Terry Was Burdened With Re-release Of Chrisye's Hands And Feet

Terry (Doc. Sony Music Entertainment Indonesia)

JAKARTA - Terry Shahab presented a religious song at the beginning of Ramadan this year. Slightly different from the previous singles, this time the owner of the full name Terryana Fathiah Shahab sang the hit of the late Chrisye entitled "When Hands and Feet of Berkata".

Terry says the idea of this song comes as he chats with his mother about his past habits that likes to cover songs. From this chat, the idea came to repeat Chrisye's 1997 popular song.

This title also crossed Terry's mind while listening to one of his first lectures with Ustadzah Halimah Alaydrus entitled 'Prahara Mahsyar'.

"From the conversation with mother and inspired by Ustadzah Halimah's lecture, I also conveyed to the Sony Music team that I wanted to present this song as a reminder for Muslims that everything we do has a calculation and reply to it later after Heroes' Day," Terry said in a written broadcast received by VOI, February 28.

"I also sang this song on a private TV during the hijrah in 2015 and felt an extraordinary thing when performing it, namely the desire to be istiqomah after picking up guidance from Allah. Therefore, being able to sing it again as the newest single is an opportunity that I have been waiting for for for for a long time," he added.

From the selection of songs to the recording process it took about a month. According to Terry, there will be a slight change in this latest version of the song, but it will not be far from the original arrangement.

But the toughest challenge for him is because the lyrics are real and are listed in QS Yasin paragraphs 65 and QS Al Isra verse 36 so he has to sing with full appreciation. Terry is grateful that he was assisted by the Sony Music team so that the process of making this single itself could run smoothly.

For Terry himself, the song When Hands and Feet of Berkata has a very deep meaning, especially for Muslims.

"Apart from being a reminder of the calculations and replies of what we are doing in the world, I also want to dismiss the assumption that Muslims say that karma does exist' because karma law is not Islamic law. In Islam there is no karma, there is God Who Gives Calculations and is Most Fair. Not everyone gets what they do in the world, but it will be another story when humans enter day of computation or yaumul reckoning. There, everything we do will be counted and held accountable," concluded the singer who was born on June 14.