem people. Besides it is not allowed in Islam, it also wastes money. We can show our love everyday, right?

Rara Zukhrufy

The Bad Effects of Television for Children

Children always imitate the things that they hear and they see. Ironically, children in this modern era prefer watching TV to playing outside with their friends. So they will imitate everything on TV regardless of whether it is right or wrong. But the problem is that there are so many uneducative TV programs nowadays. Let’s start from the soap opera. It is just a trash. Generally, its story is too dramatic, for example, the villain really means to his enemy. Even sometimes the villain tried to kill his enemy. It is really not good at all. The TV company must not show that kind of TV program. Second, all children love to watch cartoon. But, nowadays cartoons contain harm and photography, for instance, “Naruto” and “One Piece”. They contain a lot of fight and pornography scenes. Children are obsessed with the characters in those cartoons. In Indonesia there are some children fighting just because they want to act like what they see in cartoon. Next, adult programs must be shown in the night hours when the children have slept. It contains a lot of adult scenes like, kissing, making out, and other pornography scenes. It is not good for children mental development. So, in case of unwanted things, parents must accompany their children when they watch TV. It will make their children see the TV programs that are suitable for their age.

Juan Sebastian