Bertemu Murabbi-Mursyid

18 03 2010

Bismillah

Allah berfirman yang bermaksud:” Sesungguhnya telah ada pada (diri) Rasulullah itu suri teladan yang baik”(QS 33:21)

TENANG

Hari yang tenang. Telah dimulai dengan Rahmah ALLAH di satu pertiga malamya.

Saya merancang untuk menghadiri (instead perhimpunan Royalti) satu majlis diskusi kitab Madrasah Salaf yang pernah saya sebutkan di sini. dan di sini. Asalnya adalah risalah Syikhuna Yusuf Alhasani semasa seisi Ijtima’ Ulama’ Nusantara di Jenderam pada tahun 2007.

Risalah dalam bahasa arab tersebut telah diterjemah oleh Syaikh Rohimuddin. Seorang guru murabbi yang dapat membicarakan ilmu tasawwuf denga kupasan paling ilmiah, akademik dan intelektual pernah saya tanggapi.

Ilmu ini bukan ilmu perbahasan. Ia praktik amalan Sunnah Nabi saw yang telah diikuti oleh Salafsoleh.

CAWAN KOSONG

Imam At-Tusturi telah menyebut tentang al Qur’an: “Sungguh sangat aneh seorang yang membaca al Qur’an dan tidak mengamalkannya serta tidak menjauhi larangan Allah. Tidakkah ia merasa malu kepada Allah ketika memerangi, menyalahi perintah dan larangan-NYA setelah ia mengetahuinya?.

Jika saya tidak menulis bermakna hati saya sedang sakit. Ia sedang parah dan lalai dengan dunia.

Ataupun ibarat cawan yang kosong.

Ia pernah berisi air, namun sedang kosong tidak dipenuhi dengan air.

Bagaimaa hati yang kotor, ingin memberi?

Ia sendiri pun tidak berisi?

Saya sering mengingatkan diri sendiri. Jika menulis dengan niat sekadar memberitahu, membetulkan atau memberitahu kita ini tahu, maka hinalah saya yang memang sangat faqer dan sedang membaiki diri.

Ia satu penulisan dogmatik dari hati yang ingin membesarkan diri.

Jesteru, jika hati masih belum mampu tetap tidak lahir hudur (connection) dengan ilmu dan ALLAH, maka ia sampai sekalipun, maka hanya akan bersifat ta’lim (mengajar) semata-mata.

Saya menunggu sehingga hati bersedia. Jika sekalipun cawan hati masih belum penuh (lalai), ia telah tetap dan betul kedudukannya.

Sedang Imam Bukhari jika hendak meriwayatkan satu hadis beliau solat istikharah dahulu memohon petunjuk ALLAH.

Saya berkira-kira dan memasang azam, itu satu amalan yang perlu diterapkan. Jika mahu/berkeinginan menulis, biar ia hadir dari hati yang hudur dan memohon dengan istikharah.

Jika tidak, ia sia-sia. Sekadar satu gambaran aku tahu dan mahu memberitahu aku tahu. Walau dengan jalan ta’lim, da’wa atau berkongsi.

Kerana saya mengajar bahkan setiap hari. Namun untuk hudur hati dengan ALLAH, ia perlu khusuy’ dan khudu’.

Itu yang kadang-kadang terputus ikatannya.

Mendidik itu mudah, namun membawa kepada penghayatan dan connection pada ALLAH, itu jauh ma’nanya dan halus pembawaanya.

Hari ini, hati yang merangkak-rangkak berjalan menuju ALLAH, berkesempatan mendengar kalam bagi mengisi cawan yang kosong itu.

Saya cuba menghadirkan hati. Seperti kata-kata Imam Tusturi r.a

Seorang bertanya: “apakah makanan pokok manusia?”, Imam At-Tusturi menjawab: “Zikir mengingati Allah”, orang itu berkata: “Aku tidak bertanya tentang itu, akan tetapi tentang sesuatu yang mempertahankan hidup”, beliau menjawab: “Hai anak muda bertaqwalah kepada Allah, tidak ada sesuatu yang dinilai kecuali dengan Allah”, orang itu bertanya: “Aku tidak bermaksud itu, aku bertanya tentang sesuatu yang harus ada”, beliau menjawab lagi: “Hai anak muda sesuatu yang harus ada itu Allah”.

Belajar dari Imam Al-Tusturi. Tokoh salaf yang menghimpunkan kebaikan dan akhlak kesemua amalan-amalan Sunnah dan praktik da’wah.




Blown Away

16 03 2010

Bismillah
ALLAHUMMA SOLLI ‘ALA MUHAMMAD WA’ALAALIHI MUHAMMAD!
I have written the below post in my private blog last week. We didn’t have anything plan for us during the past Rabiul awal since we have family planning already i our hand. But it didn’t matter since it shouldn’t be exactly on Rabiul Awal per say. Fortunately, the end of this week, a big majlis will be held in Bukit Jong. It will be attend by several respected scholars. Me and my husband anticipated it so much and may ALLAH make the path easier for us to attend it, inshALLAH.
I yearn to gain the out most love from our Prophet Solli’alamuhammad, tough I’m far than an obedient ummah of the Prophet saw. There were so many flaws which still needed to be improve on my way of showing the love to and the practicing of spreading the Risalah Nubuwah.

Even so, I can’t help but totally blown away with Khalid Belrenzi’s recitation of Burdah. I have put his nasyeed on the widget beside. Upon first heard his nasyeed on Aliff Music last year, instantly I was spell-bounded on how beautiful and in depth the recitation was. His voice was not as smooth as Muhamamd Husayyan or Maher Zain per say, but his husky voice reflect a depth of love and admiration to our Beloved Prophet saw.

Having said that, the rememberene of our Prophet is not only on 12 Rabiul Awal. It is every single day of the year. Indeed that was has been practicing by the lover of Nabi saw. Maulud which consist not only recitation of Maulid Daibaie, Salawat, Barzanji but also compiles the Sirah, story and path of Prophet saw, method of following his Sunnah, the way in many perspective to deliver his messages and many more. Many Maulud program which I have been attended has been arrange in every single month of the year. But Rabiul Awal is the peak of the day.

Did our Prophet celebrated his birth? Of course. As narrated in Sahih Bukhari. He himself, was fasting on the day he has been born. They are so many narration on how happy, joyous of those around Prophet saw whilst welcoming Prophet saw birth to this world. Thus, fasting on 12 Rabiul Awal is specifically for Prophet saw (Khususiyyat Nabi saw), Jurist has deliberated on the rulings of Maulidurrasul in details with a comprehensive guideline.

I didn’t want to repeat the issue which has been discussed by our scholar again and again. If you want/feel to do so you can celebrate it, but if you felt otherwise, let it be.

But let me tell you my dear sisters, there is NO other’s program that I have attended in my whole -entire life- that can spark the love, missing, spirit to do more for Islam, to our Prophet far greater than what Majalis of Maulud anNabawi had succeed to do to me.

Honestly, there was no other like it.

We can read books, attend symposium, usrah, halaqah etc. But the effect is just not the same.

At least it works for me and my fellows sahabiah. Everyone of us have their own secret card.

So does the method of developing the love and spirit to work for Islam. It may didn’t work for other, but it definitely work for many too.

May we become the chosen one whom our Prophet wouldn’t regret to had to drop the blood for, streams the tears for, put up with a deep thought; Ya Ummati for. May we become as Saiduna Umar narrated from Prophet while he climb the stairs to give Khutbah Jummah:-

Ummah of Prophet was more greater than Ikhwan (those who live with Nabi saw)

Amin. Amin. Amin.

Related readings:-

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aljoofre.blogdrive.com/archive/46.html

aljoofre.blogdrive.com/archive/57.html




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14 03 2010

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Beautiful people do not just happen.

8 03 2010

Bismillahirahmanirahim

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep, loving concern.

Beautiful people do not just happen.

–Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’

Oh, so very true. I can’t help but immersed by this qoute. I have met lots of beautiful people. Inside and out. Those who love me the way I am, who has a gentleness despite the harsh world. Loving and caring in their own way. They are very different yet so similar.

They are all are beautiful.

If you are not petty in giving love, then you are beautiful already.




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5 03 2010

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Tidak Semudah Ucapan Cinta

26 02 2010

Cinta bukan sekadar ucap. Bukan sekadar gerakan rasa. Namun diterjemah melalui taat, akhlak dan ikhlas. Juga menggerakan dakwah.-Syeikh Yusuf Hasani-

Favorite Burdah ever. Surpassed Muhammad Husayyan burdah’s recitation. Oh wait. Can I ever choose amongst Burdah, Qasidah that recited about our Beloved? We can’t never choose. It’s all speaks LOVE. This piece is beyond heart wrenching and beautiful. Touched the core the soul.

Without words.

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The most recommendation talk of the Prophet. Ever.

Allahummasolli’ala Muhammad Wa’alalihi Wassalim.




When Dr Qardhawi Shed The Tears

7 02 2010

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Dr Qardhawi, is a scholar whom I respect so much. I may differ with him in certain matters, methodology of feqh and rulings but he is outstanding as a contemporary scholar whom emphasized on unity among Muslim and preserve of good adab whilst dealing with khilaf amongst us. Here, a heart-wrenching and eyeopening talk of him. Even when Dr Qardhawi himself shed his tears.

How about us who laugh more than we cried in front ALLAH? Who indulge in worldly affairs more than focusing our soul towards ALLAH? Who put our nafs and uncalled desire over ALLAH’s Will? How many times we did this & that and still so much into our own self? How many times did we sacrifices what truly uphold for us for something that not even exist in the first place? Who love and put this dunya in our heart!!! O pity our soul…..

If not with ALLAH mercy should we not, will not deserve to be here and have what we had. Only with HIS Will and Mercy we still walk, strive and breath in this world.

1) Do not immerse by people praises, but focus on your inner self and sins

الناس يمدحونك لما يظنونه فيك ،فكن أنت ذاما لنفسك لما تعلمه منها
Ibnu Athaillah As-Sakandari

Do not immerse in by what people praising you. Should you know what sins, and ghaflah that you be with more than others know about it. While people praising you, counts your own faults towards others. You know your heart on how it keep going to the wrong places. Even when it crying for help to be assist to what ALLAH want and ask from us we keep ignored it calls.

2) Shed your tears even if you have to pretend it

Shed your tears o myself and counts your own faults and sins. Do not ever put your back – again- before ALLAH. Observe your faults, admitted it, repent, seek only ALLAH. Whilst at the same time don’t ever give up for HIS Mercy. But do not hope with an empty hand. As Yahya ibn Ma’aadh 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”.

3) Cover your brother ‘aib

وقال عليه الصلاة والسلام أيضا: ”من ستر مسلما ستره الله يوم القيامة” رواه البخاري ومسلم

Cover your brothers ‘aib as Allah has covered our aib bisitrihil Jamil. We ourself, were amongs sinful servants of HIM who are lucky by ALLAH mercy our ‘aib and sins has been covered by ALLAH. Cover your brothers ‘aib as HE will covered our ‘aib in the Hereafter.

تأمل في نبات الأرض وانظر
إلى آثار ما صنع المليك
عيون من لجين شاخصات
بأحداقٍ هي الذهب السبيك
على كثب الزبرجد شاهداتٍ
بأنّ الله ليس له شريك
إلهي لا تعذبني فإنّي
مقرّ بالذي قد كان منّي
يظنّ الناس بي خيراً وإنّي
لشرّ الناس إن لم تعف عنّي
Abu Nawas

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




Even While During The Chores

27 01 2010


Credit: Celifnur

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




Feqhun Nisa: Permasalahan Haid

26 01 2010

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




Nota Pengajaran:Mudarabah

24 01 2010

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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Beautifully Imperfect

18 01 2010


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.

and….

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




Kaifiyah Solat Gerhana

14 01 2010

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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Koleksi Puisi: Warna Alam

9 01 2010

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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.




Unfinished Short Story

1 01 2010

 

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.




Transcending Beyond The Rythms

30 12 2009

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

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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).