{"id":124959,"date":"2018-10-03T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=124959"},"modified":"2018-10-03T08:59:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T00:59:42","slug":"author-of-ayat-ayat-cinta-on-preaching-through-book-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=124959","title":{"rendered":"Author of &#8220;Ayat-Ayat Cinta&#8221; on preaching through book writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Maisarah Armas<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 3 October 2018: Habiburrahman El-Shirazy, the writer of \u0153Ayat-Ayat Cinta\u009d, popularly known as Kang Abik, conducted a class on writing and held a book review session on of his \u0153Ayat Ayat Cinta 2\u009d last Friday (30 Sept).<\/p>\n<p>The event was part of the programmes in conjunction with\u00c2\u00a0the Indonesian Day celebration, organised by the Indonesian Students Association (PPI-IIUM) at Mini Auditorium and Experimental Hall.<\/p>\n<p>\u0153Writing is an important way to make people smarter as Prophet Muhammad S.A.W and His companion did a lot of writing during that time,&#8221; Kang Abik said.<\/p>\n<p>Kang Abik outlined six steps on how to write a best seller novel. &#8220;The first step is that the writer should have enough materials to write, including who, what, when, where, and why. Next, make a small note. Then, start to write. Follow up with table of contents. Furthermore, create the content chapter by chapter. After that, review what you have written.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The session continued with a book review of \u0153Ayat-Ayat Cinta 2\u009d. Kang Abik said, \u0153It was very hard to write the sequel for &#8216;Ayat-Ayat Cinta 2&#8217;. But I ended up writing it because of the request from my readers. I considered my writing as my own &#8216;children&#8217; and I write for the sake of observance and to ask people to worship Allah.\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u0153I wrote to spread Islamic teaching in a different way, through books,&#8221; Kang Abik added. ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maisarah Armas GOMBAK, 3 October 2018: Habiburrahman El-Shirazy, the writer of \u0153Ayat-Ayat Cinta\u009d, popularly known as Kang Abik, conducted a class on writing and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":124960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[708,115],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/photo_2018-10-02_23-56-21.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124959"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124991,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124959\/revisions\/124991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}