Which Best Education?

So I can say that I am the best product of conventional education. Started from conventional kindergarten, government elementary school, government junior high school, government senior high school, and ended up by graduated from Institute Technology Bandung - I assume this is the best university in Indonesia.

And I still hoping when my salary is transferred in the starting month. From that, I earn only my nuclear family.

Not to be defying the current condition, but I should have to do much more than this. There are many people need job, need help, need enlightment. And I suppose to give part of it, as much as I can.

So there should be something wrong with our education. There should be some parts is need to be taught, and some parts is not need to be taught.

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Based on it, me and my wife decided for our daughter not to school at government school -although I myself have some hope in the new Education Minister, Nadiem Makarim. Our daughter school named Kuttab Al Fatih. They said, they copied the education system from the humanity best ever generation, which is Rasulullah saw and his sahabat (can i translate this as 'his best friends'?). And at that time we are kind of amazed, because we saw some of their student have good attitude, which we never saw before.

My wife, started and excited by their education, and still like that until now. While me, keeps questioning and searching. Because at that time, Rasulullah saw started at age 40 as prophet, and died at age 63. It is 23 years. That is included war between muslim and musyrik. It produced the best ever generation in humanity history.

(I had a peaceful and government standard education from age 5 to 22, which is 17 years, and still not resulting something significant for humanity.

Or should we have a war first?)

The strange thing about that school, although they said that they referred to that generation, actually they referred to generation after that. Regardless that the generation really after that is still the best, but there are things which is not copied from Rasulullah saw. And this is where my doubts came from. Because Rasulullah saw, never educate the children from age 5, with peaceful conditon, and Islam has perfected.

So my daughter school is not a warranty also, to be a really useful person. Maybe to see the result of the education will not happened in a generation -they excused.

Understanding to be a Moslem

How do I understand to be a Moslem is how do I care about myself, ONLY. How do I care about get 'points' as much as possible to prepare the afterlife.

The problem is, the afterlife is far more veeeery loong than the life itself. Meanwhile, the chance to get the points is only while I am alive, and no one knows when the life will ends. Tricky things to make me always being reminded of life may ends at any time, so no time to not getting the points.

I always make an example of I am on the way to, say, Disneyland. There will be tonnes of happiness, for, say, 3 days for free. But the road is got into heavy traffic jam. No one knows when the traffic is lasts. It can be 1 hour. Or it can be 6 hour.
And the road always have its signs. No taking emergency lanes. No overtaking. No honking maybe. Wearing seatbelt. Etc.

Because there are no other way, I have to go into that way, and I have to obey the whatever the signs tell me to.
And there are many junctions, and there are many fake road signs. Quran, can be said as the road map. It should be learned with expert, to get the real clue of true direction. If I succeed to obey, I will get into the Disneyland. If I am not succeed, I will NOT get into the tonnes of happiness, and get me nowhere.

So, the trick is how I maintain the belief of obeying the signs while I am in the road, will take me to the Disneyland.

And... that is not that easy... 😥

I am not always done what I have know, because I do not always believe some things. Believing some thing that is not proven yet is kind of hard. But I will get the reward, for ONLY what I believe. Even, I will get into heaven, ONLY with that believe.

And the heaven, is beyond my wildest imagination of whatever makes me happy. And it is for ever.

Only with believing.

After all, that is not that hard and will not be that bad, to be a Moslem.

I will not find the happiness if I looking for it in this life.
But happiness in this life will come after me if I try to be a good Moslem. And happiness in the afterlife. For bonus. Very out of mind bonus.

Understanding to be a Moslem

How do I understand to be a Moslem is how do I care about myself, ONLY. How do I care about get 'points' as much as possible to prepare the afterlife.

The problem is, the afterlife is far more veeeery loong than the life itself. Meanwhile, the chance to get the points is only while I am alive, and no one knows when the life will ends. Tricky things to make me always being reminded of life may ends at any time, so no time to not getting the points.

I always make an example of I am on the way to, say, Disneyland. There will be tonnes of happiness, for, say, 3 days for free. But the road is got into heavy traffic jam. No one knows when the traffic is lasts. It can be 1 hour. Or it can be 6 hour.
And the road always have its signs. No taking emergency lanes. No overtaking. No honking maybe. Wearing seatbelt. Etc.

Because there are no other way, I have to go into that way, and I have to obey the whatever the signs tell me to. If I succeed to obey, I will get into the Disneyland. If I am not succeed, I will NOT get into the tonnes of happiness.

So, the trick is how I maintain the belief of obeying the signs while I am in the road, will take me to the Disneyland.

And... that is not that easy... 😥

I am not always done what I have know, because I do not always believe some things. Believing some thing that is not proven yet is kind of hard. But I will get the reward, for ONLY what I believe. Even, I will get into heaven, ONLY with that believe.

And the heaven, is beyond my wildest imagination of whatever makes me happy. And it is for ever.

Only with believing.

After all, that is not that hard and will not be that bad, to be a Moslem.

I will not find the happiness if I looking for it in this life.
But happiness in this life will come after me if I try to be a good Moslem. And happiness in the afterlife. For bonus. Very out of mind bonus.

Works for...

So I have made up my mind, about whom I have to work for?
For me or for other people? Should I have to own my business enterprise or should I join a running company?

First of all, work is one of ikhtiar. And as I know, ikhtiar is thing that I have to do, because it is a must. Quite simple. And it does not relate with the rizqi, that had been determined 50,000 years before the world is creates. And this is quite hard to be accepted sometimes. Because, that two statement conclude that I can do any kind of ikhtiar, and I will still get the rizqi that had determined for me. Literally anything. Practically......fills in the blank......

That is quite challenging for iman. My brother had resigned has jobs as an auditor in banks, and he had a fine life, really fine. Then he decided to resign of that ribawi jobs. And he open laundry home business and car buying & selling. Then his wife is starting to have growing cancer. And his life has start to downgraded, if I see. I won't judging and I just pray for him, and whatever our condition now, it must be the best condition that Allah determined for us. The Ar Rahman and Ar Rahim is deeply knows what we are needed in very accurate timing. That is challenging.

So, now I had joined in a running company (was) as mechanical engineer. That was qualified by my ITB education certificate. I have been working for around 10 years. I applied my knowledge of mechanical engineer about...3 months, for probation only. Since then, only administration, coordination, formal matter, and good communication. Good communication is tend to be having dinner with colleagues, playing tennis, having chit chat of how easy working at another departments, and another wasting-time activities. And I still get monthly payment, and bonus, and THR. And worker union is still have negotiation every year to increase salary -for our not very increasing performance-. While inflation is theoritetically happened because our activities of taking loan from banks, to have not really needed things. By syllogism, worker union is struggle for not really needed things. I wonder myself now.

But the thing is, I will not have my position now without my ITB education certificate. Also means that the company will not be running without my qualification. Or another person qualification. And that mean also there will be no worker union.
So, by joining the running company as qualified by education certificate, I will enable 1500 people to have their rizqi. And if that 1500 people is spend their money for not really needed things, I should not aware of it...sometimes.

Comparing to have my own business...which I do not have now, I imagined that it should starts from very bottom, of having nothing. Includes not having the education certificate. Of course, it will not produce anything. It will be very nothing for me, and my family, because I am their rizqi door. They have their own rizqi, but I am the door. And how long it takes to produce something, at least for my little family? 1 week, 1 month, 1 year,  10 years? How long it takes for me to open the rizqi door as wide as possible? I can not imagine, that I will have no time for 'good communication' as I have now. I will be the boss for me. There will be no one to yell at me of doing terrible mistakes. But there will be leaving customer, wishy washy customer, and other abstract customer. That is challenging.

I am not seeing why I have to leave this jobs now, in terms of having own business. While my wife is also not having the entrepreneur skills and mental. And alhamdulillah we can supports some of our family. I mean by visiting them, not financially supporting.

It is challenging that having own business will be more financially supporting for other family and not family. But do not forget that by working in running company, I also financially supporting another employees, although yet through company's hands...

Imagine if there is parallel world. Me joining the running company, and me having own business enterprise, in a same age.

I being employee:
I have salary 3 times gov standard salary. And I enable hundreds employees have standard salary, another hundreds have 2 times standard, another have 4, 5, 10 times, even more. It can sustains for at least 5 years further. It is warrantied I get some money more if I get fired or the company is bankrupt.

I have my own business:
I have 20 times standard earning, and I have my own employees of 20 people. A paid them on standard gov salary. No one warranty the sustainable.

So, it is challenging I said for now.

I think that no matter what choice I take, as I have it with faith to Allah, do what I have to do, not breaking any law, the result will be same. Some ustadz and ulama has define some rizqi door key. It does not depend on whether we as an employee or we as a boss (but customers is kings).