Dear Sketchbook

 

 "Ajaibnya perihal seorang mukmin itu. Sesungguhnya semua urusannya baik-baik belaka. Dan tiadalah memiliki ciri yang seperti ini melainkan hanya kepada seorang yang mukmin. Sekiranya dia diuji dengan kesenangan, lalu dia bersyukur. Maka syukur itu adalah yang terbaik baginya. Sekiranya dia diuji dengan kesusahan, lalu dia bersabar. Maka sabar itu adalah yang terbaik baginya." 

"Apabila kerja-kerja Islam dapat diteruskan maka sebenarnya kita MENANG!" ulasan kata-kata Al-Marhum Ustaz Fadzil Mohd Noor.

Lalu kalau kita sudah tahu bahwa lafadz ini bukan doa dari hadits nabawi, juga kita tidak membenarkan iming-iming dan janji atas khasiat doa ini, karena tidak bersumber dari diri nabi Muhammad SAW, apakah terlarang mengucapkannya di awal dan akhir tahun? 

Kalau pertanyaannya seperti ini, tentu saja pada hakikatnya tidak ada larangan. Karena yang namanya doa itu ada dua macam. Pertama doa yang lafadznya berasal dari Al-Quran dan Sunnah. Ini adalah doa yang paling afdhal dan berpahala lebih besar.

Kedua, doa yang teksnya boleh kita karang sendiri. Doa seperti ini pada hakikatnya secara hukum tidak terlarang, sebab mungkin saja seseorang punya permintaan yang lebih spesifik kepada Allah SWT. Tidak ada satu pun nash yang melarang seseorang meminta sesuatu yang spesifik kepada Allah SWT. Maka untuk itu, kita boleh saja berdoa dan meminta sesuatu kepada Allah SWT dengan lafadz yang kita buat sendiri. 

Dan kalau ada ulama yang membuat gubahan lafadz doa, tentu saja kita juga boleh menggunakan lafadz itu untuk berdoa. Asalkan kita tidak mengklaimnya sebagai doa ajaran dari Rasulullah SAW, atau tidak mengatakan sebagai doa yang bersifat baku di dalam agama.

Berasaskan minda yang terbuka, tidak ada salahnya membaca doa ini selagimana tidak terlintas di hati pembacanya bahawa ia disyarakkan atau diperintah oleh agama kita. Begitu juga kerana maknanya pun tidak menyalahi syarak. Kita tidak perlu terhad kepada kaifiat yang didatangkan bersama-sama doa ini, seperti kaifiat doa awal tahun hendaklah di baca selepas Magrhrib 1 Muharram. 

Disebabkan maknanya baik, tidak kiralah waktu dan hari apapun, baca sahajalah doa ini dengan mengharapkan Allah mengkabulkan doa tersebut. 

Pada pendapat penulis, doa ini adalah lebih baik tidak diamalkan samaada individu ada secara berjemaah. Kerana terbukti bahawa ia datang dari riwayat yang palsu dan batil. Kerana ia juga dikuatiri bahawa masyarakat akan menganggap bahawa amalan ini adalah sunnah yang datang dari baginda s.a.w atau dari sahabat nabi r.a. Lihat sahaja bilangan bacaan yang digalakkan untuk membacanya(sebanyak tiga kali), siapakah yang mengesyorkannya begitu? sudah tentu bukan sama sekali  dari Allah s.w.t dan  RasulNya.

In love?

Are you in love? LOVE is a pleasure; love is happiness and peace. Love makes your days blossom with flowers of merriment and flourish in beauty. It gives extraordinary power to strive on even though nothing is left. It pours calm and homely comforts to the soul… With love, life is destined to continue; "I can live on because of him…" Life is meaningful because of love. The power of love brings you gliding through the clouds on a flying carpet ride. Everything seems right, perfect and complete with the presence of love. Love is the secret behind the writers of love letters and romantic poems. Love is the hero of sacrifices eternally made throughout time.

Our beloved Prophet (P.B.U.H) highlighted love - Narrated by Abu Dharr: The prophet said: "The BEST of all actions is to LOVE for the sake of ALLAH and to hate for the sake of ALLAH" (Abu Dawud).

But wait! What about our love story with the "Number One Lover"? HE, who should be number one in all priorities of love of a Muslim. Have you ever wondered about it? Have you ever given a thought about this LOVE? Do you have this love? Are your sure of that love? Is it true that you love ALLAH more than anything? Allah … He who created man with LOVE and tender…

This is the actual strength that reshapes all your desires and feelings. This is the genuine strength that provides soul to everything that you are attracted to and have affection for. It becomes significant and it carries weight. You will never ever be rejected by this lover. This lover gives the best for His admirers, for this love is real. He is always there, watching and protecting His lovers from dawn to dusk, 25 hours a day and 8 days a week. He provides help to all needy. His bounties never run out. His helps are guaranteed. Ask and you will be given.

Do you realize that He really loves you? Why can't we love Him with all our hearts? Is there any uncertainty with His love, for all this while He is giving us health and wealth? Look around you and feel His love within. Your sight, taste, feelings and intelligence are out of His generosity. Above all, He gave us IMAN and ISLAM – the prime nikmat (gifts) of all.

Narrated by Anas: The Prophet said: "Whoever possesses the following three qualities will have the delights of faith: the one to whom ALLAH and His Apostle love dearer than anything else; the one who loves or hates a person only for the sake of ALLAH and one who hates to revert to Atheism (disbelief) in the same manner as he hates to be thrown into the hellfire" (Sahih Bukhari).

There is no significant love other than ALLAH's. Loving ALLAH is everything to a Mukmin as this love cannot be compared to any love on earth. Deep in the hearts of His lovers is the dire hope to see The Beloved One on the Ultimate day.

Seeking ALLAH’s love,

Ummu Salamah

"Indeed, We sent the Qur'an down during the Night of Decree.

And what can make you know what is the Night of Decree?

The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months.

The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter.

Peace it is until the emergence of dawn."

O Allah please Forgive me...

“Ish...ish.. Oh Allah…I am so sad” The midterm marks are evaluated and no chance to increase it, no errors in the markings. “How was your exam?” “Was the paper easy? – Surely you did them excellently!” a very sensitive question but a norm to us students. Attached to it are answers such as: “Okla, plus minus…surely you are better.” Moreover, some would utter, “Please don’t ask...” – not sure whether negative or positive.

These are sweet and sour obstacles of a student’s life. Either pass or fail; a two twist of fate that is actually unpredictable. We can strive hard to achieve the best but even so, above that are Allah’s plans. The truth is that we cannot run from frustrations, depressions and miseries because we are human beings designed as His creation. The piece of us that weakens the strengths to struggle and filter the iradah from Allah swt. Why do we feel sad?

Oh heart, don’t feel sad, do not be depress. Allah never has and will never test us with what we are unable to endure. This is His promise. If we pass or fail, it is to be quantified by Allah’s measuring scale, not ours. Let us check ourselves, are we sad, frustrate of what we have done followed by the spirit to improve? Do we have the force to prove the success we should gain in each hardship?

Do not be sad… Only those who are not Mukmin should feel the misery, not us for we have Allah swt to judge with the most acute measure. There are two types of sadness faced by humankind. One is al-Hazan, the feeling of sadness that has occurred in our past and remembered. The second is al-Hamun, arrive from something that has not happened but stressed by the thought that it will take place.

With two types of sadness, are two different ways to face it. First, one thinks so hard about one’s problem. This is what a person with a weak soul and faith would do. On the other hand, those who have a strong and noble soul, who are clear in heart, they would think beyond the problem, which is to think and plan the way out. They think to solve and they act to improve. They give themselves hundreds of reasons why they must obtain knowledge. They convince themselves it is their jihad. In reality it is Allah we are seeking via this quest for knowledge. Is that not the highest possible goal? Is that not sufficient to drive a believer’s heart?