Masa ini terdapat berbagai-bagai rasa. Rasa teruja, gembira, sedih, cemas, dan macam-macam rasa lagi. Teruja sebab tak sabar nak tunggu masa pakai baju baru.
Gembira sebab waktu berlapar dah nak berlalu.
Sedih sebab tiket balik kampung da abis.
Cemas sebab langsir tempah tak siap lagi.

Ermmm camtu ke…

Kalu renung2 balik, kenapa la sahabat2 nabi sering menangis bila berlalunya Ramadhan. Junjungan kita Nabi Muhammad (kot ye la kita junjung) menggandakan kualiti dan kuantiti ibadahnya pada akhir2 Ramadhan. Dan

masih terdapat segelintir umat Islam pada hari ini yang menetapkan 10 akhir Ramadhan ni sebagai benchmark kepada usaha amal2 soleh. Mereka berjaga malam dengan penuh kesungguhan & keinsafan, mengharap bertemu lailatul

qadr, salah satu puncak keistimewaan Ramadhan. Hadiah buat mereka yang beriman.

Ini adalah waktu2 kecederaan untuk melipatgandakan bonus2 bekalan akhirat.

Mereka ini lah, yang benar2 sedar akan hakikat Ramadhan, selain hakikat

syurga neraka, dosa pahala, dan hakikat kematian menjemput tak kira siapa. Sebab tu la Ramadhan menjadi penggalak/motivator bagi diorg untuk melakukan itu semua. Dapat mengecapi Ramadhan tahun ni dah jadi satu rahmat, kerana belum tentu dapat Ramadhan akan datang.

Ramadhan benar2 menyaksikan kategori2 manusia. Manusia yang ingin berubah, manusia yang ingin terus cemerlang, atau manusia yang terus dengan angan2 sementaranya. Masa yang penuh berkat ni lah menjadi turning point yang strategik. Nak senang berenti smoking, time ni la. Kalau betulla cakap ‘nak berenti’ tu serupa bikin. Kalau bulan ni pn tekad tu lemah, bulan lain jgn arap le.
Kalau time2 camni pn malas nak semayang sunat, baca quran, qiamullail, bertaubat dsb., bulan-bulan lain jangan harap le.
Kalau bulan ni semangat utk berubah pn tenggelam timbul, bulan2 lain mungkin tenggelam terus.

Yang pasti Ramadhan akan meninggalkan kita. Ada yang sedih kerana ni, macam nak ditinggalkan kekasih. Ada yang cemas, lalu terus menguatkan diri menambah amal2 yang boleh memberatkan timbangan sebelah kanan. Ada yang teruja menunggu lailatul qadar, mengharap keampunan dan pelepasan dari api neraka.

That’s why la Rasulullah mengatakan siapa yang mengetahui rahsia kelebihan Ramadhan akan berharap Ramadhan berlangsung sepanjang tahun. Nyata berbeza dengan situasi sambutan kita sekarang!

Baginda membenarkan ‘Malanglah bagi sesiapa yang melalui Ramadhan tetapi tidak mendapat keampunan/rahmat dari Allah’. Mintak jauhla dari tergolong dalam golongan yg tidak mahu rahmatNya!

Ahlan Wa Sahlan Ya Ramadhan!~~

Bulan yang mulia kembali lagi. Bulan perlumbaan amalan bagi orang-orang beriman. Di sini faedah pulangan bagi pelaburan amal telah dijanjikan pada tahap tertinggi.

Orang2 yang beriman, yang yakin akan adanya kematian, hari akhirat dan pembalasan akan bersiap-sedia dan menyambut kedatangan bulan ini dengan pernuh rasa gembira, dan tidak ingin mempersiakannya.

Mereka akan mempergunakan segenap masa untuk memperbanyakkan tilawah al-Quran, menjaga panca indera utk perkara2 kebaikan, memohon keampunan serta membersihkan diri, supaya dapat kembali kpd Maha Pencipta dengan bekalan yang cukup dan hati yang tenang.

Rasul Junjungan telah bersabda:

“Telah datang kepadamu bulan Ramadhan, bulan keberkatan, Allah mengunjungimu pada bulan ini dengan menurunkan rahmat, mengahapus dosa-dosa dan mengabulkan do’a. Allah melihat berlumba-lumbanya kamu pada bulan ini dan Dia membangga-banggakanmu kepada malaikat-Nya, maka tunjukkanlah kepada Allah hal-hal yang baik dari dirimu. Karena orang-orang yang sengsara ialah yang tidak mendapatkan rahmat Allah di bulan ini.”

(H.R. Ath Thabrani, dan periwayatnya tsiqah).

Jadi janganlah kita tergolong dalam orang2 yang sengsara di kemudian hari. Selamat menyambut Ramadhan kepada semua!

Antara lagu faveret berkenaan Ramadhan

p/s: Dah grad ni rindu pulak nak bertarawih di UIA. huhu

By Hajja Romi Elnagar

Obama came to Cairo a few days ago.  He didn’t much look like he was coming with his hat in his hand, even though America’s taken a pounding over its brutish ways in Iraq and it probably wouldn‘t have surprised anybody if he had.

Really, it‘s no secret that America is heartily disliked in that part of the world–one reason he picks where he‘s going to show up there pretty carefully, I‘m sure.  (It helps that Egypt gets more foreign aid than anybody else in the region, except, of course, for one itty-bitty place with a really bad rep in the hood.)

On the contrary, he tried to sound upbeat as he talked about how wonderful Islam has been for centuries.

And well he might.

After all, there are hundreds of millions of Muslims in the world.  And oddly enough, most of them just don’t fancy hearing that their fellow Muslims are getting tortured and raped and killed by some Western country, no matter how hot its promises of freedom and democracy are.

So, he tried to sound a cheery note.  The new sound of American “soft power.”

But–somebody’s going to have to tell him: it rang false.  Even when spoken by a man with a Muslim name.  After all, he didn’t actually recite the Shehada, so why was anybody supposed to think he actually believed, like Muslims do, in the Last Day, a day when all of EVERYBODY‘S chickens are going to come home to roost?

And, there were some things other he left out.

He didn’t say he would shut down Guantanamo , where America does bad things to other Muslims.  You’d think Egyptians might want to hear that he was going to do something nice to all those folks.  Like, send ‘em home to their families who haven‘t seen ‘em in years.

And so, naturally then, he didn’t get around to saying that he would shut down any of the other “black sites” around the world either.

He didn’t say that he thought Bush and Cheney ought to be locked up for war crimes, (not to mention for stealing the elections of 2000 and 2004 and grabbing power in the first place).

He didn’t say he would start another investigation- -an HONEST investigation, this time–into the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center .  He didn’t say he would support fairness in the Sibel Edmonds affair–who‘s she?–or a fair trial for Dr. Aafia Siddiqui–who‘s THAT?–or an investigation into the “outing” of CIA agent Valerie Plame (he can‘t deny knowing about HER, though).

Obama didn’t say what he’s going to do in to end the war on Iraq and Afghanistan NOW.  He used nice, fine words about Muslim contributions to world civilization, but said nothing about the destruction by America of the cradle of civilization in Mesopotamia .

To be fair, it’s true he didn’t wave a red flag in front of the bull and mention Mubarak to his Egyptian audience, but he also didn’t mention Denshawe, which Egyptians still remember even though it was an atrocity committed by the British and happened back in 1906 (too long ago for most Americans to think about, especially if it happened to somebody else).

And, of course…

he DIDN’T say that Israel has been committing war crimes in Palestine since before 1948. He sure didn’t think to mention that this might be the reason for any attacks against formerly Palestinian villages now occupied (illegally in a lot of cases) by Israel .  So, he didn’t mention Deir Yassin, Kfar Qassem, or any of the other more than 400 villages that were ethnically cleansed by Israel in 1948.  (Among those villages was one called Najd , ethnically cleansed by the Negev Brigade on May 13, 1948.  Now it’s known by its Israeli name of Sderot, but nobody in Israel –and certainly not Obama–has ever asked anybody in Gaza or Cairo how they liked the sound of THAT name.)

He neglected to mention that his vice president openly calls himself a “Zionist.”  After all, the daddy of his very own Chief of Staff was one, too.  And furthermore, was part of a terrorist group–one that killed a lot of Brits and Arabs at a funny little place called the King David Hotel in Jerusalem .  That happened in 1946, which was too long ago for most Americans, but not for people with long memories like Middle Easterners.

Anyway, if it’s Americans or Israelis that kill, THEY can’t be “terrorists,” can they?

He didn’t say that as part of America ’s oh-so-solid commitment to democracy in the Middle East, it would support the election of Hamas in Gaza .  They had a free, fair and internationally observed election that brought that bunch to power, but he would never, NEVER say THAT.

He didn’t say that Israel had committed war crimes–in Gaza , in Lebanon or in the Occupied Palestinian Territories .  He sure didn’t say that he would demand a war crimes investigation of the Israeli officials at the highest levels of government when those attacks were planned and carried out, and he sure didn’t say that Israel committed any war crimes in Gaza by cutting off all supplies of food, water, and electricity to the civilian population, for months either.

Of course, he WOULDN’T say that he wanted to build some decent housing in Gaza for all whose people whose homes were destroyed in the winter of 2009.  (C’mon! Rebuilding after a war is something we do for EUROPEANS, folks, not uppity Third World types!)  Right now, they’re living in tents, and that’s what it looks like it will be for them from now on.  At least, though, no Israeli is likely to say to his face that something like that is good enough for “sand n*ggers.”

He didn’t say Israel has used internationally outlawed weapons.  We’ve given Israel a lot of that stuff, and even flew uranium weapons to Israel during its attack in Lebanon two years ago, so you‘d think he‘d know about that.  And this time, after terrorizing Palestinian kids for months with sonic booms, Israelis used a lot of stuff they won’t talk about–not even to the Zionist who owns MSNBC, but probably included depleted uranium, tungsten, white phosphorus and maybe a few other fancy poisons.

After all, he didn’t even mention about the cluster bombs that still litter the ground in Southern Lebanon …

In fact, he didn’t really address the issue of illegal occupation of Palestinian lands at all.  He “threw a bone” to the Arab World by condemning illegal settlements, but didn’t spell out for his audience what America would do if Israel just says, “No” to him.

America gives Israel SIX BILLION DOLLARS in aid annually–the biggest present to any nation on Earth.  You’d think he’d say he’d hang on to some of that money until Israel does what the US says we want.  But, I guess being in the White House softens your brain.  Who does he think he is, anyway?  Somebody important?  THEY put HIM in office, not the other way around.

In fact, while surprises do happen, Israel ’s probably just going to say “No” to him this time around, too, but that–again- -was something he didn’t talk about.  I’m sure it something he doesn’t even want to THINK about.

Anyway, with all this stuff Obama DIDN’T say, how come so many people in America are so thrilled with all the fancy words he DID say?

That, folks, is something I can’t say.

Jambori di Ulu Bendul. Sempena cuti-cuti sekolah

By Middle East Online

To virtually incarcerate the Palestinian people inside degrading cages, destroying their livelihoods, confiscating their lands, stealing their water and uprooting their trees, and then to condemn their legitimate resistance as terrorism is a disease of the mind, notes Zaid Nabulsi.
I lost my gloves one day in a coffee shop in Geneva, and I tell you, it’s difficult to ride without them when it’s really cold. So as I was paying for a new pair with a credit card, the salesman, whom I knew was from Israel, tried to start some small talk by asking me what my family name means. I told him that it relates to the city of Nablus where my family is originally from.
Suddenly, the most bewildered look was plastered on his face. “Where is Nablus?” he asked, “I’ve never heard of it.” Then, after realizing that I knew he was bullshitting me, he pretended to remember, “Ah, Shkheim you mean? ”With my insistence not to learn these ugly names that the deranged Zionists have dug up from oblivion to erase our identity, that name certainly didn’t ring a bell. But now it was my turn. Although I knew where he was from, I asked “And you’re… from?” As he smiled while reminding me, I replicated the same look on his face moments ago. “Israel? Where is that?” Then after a brief pause, “Ah, the land of Canaan you mean. Palestine”.
You see if you want to get biblical on me, there is no such thing as Israel either, and I made that clear to this smartass. Here we were all of a sudden; my family descended from a place called Shkheim, and this guy a Palestinian. God does work in mysterious ways, but I still thanked Him for His small mercies that at least my name was not Zaid Shkheimy. “Have a nice day”, I told my Israeli friend. It was in fact a very cold, but still magnificently sunny day to hit the roads. The gloves warmed up my grip on the bike, but my heart was still frozen. I just cannot stand thieves who steal your gloves, or any other kind of thieves.
It was then that it finally occurred to me. Zionism is a sickness, for it takes much more than just a twisted ideology to make people think like that. It requires a profound leap of immorality of a higher order to instill this mentality in your followers. Zionism is not merely a political movement, but in its essence represents a deeply disturbed view of the world, which is a reflection of a terrible disease of the mind.
Indeed, to deny the existence of a vibrant community such as the Palestinian society in the early twentieth century and describe Palestine as “a land without a people for a people without a land” is a disease of the mind.

To assert property claims over real estate after the lapse of more than 2000 years with the same certainty of title as if one resided there yesterday is a disease of the mind.

To describe the colonial immigration to Palestine of a European people with no proven historical link to the ancient Israelites – and whose great, great recorded ancestors have never set foot there – as some kind of a “return” to that land is indicative of a perverted misunderstanding and misapplication of the verb to “return” and can only be a result of a disease of the mind.

To blame the Palestinians for being unreasonable in rejecting a partition plan in 1947 which gave the Jews, who only owned 7 percent of the land, an astonishing half of Palestine, is a disease of the mind.

To demand of the Arabs at the time to peacefully succumb to such partition, where 86 percent of the land designated for the proposed Jewish state was Palestinian-inhabited and owned land, is a disease of the mind.

To eventually grab 78 percent of Palestine through war and to force the flight of the population through deliberate massacres and then call it a war of independence is a disease of the mind.

To deny the orchestrated massacres and eradications of hundreds of Palestinian villages in 1948 and then denounce the Israeli historians who later exposed this truth as self-hating Jews is a disease of the mind.

To claim that having escaped the horrors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, and Dachau is a justification for the murder, expulsion, and occupation of another guiltless people is a disease of the mind.

To legislate that any resident of Poland, Hungary, New York, Brazil, Australia, Iceland, or even Planet Mars, who happens to be blessed with a Jewish mother (yet cannot point to Palestine on the map) has a superior right to “return” and settle in Palestine to someone who has been expelled from his very own land, confined to a squalid refugee camp, and still holds the keys to his house, is a disease of the mind.

To blame God for the theft and occupation of someone else’s land by claiming that it was He who had pledged this land exclusively to the Jews, and to seriously promote the myth of a land promised by the Almighty to His favorite children as an excuse for this crime, is a disease of the mind.

To milk the pockets of the world for the atrocities of the Nazis, while stubbornly refusing a simple admission of guilt, let alone compensation or repatriation, for the catastrophe that befell the Palestinian people is a disease of the mind.

To keep reminding and blackmailing the world of the plight of the Jews under Hitler 70 years ago, while at the same time inflicting on the Palestinians today the same fate of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, is a disease of the mind.

To virtually incarcerate the Palestinian people inside degrading cages, destroying their livelihoods, confiscating their lands, stealing their water and uprooting their trees, and then to condemn their legitimate resistance as terrorism is a disease of the mind.

To believe you have the right to chase the Palestinians into an Arab capital city in 1982 and to indiscriminately bombard its civilians for a relentless three months, murdering thousands of innocent people is a disease of the mind.

To encircle the civilian camps of Sabra and Chatila after evacuating the fighters and to unleash on them trained dogs (while providing them with night-illuminating flares for efficiency) and then deny culpability for the carnage is a disease of the mind.

To publicly declare a policy of breaking the bones of Palestinian stone-throwers to prevent them from lifting stones again and to enact this policy is a disease of the mind.

To have the sadistic streak of exacting vengeance on the innocent families of suicide bombers by punishing them with the dynamiting of their home is a disease of the mind.

To describe the offer of giving the Palestinians 80 percent of 22 percent of 100 percent of what is originally their own land as a “generous” offer is a disease of the mind.

To believe that you have the right to continue to humiliate the Palestinians at gun point by making them queue for hours to move between their villages, forcing mothers to give birth at check-points is a disease of the mind.

To flatten the camp of Jenin on its inhabitants and deny any wrongdoing is a delusional condition which is symptomatic of a serious disease of the mind.

To build a huge separation wall under the pretext of security, which disconnects farmers from their farms and children from their schools, while stealing even more territory as the wall freely zigzags and encroaches on Palestinian land is a disease of the mind.

To leave behind, in the last 10 days of a losing war in Lebanon, more than one million cluster bombs which have no purpose except to murder and maim unsuspecting civilians is a product of an evil disease of the mind.

To believe that the entire world is out to get you and to denounce any critic of the racist policies of the State of Israel as an anti-Semite, the latest victim being none other than peace-making Jimmy Carter, is an acute stage of mass paranoia, which is a disease of the mind.

To possess, in the midst of a non-nuclear Arab world, more than 200 nuclear warheads capable of incinerating the whole planet in addition to having the most advanced arsenal of weaponry in the world while continuing to play the role of a victim is a disease of the mind.

Yes, and for that salesman in peaceful Geneva to be so insecure as to refuse to acknowledge the name of the largest West Bank city under his country’s brutal military occupation is, sadly, nothing but an infectious disease of the mind.

Zaid Nabulsi is a lawyer. He spent many years working for the United Nations in Geneva. This article was originally published in Jordan’s Living Well magazine.

Satu akhbar Russia yang diterbitkan di Amerika ditarik balik pengeluarannya kerana seorang penulis yahudi telah membuat satu artikel mengenai kebenaran yang perlu mereka (Yahudi) terima. Berikut terjemahannya:

Sekiranya kita ke Gaza untuk membebaskan shalit (yang ditawan hamas sejak 2006). Kami pulang tanpanya.

Sekiranya kita pergi ke Gaza untuk menghentikan roket-roket. Sesungguhnya bertambah jauh roket tersebut (sehingga hampir tel aviv) sehinggalah di hari terakhir dan semakin memberi ancaman.

Sekiranya kita pergi ke Gaza untuk menghapuskan Hamas, sesungguhnya Hamas semakin disayangi dan kita telah memberikannya pengiktirafan rasmi.

Sekiranya kita pergi ke Gaza untuk menjajahnya, sesungguhnya telah kami sebut bahawa pasukan tentera tidak mampu menguasai satu meter pun di dalam kawasan Gaza.

Sekiranya kita pergi ke Gaza untuk menunjukkan bahwa kita yang hebat, sesungguhnya peperangan telah berhenti setelah mana diputuskan oleh pejuang bukannya ketika kita buat keputusan.

Sekiranya kita pergi ke Gaza untuk mempamerkan kekuatan kita, sesungguhnya cukuplah kita buat pertunjukkan ketenteraan di tel aviv.

Sekiranya kita pergi ke Gaza untuk membunuh pemimpin Hamas, sesungguhnya kita hanya membunuh dua orang dari 500 pemimpin gerakan Hamas.

Sekiranya kita pergi ke Gaza untuk mendapat simpati dari dunia, sesungguhnya pandangan alam telah merubah kepada memusuhi kami. Orang yang dulu bersama kami pun telah memusuhi kami.

Sekiranya kita pergi ke Gaza untuk mengembalikan kepercayaan kepada tentera kita, sesungguhnya kita telah menambahkan kecut pada tentera kita dan telah menambahkan keyakinan kepada pejuang-pejuang hamas pada diri mereka.

Sekiranya kita pergi ke Gaza untuk menetapkan kekuatan pencegahan kita , sesungguhnya telah jelas bahawa senjata kita, tidak kita gunakannya dengan baik semasa di daratan dengan dua kali percubaan 2006 dan 2008. Ia tidak mencegah hizbullah dan tidak mencegah Hamas.
Malahan bertambah ancaman dan kesombongan pemimpin-pemimpin Hamas. Allah yang lebih mengetahui perkara yang akan datang selepas mana telah tersebar maklumat ini dikalangan penduduk setempat iaitu maklumat berkenaan dgn pejuang2 palestin dan kemampuan mereka untuk melawan kita. Kita tidak harus lupa ketika berlakunya pertemuan demi pertemuan untuk perdamaian

Kita tidak pernah mendengar permintaan Hamas walau sekalipun untuk genjatan senjata sehingga kita yang memintanya. Biarlah aku bertanya “Siapa yang menakutkan siapa?” Allah lebih mengetahui, terdapat 800 ribu penduduk Israel di selatan yang mana mereka akan gementar dan bergegas ke tempat perlindungan apabila mendengar nama Hamas. “Siapa yang menakutkan siapa ?”

Sumber asal: www.aqsatv.ps/arabic/index.asp

Terjemahan oleh: www.pembina.com.my

Demam Peksa dah… Asal ‘peksa’ je ‘demam’. Tak pernah pulak kita dengar frasa ‘Kemeriahan’ atau ‘kegembiraan’ peperiksaan. menunjukkan peperiksaan ni bukanlah sesuatu yang disukai pelajar. Kebanyakan la.

Sebab Peperiksaan ni adalah satu penilaian. Sedang manusia tidak suka dinilai. Kerana manusia sering lalai untuk bersedia. Padahal mereka tau penilaian adalah lumrah kehidupan. Ayat dari Al-Ankabut: 2 pun dah famous menyatakan tentang lumrah ni.

Apapun sifat ujian seperti ni adalah subjektif kepada orang yg menghadapinya. Ujian merupakan masalah bagi mereka yang tidak bersedia. Tetapi merupakan kepuasan bagi mereka yang telah menjangka dan bersiap sedia sebelum menempuhinya. Macam tu jgak hidup kita kat fasa dunia sementara ni. Jadi mereka yang bijak adalah yang sentiasa ingat dan bersedia untuk penilaian masing2, sebelum, BUKAN semasa di ambang penilaian, iaitu MATI. Begitula lebih kurang kalau nak dibandingkan dgn study last minute nih. Yang dapat hint ‘kaw-kaw’ dr lecturer tu cerita lain le
Jadi dari final exam yang sedang ditempuhi ni, dapat kita lihat:

1. sejauh mana keberkesanan pengurusan masa kita. Ye memang kecemerlangan akademik bukanlah segala2nya tapi bab mengendalikan masa ni faktor penting dalam menentukan gaya perjalanan hidup kita.
2. sebanyak mana bekalan ilmu yang telah kita sediakan.
3. setinggi mana nilai ilmu pada kita. apakah kita belajar semata2 untuk ini? Ramai gak yg b’kata “ala… masa kerja pun bukan pakai benda2 mcm ni..” Mereka yang terlibat dalam bidang kejuruteraan memang biasa dengan perkara2 sebegini. Jadi terpulang, kita belajar untuk apa. Untuk diri sendiri? atau untuk memajukan ummah.

Selamat menempuhi peperiksaan. Selalu bergantung kepada Allah. Amalkan solat hajat selalu. Dia bukan saja memberi kesenangan, malah dengan kebergantungan kita (tawakkal) kpdNya akan memberi keberkatan dalam hidup kita insya’Allah.

Ma’at taufiq wan Najah (semoga beroleh petunjuk dan kejayaan)!

Anjuran bersama Rakan Masjid, Komuniti Surau ‘Raudhatul Hikmah’, Jawatankuasa Perwakilan Pelajar dan BMI sendiri.

Antara aktiviti sempena nadwah t’sebut adalah forum ‘Bohsia+Bohjan=Bohcit’, Pertandingan Nasyid, Sembang Petang bersama Ust Kamal (lect BMI), Volleyball & indoor games, Busana Muslimah dan kursus perkahwinan. Poster2 mini (ala ala pilihanraya) yang berbentuk kempen solat & jauhi maksiat juga dinaikkan.

Apa yang diharapkan adalah para pelajar BMI menyedari akan wujudnya jatidiri sebagai muslim yang perlu dipertahankan, di samping mengejar kecemerlangan akademik.

Terima kasih kepada semua ahli jawatankuasa penganjur, dan semua yang menyokong secara lang sung/tidak. Moga usaha yang sedikit ini diterima sebagai amal soleh di sisi Allah.

“Hai orang-orang yang beriman, jika kamu menolong agama Allah, niscaya Dia akan menolongmu dan meneguhkan kedudukanmu” (QS. Muhammad [47]:7.

Di zaman kebendaan menjadi keutamaan, hiburan menjadi sasaran hidup, pertimbangan manusia biasanya akan dipengaruhi nafsu. Nafsu menjadi raja, akal dan hati cuma menjadi menteri!

Antara simtom yang kita boleh renungi, siapakah yang menjadi idola kita? Ya, idola yang dimaksudkan oleh kamus2 bertauliah sebagai sanjungan dan pujaan. Di sini kita mengambil kira fungsi maksud ‘idola’ yang digunapakai sekalian masyarakat.

Apakah faktor yang kita ambil sebagai kriteria mengagumi seseorang. Kerana rupa? bakat pencak seni? harta? ketinggian ilmu? Apakah nilai yang kita ambil melebihi nilai sebelah sayap nyamuk-seperti yang dinukilkan dalam al-hadis tentang nilai dunia di sisi Allah?

Faktor idola ni memang penting. Memberi kesan kepada corak kehidupan kita. Darinya kita mengambil contoh sebagai ikutan. Kita dapat mengakui dengan terus terang, bahawa idola ini kita ambil atas kesedaran, tekad, dan mewarnai tindak tanduk yang mempunyai kecenderungan untuk mencontohinya.

Bagi setiap muslim yang mempunyai pandangan jelas dalam hidupnya, tentu mempunyai idola yang ideal, yang menjadi puncak kepada idola-idola lain. Mari kita renungi antara kriteria-kriteria yang melayakkan gelaran idola yang sebenar ini:

Dia seorang hamba yang terbaik sifat kehambaannya.

Dia paling bersungguh dalam melakukan tugasnya.

Dia mempunyai kasih sayang tertinggi kepada umatnya hatta ketika nazak.

Dia mencuri hati manusia melalui keikhlasannya.

Dia terkenal dengan sifat amanah, namun zuhud akan dunia yg sementara.

Dia mengurus dengan cemerlang dalam setiap peranan yang berkaitan.

Dia menyampaikan hanya kebenaran, meski dalam senda.

Dia disanjung pencinta kebenaran, malah disegani pihak lawan.

Jasadnya telah lama disemadi di bumi, namun kesan cahayanya tetap tersemat di hati!

Ya, telahan/tekaan anda memang betul! Idola tersebut tidak lain adalah Nabi kita Muhammad s.a.w., seorang manusia yang dianugerahkan kepada umat akhir zaman sebagai penyebar cahaya petunjuk. Memang itulah yang terkandung dalam maksud rukun iman yang ke-4, beriman kpd rasul. Jika kita mengkaji sejarah kehidupan baginda, amat wajarlah kita menjadikan cara hidupnya sebagai ikutan. Maha benarlah firman Allah dalam Surah Al-Ahzab ayat 21:

“Sesungguhnya telah ada pada (diri) Rasulullah itu suri teladan yang baik bagimu (iaitu) bagi orang yang mengharapkan (rahmat) Allah dan (kedatangan) hari kiamat, dan dia banyak menyebut nama Allah”

Bersama bekalan ajaran yang telah disampaikan, segala cara hidup baginda lah yang menjadi gambaran yang sepatutnya kita cuba sedaya upaya  untuk mencontohinya. Seterusnya kita dapat menghayati kisah-kisah sahabat, tabi’in, tabi’ tabi’in seterusnya para pejuang risalah yang hidup di zaman yang lebih dekat dengan kita. Kemudian (only then) barulah kita melihat peribadi tokoh yang sesuai dengan bidang yang diceburi/diminati.

Mari kita check balik, adakah tindak-tanduk kita benar-benar menggambarkan rasa mengharap rahmat Allah dan yakin dengan kedatangan hari kiamat nanti. Ciri-ciri kema’suman Nabi tidak sekali2 boleh menjadi alasan untuk kita memilih pula cara hidup jahiliyyah, yang terang2 membawa ke neraka pula!

Maulud Nabi yang kita sambut saban tahun, boleh menjadi titik tolak untuk kita membentuk ciri-ciri umat, yang cintakan Nabi, mengikut segala ajarannya dan mencontohinya supaya melayakkan kita mendapat syafaat baginda di akhirat kelak. Bukan sekadar selawat dan marhaban ye.

Semoga Allah beri kita kekuatan. WAllahu a’lam.