Islam Yang Indah Tidak Mengenal Cara-cara Buruk


Beberapa hari lalu saya mendapat pesan agar melakukan spaming, deface, hack atau apalah istilahnya terhadap situs beritamuslim.wordpress.com Saya jadi penasaran dengan situs ini. Ternyata di dalamnya saya menemukan kreatifitas luar biasa, mulai artikel, wawancara, video kartun, sampai karikatur porno tersaji komplit. Secara pribadi tentu saya sangat keberatan karena seluruh isi situs ini tidak lebih dari pelecehan terhadap hal-hal yang saya sucikan dan saya imani. Saya pun jadi maklum kepada rekan-rekan yang marah dan bahkan ingin menghancurkan situs tersebut, meski untuk yang terakhir ini saya berbeda dengan mereka.

Tanpa saya sadari beberapa pertanyaan menghujami benak saya, mengapa ada orang yang rela bersusah-susah membuat situs semacam ini? apakah dengan cara seperti ini mereka dapat memurtadkan orang Islam? ataukah dengan cara ini mereka dapat menarik orang pada kepercayaan tertentu yang mereka kehendaki? Tiba-tiba saya teringat sabda Nabi: "Janganlah kalian mengolok-olok ayah kalian. Para sahabat bertanya: bagaimana mungkin kami mengolok-olok ayah kami sendiri wahai Rasulullah. Apabila kalian mengolok-olok ayah orang lain kemudian orang tersebut mengolok-olok ayah kalian itu sama halnya dengan mengolok-olok ayah kalian". Seolah menjawab pertanyaan saya di atas sabda nabi ini membantu saya berhipotesa: boleh jadi situs beritamuslim.wordpress.com atau semacamnya tak lebih dari reaksi dan serangan balasan kepada orang Islam yang sudah menggugat keyakinan mereka.

Saya pribadi sejak lama tidak menyukai debat antar agama dengan tujuan menjatuhkan satu sama lain. Saya juga belum pernah tertarik atau mengidolakan tokoh seperti Ahmad Deedat, Zakir Naik atau Irene Handoyo yang mendakwahkan kebenaran Islam seraya mencari kesalahan agama lain. Saya terus berpikir untuk menghargai pengetahuan Deedat tentang kristologi, mengagumi argumen-argumen ilmiah Zakir Naik serta menghormati pengalaman Irene tentang gereja, tetapi bagi saya prinsip dakwah adalah merangkul bukan memukul, prinsip dakwah mengobati bukan menyakiti. Menurut saya kita hanya perlu mennunjukkan kelebihan kita tanpa menyebut kekurangan orang lain, sebab kelebihan adalah keindahan yang pasti disukai siapapun, sedangkan kekurangan adalah kejelekan yang hanya dapat menarik kejelekan lain.

Jika hipotesa saya di atas tepat, yang perlu dipikirkan hanyalah bagaimana kita menjaga orang Islam dan menarik orang di luar Islam dengan keindahan Islam. Sehingga merusak situs-situs yang melecehkan Islam atau menyerangnya balik bukanlah sebuah kebutuhan. Berkaca dari meledaknya jumlah populasi muslim di seluruh dunia, maka situs seperti beritamuslim.wordpress.com tak lebih dari ungkapan rasa frustasi dari musuh-musuh Islam. Jumlah muslim di seluruh dunia diperkirakan 1,6 miliar jiwa dengan angka pertumbuhan rata-rata 1,8% per tahun. Jumlah pemeluk Islam yang merupakan pindahan dari keyakinan lain juga cukup besar. Laporan New York Times menunjukkan 25% dari seluruh muslim di Amerika adalah pindahan dari agama lain. Di Inggris hasil survei dari British Muslims Monthly Survey menyatakan 10000-20000 orang memeluk Islam sebagai agama baru setiap tahunnya.

Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Komatsu Hisao and Kosugi Yasushi, "INTELLECTUALS IN THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD"



Routledge(2006)| English | ISBN10: 0–203–02831–7 | 375 pages | PDF |

Buku ini menawarkan tipologi dan sejarah intelektual islam dalam dunia kontemporer. Dimulai dari akhir abad 19 sampai dengan sekarang. Bagian pertama dari buku ini adalah ulasan-ulasan jurnal al-Manar yang terbit sejak 1898 hingga 1935. Bagian ke dua buku ini fokus pada formasi, transmisi dan transformasi pembelajaran dan ide-ide dari Timur Tengah ke Asia Tengah dan Asia selatan. Buku ini sangat kaya dengan studi kasus dari penulis-penulis Internasional dari berbagai latar belakang keilmuan. Dan yang paling menarik dan sayang untuk dilewatkan dari buku ini adalah ulasan Dale F. Eickelman yang segar dan provokatif pada bagian akhir buku.
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Bringing up a Child with Multiple Abilities
by Fethullah Gülen

If we want our children to be courageous, we should not frighten them with ideas of vampires, ghosts, giants, etc. We should raise them as strong individuals with a firm faith which will enable them to face up to any kind of difficulty.

If we really wish our children to have faith, all our attitudes and sensitivities in certain subjects, the way we go to bed and get up, the way we exert ourselves in prayer, the way we spread our affectionate wings over our children, must all reflect our faith in Allah and their hearts must be filled with such faith. We should always try to be the ideal for them, to avoid any kind of behavior which might make them feel contempt for us.

We should always try to maintain dignity and to remain elevated in their view, so that what we tell them will influence their hearts and they will not rebel against our wishes. In this respect, it can be said that a father who lacks seriousness can probably be the friend of his children; but he can never be their teacher, and he will fail to bring them up the way he wants.

Our homes should always reflect the atmosphere of a temple and an educational unit at the same time; in this way we can satisfy our children's spirituality, their hearts and souls, thus we can save them from being slaves of their material desires.

Doa Saat Risau

عن ابن مسعود رضي الله عنه قال : كان رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم إذا نزل به هم أو غم قال: يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ بِرَحْمَتِكَ أَسْتَغِيثُ

artinya: diriwayatkan dari Abdullah Ibnu Mas'ud bahwa apabila Rasulullah SAW bersedih atau risau beliau membaca يَا حَيُّ يَا قَيُّومُ بِرَحْمَتِكَ أَسْتَغِيثُ (wahai yang maha-Hidup wahai yang Maha-Berdiri sendiri dengan rahmatmu aku meminta pertolongan)

'Ashq (Passion or Intense, Ecstatic Love)
by Fethullah Gülen
'Ashq means intense love of and fondness for perfection, beauty, or physical charm. Sufis usually call this sort of love figurative or metaphorical love, such as love for the opposite sex. Real love, the love of the Eternal Monarch, is felt for His Grace and Beauty manifested within His Majesty, and for His Majesty manifested within His Grace and Beauty. The real, intense love felt for God is a wing of light granted to us by Him so that people can use it to reach Him. Feeling such love can be described as the spirit being like a moth drawn toward the Light, the essence of existence. This intense love is the most basic and mysterious cause of the universe's creation. God has created the universe in order to be known and loved, and so that those souls awakened to truth would feel and manifest a deep interest in His Essence, Attributes, and Names.

'Ashq, which the spirit feels without the intervention of free will, cannot be controlled by the person so affected, for its real source is God, Who loves Himself in a way special to His Sacred Essence and is essentially independent of the created. In addition, it is essentially different from the love felt by the created for the created or the Creator. This sacred, essential love of God for Himself, including His Attributes and Names, is the reason why He created the universe and why He caused humanity to appear in the world. It is also this love that manifests itself in human beings as love of God, as the most essential center of humanity's relationship with God.

'Ashq is the final step leading to God, and a lover who has reached it has no further steps to take. God manifested Himself first as this sacred, essential love required by His being God. This love must not be confused with the love a person feels for either the created or the Creator Himself. As there is no other word more appropriate to express it, I feel obliged to use "love."

Some tend to describe Knowledge as this first manifestation of God, which is regarded as God's condescension to be known. This condescension is called "Knowledge," being God's manifestation of His Knowledge; "Sacred Love," being God's loving to observe and to be "observed;" "the Tablet," comprehending or containing all of existence; and "the Pen," handling all things in existence in all their details. Jabarut (the highest, immaterial empyrean) and the Truth of Ahmad (the Prophet's Name mentioned in the original copy of the Gospels and in the heavens) are other titles of this condescension or God's first manifestation.

Sacred Love is a mystery special to the Divine Essence. Other Attributes of His are appended to or dependent on this love. It is for this reason that those who fly with the wings of 'ashq reach directly to the Divine Essence and attain to amazement, whereas others have to pass through the intermediate realms of the worlds of things and Names.

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The ways leading to God are almost beyond number. Sufism, the science of truth, contains the food, light, and other necessities travelers need for the journey, and the (spiritual) orders (tariqas) are the ports from which they set out, or the schools in which the principles of the journey are taught.

The ways to the Truth can be divided into two main groups. The first is the way in which the wayfarer is offered or taught such principles as eating less, drinking less, sleeping less, increasing contemplation, and refraining from unnecessary social intercourse. Almost all Sufi orders are based on these practices. The main invocations recited by followers of this way are the Seven Names: There is no god but God, God, He, the Truth, the All-Living, the Self-Subsistent, the All-Overwhelming. By reciting these Names, one seeks to pass through the carnal soul's seven steps: the Evil-Commanding Soul, the Self-Condemning Soul, the Soul Having Inspiration, the Soul at Rest, the Soul Well-Pleased (with however God treats it), the Soul Pleasing (to God), and the Purified or Innocent Soul. To these seven Names, some add such Names of Majesty as the All-Powerful, the All-Strong, the All-Compelling, the Master, and the All-Loving; others add such Names of Grace as the Unique, the One, the Peerlessly All-Single, and the Eternally Besought-of-All.

The second way is based on strict adherence to the Qur'an and the Sunna, and the encouragement of certain recitations. Those who follow this way strive to comply with the Sunna in whatever they do. Rather than reciting certain Names, they follow the methods used by God's Messenger to worship, invoke, and pray; meditate on His acts and creatures; and mention Him with all of His Names. Joining these activities with a meticulous following of the commandments of Shari'a, they are firmly attached to their guides or teachers and abandon themselves to the tides of 'ashq and (spiritual) attraction toward God.

Once they have attained 'ashq and attraction, existence with its outer dimension vanishes from their sight. They annihilate their selves and begin to feel and observe the absolute Divine Unity. At this point, they immediately come to their senses without being confused and going to extremes in the relationship between the Creator and the created. In such a manner do they complete their journey.

The basic principles of this second way are regular worship, love, spiritual attraction toward God, regular recitation, and the companionship of one's guide or teacher. In this context recitation, in addition to mentioning God with all of His Names, involves study or attending classes in whatever leads one to God. This is what the Prophet, upon him be peace and blessings, meant when he described those with whom God is pleased: They study together.

At times, a lover finds himself or herself in the stream of joyful zeal and yearning, which can be regarded as another dimension of 'ashq. Aug 1991, Vol 13, Issue 151

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Jutaan orang di seluruh dunia berbondong-bondong mendatangi tempat pelatihan NLP dan membaca buku-buku NLP. Sebagian menginginkan kesuksesan hidup, menyembuhkan phobia, mengatasi trauma yang lain ingin meredakan stress, meningkatkan kepercayaan diri dan mengatasi problem-problem lain. Demikian hebatkah NLP? dan apakah NLP itu?

NLP adalah kependekan dari Neuro-Linguistic-Programming. Sebuah Sains tentang bagaimana otak mengodekan pengalaman atau sebuah model strategi pembelajaran yang canggih yang fokus untuk mengidentifikasi dan menggunakan pola pemikiran yang dapat mempengaruhi prilaku seseorang dalam usaha menyelesaikan problem dan meningkatkan kualitas hidup.

Lalu apa guna mempelajari NLP bagi kita? Berikut adalah manfaat yang bisa kita dapat dari NLP:
- Membantu kita mencari tahu apa yang kita inginkan dan bagaimana meraihnya
- Membantu kita membangun dan membina hubungan personal lebih erat, lebih kuat dan lebih dalam
- Meningkatkan kepercayaan diri
- Memperkuat kemampuan berhubungan dengan orang lain
- Membantu kita berkomunikasi lebih efisien
- Membuat kita lebih kreatif
- Membantu kita meraih tujuan personal maupun profesional
Kunci dari NLP adalah bagaimana kita dapat mengontrol pikiran kita untuk mencapai keinginan, sebab KITA ADALAH APA YANG KITA PIKIRKAN


"Ketika sayap-sayap rahmat ia bentangkan dan sekalian alam bergelayut, setiap tangan berubah jadi neraca salah dan benar. Karena dia, dunia yang penuh khianat ini menjadi sumber kesetiaan. Kepada kasih sayang ia telah menyeret seluruh umat meski jalan keras dan terjal. Dan kehidupannya memaksa semuanya percaya bahwa cinta adalah satu-satunya jalan hidup terbaik."

 
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