Menolak kerosakan hendaklah didahulukan daripada mengambil kemanfaatan
May 18, 2010 | Filed Under Tarbiyah | Leave a Comment
“Apakah dengan memberikan lesen judi itu akan memberikan kebaikan atau mempunyai kepentingan umum untuk rakyat (maslahat)? Pada hal, pemerintah juga hendaklah bertanggungjawab mengawal, membasmi, mencegah dan menghindari kemungkaran, kefasadan yang berlaku.
Cadangan tersebut tidak mendatangkan sebarang kebaikan atau kemaslahatan kepada kepentingan umum rakyat kecuali hanyalah kepada individu-individu tertentu yang bergelar taukeh judi semata-mata.
Malah cadangan tersebut turut membelakangkan kepentingan umum yang kerap disarankan oleh pihak kerajaan supaya rakyat tekun bekerja, giat bertani dan berniaga, membina kecerdasan intelektual dan matang, mempunyai daya saing yang tinggi di samping keluhuran peribadi dan pegangan yang utuh kepada nilai dan agama”
- On isu pemberian lesen judi World Cup oleh kerajaan: MUIS
Kawan oh kawan
October 30, 2009 | Filed Under Tarbiyah | 5 Comments
seronok bila hidup berkomuniti. kadang-kadang kita ada masalah, kita akan pergi cari orang, dan luahkan. ada juga ketika orang datang cari kita dan minta nasihat. malam itu seperti biasa, selesai solat dan makan malam, saya akan duduk2 depan tv tengok Discovery Channel atau movie channel. Kebetulan hari itu hari minggu, kawan2 biasanya akan datang bertandang ke rumah bersembang2. Hasri (bukan nama sebenar) datang ke rumah dan makan malam bersama kami. tengok dari raut muka, nampak macam ada masalah.
sebelum Hasri pulang, saya bertanya,”Bergaduh dengan housemate ke?”.
“Taklah,” jawabnya ringkas tanda nak berdalih. saya dapat kesan sebab dia bukan jenis orang yang macam tu. mulutnya jenis tak henti bercakap. ada saja benda nak dikongsi.
Di hadapan rumah saya ada bumbung yang saya selalu duduk2 waktu malam, tengok langit. rumah saya tingkat 2. saya ajak dia duduk disitu.”Ada problem, habaq dekat aku. kot2 boleh tolong”.
“Aku fed-up lah. Tension dengan kawan2″.
to capture the spirit of Islam
October 7, 2009 | Filed Under Tarbiyah | Leave a Comment
saya sedang mendengar lagu terbaru Yusuf Islam “Roadsinger“ sambil menghayati liriknya. sedap! simple dan bermakna! dari seorang yang dahulunya menyanyi untuk mencari makan dan keseronokan, akhirnya selepas beliau memeluk Islam, menyanyi dijadikan cara beliau menyampaikan dakwah dan kalimah kepada masyarakat umum. Subhanallah!
sebenarnya bila kita renung2 kembali setiap pekerjaan kita, biarlah sekadar penulis blog kecil untuk bacaan komuniti kecil, tapi niat mestilah kerana Allah. rugilah bakat anda bila anda pandai menyanyi tapi jarang sekali mahu mengalunkan suara anda pada jalan yang syarie.
Abu pernah hantar satu link kepada saya. “Abang, tengok lah. pasai Peter Sanders. bagus jugak gambaq2 dia. dia masuk Islam sekitar umur 24 tahun melalui photography jugak”. saya duduk baca sekejap, kagum!
Peter Sanders (nama Islam beliau ialah Abd al-Adheem) merupakan salah seorang top photographer sekitar 70an. beliau banyak terlibat dengan mengambil gambar2 top star ketika itu.
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“Having photographed almost every famous person in the music industry I got bored and started getting in to spritual things. I just wanted something else, and so I decided to go to India. I packed everything up and went, looking for a teacher. Eventually I found one, who was basically a Hindu but had a lot of what we consider ‘Muslim Qualities’. I studied with him for about six months and when I cam back to England, some of my friends had become Muslim. Then there were other friends who had gotten heavy into drugs and alchohol. It was as if God was saying to me, ‘which direction do you want to go?’.
“I didn’t know very much about Islam but I had dreams and various other things happened to me. So I made a decision to become Muslim without knowing too much about it. I was 24 years old at the time and within three months of becoming Muslim, I decided to go on Hajj. I didn’t have the money but I just made the intention. My elderly Muslim teacher at that time had also made the intention and I knew that I wanted to go too. Someone gave me a ticket and I went. It was at the Kaaba that I learnt that my teacher had died on the way.”
At the time, back in 1971, photographs of the Hajj were quite rare. Peter Sanders was granted special permission to photograph the sacred places; a decision that still amazes him. “It was pretty unique for a Westerner to have taken pictures of the Hajj. I had to slog from offices to offices in Jeddah and Makkah and eventually I found a man that had the authority to grant me permission. A lot of people didn’t want to take responsibility at the time, and they were generally not too keen on photography anyway, especially by a convert. But this man was in a position to authorise me and he did so purely on trust.”
For Peter Sanders, photography is essentially a means to capture the spirit of Islam. As he describes his efforts to do this, the words of an Urdu poet come to mind: ‘To see the reality of Madinah you need more than just sight; you need vision’. As if seeking to possess this vision is not a great enough mission in itself, Peter Sanders attempts to then convey it to others. He has spent the last thirty years documenting the remains of traditional Islamic societies that are fast disappearing from the earth. One of his ongoing projects in trying to capture dying traditions has been the compilation of a photographic album of the great scholars and saints of our time. The two volumes, that he hopes to raise funds to publish, include pictures of people who were photographed for the first time and some of whom have passed away in recent months and years.
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duduk berfikir saya seketika, kagum jika ada keazaman seperti beliau!
lessons to be learnt:
1. biarpun semudah mengambil gambar, namun jika niat yang betul, insyaAllah banyak berkatnya
2. kebahagiaan itu bukan terletak pada betapa tingginya nama kita di mata manusia, tapi betapa bersungguhnya kita depan Allah.
3. Islam memberi ketenangan pada jiwa-jiwa manusia yang sentiasa dahagakan ketenangan. buktinya, Yusuf Islam dan Peter Sanders, saya dan anda sendiri.
4. gunakanlah kelebihan pada diri kita (kelebihan menulis, melukis, design t-shirt, ambil gambar, design website @ apa2 aje) utk tarik orang to embrace Islam.
5. dakwah bukan untuk satu kelompok sahaja. seperti Peter Sanders, walaupun baru memeluk Islam, tapi semangatnya? berlapang dadalah utk belajar menerima dan memberi nasihat kepada semua.
6. perbuatan kita; menjadi cerminan siapa kita dan apa agama kita.
- `Ammar Muhammad -
Demi Al-Aqsa..the making
October 4, 2009 | Filed Under Tarbiyah | 2 Comments
awal pagi bangun dan terus siapkan kerja2 yg terbengkalai. saya perlu siapkan semua assignment lebih awal sebab ada 2-3 komitmen perlu diselesaikan dalam masa terdekat ni. dengan Program “Demi Al-Aqsa” yang masih dalam perancangan, kerja-kerja untuk promosi perlu dilakukan dari sekarang. selepas itu, akan sibuk pula dengan promosi program winter. hmm…hidup ni tak lekang dari tanggungjawab tapi tanggungjawab tu lah yang mematangkan dan mentarbiyah diri kita secara tak langsung. percaya atau tidak..cuba-cubalah sibukkan diri dengan apa-apa program bermanfaat. tak rugi!