 After about a year settling in Sungai Batang, Abdul Malik left his hometown again to go to Medan in 1936.During his time in Medan, he worked as an editor and became editor-in-chief of a magazine "Pedoman Masyarakat," which he founded with an Islamic cleric M. Yunan Nasution.Through" Pedoman Masyarakat", he used the penname "Hamka" for the first time.