Successful Marriage
“And among His signs is that He created for you mates from among yourselves that you may dwell in tranquility with them, and He has put love and mercy between you; verily, in that are signs for people who reflect.” (Quran 30:21)
We’ve all read this verse on countless marriage announcements. But how many have actualized it? How many of our marriages really embody that love and mercy described by Allah? What is going wrong when so many of our marriages are ending in divorce?
According to Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, author of Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs, the answer is simple. In his book, Eggerichs explains that extensive research has found that a man’s primary need is for respect, while a woman’s primary need is for love. He describes what he calls the “crazy cycle”—the pattern of argumentation that results when the wife does not show respect and the husband does not show love. He explains how the two reinforce and cause one another. In other words, when a wife feels that her husband is acting unloving, she often reacts with disrespect, which in turn makes the husband act even more unloving.
Eggerichs argues that the solution to the “crazy cycle” is for the wife to show unconditional respect to her husband and for the husband to show unconditional love to his wife. This means that a wife should not say that first her husband must be loving before she will show him respect. By doing so, she will only bring about more unloving behavior. And a husband should not say that first his wife must be respectful before he will show her love. By doing so, he will only bring about more disrespectful behavior. The two must be unconditional.
When I reflected on this concept, I realized that looking at the Quran and prophetic wisdom, there are no two concepts more stressed with regards to the marital relationship.
To men, the Prophet said, “Take good care of women, for they were created from a bent rib, and the most curved part of it is its top; if you try to straighten it, you will break it, and if you leave it, it will remain arched, so take good care of women.” (Bukhari & Muslim)
He has further stressed: “The most perfect believer in the matter of faith is one who has excellent behavior; and the best among you are those who behave best towards their wives.” (Al-Tirmidhi)
Allah says: “Live with them on a footing of kindness and equity. If ye take a dislike to them it may be that ye dislike a thing, and Allah brings about through it a great deal of good.” [Qur'an: 4:19]
The prophet has also said, “A believing man should not hate a believing woman; if he dislikes one of her characteristics, he will be pleased with another.” (Muslim)
In these jewels of wisdom, men are urged to be kind and loving towards their wives. Moreover, they are urged to even overlook their wife’s faults when showing that kindness and love.
On the other hand, when addressing the wife, the focus is different. Why are women not told again and again to be kind and loving towards their husbands? Perhaps it is because unconditional love already comes naturally to women. Few men complain that their wives do not love them. But many complain that their wives do not respect them. And it is this sentiment which is most stressed in the Quran and sunnah, with regards to wives.
Respect can be manifest in a number of ways. One of the most important ways to show respect is the respect of one’s wishes. When someone says, “I respect your advice”, they mean “I will follow your advice”. Respecting a leader, means doing what they say. Respecting our parents means not going against their wishes. And respecting one’s husband means respecting his wishes. The Prophet has said: “When any woman prays her five, fasts her month, guards her body and obeys her husband, it is said to her: Enter paradise from whichever of its doors you wish.” [At-Tirmidhi]
Why are we as women told to respect and follow the wishes of our husbands? It is because men are given an extra degree of responsibility. Allah says: “Men are the protectors and maintainers [qawwamun] of women, because Allah has given the one more [strength] than the other, and because they support them from their means . . .” (Qur’an 4:34)
But won’t this unconditional respect towards one’s husband put us, as women, in a weak, submissive position? Won’t we set ourselves up to be taken advantage of and abused? Quite the contrary. The Quran, the prophetic example, and even contemporary research have proven the exact opposite. The more respect a woman shows her husband, the more love and kindness he will show her. And in fact, the more disrespect she shows, the more harsh and unloving he becomes.
Similarly, a man may question why he should show kindness and love towards even a disrespectful wife. To answer this question, one only needs to look at the example of Omar Ibn ul-Khattab. When a man came to Omar (who was Khalifah at the time) to complain of his wife, he heard Omar’s own wife yelling at him. While the man turned to leave, Omar called him back. The man told Omar that he had come to complain of the same problem that Omar himself had. To this Omar replied that his wife tolerated him, washed his clothes, cleaned his home, made him comfortable, and took care of his children. If she did all of this for him, how could he not tolerate her when she raised her voice?
This story provides a beautiful example for all of us—not only for the men. This story is a priceless illustration of tolerance and patience, which is essential for any successful marriage. Moreover, consider the reward in the hereafter for those who show patience: Allah says, “Only those who are patient shall receive their reward in full without reckoning (or measure).” (Qur’an 39:10)
Lost love
In the name of Allah, the All-Merciful, the Ever-Merciful. Peace and blessings of Allah be upon Prophet Muhammad (SAW).
Love is about actions and behavior, not hidden feelings. What happens if relationships between husbands and wives deteriorate? What happens to families? What kind of sins will be committed in society, what will the Shaytan (Satan) do to our homes? Our last hope lies in our homes, and if we lose that our societies will be useless for another 200 years. A major problem faced by husbands and wives is the loss of love. We’re not discussing marital disputes, or the causes of divorce, we’re talking about the lost love. How do we lose love? In the first stage they stop talking to each other. Couples talk for hours while they are engaged, they spend long hours on the phone and when they finally hang up they still have more to say. At the beginning of their marriage they talk even more. Then, a few years down the line there’s less and less to say.
A man may spend 12 hours at work and actually forget to call his wife. The second stage is to avoid spending time at home; some husbands go through a lot of trouble to make up excuses and tell lies to escape spending time at home. The third stage is when both partners stop seeing each other’s good sides and focus on their partner’s faults; and Shaytan plays a major role here. The Prophet (SAW) said very beautiful words in this regard; he said that a believer should not dislike his wife, because even if he dislikes something about her, he will always find something that he likes. The point is that they both have faults, and they probably were like this since the very first day, but at this stage they can only see each other’s faults. The fourth stage is to lose their intimate relationship for months. Although we’ve discussed four stages of losing love at home, until this stage they are still respectable people, and they haven’t committed any major sins.
However, after this, one may then start looking for love outside his/her home, and this may soon turn into cheating and a series of other major sins that displease Allah (SWT). Again, Shaytan has an important role to play here. Ibnul-Qayyim said that Shaytan makes you see what you don’t have as more beautiful and attractive that what you have. This is how Shaytan works. The Prophet (SAW) said that a person who betrays carries a flag on the Day of Judgment saying this is so-and-so’s betrayal, clearly telling people what this person did.
I’m not talking to men only, I’m very sorry to say that women also reach the stage I’m talking about – this was not the case 30 or 40 years ago -.
Can we bring back the love to our homes? Yes! Allah (SWJ) said what can be translated as “…and He has made between you amity and mercy…” (TMQ, 30:21). Note that “has made” is past tense, this means that Allah (SWT) creates this amity and mercy deep in the hearts of husbands and their wives on the day they are married. Take an example for Prophet Muhammad (SAW) on the day he conquered Makkah, 15 years after Lady Khadijah Bint-Khuwaylid’s death; his companions were urging him to stay at one of their homes, yet he asked them to set up a tent for him near her grave. A year after Khadija’s death a lady companion met Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and suggested that he gets married for he had 5 children and it would be difficult for him to bring them up on his own; the Prophet shed tears on Khadijah’s memory and said that no woman could resemble her. The lady later said she regretted having reminded him.
You may say that this is the Prophet (SAW) and no one else is like this. So let me tell you the story of a man who I met in England when I was 20 years old. This man, a scholar from al-Azhar, was in his sixties or seventies at that time, while his wife was in her fifties and they had been married for nearly 35 years. He had gone to England to give some lectures and his wife accompanied him. I could not imagine how this man loved his wife to the extent that he woke me up one day at 8:00 o’clock in the morning and asked me to go with him to Oxford to buy her a present while she was sleeping. I was surprised that after all those years of marriage he was thinking of buying his wife a present and he was also very keen on choosing something that will please her. After some time I traveled back to Egypt and went to visit him, he welcomed me but told me that he was busy at that time and asked me to wait for him in the guest room. He left me waiting for half an hour and I was upset, when he returned he apologized and explained that he and his wife spend an hour every Friday after al-Asr (afternoon) prayer to read Qur’an and talk to each other. I did not think it was possible at that time for a couple to love each other so much after so many years of marriage.
The Prophet (SAW) was talking to one of his companions called Jaber Ibn-Abdullah on their way back from Zat-Arika’ battle. We all know Jaber’s story whose wife died and he married a lady who could take care of his nine daughters. So, on their way back from the battle the Prophet (SAW) told him that when they reach Madinah the army will wait outside its borders so that Jaber’s wife would know that the army is back and prepare herself to welcome her husband. The thing is, The Prophet (SAW) understood that the army had been away for a long time, and their wives do not know when they will be back, and, being busy taking care of their children and houses they may not be ready to welcome their husbands, so he wanted to give them time to prepare themselves. This is very important for women today who do not appreciate how important it is for them to look presentable in front of their husbands.
What does all this have to do with Ramadan? This is the essence of Ramadan, and we want to emerge from Ramadan with husbands who are determined to strengthen their homes by taking their wives’ hands and starting to walk through life together. The Prophet (SAW) used to walk with Lady Zainab Bint-Jahsh and hold her hand in front of his companions without feeling embarrassed about that like most men do.
Sometimes we only appreciate someone close to us when they die, although we never appreciated them during their lives. I will tell you the story of a girl who studied fine arts and used to paint pictures and portraits and things like that. She decided to paint a picture of her parents and give it to them as a gift on their wedding anniversary. She worked in her room and hid her work from her parents to make it a surprise, until one night her father walked into her room and caught her when she was almost done with the picture. She says she really felt like showing it to him, and when he saw it he marveled at how beautiful his wife is and asked if he could buy a frame for the picture and attach a small card for her mother. So she agreed and they kept the picture a secret from her mother. Unfortunately, her father died before the anniversary day and the girl hesitated before showing the picture to her mother. She finally showed it to her and the mother read her husband’s card in which he said “My daughter reminded me of how lucky I am to have married you – I’ll always look into your eyes.”. The girl’s mother was touched by those words and regretted that she had not heard such sweet words from him during his life.
Moreover, Abu-Bakr asked that his wife Asmaa Bint-Omayr would be the one to wash him and prepare him for burial after his death – this is very strange especially at that time – and when someone inquired about the reason, he replied that she was the closest to his heart, and so she did.
Also, Lady Aisha teaches women how to treat their husbands. She says she once went to bed with the Prophet (SAW) and when he was covered with her quilt, he asked her permission to let him get up and pray for an hour to his Lord (Allah), she replied that she loves to be near him yet prefers what pleases him, that is, she prefers what he likes over what she likes.
On the other hand, Ali Ibn-Abi-Taleb teaches men how to treat their wives: When he was asked to describe his relationship with his wife Fatimah, the Prophet’s daughter, Ali replied with poetry; saying that Muhammad’s daughter is his wife and peace, and that her body and soul are entwined with his. Once Ali found his wife Fatimah brushing her teeth with a sewak (part of a tree bark that people use to clean their teeth), again, he came up with some funny poetry about the sewak to make her laugh.
Fatimah too joked with her husband. The Prophet (SAW) walked in and heard her and Ali laughing out loud, they stopped when he came in, so he asked them about what made them laugh. They had been married for six or seven years then. Ali replied that she insisted that she was older than him although that was not true. Fatimah replied that she was older. So the prophet told his daughter that Ali was right. He thought she was being serious. She replied that she knew that but was only joking with her husband.
There is also Abdullah Ibnul-Mubarak, he was a great companion of the Prophet (SAW) who fought for one year and went for hajj the next; once he was on hajj and missed his wife, so he sent her a message with someone, nowadays we can send text messages to each other in seconds, he had to send a message with a messenger. His message said “My soul missed your soul, did you feel it?”
The Prophet (SAWS) was sitting in his house one day and heard a knocking on the door and when asked who it was he heard a voice similar to lady Khadijah’s voice – that was long after her death. He wished it would be Hala, Khadijah’s sister, as he missed Khadijah and wanted to see one of her relatives. It turned out to be Hala, and he was very happy to see her.
Can this really happen? Of course it can! Allah (SWT) says what can be translated as “Say, ‘in case you (really) love Allah, then closely follow me, (and) Allah will love you and forgive you your guilty (deeds)…’” (TMQ, 3:31). Allah (SWT) also says what can be translated as “Indeed you have already had a fair example, in the Messenger of Allah …” TMQ( 33:21). Let’s apply the social aspect of the Prophet’s (SAW) life.
The important question now is why do we lose love, didn’t Allah (SWT) create amity and mercy deep in our hearts? We lose love when we neglect it. A general rule in life is that anything that is neglected and not taken care of withers up and dies. Love is about actions, not hidden feelings. It’s like a bank account. When you were engaged you had a huge balance of love to rely on, but over the days you keep drawing from that account until you can draw no more – that’s when you can’t tolerate a small argument that you could have tolerated a few years ago. You have to deposit in your wife’s or your husband’s love account, deposit small actions like a smile, a hug, a call to their family members, to protect your love against disputes and hard times. Let’s take advantage of Ramadan, pray together, supplicate together, hold each other’s hands. Again, love is about actions, about effort.
Allah (SWT) said “amity and mercy”, not “love”, what’s the difference? Love is an inner feeling, but amity is a manifestation of love, amity is an action. Love is an invisible feeling, but a smile is an action, that’s amity. That’s why one of Allah’s Most Beautiful Names is Al-Wadud, The Ever-Affectionate, because when Allah (SWT) loves someone an action results; The Prophet (SAW) said “when Allah loves a person, He calls Jibril (Angel “Gabriel”) and says (to him): ‘I love so-and-so, therefore you should also love him.’ So Jibril loves him. Then he makes an announcement in the heaven saying ‘Allah loves so-and-so, therefore you should also love him.’ Then the inhabitants of heaven (the angels) would love him, and acceptance is established for him on earth”. So start depositing in your spouses’ emotion accounts, work together to bring the love back. How long would it take? I would say about a month, from experience, Allah willing. Allah (SWT) assures us that the love is there.
Do not be miserly with your feelings; do not let your spouses look for love outside your homes. Express your feelings and do not be shy. Salman al-Faresi saw Abul-Dardaa’s wife in a bad state, neglecting her appearance and when asked for the reason, she told him that her husband neglected her, as he was busy with worship day and night. This was during the time of the companions, and she was a pious woman, but nowadays, many women in the same situation would start looking for love outside their homes, it is not justifiable, but men should not drive their wives to that. May Allah forgive us all and bring all those husbands and wives who hear us today closer together.
Name of Your Baby
Nama Islam untuk nama bayi Islam anda mempunyai arti penting. Pemilihana nama bayi Islam yang merupakan anugrah Allah telah di mendapat tuntunan nabi. Nama Islam adalah do’a dan untuk itu nama nama bayi Islam anda selayaknya mendapatkan perhatian. Anda dapat mendownload daftar 853 nama Islam untuk nama bayi Islam anda melalui link di blog ini. Mudah2 an nama untuk buah hati anda menjadi do’a yang makbul. Sebelum memilih nama bayi Islam anda ada beberapa panduan memilih nama bayi Islam.
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Feng Shui
Feng Shui Home Design – What To Look For When Buying A Home
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There are many factors in feng shui home design that ought to impact somebody’s decision to purchase a house. When you go house hunting, it’s vital that you have some basic knowledge of feng shui principles to help with the decision making process. There are a number of things to look out for, all of which will help you establish whether or not the house has good ‘qi’ or energy linked to it. If there are too many problem areas, it’s a sign that you’ll be negatively impacted if you choose to live there.
Once inside the house, you will need to carefully observe the structure and entire floor plan of the house. Things to look out for include slanted ceilings, exposed ceiling beams, missing doors and corners. Other important structural features such as the position of doors in relation to windows, the location of stairs in relation to the front door and others are all factors to take into consideration.
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Feng Shui Element – Creating Balance Among The Five Elements
The five elements are the base of feng shui, which is a practice utilized balance and create harmony in a person’s’s surroundings. The whole theory revolves around ‘qi’, which is called a life force or energy. ‘Qi’ is everywhere around us, it is inside of us. This force affects both our surroundings and our moods. These feng shui elements work together to balance the ‘qi’ in our surroundings, that can be shown with the productive and destructive cycles. The productive cycle demonstrates how each element produces or creates another while the destructive cycle shows how each element destroys another. It seems to work both ways in a complete cycle, creating harmony between the elements.
The wood element is represented by the colors green and brown. Living plants and flowers are objects that are connected to the element and can be utilized as decorative items in areas lacking wood. Water nourishes wood from the productive cycle and therefore objects representing the water element are also great additions to an area lacking in wood. Meanwhile metal cuts wood so it is best to get rid of any metal objects in the designated area.
Feng Shui Interior Design – Color And Layout Design Tips For Your Home
Feng shui interior design describes using design elements to improve the ‘qi’ or energy of the home. Each room of the home serves a specific purpose and the interior design of the individual rooms will perform that purpose with the help of feng shui. In this respect, different principles and techniques must be applied to the different rooms. One size doesn’t fit all in this case. Make the most out of every individual room by using totally unique cures and remedies.
The aim of the bedroom is usually to be the room inside the house that promotes rest, relaxation and romance. This is meant for being an area that brings out calmness and tranquility. As a way to do that, colors play a necessary role. Loud colors are the very last thing we wish to use, because they are too much of a distraction and actually promotes restlessness. Furniture placement is also a key factor. The bed should be the main feature of a room and has to be displayed at a commanding position, which is diagonal with the door. There are many other techniques you should utilize to optimize the bedroom, many of which are associated with love. The love corner is another central part of a bedroom, make good use of this area to attract love or maintain good relationships.
Map Bagua – Tool For Mapping Out Your Home For Feng Shui
The map bagua is an eight sided diagram specifically used to represent different aspects of a person’s life. The nine sections, which includes the center portion, symbolize career, wisdom, family, wealth, fame, love, creativity, helpful people and health. Each section can also be paired with a color and the direction of the five elements are mapped out as well. This special feng shui tool is used to locate the areas of a home or an individual room of that home that are associated with the nine sections. As soon as you are able to locate the areas that require changing, you will be able to use simple decoration techniques to it in a way that can improve that aspect of your life.
To utilize a bagua, stand from the front door of your home facing in or from the entrance of a room. Hold the diagram out in front of you with the fame section facing the wall opposite you and then the career section directly before you. This shows that the doorway is a reflection of your career, the wall opposite represents your fame and reputation, and all the remaining seven sections of the bagua may be mapped out in a similar manner. Use this tool to uncover the colors and elements that correlate to the different parts of the given space.
Feng Shui Home Office – Building Success In Your Own Home
You will find two main factors when it comes to the design of the feng shui home office that could determine your success and also the success of your business. The very first important factor should be the actual location of that office in the home and the other involves the structure and placement of objects within the office. If you do any sort of work at home, it is vital that you have a proper home office to do it in. An actual room or space to set aside as your office is required for this purpose. Combining your work space with any other space just isn’t a good feng shui practice. As an example, when you have your bedroom also act as an office, it’ll cause tension between these two different parts of your life, causing problems for both work and sleep.
The most effective location for an office is towards the front of a home, preferably by the entrance. This location allows the ‘qi’ or energy to enter form the front door and flow right into the office to help energize the space and cause you to become more productive and get your work done quickly. Bad locations for an office include the central part of the house, around the basement or anywhere near a bathroom. These areas will actually hurt the ‘qi’ of an office space.
Feng Shui Remedies – Cure Your Home The Easy Way
Feng shui remedies can be found to help you counter any problems that could be the result of the structure of a house or the location of furniture within it. Good feng shui will be achieved when the structure and furniture placement are conducive to liberate the flow of ‘qi’ or energy inside the home. Unless built from scratch aided by the art of placement in mind, most homes are not optimized for being beneficial for you. That’s the reason it really is necessary for you to learn about how and where to utilize cures throughout your home.
Colors are often very effective remedies and they can easily be used to handle problem areas. The balance of a room or a home may be off as a result of missing elements. Since colors basically represent elements, the applying of color associated with the missing element can be used for a cure. This is done in the form of simply adding decorative objects in the specified color or you may even paint entire walls based on how important the element is to the part of the room.
Feng Shui Bedroom Tips – Promote Sleep And Enhance Romance In Your Life
With correct feng shui bedroom tips, it is possible for you to create the perfect room within your home for rest and relaxation, a space you are able to go to to feel calm and get a great night’s sleep. That is the main purpose of a bedroom, to promote sleep. Besides that, it’s a room that’s regularly used to kindle romance between a couple. Knowing this, wouldn’t you wish to create an environment that fosters the ability for you to have improved sleep and much more romance in your life? You’ll be able to do exactly that using simple feng shui techniques.
Bedrooms are meant to produce a sense of calm, not cause you to feel chaotic and anxious. One of the easiest ways for chaos to enter the bedroom is in the form of clutter. If you have an overstuffed bedroom, you must do a complete overhaul and remove anything you don’t need or want anymore. There could be other stuff that still has a place inside your life, but does not necessarily belong inside your bedroom, simply move those out into another part of the home. Clutter not only bogs down your room, it also reflects in your life exactly the same way, reeking havoc and turning into an enormous burden. You’ll notice a sense of letting go the moment you free yourself from all of the clutter.
About Soccer
Maradona : a lovely kiss for little Messi
Hand of GOd , very happy to your children of dream n South Africa. Argentina’s player is succsesful in figting second leg versus South Korea, it’s amazing cause many people think Argentina will draw vs Korean,they played attacking like a Malfina’s .They never giveup although South Korea make one goal.South Korea played good they never givedup too, but the Fortuna’s not belong them. And the last score is four - one for Argentina.
The hero from this game is Messi and Higuane, it’s make Maradona very glad and “kiss” Messi like he make goal with his hand. If Argentina played like this, attack with art of football maybe they can be a winner, the champion of the world in South Africa. Viva Argentina.
Stuck opposition Sexy Models
Moscow – Russia since a few weeks ago with the porn video digemparkan some opposition figures. This causes erosion of the popularity of the opposition in the public eye. Dirty tactics commonly called honey trap that this ever happened in the era of the KGB (Soviet Intelligence) with the aim of paralyzing the enemy.
The main actors in the video nasty is a beautiful model Ekaterina aka Katya Gerasimova. Actually, not just this once he was involved sexual scandal with Russian politicians. Russian media have identified at least three officials involved in the scandal Katya. They are Viktor Shenderovich (a satire of liberal figures), Eduard Limonov (founder of the National Bolshevik Party) and Alexander Belov (former chairman Antiimigrasi Illegal Movement). They all have to admit that the man in the video itself was outstanding.
The last case is horrendous terjebaknya Russian Mikhail Fishman (editor of the Russian version of Newsweek magazine), a famous vocal and critical about the government, by Katya. In the video it looks Fishman was inhaling powder cocaine next to a half-naked Katya.
FREEDOM FOR PALESTINE
Kami perihatin dengan kejadian yang terjadi di Palestina, setiap jam setiap detik terjadi pertumpahan darah. Lalu apa tanggapan dunia internasional, terlebih kejadian beberapa waktu yang lalu kapal “Mavi Marmara” dengan segala upaya diserang untuk kepentingan dan kebiadaban Israel. yang saya tanya sekarang apakah itu pantas?
Mungkin ini hanyalah tulusan kecil yang tak punya arti apa-apa , tapi di hati kami menyimpan sejuta harapan untuk kemerdekaan Palestina. Mereka sudah lelah menghadapi hidup, lebih baik mati sebagai Shahid dari pada hidup dalam bayang bayang Israel yang biadap.
Wahai kaum mukmin tunjukkanlah pengertian dengan tidak hanya mengutuk tapi harus dengan tindakan. Dunia internasional tidak bisa berdaya menghadapi kelicikan Israel. Yang kita butuhkan hanya perdamaian di bumi Palestina, andaikan darahku harus kutumkahkan ditanah Palestina maka itu akan kulakukan !
Karena hanya itu perjuangan yang harus kita lakukan berperang demi perdamain “We Will Not Go Down”
Semangat tidak pernah padam dari hati yang tulus ,setiap muslim akan tergugah dengan penderitaanmu Gaza akan terang benderang kelak, anak-anak akan kembali tersenyum dan tidak akan ada lagi asap hitam yang mengepul diatas Palestina, tidak ada lagi pembantaian, tidak ada lagi janda-janda , tidak ada lagi anak yatim. Palestina tidak akan surut hanya dengan rentetan senjata, Palestina akan tetap bersinar walau darah bertumpah karenapPalestina dibawah naungan ALLAH SWT.
Culture
In one form or another, batik has worldwide popularity. Now, not only is batik used as a material to clothe the human body, its uses also include furnishing fabrics, heavy canvas wall hangings, tablecloths and household accessories. Batik techniques are used by famous artists to create batik paintings, which grace many homes and offices.
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The Javanese aristocrats R.A. Kartini in kebaya and her husband. Her skirt is of batik, with the parang pattern, which was for aristocrats. Her husband is wearing a blangkon
Depending on the quality of the art work, dyes, and fabric, the finest batik tulis halus cloth can fetch several thousand dollars, reflecting the fact that it probably took several months to make. Batik tulis has both sides of the cloth ornamented.
In Indonesia, traditionally, batik was sold in 2.25-meter lengths used for kain panjang or sarong for kebaya dress. It can also be worn by wrapping it around the body, or made into a hat known as blangkon. Infants are carried in batik slings decorated with symbols designed to bring the child luck. Certain batik designs are reserved for brides and bridegrooms, as well as their families. The dead are shrouded in funerary batik.[1] Other designs are reserved for the Sultan and his family or their attendants. A person’s rank could be determined by the pattern of the batik he or she wore.
Sacred Dance of Bedhoyo Ketawang. The batik is wrapped around the body
For special occasions, batik was formerly decorated with gold leaf or dust. This cloth is known as prada (a Javanese word for gold) cloth. Gold decorated cloth is still made today; however, gold paint has replaced gold dust and leaf.
Batik garments play a central role in certain rituals, such as the ceremonial casting of royal batik into a volcano. In the Javanese naloni mitoni “first pregnancy” ceremony, the mother-to-be is wrapped in seven layers of batik, wishing her good things. Batik is also prominent in the tedak siten ceremony when a child touches the earth for the first time. Batik is also part of the labuhan ceremony when people gather at a beach to throw their problems away into the sea.[10]
Contemporary batik, while owing much to the past, is markedly different from the more traditional and formal styles. For example, the artist may use etching, discharge dyeing, stencils, different tools for waxing and dyeing, wax recipes with different resist values and work with silk, cotton, wool, leather, paper or even wood and ceramics. The wide diversity of patterns reflects a variety of influences, ranging from Arabic calligraphy, European bouquets and Chinese phoenixes to Japanese cherry blossoms and Indian or Persian peacocks.[1].
In Indonesia, batik popularity has its up and downs. Historically it was essential for ceremonial costumes and it was worn as part of a kebaya dress, which was commonly worn every day. According to Professor Michael Hitchcock of the University of Chichester (UK), batik “has a strong political dimension. The batik shirt was invented as a formal non-Western shirt for men in Indonesia in the 1960s.
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the mountain have a beutiful spirit, give more inspiration to make a spectacular decission.
A place without green looking isnot good for your eyes, some people give the earth with poison, smoke ,etc . All of them make ” crash damage”.
Gombloh (one famous singer legend in my country) said : “LESTARI ALAMKU” , he was fight with a people who doing trouble , make crash of nature.they cutting many trees that the nation protected. it make the river flowd, the land cannot put some water. its all the most important to protec, make the balances of nature.
so let take the program ” one people one tree” its make the world looks green and our childhood grow up and health.
Gambarku
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Harry Oto
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