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Sebuah produk kaligrafi Qur’an berkualitas tinggi yang diproduksi di Indonesia. Produk kaligrafi ini sudah memiliki surat keterangan taskheh yang dikeluarkan Departemen Agama Republik Indonesia.
Terdiri dari berbagai ukuran dan ayat. Yang terbesar adalah kaligrafi Qur’an 30 Juz lengkap dalam satu bingkai.
Qur’an 30 Juz
Surat Yassin
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Popularity: 36%
Sudah hampir 3 minggu ini istriku tercinta selalu bersemangat bercerita tentang novel ayat-ayat cinta yang dia dengar dari teman-temannya. Saya nggak begitu peduli sebenarnya ketika mendengar kata-kata novel karena menurut saya kata-kata tersebut hanya membuang waktu yang lebih baik dimanfaatkan buat yang lain.
Tetapi pagi ini istriku tercinta bersikeras mencarikan novelnya di Internet. What? apa begitu menggilanya novel ayat-ayat cinta?
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Popularity: 63%
“lf a man like Muhammed were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness.”
George Bernard Shaw
“People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first sense. People like Gandhi and Confucius, on one hand, and Alexander, Caesar and Hitler on the other, are leaders in the second and perhaps the third sense. Jesus and Buddha belong in the third category alone. Perhaps the greatest leader of all times was Mohammed, who combined all three functions. To a lesser degree, Moses did the same.”
Professor Jules Masserman
“Head of the State as well as the Church, lie was Caesar and Pope in one, but, he was Pope without the Pope’s pretensions, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar, without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a police force, without a fixed revenue. ft ever a man had the right to say that he ruled by a right divine, it was Muhummed. for he had all the powers without their supports. He cared not tor the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life.”"
Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith
“Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him.”
Diwan Chand Sharma, The Prophets of the East, Calcutta 1935, p. 122.
“Four year after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . . ”
John William Draper, M.D., L.L.D., A History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, London 1875, Vol. 1, pp 329-330.
“In little more than a year he was actually the spiritual, nominal and temporal ruler of Medina, with his hands on the lever that was to shake the world.”
John Austin, “Muhammad the Prophet of Allah,” in T.P’s and Cassel’s Weekly for 24th September 1927.
“Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator. Warrior, Conqueror of ideas, Restorer of rational beliefs, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammed. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?”
Lamartine, Historic de la Turquie, Paris 1854, Vol. 11 pp. 276-2727.
“It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he live,. to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.”
Annie Besant, The Life and Teachings of Muhammad, Madras 1932, p.4
“Muhummed is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica
“I have studied him — the wonderful man — and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.”
George Bernard Shaw in “The Genuine Islam”
“By a fortune absolutely unique in history , Mohammed is a threefold founder of a nation, of an empire, and of a religion.”
Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith in “Mohammed and Mohammedanism 1946.”Â
Related link http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/quote2.html
Popularity: 17%
Allah SWT telah memerintahkan seorang Malaikat menemui Iblis supaya dia menghadap Rasulullah saw untuk memberitahu segala rahasianya, baik yang disukai maupun yang dibencinya. Hikmatnya ialah untuk meninggikan derajat Nabi Muhammad SAW dan juga sebagai peringatan dan perisai kepada umat manusia.
Maka Malaikat itu pun berjumpa Iblis dan berkata, “Hai Iblis! Bahwa Allah Yang Maha Mulia dan Maha Besar memberi perintah untuk menghadap Rasullullah saw. Hendaklah engkau buka segala rahasiamu dan apapun yang ditanya Rasulullah hendaklah engkau jawab dengan sebenar-benarnya. Jikalau engkau berdusta walau satu perkataan pun, niscaya akan terputus semua anggota badanmu, uratmu, serta disiksa dengan azab yang amat keras.”
Mendengar ucapan Malaikat yang dahsyat itu, Iblis sangat ketakutan. Maka segeralah dia menghadap Rasulullah SAW dengan menyamar sebagai seorang tua yang buta sebelah matanya dan berjanggut putih 10 helai, panjangnya seperti ekor lembu.
Iblis pun memberi salam, sehingga 3 kali tidak juga dijawab oleh Rasulullah saw. Maka sambut Iblis (alaihi laknat),
“Ya Rasulullah! Mengapa engkau tidak mejawab salamku? Bukankah salam itu sangat mulia di sisi Allah?” Maka jawab Nabi dengan marah, “Hai Aduwullah seteru Allah! Kepadaku engkau menunjukkan kebaikanmu? Janganlah mencoba menipuku sebagaimana kau tipu Nabi Adam a.s sehingga keluar dari syurga, Habil mati teraniaya dibunuh Qabil dengan sebab hasutanmu, Nabi Ayub engkau tiup dengan asap beracun ketika dia sedang sujud sembahyang hingga dia sengsara beberapa lama, kisah Nabi Daud dengan perempuan Urya, Nabi Sulaiman meninggalkan kerajaannya karena engkau menyamar sebagai isterinya dan begitu juga beberapa Anbiya dan pendeta yang telah menanggung sengsara akibat hasutanmu.
Hai Iblis! Sebenarnya salam itu sangat mulia di sisi Allah azza wajalla, cuma salammu saja aku tidak hendak menjawabnya karena diharamkan Allah. Maka aku kenal baik-baik engkaulah Iblis, raja segala iblis, syaitan dan jin yang menyamar diri. Apa kehendakmu datang menemuiku?”
Taklimat Iblis, “Ya Nabi Allah! Janganlah engkau marah. Karena engkau adalah Khatamul Anbiya maka dapat mengenaliku. Kedatanganku adalah diperintah Allah untuk memberitahu segala tipu dayaku terhadap umatmu dari zaman Nabi Adam hingga akhir zaman. Ya Nabi Allah! Setiap apa yang engkau tanya, aku bersedia menerangkan satu persatu dengan sebenarnya, tiadalah aku berani menyembunyikannya.”
Maka Iblis pun bersumpah menyebut nama Allah dan berkata, “Ya Rasulullah! Sekiranya aku berdusta barang sepatah pun niscaya hancur leburlah badanku menjadi abu.”
Apabila mendengar sumpah Iblis itu, Nabi pun tersenyum dan berkata dalam hatinya, inilah satu peluangku untuk menyiasati segala perbuatannya agar didengar oleh sekalian sahabat yang ada di majlis ini dan menjadi perisai kepada seluruh umatku.
Pertanyaan Nabi (1):
“Hai Iblis! Siapakah sebesar-besar musuhmu dan bagaimana aku terhadapmu?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Ya Nabi Allah! Engkaulah musuhku yang paling besar di antara segala musuhku di muka bumi ini.”
Maka Nabi pun memandang muka Iblis, dan Iblis pun menggeletar karena ketakutan. Sambung Iblis, “Ya Khatamul Anbiya! Ada pun aku dapat merubah diriku seperti sekalian manusia, binatang dan lain-lain hingga rupa dan suara pun tidak berbeda, kecuali dirimu saja yang tidak dapat aku tiru karena dicegah oleh Allah.
Kiranya aku menyerupai dirimu, maka terbakarlah diriku menjadi abu. Aku cabut iktikad / niat anak Adam supaya menjadi kafir karena engkau berusaha memberi nasihat dan pengajaran supaya mereka kuat untuk memeluk agama Islam, begitu jugalah aku berusaha menarik mereka kepada kafir, murtad atau munafik. Aku akan menarik seluruh umat Islam dari jalan benar menuju jalan yang sesat supaya masuk ke dalam neraka dan kekal di dalamnya bersamaku.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (2):
“Hai Iblis! Bagaimana perbuatanmu kepada makhluk Allah?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Adalah satu kemajuan bagi perempuan yang merenggangkan kedua pahanya kepada lelaki yang bukan suaminya, setengahnya hingga mengeluarkan benih yang salah sifatnya. Aku goda semua manusia supaya meninggalkan sholat, terbuai dengan makan minum, berbuat durhaka, aku lalaikan dengan harta benda daripada emas, perak dan permata, rumahnya, tanahnya, ladangnya supaya hasilnya dibelanjakan ke jalan haram.
Demikian juga ketika pesta yang bercampur antara lelaki dan perempuan. Disana aku lepaskan sebesar-besar godaan supaya hilang peraturan dan minum arak. Apabila terminum arak itu maka hilanglah akal, fikiran dan malunya. Lalu aku ulurkan tali cinta dan terbukalah beberapa pintu maksiat yang besar, datang perasaan hasad dengki hingga kepada pekerjaan zina. Apabila terjadi kasih antara mereka, terpaksalah mereka mencari uang hingga menjadi penipu, peminjam dan pencuri.
Apabila mereka teringat akan salah mereka lalu hendak bertaubat atau berbuat amal ibadat, aku akan rayu mereka supaya mereka menangguhkannya. Bertambah keras aku goda supaya menambahkan maksiat dan mengambil isteri orang. Bila kena goda hatinya, datanglah rasa ria, takabur, megah, sombong dan melengahkan amalnya. Bila pada lidahnya, mereka akan gemar berdusta, mencela dan mengumpat. Demikianlah aku goda mereka setiap saat.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (3):
“Hai Iblis! Mengapa engkau bersusah payah melakukan pekerjaan yang tidak mendatangkan faedah bahkan menambahkan laknat yang besar serta siksa yang besar di neraka yang paling bawah? Hai yang dikutuk Allah! Siapa yang menjadikanmu? Siapa yang melanjutkan usiamu? Siapa yang menerangkan matamu? Siapa yang memberi pendengaranmu? Siapa yang memberi kekuatan anggota badanmu?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Semuanya itu adalah anugerah daripada Allah Yang Maha Besar juga. Tetapi hawa nafsu dan takabur membuatku menjadi jahat sebesar-besarnya. Engkau lebih tahu bahwa Diriku telah beribu-ribu tahun menjadi ketua seluruh Malaikat dan pangkatku telah dinaikkan dari satu langit ke satu langit yang tinggi. Kemudian Aku tinggal di dunia ini beribadat bersama sekalian Malaikat beberapa waktu lamanya.
Tiba-tiba datang firman Allah SWT hendak menjadikan seorang Khalifah di dunia ini, maka akupun membantah. Lalu Allah menciptakan lelaki (Nabi Adam) lalu dititahkan seluruh Malaikat memberi hormat kepada lelaki itu, kecuali aku yang ingkar. Oleh karena itu Allah murka kepadaku dan wajahku yang tampan rupawan dan bercahaya itu bertukar menjadi keji dan kelam. Aku merasa sakit hati. Kemudian Allah menjadikan Adam raja di syurga dan dikurniakan seorang permaisuri (Siti Hawa) yang memerintah seluruh bidadari. Aku bertambah dengki dan dendam kepada mereka.
Akhirnya aku berhasil menipu mereka melalui Siti Hawa yang menyuruh Adam memakan buah Khuldi, lalu keduanya diusir dari syurga ke dunia. Keduanya berpisah beberapa tahun dan kemudian dipertemukan Allah (di Padang Arafah), hingga mereka mendapat beberapa orang anak. Kemudian kami hasut anak lelakinya Qabil supaya membunuh saudaranya Habil. Itu pun aku masih tidak puas hati dan berbagai tipu daya aku lakukan hingga Hari Kiamat.
Sebelum Engkau lahir ke dunia, aku beserta bala tentaraku dengan mudah dapat naik ke langit untuk mencuri segala rahasia serta tulisan yang menyuruh manusia berbuat ibadat serta balasan pahala dan syurga mereka. Kemudian aku turun ke dunia, dan memberitahu manusia yang lain aripada apa yang sebenarnya aku dapatkan, dengan berbagai tipu daya hingga tersesat dengan berbagai kitab bid’ah dan carut-marut.
Tetapi ketika engkau lahir ke dunia ini, maka aku tidak dibenarkan oleh Allah untuk naik ke langit serta mencuri rahasia, kerana banyak Malaikat yang menjaga di setiap lapisan pintu langit. Jika aku berkeras juga hendak naik, maka Malaikat akan melontarkan anak panah dari api yang menyala. Sudah banyak bala tenteraku yang terkena lontaran Malaikat itu dan semuanya terbakar menjadi abu. Maka besarlah kesusahanku dan bala tentaraku untuk menjalankan tugas menghasut.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (4):
“Hai Iblis! Apakah yang pertama engkau tipu dari manusia?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Pertama sekali aku palingkan iktikad / niatnya, imannya kepada kafir juga ada dari segi perbuatan, perkataan, kelakuan atau hatinya. Jika tidak berhasil juga, aku akan tarik dengan cara mengurangi pahala. Lama-kelamaan mereka akan terjerumus mengikut kemauan jalanku”
Pertanyaan Nabi (5):
“Hai Iblis! Jika umatku sholat karena Allah, bagaimana keadaanmu?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Sebesar-besarnya kesusahanku. Gementarlah badanku dan lemah tulang sendiku. Maka aku kerahkan berpuluh-puluh iblis datang menggoda seorang manusia, pada setiap anggota badannya.
Setengah-setengahnya datang pada setiap anggota badannya supaya malas sholat, was-was, terlupa bilangan rakaatnya, bimbang pada pekerjaan dunia yang ditinggalkannya, sentiasa hendak cepat habis sholatnya, hilang khusyuknya - matanya sentiasa menjeling ke kiri kanan, telinganya senantiasa mendengar orang bercakap serta bunyi-bunyi yang lain. Setengah Iblis duduk di belakang badan orang yang sembahyang itu supaya dia tidak kuasa sujud berlama-lama, penat atau duduk tahiyat dan dalam hatinya senantiasa hendak cepat habis sholatnya, itu semua membawa kepada kurangnya pahala. Jika para Iblis itu tidak dapat menggoda manusia itu, maka aku sendiri akan menghukum mereka dengan seberat-berat hukuman.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (6):
“Jika umatku membaca Al-Quran karena Allah, bagaimana perasaanmu?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Jika mereka membaca Al-Quran karena Allah, maka rasa terbakarlah tubuhku, putus-putus segala uratku lalu aku lari daripadanya.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (7):
“Jika umatku mengerjakan haji karena Allah, bagaimana perasaanmu?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Binasalah diriku, gugurlah daging dan tulangku karena mereka telah mencukupkan rukun Islamnya.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (8):
“Jika umatku berpuasa karena Allah, bagaimana keadaanmu?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Ya Rasulullah! Inilah bencana yang paling besar bahayanya kepadaku. Apabila masuk awal bulan Ramadhan, maka memancarlah cahaya Arasy dan Kursi, bahkan seluruh Malaikat menyambut dengan suka cita. Bagi orang yang berpuasa, Allah akan mengampunkan segala dosa yang lalu dan digantikan dengan pahala yang amat besar serta tidak dicatatkan dosanya selama dia berpuasa. Yang menghancurkan hatiku ialah segala isi langit dan bumi, yakni Malaikat, bulan, bintang, burung dan ikan-ikan semuanya siang malam mendoakan ampunan bagi orang yang berpuasa. Satu lagi kemuliaan orang berpuasa ialah dimerdekakan pada setiap masa dari azab neraka. Bahkan semua pintu neraka ditutup manakala semua pintu syurga dibuka seluas-luasnya, serta dihembuskan angin dari bawah Arasy yang bernama Angin Syirah yang amat lembut ke dalam syurga. Pada hari umatmu mulai berpuasa, dengan perintah Allah datanglah sekalian Malaikat dengan garangnya menangkapku dan tentaraku, jin, syaitan dan ifrit lalu dipasung kaki dan tangan dengan besi panas dan dirantai serta dimasukkan ke bawah bumi yang amat dalam. Di sana pula beberapa azab yang lain telah menunggu kami. Setelah habis umatmu berpuasa barulah aku dilepaskan dengan perintah agar tidak mengganggu umatmu. Umatmu sendiri telah merasa ketenangan berpuasa sebagaimana mereka bekerja dan bersahur seorang diri di tengah malam tanpa rasa takut dibandingkan bulan biasa.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (9):
“Hai Iblis! Bagaimana seluruh sahabatku menurutmu?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Seluruh sahabatmu juga adalah sebesar - besar seteruku. Tiada upayaku melawannya dan tiada satu tipu daya yang dapat masuk kepada mereka. Karena engkau sendiri telah berkata: “Seluruh sahabatku adalah seperti bintang di langit, jika kamu mengikuti mereka, maka kamu akan mendapat petunjuk.”
Saidina Abu Bakar al-Siddiq sebelum bersamamu, aku tidak dapat mendekatinya, apalagi setelah berdampingan denganmu. Dia begitu percaya atas kebenaranmu hingga dia menjadi wazirul a’zam. Bahkan engkau sendiri telah mengatakan jika ditimbang seluruh isi dunia ini dengan amal kebajikan Abu Bakar, maka akan lebih berat amal kebajikan Abu Bakar. Tambahan pula dia telah menjadi mertuamu karena engkau menikah dengan anaknya, Saiyidatina Aisyah yang juga banyak menghafadz Hadits-haditsmu.
Saidina Umar Al-Khattab pula tidaklah berani aku pandang wajahnya karena dia sangat keras menjalankan hukum syariat Islam dengan seksama. Jika aku pandang wajahnya, maka gemetarlah segala tulang sendiku karena sangat takut. Hal ini karena imannya sangat kuat apalagi engkau telah mengatakan, “Jikalau adanya Nabi sesudah aku maka Umar boleh menggantikan aku”, karena dia adalah orang harapanmu serta pandai membedakan antara kafir dan Islam hingga digelar ‘Al-Faruq’.
Saidina Usman Al-Affan lagi, aku tidak bisa bertemu, karena lidahnya senantiasa bergerak membaca Al-Quran. Dia penghulu orang sabar, penghulu orang mati syahid dan menjadi menantumu sebanyak dua kali. Karena taatnya, banyak Malaikat datang melawat dan memberi hormat kepadanya karena Malaikat itu sangat malu kepadanya hingga engkau mengatakan, “Barang siapa menulis Bismillahir rahmanir rahim pada kitab atau kertas-kertas dengan dakwat merah, nescaya mendapat pahala seperti pahala Usman mati syahid.”
Saidina Ali Abi Talib pun itu aku sangat takut karena hebatnya dan gagahnya dia di medan perang, tetapi sangat sopan santun, alim orangnya. Jika iblis, syaitan dan jin memandang beliau, maka terbakarlah kedua mata mereka karena dia sangat kuat beribadat serta beliau adalah golongan orang pertama memeluk agama Islam dan tidak pernah menundukkan kepalanya kepada sebarang berhala. Bergelar ‘Ali Karamullahu Wajhahu’ - dimuliakan Allah akan wajahnya dan juga ‘Harimau Allah’ dan engkau sendiri berkata, “Akulah negeri segala ilmu dan Ali itu pintunya.” Tambahan pula dia menjadi menantumu, semakin aku ngeri kepadanya.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (10):
“Bagaimana tipu daya engkau kepada umatku?
Jawab Iblis:
“Umatmu itu ada tiga macam. Yang pertama seperti hujan dari langit yang menghidupkan segala tumbuhan yaitu ulama yang memberi nasihat kepada manusia supaya mengerjakan perintah Allah serta meninggalkan laranganNya seperti kata Jibril a.s, “Ulama itu adalah pelita dunia dan pelita akhirat.” Yang kedua umat tuan seperti tanah yaitu orang yang sabar, syukur dan ridha dengan karunia Allah. Berbuat amal soleh, tawakal dan kebajikan. Yang ketiga umatmu seperti Firaun; terlampau tamak dengan harta dunia serta dihilangkan amal akhirat. Maka akupun bersukacita lalu masuk ke dalam badannya, aku putarkan hatinya ke lautan durhaka dan aku hela ke mana saja mengikuti kehendakku. Jadi dia senantiasa bimbang kepada dunia dan tidak hendak menuntut ilmu, tiada masa beramal ibadat, tidak hendak mengeluarkan zakat, miskin hendak beribadat.
Lalu aku goda agar minta kaya dulu, dan apabila diizinkan Allah dia menjadi kaya, maka dilupakan beramal, tidak berzakat seperti Qarun yang tenggelam dengan istana mahligainya. Bila umatmu terkena penyakit tidak sabar dan tamak, dia senantiasa bimbang akan hartanya dan setengahnya asyik hendak merebut dunia harta, bercakap besar sesama Islam, benci dan menghina kepada yang miskin, membelanjakan hartanya untuk jalan maksiat, tempat judi dan perempuan lacur.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (11):
“Siapa yang serupa dengan engkau?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Orang yang meringankan syariatmu dan membenci orang belajar agama Islam.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (12):
“Siapa yang mencahayakan muka engkau?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Orang yang berdosa, bersumpah bohong, saksi palsu, pemungkir janji.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (13):
“Apakah rahasia engkau kepada umatku?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Jika seorang Islam pergi buang air besar serta tidak membaca doa pelindung syaitan, maka aku gosok-gosokkan najisnya sendiri ke badannya tanpa dia sadari.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (14):
“Jika umatku bersatu dengan isterinya, bagaimana hal engkau?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Jika umatmu hendak bersetubuh dengan isterinya serta membaca doa pelindung syaitan, maka larilah aku dari mereka. Jika tidak, aku akan bersetubuh dahulu dengan isterinya, dan bercampurlah benihku dengan benih isterinya. Jika menjadi anak maka anak itu akan gemar kepada pekerjaan maksiat, malas pada kebaikan, durhaka. Ini semua karena kealpaan ibu bapaknya sendiri. Begitu juga jika mereka makan tanpa membaca Bismillah, aku yang dahulu makan daripadanya. Walaupun mereka makan, tiadalah merasa kenyang.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (15):
“Dengan jalan apa dapat menolak tipu daya engkau?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Jika dia berbuat dosa, maka dia kembali bertaubat kepada Allah, menangis menyesal akan perbuatannya. Apabila marah segeralah mengambil air wudhu’, maka padamlah marahnya.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (16):
“Siapakah orang yang paling engkau lebih sukai?”
Jawab Iblis:
Lelaki dan perempuan yang tidak mencukur atau mencabut bulu ketiak atau bulu ari-ari (bulu kemaluan) selama 40 hari. Di situlah aku mengecilkan diri, bersarang, bergantung, berbuai seperti pijat pada bulu itu.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (17):
“Hai Iblis! Siapakah saudara engkau?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Orang yang tidur meniarap / telungkup, orang yang matanya terbuka (mendusin) di waktu subuh tetapi menyambung tidur lagi. Lalu aku lenakan dia hingga terbit fajar. Demikian jua pada waktu zuhur, asar, maghrib dan isya’, aku beratkan hatinya untuk sholat.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (18):
“Apakah jalan yang membinasakan diri engkau?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Orang yang banyak menyebut nama Allah, bersedekah dengan tidak diketahui orang, banyak bertaubat, banyak tadarus Al-Quran dan sholat tengah malam.”
Pertanyaan Nabi (19):
“Hai Iblis! Apakah yang memecahkan mata engkau?”
Jawab Iblis:
“Orang yang duduk di dalam masjid serta beriktikaf di dalamnya”
Pertanyaan Nabi (20):
“Apa lagi yang memecahkan mata engkau?”
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By Prof. K. S. Ramakrishna Rao, Head of the Department of Philosophy,
Government College for Women University of Mysore, Mandya-571401 (Karnatika).Â
 In the desert of Arabia was Mohammad born, according to Muslim historians, on April 20, 571. The name means highly praised. He is to me the greatest mind among all the sons of Arabia. He means so much more than all the poets and kings that preceded him in that impenetrable desert of red sand.
When he appeared Arabia was a desert — a nothing. Out of nothing a new world was fashioned by the mighty spirit of Mohammad — a new life, a new culture, a new civilization, a new kingdom which extended from Morocco to Indies and influenced the thought and life of three continents — Asia, Africa and Europe.
When I thought of writing on Mohammad the prophet, I was a bit hesitant because it was to write about a religion I do not profess and it is a delicate matter to do so for there are many persons professing various religions and belonging to diverse school of thought and denominations even in same religion. Though it is sometimes, claimed that religion is entirely personal yet it can not be gain-said that it has a tendency to envelop the whole universe seen as well unseen. It somehow permeates something or other our hearts, our souls, our minds their conscious as well as subconscious and unconscious levels too. The problem assumes overwhelming importance when there is a deep conviction that our past, present and future all hang by the soft delicate, tender silked cord. If we further happen to be highly sensitive, the center of gravity is very likely to be always in a state of extreme tension. Looked at from this point of view, the less said about other religion the better. Let our religions be deeply hidden and embedded in the resistance of our innermost hearts fortified by unbroken seals on our lips.
But there is another aspect of this problem. Man lives in society. Our lives are bound with the lives of others willingly or unwillingly, directly or indirectly. We eat the food grown in the same soil, drink water, from the same the same spring and breathe the same air. Even while staunchly holding our own views, it would be helpful, if we try to adjust ourselves to our surroundings, if we also know to some extent, how the mind our neighbor moves and what the main springs of his actions are. From this angle of vision it is highly desirable that one should try to know all religions of the world, in the proper sprit, to promote mutual understanding and better appreciation of our neighborhood, immediate and remote.
Further, our thoughts are not scattered as appear to be on the surface. They have got themselves crystallized around a few nuclei in the form of great world religions and living faiths that guide and motivate the lives of millions that inhabit this earth of ours. It is our duty, in one sense if we have the ideal of ever becoming a citizen of the world before us, to make a little attempt to know the great religions and system of philosophy that have ruled mankind.
In spite of these preliminary remarks, the ground in these field of religion, where there is often a conflict between intellect and emotion is so slippery that one is constantly reminded of fools that rush in where angels fear to tread. It is also not so complex from another point of view. The subject of my writing is about the tenets of a religion which is historic and its prophet who is also a historic personality. Even a hostile critic like Sir William Muir speaking about the holy Quran says that. “There is probably in the world no other book which has remained twelve centuries with so pure text.” I may also add Prophet Mohammad is also a historic personality, every event of whose life has been most carefully recorded and even the minutest details preserved intact for the posterity. His life and works are not wrapped in mystery.
My work today is further lightened because those days are fast disappearing when Islam was highly misrepresented by some of its critics for reasons political and otherwise. Prof. Bevan writes in Cambridge Medieval History, “Those account of Mohammad and Islam which were published in Europe before the beginning of 19th century are now to be regarded as literary curiosities.” My problem is to write this monograph is easier because we are now generally not fed on this kind of history and much time need be spent on pointing out our misrepresentation of Islam.
The theory of Islam and Sword for instance is not heard now frequently in any quarter worth the name. The principle of Islam that there is no compulsion in religion is well known. Gibbon, a historian of world repute says, “A pernicious tenet has been imputed to Mohammadans, the duty of extirpating all the religions by sword.” This charge based on ignorance and bigotry, says the eminent historian, is refuted by Quran, by history of Musalman conquerors and by their public and legal toleration of Christian worship. The great success of Mohammad’s life had been effected by sheer moral force, without a stroke of sword.
But in pure self-defense, after repeated efforts of conciliation had utterly failed, circumstances dragged him into the battlefield. But the prophet of Islam changed the whole strategy of the battlefield. The total number of casualties in all the wars that took place during his lifetime when the whole Arabian Peninsula came under his banner, does not exceed a few hundreds in all. But even on the battlefield he taught the Arab barbarians to pray, to pray not individually, but in congregation to God the Almighty. During the dust and storm of warfare whenever the time for prayer came, and it comes five times a every day, the congregation prayer had not to be postponed even on the battlefield. A party had to be engaged in bowing their heads before God while other was engaged with the enemy. After finishing the prayers, the two parties had to exchange their positions. To the Arabs, who would fight for forty years on the slight provocation that a camel belonging to the guest of one tribe had strayed into the grazing land belonging to other tribe and both sides had fought till they lost 70,000 lives in all; threatening the extinction of both the tribes to such furious Arabs, the Prophet of Islam taught self-control and discipline to the extent of praying even on the battlefield. In an aged of barbarism, the Battlefield itself was humanized and strict instructions were issued not to cheat, not to break trust, not to mutilate, not to kill a child or woman or an old man, not to hew down date palm nor burn it, not to cut a fruit tree, not to molest any person engaged in worship. His own treatment with his bitterest enemies is the noblest example for his followers. At the conquest of Mecca, he stood at the zenith of his power. The city which had refused to listen to his mission, which had tortured him and his followers, which had driven him and his people into exile and which had unrelentingly persecuted and boycotted him even when he had taken refuge in a place more than 200 miles away, that city now lay at his feet. By the laws of war he could have justly avenged all the cruelties inflicted on him and his people. But what treatment did he accord to them? Mohammad’s heart flowed with affection and he declared, “This day, there is no REPROOF against you and you are all free.” “This day” he proclaimed, “I trample under my feet all distinctions between man and man, all hatred between man and man.”
This was one of the chief objects why he permitted war in self defense, that is to unite human beings. And when once this object was achieved, even his worst enemies were pardoned. Even those who killed his beloved uncle, Hamazah, mangled his body, ripped it open, even chewed a piece of his liver.
The principles of universal brotherhood and doctrine of the equality of mankind which he proclaimed represents one very great contribution of Mohammad to the social uplift of humanity. All great religions have preached the same doctrine but the prophet of Islam had put this theory into actual practice and its value will be fully recognized, perhaps centuries hence, when international consciousness being awakened, racial prejudices may disappear and greater brotherhood of humanity come into existence.
Miss. Sarojini Naidu speaking about this aspect of Islam says, “It was the first religion that preached and practiced democracy; for in the mosque, when the minaret is sounded and the worshipers are gathered together, the democracy of Islam is embodied five times a day when the peasant and the king kneel side by side and proclaim, God alone is great.” The great poetess of India continues, “I have been struck over and over again by this indivisible unity of Islam that makes a man instinctively a brother. When you meet an Egyptian, an Algerian and Indian and a Turk in London, it matters not that Egypt is the motherland of one and India is the motherland of another.”
Mahatma Gandhi, in his inimitable style, says “Some one has said that Europeans in South Africa dread the advent Islam — Islam that civilized Spain, Islam that took the torch light to Morocco and preached to the world the Gospel of brotherhood. The Europeans of South Africa dread the Advent of Islam. They may claim equality with the white races. They may well dread it, if brotherhood is a sin. If it is equality of colored races then their dread is well founded.”
Every year, during the Haj, the world witnesses the wonderful spectacle of this international Exhibition of Islam in leveling all distinctions of race, color and rank. Not only the Europeans, the African, the Arabian, the Persian, the Indians, the Chinese all meet together in Medina as members of one divine family, but they are clad in one dress every person in two simple pieces of white seamless cloth, one piece round the loin the other piece over the shoulders, bare head without pomp or ceremony, repeating “Here am I O God; at thy command; thou art one and alone; Here am I.” Thus there remains nothing to differentiate the high from the low and every pilgrim carries home the impression of the international significance of Islam.
In the opinion of Prof. Hurgronje “the league of nations founded by prophet of Islam put the principle of international unity of human brotherhood on such Universal foundations as to show candle to other nations.” In the words of same Professor “the fact is that no nation of the world can show a parallel to what Islam has done the realization of the idea of the League of Nations.”
The prophet of Islam brought the reign of democracy in its best form. The Caliph Caliph Ali and the son in-law of the prophet, the Caliph Mansur, Abbas, the son of Caliph Mamun and many other caliphs and kings had to appear before the judge as ordinary men in Islamic courts. Even today we all know how the black Negroes were treated by the civilized white races. Consider the state of BILAL, a Negro Slave, in the days of the prophet of Islam nearly 14 centuries ago. The office of calling Muslims to prayer was considered to be of status in the early days of Islam and it was offered to this Negro slave. After the conquest of Mecca, the Prophet ordered him to call for prayer and the Negro slave, with his black color and his thick lips, stood over the roof of the holy mosque at Mecca called the Ka’ba the most historic and the holiest mosque in the Islamic world, when some proud Arabs painfully cried loud, “Oh, this black Negro Slave, woe be to him. He stands on the roof of holy Ka’ba to call for prayer.” At that moment, the prophet announced to the world, this verse of the holy QURAN for the first time.
“O mankind, surely we have created you, families and tribes, so you may know one another.
Surely, the most honorable of you with God is MOST RIGHTEOUS AMONG you.
Surely, God is Knowing, Aware.” Â
And these words of the holy Quran created such a mighty transformation that the Caliph of Islam, the purest of Arabs by birth, offered their daughter in marriage to this Negro Slave, and whenever, the second Caliph of Islam, known to history as Umar the great, the commander of faithful, saw this Negro slave, he immediately stood in reverence and welcomed him by “Here come our master; Here come our lord.” What a tremendous change was brought by Quran in the Arabs, the proudest people at that time on the earth. This is the reason why Goethe, the greatest of German poets, speaking about the Holy Quran declared that, “This book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.” This is also the reason why George Bernard Shaw says, “If any religion has a chance or ruling over England, say, Europe, within the next 100 years, it is Islam”.It is this same democratic spirit of Islam that emancipated women from the bondage of man. Sir Charles Edward Archibald Hamilton says “Islam teaches the inherent sinlessness of man. It teaches that man and woman and woman have come from the same essence, posses the same soul and have been equipped with equal capabilities for intellectual, spiritual and moral attainments.”
The Arabs had a very strong tradition that one who can smite with the spear and can wield the sword would inherit. But Islam came as the defender of the weaker sex and entitled women to share the inheritance of their parents. It gave women, centuries ago right of owning property, yet it was only 12 centuries later , in 1881, that England, supposed to be the cradle of democracy adopted this institution of Islam and the act was called “the married woman act”, but centuries earlier, the Prophet of Islam had proclaimed that “Woman are twin halves of men. The rights of women are sacred. See that women maintained rights granted to them.”
Islam is not directly concerned with political and economic systems, but indirectly and in so far as political and economic affairs influence man’s conduct, it does lay down some very important principles to govern economic life. According to Prof. Massignon, it maintains the balance between exaggerated opposites and has always in view the building of character which is the basis of civilization. This is secured by its law of inheritance, by an organized system of charity known as Zakat, and by regarding as illegal all anti-social practices in the economic field like monopoly, usury, securing of predetermined unearned income and increments, cornering markets, creating monopolies, creating an artificial scarcity of any commodity in order to force the prices to rise. Gambling is illegal. Contribution to schools, to places of worship, hospitals, digging of wells, opening of orphanages are highest acts of virtue. Orphanages have sprung for the first time, it is said, under the teaching of the prophet of Islam. The world owes its orphanages to this prophet born an orphan. “Good all this” says Carlyle about Mohammad. “The natural voice of humanity, of pity and equity, dwelling in the heart of this wild son of nature, speaks.”
A historian once said a great man should be judged by three tests: Was he found to be of true metel by his contemporaries ? Was he great enough to raise above the standards of his age ? Did he leave anything as permanent legacy to the world at large ? This list may be further extended but all these three tests of greatness are eminently satisfied to the highest degree in case of prophet Mohammad. Some illustrations of the last two have already been mentioned.
The first is: Was the Prophet of Islam found to be of true metel by his contemporaries?
Historical records show that all the contemporaries of Mohammad both friends foes, acknowledged the sterling qualities, the spotless honesty, the noble virtues, the absolute sincerity and every trustworthiness of the apostle of Islam in all walks of life and in every sphere of human activity. Even the Jews and those who did not believe in his message, adopted him as the arbiter in their personal disputes by virtue of his perfect impartiality. Even those who did not believe in his message were forced to say “O Mohammad, we do not call you a liar, but we deny him who has given you a book and inspired you with a message.” They thought he was one possessed. They tried violence to cure him. But the best of them saw that a new light had dawned on him and they hastened him to seek the enlightenment. It is a notable feature in the history of prophet of Islam that his nearest relation, his beloved cousin and his bosom friends, who know him most intimately, were not thoroughly imbued with the truth of his mission and were convinced of the genuineness of his divine inspiration. If these men and women, noble, intelligent, educated and intimately acquainted with his private life had perceived the slightest signs of deception, fraud, earthliness, or lack of faith in him, Mohammad’s moral hope of regeneration, spiritual awakening, and social reform would all have been foredoomed to a failure and whole edifice would have crumbled to pieces in a moment. On the contrary, we find that devotion of his followers was such that he was voluntarily acknowledged as dictator of their lives. They braved for him persecutions and danger; they trusted, obeyed and honored him even in the most excruciating torture and severest mental agony caused by excommunication even unto death. Would this have been so, had they noticed the slightest backsliding in their master?
Read the history of the early converts to Islam, and every heart would melt at the sight of the brutal treatment of innocent Muslim men and women.
Sumayya, an innocent women, is cruelly torn into pieces with spears. An example is made of “Yassir whose legs are tied to two camels and the beast were are driven in opposite directions”, Khabbab bin Arth is made lie down on the bed of burning coal with the brutal legs of their merciless tyrant on his breast so that he may not move and this makes even the fat beneath his skin melt. “Khabban bin Adi is put to death in a cruel manner by mutilation and cutting off his flesh piece-meal.” In the midst of his tortures, being asked weather he did not wish Mohammad in his place while he was in his house with his family, the sufferer cried out that he was gladly prepared to sacrifice himself his family and children and why was it that these sons and daughters of Islam not only surrendered to their prophet their allegiance but also made a gift of their hearts and souls to their master? Is not the intense faith and conviction on part of immediate followers of Mohammad, the noblest testimony to his sincerity and to his utter self-absorption in his appointed task?
And these men were not of low station or inferior mental caliber. Around him in quite early days, gathered what was best and noblest in Mecca, its flower and cream, men of position, rank, wealth and culture, and from his own kith and kin, those who knew all about his life. All the first four Caliphs, with their towering personalities, were converts of this period.
The Encyclopedia Brittanica says that “Mohammad is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities”.
But the success was not the result of mere accident. It was not a hit of fortune. It was a recognition of fact that he was found to be true metal by his contemporaries. It was the result of his admirable and all compelling personality.
The personality of Mohammad! It is most difficult to get into the truth of it. Only a glimpse of it I can catch. What a dramatic succession of picturesque scenes. There is Mohammad the Prophet, there is Mohammad the General; Mohammad the King; Mohammad the Warrior; Mohammad the Businessman; Mohammad the Preacher; Mohammad the Philosopher; Mohammad the Statesman; Mohammad the Orator; Mohammad the reformer; Mohammad the Refuge of orphans; Mohammad the Protector of slaves; Mohammad the Emancipator of women; Mohammad the Law-giver; Mohammad the Judge; Mohammad the Saint.
And in all these magnificent roles, in all these departments of human activities, he is like, a hero..
Orphanhood is extreme of helplessness and his life upon this earth began with it; Kingship is the height of the material power and it ended with it. From an orphan boy to a persecuted refugee and then to an overlord, spiritual as well as temporal, of a whole nation and Arbiter of its destinies, with all its trials and temptations, with all its vicissitudes and changes, its lights and shades, its up and downs, its terror and splendor, he has stood the fire of the world and came out unscathed to serve as a model in every face of life. His achievements are not limited to one aspect of life, but cover the whole field of human conditions.
If for instance, greatness consist in the purification of a nation, steeped in barbarism and immersed in absolute moral darkness, that dynamic personality who has transformed, refined and uplifted an entire nation, sunk low as the Arabs were, and made them the torch-bearer of civilization and learning, has every claim to greatness. If greatness lies in unifying the discordant elements of society by ties of brotherhood and charity, the prophet of the desert has got every title to this distinction. If greatness consists in reforming those warped in degrading and blind superstition and pernicious practices of every kind, the prophet of Islam has wiped out superstitions and irrational fear from the hearts of millions. If it lies in displaying high morals, Mohammad has been admitted by friend and foe as Al Amin, or the faithful. If a conqueror is a great man, here is a person who rose from helpless orphan and an humble creature to be the ruler of Arabia, the equal to Chosroes and Caesars, one who founded great empire that has survived all these 14 centuries. If the devotion that a leader commands is the criterion of greatness, the prophet’s name even today exerts a magic charm over millions of souls, spread all over the world.
He had not studied philosophy in the school of Athens of Rome, Persia, India, or China. Yet, He could proclaim the highest truths of eternal value to mankind. Illiterate himself, he could yet speak with an eloquence and fervor which moved men to tears, to tears of ecstasy. Born an orphan blessed with no worldly goods, he was loved by all. He had studied at no military academy; yet he could organize his forces against tremendous odds and gained victories through the moral forces which he marshaled. Gifted men with genius for preaching are rare. Descartes included the perfect preacher among the rarest kind in the world. Hitler in his Mein Kamp has expressed a similar view. He says “A great theorist is seldom a great leader. An Agitator is more likely to posses these qualities. He will always be a great leader. For leadership means ability to move masses of men. The talents to produce ideas has nothing in common with capacity for leadership.” “But”, he says, “The Union of theorists, organizer and leader in one man, is the rarest phenomenon on this earth; Therein consists greatness.”
In the person of the Prophet of Islam the world has seen this rarest phenomenon walking on the earth, walking in flesh and blood.
And more wonderful still is what the reverend Bosworth Smith remarks, “Head of the state as well as the Church, he was Caesar and Pope in one; but, he was pope without the pope’s claims, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar, without an standing army, without a bodyguard, without a palace, without a fixed revenue. If ever any man had the right to say that he ruled by a right divine It was Mohammad, for he had all the power without instruments and without its support. He cared not for dressing of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life.”
After the fall of Mecca, more than one million square miles of land lay at his feet, Lord of Arabia, he mended his own shoes and coarse woolen garments, milked the goats, swept the hearth, kindled the fire and attended the other menial offices of the family. The entire town of Medina where he lived grew wealthy in the later days of his life. Everywhere there was gold and silver in plenty and yet in those days of prosperity many weeks would elapse without a fire being kindled in the hearth of the king of Arabia, His food being dates and water. His family would go hungry many nights successively because they could not get anything to eat in the evening. He slept on no soften bed but on a palm mat, after a long busy day to spend most of his night in prayer, often bursting with tears before his creator to grant him strength to discharge his duties. As the reports go, his voice would get choked with weeping and it would appear as if a cooking pot was on fire and boiling had commenced. On the very day of his death his only assets were few coins a part of which went to satisfy a debt and rest was given to a needy person who came to his house for charity. The clothes in which he breathed his last had many patches. The house from where light had spread to the world was in darkness because there was no oil in the lamp.
Circumstances changed, but the prophet of God did not. In victory or in defeat, in power or in adversity, in affluence or in indigence, he is the same man, disclosed the same character. Like all the ways and laws of God, Prophets of God are unchangeable.
An honest man, as the saying goes, is the noblest work of God, Mohammad was more than honest. He was human to the marrow of his bones. Human sympathy, human love was the music of his soul. To serve man, to elevate man, to purify man, to educate man, in a word to humanize man-this was the object of his mission, the be-all and end all of his life. In thought, in word, in action he had the good of humanity as his sole inspiration, his sole guiding principle.
He was most unostentatious and selfless to the core. What were the titles he assumed? Only true servant of God and His Messenger. Servant first, and then a messenger. A Messenger and prophet like many other prophets in every part of the world, some known to you, many not known you. If one does not believe in any of these truths one ceases to be a Muslim. It is an article of faith.
“Looking at the circumstances of the time and unbounded reverence of his followers” says a western writer “the most miraculous thing about Mohammad is, that he never claimed the power of working miracles.” Miracles were performed but not to propagate his faith and were attributed entirely to God and his inscrutable ways. He would plainly say that he was a man like others. He had no treasures of earth or heaven. Nor did he claim to know the secrets of that lie in womb of future. All this was in an age when miracles were supposed to be ordinary occurrences, at the back and call of the commonest saint, when the whole atmosphere was surcharged with supernaturalism in Arabia and outside Arabia.
He turned the attention of his followers towards the study of nature and its laws, to understand them and appreciate the Glory of God. The Quran says,
“God did not create the heavens and the earth and all that is between them in play. He did not create them all but with the truth. But most men do not know.”
The world is not illusion, nor without purpose. It has been created with the truth. The number of verses inviting close observation of nature are several times more than those that relate to prayer, fasting, pilgrimage etc. all put together. The Muslim under its influence began to observe nature closely and this give birth to the scientific spirit of the observation and experiment which was unknown to the Greeks. While the Muslim Botanist Ibn Baitar wrote on Botany after collecting plants from all parts of the world, described by Myer in his Gesch. der Botanikaa-s, a monument of industry, while Al Byruni traveled for forty years to collect mineralogical specimens, and Muslim Astronomers made some observations extending even over twelve years. Aristotle wrote on Physics without performing a single experiment, wrote on natural history, carelessly stating without taking the trouble to ascertain the most verifiable fact that men have more teeth than animal. Galen, the greatest authority on classical anatomy informed that the lower jaw consists of two bones, a statement which is accepted unchallenged for centuries till Abdul Lateef takes the trouble to examine a human skeleton. After enumerating several such instances, Robert Priffault concludes in his well known book The making of humanity, “The debt of our science to the Arabs does not consist in starting discovers or revolutionary theories. Science owes a great more to Arabs culture; it owes is existence.” The same writer says “The Greeks systematized, generalized and theorized but patient ways of investigation, the accumulation of positive knowledge, the minute methods of science, detailed and prolonged observation, experimental inquiry, were altogether alien to Greek temperament. What we call science arose in Europe as result of new methods of investigation, of the method of experiment, observation, measurement, of the development of Mathematics in form unknown to the Greeks. That spirit and these methods, concludes the same author, were introduced into the European world by Arabs.”It is the same practical character of the teaching of Prophet Mohammad that gave birth to the scientific spirit, that has also sanctified the daily labors and the so called mundane affairs. The Quran says that God has created man to worship him but the word worship has a connotation of its own. Gods worship is not confined to prayer alone, but every act that is done with the purpose of winning approval of God and is for the benefit of the humanity comes under its purview. Islam sanctifies life and all its pursuits provided they are performed with honesty, justice and pure intents. It obliterates the age-long distinction between the sacred and profane. The Quran says if you eat clean things and thank God for it, it is an act of worship. It is saying of the prophet of Islam that Morsel of food that one places in the mouth of his wife is an act of virtue to be rewarded by God. Another tradition of the Prophet says “He who is satisfying the desire of his heart will be rewarded by God provided the methods adopted are permissible.” A person was listening to him exclaimed ‘O Prophet of God, he is answering the calls of passions, is only satisfying the craving of his heart. Forthwith came the reply, “Had he adopted an awful method for the satisfaction of his urge, he would have been punished; then why should he not be rewarded for following the right course.”
This new conception of religion that it should also devote itself to the betterment of this life rather than concern itself exclusively with super mundane affairs, has led to a new orientation of moral values. Its abiding influence on the common relations of mankind in the affairs of every day life, its deep power over the masses, its regulation of their conception of rights and duty, its suitability and adaptability to the ignorant savage and the wise philosopher are characteristic features of the teaching of the Prophet of Islam.
But it should be most carefully born in mind this stress on good actions is not the sacrifice correctness of faith. While there are various school of thought, one praising faith at the expense of deeds, another exhausting various acts to the detriment of correct belief, Islam is based on correct faith and righteous actions. Means are important as the end and ends are as important as the means. It is an organic Unity. Together they live and thrive. Separate them and both decay and die. In Islam faith can not be divorced from the action. Right knowledge should be transferred into right action to produce the right results. How often the words came in Quran — Those who believe and do good thing, they alone shall enter paradise. Again and again, not less than fifty times these words are repeated as if too much stress can not be laid on them. Contemplation is encouraged but mere contemplation is not the goal. Those who believe and do nothing can not exist in Islam. These who believe and do wrong are inconceivable. Divine law is the law of effort and not of ideals. It chalks out for the men the path of eternal progress from knowledge to action and from action to satisfaction.
But what is the correct faith from which right action spontaneously proceeds resulting in complete satisfaction. Here the central doctrine of Islam is the Unity of God. There is no God but God is the pivot from which hangs the whole teaching and practice of Islam. He is unique not only as regards his divine being but also as regards his divine attributes.
As regards the attributes of God, Islam adopts here as in other things too, the law of golden mean. It avoids on the one hand, the view of God which divests the divine being of every attribute and rejects, on the other, the view which likens him to things material. The Quran says, On the one hand, there is nothing which is like him, on the other , it affirms that he is Seeing, Hearing, Knowing. He is the King who is without a stain of fault or deficiency, the mighty ship of His power floats upon the ocean of justice and equity. He is the Beneficent, the Merciful. He is the Guardian over all. Islam does not stop with this positive statement. It adds further which is its most special characteristic, the negative aspects of problem. There is also no one else who is guardian over everything. He is the meander of every breakage, and no one else is the meander of any breakage. He is the restorer of every loss and no one else is the restorer of any loss what-so-over. There is no God but one God, above any need, the maker of bodies, creator of souls, the Lord of the day of judgment, and in short, in the words of Quran, to him belong all excellent qualities.
Regarding the position of man in relation to the Universe, the Quran says:
“God has made subservient to you whatever is on the earth or in universe. You are destined to rule over the Universe.”
But in relation to God, the Quran says:
“O man God has bestowed on you excellent faculties and has created life and death to put you to test in order to see whose actions are good and who has deviated from the right path.”
In spite of free will which he enjoys, to some extent, every man is born under certain circumstances and continues to live under certain circumstances beyond his control. With regard to this God says, according to Islam, it is my will to create any man under condition that seem best to me. cosmic plans finite mortals can not fully comprehend. But I will certainly test you in prosperity as well in adversity, in health as well as in sickness, in heights as well as in depths. My ways of testing differ from man to man, from hour to hour. In adversity do not despair and do resort to unlawful means. It is but a passing phase. In prosperity do not forget God. God-gifts are given only as trusts. You are always on trial, every moment on test. In this sphere of life there is not to reason why, there is but to do and die. If you live in accordance with God; and if you die, die in the path of God. You may call it fatalism. but this type of fatalism is a condition of vigorous increasing effort, keeping you ever on the alert. Do not consider this temporal life on earth as the end of human existence. There is a life after death and it is eternal. Life after death is only a connection link, a door that opens up hidden reality of life. Every action in life however insignificant, produces a lasting effect. It is correctly recorded somehow. Some of the ways of God are known to you, but many of his ways are hidden from you. What is hidden in you and from you in this world will be unrolled and laid open before you in the next. the virtuous will enjoy the blessing of God which the eye has not seen, nor has the ear heard, nor has it entered into the hearts of men to conceive of they will march onward reaching higher and higher stages of evolution. Those who have wasted opportunity in this life shall under the inevitable law, which makes every man taste of what he has done, be subjugated to a course of treatment of the spiritual diseases which they have brought about with their own hands. Beware, it is terrible ordeal. Bodily pain is torture, you can bear somehow. Spiritual pain is hell, you will find it almost unbearable. Fight in this life itself the tendencies of the spirit prone to evil, tempting to lead you into iniquities ways. Reach the next stage when the self-accusing sprit in your conscience is awakened and the soul is anxious to attain moral excellence and revolt against disobedience. This will lead you to the final stage of the soul at rest, contented with God, finding its happiness and delight in him alone. The soul no more stumbles. The stage of struggle passes away. Truth is victorious and falsehood lays down its arms. All complexes will then be resolved. Your house will not be divided against itself. Your personality will get integrated round the central core of submission to the will of God and complete surrender to his divine purpose. All hidden energies will then be released. The soul then will have peace. God will then address you:
“O thou soul that art at rest, and restest fully contented with thy Lord return to thy Lord. He pleased with thee and thou pleased with him; So enter among my servants and enter into my paradise.”
This is the final goal for man; to become, on the, one hand, the master of the universe and on the other, to see that his soul finds rest in his Lord, that not only his Lord will be pleased with him but that he is also pleased with his Lord. Contentment, complete contentment, satisfaction, complete satisfaction, peace, complete peace. The love of God is his food at this stage and he drinks deep at the fountain of life. Sorrow and defeat do not overwhelm him and success does not find him in vain and exulting.The western nations are only trying to become the master of the Universe. But their souls have not found peace and rest.
Thomas Carlyle, struck by this philosophy of life writes “and then also Islam-that we must submit to God; that our whole strength lies in resigned submission to Him, whatsoever he does to us, the thing he sends to us, even if death and worse than death, shall be good, shall be best; we resign ourselves to God.” The same author continues “If this be Islam, says Goethe, do we not all live in Islam?” Carlyle himself answers this question of Goethe and says “Yes, all of us that have any moral life, we all live so. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.”
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ARTIKEL INI SAYA AMBIL DARI SEBUAH MILIS ==============================
MISTERI TERBELAHNYA BULAN.
Allah berfirman:
Sungguh telah dekat hari qiamat, dan bulan pun telah terbelah (Q.S. Al-Qamar: 1)
Apakah kalian akan membenarkan kisah yang dari ayat Al-Qur”an ini menyebabkan masuk Islamnya pimpinan Hizb Islami Inggris ??
Di bawah ini adalah kisahnya:
Dalam temu wicara di televisi bersama pakar Geologi Muslim, Prof. Dr. Zaghlul Al-Najar, salah seorang warga Inggris mengajukan pertanyaan kepadanya, apakah ayat dari surat Al-Qamar di atas memiliki kandungan mukjizat secara ilmiah?’, ‘Maka Prof. Dr. Zaghlul Al-Najar menjawabnya sebagai berikut: Tentang ayat ini, saya akan menceritakan sebuah kisah. Sejak beberapa waktu lalu, s! aya mempresentasikan di Univ.Cardif, Inggris bagian barat, dan para peserta yang hadir bermacam-macam, ada yang muslim dan ada juga yang bukan muslim. Salah satu tema diskusi waktu itu adalah seputar mukjizat ilmiah dari Al-Qur”an. Salah seorang pemuda yang beragama muslim pun berdiri dan bertanya, “Wahai Tuan, apakah menurut anda ayat yang berbunyi [Telah dekat hari qiamat dan bulan pun telah terbelah mengandung ; mukjizat secara ilmiah ? maka saya menjawabnya: Tidak, sebab kehebatan ilmiah diterangkan oleh ilmu pengetahuan, sedangkan mukjizat tidak bisa diterangkan ilmu pengetahuan, sebab ia tidak bisa menjangkaunya. Dan tentang terbelahnya bulan, maka itu adalah mukjizat yang terjadi pada Rasul terakhir Muhammad shallallahu ”alaihiwassalam sebagai pembenaran atas kenabian dan kerasulannya,sebagaimana nabi-nabi sebelumnya. Dan mukjizat yang kelihatan, maka itu disaksikan dan dibenarkan oleh setiap orang yang melihatnya. Andai hal itu tidak termaktub di dalam kitab Allah hadits-hadits Rasulullah, maka tentulah kami para muslimin di zaman ini tidak akan mengimani hal itu. Akan tetapi hal itu memang benar termaktub di dalam Al-Qur”an dan sunnah-sunnah Rasulullah shallallahu alaihi wassalam. Dan memang Allah ta”alaa benar-benar Maha berkuasa atas segala sesuatu. Maka Prof. Dr. Zaghlul Al-Najar pun mengutip sebuah kisah Rasulullah membelah bulan. Kisah itu adalah sebelum hijrah dari Mekah Mukarramah ke Madinah. Orang-orang musyrik berkata, “Wahai Muhammad, kalau engkau benar Nabi dan Rasul, coba tunjukk! an kepada kami satu kehebatan yang bisa ; membuktikan kenabian dan kerasulanmu (mengejek dan mengolok-olok)”
Rasulullah bertanya, “Apa yang kalian inginkan ?”
Mereka menjawab: Coba belahlah bulan, ..
Maka Rasulullah pun berdiri dan terdiam, lalu berdoa kepada Allah agar menolongnya. Maka Allah memberitahu Muhammad agar mengarahkan telunjuknya ke bulan. Maka Rasulullah pun mengarahkan telunjuknya ke bulan, dan terbelahlah bulat itu dengan sebenar-benarnya.
Maka serta-merta orang-orang musyrik pun berujar, “Muhammad, engkau benar-benar telah menyihir kami!”
Akan tetapi para ahli mengatakan bahwa sihir, memang benar bisa saja “menyihir” orang yang ada disampingnya akan tetapi tidak bisa menyihir orang yang tidak ada ditempat itu. Maka mereka pun pada menunggu orang-orang yang akan pulang dari perjalanan. Maka orang-orang Quraisy pun bergegas menuju keluar batas kota Mekkah menanti orang yang baru pulang dari perjalanan. Dan ketika datang rombongan yang pertama kali dari perjalanan menuju Mekkah, maka orang-orang musyrik pun bertanya, “Apakah kalian melihat sesuatu yang aneh dengan bulan?”
Mereka menjawab, “Ya, benar. Pada suatu malam yang lalu kami melihat bulan terbelah menjadi dua dan saling menjauh masing-masingnya kemudian bersatu kembali…!!!
Maka sebagian mereka pun beriman, dan sebagian lainnya lagi tetap kafir (ingkar). Oleh karena itu, Allah menurunkan ayat-Nya: Sungguh, telah dekat hari qiamat, dan telah terbelah bulan, dan ketika melihat tanda-tanda kebesaran Kami, merekapun ingkar lagi berpaling seraya berkata, “Ini adalah sihir yang terus-menerus” dan mereka mendustakannya, bahkan mengikuti hawa nafsu mereka. Dan setiap urusan benar-benar telah tetap ….sampai akhir surat Al-Qamar.
Ini adalah kisah nyata, demikian kata Prof. Dr.Zaghlul Al-Najar. Dan setelah selesainya Prof. Dr. Zaghlul menyampaikan hadits nabi tersebut, berdiri seorang muslim warga Inggris dan memperkenalkan diri seraya berkata, “Aku Daud Musa Pitkhok, ketua Al-Hizb Al-Islamy Inggris. Wahai tuan, bolehkah aku menambahkan?”
Prof. Dr. Zaghlul Al-Najar menjawab: “Dipersilahkan dengan senang hati.” Daud Musa Pitkhok berkata, “Aku pernah meneliti agama-agama (sebelum menjadi muslim), maka salah seorang mahasiswa muslim menunjukiku sebuah terjemah makna-makna Al-Qur”an yang mulia. Maka, aku pun berterima kasih kepadanya dan aku membawa terjemah itu pulang ke rumah. Dan ketika aku membuka-buka terjemahan Al-Qur”an itu di rumah, maka surat yang pertama aku buka ternyata Al-Qamar. Dan aku pun membacanya: “Telah dekat hari qiamat dan bulan pun telah terbelah…….” Maka aku pun bergumam: Apakah kalimat ini masuk akal?? Apakah mungkin bulan bisa terbelah kemudian bersatu kembali?? Andai benar, kekuatan macam apa yang bisa melakukan hal itu??? Maka, aku pun menghentikan dari membaca ayat-ayat selanjutnya dan aku menyibukkan diri dengan urusan kehidupan sehari-hari. Akan tetapi Allah Yang Maha Tahu tentang tingkat keikhlasam hamba-Nya dalam pencarian kebenaran. Maka aku pun suatu hari duduk di depan televisi Inggris. Saat itu ada sebuah diskusi diantara presenter seorang Inggris dan 3 orang pakar ruang angkasa AS. Ketiga pakar antariksa tersebut pun menceritakan tentang dana yang begitu besardalam rangka melakukan perjalanan ke antariksa, padahal saat yang sama dunia sedang mengalami masalah kelaparan, kemiskinan, sakit dan perselisihan.
Presenter pun berkata, ”Andai dana itu digunakan untuk memakmurkan bumi, tentulah lebih banyak berguna”.
Ketiga pakar itu pun membela diri dengan proyek antariksanya dan berkata, “Proyek antariksa ini akan membawa dampak yang sangat positif pada banyak segmen kehidupan manusia, baik segi kedokteran, industri, dan pertani an. Jadi pendanaan tersebut bukanlah hal yang sia-sia, akan tetapi hal itu dalam rangka pengembangan kehidupan manusia. Dan diantara diskusi tersebut adalah tentang turunnya astronot menjejakkan kakiknya di bulan, dimana perjalanan antariksa ke bulan tersebut telah menghabiskan dana tidak kurang dari 100 juta dollar.
Mendengar hal itu, presenter terperangah kaget dan berkata, “Kebodohan macam apalagi ini, dana begitu besar dibuang oleh AS hanya untuk bisa mendarat di bulan?”
Mereka pun menjawab, “Tidak, ..!!! Tujuannya tidak semata menancapkan ilmu pengetahuan AS di bulan, akan tetapi kami mempelajari kandungan yang ada di dalam bulan itu sendiri, maka kami pun telah mendapat hakikat tentang bulan itu, yang jika kita berikan dana lebih dari 100 juta dollar untuk kesenangan manusia, maka kami tidak akan memberikan dana itu kepada siapapun.
Maka presenter itu pun bertanya, “Hakikat apa yang kalian telah capai sehingga demikian mahal taruhannya”. Mereka menjawab, “Ternyata bulan pernah mengalami pembelahan di suatu hari dahulu kala, kemudian menyatu kembali.!!!
Presenter pun bertanya, “Bagaimana kalian bisa yakin akan hal itu?”
Mereka menjawab, “Kami mendapati secara pasti dari batuan-batuan yang terpisah terpotong di permukaan bulan sampai di dalam (perut) bulan. Maka kami pun meminta para pakar geologi untuk menelitinya, dan mereka mengatakan, “Hal ini tidak mungkin telah terjadi kecuali jika memang bulan pernah terbelah lalu bersatu kembali”.
Mendengar paparan itu, ketua Al-Hizb Al-Islamy Inggris mengatakan, Maka aku pun turun dari kursi dan berkata, “Mukjizat (kehebatan) benar-benar telah terjadi pada diri Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wassallam 1400-an tahun yang lalu. Allah benar-benar telah mengolok-olok ASÂ untuk mengeluarkan dana yang begitu besar, 100 juta dollar lebih, hanya untuk menetapkan akan kebenaran muslimin !!!! Maka, agama Islam ini tidak mungkin salah … (aku pun bergumam),” Maka, aku pun membuka kembali Mushhaf Al-Qur”an dan aku baca surat Al-Qamar, dan … saat itu adalah awal aku menerima dan masuk Islam.
Diterjemahkan oleh: Abu Muhammad ibn Shadiq HAMIDI ALWI
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