Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Imam perlu prihatin dengan keadaan makmum

Petang tadi dalam perjalanan pulang ke rumah aku solat asar di sebuah masjid yang jarang aku singgahi. Aku agak terlewat dan masuk ke masjid, Imam baru memberikan salam. 

Seperti biasa, kami dan beberapa jemaah lain yang lewat membuat jemaah baru, diimamkan oleh seorang anak muda. Anda mungkin pernah merasainya, tetapi bersolat dalam keadaan imam sedang berwirid memang menyeksakan. Apa lagi dengan mikrofon yang tergantung di dadanya, Imam berwirid seolah-olah hanya dunia ini dia yang punya.

Peliknya, itulah amalan biasa masyarakat kita. Wirid secara jahar, deras, nyaring  tanpa menghiraukan  jemaah lain yang mungkin sedang solat.  Anehnya, menjaharkan wirid ini berlaku walaupun pada solat Asar dan Zuhr walaupun bacaan di dalam solat-solat ini sepatutnya dibaca secara sirr, perlahan. Apabila solat Imam membaca senyap, tetapi apabila sudah solat lantas berzikir secara lantang.

 

foto: http://alrisalah.wordpress.com


Jangan tersilap; saya tidak mempertikaikan tentang Imam bersama makmum melakukan zikir dan wirid selepas solat, walaupun ada orang yang mempersoalkannya. Itu bukan isunya di sini. 

Yang saya timbulkan ialah kenapa Imam-imam tidak dilatih supaya sensitif dengan persekitaran dan bertindak sewajarnya. Kenapa Imam-imam tidak didedahkan dengan fiqh awlawiyat, yakni memahami keutamaan sesuatu amalan dan  mengutamakan yang awla, yang lebih tinggi darjatnya berbanding yang kurang utama.

Nabi (saw) mengajar Imam supaya sensitif dengan apa yang berlaku di kalangan jemaahnya. Imam perlu prihatin dengan makmum yang mungkin  berkeperluan, dengan apa jua keperluan tersebut. Kita semua tahu mengenai kebiasaan Rasulullah memendekkan solat apabila mendengar tangisan anak.
Kita juga pernah mendengar tentang arahan Nabi kepada Muaz  agar tidak terlalu memanjangkan bacaan surah. Imam digalakkan untuk memanjangkan ruku’ jika mendengar ada makmum yang baru tiba, agar beliau tidak tertinggal rakaat. Imam boleh membaca panjang sedikit semasa rakaat pertama jika itu boleh mengurangkan jemaah yang masbuk. Ini adalah di antara beberapa panduan yang sangat praktikal yang patut diajarkan kepada Imam-imam masjid dan surau.

Imam dan makmum juga perlu tahu awlawiyat, keutamaan amal.  Wirid dan zikir selepas solat bukan fardhu, tidak diwajibkan. Imam dan makmum boleh meninggalkannya atau memendekkannya jika ada keperluan. Apa lagi apabila ia bertembung dengan perkara yang dilarang, yakni mengganggu jemaah yang sedang solat fardhu. Imam perlu difahamkan bahawa meneruskan berzikir dan wirid dengan nyaring menyebabkan jemaah yang sedang solat sukar memperolehi khusyu’ di dalam solat mereka.  Maknanya zikir yang sepatutnya mendatangkan pahala mungkin mengundang dosa. 

Alangkah baiknya jika Imam sentiasa prihatin memerhatikan keadaan sekeliling bertindak mengikut apa yang dilihatnya. Mungkin di antara hikmah  disunatkan Imam berpaling ke kanan atau menghadap makmum selepas salam ialah bagi membolehkan Imam memerhati keadaan makmum dan bertindak sewajarnya.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Pedoman AlQuran 104

Hukum yang ditetapkan Allah bagi jenayah Hirabah (samun, rompakan bersenjata dan yang seumpamanya).
Jika penjenayah hirabah bertaubat sebelum mereka tertangkap, mereka tidak dikenakan hukuman hudud (dengan syarat  menunaikan hak-hak orang yang mereka dzalimi). Jika mereka bertaubat setelah tertangkap, maka mereka tetap dikenakan hukuman hudud.




Hanyasanya balasan orang-orang yang memerangi Allah dan RasulNya serta melakukan bencana kerosakan di muka bumi ialah dengan dibalas bunuh (kalau mereka membunuh sahaja dengan tidak merampas), atau dipalang (kalau mereka membunuh dan merampas), atau dipotong tangan dan kaki mereka bersilang (kalau mereka merampas sahaja), atau dibuang negeri (kalau mereka hanya mengganggu ketenteraman umum). Hukuman yang demikian itu adalah suatu kehinaan di dunia bagi mereka, dan di akhirat kelak mereka beroleh azab seksa yang amat besar.
Kecuali orang-orang yang bertaubat sebelum kamu dapat menangkapnya, (mereka terlepas dari hukuman itu). Maka ketahuilah, bahawasanya Allah Maha Pengampun, lagi Maha Mengasihani. [Surah Almaidah: 33-34]

Monday, December 21, 2009

Hendak ke Mana Anda? 10


Kita tidak rela jika kita disamakan dengan haiwan dan
unggas yang bertindak berasakan nafsu dan naluri,



Jersey Cow
yang mempunyai otak tetapi tiada fikiran.

Kita akan melenting jika kita disebangsakan dengan  kera, kucing atau lembu.

Tapi tahukah anda.. ada orang yang suka kalau umat  manusia; dia, anda dan saya disebangsakan, disamakan saja dengan
haiwan?

Dia amat suka kalau boleh dibuktikan bahawa manusia dengan binatang ni seiring sejalan, bahawa tiada
perbezaan antara manusia dan unggas dan haiwan. Suka
benar dia kalau kita semua bangsa manusia ini dilonggokkan sebagai
‘binatang yang pandai’ atau ‘spesis haiwan peringkat
tinggi”.

Kenapa ya?

Sebabnya mudah saja.

Jika manusia sebangsa dengan haiwan, hidupnya tak
perlu berbeza dengan binatang. Gampang Pak! Semuanya
diukur dengan nilaian "tepuk dada tanya selera!"

Semua ditanggung beres!

Macam disebutkan dalam ayat 12 Surah Muhammad, manusia
yang hidupnya umpama haiwan hanya perlu makan dan
bersenang senang..

Makan. Pergi kerja, cari makan. Makan. Berehat.
Berhibur. Tidur. Makan. Pergi kerja, cari makan.
Makan. Berehat. Berhibur. Tidur.....

Itu saja rutin hidupnya.

Jika manusia sebangsa binatang, tiada tujuan hidup
manusia selain “ makan, cari makan,berehat, berhibur,
tidur.”

Jika manusia hanyalah 'an intelligent animal' ia hidup
untuk “ makan, cari makan,berehat, berhibur, tidur.”.

Tiada hukum Tuhan, tidak perlu hidayah, tidak perlu peraturan hidup, tidak
perlu adab, tidak perlu etika, tidak perlu akhlak,
tidak perlu ibadat, tiada pembalasan akhirat!

Hasilnya manusia boleh berbuat apa saja untuk mencapai
kepuasan hidup. Ikut naluri, ikut instinct, ikut
nafsu …tepuk dada tanya perut.

Hidup sekali saja beb! Bujur lalu melintang patah.
Dosa pahala belakang kira!

http://animals.timduru.org/dirlist/monkey/3-monkeys-ComicPosition.gifMahukah kita termasuk di dalam kumpulan ini yang diceritakan oleh Allah di dalam Surah Al-A'raf : Ayat 179?


Dan sesungguhnya Kami jadikan untuk Neraka Jahannam banyak
dari jin dan manusia yang mempunyai hati (tetapi) tidak mahu
memahami dengannya (ayat-ayat Allah), dan yang mempunyai mata
(tetapi) tidak mahu melihat dengannya (bukti keesaan Allah)
dan yang mempunyai telinga (tetapi) tidak mahu mendengar
dengannya (ajaran dan nasihat); mereka itu seperti binatang
ternak, bahkan mereka lebih sesat lagi; mereka itulah orang-orang yang lalai.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Pedoman AlQuran 103

Umat Islam bertuah kerana mempunyai kitab alQuran yang membawa cahaya menyuluh jalan yang lurus di dalam kehidupan bagi memperolehi keredhaan Ilahi serta keselamatan hidup di dunia dan akhirat.



Sesungguhnya telah datang kepadamu cahaya dari Allah, dan kitab yang menerangkan Dengan kitab itulah Allah menunjuki orang-orang yang mengikuti keredhaan-Nya ke jalan keselamatan, dan (dengan kitab itu pula) Allah mengeluarkan orang-orang itu dari gelap gulita kepada cahaya yang terang benderang dengan seizin-Nya, dan menunjuki mereka ke jalan yang lurus. (Surah AlMaidah: 15-16)

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Tazkirah Baba Ali

Lagi satu tazkirah bersahaja dari Baba Ali kali ini mengenai sebahagian Muslim yang  takut untuk menyerlahkan menunjukkan dirinya sebagai orang Islam/orang dakwah di tempat kerja, berbeza dengan ketika berada di Masjid atau di halaqah dan usrah.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Pedoman AlQuran 102

Pengajaran dari Bani Israel. Allah mengambil perjanjian dari mereka: tunaikan solat, keluarkan zakat, beriman dengan Rasul, bantu risalah Rasul,  dan bersedekah di Jalan-Nya dengan sempurna. Allah janjikan balasan yang baik bagi yang menyempurnakan semua ini.


Dan demi sesungguhnya! Allah telah mengambil perjanjian setia Bani Israil (supaya mereka menjunjung perintahNya dan menjauhi laranganNya), dan Kami telah utuskan dari kalangan mereka dua belas ketua (untuk memimpin golongan masing-masing); dan Allah berfirman (kepada mereka): "Bahawa Aku adalah beserta kamu (memerhati segala-galanya). Demi sesungguhnya jika kamu dirikan sembahyang, serta kamu tunaikan zakat, dan kamu beriman dengan segala Rasul (utusanku) serta menolong bantu mereka (dalam menegakkan ugama Allah), dan kamu pinjamkan Allah (dengan sedekah dan berbuat baik pada jalanNya) secara pinjaman yang baik (bukan kerana riak dan mencari keuntungan dunia), sudah tentu Aku akan ampunkan dosa-dosa kamu, dan Aku akan masukkan kamu ke dalam Syurga yang mengalir di bawahnya beberapa sungai. Oleh itu, sesiapa yang kufur ingkar di antara kamu sesudah yang demikian, maka sesungguhnya sesatlah ia dari jalan yang betul" 
[Surah Almaidah: 12]

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Pedoman AlQuran 101

Tegakkan keadilan kerana itu dekat dengan taqwa. Jangan kebencian kepada sesuatu kumpulan manusia menyebabkan kita tidak berlaku adil.
 

Wahai orang-orang yang beriman, hendaklah kamu semua sentiasa menjadi orang-orang yang menegakkan keadilan kerana Allah, lagi menerangkan kebenaran; dan jangan sekali-kali kebencian kamu terhadap sesuatu kaum itu mendorong kamu kepada tidak melakukan keadilan. Hendaklah kamu berlaku adil (kepada sesiapa jua) kerana sikap adil itu lebih hampir kepada taqwa. Dan bertaqwalah kepada Allah, sesungguhnya Allah Maha Mengetahui dengan mendalam akan apa yang kamu lakukan.
[Surah Al-maidah:8]

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Berhati-hati menyebarkan maklumat..check those amazing claims.

Biasanya kita suka menyebarkan maklumat yang hampir sama dengan apa yang kita yakini, walaupun maklumat tersebut tidak sohih. Contohnya maklumat yang telah beberapa kali saya terima mengenai Cancer yang kononnya berdasarkan sumber Johns Hopkins University. Biasanya ia bermula begini:

"...AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY..."

Ia biasanya di tutup dengan


"...This is an article that should be shared with anyone important in your life..."

Lihat contoh emel penuh di bawah sekali.

Emel ini dan isinya terbukti palsu...


Tak perlulah kita kongsi maklumat palsu dengan orang lain.
 

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Email Hoax: "Cancer Update From John Hopkins"

Updated April 2009
Mythbusting at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
STATEMENT: EMAIL HOAX REGARDING CANCER
Information falsely attributed to Johns Hopkins called, "CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS" describes properties of cancer cells and suggests ways of preventing cancer.  Johns Hopkins did not publish the information, which often is an email attachment, nor do we endorse its contents.  The email also contains an incorrect spelling of our institution as "John" Hopkins; whereas, the correct spelling is "Johns" Hopkins. For more information about cancer, please read the information on our web site or visit the National Cancer Institute's web site at www.cancer.gov.  Please help combat the spread of this hoax by letting others know of this statement.
Read more: http://www.hopkinskimmelcancercenter.org/index.cfm/cID/1684/mpage/item.cfm/itemID/1016.

January 15, 2008
Email Hoax Regarding Freezing Water Bottles and Microwave Cooking
The Internet is flooded with messages warning against freezing water in plastic bottles or cooking with plastics in the microwave oven. These messages, frequently titled “Johns Hopkins Cancer News” or “Johns Hopkins Cancer Update,” are falsely attributed to Johns Hopkins and we do not endorse their content.
Freezing water does not cause the release of chemicals from plastic bottles.
Read more: http://www.jhsph.edu/dioxins

Cancer Research UK: Hoax email about cancer treatment and causes

We've had quite a few complaints about this email. It says that cancer treatment won't help and may even cause harm. It goes on to say that heating food in microwave ovens will give people cancer. People have been taken in because the email sounds official and says the information comes from an American University called Johns Hopkins.

Overall, the email is rubbish and we’re very sorry that people with cancer have been upset by it. We hope it won’t worry you any more after you’ve read this.

Read more: http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/about-cancer/cancer-questions/hoax-email-about-cancer-treatment-and-causes




From:
To:
Sent: Wed, November 25, 2009 5:34:34 PM
Subject: Facts on Cancer

 
Facts on Cancer

AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.
  1. Every person has cancer cells in the body. These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells because they have not reached the detectable size.
2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.
3 When the person’s immune system is strong the cancer cells will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. These could be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.
5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies, changing diet and including supplements will strengthen the immune system.
6. Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract, etc, and can cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs, etc.
7. Radiation, while destroying cancer cells, also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.
8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However, prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor destruction.
9. When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cel ls to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.
11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply
CANCER CELLS FEED ON:
a. Sugar is a cancer-feeder. By cutting off sugar it cuts off one important food supply to the cancer cells. Sugar substitutes like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made with Aspartame and it is harmful. A better natural substitute would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. Better alternative is Bragg’s amino or sea salt.
b. Milk causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the gastro-intestinal tract. Cancer feeds on mucus. By cutting off milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk cancer cells are being starved.
c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. A meat-based diet is acidic and it is best to eat fish, and a little chicken rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones and parasites, which are all harmful, especially to people with cancer.
d. A diet made of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts and a little fruit help put the body into an alkaline environment. About 20% can be from cooked food including beans. Fresh vegetable juices provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. T o obtain live e nzymes for building healthy cells try and drink fresh vegetable juice (most vegetables including bean sprouts) and eat some raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C).
e. Avoid coffee, tea, and chocolate, which have high caffeine. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer-fighting properties. Best to drink purified water, or filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic; avoid it.
12. Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic buildup.
13. Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body’s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.
14. Some supplements build up the immune system (IP6, Florescence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals, EFAs, etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy cancer cells. Other supplements (like vitamin E) are known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death, the body’s normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
15. Cancer is a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior be a survivor. Anger, unforgiveness and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life.
16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

Things to avoid in your kitchen:
a. No plastic containers in micro.
b. No water bottles in freezer.
c. No plastic wrap in microwave.
Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic.
Recently, Dr. Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital, was on a TV program to explain this health hazard. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using plastic containers. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results, only without the dioxin.
So such things as TV dinners, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn’t bad but you don’t know what is in the paper. It’s just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. The dioxin problem is one of the reasons.
Also, he pointed out that plastic wrap, such as Saran, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead.
Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well.
This is an article that should be shared with anyone important in your life... 

{ false infomation should not be shared}
OY-This is an article that should NOT be shared with anyone important in your life...

 

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Pedoman AlQuran 100

Sentiasalah mengenang pelbagai nikmat yang diberikan Allah kepada kita. Ingatlah janji kita untuk sentiasa taat kepada perintah Allah dan Rasul. Allah mengetahui isi hati manusia.


Dan kenanglah nikmat Allah (yang telah dikurniakanNya) kepada kamu serta ingatlah perjanjianNya yang telah diikatNya dengan kamu, ketika kamu berkata: "Kami dengar dan kami taat (akan perintah-perintah Allah dan RasulNya)" Dan bertaqwalah kamu kepada Allah, kerana sesungguhnya Allah Maha Mengetahui akan segala (isi hati) yang ada di dalam dada. [Surah Almaidah:7]

Saturday, November 21, 2009

We don’t need the costly Sealegs

Dear Editor,

We don’t need the costly Sealegs.




I read with trepidation the statement by Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad
Zahid Hamidi that Malaysia will be the first nation in the world to own
the “Amphibious Sealegs”. (Saturday 21st November)

I don’t know what is the big deal about being the first to purchase such
costly crafts but the Minister need to be informed that it well known
that Sealegs have been around for some time and some foreign governments
has already purchased it.

We should not overlook the fact that the boat is not fully amphibious.
Unlike other amphibious crafts such as hovercrafts, the Sealeg is not an
all-terrain vehicle. Their land transport capability is limited to
proper, hard and relatively smooth terrain.

By virtue of its wheel system, the craft is not suitable for marshes,
muddy beaches, swamps, soft sandy beaches, rocky beaches or soft soil
which characterise most of our sea, rivers and lakes. Therefore the
amphibious capability is very limited and in many cases useless.

I would be very sceptical therefore that the so-called amphibious
capability of the boat will be of any use to our special forces who
definitely require landings in inhospitable terrains during their
operations.

If the Sealegs are purchased for either the civilian or military
applications, I am afraid that in most cases the water craft can only be
used in its water-borne mode. In that case the amphibious capability will
become white elephants. These same water-borne functions and roles could
be easily and cheaply carried out using normal boats which can be
purchased for a fraction of the cost of the Sealegs.

The Sealeg is thus great as rich men’s toys but out of place in any
government agency.