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PERINGATAN DAN SEBARKAN

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baca sekiranya anda
mengaggap diri anda beragama
islam!

sebelum kamu baca,saya berjanji untuk menyampaikan mesej ini kepda kawan-kawan saya yang lain .

wahai manusia,adakah iman kamu kuat atau lemah. adakah kamu berani untuk melawan DAJJAL.iman kamu hendaklah kuat dan hendaklah kamu jangan memikirkan kamu kuat.surat-surat berantai,mesej palsu,mesej nasib adalah semua tidak bagus.mempercayai nasib adalah fasik.hendaklah kamu membaca surah al-kahfi setiap masa yang lapang.

dajjal akan keluar apabila MasjidilAqsa tidak berazan selama 5 atau 7 hari. kemungkinan pada 21/12/2012. ramai orang fikir itu tarikh kiamat. TIDAK!!!! Nabi Isa tidak turun utuk berdakwah lagi selama 7 tahun!! dajjal ada 30. semuanya akan insaf sebelum mati. dikatakan dajjal benar akan berkuasa selama 44 hari atau tahun. jangan takut... dajjal tidak boleh masuk baitul maqdis,mekah dan madinah.

ya'juj dan makjuj tidak muncul lagi. kaum yang telah dkepung dan diperangkap oleh raja zulqarnain dan kaumnya serta membina dinding tinggi yang diperbuat daripada besi dan tembaga. haiwan yang aneh,ad-dabah,tidak keluar lagi.haiwan sepanjang 60 hasta ini membawa tongkat Nabi Musa dan cincin Nabi Sulaiman. matahari masih tidak terbit dari tempat terbenamnya bermakna pintu taubat masih terbuka.

kekurangan gempa bumi dan gunung berapi mengakibatkan tekanan pada bumi lalu mereka bencana terbesar di dunia. laut akan kering dan menjadi gurun. neraka jahannam akan terbuka pintunya. kiamat akan berlaku apabila tiada orang menyebut nama ALLAH.

sebarkan kepada orang lain terutamanya umat islam. sesunguhnya kiamat adalah jari hantu dan kelahiran Rasul Allah SAW adalah jari telunjuk.betapa dekatnya kiamat itu.sebarkan lah kerana kamu telah berjanji di awal surat ini. jika kamu tidak menghantar surat ini seperti janji yang kamu telah kotakan. sesungguhnya orang yang mungkir janji dia adalah munafik. dan orang munafik dimurkai ALLAH!!!!


11:22:00 PM



Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad(may peace and blessings be upon him)

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Muslims believe aside from explaining the meritorious and blameworthy acts within Islam, the Prophet left a legacy applicable to all of humanity. Through his words, he taught love, companionship, mercy, justice and other qualities that form the building blocks of a society. The following is a short selection of his sayings:
- "Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue that way. So you should not be extremists, but try to be near to perfection and receive good tidings that you will be rewarded."
- "God does not judge you according to your bodies and appearances, but He looks into your hearts and observes deeds."
- "The finest of you, are those most beautiful in character."
- "None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself."
- "It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing."
- "Make things easy and do not make them difficult; give glad tidings and do not cause people to flee."
- "The best amongst you is he who is the most kind to his family, and I am the kindest amongst you to my family."
- "Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day (of Judgment) should not harm his neighbor. Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should entertain his guest generously. And anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should say what is good or keep quiet."
- "Sometimes I enter prayer and I intend to prolong it, but then I hear a child crying, and I shorten my prayer thinking of the distress of the child's mother."
- "Verily are actions by intention, and for everyone is that which one intended..."
- "Whoever treads a path in search of knowledge, God makes easy for him/her a path to Paradise."
- "All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action."
-"The most Merciful [God] shows mercy to those who are merciful to others. Be merciful to those on earth, and He in heaven shall be merciful to you."

sumber: Islam at a Glance


4:03:00 PM



Dajjal

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Mengembalikan Kefahaman Mengenai Dajjal Kepada Alquran Dan Sunnah

Sejak akhir-akhir ini, saya sering menjumpai orang memperkatakan di sana sini mengenai Dajjal. Titik tolaknya adalah dari tersebarnya pelbagai jenis artikel-artikel teori konspirasi di sana sini, yang mengaitkan kewujudan pertubuhan-pertubuhan tertentu dengan dajjal, salah satu tanda kiamat.

Saya secara peribadi pada mulanya agak sangsi. Pertama, kerana perkara berkaitan teori-teori konspirasi ini adalah sesuatu yang masih kabur, belum dibuktikan. Nama pun teori, jika dibuktikan maka bukan lagi bergelar teori sebaliknya sudah menjadi hukum dan kebenaran.

Keduanya, adalah berkaitan dengan dajjal. Dajjal disisi Islam adalah dikaitkan sebagai tanda-tanda definite/besar pengakhiran alam, iaitu hari kiamat. Kita semua sedia maklum, bahawa Islam itu tertegak dengan hujah dan dalil. Maka saya yang sering berfikir ini, bertemu dengan dua titik yang cukup berbeza – titik kekaburan dan ketidakpastian mengenai teori-teori konspirasi tersebut, dengan titik kebenaran dan hakikat mengenai dajjal disisi Islam yang tetap hukumnya! Bagaimana mungkin dua perkara yang berbeza ini, disatukan menjadi satu.

Lalu membawa saya kepada menyiasat asal-usul mengenai perkaitan dajjal dengan teori-teori ini. Hinggalah akhirnya, menemukan saya dengan beberapa artikel, yang menyatakan bahawa mereka mengambil tanda-tanda dajjal ini (atau digelar “kod-kod dajjal”) daripada alquran dan hadis serta daripada kitab-kitab lain termasuklah kitab yahudi (talmud, torah), kristian (bible, testaments), kitab-kitab india (Vedi) dan sebagainya.

Dajjal itu perkara ghaib

Di sisi Islam, terdapat beberapa aspek yang dinamakan perkara ghaib. Ramai yang tersalah anggap mengatakan perkara ghaib itu adalah perkara-perkara yang melibatkan alam ghaib, paranormal, hantu dan jin semata. Tidak, sebenarnya. Bagi orang Islam, perkara ghaib itu adalah perkara-perkara yang tidak dapat dinampak oleh pancaindera serta tidak dapat ditentukan kebenarannya, namun wajib diimani, dipercayai dan diakui.

Sesetengah orang, terutamanya saintis dan rasionalis berpendapat disebabkan Islam mempunyai aspek perkara ghaib inilah mereka gagal memahami Islam. Ini kerana bagi para saintis dan rasionalis, mereka gagal/sukar untuk akur kepada perkara-perkara yang bukan saintifik iaitu tidak dapat diukur dari segi kualitatif mahupun kuantitatif.

Sedangkan sesetengah yang lain pula, berpendapat perkara ghaib inilah yang menjadi asas kepada keimanan (faith) dalam Islam. Sepertimana kata pujangga – “To believe after seeing is normal. To believe without seeing is faith”. Ini yang menjadikan para penganut Islam istimewa – kita percaya kepada alam ghaib tanpa melihat dan menyentuhnya, dan dengan kepercayaan inilah kita memusatkan hidup kita terhadap yang ghaib iaitu Allah.

Jadi, apa itu perkara ghaib disisi Islam? Adakah Dajjal juga, perkara ghaib disisi Islam? Dalil kepada kewujudan perkara ghaib ini ada diceritakan di dalam alQuran, surah Al-Baqarah ayat 3

الَّذِينَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْغَيْبِ

Maksudnya: (Orang-orang yang bertaqwa adalah) mereka yang beriman kepada perkara-perkara yang ghaib… (Surah Al-Baqarah: 3)

Imam As-Syirbini berkata dalam menjelaskan ayat tersebut dalam tafsir As-Siraj Al-Munir sebagai,

يصدّقون بما غاب عنهم من البعث والجزاء والجنة والنار والصراط والميزان

Maksudnya: (Orang yang beriman dengan yang ghaib) iaitu: mereka yang membenarkan apa yang ghaib (tidak kelihatan dengan pancaindera) daripada mereka daripada perkara-perkara berkaitan hari kebangkitan, hari pembalasan, syurga, neraka, as-sirath (jambatan) dan timbangan amal.

Secara ringkas, terdapat tujuh (tetapi tidak semestinya hanya tujuh) perkara ghaib yang ditafsirkan oleh Imam As-Syirbini:

  1. Tidak kelihatan dengan pancaindera – contohnya Allah, malaikat, iblis, jin, hantu dsb
  2. Perkara-perkara berkaitan hari kebangkitan – Alam barzakh, persoalan amal dalam kubur
  3. Perkara-perkara berkaitan hari pembalasan – Mengenai hari kiamat, tanda-tandanya serta bagaimana kejadiannya
  4. Perkara-perkara berkaitan syurga – suasananya, ciri-cirinya, ahli-ahlinya dsb
  5. Perkara-perkara berkaitan neraka – suasananya, ciri-cirinya, ahli-ahlinya dsb
  6. Perkara-perkara berkaitan titian sirat
  7. Perkara-perkara berkaitan timbangan amal

Jadi apa pula itu dajjal? Dajjal itu sebagaimana disebut oleh Rasulullah s.a.w adalah salah satu daripada tanda-tanda besar hari kiamat. Justeru, ya, Dajjal juga sebahagian daripada perkara ghaib!

Mungkin ada yang tertanya-tanya, oleh kerana perkara ghaib ini tidak saintifik, maka apa caranya untuk kita mengetahui mengenainya? Jawapannya adalah dengan berpandukan alQuran dan Hadis.

Perkara Ghaib itu adalah sepertimana yang diceritakan di dalam alQuran dan Hadis. Allah mewahyukan kepada kita mengenai hari akhirat, mengenai jin, mengenai syaitan dsb di dalam alQuran dan Hadis.

Saya ingin membawa kita semua cuba berfikir sejenak, mengenai rukun Iman kita. Tahukah anda, hampir semua rukun-rukun Iman kita adalah terdiri daripada perkara ghaib! Ironinya, semua rukun Iman tersebut kita mesti percaya kepadanya!

Rukun iman pertama, percaya kepada Allah. Bukankah Allah itu perkara ghaib? Kedua, percaya kepada malaikat – malaikat juga perkara ghaib! Keempat, percaya kepada Rasul – tetapi di zaman kita ini, sudah tidak ada Rasul yang hidup di dunia! Kelima, percaya kepada hari akhirat, sedangkan hari akhirat juga adalah perkara ghaib!

Keenam – percaya kepada qada’ dan qadar, iaitu sesuatu yang semestinya abstrak dan tidak boleh di-saintifikkan, maka saya secara peribadi mengatakan ia juga sebahagian dari perkara ghaib.

Antara kesemua rukun iman tersebut, satu yang saya tidak sebut – Percaya kepada Kitab, iaitu di zaman sekarang ini, hanya AlQuran yang benar-benar asli. Sebab itu dikatakan, AlQuran itu kunci keimanan!

Kebatilan merujuk mengenai Dajjal daripada sumber bukan Islam

Kembali kepada topik – Justeru itu, kita umat Islam, ada panduan tersendiri mengenai dajjal yang disampaikan oleh Allah dan RasulNya, melalui alQuran dan Hadis. Kedua-dua alQuran dan Hadis adalah rujukan kita mengenai perihal dajjal, tanda-tandanya, kedatangannya, kesannya termasuklah siapa dia.

Tetapi para golongan conspiracy theorist kini telah mencampuradukkan perihal dajjal dengan mengambil keterangan-keterangan dari kitab-kitab bukan Islam seperti kitab yahudi dan kristian (testaments), kitab India (veda) dan pelbagai lagi yang entah dari mana sumbernya.

Bagi saya, saya melihat ini sebagai usaha “menyamaratakan” antara kesemua sumber-sumber ini atas alasan ianya “sejarah”, sedangkan perihal dajjal itu bagi umat Islam adalah perkara ghaib. Inilah apa yang dikatakan sebagai konsep “pluralisma” dalam agama, iaitu satu bentuk penyamarataan agama!

Contohnya, perihal hari kiamat. Perihal hari kiamat bagi umat Islam adalah satu perkara ghaib, yang mana kita hanya merujuk kepada alquran dan sunnah untuk mengerti mengenainya. Kenapa tidak menggunakan kitab-kitab dari agama-agama lain juga untuk menerangkan mengenai hari kiamat? Gunalah kitab mayan untuk menyatakan hari kiamat itu pada 2012. Gunalah kitab india yang mengatakan tiada hari kiamat melainkan kesemua manusia mencapai taraf moksya lalu bersatu menjadi nirvana?

Tidak boleh, kan? Kerana kiamat itu perkara ghaib. Begitu juga dajjal. Dajjal itu perkara ghaib. Ia telahpun diceritakan oleh Rasulullah dan Allah melalui hadis dan alQuran, maka cukuplah itu sahaja sumber kita mengenainya.

Ini permasalahan akidah yang cukup berat, sebenarnya. Kerana jika kita mengambil dan percaya keterangan dajjal dari kitab yahudi & kristian, kitab india dsb itu, ini bermakna kita juga beriman dengan kitab-kitab agama tersebut. Kita menyamaratakan taraf alquran dengan taraf kitab-kitab tersebut, itulah pluralisma dalam agama. Nauzubillah. Semoga kita dijauhkan dari keadaan sedemikian.

Saya menyanjung usaha pihak para conspiracy theorist dalam menyuntik kesedaran, namun hendaklah kesedaran yang disuntik tersebut adalah kesedaran untuk kembali merujuk kepada AlQuran dan Sunnah yang sebenar.

Dajjal Mengikut AlQuran dan Hadis

Pun begitu, saya bersyukur kepada Allah kerana usaha pihak para conspiracy theorist ini yang mula menyedarkan ummah mengenai fitnah dajjal. Namun dalam menghadapinya, kita hendaklah merujuk kepada AlQuran dan Sunnah sahaja. Usahlah mengaitkan dajjal dengan binaan yang pelik-pelik, corak yang pelik-pelik, organisasi-organisasi tertentu dsb.

Saya tidak bercadang membawakan di sini “kod-kod dajjal” kompilasi saya pula, kerana tentunya akan memanjangkan penulisan saya yang sedia panjang ini. Nasihat saya, rujuklah para ulama’ yang menjadikan alquran dan hadis sebagai sumber mereka mengenai perihal dajjal tersebut.

Namun, saya berbesar hati membawakan panduan menghindari dari fitnah Dajjal menurut alQuran dan Hadis. Caranya nampak mudah, tapi sukar untuk kita laksanakan, iaitu – Kembali kepada alQuran dan Hadis. Saya memetik ulasan dari Ustaz Hasrizal dalam sebuah artikelnya, yang ada mengulas mengenai menghindari fitnah dajjal:

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Terkenang kepada pesanan Rasulullah sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam tentang pendinding yang menyelamatkan manusia daripada fitnah intelektual Dajjal yang terzahir pada Materialisma.

Materialisma bukan gila kebendaan semata.

Ia adalah fahaman yang memaut makna pada yang tersurat hingga buta pada yang tersirat.

Berikut pesan Baginda:

Kepentingan Surah Al-Kahf

Daripada Abu al-Darda sesungguhnya Nabi s.a.w telah bersabda – Barangsiapa yang menghafaz sepuluh ayat daripada awal surah al-kahfi, pasti terlindung daripada dajjal (HR Muslim 809)

Daripada Ali, yang meriwayatkan daripada Rasulullah s.a.w baginda bersabda – Barangsiapa membaca surah al-kahfi pada hari jumaat, nescaya dirinya terpelihara hingga lapan hari, daripada segala fitnah yang melanda, dan jika keluar dajjal sekalipun, dia akan terpelihara daripadanya (Al-Dhurr al-Manthur oleh al-Suyuti 5:355)

Surah al-Kahfi!

Kita digesa Sunnah melaziminya.

Menghidupkan malam Jumaat pada membaca dan menekuninya.

Pastinya fungsi surah al-Kahfi pada menyelamatkan seorang manusia daripada fitnah Dajjal itu tidak berlaku hanya pada membaca dan menghafalnya. Sebaliknya, keterangan Sayyid Qutb berkenaan surah ini di dalam tafsir karangannya Fi Dhilal al-Quran, ada pencerahan:

Pandangan Sayyid Qutb:

1. Tashih al-Aqidah (Memperbetulkan Aqidah/Kepercayaan)

2. Tashih Manhaj al-Fikr wa al-Nazar (Memperbetulkan Metodologi Berfikir dan Memerhati/Mencerap)

3. Tashih al-Qiyam bi Mizan al-Aqidah (Memperbetulkan Nilai-nilai berlandaskan Neraca Aqidah yang benar)

Sayyid Qutb berpandangan, Surah al-Kahf itu bertindak sebagai pendinding manusia daripada fitnah Dajjal kerana ia menyentuh mekanisma perbuatan manusia.

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Surah Al-Kahfi!

Saya tertarik dengan tafsiran surah Al-Kahfi menurut pandangan Sayyid Qutb tersebut. Dan berdasarkan pemikiran dan pemerhatian saya, itulah yang benar-benar diperlukan oleh umat Islam sekarang ini, bukan sekadar untuk menghadapi fitnah dajjal malah untuk mengembalikan kegemilangan Islam!

Pertamanya, tashih al-Aqidah. Memperbetulkan aqidah dan kepercayaan kita. Hendaklah aqidah kita, berlandaskan alquran dan sunnah yang sahih. Akidah ini memainkan peranan yang penting dalam beribadah! Terpesong akidah, runtuhlah ibadah, rosaklah akhlak.

Murnikanlah aqidah, iaitu dengan memusatkan segala niat ibadah kita hanya kepada Allah. Bukan kerana takutkan sesuatu makhluk @ sesuatu organisasi. Bukan kerana mahukan pengiktirafan dsb. Murnikanlah aqidah, iaitu dengan mengembalikan kembali tatacara ibadah kepada alquran dan sunnah. Hindarkan lah dari khurafat dan kepercayaan yang tidak berasas.

Keduanya, Tashih Manhaj al-Fikr wa al-Nazar (Memperbetulkan Metodologi Berfikir dan Memerhati/Mencerap). Allah menganugerahkan kepada kita pancaindera, untuk kita saling memerhati dan berfikir akan keagungannya! Bukannya memerhati dan berfikir, di mana agaknya tanda-tanda kod-kod dajjal itu. Asyik mencari dajjal, sehingga lupa kepada Allah.

Juga, perbetulkan metodologi berfikir kita. Tidak Allah jadikan semua benda di atas bumi ini, sia-sia. Fikirkanlah hikmah di sebalik kejadian tersebut. Fikirkan, bagaimana boleh kita memanfaatkan sesuatu itu untuk membangunkan Islam! Dan jangan lupa, hindarilah dari mengikat alquran dengan sains.

Dan ketiganya, Tashih al-Qiyam bi Mizan al-Aqidah (Memperbetulkan Nilai-nilai berlandaskan Neraca Aqidah yang benar). Setelah kita berjaya memurnikan akidah kita, maka segala nilai-nilai lain seperti akhlak dan ibadah inshaAllah akan turut berlandaskan akidah tersebut. Dari situlah kita boleh kembali kepada tauhid tasawwuf yang asli, iaitu yang bersandarkan AlQuran dan Sunnah. Dari situlah, kita aplikasikan kegunaannya dalam kehidupan seharian – dalam berurusniaga, dalam berpolitik, dalam pendidikan, dalam ekonomi dan sebagainya.

Kesimpulan

Justeru itu, saya menyeru secara khusus kepada para conspiracy theorist, rujuklah kembali kepada AlQuran dan Sunnah dalam memperincikan dajjal. Kalaupun anda mahu berkonspirasi mengenai organisasi-organisasi rahsia seperti Freemason, Illuminati dsb, jangan libatkan mengenai dajjal iaitu perkara ghaib disisi Islam. Kita mahukan ummah kembali ke akidah yang murni, sebagaimana ummah di zaman Rasulullah. Ummah di zaman rasulullah, tidak perlukan bukti freemason illuminati dajjal dsb untuk beriman kepada Allah. Ummah di zaman Rasulullah, tidak perlu ditakut-takutkan dengan ancaman2, kerana Iman mereka itu cukup tebal berpandukan alQuran dan Sunnah.

Jika benar kalian hendak memperingati ummah akan bahaya fitnah Dajjal, maka lakukanlah apa yang disarankan oleh Rasulullah dalam hadis di atas tersebut. Anjurkanlah kuliah mentadabbur surah Al-Kahfi pada malam Jumaat. Galakkanlah ummah membaca dan menghafaz 10 ayat pertama dari surah alKahfi. Itulah sebaik-baik perlindungan daripada fitnah Dajjal, kerana ia datang sendiri daripada Allah dan RasulNya.

Dan kepada para pembaca pula, saya menyeru agar kita sentiasa berhati-hati. Kita sering berwaspada terhadap musuh-musuh Agama, namun kita lupa berwaspada terhadap diri kita sendiri. Dalam tak sedar, tangan kitalah yang melakukan fitnah dan kerosakan terhadap agama kita. Astaghfirullah. Marilah sama-sama kembali kepada alQuran dan Hadis, sebagai sumber keimanan kita. Dari situ kita bangkitkan ummah yang menyanjung alQuran dan Hadis, sebagai ummah kegemilangan inshaAllah!

sumber: Leokid's Life


11:17:00 AM



Ciri-ciri Kepimpinan Yang Baik

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Ciri-Ciri Kepimpinan yang Baik

Soal kepimpinan dalam sesebuah organisasi sering diperkatakan apabila ianya menampakkan kecacatan ataupun kemajuan bagi organisasi berkenaan. Ini terbukti peranan pucuk pimpinan bagi sesebuah organisasi amat penting, kerana ia melibatkan krediabiliti pemimpin dan perlakuan aktiviti dalam organisasi.

Pemimpin yang bersifat adil adalah satu ciri penting yang sepatutnya ada bagi seseorang yang bergelar pemimpin. Ianya tidak terbatas kepada jenis kepimpinan kepada sebuah keluarga atau perkumpulan kecil atau sebuah organisasi. Malah apa sahaja yang dipimpin olehnya, keadilan akan sentiasa dipersoalkan. Artikel ini akan membicarakan tentang ciri-ciri kepimpinan yang harus ada dan dimiliki oleh seorang pemimpin kepada sesebuah organisasi menurut pandangan Islam.

Islam mengajak manusia menepati keadilan dalam segenap aspek kepimpinan yang diwakili olehnya. Sebab itulah pemimpin yang adil tempatnya kelak adalah di bawah naungan ‘Arash yang mulia.

Kepimpinan dari kacamata Islam merujuk kepada keperibadian dan segenap aspek tindakan yang dimiliki oleh Rasulullah s.a.w. Di antara ciri-ciri kepimpinan yang baik di antaranya ialah:

• Berilmu pengetahuan. Orang yang berilmu akan ditingkatkan darjat dan tarafnya. Demikian menurut AlQuran. Sudah semestinya seorang pemimpin dalam sebuah organisasi harus mempunyai ilmu pengetahuan yang lebih terutama aspek-aspek teknikel dan juga pengurusan dalam organisasi.
• Teras Aqidah yang kukuh. Ini bermakna seorang pemimpin yang mempunyai teras aqidah yang kukuh akan berjaya dalam kepimpinannya kerana pegangan yang tetap dan aqidah yang mantap akan mencorakkan kepimpinan yang tegas dan beretika dalam perwatakan dan prosedur kerja.
• Seorang lelaki. Pemimpin lelaki mempunyai beberapa kelebihan berbanding wanita dari segi kepimpinan. Pandangan yang jauh dan bermakna lebih utama dari mengutamakan perkara yang dekat dan remeh dari segi soal-soal kepimpinan. Kaum wanita adalah penting dari segi mengukuhkan organisasi dan perkara-perkara yang perlu dihalusi untuk mencapai kesempurnaan.
• Amanah. Sifat amanah adalah sifat yang dimiliki oleh Rasulullah s.a.w. Seharusnya seseorang pemimpin mewarisi sifat tersebut untuk mewujudkan sikap kerja yang baik dalam berbagai urusan organisasi.
• Benar dalam perkataan dan tindakan. Seseorang yang benar dalam perkataan dan tindakannya menggambarkan ciri-ciri kepimpinan yang baik dan menepati soal Kepimpinan Melalui Teladan.
• Keadilan yang meliputi segenap aspek yang dipimpin. Pemimpin yang adil adalah tunggak yang utama dalam sesebuah organisasi. Ciri kepimpinan yang adil mewarisi sifat-sifat utama pemimpin Islam sebagai termaktub dalam perjuangan para nabi dan rasul. Pemimpin yang adil juga dijamin keselamatannya di bawah naungan ‘Arash Allah swt.
• Bersifat rahim. Sabda Rasulullah s.a.w. ; perumpamaan baginda dengan umatnya ialah seperti orang yang menghalau kupu-kupu dan belalang yang berkerumun dekat api. Baginda menarik umatnya dari belakang agar mereka tidak jatuh ke dalam api tetapi mereka selalu terlepas tangan dari baginda. Sabdanya lagi, “Sebaik-baik pemimpin ialah yang kamu mencintai dan Dia mencintaimu, dan kamu mendoakan dan ia mendoakanmu. Dan sejahat-jahat pemimpin ialah yang kamu benci dan membenci kamu…”.
• Bijak dalam menangani masalah. Kisah Nabi Yusuf a.s dalam menangani masalah ekonomi meleset akibat musim kemarau yang berpanjangan melalui perancangan dan pentadbiran yang bijak adalah menjadi rujukan penting bagi sifat-sifat pemimpin yang bijak.
• Sentiasa menyampaikan pesanan dan perkara-perkara yang hak. Pesanan Rasulullah s.a.w., “Sampaikanlah dariku walaupun satu ayat”.

Kesimpulannya, banyak lagi sifat-sifat yang digariskan dalam Islam bagi ciri-ciri kepimpinan yang baik seperti memaafkan, bertanggungjawab, petunjuk akhlak yang baik dan sebagainya. Jelas sekali, dari sifat-sifat di atas perlu dijadikan panduan dan rujukan kepada pemimpin-pemimpin organisasi yang mahukan kepimpinannya berakhlak.

sumber: TITISAN KENANGAN DAN ILMU


10:46:00 AM



DOES LOVE HARAM IN ISLAM????

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Islam teaches us to be truthful and realistic. Usually, we love for the sake of Allah and we hate for the sake of Allah. Islam teaches us that a male and female can build up a good relationship founded on marriage.

We do not say love is halal or haram because it is a feeling. Maybe it is not under control. You can judge what is under control. But people who fall in love are in many episodes away from the cleansed and pure atmosphere.

Marriages that are usually good and lasting marriages are those that start at the least affection. That affection grows after marriage and maybe it will grow until the couples continue their companionship at the Jannah.

If you have any affection towards a person, you should ask yourself: why do you like that person? If you have good Islamic, reasonable justification, then you need not tell that person of what you feel. However, you can make a serious plan to make him ask for your hand. If you want to know the meaning of fitna, a great part of it is what people nowadays call love or romance.

In this context, we'd like to cite the following fatwa that clarifies the Islamic ruling on falling in love:

"If we are speaking about the emotion which we call "love" then we are simply speaking of a feeling. What we feel toward a particular person is not of great importance, until our feeling is expressed in a particular action. Now if that action is permissible, then well and good. If it is forbidden, then we have incurred something that Allah does not approve of. If it is love between a man and a woman, the emotion itself is not the subject of questioning on the Day of Judgment. If you feel you love someone, then you cannot control your feeling. If that love prompts you to try to see that person in secret and to give expression to your feelings in actions permissible only within the bond of marriage then what you are doing is forbidden."

Excerpted, with slight modifications, from: www.islamicity.com

Shedding more light on the issue in point we'd like to cite the words of Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and an Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He states:


In Islam, it is not a sin if you feel a special affinity or inclination towards a certain individual since human beings have no control on such natural inclinations. We are, however, definitely responsible and accountable if we get carried away by such feelings and take specific actions or steps that might be deemed as haram (forbidden).

As far as male and female interaction is concerned, Islam dictates strict rules: It forbids all forms of ‘dating’ and isolating oneself with a member of the opposite sex, as well indiscriminate mingling and mixing.

If, however, one does none of the above, and all that he or she wants is to seriously consider marrying someone, such a thing itself is not considered haram. In fact, Islam encourages us to marry persons for whom we have special feelings and affinity. Thus, Islam recommends that potential marriage partners see one another before proposing marriage. Explaining the reason for such a recommendation, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “That would enhance/foster the bonding.”

This permission notwithstanding, we are advised against getting carried away by merely the outward appearances of a person; these may be quite misleading. Marriage is a life-long partnership and a person’s real worth is determined not by his or her physical looks, but more so by the inner person or character. Hence, after having mentioned that people ordinarily look for beauty, wealth and family in a marriage partner, the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) advised us to consider primarily “the religious or character factor” over and above all other considerations.

sumber : Islam Online


6:37:00 PM



Rasulullah s.a.w. sebagai Pemimpin

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PENDAHULUAN


Rasulullah s.a.w. telah dibangkitkan oleh Allah untuk memimpin umat manusia di dunia ini ke jalan yang selamat dan bahagia di dunia dan di akhirat. Baginda s.a.w. adalah rahmat dari Allah S.W.T.yang tidak ternilai harganya kepada alam semesta ini,sebagaimana jelas dari firman Allah S.W.T. yang bermaksud:


'Dan tidaklah kami utuskan engkau wahai Muhammad melainkan untuk menjadi rahmat bagi sekalian alam'.


(Al-Anbiya’:107)


Sebagai seorang Rasul yang diutuskan,darjat ketinggiannya mengatasi pemimpin-pemimpin yang lain. Baginda bersifat ma’sum iaitu terpelihara dari melakukan kesalahan dan kesilapan. Maka kerana itu,arah dan tujuan yang di bawanya untuk seluruh umat manusia ini adalah benar dan terjamin. Baginda memimpin umatnya ke jalan yang diredhai oleh Allah S.W.T. iaitu agama Islam. Kini Baginda s.a.w. sudah tidak ada lagi di dunia ini,tetapi umatnya tetap dijamin tidak akan sesat selama mana mereka berpegang dengan pusaka tinggalannya iaitu al-Quran dan al-Sunnah. Melalui dua sumber ini umat Islam sentiasa terpimpin dalam menghadapi kehidupan di dunia yang penuh cabaran ini.

Dalam menyampaikan ajaran dan perintah-perintah dari Allah, Baginda juga memperlihatkan contoh-contoh teladan untuk diikuti oleh umatnya. Berkenaan hal ini Allah S.W.T. telah berfirman:

Maksudnya:
Demi sesungguhnya, adalah bagi kamu pada diri Rasulullah itu contoh ikutan yang baik, iaitu orang yang sentiasa mengharapkan (keredhaan) Allah dan (balasan baik) hari akhirat,serta dia pula menyebut dan mengingati Allah banyak-banyak (dalam masa susah dan senang).'

(Al-Ahzab: 21)


Oleh yang demikian, dalam rencana ini kita akan melihat beberapa pengajaran dan contoh teladan yang ditinggalkan oleh Rasulullah s.a.w. berkenaan kehidupannya untuk kita jadikan panduan serta ikutan dalam mengisi dan mempertingkatkan keimanan kita bagi memperolihi darjat taqwa yang diharap-harapkan. Maka untuk itu, dibentangkan sebahagian dari bimbingan dan teladan yang ditunjukkan oleh Rasulullah s.a.w. khasnya berkenaan perkara-perkara berikut:


RUMAHTANGGA

Keharmonian hidup berumahtangga adalah salah satu faktor utama dalam membina sesebuah masyarakat yang baik dan terhormat. Rumahtangga yang baik dan harmoni ini sukar diperolihi tanpa adanya kerjasama serta saling hormat menghormati antara suami isteri dan lain-lain anggota keluarga. Suami seharusnya berkelakuan baik dan berakhlak mulia dalam mengendalikan rumahtangganya, di samping itu sentiasa memperlihatkan contoh-contoh yang baik dalam pergaulan supaya ianya mudah diteladani oleh isteri dan anak-anaknya. Di dalam rumahtangga, para suami tidak sewajarnya bertindak sebagai seorang yang keras dan bengis yang tahu mengarahkan itu dan ini dan mahukan semuanya tersedia untuknya tanpa memikirkan suasana rumahtangga yang memerlukan kasih sayang,kerjasama dan saling bantu membantu.


Dalam kehidupan berumahtangga, Rasulullah s.a.w. telah memperlihatkan suatu teladan yang baik yang boleh diikuti oleh seseorang suami dalam mengurus rumahtangganya. Sebagai seorang suami Rasulullah s.a.w. amat bertimbang rasa dan bersedia membantu keluarganya. Banyak kerja yang dilakukan dengan tangannya sendiri, seperti menjahit pakaian, memerah susu kambing dan apabila mahu makan Baginda makan apa-apa makanan yang sedia ada saja. Rasulullah s.a.w. sangat marah kepada suami yang memukul isterinya sebagaimana memukul hamba abdi, sabdanya yang bermaksud:

Tidakkah seseorang dari kamu merasa malu untuk memukul isterinya sebagaimana dia memukul hambanya? Di waktu pagi dipukul isterinya kemudian di waktu malam ditidurinya pula'.


Di samping Rasulullah s.a.w. menunjukkan panduan dan contoh tentang hidup tolong menolong serta perasaan kasih sayang kepada isteri, Rasulullah s.a.w. juga menunjukkan suatu teladan yang baik khususnya kepada mereka yang mempunyai isteri yang lebih dari seorang. Sebagaimana yang diketahui umum bahawa Rasulullah s.a.w. mempunyai beberapa orang isteri yang terdiri daripada pelbagai peringkat umur. Ada yang masih muda dan cantik, dan ada yang sudah berumur. Walau bagaimanapun, Rasulullah s.a.w. tidak sekali-kali bersikap pilih kasih dalam layanan kasih sayang antara mereka. Masa dan giliran mereka dibahagikan dengan adil serta cukup rapi sekalipun dalam masa Baginda sakit. Apabila Rasulullah s.a.w. hendak musafir, Baginda menjalankan undi antara isteri-isterinya itu dan hanya yang terkena undi saja yang berhak bersamanya.


sumber : islam.gov.my


6:16:00 PM



The Timelessness of Prophet Muhammad's Message

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Muslims believe in all the prophets and messengers that came before Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon them), and they believe that they all came with essentially the same message. But Prophet Muhammad's message is regarded as the final one, as part of God's plan to give humanity one final, universal reminder before declaring their religion complete. The Quran itself asserts that this is a final revelation, the most perfect, complete, and comprehensive code of life, when it says what means,

{This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed my favor on you, and have chosen for you Islam as your religion.} (Al-Maidah 5:3)

But why at this particular point in history, does the final revelation appear? Why does Prophet Muhammad appear in 600 AD? Read below for some questions and answers regarding the timing, and timelessness, of Prophet Muhammad's message.

Question: Why does Prophet Muhammad appear in 600 AD?

It is amazing that no prophet or messenger before Prophet Muhammad claimed that his message was the last one, or the conclusion. On the contrary, we find that both in the Old and New Testaments, prophets are always speaking about somebody, some prophet, who is to come, and no one claims that he is the final prophet. Only in the case of Islam do we find this documented in the word of God in the Quran as well as in the words of Prophet Muhammad. This is a significant point.

To start with, we have to say that the selection of the proper time was not something that was done by a person but by God Himself. God chose that time as the most appropriate time. If we, as humans, try to understand why, then it is only our human attempt to understand. We cannot really judge the wisdom of God.

However, there are at least four basic points that are very relevant to this issue.

First of all, there is the question of the means of transportation and communication. In the past it was very difficult to communicate widely. It was not practical to have a prophet who had enough followers to spread out all over the world and bring the message to other people. There were degrees, of course, but you could say that from the seventh century AD onwards, the extent of movement and contact between people had become greater, and now with modern technology, it is becoming much easier to communicate the message.

A second basic reason concerns with the means of writing and preserving the message. A prophet was a human being. He would live for a few decades, and then die. The only authentic teaching would be something that was preserved, preferably in writing, so it would not be forgotten or mixed up. We know this, and there is a lot of evidence available that the revelations given to previous prophets were not kept intact over the centuries. There were various reasons: the believers were attacked, they were persecuted, their holy books were destroyed, and some people started to write whatever they recalled.

So, there were problems and this is something that everybody readily admits when they study the historicity of the various scriptures before Islam. With these difficulties then, it is quite possible that even though all prophets were truthful in communicating what had been given to them, this message after their deaths might have experienced some partial loss, and possibly some changes.

Some people ask if Muslims are, in effect, saying that after Prophet Muhammad, there is no more guidance to be received from God.
A third possible reason is that whatever remains of the teachings of the prophets before Muhammad has often become mixed up with philosophical ideas, with theological speculation, and sometimes even with some of the mythology that preceded the mission of this prophet. That has made it very difficult for people to sift out what were the exact words of the prophets and what was just mere theorizing, or putting theology and philosophy into the picture.

The fourth and perhaps most important reason, is the stage of maturity of humanity. Previously, a prophet would be sent, then another prophet would come with some kind of slightly modified mission, even though the message is basically the same. It made more sense that when humanity reached a certain level, a universal general message could be given to them that carried the elements of flexibility and applicability so that there would be interaction between the divine laws and framework of life which the human mind tries to interpret and find details and specific applications, depending on the needs of time and place.

Now, if you look at all these important points, you find that with the appearance of Prophet Muhammad, and ample historical evidence is there, the message given to him was preserved intact, and not mixed up with the teachings of anyone else. What you find in the Quran is separate even from the words of Muhammad when he is not receiving revelation in words (that is the Hadith, or prophetic traditions). It is even in separate books. So the purity of revelation has been preserved, and we also see that within a few years after his death, the message of Islam reached nearly half of the known world at that time, and today it has reached the rest of the world.

So, as mentioned above, the timing was selected by God, but there are a good number of logical reasons why that particular time was chosen.

Question: Some people look at the concept of the finality of the message of Muhammad and ask if Muslims are, in effect, saying that there is no more guidance to be received from God.

This confuses the role of prophets with the role of reformers. A prophet is not sent to us to show where to place traffic lights, how to collect taxes, or how to organize the school board.

A prophet gives broad guidance, especially in the last message of Islam, which has principles that cannot be changed by time and place. Once the message of Muhammad had been completed, and the revelation preserved, then there is really no need for another prophet for details.

At this point, individuals and societies have received the divine set of guiding principles and after this, they can use their minds; they can think.

Question: So we are not saying that after the final messages people will not deviate any longer and are going to be angels forever. People are still going to deviate from the proper path but they do not need a prophet every time. They need reformers.

They need a reformer or rejuvenator. It is amazing to notice that since that assertion was made in the seventh century of the Christian era (that Muhammad is the final prophet) there has never been a prophet who can really resemble, in any remote form, any of the great prophets of the past (such as Abraham, Moses, or Jesus), or anybody who can claim to have a revelation that in any way can be compared with the Bible or with the Quran. Of course, there have been some claims, but we can judge them as compared with the greater revelations.


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5:33:00 PM



None of the Bible’s Writers Believed That Jesus is God

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Christians and Muslims both believe in Jesus, love him, and honor him. They are, however, divided over the question of his divinity.
Fortunately, this difference can be resolved if we refer the question to both the Bible and the Quran, because, both the Bible and the Quran teach that Jesus is not God.
It is clear enough to everyone that the Quran denies the divinity of Jesus, so we do not need to spend much time explaining that.
On the other hand, many people misunderstand the Bible; they feel that the belief in Jesus as God is so widespread that it must have come from the Bible. This article shows quite conclusively that the Bible does not teach that.
The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is not God. In the Bible God is always someone else other than Jesus.
Some will say that something Jesus said or something he did while on the earth proves that he is God. We will show that the disciples never came to the conclusion that Jesus is God. And those are people who lived and walked with Jesus and thus knew first hand what he said and did. Furthermore, we are told in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible that the disciples were being guided by the Holy Spirit.
If Jesus is God, surely they should have known it. But they did not. They kept worshipping the one true God who was worshipped by Abraham, Moses, and Jesus (see Acts 3:13).
All of the writers of the Bible believed that God was not Jesus. The idea that Jesus is God did not become part of Christian belief until after the Bible was written, and took many centuries to become part of the faith of Christians.
Matthew, Mark, and Luke, authors of the first three Gospels, believed that Jesus was not God (see Mark 10:18 and Matthew 19:17). They believed that he was the son of God in the sense of a righteous person. Many others too, are similarly called sons of God (see Matthew 23:1-9).
Paul, believed to be the author of some thirteen or fourteen letters in the Bible, also believed that Jesus is not God. For Paul, God first created Jesus, then used Jesus as the agent by which to create the rest of creation (see Colossians 1:15 and 1 Corinthians 8:6). Similar ideas are found in the letter to the Hebrews, and also in the Gospel and Letters of John composed some seventy years after Jesus. In all of these writings, however, Jesus is still a creature of God and is therefore forever subservient to God (see 1 Corinthians 15:28).
Now, because Paul, John, and the author of Hebrews believed that Jesus was God’s first creature, some of what they wrote clearly show that Jesus was a pre-existent powerful being. This is often misunderstood to mean that he must have been God. But to say that Jesus was God is to go against what these very authors wrote.
Although these authors had this later belief that Jesus is greater than all creatures, they also believed that he was still lesser than God. In fact, John quotes Jesus as saying: “...the Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28). And Paul declares that the head of every woman is her husband, the head of every man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God (see 1 Corinthians 11:3).
Therefore, to find something in these writings and claim that these teach that Jesus is God is to misuse and misquote what those authors are saying. What they wrote must be understood in the context of their belief that Jesus is a creature of God as they have already clearly said.
So we see then, that some of the later writers had a higher view of Jesus, but none of the writers of the Bible believed that Jesus is God. The Bible clearly teaches that there is only one true God, the one whom Jesus worshipped (see John 17: 3).
In the rest of this article we will explore the Bible in more depth, and deal with the passages which are most often misquoted as proofs of Jesus’ divinity. We will show, with God’s help, that these do not mean what they are so often used to prove.

Evidence From the Acts of the Apostles:

Jesus performed many miraculous wonders, and he without doubt said a lot of wonderful things about himself. Some people use what he said and did as a proof that he was God. But his original disciples who lived and walked with him, and were eyewitnesses to what he said and did, never reached this conclusion.
The Acts of the Apostles in the Bible details the activity of the disciples over a period of thirty years after Jesus was lifted up to heaven. Throughout this period they never refer to Jesus as God. They continually and consistently use the title God to refer to someone else other than Jesus.
Peter stood up with the eleven disciples and addressed the crowd saying: “Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.” (Acts 2:22).
It was God, therefore, who did the miracles through Jesus to convince people that Jesus was backed by God. Peter did not see the miracles as proof that Jesus is God.
In fact, the way Peter refers to God and to Jesus makes it clear that Jesus is not God. For he always turns the title God away from Jesus. Take the following references for example:
“God has raised this Jesus...” (Acts 2:32)
“God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.” (Acts 2:36)
In both passages, the title God is turned away from Jesus. So why he did this, if Jesus was God?
For Peter, Jesus was a servant of God. Peter said: “God raised up his servant...” (Acts 3:26). The title servant refers to Jesus. This is clear from a previous passage where Peter declared: “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.” (Acts 3:13).
Peter must have known that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob never spoke of a Triune God. They always spoke of God as the only God. Here, as in Matthew 12:18, Jesus is the servant of God. Matthew tells us that Jesus was the same servant of God spoken of in Isaiah 42:1. So, according to Matthew and Peter, Jesus is not God, but God’s servant. The Old Testament repeatedly says that God is alone (e.g. Isaiah 45:5).
All of the disciples of Jesus held this view. In Acts 4:24 we are told that the believers prayed to God saying: “...they raised their voices together in prayer to God. ‘Sovereign Lord,’ they said, ‘you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.’” It is clear that the one they were praying to was not Jesus, because, two verses later, they referred to Jesus as “...your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.” (Acts 4:27).
If Jesus was God, his disciples should have said this clearly. Instead, they kept preaching that Jesus was God’s Christ. We are told in Acts: “Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.” (Acts 5:42).
The Greek word “Christ” is a human title. It means “Anointed.” If Jesus was God, why would the disciples continually refer to him with human titles like servant and Christ of God, and consistently use the title God for the one who raised Jesus? Did they fear men? No! They boldly preached the truth fearing neither imprisonment nor death. When they faced opposition from the authorities, Peter declared: “We must obey God rather than men! The God of our fathers raised Jesus...” (Acts 5:29-30).
Were they lacking the Holy Spirit? No! They were supported by the Holy Spirit (see Acts 2:3, 4:8, and 5:32). They were simply teaching what they had learnt from Jesus — that Jesus was not God but, rather, God’s servant and Christ.
The Quran confirms that Jesus was the Messiah (Christ), and that he was God’s servant (see the Holy Quran 3:45 and 19:30).

Jesus is Not All-Powerful, and Not All-Knowing:

Christians and Muslims agree that God is all-powerful and all-knowing. The Gospels show that Jesus was not all-powerful, and not all-knowing, since he had some limitations.
Mark tells us in his gospel that Jesus was unable to do any powerful work in his hometown except few things: “He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.” (Mark 6:5). Mark also tells us that when Jesus tried to heal a certain blind man, the man was not healed after the first attempt, and Jesus had to try a second time (see Mark 8:22-26).
Therefore, although we hold a great love and respect for Jesus, we need to understand that he is not the all-powerful God.
Mark’s Gospel also reveals that Jesus had limitations in his knowledge. In Mark 13:32, Jesus declared that he himself does not know when the last day will occur, but the Father alone knows that (see also Matthew 24:36).
Therefore, Jesus could not have been the all-knowing God. Some will say that Jesus knew when the last day will occur, but he chose not to tell. But that complicates matters further. Jesus could have said that he knows but he does not wish to tell. Instead, he said that he does not know. We must believe him. Jesus does not lie at all.
The Gospel of Luke also reveals that Jesus had limited knowledge. Luke says that Jesus increased in wisdom (Luke 2:52). In Hebrews too (Hebrews 5:8) we read that Jesus learned obedience. But God’s knowledge and wisdom is always perfect, and God does not learn new things. He knows everything always. So, if Jesus learned something new, that proves that he did not know everything before that, and thus he was not God.
Another example for the limited knowledge of Jesus is the fig tree episode in the Gospels. Mark tells us as follows: “The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.” (Mark 11:12-13).
It is clear from these verses that the knowledge of Jesus was limited on two counts. First, he did not know that the tree had no fruit until he came to it. Second, he did not know that it was not the right season to expect figs on trees.
Can he become God later? No! Because there is only one God, and He is God from everlasting to everlasting (see Psalms 90:2).
Someone may say that Jesus was God but he took the form of a servant and therefore became limited. Well, that would mean that God changed. But God does not change. God said so according to Malachi 3:6.
Jesus never was God, and never will be. In the Bible, God declares: “Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.” (Isaiah 43:10).
The Bible clearly shows that Jesus was not all-powerful and all-knowing as the true God should be.

The Greatest Commandment in the Bible and the Quran:

Some will say that this whole discussion over the divinity of Jesus is unnecessary. They say, the important thing is to accept Jesus as your personal savior. On the contrary, the Bible’s writers stressed that, in order to be saved, it is necessary to understand who exactly is God. Failure to understand this would be to violate the first and greatest of all the commandments in the Bible. This commandment was emphasized by Jesus, on whom be peace, when a teacher of the Law of Moses asked him: “‘Of all the commandments, which is the most important?’ ‘The most important one,’ answered Jesus, ‘is this: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’” (Mark 12:28-30).
Notice that Jesus was quoting the first commandment from the book of Deuteronomy 6:4-5. Jesus confirmed not only that this commandment is still valid, but also that it is the most important of all the commandments. If Jesus thought that he himself is God, why did not he say so? Instead, he stressed that God is one. The man who questioned Jesus understood this, and what the man says next makes it clear that God is not Jesus, for he said to Jesus: “‘Well said, teacher,’ the man replied. ‘You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him.’” (Mark 12:32).
Now if Jesus was God, he would have told the man so. Instead, he let the man refer to God as someone other than Jesus, and he even saw that the man had spoken wisely: “When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, ‘You are not far from the kingdom of God.’” (Mark 12:34). If Jesus knew that God is a trinity, why did not he say so? Why did he not say that God is one in three, or three in one? Instead, he declared that God is one. True imitators of Jesus will imitate him also in this declaration of God’s oneness. They will not add the word three where Jesus never said it.
Does salvation depend on this commandment? Yes, says the Bible! Jesus made this clear when another man approached Jesus to learn from him (see Mark 10:17-29). The man fell on his knees and said to Jesus: “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus replied: “Why do you call me good? No one is good — except God alone.” (Mark 10:17-18).
By so saying, Jesus made a clear distinction between himself and God. Then he proceeded with the answer to the man’s question about how to get salvation. Jesus told him: “If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.” (Matthew 19:17, also see Mark 10:19).
Remember that the most important of all the commandments, according to Jesus, is to know God as the only God. Jesus further emphasized this in the Gospel According to John. In John 17:1, Jesus lifted his eyes to heaven and prayed, addressing God as Father. Then in verse three, he said to God as follows: “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” (John 17:3).
This proves beyond doubt that if people want to get eternal life they must know that the One, whom Jesus was praying to, is the only true God, and they must know that Jesus was sent by the true God. Some say that the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. But Jesus said that the Father alone is the only true God.
True followers of Jesus will follow him in this too. Jesus had said that his true followers are those who hold to his teachings. He said: “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.” (John 8:31). His teaching is that people must continue to keep the commandments, especially the first commandment which emphasizes that God is alone, and that God should be loved with all our hearts and all our strengths.
We love Jesus, but we must not love him as God. Today many love Jesus more than they love God. This is because they see God as a vengeful person who wanted to exact a penalty from them, and they see Jesus as the savior who rescued them from the wrath of God. Yet God is our only savior. According to Isaiah 43:11, God said: “I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.” Also God said according to Isaiah 45:21-22: “Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me. Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.”
The Quran confirms the first commandment and addresses it to all humankind (see the Holy Quran 2:163). And God declares that true believers love Him more than anyone else or anything else (Quran 2:165).

Paul Believed That Jesus is not God:

Many people use Paul’s writings as proof that Jesus is God. But this is not fair to Paul, because Paul clearly believed that Jesus is not God. In his first letter to Timothy, Paul wrote: “I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep these instructions...” (1 Timothy 5:21).
It is clear from this that the title God applies not to Christ Jesus, but to someone else. In the following chapter, he again differentiates between God and Jesus when he says: “In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession...” (1 Timothy 6:13).
Paul then went on to speak of the second appearance of Jesus: “the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in his own time.” (1 Timothy 6:14-15).
Again, the title God is deliberately turned away from Jesus. Incidentally, many people think that when Jesus is called “Lord” in the Bible that this means “God.” But in the Bible this title means master or teacher, and it can be used for addressing humans (see 1 Peter 3:6).
What is more important, however, is to notice what Paul said about God in the following passage, which clearly shows that Jesus is not God: “God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever.” (1 Timothy 6:15-16).
Paul said that God alone is immortal. Immortal means he does not die. Check any dictionary. Now, anyone who believes that Jesus died cannot believe that Jesus is God. Such a belief would contradict what Paul said here. Furthermore, to say that God died is a blasphemy against God. Who would run the world if God died? Paul believed that God does not die.
Paul also said in that passage that God dwells in unapproachable light — that no one has seen God or can see him. Paul knew that many thousands of people had seen Jesus. Yet Paul said that no one has seen God, because Paul was sure that Jesus is not God. This is why Paul went on teaching that Jesus was not God, but that he was the Christ (see Acts 9:22 and 18:5).
When he was in Athens, Paul spoke of God as “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.” (Acts 17:24). Then he identified Jesus as “the man he (i.e. God) has appointed.” (Acts 17:31).
Clearly, for Paul, Jesus was not God, and he would be shocked to see his writings used for proving the opposite of what he believed. Paul even testified in court saying: “I admit that I worship the God of our fathers...” (Acts 24:14).
He also said that Jesus is the servant of that God, for we read in Acts: “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.” (Acts 3:13).
For Paul, the Father alone is God. Paul said that there is “one God and Father of all...” (Ephesians 4:6). Paul said again: “...for us there is but one God, the Father . . . and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ...” (1 Corinthians 8:6).
Paul’s letter to the Philippians (Philippians 2:6-11) is often quoted as a proof that Jesus is God. But the very passage shows that Jesus is not God. This passage has to agree with Isaiah 45:22-24 where God said that every knee should bow to God, and every tongue should confess that righteousness and strength are in God alone. Paul was aware of this passage, for he quoted it in Romans 14:11. Knowing this, Paul declared: “I kneel before the Father.” (Ephesians 3:14).
The letter to the Hebrews (Hebrews 1:6) says that the angels of God should worship the Son. But this passage depends on Deuteronomy 32:43, in the Septuagint version of the Old Testament. This phrase cannot be found in the Old Testament used by Christians today, and the Septuagint version is no longer considered valid by Christians. However, even the Septuagint version, does not say worship the Son. It says let the Angels of God worship God. The Bible insists that God alone is to be worshipped: “When the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites, he commanded them: ‘Do not worship any other gods or bow down to them, serve them or sacrifice to them. But the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt with mighty power and outstretched arm, is the one you must worship. To him you shall bow down and to him offer sacrifices. You must always be careful to keep the decrees and ordinances, the laws and commands he wrote for you. Do not worship other gods. Do not forget the covenant I have made with you, and do not worship other gods. Rather, worship the LORD your God; it is he who will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.’” (2 Kings 17:35-39).
Jesus, on whom be peace, believed in this, for he also stressed it in Luke 4:8. And Jesus too fell on his face and worshipped God (see Matthew 26:39). Paul knew that Jesus worshipped God (see Hebrews 5:7). Paul taught that Jesus will remain forever subservient to God (see 1 Corinthians 15:28).

Evidence from the Gospel of John:

The Gospel of John, the fourth Gospel, was completed to its present form some seventy years after Jesus was raised up to heaven. This Gospel in its final form says one more thing about Jesus that was unknown from the previous three Gospels — that Jesus was the Word of God. John means that Jesus was God’s agent through whom God created everything else. This is often misunderstood to mean that Jesus was God Himself. But John was saying, as Paul had already said, that Jesus was God’s first creature. In the Book of Revelation in the Bible, we find that Jesus is: “the beginning of God’s creation” (Revelation 3:14, also see 1 Corinthians 8:6 and Colossians 1:15).
Anyone who says that the Word of God is a person distinct from God must also admit that the Word was created, for the Word speaks in the Bible saying: “The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works...” (Proverbs 8:22).
This Gospel, nevertheless, clearly teaches that Jesus is not God. If it did not continue this teaching, then it would contradict the other three Gospels and also the letters of Paul from which it is clearly established that Jesus is not God. We find here that Jesus was not co-equal with the Father, for Jesus said: “...the Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28).
People forget this and they say that Jesus is equal to the Father. Whom should we believe — Jesus or the people? Muslims and Christians agree that God is self-existent. This means that He does not derive his existence from anyone. Yet John tells us that Jesus’ existence is caused by the Father. Jesus said in this Gospel: “...I live because of the Father...” (John 6:57).
John tells us that Jesus cannot do anything by his own when he quotes Jesus as saying: “By myself I can do nothing...” (John 5:30). This agrees with what we learn about Jesus from other Gospels. In Mark, for example, we learn that Jesus performed miracles by a power which was not within his control. This is especially clear from an episode in which a woman is healed of her incurable bleeding. The woman came up behind him and touched his cloak, and she was immediately healed. But Jesus had no idea who touched him. Mark describes Jesus’ actions thus: “At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched my clothes?’” (Mark 5:30). His disciples could not provide a satisfactory answer, so Mark tells us: “Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.” (Mark 5:32). This shows that the power that healed the woman was not within Jesus’ control. He knew that the power had gone out of him, but he did not know where it went. Some other intelligent being had to guide that power to the woman who needed to be healed. God was that intelligent being.
It is no wonder, then, that in Acts of the Apostles we read that it was God who did the miracles through Jesus (Acts 2:22).
God did extraordinary miracles through others too, but that does not make the others God (see Acts 19:11). Why, then, is Jesus taken for God? Even when Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, he had to ask God to do it. Lazarus’ sister, Martha, knew this, for she said to Jesus: “I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” (John 11:22).
Martha knew that Jesus was not God, and John who reported this with approval knew it also. Jesus had a God, for when he was about to ascend to heaven, he said: “I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:17).
John was sure that no one had seen God, although he knew that many people had seen Jesus (see John 1:18 and 1 John 4:12). In fact Jesus himself told the crowds, that they have never seen the Father, nor have they heard the Father’s voice (John 5:37). Notice that if Jesus was the Father, his statement here would be false. Who is the only God in John’s Gospel? The Father alone.
Jesus testified this when he declared that the God of the Jews is the Father (John 8:54). Jesus too confirmed that the Father alone is the only true God (see John 17:1-3). And Jesus said to his enemies: “...you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.” (John 8:40). According to John, therefore, Jesus was not God, and nothing John wrote should be taken as proof that he was God — unless one wishes to disagree with John.

God and Jesus Are Two Separate Beings:

Many people use certain verses of the Bible as proof that Jesus is God. However, all of these verses, when understood in context, prove the opposite!
For example, in Matthew 9:2, Jesus said to a certain man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.” Because of this, some say that Jesus must be God since only God can forgive sins. However, if you are willing to read just a few verses further, you will find that the people “...praised God, who had given such authority to men.” (Matthew 9:8). This shows that the people knew, and Matthew agrees, that Jesus is not the only man to receive such authority from God.
Jesus himself emphasized that he does not speak on his own authority (John 14:10) and he does nothing on his own authority, but he speaks only what the Father has taught him (John 8:28). What Jesus did here was as follows. Jesus announced to the man the knowledge Jesus received from God that God had forgiven the man.
Notice that Jesus did not say, “I forgive your sins,” but rather, “your sins are forgiven,” implying, as this would to his Jewish listeners, that God had forgiven the man. Jesus, then, did not have the power to forgive sins, and in that very episode he called himself “the Son of Man” (Matthew 9:6).
John 10:30 is often used as proof that Jesus is God because Jesus said, “I and the father are one.” But, if you read the next six verses, you will find Jesus explaining that his enemies were wrong to think that he was claiming to be God. What Jesus obviously means here is that he is one with the Father in purpose. Jesus also prayed that his disciples should be one just as Jesus and the Father are one. Obviously, he was not praying that all his disciples should somehow merge into one individual (see John 17:11 and 22). And when Luke reports that the disciples were all one, Luke does not mean that they became one single human being, but that they shared a common purpose although they were separate beings (see Acts 4:32). In terms of essence, Jesus and the Father are two, for Jesus said they are two witnesses (John 8:14-18). They have to be two, since one is greater than the other (see John 14:28). When Jesus prayed to be saved from the cross, he said: “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” (Luke 22:42).
This shows that they had two separate wills, although Jesus submitted his will to the will of the Father. Two wills mean two separate individuals.
Furthermore, Jesus is reported to have said: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). If one of them forsook the other, then they must be two separate entities.
Again, Jesus is reported to have said: “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” (Luke 23:46). If the spirit of one can be placed into the hands of another, they must be two separate beings.
In all of these instances, Jesus is clearly subordinate to the Father. When Jesus knelt down and prayed he obviously was not praying to himself (see Luke 22:41). He was praying to his God.
Throughout the New Testament, the Father alone is called God. In fact, the titles “Father” and “God” are used to designate one individual, not three, and never Jesus. This is also clear from the fact that Matthew substituted the title “Father” in the place of the title “God” in at least two places in his Gospel (compare Matthew 10:29 with Luke 12:6, and Matthew 12:50 with Mark 3:35). If Matthew is right in doing so, then the Father alone is God.
Was Jesus the Father? No! Because Jesus said: “And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.” (Matthew 23:9). So Jesus is not the Father, since Jesus was standing on the earth when he said this.
The Quran seeks to bring people back to the true faith that was taught by Jesus, and by his true disciples who continued in his teaching. That teaching emphasized a continued commitment to the first commandment that God is alone. In the Quran, God directs Muslims to call readers of the Bible back to that true faith. God have said in the Quran:
Say: “O people of the Book (Christians and Jews)! Come to a word that is just between us and you: that we shall worship none but God, and that we shall associate no partners with Him, and that none of us shall take others as lords beside God.” (Quran, 3:64)

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Awas Perangkap Kristian Untuk Remaja Islam

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PERANCANGAN

Berdasarkan penyelidikan beliau serta anggota NGO Islam yanglain,pihak-pihak yang memusuhi Islam, terutamanya pihak Kristian telah lama membuat perancangan rapi untuk menjadikan remaja-remaja Islam sebagai sasaran untuk dikristiankan. Umumnya, kita mengetahui bahawa mereka telah berjaya menjadikan “Dunia Hiburan” dan “Dunia Sukan” sebagai senjata untuk menjauhkan remaja-remaja kita dari agama Islam. Namun, satu pendedahan yang dibuat oleh Dr. Rubiah mengenai “perangkap” yang digunakan oleh pihak Kristian ini amat membimbangkan kami yang hadir semua.

Berikut adalah kronologi bagaimana mereka memerangkap anak-anak gadis kita untuk dijadikan mangsa.

MEMIKAT

Untuk makluman semua, pertubuhan-pertubuhan Kristian telah bersepakat untuk memberi satu bentuk skim galakan kepada para jejaka Kristian serta diberi tunjuk ajar mengenai teknik untuk memikat gadis-gadis Melayu Islam untuk dijadikan pasangan mereka. Berbagai-bagai teknik memikat akan digunakan dan ia bergantung kepada latar belakang gadis yang disasarkan. Tapi, apa yang membimbangkan kami semua adalah sasaran utama mereka kini adalah gadis-gadis bertudung labuh yang berpendidikan agama. Teknik yang mereka gunakan adalah lebih kurang sama sahaja.

Pada peringkat awal mereka akan mencari jalan untuk berkenalan dengan anak-anak gadis kita, sama ada melalui hubungan kerja, hubungan sesama pelajar mahu pun hubungan jiran tetangga. Kemudian, mereka akan berlakon seolah-olahnya mereka telah tertarik dengan kesopanan, cara berpakaian serta kelembuatan tingkah laku anak-anak gadis kita ini. Antara ungkapan yang sering digunakan adakah

“Adakah semua anak-anak gadis melayu begitu ayu dan sopan?”,
“Di dalam masyarakat saya, tidak pernah saya bergaul dengan gadis yang begitu berakhlak”,
“Saya tertarik dengan tingkah laku awak”.
“Saya ingin mengenali awak dan agama awak dengan lebih dekat lagi”

Biasanya, anak-anak gadis yang berpendidikan agama kita ini akan terbuka hatinya untuk menerima kehadiran jejaka Kristian ini apabila si jejaka mula menyatakan keinginan untuk mengenali agama Islam dengan lebih dekat lagi.

PERANGKAP

Apabila si jejaka merasakan anak gadis kita telah menerima kehadiran mereka, mereka akan menjalinkan persahabatan mereka dengan jujur, ikhlas, bersopan dan begitu “gentleman” sekali. Mereka akan ke perpustakaan, minum serta beriadah bersama dengan rakan-rakan yang lain Pendek kata, sepanjang persahabatan mereka, cubaan “ringan-ringan” pun tidak ada. Tetapi awas, para ibubapa.

Satelah sekian lama bersama serta mendapati si gadis telah mula ada perasaan cinta, si jejaka akan menunggu dengan sabarnya ketika untuk memulakan”langkah sebenarnya” yang pertama. Apabila si gadis didapatinya mula terleka, mereka akan digambarkan seolah-olah mereka terbawa-bawa oleh perasan cinta sehingga si gadis ternoda. Ketika inilah, perangkap mereka sudah mula mengena.

DILEMA

Perlakuan noda ini boleh berlaku mungkin sekali, dua, tiga atau seterusnya. Sebab bagi si jejaka, perangkapnya hanya dikira benar-benarmengena apabila si gadis didapati berbadan dua. Pada ketika ini, si jejaka akan menunjukkan kekesalannya yang tidak terhingga. Si jejaka kononnya akan bertanggungjawab diatas perbuatan mereka seraya berkata “Agama kita melarang kita menggugurkannya, maka terpaksa kita berkahwin, tetapi kita berlainan agama”

Seterusnya kata si jejaka “Kalau kita ingin berkahwin secara Islam, saya sanggup memeluk Islam, tetapi kita terpaksa berhadapan dengan dua perkara.Pertama, mengikut hukum Islam, kita boleh dikenakan 100 sebatan sebagaibalasan dosa.

Kedua, masyarakat Islam akan mencemuh dan meminggirkan kita kerana mempunyai anak diluar nikah yang kita hasilkan bersama. Kita akan berasa amat malu, lebih-lebih lagi awak yang berpendidikan agama. Sanggup kah kita? Saya rasa, saya tidak sanggup menghadapinya.”

Kata si jejaka lagi, “Kalau kita berkahwin secara agama saya, awak hanya perlu untuk menukar agama, dan kita akan terlepas dari dua seksa. Pertama, mengikut agama saya, kita hanya perlu untuk membuat pengakuan di hadapan paderi di gereja untuk menghapuskan segala dosa. Kedua, masyarakat agama saya akan menganggap anak kita ini senasib dengan Jesus (Nabi Isa) yang dilahirkan tanpa bapa. Mereka juga akan menganggap awak senasib dengan Mary (Mariam)yang melahirkan Nabi Isa. Maka, kita pasti tidak akan dipersia. Saya rasa ini option terbaik buat kita.”

Untuk makluman semua, mereka hanya merancang agar anak jejaka mereka memikat anak gadis kita. Tetapi mereka tidak akan mencuba agar anak gadis mereka untuk mendampingi anak jejaka kita kerana mereka sedar bahawa perangkap mereka yang ini tidak akan mengena.

MURTAD

Mengikut penyelidikan Dr. Rubiah serta rakan-rakan dalam NGO Islam yang lain, amat ramai gadis-gadis melayu Islam yang memilih option kedua walaupun ada segelintir yang berjaya diselamatkan dan terpaksa disembunyikan demi maruah agama & bangsa. Mereka seterusnya mengemukakan permohonan untuk menukar agama (murtad) di pejabat agama. Namun Artikel 11 Perlembagaan Persekutuan menjadi penghalang utama rancangan mereka.

Menurut Dr. Rubiah lagi, pihak IFC (Inter-Faith Council) telah berjaya mendapatkan dua juta tanda tangan sokongan agar Artikel 11 Perlembagaan Persekutuan ini dapat dipinda. Tetapi katanya lagi, untuk mendapatkan 1 juta tanda tangan umat melayu Islam bagi menghalang usaha mereka, adalah sesuatu yang teramat seksa. Ramai yang terlalu merasa curiga dengan alasan mereka khuatir tanda tangan mereka akan disalahgunakan untuk menyatakan sokongan atau bantahan terhadap usaha yang lain pula. Alasan demi alasan diterima….hinggalah satu masa nanti saudara mara terdekat kita tiba-tiba menjadi sebahagian dari statistik puluhan ribu mangsa.

Adalah diharap, satelah perhimpunan di Masjid Wilayah, Ahad yang lalu (23/07/06), lebih 2 juta tanda tangan telah berjaya diterima. Dimanakah semangat kita? Kita belum lagi diperlukan untuk mengangkat senjata. Maka, marilah kita bersama-sama berusaha dan mengembeling tenaga agar gejala ini tidak terus melanda agama dan negara.

DOA

“Doa adalah senjata para mukmin”. Satelah kita berusaha, marilah kita bersama-sama berdoa agar anak-anak gadis kita akan terhindar dari menjadi mangsa. Doa juga dipanjatkan agar umat Islam di Palestin, di Lubnan, di Iraq dan seluruh dunia dihindari dari segala bencana.

Amin……Ya Rabbil A’lamin.

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5:20:00 PM



Mereka Memilih Islam

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Dr. Murah Hofmann (Roman Katolik, Pakar Undang-undang dan Diplomat)

Dr. Murad Hofmann dilahirkan pada tahun 1931 dalam sebuah keluarga Roman Katolik. Beliau memperoleh ijazah pertamanya di Union College New York dan Dr. Murad Hofmannijazah PhD dalam bidang perundangan di Munich University pada tahun 1957. Pada tahun 1960 beliau memperoleh pula ijazah LL.M. dari Harvard Law School. Beliau dilantik menjadi Pengarah Penerangan bagi NATO di Brussels dari tahun 1983 hingga 1987. Pada tahun 1987 beliau dilantik menjadi Duta Jerman ke Algeria dan pada tahun 1990 pula menjadi Duta ke Morocco

Dr. Murad Hofmann memeluk Islam berdasarkan beberapa pengalaman dan pengamatan. Antara sebabnya ialah pengalaman beliau di Algeria di saat berlakunya pertembungan antara tentera Perancis dengan kumpulan gerila dari kumpulan Algerian National Front.yang menuntut kemerdekaan bagi Algeria. Beliau melihat penderitaan yang dialami umat Islam yang memperjuangkan kemerdekaan ini serta kesabaran yang mereka miliki. Beliau meyakini kesemuanya terhasil kesan dari ajaran Islam yang mulia. Bermula tarikh itu Dr. Murad mula mengkaji al-Quran tanpa henti.

Sebab kedua beliau memeluk Islam ialah kefahaman beliau yang mendalam tentang ajaran Kristian. Beliau mendapati terdapat perbezaan yang besar antara apa yang dipercayai oleh orang Kristian awam dengan apa yang diajar oleh profesor agama Kristian di universiti. Beliau tidak boleh menerima ajaran St. Paul yang amat berbeza dengan ajaran nabi Isa yang asal sedangkan, kata belilau, “St. Paul tidak pernah bertemu nabi Isa maka bagaimana dia berani mengubah ajaran nabi Isa?”

Di samping itu beliau juga tidak boleh menerima hakikat bahawa setiap orang dilahirkan dalam keadaan berdosa, seperti yang terkandung dalam konsep Original Sin dalam ajaran Kristian, dan nabi Isa perlu mati kerana dosa-dosa itu. Beliau berasa pelik tentang mengapa ‘Anak Tuhan’ perlu disalib dengan kejam untuk membersihkan manusia daripada dosa yang mereka sendiri lakukan.

Pada tahun 1980 beliau memeluk Islam. Beliau berkata, “Seorang Muslim hidup tanpa pemujaan kepada makhluk. Dia tidak menyembah Tuhan dengan perantaraan Jesus, Mary atau wali-wali tertentu, sebaliknya dia menyembah Tuhan secara langsung. Justeru seorang Muslim merupakan seorang yang merdeka dalam erti kata yang sebenarnya.”

Rujukan: http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/124/

Dileep Kumar (Agama Hindu, Tokoh Muzik Bollywood)

Dileep Kumar dilahirkan pada tahun 1966 di Madras, India. Beliau adalah penganut agama Hindu dan memperoleh ijazah dalam bidang Western Classical Dileep KumarMusic dari Trinity College of Music, Oxford University. Beliau amat popular di India melalui muzik ciptaannya yang merevolusikan muzik Bollywood di India. Semuanya bermula pada tahun 1992 apabila beliau diberikan kepercayaan untuk mencipta muzik dan lagu bagi filem Roja. Beliau berjaya menyerlahkan bakatnya sehinggakan lagu Tamizha Tamizha dalam filem ini menjadi pujaan ramai. Kebolehan beliau memang mengagumkan kerana beliau berjaya menggabungkan unsur-unsur pop, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, reggae, rock serta muzik Hindu klasik dalam muziknya. Kerana kehebatannya itu beliau menggondol anugerah sebagai Pengarah Muzik Terbaik sebanyak tiga kali.

Pada tahun 1988 Dileep Kumar mengalami satu pengalaman yang pelik, iaitu, ketika berada di Malaysia beliau bermimpi menemui seorang lelaki tua yang menyuruhnya memeluk Islam. Beliau pada mulanya tidak mempedulikan mimpi itu namun apabila, selepas itu, mimpi yang serupa datang berulang-ulang kali dalam tidurnya, beliau mula memandang serius terhadapnya. Minatnya terhadap Islam terus meningkat dan kemuncaknya ialah ketika salah seorang adik perempuannya mengalami sakit tenat pada tahun 1988. Rawatan demi rawatan tidak berjaya menyembuhkan penyakit adiknya sehinggalah mereka bertemu dengan seorang tokoh agama Islam. Secara yang tidak diduga, penyakit adiknya sembuh selepas tokoh agama itu berdoa kepada Allah. Pada tahun 1989 Dileep Kumar dan keluarganya memeluk agama Islam dan beliau menukar namanya kepada Allah Rakha Rahman.

Antara pengalaman yang tidak boleh beliau lupakan ialah pada tanggal 6 Januari 2006 yang merupakan tarikh hari jadinya. Ketika itu beliau berada di Masjid nabi di Madinah. Beliau berkata, “Itulah hadiah hari jadi saya yang paling berharga. Selama sehari suntuk saya beribadah di dalam Masjid Nabi dan apa yang saya rasai tidak ada tolok bandingannya. Saya bersyukur dan berterima kasih kepada Allah.”

Rujukan: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=76202&d=13&m=1&y=2006&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom

Dr. Ingrid Mattson (Roman Katolik dari Kanada)

Dr. Ingrid Mattson berasal dari Kanada. Beliau mendapat ijazah dalam bidang falsafah di University of Waterloo, Ontario, pada tahun 1987. Pada asalnya beliau Dr. Ingrid Mattsonmenganuti agama Kristian Roman Katolik namun disebabkan beliau tidak berasa damai dan tidak berasa dekat dengan Tuhan beliau terus mengkaji demi mencari kebenaran hakiki. Pencariannya membawanya kepada Islam dan ketika berumur 23 tahun beliau memeluk Islam. Solatnya yang pertama begitu bermakna baginya kerana ketika itulah, buat pertama kalinya, beliau berasa begitu dekat dengan Tuhan.

Pada tahun 1999 beliau memperoleh ijazah PhD dari University of Chicago dalam bidang Pengajian Islam. Pengalaman beliau merangsangnya untuk menulis pelbagai artikel bertujuan untuk membetulkan tanggapan negatif sebahagian masyarakat antarabangsa terhadap Islam. Artikel-artikel tulisan beliau banyak memfokuskan kepada aspek undang-undang Islam dan kerelevanannya dengan masyarakat sekarang, isu berkaitan gender dan kepimpinan serta isu-isu semasa yang melanda umat Islam masa kini. Di samping itu beliau sering di undang untuk bercakap di TV serta forum-forum antarabangsa berkaitan isu yang melanda umat dan agama Islam.

Pada hari ini Dr. Ingrid Mattson merupakan Pengarah kepada projek yang dikenali sebagai Islamic Chaplaincy. Beliau juga adalah Profesor di Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations di Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT. Pada tahun 2006 beliau dilantik menjadi Presiden kepada Pertubuhan Islam Amerika Utara (ISNA).

Rujukan: http://macdonald.hartsem.edu/mattson.htm

Jang (Bangsa China)

Jang berasal dari negara China. Beliau menceritakan kepada staf IslamOnline bahawa perjalanannya kepada Islam bermula dengan isu pengharaman khinzir Jang(babi). Beliau berasa pelik mengapa Islam mengharamkan babi lantas beliau membuat kajian tentangnya dengan membaca beberapa majalah perubatan moden dan perubatan China tradisional. Beliau mendapati beberapa saintis mengatakan daging babi menyebabkan tidak kurang daripada 70 penyakit. Malah perubatan China tradisional juga membuat konklusi yang lebih kurang sama dengan mengatakan bahawa daging khinzir adalah antara makanan yang amat berbahaya bagi kesihatan manusia.

Selepas memeluk Islam Jang memilih nama Selim sebagai nama Islamnya sekali gus mengikut jejak langkah lebih kurang 30 juta Muslim yang terdapat di negara China pada hari ini.

sumber: Dr. Danial Zainal Abidin


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