Cinta agung

Cinta Hakiki
Artist: Raihan

Telah lama cinta terbiar
Dari cinta yang suci
Telah lama cinta tersasar
Dari cinta hakiki

Kerna sekian lamanya
Manusia dibuai cinta nafsu
Kita sering menyangka
Cinta manusia itu yang sejati

Namun lupakah kita
Cinta nafsu selalu mengecewakan
Sering berubah tidak menentu
Seperti pantai dipukul ombak

Cintakan Allah cinta sebenarnya
Itulah cinta yang sejati
Kasihlah sesama manusia
Kerna cinta yang hakiki
Hanya untuk Tuhan Yang Esa

Cintakan Allah tiada kecewa
Engkaukan tenang di waktu susah
Kembalilah kepada Tuhan
Dia kan tetap menanti

Kehadiran hambaNya
Yang sebenar pasrah
Cinta kasih sayangNya tidak bertepi

Setiap yang hidup pasti punya rasa cinta. Cinta itu amat luas maknanya. Ada yang mabuk cinta kepada kekasih. Ada pula yang tenggelam dengan cintanya kepada harta. Namun, ada juga yang masih mencari cinta yang sejati lagi hakiki.

Ayuh sejenak jauhkan berfikir... Betapa tingginya cinta kepada manusia, manusia tetap akan mati. Cintakan bunga, bunga akan tetap layu. Cintakan harta, harta pasti akan kehabisan. Namun, kepada siapakah cinta pasti akan kekal dan abadi? Siapakah sepatutnya yang layak dicintai?

Mengapa timbul rasa cinta? Manusia jatuh cinta sesama mereka kerana cinta mendatangkan rasa bahagia. Ada juga yang mengatakan cinta itulah pengubat duka. Cinta kepada harta muncul kerana ia menjanjikan kesenangan. Cinta kepada bunga pula timbul kerana terpesona akan indahnya rupa.

Namun andai suatu hari kelak sesuatu yang dicintai itu hilang, apakah rasa bahagia itu akan kekal? Apakah rasa kesenangan akan kekal? Apakah rasa cinta yang didambakan kepada yang dicintai itu akan kekal? Andai kekasih yang dicintai itu mati , menangis air mata darah sekalipun si kekasih tidak akan hidup kembali. Andai harta yang dikumpul beribu- ribu tahun dirompak penyamun dan nyawa sang pencinta turut terancam kerananya, akan hilanglah rasa cinta kepada harta kerana hilangnya janji kesenangan daripada harta yang dipuja.

Oh, rendahnya martabat cinta terhadap makhluk. Setiap yang dicintai pasti akan pudar. . Setiap yang bernafas, pasti akan mati. Setiap yang berharga pasti akan hilang nilainya. Andai cinta kepada makhluk itu dikatakan cinta yang abadi, maka tidak layaklah ia dicintai. Namun, cinta kepada siapakah yang layak diberi?

Ayuh. Kita berfikir lagi. Renungilah terhadap ciptaan diri. Kita telah dikurniakan berjuta- juta nikmat yang tidak mampu kita cipta sendiri. Mata untuk melihat, tangan untuk memegang, udara untuk dihirup, air untuk diminum dan seribu macam lagi nikmat yang menimbulkan rasa kesenangan. Andai kesenangan dan kemudahan itu dapat menerbitkan rasa cinta, maka layaklah si Pemberi ini dincintai.

Andai rasa cinta itu muncul kerana adanya rasa kekaguman. Maka ayuh lihatlah khazanah alam. Lihatlah bagaimana pokok yang kuat, tegak berdiri sedangkan asalnya dari benih yang kecil. Lihat pula bukit yang tinggi. Bagaimana bukit yang besar boleh terbina daripada tanah yang halus dengan sifatnya yang bercerai- berai. Kemudian lihat pula keupayaan manusia. Sebutir tanah pun tidak mampu kita cipta sendiri. Bandingkan dengan ciptaan alam semesta. Bukankah ia akan mendatangkan kekaguman terhadap yang Maha Pencipta?

Andai rasa cinta itu timbul kerana yang dicintai itulah tempat mengadu, maka sememangnya Allah lah yang layak dicintai. Sesungguhnya Dialah yang Maha Mendengar. Dialah yang Maha Pengampun dan Dialah juga yang Maha Penyayang. Andai rasa kecewa menyelubungi hati, berhubunglah dengan Dia yang Maha Pengasih. Nescaya rasa duka akan hilang.

Andai cinta yang dicari tu adalah cinta yang hakiki dan abadi. Maka layaklah Dia yang tidak dihidupkan dan tidak akan mati dicintai dengan sepenuh hati. Bukankah ini sifat ABADI? Cinta kepada sesuatu yang tidak akan mati bahkan abadi tidak akan pudar rasanya. Hati yang diberikan kepada makhluk akan retak juga suatu hari nanti tetapi apabila hati diserahkan kepada Allah nescaya ia akan sentiasa bertaut kembali.

Ayuh kita dambakan cinta yang sebenar. Jika Qois sanggup mati demi cinta butanya kepada Laila, maka ayuh kita syahid demi cinta kita kepada Dia yang Esa.


Dari Anas ra, dari Nabi SAW, beliau bersabda; “Ada tiga perkara dimana orang yang memilikinya akan merasakan manisnya iman, iaitu mencintai Allah dan rasulNya melebihi segala-galanya, mencintai seseorang hanya kerana Allah, dan enggan untuk menjadi kafir setelah diselamatkan Allah daripadanya sebagaimana enggannya kalau dilempar ke dalam api”.
HR. Bukhari dan Muslim

Ghazwul Fikri = Perang pemikiran

Seorang guru sedang bersemangat mengajarkan sesuatu kepada murid-muridnya. Dia duduk menghadap murid-muridnya. Di tangan kirinya ada kapur, di tangan kanannya pula ada pemadam. Si guru berkata,

"Saya ada permainan...Caranya begini, di tangan kiri saya ada kapur, di tangan kanan ada pemadam. Jika saya angkat kapur ini, maka berserulah "Kapur!", jika saya angkat pemadam ini, maka berserulah "Pemadam!"

Murid- muridnya pun mengerti dan mengikuti. Si guru berganti-gantian mengangkat antara kanan dan kiri tangannya, semakin lama semakin cepat. Beberapa saat kemudian si guru kembali berkata,

"Baik sekarang perhatikan. Jika saya angkat kapur, maka berserulah "Pemadam!", jika saya angkat pemadam, maka katakanlah "Kapur!".

Dan diulangkan seperti tadi, tentu saja murid-murid tadi keliru dan janggal, dan sangat sukar untuk membiasakan diri. Namun lambat laun, mereka sudah biasa dan tidak lagi kekok. Selang beberapa saat, permainan berhenti. Si guru tersenyum kepada murid-muridnya.

"Anak-anak, begitulah kita ummat Islam. Mulanya yang haq itu haq, yang bathil itu bathil. Kita begitu jelas dapatmembezakannya. Namun kemudian, musuh- musuh kita mencucuk dakyah mereka dengan pelbagai cara, untuk menukarkan sesuatu, dari yang haq menjadi bathil, dan sebaliknya."

"Pada mulanya mungkin akan sukar bagi kita menerima hal tersebut, tapi kerana terus disogok dengan cara-cara menarik oleh mereka, akhirnya lambat laun kalian terbiasa dengan hal itu. Dan anda mula dapat mengikuti rentaknya. Musuh-musuh kalian tidak pernah berhenti membalik dan menukar nilai dan etika."

"Keluar berduaan, berkasih-kasihan tidak lagi sesuatu yang pelik, zina tidak lagi jadi persoalan, pakaian seksi menjadi hal yang lumrah, seks sebelum nikah menjadi suatu hiburan dan trend,materialistik kini menjadi suatu gaya hidup dan lain lain."

"Semuanya sudah terbalik. Dan tanpa disedari, sedikit demi sedikit anda menerimanya. Faham?" tanya Guru kepada murid-muridnya."

"Faham cikgu..."

"Baik permainan kedua..." begitu Guru melanjutkan.

"Cikgu ada Qur'an, cikgu akan letakkannya di tengah karpet. Sekarang anda berdiri di luar karpet. Permainannya adalah, bagaimana caranya mengambil Qur'an yang ada di tengah tanpa memijak karpet?"

Murid-muridnya berpikir . Ada yang mencuba alternatif dengan tongkat, dan lain-lain.

Akhirnya si Guru memberikan jalan keluar, digulungnya karpet, dan ia ambil Qur'an. Ia memenuhi syarat, tidak memijak karpet.

"Murid-murid, begitulah ummat Islam dan musuh-musuhnya...Musuh-musuh Islam tidak akan memijak-mijak anda dengan terang-terang...Kerana tentu anda akan menolaknya mentah mentah. Orang biasapun tak akan rela kalau Islam dihina dihadapan mereka. Tapi mereka akan menggulung anda perlahan-lahan dari pinggir, sehingga anda tidak sedar."

"Jika seseorang ingin membuat rumah yang kuat, maka dibina tapak yang kuat. Begitulah Islam, jika ingin kuat, maka bangunlah aqidah yang kuat."

" Sebaliknya, jika ingin membongkar rumah, tentu susah kalau dibuka tapaknya dulu, tentu saja hiasan-hiasan dinding akan dikeluarkan dulu, kerusi dipindahkan dulu, Almari dibuang dulu satu persatu, baru rumah dihancurkan..."

"Begitulah musuh-musuh Islam menghancurkan kita. Ia tidak akan menghentam terang-terangan, tapi ia akan perlahan-lahan meletihkan anda.""Mulai dari perangai anda, cara hidup, pakaian dan lain-lain, sehingga meskipun anda muslim, tapi anda telah meninggalkan ajaran Islam dan mengikuti cara yang mereka tunjukkan...
Dan itulah yang mereka inginkan."

"Ini semua adalah fenomena Ghazwul Fikri (perang pemikiran). Dan inilah yang dijalankan oleh musuh musuh kita..

"Kenapa mereka tidak berani terang-terang memijak-mijak cikgu?" tanya mereka

"Sesungguhnya dahulu mereka terang-terang menyerang, misalnya Perang Salib, Perang Tartar, dan lain-lain. Tapi sekarang tidak lagi… Jangan tercengan lagi. Ayuh kita kejutkan umat Islam lain yg masih tertidur.

Science fails to explain GOD

"At an educational institution: Professing to be wise, they became fools .... "LET ME EXPLAIN THE problem science has with God." The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his new students to stand."You're a Muslim, aren't you, son?"

Yes, sir." "So you believe in God?"....."Absolutely."
"Is God good?"
"Sure! God's good."
"Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?"
"Yes."
The professor grins knowingly and considers for a moment.
"Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and you can cure him. You can do it. Would you help them? Would you try?"
"Yes sir, I would."
"So you're good...!"
"I wouldn't say that."
Why not say that? You would help a sick and maimed person if you could
in fact most of us would if we could... God doesn't.
[No answer]
He doesn't, does he? My brother was a Muslim who died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him. How is this God good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?"
[No answer]
The elderly man is sympathetic. "No, you can't, can you?" He takes a sip of water from a glass on his desk to give the student time to relax.
In philosophy, you have to go easy with the new ones.
Let's start again, young fella."
"Is God good?"
Er... Yes."
"Is Satan good?"
"No."
"Where does Satan come from?" The student falters.
From... God...
That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? The elderly man runs his bony fingers through his thinning hair and turns to the smirking, student audience.
"I think we're going to have a lot of fun this semester, ladies and gentlemen."
He turns back to the Muslim. "Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?"
"Yes, sir."
"Evil's everywhere, isn't it? Did God make everything?"
"Yes."
Who created evil?
[No answer]
Is there sickness in this world? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All the terrible things - do they exist in this world?"
The student squirms on his feet. "Yes."
Who created them? "
[No answer]
The professor suddenly shouts at his student.
"WHO CREATED THEM? TELL ME, PLEASE!"
The professor closes in for the kill and climbs into the Muslim's face.
In a still small voice: "God created all evil, didn't He, son?"
[No answer]
The student tries to hold the steady, experienced gaze and fails. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away to pace the front of the classroom
like an aging panther.
The class is mesmerised.
"Tell me," he continues,How is it that this God is good if He created all evil throughout all time?
The professor swishes his arms around to encompass the wickedness of the world.
All the hatred, the brutality, all the pain, all the torture, all the death and ugliness and all the suffering created by this good God is
all over the world, isn't it, young man?
[No answer]
Don't you see it all over the place? Huh?
Pause.
"Don't you?"
The professor leans into the student's face again and whispers, Is God good?"
[No answer]
"Do you believe in God, son?"
The student's voice betrays him and cracks.
"Yes, professor. I do."
The old man shakes his head sadly. "Science says you have five senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. You have never seen God, Have you?
"No, sir. I've never seen Him."
"Then tell us if you've ever heard your God?"
"No, sir. I have not."
"Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God or smelt your God...in fact,do you have any sensory perception of your God whatsoever?"
[No answer]
"Answer me, please."
"No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't."
"You're AFRAID... you haven't?"
"No, sir."
"Yet you still believe in him?"
"...yes..."
"That takes FAITH!" The professor smiles sagely at the underling. According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Where is your God now?"
[The student doesn't answer]
"Sit down, please."
The Muslim sits...Defeated.
Another Muslim raises his hand. "Professor, may I address the class?"
The professor turns and smiles. "Ah, another Muslim in the vanguard!
Come,come, young man. Speak some proper wisdom to the gathering."
The Muslim looks around the room. "Some interesting points you are making, sir. Now I've got a question for you.
"Is there such thing as heat?"
Yes, the professor replies. "There's heat."
"Is there such a thing as cold?"
"Yes, son, there's cold too."
"No, sir, there isn't."
The professor's grin freezes. The room suddenly goes very cold. The second Muslim continues.
You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat but we don't have anything called 'cold'.
We can hit 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold, otherwise we would be able to go colder than 458 - - You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.
"Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it."
Silence.
A pin drops somewhere in the classroom.
"Is there such a thing as darkness, professor?"
"That's a dumb question, son. What is night if it isn't darkness?
What are you getting at...?
"So you say there is such a thing as darkness?"
"Yes..."
"You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not
something, it is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light,
flashing light but if you have no light constantly you have nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? That's the meaning we use to define the word. In reality, Darkness isn't. If it were, you would
be able to make darkness darker and give me a jar of it.
Can you...give me a jar of darker darkness, professor?"
Despite himself, the professor smiles at the young effrontery before him.This will indeed be a good semester.
"Would you mind telling us what your point is, young man?"
"Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with and so your conclusion must be in error...."
"The professor goes toxic. "Flawed...? How dare you...!"
"Sir, may I explain what I mean?"
The class is all ears.
"Explain... oh, explain..." The professor makes an admirable effort to regain control. Suddenly he is affability itself.
He waves his hand to silence the class, for the student to continue.
"You are working on the premise of duality," the Muslim explains. That for example there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite,
something we can measure. Sir, science cannot even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism but has never seen, much less
fully understood them. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
"Death is not the opposite of life, merely the absence of it." The young man holds up a newspaper he takes from the desk of a neighbour who has been reading it.
"Here is one of the most disgusting tabloids this country hosts, professor. Is there such a thing as immorality?"
"Of course there is, now look..."
"Wrong again, sir. You see, immorality is merely the absence of morality. Is there such thing as injustice? No." Injustice is the absence of justice. Is there such a thing as evil?"The Muslim pauses.
"Isn't evil the absence of good?"
The professor's face has turned an alarming colour. He is so angry he is temporarily speechless.
The Muslim continues. "If there is evil in the world, professor, and we all agree there is, then God, if he exists, must be accomplishing a work through the agency of evil.
What is that work, God is accomplishing? Islam tells us it is to see if each one of us will, choose good over evil."
The professor bridles. "As a philosophical scientist, I don't vie this matter as having anything to do with any choice; as a realist, I absolutely do not recognize the concept of God or any other
theological factor as being part of the world equation because God is not observable."
"I would have thought that the absence of God's moral code in this world is probably one of the most observable phenomena going," the
Muslim replies.
"Newspapers make billions of dollars reporting it every week! Tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?"
"If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes,of course I do."
"Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?"
The professor makes a sucking sound with his teeth and gives his student a silent, stony stare.
"Professor. Since no-one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour,
are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a priest?"
"I will overlook your impudence in the light of our
philosophical discussion. Now, have you quite finished?" the professor hisses.
"So you don't accept God's moral code to do what is righteous?"
"I believe in what is - that's science!"
"Ahh! SCIENCE!" the student's face splits into a grin.
"Sir, you rightly state that science is the study of observed phenomena. Science too is a premise which is flawed..."
"SCIENCE IS FLAWED..?" the professor splutters.
The class is in uproar.The Muslim remains standing until the commotion has subsided.
"To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, may I give you an example of what I mean?"
The professor wisely keeps silent. The Muslim looks around the room.
"Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen air, Oxygen, molecules, atoms, the professor's brain?"
The class breaks out in laughter. The Muslim points towards his elderly, crumbling tutor.
Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain... felt the professor's brain, touched or smelt the professor's brain?"
No one appears to have done so. The Muslim shakes his head sadly. It appears no-one here has had any sensory perception of the professor's brain whatsoever. Well, according to the rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science, I DECLARE that the professor has NO BRAIN." hahahahahhaaaaa

NOW IT IS EVERYONE'S CHANCE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ISLAM, ABOUT GOD, ABOUT THE PURPOSE OF EXISTANCE, CREATION & LIFE, ABOUT THE PROPHETS OF GOD, & ABOUT HIS HOLY BOOKS, ESPECIALLY THE HOLY QUR'AAN. THEN IT IS YOUR CHOICE TO BECOME A MUSLIM, OR NOT. ALLAAH SAYS IN THE HOLY:

"THERE IS NO COMPULSION IN RELIGION "

There is no compulsion in religion; truly the right way has become clearly distinct from error; And he who rejects false deities and believes in Allaah(The God) has grasped a firm handhold which will never break. and Allaah is ALL-Hearing, All-Knowing(256)

Allah is the Protecting Guardian of those who believe. He brings them out of the darkness into the light; As for those who disbelieve, their
guardians are false deities. They bring them out of light into darkness...(257)"

AL-QUR'AAN (CHAPTER # 2, VERSES # 256-257) They are much nicer and more sound in Arabic)

The Muslim sits... Because that is what a chair is for!!!

copied from http://khazz.blogspot.com/2006/02/science-fails-to-explain-g od.html