It's Not Just A Name

9th January 2009.

Salam..

I was speechless. Shock and disappointed.

It was after seconds I got online and had clicked on New Straits Time bookmark on my Google Chrome window.

On 31st December, High Court judge, Datuk Lau Bee Lan ruled that Catholic weekly magazine Herald had the constitutional right to use the word ‘Allah’ in respect of instruction and education of the congregation in the Christian religion.

He stated that, every individual have their constitution right to use the word and it is not exclusively to Muslim.

I read the news twice or triple as I can’t believe it. How come that was the result of this case? It is totally unbelievable!

It was a very bad circumstance as it got protests from Muslim all over the country, pushing Catholic Church lawyer, Derek Fernandez to make up mind with Attorney General Tan Sri Abdul Ghani Patail on behalf of Home Ministry to stall the order.

It was a relief that The Kuala Lumpur High Court granted a stay in favor of the Home Ministry to stop Catholic weekly magazine Herald, from using the word pending an appeal.

This is a serious issue.

Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful

Personally, I don’t mean to discuss about the hukum of using the word in this post. Better make references on ulama’ in this issue. But then, I really like to comment some on this circumstance.

Responses and Feed Back

I read on the newspaper about three churches were bombed by Molotov cocktail yesterday. One of the church, Metro Tabernacle Church, Desa Melawati was severely damaged when the other two bombs at Assumption Church Assunta, Petaling Jaya and Chappel Church, Damansara were not erupted.

According to Dr MAZA, these incidents most probably done by:

1. Muslims who are fanatic but less concern on other religion worship place.
2. Christians those want to make provocation.
3. Politic idea from third people for their own good.

Who knows?

Personally, I’m too feeling the anger on this issue. How can people judging on using ‘Allah' word? Worst, it was judged by a civil court. Then, where is the power circle of Syariah Court?

I can’t imagine how I want to explain to my child in the future. For example we crossed by a church with ‘Allah’ word displayed on it,

“Ayah, kenapa ada nama Allah kat situ?”

Hmm.. I’ll tell him,

“Nak, Tuhan kita Allah. Kristian ada God.. maksudnya dalam Bahasa Melayu, Allah..”

Imagine his reply..

“Kalau gitu sama la Islam dengan Kristian? Sebab Tuhan sama,”

What can we say at that time?

Astagfirullah..

But then, it is unnecessary to act with vandalism or terrorism. This makes the circumstance worst. If it was done by Muslim, where is the peace promised by Islam? People can ask that.

We saw a peace demonstration at Masjid Negara. It was a demonstration, yet with peace. No vandalism, no harm. That’s one of better way.

That’s why I said, it is not just about name. Name shows who we are.

Don’t mean to close eyes on using word ‘Allah’ issue, but why can’t we act professionally? Our Rasulullah had showed the way.

For example, he released all the musyrikin after Fathu Makkah. Why didn’t he just slaughtered them all? In fact, they were the people whose had brought enormous problem to him before.

Because.. Cruelty is not Islam way.

But now, we, the Muslims ourselves bring trouble to Islam. How? By not practicing Islam completely. Then, when it comes to a trouble like this now, we failed to act according to what our deen taught us.

"O you who have believed, enter into Islam completely [and perfectly] and do not follow the footsteps of Satan. Indeed, he is to you a clear enemy."

Al-Baqarah : 208

Name Reflects Us

Surely, everyone is known with their own name and title. The names we’ve reflect who we are. How are our personality, and how are our characteristics.

For example, as a ‘Muslim’.

Fair or not, to judge how Islam and how the way of Islam, people around the world look at the Muslim.

So, how we, the Muslims nowadays? That is how Islam?

Honestly, sometimes I feel ashamed.

We forget about our brothers and sisters. We are selfish. Common example, how far we think about Palestinian at their land? Do Palestine exists on world map now?

“Kita kecil lagi nak fikir pasal tu. Kalau fikir banyak-banyak pun bukan boleh buat apa-apa sekarang. Belajar dulu betul-betul.”

So, let us look into smallest scope I think. We and our friend. The best friend is the one who love his friend just like the way he love himself.

Very hard to do. We have our own ego. That’s normal.

Looking into Muslim leaders, are we leading our men to mardhatillah and His Jannah? Are we guiding them to better life according to Syariah? Do we amanah with our responsibility? Think about it.

Looking into Muslim workers area are we doing job according to what Allah told us? Are we doing our best? Do we sincere with our job? Think about it.

Looking into Muslim students, are we learning to grab better job in the future or lillahita’ala? Are we doing enough responsibility? Do we think about our future which is in our hand? Think about it.

So, friends..

Whoever we are, whatever we do, as long as we are Muslims.. realize that we bring the title of our religion, Islam.

A leader? Be a true Muslim leader. How? Act like one.

A worker? Be a true Muslim worker. How? Act like one.

A student? Be a true Muslim student. How? Act like one.

That is the only way people will understand how Islam really is.

Wallahua’lam. Wassalam..

"Hipokrit la Kau"

1 January 2010.

Salam..

Selamat tahun baru semua. Tahun baru, semangat mestilah kena baru.

Beberapa hari lalu, saya dengan beberapa orang kawan bersama-sama menolong sekeluarga senior untuk memindahkan barang ke rumah baru mereka. Tahun baru, rumah pun kena baru.

Sedang bosan-bosan menunggu semua tenaga kerja berkumpul sebelum gerak bersama..

“Eh, kau tau tak. Semalam ada orang cakap dia suka aku,” salah seorang kawan saya berkata, memancing perhatian saya.

Hoh? Apahal mamat ni. Suka apa pula ni? Dalam hati..

“Er.. sapa? Suka apa?” saya balas. Ringkas.

“Junior aku. Dia kata dia suka aku dah berubah,” bersemangat dia jawab. Biasa la, sapa nak orang benci kita. Dah orang suka, seronok la..

“Oh.. hahaha.. berubah camne? Mana dia tau?” saya tanya lagi.

“Aku dah tak layan dah lagu alkpop (lagu-lagu pop Korea). Sekarang ni aku layan lagu Maher Zain. Boleh ingatkan aku kat Tuhan. Aku nak jadi baik. Nak berubah sikit-sikit. So, dia kata baguslah. Dia suka aku gitu,” jelas beliau.

“Hmm.. bagus la gitu. Ajak la dia sekali. Aku pun suka juga tengok kau sekarang ni. Bagus semacam,” puji sikit. Kasi dia bersemangat. Ni skill ‘collect’ namanya.

“Yup. Aku nak jadi baik!” meletup terus dia.

Orang dah ramai kumpul. Kami pun senyap. Tak nak bagi kecoh la cerita kawan saya ni. Takut ada mana-mana pihak media Irbid tokok tambah pelik-pelik. Cinta Islamik? Haha.. lain kali kita bincang isu itu.

 banyak barang. sakit pinggang saya..

Azam dan Semangat

                    

Tahniah kepada kawan yang saya ceritakan di atas yang telah berjaya melangkah ke arah kehidupan yang lebih baik baginya. Ternyata memang susah nak diubah tabiat dan kegemaran yang tak berfaedah agaknya kecuali dengan azam dan semangat yang kental.

Cabaran selalu dihadapi semasa nak jadi lebih baik, masyarakat yang tak supportive.

Adat manusia, kalau nampak sesuatu perubahan mula la nak ‘complain’. Pantang ada sikit tak kena dengan jiwa, terus sahaja memberontak tanpa memikirkan kelebihan dari sudut yang lain.

Ini tak berfikiran terbuka namanya. Lainlah kalau hal-hal bertentangan dengan Syariat-Syariat Islam. Jika bercanggah, boleh terus ditolak tanpa bicara.

Sikit-sikit nak bising. Siki-sikit nak komen.

Tapi.. kita belajar dari komen-komen orang dan kita cuba baiki kelemahan kita.

Benar. Tidak salah kenyataan itu.

Namun, perlukah seorang kawan yang nak berubah jadi lebih baik dihambur dengan komen-komen yang tidak membina? Kata-kata pedas dirasa sampai ke hati, malah menjatuhkan semangat kawan.

Tak patut rasanya..

azam dan semangat itu penting..

Hipokrit

Tohmahan popular untuk insan yang nak berubah. Astagfirullah..

Mana kita tahu hati orang. Jangan sekali-kali tuduh orang bukan-bukan. Sebaik-baiknya dengar dulu dari hati ke hati. Tiada masalah. Dua-dua pihak tak sakit hati.

"Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Janganlah sesuatu puak (dari kaum lelaki) mencemuh dan merendah-rendahkan puak lelaki yang lain, (kerana) harus puak yang dicemuhkan itu lebih baik daripada mereka dan janganlah pula sesuatu puak dari kaum perempuan mencemuh dan merendah-rendahkan puak perempuan yang lain, (kerana) harus puak yang dicemuhkan itu lebih baik daripada mereka dan janganlah setengah kamu menyatakan keaiban setengahnya yang lain dan janganlah pula kamu panggil-memanggil antara satu dengan yang lain dengan gelaran yang buruk. (Larangan-larangan yang tersebut menyebabkan orang yang melakukannya menjadi fasik, maka) amatlah buruknya sebutan nama fasik (kepada seseorang) sesudah dia beriman dan (ingatlah), sesiapa yang tidak bertaubat (daripada perbuatan fasiknya) maka merekalah orang-orang yang zalim."

Al Hujurat : 11

Jangan mencemuh dan merendah-rendahkan orang lain. Sungguh jelas larangan dari ayat ini.

Kenapa tak boleh?

Masalah ikhlas atau tak itu urusan dia dengan Allah.

Masalah dia hipokrit atau tak itu urusan dia dengan Allah.

Masalah dia nak menunjuk-nunjuk atau betul-betul itu pun urusan dia dengan Allah.

Yang penting dia telah berbuat kebaikan. Kita bila lagi?

Tugas kita?

Kalau kawan kita nak jadi baik, sokong..

Kalau kawan kita nak buat baik, tolong..

Sesungguhnya yang paling mulia di antara kita adalah yang paling bertakwa. Apakah kita tahu kita lebih bertakwa dari orang lain? Boleh tahu?

Malahan, orang yang nak buat jahat pun kita dilarang untuk cela. Tolong sedarkan dia. Manalah tahu, jika disentap sedikit hatinya, timbul kesedaran sepanjang hayatnya. Allah jua yang Maha Kuasa.

Apatah lagi orang yang berusaha nak buat baik. Sokong mereka.

 hipokrit? siapa tahu?

Ringkas sahaja dari saya.

Selamat melahirkan azam baru.

Serta selamat melaksanakan azam anda.

Wallahu’alam. Wasalam..