English Lesson: Fault, Mistake, Error, or Blunder?

Use fault when explaining who is responsible for something bad.
It’s my fault that the car was stolen. I left the window open.
It’s my mistake the car was stolen. I left the window open.
Use mistake or error for talking about something that you did or thought which was wrong. Error is slightly more formal than mistake.
We lost a week’s work due to a computer error.
I still make lots of mistakes in my essays.
I still make lots of faults in my essays.

And here are some words related to fault, mistake, error, and blunder. This is taken from Cambridge Dictionary.

blunder (noun)
a big mistake, usually caused by lack of care or thought:
Examples:
He said that the tax was a major political blunder.
I made a bit of a blunder by getting his name wrong.

bug (COMPUTER) (noun)
a mistake or problem in a computer program:
Example:
A bug caused the company’s computer system to crash.

English Lesson: Travel, Journey, or Trip?

The noun travel is a general word which means the activity of travelling.
Example: Air travel has become much cheaper.
Use journey to talk about when you travel from one place to another.
Examples: He fell asleep during the train journey.
Did you have a good journey? Did you have a good travel?
A trip is a journey in which you visit a place for a short time and come back again.
Examples: a business trip, a 3-day trip to Spain

And these are some words related to travel, journey, and trip. This is taken from Cambridge Dictionary.

adventure (noun)
an unusual, exciting and possibly dangerous activity such as a journey or experience, or the excitement produced by such an activity:
Examples:
She had some exciting adventures in Egypt.
We got lost on the Metro – it was quite an adventure.
Sam won’t come – he’s got no sense of adventure (= he does not enjoy dangerous or exciting situations).

How to Improve Your English

English is now considered the most important language around the world. There are some reasons for that. English is used as mother tongue in many big countries such as United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia. It is also used as the most important second language in some countries, such as Netherlands. Furthermore, most of references in many disciplines of sciences and technology are available in English. Hence, if we want to learn those disciplines well, we have to master English.

Similar to any other language, English has some aspects to learn. To be precise, they are four: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Reading and writing are parts of written English, whereas listening and speaking are parts of spoken English. Basically, if you want to master the four aspects mentioned, you have to be good in grammar and vocabularies. Perhaps you need much shorter time to master grammar. However, you need much longer time to master vocabularies. You even need to learn vocabularies all time in your life, because vocabularies always expand from time to time.

Say No to Premarital Sex (PMS)!

Talking about youngster’s lifestyle, I’m surprised that these days many of them have a terribly bad, ridiculous lifestyle. I have interviewed many girls from different countries such as united states, canada, european countries, and south america countries. I asked them whether they have sex before marriage, or usually called premarital sex. Oh my god, most of them said yes. They said that having sex before marriage is okay. There is no problem to do that. Furthermore, many of them don’t only have sex with one guy. They even experience sex with more than one guy. What a crazy thing!

I just wonder how the girls don’t realize that they are actually the victims. Eventhough they really enjoy having sex with their boyfriends, they should realize that premarital sex is always not good for them. When a guy asks a girl to go to bed with him before marriage, it means that he doesn’t really love her. In such condition, he actually only wants sex. He only wants to get her sweetness. He only wants to taste her sexy body. He only wants to enjoy her hot body. Not more than that. In fact, most of those guys just leave her after he have had sex with her many times. They just leave her after they feel bored of her. The condition will be worse if the girl gets pregnant and then bears a baby. Those guys just leave her and her baby. They don’t want to be responsible at all.

Behind the Creation of the Universe

The first Qur’anic verse revelated onto Muhammad is QS Al-Alaq : 1.
“Read in the name of your Lord who created”.

The verse above states that we must read. What is to be read ? We must read all the signs of Allah, which include the spoken signs (aayaat qauliyah) and the created signs (aayaat kauniyah). The spoken signs are the Qur’anic verses and their explanation : As-Sunnah An-Nabawiyah (the Tradition of the Prophet). The created signs include the signs on the universe (al-aafaaq) and the signs on the human body (al-anfus). [Look at QS Fushshilat : 53]

Our duty relating with the spoken signs is to read and understand them well (al-qira-ah wat tadabbur). Our duty relating with the created signs is to read them (al-qira-ah) and to think about them (at-tafakkur) [Look at QS Ali Imran : 190-191]. The goal of all those activities is to more recognize Allah – through His signs – by which we can be more fearful of Him. [Look at QS Faathir : 28 and QS Ali Imran : 191]

No God but Allah The Creator and The Sustainer

Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. Praise be to Him, who revelated the Holy Book onto Muhammad, by which we have guidance to reach the real happiness, in here life and here-after life.

Nothing to say but praise be only to Allah. How much pleasure and joy He has been giving us are, so as we are never and never able to calculate how much they are. It is absolutely true that Allah said : Wa in ta’udduu ni’matallahi laa tuhshuuhaa (If you calculate the pleasure He gives, you can never do it).

No god but He The Only. We worship none but Him. O Allah … Make us the monotheists, who worship none but You and who never take any other god beside you.

Karen Armstrong: A Quite Good Writer on Muhammad and Islam

Among many books on Islam and Muhammad written by western people, ‘Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet’ is – in my opinion – quite good. Written by Karen Armstrong, this book looks more fair. The writer wrote the book’s content based on his quite deep knowledge on Muhammad and Islam, with no significant distortion.

Different from some other western writers, Armstrong accepted the idea of divine revelation. He stated that rejecting the idea of revelation is not reasonable because it is one of the principal ideas in Islam, as well as in Judaism and Christianity. She described Muhammad as not only a human, but also a God Messenger who accepted God’s holy messages through the revelation.

Four Keys for Your Health

More than just a religion consisting of spiritual teachings, Islam is very aware of all aspects of human life. One of those aspects is human health. In Islam’s perspective, health is a very valuable God’s gift. Consequently, we have to take care of the gift. The question now is how to take care of our health? Does Islam explain the way to do it? Yes, of course. Islam explains the way. I will write it down for you.

Welcome to My Blog

This is the first post of my personal blog. I’d like to say: “Welcome to my nice, unique blog. I hope you can take many benefits from this blog.” Here, I write everything I want. Yes, I write because I want to. To be easily browsed, I put my posts into many categories as you can see them in the sidebar.

What I really want from you is that you visit this blog, read the posts, take some benefits, and give any comments to the posts. On the other hand, I also hope to visit yours, so we can ‘take and give’ each other. Hopefully…