Birth P/D : Kudus, January 13th 1998
Class : Acceleration 12
School :
- TKIT Umar bin Khattab Kudus
- SDIT Al Islam Kudus
- SMPI Nuruf Fikri Lembang
- SMA N 3 Bandung (graduated in 2015)
Motto : Put all of your dreams as high as possible, with a faith I'd fight for it, just LILLAH I keeping on it.
Iqbal Fawwaz Ramadhan, or well known as Fawwaz is one of my inspiring person. He got the title of "Qur'an Hafizh" in his 15 years old which means when he was going to be graduated from his junior high school, SMPI Nurul Fikri Boarding School Lembang. Now he is my senion in SMA N 3 Bandung though soon he'll graduated and for your information, his apply for SNMPTN had been accepted and he will be a part of Bandung Institute of Technology, in Electro and Informatica Engineering School.
His late school, Nurul Fikri was the place where he began to memorize Qur'an seriously. As he said, he had memorized Qur'an since his elementary but he was not taking it seriously. Until in his junior high school, he met his ustadz or we could say teacher that asked him a question which will be the beginning of his memorizing journey.
"Where do you come from, Fawwaz?"
A simple question? Yes, it sure is a really simple question. But with the answer Kudus, the teacher then said, " As I know, Kudus is the city of Hufazh. At every door, in every family, there will be at least a hafizh. So you do?"
It really touch him at his deepest heart. Yes. He came from Kudus. But he had no good in memorizing Qur'an. Then, he thought over again, over and over again. What will he give for his parents then in afterlife? Gold? Wealth? Nope. That will be totally meaningless. So he decided to start memorize Qur'an seriously.
But, in 3 years. Seriously? THREE. Yes. He memorized 30 juz of Al Qur'an in only 3 years. How could he had done such a thing? He memorize it not only once. He keep reread, and reread, also the meaning of it. Only read it was not a totality, so he had to understand the meaning of the verses.
But this right way and shiraathal mustaqiim is not with no obstacles in it. It sure there were so many obstacles from himself and also from the conditions around him such as the difficulty of looking for the idle time. But the most disturbing obstacle must be come from himself, laziness. It could ruin anything for sure. The laziness was not only coming at the beginning. It also came in the end. The laziness to finish the memorizing.
The quantity for his memorizing were not exactly the same each years. At the first semester, he got only 1 juz. But the next semester, he got the lessons and could made 3 juz in half year. And then, then, and finally in the end of his school, after the national exam which means he had nothing to do, he had finished his memorizing and become a hafizh in his 15 years old. The most dream all moslems should dream.
And what he felt before and after he memorizing Qur'an? Of course there must be the difference. All of it actually are the positive ways. Although after finishing the memorizing of Qur'an he has a some kinds of heaviness on his shoulder.
So for those who are on their way to be hafizh, keep walk forward toward hafizh, and for you jannah.
But wait. Iqbal Fawwaz Ramadhan had chosen to continue his study not in Islamic based school anymore. It sure was difficult to adapt there. And, what was the first impression for entering non-islamic based school? Surprised. Yes, of course. In which way? Almost all of it. Especially in the connection between the boys and the girls because when he was in junior high school there was a certain edge between them. But now, he has to adapt there. He should not be egoist and keep to not have any communication with the other gender.
But he also had to keep in the right way. Keeping istiqamah is one of the hardest thing to do. The old good habits sure are not that easy to keep, but he should keep fighting.
So for the epilogue, there were some words, his favorite:
Laysal fata man yaquulu kaana abi
Walaakinnal fataa man yaquulu hadza ana.
It was not the real man who said, " My father was.."
But the real man was who said, " This is ME."
Watch for the summary of my interview some months ago here!
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