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He Will Enter The Heaven

Source: Solusi. (2010). Anekdot: Dia akan Masuk Syurga. Solusi (21), p. 104.


Imam Muslim had retold from Abu Hurairah that one day Rasulullah p.b.u.h. asked his friends which means: “Who among you had fasted today?” Abu Bakar replied: “I had.”

Rasulullah p.b.u.h. asked again: “Who today had fetched the deceased to the grave?” Abu Bakar once again replied: “I had.”

Rasulullah continued: “Who today had fed the poor?” Abu Bakar replied again: “I had.”

Rasulullah questioned again: “Who today had visited sick people?” Abu Bakar answered: “I had.”

Then Rasulullah said: “None of these deeds are upon a person unless he will enter the heaven.”

This priority is not especially for Abu Bakar al-Siddiq, but it is opened to every one of us who wants to follow his examples until the end of the universe.


 
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Following Without Knowledge

Source : Solusi (2010). Angguk Geleng: Kias Tanpa Ilmu. Solusi (21), p. 108.

“Go to the market and buy some eggplant”, a teacher orders his student.

“And when you’re done, just throw it through the kitchen window of my house. Later my wife will use it to cook lunch this afternoon,” the teacher adds.

His student quickly goes to the nearby shop and after buying the eggplant he goes straight to his teacher house and throws it through the window.

The next day, the teacher says again to the same student, “Go to the shop and buy some dried fishes. We’ll be cooking dried fish curry this afternoon. You throw it through my house window as usual. Later when my wife comes back from teaching she’ll will cook it.”

The obedient student quickly goes to the shop and do as what he was told.

Third day. The teacher says, “Today we’ll be eating egg grease curry. You go to the shop and buy 10 eggs.”

Without any delay, the student goes straight to the shop to buy eggs. When he arrives by the window, without thinking further he throws the eggs he bought straight away. Just following the examples of his teacher order, like the previous days.

Lessons: Following without thinking will destroy rational mind. Whilst rational mind is compulsory to have a clean heart. Isn’t the existence and mightiness of Allah is sowed inside the heart through the call to think and observe His creation with thoughtful mind?

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The leader who cooked for his people.

Translated from: Ustaz Haji Zahazan, M. (2010). Pemimpin yang memasak untuk rakyatnya. Solusi (21), p. 108.


Source of quranic translation: http://www.alim.org/library/quran/ayah/compare/33/72/o-believers!-fear-allah-and-always-say-the-right-thing-and-heavens,-earth-and-mountains-refuse-to-take-allah's-trust-but-the-man-took-it#ayanote-1

Aslam said: "One day we traveled with Caliph Umar r.a towards Hurrah City. When we arrived at Shihar, we saw a bonfire. Then, Caliph Umar said: 'O Aslam! I see there're travelers staying in the cold night. Let's go there."

We came down and hurriedly walking towards them. It turned out that they were a woman and her children. The woman is placing a pot above the bonfire. We heard the hungry children whining.

Then Umar r.a. said: "Peace be upon you the person who lights up the light." Umar purposely not saying "lights up the fire". The woman answered: "Peace be upon you too." And he continued: "Can I come in?" The woman replied: "If your intention is good, please do, and after that please leave immediately."

After gaining her permission, Umar r.a. came towards her and asked: "What had happened to all of you?" The woman replied: "We don't have a place to stay the night and we feel cold."

Caliph Umar asked again: "What had happened to your children? Why did they cry?" She replied: "They are hungry." Caliph Umar r.a. asked again: "What's in the pot?" They woman answered: "That is just water which I boiled to calm them so that they would thought that there's food being cooked, until they fall asleep. At that moment, Caliph Umar said: "May Allah gives love to all of you. Didn't Caliph Umar knew about this?"

The woman answered: "Yes Umar lead us, but he dosn't know about the condition of people like us."

Umar quickly turned his head towards me (Aslam) and said: "Let's go together!" We went out and hurried towards the foods warehouse. Caliph Umar retrieved a basket containing wheat and a bowlful of samin oil (commonly used by Arabs to give the aroma in cooking). Then he said: "Bring this on my order!"

Aslam said: "If that's so, I will get the pahala (rewards from God) from this food. He said again: "You think you will get the rewards from my good deeds on the Judgement Day? Verily you won't shoulder anyone's sins or rewards."

After that I brought it, and we went straight to the woman's place. Then he gave it to the woman and retrieved something from the container. Then he said: "Take this samin oil!"

Then, Caliph Umar lighted up the fire under the pot until smokes billowed through his thick beard. He cooked the wheat and oil for them. After that, he lifted and put it on a plate and said: "Go feed your children!" Caliph Umar didn't move until he made sure they were full. Then the woman said: "May Allah rewards you with goodness."

These kind of events and true story are found extensively in the history of life of Caliph Umar, due a heart that keeps moving to fulfill Allah's decree that it is a trust/responsibility that will be questioned (on the Judgement Day).

It is in line with Allah words in surah al-Ahzab verse 72 which means: "Verily, We did offer the trust [of reason and volition] to the heavens, and the earth, and the mountains:  but they refused to bear it because they were afraid of it. Yet man took it up  - for, verily, he has always been prone to be most wicked, most foolish."

In Tafsir Ibn Kathir, an opinion from Ibn Abbas, when Adam was bestowed with the trust and after he was willing to accept it, Allah explained the meaning of trust is something when it is realized then the person will be rewarded and if it is ignored, the person will be punished.

Umar did all that because he felt responsible for the condition of the poor and the oppressed. At the same time, he didn’t hesitate to punish those who are not willing to follow their religious obligation. He doesn’t discriminate in anything related to Allah’s rights.

Once there was a report arrived to him that the son of Egypt governor who was appointed by him, Amru bin al-‘As r.a. had beaten his opponent who’d beaten him in horse racing. His reason is he is ibn al-akramin (son of an honourable people) while the Qibti is just a commoner. Saiyidina Umar r.a. invited the both of them who are involved, and after confirming the truth regarding the tragedy, then he order the Qibti to punish the governor son for what he did.

In addition, Amru was also whipped by Umar r.a. while he said a very magnificent piece of words : “Since when you can turn people into your slaves when their mothers had given birth to them in a free state?”

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Newborn Kitten.

So Mira, this is yours..

The heart is so weak.


Sahih International

[Remember] when they came at you from above you and from below you, and when eyes shifted [in fear], and hearts reached the throats and you assumed about Allah [various] assumptions.

 

There the believers were tested and shaken with a severe shaking.

 

And [remember] when the hypocrites and those in whose hearts is disease said, " Allah and His Messenger did not promise us except delusion,"

 

[Al-Ahzab, 33: 10-12]

 

 

Source of Quranic translation: http://quran.com/33/9-15

Sad Truth.

Again, to day I'm going to blog about ayat from Quran have some significant to me while I was reciting Quran these past few days..


Surah Ar-Rum, [30;30]

So direct your face toward the religion, inclining to truth. [Adhere to] the fitrah of Allah upon which He has created [all] people. No change should there be in the creation of Allah . That is the correct religion, but most of the people do not know.

It's clearly stated there there should be no change in the creation of Allah. That Islam way of life, is the correct religion. But sadly, even Muslims themselves reject this way of life. I'm talking about justice system. The law. In Islam, Allah has clearly stated some of the punishment for certain crime/sins. Yet, even a country with Muslims majority reject this law created by Allah himself. What more the leader of this country reject to implement the said law. I'm not asking to apply this Islamic law onto the whole citizen. If it can be applied to Muslims living in a Muslim country, that should be enough already. We have the capacity as a Muslim dominated country yet, sadly, yes, sadly even the leader of such country are so afraid of people's judgement towards them- the judgement of non-muslim especially. They don't care the judgement from 'above'. If they were asked, do you believe in Allah judgement, in the law he created, I'm sure they would say yes but their words didn't reflect their deed. They gave so much excuse but actually all they care about is vote. If not that, it only shows they have no confidence in Allah's law.

Surah Ar-Rum, [30;31-32]

[Adhere to it], turning in repentance to Him, and fear Him and establish prayer and do not be of those who associate others with Allah. [Or] of those who have divided their religion and become sects, every faction rejoicing in what it has.

This is pretty much what happen in the world nowadays. Not just Muslims, even Christians. We see sect upon sect, division upon division. Even in my country there can be such thing. We're Muslims, yet some of us divide even further among themselves between ruling and opposition party. And even in each party, they are further divided among those who support this person and who support that. Varieties and differences itself is not something bad because Allah himself created humans in different languages and skin colour so that we may learn to know each other among various other hikmah that we don't know. But differences, if people are too fanatic with it to the point it drives people beyond their reasoning, is bad. Saying this people is kafir or badmouthing other people in media, in open speech, in newspaper, in magazine, just because they are from a different party isn't something that were teach by Allah. On international level, the strain between Syiah and Sunnah heightened because of discrimination against each other by small fraction of Muslims. The people revolution in Bahrain for example, didn't get much attention from the world even in Muslims dominated country just because most of them are Syiah. But they didn't know or purposely overlook the fact that revolution in Bahrain is joined hand in hand between Syiah and Sunnah. The people of Bahrain brings one message, 'la Sunnah, la Syiah' [basically means no Siite, no Sunni] which means there's only Islam, they are one, unite together to fight injustice of the oppresser. Yet, this revolution is easily overlook by some ignorant people as sectarian one. Let unite ourselves and forget the diffrences. People with 'iman' are those when another Muslim is sick, they also feel sick. When other Muslim suffer from injustice, they also feel the suffering.

Surah Ar-Rum, [30;33-34]

And when adversity touches the people, they call upon their Lord, turning in repentance to Him. Then when He lets them taste mercy from Him, at once a party of them associate others with their Lord, So that they will deny what We have granted them. Then enjoy yourselves, for you are going to know.

There really is no one who knew us better than Allah Himself.

Surah Ar-Rum, [30;36-37]

And when We let the people taste mercy, they rejoice therein, but if evil afflicts them for what their hands have put forth, immediately they despair. Do they not see that Allah extends provision for whom He wills and restricts [it]? Indeed, in that are signs for a people who believe.

This is true to myself. I myself are lowly. There are times, when I get to enjoy some good fortune, I came to the conclusion how blessed I was. Yet, when I was tested by some difficulties, I feel as if God is punishing me. Rarely that we think the fact that good fortune or bad one is both a form of test given by Him to cleanse ourselves and come back to Him. All is for His love towards us.

Surah Ar-Rum, [30;39]

And whatever you give for interest to increase within the wealth of people will not increase with Allah . But what you give in zakah, desiring the countenance of Allah - those are the multipliers.

There are times when  I give something, I was desiring in my heart for Allah to give me better duniawi returns. This ayat really gets to me, urging me to teach my heart to seek for better reasons to give, that is His bounty in the hereafter.

Surah Ar-Rum, [30;41]

Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned so He may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return [to righteousness].

This is the ultimate answers towards those who seek the reason for all the big and major event, wheather it natural or human-derived, that currently happened in the world today.

Source of Quranic translation and text:
http://quran.com/30
http://www.ahadees.com/arabic-surah-30-60.html