April 7, 2008
“Al-Ghazali says: “A diligent seeker of truth may be compared to one who is looking for his lost camel. It would be immaterial for him if he or another person should be the one to find it.”
I have posted an entry of " Busying Correcting Others " previously and this is my second one. How this is really for myself.
This morning, inside the LRT trains, I noticed something unusual that I never I encountered before. Well maybe it’s just me. It is about an Indian man in the train. A professional and sleek looking man whom when the train passed by a church he did a sign in his chest. A usual Christian sign. Suddenly I feel amazed. Not because of the sign itself but by his actions and his awareness towards his belief. It has made me reflect on my own self and Muslims in general. How many of us as a Muslim who believe in Almighty God will remembered Allah whenever we see a mosque? It will be to much cliche if I ask how many times we remembered HIM in our everyday life by doing dzikir in our hearts every single minutes. With the up roaring entertainment outburst out there and we are busying correcting and talking about others we rarely have a time to reflect on our own selves and looking deeply inside our own soul to do a reflection of our own desire.
It is never a hard question but it is surely a hard question to be answered. Even for me. It goes the same for the Fitna’s controversial issue that have been brought up lately. We love Allah and HIS Prophet of course. There is no doubt about it despite our flaws as a sinful servants but we hope to be with Allah and Rasulullah saw in the heaven ( on God willing , isnhAllah ) but rather than get angry with the person who have create the provocation we better look upon our own self first. Being sensitive wise in religion issues is a must but not in a wrong way. Absolutely a no no. As Sheikh Suhaib Webb posted a noteable advice by Sheikh Hussain Abdul Sattar. (Oh My! How I love his talks!) "It is time for Muslims to stop burning flags, and start burning their desires"
Also Sheikh Abdul Sattar mentioned:
" It is time for the Muslim to be a self-determined, educated, citizen of humanity and of Islam. Someone who’s character aims to mirror the Prophetic character. It is time for the sisters to put down their mascara and their foundation, and the brothers to put down the Nintendo Wii and XBOX controllers, and stand up and become men and women, and stop being boys and girls. It is time for for them to become self-determined individuals, who understand that the honor of this Deen and its Ummah, can only be given by Allah, but they must work for it. Allah says:
“God will not change the condition of a people, until they change what is within themselves.” (13:11)
It is time to stop burning flags, and start burning desires.
Stop yelling in the streets against people who are overjoyed at your anger, and whisper to Allah who will become overjoyed at your prayer.
Stop breaking, burning, and screaming.
Start building, learning, and calling.
O mankind, We created you from a single pair of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes that you may know each other [49:13].
On the side note, it goes the same with the burning issues in our country. We can be responsive and ask peoples to respect every belief but we can’t blame others on their misunderstanding about Islam. What we should do is keep showing a good behaviours and
explaining the issues and real Islam in a wise, diligent, ethical, constructive and rational way. Not the other way around. Well boycotting Dutch products is another issue and I have my own opinion based on what I have learn from the prominent scholars, books which I read from an Economic Al-Azhar lecture that based upon a solid research, my humble knowledge in
Usul Feqh as well our own concise. I have to say, I will boycott it but only in a period of time just to sent a message to their government of the very unwise action of provocation by one of their parliament member.
" Invite all to the way of your Lord with wisdom and beautiful preaching and argue with them in ways that are best and most gracious [16:125]
Oh, by the way I can’t resist but to post this nice poem that already has been post in Darwisy’s blog. I really miss his entries!
Sidi Abu Bakr Siraj-ad-Din aka Martin Lings was one of the profoundest writers of the last century. His works are treasures of both meaning and form,that is to say, what he says and the way that he says it. Amongst the lesser known of his works is his Diwan of verse called quite simply Collected Poems.
In a poem titled Self-Portrait he says remembering the bayt-ar-Ridwan:
When half a thousand years and more
Had passed, and men allegiance swore
To the Arab Prophet, beneath the tree,
My willing hand was still not free
From bonds of time and space to be
Between his hands in fealty.
Such blessings missed, time was when I
Within myself would wonder why,
Half quarrelling with the book of fate
For having writ me down so late.
But now I no longer my lot
Can question, and of what was not.
No more I say: Would it had been!
For I have seen what I have seen,
And I have heard what I have heard.
So if to tears ye see me stirred,
Presume not that they spring from woe:
In thankful wonderment they flow.
Praise be to Him, the Lord, the King,
Who gives beyond all reckoning.
( Collected Poems, Archetype, 2001 )
March 11, 2008
Untuk sebuah perjuangan yang belum selesai, untuk mereka yang ditindas, untuk teman yang tidak pernah kulupakan, untuk sahabatku Iman yang menghulur manisan indikator meraikan pembebasan ayahnya dari tahanan Zionis juga istimewa untuk saudaraku di sana, cinta itu tidak pernah aku lupakan! Buat kita rakyat Malaysia; Sikap Baru Untuk Malaysia Baru mesti, tidak boleh tidak sangat perlu!
Untuk Ibu Pertiwi!
(Oleh: Khalil Gibran)
Bukit-bukit di negeriku kini tenggelam
Oleh darah dan air mata
Apa yang dapat dilakukan oleh seorang anaknya yang merantau
Untuk masyarakatnya yang sengsara?
Apa pula gunanya keluh-kesah
Seorang penyair yang sedang tidak di rumah?
Seandainya rakyatku mati dalam pemberontakan menuntut nasibnya,
Aku akan berkata “Mati dalam perjuangan
Lebih mulia dari hidup dalam penindasan”
Tapi rakyatku tidak mati sebagai pemberontak
Kematian adalah satu-satunya penyelamat mereka,
Dan penderitaan adalah tanah air mereka
Ingatlah saudaraku,
Bahawa syiling yang kaujatuhkan
Ke telapak tangan yang menghulur di hadapanmu,
Adalah satu-satunya jambatan yang menghubungkan
Kekayaan hatimu dengan cinta di hati Tuhan
January 24, 2008
Love is a nature mode. It is natural art and music of life. Subtle.
Love is like a river, it is always soothing, overwhelming, flowing and has no ending.
Children = Love.
* A random pictures
CHILDREN
By Khalil Gibran
Your children are not your children:
They are the sons and daughters of life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite,
and He bends you with His might
that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let our bending in the archer’s hand be for gladness;
For even as He loves the arrow that flies,
so He loves also the bow that is stable.
A Noble Hadith of our Prophet p.b.u.h:
Abdullah ibn Umar reported that he heard the Prophet Muhammad p.b.u.h <!–[if !vml]–><!–[endif]–>saying: "Every one of you is a guardian, and responsible for what is in his custody. The ruler is a guardian of his subjects and responsible for them; a husband is a guardian of his family and is responsible for it; a lady is a guardian of her husband’s house and is responsible for it, and a servant is a guardian of his master’s property and is responsible for it. A man is a guardian of his father’s property and is responsible for it so all of you are guardians and responsible for your wards and things under your care)." (Bukhâri 3/592)
Imam Al-Ghazali Rohimahullah
The soul of your child is like an uncut precious jewel entrusted into your care by Allah. To you is given the awsome responsibility of shaping that precious jewel to any kind of shape. If the child is made accustomed to khayr (that which is good), his parents and teachers will share in his reward. If the child is made accustomed to wrongdoings, the parents/teachers/ guardians will share in the punishment.."
As dorky, quirky, noisy, naughty, witty they can be, our children is merely a sign of pure love and solid responsibility. They are the next generation of our Ummah.
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December 17, 2007
Ya Allah,
Dunia ini berat ringankanlah ia
Ya Allah,
Dosaku banyak ampunkah ia
Ya Allah
Penyakit hatiku parah sembuhkanlah ia
Ya Allah
Zikirku jarang-jarang dawamkan lah ia,
Ya Allah
Hatiku sibuk, sibukkanlah ia dengan zikir padaMu
Ya Allah
Jiwaku hilang, hadirkanlah ia
Ya Allah
Jasadku beku, siramkanlah ia
Ya Allah
Aku ibarat berjalan tanpa ruh, pengsan dalam dosa dan kelalaian. Biar aku, syughul dalam keEsaanMu, pandanglah aku ya Rabb..Jangan tinggalkan aku. Ya Allah, mati itu syarat menemuiMu bilakah hadirnya ia?*
* Kita tidak digalakkan meminta kematian, namun puisi ini mengandungi makna yang lebih mendalam. Moga dibaca dengan bahasa jiwa.
July 10, 2007
Al-Marhum Dr Bahauddin pernah bertanya lewat kelas Tafsir yang lepas. " Mengapa ya kira-kira Ulama’ zaman silam dahulu usia sangat singkat namun mampu menghasilkan karya ulung yang pelbagai. Contohnya Imam Fakhruddin Ar-Razi dalam jangka sepuluh tahun mampu menghasilkan pelbagai kitab yang masyhur?" Tanya beliau kepada kami. Jawab beliau kemudiaanya " Taqwa. Taqwa. Taqwa. Rahsianya. -Bertaqwalah maka Allah akan mengajar kamu- Mafhum ayah". Kami semua terpana. Dr Baha’ kini telah meninggalkan kami.
Allahuakbar! Rasanya air mata ini tidak luruh berhenti apabila membaca berita pemergian Dr Bahauddin baru-baru ini di laman kekanda AlBazrah. Walau sudah tahu akan berita pemergiannya lewat Ahad lalu, namun ia seakan terpendam dengan dalam dan baru memuntahkan larvanya hari ini. Cukuplah dengan janji Allah dalam syurga pertemuan kekal baqa’ bagi mu’min. Dr Bahauddin, sempat tuan site ini mengaji dengannya dalam kelas tafsir beberapa semestar yang lepas. Baru menanam hajat di hati ingin menemui beliau semestar baru ini demi ingin munaqashah beberapa perkara. Namun, Allah telah memanggil beliau dahulu.
(more…)
July 3, 2007
Ya Allah,
Jika zarah maknawiah
Punya lapisan daqiq
Punya rahsia ma’rifah
Ada qalb
Ada sudur
Ada latifah
Ada siir
Ada ruh
Semuanya berpusu merebut cinta
Paling istiwewa
Paling agung
Tidak mahu aku berkongsi cinta satu itu
(more…)
May 16, 2007
Aku sedang berteduh
Di tepian tasik Raja’
Mengutip kekuatan yang tercicir
Di denai kelalaian
Antara dua hasrat
Terhimpit menyeru cahaya
Antara dua lembar putih
Keliru memilih zaman
Bagai sekam membakar
Kemahuanku mencuri kekuatanku
Bagai sekam membakar
Cintaku bikinku terpaku kaku
Benarkah cinta?
Cintakah yang buatku tertangguh
Di tengah jalan
Mampir bersama
Hasrat yang menyala
Rindu yang merimbun
Melebur keinginan subur
Menjadi debu seni berkeliaran
Dan aku,
Mengejar sisa-sisa berbaki
Kudrat polos yang berlari
Bersatu dengan alam
Membumi dengan tanah
Tenggelam bersama angin
Luruh di perdu pohon bisu
Andaipun mereka sudi menerima
Kekuatan yang tercicir
Di balik
Sekam yang membakar
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Dalam bahasa yang tidak kompleks dan mudah, wahai tuan site ini, bawa-bawalah perabih menulis bahath, udah-udahlah tu baca kitab-kitab lain, bawa-bawa pula ngadap kitab untuk bahath..
Kalam Ibn ‘Athaillah yang ke 19
“ Tetap sajalah pada ketentuan baik yang telah dikurniakan Allah s.wt”
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May 15, 2007
By the window of Maulidun Nabawi
Waiting with love fully
Praying with hope truly
In the back counting days
As alone
Rains dropping indepth
Snows embracing soul
Sun shining
Stars twinkling
Moon sparkling
And
Eyes of world crying
Showered by missing him
No words
No says
No mumbles
No beats
Can describe
The feels of everything
Allahumma Sollu ‘ Ala Nabi Wa Yusallimu Taslima
: A very, truly humble and poor servant of HIM:
This site owner did not have enough time to elobrate the discussion among our great schoalrs about the celebration if Maulid An-Nabawi nevertheless inshAllah lets share together what have been written, elobrate by our respected Sahabah’s in their site.
1) What they said including Ibn Taymiyah about Maulid at Al-Fanshuri or Abdullah Tahir
2) Discussion about Maulidur Rasul at Aljoofre
3) Around the celebration of Maulidun Nabawi at Bahrusshofa
4) Contemparory scholars says here
5) Dr Yusuf Qardhowi views about celebration of Maulid here
We only want to say we love Muhammad Sollahualaihiwasslam, want to practice all his messages moreover to attain his syafaat. O thou people learn and think! Solla ala an-Nabiyy!
Picture by: Susebraids in Flickr
Oh,
Aku yang tertinggal gerabak
Di hentian itu
Mengejar cinta yang tertangguh
Penuh melimpah
Hingga aku tertinggal gerabak lagi
Oh,
Aku yang tertinggal gerabak
Ditemani rona pagi yang tersenyum simpul
Memerli aku kah?
Desir semilir desa pagi yang menusuk
Tajam menghiris halus
Berbicarakah?
Dengan aku
Aku yang terpisat kesejukan
Di situ; sendirian.
Akulah itu yang tertinggal gerabak
Di hentian itu
Akulah
Akulah
Yang tertinggal gerabak lagi
Dalam mengejar cinta yang tertangguh
Tidak aku tidak
Tetap aku menanti di hentian itu
Menanti gerabak
Demi memenuhi cinta yang tertangguh
Hatiku pecah lagi
Dosaku melimpahi
Setiap urat nadi
Hatiku pecah lagi
Janji pada Allah tidak terlunasi
Kantung amalku ringan tidak terpenuhi
Hatiku pecah lagi
Sesak dunia fana ini
Aku ditengahnya tersepit diri
Hatiku pecah lagi
Tangis rindu padaMu ya Rabbi
Makin jauh atau mampirkah diri ini
Hatiku pecah lagi
Jiwa selimut ghaflah duniawi
Parah menjerit sendiri
Hatiku pecah lagi
CintaMu ingin kudakapi
Retorikkah atau hanya ilusi
Hatiku pecah lagi
Jalan menemuiMu
Seringku tangguhi
Hatiku pecah lagi
Ya Allah
Tidak ingin aku selain dariMu
Hanya Redha CintaMu puncak harapanku
Hanya mengingatiMu ingin kujejaki..
Hanya RahmahMu ingin kujelajahi
Ingin lari dari selainMu
Ingin uzlah dari mimpiku
Ingin tajrid ghaflah duniaku
Agar
Hatiku tidak pecah lagi
Agar
Hatiku selesa memugar rahsia
Pekat malam: –.–
Berdebat..hanya untuk menang
Selak paper..kemudian ketawa
Melihat berita…kemudian sms " Akademi Fantasi", One in a Million, Mentor
Pergi halaqah…kemudian dating, gelak ketawa dengan ajnabi, chit-chat.
Berpusu-pusu ke program Palestine..tidur
Kesian..namun taqwa zero
Sedih…cinta Allah tiada
Bimbang….sunnah tiada menjadi akrab
Gusar…mampir padaNya tiada
Rindu jannahNya…..muraqabah tidak biasa
Takutkan nerakaNya….taat bukan ukuran utama
Kita ingin berjuang……tapi cinta dunia
Ingin segala Islam tertegak…..hawa nafsu lebih awla dr berjemaah di rumah Allah?
Kita; Solat jemaah tiada multazim, solat malam juga…akhlak, iman, cinta, takut,harap dan hanya damba Redha Allh tiada. Kita semangat sahaja. Benarkah? Mungkin sesiapa, tuan blog ini, anda dan mereka? Adakah dosa kita menjadi hijab pada kemenangan Islam? Mungkin..Kerana Sulatan Muhammad AlFateh juga Solahuddin Al-Ayubi tentera-tentera mereka tiada seperti kita…
Moga-moga tidak ya Allah..
Astahgfirullah..
Kamilah ini ya Allah.dengan lumpur dosa meminta padaMu..
Cinta Itu
Oh Ya Allah
Cinta Agungku
Ku Ingin dakap metah cintaMu
Ku hasrat cicipi manisnya ihsanMu
Ku damba indahnya RedhaMu
Namun
Nafsu sering meraja diri
Memusnah cinta yang mekar indah
Melebur iman yang mencambah
Membunuh rindu yang berbunga
Menoda cintakan syurgaNya
Oh ya Allah
Begitulah hambaMu ini
Yang ingin miliki lazatnya cintaMu
Yang ingin sentuhi nikmatnya kasihMu
Yang menanti pertemuan denganMu
Yang berombak atma mati di jalanMu
Yang mahu belai hangatnya RedhaMu
Oh ya Allah
Kurniakan aku cinta itu
CintaMu cinta Agungku
Buat peneman sepanjang hayat
Yang tanpanya tidak mungkin kita hidup lagi
Yang tanpanya tiada erti hidup ini
2003
suatu detik dahulu
dalam akrab debu itu
jazirah al-ward
Aku katakan
Aku tak pandai berpuisi
Namun harap metah
Aku yang sadur noda
Berlabuh selalu di indah dakapan MahgfirahMu
Ya Allah
Aku ingin satu hati
Yang selalu sejernih jeli
Yang selalu setenang kali..
Aku ingin bundar mata
Yang selalu alir mutiara
Karaman sesal dosa
Aku ingin satu nyawa
Yang selalu gundah bila putusnya ia
Aku memohon doa
Aku memanjat harap
Izinkan aku ya Allah
Biar tunak segalanya
Menjadi satu
Di dalam himpunan doa
Meski segala meminta
ya Rahman
ya Rahim
Oh ya Allah
Aku takut padaMu
Aku berharap padaMu
Aku juga ingin benar menyintaiMu
Sungguh!
Ingin aku selalu-selalu begini
Perkenankan ya Allah
This is an article about purification of heart " When Feeling Down " i have ‘kopi and pasta’ from blog hembusan
al-Fatrah in our religion means different things. One is ‘the period of intermission’ experienced by the Prophet s.a.w. when the revelation of al-Qur’an was stopped for a while. It was distressing for him especially when the non-believers started making jokes about it. But he s.a.w. showed patient and Allah finally sent down surah ad-Dhuha to end the period, in which one of the verses calmed him down, by saying which means, ‘Your Lord has not forsaken you, nor is He displeased with you,’ and that caused great joy in the life of the Prophet s.a.w.
The second meaning of al-Fatrah refers to the group of people (Ahl al-fatrah) who lived in between the time of revelations, and also to people to whom revelation has not reached them.
Alhamdulillah, I have witnessed Sidi Abdul Aziz explained about the third meaning in at least two occasions. He said al-fatrah also denotes the interval between a strong state of iman and the weaker state of iman. And he said that student of knowledge will be acutely aware of its coming, and their hearts will feel the pain of not being able to do their maximum wird during it. He said also, a real student of knowledge will understand that a state of fatrah is natural for a human, and he will prepare for it by setting up his personal set of minimum wird, which he will persevere upon regardless of what, and maximum wird which he will strive upon once the state of fatrah passes away.
Imam al-Haddad commented in his Risalah al-Muawanah, ‘Beware of leaving a wird for fear of not being able to persevere in it, for this is foolishness. You should not do, in each period of time, whatever happens to suit your energy and free time; on the contrary, you should have a minimum that you perform, which you can add to whenever you feel energetic, but never fall below when you feel lazy.’
Among a quick cure for this state of fatrah is by staying near to a righteous man and love him as much as one can, because good company adds up to one’s strength and encourages one to do more.
Seeking and longing for the companionship with good people with the intention to rejuvenate one’s desire and drive for worship is not wrong, in fact a worthy deed that must be sought after, and those who says otherwise is a fool. Reflect upon this hadith which means:
Umar ibn al-Khattab related that the Messenger of Allah said: ‘Among the servants of Allah are individuals who, though they are neither prophets nor martyrs, are envied by the prophets and martyrs for their rank with Allah on the Last Day.’ A man asked ‘Umar, ‘Who are they and what are their deeds that we may love them?’ He said, ‘People who love each other by the ruh of Allah without being related by blood and without sharing wealth between them, by Allah, their faces have light, and they are on minbars of light without fear when others are afraid and without sadness when others are sad.’ Then he read from the Qur’an: ‘Surely for the Awliya of Allah there is no fear upon them nor are they sad.’ Ya Salam!
When feeling down (al-fatrah) , let’s look at them, listen to the lovers and may the One loved by the lovers love us in return, and return us to our state of obedience, amin.
p/s: O MasyAllah. I know YOU will always hear our plead and prayer; please do ya Allah the Most Gracious and Merciful please accept our repent and love. We can’t live without Your mercy ya Allah.
Mengunjungi ma’rad di sela kesibukan imtihan merupakan sesuatu yang melelahkan namun amat mengujakan.
Kitab, buku, book: sama sahaja
Mencicipi aroma buku
Alangkah
Nyaman, membahagiakan
Kitab, kitab, kitab
SubhanAllah
cintanya
Terkenang; Mansurah: Qaherah duniaku dulu
Lubuk Ilmu
Dunia Cinta
Membusar segala khazanah
Indahnya
Menemui si kecil "baby umayra"
Melerai rindu
MasyAllah
anak kecil
Itulah penenang gundam jiwa
Melayaninya
Menerbit bahagia
Mendengar tangisnya
Mengundang tawa ceria
Merenung wajahnya
Penawar segala rencam rasa
Mengintai di celah waktu..
SubhanAllah banyaknya nikmat Allah padaku..
Dan apakah tingkat syukur ku pada Ar-Rahim?
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Usah kamu manjakan dirimu dengan dosa, kelak sukar berpisah dengan nya
Berjalan menaiki tangga,
Merenung, lalu menundukkan mata,
Tiba-tiba,
Jubah hitamku,
Tersungkur di birai tangga,
Malu bukan kepalang,
Lelaki di depan dan dibelakang,
Memandang simpati..
Mana mungkin aku dipapah mereka..
Aku tersenyum nipis dan menganggukkan kepala sambil menahan perit
Pada lelaki yang mengatakan "sori"-simpati
Aduhai!
Ujian apakah ini?
Aku lantas beristighfar~
Mencari " Apakah Amaran Allah buatku"
Di celah waktu..
4.10pm
Di hentian ini
Rencam isi segala
Berbaur Satu
Hanyir
Hampas
Tengit
Letai wajah menahan dura
Namun
Ini dunia
Khali dari yang mulus-mulus
Hakikatnya
Inilah rona lembah fana
Akrab dengan yang hina
Di Sisi-Nya
Lebih tidak dari sehelai sayap nyamuk
Bagi mu’min
Lebih tidak sebuah penjara
Rimas mengepung diri
Ingin segera bebas darinya
"Hur"
Alangkah
Sedang kita
Sabung
Iman
Memikat dunia
Yang kotor ini
Ibarat pungguk rindu
Si rembulan
Itulah kita
Alangkah
Dayus iman sungguh!
Lazuardi lelah mengapung dosa
Pawana jerih mengintai takabbur
Kabus redum mengusir ananiyah
Hingga jeda waktu
Akhir zaman
Hanya iman taruhan diri
Sedang wanita solehah itu jugalah
Sebaik fatamorgana dunia
Hentian
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