TRAVEL STORY SLANK LEAVE DRUGS

Sweat beaded on his face. Shivering. His face was gaunt and haggard menyemburatkan pain very. His breathing was wheezing. At the peak of unbearable pain, anakmuda the withdrawal (ketigahan drugs), thought of God. "Yes, God, heal me of this pain, free me from the snare of drugs," moaned his heart, a prayer.
Suddenly, he felt a coolness, flow through his soul. Coolness is like water soaking physical pain.
Bimbim, thus the withdrawal anakmuda it, can not forget the experience. That experience, not just an impression in his booth, but prompted him to get closer to him once more live up to Islam. Piece prayer for him at critical peak, becoming drug her out of the snare of drugs.
Bimbim, who do not know the name of it? The name was engraved on the minds of slanker, fans of rock group Slank. Bimbim together Slank personnel, such as the plural for the rocker in part at that time, it had become a slave to drugs. Drugs like a demon. Initially, mengiming-lure freedom of expression and a wealth of creativity, so they used the drug to exist in the world of Indonesian music. "I used to use drugs can indeed help," Bimbim story.
Not surprisingly, the drugs become the lifestyle, the crew Slank. Not only Bimbim, Kaka and Irfan was mengonsumsinya.Maka with celong eyes, uncontrollable behavior, they are more like a monster on stage. Ironically, fans touted him. "The odd even outsiders who see us. We still feel really well, "recalls Bimbim.
However, the drug Like the devil. After falling to the drug, as well as Kaka Bimbim later feel the power of "magic" drugs, diminished. Instead, they feel the physical and mental increasingly withered, even, quoting their terms, "almost dead." Feel bad effects, Slank crew had agreed to come out of the trap of drugs. Initially, they tried to reduce the dose, with the hope someday can be stopped.
The reality? Up to five years, they would not stop. "So if you want to be a sudden stop. Today is going to stop, so the day was also no longer willing to come into contact with drugs, "said the drummer. Kaka, the vocalist, think so. He described, medicine and doctors only helper, whose main intention is to stop. Irfan, bass player, adding that the willingness of all God for guidance. "Without prayer we may not be free of drugs." Those who do not believe God is impossible out of the snare of drugs.
Without the help of God and the support of family, the crew Slank it believed, were impossible to recover. "We do not forget to pray. Yes pray for our careers and to escape from drugs. Thank God finally answered by God and we are given the opportunity again, "Bimbim story.
On the other hand, according to Kaka, the role of the family, especially mother (parent Bimbim) causing them to heal. Mother was so patient and painstaking care for them. Facing crew-crew Slank, Mother of treating them, is like a baby. Thanks to the prayers themselves and Mother once ketawakkalan parents, they recover from drugs, in 2000.
All five - Bimbim, Kaka, Ridho, Abdi and Ifan - now feel more healthy physical and spiritual than the first. Managed to get out of the confines of the "devil" is, is the greatest spiritual experience, the crew Slank. "Come to think of it is impossible we can get out, without God's help."
Thanks to his help - that if it's just impossible to use human logic they receive His guidance as a result of evils of behavior - they realize how merciful God. They also increasingly sought to draw closer to religion. One form praying before concerts. "Yes, just imagine, we often concerts in many cities in just three months. Roughly it not for the help of God, we would not be robust. Praise concert went well, "said Bimbim.
Claimed to have started the prayer ritual before a gig from the start, Kaka tells the story, with all the crew Slank Muslims, it makes the compact. "Bismillah prayer and read Fatihah," the story of Kaka. Slank is more mature, even, now seeks to bring awareness to the fans on the sidelines of the show.
Other memorable experience for this rocker when enliven concert Republika AH held two years ago. "Without thinking we iyakan, this is a blessing," recalls Bimbim. Is the first religious musical experience Slank, in the event the Islamic, this rock group collaborated with Hadad Alwi.
What are plucked from the religious musical experience? presupposes that the concert is another form of worship Slank, Kaka admitted there different shades because it had never sang religious songs. Inspiration for this song is rather difficult to do in a short time. When to pop rock song usually only takes one day, but it animates new religious song could be two days. Even then, after many asked Hadad Alwi and the number of people who understand Arabic.
Their daily lives are now increasingly Islamic mainly because all the personnel Muslims. It creates an atmosphere conducive to Slank. Each being able to tell each other and give directions. Sometimes one of the fifth reminded to pray. Despite religious routine activities have not been implemented, but there are certain moments that they use to gather together. Such iftar, the meal and takbiran together.
Bimbim are now more transparent comparing advanced society in a secular country. There, he says, most of the population does not believe in God. In Indonesia? Despite modern life, people still remember God. Bimbim also hope they can realize the dream in the future, namely menyelipnya reliji shades on his new albums. However, Bimbim asserts, Islam is not to be identical with the Arabic, as well as with the music. "For Slank, Islamic music can be covered with any style, modern pop for instance," he said

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