Alia Shahbani

  “We want to get married because we want to avoid zina” That is what common sentences utter by our people nowadays, especially youth. Even though it is partially true, but we need to be sure that it is not the only intention they have. Marriage in Islam is generally defined as a social and legal relationship intended to strengthen and extend family relationships (Huda, 2019). In making the marriage successful till the death set them part, there are a lot of things need to be compromised, sacrificed and discussed. Though we do not deny that Love is something that we need in order to make the marriage goes on, merely LOVE is not enough. Once I have heard in a talk, saying that marriage is like two different people, with two different ambitions and passions, objectives and goals with two different paces, going in the same way, on the same cart. Thus, they need to compromise, sacrifice and communicate a lot so that they would be able to go to the destination, in the same path and ...

At 10:45pm sharp, 5 th January, 21 years ago, I was brought to this world as one of His servants and His caliphate to be tested. For that, my parents named me as “ALIA”, just ALIA. When asked, my mother said, “we want to ease your future husband for the ‘akad nikah’ things”. I was raised as the third from 6 siblings. My school background was more towards religious school. People who did not recognize me would expect me to be like ‘ustazah’ but actually, that is not the case. I was raised in a small circle of friends, I did not have many friends, that it is my safe zone. But life changes, I met with new friends, I make a new circle. But still, I could not socialize well, that is one of my obvious weakness. I further my study in one of the most isolated research field, PSYCHOLOGY– my main reason to get into that is “I want to help myself”. INTERESTS & PASSIONS Generally, my interests are quite in numbers – writing, reading (cliché right), photography and aviation. I perso...

Perihal diri seorang Alia - Tepat jam 10:45 malam, Januari ke-5, 21 tahun yang lalu, dunia menyambut kedatangan seorang lagi hamba Tuhan sebagai khalifahNya, untuk diuji. Seiring itu, anak kecil itu dinamakan "ALIA" yang membawa erti ketinggian, tanpa nama lain sebagai nama kedua. Ketika ditanya perihal namanya, ibunya senang menjawab "Senang laki awak nak akad nanti". Lucu. Dilayan saja seperti biasa. Dibesarkan sebagai anak ketiga dari 6 bersaudara dalam keluarga sederhana dan berlatar belakangkan sekolah agama, masyarakat yang tidak mengenali dirinya kebiasaannya akan menganggap dia berbeza dari yang lainnya. Dia membesar dalam kelompok kecil, kawan-kawannya tidak ramai, boleh dibilang dengan jari sejujurnya. Dia selesa begitu. Alia, saat dia masih muda selesa dengan sikapnya yang lantang berkata-kata. Namun, tidaklah lama. Saat melangkah ke dunia menara gading, dia lebih suka menyendiri. Masih cuba diciptanya kelompok kecil di tempat baru. Jika ditanya kena...