My Speech
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"Youth for the Future of Indonesia"
Assalamu'alaikum.Wr.Wb
Ladies, gentlemen, and friends that I love,
Youth is a figure that always brings alterations. Alteration
in life order of some era is quite influenced by the role of youths. In 1982,
youths gathered altogether and then took the pledge in order to tighten the
unity of Indonesia. This pledge was known as Youth Pledge. All youths from all
over Indonesia from various ethnics, cultures, languages, and regions strove
for retaking the independence of nation altogether.
Who doesn’t know Mr. Soekarno, our first president of
Indonesia? Nobody doubted him in each of his speech to encourage the youths in
maintaining the independence of Indonesia. The long journey of Indonesia to the
national independence shows us how great the influence was regarding our
nation’s life. And then as the youth Muslim generation, what have we
contributed to society, nation, religion, and especially our own selves? Have
we given any alteration?
A Muslim youth should go on with positive alterations day
after day in his or her life. How a loss if a Muslim youth is seen to be worse
than yesterday. The success of a youth in dealing with a number of life
handicaps along with the good alterations will be the basic in how he or she
brings alterations to his or her surroundings and those that are bigger than
that.
To all of my companions that I proud of, Dr. Yusuf
Qardhawi said that there are three things that underlie a youth as a foundation
of alteration;
1. Youths
come with brilliant brain
2. Youths
have strong physicals
3. Youths
behave objectively
Ladies, gentlemen, and all the companions blessed by
Allah. It’s about the time for Muslim youths to rise up for creating alterations
in every line of life and keeping as well as maintaining the self-image of
Islam. Moreover, Islam has been being besieged from all over the directions. We
need to increase our knowledge about Islam by reading various books. Not only
Islamic books but also those books whose contents sometimes offense the world
of Islam. Thus, youth generations can have the provisions to become the agents
of alteration.
Make our youth as the time that’s full of benefits and all the good things
before the coming of old age, when all of our spirits would fade away. What are
we waiting for, if we can do the alteration now? Use our youth times to become
the part of Islam’s awakening history in Indonesia.
That’s all I could say. I wish we can meet again someday. Please forgive me for
the mistakes on my words. Thanks for the attention.
Wassalamu’alaikum. Wr.wb