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Dec 22, 2008

Ajaibnya Keadaan Seorang Mukmin

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AJAIBNYA KEADAAN SEORANG MUKMIN


“Tiap-tiap yang berjiwa akan merasakan mati. Kami akan menguji kalian dengan keburukan dan kebaikan sebagai cobaan (yang sebenar-benarnya). Dan hanya kepada Kamilah kamu dikembalikan.” Surat Al Anbiya` (35).


Pada ayat diatas Allah Ta`ala memberitakan bahwa selama kita masih hidup di dunia, pasti akan menemui tiga perkara yang sudah menjadi sunnatullah (ketetapan Allah), yaitu:

1. Mati

2 Diuji dengan keburukan

3 Diuji dengan kebaikan


Sebelum sunnatullah yang dalam bentuk kematian datang memutus kehidupan seseorang didunia, maka ia akan terus ditimpa oleh dua sunnatullah yang lainnya secara silih berganti, yaitu ujian dalam betuk kebaikan dan ujian dalam bentuk keburukan (musibah).


Alhamdulillah, kita diwarisi oleh Rasulullah Shalallahu `Alayhi wa Sallam Al Qur`an dan Assunnah sebagai sebagai pedoman hidup. Dimana dua pedoman hidup tersebut disusun langsung oleh sang pencipta kehidupan itu sendiri dan Dzat yang paling mengerti seluk beluk dan rahasia kehidupan yakni Allah Ta`ala melalui utusanNya Nabi Muhammad Shalallahu `Alayhi wa Sallam.


Diantara kandungan Al Qur`an dan Assuunnah ini, terdapat sebuah pedoman yang akan membimbing siapapun orang yang mengimani keduanya (kaum mukminin) agar dalam setiap sunnatullah (musibah dan kesenangan) tersebut selalu dalam keadaan beruntung (berpahala).


Dengan kata lain selama ia masih hidup di dunia ini, maka ia akan selalu beruntung baik ketika berhadapan dengan musibah atau dengan kesenangan. Oleh karena itu kita perlu mempelajari kembali Alqur`an dan Assunnah dalam masalah ini, agar kita dapat menyikapi setiap ujian-ujian tersebut dengan sikap yang tepat.


Suatu ketika Rasulullah Shalallahu `Alayhi wa Sallam pernah mengungkapkan kekagumannya terhadap keadaan kaum mukminin. Sebagaimana yang ditegaskan oleh beliau Shallallahu `Alalyhi Wasallam dalam sabdanya:


”Sungguh mengherankan perkara orang mukmin itu, sesungguhnya seluruh perkaranya adalah baik baginya. Dan hal itu tidak dimiliki oleh siapapun kecuali orang mukmin. Jika dia diberi sesuatu yang menggembirakan dia bersyukur, maka ia menjadi baik baginya. Dan apabila ia ditimpa suatu madharat, ia bersikap sabar, maka itu menjadi baik baginya.”(HR.Muslim)


Dalam hadits diatas, Rasulullah Shalallahu `alayhi wasallam memberitakan bahwa bagi seorang mukmin, baik didalam kesenangan maupun musibah, tetap ada peluang untuk beruntung (berpahala).


1.Ujian dalam bentuk kebaikan.

Dalam ujian model ini ada kewajiban bagi seorang mukmin padanya, yaitu bersyukur. Dengan memanfaatkan segala kenikmatan tersebut untuk ketaatan kepada Allah sehingga dengan sikap syukur atas kenikamatan itu, menjadikan ia akan semakin dekat dengan Allah dan inilah orang yang beruntung dalam ujian jenis ini.


Namun ada pula orang yang gagal dalam ujian jenis ini, yaitu orang yang dengan ujian ini justru semakin jauh dari Allah, yaitu ketika nikmat yang Allah berikan tersebut malah ia gunakan untuk durhaka dan maksiat kepada Allah, sehigga dengan nikmat tersebut ia justru semakin jauh dari Allah. Allah Ta`ala berfirman dalam surat Ibrahim (7):


"Dan (ingatlah juga), tatkala Tuhanmu memaklumkan; “Sesungguhnya jika kamu bersyukur, pasti Kami akan menambah (nikmat) kepadamu, dan jika kamu mengingkari (nikmat-Ku), maka sesungguhnya azab-Ku sangat pedih”.


2.Ujian dalam bentuk Musibah.

Dalam ujian model ini, juga ada kewajiban seorang mukmin padanya yaitu bersabar. Ketika bersabar dalam keadaan ini, maka sikap yang muncul adalah upaya untuk terus mengintrospeksi dan mengoreksi diri (bertaubat) atas dosa-dosa yang ia lakukan, sehingga selain mendapatkan pahala, sikap sabar ini juga dapat menggugurkan dosa-dosanya.


Sebagaimana sabda Rasulullah Shalallahu `Alayhi wa Sallam:


”Seorang muslim tidak ditimpa oleh rasa letih, penyakit, gelisah, sedih, gangguan ataupun kegundahan, hingga duri tertancap padanya melainkan Allah menebus dengannya sebagian dari kesalahan-kesalahannya. (HR.Bukhary & Muslim).


Maka dengan sikap sabar ini, ia akan semakin dekat kepada Allah dan inilah orang yang beruntung dalam ujian model ini.


Namun ada pula orang yang gagal dalam ujian model ini, yaitu ketika ditimpa musibah ia tidak mau mengoreksi dirinya (bertaubat), dan justru mengeluh dan tidak ridha dengan ketentuan Allah tersebut.


Ia merasa amalnya sudah baik semua dan dirinya bersih dari dosa, sehingga anggapannya itu menghambat dirinya dari upaya untuk taubat dan lebih dekat kepada Allah Ta`ala. Tentu sikap semacam ini tidak sesuai dengan tujuan Allah Ta`ala menurunkan musibah tersebut yaitu agar hambanya mau kembali (bertaubat) kepadaNya, sebagaimana yang Allah beritakan dalam surat Ar Ruum (41):


“Telah nampak kerusakan di darat dan di laut disebabkan karena perbuatan tangan manusia, supaya Allah merasakan kepada mereka sebahagian dari (akibat) perbuatan mereka, agar mereka kembali (ke jalan yang benar).”


Maka bagi seorang mukmin, kelezatan itu bukan hanya pada kenikmatan, tetapi juga ada pada musibah. Sebab dalam kenikmatan seorang mukmin itu berpeluang beruntung (berpahala) karena “syukurnya”, dan dalam musibah seorang mukmin juga berpeluang beruntung (berpahala) karena “sabarnya”.


Oleh sebab itu Alhamdulillah, seorang mukmin itu selama ia hidup di dunia akan selalu beruntung, baik dalam keadaan suka maupun dalam keadaan duka, hingga maut memutus kehidupannya di dunia.


Wallahu A`lamu Bishshawaab.

Dec 17, 2008

A carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?

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A daughter complained to her father about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.

Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In one he placed carrots, in the second he placed eggs, and the last he placed ground coffee beans. He let them sit and boil, without saying a word.

The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited, wondering what he was doing. In about twenty minutes he and turned off the burners. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them a bowl. Then he ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.

Turning to her he asked. "Darling, what do you see?"

"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.

He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. She smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.

She humbly asked. "What does it mean Father?"

He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity, boiling water, but each reacted differently.

The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. But after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.

The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior. But after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.

The ground coffee beans were unique however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

"Which are you," he asked his daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?"


How about you? Are you the carrot that seems hard, but with pain and adversity do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength?

Are you the egg, which starts off with a malleable heart? Were you a fluid spirit, but after a death, a divorce, or a layoff (or others!) have you become hardened and stiff. Your shell looks the same, but are you bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and heart?

Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean changes the hot water, the thing that is bringing the pain, to its peak flavor reaches 212 degrees Fahrenheit. When the water gets the hottest, it just tastes better.

If you are like the coffee bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and make things better around you.

When people talk about you, do your Praises to the Lord increase? When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, does your worship elevate to another level?

How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?

"So lose not heart, nor fall into despair: For ye must gain mastery if ye are true in Faith"
[surah Al' Imran; 3: 139]

"Be sure We shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits (of your toil), but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere" [surah Baqarah; 2: 155]

Abu Sa'id and Abu Huraira reported that they heard Allah's Messenger (salAllahu alayhi wasalam) as saying:
Never a believer is stricken with discomfort, hardship or illness, grief or even with mental worry that his sins are not expiated for him.
[sahih al-Bukhari, Book 32, #6242]

Jazakallahu khairan: Mutmainaa

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Dec 10, 2008

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Dec 5, 2008

Puasa hari 'Arafah (9 Zulhijjah)

2. Puasa hari 'Arafah (9 Zulhijjah bersamaan 7 Dec 2008)

Disunatkan kepada orang yang tidak melakukan ibadah haji. Fadhilatnya sangat besar sebagaimana dijelaskan menerusi hadith daripada Abi Qatadah r.a. ujurnya, Rasullullah s.a.w. telah ditanya oleh sahabat mengenai puasa hari 'Arafah, sabdanya bermaksud:

"Ia menghapuskan dosa setahun yang lalu dan tahun kemudiannya." (Riwayatkan oleh Muslim dan al-Turmuzi)


Menerusi hadith daripada Abi Qatadah r.a. juga bahawa Rasullullah s.a.w. bersabda yang bermaksud:
"Puasa pada hari 'Arafah itu menghapuskan dosa dua tahun yang lalu dan tahun yang akan datanag." (Diriwayat oleh Muslim)

Rujuk: Fadhilat Puasa Wajib & Sunnat Sepanjang Tahun

Dec 4, 2008

Who Should I Please?

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THE teacher of a little girl studying at a public school in a Muslim country was not practicing Islam. The little girl, following the blessed example of her mother, would go to school with her Hijab on.


The Hijab, however, was something displeasing to her teacher, so she told the girl to take it off and not dare come back to school with it on the next day or she would suffer the consequences.

Home this girl went and told her mother of how the teacher did not want her to wear Hijab in school and how she did not want to upset her teacher.


Her mother calmly said, "Who do you want to please then, your teacher or Allah?"


The little girl looked her mother in the eye and said, "Allah!"


The next day, the little girl returned with her Hijab on, defiant. When the teacher saw her, she exploded in chastisement, "How dare you disobey me?"


The painful words kept coming and coming until the little girl lowered her head, sobbing.


Then she shouted back, "I don't understand who I am supposed to please – you or Him?" "Who's Him?" asked the teacher.


"Allah!"


Her eyes widened and a chill ran through her. The teacher stopped talking. From behind her tears, the little girl said, "No, I shall please Allah and Allah alone."


That day the teacher sent a letter home to the little girl's mother with the words,


"Today your child taught me who I was and truly who is Allah. Thank you for raising such a blessed daughter."


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Credits: MHDS-SG

Dec 1, 2008

Twelve ways to get active in your Local Masjid :


Twelve ways to get active in your Local Masjid


There are countless ways to be and be involved in your Masjid. An active Masjid where God-fearing believers pray, teach and learn is the absolute best place to be.


1. Be a Visitor: First of all, visit your Masjid for salah (prayer) regularly at least once or twice a day. While all prayers are more virtuous in the Masjid than at home, the Fajr and Isha salah (morning and night prayer) are particularly important, according to the Sunnah (Tradition of Prophet Muhammad (SalAllahu Alayhi wasalam). Experience also shows that most people are free from other engagements at those times, and so these gatherings, especially the Isha salah, is the largest. If you are not regular at your Masjid, it may be advisable to start with daily Isha salah at the Masjid, then add Fajr, and then the next convenient salah, and so on.


2. Be a Minaret: An extremely charming and beneficial role you can play at the Masjid is to be a minaret: a minaret of the light of smiles, politeness, cordiality and concern for other visitors. This is the most important yet unassuming role one can play. Make your Masjid a beloved place for the rest of your Muslim brothers you meet there. Believe me, people sometimes would be encouraged to come to the Masjid if they know such minarets are there who will make their day, and bring happiness and friendship to their lives.


3. Be a student: The next role after becoming a regular visitor is to be a student. There must be more knowledgeable people than you in the Masjid in one or more areas of Islamic knowledge. If you are lucky, there are one or more study circles for this knowledge already. If not, start them. Then do not be shy to be a student of whoever knows something valuable.


4. Be a Teacher: Being a teacher is even more beneficial role, because now you both give and take from other people. Of course, this requires that you have sufficiently mastered the subject or area you teach or speak about.


5. Be a Follower: The congregational salah are the best spiritual and mental exercise to teach us how to follow with discipline. Even if the Imam (leader) makes a mistake, there are rules to correct him. Similarly, when it comes to organizing all other educational, social and even political efforts at the Masjid, join the efforts you see best for yourself, and be a good, thinking, positive and constructive follower of the leadership.


6. Be a Leader: If and when you learn to be a good follower and listener, you can also begin to learn how to be a good leader. All those Masjid committees, outreach groups, open houses, initiatives for major projects need good leaders. If you are fully confident that you can do a good job as a leader, do not deprive your community of your skills. But be extremely careful of selfishness, self-aggrandizement, or arrogance. Leadership is not everyone's job, and this does not have to do with piety alone. The Prophet (SalAllahu Alayhi wasalam) had advised Abu Tharr, a very righteous companion, to never accept a position of leadership.


7. Be a Brother: When praying in congregation, the people praying with you are your brothers. You are with them in the company of Allah. They are beseeching Allah for the same things as you. In fact, you collectively say 'Ameen' upon completing Fatihah (the first chapter of Qur'an). If Allah accepts any ONE of them, ALL of the people praying with him are blessed and forgiven. A scholar used to say that the congregational salah is dear to him for this very reason. Praying in the company of the righteous is, therefore, an immense blessing. Would you not love those brothers whose salah coincide yours, and whose acceptance with Allah may be your acceptance?


8. Be a Helper: Masjid is the best place to remember and practice the teaching of the Qur'an:

"Help you one another in benevolence and piety, and do not help one another in sin and hostility." [5: 2]


Where else could you find more acts of righteousness and piety?


9. Be a Cleaner: Cleaning the Masjid is a great honor in the sight of Allah. The Prophet (SalAllahu Alayhi wasalam) insisted to pray upon the grave of a Companion who used to clean the Masjid when he heard that the former had died.


10. Be a Donor: Donate regularly to your Masjid, even if it is little and even if you donate in many other causes. This increases your love for Allah and for the house of Allah, and decreases love of this world. There is hardly any cause you will see the result of your donation more immediately than in your Masjid.


11. Be a Listener: On Friday, we listen to Khutbahs (orations) and yet our life seems unaffected. This is so because listening and taking lessons is a skill to be learned and earned, as much as, if not more than, speaking and delivering lectures. Sometimes, a bad listener may get nothing out of a great speaker, and sometimes a good listener may benefit a lot from an unskillful speaker. So, be a good listener, for that is much more important and beneficial than being a good speaker. Your being a good speaker benefits others, while your being a good listener benefits you.


12. Be a Speaker: Last but not least, if you feel you have learned enough to share with others, and have good speaking skills, don't hesitate to benefit others from your skills. Your Masjid always needs people who are skillful and confident in public speaking. While the Friday sermons require more training and knowledge, beginning with introductory speeches about Islam to non-Muslims, and talks at the study circles may be the right places for you to start.

From Selected Speeches [khutab Mukhtaarah] Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: General Administration for Research, Ifta’, Da’wa, and guidance, 1987, p 27, 31] Reproduced here from "Speaking for Change" by Wael Alkhairo. Amana Publications, Beltsville, Maryland, 1998


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Hadith (Isnin, Masjid Kassim)
Ustaz Mohamad Hasbi Hassan
27 Oct - 10 Nov 2008