Thursday, 18 September 2008

Kenyataan Hidup

Dah tulis, tapi hilang...


Tuesday, 16 September 2008

AKU MEMANG DAH AGAK DAH!

Budak 11 tahun hampir hilang tangan akibat mercun

16/09/2008 2:00pm

ALOR STAR 16 Sept. - Seorang budak lelaki berusia 11 tahun hampir hilangan tangan kanannya akibat terkena letupan mercun buatan sendiri.

Kejadian berlaku kira-kira 6.30 petang ketika Mohd Najmi Shamsul Yusri cuba menyalakan mercun itu di kawasan sawah di Batu 8, Tokai, Pendang, dekat sini.

“Saya masukkan karbaid dalam botol kaca, tapi mercun tu meletup kat tangan saya sebelum sempat saya baling,” katanya kepada pemberita ketika ditemui di Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah (HSB), di sini.

Tangan kanannya hampir hancur manakala pipi kanan dan lehernya turut terkena serpihan kaca. - Bernama

Friday, 12 September 2008

Daging dendeng


Hari Jumaat semalam kami berdua berbuka puasa dengan lauk daging dendeng goreng, lawan dengan kobis masak lemak dan telur masin. Sedap! sebab (1) rasa sedap, (2) orang lapar, semua jadik sedap dan (3) pasal dah lama rasanya tak merasa daging dendeng selepas kali terakhir makan di food court Carrefour Wangsa Maju (seingat saya). Thanks to my beloved wife for the meals, dan segala usaha menyediakan input terbaik buat perut si suami.

May Allah bless you for everything that you have done for me.

Intipati Ceramah Jumaat - 12/09/08

ZAKAT

"Jika kita tinggalkan Solat, dosanya hanya melibatkan kita dengan Allah. Namun, jika kita tinggalkan Zakat, dosanya adalah dengan Allah dan Manusia (golongan-golongan penerima Zakat)".

Kuliah Jumaat semalam menceritakan kisah seorang Islam yang munafik, yang hidup di zaman Nabi SAW. Namanya ada disebutkan penceramah tetapi saya lupa pasal nama orang Arab biasanya disebut panjang (sehingga beberapa keturunan). Apapun, intipati kisah ini saya masih ingat, Insya-Allah.

1. Ceramah ini awalnya mengupas mengenai konsep sedekah, dan kemudian masuk kepada hal zakat. Sedekah tidak hanya terbatas kepada wang/harta sahaja.

- Menunjuk jalan kepada orang yang sesat juga sedekah.
- Melemparkan senyuman juga sedekah.
- Memberi makan kepada orang lain (orang miskin) juga adalah sedekah.

2. Kisah sahabat ini berkaitan akibat tidak mengeluarkan zakat. Ini kerana biarpun umat Islam diwajibkan berzakat dan digalakkan bersedekah, tetapi janganlah sehingga keperluan asasi diri dan keluarga tidak dipenuhi - jika keperluan asas pun kita tidak mampu, maka kita tergolong di dalam kumpulan 'penerima zakat' i.e fakir, miskin, etc.

3. Pematuhan terhadap kewajiban menunaikan zakat telah diperintahkan bersekali dengan kewajiban menunaikan solat (dirikan solat, serta tunaikanlah zakat) - ayat mana pembaca boleh rujuk dalam Holy Quran.

4. Sahabat ini datang berjumpa nabi dan meluahkan rasa gusar hatinya kerana beliau katanya tidak mampu memberi zakat kerana kemiskinan hidup, dengan haiwan ternakan (biri-biri) yang sedikit, 2-3 ekor sahaja.

5. Lalu beliau meminta nabi mendoakan agar beliau menjadi kaya, kerana dengan harta kekayaan itu nanti barulah beliau mampu mengeluarkan zakat bagi membantu fakir di kota Madinah.

6. Kali pertama dia datang, permintaannya tidak ditunaikan nabi. Kemudian dia pulang.

7. Kemudian beliau datang berjumpa nabi dengan permintaan yang sama, iaitu meminta nabi berdoa memohon kepada Allah agar menjadikan beliau kaya, tapi nabi tetap enggan. Beliau pulang.

8. Kali ke-3, beliau dengan permintaan yang sama dan bersungguh-sungguh. Beliau berpegang janji untuk berzakat (ternakan) jika menjadi kaya. Nabi bersetuju dan berdoa.

9. Allah makbulkan doa kekasih-Nya dan si polan itu, dan kemudiannya bilangan ternakan beliau bertambah dari hanya beberapa ekor kepada jumlah yang sangat banyak sehingga diumpamakan "jalan di kota Madinah menjadi sempit/pendek jaraknya kerana banyaknya haiwan ternakan beliau itu".

10. Melihat hartanya yang banyak, berfikir pula untuk berpindah ke luar bandar yang jauh dari kota Madinah demi memudahkan ternakan dan mencari suasana kehidupan lebih tenang.

11. Lalu berpindahlah beliau ke desa yang agak terpencil. Jika sebelum ini semasa tinggal di Kota Madinah, beliau solat 5 waktu secara berjemaah di masjid Madinah, kini disebabkan kesibukan urusan perniagaan, solat berjemaah di masjid telah ditinggalkan (1st curse by Allah di atas nikmat hartanya).

12. Apa yang mampu beliau lakukan kini adalah solat Jumaat di masjid Madinah. Namun, ujian Allah datang lagi.

13. Disebabkan bertambah sibuk menguruskan kekayaannya, beliau kini turut meninggalkan solat jumaat, yang hanya 1kali 1minggu (2nd curse).

14. Tidak lama selepas itu, datanglah utusan dari nabi (membawa surat dari nabi) menuntut janji beliau untuk mengeluarkan zakat bagi hartanya yang banyak itu.

15. Selepas membaca surat nabi, berkata beliau di dalam hati, "barangkali ini adalah satu lagi ujian nabi terhadap beliau" - mungkin tidak perlu untuk mengeluarkan zakat terhadap hartanya, bisik hatinya. Beliau berdalih dan disuruh utusan tersebut pulang dan datang lagi esoknya agar beliau ada masa untuk berfikir.

16. Esoknya, utusan tersebut datang lagi dan alasan yang sama diberi.

17. Beliau bertambah kaya, namun akhirnya tidak menunaikan janji dan tidak berzakat di atas hartanya (sama seperti Qorun dan Firaun yang mendakwa segala harta adalah hasil usaha, pemikiran dan kepandaian mereka, tidak ada hak untuk orang lain terhadap harta itu).

18. Hinggalah di hujung usia Rasul S.A.W, beliau datang untuk mempersembahkan hartanya sebagai zakat, dan Rasul menolaknya dengan berkata bahawa beliau adalah orang munafik (kan salah satu sifat munafik ialah "apabila berjanji, mereka mungkiri"), dan tidak diterima harta zakat orang munafik (harta dari sumber kotor).

19. Harta dari sumber kotor ini samalah dengan sebilangan manusia hari ini yang berniaga dari sumber haram (jual makanan tidak halal - arak di mini mart), lepas tu keluarkan zakat dengan alasan untuk menyucikan harta/pendapatan - ini Salah!

20. Selepas wafat nabi, beliau datang pula kepada Khalifah pertama - Saidina Abu Bakar membawa harta untuk zakat, namun ditolak Abu Bakar.

21. "Siapalah aku untuk menerima zakatmu, jika Rasul S.A.W sendiri pun enggan menerimanya".

22. Lama selepas itu, beliau datang lagi di zaman khalifah kedua - Saidina Umar dengan membawa harta untuk zakat, namun ditolak juga.

23. "Siapalah aku untuk menerima, sedangkan Rasul S.A.W dan Abu Bakar sendiri menolaknya".

24. Kemudian, beliau datang lagi pada zaman Khalifah ketiga - Saidina Uthman. Namun tetap ditolak.

25. Selepas itu, si polan itupun meninggal dunia dengan tidak mengeluarkan zakat. Minta Allah jauhkan kita semua dari tergolong ke dalam golongan orang yang tidak menyucikan harta dan golongan yang enggan berzakat.

Pengajaran di sini, bukan sahaja wajib menunaikan zakat, tetapi wajib menunaikan janji. Jika si polan ini pada asalnya enggan berzakat kerana miskin, namun setelah kaya pun enggan.

"Wama-alaina-illalbalarul-mubin"

Wassalam.

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Islam: Why All Women Must Wear Hijab

Hijab - penyambung usaha Ahmed Deedat - Dr Zakir Naik

Ini tambahan bagi klip video sebelum ini.

Perbandingan 2 - Isu Tudung oleh Ahmed Deedat

Sila amati video ini dan bandingkan dengan penulisan/artikel RPK. Moga kita beroleh hidayah dan petunjuk ke jalan yang benar.

MINTA YOU TAUBAT! - SEBAB SAYA ADA JAWABANNYA!

Sila baca artikel yang ditulis oleh RPK, jelas menunjukkan beliau tidak merujuk kepada mereka yang berilmu bagi mengupas dan membincangkan perkara ini (pemakaian tudung/tutup aurat). Agama tidak boleh dijawab berdasarkan logik akal semata dan kena sentiasa ingat bahawa orang Islam perlu hidup dengan panduan Al-Quran dan SUNNAH Rasul S.A.W. Biarpun ada hadis/ayat Quran merujuk kepada Rasul s.a.w dan keluarga, bukankah Rasul insan terbaik untuk kita jadikan ikutan? Fikirkan...

Bagi mengupas jawapan logik RPK ini, saya menggunakan klip video dari YouTube oleh Allahyarham Ahmed Deedat yang menjawab persoalan tentang pemakaian Hujab/Tudung di dalam suatu forum antara agama. Buatlah perbandingan. Video tersebut mungkin muncul pada post selepas ini. Rujuk kedua sumber ini dan tetapkan iman, buat keputusan dan tetapkan pendirian kita semua selepas itu.

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NO HOLDS BARRED


Raja Petra Kamarudin

I received an e-mail from a reader disagreeing with what I wrote in my article Inventing new religious rituals (http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/11508/84/ ). I forwarded his e-mail to a friend and my friend so kindly replied to the points raised. My friend's reply is in BOLD.

I thought I would share this ‘exchange’ with you while at the same time allow Syed Hamid to, again, scream that I am a ‘blasphemous Muslim of the worst kind’ and threaten me with detention under the Internal Security Act. These threats do turn me on so, and at times even gives me an orgasm, so keep them coming Syed.

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In the article there was a sentence stating: "Apparently, the tudung was 'decreed' for only the Prophet's wives and not for all women…" So I've have looked into the Quran and found some things.

1) "O Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go abroad). That will be better, so that they may be recognised and not annoyed. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful." Surah Al-Ahzab (33), verse 59.

Comment : Firstly, see the words 'so that they may be recognised and not annoyed'. This means at least the face must be visible. It is wrong to say that other women at that time (non Muslim Arabs, Jews, Christians) did not wear the tudung. The truth is that the Jewish and Christian women wore far more conservative tudung than the Muslim women.

Covering the body is also required of men and women in the desert. It has nothing to do with any religion. So when the verse says 'so that they may be recognised' it actually means the women should not cover their face or head in such a way that the people cannot differentiate them from other Christian and Jewish women who also wear tudung and veils. This means there is no such thing as a tudung to cover your head and face.

The verse 33:59 says the following in Arabic:

Ya ayyuhan nabi : O you prophet
qul li-azwajika wabanaatika : tell your wives, your daughters
wa nisaa i mu'mineena : and the believing women
yudneena : to lengthen
Alayhinna : over them
min jalabeebihinna : from their garments/cloaks. There is absolutely NO mention of head or hair or face in this verse. There is no reference to tudung. The reference is to lengthen your garments over your body. This means women must dress decently.


2) "And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers or husbands' fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons, or their brothers or their brothers' sons or sisters' sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack vigour, or children who know naught of women's nakedness. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And turn unto Allah together, O believers, in order that ye may succeed." Surah An-Nur (24), verse 31.

Comment : Again there is no mention of head (ru'usa) in this verse or face (wujuh/wajh). Please note the words 'draw their veils over the bosoms'. The arabic is as follows:

walyadribna : and strike / cover
bi khumurihinna : with their outer garments
Ala : over / upon
juyoobihinna : their bosoms / breasts

Women are told to cover their chests/bosoms/breasts. That is all. This tallies with the earlier verse 33:59 above where the women are told to lengthen their clothes/garments. There is absolutely no mention of head (ru'usa), face (wujuh) or hair.


3) In order to interpret the Quran, we have to go to people who have knowledge about it. In what circumstance the verse was revealed, etc. But not just any scholar who says that they know.

Comment : We DO NOT interpret the Quran. May I suggest something much simpler? Why not we just read it? If we look at the Quran in its arabic and then look at the translated words just a little carefully, we will understand it. You DONT EVEN have to know Arabic. For example the arabic word for HEAD (kepala) is NEVER mentioned in any of the verses quoted above. Neither are the arabic words for face and hair. So how do the translators include head, face and hair? Someone must explain this.

4) There are loads more Hadeeth on women's veils.

Bukhari (6:321) - Muhammad is asked whether it is right for a young woman to leave her house without a veil. He replies, "She should cover herself with the veil of her companion."

Comment : This is quite typical of the hadeeth. What in God's name does it mean 'the veil of her companion'? If veils are worn by women, then the companion must be a female too. Why pinjam her female companion's veil? Then her female companion will NOT have a veil anymore. Does this mean the female companion now cannot leave the house until the girl who borrowed her veil returns home ? Read carefully. It says 'she should cover herself with the veil of her companion'. What if there is no companion?

What if she has her own veil? Does she still have to borrow? What if both the girl and her female companion dont have veils? This does not make sense. I think this hadeeth has to be checked carefully for its authenticity.


Bukhari (60:282) - After Muhammad issued the command (Sura 24:31) for women to cover themselves, the women responded by tearing up sheets to cover their faces.

Comment : This contradicts the meaning of the verse. As I said the verse does NOT mention face at all. As I have pointed out, the women are supposed to be identified and differentiated from the other women (who also wore veils and covered their faces like the Christians and the Jews). This means their faces had to be exposed. But the hadeeth says the women were told to cover their faces. The authenticity of this hadeeth needs to be checked carefully.

Abu Dawud (2:641) - The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Allah does not accept the prayer of a woman who has reached puberty unless she wears a veil.

Comment : Why not? The Quran says that we must think of God ALL THE TIME. The Quran says 'zikrulaahi-akbar' which means 'the constant remembrance (zikir) of God is better'. A woman (and men too) should remember God when she goes about her housework, her gardening, her driving, her swiming, her job etc. God can accept her zikir or remembrance of Him anytime. That is why the remembrance of God (God consciousness) is greater 'zikrulaahi-akbar'.

Looking into the comments on the articles, the person who tried to point this sentence out was ridiculed. So that is why I sent this e-mail so that I would get your attention. Thank you for your time.

= ini saya petik dari web ini:

http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/12321/84/

Sunday, 7 September 2008

BERPECAH UNTUK BERSATU

Nantikan kemunculannya....

Hari Yang Sejuk

Assalamualaikum semua,

It has been a long time since I wrote about myself and my activities. Lately, I've been quoting other sources for my posts - from current news from Malaysia newspaper and blogs to hilarious jokes worth sharing.

This is my first Ramadhan in the UK. So far I'm enjoying it but not as much while I was back home in Malaysia. Alhamdulillah, I'm not alone here together with my wife, having someone to talk to, someone to take care for and to be taken care by.

About 2-3 weeks ago the weather in Oxford have been inconsistent. It shows that summer is already left us and now we are entering the cold and windy autumn. Almost everyday it rains and the only thing I can do is to lay down comfortably, watching TV, do some reading and surf the internet.

For Ramadhan this year I'm really thankful to my wife because she really take good care of me, eventhough sometimes she's out of idea what to cook for Iftar (break-fasting).

Living abroad reminds me of my childhood memories in the Kampung when myself and other 8 siblings of what we did every Ramadhan especially the meals prepared by my beloved mother.y mother. At that time, life was hard unlike today (Alhamdulillah it's getting better). Most of the time we only had fried 'ikan selayang' and sugarcane juice, and my favourite 'air tuak'.

Once in every Ramadhan, my mom will prepare 'Ayam Percik' using traditional grill at the back of our humble home. Until today, Mok's 'ayam percik' is still her speciality.

Other than missing Iftar times with the family, I really missed the tarawikh prayers at the musolla (and of course the late supper after tarawikh, hehehe..).

We will try for the next Ramadhan, for us to be able to celebrate both Ramadhan and Syawal in Malaysia, perhaps during our survey and data collection stage.

Until we meet again. Wassalam...