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More than to anyone, this is more to my own self.

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Hakim al-Umma Shaykh Mawlana Shah Ashraf Ali Thanawi (Allah have mercy on him) used to repeatedly emphasize that one must complete his daily ma’muuat (wird) regularly.

In case of a genuine excuse this may be even without wudhu’ (ablution) or while doing the daily chores . This is because that being absent after fixing a ma’mool (wird) causes loss of barakah (Divinely blessings) excessively.

Maasir e Hakeemul Ummat 233

Soalan:

Setelah mandi wajib kerna haid telah berhenti semasa subuh kerana bangun pagi tiada kesan darah, tiba -tiba semasa asar terdapat cebisan darah keluar ketika buang air kecil. Tetapi kesan darah takda. Mungkin cebisan2 darah haid yg tertinggal. Adakah perlu mandi semula? Ini biasa berlaku pada diri saya dan saya anggap haid belum kering 100% dan mandi semula. Tetapi sya terfikir mungkin saya salah , jadi sya ingin bertanya kepada yang lebih arif.

BismillahiMashALLAH

Allahumma Solli ‘Ala Muhammad

يَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْمَحِيضِ قُلْ هُوَ أَذًى فَاعْتَزِلُوا النِّسَاءَ فِي الْمَحِيضِ وَلا تَقْرَبُوهُنَّ حَتَّى يَطْهُرْنَ فَإِذَا تَطَهَّرْنَ فَأْتُوهُنَّ مِنْ حَيْثُ أَمَرَكُمُ اللَّهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يُحِبُّ التَّوَّابِينَ وَيُحِبُّ الْمُتَطَهِّرِينَ

Mereka bertanya kepadamu tentang haid. Katakanlah : “Haid itu adalah suatu kotoran”. Oleh sebab itu, hendaklah kamu menjauhkan diri dari wanita di waktu haid, dan janganlah kamu mendekatkan mereka, sebelum mereka suci..” AlBaqarah:222

MENGENAL BERAKHIRNYA HAID SECARA RINGKAS

Seputar Ramadan saya menerima beberapa persoalan sekitar masalah hubungan suami isteri wanita, haid dan feqh wanita serta yang sekitar dengannya.

Permasalah haid di kalangan wanita sangat halus lagi teliti perbincagannya di kalangan Fuqaha’. Ini kerana bukan sahaja permasalahan haid melibatkan kebersihan diri wanita tetapi ianya turut merangkum permasalahan ibadah juga jika seorang wanita telah berkahwin ia meliputi persoalan hubungan’ jima’(persetubuhan) suami isteri seperti yang disebut dalam petikan ayat Quran di atas.

Selalunya masalah ini akan menjadi kecelaruan apabila di akhir tempoh fasa haid wanita. Terutamanya bagi mereka yang mempunyai masalah keputihan dan lain-lain lagi.

Terdapat soalan dikalangan akhwat kita berkenaan masalah haid.

Pertamanya mari kita renungi salah satu hadis utama yang menjadi sandaran fuqaha’ bagi menganalisa permasalahan berhentinya haid wanita sebelum kita masuk lebih dalam ke dalam perbincangan ini.

Hadis dari Saidatina Aisyah r.a. yang menceritakan; “Wanita-wanita sahabat menghantar kepadanya satu bekas kecil berisi kapas yang terdapat padanya kesan kuning dan keruh dari haid. (*Tujuan mereka ialah meminta penjelasan darinya apakah mereka telah suci dari haid atau belum apabila yang masih tinggal pada faraj mereka hanyalah kesan kuning dan keruh). Lalu ‘Aisyah menjawab;

لا تَعْجَلَنَّ حتى ترين القَصَّة البيضاء

“Janganlah kamu tergesa-gesa (mandi wajib) sehinggalah kamu melihat seperti kapur putih” (HR Imam al-Bukhari)

PERBINCANGAN RINGKAS HADIS:-

Jesteru hendaklah bagi seorang wanita benar-benar memeriksa dan tidak tergesa-gesa untuk mandi wajib sebelum memastikan bahawa beliau telah suci sepenuhnya dari tempoh haid.

Menurut Ulama warna-warna darah haid terdiri seperti dibawah:-

1. Hitam
2. Merah
3. Asyqar (warna antara merah dan kuning)
4. Kuning
5. Keruh

Pertama:

Perhatikan waktu kebiasaan tempoh haid berakhir. Ini berdasarkan kiraan putaran kebiasaan setiap bulan. Menurut Mazhab Syafie’ 7-8 hari kebiasaanya. Seperti dimaklumi menerusi kalam Sayyiduna Ali r.a

مَا زَادَ عَلَى الخَمَسَةَ عَشَرَ اِسْتِحَاضَة

Maksudnya: Apa yang melebihi 15 hari dikira sebagai istihadah.

Kedua:

Gunakan kapas atau kain putih untuk memastikan benar-benar sudah tiada darah.

Ketiga:

Pastikan hanya yang kamu lihat QASSATUL BAYDHO’ yakni boleh difahami sebagai kapur bersih ATAU benang warna putih.

“Janganlah kamu tergesa-gesa (mandi wajib) sehinggalah kamu melihat seperti kapur putih” (HR Imam al-Bukhari)

Keempat:

Namun begitu, bagi mereka yang biasa mengalami keputihan/cecair faraj yang banyak pada tempoh-tempoh sewaktu TIDAK haid, hendaklah dipastikan dalam fasa terakhir itu sekiranya telah diperiksa suci, putih dan tiada darah kemudian mereka melakukan kewajiban mandi hadas besar.

Kemudian setelah sehari atau setengah hari, timbul bebenang kekuningan.

Maka bagaimana?

Di sini, perlu melihat kepada kebiasaan wanita.

Jika seandainya sudah biasa mengalami masalah keputihan ATAU masalah cecair faraj yang banyak maka bebenang kuning itu TIDAK dikira haid sebaliknya merupakan tanda wanita melalui fasa pusingan hormon yang biasa.

Di sini perlu dipastikan adalah kebiasaan seseorang wanita.

JAWAPAN UNTUK MASALAH YANG DITIMBULKAN:

Jesteru, jawapan untuk soalan di atas ialah: Anda masih belum suci disebabkan masih ada warna coklat/keruh. Serta benarlah tindakan tersebut untuk tunggu sehingga benar-benar hanya warna putih yang kelihatan sebelum mandi hadas.

alfaqeerah alQasam

Subjek : Feqh Islam
Pengajar: Us Zainon, Us Sharifah Madihah, Us Sumayyah

MUDARABAH

DEFINASI MUDARABAH

Definisi Dr Bahasa

Diambil dari perkataan “dharb fi al-ardh ” bermaksud musafir. Amalan ini dinamakan demikian kerana pada kebiasaanya perniagaan ini membabitkan perjalan jauh utk memperolehi barangan,memasarkan,mengaut keuntunagan dsb.

Definisi Dr Istilah

Perkongsian yg berlaku apabila pemilik menyerahkan hartanya kpd seseorang utk diusahakan dan keuntungannya akan dikongsikan bersama.

HUKUM MUDHARABAH

Harus dan tidak lazim.

Tidak lazim = kedua pihak boleh pada bila-bila masa membatalkan kontrak samada sebelum kerja-kerja dimulakan atau selepas.

Pembatalan sebelum kerja = pengusaha tdk boleh lagi menggunakan modal tersebut

Pembatalan selepas kerja dimulakan = pengusaha hdklah memberhentikan aktiviti jual beli yg baru secara serta merta dan menjual semua barang yg ada (hasil perusahaan) utk menyelesaikan hutang yg berkaitan.

HIKMAH MUDARABAH

Memberi manfaat kpd pemodal yg tidak mempunyai pengalaman dalam bidang perusahaan

Memberi keuntungan bagi pihak pengusaha yg mempunyai pengalaman tetapi ketiadaan modal

Memajukan sesebuah negara dari hasil perniagaan itu.

RUKUN MUDARABAH

1 Pelabur
- mempunyai kelayakan sbg pewakil
- keahlian sempurna

2 Pengusaha
-mempunyai kelayakan sbg wakil
- keahlian sempurna
- bukan dari kalangan org buta

3 Lafaz (sighah)
Penawaran dan persetujuan dengan kata-kata yg menunjukan persetujuan untuk menubuhkan kontrak dan perkongsian ini.
Contoh = kata pemodal (ijab) “Saya melabur pada anda” atau “saya serahkan urusan pada anda” atau “ambilah wang ini dan niagakanlah”. Keuntugan yang diperolehi akan dibahagi dua atau 1/3 utk saya dan 2/3 untuk anda atau sebagainya.

4 Modal
- Berbentuk matawang
- Dalam jumlah yang tertentu
- Dalam bentuk tunai
- Diserahkan kpd pengusaha.
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Picture

Jika manusia

Punya

Faham

cinta dan kasih

Pasti menekur aib sendiri

Kasih dan cinta itu

Bukan untuk dipilih-pilih

Bukan miliknya kita

Ia tanda murahnya kasih ALLAH

Beri pada yang perlu merasa

Usah kedekut dan jangan pula besar diri

(Siapa kita, yang tidak miliki apa-apa?)

Sayangilah, kita-kita

kerana semua-

kita; mereka

BERHAK dan PERLU disayang

Bukalah hati dan letakkan cinta

Ia ajaib

Gemburlah ia

Dengan kerendahan jiwa

Bakal meminggir beza

Juga buruk sangka yang ada

Rasalah

Ketidaksempurnaan dicantum bersama

Menjadi

Beautifully imperfect

Itulah rahsia cinta

Ketidaksempurnaan membenih

Pohon

Sempurna

…Cinta Sempurna

alQasam
yang jauh dari sempurna
18.1.2010

Buat anak-anak murid ustazah yang amat disayang menerima guru yang penuh lompang dan kekurangan. Kalian mengajar cinta pada ustazah. Ibarat anak dan ibu. Itu kata kalian. Ibarat tebing dan aur. Itu kata ustazah.

For Salsa who always dear to my heart and all my students who thought me more than I ever been thought before <3C

Gerhana matahari datang lagi. Membawa kabar bahawa ALLAH itu ESA dan kekuasaanNYA tiada dapat dihitung dan ditimbang tara. Selamat menundukkan hati dan diri menyaksikan aja’ibun khalqillah. Semuanya terjadi hanya untuk membawa kita INGAT dan TAAT kepada ALLAH.

Dari Abu Mas’ud radhiyallahu anhu berkata: Nabi shallallahu alaihi wasallam bersabda: “Sesungguhnya matahari dan bulan merupakan dua tanda kebesaran Allah, di mana Allah menakuti hamba-Nya. Tidak terjadi gerhana karena kematian seseorang manusia, akan tetapi keduanya merupakan dua tanda kebesaran Allah, apabila kalian menyaksikannya, maka laksanakan shalat dan berdoalah kepada Allah sehingga dikembalikan kembali oleh Allah” (HR Bukhari dan Muslim, nas ini lafaz Muslim 4/463 hadits nomor 1516).

Solat Gerhana disebut di dalam bahasa arab dengan khusuf (الخُسُوفِ ) bagi bulan dan kusuf (الكُسُوفِ ) bagi matahari, iaitu hilangnya cahaya bulan atau matahari.

Ia bukanlah berlaku kerana kemurkaan Allah swt, tetapi merupakan petanda kepada kebesaran kekuasaan Allah swt. Ia juga berupaya menjadi peringatan kepada manusia tentang azab dan nikmat yang dijanjikan Allah swt pada hambanya kerana fenomena gerhana ini sangat besar ertinya samada dari penghayatan iman dan sains. Ia bukan fenomena baru yang hanya berlaku pada akhir zaman ini tapi telah berlaku sejak alam ini dijadikan dan juga pada zaman Nabi saw yang dikenali sebagai sebaik-baik kurun.

Dalilnya :

Diriwayatkan oleh al-Bukhari dan Muslim dari Aisyah r.a. bahawa Nabi SAW bersabda:

إِنَّ الشَّمْسَ وَالقَمَر َ آيَتَانِ مِنْ ايَاتِ اللهِ لاَيَخْسِفَان ِ لِمَوت ِ أَحَدٍ وَلاَ لِحَيَاتِهِ، فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُمْ
ذلِكَ فَادْعُوا اللهَ وَكَبِّرُوا وَتَصَدَّقُوا وَصَلُّوا

Maksud: “Sesungguhnya matahari dan bulan adalah dua macam tanda dari tanda-tanda kekuasaan Allah. Terjadinya gerhana matahari atau bulan itu bukanlah kerana kematian seseorang atau kehidupannya. Maka jikalau kamu melihatnya, berdoalah kepada Allah, bertakbirlah, bersedekahlah serta bersembahyanglah”
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Warna Alam

Melihat alam mentafisr realiti
Menghujani ilham
Tafakkur merenung biru kapas awan
Basah jiwa dengan zikrullah
Merenung alam hijau
Tadabbur penuh zuhud
Alangkah indah ciptaan Allah
Merentas dada merah saganya matahari
Polos jiwa dengan tasbih
Melipat akli mulusnya titis hujan
Rencam jiwa dengan taubat
Mengintai anjung kerdipan mata warna-warni pelangi
Subhanallah indahnya
Sarat atma dengan cintaNya
Mengetuk kalbu mulusnya putih salji
Ibarat pola-pola kapas mendakap lantai bumi
Sebu hati dengan rinduNya
Mencumbu wanginya pepohon kayu hutan;pine
Allahukabar
Tunduk diri penuh taqwa
Mendengar merdunya hembusan bayu
MasyAllah
Akur hati sujud padaNya
Mencicipi halusnya deruan air sungai
Lailahaillah
Luluh rasa getar padaNya
Menadah haruman kelopak bunga
Tepu atma dengan syukur
Segalanya
Tiada bicara melainkan aku abidNya
Pada ciptaanNya tersirat rahsia keEsaanNya
Dan apakah kamu tidak berfikir?

nai
5.37am
2/06

SubhanALLAh, saya menjumpai salah satu koleksi puisi saya di laman forum seni yang hampir setahun setengah digodam dan hampir bertahun-tahun saya tinggal sejak awal 2006. Saya akui, pasti puisi di atas punya banyak kekurangan dari sudut kesusasteraan. Saya membiarkannya tanpa kemaskini dahulu buat masa ini. Sudah hampir setahun saya tidak dapat mencipta apa-apa karya yang signifikan. Moga-moga dimudahkan menulis sesuatu yang bukan sekadar ‘for the sake of writing’.

Juga ahlan Wasahlan Habib Omar Benhafidz yang dirindui. Moga kami mendapat nafahat yang melimpah dengan kedatanganmu di sini.

Allahua’lam.

Aku melihatnya dengan sinar keliru, diakah itu sahabat yang telah terpisah lama. Sekujur tubuhnya masih sama, malah aku kenal amat akan riak wajahnya. 15 tahun lamanya aku mencari-cari ke mana hilang gerangannya. Ya, aku pasti itu Raihan. Aku berbisik sendiri.

Sambil menjinjit plastik keluar dari kedai buku Konikuniya aku berlari-lari anak mengejar kujur tubuh itu di balik puluhan manusia. Pandangan mataku berbalam-balam  sambil ingatanku juga melayang mengingati pertemuan terakhir kami.   

1988

                              
Pertemuan terakhir di persisiran Nil, masih hangat dalam ingatan. Aku masih ingat lagi pada detik itu. Kami melafaz janji bersaksikan langit hitam, bintang  berkerlipan juga halus Nil yang mengalir. Katanya. " Aisya, walau sebentar saja Raihan di sini, menziarahimu mengenal  lembah sarat ulama’ juga akrab dengan ilmu di sini, namun jiwaku tenang dengan nikmat yang sebentar ini. Andai mampu aku mengubah sesuatu ingin sahaja aku menukar tubuh dengan Aisya, aku di sini dan Aisya di Texas". Ulasnya mesra sambil ketawa sendirian.

Aku hanya memandangnya sekilas, tersenyum nipis namun hati sarat sebak dengan bicaranya. Tidak mahu menggangu  suasana juga mahu menutup perasaan sebenarku, aku sekadar menepuk lembut lengannya seraya berkata. " Raihan ni, segalanya kan dah tersurat. Raihan di sana, bertemankan pohon-pohon pine, daun-daun mapel,  anggur  yang wangi, dan salju yang dingin. Aku di sini berteman kan debu sahrawi, apalah ada denganku . Namun walau tubuh terpisah jauh namun Raihan mesti ingat janji kita ya." Aku mengerlingnya menanti balasannya.

Dia melihatku sambil mengerdipkan matanya yang indah jeli berwarna hazel.  Katanya. " Aisya, takkan Raihan lupa. Jadi wanita yang solehah, ermm rajin belajar hingga benar-benar hadam segala ilmu, tetap di atas jalan dakwah dan ilmu. Juga jangan berkahwin hingga habis belajar." Dia memaparkan wajahnya yang lucu apabila mengutarakan ayat yang terakhir membuatkan  ketawa kami pecah bersama.

Sambil membetulkan lipatan hijab hitamku yang  sedikit terganggu oleh desiran angin malam, aku menjawab. " Ingat tu, jangan bermain cinta, nanti terbakar pula. Andai dah tak dapat nak elak, simpan je. Biar pekasam dalam hati. Cinta-حب tu "isim nakirah ". Boleh hadir tanpa diketahui oleh sesiapa."Bercinta" itu ‘feel’, perbuatan perlakuan membenarkan perasaan cinta itu."

Aku mengulang kembali prinsip tegas yang kami genggam sejak dari zaman sekolah menengah lagi sambil menjelingnya tajam, namun hati ingin  tertawa melihat mimik wajahnya yang ceria dan terseringai lebar.

" Ok dear, aku orait je. Aisya ni, terang pasal nahu pula kat aku yang memang ‘zero’ nahu. Beliau berpura-pura marah. Beberapa anak-anak kecil Arab berlari-lari di tebing sungai Nil di Tahrir ini. Kami senyap seketika melihat ibubapa kepada anak-anak kecil tersebut. Ayahnya sudah kelihatan berumur manakala ibunya masih muda. Begitulah adat kebiasaan di Mesir.

Raihan tersenyum memandang kanak-kanak tersebut yang tersipu-sipu memandang kami. Anak perempuan jesteru malunya tebal. Jika kanak-kanak lelaki menjadi satu kemestian bertanyakan soalan ” Pukul berapa sekarang” apabila melihat ‘Wafidin’ seperti kami.

Raihan menyambung perbualan kami.

“Aisya pun sama ya. Tegar di dalam  Sunnah Baginda s.a.w tau, dan melazimi jalan-jalan Salaf Soleh dan ulama’-ulama’ yang kita sama-sama cintai. Lusa, aku akan terbang ke sana. Menyambung pengajian musim panasku. Kau di sini, baik-baik sahaja ya. Doakan Raihan tabah atas nama wanita Muslimah. Cabaran di sana hebat, hanya segelintir yang berhijab. Mohon doa moga aku tekal ya..

Birai mataku kabur, sambil mengenggam erat tangannya, aku mengganguk. Selamat jalan teman. Umpama terusan Nil yang dikatakan berpunca dari syurga; walau entah benar entah tidak, begitulah harapan kami berdua agar janji kami termetri hingga membawa ke JannahNya.

Bersambung…
 

April 2006

Entri lama di blog lama. Asalnya tiga tahun lepas ingin menyuntik elemen kesan liberalisasi, travelogue, falsafah dan kemanusiaan dalam cerpen ini. Entah ke mana halatujunya selepas ini. Moga dapat dihabiskan penulisannya dan tahun ini dapat memberi anjakan kepada beberapa perkara dalam hidup. Menghabisi apa yang tertunggak. Menyelesaikan apa yang tertangguh. Diri, peribadi, keluarga dan masyarakat. Learning, growing, improving, loving and giving more each day. Ini yang saya harapkan prior to Muharram. Juga berkongsi secawan kopi di birai Muharam ini. Entri asal saya tulis dua tahun lepas sempena kedatangan hijrah. Moga-moga. Amin.

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Copyright: ~terrarosa

Transcendent Of The Rhythms

Say, “Who prohibited the nice things God has created for His creatures, and the good provisions?” Say,”Such provisions are to be enjoyed in THIS life by those who BELIEVE. Moreover, the good provisions will be exclusively theirs on the Day of resurrection.” We thus explain the revelations for people who know.” 7:32

Those who close to ALLAH and preserve the remembrance of ALLAH’s Greatness through not only their music/song (naat, qasidah, -r&b, soulful, harmony genres of nasyeed-) but by their actions (qudwah) & works (da’wa) will always be my fav. There are always new nasyid artists and new released but not all can captured my heart. I’m looking for a sound that carry a message/essence which can transcend the soul and heart to Almighty ALLAH and HIS Greatness. Not to mention making our heart warm&fuzzy with the love to our Prophet. Promoting Islam will be a bonus tough.

Recently, producing a music that has the essence of spirituality has become a trend. I didn’t have anything to say about that but what I preferred is not a trend nor just simply making the music that speaks out loud about ALLAH but those who are singing it has to comes among who are right in their word, true with their action and obey ALLAH. Our submission to Almighty ALLAH can’t be done partially and based upon on our nafs, comfort and excuses.[1]

As Ismail Raji AlFaruqi (May ALLAH Bless his soul) stated below:-

According to the ethnomusicologist Al-Faruqi, religious opinion makes a hierarchy of music and singing in forbidden, unfavored, indifferent, recommended and commendable forms. The recitation of the Quran stands at the peak of the hierarchy, immediately followed by the call to prayer and religious chants. Also legitimate are various types of songs connected to family celebrations, caravan chants, work songs and the music of military bands. At the bottom of the hierarchy, we find “sensuous music that is performed in association with condemned activities, or that is thought to incite to such prohibited practices as consumption of drugs and alcohol, lust, prostitution etc.” These genres are clearly forbidden, haram. Most forms of music and singing, though, fall between these clear categories and are controversial.[2]

Of course a good message can be grasp from any human being but as for myself I would love to strictly restrict myself to ONLY hear what -selective- munsyeed are singing. As my nafs is not that good yet (I may be lost in the middle of it if I choose otherwise) and listen from those who close, submit and obey ALLAH will fill my ruh and heart with much fulfillment of good dzauq and bring me to remember HIM in the purest content of glass (methodology) InshALLAH it will lead/help me to hear what ONLY ALLAH want us to listen to.

Every single thing around us can lead us to ALLAH of course. Even the sound of the birds, the waves of water. As Imam Chelebi mentioned but it has to be inline in what ALLAH favor.

The seventeenth-century Muslim scholar Chelebi distinguishes three categories of music: that coming from birds, from the human throat and from instruments. He states that in Islam it is permissible to listen to the melodies produced by birds, and to those produced by the human throat, subject to certain conditions and rules. To listen to instruments that are blown or struck however, is never permissible. Certain instruments are forbidden because they are supposed to incite drinking. The kuba, an oblong drum, for instance, is prohibited because of its association with drinking wine, licentious songs and dissolute people. With respect to the human throat, if it produces songs about wine and debauchery, it is not permissible to listen to them. [3]

In short, it is not outer appearance that are importance but how they carried themselves and being in the limitation of syara’ while performing. Music and entertainment in Islam is not only about the music itself but our scholars has put a strict guideline that the performance, lyrics, singers, music, crowds of the listeners has to follows Islamic principle and Maqasid Shara’ that been stated by those applicable in that area.

Meaning that you can be as dashing as Maher Zain or as humble as Zain Bikha for instance, but have to keep a straight rule whilst performing, not conduct any inappropriate acts, keeps right with thier actions/words and not mingling with mixed-gender crowds as they have showed us. All single of action in Islamic music/sing/song will be accountable by ALLAH.

Not everything evolving around music to determine what a good music are in ALLAH’s sight. Imam Ghazali (Rahimahullah) has underline a clear guideline on how to conduct ourselves while mingling around music and whats not around that.

The approval or disapproval of performers is not only related to the genre but also to the context of the performance. Regarding the permissibility of the context, three elements are deemed important by the eleventh-century Muslim scholar Imam al-Ghazali, that is, time, place and associates. It is not acceptable if too much time is devoted to performances so that it interferes with the higher Islamic goals and distracts the believers’ attention from the devotion to God. Full-time professional performers are accordingly less acceptable than non-professional amateurs. The acceptability of the place and occasion of the performance is also an important factor in judging the legitimacy of the entertainers and their public. Lastly, the type of people present during the performance affects the permissibility of the performers and their audience. A certain genre of music can thus be permissible in one context while it is rejected in another circumstance. Playing the tambourine is, for instance, acceptable if it is done by women at a wedding but forbidden if it is done by men in contexts of homosexuality or prostitution.[4]

As we the listener we also have to be careful of what your heart, mind, soul, body, and intention based upon. It should be a right based on what ALLAH permitted us to do so. Keep our gaze lower and always listen ONLY what can make we remembered ALLAH. If the heart trembled with an-nafs (evil, bad, uncalled desire), then even what you heard comes from a good Muslim singer and good message then we should stop. That is how delicate a barrier between (an evil, bad, uncalled) soul (an-nafs) desire AND a soul that only want ALLAH.

As my beloved Mursyid has advised after we been entertained by much loved Qasidah recitation during this month Mukhayyam:-

Shame on you if you listen and enjoyed the rhythm and immersed with the songs (qasidah nasyeed) and NOT the essence of it (not immersed with the love and missing Prophet) or the entity of the message/content than what we hear will be a HUJJAH (unfavorable witness) in front of ALLAH in the hereafter!

Shyakh Yusuf Bakhur AlHasani strictly exclaimed. What he said really hit the nail of our head. We know that he want to subtly remembering us to not be way too mesmerized in the rhymes or sounds of any captivating music. It is dangerous to the heart.

What he means is in EVERYTHING we did, we have to put ALLAH first and NOT our nafs. Even in a simple gesture of listening or entertaining ourselves which is of course is permissible (halal) and ibahah in Islam at the first place.

I shuddered with much fear and utter embarrassment knowing that I always listen to what my nafs preferred even when it is comes from a good things i.e Qasidah, naat or nasyid. That’s how delicate of nafs can be and fools us at the same time. Even when we are listening to Qasidah that praised Rasulullah saw, Syeikh Yusuf strongly advice that don’t listen only because of the beauty of the rhythm OR for those who are singing it otherwise it will be a Hujjah on us.

My stand for instrumental nasyeed comes from major (Jumhur) of Fuqaha’. It is a khilaf issues not that I want to make an easy decision out of it (talfiq). I read in the kutubs, study, attend halaqah/seminars and asked the Ulamas. May ALLAH forgive me if I have choose or ever choose a music that will cause me astray if I didn’t repent and listen to what is not pleasurable in the sight of ALLAH. As myself are the weak and full of flaws servant of YOU, so please forgive my sins O ALLAH. Please correct me If I have gone wrong and guide me if I have violate what is righteous before YOUR Will.

Let me not choose anything because of my own desire and excuse my choices because of my own nafs. Fear ALLAH O you, if you ever did or do that.

I wouldn’t want to post the discussion among the jurist here but a short article can be read here.[5]

Having said this, the restriction that jurist and scholars that allowed instrumental nasyeed is very strict. So that we can choose wisely and didn’t go beyond the guideline and the guidance.

The Day of Resurrection draws near, None besides Allah can avert it, (or advance it, or delay it). Do you then wonder at this recital (the Qur’an)? And you laugh at it and weep not, Wasting your (precious) lifetime in pastime and amusements (singing, etc.). So fall you down in prostration to Allah, and worship Him (Alone)” 53-57:An-Najmi[6]

To conclude of course there is NO other purest and noblest enjoyment to a mu’min other than listening, reciting and memorizing the Word’s of HIM; Al-Quran. It is the ultimate and only simple entertainment for a Muhsinin soul. Let us try to seek the noblest one, inshALLAH in our daily routine and life.

Allahusubhanahuwat’alaa’lam.

al-Faqeerah alQasam
30 December 2009
(This is what I conclude for. I may be wrong and I may be right. May Allah correct me if I’m wrong and accept me if I’m right)

[1] Yahya ibn Ma’adh said, “In my opinion, the worst kind of self-delusion is for someone to sin excessively and then to hope for forgiveness without feeling any remorse; or it is to expect to draw near to Allah, the Exalted, without obeying or worshipping Him; or it is to hope for the fruits of the Garden after having only planted the seeds for the Fire; or it is to seek the abode of the obedient through committing wrong actions; or it is to expect a reward after having done nothing worthwhile; or it is to place hope in Allah, Glorious and Mighty is He, after having exceeded all the limits”.

[2] Al-Faruqi 1985: 1-13.

[3] Sawa 1989; Stigelbauer 1975: 39

[4] Al-Faruqi 1985: 17-20; al-Ghazali 1902: 1

[5] . i) Islam stance on music, ii) What Islam says about music, ii) Music in Muslim Civilization

[6] Ibn Katheer (may Allaah have mercy on him) said: Allah says (interpretation of the meaning) “Wasting your (precious) lifetime in pastime and amusements (singing)” – Sufyaan al-Thawri said, narrating from his father from Ibn ‘Abbaas: (this means) singing. This is Yemeni (dialect): ismad lana means ghan lana [sing to us]. This was also the view of ‘Ikrimah. (Tafseer Ibn Katheer).

Bismillah

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Wahai Yang Bernama Diriku,

Telah menulis Imam Ahmad Rifaie dalam kitabnya[1]

Adalah Malik B Dinar Rahimahullah selalu menangis dan berkata:-

Hai jiwa! Engkau kepingin hendak duduk di samping ALLAH[2] dan kepingin melihat Nabi pilihan (’Alahihumussalam)

TETAPI

Syahwat mana yang telah engkau tinggalkan?!

Yang jauh mana satukah Engkau telah dekatkan kepada ALLAH?

Kekasih ALLAH yang engkau sudah cintainya kerana ALLAH?

Musuh manakah yang sudah engkau bencinya kerana ALLAH?

Kemarahan yang manakah yang sudah engkau menahan diri kerana ALLAH?

TIDAK!

Kalaulah tidak kerana Rahmat ALLAH dan PengampunanNYA ……

Maka Malik B Dinar kemudiannya pun pengsan.
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يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أَنتُمُ الْفُقَرَاءُ إِلَى اللَّهِ ۖ وَاللَّهُ هُوَ الْغَنِيُّ الْحَمِيدُ

O ye men! It is ye that have need of Allah. but Allah is the One Free of all wants, worthy of all praise

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If someone remarks:
“What an excellent man you are!”
and this pleases you more than his saying,
“What a bad man you are!”
know that you are still a bad man.

Sufyan al Thawri (Essential Sufism)

I’m the one who was full of riya’, ujub, takabbur, hiprocasy? Indeed, I am.

O, my soul do repent and submit only to ALLAH and do not ever stand before your nafs.

Excerpt From Kitab

Imam Shafi’i said, may God have mercy on him:

“Only the sincere one (mukhlis) knows hypocrisy (riya’).”

To illustrate the great extent of the concealment of hypocrisy we only need relate the following from the Teacher and Imam Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri [the sufi shaykh], may God have mercy on him, from his ‘Risala’ with our isnad previously mentioned.

This means that it is impossible to know the reality of hypocrisy and see its hidden shades except for one who resolutely seeks (arada) sincerity. That one strives for a long time (yajtahidu azmanan) searching and meditating and examining at length within himself until he knows or knows something of what hypocrisy is.

This does not happen for everyone.

Indeed, this happens only with the special ones (al-khawass). But for a given individual to claim that he knows what hypocrisy is, this is real ignorance on his part.

I shall mention in this book a chapter, God willing, in which you will see a type of wonder that will cool your eyes.

He said: “I heard Muhammad ibn al-Husayn say: I heard Ahmad ibn ‘Ali ibn Ja’far say: I heard al-Hasan ibn ‘Alawiyya say: Abu Yazid al-Bistami, may God be well pleased with him, said:

I was for twelve years the blacksmith of my ego (haddadu nafsi), then for five years I became the mirror of my heart (mir’atu qalbi), then for a year I looked at what lay between the two of them and I saw around me a visible belt [i.e. of kufr = the vestimentary sign of a dhimmi]. So I strove to cut it for twelve years and then looked again, and I saw around me a hidden belt. So I worked to cut it for five years, looking to see how to cut. Then it was unveiled for me (kushifa li) and I looked at creation and saw that they were all dead. So I recited the funeral prayer over them.”

Blessings and Peace upon the Purified Prophet, his Family, and his Companions

I say:

That hypocrisy should be as inscrutable as this to the peerless master in this path [i.e. tasawwuf] is enough to show how greatly hidden it lies. His phrase: “I saw them dead” is the apex of worth and beauty, and seldom do other than the Prophet’s words, Blessings and Peace be upon him, gather up such wealth of meanings. I shall touch upon its meaning briefly. It means that after he had struggled long and hard (lamma jahada hadhihi al-mujahada) and his ego had been disciplined (tahadhdhabat) and his heart illumined (istanara qalbuhu), and when he had conquered (istawla) his ego and subdued it (qaharaha) and achieved complete mastery over it (malakaha mulkan tamman), and it had subjected himself to him totally, at that time he looked at all created beings and found that they were dead and completely powerless:

they cannot harm nor can they benefit;
they cannot give nor can they keep back;
they cannot give life nor can they give death;
they cannot convey nor can they cut off;
they cannot bring near nor can they take away;
they cannot make happy nor can they make sad;
they cannot bestow nor can they deprive;
they possess for themselves neither benefit nor harm,
nor death, nor life, nor resurrection.

This, then, characterizes human beings as dead: they are considered dead in all of the above respects, they are neither feared nor entreated, what they have is not coveted, they are not shown off to nor fawned upon, one does not concern oneself with them, they are not envied nor disparaged, their defects are not mentioned nor their faults pursued and exposed, one is not jealous of them nor thinks much of whatever God-given favors they have received, and they are forgiven and excused for their shortcomings, although the legal punishments (al-hudud) are applied to them according to the Law. But the application of such punishment does not preclude what we have mentioned before, nor does it preclude our endeavoring to cover up their faults without disparaging them in the least.

This then is how the dead are viewed. And if someone mentions human beings in a dishonorable manner we forbid him from entering into that subject in the same way that we would if he were going to examine a person who died. We do not do anything for their sake nor do we leave Him for them. And we no more stop ourselves from fulfilling an act of obedience to God on their account than we do on account of a dead person, and we do not over-praise them. And we neither love their own praise for us nor hate their insults, and we do not reciprocate them.

In sum, they are as it were non-existent in all the respects we have mentioned. They are under God’s complete care and jurisdiction. Whoever deals with them in such a way, he has combined the good of the next world with that of the lower world. May God the Generous grant us success towards achieving this. These few words are enough to touch upon an explanation for his [Abu Yazid al-Bistami's] saying — May God be well pleased with him.

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Bismillah

Allahumma Solli’ala Muhammad Wa’Alaalihi Wasohbihi Wasallam

وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ دِيناً مِّمَّنْ أَسْلَمَ وَجْهَهُ لله وَهُوَ مُحْسِنٌ ” [سورة النساء: 125

“Siapakah yang lebih baik agamanya daripada orang yang ikhlas menyerahkan dirinya pada ALLAH sedang diapun mengerjakan kebaikan”

Awal Muharam baru-baru ini menyaksikan pertemuan jiwa-jiwa yang sangat memerlukan kepada pembersihan hati, penundukan nafsu dan peningkatan ruhiyyah dan jasadiah dalam perjalanan menuju ALLAH.

Muhadarah dan Mukhayyam bersama Al-Allamah AsSyeikh Yusuf AlHasani yang dicintai dan dirindui serta para Ahbab yang lain merupakan hadiah yang sangat berharga dari ALLAH buat hati ini yang sangat jauh dari ALLAH serta kelalaian yang sukar digambarkan lagi kepedihannya bagi seorang salik. Ibarat hidup tetapi mati, begitulah kiranya. Tanpa istiqamah dan mujahadah, ilmu akan menjadi hujjah atas diri ini. Tiadalah sesiapa yang lebih banyak dosa dari diriku. Tiada hamba yang paling lalai hati dan jiwanya melainkan diriku juga. Bukankan mereka yang telah diberi ilmu dan jalan itu lebih besar dosanya dari mereka yang jahil yang berbuat ma’siat? Bahkan sangat malanglah diri ini yang maksiat, ghaflah, serta hawa nafsu yang berkeliaran liarnya lebih dari mereka yang jahil dan kalangan awwam. Semuanya itu didahulukan dari ALLAH. Alangkah, adakah kepedihan dan kesengsaraan yang lebih besar dari mengenepikan ALLAH dan memilih selainNYA?

Tidak dapat digambarkan betapa indahnya jilsah bersama Al-Allamah Syeikh Yusuf lebih dari segala keindahan halaqah yang pernah kami hadiri. Bukan mujamalah apatalah lagi mubalaghah, ini dari limpahan hati paling dalam.

Seorang Murabbi, Mursyid, Daie menyampaikan pesan-pesan dan risalah ilmiah dan ruhiah dengan penuh kasih sayang dan tanpa penat lelah dan bosan. Merangkumi Risalah dari ilmu Tauhid, madar Da’wah, pengertian pendidikan hati dan nafsu bagi seorang Salik, kepentingan Dhowabit Syara’ dan ilmu-ilmu syara’ dalam pengamalan, bacaan AlQuran, zikir, qasidah, soal jawab bersama meraikan peribadi Syeikh Yusuf yang menggalakkan budaya percambahan perbincangan dan halaqah ilm kepada anak-anak muridnya.

Syeikh Yusuf menekankan sikap siddiq, mahabbah pada ALLAH dan manusia, melihat dan beribadah dengan hanya melihat ALLAH (yakni hanya untuk Redha ALLAH), berusaha mencapai maqam siddiqin dan ahlul arifin, walau SANGAT jauh kami dari mukhlisin (golongan yang ikhlas) apatah lagi mereka yang multazimin (kerana nafsu sangat tidak suka kepada mulazamah dan diriku banyak mendahulukan nafsu dan mengikut nafsu), pesanan Syeikh kami titip dengan penuh rasa rendah diri dan keinsafan.

Pertemuan beberapa kali dalam Ijtima’ Ulama’ Nusantara di Jenderam beberapa tahun lepas juga selepas seisi talk di UIA dahulu bermakna, namun tidak seperti kali ini. Kali ini kami semua ibarat satu keluarga di dalam Mukahyyam Tarbawi dan Ruhi. Seminar, pengajian, tazkirah, soal-jawab, Qasidah, َQiam serta pelbagai pengisian memaknakan lagi pertemuan kali ini.

Mungkin diri ini tidak berpeluang menjadi anak muridnya semasa di Mesir, namun memadailah dapat menjadi anak murid juga anak didiknya di belahan mana sahaja di muka bumi ini. Alangkah, ingin sahaja dilaungkan kepada mereka yang masih berada di bumi Mesir, ٍ Syiria, Jordan, duduklah bersama hadrah-hadrah dan majlis-majlis Ulama’ Amilin dan para Masyayikh Mu’tabar.

Tiada, TIADA keindahan melebihi keindahan tenggelam dalam mengingati ALLAH dan menuntut ilmu untuk bekal atas jalan dakwah dan mengenal ALLAH ini.

Berkata Fudhail B Iyadh:-

عليك بطريق الحق ولا تستوحش لقلة السالكين وإياك وطريق الباطل ولا تغتر بكثرة الهالكين” وكلما استوحشت في تفردك فانظر إلى الرفيق السابق واحرص على اللحاق بهم وغض الطرف عمن سواهم فإنهم لن يغنوا عنك من الله شيئا وإذا صاحوا بك في طريق سيرك فلا تلتفت إليهم فإنك متى التفت إليهم أخذوك وعاقوك

(Al-Minan Al-Kubra: Imam Sya’rani).

Pesan terakhir dari Syeikh di seisi pengajian terakhir:-

عش مع ربك كما تريد

Mengeluarkan diri selain dari kehendak ALLAH dan ikutilah hanya apa yang ALLAH inginkan dan gariskan buat kita

1) HIGHWAY TO MUSLIM UNITY AND WORLD PEACE

Last few weeks while both of surf the net together and hit into one of our fav spot on the net; DeenPort we stumbled across one highly notable conference. Surely enough, both of us were driving with an anticipation and keenly interested upon lingering on the speakers that will attend and the topics that will be presented. To add the flavour of the anticipation (and excitement) was some of the presenter are among our fav speakers and scholars. Talk about a good timing.

I said to my husband that even though that the fees was quite pricey but we don’t know when we will have the chance to meet the prestigious scholars and Muslim thinkers elsewhere. We might die soon or vice versa (Not that of course we want that to happen), I poured out my thoughts. More than willing, I will pay the fees with my own saving. It is worth in every single of penny!

Both of us has put an earnest note to attend this conference and driven with an overwhelms of excitement that finally we can attend a conference together. We barely make it usually. Before I’m married, I will occasionly attend to any academic or international seminars if had the chances and the times to do so. But since we are living in Terengganu at the moment our plan has evolved around logistic spectrum.

I have to say that the presenters that will be attend in this conference is highly distinguished scholars and thinkers.

Sadly to say, on the very last minute the plan that I have carefully and delicately planned for several weeks can’t be accomplish. Both of us can’t make to the conference for certain reason. But I do like to recommend and suggest for those who are interested in Muslim unity subject, the challenges and conflict that triggered us long mostly that occurred us at this current time will take notes and consider to attend to this once in a lifetime opportunity. Anyone who didn’t have anything on their schedule to be precise I humbly thought it is a good investment of thought and knowledge.

Meeting an Ulama’ has not been an easy path for the seekers of knowledge and truth in the past. It always needed a massive effort, spiritual strength and the eagerness for something new and profound. Nowadays, it has been easier, but another challenge has tie us down. Worldly affairs, has been a priority rather than seeking knowledge. No one can avoid this temptation including me. A sincere soul with the right manhaj (method) of learning with the right and credible Syaykh is very much needed to assist us in the path of ‘Tolibul Ilm’, indeed.

The topic that regarded of this confrence is eyes catching too. Some of the topic that are

- Some of the note bale speakers that will attend, inshALLAH.

HE Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah
Former Minister of Justice Mauritania & Renowned Scholar

His Excellency Shaykh Abdallah is also a distinguished author, having written several books and delivered lectures in different countries. He has expertise in areas such as Fiqh al-`Aqalīyāt, the jurisprudence related to Muslim minorities in non-Muslim lands.

His Excellency Shaykh Abdallah bin Mahfudh ibn Bayyah (born 1935CE 1362H) is a leading Islamic scholar born in Mauritania (West Africa). Currently he teaches at King Abdul Aziz University. From an early age, he was blessed with a photographic memory which allowed him to memorise many Islamic text. In his youth, he was appointed to study legal judgments in Tunis. On returning to Mauritania, he became Minister of Education and later Minister of Justice. He was also appointed Vice President by the first president of Mauritania.

Later on in life he began to teach and travelled to Saudi Arabia where he became a distinguished professor at The University of Usul al-Fiqh. His Excellency Shaykh is presently involved in several organisations in the Muslim world, such as al Majma’ al-Fiqhi, which comprises a body of scholars from across the Muslim world and from different Schools of Thought (madhhabs) and viewpoints. They tackle modern challenges facing Muslims throughout the World.

Al Habib Ali Al Jifri
Founder and Director of Tabah Foundation UAE

Al Habib Ali Al Zain al Abideen ibn Addul Rahman al Jifri is from Tarim, the valley of scholarship and light in Hadramawt, South Yemen. He took his classical Islamic knowledge from the great masters of the Ba’Alawi, including the late Habib Mashur al Haddad, the great Scholar Habib Zain al Sumit from Medina and the great Habib Abdur Qadir al Saqqaf. He teaches at the Dar al Mustafa school in Tarim.

His commitment to propagation has taken him to all corners of the world. He is a direct decedent of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). He is a regular feature on many TV Channels imparting his vast knowledge to millions around the globe.

Known to be a simple man in every sense, he is humble and truly embodies the real message of Islam.

HE Dr Mohammed Saeed Ramadan Al Bouti
Renowned Scholar from Damascus Syria

His Excellency Dr Al Bouti has written more than 60 books whose subjects include Shariah, literature, philosophy, sociology and civilisations. In the year 2002, he was honoured by Dar Al Fikr in Damascus, the publisher and distributor of his works worldwide.

His Excellency Dr Mohammed Saeed Ramadan Al Bouti is one of Islam’s most respected and learned scholar, he is known as preacher and deep thinker. His Excellency Dr Mohammed Saeed Ramadan Al Bouti was awarded the Islamic Personality of the year Award by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Prime Minister and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Ruler of Dubai.

Dr. Robert Farook Dickson Crane

Former Advisor to President Richard Nixon

Dr. Robert Dickson Crane is the former adviser to the late President of the United States Richard Nixon, and is former Deputy Director (for Planning) of the U.S. National Security Council. He has authored or co-authored more than a dozen books and over 50 professional articles on comparative legal systems, global strategy, and information management.

From the early 1980s, Dr. Crane has worked full-time as a Muslim activist in America. From 1983 to 1986, he was the Director of Da’wa at the Islamic Centre on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. In 1986 he joined the International Institute of Islamic Thought as its Director of Publications, and then helped to found the American Muslim Council, serving as Director of its Legal Division from 1992 to 1994.

We can go to the official websitefor further information.

2. The second most anticipated talk by me will be:-

Oh, how I wish I could be there. I have interested in Naquib Al Attas since the first time I heard of his legacy though I have to admit I’m far than have complete all of his books and writings.

And oh my! MashALLAH. Prof Naquib himself will be presence! After the long hiatus due to the political drama in ISTAC, he will finally presenting his honorable speech. This is one of the most long-awaited moment for me but again, I can’t be there. Even I have been eying this program for quite some time but unfortunately the times is not on my side.

Moreover, look at the fees. It was SO unreasonably inexpensive! Where else you can find, (I seriously thought this) a conference that provide a DISTINGUISHED LEGACY at this amount. Knowledge can’t EVER be evaluate by money of course but many of institutions do take advantage of KNOWLEDGE to gain great amount of profit. Needles to say.

How I impressed and admired this effort. Talk about a real scholar and a low profile one for that matter.

You may go to Rausyanfikir for further details.

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2. The Seventh World Conference On Muslim Education.

I was talking with one of the senior lecture whom I respected so much in my last visit to UDM. She said that she will present a paper in one of the international conference this month. So she suggested me to look into the official website of the particular conference. It will be held in KUIS.