Rabu, 3 November 2010

Berehat Di Syurga atau Berehat Di Dunia... Mana Satu Menjadi Pilihan?

Hakikatnya, memimpin diri sendiri adalah jauh lebih payah dari memimpin orang lain. Saya masih teringat kata guru saya, ramai pahlawan dan panglima perang yang hebat di medan perang, tetapi kalah dengan diri sendiri. Jalaluddin ar Rumi pernah berkata:

“Aku melihat ramai yang pandai berenang tetapi lemas di laut, akan tetapi aku belum pernah melihat sampan yang bernama iman dan cinta itu karam di lautan”

Saiyyiduna ‘Umar al Khattab pernah memberitahu bahawa seseorang yang mahu menjadi pemimpin mesti terlebih dahulu mendalami Islam. “tafaqqahu qabla an tasawwadu”, begitulah lebih kurang bunyinya yang bererti “faqihkan dirimu (pelajari dan fahami Islam) sebelum engkau memimpin”. Sangat dalam pengertian ucapan yang pendek ini. Maksudnya, menjadi pemimpin dalam keadaan jahil lalu menurut hawa nafsu amat bahaya sekali. Ia akan menatijahkan kerosakan lebih banyak dari kebaikan.

Kerana itu jugalah Asy Syahid Hasan Al Banna mendahulukan faham sebelum amal, jihad, pengorbanan dan yang lainnya. Jika yang memimpin amal dan perjuangan itu jahil dan berpaksikan nafsu, nescaya rosaklah segalanya.

Namun ini bukanlah bermakna, nak kena lengkapkan diri dahulu baru seru orang kearah kebaikan dan cegah orang dari kemungkaran. Persepsi ini, saya kira amat salah sekali. Hal ini kerana, menyeru manusia kearah kebaikan dan mencegah kemungkaran, juga merupakan salah satu manhaj mengfaqihkan diri. Untuk diri seorang dai’e, satu sifat penting yang perlu ada adalah berani. Untuk menjadi seorang yang hebat dan memberi impak kepada masyarakat, sifat berani itu sangat dituntut.


Kita merindukan du’at yang berjiwa Khalid Al Walid yang sanggup mati berjuang dijalan Allah SWT. Kita juga merindukan du’at yang berjiwa Umar Al Khattab yang gagah perkasa dan berani menyatakan hak disamping mengkuburkan kebatilan. Dan kita juga amat sekali merindukan jiwa du’at seperti Rasulullah SAW yang berjaya melahirkan generasi du’at yang hebat.

Saya tertarik dengan kekentalan semangat Gabenor Syarifuddin Barghisy. Antara kata-kata beliau yang masyhur:

“siapa yang takut terbunuh atau tertawan, maka lebih baik baginya beristirahat di rumah dengan anak isterinya”

Kata-kata yang berbekalkan keberaniaan terpandu ini dilafazkan oleh beliau ketika dalam mesyuarat yang direncanakan oleh Asaduddin Syirkuh. Mesyuarat kali itu bertujuan untuk mencari resolusi bagi mengalahkan tentera lawan yang teramat ramai. Dan ketika dalam kekalutan mesyuarat itulah, Gabenor Syarifuddin Barghisy melaungkan kata-kata ini.

Jika kita lihat, bukan Gabenor Syarifuddin sahaja yang memperingatkan kita agar jangan kita duduk tanpa berfikir dan beramal untuk Islam. Banyak lagi tokoh lain yang turut melaungkan saranan yang sama. Antaranya, Tuan Guru Nik Aziz. Kata beliau:

“duk sajo tamboh lalai pulok, dosa”(bahasa Kelantan)

Kata Arwah Ustaz Fadzil Noor:

“jangan biarkan sehari dalam hidup anda berlalu tanpa memikirkan tentang Islam”

Mengapa sebegini ramai tokoh-tokoh hebat memperingatkan kita tentang perkara ini. Tujuannya satu sahaja sahabat-sahabat. Agar kita tidak menjadi ASHABUL ‘UQUL AL MUSTARIHAH, yang membawa makna ‘PEMILIK AKAL YANG BERISTIRAHAT’.

Oleh itu sahabat-sahabat, mari sama-sama kita renungkan sejenak. Jika kita lihat, Imam Al Nawawi sendiri tidak membiarkan dirinya beristirahat dari menuntut ilmu. Setengah riwayat menyebut, kesibukan beliau menuntut ilmu sehingga membuatkan beliau terlupa untuk berkahwin. Bayangkan sahabat-sahabat sekalian. Memang jauh bezanya dengan kita. Kita belajar pun tak habis lagi, ibadah pun terumbang-ambing lagi.. dah sibuk-sibuk fikir pasal kahwin. “tapi tidak bermakna kahwin awal itu salah”. (^^,).. Perkara ini memerlukan kepada perbahasan yang panjang. Mungkin bukan diruang ini untuk saya menerangkan.

Konklusi yang saya dapat nyatakan disini adalah, yang pertama, orang Islam tidak boleh membiarkan majoriti masa mereka kosong tanpa diisi dengan perkara berfaedah. Sekurang-kurangnya, berfikir dan merenung tentang Islam. Keduanya, orang Islam mesti menjadi berani. Mereka mesti berani mencabar risiko dan menongkah arus.

“SESUNGGUHNYA PEJUANG ISLAM ITU TIDAK MAHU BEREHAT DI DUNIA KERANA MEREKA INGIN BEREHAT DI SYURGA”

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JOM PAKAT MAI SHAH ALAM

Isnin, 25 Oktober 2010

The Ummah’s Victory Starts with YOU

One day, a group of people were sitting around and talking about the problems of the Ummah. They began raging about the lack of women’s roles within specific communities, the “backwards” ways that people often behave and the general desperate situation of the Muslims. One woman then shared her analysis, “It’s because of people from [this country] that we are so backwards!” And the racist country-blaming began.

But I know the majority of people who were sitting in that group did not follow Islam’s obligations – they did not pray or fast regularly. Therefore, is it really the people of “that country” that are causing us to have issues as an Ummah? Or is it really our own sins, arrogance, and diseased hearts which are causing us to slide backwards in our relationship with the One Who can easily give us advancement, honor and victory?

There are people being murdered throughout the world. There is massive starvation, cyclical poverty and inhumane occupation. What are we doing as an Ummah to help bring social justice back to our planet (apart from complaining about our state)?
Perhaps many of us are caught up in twenty-odd units of classes. Perhaps some of us are bogged down with work and the responsibilities of life. What can we possibly do, in our locality, consistently, when we are so far away from our brethren who are losing limbs, lives and hope?
We can come back to Allah ‘azza wa jal.
Allah subhanahu wa ta`ala (exalted is He) tells us in Surah Ali-Imran:
“So do not weaken and do not grieve, and you will be superior if you are [true] believers.” (Qur’an, 3:139)
Allah is giving us the great news of victory if we are true believers! So let us seek victory in His Promise.
Let us first take responsibility for our own actions. Many of us protest every year against occupations globally, yet many of us will miss dhuhr and `asr prayer on the very same day. Are you the one who will bring liberation back to Palestine? Or is it the One Who controls everything in the Heavens and the Earth? Sometimes we get so caught up with being active to improve the state of others, that we forget that the most important state we need to improve is that of our own selves – that of maintaining our basic obligations towards Allah (swt).
Let’s start focusing on being the BEST social justice advocates: those who bring justice first to our own souls by seeking the pleasure of our Lord, by maintaining what has been obligated upon us, and fighting our base desires to stay away from what has been forbidden to us, and by striving to not only take Allah as our Creator and One we worship, but also as our BEST FRIEND. And let us know that when we seek Allah, Allah (swt) will help quicken our victory in the cause of justice.
Allah promises He “…will help those who help His cause. Indeed Allah is all-Powerful, all-Mighty.” (Qur’an, 22:40)
The scholar Imam Ash-Shinqitee, may Allah have mercy on his soul, stated, “Allah – the Mighty and Majestic – explains in this noble Verse that He has promised to help and give victory to those who help Him. And it is known that the help and victory of Allah comes by following what He has prescribed, obeying His command, [and] avoiding His prohibitions…”[i]
For those seeking to bring humanity, justice and liberation to the oppressed, and dignity and honor back to those who feel humiliated in our Ummah, let us go back to Allah. Let us sincerely, consistently and seriously work on our relationships with Him and allow this to be the drive behind our passion to bring social justice and advancement to our Ummah.
Four Action Items:
  • Start doing one amazing thing to revamp your relationship with Allah! Perhaps it’s saying “Subhan Allahi wa Bi Hamdihi” (all glory and praise be to Allah) 100 times a day. Perhaps it’s beginning to establish praying the sunnah salah before fajr every day. Perhaps it’s making a commitment to do the wajibaat (obligatory actions) and trying one’s best to keep going on this, regardless of the difficulty of the situation.
  • Start running away, sprinting away from one thing you know Allah has asked us to stay away from! The “F” word? Talking smack? Ignoring your mom? Pick one thing to fight and start boxing it out of your life!
  • Begin or maintain whatever you can do to contribute to social justice. We need to do the action while supplicating for, and being certain of, Allah’s Help.
  • Continually make du`a’, in our prostration, when it rains, between the athan and the iqama, in the last third of the night, when you’re fasting, sick or traveling – all of which are times when the du`a’ is accepted – make du`a’ for the Ummah! And have CERTAINTY that Allah will answer.
Why wouldn’t Allah (swt) bring us success when we, as an Ummah, are seeking His pleasure by doing what He has obligated upon us? When we fight ourselves to stay away from what He asks us to stay away from, when we work for the outcome of social justice and make du`a’ with certainty that He will answer – He WILL answer! Let us seek Allah’s pleasure and go back to Him for the sake of those dying unjustly all over the world! What are we waiting for? We have the BEST promise from the One Who NEVER breaks His promise!
“Allah has promised to those amongst you who have iman (certainty of belief) and do righteous actions, that He will grant you the khilafah (succession to authority) in the land…” (Qur’an, 24:55)
And let us know that in the end, Allah is always watching and regardless of what we do, we will always go back to Him:
“And say, ‘Do [as you will], for Allah will see your deeds, and [so, will] His Messenger and the believers. And you will be returned to the Knower of the unseen and the witnessed, and He will inform you of what you used to do.’” (Qur’an, 9:105)
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[i] Adwaa’ ul-Bayaan (5/703-704)

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