As a Muslim, it is my
obligation to read my holy book – Al-Quran. Reading Quran is one of
the ways we can do to get the safaat (help) in the day of hisab (the
day when our good deeds and bad deeds are measured). And yet reading
Quran often be the thing we feel hard to do. Especially when we
should read as many as one or two juz. One juz is approximately 20
pages and if we read Quran one juz per day, we can finish reading it
in one month. One thing to that might make you and me persistent in
reading quran is by joining a program called ODOJ. What is ODOJ?
ODOJ (stands for One Day
One Juz) is basically a program of reciting holy Quran (wherever you
are) in a regular basis and it is facilitated via WhatsApp. I think I
need not to tell anyone about WhatsApp here as you might have heard
the popularity of it. In a simple way, ODOJ is a group of WhatsApp
consisting of 30 members and one administrator. If all members (the
30 people) can read one juz per day, that means this group has
finished reading the whole Quran on that day (we call it khatam).
Awesome isn't it? Moreover, if all members of the group again keep
reading it for 30 days, every single of them has finished reading the
whole quran in one month. It's super cool idea! Currently, there are
around 1300 female groups and 600 male groups of ODOJ (female and
male are separated). The numbers are growing!
The administrator is the
one who invites the 30 people and motivates them. The administrator
is basically also a member of the ODOJ group, but the prior one and
he is deemed a senior. So he or she also does read the Quran. The
ODOJ members-to-be have to register through a website (onedayonejuz.org/pendaftaran/) before they can
join the group. It is nice that we can get 30 new friends via
WhatsApp and all of them have the same vision – khatam the Quran.
As in WhatsApps there
are many cool icons, we could find entertainment while we make
endeavor to finish a juz. As an example, when you have finished one
juz, your name will be listed and given icon 100 or checklist. But
if you haven't finished reading (on progress), your name will be
given zero. If you are the very first one finished reading one juz,
you will be rewarded with a super icon (such as a helicopter or
train). We don't expect it though, it is just hilarious and fun!
Often the case, we human
really need good friends in order to be good people. Environment is
so much important. We also sometimes feel motivated when others can
do better thing than us. This is the fundamental of ODOJ program
which is designed by someone I didn't really know. But he is
graduated from the same university as mine (UPI Bandung). I thank him
very much. May Allah love you.
At ODOJ we feel all of
us are brothers as we can motivate to each other to finish reading
the Quran (one Juz). It is the biggest happiness and a sublime
attainment of ours if every single of us could finish reading one juz
per day. Due to our worldly activities, we sometimes finished reading
it at late night. And yet all of us often feel really unspoken bliss,
indeed.
Muslims are indeed the
ones who should really take benefits of every technology advancement,
regardless who the inventor is. This technology invention should make
our good deeds increase. Here I would like to thank WhatsApp for
making a cool app, thanks to Google for making Android and makes it
popular, thanks to Sony Xperia, Samsung and all phone manufactures
for making the phones more and more affordable so that anyone can
buy, thanks to governments and all telephone carriers around the
globe for providing Internet connection. All of you have made our
goal attained! All of you have facilitated us in conducting our duty
as Muslims (reading our noble Quran). May Allah keep our intention
pure, Only for Him.
I hope you can join
ODOJ, too.
Wassalamualaikum,
