Atheism, Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism

In the name of Allah, for the sake of Allah, hand is dancing on the keyboard to start write again.

First of all, I would like to share with you maybe a little about comparative religion. But before that, what would we spontaneously answer if an atheist comes to us and asks us about God. He said that God is absent and if it's present where is He? Perhaps you all have your own answer. Maybe you can reply to them by slapping on their face and then tell them that your slap doesn't cause any hurt as hurt or pain cannot be looked. Ok. Other answers, you may reply to them by using scientific evidence or logical evidence but not using the Quran and Sunnah evidence. Probably you may be slapped by them. Logically, how and when the first thing is being created? An atom for example. Who created the atom? By chance? Oh...impossible! There must be a creator. And when we look to the universe, the earth, sky, forests, sea et cetera we will notice the beauty and astonish with the design and the question is who design them? Of course there must be a designer! And the same goes to this bare earth. There must be a creator. Just tell them so or you have more interesting and firmer answer.

Back to the topic. When we talk about other religion, we must study the scriptures of other religion. It's seriously important. Maybe most of us are frighten to investigate or maybe some of us are afraid to study other religions’ scriptures. Perhaps some of us will shrivel when we touch the Bible or Hindu scriptures. That's the problem! If we really firm and convince with our religion, in Quran, we will never scare to do research about other religion. Ok, let's look briefly through the Bible for instance. Bible has two versions; New Tastement and Old Testament. There are chapters such as Genesis, Mike, Luke, John etc. In Christianity beliefs, they hold the trinity belief. Christians trust the God, Son of God and the Holy Spirit but when we ask them how many God that they believe they will say one. How can one plus one equal to one? That's the question.

Roughly, Hinduism also trust many God. There is Trimurthi (Brahma,Vishnu and Siva), Ganesha (the elephant head one), Krishna (the God who steal during child), Muruga (that's in Batu Caves), Radha Krishna (lovers) etc. Trimurthi concept for instance. How could the one who generate creation (Brahma) didn't protect and sustain its creation? Otherwise, he gives the operator jobscope to Vishnu and destroyer work to Siva. Is there presence a big quarrel and dispution if one say he wants to protect and one say he wants to destroy the creation. Makes sense?

Buddhism also has an interesting history. There are Siddharta Gautama, Taoism, Confucianism, Omi tuo (God of Tao), Kuan Ying (those who trust him, didn't eat beef), Tua Peck Yong (the one who is God of Protector and it's a fact story that occur in Penang that Peck Yong disappear!), Kwan Yong (which police and gangster worship it), Datuk Kong (has mostauche), Chai Xen (Prosperity God using one day before Chinese New Year), Cap Goh Mei, Hungry Ghost, Tea ceremony, mooncake festival etc. The most interesting thing in Buddhims is about the funeral. They trust that when one of them meet death, all of the thing associate with the death person must be burnt including handphone charger! Otherwise, the corpse will suffer in the grave. There is one story about Ah Meng, who died once upon time. One night, his mother received a phone call from him and they talk for a particular time.

All of a sudden, Ah Meng said to his mother, "We have only a few minutes to talk".

His mother reply,"Why???".

Ah Meng said,"My phone battery is getting lower and I didn't bring my phone charger as you didn't burn it during my funeral..."

Uh, what belief is this. Very funny and you all know, the most polite and benevolent ghost is the Chinese ghost! If we notice, Chinese's ghost didn't run to catch humans instead of Malay's ghost who will not give any chance to humans to run and escape. Malay's ghost will disappear in front of human in a sudden. Hahaha. Just joking.

In a nutshell, we must do research about all religion so that when non-muslims ask us question about our religion, it's easy for us to defence and arguing back by conveying the message or signs with wisdom, so that they will think twice about their beliefs. Remember, the most vital thing is the way we spread and convey the messages. We must convey through the way they understand Islam, not the way we comprehend Islam.

Last but not least, I want to leave you all with a question.

1) In your opinion, what is the main factor that non-muslims did not accept Islam?

Postscript: Credit to Bro Shah Kirit, student of Prof. Zakir Naik.
Post postscript: Related post (http://sharingknowledgeaboutislam.blogspot.com/2011/11/fantastic-fcr.html)

Kau Hafiz Muda

*khusus buat hafiz hafizah seantero dunia terutama penuntut Darul Quran yang bakal bergelar hafiz yang tak sepatutnya digelarkan kepada mereka...

KAU HAFIZ MUDA

Kau hafiz muda,
bukan mudah pada hakikatnya,
bukan sebarang amanah yang kau pikul,
bukan barang mainan yang kau rangkul,
ironinya,
kau sedang memikul,
sebesar-besar mukjizat,
seagung-agung kalam,
segudang khazanah Islam,

kau ingat,
benda alah ini boleh dibawa main,
lalu kau dibuai arus acuh tak acuh,
kau buat endah tak endah,
kau gagal istiqomah,
penghayatan,aplikasi kau buat tak kisah,
inputnya kau tak terjemah,
kau lupa apa yang diseru,
lantaran kaburnya matlamat di kalbu.

kau hafiz muda,
bukan sekadar memegang nama,
bukan pula mendabik dada,
bukan imam semata-mata,
malah,
kitab itu kau harus pelihara,
faham dan beramal sepenuhnya,
sampaikan segala lunas ajarannya,
jangan sampai tiba suatu masa,
kitab itu sendiri yang melaknat kau wahai hafiz muda yang sering terleka...

Almisbahu fi zujajah
Acacia Park
4.34 pm
12 Zulhijjah 1432H
8 November 2011M

P/S : mesej yang hendak diutarakan adalah kita mesti mengimplimentasikan segala input yang termaktub dalam Al-Quran sepanjang kehidupan kita.Tak kira kita pernah menghafalnya atau sekadar membacanya,semua itu akan dipersoal di Hari Pembalasan kelak.

P/P/S : puisi ini memang ditujukan untuk pena yang menulisnya.ingatan untuk semua.Quran rujukan utama dan pertama kita.Jadi istiqomahkan pembacaan,perdalamkan lagi kajian dan pengetahuan tentangnya.Bukankah Allah suka akan amalan yang sedikit tetapi berterusan?

Where is Your Dalil?

Talk with dalil.

The biggest mistake and loss of students nowadays especially in religion science stream is losing the Islamic studies after pursuing with other professional courses. I mean, they miss the Islamic knowledge or in the other word, what is the real meaning of Islam.

Maybe all people in this century knew about our chronic education system. Yes, the secular disease is still and nurturing in our school. Urm, actually most students didn't notice it.

In reality, many students nowadays choose to accept than digest what are being taught in school. That's why every year, an enormous amount of exam-oriented students are produced in Malaysia. We can see how many student will practice and 'menghayati' all knowledge that they learn for 18 years after finishing the SPM.

No need to look far. Look at the 'mat rempit', drugs abusers, sex, 'buang bayi' and other social problems. This ulcerous problem seems directly proportional to the increasing of the overall SPM's GPK in Malaysia or the number of student who score A.

Urm, let's think for a while... how many teacher insert and relate what we learn especially science subject with Quran?

Ahha! Maybe some will say too little and some will say never. Ha, that's not fantasy. That's reality!

We are being indoctrinated and educated by this worst education system for nearly over 18 years.

Fuh, very humiliating.

Thus, I suggest you all to start searching for an Islamic platform to learn more about Islam and relate it with the science knowledge you all know.

For religion science stream, I really suggest to memorise the main hall of knowledge in the world, Quran in Darul Quran or another place. For a long time, I've dream that all people in Malaysia will memorise the Quran since child through the education system.

I wonder when the time is it.

Fitnah Sya'ban 6H

Rasulullah pernah bersabda,

"Sampaikanlah daripadaku walaupun sepotong ayat(ilmu)"

Suka untuk aku menyingkap kembali tirai sejarah Islam pada zaman Rasulullah.Kisah yang baru sahaja kudengar daripada seorang ustaz mengenai Perang Bani Mustoliq.

Kisah ini adalah kisah yang mana Saidatina Aisyah,isteri nabi yang muda difitnah berzina oleh kaum munafik ketika hendak pulang ke Madinah setelah tamat perang tersebut.

Kronologinya bermula tika beliau ditinggalkan oleh kafilahnya ketika beliau mencari kalungnya yang hilang.
Jadi,setelah menjumpai kalungnya,beliau pun kembali semula ke tempat asal kafilah mereka berhenti sebentar tadi dan tertidur di sana.

Kebetulan,seorang tentera bernama Shafwan bin Al-Mu'tal yang sudah acap kali ditinggalkan oleh kafilah kembali ke tempat tersebut.Dia pun terkejut apabila mendapati yang tidur itu adalah isteri nabi.Dia pun tanpa bercakap panjang terus mengajak Saidatina Aisyah untuk mengikutnya mengejar kembali kafilah tadi dengan menaiki kuda.

Sampai sahaja mereka bertemu kafilah mereka,tentera-tentera itu pun terkejut.Rasulullah mula gusar.

Detik tersebut,bermulalah api fitnah dinyalakan oleh seorang munafik bernama Abdullah bin Ubai yang sememangnya daripada awal memeluk Islam menanti-nantikan saat untuk menghancur dan memporak-perandakan kehidupan nabi.

Mulalah,kedengaran kemunculan satu kenyataan yang mengatakan Saidatina Aisyah berzina dengan Shafwan bin Al-Mu'tal tadi.Rasulullah pun berbolak-balik hati baginda apakah isteri baginda berzina ataupun ianya fitnah semata-mata.

Hampir sebulan,layanan baginda kepada Saidatina Aisyah tidak seperti layanannya yang biasa.Saidatina Aisyah pun mula sakit dan berjumpa dengan ayahnya,Saidina Abu Bakar untuk mencari solusi masalahnya.

Akhirnya,turun wahyu yang membersihkan kembali nama Saidatina Aisyah melalui surah An-Nur.

" Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang datang membawa berita bohong itu adalah golongan kamu juga. Janganlah kamu kata bahwa perbuatan mereka itu membawa akibat buruk bagi kamu, bahkan itu adalah mem­baikkan. Setiap orang akan men­dapat hukuman dari sebab dosa yang dibuatnya itu. Dan orang yang mengambil bagian terbesar akan mendapat siksaan yang besar pula."

"Mengapa setelah mendengar berita-berita bohong itu orang­orang yang beriman, baik laki laki ataupun perempuan, tidak meletakkan sangka yang baik terhadap dirinya, mengapa tidak mereka katakan bahwa berita itu adalah bohong belaka?"

"Mengapa mereka menuduh tetapi tidak mengemukakan empat orang saksi; kalau mereka tidak mengemukakan saksi-saksi itu, mereka adalah pembohong belaka dalam pandangan Allah"

Minat al-Quran

"Din, aku baca tajwid salah. Boleh ke?" kata Abdullah dalam keadaan risau.

Pelajar MRSM Tun Ghafar Baba itu baru sahaja kutolak untuk menjadi imam. Dia bukan tak boleh baca ayat al-Quran. Bacaannya baik. Tambahan lagi, minatnya tinggi dalam mempelajari kitab Allah itu.

Dia baru sahaja kukenal beberapa hari yang lalu. Peramah orangnya. Suka belajar. Dia sudah lama menetap di kawasan berdekatan rumahku. Ingatanku masih segar lagi tika saat pertama perkenalanku dengannya.

"Abang, boleh ajar saya al-Quran?"

Itulah lafaz pertama yang meniti di bibirnya selepas kami bertemu di luar surau. Waktu itu, aku baru sahaja selesai mengimamkan solat fardu Isya’ di surau itu.

Usai solat Isya’, seperti biasa, al-Quran kami capai dari rak dan dia memulakan bacaan. Abang Fadhli – jiranku yang lebih awal kukenal – turut serta.

Abang Fadhli bersemangat agama orangnya. Dia berada di short sem dalam kursus al-Quran dan Sunnah di USIM. Keluarganya semua di Sabah kecuali dia dan adiknya yang kini pelajar diploma Darul Quran. Di surau itulah kami bertemu dan mula mencetus bibit perkenalan.

Memang benar.Masjid atau surau merupakan pusat sosial dan pertemuan masyarakat.

Di masjidlah, perkongsian ilmu agama khususnya dapat dilaksanakan.

Yang paling penting, misi murni dakwah dapat diaplikasikan.

Hari ini, sudah masuk hari ketiga kami bersama-sama dalam halaqah al-Quran. Minat yang sebati dalam diri Abdullah mendorong jiwaku untuk terus menyahut seruan Nabi. Ingatanku masih segar lagi mengenai hadis,

"Sebaik-baik kamu adalah yang belajar al-Quran dan mengajarkannya."

Teringat juga aku mengenai pesan Nabi,

"Sampaikanlah daripadaku walaupun satu ayat."

Abdullah pun memulakan bacaan dengan Umm al-Furqan. Bacaannya baik. Lafaz makhraj setiap huruf agak sempurna. Cuma mungkin kurang latihan dan kurang ilmu tajwid menyebabkan dia kekadang tertinggal menyempurnakan hukum tajwid seperti dengung.

"Saya baca Quran, tapi saya rasa macam ada salah."

Itulah kata-katanya pada waktu kami mula berkenalan.

Halaqah kami bertiga pada hari ini singkat sahaja. Selalunya, banyak tempat dapat ditegur dan diperbaiki. Contohnya huruf-huruf isti‘la, tafkhim dan tarqiq, dengung dan waqaf. Semua itu kutuntut daripada Ustaz Muhammad Mukhlis bin Sabri, ustaz tasmikku di Darul Quran.

Sempat aku kongsikan bersama-sama mereka apa yang kupelajari. Puas hatiku setelah dapat berkongsi ilmu al-Quran. Banyak pepatah Arab yang mengatakan betapa ruginya insan yang tidak tahu mengaplikasikan ilmu itu.

"Ilmu tanpa amal ibarat pohon tak berbuah"

"Ilmu tanpa amal ibarat awan tanpa hujan"

Halaqah kami pada keheningan malam itu diakhiri dengan deringan telefon bimbit Abdullah.Keluarganya ingin keluar pada malam ini.Sempat dua helai daripada Surah Al-Kahfi dibaca.

"Thank you for everything"kata Abdullah kepada kami berdua.