Monday 18 February 2013

mengukir pelangi

musim panas yang bakal tiba ke penghujung, persis sekali cuaca di tanah air. bumi yang menjadi ibu kota kebanggaan rakyat kiwi ini jarang sekali hilang sentuhan bayunya, bayu yang terkadang membuat diri sukar menghadirkan langkah seperti biasa. syukur atas segala nikmat dan kurniaan Tuhan, apa jua kehendak-Nya, lantas itulah yang terbaik buat kita, atas sebab dan semua dengan izin-Nya. inshaAllah.

dan diri ini akhirnya kaku lagi pada kata-kata. ya, lidah manusia ini kadang tidak mengenal mangsa, dan acap kalinya juga bisa mengukir bahagia. kata-kata yang kita hadirkan buat mereka, terkadang meluncur laju, lebih laju dari kelajuan cahaya, namun di saat kata-kata itu dibunyikan dan didengarkan mereka, hati membisik kesal. salahkah? apa silapnya? dan mengapa maksud yang dicari itu masih tidak hadir, sebaliknya mengundang respon berbisa. sayang sekali, kata-kata itu telah melontarkan prasangka, sedangkan tujuannya membungakan bahagia.

dan aku memperingat diri sendiri. betapa kata-kata ada banyaknya tidak perlu diungkap, cukup dengan sekadar diam, mengukir senyuman atau sekadar singgah di fikiran. tidak perlu terlalu diamati dan diukir dalam hati, apatah lagi kata-kata berbisa, atau kata yang tidak membawa makna. bukankah kesabaran itu tinggi dan teramat bertuah bagi mereka yang memilikinya? bukankah kita telah diperingatkan dengan kata-kata dari kitab indah dalam sebuah surah;

Dan hamba-hamba al-Rahman (Yang Maha Mengasihani) itu (ialah) orang yang berjalan di atas bumi dengan rendah hati, dan apabila orang jahil menegur mereka, maka mereka mengucapkan kata-kata “salam” Al Furqan : 63.

rendah hati. itulah sifat manusia yang sentiasa punya kesabaran dalam jiwa, saat manusia lain mengukir kata luka atau dusta, dia tidak merasa besar, bangga diri atau jauh lebih baik, sebaliknya mendoakan sang pembicara selamat sejahtera, salam, agar dia tidak dibalas dengan kata yang lebih menyakitkan. sungguh, keimanan ini yang kita cita- citakan, dan impikan agar satu hari mampu membuahkan cinta kepada saudara seagama, menerima kelemahan mereka, bersabar dan juga akhirnya, membimbing mereka kembali ke pangkal jalan, dengan penuh ketenangan untuk mencari keredhaan Tuhan.

dakwah itu bermula dengan kata-kata, dibuktikan dengan amal, dengan niat yang suci dari sekeping hati. dakwah itu cinta," ibarat pohon yang sentiasa memberikan buah, walau dilontar dengan batu oleh mereka yang tidak memahami." kata indah, inspirasi buat diri, dari imam hasan al bana, pendukung dakwah yang memaknai cinta kerana Allah dalam hidupnya.

kebaikan itu tidak asing dengan kita, bukanlah terlalu jauh untuk menggapainya. kerana fitrah kita, sebagai manusia, makhluk Allah, akan sentiasa sukakan kebaikan. usahalah diri, perbaiki amal pancainderamu, lidah dan semuanya; agar kelak bahagia di akhirat sana. inshaAllah.

dakwah bermula dengan diri sendiri, dan kemudian ia tersebar kerana cinta, kerana cinta kepada Allah, Maha Pencipta.

"dakwah padaku ibarat pelangi, yang dikau ukirkan buat mereka agar sama-sama menikmati keindahannya; sehingga mereka juga mampu mengukir pelangi yang sama, buat yang lainnya"

Sunday 17 February 2013

a journey of love - sarah's visit 20012013-31012013

snippets of our jouney.
auckland- rongitoto island- queenstown- milford sound- glenorchy- arrowtown- west coast- fox glacier- arthur's pass- christchurch- wellington.





































Tuesday 5 February 2013

Are we in paradise yet?

As salam dear readers, it's been a while i know, but yeah hopefully this little sharing today could give us some benefits and something to ponder upon and most importantly taking actions. And i am just going to copy a snippet of page from my book named reclaim your heart, by Yasmin Mogahed. Well, i must admit that she really inspired me in looking at this life from a different and a much better perspective in becoming a better muslim inshaAllah.

"Imagine only having good in your life. That is the state of this type of believer, as the Prophet pbuh says: "wondrous are the believer's affairs, for him there is good in all his affairs, and this is so only for the believer. When something pleasing happens to him he is grateful, and that is good for him; and when something displeasing happens to him, he is enduring (sabr), and that is good for him." (Narrated by muslim)

"And so in the heart of such a believer is a such of paradise. That is the paradise that Ibn Taimiyyah, may Allah have mercy on his soul, spoke of when he said, "truly there is heaven in this world (and) whoever does not enter it, will not enter the heaven of the next world"

And in that heaven, complete peace is not something of a moment. It is a state, eternal"
Page 36 & 37 (chapter; peace on a rooftop, from reclaim your heart, yasmin mogahed)

And so we wonder, the type of believer whose hearts are like paradise, calm and at peace in no matter what conditions apply to him, how the surrounding could pressure him, he will always be in peace, accepting and sabr. We ponder to ourselves, are we included in such type of believer? Are we good enough? But of course, it is the struggle that we face in this life to become such believer. It is with these everything that we are in, we have and dont have now, we should try and always try to be such believer. InshaAllah.

And to always remind ourselves, that life in this world could be deceiving sometimes when we lose focus. When we suddenly put our attention or attachment other than Allah, to people, to things, to money and everything else. That is our mistake. Knowing that shaytan will never give up to make us forget this fact. The fact that everything belongs to Allah, it is Allah we should depends on, and no others. No one but Him.

The second reality, we look deep into our hearts. Try to look inside, what is it occupying our hearts? Is is the love of this dunya? A love to a person or things or status? Is occupied by our dreams and ambitions? Is that only? How much of our hearts is occupied by love to Allah and Rasul? Our deen? This is a scaring reality, even for me myself, i dare not to say, my heart is pure from all the desires or nafs, but still, i am sure that in each of our hearts that there is love to Allah, but the question is, whether that heart is continuously poured by our love to Him only, which only then, our heart could be like a paradise as what Ibn Taimiyyah has mentioned. Your heart is a paradise, when it could love everything that Allah loves, and leave everything that Allah forbids, enduring in patience and acceptance. Just like the heart of the Prophet pbuh, and his companions.

MasyaAllah, how beautiful is that? Indeed the paradise in this world is not far, it is in ourselves, our souls, our hearts. We should try to build it by ourselves, with our iman, our faith, our deeds, and our deen. It isn't that far, isn't it? InshaAllah, once the paradise in ourselves are built, we would feel like home, near to our home in the hereafter, the paradise itself, jannah. Didn't our father, adam a.s. originated from the heaven?

It is possible inshaAllah, by continously reminding each other, our friends, our siblings, our families and everyone that Allah's promise will come true, to those who believe in Him.

Therefore, a question that we need to answer and remind ourselves in order to improve is probably, are we in paradise yet?