Teks Pidato Bahasa Inggris Perwakilan MTs Al Hidayah Kuantan Singingi Riau dalam Rangka Lomba Porsema ke-VIII tahun 2019

Assalamu’alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh,

Dear juries

Dear protocols

And my Moslem brothers

 

Before I am going to deliver my speech I hope all audiences to thank our God Allah SWT for He has bestowed us abundant mercies, so, due to these we are able to attend this peaceful meeting.

Furthermore, we, specially send our peace and salutation to our prophet Muhammad SAW, His messenger and His servant.

And I thank protocol who has provided me time to speak today entitled:

Youth Generation That Brings Alteration

            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.

Dear Moslem brothers!

            When we talk about youngsters, we often find in many articles and we ourselves even witness the great role of youth participation in developing, favoring, and supporting the development of nation. They are the hope of nation who will carry out the struggle for the sake of brighter future of the country. Similarly, they are at the same time, the hope of Islamic religion will strive for the sake of Islamic teaching in the next, maintain the Islamic law, who will safeguard the Moslem young generation at large from influence of destructive western style of life, who will be leaders for the next. It was yelled as: TODAY IS YOUNG TOMORROW WILL BE A LEADER.

            This statement encourages us to pay attention to the young existence in the future. By knowing all the facts we realize, how important role the young have for the future. The youths supposedly symbolize the force never become weak quickly. For this reason, the former president of Indonesia Soekarno has once said: “GIVE ME TEN YOUTHS WOULD SHAKE THE WORLD”. From this statement we can sum up that Soekarno appreciated the young people more than the old. Why? Because they play significant roles, have great potency and great energy that can be prided.

            Who doesn’t know Mr. Soekarno, our first president 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

 

From the three points above, we can come to the conclusion that to bring the balance of physical alterations, youths also need to take into consider of three things that underlie spiritual alterations:

1. Youths need to have strong faith

2. Youth need to be always istiqamah in performing any religious services and duties

3. Youths have good manners or akhlak khasanah

            And while we are it, staying healthy is an important part of growing up. Living a healthy lifestyle also can be beneficial not only physically abut also emotionally. In puberty, we have to deal with many problematic things in school, staying healthy can really help not to be overwhelmed. Staying healthy physically can help us stay healthy emotionally too. Keeping a good eating habit and taking care of our body will make our body string and help us to cope with stress.

            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. 

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