Surah Muhammad ayat 7 :
"Wahai orang- orang yg beriman,
jika kamu menolong Allah, nescaya Dia akan
menolong kamu dan meneguhkan kedudukanmu."

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

I Still Know Who She Is

It was a busy morning, about 8:30 , when an elderly gentleman in his 80s arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He said he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00.

I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would be able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided since I wasn ’ t busy with another patient, I would evaluate his wound. On examining it I saw it was well healed, so I talked to one of the doctors and got the needed supplies to remove his sutures and redress his wound.

While taking care of his wound, I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment this morning, as he was in such a hurry. The gentleman told me no, that he needed to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his wife.
I inquired as to her health. He told me that she had been there for a while! As she is a victim of Alzheimer's disease .

As we talked, I asked if she would be upset if he was a bit late. He replied that she no longer knew who he was, that she had not recognized him in five years now.
I was surprised and asked him, 'And you still go every morning, even though she doesn't know who you are?'
He smiled as he patted my hand and said , 'She doesn't know me but I still know who she is.' I had to hold back tears as he left, I had goose bumps on my arm and thought.
That is the kind of love I want in my life. True love is neither physical nor romantic .
True love is an acceptance of all that is, has been, will be, and will not be.

Peace is seeing a sunset and knowing who to thank. The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything they have.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

TAZKIRAH

Mari kita bicarakan tajuk yang dipilih oleh Imam an-Nawawi untuk dijadikan tajuk pertama di dalam kitabnya Riadh as-Solihin dan Hadis Arba’ein an-Nawawiyyah. Tajuk yang diilhamkan dari sepotong Hadis yang disampaikan oleh sahabat besar yang sangat hebat, iaitu sayyidina Umar bin al-Khattab (رضي الله عنه )

Kepentingan Hadis ini serta isi kandungannya digambarkan oleh Abd ar-Rahman bin Mahdi (135-198H), seorang muhaddith yang thiqah dengan kata-katanya: sekiranya aku menulis kitab yang mengandungi beberapa bab, nescaya akan aku letakkan Hadis Umar ini pada setiap bab.
Seorang ulamak besar kurun ke 7 hijriah, Ibn Abi Jamrah berkata: aku bercita-cita kalaulah ada di kalangan fuqahak seorang yang tidak ada lain kerjanya kecuali mengajar manusia tentang tujuan setiap amalan yang mereka lakukan. Dia duduk mengajar peranan dan kepentingan niat, itu sahaja. Sesungguhnya kebanyakan manusia tidak ditimpa musibah selain daripada mensia-sia niat.
Kata-kata itu memang ada asasnya. Allah (عز و جل) tidak memerintahkan hamba-Nya kecuali mengikhlaskan niat di dalam beribadah kepada-Nya seperti firman-Nya:
وَمَآ أُمِرُوٓاْ إِلَّا لِيَعۡبُدُواْ ٱللَّهَ مُخۡلِصِينَ لَهُ ٱلدِّينَ
(Al-Bayyinah:5)
Rasulullah ( صلى الله عليه وسلم ) bersabda maksudnya: “Sesungguhnya Allah tidak menerima daripada amalan itu kecuali yang ikhlas dan mencari keredhaan-Nya”. (Menurut al-Albani, Hadis Hasan)

Apa maksud ikhlas?

Imam Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله ) di dalam kitab Madarij as-Salikin, mengemukakan beberapa pandangan ulamak mengenai ikhlas.

Pertama: Ikhlas ialah mengesakan al-Haq (Allah) pada niat di dalam taat. Maksudnya, ketaatan yang dilakukan dengan niat semata-mata untuk mendapat keredhaan-Nya.

Kedua: Menyingkirkan perbuatan daripada pemerhatian makhluk. Maksudnya, elakkan perbuatan kita daripada tujuan mendapat perhatian manusia.

Ketiga: Amalan yang dilakukan oleh seseroang hamba itu sama pada zahir dan batin.

Keempat: Muslim meletakkan qasad (tujuan) segala perkataan dan perbuatannya hanyalah Wajah Allah Ta’ala. Dia mengharap pahala dan takut siksa, menghindarkan ria’ dan kemasyhuran di kalangan manusia.

Kelima: Lupa memandang makhluk kerana sentiasa melihat kepada al-Khaliq.
Semua makna yang dikemukakan, walaupun susunan ayatnya tampak berbeza, ia hanya menunjukkan satu pengertian bahawa ikhlas adalah satu tuntutan dan syarat diterima segala amalan.

Di dalam beberapa riwayat, Nabi (صلى الله عليه وسلم) memberi peingatan yang cukup jelas, amalan yang tidak ikhlas bukan sahaja tidak diterima, sebaliknya ia menjadi penyebab binasanya seseorang hamba. Abu Daud dan Ibn Majah meriwayatkan bahawa baginda telah bersabda maksudnya: “Sesiapa yang mempelajari satu ilmu yang seharusnya digunakan untuk mencari redha Allah, dia tidak mempelajarinya melainkan untuk mendapatkan habuan dunia, dia tidak akan dapat menghidu wanginya syurga pada hari qiamat kelak”.

Bagaimana mengikhlaskan niat?

Terdapat beberapa cara dan langkah yang boleh membantu dalam usaha membersihkan hati daripada anasir-anasir yang mencemarkan niat.

1. Mujahadah an-nafs, iaitu usaha gigih yang berterusan melawan nafsu yang terselit di dalam diri sendiri. Seorang ahli sufi yang terkenal waraknya, Sahal at-Tasatturiy (200-283H) pernah ditanya tentang sesuatu yang paling sukar diterima oleh nafsu. Beliau menjawab, ikhlas!

2. Sentiasa bertaqwa kepada Allah.

3. Memahami dan menghayati kesempurnaan, kekuasaan, keagungan, kekayaan, pengawasan dan keluasan kurniaan Allah di samping menginsafi kelemahan, kefaqiran, kehinaan dan ketidak upayaan hamba. Apakah patut kita berharap kepada hamba yang lemah dan membelakangkan Dia yang Maha Kuasa dan Maha Kaya?

4. Banyakkan doa, meminta dan merayu kepada-Nya agar dikurniakan hati yang ikhlas
(يا مقلب القلوب ثبت قلبي على دينك)
(يا حي يا قيوم أصلح لي شأني كله ولا تكلني إلى نفسي طرفة عين أبدا)
(اللهم إني أعوذ بك أن أشرك بك شيئا أعلمه وأستغفرك مما لا أعلمه)

5. Rahsiakan ibadah dan kebaikan yang dilakukan seboleh mungkin.

6. Mengkritik nafsu dan menghisabnya dari masa ke masa berkaitan dengan niat.

7. Memerhati akan pantasnya kehidupan dunia dan cepatnya menuju kehancuran, seraya berfikir tentang akhirat, kenikmatan serta kesengsaraan yang tidak berkesudahan.

8. Waspada sentiasa terhadap godaan perasaan kagum kepada diri sendiri, seronok dipuji, suka memimpin dan menonjolkan diri. Perhati dan rawati selalu agar tidak bertapak menjadi penyakit yang sukar diubati.
الله أعلم

Ukhtukunna fillah

Ustazah Maznah Daud

Sunday, April 11, 2010


HOW PROFESSOR GARY MILLER BECOME A MUSLIM

Professor Gary Miller, the active Canadian preacher and mathematics and logic lecturer at Toronto University, decided to provide a great service to Christianity through exposing scientific and historical errors in the Quran in such a way that would be beneficial to him and his fellow preachers in calling Muslims to Christianity. However, the result was completely to the contrary. Miller's writings were fair and his study and comments were positive, even better than many Muslims would write about the Quran. He considered the Quran, as it should be and reached the conclusion that it cannot be a work of a human being.

What Gary Miller says about the story of Abu Lahab?

In his lecture, "The Amazing Quran", 1977, Gary Miller said:

"Prophet Muhammad had an uncle by the name of Abu Lahab. This man hated Islam to such an extent that he used to follow the Prophet around in order to discredit him. If Abu Lahab saw the Prophet speaking to a stranger, he would wait until they parted and he would go to the stranger and ask him, "What did he tell you? Did he say, 'Black'? Well, it's white. Did he say 'morning'? Well, it's night."

He faithfully said the exact opposite of whatever he heard Muhammad and the Muslims say. However, about ten years before Abu Lahab died; a little chapter in the Quran (Surah 111) was revealed about him. It distinctly stated that he would go to the fire (i.e., Hell). In other words, it affirmed that he would never become a Muslim and would therefore be condemned forever.

For ten years all Abu Lahab had to do was say, "I heard that it has been revealed to Muhammad that I will never change - that I will never become a Muslim and will enter the Hellfire. Well, I want to become Muslim now.

How do you like that? What do you think of your divine revelation now?" But he never did that. And yet, that is exactly the kind of behavior one would have expected from him since he always sought to contradict Islam.

In essence, Muhammad said, "You hate me and you want to finish me? Here, say these words, and I am finished. Come on, say them!"

But Abu Lahab never said them. Ten years!
And in all that time he never accepted Islam or even became sympathetic to the Islamic cause.

How could Muhammad possibly have known for sure that Abu Lahab would fulfill the Quranic revelation if he (i.e., Muhammad) was not truly the messenger of Allah? How could he possibly have been so confident as to give someone 10 years to discredit his claim of prophethood?

The only answer is that he was Allah's messenger; for in order to put forth such a risky challenge, one has to be entirely convinced that he has a divine revelation."

And it was actually Abu Lahab's story that made Dr Gary Miller become Muslim.

KENYATAAN HIDUP DISEBALIK PERMAINAN INI.

Seorang guru wanita sedang bersemangat mengajarkan sesuatu kepada murid-muridnya. Ia duduk menghadap murid-muridnya. Di tangan kirinya ada kapur, di tangan kanannya ada pemadam. Guru itu berkata, "Saya ada satu permainan... Caranya begini, ditangan kiri saya ada kapur, di tangan kanan ada pemadam. Jika saya angkat kapur ini, maka berserulah "Kapur!", jika saya angkat pemadam ini, maka katalah "Pemadam!"Murid muridnya pun mengerti dan mengikuti. Guru berganti-gantian mengangkat antara kanan dan kiri tangannya, semakin lama semakin cepat. Beberapa saat kemudian guru kembali berkata, "Baik sekarang perhatikan. Jika saya angkat kapur, maka sebutlah "Pemadam!", jika saya angkat pemadam, maka katakanlah "Kapur!". Dan diulangkan seperti tadi, tentu saja murid-murid tadi keliru dan kekok, dan sangat sukar untuk mengubahnya. Namun lambat laun,mereka sudah biasa dan tidak lagi kekok. Selang beberapa saat, permainan berhenti.

Sang guru tersenyum kepada murid- muridnya. "Murid-murid, begitulah kita umat Islam. Mulanya yang haq itu haq, yang bathil itu bathil. Kita begitu jelas membezakannya. Namun kemudian, musuh musuh kita memaksakan kepada kita dengan perbagai cara, untuk menukarkan sesuatu, dari yang haq menjadi bathil, dan sebaliknya. Pertama-tama mungkin akan sukar bagi kita menerima hal tersebut, tapi kerana terus disosialisasikan dengan cara-cara menarik oleh mereka, akhirnya lambat laun kamu akan terbiasa dengan hal itu. Dan anda mulai dapat mengikutinya. Musuh- musuh kamu tidak pernah berhenti membalik dan menukar nilai dan etika.

"Keluar berduaan, berkasih-kasihan tidak lagi sesuatu yang pelik, Zina tidak lagi jadi persoalan, pakaian seksi menjadi hal yang lumrah, tanpa rasa malu, sex sebelum nikah menjadi suatu kebiasaan dan trend,hiburan yang asyik dan panjang sehingga melupakan yang wajib adalah biasa, materialistik kini menjadi suatu gaya hidup dan lain lain." "Semuanya sudah terbalik. Dan tanpa disedari, anda sedikit demi sedikit menerimanya tanpa rasa ia satu kesalahan dan kemaksiatan. Paham?" tanya Guru kepada murid-muridnya. "Paham cikgu..."

"Baik permainan kedua..." begitu Guru melanjutkan. "Cikgu ada Qur'an,cikgu akan letakkannya di tengah karpet. Sekarang anda berdiri diluar karpet. Permainannya adalah, bagaimana caranya mengambil Qur'an yang ada ditengah tanpa memijak karpet?" Murid-muridnya berpikir . Ada yang mencuba alternatif dengan tongkat,dan lain-lain. Akhirnya Guru memberikan jalan keluar, digulungnya karpet, dan ia ambil Qur'an. Ia memenuhi syarat, tidak memijak karpet."Murid- murid,begitulah ummat Islam dan musuh - musuhnya... Musuh-musuh Islam tidak akan memijak-mijak anda dengan terang- terang. Kerana tentu anda akan menolaknya mentah mentah. Orang biasapun tak akan rela kalau Islam dihina dihadapan mereka. Tapi mereka akan menggulung anda perlahan-lahan dari pinggir, sehingga anda tidak sadar.

"Jika seseorang ingin membuat rumah yang kuat, maka dibina tapak yang kuat. Begitulah Islam, jika ingin kuat, maka bangunlah aqidah yang kuat. Sebaliknya, jika ingin membongkar rumah, tentu susah kalau dimulai dgn tapaknya dulu, tentu saja hiasan- hiasan dinding akan dikeluarkan dulu,kerusi dipindahkan dulu, Almari dibuang dulu satu persatu, baru rumah dihancurkan. .."

"Begitulah musuh-musuh Islam menghancurkan kita. Ia tidak akan menghentam terang-terangan, tapi ia akan perlahan- lahan meletihkan anda. Mulai dari perangai anda, cara hidup, pakaian dan lain-lain, sehingga meskipun anda muslim, tapi anda telah meninggalkan ajaran Islam dan mengikuti cara mereka... Dan itulah yang mereka inginkan."

"Ini semua adalah fenomena Ghazwul Fikri (Perang Pemikiran). Dan inilah yang dijalankan oleh musuh musuh Islam...
HOW ALLAH ANSWERS PRAYERS

A young man had been to Wednesday Night Class of Quranic Studies. The Mualim had shared about listening to Allah and obeying Allah through intuition.

The young man couldn't help but wonder, 'Does Allah still speak to people through intuition?'

After Lessons, he went out with some friends for coffee and pie and they discussed the message. Several different ones talked about how Allah had led them in different ways and that at the end you'll know it was Allah(SWT) Who has directed you.

It was about ten o'clock when the young man started driving home. Sitting in his car, he just began to pray, 'Allah...If you still speak to people, speak to me. I will listen.. I will do my best to obey.'

As he drove down the main street of his town, he had the strangest thought to stop and buy a gallon of milk. He shook his head and said out loud, 'Allah is that you?' He didn't get a reply and started on toward home.

But again, the thought, buy a gallon of milk came into his head. 'Okay, Allah, in case that is you, I will buy the milk.' It didn't seem like too hard a test of obedience. He could always use the milk.

He stopped and purchased the gallon of milk and started off toward home.

As he passed Seventh Street , he again felt the urge, 'Turn Down that street.'This is crazy he thought, and drove on past the intersection.
Again, he felt that he should turn down Seventh Street .

At the next intersection, he turned back and headed down Seventh. Half jokingly, he said out loud, 'Okay, Allah, I will.'

He drove several blocks, when suddenly, he felt like he should stop. He pulled over to the curb and looked around.

He was in a semi-commercial area of town. It wasn't the
best but it wasn't the worst of neighborhoods either.
The businesses were closed and most of the houses looked dark like the people were already in bed. Again, he sensed something, 'Go and give the milk to the people in the house across the street.'

The young man looked at the house.. It was dark and it looked like the people were either gone or they were already asleep.

He started to open the door and then sat back in the car seat. 'Allah, this is insane. Those people are asleep and
if I wake them up, they are going to be mad and I will look stupid.'
Again, he felt like he should go and give the milk. Finally, he opened the door, 'Okay Allah(SWT), if this is you, I will go to the door and I will give them the milk. If you want me to look like a crazy person, okay.

I want to be obedient. I guess that will count for something, but if they don't answer right away, I am out of here.'

He walked across the street and rang the bell. He could hear some noise inside. A man's voice yelled out, 'Who is it? What do you want?' Then the door opened before the young man could get away.

The man was standing there in his jeans and T-shirt. He looked like he just got out of bed. He had a strange look on his face and he didn't seem too happy to have some stranger standing on his doorstep. 'What is it?'
The young man thrust out the gallon of milk, 'Here, I brought this to you.' The man took the milk and rushed down a hallway. Then from down the hall came a woman carrying the milk toward the kitchen. The man was following her holding a baby. The baby was crying. The man had tears streaming down his face.

The man began speaking and half crying, 'We were just praying. We had some big bills this month and we ran out of money.. We didn't have any milk for our baby. I was just praying and asking Allah(SWT) to show me how to get some milk.'

His wife in the kitchen yelled out, 'I ask him to send an Angel with some. Are you an Angel?'

The young man reached into his wallet and pulled out all the money he had on him and put in the man's hand.

He turned and walked back toward his car and the tears were streaming down his face. He knew that Allah (SWT) still answers prayers.

CINTA FOTOKOPI


Alhamdulillah,

Pada 4 April 2010, bersamaan dengan hari Ahad, satu program remaja yang diberi nama ‘CINTA FOTOKOPI, CINTA ORI PADA ILAHI’ yang dianjurkan oleh Wanita JIM Batu dan KRJ dengan kerjasama Persatuan Kebajikan Penduduk telah berjaya dijalankan di Surau Al-Amin, Taman Setapak Indah. Seramai 27 peserta yang terdiri daripada anak-anak remaja yang datang dari Taman Setapak Indah dan dari JIM Batu sendiri telah hadir untuk mengikuti program ini. Diharap program ini dapat memberi kesedaran dan ilmu tambahan kepada para remaja sebagai benteng pertahanan diri daripada terpengaruh dengan unsur-unsur negatif dari luar.









Peserta Perempuan dan Peserta Lelaki

Program dimulakan dengan sesi pengenalan terhadap KRJ oleh pengendali program iaitu Bai. Pengisian awal lebih kepada penerangan tentang apa itu cinta dan kenapa tajuk program diberi nama cinta fotokopi. Cinta itu fitrah tetapi perlu disalurkan ke tempat dan masa yang betul. Terdapat banyak slide yang menarik dapat dipaparkan sepanjang program dijalankan bagi menarik minat para remaja. Seterusnya, program terpaksa berhenti untuk rehat lebih awal bagi memberi laluan kepada para jemaah masjid menunaikan solat jenazah. Alhamdulillah, anak-anak remaja kita dapat menimba pengalaman baru dengan turut serta menunaikan solat jenazah di surau.

Kemudian, program diteruskan lagi dengan sedikit permainan untuk merehatkan minda. Seterusnya, para peserta diterangkan dengan punca-punca zina dan kesan buruk jika berlakunya zina. Antara slide yang terakhir memaparkan gambar-gambar bayi yang dibuang akibat daripada perbuatan zina dan sedikit sebanyak dapat menyuntik kesedaran di dalam hati anak-anak remaja kita. Program disudahi dengan bacaan ikrar dan doa yang disampaikan oleh Bai.


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