Tidak bisa ku berubah selagi nafsu mendamba dunya,
Tidak layak menjadi abid jika masih dihambakan lidah,
Tidak logik keinginan ke syurga jika rantai tetap dipacakkan ke tanah,
Jangan pernah perasaan imanku tinggi selagi menginginkan yang fana…

Allah… Aku sedar ya Allah…  

(First, read the news article here.)

Ya, hari ini, Qur’an telah dibakar oleh mereka, kerana jahilan mereka sendiri. 

Ya, hari ini, hati juga membakar dengan api-api kemarahan melihat perbuatan mereka.

Tetapi tiba-tiba terdetik suara kecil di hati…

Ketika Rasulullah s.a.w. wafat, Abu Bakr As-Siddique telah mengatakan dengan penuh hikmah,

“Kalau saudara-saudara menyembah Muhammad, maka sesungguhnya Muhammad telah wafat. Tetapi kalau saudara-saudara menyembah Allah, maka sesungguhnya Dia tetap hidup selama-lamanya!”

Nah, kita menggunakan analogi yang sama kepada al-Qur’an: Jika pastor Terry Jones membakar satu mushaf, berjuta mushaf lagi yang ada. Malah jika dia membakar kesemua mushaf pun, Qur’an tetap akan ada… di dalam hati, minda dan lidah berbilion kaum Muslimin.

….

Hmm, benarkah yang aku katakan tadi? 

Adakah benar, jika Qur’an kesemua dibakar, Qur’an akan tetap terus hidup di dalam hati Ummah? Adakah benar, jika Qur’an sebagai mushaf tidak lagi ada, diriku ini dapat menghidupkan kembali Qur’an dengan kata-kataku, dengan akhlakku etc?…

Sesungguhnya masih jauh lagi.

Kita kembali.

Apakah punca perasaan-perasaan ketidakpuasan Terry Jones kepada Islam?

Buatku, sudah tentunya kerana apa yang dilihat dengan matanya - kaum Muslimin. Dan oleh kerana kita selalu membuat sesuatu atas nama Allah walaupun perkara itu melanggar syariah, secara A = B, Terry Jones telah membuat kesimpulan bahawa kelakuan kaum Muslimin semua disebabkan perintah-perintah yang telah diberikan Allah, kepada Ummah, melalui al-Qur’an.

Ya, memang salah kesimpulannya, dan salah lagi perbuatannya yang melandaskan kesimpulan tersebut. Kesilapannya adalah kerana kejahilannya, kerana dia tidak tahu.

Tetapi tanyalah diri sendiri, wahai diri yang telah pun mengetahui.

Qur’an tetap ada sebagai mushaf di rak-rak, tetapi tidak dibuka, tidak dibaca, tidak ditadabbur. Apa bezanya jika Qur’an itu ada, atau tidak?

Qur’an diturunkan untuk mengubah akhlak, untuk menyeru pada Yang Satu. Jika perangai tetap jahil, apa bezanya jika Qur’an itu ada, atau tidak?

Dan yang terakhir, apabila orang kafir mengutuk-ngutuk Islam atau membakar kalamullah, diri kita cepat marah, cepat menuduh kekafiran mereka… tetapi tepuklah dada dan tanya selera,

Adakah diri sendiri telah membakar Qur’an secara simbolis?

Moga memberiku, dan memberi kami semua, peringatan, insyaAllah.

Salamualaykum,

Rasulullah Salallahu ‘alayhi wasallam said: “O Muslims! Sit with your elders, question the scholars, and meet wise people.” [Tibrani, Mishkat]

In other words, one should benefit from knowledge at every opportunity. Elders have life experience from which one may benefit. We should sit with them to benefit from their experiences and also to provide them with company. Scholars have religious knowledge from which one may learn. Asking questions is a way in which we can learn from them.

Besides elders and scholars, Rasulullah Salallahu ‘alayhi wasallam advised us to keep the company of the wise. The wise are those whose destination is Paradise. Whoever ends up in the Fire will consider himself/herself to be the most stupid of people. They may have been Nobel laureates in this world but when they get to their final destination they will realize how they had wasted their brains and will say:

وَقَالُوا لَوْ كُنَّا نَسْمَعُ أَوْ نَعْقِلُ مَا كُنَّا فِي أَصْحَابِ السَّعِيرِ

“Had we but listened or used (any of) our intelligence, we should not (now) be among the Companions of the Blazing Fire!” [Quran 67:10]

The scholars and the wise are those who have the awareness, love and fear of Allah (subhana wa ta’ala).

How should we recognize these wise people whose destination is Jannah?

Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) says that the wise are:

1) Those who forbid others from doing wrong: “Why were there not, among the generations before you, persons possessed of balanced good sense, prohibiting (men) from mischief in the earth.” [Quran 11:116]

2) Those who practice what they preach: “Do you enjoin righteousness upon mankind while you yourselves forget (to practise it)? And you are readers of the Scripture! Have you then no sense?” [Quran 2:44]

3) Those who give every preference to the life of the Hereafter and spend their life working for it: “Naught is the life of the world save a pastime and a sport. Better far is the abode of the Hereafter for those who keep their duty (to Allah). Have you then no sense? [Quran 6:32]

4) Those who believe in the message brought by Muhammad (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam): “The likeness of those who disbelieve (in relation to the messenger) is as the likeness of one who calls to that which hears nothing except a shout and cry. Deaf, dumb, blind, therefore they have no sense.” [Quran 2:171]

Although everybody has something to teach and something to learn, the harm of the foolish, ignorant or frivolous person is more than their good. Time is a precious commodity that should not be wasted in useless chatter. For a capitalist, time is money. For a Muslim, time is much more precious than that. It is our Jannah or Jahannum. Our never ending life depends on how we use it.

A wise person is one who learns from his experiences, while the wiser person is one who learns from the experiences of others. This hadith is telling us to be the wiser person and learn from the experiences of our elders, the scholars who fear Allah and the wise.

Source: Sam’ina wa ata’na

Ya Rabba makata wa safa, bi muhammadin, ighfirlana, ya sami’an, li du’ana…

As the sweet distinct smell I have missed the past few months filled the air and embraced my jubah, I found a smile beginning to etch on my face as my heart leapt with happiness in my chest.

Ahead, all I could see were the backs of men in white, head to toe, bodies swaying in unison to tunes of the qasidah and selawat. Surrounding me, were women of all ages. Most wore niqabs while others chose to wear their children who made their mother’s body their playground, but all… all with nur and smiles that shone from their eyes. SubhanAllah…

Ya Rabba makata wa safa, bi muhammadin, ighfirlana, ya sami’an, li du’ana…

I then wondered… If being surrounded by a tiny group of lovers of Rasulullah s.a.w. in a small majlis at a tiny surau hidden in a nondescript lane in a tucked-away corner of Kuala Lumpur can make my soul feel so at rest, just how would this soul feel being in the company of Rasulullah s.a.w. and his companions during the hereafter? And how would this soul feel at being able to see the One Who Created?

Allah… Allah… I cannot imagine it!

Ya Rabba makata wa safa, bi muhammadin, ighfirlana, ya sami’an, li du’ana…

And then it struck me, that as long as this wretched soul remains full of love for this dunya, as long as this wretched soul stubbornly refuses to do away with her nafs, there is no chance in the world that that can ever happen. How could something so dirty ever hope to meet someone so pure, so clean, so perfect…

Ya Rasulullah! Ya Habiballah! Prayers with peace sets out for the moment that we meet, O Beloved, InsyaAllah :’)

Alhamdulillah… Thank you Allah for reminding me, for giving me what I needed to continue this journey, and for surrounding me with a group of akhawati who never fail to inspire me - each in their own unique way.

Allah, Allah Ya Rasulullah! Inna solati wa nusuki wa mahyaya wamamati lillahi rabbi ‘alameen, insyaAllah! :’)