THE GREAT HARVEST IN RUMAH DUNIA

Posted by admin on April 24th, 2007 filed in The World Home

gambarabt.jpgBy Gola Gong / Translated by Diday Tea

In every ends of the year, our neighborhood is surrounded by the smell from the flowers. There are mangoes tree in almost every house. In October the mangoes trees blossomed. In December mangoes hanged down on the trees, overripe asked to be caressed. And so is the tree of jambu air and the rambutan(name of fruits in Indonesia). I felt, if the trees were treated well, certainly they will repay the treatment giving so many fruits. From the trees I learned, that the tree not merely was the patron from the heat of the sun light and the street dust. But also they have other benefits; they gave the outstanding enjoyment, which is the gift of great deliciousness from that fruit, that, it was healthy for our body as well as our thoughts.More...

GROW
I be reminded when with my wife – Tias Tatanka during 1998, began introduced the world House to people around our neighborhood; the Hegar Alam residence and the Ciloang village.I tried to copy philosophy of the fruit tree. If people wrote the plank of the name of the owner of the house with “Drs.Ardy Djatmika” or “Drs.Wawan Setiawan”, we took the different method.We went to the market and ordered to the name craftsman of the name of two words:Rumah Dunia.
 

The plank of this name we stick in front of our house.People who crossed our house will read like that. Several supposed that the owner of our house had a name “Mr. Rumah Dunia”. We compared as we was burying the seed named the tree of Rumah Dunia. With bismillah we carried it out. “Ya, Allah, if ‘seed’ that was buried by us this will bring the benefit, then grow it well.” we did not just bury them, but we watered with water of love, water of sincerity.The tree named Rumah Dunia then grew slowly with our two children; Bela and Abi.
 

In our garden had the jambu batu tree and the toy palace of our two children. Moreover,we served tem with tradisiional food; fried banana and sweets. The condition is, they were required to speak in front of their friends; introduced them self and their family. After that, cakes were then distributed by us. The toy palace then opened for them.
 

In 2001, we succeeded in buying the garden measured 500 square meters in the area behind our house. We invited children around our village to come to the world House.We spread simple leaflet. I made the leaflet with Windows program. Tias copied them. Only two of us at that time. Helped by Bella (4 th) and Abi (3 th). Small children came to Rumah Dunia, precisely in the garden in the area behind our house.
 

Initially Bella and Abi objected when their toy was kept in the toy palace and was used for playing by village children. With patience was explained to them, that sharing to others is pleasant. That sharing with others will make us happy. Finally they followed what we do. They agreed to be a volunteer with full of enthusiasm.
 
LOVE
Every Day we thought about the new agendas, so that village children who came to Rumah Dunia always get the new experience and stays. All the plans were discussed by us always we share with Bella and Abi. We involved them since the beginning. For example, we conduct story telling competition between the playing agenda. The prices are candies, shocolate, and stationery. After that, we let them free to play around or climbing the Jambu tree and taking the fruit.
 

We allowed our garden as the playing ground. So we want to share love with the village children. In Al Qur’an Surah A-Fath:29, we are so impressed by Allah’s promise. It was told that Muhammad as the messenger of Allah still loving his enemies who denounced Allah as a lie. How about our friends and relatives? So, we don’t have any other excuses to not loving the Ciloang village’s children, who in generally lacked of education. We made them as sociological children.
 

At that time, we did not yet introduce them to the book. Only two linguistic skills we introduced them; speaking and listening. Reading and writing, we introduce them after sixth months passed. At that time, we sure that they already feel that Rumah Dunia is belong to them. Every day, children continually flow to Rumah Dunia. We felt that this 500 meters area did not satisfied again for the activities. We imagined, if we could buy the garden in front of the area, the children will have a larger playing ground. We tried to approach the owner, to borrow it.
 

Thanks God, the owner doesn’t objected at all. We were allowed to use his land. We promised, if we have a money, we will buy the land. For temporary, we borrowed it first. And then we built a stage from bamboo. We teach the children theatre and poem reading. At every weekend, there is always a shows on that stage. We ask everyone who coming to visit Rumah Dunia to pray on us. “ We want to buy this land, so Rumah Dunia get more spacious, a thousand meter square!”
 THE HARVEST
The most exciting moment is when we were harvesting the both jambu trees. The children are fighting to climb, so we have to arrange them well. Every one of them get they turn to climb and take the fruit of jambu tree. Sometimes, we heard people were gossiping on us, why would we do all that things? For us, all the things we have only entrusted by God to us. If wanted, He could take it back anytime. The other thing, if those trees could speak, may be they will protest, why they only take the benefits of the tree for themself?
 

If it was true, shame on us. Even an animal called Cow, which everyday eating grass only, let humankind to take their milk with sincerely. And why would we zakat, we concider it as a part of our charity in form of infaq and sedekah. We believed that we will never get poor only caused by let the Children of Ciloang Village enjoy to harvest the jambu batu tree.
 

Even the parents around our neighborhood are coming to Rumah Dunia. They as a banana leaves as a package for uduk rice, katuk leaves, sirih leaves, young jambu batuleaves as a cure for they children who had a stomach-ache, and salam leaves. When they are using all of the trees, we started to plant mangoe trees, sukun, papaya, sirsak, seri, and lengkeng.
We alyas ask to God to grow the trees well and we could share them to anyone. We only have to arrange it. Ah, why would we could get frightened. Is it if our life could be a benefit for the others, we will feel that this life has a meaning? Why we lived, if not to be useful for the others. That so.
For us, being useful is much more important then only become important person. And the most important, we always remember to God’s promise in sura Al Baqarah, 261, that said that the wealth that we gave in the way of God, is as same as a seed that grow into seven stems, and every stems grows another one hundred seeds. Subhanallah. Who is the one who will not tempted with a gift like this?
If we compared with recent condition, almost in every corners that was our eyes could reach, we are surrounded by so many kind of advertisement with a gifts r prices or even bonus only. Buy a motor bike you get a car, and also you buy a car you will get a motor bike. Buy a handphone, you could get free travel to abroad. And why dont we get interested to share a little bit of our wealth to get a great bonus in form of Heaven in the future?
 

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