Babysteps Sebuah Perjuangan

Mengambil keputusan menyusuri jalan dakwah penuh cabaran, bukan suatu keputusan yang datang dalam keadaan senda gurau untuk bermain-main dan mencuba-cuba. Kewajipan dakwah adalah satu hakikat dalam kehidupan seorang muslim, untuk mengislahkan manusia, dan juga menyeru manusia untuk kembali kepada Allah.

Sepertimana iman, Dakwah seorang daei juga berada dalam marhalah (tingkatan) tertentu. Setiap daei mungkin menjalani marhalah-marhalah dakwah ini dalam kehidupannya, bergerak dari satu peringkat dakwah ke peringkat yang lebih tinggi. Senantiasa sang dae’I membaiki diri, metod dan pendekatan dakwahnya. Marhalah dakwah ini boleh kita ibaratkan seperti langkah-langkah kehidupan seorang bayi yang menjalani tumbesaran hidup dengan ceria dan kesungguhan.

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There is one time that I remembered my mother told me a story about her Ustaz with regards to bad driving habits among Malaysians. Her ustaz told her that whenever he drives, he will take off his ‘kopiah’ because he sometimes break minor traffic rules which he afraid his action will result into ‘fitnah’ to other people who wore ‘kopiah’.

Pengajaran daripada cerita di atas adalah perlunya kita ‘evaluate’ diri kita, sejauh mana perbuatan kita membawa fitnah dan kerosakan kepada orang lain. Lebih-lebih lagi kepada mereka yang menggelarkan diri mereka sebagai da’ei atau pendokong agama Islam. Apabila mereka yang bergelar da’ei terlibat dengan perkara-perkara maksiat yang terang lagi bersuluh seperti pergaulan tidak terbatas sesama lelaki perempuan dan sebagainya, mereka ini telah membawa satu fitnah yang besar kepada Islam dan secara tidak langsung telah mempersendakan usaha dakwah itu sendiri. Sekiranya usaha memartabatkan Islam disandang oleh mereka yang mempunyai fikrah Islamiyyah yang rapuh, usahlah kita berbicara mengenai agenda Ustaziyyatul ‘Alam.

Maaf jika ada yang mengharapkan penulisan yang lebih ‘tone-down’ dan lebih banyak ‘sugar-coating’ tetapi kini isu ini adalah kritikal kepada jatuh dan bangunnya sebuah gerakan Islam itu sendiri. Mungkin sudah tiba masanya untuk kita mengambil langkah yang lebih tegas dan proaktif supaya perkara seperti ini tidak berjangkit kepada sahabat-sahabat yang kita sayangi?

Sebelum ini, saya sangat suka dengan kata-kata ni (untuk naikkan semangat bila malas salah satu):

Study is the priority, but da’awa is not the second

Studi itu yang utama, tapi dakwah tak jatuh nombor dua.

Sekarang, alhamdulillah, baru saya sedari, pepatah ni tak beberapa sesuai sebenarnya. Kita boleh qiaskan kepada beberapa anologi:

Kereta adalah penting, tapi tayar tak kurang pentingnya.

atau

Laptop adalah yang utama, tapi tetikus bukan jatuh nombor dua.

Seperti lucu bunyinya. Tapi itulah silap saya selama ini!

Lainlah kalau kita bandingkan:

Stereng adalah penting, tapi tayar tak kurang pentingnya.

atau

Keyboard yang paling utama, tapi mouse bukan jatuh nombor dua.

Barulah adil untuk perbandingan ini. Kerana kedua-dua calon sama tarafnya. ini tidak, nak bandingkan dakwah dan study, awal-awal dah silap, kerana study ‘tak layak untuk dicalonkan’. Dakwah ‘menang tanpa bertanding’. Betul kan?

Study subset kepada dakwah.

Dakwah itu tidak terhad, dan studi itu salah satu ‘alat’ menuju dakwah. Jadi??

“Hai orang-orang yang beriman, masuklah kamu ke dalam Islam secara keseluruhannya..”[Al-Baqarah, 2:208]

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Assalamualaikum,

Mari kenali Deborah Dapper. Seorang remaja perempuan Britain berumur 13 tahun yang berpegang kuat dengan kristian. Beliau hidup dengan ibu dan ayah serta 10 lagi adik-beradik yang lain. Mari kita contohi kehebatan beliau berpegang kepada prinsip agama. Kekentalan beliau berdakwah walaupun dalam suasana yang tidak mesra dakwah. Bagaimana dengan kita? Banyak perkara yang saya pasti kita tidak setuju, namun ambillah yang positif sebagai pemangkin semangat menambah ilmu dan memperhebatkan dakwah islamiyah.

Selamat menonton

Deborah 13 : Servant of God part 1

Assalamualaikum wrt wbt..

Stages of Change, it might sound really familiar to some especially medical students because you might happen to learn it in the Behavioral Science class or tutorial. But bear with me for a while. We may practically use it in medical career but it is also very useful as a tool of self improvement and da’wah.

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I just watched one documentary by BBC about America’s Most Hated Family. This story revolves around a family who indoctrinate one of the sect minister in Christianity who hold a belief which I found interesting. They seems like holding firmly to the essence of the teaching of Christianity although their approach is seemingly intrusive and harsh in the eye of the American public. They held the belief that the people in US doomed because participating in the war in Iraq and God condemned those US army who died in the war in Iraq because they did not believe with the War in Iraq. So they condemning the soldiers who died by picketing at the funeral of the soldiers who died in Iraq.

I am neither condoning nor accepting their doctrine but what interest me the most is the firm belief they hold on the transgression act of people such as homosexual relationship which is currently being publicize as if those who cannot accept the homosexuals are portrayed as being bigot and narrow minded. They hold strongly with their belief that homosexual is a corrupted act and those involved with this act will be condemned to hell in the Hereafter. To hold so strong and to publicly picketing with their belief with the mindset of they are propagating the belief of the Jesus (as) to remind people that they have transgressed and they need to come back to the pure path of Christianity can be seen as an honorable and brave act. They are fueled by their desire to save the other people from being condemned to Hell in afterlife.

When the journalist ask one of the daughter within the family about being hated by friends because of their belief and action, her answer strikes me the most. She said roughly that anything in this temporal life should be put on the least priority and to work for the God should be the utmost important thing in this life because I AM AFRAID of the God wrath.

Subhanallah, they dedicated their lives according to their belief while we have Muslims who do not even care about our own religion. We spend MOST of our time on things that is useless and have no added value towards Islam. We spend more time watching stupid movie videos, hundreds of episodes of cliché drama and television shows more than we spend time on learning about our own religion.

That is what exactly Syeikh Hamza Yusuf said, we have thousands of great kitab and scriptures that have been unread an unopened for centuries because of our own sad attitude towards knowledge! We claimed that we are the true religion but we do not appreciate Islam and even worst, we distorted the presentation pure image of Islam to the non-Muslim. The non-muslims steer away from Islam because of our own attitude and action that does not represent the true meaning of being a Muslim.

I hope this will be a great reminder mainly for myself and for all my fellow friends. Dr Bilal Philips once said that Islam and Iman are like respect, it is something you have to earn and do not come by inheritance. Yes, we can have Islam inscribed as a religion in our Malaysia Identity Card (IC) however being a muslim is about choice and sacrifice and we become a true muslim when when we completely submit ourselves to the will of God above our own desire (nafs).

Wallahua’lam.