Friday, 19 April 2013

Tadabbur Surah Al-Kafiruun.

Asbabun Nuzul:
Orang kafir buat deal dengan Rasulullah agar menghentikan dakwahnya.

Surah Makkiyah: Surah yg diturunkan di makkah. Ketika Rasulullah sedang aktif berdakwah.

Orang kafir sedar dan percaya kewujudan Allah. Al-Ankabut 61 & 63.
Tetapi mereka mempersekutukan Allah dengan sesuatu yg lain.

Rasulullah menolak tawaran orang kafir dengan jelas.
Islam ini bukanlah sesuatu yang kita boleh pilih mengikut kesukaan kita.
Antara Islam dan Jahiliyyah tidak pernah ada campur aduk.
Terdapat clear distinction antara Islam dan Jahiliyyah.

Jika kita mencampur adukkan islam dan jahilliyah, maka kita amat mudah untuk terpesong dan tersasar dari jalan kebenaran.

Kita dapat melihat dalam diri para sahabat bagaimana mereka mempunyai clear view terhadap islam. Datanglah kutukan, ancaman dsbg mereka tetap teguh dengan pendirian mereka.
Contohnya kisah Mus'ab dan ibunya.

Aplikasi dalam kehidupan seharian:
Kita hendaklah teguh pendirian.
Maka apabila sesuatu musibah atau godaan datang, kita akan dapat menangkis dengan jayanya.
Kita perlulah identify jahiliyyah apa yg ada dalam diri kita.
Kita perlulah berdoa memohon perlindungan dari Allah dari kejahatan-kejahatan.
Janganlah kita hanya mengambil apa yang kita suka sahaja dalam mengaplikasikan Islam dalam kehidupan kita. 
Untuk membuang jahiliyyah, kita perlulah menjaga hubungan kita dengan Allah.
Al-Insyirah: bersama kesusahan, ada kemudahan.
Apabila Allah menimpakan kita sesuatu kesusahan, contohnya kita jatuh sakit, tidak pernah Allah meninggalkan kita tanpa suatu apa pun. Kita diberikan ubat, kemudahan hospital, air dsbg.
"Allah menggunakan perkataan ma'a "bersama" bukan ba'da "selepas"; Allah menyertakan bersama kesusahan, kemudahan. Bukannya selepas kesusahan, baru diberikan kemudahan.
Kita perlulah meletakkan prioriti dalam kehidupan kita.



Tuesday, 8 January 2013

Flower

Without being shaken up
where is the flower that blooms?
In this world, even the most beautiful flower
blooms because it got shaken up.
While it is shaken up,
the stem becomes straightened.
Without being shaken up
where is the love that is possible?

A flower without getting rained on
where is it?
In this world,
even the most beautiful flower,
has been rained on
and rained on and bloomed.
Getting wet from the rain and wind,
the flower blooms warmly.
A life without getting rained on,
where is it?

*roughly translated from korean to english.

Saturday, 29 December 2012

On filling the inner hole & coming home by Yasmin Mogahed


In the process of filling the void in our heart, we often seek for temporary happiness. Happiness in our own definition. Without even realizing what the message is beyond every tests and gifts.
Unfortunately the void keeps on getting larger and larger as if we had done nothing to try to fill it. We keep on drowning in dunya in the process.
What if everything was only about seeing Him?
Everything happened with a purpose behind. We are the one who made the choice whether to realize that purpose or not.
Everything in this world was created as a sign. The Sun, forest, sea, etc. But these can only be understood by a selected group-those who reflect (think, understand, use their intellect) and remember God in every human condition (standing, sitting, lying down).
All these signs contain message if we study them. Yet we often miss the true message. We often been enamoured by the shell. 
All these signs actually lead to Him. To His Greatness, His Majesty, His Beauty. His power and might.
We must study, reflect and absorb the beauty and majesty of what is created. But do not stop there. Look beyond the creation. If these creations are that great and majestic, how majestic and great the Creator is.
If we look beyond and through everything that happens to us, everything we do-or fail to do-and see Allah, then we will have gotten the purpose. As nothing happens for a reason. Every little thing happened has a purpose. We just need to find that purpose.
And remember that after all of the creation is destroyed and not a single being exists except Him, Allah is the only one we can return and beg for something because He is the dominion today.