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Alcohol and intoxicants

2011-12-29T20:37:00.000-08:00

Assalamualaikum,

Today I would like to share about alcohol, liquor, beer or any other intoxicants. All of this drinks will be called as 'alcohol in this writing of mine.

Who doesn't know about this drink when taken excessively can cause a person to be drunk causing the drinker to be physically and mentally impaired. It have so many forms, some are called beer, wine, araq and etc.

1. A person who takes wine moderately will benefit from it.

I totally agree on this. If wine were taken moderately, it will benefit the health of the drinker. But what most of us did not know is the benefit did not come from the alcohol in wine but rather from the grapes which were used to make wine.

A previous human clinical trial at Boston University found that Concord grape juice also increased HDL (good) cholesterol and significantly lowered two markers for inflammation. Historically such benefits have been credited to alcohol -- which, of course, is absent from grape juice -- suggesting that the anthocyanins found in both grape juice and wine deserve closer scrutiny. You do the maths.

By the way, which is cheaper wine or grapes?

2. A person who takes alcohol are healthier.

This is one of the most absurd claim ever. Research shows that people who takes alcohol regardless in small quantity or moderately or in large quantity have less fitness compared to the people who do not take any at all. Health experts agrees that consumption of this beverage carries health risks ranging from dependence to breast cancer to brain damage to stroke.

Up to 4% of breast cancers can be attributed to alcohol. According to a recent study in the British Journal of Cancer, every drink increases a woman's chances of developing breast cancer. In a recent summary of 63 published studies, 65% found an association between alcohol consumption and increased breast cancer risk

If having a few too many has become a regular habit, the brain-health hangover may last a lifetime. St. Louis University researchers published an animal study suggesting several years of heavy drinking could permanently impair memory--and slow down learning ability as well.

With all the ballyhoo over the heart health benefits of moderate wine consumption it's easy to lose sight of the much larger health risks of heavy alcohol consumption--such as dramatically increased stroke risk. Harvard researchers found that men who consume an average of three or more alcoholic beverages a day were nearly 43% more likely to suffer a stroke when compared to abstainers and men who had one to two drinks/day. The more you drink, the more likely you will get stroke!

Alcohol is not only a health hazard, it also causes you to be fat. A University of Buffalo study of 2,300 drinkers found that those who tended to consume their alcohol in 3-4 servings per sitting -- even if such excess was occasional -- tended to have more abdominal fat than those who drank small amounts on a regular basis. When you overload your liver with alcohol, all of the organ's resources are going to burning off the booze.Fat metabolism is put on the back burner, so to speak, the cumulative effect of which is more fat in the liver, under the skin and around other organs.

Not only can liver toxicity lead to excess weight -- excess weight can lead to liver problems, significantly increasing your risk of developing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).NAFLD is the most common liver disorder in the U.S., afflicting 25% of the population (while about a third of Americans are obese).By raising LDL (or "bad") cholesterol and lowering HDL (or "good") cholesterol, NAFLD makes sufferers even more prone to heart disease.

Summary is alcohol consumption could cause cancer, memory lost, stroke, bigger waistline and even leads to heart disease.

3. Alcohol and social issues

In a nut shell, alcohol use can affect all areas of a person's life, including family, work and personal relationships.

Family problems: arguments over someone's drinking can cause family and relationship problems that may lead to break up.
Work problems: drinking alcohol at work and hangovers can lead to poor performance and accidents at work, while illness can result in absenteeism.
Legal problems: drink-driving may lead to fines, loss of licence and even imprisonment.

4. Do religion allows or encourage alcohol drinking?

According to Islam, the Quran (translation) 5:90:

O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allah ], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.

According to Christianity, Proverb 20:1

Wine produces mockers; alcohol leads to brawls. Those led astray by drink cannot be wise.

According to Hinduism, The Rigveda (8.48.3):

We have drunk Soma and become immortal; we have attained the light, the Gods discovered. Now what may foe man's malice do to harm us? What, O Immortal, mortal man's deception?

All religion are against drinking alcohol, however there are only one religion which really holds on to their scripture and are totally against alcohol are Islam. The Christians and Hindus have gone astray from their scriptures and followed their carnal desire.

Reference:

http://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/news/20041119/grape-juice-raises-good-cholesterol-levels

http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v87/n11/abs/6600596a.html

http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/FactSheet/Diet/fs13.alcohol.pdf

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/ace-dfj060605.php

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/printerfriendlynews.php?newsid=18580

http://www.dole.com
http://www.mydr.com.au/addictions/alcohol-and-social-problems

Tahlilan dan Maulidul Rasul

2011-11-13T10:51:00.000-08:00

Pada malam yang indah ini sebelum hendak tidur ternampak pulak mesej ini di facebook:

Saya pohon hentikan saja da'yah sebegini kerana mengatakan buat tahlil bidaah, buat Maulidul Rasul bidaah dan sebagainya bidaah kerana ini semua adalah diperkenalkan oleh al-Ulamak muktabar yang mengatakan aktiviti tersebut tergolong dalam bidaah hasanah, bagaimana harus dibuang pendapat mereka , salahkah kita buat majlis memberi sadaqah makanan sedangkan itu tuntutan Rasul,salahkah kita mengadakan majlis mengingati hari lahir baginda sedangkan itu semua adalah sebagai peringatan akhir zaman ini yang dah semakin luntur!!!

Bila baca memang rasa pelik bin ajaib sebab masalah ini tidak selesai lagi. Bukankah sudah banyak penerangan yang sudah diberikan oleh para ulamak.

Apa itu bidaah?

Mari kira lihat kupasan ulamak zaman silam tentang apakah itu 'bidaah'.

Menurut Ibnu Taimiyah: ‘ Bid’ah dalam agama ialah sesuatu yang tidak disyari’atkan oleh Allah dan rasul-Nya yaitu tidak diperintahkan dengan perintah wajib atau perintah sunnah. Adapun yang diperintahkan dengan perintah wajib dan sunnah serta diketahui perintah-perintah tersebut dengan dalil-dalil syar’i, maka hal itu termasuk yang disyari’atkan oleh Allah, meskipun terjadi perselisihan diantara ulama di beberapa masalah dan sama saja, baik hal itu sudah diamalkan pada masa Rasulullah atau tidak.

Menurut As-Syahtibi: ‘ Bid’ah adalah suatu cara di dalam agama yang diada-adakan (baru) menyerupai agama dan dimaksudkan dalam melakukannya untuk bersungguh-sungguh dalam beribadah kepada Allah ta’ala.

Menurut Ibnu Rajab: ‘ Yang dimaksudkan dengan bid’ah adalah sesuatu yang diadakan tanpa ada dasarnya di dalam syari’at. Adapun suatu yang ada dasarnya dalam syara’, maka bukan bid’ah meskipun dikatakan bid’ah menurut bahasa.’

Menurut As-Suyuti: ‘ Bid’ah ialah suatu ungkapan tentang perbuatan yang bertentangan dengan syari’at karena menyelisihinya atau perbuatan yang menjadikan adanya penambahan dan pengurangan syari’at. ‘

Yang paling senang nak hadam ialah apa yang telah dikatakan oleh As-Suyuti.
1. Perbuatan yang bertentangan dengan syari'at
2. Perbuatan yang menjadikan adanya penambahan dan pengurangan syari'at

As-Syahtibi pula kata benda baru ini yang bermaksud tak ada masa Nabi SAW dan zaman sahabat ini menyerupai agama dan dibuat bersungguh-sungguh dalam beribadah kepada Allah SWT.

Bukankah semua perbuatan seperti 'tahlil' dan 'maulidur rasul' ialah sebijik 100% sama seperti yang dikatakan oleh as-Syahtibi. Iaitu ia merupakah bidaah.:
1. Tak ada zaman Nabi SAW dan Sahabat
2. Dibuat menyerupai agama seperti nak bersedekah makan
3. Orang buat dengan bersungguh-sungguh (Orang Melayu kat Malaysia memang sungguh2)

Kenapa tak boleh buat Bidaah?

Sabda Nabi SAW:
"Sesiapa yang membuat perkara baru dalam urusan kami ini (Islam) apa yang bukan daripadanya maka ianya tertolak"

Diriwayatkan oleh al-Bukhari dan Muslim. Rujuk Shahih Muslim – hadith no: 1718 (Kitab al-Aqdiyyah, Bab kritikan ke atas hukum batil dan perkara ciptaan baru).

Kalau buat benda yang bukan diajar oleh Nabi SAW tentang agama, maka ianya akan tertolak. Janganlah kita buat benda yang sia-sia. Itulah sebabnya orang kata kalau nak 'Amal' maka benda pertama yang perlu dicari ialah 'Ilmu'. Janganlah kita main ikut sahaja.

Kalau nak buat amal jariah buatlah macam yang Nabi SAW dan para Sahabat buat iaitu memberi kepada mereka yang betul2 memerlukan kerana itu ialah hak mereka. Bukannya macam majlis tahlil yang sebenarnya dibuat untuk baca Yasin kat orang mati, pastu bagi upah makanan kepada mereka yang membaca bersama-sama. Itu bukan sedekah namanya. Kalau niat sedekah tak perlu apa-apa terus bagi makan kat orang2 miskin.

Sabda Nabi SAW:
"Sesungguhnya sesiapa yang hidup selepasku akan melihat perselisihan yang banyak. Maka hendaklah kalian berpegang kepada sunnahku dan sunnah al-Khulafa al-Rasyidin al-Mahdiyyin (mendapat petunjuk). Berpeganglah dengannya dan gigitlah ia dengan geraham. Jauhilah kamu perkara-perkara yang diada-adakan (dalam agama) kerana setiap yang diada-adakan itu adalah bid‘ah dan setiap bid‘ah adalah sesat."

Diriwayatkan oleh Abu Daud dan al-Tirmizi, berkata al-Tirmizi: “Hadis ini hasan sahih”. Juga diriwayatkan oleh Ibn Majah dan al-Darimi dalam kitab Sunan mereka. Demikian juga oleh Ibn Hibban dalam Shahihnya dan al-Hakim dalam al-Mustadrak dengan menyatakan: “Hadith ini sahih”. Ini dipersetujui oleh al-Imam al-Zahabi (Tahqiq al-Mustadrak, 1/288).

Ada satu kumpulan kata jangan buat tahlil dan jangan buat Maulidur Rasul kerana bidaah. Manakala lagi satu kumpulan kata itu 'bidaah hasanah'. Saya cadangkan kita ikut Nabi dan pegang kepada Sunnahnya dan Sunnah al-Khulafa al-Rasyidin al-Mahdiyyin 100% sahaja.

Sebab benda-benda yang diada-adakan dalam agama itu bidaah dan setiap bidaah itu SESAT!

Poin paling penting di sini ialah 'IKUT SUNNAH NABI BUKAN SURUH IKUT SUNNAH USTAZ YANG BUAT BENDA-BENDA YANG NABI TAK AJAR PASTU KATA INILAH ISLAM'.
Jangan ada pula ustaz2 yang berani kata yang 'Tahlil' dan 'Maulidur Rasul' ini merupakan Sunnah Nabi Muhammad SAW. Jika berlaku itu bagi saya fitnah kepada Nabi dan saya agak pasti masuk neraka jahannam la orang itu.

Saya yakin mesti ada yang kata macam post ini yang kata 'bidaah hasanah'. Oleh itu, bacalah link ini sampai habis. Tengoklah kupasan ilmuan Islam tentang apa itu 'bidaah hasanah' sebelum gunakan perkataan itu:

http://www.hafizfirdaus.com/ebook/BidahHasanah/index.htm

Kalau nak sedekah makan maka IKUTLAH yang macam Nabi SAW atau Sahabat buat.

Nabi Tak sambut hari jadi sebab masa itu tak wujud lagi sistem kalendar. Ulamak pun tak ada yang sebulat suara kata Maulid Nabi ialah pada tarikh tertentu. Kalau tarikh pun tak boleh tentukan maka nak sambut camana. Namun begitu, Nabi SAW ajar berpuasa pada setiap hari Isnin sebab dia lahir hari itu. Kalau nak tunjukkan cinta dan kasih kepada nabi pada hari lahir baginda, puasalah setiap hari Isnin. Jangan nak gatal2 cipta benda baru!
Kalau setakat ceramah itu bukannya buat sekali setahun masa Maulid Nabi. Sepatutnya dibuat berkala dan berpanjangan.

Nasihat kepada pembaca dan diri sendiri

Setelah mengetahui bahwa begitu bahayanya bid’ah tersebut maka seharusnyalah kita menghindari dari hal tersebut diatas. Maka dari itu tetaplah berpegang pada Al qur-an dan Assunah, atsar dan ijma sahabat, Tabi’in dan tabi’ut tabi’in karena mereka orang yang dinyatakan Rasulullah sebaik-baiknya generasi. Berikut firman-firman Allah serta nasihat-nasihat yang diberikan oleh Nabi-Nya dan generasi terbaik yang telah tersebut diatas dan para salafus shalih untuk tidak berpecah belah lantaran perbuatan bid’ah diantaranya:

a. Firman Allah dalam Surah Ali Imran ayat 102 - 103
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ اتَّقُواْ اللّهَ حَقَّ تُقَاتِهِ وَلاَ تَمُوتُنَّ إِلاَّ وَأَنتُم مُّسْلِمُونَ - وَاعْتَصِمُواْ بِحَبْلِ اللّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلاَ تَفَرَّقُواْ وَاذْكُرُواْ نِعْمَةَ اللّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ كُنتُمْ أَعْدَاء فَأَلَّفَ بَيْنَ قُلُوبِكُمْ فَأَصْبَحْتُم بِنِعْمَتِهِ إِخْوَانًا وَكُنتُمْ عَلَىَ شَفَا حُفْرَةٍ مِّنَ النَّارِ فَأَنقَذَكُم مِّنْهَا كَذَلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللّهُ لَكُمْ آيَاتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ

Artinya: Hai Orang-orang yang beriman, bertaqwalah kepada Allah dengan sebenar-benar taqwa dan janganlah kamu mati kecuali dalam keadaan muslim. Dan perpeganglah kamu semua dengan dengan tali Allah dan jangan berpecah-belah. Dan ingatlah nikmat Allah terhadapmu ketika kamu saling bermusuhan maka Dia satukan hati kamu lalu kamu menjadi saudara dengan nikmat-Nya dan ingatlah ketika kamu berada di bibir jurang neraka lalu Dia selamatkan kamu daripadanya. Demikianlah Allah menjelaskan kepada kamu ayat-ayat-Nya agar kamu mendapat petunjuk.

b. Firman Allah dalam Surah Al An’am ayat 153
وَأَنَّ هَـذَا صِرَاطِي مُسْتَقِيمًا فَاتَّبِعُوهُ وَلاَ تَتَّبِعُواْ السُّبُلَ فَتَفَرَّقَ بِكُمْ عَن سَبِيلِهِ ذَلِكُمْ وَصَّاكُم بِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ
Artinya: Dan sesungguhnya inilah jalan-Ku yang lurus maka ikutilah dia, dan jangan kamu mengikuti jalan-jalan (lainnya) sebab jalan-jalan itu akan mencerai beraikan kamu dari jalan-Nya. Demikianlah Allah berwasiat kepada kamu mudah-mudahan kamu bertaqwa.

Coretan ringkas dan copy paste dari saya, Ng Chee Hong

Rujukan:
http://alhikmah.web.id/2009/06/pengertian-bidah/
http://www.hafizfirdaus.com/ebook/BidahHasanah/index.htm

Twins of Faith

2011-11-09T23:53:00.000-08:00

Mari sama-sama kita join! Bawaklah anak-anak sekali pada waktu cuti ini. Kalau nak train anak-anak buat kerja amal pun boleh, jadilah sukarelawan/volunteer.

Ada begitu banyak aktiviti dan ceramah-ceramah hebat dari:

1. Dr Bilal Phillips
2. Dr Tawfique Chowdhury
3. Sheikh Navaid Aziz
4. Sheikh Yahya Ibrahim
5. Sheikh Alaa Elsayed
6. Abdurraheem Green
7. Sheikh Hussein Yee (Malaysia)
8. Dr Zaharuddin Rahman (Malaysia)
9. Dr Maszlee Malik (Malaysia)

Ada juga persembahan dari artis2 yang hebat seperti:

1. Abdullah Rolle
2. Boonaa Mohammed
3. Muslim Belal
4. Shinji Moriwaki
5. Mu’adz Dzulkefly (Malaysia)

Ada juga jemputan khas:
1. Faiz Khaleed (Malaysia)

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Aturcara untuk program utama boleh didownload dari sini:
http://my.twinsoffaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Prg-Schedule-24-09-11.pdf

Selain itu, ada program-program khas untuk ibu-ibu dan wanita yang akan dikendalikan oleh:

1. Datin Dr Nor Azizah Mohd Taib
2. Assoc Prof Dr Harlina Halizah Siraj
3. Wardina Safiyyah
4. Raya Shokatfard

Ada juga program untuk kanak-kanak, Kids Play Zone tetapi maklumat tentangnya tidak dipostkan lagi.

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REBUTLAH PELUANG INI UNTUK ISLAH DARIPADA ORATOR-ORATOR TERBAIK DUNIA!

Marah

2011-06-17T09:21:00.000-07:00

Marah itu salah satu perasaan yang dipunyai manusia
Tidak patut dipandang negatif
Tapi marah perlulah bersebab
Marah perlulah dengan mata terbuka
Dengan tujuan membaiki
Bukan dengan hati yang membenci
Bukan dengan bisikan syaitan

Assalamualaikum,

Saya ingin melahirkan rasa marah saya kepada perkara-perkara berikut:

1. 'Awak peluk Islam sebab kahwin ke?'
Adakah patut persoalan ini ditujukan kepada mereka yang mualaf termasuk saya. Tahukah apa yang kami lalui untuk mengungkap kalimah syahadah ini? Tidak, mereka tidak akan tahu apa yang kami mualaf lalui. Ada antara kami yang dipulaukan keluarga. Ada yang bapanya tidak mengaku anak. Ada yang dihalau dari rumah sehingga kembali ke agama sebelumnya. Ada yang diludah di muka dan dilarang daripada berjumpa dengan ibu dan adik beradik oleh ayahnya. Namun disebalik semua itu, mualaf2 ini lebih sayangkan agama Islam dan lebih sayangkan Allah SWT. Dan setelah semua yang kami lalui, anggapan orang Islam ialah kami peluk Islam sebab nak kahwin?

2. Dakwah
Mula-mula setelah mengenal Islam dengan berbicara, mencari, membaca dan mengkaji. Saya mula menjadi marah kerana tidak didawah tentang agama Islam. Saya teringat rakan2 muslim di sekolah, ustaz di sekolah, dan semua orang Islam disekeliling yang tidak berdawah dan sekurang2nya menyampaikan mesej Islam kepadaku. Aku menjadi marah mereka yang bernama Muslim tidak menjalankan tanggungjawab malah ada yang menganggap itu kerja pendawah sahaja.

3. Masuk Melayu
Tidak ku lupa pada kata-kata ayahku bila dia meludah padaku semasa aku khabarkan beritaku memeluk Islam. Dia berkata 'masuklah Melayu'. Marahku bukanlah pada ayahku tetapi pada orang Melayu. Jarang sekali ada contoh yang baik daripada masyarakat Melayu. Semasa bulan puasa semasa mahu ke masjid, pasti ada yang membaling batu ke rumah ayahku yang membela anjing dan ada sekali itu dibalingnya mercun mengenai kereta sehingga patah wiper kereta. Makcikku pergi melapor pada imam masjid tapi tiada gunanya. Bukan sahaja memberikan imej buruk malah memburukkan imej Islam sekali. Aku sangat marah, ayahku tidak dapat menerima agamaku kini kerana mereka orang Melayu.

4. 'Pakaila Baju Melayu masa hari raya'
Aku orang Cina, buat apa pakai baju Melayu?

5. Apa awak nak di sini (masjid)? (dgn nada kasar dan sombong)
Bukan sahaja bahasanya kasar malah tidak berbudi pekerti. Hanya kerana aku Cina, tak bolehkah aku Muslim? Orang macam ini yang perosak agama, kalau saya tidak tahu pasti aku menilai agama Islam menggalakkan orang Islam macam orang ni.

.....Jika ku tulis pasti tiada kesudahannya....
Ini hanyalah secebis rintihan hatiku....

Anda mengambil Herbalife??!

2011-05-15T21:11:00.000-07:00

Assalamualaikum,

Post saya hari ini adalah untuk menyedarkan tentang pengambilan produk Herbalife terutamanya ShapeWorks yang dikatakan mampu untuk membantu mengurangkan berat badan. Mula-mula saya ingin mengajak saudara/saudari untuk membaca sedikit informasi tentang produk ini dari website utamanya di:

http://www.herbalifeww.com/my/products/xml/main_p.asp?loc=en-AU&pid=Id1_14&cid=Id1_11&nids=Id1_2|Id1_11

Saya ingin highlightkan ini
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
Maksudnya: Produk ini tidak dievaluasi oleh FDA. Oleh itu, produk ini adalah tidak bertujuan untuk menyembuh mahupun mengelakkan apa-apa penyakit.

Jika dilihat dari segi sejarahnya, produknya pernah mengandungi 'ephedrine' yang berbahaya namun bahan itu tidak digunakan lagi. Bahan terlarang ini boleh menyebabkan masalah kepada jantung.

Pada Mac 2010, pemilik fasiliti penghasilan produk Herbalife menerima surat amaran daripada FDA tentang kekurangan kawalan kualiti dan menunjukkan integritii yang sedikit dalam keselamatan produknya. FDA hanya boleh mengambil tindakan hanya setelah produk Herbalife ini dibuktikan sepenuhnya adalah tidak selamat.

Pada hemat saya, adalah lebih baik elakkan sebelum terjadi apa-apa yang tidak diingini. Walaupun produk ini dikatakan 100% semulajadi, namun produknya seringkali dikaitkan dengan hepatotoxicity atau kerosakan pada hati.

Mari kita lihat bahan-bahan asasnya pula:
# Includes 19 vitamins and minerals.
# 9 grams of soy protein and 18 grams when mixed with milk or soy milk per serving plus fibre to help keep you full and satisfied.

Mengikut akal fikiran yang logik, adakah vitamin, mineral dan protein mencukupi untuk memenuhi keperluan badan kita? Saya rasa tidak cukup. Jika ada sesiapa makan milk-shake ini pasti akan turun berat badan. Saya yakin tentang itu tetapi adakah ianya baik untuk kesihatan, jawapannya adalah tidak.

Penurunan berat badan ini berlaku tanpa peningkatan/pembinaan otot. Ini adalah kerana diet Herbalife ini tidak cukup kalori untuk pembinaan otot-otot badan mahupun ianya cukup untuk menampung sistem imunisasi badan. Kekurangan otot atau muscle mass ini adalah penting sebagai pelindung pada hari tua kelak. So macamana nak dapat muscle? Jawapannya ialah senaman!

Bahan asas yang amat merunsingkan saya dalam produk ini ialah penggunaan soya. Walaupun ramai antara kita yang tahu tentang kelebihan mengambil kacang soya, saya yakin ramai yang tidak tahu tentang kesan buruk soya kepada manusia. Telah terlalu banyak kajian tentang soya ini, saya ingin kongsikan beberapa daripadanya:

1. Dalam soya ada bahan yang dinamakan asid phytic yang juga dikenali sebagai phytates. Asid organik ini juga didapati dalam bijirin yang lain tetapi tidaklah sebanyak yang ada dalam kacang soya.
Asid ini meransang dan menyebabkan badan tidak dapat menyerap mineral-mineral penting seperti kalsium, magnesium, zat besi dan zink. Phystate ini adalah sukar untuk dibuang walaupun dimasak dengan lama dalam api yang kecil.
Oleh itu, mineral yang ditambahkan dalam produk ini adalah sia-sia sahaja apabila soya digunakan sebagai bahan asas.

2. Kacang soya juga mengandungi perencat enzim yang kuat. Perencat ini menghalang pengambilan tripsin dan emzim-emzim lain yang diperlukan oleh badan untuk pencernaan protin. Kaedah masak yang biasa tidak mampu untuk memusnahkan perencat ini yang boleh menyebabkan gastrik, mengurangkan pencernaan protin yang boleh membawa kepada penyakit kronik lain yang berkenaan dengan kekurangan amino asid.
Oleh itu, tiada gunanya produk ini dikaitkan dengan kandungan protin yang tinggi tetapi menggunakan soya yang merencat penyerapannya oleh badan.

3. Di sebalik semua ini, kacang soya juga mengandungi 'hemagglutinin', bahan peransang penggumpalan yang menyebabkan sel-sel darah merah untuk menggumpal sekali. Penggumpalan menyebabkan sel darah tidak mampu untuk menyerap oksigen dengan baik untuk kegunaan tisu badan. Dan ini sekaligus tidak membantu dalam mengekalkan kesihatan kardiak/jantung yang baik.

Hemagglutinin dan perencat tripsin merupakan bahan yang merencat pertumbuhan. Walaupun kacang soya yang telah difermentasi/penapaian boleh memusnahkan kedua-dua perencat tripsin dan hemagglutinin, presipitasi dan memasak tidak memusnahkannya. Walaupun kadar perencat tripsin berkurang dalam produk soya yang dipresipitasi seperti tofu, ianya tidak dimusnahkan sepenuhnya. Hanya dengan cara fermentasi atau penapaian yang lama sahaja seperti tempeh dan miso mampu untuk memusnahkan bahan perencat tripsin dan hemagglutinin sepenuhnya agar manusia dapat menyerap khasiat dari kacang soya.
Sudah pasti, kacang soya yang digunakan dalam produk Herbalife ini tidak di presipitasi apatah lagi difermentasi untuk membuang bahan-bahan yang bahaya ini.

4. Kacang soya mengandungi goitrogen. Goitrogen adalah bahan yang menghalang sintesis hormon tiroid dan mengganggu metabolisma iodin yang akhirnya akan merencat fungi tiroid.

5. Soya adalah kaya dengan isoflavones genistein dan daidzein. Isoflavones adalah sejenis phytoestrogen, merupakan kompaun tumpuhan yang menyerupai estrogen tumbuhan. Kompaun ini yang menyerupai dan kadang-kala menghalang hormon estrogen dan telah didapati memberikan pelbagai kesan kepada tisu manusia. Phytoestrogen soya telah dikenali untuk merosakkan fungsi endokrin, menyebabkan kemandulan dan menggalakkan kanser payu dara pada wanita.

Meminum hanya dua gelas kacang soya setiap hari untuk sebulan adalah cukup untuk kompaun ini mengganggu kitar haid. Walaupun FDA meregulasikan produk yang mengandungi estrogen, tiada amaran diberikan pada kacang soya ini.

6. Kacang soya mempunyai risiko toksik aluminium dan mangan. Kacang soya yang diproses dengan basuhan asid dalam tangki aluminium boleh menyebabkan aluminium mencecah kadar yang sangat tinggi dalam produk akhir soya.

Menurut Dr. Kaayla Daniel, penulis 'The Whole Soy Story', mendedahkan ribuan kajian terhadap kacang soya dan kaitannya terhadap malnutrisi, masalah pencernaan, sistem imune rosak (breakdown), disfungsi tiroid, penurunan kognitif, masalah reproduktif, kemandulan, kanser dan penyakit jantung.

Berikut adalah sebahagian daripada masalah kesihatan yang dikaitkan dengan pengambilan kacang soya:
* Breast cancer
* Brain damage
* Infant abnormalities
* Thyroid disorders
* Kidney stones
* Immune system impairment
* Severe, potentially fatal food allergies
* Impaired fertility
* Danger during pregnancy and nursing

Saudara saudari sekalian, saya tidak membincangkan lagi tentang kacang soya yang telah dimodifikasi secara genetik dan kesan-kesannya lagi. Cukuplah setakat ini.

Saya harap artikel ini mampu memberikan kesedaran tentang bahayanya mengambil produk Herbalife. Saya juga harap selepas ini, jangan ada yang datang mempromosi produk yang saya anggap berbahaya kepada kesihatan lagi pada saya, keluarga saya, rakan-rakan saya dan pada pembaca blog saya.

Rujukan:

http://www.herbalifeww.com/my/products/xml/main_p.asp?loc=en-AU&pid=Id1_14&cid=Id1_11&nids=Id1_2|Id1_11
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/09/18/soy-can-damage-your-health.aspx

TSP: Faith & Reason: Friends or Foes - Hamza Andreas Tzortzis

2011-04-22T09:26:00.000-07:00

A Radical Experiment in Empathy

2011-04-04T10:37:00.000-07:00

Credits to http://hamzatzortzis.blogspot.com

2011-03-21T22:19:00.000-07:00

Assalamualaikum,

This is just a hadith to ponder on. Especially if you are a boss.

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Anyone who has been a ruler over ten people will be brought shackled on the Day of Resurrection, until the justice (by which he ruled) loosens his chains or tyranny brings him to destruction."
Al-Tirmidhi, Hadith 1037

Perlu atau Tidak?

2011-03-07T10:08:00.001-08:00

Perlukah aku memandang wajah-wajah mereka, lalu perlukah aku memberitahu mereka...

Bahawa amalan itu perlu didatangi dengan ilmu.
Amalan tanpa ilmu itu seperti orang yang memandu kereta tanpa belajar dahulu cara memandu.
Bagaikan orang yang meletakkan kail ke dalam air tanpa umpannya.
Perlukan aku bangunkan mereka yang sudah lama tidur dan nyenyak dengan mimpi-mimpi mereka?

Sudah pasti ada yang tidak suka jika aku mengganggu tidur dan mimpi mereka.
Sudah pasti mereka bilang amalan mereka itu sudah sempurna kerana mereka mengikuti kata-kata orang tua mereka dan sudah pasti mendapat syurga.
Mungkin juga syurganya itu dalam mimpi mereka sahaja.
Aku lihat mulut berkata-kata tetapi tangan, kaki dan badan lain pula ceritanya.

Mereka sudah tidak mahu belajar lagi. Apa yang mereka mahu hanyalah diterima.
Asalkan diterima oleh orang-orang mereka juga.
Buat sahaja asalkan tidak menjadi janggal.
Pada aku, orang begini tiada pendiriannya, hanyalah boneka sahaja.
Lebih baik mati daripada hidup begitu.

Mungkinkah ini adat mereka?
Biar mati anak jangan mati adat?
Mahu sahaja aku membuka mulutku, biar sahaja hati dan perasaan mereka aku calarkan.
Masakan aku mampu bersabar apabila agamaku dibuat mainan??
Asalkan sahaja hatiku tenang laksana tanggungjawabku.
Biarlah dunia aku tempuh dengan kesukaran.
Biar anakku ada masa depan.

Shah Rukh Khan is a Muslim? Guess again.

2011-02-16T02:40:00.000-08:00

I just read the article at Mahaguru58 and I feel disgusted.:
http://mahaguru58.blogspot.com/2011/02/shah-rukh-khan-another-asoka-in-india.html

Why am I disgusted, please see the following video.

He said,'..... next to Ganesha and Lechumi, we put the Quran there.........' After that he even put something on the idol to show blessings. OMG!!!

That guy just made an idol out of the Holy Quran!!!

Not sure wether he is ignorance or a hypocrite. One of the most important and basic thing in Islam is not to make shirk with Allah SWT.

Allah will not forgive those who make shirk with him.

[004:048] In fact, Allah does not forgive 'shirk’ _ (an act of associating others as equal to Him). Baring that, He may forgive anything He wants, and whomever He pleases. The one who commits 'shirk’ has indeed invented a singularly sinister sin!

[004:116] Indeed, Allah does not (ever) forgive ‘shirk’ _ (the sin of associating partners with Him) _ anything else He will forgive for whomever He wills. He, who commits ‘shirk’ has in fact lost his way, and has gone far astray!

Good deeds will not be accepted is you shirk. All the good that you do will be nothing at the Day of Resurrection. Don't be a loser.

[039:065] “It has been revealed to you just as it had been revealed to those before you, that if you commit 'shirk’ (associate partners with Allah) your (good) deeds would surely come to naught, and you would definitely be the losers!”

Note: This could be the reason why the deeds of non-Muslims who associate partners with Allah SWT will not be accepted. They have done such injustice to our Creator!

Hell is the only place for people who shirk

Indeed they do blaspheme those who say that Allah is Jesus, the son of Mary, but Jesus said "O children of Israel! Worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord". Whoever joins other gods with Allah, Allah will forbid him heaven and the fire will be his abode. (Al Maidah:72)

I shirk because my forefather shirk, what to do...

[007:173] Or lest you should say, “It was in fact our forefathers who started (practicing) 'shirk’ _ (accepted others as Allah’s partners). We were mainly the descendants who came much later. Will you then punish us for the deeds of the wrongdoers?”

[007:174] Thus do We explain the signs in detail; and perchance they may turn (unto Us).

[007:175] Relate to them the story of the man to whom We sent Our signs, but he passed them by: so Satan followed him up, and he went astray.

[007:176] If it had been Our will, We should have elevated him with Our signs; but he inclined to the earth, and followed his own vain desires. His similitude is that of a dog: if you attack him, he lolls out his tongue, or if you leave him alone, he (still) lolls out his tongue. That is the similitude of those who reject Our signs; So relate the story; perchance they may reflect.

[007:177] Evil as an example are people who reject Our signs and wrong their own souls.

What if my parents force me to do shirk?

[031:015] Yet if they, (your parents), compel you to commit 'shirk’ (associate partners) with Me _ something you have no knowledge of _ then do not obey. Deal with them in this life with kindness and courtesy, but follow the path of the one who turns to Me in repentance. Towards Me is your retreat! Then, I will relate to you what you used to do.

Note: Let me remind all reader that this happens often in our society. Examples of shirk includes 1. believe in 'azimat' or 'tangkal' (popular to be worn on babies),
2. believe in bomoh,
3. believe in horoscope,
4. believe in rituals which can control weather,
5. 'berzanji'
(comment please if you know more)

I have already shirk, so what should I do?

[008:038] Tell (all) those who have disbelieved, that (even now) if they give up (their skepticism), He will forgive their past deeds. However, if they persist then (remember): a precedent (for punishing the unbelievers) has existed since the earliest generation.

Note: As long as taubah before die, Allah SWT will forgive regardless wether its a small or big shirk.

Solat Reminder for Myself

2011-02-15T18:12:00.000-08:00

In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

"Allah is He Who created you in (a state of) weakness, then gave you strength after weakness, then after strength gave (you) weakness and gray hair. He creates what He wills. And it is He Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Powerful (i.e. Able to do all things)." (30:54)

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Allah's Messenger (pbuh) once said: "Prayer is the pillar of religion." (Al-Baihaqi)

The Prophet (pbuh) also said:

"Islam is erected on five pillars: to testify that there is no God but Allah and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger; to establish prayer; to pay Zakat; to perform Hajj to the Sacred House, and to fast in the month of Ramadan." (Bukhari, Muslim)

Prophet (pbuh) said: "Verily, between man and between polytheism and unbelief is the negligence of prayer." (Muslim)

"What has caused you to enter Hell?" They will say: "We were not of those who used to offer their prayers. Nor we used to feed the poor; and we used to talk falsehoods (all that which Allah hated) with vain talkers, and we used to belie the Day of Recompense. Until there came to us (the death) that is certain." (72:42-47)

"Successful indeed are the believers. Those who offer their Salat (prayers) with all solemnity and full submissiveness. And those who turn away from Al-Laghw (dirty, false, evil vain talk, falsehoods and all that Allah has forbidden). And those who pay the Zakat. And those who guard their chastity (i.e. private parts, from illegal sexual acts). Except from their wives or (the captives and slaves) that their right hands possess, -for then, they are free from blame. But whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the transgressors. Those who are faithfully true to their trusts and to their covenants. And those who strictly guard their Salat (five compulsory congregational prayers at their fixed stated hours). These are indeed the inheritors. Who shall inherit the Firdaus (Paradise). They shall dwell therein forever." (23:1-11)

"Verily, man (disbeliever) was created very impatient; irritable (discontented) when evil touches him; and niggardly when good touches him. Except those devoted to Salat (prayers), those who remain constant in their Salat (prayers), and those in whose wealth there is a known right, for the beggar who asks, and for the unlucky who has lost his property and wealth, (and his means of living has been straitened). And those who believe in the Day of Recompense, and those who fear the torment of their Lord. Verily! The torment of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure. And those who guard their chastity (ie, private parts from illegal sexual acts), except with their wives and the (women slaves and captives) whom their right hands possess, -for (then) they are not to be blames. But whosoever seeks beyond that, then it is those who are trespassers. And those who keep their trusts and covenants, and those who stand firm in their testimonies, and those who guard their Salat (prayers) well; such shall dwell in the Gardens (i.e. Paradise) honored."(70:19-35)

Allah's Messenger (pbuh) also said:

"The first thing about which a man is going to be questioned on the Day of Judgment is prayer. If it is found to be sound all his other reactions will be sound as well. If his prayer is not sound all his remaining actions would be spoiled." (Al-Tabarani)

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WHICH PRAYER IS ACCEPTABLE?

"Those who offer their Salat (prayers) with all solemnity and full submissiveness." (23:2)

"So woe unto those performers of prayers (hypocrites), who delay their Salat (prayer) from its stated fixed time, " (107:4,5)

Allah's Messenger (pbuh) was once sitting in the mosque at Al-Madinah when a bedouin entered and began to pray. He prayed so quickly, that when he had finished, the Prophet (pbuh) asked him to repeat the prayer. His second attempt was just as hurried, so the Prophet (pbuh) asked him to repeat it again. After a third hurried prayer, the bedouin said: "O Messenger of Allah. I cannot pray better than this." The Prophet (pbuh) then showed the man how to pray. He instructed him to recite Surah Al-Fatiha while in the standing position, then to say Tasbih in the Ruku position, to stand upright saying Rabbana lakal hamd, to go down with Sajdah and recite Tasbih, and to sit between the two Sajdah and recite a Du'a. The Prophet (pbuh) advised the bedouin to do this in each Rakaa. (Musnad Ahmad)

Allah's Messenger (pbuh) used to spend a lot of time on each prayer, so that each movement of the prayer could be offered slowly and properly. He once said: "A man's lengthy prayer and short sermon shows that he has a good understanding of the religion." (Muslim, Abu Dawood)

"O you who believer! Seek help in patience and Salat (prayer). Truly! Allah is with the patient." (2:153)

"...and establish prayer for My Remembrance." (20:14)

"...Verily, As-salat (the prayer) prevents from Al-Fahsha (i.e. great sins of every kind, unlawful sexual intercourse etc. ) and al-Munkar (i.e. disbelief, polytheism, and every kind of evil wicked deed etc.)..." (29:45)

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PRAYER AS AN EXPIATION OF SINS

"Verily, the good deeds remove the evil deeds (i.e. small sins), " (11:114)

As prayer is the best of all good actions, it can erase many sins. 'Ali narrated that Abu Bakr heard Allah's Messenger (pbuh) saying:

"Whoever commits a sin, but performs ablution in the best way, then offers two Rakat prayer, and he asks for the forgiveness of Allah, Allah almighty forgives his sins." (Ahmad)

In Surah Al-Furqan repentance is described as a way out for those who commit major sins:

"And those who invoke not any other Ilah (god) along with Allah, nor kill such life as Allah has forbidden, except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse - and whoever does this shall receive the punishment. The torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein in disgrace. Except those who repent and believe (in Islamic Monotheism), and do righteous deeds, for those, Allah will change their sins into good deeds, and Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful. And whosoever repents and does righteous good deeds, then verily, he repents towards Allah with true repentance. " (25:68-71)

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WHY DOES MAN ABANDON PRAYER?

Allah Almighty says:

"Then, there has succeeded them a posterity who have given up prayers (i.e. made their prayers to be lost, either by not offering them or by not offering them perfectly or by not offering them in their proper fixed times, etc.) and have followed lusts. so they will be thrown in Hell. Except those who repent and believe (in the Oneness of Allah and His Messenger Muhammad {pbuh}) and work righteousness. Such will enter Paradise and they will not be wronged in aught." (19:59, 60)

Preceding this verse, the Quran gives the example of many previous Prophets and their guided followers. This particular verse explains that the people who abandon prayer are those who follow their own selfish desires. A man can either obey Allah, or he can obey his own wishes; and this obedience is equated to worship by the Quran:

"Have you (O Muhammad {pbuh}) seen him who has taken as his Ilah (god) his own desire? Would you then be a Wakil (a protecting guide) over him?" (25:43)

Allah's Messenger (pbuh) described such people as the sales of Dirhams and Dinars, and things have not change much since his time. Today, the Americans are described by a western author as - 'people who worship the dollar for six days a week, and then they turn to God on the seventh day!"

When a heart is filled with love for money, it has no room for God, and prayer is the first thing to be abandoned.

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PRAYER: AN EVERLASTING PRESCRIPTION FOR PURITY, CLEANSING OF SINS AND ENTERING PARADISE

(Some Ahadith on prayer)

1. Abu Huraira narrated that Allah's Messenger (pbuh) said:

"Just see, can anything of his filthiness remain on the body of anyone of you if there were a river at his door in which he washed himself five times daily?" They said, "Nothing of his filthiness will remain (on his body)." He said, "That is like the five prayers by which Allah obliterates sins." (Bukhari, Muslim)

2. Abu Huraira narrated that Allah's Messenger (pbuh) said:

"Five (daily) prayers and from one Friday prayer to the (next) Friday prayer, and from Ramadan to Ramadan are expiations for the (sins) committed in between (their intervals) provided one shuns the major sins." (Muslim, Tirmidhi)

3. Rabia bin Kab narrated:

I was with Allah's Messenger (pbuh) one night, and I brought him water and what he required. He said to me: "Ask (anything you like)." I said, "I ask your company in Paradise." He said, "Or anything else besides it?" I said, "That is all what I require." He said, "Then help me to achieve this for you by devoting yourself often to prostration." (Muslim)

4. Abu Dhar narrated that Allah's Messenger (pbuh) came out in winter when the leaves were falling. He took hold of a branch (and shook it) and its leaves started falling. Then he said:

"O Abu Dhar!" I said, "Labbaik, O Messenger of Allah!" He said, "Whenever a Muslim prays seeking the Pleasure of Allah, his sins start falling like the leaves of this tree." (Musnad Ahmad)

5. 'Uqba bin Aamir narrated that the Prophet (pbuh) said:

"Your Lord is amazed by that shepherd who is at the top of a mountain (with his sheep) and who calls for prayer and then offer his prayers. Allah Almighty says: Look at this slave of Mine who calls for prayer, then says Iqamah for the prayer, and then prays as he is fearful of me. I have forgiven my slave and admitted him to Paradise." (Abu Dawood, Nasai)

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PRAYER: A DUTY ON EVERYONE

A child born into a Muslim family begins his life hearing the Adhan in his right ear and the Iqama in his left ear. From his childhood, he should be taught the importance and method of prayer.

'Abdullah bin Amr bin Aas narrated that Allah's Messenger said: "Command your children to pray when they reach the age of seven and admonish them by beating (if they don't pray) at the age of ten. And keep them (i.e. boys and girls) apart in their beds." (Abu Dawood)

Abu Malik Al-Ashjai narrated on the authority of his father that the first thing the Prophet used to teach a new Muslim was the prayer. (Al-Bazzar)

Prayer is just as obligatory for women as it is for men. It is recommended that women should pray at home, but if they wish to attend the mosque for any obligatory prayer, they should not be prevented from doing so.

Abdullah bin Umar once quoted this saying of the Prophet (pbuh) to his son: "If your wife asks permission to go to the mosque you should not stop her." His son Bilal replied: "By Allah, we will stop them." Abdullah was so displeased at this that he criticized his son in strong terms, adding: "I quote to you what Allah's Messenger (pbuh) has said and you say 'we will stop them'. (All report this except Nisai)

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I pray to Allah SWT so that he will engrave this to my memory. I hope this reminder will be fresh in my mind everyday when I wake up and everyday before I sleep.

-A reminder to myself

Muhammad Ng

Maulidur Rasul?

2011-02-12T09:25:00.001-08:00

Assalamualaikum,

Its here again this year and I am not celebrating it in any way. (even so if there are good lectures, I am sure to attend)

Here is the reason:

1. Are you sure that it is 100% the correct date when our Prophet Muhammad SAW was born? If so what is the proof? From what I read, scholars have different views on the date.

2. The Prophet never celebrated it, the Sahabats never celebrated it. Then why are we celebrating it? Claiming something to be a Sunnah without a proof or support from any hadith is a bidaah. And the Prophet warned us about bidaah, the only place for people of bidaah is Hell.

RasoolAllah {sallalahu alayhi was'salam} informed the Sahabah, that they must adhere to his Sunnah and Sunnah of Khulfa Rashideen, and told them that avoid newly invented matters, because every reprehensiable novelty is reprehensiable Biddah, and every reprehensiable Biddah is error:

Sunnan Abu Dawood, Book 40, Number 4590: "Narrated Irbad ibn Sariyah: Abdur Rahman ibn Amr as-Sulami and Hujr ibn Hujr said: ... He then said: I enjoin you to fear Allah, and to hear and obey even if it be an Abyssinian slave, for those of you who live after me will see great disagreement. You must then follow my sunnah and that of the rightly-guided caliphs. Hold to it and stick fast to it. Avoid novelties, for every novelty is an innovation, and every innovation is an error."

Sahih Muslim, Book 4, Hadith 1885:Jabir b. Abdullah said: ... He would also say:" The last Hour and I have been sent like these two." and he would join his forefinger and middle finger; and would further say: "The best of the speech is embodied in the Book of Allah, and the beet of the guidance is the guidance given by Muhammad. And the most evil affairs are their innovations; and every innovation is error." He would further say:, I am more dear to a Muslim even than his self; ..."

Sahih Bukhari, Book 92, Hadith 382: "Narrated 'Abdullah: The best talk (i.e. speech) is Allah's Book {i.e. Quran}, and the best way is the way of Muhammad, and the Worst matters are the heresies (i.e. those new things which are introduced into the religion); and whatever you have been promised will surely come to pass, and you cannot escape (it)."

Prophet {sallalahu alayhi was'salam} warned, that one who intorduces a Biddah {not in harmony with principles of deen, withoud valid reason of Sharia, and without aproval from Prophet, Sahabah} such a person is cursed by Allah as well as one who shelters him:

Sunan Abu Dawood, Book 39, Hadith 4515: "Narrated Ali ibn AbuTalib: Qays ibn Abbad and Ashtar went to Ali and said to him: Did the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) give you any instruction about anything for which he did not give any instruction to the people in general? He said: No, except what is contained in this document of mine. Musaddad said: He then took out a document. Ahmad said: A document from the sheath of his sword. It contained: The lives of all Muslims are equal; they are one hand against others; the lowliest of them can guarantee their protection. Beware, a Muslim must not be killed for an infidel, nor must one who has been given a covenant be killed while his covenant holds. If anyone introduces an innovation, he will be responsible for it. If anyone introduces an innovation or gives shelter to a man who introduces an innovation (in religion), he is cursed by Allah, by His angels, and by all the people. Musaddad said: Ibn AbuUrubah's version has: He took out a document."

Sahih Muslim, Book 7, Hadith 3159: 'Asim reported: I asked Anas b. Malik whether Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) had declared Medina as sacred. He said: Yes. (the area) between so and so. He who made any innovation in it, and further said to me: It is something serious to make any innovation in it (and he who does it) there is upon him the curse of Allah, and that of the angels and of all the people, Allah will not accept from him on the Day of Resurrection either obligatory acts or the surpererogatory acts. Ibn Anas said: Or he accommodates an innovator.”

Sahih Muslim, Book 7, Hadith 3166: “Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: Medina is a sacred territory, so he who made any innovation in it. or gave protection to an innovator, there is upon him the curse of Allah, that of the angels and that of all the people. There would not be accepted on the Day of Resurrection either obligatory acts or supererogatory acts from him.”

Mubtadi {Innovator's}and one who accommodates him are cursed by Allah his angles, and all the people, Messenger of Allah further revealed that Allah will not accept the obligatory acts of worship etc … nor will He accept supererogatory acts, i.e. nawafil prayers, Taraweeh, etc … on the day of judgement, hence without acceptance of Farahid, and Nawafil, person has no basis to enter paradise, he will be sent to fire of hell.

RasoolAllah {sallalahu alayhi was'salam} foretells that on the day of judgement Allah subhana wa tallah will grant him honour on Al Kauthar, and a group of people will come to Messenger of Allah asking for the water, and angles will remind him that they are innovator's and Messenger of Allah will send them away:

Sahih Muslim, Book 30, Hadith 5706 : “Anas b. Malik reported Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) as saying: Some persons from amongst my associates would turn to my Reservoir {Al Kauthar}; when I would see them and they would be presented to me, they would be detained in the way while coming to me. I would say: My Lord, they are my companions, they are my companions, and it would be said to me: You don't know what innovations they made after you?”

Sahih Muslim, Book 30, Hadith 5690: “'Abdullah reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying; I shall be there at the Reservoir {Al Kauthar} before you, and I shall have to contend for some people, but I shall have to yield. I would be saying: My Lord, they are my friends, they are my friends, and it would be said: You don't know what innovations they made after you?”

Sahih Muslim, Book 30, Hadith 5686: “Umm Salama, the wife of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him), said I used to hear from people making a mention of the Reservoir {Al Kauthar}, but I did not hear about it from Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him). One day while a girl was combing me I heard Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) say:" O people." I said to that girl: Keep away from me. She said: He (the Holy Prophet) has addressed the men only and he has not invited the attention of the women. I said: I am amongst the people also (and have thus every right to listen to the things pertaining to religion). Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: I shall be your harbinger on the Resevoir {Al Kauthar}; therefore, be cautious lest one of you should come (to me) and may be driven away like a stray camel. I would ask the reasons, and it would be said to me: You don't know what innovations they made after you? And I would then also say: Be away.”

3. Its a good time or opportunity to change or educate the Muslim.
My comment is its been more than 50 years and Muslims in Malaysia should have been educated enough. It is not the responsibility for each Muslim to seek knowledge? Dont tell me we only do so during Maulid?

4. Its good to remember our Prophet and his sacrifice. My comment is dont we do that in everyday in our solats? Come on, what type of person remembers his Prophet and his sacrifice only once a year? We should do it everyday.

5. Its just a birthday celebration. What is wrong with you?
My comment: Even if its a birthday, its a Western culture. To be exact it originated from Druid religion and later became a part of Western culture. So you still want to follow something which originated from a Pagan religion? Plus even if I do not consider that, who would celebrate a dead man's birthday? Who is sick enough to do that? Imagine your family who passed away, do you celebrate their birthdays? We only pray for them like how we pray everyday for our Prophet SAW.

6. We have to show to the non-Muslim our religion.
My comment: What do you want to show them? Do we want to show that out religion promotes parades? Come on la, what we need to do is da'wah which is to tell or explain to them the religion it self. No need for parades, I dont see it as a way of da'wah from any angle at all.

I will not stop anyone from celebrating but remember, in the eyes of a non-Muslim it might look like this pictures and they might have the idea that Islam is not so different from their religion after all....

Penerangan hadis 'Sebaik-baik jin adalah sejahat-jahat manusia'

2011-01-01T06:22:00.000-08:00

Sumber: http://www.al-ahkam.net/forum09/viewtopic.php?f=165&t=39700

1- Sekadar pencarian kami di sini, tidak dapat ditemui sebuah hadith - sama ada sahih atau dhaif - yang berbunyi seperti yang saudara nyatakan.

2- Apabila dilihat kepada Al-Quran terutamanya, kita dapati bahawa Allah SWT menyamakan di antara jin dan manusia dari segi sebahagiannya baik dan sebahagian lagi tidak..di antaranya ialah seperti:

Dalam surah al-Jinn, ayat 11, Allah SWT menyatakan kata-kata jin:
"Dan bahawa sesungguhnya (memang maklum) ada di antara kita golongan yang baik keadaannya, dan ada di antara kita yang lain dari itu; kita masing-masing adalah menurut jalan dan cara yang berlainan. "

Begitu juga dalam surah al-Jinn juga, ayat 14 dan 15:
"Dan bahawa sesungguhnya (dengan datangnya Al-Quran, nyatalah) ada di antara kita golongan yang berugama Islam, dan ada pula golongan yang (kufur derhaka dengan) menyeleweng dari jalan yang benar; maka sesiapa yang menurut Islam (dengan beriman dan taat), maka merekalah golongan yang bersungguh-sungguh mencari dan menurut jalan yang benar,
Adapun yang menyeleweng dari jalan yang benar, maka mereka menjadi bahan bakaran bagi neraka Jahannam".

Dalam surah al-Dzariyaat, ayat 56:
"Dan (ingatlah) Aku tidak menciptakan jin dan manusia melainkan untuk mereka menyembah dan beribadat kepadaKu".

Dalam surah al-A'raaf, ayat 179:
"Dan sesungguhnya Kami jadikan untuk neraka jahanam banyak dari jin dan manusia yang mempunyai hati (tetapi) tidak mahu memahami dengannya (ayat-ayat Allah), dan yang mempunyai mata (tetapi) tidak mahu melihat dengannya (bukti keesaan Allah) dan yang mempunyai telinga (tetapi) tidak mahu mendengar dengannya (ajaran dan nasihat); mereka itu seperti binatang ternak, bahkan mereka lebih sesat lagi; mereka itulah orang-orang yang lalai".

Maka tidak mungkin sejahat manusia adalah sama tarafnya dengan jin yg baik. Kerana semuanya adalah sama.

wallahu a'lam

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Saje nak letak sebab ada iklan kat NTV7 yang guna hadis ni.

Faisal Tehrani lagi

2010-12-28T23:26:00.000-08:00

Salam,

Kali ini saya copy paste dari saudara Masri di

http://lobaitampin.blogspot.com/2010/12/buat-mereka-yang-gagal-membezakan.html

Buat Mereka Yang Gagal Membezakan Menangis dan Meratap

Assalamualaikum wbt.

Saya kongsikan tulisan teman di alam maya saya, Ustaz Nasaie yang sedang menuntut ilmu hadis di Mesir. Ia merupakan jawapan kepada seorang novelis terkenal, yang cuba mengaburi mata umat Islam dengan menjadi sumbar-sumber umat Islam untuk menghalalkan perbuatan meratap. Selamat membaca.

ASYURA DAN TANGISAN

Artikel kali ini tidak ingin saya panjangkan tulisannya.

Saya akan terus membincangkan dalil-dalil yang di bawa oleh Dr. Faisal demi menyokong upacara 'Asyura yang saban tahun dirayakan oleh Syi'ah Rafidhah yang telah menyimpang dari landasan al-Quran,Sunnah Rasulullah SAW dan petunjuk Ahli Keluarga Rasulullah SAW yang mulia.

Berdasarkan tulisan ini,maka akan jelaslah kedangkalan ilmu hadith dan tafsir Dr. Faisal Tehrani dan bagaimana beliau hanya mengambil frasa-frasa yang menyokong bid'ah dan dakyahnya sahaja dan pada masa yang sama meninggalkan frasa-frasa lain yang bakal menyembelih tengkuknya sendiri!

KAMI KATAKAN 'YA' PADA MENANGIS

Ayat-ayat al-Quran yang dibawa oleh Dr. Faisal tidak kami ragukan lagi.Bahawasanya tangisan kerana memikirkan kalam Ilahi,tidak dapat menyertai jihad kerana tiadanya kelengkapan perang seperti kenderaan,mengenangkan dosa silam dan sebagainya,adalah dituntut oleh Islam.

Ia menjadi petunjuk bahawa hati seseorang individu itu masih mempunyai sekelumit iman.Masih ada dalam hatinya rasa takutkan Allah,pembalasan hari kiamat dan neraka yang disediakan Allah SWT untuk hamba-hambanya yang kufur dan menderhaka kepadaNYA.

Beliau juga membawa kisah Nabi Ya'qub alaihis salam yang menangisi anakanda Baginda iaitu Nabi Yusof alaihis salam sehinggakan buta kedua-dua belah matanya.

Ingin ditanya kepada Dr. Faisal,di bahagian manakah ayat-ayat al-Quran ini yang menunjukkan bahawa tangisan tersebut disertakan dengan teriakan,meratap meraung dan sebagainya yang seringkali dilakukan oleh golongan Syi'ah Rafidhah?

Jawapan yang pasti ialah TIADA!

Dr. Faisal yang kononnya berhujjah dengan al-Quran untuk menggalakkan tangisan,beliau juga sebenarnya yang lupa bahawa Syia'ah Rafidhah yang telah meninggalkan ajaran al-Quran dengan cara menokok tambah tangisan tersebut dengan upacara-upacara yang tak jauh bezanya dengan perayaan Hindu di Batu Cave!

Bahkan dalam kisah Nabi Ya'qub alaihis salam,siapakah yang mengatakan bahawa Baginda menangisi seorang insan yang telah meninggal dunia?

Bahkan Nabi Ya'qub alaihis salam mengetahui bahawa puteranya masih bernafas melalui wahyu Allah SWT.Sesiapa sahaja yang mendalami tafsir surah Yusuf akan memahami isi kandungan surah tersebut dan apa yang saya sampaikan ini.

ANALISA HADITH-HADITH YANG DIJADIKAN HUJJAH OLEH DR.FAISAL

Sebagaimana artikel-artikel yang lepas,Dr. Faisal masih lagi tak jemu-jemu untuk mengemukakan dalil hadith dari kitab Ahli Sunnah.

Kononnya,melalui cara ini,beliau berjaya membuktikan bahawa tradisi meratap dan meraung ini ada juga dalam tradisi dan sumber-sumber muktabar Sunni sendiri.

Dan akhirnya,beliau menuduh kita zalim terhadap Syi'ah kerana kita tidak mengkaji sesuatu isu secara telus bahkan secara membabi buta menuduh Syi'ah tanpa bukti yang jelas dan kukuh!

Alangkah dangkalnya kesimpulan yang dibawa.

Sebagaimana yang diketahui,Dr. Faisal bukanlah seorang graduan bahagian tafsir ataupun hadith.Oleh yang demikian,memang jelaslah bahawa Dr. Faisal tidak dapat membezakan sumber rujukan primer atau sekunder bagi kedua-dua bidang pengajian Islam ini.

Bahkan nama-nama kitab yang disebutkan oleh beliau juga menunjukkan kepincangan beliau dalam meneliti peringkat dan keabsahan sesuatu rujukan.Apatah lagi untuk beliau memahami metodologi penulis kitab berkenaan.

Jika kedudukan sesuatu kitab dan metodologi penulis tidak difahami dengan baik,maka mana mungkin isi kandungan kitab dapat dihidangkan di kalangan pembaca dengan kefahaman yang betul dan jelas.

Hadith yang dinilai dhaif oleh para pengkritik hadith telah disembahkan kepada pembaca sebagai sahih dan dijadikan hujjah!

Alangkah pincangnya ilmu beliau sehingga saya tertanya-tanya,apa guna ijazah kedoktoran yang ada?

Saya tidak marah jika beliau mahu menulis tentang Ahmadi Nejad atau Iran.

Tetapi jika ingin menulis tentang Islam,ingin saya katakan padanya 'HORMATILAH PENGKHUSUSAN ILMIAH!'

(A) Beliau membawa dalil hadith Rasulullah SAW yang bersumber dari hadith Anas Ibn Malik semasa kewafatan anak Baginda SAW iaitu Ibrahim r.anhu.

Jika diteliti hadith riwayat al-Bukhari itu (no.1303) maka kita akan dapati kenyataan Rasulullah SAW iaitu " Kita tidak akan menyebut/mengatakan sesuatu kecuali yang meredhakan Tuhan kita."

Frasa ini seharusnya diberikan penekanan oleh kita semua.

Frasa ini seharusnya dilihat bersama dengan sebuah lagi hadith yang diriwayatkan oleh Imam al-Bukhari yang juga bersumber dari hadith Abdullah Ibn Umar (no.1304) dan juga oleh Imam Muslim (no.924) iaitu 'Allah SWT tidak akan mengazab seseorang itu disebabkan tangisan ataupun kesedihan hati.Tetapi Allah SWT akan mengazab disebabkan ini (maka Rasulullah SAW menunjukkan kepada mulutnya) dan begitu juga Allah akan mengazab seseorang yang berdoa dengan doa jahiliah.'

Berdasarkan dua hadith di atas,dapatlah difahami bahawa Rasulullah SAW memerintahkan agar kita mengelak menghadapi kematian sebagaimana orang jahiliah menghadapi kematian samaada dari segi percakapan ataupun perbuatan.

Tradisi arab jahiliah semasa menghadapi kematian adalah dengan terpekik terlolong,meratap,meraung,memukul badan dan menaburkan pasir dan debu tanah di atas badan.

Perkara ini semuanya telah dilarang oleh Rasulullah SAW berdasarkan hadith-hadith yang sahih.Adapun saranan al-Quran ialah agar kita mengucapkan istirja' iaitu ' Inna Lillah Wa Inna Ilaihi Raji'un.'

(B) Dr. Faisal juga telah membawa dalil hadith dari Musnad Imam Ahmad yang menceritakan kesyahidan Hamzah r.anhu di Uhud.

Dalil yang kedua ini menunjukkan kepincangan dan kebejatan Dr. Faisal dalam mengemukakan dalil.

Maaf di atas kekasaran bahasa saya!

Masakan saya tidak marah apabila hadith tersebut dipotong bahagian yang penting yang bakal memancung batang leher Syiah Rafidhah!

Alangkah kejinya sifat tidak amanah dalam menukilkan hadith Rasulullah SAW dan kalam ahli ilmu.Inilah Syiah zaman berzaman.Hidup dengan pendustaan!

Hadith tersebut telah diriwayatkan oleh para ulama' hadith seperti berikut :

(a) Imam Ahmad telah meriwayatkan hadith kesyahidan Hamzah r.anhu dan tiadanya sesiapapun yang menangisi Hamzah r.anhu melalui 3 jalan yang semuanya bersumber dari jalan Usamah Ibn Zaid daripada Nafi' daripada Ibn Umar r.anhum.(no.4984,5563 dan 5666).{penomboran adalah edisi Syaikh Syuaib al-Arnauth,al-Risalah)

(b) Abu Ya'la al-Musili telah meriwayatkan hadith tersebut juga dari jalan Usamah Ibn Zaid dan dari jalan Anas Ibn Malik.(no.3610){penomboran adalah berdasarkan nota kaki Tanqih al-Tahqiq,edisi Adwa' al-Salaf}

(c) Ibn Majah telah meriwayatkan hadith ini juga melalui jalan Usamah Ibn Ziad.(no.1591) {penomboran edisi Dr.Bassyar 'Awwad,Dar al-Jail}

Sealain daripada tiga ulama' ini,masih terdapat tokoh-tokoh hadith yang lain yang memuatkan hadith ini dalam kitab-kitab mereka seperti al-Tahawi,Ibn Abi Syaibah dan lain-lain tetapi semuanya adalah bersumber daripada jalan Usamah Ibn Zaid daripada Nafi' daripada Ibn Umar r.anhuma.

Secara amanah ingin dinyatakan di sini bahawa para ulama' hadith berselisih pendapat tentang status hadith ini antara yang mendhaifkan dan yang menghasankan hadith ini.

(1) Antara yang mendhaifkan hadith ini ialah al-Busiri dalam Misbah al-Zujajah dan Ibn al-Jauzi dalam al-Tahqiq.

Mereka mendhaifkan hadith ini kerana ia bersumber dari Usamah Ibn Zaid.Ibn al-Jauzi berhujjah dengan kata-kata Imam Ahmad bahawa Usamah meriwayatkan hadith-hadith yang mungkar dari Nafi'.Yahya Ibn Said al-Qattan juga meninggalkan hadith Usamah.Dan Usamah di sisi mereka adalah dhaif.{ms 679,670,jil 2,tanqih al-Tahqiq,edisi Adwa' al-Salaf}

(2) Majoriti ulama' hadith menghukum hadith ini sebagai Hasan.Mereka adalah seperti Syaikh Ahmad Syakir dan Syaikh Syuaib dalam tahqiq al-Musnad,Syaikh al-Albani dan Syaikh Bassyar 'Awwad dalam tahqiq Sunan Ibn Majah.

Ini,kerana pada mereka Usamah Ibn Zaid dinilai sebagai 'hasanul hadith' (hadithnya hasan) dengan syarat beliau tidak menyalahi riwayat perawi lain yang lebih terpercaya (thiqah).

Apapun,jika hadith ini dhaif maka ia tidak boleh dijadikan hujjah.

Jika hadith ini sahih (dan ini adalah pendapat yang lebih tepat) maka ia juga menjadi pedang tajam buat membongkar jenayah ilmiah Dr. Faisal!

Bagaimana?

Beliau telah menterjemah kenyataan Rasulullah SAW iaitu ' Hamzah,tiada seorang pun yang menangis untuknya. ' melalui satu sudut yang lain iaitu seolah-olah Rasulullah SAW menyuruh para wanita tersebut menangis untuk Hamzah.Ia juga mengandungi isyarat bahawa Rasulullah SAW memerintahkan kita agar menangisi pejuang Islam.

Apapun tafsiran beliau,kenapa disembunyikan penghujung hadith tersebut?

Dalam hadith yang sama Rasulullah SAW telah terganggu tidurnya pada malam itu kerana suara tangisan para wanita ansar itu.Maka Rasulullah SAW telah memerintahkan agar mereka disuraikan dan Baginda melarang umat Islam untuk menangis lagi atas kematian seseorang selepas itu (yang melebihi batasan yang dibenarkan syarak).

Nah,lihatlah nilai amanah Dr.Faisal!

Dan dalam masa yang sama,ketika sampainya berita tangisan ahli keluarga Ja'far setelah syahidnya beliau,Maka Rasulullah SAW telah memerintahkan mereka agar mereka ditegah daripada menangis.Setelah diberitahu kepada Rasulullah SAW bahawa mereka tidak berhenti,maka Rasulullah SAW telah memerintahkan agar disumbat tanah ke dalam mulut mereka.

Hadith ini telah diriwayatkan oleh al-Bukhari (no.1299) dan al-Nasaie (no.1846) melalui hadith 'Aisyah r.anha {penomboran berdasarkan edisi al-durar al-saniyyah}

Nah,lihatlah betapa tegasnya Rasulullah SAW dalam masalah tangisan ini.

Hadith wanita Ansar menangis itu adalah selepas perang Uhud.Pada hari yang sama juga Rasulullah SAW telah menegah dari menangisi si mati secara berlebihan.Dan syahidnya Ja'far,Abdullah Ibn Rawahah dan Zaid Ibn Harithah adalah dalam peperangan Mu'tah yang berlaku lama selepas itu.Dan Rasulullah masih lagi bertegas agar jangan ditangisi secara melampau.

Nah,di manakah amanah Dr. Faisal?

(C) Adapun hadith Fatimah r.anha menangisi Ja'far r.anhu dan sabda Rasulullah SAW bahawa seharusnya ditangisi kematian insan seperti Ja'far maka hadith tersebut telah disebut oleh Imam al-Suyuti dalam al-Jami' al-Saghir (no.5465).

Lafaz tersebut telah dirawayatkan oleh Abd al-Razzaq dalam al-Musannaf (6666/550/3) dalam menceritakan kisah syahidnya Ja'far r.anhu.

Namun hadith itu dinilai dhaif oleh Syaikh al-Albani kerana seorang perawinya adalah majhul.
(n0. 3883,jil 8,ms 340,edisi matabah al-ma'aarif).

Dalam masa yang sama,hadith ini bertentangan dengan riwayat al-Bukhari dan al-Nasaie di atas yang melarang ahli keluarga Ja'far daripada menangisi beliau.Bagaimana mungkin,di sini Rasulullah SAW menggalakkannya pula.

Bagi para pelajar hadith,semata-mata di sebut Musannaf Abd al-Razzaq,dia sudah tahu cerita yang berkaitan dengan riwayat-riwayat sebegini dalam kitab tersebut.Di sini bukan perbahasannya.

Menyembunyikan apa yang bakal meruntuhkan bid'ah puak Syiah Rafidhah kesayangannya!

(D) Adapun riwayat bahawa 'Aisyah r.anha meratapi kematian ayahnya iaitu Abu Bakr r.anhu,maka ingin dinyatakan di sini,dari perkataan manakah diterjemahkan perkataan 'meratap'.

Dalam riwayat-riwayat tersebut yang ada ialah kalimah 'yabkiina' iaitu mereka menangis.Terjemahan nya ialah menangis dan bukannya ratapan seumpama ratapan jahiliah.Tambahan pula,apabila perkara itu (menangis beramai-ramai di rumah Abu Bakar) diketahui oleh Umar r.anhu,maka Baginda telah meleraikannya.Ini menunjukkan bahawa Baginda sedang melaksanakan perintah Rasulullah SAW agar tidak ditangisi si mati apatah lagi berhimpun untuk menangisinya sebagaimana dalam hadith syahidnya Ja'far di atas.

(E) Riwayat al-Tirmizi bahawasanya Ummu Salamah telah bermimpi didatangi Rasulullah SAW dalam keadaan berdebu janggut dan rambutnya kerana kematian Husain r.anhu,maka telah dijelaskan sebelum ini.Hadith itu didhaifkan oleh Imam Tirmizi sendiri dalam kitabnya.

Di manakah amanah ilmiah wahai Dr. Faisal?

(F) Adapun ayat Surah al-Zaariyat itu,ingin ditanya,dari kalimah manakah ia menunjukkan perbuatan memukul mukanya itu berulang-ulang?

KESIMPULAN

Akhirnya,jelaslah kepincangan Dr. Faisal dalam mengemukakan dalil dan meneliti uslub bahasa Arab dalam memahami dalil.

Beliau tidak bisa mengkaji rentetan sesuatu peristiwa untuk menentukan yang mana dahulu dan yang mana kemudia.Ilmu ini penting untuk mengetahui hukum hakam yang paling akhir yang dititahkan oleh Rasulullah SAW.Ilmu inilah yang dipanggil ilmu nasikh dan mansukh.

Beliau juga buta ilmu Usul Fiqh dalam memahami dua topik penting iaitu perbahasan :

(a) Keabsahan fatwa,kenyataan dan perbuatan seseorang sahabat

(b) Keabsahan syariat orang terdahulu (dalam kes ini ialah perbuatan Sarah dan Nabi Ya'qub alaihis salam)

Akhirnya,nasihat saya buat diri saya dan semua,berpegang teguhlah pada al-Quran dan al-Sunnah.Jauhkanlah diri kalian dari syubhat Syiah Rafidhah yang menyeleweng.Doakan hidayat untuk kita dan mereka.

Ameen..

God's Power & Will: Answers to Common Questions

2010-12-21T22:47:00.001-08:00

Salam,

This a post by Bro Hamza at
http://hamzatzortzis.blogspot.com/2010/03/gods-power-will.html

Please read up on his blog. This is just one of his post.

During the Islamic Awareness Week tour, which is now coming to an end, I realised there were common questions raised throughout the lectures and presentations. As a result I felt it would be beneficial for the reader to have the answers to these questions available in short posts. The questions raised were varied and included issues pertaining to the existence of God, God’s nature, Islamic Law, and Islamic Theology. In this post I will attempt to answer two questions that frequently arise during the lectures related to God’s nature.

These questions are:

1. If God is all powerful can He do anything, including creating a stone He cannot move?
2. Can God have free will if He knows everything?

If God is all powerful can He do anything, including creating a stone He cannot move?

The Islamic theological position regarding God’s ability is eloquently summed up in the following creedal statement found in The Creed of Imam Al-Tahawi. It states,

“…He is Omnipotent. Everything is dependent on Him, and every affair is effortless for Him.”

A common contention or question regarding God’s power and ability is that if God is omnipotent then can He create a stone He cannot move? A key point to make in answering this question is to highlight that ‘Omnipotence’ is misconstrued as ‘all powerful’. What omnipotence really implies is the ability to actualise every affair, rather than raw power. So God being able to “create a stone He cannot move” actually describes an affair that is impossible and meaningless, just like if we were to say “a white black crow” or “a circle triangle” or even an “amphibian mammal”.

Such statements describe nothing at all and have no informative value, they are meaningless. So why should we even answer a question that has no meaning? To put it bluntly the question is not even a question.

Another way of looking at this is that since God is all powerful it means that He will always be able to do what He wills, as the creedal statement above mentions “…and every affair is effortless for Him.” Therefore omnipotence also includes the impossibility of failure. The questioner however is saying that since God is all powerful He can do anything which includes failure! This is irrational and absurd as it is equivalent to saying “an all powerful being cannot be an all powerful being”!

To conclude, God can create stone that is heavier than anything we can imagine, but He will always be able to move the stone, what must be understood is that failure is not an aspect of omnipotence.

Can God have free will if He knows everything?

In Islamic theology God is ‘All-Knowing’ and His will is always fulfilled. As a result people have questioned “Can God really have free will if He knows everything? Especially since that His knowledge includes things that He will do? And if He knows what He will do, doesn’t that make His actions dependent on His foreknowledge? Therefore He has no free will?”

The answer to this question is quite straight forward. The questioner has equated knowledge of the future with the cause of future events. For example if I know my daughter is going to wake up a 7:00 am tomorrow morning, and when the morning comes she does wake up at that time (usually having a good pull at my beard!), what caused her to wake up? It surely isn’t my knowledge of the fact that she will wake up at the time; rather it’s her biological ‘clock’ – not to forget that it is also due to the fact that she is hungry or wants to play! Similarly if I know I will lift 140 kilos bench press when I go to the gym tomorrow does that mean that my knowledge of being able to lift that amount made me do it? No, the fact is that my choice of going to the gym, including my physiological make up, has caused me to be able to lift that weight, and not the knowledge of the fact that I can.

So God’s foreknowledge of future events, including His own actions, doesn’t mean that His knowledge caused Him to act in a certain way. For example, the fact that He created the world and placed human beings as vicegerents on it doesn’t mean His foreknowledge of it forced him to do it. Also God’s foreknowledge of the fact that He will enter people in paradise doesn’t make Him do it, rather His mercy and love is the reason. This is eloquently summarised in The Creed of Imam Al-Tahawi,

“He guides, protects, and preserves whomever He wills by His grace. And He misguides, forsakes, and afflicts whomever He wills by justice…God has always known the total number of those who will enter paradise and those who will enter the fire. Nothing is added to or subtracted from that number.”

So His guidance will not manifest itself because He knows who would be guided, rather it is due to His grace, and God doesn’t contradict His nature. In summary foreknowledge doesn’t equal causality.

End Note

In the next posts more questions will be answered relating to varied topics. This doesn’t mean I have all the answers, I don’t. It just means that I have tried to follow the Qur’anic value of “If you don’t know ask those who know” and it is something I advise everyone to do. In Islam God is the source of all knowledge, so to ask is to learn and to learn is to free ourselves from ignorance, as the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing be upon him) said,

“The cure to ignorance is to ask and learn.” I pray we all proceed in that light, ameen.

-Thank you God for allowing us to have more people like Bro Hamza

Mengulas Faizal Tehrani

2010-12-18T10:13:00.000-08:00

Salam,

Sudah lama membaca blog Faisal Tehrani. Semakin hari kelihatan dia semakin berani untuk mempromosikan ajaran Syiah.

Kalau dulu ditulisnya sikit-sikit tanpa mendedahkan yang dia ni pengikut Syiah. Saya bukan hendak mengkomen dia ni sebab JAIS tangkap kumpulan syiah tetapi saya rasa menjadi tanggungjawab saya untuk mendedahkan penulisannya yang berbaur syiah dengan campuran fakta daripada Quran dan hadis serta pandangan Syiah yang asasnya adalah tanggapan dan intuisi sahaja.

Saya meminta para membaca untuk membaca blognya terutamanya:
http://tehranifaisal.blogspot.com/2010/12/menangislah-ia-halal-bahagian-akhir.html
http://tehranifaisal.blogspot.com/2010/12/menangislah-ia-sunnah-nabi-bahagian-2.html
http://tehranifaisal.blogspot.com/2010/12/menangislah-ia-sunnah-nabi-bahagian-1.html

Mungkin ada yang terbaca dan saya harap banyak yang perasan yang Faizal Tehrani telah melakukan sesuatu yang jijik apabila dia menggunakan ayat-ayat Quran serta hadis-hadis yang berkaitan 'menangis' dan mengaitkannya dengan tuntutan dalam Syiah untuk menangis untuk Husin.

Kita haruslah berfikiran logik dan kritis apabila membaca penulisan seperti ini kerana ianya boleh menyebabkan pemikiran seseorang diperalatkan untuk percaya buta. Bacalah entry saya sebelum ini mengetahui bagaimana ini boleh berlaku.

Daripada kebanyakkan ayat Quran dan hadis yang telah digunakan Faizal Tehrani, didapati orang yang rapat dan mengenali 'si mati' akan menangis semasa kematiannya. Ini adalah tidak salah lansung. Dan tiada juga salah untuk menangis apabila kita teringatkan sesiapa sahaja terutamanya mereka yang telah meninggal dan sangat rapat dengan kita.

Tapi masalahnya, tiada pula mana-mana hadis yang suruh menangis untuk orang yang telah pergi itu pada setiap tahun atau pada hari-hari tertentu. Dari mana idea Faizal Tehrani dapat supaya menangis untuk Husin pada setiap tahun? Mana lagi kalau dia sendiri dah termakan pendapat Syiah yang tidak berasas lansung. Kalau benarlah ada logik untuk menangis semasa hari kematian Husin RA, maka kita kena menangis banyak kali la sebab banyak lagi orang-orang seperti Nabi SAW, Abu Bakar RA, Ali RA dan lain-lain lagi. Silap hari kena la menangis hari-hari. Sebab Sunnah?

JOKE!

Banyak sahaja hadis yang boleh dirujuk di mana Nabi Muhamamd SAW suruh jangan terlalu bersedih dan berkabung secara keterlaluan. Malas sebenarnya saya nak komen tapi terlalu ramai sangat orang yang percaya akan penulisannya. Saya hanya minta nak baca boleh tapi bacalah dan berfikir secara kritis sebelum menerima. Pastikan ada yang dibaca disemak dahulu kebenarannya barulah percaya.

Ada banyak lagi bukti. Bacalah sendiri:

http://ikatkata.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/bantahan-terhadap-dakyah-syiah-faisal-tehrani-di-seminar-pencinta-buku-itnm/
http://pinkturtle2.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/11423/
http://rockerkampung.blogspot.com/2010/11/faisal-tehrani-dan-bukti-beliau-adalah.html

Kalau kat forum lebih banyak perbincangan. Orang macam ni takde la pulak Pejabat Agama ambik tidakan. Siap guna buku pemulisannya dalam Silibus Pendidikan.

Palvlov's experiment - Classical conditioning

2010-12-14T07:49:00.000-08:00

Assalamualaikum

Its been a while since I write about science. I think I should again. So today, I would like to share with you all about Pavlov's experiment. Please refer to above diagram. The dog are conditioned to salivate when after they were conditioned for sometime. In other words, we can program the dog's behavior and way of thinking.

Some of you might wonder why did I bring this topic up. I brought it up because in many ways we were conditioned like Pavlov's dog. No we are not animals and we do not behave like one but we can certainly become one when we stop using our brain. When we stop to think.... we stop to ponder.... and we stop to reflect.....

What I meant to say is we be can be as manipulated like Pavlov's dogs. Maybe we already have been conditioned and manipulated this way.

I would like to give some examples:

1. We define a beautiful women as tall, fair and thin like models.
2. We define handsome to be tall, dark, rich, sexy...
3. We believe buy expensive stuff from MLM company even though there are better quality and cheaper products in the market.
4. We believe that 'health food' can cure diseases like diabetes.
5. We believe that there are life culture of useful bacterias in yogurt even though it was pasturized.
6. We still practice culture when got nothing to do with Islam even though it was syirik.
7. We believe out government is doing us good by giving free H1N1 and HPV shots even the vaccines were never proven to work and contains heavy metals which are bad for health.
8. We still believe everything on TV and newspapers to be true.
I can go on and on......

The question is how did we got conditioned in the first place. I believe we are conditioned in many ways.

The biggest culprit is TV. Since young, as young as a baby, we were exposed to TV. TV have basically cultured us. We are made to believe many things from the TV. Fashion is one example. Today, we can see many teenagers wears clothing like they were hookers. They believe that their clothing are OK because its on TV. To be exact, they were made to think that way. So sexy clothing only fit for hookers became fashion and proper clothing are considered to be old-fashioned. Baju kurung, proper cheong sam and sari became outdated and clothing for whores and beggers became the 'in thing' in fashion.

Other than that, TV also conditioned us to accept certain culture such as smoking, drinking and free sex (not to mention lesbianism and gayism). All this have became a norm in our life today. The reason is because we were made to think that way by TV. If a couple is kissing in the public today, how many people will stop and tell them that it was wrong? Somewhere in our head, it was program as 'biasala tu budak-budak baru nak bercinta'. There are many more examples of how we were conditioned by TV but I wont write more. JUST STOP AND THINK.

Other than that we were conditioned in school. Many might not realize it. Even the teachers did not realize it but they conditioned their students in school, some in a good way and some in a bad way. I can give you one easy example: when a teacher steps in a class, the student will automatically become quiet. Now this happens because they were conditioned from small to be quiet when the teacher steps in.

Not all, but there are some teachers that conditioned their students in a bad way. For example, when a student was question like:

S: Sir, why can we do it like this?
T: Why are you asking? You are the teacher or I am the teacher? Just do what I ask you to do.

Any of you remember this dialogue? Well most of my friends told me that the 'Uztaz' or 'Ustazah' in their school are like that. Unfortunately many so called ulamaks that I met are also like this.... What happen was this people basically conditioned their student to just 'ACCEPT' and 'DONT ASK QUESTION'.

As a result our student who are Malaysian citizen became what I called as 'stupid' and what most people call as ignorance. Since they are trained to just accept and dont ask questions, they were basically conditioned to not to have a very important skill which is 'THINKING'.

When we stop thinking and just believe and accept things around us without making any judgement or evaluation, we became not so different from Pavlov's dog. Woof! Woof! Woof!

Classical conditioning actually starts at home, fathers and mothers out there you should start to teach your children to think, ask questions and encourage them to seek knowledge. If we fail, our children will be contaminated and end up manipulated like a puppet.

- I am sorry for the terrible English, I am sleepy. Share if you have other examples of classical conditioning.

Kerajaan Bodoh atau Rakyat Malaysia Bodoh?

2010-12-09T07:23:00.000-08:00

Assalamualaikum,

Saya masih tidak tahu di manakah salahnya, rakyat atau kerajaan?
Mengapa perkara yang begitu ketara salahnya dibiarkan berleluasa dan perkara yang begitu perlu diabaikan? Saya nak tahu kerajaan kita ini bodoh atau kita ini yang bodoh sangat untuk membiarkan perkara-perkara ini berlaku!

Vaksin HPV
Kerajaan Malaysia dengan sesuka hatinya sedang memberikan suntikan HPV secara percuma untuk mencegah kanser serviks. Kerajaan membelanjakan sebanyak RM150 juta duit rakyat untuk memberikan suntikan percuma ini. Bagi yang bertepuk tangan gembira kerana ini adalah sangat baik untuk rakyat silalah bangun daripada kebodohan diri sendiri. Jangan biarkan diri menjadi seperti zombie, hidupkan enjin di otak dan mulalah berfikir.

HPV adalah virus STD iaitu virus yang merebak melalui jangkitan melalui seks dan boleh menyebabkan kanser serviks. Hanya beberapa strain atau jenis sahaja yang didapati menyebabkan kanser serviks. Jika HPV hanya merebak melalui jangkitan seks, buat apa nak bimbang sangat sebab rakyat bukanlah pengamal kegiatan seks secara terbuka atau rambang. Kebarangkalian untuk mendapat HPV adalah terlalu rendah jika tiada kegiatan seks rambang. Tak tahulah jika suntikan HPV 'mungkin' menggalakkan seks secara rambang sebab dah tahu tak kena kanser serviks.

Tak cukup lagi, bacalah sendiri artikel-artikel di yang menunjukkan betapa bahayanya vaksin HPV sehingga ada antaranya yang telah menyebabkan kematian seperti ini. Nak tahu apa yang lebih menarik? Kerajaan gunakan vaksin yang telahpun dilaporkan menyebabkan kematian seperti Gardasil. Baca ini dan ini.

Gembirakah sekarang wahai rakyat Malaysia yang memang suka membiarkan diri diperbodohkan?

Yang saya tak faham kenapa tak nak buat aktiviti pencegahan dari seks rambang dan sekaligus setelkan masalah kanser serviks seperti membersihkan sarang-sarang pelacuran. 'Memang ada buat la... tak tengok tv ka?' Kenapa bodoh sangat dan percaya sangat kat TV, lihatlah sekeliling anda, penuh dengan sarang pelacur. Pergi sahaja Bukit Bintang, petik jari aje mesti ada. Siap kadang-kadang bapa ayam datang menggangu. Kenapa kerajaan tak nak bersihkan semua sampah-sarap ini? Kenapa nak simpan sampah ini? Takut tak dapat undi? Dah kena rasuah? Tiada satu agama pun membenarkan perkara seperi pelacuran, mungkin kecuali satu iaitu agama yang kerajaan ada sekarang.

Tak boleh salahkan kerajaan sepenuhnya, rakyat yang pilih wakil rakyat macam tu. Mungkin juga rakyat tiada pilihan kerana hanya boleh pilih wakil rakyat dari parti-parti yang bersifat perkauman, gila kuasa dan jahil.

Smokers watch out!

2010-11-09T19:17:00.000-08:00

Home Exposure to Tobacco Carcinogens High in Children of Smokers

Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101109183251.htm

ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2010) — Ninety percent of children who lived in a house where an adult smoked had evidence of tobacco-related carcinogens in their urine, according to research presented at the Ninth AACR Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference, held from Nov 7-10 in Philadelphia.

The average amount of tobacco metabolites in children aged one month to 10 years old was 8 percent of what is found in a smoker, said the lead researcher Janet L. Thomas, Ph.D., assistant professor of behavioral medicine at the University of Minnesota.

"This finding is striking, because while all of the researchers involved in this study expected some level of exposure to carcinogens, the average levels were higher than what we anticipated," she said. For comparison, carcinogens found in the urine of adult non-smokers exposed to secondhand smoke are about 1 percent to 5 percent that of smokers.

"No one knows the long-term impact of cumulative exposure to these chemicals. It could prime the body in some way that leads to DNA changes in cells that might contribute to lung damage, and potentially lung cancer," Thomas said.

The researchers also found a direct correlation between the number of cigarettes one or more adults smoked in the house each day and tobacco metabolites in the children who lived there. There was also an association between childhood exposure to secondhand smoke and lower socioeconomic status, employment and parental education.

Additionally, black children had the highest levels of tobacco-related metabolites in their urine, even if their parent or parents smoked comparatively less.

"This suggests, as other researchers have found, that African-Americans metabolize tobacco-related chemicals differently," she said.

The researchers conducted this study to quantify tobacco-related carcinogens in children, with the hope that the children's parents might be open to banning smoking inside the home.

"Almost one third of young children in the United States live in a house with at least one smoker," Thomas said. "My concern is that parents and family members may not truly understand the risk they pose to these children."

The researchers took urine samples from 79 children who lived in a home where at least one parent smoked. They quantified total NNAL (a biomarker of NNK, which is a nitrosamine produced during tobacco curing and is a known carcinogen), as well as nicotine and cotinine, a metabolite of nicotine that stays longer in the body.

Ninety percent of the children had detectable levels of NNAL and nicotine in their urine; 95 percent had evidence of cotinine.

In addition, the researchers measured carbon monoxide levels in parents and asked about the number of cigarettes smoked per day and smoking restrictions in the home. NNAL levels were significantly lower in homes that had complete smoking restrictions and there was a correlation between cigarettes smoked per day and NNAL in their children.

"Based on these results, there is little doubt that total NNAL in the urine of children could be substantially reduced by home smoking restrictions," said Thomas. "We need to act now to ensure that all parents have the facts they need to make informed decisions to protect their families from this completely preventable health hazard."

Editor's Note: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

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Komen:

Merokok itu haram sebab kesan yang begitu buruk kepada manusia. Namun begitu, manusia masih lagi suka merokok. Kenapa merokok? Banyak sebab dan alasan yang diberi seperti:

1. Badan penat kalau tak merokok.
2. Tak boleh fokus kerja.
3. Kalau tak merokok akan demam

Jika difikirkan semua alasan itu tak logik lansung. Hanya orang yang tidak sukakan kebenaran sahaja yang akan kata alasan itu logik dan boleh diterima akal. Manakah salahnya masyarakat Malaysia tak tak kisah tentang perokok?

Pada pendapat saya, perokok ni kalau nak merokok, kalau nak rosakkan jantung dan paru-paru sendiri, kalau nak dapat kanser, silakanlah. Masalahnya di sini, apabila mereka ini merokok, secara sengaja atau tidak sengaja, mereka ini akan melibatkan orang lain sekali kerana asap rokok yang dihembus keluar.

Asap rokok ini pula sangatlah karsinogenik (penyebab kanser) berbanding dengan apa yang mereka sedut ke dalam paru-paru. Oleh itu, kesan merokok kepada perokok adalah kurang berbanding dengan orang yang berada di sekeliling mereka.

Kalau kita makan di gerai makan contohnya, pastinya akan ada perokok. Jika dilihat pada sikap dan gelagat perokok ini, mereka sebenarnya adalah sangat biadap dan tidak bertimbang rasa. Semasa memesan makanan dan sebelum makanan tiba mereka akan mula untuk merokok. Pada ketika itu, mereka tidak menghiraukan orang di sekeliling mereka dengan menghembuskan asap rokok ke atas, ke belakang, ke kiri ke kanan, asalkan asap rokok itu tidak dibawa angin ke arah mereka mahupun rakan-rakan yang duduk semeja dengan mereka. Ke manakah perginya asap rokok ini? Kat mana lagi jika bukan kepada orang lain yang sedang makan!

Yang peliknya apabila makanan sampai, mereka akan berhenti merokok dan makan. Semasa mereka makan tidak pula ada antara mereka yang merokok kerana hormat kat orang semeja yang sedang makan. Orang meja lain tidak dihiraukan. Begitulah sikap mereka ini. Pentingkan diri. Saya ulang sekali lagi 'kalau nak rokok duduk jauh-jauh dan bunuh diri sendiri sudah, jangan ganggu orang lain'.

Saya tidak ingin untuk menulis tentang kesan 'first hand smoke', 'second hand smoke' dan 'third hand smoke' di sini kerana kita semua tahu kesan asap rokok.

Kepada yang Muslim, jangan lupa 'Rokok itu HARAM'.

Muslim Malaysia tak tahu malu.

2010-11-09T01:38:00.000-08:00

Germany Will Become Islamic State, Says Chancellor Merkel

Family Security Matters 22 September 2010
By Paul Williams, PhD

Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germans have failed to grasp how Muslim immigration has transformed their country and will have to come to terms with more mosques than churches throughout the countryside, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily.

"Our country is going to carry on changing, and integration is also a task for the society taking up the task of dealing with immigrants,” Ms. Merkel told the daily newspaper. "For years we've been deceiving ourselves about this. Mosques, for example, are going to be a more prominent part of our cities than they were before.”

Germany, with a population of 4-5 million Muslims, has been divided in recent weeks by a debate over remarks by the Bundesbank's Thilo Sarrazin, who argued Turkish and Arab immigrants were failing to integrate and were swamping Germany with a higher birth rate.

The Chancellor’s remarks represent the first official acknowledgement that Germany, like other European countries, is destined to become a stronghold of Islam. She has admitted that the country will soon become a stronghold.

In France, 30% of children age 20 years and below are Muslims. The ratio in Paris and Marseille has soared to 45%. In southern France, there are more mosques than churches.

The situation within the United Kingdom is not much different. In the last 30 years, the Muslim population there has climbed from 82,000 to 2.5 million. Presently, there are over 1000 mosques throughout Great Britain - - many of which were converted from churches.

In Belgium, 50% of the newborns are Muslims and reportedly its Islamic population hovers around 25%. A similar statistic holds true for The Netherlands.

It’s the same story in Russia where one in five inhabitants is a Muslim.

Muammar Gaddafi recently stated that "There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without sword, without gun, without conquest. We don’t need terrorists; we don’t need homicide bombers. The 50 plus million Muslims (in Europe) will turn it into the Muslim Continent within a few decades.”

The numbers support him.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Paul L. Williams, Ph.D., is the author of The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World, The Al Qaeda Connection, and other best-selling books. He is a frequent guest on such national news networks as ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR. Visit his website at http://thelastcrusade.org/. (...)

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Komen saya:

Kita boleh melihat peningkatan bilangan Muslim di Barat. Selama ini, kita yang memandang Barat sebagai contoh yang tidak baik, anti-Islamik dan tidak rasional.

Ke manakah salahnya kita di Malaysia ini. Merdeka sudah tetapi pemikiran masih tidak berubah. Apa tidaknya, lihatlah ada ke tidak peningkatan orang Islam yang boleh dibanggakan?

Memang Muslim Malaysia tak tahu malu! KITA LUPA TANGGUNGJAWAB YANG ALLAH SWT BERIKAN IAITU DA'WAH.

Ajaran Sains dalam Islam - Manakah salahnya?

2010-11-01T21:33:00.000-07:00

Memang tidak dinafikan bahawa ada banyak ayat-ayat dalam Quran yang bersifat saintifik. Ayat-ayat ini lebih difahami apabila terdapat penemuan-penemuan sains. Sebagai manusia, kita telah dianugerahkah otak untuk berfikir dan berkebolehan untuk mengkaji ayat-ayat ini. Ada antara ayat-ayat dalam al-Quran secara lansung menceritakan tentang sains dan ada banyak juga ayat-ayat yang Allah SWT menguja manusia untuk berfikir dan mengkaji tentang alam ciptaanNya. Secara lansung dan tidak lansung, kita boleh melihat kepentingan sains.

Namun begitu, apa yang membimbangkan saya adalah cara sains diajar dan dikaji pada zaman moden ini. Pada ketika ini, sains moden diajar seolah-olah tiada cacat-cela, seolah-olah satu kebenaran yang nyata.

Sains disajikan seolah-olah ianya adalah kebenaran tanpa limitasi dan bebas daripada kesalahan. Matlamat untuk memberikan pengetahuan sains itu adalah amat penting tetapi caranya disalurkan adalah salah.

Penemuan sains yang tidak lengkap dan bersifat hanya teori dan hipotesis pada hari ini diajarkan kepada anak-anak kita sebagai fakta/kebenaran. Anak-anak yang dibesarkan dengan ilmu ini pula akan menjadi keliru dan menganggap semua yang dipelajarinya hari ini sebagai satu fakta yang tidak mungkin salah. Mereka juga belajar untuk menerima sesuatu tanpa bukti, asalkan argumen/perbahasannya adalah logik.

Secara tidak sengaja, mereka diprogram untuk menerima apa-apa sahaja yang logik di telinga. Pastinya ramai yang pada suatu hari akan terperangkap dengan pandangan-pandangan yang bersifat falsafah.

Saya berdoa agar guru-guru sains di luar sana sedar. Ajarkanlah anak-anak kita sains yang sebenar. Ajarkanlah supaya sekurang-kurangnya mereka memahami apakah itu anggapan/teori/hipotesis. Jangan biarkan mereka terperangkap sehingga tidak tahu untuk membezakan antaranya dengan kebenaran/fakta.

Jangan cakap pasal Islam!

2010-09-27T00:04:00.000-07:00

'Jangan cakap pasal Islam!'

Pernahkah mendengar perkataan-perkataan ini?
Saya dah banyak kali dah sampaikan kadang-kadang bosan mendengarnya.
Kadang-kala dalam bentuk nasihat dan kadang-kala dalam keadaan marah.

Memang saya faham budaya orang Melayu yang menganggap berbincang tentang Islam adalah perkara yang dianggap 'taboo' iaitu perkara yang tidak harus dilakukan tapi sengaja saya lakukannya. Apa tidaknya, apabila ada yang jahil dan bagi pendapat yang tidak bernas tentang Islam.

Mengapa orang Melayu tak suka berbicara tentang Islam? Ini adalah salah satu soalan yang agak lama di kepala saya. Selepas mempelajari tentang sejarah Islam di Malaysia barulah faham mengapa adanya budaya yang tidak membina ini. Terlalu panjang untuk diceritakan di sini.

Muslim zaman ini suka kepada hiburan dan dunia, Islam disisihkan seolah-olah hanyalah satu 'agama' atau 'kepercayaan' sahaja. Bagi sesetengah mereka ini, mereka menganggap bila dah ada 'Islam' di kad pengenalan maka itu sudah cukup untuk menempah tempat di syurga. Islam secara praktikal (deen) dalam setiap aspek kehidupan dilupakan.

Saya lebih suka jika Islam disebut dan dibicarakan di mana-mana sahaja. Bukankah berbicara tentang Islam dari segi ilmiah adalah lebih baik daripada berbicara tentang bola sepak, artis, permainan politik, mengumpat dan sebagainya?

Jika muslim sentiasa berbicara tentang Islam, mana mungkin kumpulan-kumpulan yang membawa agama yang sesat mampu untuk bercambah di tanah air kita?

Manakah silapnya muslim di Malaysia sehingga tidak suka kepada perkara yang baik?

HARI RAYA EID MUBARAK

2010-09-09T16:17:00.000-07:00

Taqabbalallahu minnaa wa minkum

A nasheed by Native Deen called 'Eid Morning' from the album 'Not Afraid to Stand Alone

These are the lyrics
Chorus
Allahu-Akbar-U'llahu-Akbar-U'llaahu-Akbar, Laa-Ilaha Ill'allah
Allahu-Akbar-U'llahu-Akbar-U Wa-Lillah'il-Hamd
Allahu-Akbar-U'llahu-Akbar-U'llaahu-Akbar, Laa-Ilaha Ill'allah
Allahu-Akbar-U'llahu-Akbar-U Wa-Lillah'il-Hamd

Allahu Akbar-U-Kabira ... Wal-Hamdu-Lillahi Kathira
Wa-Subhan'allahi Wa-Be-Hamdi-Hi Bukra-Tan Wa-Ascila

Laa-Ilaha-Ill'alla-Hu Wahdah ... Sadaqa Wa-Adah ... Wa-Nasara Abdah
Wa-A-Azza Junda-Hu Wa-Hazam'al-Ahzaab Wahdah

Laa-Ilaha Ill'allah ... Wa-La Na-A-Budu Illaa Iyyah
Mukh-Le-Scina Lah'uddina Walaw Karih'al-Kaafiroon

Allah-Umma-Salli-Ala Sayyedinaa Muhammad,
Wa-Ala Aali Sayyedinaa Muhammad
Wa-Ala As'habi Sayyedinaa Muhammad,
Wa-Ala An'sari Sayyedinaa Muhammad
Wa-Ala Azwaji Sayyedinaa Muhammad,
Wa-Ala-Zurriyati-Sayyedina Muhammad-In
Wa-Sallim Tasliman Kathira

Translation Of Takbeer-Ul-Eid

Allah is great, Allah is great, Allah is great, There is no god but Allah
Allah is great, Allah is great, and praise is due to Him.
Allah is great, Allah is great, Allah is great, There is no god but Allah

Allah is great, Allah is great, and praise is due to Him.
Allah is the Greatest, and an abundance of praise is due to Him,
And glory and praise be to him morning and evening.

There is no god but Allah, alone, He was true to His promise,
And He granted victory to His worshipper, and He supported His group,
And He conquered the parties (of evil) all by Himself.

There is no deity but Allah, and we worship no one but Him,
And we will sincerely follow the religion for Him,
Even against the wishes of the unbelievers.

May Allah pray upon our Muhammad, and upon his family,
And upon his companions, and upon his supporters,
And upon his wives, And upon his descendants,
And grant an abundance of peace on him.

Habis RM800 bertuntung

2010-09-04T15:42:00.000-07:00

Sumber: http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/HabisRM800bertuntung/Article

Habis RM800 bertuntung
Oleh Misiah Taib

2010/09/05
KUCHING: Mahli Udin, 56, tidak pernah gagal meneruskan tradisi bertuntung dengan menghiaskan halaman rumahnya dengan pelita dan lampu warna-warni sejak 15 tahun lalu.

Kini, dengan adanya Pertandingan Pesta Bertuntung Berita Harian 2010 yang dianjurkan buat julung kali tahun ini, Mahli memilih untuk membina sebuah pintu gerbang memasuki halaman kediamannya di Jalan Haji Kassan, Kampung No 5, dekat sini.

Pertandingan itu dirasmikan secara meriah malam tadi pada majlis yang dihadiri Menteri Perumahan dan Pembangunan Bandar Sarawak, Datuk Amar Abang Johari Openg; Timbalan Menteri Sains, Teknologi dan Inovasi, Fadillah Yusof; Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif The New Straits Times Press (M) Berhad (NSTP), Datuk Anthony Firdauz Bujang; Pengarang Kumpulan Berita Harian, Datuk Mior Kamarul Shahid; Pengarah Pemasaran NSTP, Zuraida Mohamad dan Pengarang Edisi Mingguan, Kadir Dikoh.
Mahli juga sanggup membelanjakan RM800 untuk membeli 42 set lampu warna-warni dan 150 pelita minyak tanah untuk dipasang di pekarangan rumah dan jika dikira harga minyak tanah yang kini mencecah RM2.41 seliter, kos yang perlu ditanggung warga emas itu boleh mencecah lebih RM1,000.

Sambil memuji Berita Harian kerana menghidupkan semula pertandingan bertuntung yang tidak diadakan sejak tujuh tahun lalu, Mahli berharap pada masa depan hadiah wang tunai yang ditawarkan dapat dinaikkan sejajar dengan kos yang perlu ditanggung peserta.

Kali terakhir pertandingan bertuntung ialah pada 2003. Saya pernah menjuarai pertandingan bertuntung sembilan tahun berturut-turut antara 1996 hingga 2003. Ketika itu ia dianjurkan Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) dan Yayasan Budaya Melayu Sarawak (YBMS), katanya.

Berita Harian menyediakan hadiah wang tunai RM19,700 bagi pertandingan yang dibahagikan kepada dua kategori, kampung dan rumah. Juara kategori kampung akan menerima RM7,000, manakala johan kategori rumah menerima RM1,000. Penganjuran pesta ini mendapat kerjasama Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara (DBKU) dan Pusat Khidmat Parlimen Petra Jaya.
Mahli berkata, untuk menyertai Pesta Bertuntung Berita Harian 2010, anaknya, Mohd Suhazari Mahli, 16, bersama empat rakan membantu membina pintu gerbang kayu tertulis Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri yang mengambil masa dua hari untuk disiapkan.

Kami mula bertuntung malam dua likur (2 September). Biarpun pertandingan diadakan sehingga malam hari pertama Aidilfitri, kami akan bertuntung hingga hari ketujuh Aidilfitri seperti yang biasa kami lakukan setiap tahun, katanya.

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KOMEN SAYA:

Baik duit tu guna untuk derma kat anak yatim. Dapat pahala untuk akhirat.
RM800 cukup membiayai seorang anak yatim selama hampir setahun.

Yang pi anjurkan juga entah apa prioriti dia. Kalau duit dah bannyak dan taktau nak buat apa, baik dermakan sahaja.

The Halal Problem

2010-09-03T22:09:00.000-07:00

Source: http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/MinyaksapijenamaQBBPureGheetidakhalal/Article

Minyak sapi jenama QBB Pure Ghee tidak halal

2010/09/04
KUALA LUMPUR: Pengguna beragama Islam diingatkan supaya tidak membeli dan menghentikan pengambilan minyak sapi jenama QBB Pure Ghee yang sudah ditarik balik status halalnya oleh Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (JAKIM) 19 Ogos lalu kerana didapati mengandungi elemen yang meragukan.

Meskipun arahan untuk menarik balik barangan ini dari pasaran sudah dikeluarkan, namun berikutan permintaan tinggi bahan itu ketika Ramadan terutama menjelang sambutan Aidilfitri, pengguna dinasihatkan supaya memilih produk yang diyakini halal sebagai alternatif.

Pegawai Kerja Persatuan Pengguna Islam Malaysia (PPIM), Mohd Mustaffa Hamzah, juga menggesa syarikat pengeluar produk berkenaan, QBI Packaging Sdn Bhd menarik balik semua produk itu dalam pasaran kerana ia boleh mengelirukan pengguna Islam kerana tanda halal masih ada pada produk itu walaupun sudah ditarik balik oleh JAKIM.
Kami menerima banyak aduan daripada pengguna bahawa produk itu masih di pasaran dan ramai yang keliru sama ada ia halal atau pun sebaliknya kerana masih ada logo halal JAKIM tertera pada produk berkenaan, katanya kepada pemberita di sini semalam.

Beliau berharap JAKIM dapat melakukan pemantauan rapi manakala syarikat terbabit dapat memberikan kerjasama dalam memastikan semua produk ditarik balik dari pasaran.

Sementara itu dalam perkembangan lain, Setiausaha Kerja PPIM, Datuk Nadzim Johan meminta supaya Kementerian Kesihatan memantau dan menetapkan prosedur yang lebih ketat dan jelas kepada pengusaha pusat dialisis bagi memastikan ia terus diyakini.

Ini berikutan dakwaan seorang pesakit buah pinggang, Osman Mohamad, 53, dari Sabak Bernam yang kini menderita kesan jangkitan kuman didakwa berpunca daripada pengendalian pusat dialisis yang tidak sempurna.

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MY COMMENTS:

So much problems today, halal has even became a national issue. I understand this cause Allah S.W.T. has commended us to eat halal and good food.

Some of the issues I heard of are:
1. Non halal kopitiams (example Old Town White Coffee with the frog leg issue)
2. Non halal meat. (Imported beef of chicken slaughtered in an unIslamic way)
3. Misuse if Jakim logo.
4. Hotels serving non-halal food mix with halal ones.

Most of the problems occur in the processed food (cooked/materials used is processed). In Malaysia, most of us depends much on Jakim to solve this problem. I have no objections to that but I have the following mindset:

1. Its the responsibility of each Muslim to check whether it is halal or not, not Jakim.
2. Muslims can avoid all this mess if they themselves buy the ingredient and cook.
3. Muslims should check the restaurant kitchen if they are eating out not just depend on a logo.
4. Anyone can get the logo then after that cook non-halal food.

Muslims in Malaysia always forget that other than the food must be halal, it must be also good for us. To get 'GOOD' food, I think there are two criteria which is:

1. Cleanliness
Starting from the ingredient, how it is washed, processed and how it was cook.
The cleanliness of the utensils used, the condition of kitchen is also important. Today we can see Muslims buying food even when they see many flies flying about the food (I saw this in the Ramadan bazaar).

2. Nutrition
Food must be have all the important nutrients for the body. It must be a balance diet.

Sad things is food from fast food restaurants such as KFC and McD is considered to be 'food' with good value. Many do not know that fast food is just an overpriced junk (oily, fat, unbalance, cancer-causing) food. Too much of em and people will grow fat and lazy (after that diabetis, high-blood, heart attack, stroke).

Dirty mamak restaurants became a favourite spot for families to have food. Check out mamak kitchen and you might puke.

I dont really know what is happening today but Muslims dont really think right anymore. They only think about halal food and forget about the rest (cleanliness/nutrition).

Nik Aziz yakin hudud diterima

2010-09-03T21:46:00.000-07:00

Source: http://www.bharian.com.my/bharian/articles/NikAzizyakinhududditerima/Article

2010/09/04

KOTA BHARU: Mursyidul Am PAS, Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat yakin hudud akan diterima walaupun mendapat tentangan termasuk daripada parti komponen dalam pakatan pembangkang sendiri.

Beliau berkata, hudud belum menjadi kebiasaan kerana belum pernah dengar mengenainya selain orang Islam sendiri yang tidak mahukan hukuman itu. "Saya tetap yakin hudud akan diterima seperti yang berlaku kepada politik Islam yang sebelum ini ditentang pihak tertentu.
"Sekarang kita (PAS) hanya membuat `windows (jendela) untuk membolehkan perkara ini (hudud) diketahui ramai sebelum membuat pintu untuknya nanti. Saya pasti ia (hudud) akan diterima kerana kini banyak kejadian rogol dan zina. Hanya hudud dapat mengatasi kejadian seperti itu," katanya dalam kuliah mingguannya di Dataran Ilmu, di sini semalam.

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MY COMMENTS:

Not so many people in Malaysia really know the hudud law in Malaysia, regardless whether they are non-Muslims or Muslims themselves. And it is normal for the people today not to accept something which is good just because they do not know about it. What to do.... hudud law is portrayed as cruel and evil by the media all over the world.

So what do most people know about hudud law? They only know that if you steal, your hands will be cut off, thats all they know.

If they really know how fair the hudud law is to humans regardless whether you are a Muslim or non-Muslim, no one will object to its implementation.

The way I see it at the very least Nik Aziz have the balls to try and implement it.

Note:
I am not a fan of any form of the current democracy being practice today.
The hudud law cannot be implemented correctly without the correct administration to run the country. Example: Zakat system must run first before laws such as cutting hands for people who steal be implemented.

God did not create the universe, says Hawking

2010-09-02T15:06:00.000-07:00

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/lf_nm_life/us_britain_hawking

LONDON (Reuters) – God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.

In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."

Hawking, 68, who won global recognition with his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time," an account of the origins of the universe, is renowned for his work on black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.

Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.

His latest comments suggest he has broken away from previous views he has expressed on religion. Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.

He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."

In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.

"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.

Hawking, who is only able to speak through a computer-generated voice synthesizer, has a neuro muscular dystrophy that has progressed over the years and left him almost completely paralyzed.

He began suffering the disease in his early 20s but went on to establish himself as one of the world's leading scientific authorities, and has also made guest appearances in "Star Trek" and the cartoons "Futurama" and "The Simpsons."

Last year he announced he was stepping down as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Newton and one he had held since 1979.

"The Grand Design" is due to go on sale next week.

(Editing by Steve Addison)

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Looks like even Hawking is becoming more stupid in his reasoning when he say:

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist

He need to clarify what is 'singularity' (according to his big bang theory) and how it is there in the first place. The universe must have a beginning, it cant appear out of no where. He will never be able too because only the Creator knows this. He was been given a bit of knowledge and he is now very arrogant.

Its very much like the physic theory that energy cannot be made or destroyed. It just changes from one form to another. The basic theory is understood but if we ask about how are there energy at the first palce, it will defy the man made theory on energy. The energy MUST some from somewhere.

Hawking later gave the stupidest comment saying that due to spontaneous creation, something is there from nothing. In other words, he say that something is created from nothing. First of all, spontaneous is just an unproven raw idea which could not even explain (with evidence) how anything at all is created. Its a theory on how life started. This theory upholds the Darwin ideology which is also a piece of crap from the scientific view.

I dare him to just show how 'something is created from nothing at all'. If he can I will chop off my head.

Try imagine in a vacuum, can anything appear?

People who dont think will fall victims to people like them. Knowledge is power and Allah have given us logical reasoning which will allow us to differ truth from falsehood.

Help me Akademi Al-Quran

2010-08-31T12:46:00.000-07:00

First of all, I am not a fan of Akedemi Al-Quran and I do not learn Quran from them.

I accidentally went to their website at:
http://www.akademialquran.com/

They are promoting their products of course. At the right bottom corner, I saw the following hadith:

Nabi s.a.w pernah bersabda :
"Berapa ramai daripada kalangan pembaca, membaca Al-Quran ,tetapi ketika dia sedang membaca Al-Quran itu,Al-Quran pula melaknat dia".
Riwayat Al-Bukhari

Di antara sebab-sebab mereka dilaknati adalah kerana mereka membaca Al-Quran dengan tidak bertajwid seperti yang diajar oleh Nabi s.a.w..

Bagaimana pula dengan orang yang tidak tahu langsung membaca Al-Quran??
Layakkah mereka mendapat Syafaat Al-Quran di akhirat kelak??
Adakah Sah solat mereka??

I could not find this hadith in Bukhari when I flipped through the book but I find this hadith instead:

Aishah (May Allah be pleased with her) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "The one who is proficient in the recitation of the Qur'an will be with the honourable and obedient scribes (angels) and he who recites the Qur'an and finds it difficult to recite, doing his best to recite it in the best way possible, will have a double reward.''
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim]

Commentary:

Proficient here means one who reads the Qur'an in accordance with the rules of "Ilm At-Tajwid'' (the science of the recitation of the Qur'an) as is evidenced from the words of Imam Bukhari's narration and the title given to the chapter.

This Hadith also highlights the merit of the reader of the Qur'an who does not know `Ilm At-Tajwid, and for that reason cannot read it fluently. But in spite of this, he reads it with great effort. He will be given double reward, one for the difficulty encountered in reciting it, and another for reading it. Safratun translated in the Hadith as scribes (angels) mean the angels that convey the Wahy (Revelation) to the Messenger of Allah. Imam Bukhari has taken it to mean "one who makes reconciliation''. The angels who bring Wahy and chastisement from Allah.

Well, if anyone could help me. 2 things:

1. Which book and the number of hadith in Bukhari is the hadith from the akademialquran are taken from?

2. Is there a contradictory to the two parts which were bolded in red above?

Reciting the Quran

2010-08-31T11:44:00.000-07:00

I was reading a while back when I remembered this hadiths from Sahih Muslim about the Khawarij. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Chapter# 44, Book 5, Number 2316:

Jabir b. Abdullah reported that a person came to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) at Jirana on his way back from Hunain, and there was in the clothes of Bilal some silver. The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) took a handful out of that and bestowed it upon the people. He (the person who had met the Prophet at Ji’rana) said to him: Muhammad, do justice. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Woe be upon thee, who would do justice if I do not do justice, and you would be very unfortunate and a loser if I do not do justice. Upon this Umar b. Khattab (Allah be pleased with him) said: Permit me to kill this hypocrite. Upon this he (the Holy Prophet) said: May there be protection of Allah! People would say that I kill my companions. This man and his companions would recite the Qur’an but it would not go beyond their throat, and they swerve from it just as the arrow goes through the prey.

Book 5, Number 2317:

This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Jabir b. ‘Abdullah through another chain of transmitters.

Book 5, Number 2318:

Abu Said Khudri reported that ‘Ali (Allah be pleased with him) sent some gold alloyed with dust to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him), and the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) distributed that among four men, al-Aqra b. Habis Hanzali and Uyaina b. Badr al-Fazari and ‘Alqama b. ‘Ulatha al-’Amiri, then to one person of the tribe of Kilab and to Zaid al-Khair al-Ta’l, and then to one person of the tribe of Nabhan. Upon this the people of Quraish felt angry and said: He (the Holy Prophet) gave to the chiefs of Najd and ignored us. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: I have done it with a view to con- cillating them. Then there came a person with thick beard, prominent cheeks, deep sunken eyes and protruding forehead and shaven head. He said: Muhammad, fear Allah. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: If I disobey Allah, who would then obey Him? Have I not been (sent as the) most trustworthy among the people of the-world? -but you do not repose trust in me. That person then went back. A person among the people then sought permission (from the Holy Prophet) for his murder. According to some, it was Khalid b. Walid who sought the permission. Upon this the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him), said: From this very person’s posterity there would arise people who would recite the Qur’an, but it would not go beyond their throat; they would kill the followers of Islam and would spare the idol-worshippers. They would glance through the teachings of Islam so hurriedly just as the arrow passes through the pray. If I were to ever find them I would kill them like ‘Ad.

Book 5, Number 2319:

Abu Said al-Khudri reported: ‘Ali b. Abu Talib sent to the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) from Yemen some gold alloyed with clay in a leather bag dyed in the leaves of Mimosa flava. He distributed it among four men. ‘Uyaina b. Hisna, Aqra’ b. Habis and Zaid al-Khail, and the fourth one was either Alqama b. ‘Ulatha or ‘Amir b. Tufail. A person from among his (Prophet’s) Companions said: We had a better claim to this (wealth) than these (persons). This (remark) reached the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) upon which he said: Will you not trust me, whereas I am a trustee of Him Who is in the heaven? The news come to me from the heaven morning and evening. Then there stood up a person with deep snnken eyes, prominent cheek bones, and elevated forehead, thick beard, shaven head, tucked up loin cloth, and he said: Messenger of Allah, fear Allah. He (the Holy Prophet) said: Woe to thee. do I not deserve most to fear Allah amongst the people of the earth? That man then returned. Khalid b. Walid then said: Messenger of Allah, should I not strike his neck? Upon this he (the Holy Prophet) said: Perhaps he may be observing the prayer. Khalid said: How many observers of prayer are there who profess with their tongue what is not in their heart? Upon this the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: I have not been commanded to pierce through the hearts of people, nor to split their bellies (insides). He again looked at him and he was going back. Upon this he (the Holy Prophet) said: There would arise a people from the progeny of this (man) who would recite the Qur’an glibly, but it would not go beyond their throats; they would (hurriedly) pass through (the teachings of their) religion just as the arrow passes through the prey. I conceive that he (the Holy Prophet) also said this: If I find them I would certainly kill them as were killed the (people of) Thamud.

I understand that these hadiths is about the Khawarij whom we know will be the Dajjal soldiers.

I highlighted some parts of em. People will one day recite the Quran but it will not go beyond their throat. If we recite Quran, there will be sound of recitation from the throat, so whats wrong here?

From the way I see it, if we just recite the Quran without understanding it (the meaning/message), it will be just a sound leaving our throat and nothing more. I am not saying that its a bad thing to recite Quran. What I am trying to emphasize here is you will not be able to benefit if you just recite and do not know what it means. From my point of view, al-Quran is a Book of Guidance and if you do not understand its meaning, you cant benefit from it. At the end, we will not know about the religion at all.

Blinded by ego and culture, I see this happens to our society. Whats the point of having the ability to recite but do not act on it. To act on it, we need to understand the meaning.

Sahih Bukhari
Volume 6, Book 61, Number 579:

Narrated Abu Musa:
The Prophet said, "The example of a believer who recites the Qur'an and acts on it, like a citron which tastes nice and smells nice. And the example of a believer who does not recite the Qur'an but acts on it, is like a date which tastes good but has no smell. And the example of a hypocrite who recites the Qur'an is like a Raihana (sweet basil) which smells good but tastes bitter And the example of a hypocrite who does not recite the Quran is like a colocynth which tastes bitter and has a bad smell."

The following hadith from Sahih Bukhari, might tell you what will happen to us in the end:

Narrated Anas: The Prophet said, "When a human being is laid in his grave and his companions return and he even hears their foot steps, two angels come to him and make him sit and ask him: What did you use to say about this man, Muhammad ? He will say: I testify that he is Allah's slave and His Apostle. Then it will be said to him, 'Look at your place in the Hell-Fire. Allah has given you a place in Paradise instead of it.' " The Prophet added, "The dead person will see both his places. But a non-believer or a hypocrite will say to the angels, 'I do not know, but I used to say what the people used to say! It will be said to him, 'Neither did you know nor did you take the guidance (by reciting the quran).' Then he will be hit with an iron hammer between his two ears, and he will cry and that cry will be heard by whatever approaches him except human beings and jinns." (Book #23, Hadith #422)

Still reciting the Quran the same way?

The Star and Crescent

2010-08-31T10:16:00.000-07:00

Familiar with this? Where can you see this? Is this a symbol of Islam?
Lets read some information from wikipedia:

The star and crescent appear in combination in finds from in and around ancient Israel. It has been associated with the Moabites (14th or early 13th – 6th century BC), as the symbol or symbols appear on what are thought to be Moabite name seals. Crescents appearing together with a star or stars are a common feature of Sumerian iconography, the crescent usually being associated with the moon god Sin and the star (often identified as Venus) with Ishtar. However, in this context, there is a third element often seen, that being the sun disk of Shamash.
Academic discussion of a star or stars together with crescents in Sumerian representations does not always clearly indicate if they appear in isolation (the "star and crescent" as such) or as part of a triad of symbols, "the three celestial emblems, the sun disk of Samas, the crescent of Sin, and the star of Istar" or "the crescent of Sin (the moon god), the star of Ishtar and the ray of Shamash". Nevertheless, later use of the star and crescent by the Parthians, and other Iranian dynasties is often traced to earlier use in Mesopotamia.As one scholar observed, "[t]he Parthian king Mithradates I conquered Mesopotamia around 147 BC, and Susa in about 140 BC A later Parthian king, Orodes II (58-38 BC), issued coins at Susa and elsewhere which display a star and crescent on the obverse. The succeeding ruler, Phraates IV (38-3/2 BC), minted coins showing either a star alone or a star with crescent moon. In representing the star and crescent on their coins the Parthians thus adopted traditional symbols used in Mesopotamia and Elam more than two millennia before their own arrival in those parts." Along these lines, some scholars maintain that later use of the symbol arose from Babylonian mythology in which the juxtaposition of Sin (moon god, father of time) and Shamash (supreme ruling sun god, judge of heaven and earth) was a metaphor for the cosmic powers given to the Babylonian king to rule.^{Read the rest here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_and_crescent}

Prophet Ibrahim (PBUH) knows Sin and Ishtar very well cause he destroyed the idols [21:57-58].

Today we are using the symbols of this fake gods/idols.
Where do we use them? Everywhere (thinking that it is 'islamic').

The sickest place is on top of our mosque. A place we pray to Allah. I just wish I can go up there and break it off!

Oh and I forget to say its also on the Malaysia flag that many people salute and stand facing it when 'Negaraku' is sung. Lets solute to the Pagan god.

Dont like this? Then do something about it.

Merdeka?

2010-08-31T09:19:00.000-07:00

Tanggal 31 Ogos.
Hari Merdeka.

Tapi 'merdeka'kah kita?
Adakah kita merdeka daripada penjajahan Barat? Mungkin dari zahirnya tampak bebas tetapi kita sebenarnya di dalam penjara Barat. Minda kita dicemari dengan budaya mereka. Kita diatur untuk menjadi semakin malas dan menjadi semakin lemah. Mengapakah ini terjadi?

Selepas penjajah membebaskan kita, kita dijajah pula dari segi minda dan pemikiran. Kita diajar dan dijaja dengan 'kemerdekaan Barat' yang kini menyelubungi sebahagian besar hidup kita. Contoh yang paling jelas dalam pentadbiran (demokrasi), perundangan, perbankan, sosial, ekonomi dan budaya. Semua ini diterapkan kepada kita dengan mudah sekali dengan media massa: TV, internet, radio dsbnya.

KITA MENJADI HAMBA MEREKA!

Pada hari ini, agama Islam juga tidak terpinggir daripada penjajahan Barat yang cuba untuk melakukan reformasi dalam agama Islam dengan mewujudkan 'Islam Liberal' iaitu versi Islam yang banyak diguna pakai hari ini untuk memudahkan propaganda mereka bagi menguasai dunia. Antara yang telah dan sedang dilakukan:

1. Memperkenalkan sistem pendidikan sekular yang mewujudkan para graduan yang malas berfikir.
2. Mewujudkan dunia hiburan yang mengalpakan kita.
3. Menghasilkan masyarakat yang materialistik.
4. Barat digunakan sebagai template atau contoh.
5. Agama dilupakan dan hanyalah budaya sahaja.
dan banyak lagi...

Kita tidak perasan mata kita dibutakan dan hidung kita sudah dicincinkan. Bodohnya kita untuk percaya kita sudah 'merdeka', kita sudah bebas. Nama Islam yang diarak-arakkan hanyalah boneka semata-mata. (sistem syariah/perbankan islam)

MERDEKAKAH KITA?

Sehingga kini, hatiku hanya merdeka apabila ilmu di dada meyakinkanku bahawa satu-satunya cara untuk merdeka adalah untuk menjadi hamba kepada Allah S.W.T.

Semoga Allah membuka mata dan hati mereka yang masih buta.

Ramadan o Ramadan

2010-08-19T00:36:00.000-07:00

This years ramadan is a special one. Compared to the few last year, this year I get to live through it with my wife. Its our first ramadan together. Its the best ramadan I ever had till now.

Many asked me about how do I find ramadan cause they know I am a revert. Well, fasting is not really hard if its just not having food or drinks in the day because we break fast during magrib.

What I find hard is the fasting of tongue (what we choose to say), fasting of the eyes (what we choose to see) and fasting of the mind (what we think).

I pray that this years Ramadan will make me a better servant of Allah, a better husband and a better father (OTW).

Full chronology of the "Allah" Controversy

2010-01-16T08:08:00.000-08:00

Full chronology of the "Allah" Controversy - Final by Fatimah Zuhri

" This is the last time I will talk about this issue. From my
observation the issue is coming to a close now and from what I have
heard a win-win situation will soon be achievable.

1. I did not want to touch this issue but I feel it is important that
everyone (ALL Malaysians) understand the chronology of event relating to
this.

2. First of all, yes Allah is an Arabic word which have been used for
many many years.

3. As a matter of fact, for Muslim, we believe that Islam started from
Adam PBUH. Therefore Adam is the first ever man to use the word. The
issue for Malaysian Muslim has never been about the lose of a "word" but
the future implications of the word.

http://themalaysian insider.com/ index.php/ opinion/breaking -views/49192- al\
lah-future-implicat ions-of-the- high-court- decision- -fatimah- zuhri
<http://themalaysian insider.com/ index.php/ opinion/breaking -views/49192- a\
llah-future- implications- of-the-high- court-decision- -fatimah- zuhri>

4. Now that we have settle that issue, let us look at the chronology of
the controversy.

5. On 7th January 2009, The Herald and The Home Ministry came to a
MUTUAL agreement where the Home Ministry agreed to give permit to The
Herald for its publications if they agree to :

http://thestar. com.my/news/ story.asp? file=/2010/ 1/1/nation/ 5399211&sec= n\
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nation>

a) NOT use the word "Allah" in the Malay Bible (High Malay etc)
b) Have the word "LIMITED" printed in the cover of the Bible
c) The Malay Bible should not be used to convert Muslim in Malaysia.
d) The agreement will be annually revised

6. The Herald AGREED to the above rules and a MUTUAL agreement was
achieved with The Home Ministry.

7. Thus, on April 2009, at an International Book Fair, the new version
of the Malay Bible without the word "Allah" was unveiled to all and
sundry.

http://www.alarabiy a.net/articles/ 2009/04/26/ 71464.html
<http://www.alarabiy a.net/articles/ 2009/04/26/ 71464.html>

8. The word "Allah" was replaced with "Elohim" which is also translated
as God.

9. To any rational person, this is a win-win situation no? But as you
can read from the link above, some Christian leaders are still not
satisfied.

10. Magically, on October 2009, 15,000 Bibles containing the word
"Allah" were imported from Indonesia into Malaysia.

http://www.crosswal k.com/11616546/ <http://www.crosswal k.com/11616546/>

11. Now, this move is interesting on two levels :

a) The Herald has MUTUALLY AGREED on 07 January 2009 to NOT use the word
"Allah"

b) The circulation is is 13,000 with a readership of 5,000 ONLY. But
they imported over 15,000 bibles where 10,000 were sent to East Malaysia
while another 5000 were posted to West Malaysia.

12. Anyone who read the Bible in the 60s,70s and 80s in Peninsular
Malaysia would know that there is no word "Allah" either in Malay Bible
or English Bible.

13. The move to import over 15,000 Bibles containing the word "Allah"
were clearly breaking the MUTUAL AGREEMENT earlier in the year and seems
to have some "hidden motive" (5K Malay Bible in West Malaysia)

14. Therefore the Kastam DiRaja Malaysia seized the 15,000 Malay Bibles
from Indonesia.

15. This created uproar amongst the SAME leaders who were dissatisfied
over the new version of Malay Bible in April 2009.

16. They went to the High Court on the basis that The Home Ministry is
restricting their "Human Rights" to practice their religion;
Christianity.

17. Convenient isn't it? You agreed at first, then you break your
promise, then you sued when people take action on you for breaking a
MUTUAL AGREEMENT.

18. Of course as we knew it, on 31st December 2009, Judge Bee Lan from
The High Court agreed that it is against Article 11 of the Malaysian
Constitution and awarded the "victory" to The Herald.

19. In making her decision, Judge Bee Lan chided the Malaysian
Government effort of preventing future racial/religious riot by saying :

" Justice Lau ruled as grounds for her judgement that both the
respondents the minister and the Malaysian government had
failed throughout the trial to prove how the use of the word
"Allah" could threaten national security. "

http://thestar. com.my/news/ story.asp? file=/2010/ 1/1/nation/ 5399211&sec= n\
ation
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nation>

20. On early Morning of 8th January 2010, a Church was torched....the
rest are history. Hopefully Judge Bee Lan can finally have her answer.

Menyingkap Isu Kalimah Allah

2010-01-16T06:59:00.000-08:00

Tidak perlu diperjelaskan lagi apakah isu yang menjadi perselisihan di antara sesetengah masyarakat kita di Malaysia. Terdapat pelbagai pendapat dikalangan pihak media, golongan profesional, ahli ugama, pandangan sendiri, juga pandangan dari media luaran. Namun begitu, kita mendapati bahawa reaksi pelbagai pihak menunjukkan sama ada mereka menyokong 100 % atau menentang 100% dimana reaksi pelbagai pihak ini memberikan impak yang mendalam kerana timbullah pelbagai reaksi yang negatif/ persepsi yang buruk kerana tiada penjelasan yang menyeluruh yang diberikan.

Hai orang-orang yang beriman, ta'atilah Allah dan ta'atilah Rasul (Nya), dan ulil amri di antara kamu. Kemudian jika kamu berlainan pendapat tentang sesuatu, maka kembalikanlah ia kepada Allah (Al Qur'an) dan Rasul (sunnahnya), jika kamu benar-benar beriman kepada Allah dan hari kemudian. Yang demikian itu lebih utama (bagimu) dan lebih baik akibatnya. (surah an-Nisa ayat 59)

Di sini kami telah mengumpulkan fakta-fakta serta penjelasan yang tidak bias kepada satu pihak sahaja. Ini kerana, sebagai seorang Muslim kita haruslah mengajak, menyeru, memanggil atau menganjurkan manusia ke arah kebenaran menggunakan ilmu, bukan bertindak berasaskan emosi dan perasaan serta bukan juga berasaskan penipuan (‘deceiving’ method). Artikel ini diolah hasil dari perbincangan di IIS, ayat2 al-Quran, bible dan juga hasil dari perbincangan dengan sahabat beragama Kristian. Artikel ini bertujuan menerangkan secara terperinci tentang DUA isu utama dalam kes ini.

Kami berharap agar rakan-rakan (tidak mengira Muslim serta bukan Muslim) dapat membaca dengan teliti supaya dapat memahami sama ada perlu atau tidak kalimah Allah digunakan dalam bible dan sama-samalah kita berharap agar isu ini dapat di atasi dengan aman. Insha Allah.

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Keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur yang membenarkan akhbar mingguan Gereja Katholik, Herald - The Catholic Weekly menggunakan kalimah Allah dalam penerbitannya sememangnya mencetuskan polemik. Hakim mahkamah berkenaan, Datuk Lau Bee Lan membuat keputusan membenarkan penggunaan kalimah Allah dalam terbitan akhbar berkenaan atas alasan ia berdasarkan hak di dalam perlembagaan.

Keputusan memihak kepada Herald itu sememangnya isu rumit kerana ia menyentuh sensitiviti agama yang boleh membangkitkan emosi. Malah, ia turut mengundang kemarahan umat Islam negara ini yang mahukan kerajaan dan Majlis Raja-Raja campur tangan.

Kejadian kemudiannya bertambah buruk apabila berlakunya kejadian beberapa gereja dilempar bom. Banyak pihak yang mula menunding jari antara satu sama lain walaupun siasatan masih dijalankan oleh pihak polis. Media massa di luar negara telah mengambil peluang untuk memburuk-burukkan Islam dan negara kita. Saya terpanggil untuk memberikan beberapa komen tentang pendapat-pendapat berikut:

1. Muslim yang bertanggungjawab kerana emosi dan bertindak kerana
Islam

Adalah haram untuk mana-mana Muslim untuk merosakkan rumah ibadat agama lain termasuklah gereja. Ini boleh dilihat dalam hadis berikut:-

Ibn Qudamah kemudian mengulas :

ولأن الصحابة فتحوا كثيرًا من البلاد عنوة فلم يهدموا شيئًا من الكنائس، ويشهد لصحة هذا وجود الكنائس والبيع في البلاد التي فتحت عنوة. ومعلوم أنها ما أحدثت، فيلزم أن تكون موجودة فأبقيت. وقد كتب عمر بن عبد العزيز إلى عماله ألا يهدموا بيعة ولا كنيسة ولا بيت نار، ولأن الإجماع قد حصل على ذلك، فإنها موجودة في بلد المسلمين من غير نكير

Ertinya : Itu adalah kerana walaupun para sahabat membuka banyak negara baru melalui jalan peperangan, tidak sama sekali mereka merobohkan mana-mana gereja...dan Khalifah Umar Abd Aziz menulis kepada petugas-petugasnya agar TIDAK MEROSAKKAN GEREJA, BIARA-BIARA, RUMAH API (TEMPAT IBADAH) , kerana kerana telah Ijma' atas perkara itu, dan tidak dapat dinafikan wujud di negara-negara umat Islam ( Al-Mughni, Jld 10, hlm 609)

Allah S.W.T. turut menyebut dalam surah al-Hajj ayat 40:-

[22:40]
Iaitu mereka yang diusir dari kampung halamannya dengan tidak berdasarkan sebarang alasan yang benar, (mereka diusir) semata-mata kerana mereka berkata: "Tuhan kami ialah Allah". Dan kalaulah Allah tidak mendorong setengah manusia menentang pencerobohan setengahnya yang lain, nescaya runtuhlah tempat-tempat pertapaan serta gereja-gereja (kaum Nasrani), dan tempat-tempat sembahyang (kaum Yahudi), dan juga masjid-masjid (orang Islam) yang sentiasa disebut nama Allah banyak-banyak padanya dan sesungguhnya Allah akan menolong sesiapa yang menolong ugamaNya (ugama Islam); sesungguhnya Allah Maha Kuat, lagi Maha Kuasa;

Imam Al-Qurtubi pula membawakan kata-kata ulama sebelumnya yang berkata:-

تضمنت هذه الآية المنع من هدم كنائس أهل الذمة ، وبيعهم ، وبيوت نيرانهم

Ertinya : Ayat ini mengandungi larangan meroboh dan merosakkan binaan gereja kafir ahli zimmah, dan biara-biara mereka ( Tafsir Al-Qurtubi, Jld 12, hlm 67)

Tindakan merosakkan binaan ibadat agama lain adalah haram bagi seorang Muslim. Tindakan sesetengah pihak yang cepat menunding jari kepada Islam cuba mengambil kesempatan yang ada untuk memburuk-burukkan agama Islam. Walaupun begitu, tidak dinafikan juga terdapat kemungkinan kejadian ini dilakukan oleh individu Muslim. Sekiranya begitu, individu itu yang harus dipersalahkan dan dihukum, bukannya agama kerana tindakan merosakkan gereja ini dikutuk sekeras-kerasnya.

2. Orang Kristian sendiri yang bakar sebab mahu merosakkan nama
Islam dan mencuri tumpuan

Sebagai seorang Muslim, kita tidak patut cepat melatah dan menunding jari balik kepada orang Kristian. Ini adalah kerana tidak terdapat sebarang bukti yang kukuh untuk mensabitkan kesalahan tersebut, baik kepada orang Islam mahupun Kristian. Kita haruslah adil dan waras semasa membuat sesuatu kenyataan.

Tindakan keganasan juga bukanlah ajaran agama Kristianiti. Sekiranya orang Kristian yang melakukannya maka individu itu sahaja yang haruslah dipersalahkan dan didenda. Sesiapa sahaja yang mempersalahkan agama lain, tidak kira Islam atau Kristianiti haruslah tampil memberikan bukti yang jelas dan bukan setakat bercakap kosong sahaja.

Orang Kristian dan orang Islam kedua-duanya tidak mendapat apa-apa faedah daripada kejadian ini.

3. Pihak ketiga?

Kita tidak patut membuat spekulasi namun tidak dapat disangkal adanya kemungkinan terdapat pihak ketiga yang cuba untuk mengambil peluang atas situasi ‘kalimah Allah’ ini. Pihak ketiga ini, berkemungkinan golongan provokatif daripada luar negara mahupun subversif daripada dalam negara. Media massa di luar negara banyak membuat publisiti buruk tentang Malaysia dan perkara ini merugikan seluruh rakyat Malaysia tidak mengira kaum, bangsa atau agama.

Melihat kepada ketiga-tiga kemungkinan ini, kita haruslah mengambil jalan neural dan adil dengan tidak menunding jari kepada mana-mana pihak sehingga pihak berkuasa berjaya mengenalpasti penjenayah tersebut.

Untuk menjawab isu ‘Kalimah Allah’ ini, kita haruslah cuba untuk melihat daripada pelbagai perspektif dan situasi. Dalam isu ini terdapat dua persoalan utama yang perlu dijawab. Persoalannya adalah seperti berikut:-

Persoalan 1
Bolehkah non-muslim menggunakan kalimah Allah?

Persoalan 2
Bolehkah ‘God’ dalam Bible diterjemahkan sebagai Allah dan bukan Tuhan?

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Persoalan 1
Bolehkah non-muslim menggunakan kalimah Allah?

Kita boleh melihat pelbagai pendapat oleh para ulamak-ulamak dan pemimpin dalam negara. Kita haruslah menghormati pendapat-pendapat mereka. Bagi saya non-muslim diboleh menggunakan kalimah Allah berdasarkan berikut:-

Surah Al-Ankabuut, ayat 61-63

[29:61]
Dan sesungguhnya jika engkau (wahai Muhammad) bertanya kepada mereka (yang musyrik) itu: "Siapakah yang menciptakan langit dan bumi, dan yang memudahkan matahari dan bulan (untuk faedah makhluk-makhlukNya)?" Sudah tentu mereka akan menjawab: "Allah". Maka bagaimana mereka tergamak dipalingkan (oleh hawa nafsunya daripada mengakui keesaan Allah dan mematuhi perintahNya)?
[29:62]
Allah memewahkan rezeki bagi sesiapa yang dikehendakiNya di antara hamba-hambaNya dan menyempitkan (rezeki itu) baginya; sesungguhnya Allah Maha Mengetahui akan tiap-tiap sesuatu.
[29:63]
Dan sesungguhnya jika engkau (wahai Muhammad) bertanya kepada mereka (yang musyrik) itu: "Siapakah yang menurunkan hujan dari langit, lalu Ia hidupkan dengannya tumbuh-tumbuhan di bumi sesudah matinya?" Sudah tentu mereka akan menjawab: "Allah". Ucapkanlah (wahai Muhammad): "Alhamdulillah" (sebagai bersyukur disebabkan pengakuan mereka yang demikian), bahkan kebanyakan mereka tidak memahami (hakikat tauhid dan pengertian syirik).

Dalam Surah Al-Ankabuut, ayat 61-63, didapati adalah dibenarkan untuk menggunakan kalimah Allah apabila merujuk kepada Allah sendiri dan sesuai dengan sifat-sifatNya. Sebagai contohnya jika ada yang mengatakan patung batu dalam tokong itu ialah Allah maka adalah salah dan kerana patung batu itu adalah ciptaan dan bukan penciptaNya.

Surah al-Hajj, ayat 40

[22:40]
Iaitu mereka yang diusir dari kampung halamannya dengan tidak berdasarkan sebarang alasan yang benar, (mereka diusir) semata-mata kerana mereka berkata: "Tuhan kami ialah Allah". Dan kalaulah Allah tidak mendorong setengah manusia menentang pencerobohan setengahnya yang lain, nescaya runtuhlah tempat-tempat pertapaan serta gereja-gereja (kaum Nasrani), dan tempat-tempat sembahyang (kaum Yahudi), dan juga masjid-masjid (orang Islam) yang sentiasa disebut nama Allah banyak-banyak padanya dan sesungguhnya Allah akan menolong sesiapa yang menolong ugamaNya (ugama Islam); sesungguhnya Allah Maha Kuat, lagi Maha Kuasa;

Dalam surah al-Hajj, ayat 40 didapati nama Allah disebut dalam gereja-gereja.

Kita juga boleh melihat penggunaan kalimah Allah oleh non-muslim dalam Perjanjian Hudaibiah antara Nabi Muhammad S.A.W dengan orang Quraish Mekah dalam hadis berikut:

“Sesungguhnya Quraish membuat perjanjian damai dengan Nabi s.a.w. Antara wakil Quraish ialah Suhail bin ‘Amr. Sabda Nabi s.a.w : barangkali aku boleh tulis Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Kata Suhail: Adapun Bismillah (dengan nama Allah), maka kami tidak tahu apa itu Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Maka tulislah apa yang kami tahu iaitu BismikalLahumma (dengan namaMu Ya Allah!)”. (Sahih Muslim)

Dalam riwayat al-Bukhari pula, Nabi S.A.W menerima bantahan tersebut. Ternyata mereka menggunakan nama Allah.

Walaupun telah terbukti bahawa kalimah Allah boleh digunakan oleh orang non-Muslim untuk merujuk kepada Allah dan sesuai dengan sifat-sifatnya, kita juga harus ingat bahawa orang non-Muslim termasuk orang Kristian juga menggunakan kalimah Allah dalam konteks yang bercanggah dengan sifat-sifatnya seperti yang dirakamkan dalam surah al-Taubah, ayat 30.

[9:30]
Dan orang-orang Yahudi berkata: "Uzair ialah anak Allah" dan orang-orang Nasrani berkata: "Al-Masih ialah anak Allah". Demikianlah perkataan mereka dengan mulut mereka sendiri, (iaitu) mereka menyamai perkataan orang-orang kafir dahulu; semoga Allah binasakan mereka. Bagaimanakah mereka boleh berpaling dari kebenaran?

Adalah menjadi kesalahan yang sangat besar jika orang non-Muslim ingin menggunakan kalimah Allah untuk merujuk kepada Allah yang mempunyai anak. Rujuk surah Maryam, ayat 88-90

[19:88]
Dan mereka yang kafir berkata: "(Allah) Ar-Rahman, mempunyai anak."
[19:89]
Demi sesungguhnya, kamu telah melakukan satu perkara yang besar salahnya!
[19:90]
Langit nyaris-nyaris pecah disebabkan (anggapan mereka) yang demikian, dan bumi pula nyaris-nyaris terbelah, serta gunung-ganang pun nyaris-nyaris runtuh ranap, -

Betapa besarnya kesalahan mengatakan Allah mempunyai anak sehingga langit nyaris pecah, bumi nyaris terbelah dan gunung-ganang nyaris runtuh ranap. Kesalahan ini begitu serius. Langit nak pecah, bumi nak terbelah, gunung nak runtuh, kita pula buat apa apabila orang Kristian atau Yahudi mengatakan bahawa Allah ada anak? Kita sebagai Muslim pula buat bodoh sahaja. Adapun kita sekadar mencela perbuatan mereka.

Sepatutnya, kita orang Islam haruslah berdakwah kepada mereka. Berkongsi tentang Islam dengan mereka. Orang Islam di Malaysia telah lupa kewajipan berdakwah. Dakwah bermaksud mengajak, menyeru, memanggil atau menganjurkan manusia ke jalan yang benar. Kegiatan dakwah tidak bermaksud untuk mengIslamkan orang non-Muslim kerana sesungguhnya tiada paksaan dalam memeluk Islam. Dakwah hanya sekadar menyampaikan maklumat yang benar tentang agama Islam kepada setiap manusia.

[6:125]
Maka sesiapa yang Allah kehendaki untuk memberi hidayah petunjuk kepadanya nescaya Ia melapangkan dadanya (membuka hatinya) untuk menerima Islam; dan sesiapa yang Allah kehendaki untuk menyesatkannya, nescaya Ia menjadikan dadanya sesak sempit sesempit-sempitnya, seolah-olah ia sedang mendaki naik ke langit (dengan susah payahnya). Demikianlah Allah menimpakan azab kepada orang-orang yang tidak beriman.

[2:272]
Tidaklah engkau diwajibkan (wahai Muhammad) menjadiKan mereka (yang kafir) mendapat petunjuk (kerana kewajipanmu hanya menyampaikan petunjuk), akan tetapi Allah jualah yang memberi petunjuk (dengan memberi taufik) kepada sesiapa yang dikehendakinya (menurut undang-undang peraturanNya). Dan apa jua harta yang halal yang kamu belanjakan (pada jalan Allah) maka (faedahnya dan pahalanya) adalah untuk diri kamu sendiri dan kamu pula tidaklah mendermakan sesuatu melainkan kerana menuntut keredaan Allah dan apa jua yang kamu dermakan dari harta yang halal, akan disempurnakan (balasan pahalanya) kepada kamu, dan (balasan baik) kamu (itu pula) tidak dikurangkan.

Antara ayat yang menggalakkan agar berdakwah:-

[3:104]
Dan hendaklah ada di antara kamu satu puak yang menyeru (berdakwah) kepada kebajikan (mengembangkan Islam), dan menyuruh berbuat segala perkara yang baik, serta melarang daripada segala yang salah (buruk dan keji). Dan mereka yang bersifat demikian ialah orang-orang yang berjaya.

[41:33]
Dan tidak ada yang lebih baik perkataannya daripada orang yang menyeru kepada (mengesakan dan mematuhi perintah) Allah, serta ia sendiri mengerjakan amal yang soleh, sambil berkata: "Sesungguhnya aku adalah dari orang-orang Islam (yang berserah bulat-bulat kepada Allah)!"

[22:67]
Bagi tiap-tiap umat, Kami adakan satu syariat yang tertentu untuk mereka ikuti dan jalankan, maka janganlah ahli-ahli syariat yang lain membantahmu dalam urusan syariaatmu; dan serulah (wahai Muhammad) umat manusia kepada ugama Tuhanmu, kerana sesungguhnya engkau adalah berada di atas jalan yang lurus.

Kesimpulan:
Orang non-muslim boleh menggunakan kalimah Allah dengan syarat merujuk kepada Allah sesuai dengan sifat-sifatNya (Asma-ul-Husna).

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Persoalan 2
Bolehkah ‘God’ dalam Bible diterjemahkan sebagai Allah dan bukan Tuhan dalam bible versi Bahasa Melayu (al-Kitab)?

Bagi menyingkap permasalahan ini, kita mengambil beberapa kenyataan orang Kristian yang digunakan untuk menyokong agenda mereka agar dibenarkan penggunaan kalimah Allah untuk bible versi Bahasa Melayu (al-Kitab):-

1. Kalimah Allah bukannya eksklusif untuk orang Islam sahaja
2. Tiada kebebasan beragama di Malaysia
3. Kaum pribumi telah lama menggunakan perkataan Allah

1. Kalimah Allah bukannya eksklusif untuk orang Islam sahaja

Kenyataan ini adalah benar kerana perkataan Allah digunakan oleh ahli-ahli kitab Yahudi dan Nasrani di Tanah Arab. Adalah tidak salah jika di Tanah Arab yang menggunakan perkataan Allah kerana itu merupakan bahasa ibunda mereka dan telah menjadi budaya setempat mereka yang banyak orang Islam untuk merujuk Tuhan sebagai Allah, lagipun bible mereka dalam bahasa Arab.

Walaupun keadaannya begitu di Tanah Arab, kita perlu melihat dalam konteks Malaysia. Di Malaysia, tuhan bagi orang Islam dirujuk sebagai Allah. Perkataan Allah tidak pernah digunakan oleh mana-mana agama lain untuk merujuk kepada tuhan. Penterjemahan perkataan ‘God’ ke dalam Bahasa Melayu ialah ‘Tuhan’ dan bukannya Allah. Dalam Arab pula ialah ‘Ilah’. Perkataan ‘Allah’ merupakan kata nama khas iaitu nama Tuhan. Ini boleh dibuktikan dengan lafaz syahadah ‘…Laa ilaha illalah….’ Yang bermaksud ‘…tiada tuhan selain Allah’.

English - God
B. Melayu - Tuhan
B.Arab - Ilah

Persoalan yang jelas di sini, mengapakah orang Kristian hendak menggunakan kalimah ‘Allah’ dalam terjemahan bible bahasa Melayu mereka? Apakah agenda sebenar mereka ini untuk menggunakan kalimah Allah? Bukankah penterjemahan dilakukan ke Bahasa Melayu, maka kata ganti yang paling sesuai bagi ‘God’ ialah ‘Tuhan’. Jika tidak pun gunalah perkataan ‘Ilah’ dalam Arab untuk merujuk ‘God’.

Jika benar perkataan Allah adalah paling sesuai, mengapakah mereka tidak menterjemahkan perkataan ‘God’ dalam bible-bible English kepada Allah? Agenda tersembunyi pihak ini agak jelas dan tidak perlu dipanjangkan. Mungkin selepas ini, mereka ingin merujuk sembahyang mereka sebagai solat dan gereja mereka sebagai baitumal?

2. Tiada kebebasan beragama di Malaysia

Islam membenarkan orang non-Muslim termasuklah Kristian untuk menjalankan ibadat masing-masing. Orang Kristian dibenarkan untuk pergi ke gereja, mengajar dan mengerjakan ibadat mereka dengan aman. Dalam isu ini, hak kebebasan beragama tidak ada kena-mengena kerana orang Kristian tidak dikongkong untuk menjalankan ibadat mereka.

Adakah benar terdapat kongkongan agama? Adakah orang Kristian tidak dapat menyebarkan ajaran mereka kepada pengikut-pengikut mereka yang hanya tahu berbahasa Melayu jika kalimah Allah tidak digunakan? Adakah mereka yang membaca bible bahasa Melayu tidak tahu maksud perkataan ‘Tuhan’ untuk merujuk kepada ‘God’ dan hanya memahami perkataan ‘Allah’?

Mengapakah orang Christian tidak mahu menggunakan perkataan daripada manuskip lama mereka yang merujuk kepada ‘God’ seperti Elohim, Elah, Yahweh dan Theos? Mengapa mahu menggunakan perkataan Allah dalam bahasa Arab?

Seperti orang-orang Yahudi yang begitu menjaga nama tuhan mereka sehingga nama itu tidak boleh disebut dan ditulis sebagai tetragrammaton sahaja iaitu YHWH, orang Islam juga berhak menjaga kesucian nama Allah kerana nama Allah terdapat dalam al-Quran.

3. Kaum pribumi telah lama menggunakan perkataan Allah

Pihak Kristian mengatakan bahawa kalimah Allah telah turun-temurun digunakan oleh pribumi Sabah dan Sarawak untuk merujuk kepada Tuhan. Ini adalah satu penipuan yang ingin diketengahkan oleh pihak Kristian kerana penduduk asal setempatnya dalam bahasa mereka masing-masing tidak merujuk ‘God’ atau tuhan sebagai Allah.

Perkataan Allah hanya digunakan oleh orang-orang Islam di Sabah dan Sarawak sejak baru-baru ini. Ini adalah kerana orang Kristian Sabah dan Sarawak hanya menggunakan perkataan Allah apabila buku-buku Bible bahasa Indonesia mula memasuki Sabah dan Sarawak. Dalam bible Bahasa Indonesia itu, perkataan ‘God’ digantikan dengan Allah. Jika benarlah kaum pribumi bukan Muslim turun-temurun menggunakan kalimah Allah untuk merujuk kepada God, manakah buktinya?

Seperti yang diterangkan sebelum ini, kita haruslah mengikut konteks Malaysia kerana impak penggunaan kalimah Allah akan memberi kesan kepada penduduk Malaysia.
Penggunaan perkataan Allah dalam bible akan menimbulkan kekeliruan bukan sahaja kepada orang-orang Islam di Malaysia bahkan orang-orang Kristian sendiri juga akan terkeliru. Contohnya jika kita menukarkan ayat-ayat Bible dengan kalimah Allah seperti berikut:

‘Satu hari Yesus keluar ke pergunungan untuk bersembahyang, dan menghabiskan sepanjang malam sembahyang kepada Allah.’ (Lukas 6:12)
‘One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to Allah.’ (Luke 6:12)

‘…… Allah lebih besar dari saya (Jesus)’ Yohanes 14:28
‘….. Allah is greater than I (Jesus)’ John 14:28

‘Allah yang disembah oleh Abraham, Ishak dan Yakub, Allah nenek moyang kita, telah memuliakan hamba-Nya, Yesus.’ (Kisah Rasul-Rasul 3:13)
‘Allah of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Allah of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.’ (Acts 3:13)

‘Yesus dari Nazareth ialah seorang manusia lelaki yang di tugaskan oleh Allah kepada kamu dengan mukjizat, keajaiban dan alamat yang dilakukan oleh Allah di kalangan kamu melalui dia, sepertimana kamu sendiri ketahui.’ (Kisah Rasul-Rasul 2:22)
‘Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by Allah to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which Allah did among you through him, as you yourselves know.’ (Acts 2:22)

Dengarlah wahai (bangsa) Israel: Allah Tuhan kita, Tuhan kita satu.’ (Ulangan 6:4)
‘Hear, O Israel: ALLAH our God, ALLAH is one.’ (Deuteronomy 6:4)

28 “Lalu datanglah seorang guru agama mendengarkan percakapan antara Yesus dengan orang-orang dari golongan Saduki itu. Guru agama itu melihat bahwa Yesus sudah menjawab orang-orang itu dengan baik. Maka ia bertanya kepada Yesus, "Perintah manakah yang paling penting dari semua perintah?”
29 “Yang paling utama,” jawab Yesus, “ialah: ‘Dengarlah wahai (bangsa) Israel, Allah Tuhan kita, Tuhan kita satu.’ “ ‘ (Markus 12:28-29)
28 “One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the commandments, which is the most important?"
29"The most important one," answered Jesus, "is this: 'Hear, O Israel, Allah our God, Allah is one. “ ‘ (Mark 12:28-29)

‘Engkaulah yang berkuasa dan melaksanakan jasa-jasa yang baik; hanya Engkaulah Allah.’ (Mazmur 86:10)
‘For you are great and do marvelous deeds; you alone are Allah.’ (Psalm 86:10)

‘Akulah yang pertama dan Akulah yang terakhir; tidak ada Allah selain Aku.’ (Yesaya 44:6)
‘I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no Allah.’ (Isaiah 44:6)

‘Sesungguhnya Allah bersama kamu, dan tidak ada yang lain; tidak ada Allah yang lain.’ (Yesaya 45:14)
‘Surely Allah is with you, and there is no other; there is no other Allah.’ (Isaiah 45:14)

‘Ingatilah perkara yang berlalu, yang dahulu kala; Akulah Allah, dan tidak ada yang lain; Akulah Allah, dan tiada sesuatu pun yang serupa dengan Ku.’ (Yesaya 46:9)
‘Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am Allah, and there is no other; I am Allah, and there is none like me.’ (Isaiah 46:9)

“Akulah Allah Tuhan kamu, yang membawa kamu keluar daripada Mesir, keluar daripada bumi hamba abdi. Kamu tidak boleh mempunyai Tuhan-Tuhan lain daripada Aku.” (Keluaran 20:2-3; Ulangan 5:6-7)
“I am Allah your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:2-3; Deuteronomy 5:6-7)

‘Yesus berkata, “…dan beritahu mereka bahawa aku sedang kembali…kepada Allahku dan Allahmu.” ‘ (Yohanes 20:17)
‘Jesus said, “…and tell them, ‘I am returning…to my Allah and your Allah.” ‘(John 20:17)

‘Pada detik yang kesembilan, Yesus menjerit dengan suara yang kuat, “Eli, Eli, lama sabakhthani?” yang bermaksud, “Ya Allahku (ILLAHI), Ya Allahku (ILLAHI), kenapa Engkau meninggalkan Aku?” ‘ (Matius 27:46; Markus 15:34)
‘About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” – which means, “Ya Allah, ya Allah, why have you forsaken me?” ‘ (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34)

‘Yesus berkata kepada kaum Yahudi, “…Sememangnya kamu sungguh-sungguh mahu membunuh aku, yang hanya seorang manusia lelaki yang telah menyampaikan kebenaran yang aku dengar daripada Allah kepada kamu…” ‘ (Yohanes 8:40)
‘Jesus said to the Jews, “…As it is, you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from Allah…” ‘ (John 8:40)

‘ “Tuhan,” kata Martha kepada Yesus, “sekiranya Tuhan berada di sini ketika itu, sudah tentu saudaraku masih hidup. Sungguhpun demikian, aku tahu bahawa di saat ini pun Allah akan mengabulkan apa sahaja yang Tuhan minta.” ‘ (Yohanes 11:21-22)
‘ “Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But I know that even now Allah will give you whatever you ask.” ‘ (John 11:21-22)

‘Yesus berdoa kepada Allah untuk dirinya dan berkata, “…Maka ini lah hidup yang kekal; agar mereka mengenali Mu, Hanyalah Allah Tuhan yang benar, dan Yesus Kristus yang di utuskan oleh Mu.” ‘ (Yohanes 17:3)
‘Jesus prayed to Allah for himself and said, “…Now this is eternal life; that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” ‘ (John 17:3)

‘Kerana hanya ada satu Allah dan satu perantara diantara Allah dengan manusia, iaitu manusia lelaki bernama Yesus Kristus…’ (1 Timotius 2:5)
‘For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus…’ (1 Timothy 2:5)

‘…Kita tahu bahawa berhala tidak ada gunanya di dunia dan sesungguhnya tiada Allah melainkan yang satu.’ (1 Korintus 8:4)
‘…We know that an idol is nothing at all in the world and that there is no Allah but one.’ (1 Corinthians 8:4)

‘Wahyu Yesus Kristus, yang disampaikan oleh Allah kepadanya…’ (Wahyu 1:1)
‘The revelation of Jesus Christ, which Allah gave him…’ (Revelation 1:1)

‘Pada hari ketujuh, Allah menyelesaikan pekerjaan-Nya, lalu Dia berehat.’(Kejadian 2:2)
‘By the seventh day Allah had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested…’ (Genesis 2:2)

‘Pada petang itu, mereka mendengar TUHAN Allah berjalan di taman, lalu mereka bersembunyi di antara pokok-pokok supaya tidak dapat dilihat-Nya. Tetapi TUHAN Allah memanggil lelaki itu, “Dimanakah engkau?” ‘ (Kejadian 3:8-9)
‘Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD Allah as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD Allah among the trees of the garden. But the LORD God called to the man, ”Where are you?” ‘(Genesis 3:8-9)

‘Makhluk itu berkata, “Namamu bukan Yakub lagi. Engkau telah bergomol dengan ALLAH serta manusia, dan engkau sudah menang; kerana itu sekarang namamu Israel.” ‘ (Kejadian 32:28)
‘Then the being said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have wrestled with Allah and with men and have overcome.” ‘ (Genesis 32:28)

‘Yesus menjawab, “Berimanlah kepada Allah.” ‘ (Markus 11:22)
‘ “Have faith in Allah,” Jesus answered.’ (Mark 11:22)

APAKAH setiap ayat yang merujuk kepada Tuhan Bapa di dalam Kitab suci Kristian juga akan di tukar kepada “ALLAH”?

APAKAH istilah “ALLAH” hanya akan diguna pakai di dalam terjemahan Bahasa Malaysia sahaja? KENAPAKAH hanya terhad kepada terjemahan Bahasa Malaysia sahaja? APAKAH Tuhan Bapa yang ada di dalam terjemahan Bahasa Malaysia tidak sama dengan Tuhan Bapa yang ada di dalam versi bahasa-bahasa lain dan tidak boleh bernama “ALLAH” juga? BERAPAKAH jumlah sebenarnya Tuhan Bapa di dalam agama Kristian?

Kitab suci terjemahan Bahasa yang MANAKAH yang patut penganut Kristian pakai jika hanya kitab terjemahan di dalam Bahasa Malaysia sahaja yang merujuk Tuhan Bapa sebagai “ALLAH” manakala kitab terjemahan di dalam bahasa-bahasa lain pula tidak berbuat demikian?

KENAPAKAH Tuhan Bapa sahaja yang menukar namaNYA? APAKAH nanti Tuhan Ruhul Kudus dan Tuhan Yesus masing-masing akan turut menukarkan nama-nama mereka juga?

BUKANKAH selama ini penduduk seluruh dunia termasuklah juga Kristian Barat semuanya umum ketahui bahawa hanya orang-orang Islam sahaja yang memanggil Tuhan mereka dengan nama “ALLAH”? KENAPAKAH tiba-tiba agama Kristian hendak meniru dan memakai nama Tuhan orang-orang Islam? APAKAH Tuhan orang-orang Kristian kini sudah kehilangan pengaruh dan kehebatan atau MUNGKINKAH orang-orang Kristian sendiri sudah hilang keyakinan kepada Tuhan mereka sehingga terpaksa meminjam nama Tuhan orang-orang Islam yang bernama “ALLAH”?

TIDAKKAH orang-orang Kristian merasa pelik dan terkejut seolah-olah mereka dimurtadkan oleh gereja apabila mereka tiba-tiba diperintah beriman dengan Tuhan yang bernama “ALLAH” sedangkan kepada mereka “ALLAH” itu ialah Tuhan orang-orang Islam?

SAHKAH ibadah orang-orang Kristian apabila mereka tiba-tiba menyembah Tuhan yang bernama “ALLAH” yang namaNYA sama seperti nama Tuhan orang-orang Islam sedangkan kepercayaan orang-orang Islam tidak sama dengan kepercayaan orang-orang Kristian?

TERANCAMKAH institiusi agama Kristian apabila pengunaan nama “ALLAH” oleh gereja akan lebih membantu usaha dakwah oleh orang-orang Islam kepada orang-orang Kristian kerana orang-orang Kristian kini sudah mengenali Tuhan sebagai “ALLAH”?

SELAMATKAH pegangang agama orang-orang Kristian apabila pengunaan nama “ALLAH” oleh gereja sebenarnya memudahkan lagi laluan bagi orang-orang Islam menyebarkan ajaran Islam kepada penganut Kristian dengan memulakan perbualan tentang ketuhanan “ALLAH” di dalam agama Islam?

TERGONCANGKAH iman orang-orang Kristian apabila mereka mendapati bahawa “ALLAH” di dalam Islam bukanlah tiga di dalam satu tetapi hanyalah satu sahaja dan amat mudah di terima oleh akal kerana Dia wujud dengan sendiri NYA lagi tidak beranak dan tidak diperanakkan serta tidak ada sesuatu pun yang serupa dengan NYA?

Akan TERSENTUHKAH hati orang-orang Kristian apabila di beritahu oleh kenalan Islam bahawa “ALLAH” orang-orang Islam juga sayang kepada Yesus sehinggakan semua penganut agama Islam diperintahkan oleh NYA supaya beriman kepada Yesus sepertimana mereka sayang dan beriman kepada Nabi Muhammad mereka?

Di sini sahaja kita boleh melihat pelbagai reaksi, persoalan dan kekeliruan yang timbul. Bahkan ada juga orang-orang Kristian yang kebanyakkannya bermazhab protestan tidak setuju dengan penggunaan kalimah Allah untuk digantikan dengan perkataan ‘God’. Walaupun tidak bersetuju, mereka mengambil keputusan untuk mendiamkan diri. Jika dilihat di arena antarabangsa pula, seluruh badan-badan agama Kristian tidak bersetuju untuk menukarkan perkataan God kepada Allah.

Bagi saya, jika orang Kristian terus menggunakan nama Allah untuk merujuk kepada Tuhan yang Maha Esa, maka itu bukanlah perkara buruk dan ini banyak membantu dalam kerja-kerja dakwah. Namun begitu, kita harus mengambil kira muslim-muslim di Malaysia yang rata-rata lemah dalam bab akidah. Kumpulan ini mudah dipesongkan dari jalan Allah yang benar tetapi Perlembagaan Malaysia tidak membenarkan agama lain menyebarkan ajaran mereka kepada orang Islam di Malaysia menyebabkan mereka selamat . Tapi persoalannya sampai bilakah kita hendak menggunakan Perlembagaan Malaysia untuk melindungi akidah orang-orang Islam di Malaysia?

Kini zaman sudah berubah, maklumat mudah tersebar dalam internet dan tiada kawalan dalam penyebaran agama lain kepada orang-orang Islam di Malaysia. Bila lagikah kita mahu mula memperkasakan akidah kita?

Kesimpulan:
Dalam konteks Malaysia, perkataan ‘God’ dari Bible tidak patut diterjemah sebagai ‘Allah’ dalam al-Kitab atau Bible bahasa Melayu.

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Christians and Allah

2010-01-08T04:57:00.000-08:00

All of this fuss will never end. Each individual have their own opinion on this issue. It’s best to follow what Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. saying; when we are in differ about any issue what we need to do is to refer back to the al-Quran and his Sunnah.

Before I give any comments, we need to know what the the Quran says about the Christians. This is important so that there are no confusion between the difference of Islam and Christians.

[002:133]
Were ye witnesses when death appeared before Jacob? Behold, he said to his sons: "What will ye worship after me?" They said: "We shall worship Thy God and the God of thy fathers, of Abraham, Isma'il and Isaac,- the one (True) God: To Him we bow (in Islam)."

[002:134]
That was a people that hath passed away. They shall reap the fruit of what they did, and ye of what ye do! Of their merits there is no question in your case!

[002:135]
They say: "Become Jews or Christians if ye would be guided (To salvation)." Say thou: "Nay! (I would rather) the Religion of Abraham the True, and he joined not gods with God."

[002:136]
Say ye: "We believe in God, and the revelation given to us, and to Abraham, Isma'il, Isaac, Jacob, and the Tribes, and that given to Moses and Jesus, and that given to (all) prophets from their Lord: We make no difference between one and another of them: And we bow to God (in Islam)."

[002:137]
So if they believe as ye believe, they are indeed on the right path; but if they turn back, it is they who are in schism; but God will suffice thee as against them, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.

[002:138]
(Our religion is) the Baptism of God: And who can baptize better than God? And it is He Whom we worship.

[002:139]
Say: Will ye dispute with us about God, seeing that He is our Lord and your Lord; that we are responsible for our doings and ye for yours; and that We are sincere (in our faith) in Him?

[002:140]
Or do ye say that Abraham, Isma'il Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes were Jews or Christians? Say: Do ye know better than God? Ah! who is more unjust than those who conceal the testimony they have from God? but God is not unmindful of what ye do!

[002:141]
That was a people that hath passed away. They shall reap the fruit of what they did, and ye of what ye do! Of their merits there is no question in your case:

Once you read these verses from the Holy Quran, you will find that Allah gave revelation to Abraham, Ismail, Isaac, Jacob, the tribes, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad S.A.W. and all the prophets. However, Jews and Christians is already off the path the Religion of Abraham.

[003:067]
Abraham was not a Jew nor yet a Christian; but he was true in Faith, and bowed his will to God's (Which is Islam), and he joined not gods with God.

The Christians today claimed that Jesus PBUH is the son of Allah. Allah S.W.T. explains to us some details in the Nobel Quran verse 5:12-10. I wont post it here though, you need to read up by your self. Lets examine what Allah says regarding Jesus as Son of Allah in the Quran:-

[009:030]
And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!

[112:003]
He(Allah S.W.T.) begetteth not, nor is He begotten;

[005:017]
In blasphemy indeed are those that say that God is Christ the son of Mary. Say: "Who then hath the least power against God, if His will were to destroy Christ the son of Mary, his mother, and all every - one that is on the earth? For to God belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between. He createth what He pleaseth. For God hath power over all things."

As a conclusion, the Christians are people who claim to follow Prophet Jesus PBUH but they are actually led astray by following man-made religion. For Christian readers, please take note that this is what Allah S.W.T. revealed to us in the Nobel Quran. Even the Bible itself agrees that Jesus is not the son of Allah. (I can prove this; you just need to email me)

Now that the difference between Christians and Islam is clear, let us proceed to the issue of the Christians using the word ‘Allah’. I examine this verse many times and I find that its best to settle this issue.

[029:046]
And argue not with the People of the Scripture unless it be in (a way) that is better, save with such of them as do wrong; and say: We believe in that which hath been revealed unto us and revealed unto you; our God and your God is One, and unto Him we surrender.

Considering the fast that Christians were once not astray and follows the Scripture, in my personal opinion Christians are allowed to use the word Allah because Allah S.W.T is the one and only God.

The Malays in Malaysia are worried if the Muslims will be confused. I think anyone who reads the Quran (muslim or non-muslim) will know who are the Christians and what is their relationship with Allah. Rather than the Muslims getting confused, I personally feel by allowing Christians using the word ‘Allah’ will benefit us because at least they know that their Lord is Allah.

The one and only scripture on earth that have the word ‘Allah’ is from the Holy Quran. If you choose to accept Allah as your God, then you are on the right path. Read the scriptures (Bible, Torah and Quran), you will know which religion is the True path. I chose Islam, how about you?

Keajaiban al-Quran: Semut yang bercakap

2009-12-03T18:18:00.000-08:00

Assalamualaikum Wrh. Wbt.

Sudah agak lama tidak mengupdate blog kerana banyak kerja yang tertangguh serta bertimbun setelah selamat kahwin pada 7/11 yang lepas.
Kupasan Islam dan sains hari ini adalah tentang semut. Antara kisah-kisah yang menarik dalam al-Quran ialah kisah Nabi Sulaiman dengan semut. Kisah ini direkodkan pada surah al-Naml, ayat 15-19.

[27:15]
Dan sesungguhnya kami telah mengurniakan ilmu pengetahuan kepada Nabi Daud dan Nabi Sulaiman; dan mereka berdua bersyukur dengan berkata: "Segala puji tertentu bagi Allah yang dengan limpah kurniaNya memberi kami kelebihan mengatasi kebanyakan hamba-hambaNya yang beriman".
[27:16]
Dan Nabi Sulaiman mewarisi (pangkat kenabian dan kerajaan) Nabi Daud; dan (setelah itu) Nabi Sulaiman berkata: "Wahai umat manusia, kami telah diajar mengerti bahasa pertuturan burung, dan kami telah diberikan serba sedikit dari tiap-tiap sesuatu (yang diperlukan); sesungguhnya yang demikian ini adalah limpah kurnia (dari Allah) yang jelas nyata".
[27:17]
Dan dihimpunkan bagi Nabi Sulaiman bala tenteranya, dari jin dan manusia serta burung; lalu mereka dijaga serta diatur keadaan dan perjalanan masing-masing.
[27:18]
(Maralah angkatan itu) hingga apabila mereka sampai ke "Waadin-Naml", berkatalah seekor semut: "Wahai sekalian semut, masuklah ke sarang kamu masing-masing, jangan Sulaiman dan tenteranya memijak serta membinasakan kamu, sedang mereka tidak menyedari".
[27:19]
Maka tersenyumlah Nabi Sulaiman mendengar kata-kata semut itu, dan berdoa dengan berkata:" Wahai Tuhanku, ilhamkanlah daku supaya tetap bersyukur akan nikmatMu yang Engkau kurniakan kepadaku dan kepada ibu bapaku, dan supaya aku tetap mengerjakan amal soleh yang Engkau redai; dan masukkanlah daku - dengan limpah rahmatMu - dalam kumpulan hamba-hambaMu yang soleh".

Selama ini, saintis berpendapat bahawa semut berkomunikasi dengan menggunakan signal-signal berbentuk kimia dan tidak menggunakan bunyi sebagai bentuk komunikasi mereka. Pendapat saintis ini adalah bercanggah sama sekali dengan ayat al-Quran seperti yang saya tunjukkan diatas kerana dalam ayat 16:18 dan 16:19, didapati bahawa semut bercakap (berkomunikasi dengan bunyi). Dan bunyi ini pula didengari oleh Nabi Sulaiman A.S. serta difahaminya dengan ilmu yang dikurniakan Allah S.W.T.

Saban hari, orang bukan Islam yang dengki dengan perkembangan Islam di dunia menggunakan maklumat ini untuk memperkecilkan Islam dan mengatakan bahawa Islam ialah agama yang kuno serta tidak saintifik. Contohnya boleh dilihat pada website:

http://www.answering-islam.org/Responses/Menj/ants.htm

Penulis website ini cuba mempengaruhi orang Islam dengan menggunakan kaedah emperikal bagi membuktikan bahawa Islam bukan agama yang benar.

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Sebelum saya membuktikan kebenaran tentang semut ini biarlah saya ceritakan sedikit tentang semut. Telah dianggarkan bahawa terdapat 20,000 spesis semut yang wujud di dunia. Semua semut-semut ini hidup berkoloni dan mempunyai sistem sosial yang tersusun dengan beberapa kasta iaitu - pekerja, askar, permaisuri dan dron - semua daripada mereka ini mempunyai tanggungjawab dan tugas-tugas yang amat spesifik untuk koloni mereka. Hanya semut permaisuri dan dron-dron jantan sahaja yang mampu untuk menghasilkan semut-semut baru. Kesemua semut askar dan semut pekerja adalah steril (tidak boleh menghasilkan zuriat).
Semut merupakan serangga yang bersosial kerana mereka hidup dan bekerjasama di dalam satu komuniti. Mereka membesar dan menjaga anak-anak mereka. Kehidupan seperti ini adalah amat berbeza dengan kehidupan serangga-serangga lain yang lebih banyak masa hidup bersendirian. Satu komuniti semut ini dipanggil sebagai koloni. Kehidupan dalam koloni semut adalah sangat tersusun. Setiap ahli mempunyai pekerjaan masing-masing yang sangat spesifik.

Koloni semut diperintah oleh semut permaisuri. Antara tugas semut permaisuri yang penting adalah untuk bertelur. Semut pekerja melakukan semua kerja-kerja yang lain seperti menjaga permaisuri dan anak-anak, membina sarang dan membaiki sarang yang rosak. Semut pekerja juga bekerja mencari makanan dan mempertahankan sarang dari musuh. Semua semut pekerja adalah betina. Pekerja askar tugasnya hanya mempertahankan sarang dari serangan musuh (lihat saiznya yang lebih besar).

Kebanyakkan semut jantan hanya hidup beberapa minggu atau bulan sahaja. Mereka tidak bekerja dan akan mati sebaik sahaja bersenyawa dengan semut permaisuri yang baru.

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Sebagai serangga yang bersosial pastinya semut mempunyai suatu cara untuk berkomunikasi. Para saintis berpendapat bahawa semut berkomunikasi menggunakan feromon (pheromones) sahaja. Mereka berpendapat bahawa apabila terdapat bahaya semut akan merembeskan feromon bahaya. (rujuk 'alarm pheromones' di http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheromone untuk keterangan lanjut).

Pada hari ini, kenyataan itu terbukti tidak benar apabila para saintis berjaya membuktikan bahawa semut juga berkomunikasi dengan menggunakan bunyi untuk menggesa semut-semut lain untuk berasa dalam keadaan awas apabila terdapat bahaya.

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Artikel diatas membuktikan semut-semut sentiasa bercakap-cakap dalam frequensi yang sukar didengari oleh manusia. Semut permaisuri pula boleh memberikan arahan kepada semut-semut lain untuk berada dalam keadaan awas dengan menggunakan bunyi. Penemuan ini yang telah diterbitkan dalam jurnal Science telah menyanggah dakwaan pihak-pihak yang anti-Islam yang mengatakan bahawa semut tidak berkomunikasi dengan bunyi.

Beberapa lama apabila artikel ini telah diterbitkan dalam 'The Times', pihak-pihak yang anti-Islam tersebut telah menarik balik artikel mereka yang mempersendakan Islam. al-Quran yang mereka laporkan sebagai tidak benar dan tidak saintifik adalah begitu tepat. Mampukah Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. mengetahui bahawa semut juga boleh bercakap 1400 tahun dahulu? Inilah antara tanda-tanda/petunjuk/hidayah yang Allah S.W.T. berikan kepada kita dalam al-Quran. Kita tidak mungkin untuk mengetahui perkara ini tanpa membaca dan memahami ilmu dalam al-Quran.

Pada hari ini, sedihnya kita hanya membaca al-Quran tanpa memahami atau mengetahui maksud ayat-ayat Quran. Mungkin dengan membaca kita akan mendapat pahala tetapi yang pasti kita tidak akan mendapat ilmu dari al-Quran. Jika tidak mendapat ilmu bagaimana kita boleh menjadikan al-Quran sebagai panduan hidup dan sebagai ubat kepada hati kita?

Walaupun al-Quran adalah dalam bahasa Arab, kini telah banyak diterbitkan terjemahan-terjemahan al-Quran dalam bahasa Melayu dan Inggeris. Bukan sahaja terjemahan al-Quran adalah dalam bahasa tempatan bahkan tafsir al-Quran juga kini banyak diterjemahkan kepada bahasa Melayu dan Inggeris.

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Body talk: Queen ants make a subtly different noise rubbing their chests to worker ants, allowing them to talk to each other

Balik semula kepada topik asal iaitu semut boleh berkomunikasi dengan bunyi, ada juga serangga-serangga lain yang tahu bahasa semut ini mengambil kesempatan ke atas semut. Contohnya arahan berbentuk bunyi dari semut permaisuri boleh dimimik oleh pupa dan larva rama-rama parasit yang mempergunakan semut untuk melindungi dan memberikannya makanan. Artikel ini turut membuktikan semut berkomunikasi dengan bunyi (bercakap).

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Baiklah, sekarang kita lihat kembali al-Quran 27:16

27:18 حتى اذا اتوا على واد النمل قالت نملة ياايها النمل ادخلوا مساكنكم لايحطمنكم سليمان وجنوده وهم لايشعرون
[027:018] Hatta itha ataw AAala wadi alnnamli qalat namlatun ya ayyuha alnnamlu odkhuloo masakinakum la yahtimannakum sulaymanu wajunooduhu wahum la yashAAuroona

Jika saudara-saudari ada sedikit pengetahuan Arab, daripada kata kerja di atas didapati kata kerja yang digunakan menunjukkan bahawa semut yang memberikan arahan itu adalah semut betina.

Jika kita bandingkan dengan kajian-kajian terbaru yang dilakukan, didapati yang memberikan arahan adalah semut permaisuri iaitu semut betina. Soalnya disini ialah bagaimana Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. 1400 tahun dahulu tahu bahawa semut yang memberikan arahan itu adalah semut betina iaitu semut permaisuri? Pada ketika itu tiada kanta pembesar, apatah lagi mikroskop dan pengetahuan genetik. Ilmu ini pastinya datang dari Pencipta kita yang Maha Mengetahui segalanya dan disampaikan kepada kita melalui Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. pesuruhNya.

[41:53]
Kami akan perlihatkan kepada mereka tanda-tanda kekuasaan Kami di merata-rata tempat (dalam alam yang terbentang luas ini) dan pada diri mereka sendiri, sehingga ternyata jelas kepada mereka bahawa Al-Quran adalah benar. Belumkah ternyata kepada mereka kebenaran itu dan belumkah cukup (bagi mereka) bahawa Tuhanmu mengetahui dan menyaksikan tiap-tiap sesuatu?

Allahuakbar! Subhanallah.
Inilah mukjizat al-Quran yang telah ditinggalkan kepada kita.

Setiap kali nampak semut teringat pulak kisah Nabi Sulaiman.

Segala pujian bagi Allah.

>>>>>>>>Wahai Tuhanku, ilhamkanlah daku supaya tetap bersyukur akan nikmatMu yang Engkau kurniakan kepadaku dan kepada ibu bapaku, dan supaya aku tetap mengerjakan amal soleh yang Engkau redai; dan masukkanlah daku - dengan limpah rahmatMu - dalam kumpulan hamba-hambaMu yang soleh.<<<<<<<<<<<

Rujukan:
http://www.iiu.edu.my/deed/quran/malay/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/family/Ant
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/insects/ant-info3.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5672006.ece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1137267/Getting-chest-Study-reveals-ants-talk-other.html

The Rich History of Science and Knowledge in Islam

2009-10-19T10:19:00.000-07:00

In the Name of Allâh, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful

What is Taught: The first mention of man in flight was by Roger Bacon, who drew a flying apparatus. Leonardo da Vinci also conceived of airborne transport and drew several prototypes.
What Should be Taught: Ibn Firnas of Islamic Spain invented, constructed and tested a flying machine in the 800's A.D. Roger Bacon learned of flying machines from Arabic references to Ibn Firnas' machine. The latter's invention antedates Bacon by 500 years and Da Vinci by some 700 years.

What is Taught: Glass mirrors were first produced in 1291 in Venice.
What Should be Taught: Glass mirrors were in use in Islamic Spain as early as the 11th century. The Venetians learned of the art of fine glass production from Syrian artisans during the 9th and 10th centuries.

What is Taught: Until the 14th century, the only type of clock available was the water clock. In 1335, a large mechanical clock was erected in Milan, Italy. This was possibly the first weight-driven clock.
What Should be Taught: A variety of mechanical clocks were produced by Spanish Muslim engineers, both large and small, and this knowledge was transmitted to Europe through Latin translations of Islamic books on mechanics. These clocks were weight-driven. Designs and illustrations of epi-cyclic and segmental gears were provided. One such clock included a mercury escapement. The latter type was directly copied by Europeans during the 15th century. In addition, during the 9th century, Ibn Firnas of Islamic Spain, according to Will Durant, invented a watch-like device which kept accurate time. The Muslims also constructed a variety of highly accurate astronomical clocks for use in their observatories.

What is Taught: In the 17th century, the pendulum was developed by Galileo during his teenage years. He noticed a chandelier swaying as it was being blown by the wind. As a result, he went home and invented the pendulum.
What Should be Taught: The pendulum was discovered by Ibn Yunus al-Masri during the 10th century, who was the first to study and document its oscillatory motion. Its value for use in clocks was introduced by Muslim physicists during the 15th century.

What is Taught: Movable type and the printing press was invented in the West by Johannes Gutenberg of Germany during the 15th century.
What Should be Taught: In 1454, Gutenberg developed the most sophisticated printing press of the Middle Ages. However, movable brass type was in use in Islamic Spain 100 years prior, and that is where the West's first printing devices were made.

What is Taught: Isaac Newton's 17th century study of lenses, light and prisms forms the foundation of the modern science of optics .
What Should be Taught: In the 1lth century al-Haytham determined virtually everything that Newton advanced regarding optics centuries prior and is regarded by numerous authorities as the "founder of optics. " There is little doubt that Newton was influenced by him. Al-Haytham was the most quoted physicist of the Middle Ages. His works were utilized and quoted by a greater number of European scholars during the 16th and 17th centuries than those of Newton and Galileo combined.

What is Taught: Isaac Newton, during the 17th century, discovered that white light consists of various rays of colored light.
What Should be Taught: This discovery was made in its entirety by al-Haytham (11th century) and Kamal ad-Din (14th century). Newton did make original discoveries, but this was not one of them.

What is Taught: The concept of the finite nature of matter was first introduced by Antione Lavoisier during the 18th century. He discovered that, although matter may change its form or shape, its mass always remains the same. Thus, for instance, if water is heated to steam, if salt is dissolved in water or if a piece of wood is burned to ashes, the total mass remains unchanged.
What Should be Taught: The principles of this discovery were elaborated centuries before by Islamic Persia's great scholar, al-Biruni (d. 1050). Lavoisier was a disciple of the Muslim chemists and physicists and referred to their books frequently.

What is Taught: The Greeks were the developers of trigonometry .
What Should be Taught: Trigonometry remained largely a theoretical science among the Greeks. It was developed to a level of modern perfection by Muslim scholars, although the weight of the credit must be given to al-Battani. The words describing the basic functions of this science, sine, cosine and tangent, are all derived from Arabic terms. Thus, original contributions by the Greeks in trigonometry were minimal.

What is Taught:The use of decimal fractions in mathematics was first developed by a Dutchman, Simon Stevin, in 1589. He helped advance the mathematical sciences by replacing the cumbersome fractions, for instance, 1/2, with decimal fractions, for example, 0.5.
What Should be Taught: Muslim mathematicians were the first to utilize decimals instead of fractions on a large scale. Al-Kashi's book, Key to Arithmetic, was written at the beginning of the 15th century and was the stimulus for the systematic application of decimals to whole numbers and fractions thereof. It is highly probably that Stevin imported the idea to Europe from al-Kashi's work.

What is Taught: The first man to utilize algebraic symbols was the French mathematician, Francois Vieta. In 1591, he wrote an algebra book describing equations with letters such as the now familiar x and y's. Asimov says that this discovery had an impact similar to the progression from Roman numerals to Arabic numbers.
What Should be Taught: Muslim mathematicians, the inventors of algebra, introduced the concept of using letters for unknown variables in equations as early as the 9th century A.D. Through this system, they solved a variety of complex equations, including quadratic and cubic equations. They used symbols to develop and perfect the binomial theorem.

What is Taught: The difficult cubic equations (x to the third power) remained unsolved until the 16th century when Niccolo Tartaglia, an Italian mathematician, solved them.
What Should be Taught: Cubic equations as well as numerous equations of even higher degrees were solved with ease by Muslim mathematicians as early as the 10th century.

What is Taught: The concept that numbers could be less than zero, that is negative numbers, was unknown until 1545 when Geronimo Cardano introduced the idea.
What Should he Taught: Muslim mathematicians introduced negative numbers for use in a variety of arithmetic functions at least 400 years prior to Cardano.

What is Taught: In 1614, John Napier invented logarithms and logarithmic tables.
What Should be Taught: Muslim mathematicians invented logarithms and produced logarithmic tables several centuries prior. Such tables were common in the Islamic world as early as the 13th century.

What is Taught: During the 17th century Rene Descartes made the discovery that algebra could be used to solve geometrical problems. By this, he greatly advanced the science of geometry.
What Should be Taught: Mathematicians of the Islamic Empire accomplished precisely this as early as the 9th century A.D. Thabit bin Qurrah was the first to do so, and he was followed by Abu'l Wafa, whose 10th century book utilized algebra to advance geometry into an exact and simplified science.

What is Taught: Isaac Newton, during the 17th century, developed the binomial theorem, which is a crucial component for the study of algebra.
What Should be Taught: Hundreds of Muslim mathematicians utilized and perfected the binomial theorem. They initiated its use for the systematic solution of algebraic problems during the 10th century (or prior).

What is Taught: No improvement had been made in the astronomy of the ancients during the Middle Ages regarding the motion of planets until the 13th century. Then Alphonso the Wise of Castile (Middle Spain) invented the Aphonsine Tables, which were more accurate than Ptolemy's.
What Should be Taught: Muslim astronomers made numerous improvements upon Ptolemy's findings as early as the 9th century. They were the first astronomers to dispute his archaic ideas. In their critic of the Greeks, they synthesized proof that the sun is the center of the solar system and that the orbits of the earth and other planets might be elliptical. They produced hundreds of highly accurate astronomical tables and star charts. Many of their calculations are so precise that they are regarded as contemporary. The AlphonsineTables are little more than copies of works on astronomy transmitted to Europe via Islamic Spain, i.e. the Toledo Tables.

What is Taught: The English scholar Roger Bacon (d. 1292) first mentioned glass lenses for improving vision. At nearly the same time, eyeglasses could be found in use both in China and Europe.
What Should be Taught: Ibn Firnas of Islamic Spain invented eyeglasses during the 9th century, and they were manufactured and sold throughout Spain for over two centuries. Any mention of eyeglasses by Roger Bacon was simply a regurgitation of the work of al-Haytham (d. 1039), whose research Bacon frequently referred to.

What is Taught: Gunpowder was developed in the Western world as a result of Roger Bacon's work in 1242. The first usage of gunpowder in weapons was when the Chinese fired it from bamboo shoots in attempt to frighten Mongol conquerors. They produced it by adding sulfur and charcoal to saltpeter.
What Should be Taught: The Chinese developed saltpeter for use in fireworks and knew of no tactical military use for gunpowder, nor did they invent its formula. Research by Reinuad and Fave have clearly shown that gunpowder was formulated initially by Muslim chemists. Further, these historians claim that the Muslims developed the first fire-arms. Notably, Muslim armies used grenades and other weapons in their defence of Algericus against the Franks during the 14th century. Jean Mathes indicates that the Muslim rulers had stock-piles of grenades, rifles, crude cannons, incendiary devices, sulfur bombs and pistols decades before such devices were used in Europe. The first mention of a cannon was in an Arabic text around 1300 A.D. Roger Bacon learned of the formula for gunpowder from Latin translations of Arabic books. He brought forth nothing original in this regard.

What is Taught: The compass was invented by the Chinese who may have been the first to use it for navigational purposes sometime between 1000 and 1100 A.D. The earliest reference to its use in navigation was by the Englishman, Alexander Neckam (1157-1217).
What Should be Taught: Muslim geographers and navigators learned of the magnetic needle, possibly from the Chinese, and were the first to use magnetic needles in navigation. They invented the compass and passed the knowledge of its use in navigation to the West. European navigators relied on Muslim pilots and their instruments when exploring unknown territories. Gustav Le Bon claims that the magnetic needle and compass were entirely invented by the Muslims and that the Chinese had little to do with it. Neckam, as well as the Chinese, probably learned of it from Muslim traders. It is noteworthy that the Chinese improved their navigational expertise after they began interacting with the Muslims during the 8th century.

What is Taught: The first man to classify the races was the German Johann F. Blumenbach, who divided mankind into white, yellow, brown, black and red peoples.
What Should be Taught: Muslim scholars of the 9th through 14th centuries invented the science of ethnography. A number of Muslim geographers classified the races, writing detailed explanations of their unique cultural habits and physical appearances. They wrote thousands of pages on this subject. Blumenbach's works were insignificant in comparison.

What is Taught: The science of geography was revived during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries when the ancient works of Ptolemy were discovered. The Crusades and the Portuguese/Spanish expeditions also contributed to this reawakening. The first scientifically-based treatise on geography were produced during this period by Europe's scholars.
What Should be Taught: Muslim geographers produced untold volumes of books on the geography of Africa, Asia, India, China and the Indies during the 8th through 15th centuries. These writings included the world's first geographical encyclopedias, almanacs and road maps. Ibn Battutah's 14 th century masterpieces provide a detailed view of the geography of the ancient world. The Muslim geographers of the 10th through 15th centuries far exceeded the output by Europeans regarding the geography of these regions well into the 18th century. The Crusades led to the destruction of educational institutions, their scholars and books. They brought nothing substantive regarding geography to the Western world.

What is Taught: Robert Boyle, in the 17th century, originated the science of chemistry.
What Should be Taught: A variety of Muslim chemists, including ar-Razi, al-Jabr, al-Biruni and al-Kindi, performed scientific experiments in chemistry some 700 years prior to Boyle. Durant writes that the Muslims introduced the experimental method to this science. Humboldt regards the Muslims as the founders of chemistry.

What is Taught: Leonardo da Vinci (16th century) fathered the science of geology when he noted that fossils found on mountains indicated a watery origin of the earth.
What Should be Taught: Al-Biruni (1lth century) made precisely this observation and added much to it, including a huge book on geology, hundreds of years before Da Vinci was born. Ibn Sina noted this as well (see pages 100-101). it is probable that Da Vinci first learned of this concept from Latin translations of Islamic books. He added nothing original to their findings.

What is Taught: The first mention of the geological formation of valleys was in 1756, when Nicolas Desmarest proposed that they were formed over a long periods of time by streams.
What Should be Taught: Ibn Sina and al-Biruni made precisely this discovery during the 11th century (see pages 102 and 103), fully 700 years prior to Desmarest.

What is Taught: Galileo (17th century) was the world's first great experimenter.
What Should be Taught: Al-Biruni (d. 1050) was the world's first great experimenter. He wrote over 200 books, many of which discuss his precise experiments. His literary output in the sciences amounts to some 13,000 pages, far exceeding that written by Galileo or, for that matter, Galileo and Newton combined.

What is Taught: The Italian Giovanni Morgagni is regarded as the father of pathology because he was the first to correctly describe the nature of disease.
What Should be Taught: Islam's surgeons were the first pathologists. They fully realized the nature of disease and described a variety of diseases to modern detail. Ibn Zuhr correctly described the nature of pleurisy, tuberculosis and pericarditis. Az-Zahrawi accurately documented the pathology of hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and other congenital diseases. Ibn al-Quff and Ibn an-Nafs gave perfect descriptions of the diseases of circulation. Other Muslim surgeons gave the first accurate descriptions of certain malignancies, including cancer of the stomach, bowel and esophagus. These surgeons were the originators of pathology, not Giovanni Morgagni.

What is Taught: Paul Ehrlich (19th century) is the originator of drug chemotherapy, that is the use of specific drugs to kill microbes.
What Should be Taught: Muslim physicians used a variety of specific substances to destroy microbes. They applied sulfur topically specifically to kill the scabies mite. Ar-Razi (10th century) used mercurial compounds as topical antiseptics.

What is Taught: Purified alcohol, made through distillation, was first produced by Arnau de Villanova, a Spanish alchemist, in 1300 A.D.
What Should be Taught: Numerous Muslim chemists produced medicinal-grade alcohol through distillation as early as the 10th century and manufactured on a large scale the first distillation devices for use in chemistry. They used alcohol as a solvent and antiseptic.

What is Taught: The first surgery performed under inhalation anesthesia was conducted by C.W. Long, an American, in 1845.
What Should be Taught: Six hundred years prior to Long, Islamic Spain's Az-Zahrawi and Ibn Zuhr, among other Muslim surgeons, performed hundreds of surgeries under inhalation anesthesia with the use of narcotic-soaked sponges which were placed over the face.

What is Taught: During the 16th century Paracelsus invented the use of opium extracts for anesthesia.
What Should be Taught: Muslim physicians introduced the anesthetic value of opium derivatives during the Middle Ages. Opium was originally used as an anesthetic agent by the Greeks. Paracelus was a student of Ibn Sina's works from which it is almost assured that he derived this idea.

What is Taught: Modern anesthesia was invented in the 19th century by Humphrey Davy and Horace Wells.
What Should be Taught: Modern anesthesia was discovered, mastered and perfected by Muslim anesthetists 900 years before the advent of Davy and Wells. They utilized oral as well as inhalant anesthetics.

What is Taught: The concept of quarantine was first developed in 1403. In Venice, a law was passed preventing strangers from entering the city until a certain waiting period had passed. If, by then, no sign of illness could be found, they were allowed in.
What Should be Taught: The concept of quarantine was first introduced in the 7th century A.D. by the prophet Muhammad, who wisely warned against entering or leaving a region suffering from plague. As early as the 10th century, Muslim physicians innovated the use of isolation wards for individuals suffering with communicable diseases.

What is Taught: The scientific use of antiseptics in surgery was discovered by the British surgeon Joseph Lister in 1865.
What Should be Taught: As early as the 10th century, Muslim physicians and surgeons were applying purified alcohol to wounds as an antiseptic agent. Surgeons in Islamic Spain utilized special methods for maintaining antisepsis prior to and during surgery. They also originated specific protocols for maintaining hygiene during the post-operative period. Their success rate was so high that dignitaries throughout Europe came to Cordova, Spain, to be treated at what was comparably the "Mayo Clinic" of the Middle Ages.

What is Taught: In 1545, the scientific use of surgery was advanced by the French surgeon Ambroise Pare. Prior to him, surgeons attempted to stop bleeding through the gruesome procedure of searing the wound with boiling oil. Pare stopped the use of boiling oils and began ligating arteries. He is considered the "father of rational surgery." Pare was also one of the first Europeans to condemn such grotesque "surgical" procedures as trepanning (see reference #6, pg. 110).
What Should be Taught: Islamic Spain's illustrious surgeon, az-Zahrawi (d. 1013), began ligating arteries with fine sutures over 500 years prior to Pare. He perfected the use of Catgut, that is suture made from animal intestines. Additionally, he instituted the use of cotton plus wax to plug bleeding wounds. The full details of his works were made available to Europeans through Latin translations.
Despite this, barbers and herdsmen continued be the primary individuals practicing the "art" of surgery for nearly six centuries after az-Zahrawi's death. Pare himself was a barber, albeit more skilled and conscientious than the average ones.
Included in az-Zahrawi's legacy are dozens of books. His most famous work is a 30 volume treatise on medicine and surgery. His books contain sections on preventive medicine, nutrition, cosmetics, drug therapy, surgical technique, anesthesia, pre and post-operative care as well as drawings of some 200 surgical devices, many of which he invented. The refined and scholarly az-Zahrawi must be regarded as the father and founder of rational surgery, not the uneducated Pare.

What is Taught: William Harvey, during the early 17th century, discovered that blood circulates. He was the first to correctly describe the function of the heart, arteries and veins. Rome's Galen had presented erroneous ideas regarding the circulatory system, and Harvey was the first to determine that blood is pumped throughout the body via the action of the heart and the venous valves. Therefore, he is regarded as the founder of human physiology.
What Should be Taught: In the 10th century, Islam's ar-Razi wrote an in-depth treatise on the venous system, accurately describing the function of the veins and their valves. Ibn an-Nafs and Ibn al-Quff (13th century) provided full documentation that the blood circulates and correctly described the physiology of the heart and the function of its valves 300 years before Harvey. William Harvey was a graduate of Italy's famous Padua University at a time when the majority of its curriculum was based upon Ibn Sina's and ar-Razi's textbooks.

What is Taught: The first pharmacopeia (book of medicines) was published by a German scholar in 1542. According to World Book Encyclopedia, the science of pharmacology was begun in the 1900's as an off-shoot of chemistry due to the analysis of crude plant materials. Chemists, after isolating the active ingredients from plants, realized their medicinal value.
What Should be Taught: According to the eminent scholar of Arab history, Phillip Hitti, the Muslims, not the Greeks or Europeans, wrote the first "modern" pharmacopeia. The science of pharmacology was originated by Muslim physicians during the 9th century. They developed it into a highly refined and exact science. Muslim chemists, pharmacists and physicians produced thousands of drugs and/or crude herbal extracts one thousand years prior to the supposed birth of pharmacology. During the 14th century Ibn Baytar wrote a monumental pharmacopeia listing some 1400 different drugs. Hundreds of other pharmacopeias were published during the Islamic Era. It is likely that the German work is an offshoot of that by Ibn Baytar, which was widely circulated in Europe.

What is Taught: The discovery of the scientific use of drugs in the treatment of specific diseases was made by Paracelsus, the Swiss-born physician, during the 16th century. He is also credited with being the first to use practical experience as a determining factor in the treatment of patients rather than relying exclusively on the works of the ancients.
What Should be Taught: Ar-Razi, Ibn Sina, al-Kindi, Ibn Rushd, az -Zahrawi, Ibn Zuhr, Ibn Baytar, Ibn al-Jazzar, Ibn Juljul, Ibn al-Quff, Ibn an-Nafs, al-Biruni, Ibn Sahl and hundreds of other Muslim physicians mastered the science of drug therapy for the treatment of specific symptoms and diseases. In fact, this concept was entirely their invention. The word "drug" is derived from Arabic. Their use of practical experience and careful observation was extensive.
Muslim physicians were the first to criticize ancient medical theories and practices. Ar-Razi devoted an entire book as a critique of Galen's anatomy. The works of Paracelsus are insignificant compared to the vast volumes of medical writings and original findings accomplished by the medical giants of Islam.

What is Taught: The first sound approach to the treatment of disease was made by a German, Johann Weger, in the 1500's.
What Should be Taught: Harvard's George Sarton says that modern medicine is entirely an Islamic development and that Setting the Record Straight the Muslim physicians of the 9th through 12th centuries were precise, scientific, rational and sound in their approach. Johann Weger was among thousands of Europeans physicians during the 15th through 17th centuries who were taught the medicine of ar-Razi and Ibn Sina. He contributed nothing original.

What is Taught: Medical treatment for the insane was modernized by Philippe Pinel when in 1793 he operated France's first insane asylum .
What Should be Taught: As early as the 1lth century, Islamic hospitals maintained special wards for the insane. They treated them kindly and presumed their disease was real at a time when the insane were routinely burned alive in Europe as witches and sorcerers. A curative approach was taken for mental illness and, for the first time in history, the mentally ill were treated with supportive care, drugs and psychotherapy. Every major Islamic city maintained an insane asylum where patients were treated at no charge. In fact, the Islamic system for the treatment of the insane excels in comparison to the current model, as it was more humane and was highly effective as well.

What is Taught: Kerosine was first produced by the an Englishman, Abraham Gesner, in 1853. He distilled it from asphalt.
What Should be Taught: Muslim chemists produced kerosine as a distillate from petroleum products over 1,000 years prior to Gesner (see Encyclopaedia Britannica under the heading, Petroleum).

Source: http://www.kalamullah.com/ilm00.html

Cakap jangan tak cakap

2009-10-14T22:17:00.000-07:00

I just read this from
http://ustazmelaka.net/forum/index.php?topic=244.0

I didnt really check the hadiths etc but I like this. It sweet and simple.

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ADAB BERCAKAP

1- Semua perkataan mestilah membawa kebaikan
(Hadis Nabi saw: Sesiapa yang beriman kpd Allah dan hari akhirat, maka hendaklah berkata baik atau lebih baik dia diam-HR Bukhari dan Muslim)

2- Bercakap mestilah jelas dan benar
(Aisyah berkata: Bahawasanya Rasulullah saw itu selalu jelas sehingga difahami oleh semua yang mendengarnya-HR Abu Daud)

3- Seimbang dan menjauhi sikap berdolak-dalih.
(Sabda Nabi saw: Sesungguhnya orang yang paling aku benci dan paling jauh dariku di hari kiamat ialah orang yang banyak bercakap dan bersikap sombong dan bercakap.-HR Tirmizi-hadis Hassan)

4- Menghindari banyak bercakap, kerana ditakuti membosankan orang yang mendengarnya.
(Hadis riwayat Wail:Adalah Ibnu Masud sentiasa mengajar kami setiap Khamis, maka berkata seorang lelaki, Wahai Abu Abdul Rahman (gelaran kpd Ibnu Masud) kamu mahu mengajar kami pada setiap hari? Ibnu Masud menjawab: Sesungguhnya tiada yang dapat menghalangku memenuhi keinginanmu, hanya aku khuatir membosankan kalian, kerana aku pernag meminta yang demikian drp Rasulullah saw dan baginda menjawab: aku khuatir membosankan kamu- HR Muttafaq alaih)

5- Menghindari drp menyatakan yang batil.
(Sabda Rasulullah saw:Sesungguhnya seorang hamba mengucapkan satu kata yang diredahai Allah yang ia tidak mengira yg akan mendapatkan sedemikian sehingga dicatat oleh Allah keredaanNya bagi orang tersebut hingga hari kiamat. Dan lelaki mengucapkan satu kata yang dikurkai Allah yg tidak dikiranya akan demikian, maka Allah akan mencatat yg demikian hingga kiamat-HR Tirmizi, katanya hadis hassan sahih. Juga riwayat Ibnu Majah)

6- Mengulangi kata-kata yang penting, jika diperlukan.
(Anas berkata apabila Nabi saw bercakap, maka baginda akan mengulanginya sampai 3 kali sehingga semua yang mendengar menjadi faham dan apabila baginda mendatangi rumah seseorang maka baginda akan mengucap salam 3 kali-HR Bukhari)

7- Menjauhi perdebatan sengit.
(Sabda Rasulullah saw: Tidak sesat sesuatu kaum setelah mendapat hidayah, melainkan kerana terlalu banyak berdebat-HR Ahmad dan Tamizi)

8- Menjauhi kata keji, mencela dan melaknat.
(Sabda Rasulullah saw: Bukanlah seorang mukmin jika ia suka mencela, melaknat dan berkata-kat keji-HR Tarmizi dan Sanadnya Sahih)

9- Menghindari banyak kelakar.
(Sabda Rasulullah saw: Sesungguhnya seburuk-buruk orang di sisi Allah di hari akhirat ialah orang yang suka membuat manusia lain ketawa-HR Bukhari)

10- Menghina atau aibkan orang lain.
(Sabda Rasulullah saw: Jika seseorang menceritakan satu hal padamu lalu ia pergi, maka ceritanya itu menjadi amanah bagimu untuk menjaganya-HR Abu Daud dan Tarmizi)

11- Menghindari dusta.
(sabda Rasulullah saw: Tanda-tanda munafik ada 3: Jika bercakap, ia berdusta, jika ia berjanji ia mungkiri dan jika ia diberi amanah, ia khianati-HR Bukhari

12- Menghindari ghibah (umpat mengumpat) dan adu domba.
(sabda Rasulullah saw: Janganlah kamu saling mendengki, dan janganlah kamu saling benci dan janganlah kamu saling berkata-kata keji dan janganlah kamu saling berpaling muka dan janganlah kamu saling umpat mengumpat (ghibah) dengan yang lain dan jadilah hamba Allah yang bersaudara-HR Muttafaq Alaih)

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Kita dikurniakan mulut untuk berkata-kata. Namun bagi setiap perkataan yang diperkatakan pasti ada kesannya kepada orang lain dan kepada diri kita sendiri. Oleh itu, kita haruslah berhati-hati dengan percakapan kita. Allah S.W.T berfirman dalam Surah Qaaf, ayat17-18 yang boleh ditranslasikan:-

[50:17]
Semasa dua malaikat (yang mengawal dan menjaganya) menerima dan menulis segala perkataan dan perbuatannya; yang satu duduk di sebelah kanannya, dan yang satu lagi di sebelah kirinya.
[50:18]
Tidak ada sebarang perkataan yang dilafazkannya (atau perbuatan yang dilakukannya) melainkan ada di sisinya malaikat pengawas yang sentiasa sedia (menerima dan menulisnya).

Kita percaya apa yang dikatakan dan kesan-kesannya akan dibalas. Yang baik dibalas baik dan yang tidak baik akan dibalas dengan tidak baik.

Nabi Muhammad S.A.W telah memberi amaran kepada kita tentang bahaya bercakap. Dalam sebuah hadis sahih oleh Imam At-tirmithi dan Ibn-Majah, baginda berkata,"A person may say a word that is pleasing to Allah (S.W.T.) and he may not think much of it, but Allah (S.W.T.) will, (because of that word), bestow his pleasure upon him on the Day of Judgment, and a person may say a word that is displeasing to Allah (S.W.T.), and he may not think much of it, but Allah will have, (because of that word) his wrath and anger on him on the Day of Judgment." (maaf, saya tak pandai translasinya dalam bahasa Melayu).

Berkata-katalah kita supaya kita dirahmati Allah S.W.T. Kalau kata-kata kita tidak disukai Allah maka Allah akan membalasnya pada hari akhirat nanti. Bercakap boleh menjadi bahaya. Oleh yang demikian, kita haruslah mengawalnya dalam limitasi Islam, dipandukan oleh Allah dan pesuruhNya Nabi Muhammad S.A.W.

Antara cara-cara yang baik untuk mengawal cara percakapan kita telah dibincangkan seperti dalam artikel diatas ini.

Jika kita hendak berkata-kata selepas ini, adalah lebih baik berfikir dahulu. Adakah kata-kata kita ni adalah berguna dan memberikan kaitan? Jika tidak maka lebih baik diam. Ini adalah salah satu cara untuk beriman/percaya kepada Allah dan Hari Akhirat. {Disebabkan saya suka membaca, banyak jugak yang saya tahu. Kadang-kala, semasa mendengar perbualan ada juga bercakap tentang perkara-perkara tertentu (walaupun hanya pengetahuan am), tapi selepas itu rasa menyesal pulak sebab tak mambawa apa-apa faedah pun. Diejek-ejek ada la. Lebih baik diam saja.} - Note: sama macam point 1.

Kita juga haruslah jujur dalam percakapan kita dan elakkan daripada menipu kerana orang yang percaya kepada Allah tidak akan menipu walaupun dia membuat lucu/melawak. Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. berkata, seperti yang dilaporkan oleh Imam Bukhari dan Muslim,"You must speak the truth for the truth leads to virtue and virtue leads to Paradise. One who always speaks the truth and means the truth, is recorded as truthful with Allah. Keep away from the lie for the lie leads to evil and evil leads to the Hell Fire and one who continually tells a lie and intends to lie is recorded with Allah as a liar." Bercakap jujur/benar akan membawa kepada kebaikan dan kebaikan pula akan membawa kepada Syurga. Orang yang berkata benar/jujur dan bermaksud jujur/benar akan direkodkan sebagai jujur dengan Allah. Jauhilah daripada menipu kerana menipu akan membawa kepada kejahatan dan kejahatan akan membawa kepada Api Neraka. Orang yang berterusan menipu dan berniat untuk menipu akan direkodkan menipu dengan Allah. {Kadang-kala ada juga menipu walaupun hanya kecil tetapi nanti masuk neraka. Tak mahu aku masuk neraka. Jangan menipu lagi. Try the best! Berfikir sebelum bercakap!}

Tahanlah diri daripada keingkaran kepada Allah dalam percakapan kita samada kita serius atau melawak kerana Allah membenci kepada mereka yang ingkar, yang menyumpah (the curser). Percakapan yang menyumpah ini termasuklah menyumpah seranah, mencaci, bercakap belakang, bercakap buruk tentang seseorang. Bagi tujuan inin Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. telah memberikan amaran seperti dalam hadis berikut:

1555. Ibn Mas`ud (May Allah be pleased with him) reported: The Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said, "A true believer is not involved in taunting, or frequently cursing (others) or in indecency or abusing.''
[At-Tirmidhi].

Seseorang yang percaya dan beriman kepada Allah tidak akan terlibat dengan sumpah-menyumpah, bercakap dibelakang seseorang sesuatu yang tidak disukai orang tersebut (walaupun perkara itu benar), bercakap buruk tentang seseorang, mencaci, menggunakan bahasa kasar dan perkara-perkara yang sewaktu dengannya.

Menyumpah/melaknat seorang yang beriman kepada Allah pula adalah seperti membunuhnya. Sumpahan seorang Muslim adalah pengingkaran. Kita juga tidak boleh menyumpah orang yang mati sebagaimana kita menyumpah orang yang masih hidup.

Antara perkara yang paling sukar untuk dibendung ialah Gheebah/mengumpat. Gheebah ini berlaku apabila kita bercakap tentang seseorang di mana orang tersebut jika mengetahui tidak akan suka kita bercakap tentangnya.

[49:12]
Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Jauhilah kebanyakan dari sangkaan (supaya kamu tidak menyangka sangkaan yang dilarang) kerana sesungguhnya sebahagian dari sangkaan itu adalah dosa; dan janganlah kamu mengintip atau mencari-cari kesalahan dan keaiban orang; dan janganlah setengah kamu mengumpat setengahnya yang lain. Adakah seseorang dari kamu suka memakan daging saudaranya yang telah mati? (Jika demikian keadaan mengumpat) maka sudah tentu kamu jijik kepadanya. (Oleh itu, patuhilah larangan-larangan yang tersebut) dan bertaqwalah kamu kepada Allah; sesungguhnya Allah Penerima taubat, lagi Maha mengasihani.

Ayat ini menunjukkan betapa seriusnya mengumpat. Mahu tak kita makan daging mayat saudara kita sendiri? Ini juga menunjukkan betapa mudahnya kita boleh berdosa. Mula-mula kita berasa sangsi (kerana tidak bersangka baik) antara satu sama lain, kemudian kita mula memerhatikan gerak-geri dan percakapan mereka.

Apabila kita berbuat demikian, kita telah menilai dan menginterpretasi perilaku dan percakapan mereka dalam cara kita, yang pada kebanyakkan masanya adalah tidak tepat kerana kita tidak tahu motif dan niat mereka. Kemudian kita mula bercakap tentang mereka tanpa kehadiran mereka ini, dan seringkali bercakap tentang perkara yang tidak benar tentang mereka. Jika mereka tahu apa yang telah diperkatakan tentang mereka pastinya mereka akan sangat susah hati. Kadang-kala, apa yang kita syak dan interpretasi kita adalah benar tetapi ini tidak bermakna adalah baik untuk memberitahu orang lain. {Alhamdullilah perkara ini selalu terjauh dariku, cara yang paling baik adalah dengan bertanya sendiri daripada pergi menyebarkan syak wasangka yang tidak baik.}

The Prophet Muhammad once asked his Companions, "Do you know what is backbiting?" His Companions said, "Allah and His Messenger know best." He said, "Backbiting implies your talking about your brother in a manner that he does not like." It was said to him, "What is your opinion about this if I actually find that shortcoming in my brother?" He said, "If what you assert (of a shortcoming) is actually in him, you have backbitten him; if it is not, you have slandered him" (Muslim).

Selain itu, kita ni apabila bercakap adalah lebih baik jauhi dari Nameemah/gosip. Nameemah ni ialah menyebarkan kata-kata diantaramereka untuk membuat mereka membenci antara satu sama lain. Ini adalah kerana Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. dalam hadis sahihnya memberitahu,"Dia yang membuat Namimah tidak akan masuk ke syurga". Oleh itu, elakkan daripada mendengar gosip-gosip ini jika tidak mahu berkongsi dosa dengan mereka yang tidak masuk ke syurga. {Gosip ni tak membawa kebaikan pun, jangan gosip sini, gosip sana, lepas tu kerja tak jalan. Skarang ni banyak orang suka tengok gosip artis. Buat apala nak tau pasal hal orang lain padahal diri sendiri pun tak terjaga dari Api Neraka?}

Kita ni apabila berbual suka bercakap tentang perkara yang menggembirakan. Ada juga orang yang suka membuat lawak sehingga kita ketawa berdekah-dekah. Orang jenis ni ialah yang seburuk-buruk orang di sisi Allah di hari Akhirat.

Sabda Rasulullah saw: Sesungguhnya seburuk-buruk orang di sisi Allah di hari akhirat ialah orang yang suka membuat manusia lain ketawa-HR Bukhari {seburuk-buruk manusia di sisi Allah, taknak la aku. Kepada yang suka membuat lawak tu please take note. Sama-sama juga kita jauh dari golongan orang seburuk-buruk manusia di sisi Allah S.W.T.}

Sebenarnya banyak lagi nak kongsi bersama tetapi masa tak mengizinkan. Jika ada salah dan silap dalam hadis atau Quran minta bagitau . Yang baik tu dari Allah S.W.T dan yang buruk tu kelemahan dari saya.

-Saya budak baru belajar, kalau salah tolong tunjukkan-

Selamat Hari Raya!

2009-09-17T09:45:00.000-07:00

Selamat Hari Raya.

Maaf zahir batin.

Allahuakbar!
Allahuakbar!
Allahuakbar!

Allah is the Greatest. Please bless us and guide us.

RAMADAN! YEY!

2009-08-24T16:56:00.000-07:00

Assalamualaikum,

Ramadan sudah tiba. Dah tiga hari puasa, tiada masalah lagi. Kesihatan semakin baik. Tidur dah berjaya dikurangkan dan badan rasa segar. Sempena bulan ramadan, kita umat Islam diwajibkan berpuasa. Perkara ini adalah jelas dalam surah Baqarah 183-187.

[2:183]
Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Kamu diwajibkan berpuasa sebagaimana diwajibkan atas orang-orang yang dahulu daripada kamu, supaya kamu bertaqwa.
[2:184]
(Puasa yang diwajibkan itu ialah beberapa hari yang tertentu; maka sesiapa di antara kamu yang sakit, atau dalam musafir, (bolehlah ia berbuka), kemudian wajiblah ia berpuasa sebanyak (hari yang dibuka) itu pada hari-hari yang lain; dan wajib atas orang-orang yang tidak terdaya berpuasa (kerana tua dan sebagainya) membayar fidyah iaitu memberi makan orang miskin. Maka sesiapa yang dengan sukarela memberikan (bayaran fidyah) lebih dari yang ditentukan itu, maka itu adalah suatu kebaikan baginya; dan (walaupun demikian) berpuasa itu lebih baik bagi kamu daripada memberi fidyah), kalau kamu mengetahui.
[2:185]
(Masa yang diwajibkan kamu berpuasa itu ialah) bulan Ramadan yang padanya diturunkan Al-Quran, menjadi petunjuk bagi sekalian manusia, dan menjadi keterangan-keterangan yang menjelaskan petunjuk dan (menjelaskan) perbezaan antara yang benar dengan yang salah. Oleh itu, sesiapa dari antara kamu yang menyaksikan anak bulan Ramadan (atau mengetahuinya), maka hendaklah ia berpuasa bulan itu; dan sesiapa yang sakit atau dalam musafir maka (bolehlah ia berbuka, Kemudian wajiblah ia berpuasa) sebanyak hari yang ditinggalkan itu pada hari-hari yang lain. (Dengan ketetapan yang demikian itu) Allah menghendaki kamu beroleh kemudahan, dan Ia tidak menghendaki kamu menanggung kesukaran. Dan juga supaya kamu cukupkan bilangan puasa (sebulan Ramadan), dan supaya kamu membesarkan Allah kerana mendapat petunjukNya, dan supaya kamu bersyukur.
[2:186]
Dan apabila hamba-hambaKu bertanya kepadamu mengenai Aku maka (beritahu kepada mereka): sesungguhnya Aku (Allah) sentiasa hampir (kepada mereka); Aku perkenankan permohonan orang yang berdoa apabila ia berdoa kepadaKu. Maka hendaklah mereka menyahut seruanku (dengan mematuhi perintahKu), dan hendaklah mereka beriman kepadaKu supaya mereka menjadi baik serta betul.
[2:187]
Dihalalkan bagi kamu, pada malam hari puasa, bercampur (bersetubuh) dengan isteri-isteri kamu. Isteri-isteri kamu itu adalah sebagai pakaian bagi kamu dan kamu pula sebagai pakaian bagi mereka. Allah mengetahui bahawasanya kamu mengkhianati diri sendiri, lalu Ia menerima taubat kamu dan memaafkan kamu. Maka sekarang setubuhilah isteri-isteri kamu dan carilah apa-apa yang telah ditetapkan oleh Allah bagi kamu; dan makanlah serta minumlah sehingga nyata kepada kamu benang putih (cahaya siang) dari benang hitam kegelapan malam), iaitu waktu fajar. Kemudian sempurnakanlah puasa itu sehingga waktu malam (maghrib); dan janganlah kamu setubuhi isteri-isteri kamu ketika kamu sedang beriktikaf di masjid. Itulah batas-batas larangan Allah, maka janganlah kamu menghampirinya. Demikian Allah menerangkan ayat-ayat hukumNya kepada sekalian manusia supaya mereka bertaqwa.

Perkataan bertakwa seperti dalam translasi bahasa Melayu itu juga membawa maksud 'self-restrain' iaitu untuk mengawal nafsu kita. Dengan berpuasa kita dapat mengawal nafsu kita dan kita akan sentiasa berasa bersyukur kepada Allah kerana limpah kurniaNya. Jika kita mahu Allah kabulkan doa kita maka kita haruslah mengikuti perintahNya, beriman kepadaNya serta menjadi baik dan betul. Ini termasuklah perintah untuk berpuasa pada bulan Ramadan. Untung-untung-untungnya berpuasa.

Sahih Bukahri, Volume 3, Book 31, Number 133:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet or Abu-l-Qasim said, "Start fasting on seeing the crescent (of Ramadan), and give up fasting on seeing the crescent (of Shawwal), and if the sky is overcast (and you cannot see it), complete thirty days of Sha'ban."

Bermulanya Ramadan apabila melihat anak bulan maka kita pun bermula berpuasa. Kadang-kadang tidak nampak anak bulannya maka kita pun genapkan Shaaban dan baru mula berpuasa. Kita juga boleh henti berpuasa apabila melihat anak bulan pada Shawal.

Sahih Bukahri, Volume 3, Book 31, Number 134:
Narrated Um Salama:
The Prophet vowed to keep aloof from his wives for a period of one month, and after the completion of 29 days he went either in the morning or in the afternoon to his wives. Someone said to him "You vowed that you would not go to your wives for one month." He replied, "The month is of 29 days."

Disebabkan dengan melihat anak bulan untuk menentukan masuknya bulan Ramadan dan Shawal, kadang-kala bulan Ramadan hanyalah 29 hari. Mungkin sebab itulah ada sesetengah negara yang berhari raya sehari lebih awal daripada kita. :p

Sahih Bukahri, Volume 3, Book 31, Number 138:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "None of you should fast a day or two before the month of Ramadan unless he has the habit of fasting (Nawafil) (and if his fasting coincides with that day) then he can fast that day."

Ada juga antara kita yang ingin berpuasa sehari dua sebelum start puasa. Konon-kononnya untuk 'warm up'. Sebenarnya, Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. telah melarang untuk berbuat demikian kecuali bagi mereka yang sudah biasa berpuasa. Jadi janganlah berpuasa sehari dua sebelum mulanya Ramadan kecuali jika bagi mereka yang sudah biasa berpuasa.

Perkara yang paling saya suka ialah bersahur. Kita kena bangun awal pagi dan bersedia.

Sahih Bukahri, Volume 3, Book 31, Number 144:
Narrated Anas:
Zaid bin Thabit said, "We took the Suhur with the Prophet . Then he stood for the prayer." I asked, "What was the interval between the Suhur and the Adhan?" He replied, "The interval was sufficient to recite fifty verses of the Quran."

Persoalannya disini ialah bilakah waktunya bersahur? Jika dilihat daripada hadis diatas, masa bersahur adalah lebih kurang bacaan 50 potong ayat Quran sebelum masuk waktu Subuh/azan. Ada orang yang mengatakan apabila masuk waktu imsak kena henti makan dan minum, saya tidak tahu mereka mengatakan demikian berdasarkan dalil apa tetapi setakat ini tak nampak lagi mana-mana hadis yang mengatakan demikian.

Sahih Bukahri, Volume 3, Book 31, Number 146:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
The Prophet said, "Take Suhur as there is a blessing in it."

Sahih Muslim, Book 35, Number 2413:
'Amr b. al-'As reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The difference between our fasting and that of the people of the Book is eating shortly before dawn.

Antara sebab yang penting untuk bersahur ialah terdapat 'blessing' dari Allah apabila kita bersahur. Bersahur juga merupakan perbezaan antara puasa kita dan puasa ahli kitab. Oleh yang demikian janganlah kita tinggalkan sahur. Rajin-rajinlah saya dan kita semua bangun bersahur. Ada antara kita yang 'bersahur' lalu tidur dan bangun pada waktu subuh. Saya merasakan 'bersahur' sebelum tidur itu bukanlah sahur tetapi hanya perbuatan makan sahaja. Ini kerana Nabi Muhammad memberitahu waktu sahur adalah lebih kurang dalam 50 ayat dari azan/subuh.

Sahih Muslim, Book 4, Number 1647:
Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The night prayer consists of pairs and when you see the approach of dawn, make this number odd by one rak'ah. It was said to Ibn 'Umar: What does the (word) pair imply? He said: (It means) that salutation is uttered after every two rak'ahs.

Sahih Muslim, Book 4, Number 1663:
Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) used to exhort (his Companions) to pray (at night) during Ramadan without commanding them to observe it as an obligatory act, and say: He who observed the night prayer in Ramadan because of faith and seeking his reward (from Allah), all his previous sins would be forgiven. When Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) died, this was the practice, and it continued thus during Abu Bakr's caliphate and the early part of 'Umar's caliphate.

Antara perkara yang patut kita syukurkan ialah nikmat tarawih pada bulan Ramadan. Walaupun bukanlah suatu perkara yang wajib tetapi sesiapa yang solat malam (tarawih) pada Ramadan kerana takwa dan 'reward' dari Allah maka semua dosa-dosa lalunya akan dimaafkan. Siapa yang taknak betul tak? Tapi jangan la paksa2 orang lain terawih. Ini perlulah dilakukan dengan ikhlas.

Sahih Bukahri, Volume 3, Book 31, Number 154:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "If somebody eats or drinks forgetfully then he should complete his fast, for what he has eaten or drunk, has been given to him by Allah." Narrated 'Amir bin Rabi'a, "I saw the Prophet cleaning his teeth with Siwak while he was fasting so many times as I can't count." And narrated Abu Huraira, "The Prophet said, 'But for my fear that it would be hard for my followers, I would have ordered them to clean their teeth with Siwak on every performance of ablution." The same is narrated by Jabir and Zaid bin Khalid from the Prophet who did not differentiate between a fasting and a nonfasting person in this respect (using Siwak). Aisha said, "The Prophet said, "It (i.e. Siwak) is a purification for the mouth and it is a way of seeking Allah's pleasures." Ata' and Qatada said, "There is no harm in swallowing the resultant saliva."

Kadang-kadang tanpa disedari jika kita terlupa kita puasa dan termakan atau terminum maka tidak batal puasanya kerana diberikan oleh Allah S.W.T. Ucaplah 'Alhamdullilah'. :p
Tapi jangan pulak ada antara kita yang buat2 terlupa dan makan sudahlah.

Dulu saya selalu tanya boleh tak gosok gigi kerana bau mulut terlalu busuk. Bagi saya Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. telah menggalakkan kita menggosok gigi. Sekurang-kurangnya gosoklah gigi setiap kali hendak wudu'. Jika Nabi S.A.W. tidak membezakan siwak pada masa biasa dan pada masa puasa untuk kebersihan mulut dan mencegah bau busuk mulut, siapakah kita untuk memberitahu tidak dibenarkan/ makruh untuk gosok gigi? Walaupun ada sesetengah orang membezakan berus gigi dan bersiwak tetapi tujuannya tetap sama. Bersiwak pun perlukan sedikit kebasahan pada akar sugi yang digunakan. Menggosok gigi pula tidak membatalkan puasa kerana bukannya kita menelan air kumuhan.

Tiada masalah dalam menelan air liur. Tak batal puasa pun. Dulu ada orang (muslim) bagitau saya batal puasa....

Kadang-kala bagi yang wanita, mereka tidak boleh berpuasa apabila datang bulan. Orang yang bermusafir pulak dibenarkan untuk memilih untuk berpuasa atau tidak. Jangan la terkejut jika kita nampak ada orang tak puasa kerana mereka ada hak untuk tidak berpuasa (datang bulan/musafir).

Sahih Bukahri, Volume 3, Book 31, Number 164:
Narrated 'Aisha:
(the wife of the Prophet) Hamza bin 'Amr Al-Aslami asked the Prophet, "Should I fast while traveling?" The Prophet replied, "You may fast if you wish, and you may not fast if you wish."

Sahih Bukahri, Volume 3, Book 31, Number 168:
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
We used to travel with the Prophet and neither did the fasting persons criticize those who were not fasting, nor did those who were not fasting criticize the fasting ones.

Ada kalanya dalam keadaan tertentu seperti apabila bermusafir dan berpuasa, dan jika kita menyusahkan orang di sekeliling kita yang tidak berpuasa (juga musafir) maka adalah lebih baik kita tidak berpuasa. Kadang-kadang juga jika kita bermusafir dan berpuasa lalu tidak mempunyai tenaga untuk melakukan pekerjaan maka adalah lebih baik kita tidak berpuasa.

Sahih Bukahri, Volume 3, Book 31, Number 167:
Narrated Jabir bin 'Abdullah:
Allah's Apostle was on a journey and saw a crowd of people, and a man was being shaded (by them). He asked, "What is the matter?" They said, "He (the man) is fasting." The Prophet said, "It is not righteousness that you fast on a journey."

Sahih Muslim, Book 35, Number 2485:
Anas (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) was journeying (along with his Companions). Some of them had observed the fast whereas the others had broken it. Those who did not fast girded up their loins and worked, but the observers of the fast were too weak to work. Upon this he (the Apostle of Allah) said: Today the breakers of the fast have gone with the reward.

Sahih Muslim, Book 6, Number 2484:
Anas (Allah be pleased with him) reported: We were with the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) on a journey. Some of us had been observing the fast and some of us had not been fasting. We got down at a place on a hot day. Most of us had the cloth for shelter.
There were also those amongst us who sheltered (themselves against the rays of the) sun with the help of their hands. The observers of the fast fell down (on account of weakness). Those who had not observed it got up and pitched tents and watered the mounts.
Thereupon the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said: The breakers of the fast have taken away the reward today.

Kalau dah tak puasa tu maka kenalah gantikan sebanyak bilangan hari yang tidak berpuasa. Ini boleh dilihat pada ayat Quran 2:184 dan 2:185. Jika ada kematian dan masih belum gantikan puasa maka, ibubapa atau penjaganya perlulah gantikan puasa itu. Hutang perlu dibayar walaupun sudah tiada di dunia.

Sahih Bukahri, Volume 3, Book 31, Number 173:
Narrated 'Aisha:
Allah's Apostle said, "Whoever died and he ought to have fasted (the missed days of Ramadan) then his guardians must fast on his behalf."

Apabila tibanya waktu magrib dimana matahari jatuh maka kita haruslah berbuka dengan cepat. Bula bersahur haruslah dilambat2kan. Inilah cara Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. bersahur dan berbuka. Saya dapati dengan cara ini, apabila kita berpuasa kita tidak akan merasa penat atau mengantuk.

Sahih Muslim, Book 35, Number 2417:
Sahl b. Sa'd (Allah be pleased with him) repotted Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The people will continue to prosper as long as they hasten the breaking of the fast.

Sahih Muslim, Book 35, Number 2420:
Abu 'Atiyya reported: I and Misruq went to 'A'isha (Allah be pleased with her) and Masruq said to her: There are two persons among the Companions of Muhammad (may peace be upon him) none of whom abandons the good, but one of them hastens to observe sunset prayer and break the fast, and the other delays in observing the sunset prayer and in breaking the fast, whereupon she said: Who hastens to observe sunset prayer and break the fast? He said: It is 'Abdullah. Upon this she said: This is how the Messenger of Allah(may peace be upon him) used to do.

Begitulah serba sedikit celoteh saya pada bulan Ramadan ini. Semua yang diatas ini hanyalah pendapat serta sedikit daripada bacaan saya tentang bulan Ramadan. Jika ada yang salah dan silap minta dikongsi bersama kerana saya budak baru belajar kalau salah tolong tunjukkan.

Friends, which one is the real one?

2009-07-31T12:13:00.000-07:00

How do we know who is our real friends and who is not? Here are some verses that helps us to know who are our REAL FRIENDS. Don't forget it is our responsibility to pick our friends well

[002:257] Allah is the friend and patron of those who believe. He brings them out of the depths of darkness into light. While those who do not believe, have the forces of evil as their friends; they lead them out of light, into the very depths of darkness. Such ones shall be the inmates of the fire. They will stay there forever.

[003:028] The believers should not take as friends the unbelievers in preference to the believers _ unless they sense (and suspect) harm (and harassment) from the unbelievers. Whoever does that shall have nothing from Allah at all. Allah cautions you to beware of Him! Towards Allah is your final destination.

[004:089] The hypocrites wish that you would reject faith just like they have. Then, you will (descend down to their level and) be equal to them. Therefore, do not choose them as friends unless they (emigrate and) leave their homes in the path of Allah. If they revert (to open hostility), then seize and slay them wherever you see them. Do not take them as friends or protectors, nor as helpers,

[005:057] Oh you who believe! Do not accept as your friends those who mock your faith and treat it as a joke, whether they are among those given the book before you (the Christians and the Jews), or other unbelievers. Fear Allah (exclusively) if you really are the believers.

[007:027] Oh children of Adam! Do not let Shaitan entice you as he did your (primordial) parents when he got them expelled from paradise. He stripped them of their clothes, in order to expose their nakedness to them. Of course, Shaitan and his tribe watch you from where you cannot see them. Of course, We let the Shaitans be the friends of those who do not believe.

[010:062] Beware! The friends of Allah shall have no fear; nor shall they ever grieve (or be sorry).

[060:009] But Allah forbids you to befriend those who fought against you over matters of faith, those who either assisted others in driving you out of your homes or drove you out themselves. Those of you who befriend them are indeed the evil doers.

[005:055] Your (real) friends are (no less than) God, His Apostle, and the (fellowship of) believers,- those who establish regular prayers and regular charity, and they bow down humbly (in worship).

SAHIH MUSLIM, BOOK 1: The Book of Faith (Kitab Al-Iman) Book 001, Number 0417:

'Amr b. 'As reported: I heard it from the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) quite audibly and not secretly: Behold! the posterity of my fathers, that is, so and so, are not my friends. Verily Allah and the pious believers are my friends.

A person is likely to follow the faith of his friend, so look at whom you befriend. ~Abu Dawood and at-Tirmidhee ~

"Friends on that Day will be enemies one to another, except al-Muttaqoon (i.e. those who have Taqwah)." [43:67]

Money! Money! Money!

2009-07-26T00:33:00.000-07:00

O Allah, increase the knowledge that benefit us!

We are muslims and we believe in Allah, once we have a sound eeman, Allah test us. We are asked to spend or sacrifice in the way of Allah.

ومثل الذين ينفقون اموالهم ابتغاء مرضاة الله وتثبيتا من انفسهم كمثل جنة بربوة اصابها وابل فاتت اكلها ضعفين 2:265 فان لم يصبها وابل فطل والله بما تعملون بصير

Translation Yusuf Ali:

002:265 And the likeness of those who spend their substance, seeking to please God and to strengthen their souls, is as a garden, high and fertile: heavy rain falls on it but makes it yield a double increase of harvest, and if it receives not Heavy rain, light moisture sufficeth it. God seeth well whatever ye do.

If we spend in the way of Allah S.W.T. to please him, He will reward us here at the dunia and also in the hereafter. We must try to give the best of the things that we love most. Sometimes when there is a donation drive we always give the things that we don't want anymore, I think to give for the sake of Allah we should give the best that we have rather than the things that we don't want anymore.

[002:267] Oh you who believe, spend (in the path of Allah) the wholesome things you have earned, and the best of the products We bring out from the land for you. Do not pick out the worst and the worthless things to give in charity, which you would yourself accept _ if you do at all _ (reluctantly and) with disdain. Know it (for sure) that Allah is Self-sufficient and Praiseworthy (in His own right)!

Charity should not be done in a seasonal fashion. For example, Ramadan is coming up. Its a season when everyone race to do charity. I feel that this practice is not right. Charity should be done regularly as Allah command us to do it this following verses and in many other verses in the Quran:

[002:043] And be steadfast in prayer; practise regular charity; and bow down your heads with those who bow down (in worship).

Even if we spend just a little, there will be big reward for us as we can see in the Quran al-Hadid verse 7. Allah promise us great rewards for our charity! Can you imagine, just by giving a little, you get big rewards from Allah. Anyone who have a sane mind will want this!

57:7امنوا بالله ورسوله وانفقوا مما جعلكم مستخلفين فيه فالذين امنوا منكم وانفقوا لهم اجر كبير

[057:007] Believe in God and His apostle, and spend (in charity) out of the (substance) whereof He has made you heirs. For, those of you who believe and spend (in charity),- for them is a great Reward.

Also read the following verses:

[002:277] Those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, and establish regular prayers and regular charity, will have their reward with their Lord: on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

[002:271] If ye disclose (acts of) charity, even so it is well, but if ye conceal them, and make them reach those (really) in need, that is best for you: It will remove from you some of your (stains of) evil. And God is well acquainted with what ye do.

See, just by giving charity, Allah will even get rid of some of our sins.

Everything between the Heaven and Earth belongs to Him. We are just given the amanah to take care of it. Why can't we just use it for charity? Can you imagine Allah gave it to us to take care and when He ask us to use what He have given us for charity. And when people ask for charity some of us still say no?

What stop us from giving/ spending in the Way of Allah S.W.T.?
Allah asked us un al-Hadid verse 10.

57:10 ومالكم الا تنفقوا في سبيل الله ولله ميراث السماوات والارض لايستوي منكم من انفق من قبل الفتح وقاتل اولئك اعظم درجة من الذين انفقوا من بعد وقاتلوا وكلا

وعد الله الحسني والله بما تعملون خبير

[057:010] What is the matter with you? Why do you not spend for the sake of Allah? The heritage of the heavens and the earth belongs to Allah! Those of you who spent and fought for the sake of Allah prior to victory (at Makkah), are not equal to others. They are far more exalted in status than those who spent and fought after (victory). Yet, Allah has promised excellent rewards to both. Allah is well Aware of what you do!

The important lesson when we give charity is we have to give it with a sincere heart. We do it for the sake of Allah. We follow what Allah command us to do because who else knows best what is for us now in the dunia and there hereafter.

Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 76, Number 547:

Narrated 'Adi bin Hatim:
The Prophet said, "There will be none among you but will be talked to by Allah on the Day of Resurrection, without there being an interpreter between him and Him (Allah) . He will look and see nothing ahead of him, and then he will look (again for the second time) in front of him, and the (Hell) Fire will confront him. So, whoever among you can save himself from the Fire, should do so even with one half of a date (to give in charity)."

Whenever I read the above hadith, it always remind me about my responsibility to do charity..... Even with half a date..... to save self from hell fire...

Also, if we can give loan for the sake of Allah S.W.T., we will be given double and many times back. This can be seen in the Quran in many places:-

[002:245] Who is he that will loan to God a beautiful loan, which God will double unto his credit and multiply many times? It is God that giveth (you) Want or plenty, and to Him shall be your return.

[057:011] Who is he that will loan to God a beautiful loan? for (God) will increase it manifold to his credit, and he will have (besides) a liberal Reward.

[057:018] For those who give in Charity, men and women, and loan to God a Beautiful Loan, it shall be increased manifold (to their credit), and they shall have (besides) a liberal reward.

[064:017] If ye loan to God, a beautiful loan, He will double it to your (credit), and He will grant you Forgiveness: for God is most Ready to appreciate (service), Most Forbearing,-
Imagine we will be given double of what we give in the way of Allah S.W.T., even loans! Its so easy. We just have to be sincere of our charity and loans in the Way of Allah S.W.T. and we will be rewarded and protected by Him.

[078:036] Compensation from your Lord, a bountiful and generous grant!

When we do charity, it must be with sincere heart. Don't later hurt other people by saying that we have help them so and so, we have done so and so and they owe us etc. If we do that, our charity will be for nothing. Its because our niat is not right. We can see from this verses:-

[002:264] Oh you who believe! Do not mar (and void) your charity by stressing your generosity, and by inflicting (emotional) abuse. Do not be like those who spend their wealth (in charity) solely to be seen _ (to gain public esteem).

[002:262] Those who spend their wealth in the path of Allah _ (provided) they do not, afterwards, inflict abuse (on the recipients of charity) by bragging and boasting about their generosity _ shall have their reward with their Lord. They shall not have any fear, nor shall they ever grieve.

Remember ar Ahong (me), remember what we should do and what we should not do!

We are never enough of money and harta. There more we have the more responsibility and amanah by Allah are given to us in our hands. We can see it in this hadith:-

Narrated Anas bin Malik:

Allah's Apostle said, "If Adam's son had a valley full of gold, he would like to have two valleys, for nothing fills his mouth except dust. And Allah forgives him who repents to Him."

This hadith above have been repeated so many during the times of the Prophet that many people thought that it was part of the Quran. Even in those days, our beloved Prophet Muhammad kept on remind us to remember akhirat as well, dont just remember dunia because the reward in the akhirat is very important. We will either end up in hell or heaven.
And it is after this hadith that Allah S.W.T. revealed to us the surah at-Takaathur verse 1-8. Let me share with u here:

102:1 سورة التكاثر بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم ٛـــــــ الهاكم التكاثر
102:2 حتى زرتم المقابر
102:3 كلا سوف تعلمون
102:4 ثم كلا سوف تعلمون
102:5 كلا لو تعلمون علم اليقين
102:6 لترون الجحيم
102:7 ثم لترونها عين اليقين
102:8 ثم لتسألن يومئذ عن النعيم

Translation by Yusuf Ali:

[102:001] The mutual rivalry for piling up (the good things of this world) diverts you (from the more serious things),

[102:002] Until ye visit the graves.

[102:003] But nay, ye soon shall know (the reality).

[102:004] Again, ye soon shall know!

[102:005] Nay, were ye to know with certainty of mind, (ye would beware!)

[102:006] Ye shall certainly see Hell-Fire!

[102:007] Again, ye shall see it with certainty of sight!

[102:008] Then, shall ye be questioned that Day about the joy (ye indulged in!).

I hope and I pray that myself, the brother and sisters in Islam will remember the akhirat. We are muslims and both the dunia and akhirat are important. What we do at dunia will determine our place in the akhirat, wether we go the heaven or hell.

Its the end of the month, gaji sudah masuk and its megasale time. Just dont forget zakat and charity.

This is just a reminder to myself.
Money!money!money! = Charity!charity!charity!

Non-Muslim

2009-07-14T04:51:00.000-07:00

Assalamualaikum, dipetik dari berita harian 14/7/09, ruangan agama. Ingin saya kongsikan perbezaan persepsi orang Muslim di Malaysia dengan orang Muslim di tempat lain tentang orang yang non-Muslim. Lagi satu saya minta diri saya dan saudara saudari untuk berhati-hati apabila mengunakan perkataan 'kafir' apabila merujuk orang bukan Muslim. Perkataan kafir hanya boleh digunakan dengan merujuk kepada non-Muslim yang menolak Islam setelah mengetahui dan mempelajari Islam yang sebenar. Orang non-Muslim di Malaysia kebanyakkannya tidak tahu tentang Islam kerana kelemahan dan kegagalan kita dalam da'wah. Oleh yang demikian saya minta jangan gunakan perkataan ini sesuka hati.

Oleh: Hasliza Hassan
Elak fahaman silap atau penderaan agama demi untuk memperbaiki budaya

APABILA berlaku kecaman terhadap Islam atau salah faham mengenai ajarannya, kita selalu meminta supaya bukan Islam atau pihak yang berpandangan negatif untuk cuba memahami serta mendapatkan maklumat yang betul mengenai Islam.

Namun, adakah kita pernah cuba memahami atau belajar daripada mereka dalam usaha menjalinkan hubungan dengan bukan Islam sebagai cara mengelak berlakunya salah faham atau persepsi negatif terhadap Islam dan umatnya.

Tepuk dada tanya diri, kerana hakikat itu tidak boleh dinafikan kata Imam Persatuan Masyarakat Islam di Greater Oklahoma City, Suhaib Webb pada ceramahnya berjudul` Kita Semua Adalah Anak Adam' anjuran Muslim Professionals Forum di Kuala Lumpur, baru-baru ini.
Beliau yang kini melanjutkan pengajian dalam bidang syariah di Universiti al-Azhar Mesir berkata, adalah bahaya kerana sekarang ia persepsi mengenai Islam boleh dibuat daripada maklumat diperoleh melalui internet.

Justeru katanya, salah satu cara untuk mengubah persepsi serta menjelaskan mengenai Islam ialah melalui gerakan antara agama bukan saja mengajak bukan Islam mengenali Islam, orang Islam juga menjalinkan hubungan baik dengan bukan Islam.

Pada masa sama, umat Islam bukan saja perlu menunjukkan Islam sebenar melalui cara hidup mereka malah, mendalami Islam kerana banyak tanggapan serong dilemparkan terhadap Islam dan penganutnya disebabkan sikap mereka sendiri.
"Seorang rakan saya yang bukan Islam berjaya membaca terjemahan al-Quran dalam bahasa Inggeris selama dua minggu. Kemudian dia tanya mana al-Quran yang kedua dan saya tanya kembali kenapa dia bertanyakan al-Quran yang kedua pula.

"Katanya, Muhammad yang disebut dalam al-Quran tidak sama dengan Muslim di luar sana. Dan jangan terkejut juga apabila anda berjumpa dengan bukan Islam yang bukan saja kenal ilmuwan Islam malah tahu karya dihasilkan cendekiawan itu," katanya.

Beliau juga menyelar sikap umat Islam yang dengan mudah suka mengkafirkan atau mengatakan orang lain kafir kerana tiada siapa boleh melabelkan seseorang itu kafir melainkan hakim dengan sebab serta alasan tertentu.

Katanya, dalam al-Quran juga hanya dua kali menyebut 'wahai orang kafir' yang dikaitkan dengan aspek kepercayaan tetapi dalam banyak perkara, Allah menyebut 'wahai orang beriman, wahai manusia atau wahai ahli kitab'.
Berkongsi kisah hidup bersama ibu yang tidak memeluk Islam, Suhaib berkata, adakalanya fahaman bukan Islam mengenai Islam serta ajarannya lebih baik berbanding umat Islam sendiri. Oleh itu, katanya, tidak boleh sewenang-wenangnya menuduh seseorang itu kafir.

"Jangan jadikan perkataan kafir satu perkataan yang biasa. Saya orang Islam, awak orang kafir. Mereka adalah orang yang tinggal dengan kita dan orang yang berada di sekeliling kita. Emak saya selalu membangunkan untuk solat Subuh dan emak saya tidak memeluk Islam.

"Malah, kalau saya balik lambat dan sudah masuk waktu solat Maghrib, dia yang akan marah. Emak saya bukan Islam tetapi menderma kepada orang Islam. Saya boleh katakan emak saya lebih Islam daripada orang Islam," katanya.

Beliau menyarankan umat Islam berpegang kepada firman Allah yang menyeru manusia berkenal-kenalan supaya mereka boleh memahami serta mempelajari antara satu sama lain kerana cara itu lebih baik.

Suhaib juga mengingatkan umat Islam menjaga hubungan persaudaraan bukan saja sesama umat Islam, juga dengan bukan Islam kerana tanpa semangat bersatu padu itu, umat Islam tidak akan stabil dan iman menjadi lemah.

Beliau mengaitkan apa yang disarankan ajaran Islam supaya umatnya berbuat baik dan itu tidak dihadkan kepada orang Islam saja kerana Allah tidak menghalang umat Islam berbuat baik kepada bukan Islam.

"Nabi Ibrahim bagi salam kepada bapa baginda yang tidak beriman tetapi kita hari ini sibuk memikirkan boleh atau tidak memberi salam kepada bukan Islam. Pemahaman salah terhadap agama Islam itu menyebabkan apa yang kita katakan 'membuli teologi'.

"Remaja di Kuala Lumpur tidak akan mencari saya jika mereka melakukan kesalahan tetapi jika mereka ada masalah, mereka cari orang lain atau rakan sebaya supaya tidak ada rasa takut. Ia kerana mereka takut untuk berjumpa imam disebabkan penderaan terhadap agama itulah," katanya.

Katanya, membuli agama ialah menjadikan orang lain takut kepada ajaran Islam disebabkan sikap tegas tidak bertempat hingga tercipta masalah melampau terhadap agama bukan memperbetulkan salah anggap kepada agama.

Suhaib berkata, 40 peratus rakyat Amerika Syarikat mengatakan mereka takutkan orang Islam dan dapat difahami wujudnya kumpulan itu kerana mereka tidak mengenali Islam serta umatnya atau mengenali Islam daripada pandangan mata kasar saja.

"Apa orang bukan Islam kata mengenai sindrom jihad mendadak (pengebom berani mati) ialah jika semua umat Islam terkena penyakit itu, semua orang bukan Islam akan mati. Bayangkan juga jika mereka terbaca ayat bahawa orang Islam akan lawan hingga orang itu mengucap syahadah.

"Oleh itu, kena faham akidah bukan siapa saya dan siapa yang saya tidak. Kita sibuk fikir sama ada Allah ada tangan atau Allah ketawa tak, tetapi gagal untuk menjadi Muslim sebenarnya. Di Miami, setiap Jumaat orang Islam beri makanan kepada mereka yang tidak berumah termasuk bukan Islam.

"Elakkan fahaman salah atau penderaan terhadap agama Islam kerana Islam tidak datang untuk memusnahkan budaya tetapi memperbaikinya menjadi lebih baik. Jadi, lakukan penilaian semula kerana Nabi Muhammad kata, jangan biarkan mereka jauh, tarik mereka," katanya.

Solatku betui ka?

2009-07-09T19:13:00.000-07:00

'Susah tak quiz?', aku tanya pada para pelajarku. Ada yang menjawab senang dan ada yang menjawab susah. Pada aku rata-rata mereka ini adalah pelajar yang baik. Tiba-tiba tergerak hatiku untuk bertanya kepada mereka.

'Nak tengok tak cara orang Yahudi solat?'
'Nak!', cepat sahaja mereka jawab, mungkin kerana ingin berehat setelah quiz yang agak sukar.

Aku pun buka laptop dan pancarkan satu video orang yahudi solat. Yang menariknya mereka agak terkejut kerana orang Yahudi ini solat dengan adanya duduk, takbir, sujud dan salam.

'Ni la cara orang Yahudi solat. Ini adalah cara solat yang paling lama yang ada didokumenkan, orang yahudi sekarang pula banyak buat yang lain macam tunduk2 kat 'wailing wall'.'

'Sir ada satu soalan nak tanyala, sir nak tau kamu rasa cara kamu solat itu betul atau mungkin kamu sendiri tak tahu atau tak pasti?' Aku bertanya pada para pelajarku ini sebab setiap kali solat pasti akan lihat macam-macam stail dan gaya. Ada yang pelik pun ada. Ada yang setiap rakaat takbir. Ada yang bila takbir angkat tangan separuh aje. Ada yang baca kuat-kuat.'

Pelajarku diam dan menunggu jawapan dan peneranganku.

'Sir rasa kamu kena rujuk balik cara solat la, sebab kalau kamu tak pasti maka macamana selama ni kamu solat? Takkan la main hentam keromo aja. Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. mengajar kita cara solat yang sempurna. Baginda memberitahu kita untuk solat sebagaimana dia solat dan ini termasuklah wuduk, gerakan dalam solat, bacaan dalam solat dan doa selepas solat.'

Seorang pelajar berkata,'Betul la sir kata sebab saya pernah nampak orang takbir setiap rakaat. Bukankah takbir hanya bila nak mula solat da setelah duduk tahhiyat?'

'Betul tu. Nanti ada masa buatlah rujukan balik na, sir taknak kamu just ikut aje apa orang cakap. Sir nak kamu mengkaji agama. Baiklah kita henti di sini shj hari ini, jumpa lagi minggu depan. Salam'

Mungkin tidak banyak yang sempat dikongsi dalam kelas tapi aku harap mereka akan mula mengkaji Islam. Aku harap mereka dapat melihat kecantikan Islam sebagaimana aku lihat.

HADITH PALSU REJAB, SYA'ABAN

2009-06-24T20:19:00.000-07:00

HADITH PALSU REJAB, SYA'ABAN
oleh : Dr. Mohd Asri Zainal Abidin - USM)

Agama wajib dipelihara ketulenannya supaya tidak berlaku campur aduk antara rekaan manusia dan perintah Allah dan RasulNya. Jika agama boleh direkacipta, maka wahyu sudah tentu tidak diperlukan, juga Rasul tidak perlu diutuskan. Oleh itu Islam mengharamkan pembohongan di atas nama agama.

Kita melihat di akhir-akhir ini perkembangan yang lebih mendukacitakan, dimana adanya individu-individu tertentu yang tidak mempunyai latar belakang pengajian Islam atau sekadar sebulan dua di pusat pengajian tertentu kemudiannya muncul di tengah masyarakat dengan membawa huraian-huraian yang salah tentang Islam di sana-sini.

Fenomena ini mendukacitakan kita, akhirnya manusia mengambil agama daripada golongan jahil lalu mereka diselewengkan.

Bahkan bukan sahaja golongan yang tidak pernah mengikut pengajian Islam membuat kesalahan dalam memetik dan menghuraikan hadith bahkan ada di kalangan yang menggunakan lebel nama sebagai ustaz juga sering membuat kesalahan dalam persoalan memetik dan menghuraikan hadith-hadith Nabi s.a.w.

Sebenarnya gelaran ustaz bukan bererti seseorang itu tahu segalanya dalam ilmu-ilmu Islam. Sebaliknya ada golongan yang digelar ustaz hanya kerana sepatah dua kalimat yang dihafalnya.

Berbalik kepada persoalan hadith, ramai di kalangan kita yang begitu tidak berdisplin dalam memetik hadith-hadith Nabi s.a.w., begitu juga dalam menghuraikannya. Sebahagiannya langsung tidak mengambil berat persoalan kethabitan iaitu kepastian di atas ketulenan sesebuah hadith. Apa sahaja yang dikatakan hadith terus sahaja dibacakan kepada masyarakat tanpa meneliti takhrij dan tahqiq (keputusan) para ulama hadith terhadap kedudukannya.

Lebih malang ada yang menyangka apa sahaja yang dikatakan hadith maka pastinya sahih dan wajib diimani. Dengan itu apa sahaja yang mereka jumpai daripada buku bacaan, yang dikatakan hadith maka mereka terus sandarkan kepada Nabi s.a.w. tanpa usul periksa, sedangkan mereka lupa akan amaran yang diberikan oleh baginda Nabi s.a.w. dalam hadith yang mutawatir:

"Sesungguhnya berdusta ke atasku (menggunakan namaku) bukanlah seperti berdusta ke atas orang lain (menggunakan nama orang lain). Sesiapa yang berdusta ke atasku dengan sengaja, maka siaplah tempat duduknya dalam neraka" (Riwayat al-Bukhari, Muslim, dan selain mereka) Hadith ini adalah mutawatir (lihat: Ibn al-Salah,`Ulum al-Hadith, m.s. 239, cetakan: Dar al-Fikr al-Mu`asarah, Beirut)

Berbohong menggunakan nama Nabi s.a.w. adalah satu jenayah yang dianggap sangat barat di dalam Islam. Perbohongan atau berdusta menggunakan Nabi s.a.w. ialah menyandar sesuatu perkataan, atau perbuatan, atau pengakuan kepada Nabi s.a.w secara dusta, yang mana baginda tidak ada kaitan dengannya. Ini seperti menyebut Nabi s.a.w. bersabda sesuatu yang baginda tidak pernah bersabda, atau berbuat, atau mengakui sesuatu yang baginda tidak pernah melakukannya. Maka sesuatu yang dikaitkan dengan Nabi s.a.w. samada perkataan, atau perbuatan atau pengakuan, maka ianya disebut sebagai al-hadith. Namun menyandar sesuatu kepada Nabi s.a.w. secara dusta, bukanlah hadith pada hakikatnya, Cuma ianya disebut hadith berdasar apa yang didakwa oleh perekanya dan ditambah perkataan al-Maudu', atau al-Mukhtalaq iaitu palsu, atau rekaan. Maka hadith palsu ialah:

"Hadith yang disandarkan kepada Nabi s.a.w secara dusta, ianya tidak ada hubungan dengan Nabi s.a.w." (lihat: Nur al-Din Itr, Manhaj al-Nadq fi `Ulum al-Hadith, m.s.301, cetakan: Dar al-Fikr al-Mu`asarah, Beirut)

Perbuatan ini adalah jenayah memalsu ciptakan agama, kerana Nabi adalah sumber pengambilan agama. Seperti seseorang yang memalsukan passport di atas nama sesebuah kerajaan. Ianya sebenarnya melakukan pembohongan dan jenayah terhadap kerajaan tersebut. Kedudukan Nabi s.a.w tentunya lebih besar dan agung untuk dubandingkan. Oleh itu dalam riwayat yang lain Nabi s.a.w. menyebut:

"Jangan kamu berdusta ke atasku, sesiapa berdusta ke atasku maka dia masuk neraka" (Riwayat al-Bukhari dan Muslim).

Kata al-Hafizd Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani (meninggal 852H) dalam mengulas hadith ini:

"Ianya merangkumi setiap pendusta ke atas Nabi s.a.w. dan semua jenis pendustaan ke atas baginda. Maksudnya: Jangan kamu sandarkan pendustaan ke atasku (menggunakan namaku) (rujukan: Ibn Hajar al-`Asqalani, Fath al-Bari, jld 1, m.s. 270, cetakan: Dar al-Fikr, Beirut).

Bukan sahaja membuat hadith palsu itu haram, bahkan meriwayatkannya tanpa diterang kepada orang yang mendengar bahawa ianya adalah hadith palsu juga adalah sesuatu yang haram. Kata al-Imam Ibn al-Salah (meninggal 643H):

"Tidak halal kepada sesiapa yang mengetahui ianya hadith palsu meriwayatkannya dalam apa bentuk sekalipun, melainkan disertai dengan menerangkan kepalsuannya" (Ibn al-Salah,`Ulum al-Hadith, m.s.98)

Misalnya di tanahair kita, didapati apabila munculnya bulan Rejab dan Sya`aban maka hadith-hadith palsu mengenai mengenai bulan-bulan tersebut akan dibaca dan diajar secara meluas. Antaranya hadith:

"Rejab bulan Allah, Sya`aban bulanku dan Ramadhan bulan umatku". Ini adalah hadith palsu yang direka oleh Ibn Jahdam. (lihat: Ibn Qayyim al-Jauziyyah, al-Manar al-Munif fi al-Sahih wa al-Dha`if, m.s. 95, cetakan: Maktab al-Matbu`at al-Islamiyyah, Halab, Syria)

Nama penuhnya Ibn Jahdam ialah `Ali bin `Abdillah bin Jahdam al-Zahid. Beliau meninggal pada tahun 414H. Beliau adalah seorang guru sufi di Mekah. Dia juga dituduh membuat hadith palsu mengenai solat Raghaib (iaitu solat pada jumaat pertama bulan Rejab). (lihat: al-Imam al-Zahabi, Mizan al-`Itidal fi Naqd al-Rijal,. 5, m.s. 173, cetakan: Dar al-Kutub al-`Ilmiyyah, Beirut).

Sebab itulah al-Imam Ibn al-Salah (meninggal 643H) menyebut: Ada beberapa golongan yang membuat hadith palsu, yang paling bahaya ialah puak yang menyandarkan diri mereka kepada zuhud (golongan sufi). Mereka ini membuat hadith palsu dengan dakwaan untuk mendapatkan pahala. Maka orang ramai pun menerima pendustaan mereka atas thiqah (kepercayaan) dan kecenderungan kepada mereka. Kemudian bangkitlah tokoh-tokoh hadith mendedahkan keburukan mereka ini dan menghapuskannya. AlhamdulilLah. (Ibn al-Salah, `Ulum al-Hadith, m.s. 99)

Golongan penceramah, imam, khatib, dan media massa pula, ada menjadi agen menyebarkan hadith-hadith palsu mengenai amalan-amalan yang dikatakan disunatkan pada bulan-bulan tersebut. Kata al-Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jauziyyah (wafat 751H):Hadith-hadith mengenai solat Raghaib pada jumaat pertama bulan Rejab kesemuanya itu adalah palsu dan dusta ke atas Rasulullah s.a.w. Begitu juga semua hadith mengenai puasa bulan Rejab dan solat pada malam-malam tertentu adalah dusta ke atas Nabi s.a.w. Demikian juga hadith-hadith mengenai solat pada malam Nisfu Sya`aban (kesemuanya adalah palsu). Solat-solat ini direka selepas empat ratus tahun munculnya Islam (Ibn al-Qayyim, al-Manar al-Munif, m.s. 95-98).

Sebenarnya hadith sahih mengenai kebaikan malam nisfu Syaaban itu memang ada, tetapi amalan-amalan tertentu khas pada malam tersebut adalah palsu. Hadith yang boleh dipegang dalam masalah nisfu Sy`aaban ialah:

"Allah melihat kepada hamba-hambaNya pada malam nisfu Syaaban, maka Dia ampuni semua hamba-hambaNya kecuali musyrik (orang yang syirik) dan yang bermusuh (orang benci membenci) (Riwayat Ibn Hibban, al-Bazzar dan lain-lain). Al-Albani mensahihkan hadith ini dalam Silsilah al-Ahadith al-Sahihah. (jilid 3, .m.s. 135, cetakan: Maktabah al-Ma`arf, Riyadh).

Hadith ini tidak mengajar kita apakah bentuk amalan malam berkenaan. Oleh itu amalan-amalan tertentu pada malam tersebut seperti baca Yasin, solat-solat tertentu adalah bukan ajaran Nabi s.a.w. Kata Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi dalam menjawab soalan berhubung dengan Nisfu Syaaban:

"Tidak pernah diriwayatkan daripada Nabi s.a.w. dan para sahabat bahawa mereka berhimpun di masjid pada untuk menghidupkan malam nisfu Syaaban, membaca do`a tertentu dan solat tertentu seperti yang kita lihat pada sebahagian negeri orang Islam. Bahkan di sebahagian negeri, orang ramai berhimpun pada malam tersebut selepas maghrib di masjid. Mereka membaca surah Yasin dan solat dua raka`at dengan niat panjang umur, dua rakaat yang lain pula dengan niat tidak bergantung kepada manusia, kemudian mereka membaca do`a yang tidak pernah dipetik dari golongan salaf (para sahabah, tabi`in dan tabi' tabi`in). Ianya satu do`a yang panjang, yang menyanggahi nusus (al-Quran dan Sunnah) juga bercanggahan dan bertentang maknanya...perhimpunan (malam nisfu Syaaban) seperti yang kita lihat dan dengar yang berlaku di sebahagian negeri orang Islam adalah bid`ah dan diada-adakan. Sepatutnya kita melakukan ibadat sekadar yang dinyatakan dalam nas. Segala kebaikan itu ialah mengikut salaf, segala keburukan itu ialah bid`ah golongan selepas mereka, dan setiap yang diadakan-adakan itu bid`ah, dan setiap yang bid`ah itu sesat dan setiap yang sesat itu dalam neraka." (Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, jilid 1, m.s. 382-383, cetakan: Dar Uli al-Nuha, Beirut).

Inilah kenyataan Dr. Yusuf al-Qaradawi, seorang tokoh ulama umat yang sederhana dan dihormati. Namun dalam masalah ini beliau agak tegas kerana ianya ternyata bercanggaha dengan apa yang dibawa oleh Rasulullah s.a.w.

Justeru itu hadith-hadith palsu mengenai Rejab dan Syaaban ini hendaklah dihentikan dari disebarkan ke dalam masyarakat. Kita perlu kembali kepada agama yang tulen. Hasil dari memudah-mudahkan dalam hal seperti ini maka muncullah golongan agama yang suka mendakwa perkara yang bukan-bukan. Dengan menggunakan nama agama segala rekaan baru dibuat untuk kepentingan diri dan kumpulan. Islam tidak pernah memberi kuasa kepada kepada golongan agama, atau sesiapa sahaja untuk mendakwa apa yang dia suka kemudian menyandarkannya kepada agama. Agama kita rujukannya ialah al-Quran dan al-Sunnah yang pasti kesabitannya mengikut yang diputuskan oleh para ulama hadith. Kata al-Syeikh Muhammad bin Muhammad Abu Syahbah (seorang ulama hadith al-Azhar):

"Masih ada para penceramah yang tidak ada ilmu hadith, samada ilmu riwayat atau dirayah (mengenai teks hadith). Mereka hanya membaca hadith apa yang mereka hafal dan dari tulisan-tulisan tanpa mengetahui kedudukan hadith tersebut. Apa yang mereka pentingkan hanyalah reda orang ramai. Lalu mereka menyebut perkara yang berlebih-lebih, pelik dan ajaib yang Islam tiada kaitan dengannya. Mereka ini sepatutnya dihalang dari berceramah, memberi nasihat dan bertazkirah." (Abu Syahbah, al-Wasit fi `Ulum wa al-Mustalah al-Hadith, m.s. 322, cetakan: Dar al-Fikr al-`Arabi, Kaherah)>

Penulis menyeru diri sendiri, para penceramah, ustaz-ustaz, media elektronik dan cetak juga semua pihak yang membaca sesuatu hadith memastikan kesahihannya dahulu. Semoga Rejab dan Syaaban tahun ini tidak dibaluti dengan pembohongan terhadap Nabi s.a.w.

Practicing Muslim

2009-06-19T07:36:00.000-07:00

Please.
Please.
Please stop using the word practicing Muslim and non-practicing Muslim. There is no such thing as practicing Muslim or non-practicing Muslim. To be a Muslim, a person MUST PRACTICE the Sunnah and follow the Law of Allah.

If a person does not practice then he/she is not a Muslim. How can u say u submit to Allah then you dont follow His Law?
I just read a very meaningful article. Its about Muslim, Kafir, Munafiq etc.
Read this beautiful entry at http://saifulislam.com/?p=5879#more-5879

Please, I just hate people using that word.

The Khilafah

2009-06-19T07:34:00.000-07:00

It has today become an indisputable reality that this Ummah yearns for the return of the Islamic Khilafah. She has witnessed much that solidifies this desire. Today, we find that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has brought back the desire in the hearts of the Muslims and this Ummah to return to the rule of Islam. Amongst them are those who are willing to dedicate their time and effort for the service of Islam. This article seeks to explain how such people can work for Islam and work for its noble aims.

Knowledge before action

Hazzam bin Hakeem narrated from his uncle from the Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم who said:

إِنَّكُم أَصْبَحْتُم فِي زَمَان كَثِير فُقَهَاؤه قَلِيل خُطَبَاؤه، قَلِيل سَائِلُوه كَثِير مَعطُوه، العَمَل فِيهِ خَيْر مِنَ العِلْم، وَسَيَأتِي عَلَى النَّاس زَمَان قَلِيل فُقَهَاؤه كَثِير خُطَبَاؤه قَلِيل مَعطُوه كَثِير سَائِلُوه، العِلْم فِيهِ خَيْر مِنَ العَمَل

"You are in a time of many jurisprudents (fuqaha), few speakers/lecturers, many who give and few who ask; so action in this time is better than knowledge. There will soon come a time of few jurisprudents, many speakers, many who beg and few who give; so knowledge in this time is better than action."

This noble advice by the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم builds the principle that Islam has always placed knowledge before action. It is saddening to see that amongst some workers for Islam, action comes before knowledge. This is highly dangerous, since we saw at the beginning of the last century a plethora of patriotic movements rising up against the colonialist occupation only to find that when the colonialists left they implemented the same secular models in their lands. Also we find today, under the banner of Islam, some Muslim governments conducting "experiments" for Islamisation, even though the Qur'an and Sunnah showed in detail the Islamic system, and this has been explained in many volumes of books.

Islam has placed knowledge and thinking as a precondition for action, and this ensures that the action undertaken is the correct action and that the action is according to Islam and is the correct action to achieve the aim. But the question may be asked - what type of knowledge is required? Here are a few areas that anyone working for Islam should seek to understand:

i. To gain an understanding of Islam and its basic concepts. These concepts need to start with the Aqa'id (belief) because this is the basis of all correct actions. A Muslim must be convinced of his basis, because under all strong structures lay a strong, solid foundation. We have witnessed, with great sadness, excellent people with much energy working for the goals of Islam one day and then leaving this work the other because their foundations were weak and all they had was zeal and desire rather than sound knowledge.

ii. To understand the Shari'ah rules. Islam has made it an obligation for a Muslim to understand the Hukm Shari' concerning his actions. So a Muslim must be aware of his obligations. It is incorrect for a Muslim to work for Islam, yet fall short of abiding by the rules of Islam in his personal life. Again we witness with sadness many who openly call out against ‘Western culture' yet in their own lives are engrossed with its films and music, soaps and trivialities the same West gives them. In understanding the Shari'ah rules, one must make sure he or she does not limit themselves to just a specific area which they are inclined to. Rather Islam needs to be taken completely.

iii. To understand the main points of Kufr. This area is unobvious to many. The Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم used to know the thoughts of the Quraish so that he could speak out against them. Also Allah سبحانه وتعالى encouraged this, so in the Qur'an He سبحانه وتعالى points out on many occasions the contradictions that existed with the Mushrikeen. Today the Muslim needs to be aware of the dominant ideology, capitalism, its components and its contradiction with Islam. Again this knowledge requires more than just a superficial understanding such that the call of Islam becomes a general unconvincing call. When Allah سبحانه وتعالى says,

قُلْ هَـذِهِ سَبِيلِي أَدْعُو إِلَى اللّهِ عَلَى بَصِيرَةٍ أَنَاْ وَمَنِ اتَّبَعَنِي وَسُبْحَانَ اللّهِ وَمَا أَنَاْ مِنَ الْمُشْرِكِينَ

"Say 'This is my way: I call to Allah with sure knowledge, I and whosoever follows me. And Glorified and Exalted is Allah. And I am not of the Mushrikeen." [Yusuf: 108]

He سبحانه وتعالى commands the knowledge to be precise. Today we need to understand globalisation, democracy, freedom, interfaith dialogue, and secularism amongst many other ideas that are invalid and cannot be adopted by the Muslims.

iv. Knowledge of the correct Islamic work. If a Muslim were to study Islam correctly he would find that Islam has placed the authority as the most essential organ to safeguard the rules of Islam and the Muslims. This necessitates that in the absence of this authority work is required to bring it back. The Khilafah is the only correct structure Islam has laid down, the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "after me there will be no Prophet, but there will be Khulafah and they will number many". So the correct Islamic work is to call for the Khilafah. That means to work to bring back its return. This work by definition is a political work, and thus requires an aware Islamic political party.

Apart from what has been mentioned above, a Muslim must seek knowledge continuously and must always strive to excel in his or her understanding.

Carrying Da'wa

If a Muslim was to engage in gaining knowledge he would realise quickly that knowledge without action is like a donkey with books on its back. This knowledge would be of no use to the people no matter how much he gained and how much of a faqih he became. Islam has said that the most essential component in carrying Islam and bringing back the Khilafah is to carry Da'wa. That is to invite people.

Allah سبحانه وتعالى says,

ادْعُ إِلِى سَبِيلِ رَبِّكَ

"Invite to the way of your Lord..." [An-Nahl: 125]

Also Islam has mandated that Da'wa should be carried immediately after knowledge. Never in the history of Islam has a Da'wa carrier stayed at home after being affected by Islam. The stories of the Sahabah (ra) are all an evidence for this. Also the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "Convey from me even if it is one ayah".

The following needs to be kept in mind when carrying Da'wa.

i. Da'wa should be a focused work. The Muslims need to be told in a clear, unambiguous way that the many problems we see are due to the absence of the Khilafah and that Islam demands the Da'wa carrier to discuss this issue. Muslims must expose the plans of the West in our lands, their agents in the form of our leaders and all that stems from their corrupt ideology that distances the Muslims from uniting once again under this strong leadership such as the erroneous concepts of nationalism, pragmatism, gradualism and the like.

ii. A Muslim should not talk about what he does not know. The Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم always sought revelation from Allah سبحانه وتعالى before he spoke a word. This forms a general rule that one cannot speak out of ignorance.

iii. Da'wa should be carried purely for the pleasure or Allah سبحانه وتعالى. A Da'wa carrier must not seek benefit or position from carrying Da'wa. Rather he must do this purely for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. This principle, that is to carry Da'wa for the pleasure of Allah سبحانه وتعالى if understood, will ensure the Da'wa carrier does not stray from his path and change his argument to suit the people.

iv. When carrying Da'wa nothing should interfere with the correct idea and the conveyance of it. The Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم was the best example, and he conveyed this message without allowing egoism or personality into the discussion.

v. The call should be carried without compromise. It is not permissible to change the message in order to please the people or to win a temporary supporter. Rather this call needs to be frank, carried with wisdom, that is using the best of styles but conveying the haq (truth) completely. Furthermore the ideas that are carried must not be reconciled with the Western ideology and its standards. It must rather be derived purely from Islam.

vi. The carrier of the Da'wa must be ready to face the trials and tribulations that those who oppose it will place in his or her path. The only way to prepare for this is to have the clear knowledge of the key Islamic ideas such as al Qadaa wal Qadr, or Rizq (sustenance) being from Allah سبحانه وتعالى, or Al-Tawakkul (reliance on Allah [swt]) amongst other ideas. Also they must equip themselves with the knowledge of the previous Prophets (as) and their companions and how they bore hardships and finally they must be close to the Qur'an as there is not any other book but this that has the ability to motivate, inspire and energise.

Working with an Islamic Party

Allah سبحانه وتعالى has made carrying Da'wa Fard upon every Muslim. He سبحانه وتعالى has also obligated upon the community to establish at least one group to call to al-Khair, that is Islam, to enjoin al-Maroof (all that is good) and forbid al-Munkar (all that is evil).

Allah سبحانه وتعالى says in the Qur'an,

وَلْتَكُن مِّنكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنكَرِ وَأُوْلَـئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ

"Let there arise from amongst you a band of people, who call to Al-Khair, enjoining al-maroof and forbidding al-munkar. And they are those who will gain success." [Al-Imran: 104]

This ayah obligates the establishment of a group. If one was to study the nature of the task to re-establish the Khilafah one would find that for this work to be effective, there needs to be a collective effort. Furthermore the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم worked with the Sahabah (ra) as a group to change the Kufr society and transform it to an Islamic one.

There are some points to consider before choosing which group or groups are correct to ensure that the action undertaken is one with full awareness. As with all actions, Allah سبحانه وتعالى will account us for obedience to him and so to just choose any group would be impermissible, rather the one or ones that fulfils the obligation pointed out in this noble ayah must be considered. These are the points:

i. This group must call to Islam. Allah سبحانه وتعالى mentions in this ayah the word ‘Al Khair', which is Islam. So if they were a nationalistic, democratic, capitalistic, socialist group etc... then they would not fulfil the command in this ayah. In fact joining groups who are based upon these foreign ideas or who call for such ideas would be sinful, as to call for these ideas and to gather around them is haram.

ii. This group must call to the vital issue, as defined by Islam. The vital issue today is the re-establishment of the Khilafah. It is the Khilafah that will implement Islam, and without it, it would be impossible for the society to adhere to all of the laws of Islam. By definition, calling for the Khilafah is a political work, as it involves changing the society to establish an authority and removing the present authorities based upon non-Islam. So this group must be a political group or party.

iii. It must have a clear method of affiliation. It has been observed that many groups are tarnished with infighting, strands, wings and the like. This is due to the members of these groups not having a unified aim and sets of ideas. Rather the people are often chosen because they show some sort of enthusiasm to do work regardless of them carrying the same ideas and aims.

iv. The group must have a ‘culturing process'. That is they must have a way of developing newcomers to the group as well as established members. This culturing must be taken seriously and all should need to go through it. This ensures they are built and developed with the Islamic culture, purifying their intentions and thoughts, building their concepts and strengthening their resolve. So the initial zeal and enthusiasm is transferred to a sound knowledge and consistent work. It is saddening to see the many who begin to work for Islam and then stop this work; this can generally be attributed to a lack of culturing with Islam in this group.

v. This group must be clear in its language, and bold in its actions - to enjoin the Maroof and forbid the Munkar requires from the Muslim to challenge all that is wrong and uphold all that is right.

vi. The group must study the reality clearly and comprehensively. Islam mandated that the reality in which the group works must be understood. This includes the study of the thoughts and ideas that exist in society as well as the plots and plans of the Kafiroon and her agent rulers in our lands. To just have a generalised understanding of the reality would not allow the people to understand the true nature of the problem we face.

vii. The group must not look down upon the Ummah nor abuse them for not working with them or not adhering to Islam. Rather it should seek to lift up their spirits, energise them, wake them from their slumber and bring about this change. The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said, "Whoever says the people are destroyed are the most destroyed of the people." [Sahih Muslim].

viii. The group should have a strong atmosphere that gels the members together. This atmosphere must be a pure one and it should be based upon seeking the pleasure of Allah سبحانه وتعالى. We witness many groups that exist in the West that are run like a company, where the members have to continuously be forced to undertake actions. This is contrary to the way of Islam where the strength of the idea makes a person willingly want to sacrifice his time and effort. The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم wrote in a letter to Abdullah Ibn Jahsh, when he sent him to lead an expedition to keep an eye on Quraysh at Nakhlah, between Makkah and Ta'if: "Do not coerce anyone of your companions to proceed with you, and go forth with my order with those who follow you."

These three points; gaining knowledge, carrying da'wa and working with an Islamic Party would be the practical way to work for Khilafah. So after this, we would say join this work with the sincere ones who seek to achieve the highest place in Jannah. Strengthen your resolve, for the Ummah yearns for change, and this change requires work. May our deeds be multiplied in reward in the eyes of Allah سبحانه وتعالى and may we become the ones who will be the "beloved" to the Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم!

The Messenger Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said: "Islam began as something strange, and it shall return to being something strange, so give glad tidings to the strangers." It was asked, "Who are those strangers, O Messenger of Allah?" He replied, "Those that correct the people when they become corrupt." This is the narration of at-Tabaraani in his al-Kabeer.

Source: http://www.khilafah.com/index.php/the-khilafah/issues/6680-the-way-to-work-for-khilafah

SIS

2009-06-12T02:25:00.000-07:00

You can read aout them here:
http://www.sistersinislam.org.my/

After reading some article, I find something is wrong and doesnt smell right. Why do you need an organization like this if you have Islam? The Islamic Law is perfect. There is no flaw at all. This organization is promoting that Islam is not good enough for them. They still think that there is no fairness between men and women. I think this happened because most Muslims do not know their duty as men and as women. Both have their own responsibility and rights in the eye of Islam.

For most people nowadays, they think Islam is just a religion. They sure is wrong. Islam is not just a religion. Its a way of life. Muslim means surrender to Allah and do what He commands. So if a person claim that they are Muslims, they must follow the law laid down to us by Allah S.W.T. through His messenger Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. If a person who does not fallow this set of law then he/she is not a Muslim. If you do not want to follow this set of laws then DO NOT CALL YOURSELF AS MUSLIMS. I can see that this SIS do not want to follow this law. And they dare to call themselves Muslims?

I can see how SIS is destroying the beautiful image of Islam. The non-muslims is supporting them because SIS is supporting the law of the kafirs.

Najib gave his speech. I think he do not know Islam good enough. Dr Mahathir is also wrong. The ex-prime ministers daughters that support SIS. Look below:

The top is Marina Mahathir and the bottom is Nori Abdullah.
Do they look like Muslims?
THE ALSWER IS NO!
Looks like kafirs. The people who rejects God's Law. This people thinks that their law are better than Allah!

They can be good doctors, engineers or watever they are doing but one thing for sure they are ignorant when it come to Islam.

Wake up muslims and see our leaders. They are ignorant of Islam

Kristian oh Kristian

2009-06-12T02:06:00.000-07:00

Sudah lama tidak menulis kerana terlalu sibuk dengan kerja-kerja di sini.

Dalam senyap-senyap, berjaya juga berdialog dengan segelintir daripada orang Kristian Borneo.

Dalam banyak-banyak merekalah yang paling sukar untuk berdakwah kerana pegangan hidup mereka yang berdasarkan kepercayaan buta semata-mata. Tidak berbeza dengan pegangan hidup lama mereka yang memercayai roh, hantu dan semangat moyang. Hanya beragama Kristian kerana percaya dan hanya memahami agama mengikut kata-kata orang. Semua ini menunjukkan ketaatan(obedience) sahaja. Mereka hanya berkata-kata doktrin Kristianiti tanpa menyemak buku bible/alKitab lansung.

Begitu lemahnya pegangan agama seseorang hanya dengan ketaatan buta.
kadang-kala aku juga bertanya adakah orang Islam yang sebegini juga. Adakah juga orang Islam yang hanya beragama dengan ketaatan buta? Hatiku terdetik memikirkan segelintir rakan-rakanku. Aku doakan mereka tidak begini.

Ada begitu banyak persolan yang orang Kristian ini berikan tentang Islam, tentang Nabi Muhammad S.A.W., tentang kedudukan wanita dan tentang jihad.
Alhamdullilah aku mampu menjawabnya dengan izin Allah S.A.W.

Sudah berkali-kali aku membelek buku bible KIV aku ini, apa yang aku nampak hanyalah kebanyakkannya hasil penulisan manusia yang rakus yang sanggup mengubah, menambah dan mengurangkan di mana-mana sahaja untuk memuaskan selera mereka. Buku ini bagiku adalah seolah-olah penulisan mereka yang tersesat, mereka yang buta dan tidak dapat melihat cahaya.

Terdapat begitu banyak kesalahan dalam bible dan terdapat begitu banyak kesalahan sains dalam bible. Pastinya mereka tidak sedar kerana hanya taat buta sahaja. Bagaimana pula Islam? Tidak. Tiada satupun kesalahan atau percanggahan dalam al-Quran. Penulisan, gaya bahasa serta sainnya tidak dapat ditandingi. Alhamdullilah.

Adalah tidak penting samada mereka ini memeluk Islam atau tidak. Sekurang-kurangnya aku telah cuba untuk menyampaikan mesej KEBENARAN kepada mereka. Mereka adalah begitu dekat dengan kita bezanya ialah mereka tertipu dengan doktrin seperti Jesus (pbuh) anak Tuhan, triniti dan sebagainya.

Kristian oh kristian......

I hate this type of people...

2009-05-12T02:38:00.000-07:00

49: 12.
O ye who believe! Avoid suspicion as much⁴⁹³¹ (as possible): for suspicion in some cases is a sin: And spy not on each other behind their backs. Would any of you like to eat the flesh of his dead⁴⁹³² brother? Nay, ye would abhor it...But fear Allah. For Allah is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful.

Yusuf Ali commentary

4931. Most kinds of suspicion are baseless and to be avoided, and some are crimes in themselves: for they do cruel injustice to innocent men and women. Spying, or enquiring too curiously into other people's affairs, means either idle curiosity, and is therefore futile, or suspicion carried a stage further, which almost amounts to sin. Back-biting also is a brood of the same genus. It may be either futile but all the same mischievous, or it may be poisoned with malice, in which case it is a sin added to sin.

4932. No one would like even to think of such an abomination as eating the flesh of his brother. But when the brother is dead, and the flesh is carrion, abomination is added to abomination. In the same way we are asked to refrain from hurting people's feelings when they are present; how much worse is it when we say things, true or false, when they are absent!

May Allah forgive your sins and mine if we happened to do the same action.
A reminder Ahong, be careful of your words. I pray not to be a part of any of this (red colour).

Quran Time

2009-05-11T21:11:00.000-07:00

Everytime I read the Holy Quran, I learn new things.
Since I could not recite the Quran, I memorize some of the Surah so to recite during solat.

The most important one to memorize is al-Fatihah.
After Fatihah, I wanted to memorize a few simple Surah, namely:

1) Surah al-Ikhlas
2) Surah al-Falaq
3) Surah an-Nasr
4) Surah an-Nas
5) Surah al-Feel

I wanted to learn to recite as proper as possible and memorize the meaning at the same time. The best website that help me now is:

http://www.mounthira.com/
May Allah S.W.T. bless them.

The surah became magically so beautiful when you know the meaning as you recite em.
Lets study the Quran to clean our heart. When our heart is clean, we will be at peace.

I like Mishary Rashid Al Afasy's recitations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKaovummdxg (al-Ikhlas)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7fnGDXeUmE (al-falaq)

Anyone who have any easy way to memorize the Quran please share with me. Thanks.