Last week I’ve just finished a novel ‘The Land of Five Towers’ by A. Fuadi. I can say the whole story have sucked me in, truly inspiring and successfully igniting my will to travel the world. I’ve been moved by the wisdom of Imam Syafii which was braided into a rhyme entitled ‘Travel’.
Travel
Clever and civilized man will not stay at home
Leave your homeland and explore foreign fields
Go out! You shall find replacements for those you have left
Give your all, the sweetness of life will be tasted after the struggle
I have seen that standing water stagnates
If it flows, it is pure, if it does not, it will become murky
If the lion doesn’t leave his den, he will not eat
If the arrow does not leave the bow, it will not strike
If the sun stands still in its orbit
Man will tire of it
Gold dust is merely soil before excavated
Aloewood is just ordinary wood if in the forest
-Imam Syafii-
The outspoken mind 