Takbir Akbar 

I heard the sound of takbir chanted in the mosque near the house. The heart feels vibrate, the heart is full of happiness will celebrate the big day of Muslims. The next morning, preparing to perform the Eid al-Fitr prayer, I met all my friends apologizing to each other, what a beautiful atmosphere on a Eid day. But for an ordinary family, even on a big day we have to struggle to make a living. Mother prepares food on the Eid not for the feast, but for sale in the shop. We opened a shop with a sad atmosphere, saw cars roaming the streets, busy to meet relatives, my brother and I guarded the shop with a very beautiful view of the Eid. I don't know how Allah yet, why I’m so stupid at a young age that I don't know who Allah is, He is the one who is able to turn day into night, night into day, change what lives into death and what makes death into life, nothing is difficult for Allah, let alone just turning a poor person into a rich man, every holiday I have to keep a shop, nothing is used as entertainment except cars that roam the streets. Every Sunday, TV stations always broadcast their favourite cartoons for children, it's very fun to enjoy the atmosphere of the week, sleep, pray, take a bath, watch television as much as you like. But that didn't happen to me, every Sunday I had to help my mother cook in the morning, open a shop and stay the shop until maghrib. And how stupid I was, not even as a teenager thinking about the future, of ideals and thinking how to achieve all of them. In my mind only how to travel, take a vacation, please myself.

I guard the shop all day on Eid, hoping that many customers will look for rice on that day, but we were wrong, no one bought rice, until maghrib arrived, the money I got was only IDR 35,000. This is really unfortunate fate, hoping to get a lot of sustenance on Eid, but no one buys food. Keeping a shop is fun and sometimes annoying, it's fun because we can meet a lot of people from the streets, they are very entertaining when guarding the shop and it's annoying that there are rarely customers who come. If I knew the power of prayer, maybe I could be successful faster than today (ps. I can said Alhamdulilah), the power of prayer, fasting, dhikr, tahajjud, sholawat, I will surely do everything. For almost 23 years my mother has owned a food outlet, not even once did she get a lot of money to meet the needs of the family.

Only at the age of 23 did I know Allah, just know Allah, and run after Allah. And as soon as the catering contract with the company was finished, my brother suggested to open a business in the form of spicy food which is very popular with Indonesians, with the intention of helping the family, we opened a spicy food outlet. And masyaALLAH, everything is beyond our expectations, our shop has become one of the best-selling stalls in my place, if in the past it was very painful to spend IDR 100,000, now spending IDR 1,000,000 does not feel heavy. All thanks to Allah, all because we are close to Allah, there are so many miracles that Allah has given after I got to know him. Glory be to Allah for all the graces and gifts that He has bestowed upon me and my family.