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Busana Yang diperagakan di Festival Busana Islam Dipersoal: NGO Islam nak buat apa?

2010-10-21T07:05:00.011+08:00

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, 20 Okt: Para pemimpin NGO Islam disarankan agar mengkaji tindakan isteri perdana menteri, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor yang disifatkan sebagai menghina Islam ketika menganjurkan Islamic Fashion Festival (IFF).

Bagi anggota Parlimen Titiwangsa, Dr Lo' Lo' Ghazali, IFF jelas menghina islam apabila menggunakan nama agama untuk mengesahkan tindakan penganjuran pertunjukan yang tidak wajar itu.

Lebih malang, tulisan "Muhammad" dalam tulisan Arab secara terbalik diguna dan dipakai di dada salah seorang peraga fesyen yang tidak menutup aurat.

"Kita berarak bantah kartun Nabi yang dibuat di Denmark, di sini di Malaysia, seluruh maruah Islam ditelanjangkan oleh IFF tersebut," kata Lo' Lo' kepada Harakahdaily.

Beliau mengulas IFF yang dianjurkan oleh Rosmah baru-baru ini. Walaupun dinamalkan Islamik tetapi fesyen yang diperagakan tidak sesuai dengan Islam bahkan Rosmah sendiri tidak memakai pakaian yang sesuai dengan Islam ketika merasmikan program IFF itu.

Lo' Lo' juga kesal dengan sesetengah NGO Islam yang dipergunakan untuk menyokong bajet yang dibentangkan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib.

"Saya dapat maklumat ada beberapa NGO Islam diminta membuat memo menyokong bajet PM.

"Saya nak tanya NGO-NGO Islam ni, tak terasa langsung ke nak bantah penghinaan terhadap Islam oleh Rosmah atas penganjuran Islamic Fashion Festival yang penuh dengan kemungkaran dan kemaksiatan terhadap Allah serta pengkhianatan atas muslimah seluruhnya?" tanya Lo' Lo'.

Padri Ektremis Yang Mengancam Pembakaran Al-Quran Sudah Cabut ...

2010-09-11T10:02:00.012+08:00

Friend: Pastor who planned Quran burn flying to NY

By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer – 27 mins ago

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – An associate of the pastor who once planned to burn copies of the Quran to mark the 9/11 anniversary says the Rev. Terry Jones is headed to New York aboard a Friday night flight.

K.A. Paul, a Christian evangelist who runs a ministry in Houston, says he bought the ticket for Jones to fly out of Orlando and land around 10:15 p.m. in New York. Paul provided The Associated Press with a copy of the itinerary and flight confirmation number.

Jones has said he planned to meet with the imam overseeing a proposed mosque and Islamic center to be built near ground zero.

Paul says Jones was able to sneak out of his Gainesville church without the media noticing.

Earlier Friday, Jones' son, Luke, said that the Quran-burning won't take place Saturday but couldn't say whether there would be a future event.

Yahoo! News

Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri

2010-09-09T21:19:00.011+08:00

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Ancaman Membakar Al-Quran oleh puak Evangelical di Amerika: White House Risau dan OIC akan melihat saja?

2010-09-09T11:55:00.020+08:00

White House warns Florida church not to burn Koran - Americas, World - The Independent

Komentar: Pihak HIKMAHWP dengan sekeras-kerasnya mengutuk sebarang perbuatan buruk dan keji mana-mana pihak maupun kumpulan agama yang mempersenda, mempermain, memusnah, mencabuli, mencemar dan menghina Kitab Suci Agama Islam yang telah diturunkan oleh ALlah SWT melalui Rasul dan NabiNya Muhammad SAW. Kami menganggap perbuatan membakar AL-Quran sebagai suatu perbuatan dan tindakan yang provokatif dan bertentangan dengan prinsip-prinsip kemanusiaan, kemasyarakatan dan keagamaan dan lebih-lebih lagi bertentangan dengan perbuatan manusia atau kumpulan manusia yang mengaku diri mereka sebagai mahluk yang mulia, berakhlak tinggi, bertuhan dan bermoral. Kami juga menganggap bahawa perbuatan membakar, mempersenda dan mencemar Kitab Suci Kami Ummat Islam sebagai perbuatan manusia yang tidak siuman dan gila. Semoga ALlah membalas perbuatan manusia yang tidak bermoral, gila dan tidak siuman ini dengan segala kuasa dan kebijaksanaan yang ada padaNYA.

To Pastor Terry Jones and his followers of the anti-Islam Evangelical Christian Church Dove World Outreach Center in Florida may ALlah, the Almighty God the Creator of all mankind have mercy on your long lost souls.

Iklan TV3 Yang Tidak Islamik Ditarik Balik

2010-09-07T13:58:00.005+08:00

By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 9/6/2010

Malaysian TV pulls Ramadan ad over Christmas links

A Malaysian TV station said Monday it had withdrawn an advertisement marking the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr which was criticised as "un-Islamic' for having a Christmas-like theme.

The private TV3 channel started last week airing the one-minute commercial marking the end of the Ramadan fasting month, showing a man wearing an Islamic skullcap taking children on a magical trishaw for a ride through the sky.

Some viewers in Muslim-majority Malaysia said the character was reminiscent of Santa Claus, and several groups demanded it be retracted. There was also criticism that the ad featured a lotus flower, which is linked to Buddhism.

"TV3 apologises on the airing of the advertisement... which has offended many people," the station said in a statement, adding that it had been taken off air.

"We will be more cautious to avoid similar incidents to happen again in the future," it added.

Religion and language are sensitive issues in multiracial Malaysia, which was hit by deadly race riots in 1969.

Some 60 percent of the 28 million population are Muslim Malays, living alongside large ethnic Chinese and Indian communities who have expressed fear that the country is being "Islamised" and their rights are being eroded.

Berita MSN

SMS harian dan panduan dari Ustaz dan guru saya di Katapang, Kalimantan Barat Indonesia:

2010-08-28T09:51:00.005+08:00

Tafakur Dhuha. ALlah SWT berfirman, " Hai insan! Kekayaan-KU tidak akan pernah habis selamanya. Kian banyak kau berinfak, sebanyak itu pula AKU memberi rezekimu. Seberapa pula tingkat kikirmu sekadar itu pula AKU menahan rezekimu" (Hadis Qudsi)

Sumbangan Dr. A.H. Awang Mois

Ucapan Pengerusi Sempena Bulan Ramadhan Al-Mubarak

2010-08-28T08:51:00.015+08:00

SALAM RAMADHAN AL-MUBARAK

Assalamualaikum Semua Ahli Hikmah WP,

Sempena bulan ramadhan al-mubarak saya ingin mengucapkan kepada semua ahli HIKMAH WP dan Cawangan2 lain di negeri Sarawak selamat mengerjakan ibadah puasa pada bulan ramadhan tahun Hijriah 1431. Semoga Allah memberikan rahmat dan hidayahnya kepada kita semua.

Pada Bulan Ramadhan Yang Mulia dan Penuh Berakah ini saya juga mohon beribu Maaf dan Ampun kepada semua ahli HIKMAH WP khasnya dan HIKMAH SARAWAK amnya andaikata telah tersalah kata dan tersalah bahasa dalam komunikasi dan diskusi kita.

Sama-samalah kita Mengerjakan Ibadah Yang telah Diperintah ALlah SWT untuk Meraih Pahala dan Barakah

Wassalam,

Pengerusi Hikmah WP

Dr Awang Hasmadi Awang Mois

28 Ogos 2010 bersamaan 18hb Ramadhan 1431 Hijriah

PENGUMUMAN SEMINAR

2010-03-11T22:35:00.008+08:00

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Egypt's New Concept of Islamic and Arab Brotherhood: Egyptian navy boats fired at Palestinian fishermen wounding two! May Allah have mercy on OIC.

2010-02-13T21:35:00.017+08:00

Egyptian navy boats fire at, wound Palestinian fishermen

[ 13/02/2010 - 07:18 AM ]

RAFAH, (PIC)-- Egyptian navy boats fired at Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of Rafah, to the southernmost tip of the Gaza Strip, wounding two fishermen before arresting four others.

Local sources told the PIC reporter on Friday that Egyptian gunboats chased Palestinian fishing boats while fishing at sea.

They added that the gunboats encircled one of the fishing boats and arrested four fishermen.

The sources noted that Egyptian helicopters hovered overhead during the attack.

Source: The Voice of Palestine

AKTIVITI WAJIB DAIE : PROGRAM ANJURAN NABI SAW

2010-02-13T11:05:00.003+08:00

AKTIVITI WAJIB DAIE : PROGRAM ANJURAN NABI SAW

ENAM HAK MUSLIM

Hak orang Islam terhadap orang Islam lainnya ada enam:
Apabila engkau berjumpa dengannya, berilah salam kepadanya.
Apabila ia mengundangmu, penuhilah undangan itu.
Apabila ia meminta nasihat padamu, nasihatlah dia.
Apabila ia bersin lalu memuji Allah (membaca Alhamdulillah, maka doakanlah ia olehmu (yarhamukillah = semoga Allah memberi rahmat kepadamu)
Apabila ia sakit, ziarahilah dia, dan
Apabila ia meninggal dunia, maka iringkanlah dia.

JIKA BERTEMU BERILAH SALAM
Mengucap salam langkah pertama.
Lebih mantap jika diikuti dengan berjabat tangan.
Ucapan salam mesti disertai dengan perasaan cinta, senang, wajah yang berseri agar fungsinya akan tewujud.
Saling memperkenalkan diri, nama, pekerjaan, tempat tinggal.
Tapak dalam tahap awal berdakwah.

JIKA TIDAK KELIHATAN , MAKA CARILAH DIA
Watak sebuah perkenalan adalah jika seseorang yang anda kenal itu tidak anda lihat dalam waktu tertentu, maka anda harus bertanya khabar tentang keadaannya, atau menghubunginya, baik lewat telefon/sistem pesanan ringkas (sms) ataupun surat.

JIKA SAKIT JENGUKLAH DIA
Sunnatullah akan berlaku pada setiap orang; gembira, sakit, sedih dan setiap keadaan dan situasi perlu disikapi dengan sikap Islami. Jika anda mendengar bahawa teman anda sakit, anda harus segera menjenguknya, memberi ketenangan dan mendoakan kesembuhannya. Dan sangat baik untuk membawa hadiah yang sesuai.

JIKA DIA MENGUNDANGMU MAKA PENUHILAH
Selepas melewati tahap di atas, hubungan semakin erat. Sahabat anda akan menghadapi keadaan penting seperti naik pangkat, pernikahan, mendapat cahaya mata, lalu dia mengundangmu. Anda harus memenuhi undangannya kerana ia merupakan kesempatan berharga yang tersedia tanpa anda harus rencanakan sebelumnya, serta sebaliknya.

JIKA DIA BERSIN DAN UCAP ALHAMDULILLAH , JAWABLAH YARHAMUKALLAH
Duduk bersebelahan dengan orang belum dikenal di suatu tempat, baik perjalanan, pesta, mahupun tatkala menjenguk orang sakit, lalu orang yang duduk bersin maka hendaklah anda menoleh kepadanya dengan wajah berseri dan berdoa. Tentu hal ini akan menjadikan dirinya istimewa dan sesuatu yang baru dan setelah itu anda dapat bercakap-cakap dengannya.

JIKA DIA MENINGGAL DUNIA MAKA HANTARKAN KE TEMPAT PEMAKAMANNYA
Apa yang dapat ia lakukan setelah meninggalkan dunia dan dikubur?
Pada hakikatnya, menghantar orang lain ke tempat pemakaman adalah menghantar dirinya sendiri, yang ia akan dapat mengambil nasihat, pelajaran dan merenungnya.
Ini sebuah Rasulullah saw, yang menggambarkan persatuan dan kesatuan kaum muslimin.
Jika sebelumnya anda dapat mengenal peribadi yang meninggal dunia, maka sekarang anda menggunakan kesempatan untuk berkenalan dengan keluarganya dan orang-orang yang bertakziah ke rumahnya. Membuka peluang berkenalan dengan ramai orang hasil satu kematian.

Melakukan Segala Kebaikan
“Berbuat baiklah kerana Allah, nescaya kebaikan itu kembali kepadamu di dunia mahupun akhirat”
“Jika kamu letih kerana melakukan kebaikan, keletihan itu akan hilang dan kebaikan itu akan kekal”
Bertasbih, bertakbir, dan bertahlil.
Kekuatan yang dapat membantu daie bersabar dan istiqamah.
Ia merupakan motor yang tiada hentinya bergerak membersihkan jiwa dan hati daripada pelbagai kekotoran.
Menyingkirkan duri di jalan.
Menolong orang yang buta dan tuli.
Menunjukkan orang yang kebingungan.
Menolong orang yang lemah.

PENAMPILAN SEORANG DAIE
Cara bertutur dan personaliti; pendakwah ialah pegawai pemasaran hasil produksi yang semestinya penampilan menarik dan kualiti produk(produk kita terbaik : Islam daripada Allah)
Dakwah adalah menawarkan sebuah risalah dan pola berfikir yang tercermin dalam akhlak, keperibadian dan penampilan.
Imam Hasan al Banna pernah ditanya: kenapa anda tidak menyusun buku?. Jawabnya: “Tugas saya bukanlah menyusun buku, kerana buku biasanya akan diletakkan di perpustakaan dan sedikit sekali yang mahu membacanya. Lain halnya mencetak peribadi muslim, dia adalah ‘buku yang sentiasa terbuka’ ke mana pun dia berjalan,itu adalah dakwah”.
Daie merupakan utusan kepada jemaah, hendaklah dia senantiasa berpenampilan baik dan mulia.
“Keberhasilan sebuah misi akan bergantung pada si pembawa misi tersebut”
Kisah Mus’ab bin Umair ….. Dalam kisah beliau dengan Usaid bin Huhair
“Demi Allah, kami sudah melihat pancaran cahaya Islam, sebelum dia berkata dengan wajah yang ceria”

MELAFAZKAN CINTA KASIH
Dari Anas ra. Bahawa ada seorang lelaki berada dekat Rasulullah saw lalu ada lelaki lain berkata “Ya Rasul, sungguh saya mencintai orang itu”. Rasulullah bertanya “Adakah kamu sudah memberitahunya”. Jawabnya “Belum”. Nabi bersabda “Beritahukan kepadanya.” Lelaki itu mendekatinya dan berkata “Sungguh aku mencintaimu kerana Allah swt”. Lelaki itu menjawab “ Mudah-mudahan Allah yang kerana-Nya engkau mencintai aku mencintaimu.

Sesiapa beriman kepada Allah dan hari akhirat hendaklah ia mencintai Usamah bin Zaid (HR Bukhari)
Taujihat Nabawiyah: Islam tidak menutup pintu kasih sayang dan cinta, tetapi membersihkannya daripada tradisi jahiliah menjadi taman yang indah “cinta kerana Allah”. Kata-kata ini menghiasi hari-hari kami dalam lisan dan tulisan.

DOA DAN SABAR
Rasulullah pernah berdoa “Ya Allah, muliakanlah Islam dengan satu antara dua orang yang Engkau sukai: Umar bin Khattab atau Amru bin Hisyam”.
Tidak mudah bagi seseorang melangkah kepada orang lain tanpa adanya suatu alasan. Oleh sebab itu, harus direncanakan dengan matang dan melalui perantara yang lebih dekat dari segi tsaqafah dan umurnya.
Dakwah adalah seni, bersabar dalam berdakwah adalah jihad
“Hidayah dan petunjuk Allah tidak akan meresap ke dalam jiwa manusia sekaligus, malah ia memerlukan masa, pengawasan dan tenaga yang dikorbankan sehingga usaha-usaha itu mendatangkan hasil dengan izin Allah………..memerlukan kesabaran”Ustaz Fathi Yakan, Konsep penguasaan

NERACA USRAH YANG BERJAYA.
Sejauhmana dapat meningkat kefahaman dan kesedaran Islam.
Sejauhmana dapat meningkatkan kerjasama-ta’awun تعاونdalam menghayati Islam.
Sejauhmana dapat menumbuhkan “masuliyyah fardiyyah” – مسؤولية فردية

Yang salah itu bahasa
Yang benar itu erti
Yang susah itu kerja
Yang senang itu bakti
“Jadikan usrah sebagai medan untuk berbakti kepada agama tercinta”

Kiriman: Usrah Jemaah Anak Muda 13 February at 04:10
Dikongsikan bersama mereka yang berkata mereka mencintai Allah, Rasulallah dan Agama Islam yang telah diturunkan oleh Allah.

Di Negara Belanda: Converts say Islam enriched their lives

2010-02-04T11:24:00.004+08:00

Dutch converts say Islam enriched their lives

Religion 2/1/2010 12:42:00 PM

By Nawab Khan UTRECHT , The Netherlands, Feb 1 (KUNA)

More than 500 people attended the 3rd Dutch Annual Reverts Day held at the big Omar Al Farouk Mosque in Utreceht city on Sunday evening. The event was organised by the OntdekIslam foundation and the Dutch National Platform for New Muslims (LPNM).

Waleed Duisters, chairman of LPNM told the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that figures released in 2007 showed there were 12,000 Dutch converts to Islam, but added that "probably there are much more." He explained that it is very difficult to give a precise figure of the Dutch converts to Islam because in the Netherlands there is no registration of people on basis of religion. "We have a lot of new converts to Islam so the aim of this conference is try to help them to get to find their way both in the Muslim society and the Dutch society," said Dusiters who himself converted to Islam ten years ago.

He noted that sometimes new converts face problems as families are affraid of it and also the Muslim society does not know how to deal with converts.
"In Dutch society there are people who are sceptical about Islam and sometimes we have cases of new converts facing big problems with their families. We want to help them to lead a life without any problems," said Duisters.

The large gathering of Dutch converts to Islam and Muslims from Turkey, the Arab world and Suriname listend to lectures by renowned international speakers such as Hussein Ye from Malaysia and Pierre Vogel from Germany combined with those of young Dutch speakers as Ali al Khattab and Elsa van de Loo who is the Dutch youth representative to the United Nations.

Seven Dutch including three women converted to Islam during the conference on Sunday.
Duisters said: "Islam enriched my life. I have a stable life. I know what I have to teach to my children to be a good Muslim but also a good Dutch citizen.
" He noted that the number of Muslims in Europe is growing. More people are converting to Islam because people hear a lot about Islam so they want to know about Islam and start reading the Quran and the Hadith.

But he also blamed the Muslims of not doing enough to explain Islam.

"The Muslims in Holland had a lot of chance to give a good picture but most of the time they failed," he lamented.

"There is also another problem that Muslims are not integrated into the Dutch society," he said..

"We must live as Muslims in Holland but also in the Dutch society. If we dont do it we will remain a strange group. We advise Muslims to get involved in the Dutch society," he said.

Marck Reuvers, responsible for the press at the conference and himself a journalist, told KUNA that "this is a very special day. It is the so-called converts day in the Netherlands." "The purpose of the gathering is to show that the Dutch converts to Islam are also part of the bigger Ummah,"said Reuvers who converted to Islam in 2007.

"I was looking for something which made my life more purposeful. After becoming a Muslim I have a goal in life. I feel really happy and comfortable," he said.
Abdel Krim converted to Islam 2008 He is preparing to become social worker.

"I needed God in my life. I love the stories about Abraham, Moses, Jesus but I did not like the pictures in the Church with a white God," he said.

"But I loved Jesus too much and I loved Moses too much and I fond them in Islam. The rules are much more pure. There is no racism in Islam," the young bearded Dutch Muslim told KUNA.

He said one has to do a lot of explanation in the Dutch socity after converting to Islam. "You quit drinking, you quit smoking you quit speaking behind peoples back. So people in the neighbourhood ask why you dont drink, who you have a beard", he said.

Malleen van der Putten also a journalist who works for a Dutch Islamic broadcasts related a strange story of her conversion. She converted to Islam six years ago, she told KUNA. Van der Putten said "one day she said some bad things to a Muslim. Later she said to herself why I said these bad things about Islam and I dont know anything about Islam." She went to a shop and bought some Islamic books and read and read and then gradually converted.

She said Muslims should talk to the people, talk to the neighbours to explain Islam and there should be more interaction.

Elsa van de Loo, Netherlands representative for the youth in the United Nations, told KUNA that she converted to Islam one and a half years ago.

Her father is from the Netherlands and her mother from the Dominican Republic.
"I was raised believing as a Catholic but not practising religion," she said.
The young Dutch convernt said she started reading Quran in Dutch.

"In the beginning ti was difficult for me to understand and I didnt know many Muslims who would explain to me. Then one day I met a Muslim girl from Morocco who began explaining the Quran and Islam," she said.

"A lot of things I was looking for an answer I found them in Islam.
I feel very good.. Islam gave me peace. In the past I was restless I didnt know What I am doing in life. Where I am going. Now I have the answers," she told KUNA.

She said she never faced any problems with the Dutch government for wearing the Hijab but some critics do say how you can represent the Netherlands in the UN wearing a Hijab.

"I tell them my job is separate from my religion. When I am in my job I represent everybody in the Netherlands and what I believe shouldnt matter. I was elected to my post," said Elsa van de Loo. (end) nk.bz.

KUNA 011242 Feb 10NNNN

Reformers Vs Ultra-Conservatives: To Drive or not to Drive

2010-01-28T20:52:00.004+08:00

Thorny issues infiltrate Saudi religious establishment
Wednesday, 27 January 2010 17:01

- By Habib TRABELSI

The traditional debate between reformers and ultra-conservatives on issues that plague the lives of many Saudis, like the mixing of women with men or women's right to drive a car, begins to timidly infiltrate the religious establishment, which is one of the pillars of the regime in Saudi Arabia where a battle on the authorization of the cinema, considered by the clergy as "an absolute evil," had raged last summer.

A muttawa official manners: yes to the mixing

Sheikh Ahmed bin Qassim Al-Ghamdi, the Director General of The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, also known as the muttawa, in the Mecca region, proclaimed loudly last month that "the preventing the mixing between sexes has never been a Sharia law (Islamic law strictly enforced in Saudi Arabia) and is a natural fact in the life of the country and Companions of the Prophet Muhammad.”

"Those opposed to the mixing are practicing it in their homes that are full of servants working in the presence of foreign men,” Sheikh Ghamdi told the Okaz daily.

Saudi Arabia applies a strict separation of sexes and punishes by flogging and/or imprisonment of "khilwa", a one-to-one meeting between a man and an unrelated woman.

Liberals rejoice

These statements have not fallen on deaf ears. Liberals - represented especially by intellectuals, businessmen and journalists and are accused by the ultra-conservatives of being "lackeys of the depraved West "- claimed victory.

"It is a turning point in the debate on the mixing, a debate that has cost us a great loss of time," said Hmoud Abu Taleb in Okaz, hailing Sheikh Ghamdi’s courage.

Mohammed Abdel Al-Sheikh, a critique of the religious police or muttawa, has reviewed the "mess" caused by the debate over the mixing, in particular "the conviction of many women's skills to idleness or work in an atmosphere full of suspicion and mines, which has created an isolated feminine world in all areas, not to mention the enormous expenses incurred in the national economy.”

Sheikh Ghamdi’s statement, which occurred after the strong criticism of the opening of the first two sexes' university in the kingdom (KAUST) last September, has shaken the media landscape for several days and resulted in an internet campaign for his favour.

The ultras revile

Meanwhile, Sheikh Ghamdi has been disgraced by many guardians of virtue.

Sheikh Mohammed Al-Munajid - who in September 2008 took aim at Mickey Mouse and his fellows, decreeing that they were "soldiers of Satan, corrupting creatures and repulsive" and must be killed - decreed that Sheikh Ghamdi’s "defamatory" statements were "a violation of Sharia."

Sheikh Munajid confirmed that the anti-mixing fatwa, decreed by the former kingdom's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel ziz bin Baz, still serves as a reference.

The preacher Sheikh Abderrahman Al-Atram, considered Sheikh Ghamdi’s remarks "inappropriate", because "they come at a time when the kingdom is facing serious challenges, such as fighting Huthis and dealing with Jeddah disaster" in reference to the Saudi military intervention against Yemen’s Zaidi rebels since last November and the deadly flooding caused by torrential rains on November 25 in this Red Sea city.

The controversy has even spilled over into Kuwait where clerics and preachers have strongly denounced Sheikh Ghamdi’s statements, calling them "heresy."

Ahmad bin Baz: yes to women driving

Sheikh Ahmed bin Baz, the son of former Grand Mufti, advocated on January 14 the "right" of the woman to drive a car.

"Driving is part of the inalienable rights granted by Islam to women, such as property rights or freedom of movement. Rights are not luxuries. They cannot be acquired nor can they be subjected to a vote," wrote bin Baz in an opinion piece published by Al-Watan daily, the strong critique of the ultraconservatives.

Sheikh bin Baz was due to appear January 18 on Al-Arabiya, the Saudi-owned channel based in Dubai, to clarify that his father’s "fatwa" prohibiting women from driving was “a discretionary and debatable appreciation, given that there is no evidence in the Sharia about banning women from driving.”

The fruit of 'freedom'

The day before, Daoud Al-Sharayan welcomed in his tribune in "Al Hayat" daily "the debate on social issues affecting religion have finally infiltrated the official religious institution.”

"Freedom granted in recent years to the press to discuss such topics such begins to bear fruit. It will have a positive impact on the evolution of society. It is not currently a debate between liberals and Islamists anymore, but a debate within the religious establishment, an unprecedented situation in the history of the kingdom," wrote Sharayan.

However, this excess of enthusiasm provokes the indignation of a reader who protested against the emphasis on sheikh Ghamdi and bin Baz "at the expense of the men of the Commission. That's what liberals seek! "

Source: Saudi Wave

Dead Sea Scrolls prove Bible unoriginal

2010-01-25T23:04:00.001+08:00

Dead Sea Scrolls prove Bible unoriginal

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For those Who Just Discovered Allah, Still Curious about Allah and Need to Know More about Allah

2010-01-24T07:59:00.009+08:00

O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a Messenger of Allah, and His Word, which he bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His Messengers. Say not "Trinity": desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is One God: Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs.

Al-Koran Surah [4] Al-Nisa': 171

Then those who believe in Allah, and hold fast to Him -- soon will He admit them to mercy and grace from himself, and guide them to Himself by a straight Way.

(ibid: 174)

Malaysia's war of words over God

2010-01-23T22:58:00.008+08:00

Malaysia's war of words over God Spurious objections to Malaysian Christians' use of the word Allah must be countered by inclusivist Muslims

by Nazry Bahrawi guardian.co.uk, Thursday 21 January 2010 12.00 GMT

In countless tourism adverts, Malaysia asks the world to see it as "Truly Asia". In the past days and weeks, its government's bid to portray the nation as a harmonious multicultural society has gone up in flames.

Since its high court lifted a three-year embargo that prevents non-Muslims from using the Arabic word Allah in their prayers and literature on 31 December, detractors firebombed several churches and vandalised others across the nation. While there were no casualties, several churches have thus far been hit, with one so severely damaged that its members had to conduct their service elsewhere. Eight of the attackers have now been arrested.

Despite these attacks, Malaysia's Christians, who make up about nine percent of the 27 million-strong Southeast Asian nation, are insisting that the use of Allah is not exclusive to Muslims, who account for some 60% of the population.

Last February, Malaysia's Catholic archbishop, Murphy Pakiam, publisher of the Herald newspaper, filed for a judicial review against the ban that was first enforced in 2007 by the then home affairs minister, Syed Hamid Albar, against the Catholic weekly for using Allah to refer to God in its Malay language version.

The rationale behind the Catholic church's appeal was that Allah is a generic word for God that preceded the spread of Islam. After all, the word Allah, when translated from Arabic, comprises the definite article al, and the noun ilah which means God – connoting a singular deity, a belief common to adherents of the Abrahamic faiths.

Indeed, Biblical scholar Kenneth J Thomas outlined evidence in a 2001 research paper (pdf) suggesting that Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Arab world have used Allah when citing and translating the Bible since the first centuries of Islam.

In Malaysia, its use by Christians developed along similar lines. Since Christianity became widespread there in the 19th century, primarily through the missionary efforts of English colonisers, Allah has been used extensively by Malay-speaking Christian indigenous peoples of the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak.

When juxtaposed against the fact that Malay-speaking Christians in neighbouring Indonesia have long used Allah in their worship to no complaint, it is understandable that Malaysia's church attacks have been viewed with much chagrin.

Observers have rightly argued that the rumpus is tied to Malaysia's ethnic-based political landscape. To be more precise, it arises from the form of Islam nurtured by a segment of the nation's Malay political elites.

The country's constitution not only makes Islam the official state religion but also specifies that a "Malay" must be a "Muslim". With ethnicity tied so closely to religion, defending the purity of Islam against corruption by foreigners has become both a religious duty and a matter of national pride.

This dogma has been fostered by the nation's ruling party, the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), whose popularity is partly derived from its status as a defender of Malay rights.

This would explain Umno's ambivalent stance on the issue. Even as prime minister Najib Razak decried the church attacks as heinous, his Umno colleagues in government had filed an appeal against the high court decision to overturn the Allah ban. Home affairs minister Hishamuddin Hussein even went as far as to allow demonstrations against the Allah ruling in mosques across Malaysia after Friday prayers on 8 January.

Christians were not the only group targeted by adherents of exclusivist Islam following the fallout from the ruling. On 13 January, the country's Sikhs became the latest to suffer attacks when vandals threw stones at a temple in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur. The Sikhs, who number approximately 120,000, also use Allah to refer to God in their worship.

Even the Hindus are not exempt from this kind of discrimination. Last September, a group of Muslim protestors stamped on a cow's severed head to protest at the building of a Hindu temple in a Muslim-majority neighbourhood.

Yet there is some encouragement to be had in the fact that not all Malays subscribe to this form of exclusivist Islam. Respected Muslim scholar Asri Zainul Abidin, a former state mufti, backs the use of Allah by non-Muslims. Surprisingly, this is the same stance taken by the opposition Islamic party, Parti Islam SeMalaysia, which had advocated the full-blown implementation of Sharia laws in past campaigns.

There are even voices of dissent coming from within Umno itself. Veteran politician Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, who has always been something of a maverick, condemned his party's reactions following the ruling. For Malaysians to stop warring in God's name, this emerging inclusive Malay-Muslim voice must drown out the rallying cries of the divisive vandals. Insha'Allah.

Source: Guardian.co.uk

International News | Islamic organization urges Muslims to help Haiti

2010-01-22T21:54:00.000+08:00

International News | Islamic organization urges Muslims to help Haiti

Selamat Tahun Baru 1 Muharram

2009-12-17T22:03:00.004+08:00

HikmahWp mengucapkan Selamat Tahun Baru 1 Muharram kepada seluruh warga HIKMAH SARAWAK. Kita berdoa agar Tahun Hijrah 1431 ini memberikan kita semua lebih kekuatan dan tenaga untuk merancang dan mengerakkan pertubuhan yang kita sayangi di semua peringkat dan daerah di Malaysia. Amin.

Selamat Hari Raya Maaf Zahir dan Batin

2009-09-22T00:44:00.002+08:00

Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبرla ilaha illa Allah لا إله إلا اللهAllahu akbar, Allahu akbar الله أكبر الله أكبرwa li-illahi al-hamd ولله الحمد

Alhamdulillah, kita bersyukur ke hadrat Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala kerana sekali lagi kita telah diberikan Allah peluang untuk menyambut Hari Raya Adilfitri bersama ahli keluarga, sahabat dan orang yang tersayang setelah berjaya mengerjakan ibadah puasa pada bulan Ramadhan yang mulia.

Sungguhpun hari raya adalah hari kemenangan dan kegembiraan bagi ummat Islam yang telah mengerjakan ibadah puasa, namun agama kita menganjurkan supaya kita tidak lupa kepada latihan berdisiplin yang telah kita lalui pada bulan Ramadhan seperti menahan diri dari makan, minum, dan syahwat yang berlebihan. Setelah berakhirnya bulan Ramadhan kita juga harus sentiasa bertanya kepada diri kita sama ada kita masih mengerjakan solat secara rutin, bederma penuh keikhlasan dan berbuat baik kepada sanak saudara dan kenalan. Ini adalah antara ukuran yang digunakan untuk menentukan sama ada amalan dan ibadah puasa yang kita telah lalui telah memberi kesan ke atas kita.

Dalam masa kita sedang berseronok menyambut hari raya bersama ahli keluarga dan orang yang tersayang kita tidak patut lupa kepada mereka yang kurang bernasib baik, fakir miskin, anak2 yatim dan umat islam yang sedang menderita kerana peperangan di Afghanistan, Chechnya, Asia Tengah, Iraq dan Negara Palestin.

Bagi pihak ahli-ahli HIKMAH WP saya ingin mengambil kesempatan ini untuk mengucapkan Selamat Hari Raya Maaf Zahir dan Batin kepada semua warga HIKMAH di Sarawak dan Semenanjung Malaysia dan di mana sahaja mereka berada.

Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbarwa li-illahi al-hamd
Sekian wabillahi taufik wal hidayah wasalaamualaikum wr.wb.

Dr Awang Hasmadi Awang Mois,
Pengerusi HIKMAH WP
(21 September 2009 dari BSB)

Spekulasi Tentang Pegangan Agama Idola Pop Dunia

2009-06-28T11:01:00.007+08:00

What Jermaine Jackson REALLY Said About Michael at His Press Conference
Friday June 26, 2009

Categories: Celebrities

Earlier today Jermaine Jackson gave a press conference addressing the few known details surrounding his brother Michael's death. At the end of his emotional speech he says, "May Allah be with you Michael, always."

Interestingly enough, many media outlets, including The New York Times and ABC News Australia are misquoting this expression of faith.

The New York Times claims the quote was, "We all loved being with you Michael, always" whereas ABC News Australia says it was, "'May our love be with you always, brother."

Michael Jackson reportedly converted to Islam in late 2008 after he took the shahada, or oath of Islamic faith, in Los Angeles at a friend's home. He had been raised a Jehovah's Witness--which he spoke about in depth in an essay he wrote for Beliefnet in 2000. Jermaine became a Muslim in 1989. Check out the video of the press conference. What do you hear him say?

Source: Beliefnet

Menyambut 40 Tahun tertubuhnya BINA-HIKMAH di Putra Jaya, Kuching, Sarawak.

2009-06-24T23:48:00.005+08:00

29 Jamadilakhir 1430H/23 Jun 2009 M

Bismillahirahmanirrahmin,

Assalamualaikum WrWb.

Saya percaya hampir seluruh anggota HIKMAH di Sarawak dan Wilayah Persekutuan telah menunggu-nunggu kemunculan 23 Jun 2009 kerana tarikh tersebut adalah tarikh yang cukup istimewa kepada kita semua kerana ia adalah tarikh yang telah dipersetujui oleh pucuk kepimpinan HIKMAH dan pihak kerajaan negeri Sarawak untuk merai hari ulang tahun BINA-HIKMAH, sebuah pertubuhan dakwah Islam yang sudah tidak asing lagi kepada penduduk negeri Sarawak sama ada mereka masih di peringkat usia muda Tadika maupun yang masih berkhidmat dengan kerajaan berkereta lawa ataupun yang sudah pension dan berkerusi roda. Bagi ahli-ahli BINA-HIKMAH sama ada yang sudah tua maupun yang masih segar dan muda, ini adalah hari kebesaran dan kebanggaan kita kerana akhirnya pertubuhan kesayangan kita - walaupun telah banyak kali dipukul ombak dan badai samudera – sampai juga ke satu lagi pelabuhan impiannya sarat dengan pelbagai rancangan dan penuh dengan seribu harapan. Dalam hati Muslim dan Muslimah yang bergerak aktif dalam pertubuhan yang bernama BINA-HIKMAH saya percaya kita cukup bersyukur kepada Allah SWT, kita cukup gembira, bahagia dan pada masa yang sama insaf bahawa pertubuhan kita sudah hampir tercapai matlamat asalnya untuk menyebarkan syiar Islam di negeri Sarawak di samping memaju dan meningkatkan kualiti martabat bangsa dan agama.

Bercakap secara ikhlas mungkin ramai pemimpin dan penduduk negeri Sarawak yang kurang yakin tentang keupayaan dan daya tahan sebuah pertubuhan Islam yang telah diilham dan diasaskan oleh salah seorang pemimpin veteran kita iaitu YABhg Tun Datuk Patinggi Haji Abdul Rahman Ya’kub. Tetapi YABhg Tun Datuk Patinggi bukan sebarang dan calang-calang orangnya. Bagi ramai pengkaji dan pemerhati beliau adalah seorang anak Sarawak yang telah dianugerahi Allah dengan ciri-ciri peribadi yang cukup istimewa dari segi kebolehan, pendidikan, pemikiran, sifat keilmuan dan pengetahuan tentang masyarakat dan kemanusiaan untuk mencorakkan masa-depan bangsa dan orientasi pertubuhan agama yang ingin diwujudkannya. Justru pada suatu ketika dulu pelbagai perkara telah diperkata dan tohmah telah dilempar ke atas pertubuhan kesayangan para belia dan remaja Islam yang bernama BINA pada peringkat awal sejarah pertumbuhan dan perkembangannya. Ramai yang tertanya-tertanya apa sebenarnya tujuan BINA – nak main muzikkah, nak belajar bersilatkah, belajar bernasyidkah atau nak bagi ruang kepada teruna dan dara bertukar pandangan dan bergaul mesra.

Sebenarnya memang ramai belia dan remaja bangsa yang menyertai BINA kerana bermacam jenis suka – suka bermain di samping belajar dan membaca muzik, suka exercise atau beriadah – suka silat berbunga atau belajar seni mempertahankan diri dengan pergerakan istimewa ala-Jepang melalui aikido dan tidak kurang juga yang suka dengan BINA kerana kagum dengan khutbah, tazkirah dan kuliah yang diberikan oleh pemimpinnya yang cukup handal dan sungguh mempersonakan iaitu YABhg Tun Datuk Patinggi Hj Abdul Rahman sama ada di Dewan Masyarakat di Jalan Hj Taha, di tempat kediaman rasminya di sekitar Taman Muzium ataupun di Rumah Sarawak, di Jalan Maxwell, Kuala Lumpur. Oleh kerana adanya keyakinan di kalangan ramai anak bangsa terhadap BINA maka BINA yang mulanya wujud di Kuching telah berkembang dan mula bertapak di Jalan Pantai Baru Kuala Lumpur dengan disertai oleh pelajar-pelajar Islam Sarawak yang menuntut di Universiti Malaya dan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Kini impian dan harapan Tun Datuk Patinggi Hj. Abdul Rahman Ya’kub untuk melihat golongan terpelajar BINA untuk turut menabur bakti dan menyumbang tenaga kepada masyarakat dan agama mereka di Sarawak sudah pun terlaksana. Tugas seterusnya ialah untuk memantapkan pengurusan, perancangan dan kegiatan pertubuhan kita supaya pertubuhan yang bernama BINA-HIKMAH yang kita cintai bukan sahaja dapat membantu memperbaiki kualiti hidup penduduk dan masyarakat Islam di negeri Sarawak malah suatu hari kelak boleh bergerak cepat untuk membantu masyarakat dan komuniti Islam di negara lain yang ditimpa bencana, kesusahan dan pelbagai penderitaan. Amin.

Dr Awang Hasmadi Awang Mois,

Pengerusi HikmahWP & Ahli MT HIKMAH Sarawak.

Bangi. Selangor.

Sejarah Awal BINA-HIKMAH dan Cawangan2nya

2009-05-13T00:05:00.005+08:00

Bagi mereka yang belum tahu atau sudah lupa sejarah pertubuhan yang bernama HIKMAH ada baiknya kita mengingat kembali beberapa perkara pokok tentang pertubuhan kita.

Nama asal pertubuhan ini adalah Angkatan Nahdatul Islam Bersatu. Di kalangan penduduk Islam negeri Sarawak ia lebih terkenal dengan akronym atau nama ringkasnya BINA. Ditubuhkan pada 3hb Mei 1968 pertubuhan ini telah didaftarkan secara rasminya pada tanggal 3 April 1969.

Pada peringkat awal sejarahnya BINA mula aktif di Kuching melalui BINA Cawangan Kuching. Seterunya BINA telah berkembang sehingga memiliki 30 Cawangan di seluruh negeri Sarawak dan Semenanjung termasuk: (i) Cawangan Kuching;(ii) Cawangan Simanggang (Sri Aman); (iii) Cawangan Kelaka; (iv) Cawangan Sibu; (v) Cawangan Miri; (vi) Cawangan Simunjan; (vii) Cawangan Sarikei; (viii) Cawangan Lawas; (ix) Cawangan Limbang; (x) Cawangan Bintangor; (xi) Cawangan Bintulu; (xii) Cawangan Lundu; (xiii) Mukah; (xiv) Maktab Perguruan Rejang dan BINA Cawangan Universiti Malaya.

Antara pencapaian utama BINA pada peringkat awal sejarahnya ialah pengislaman Tuan Yang Terutama Yang DiPertua Negeri Sarawak , Tun Datuk Patinggi Abang Haji Mohd Salahuddin dan keluarganya. Daripada 30 cawangan yang telah ditubuhkan ada beberapa buah Cawangan atau bahagian yang masih aktif atau separa-aktif. Kita harap menjelang Ulang Tahun 40 BINA-HIKMAH yang akan datang ada kesedaran baru di kalangan anak2 Islam Sarawak untuk menyertai semula pertubuhan Islam negeri yang telah banyak berjasa kepada anggota masyarakat Islam di negeri kita dengan cara mendaftar dan turut serta dalam kegiatan2 yang akan diadakan oleh HIKMAH PUSAT maupun Bahagian dan Cawangannya.

Oleh

Dr A. H. Awang Mois

Miri, Sarawak 9 Mei 2009

Apa Yang Telah Tersiar Mengenai Selsema Khinzir (Swine Flu)

2009-05-01T18:19:00.005+08:00

Swine Flu: Your Questions Answered

Almost 90 years ago, the Spanish influenza killed tens of millions of people worldwide (estimates range from 20 to 100 million). Well, a lot has changed in medicine since 1918, but one thing remains the same—when a new strain of virus, as this current swine flu is, spreads from human to human, as this one has, it can quickly escalate from isolated outbreak to epidemic or worse, a pandemic.

In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the alert level for this flu to Phase 5, "a strong signal that a pandemic is imminent." But as Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO added, “On the positive side, the world is better prepared for an influenza pandemic than at any time in history.”

In the U.S., there have been 109 reported cases with one confirmed fatality. "The more recent illnesses and the reported death suggest that a pattern of more severe illness associated with this virus may be emerging in the U.S.," warned a statement issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "Most people will not have immunity to this new virus and, as it continues to spread, more cases, more hospitalizations and more deaths are expected in the coming days and weeks."

The experts are still gathering information about this strain of flu. But here are the basics about the swine flu, what it is, how it is spread, along with preventative measures we can all take to reduce the risk of catching this--or any other--virus. We will keep you up to date as the news develops.

What is swine flu?

It's a respiratory disease caused by type A (H1N1) influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People don't normally get swine flu, but, as evidenced in this latest epidemic, human infections can and do happen.

Is this swine flu virus contagious?

Yes, and it can spread from human to human. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not yet know how easily the virus spreads between people.

Are swine flu and seasonal flu the same the same or different?

The symptoms of swine flu cases in the United States to date have been similar to routine seasonal flu; they include fever, cough, sore throat, headache, chills, muscle pain and fatigue. Some people have reported diarrhea and vomiting as well. In the past, severe illness (pneumonia and respiratory failure) and deaths have been reported with swine flu infection in people. Like seasonal flu, swine flu may cause a worsening of underlying chronic medical conditions The incubation period is still unknown, but is likely similar to seasonal flu (1-7 days). Patients with swine flu are considered infectious for seven (7) days following the onset of symptoms.

How does swine flu spread?

It's believed that the swine flu virus is spreading in the same way that seasonal flu spreads. That is, mainly by an infected person coughing or sneezing. Individuals may become infected by touching something with flu viruses on it and then touching their mouth or nose.

How can someone with the flu infect someone else?

Infected people may be able to infect others beginning one day before symptoms develop and up to seven or more days after becoming sick. That means that you may be able to pass on the flu to someone else before you know you are sick, as well as while you are sick.

What should I do to keep from getting any kind of flu?

First and most important: wash your hands. Try to stay in good general health. Get plenty of sleep, be physically active, manage your stress, drink plenty of fluids, and eat nutritious food. Try not touch surfaces that may be contaminated with the flu virus. Avoid close contact with people who are sick.

Are there medicines to treat swine flu?

Yes. The CDC recommends the use of oseltamivir (brand name Tamiflu®) or zanamivir (brand name Relenza®). Both are prescription drugs for the treatment and/or prevention of infection with these swine flu viruses. Antiviral drugs are prescription medicines (pills, liquid or an inhaler) that fight against the flu by keeping flu viruses from reproducing in your body. If you get sick, antiviral drugs can make your illness milder and make you feel better faster. They may also prevent serious flu complications. For treatment, antiviral drugs work best if started soon after getting sick (within 2 days of symptoms).

How long can an infected person spread swine flu to others?

People with the swine flu virus infection should be considered potentially contagious as long as they are symptomatic and possible for up to seven (7) days following illness onset. Children, especially younger children, might potentially be contagious for longer periods.

What surfaces are most likely to be sources of contamination?

The virus can be spread when a person touches something that is contaminated with germs and then touches his or her eyes, nose, or mouth. Droplets from a cough or sneeze of an infected person move through the air. Germs can be spread when a person touches respiratory droplets from another person on a surface like a desk and then touches their own eyes, mouth or nose before washing their hands.

How long can viruses live outside the body?We know that some viruses and bacteria can live two (2) hours or longer on surfaces like cafeteria tables, doorknobs, and desks. Frequent hand-washing will help you reduce the chance of getting contamination from these common surfaces.

What can I do to protect myself from getting sick?

There is no vaccine available right now to protect against swine flu. There are everyday actions that can help prevent the spread of germs that cause respiratory illnesses like influenza. Take these everyday steps to protect your health:• Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it. • Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective. • Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way. • Try to avoid close contact with sick people. • If you get sick with the flu, the CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.

What is the best way to keep from spreading the virus through coughing or sneezing?

If you are sick, limit your contact with other people as much as possible. Do not go to work or school if ill. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when coughing or sneezing. It may prevent those around you from getting sick. Put your used tissue in the waste basket. Cover your cough or sneeze if you do not have a tissue. Then, clean your hands, and do so every time you cough or sneeze.

What is the best technique for washing my hands to avoid getting the flu?

Washing your hands often will help protect you from germs. Wash with soap and water or clean with alcohol-based hand cleaner. We recommend that when you wash your hands with soap and warm water that you wash for 15 to 20 seconds. When soap and water are not available, alcohol-based disposable hand wipes or gel sanitizers may be used. If using gel, rub your hands until the gel is dry. The gel doesn't need water to work; the alcohol in it kills the germs on your hands.

What should I do if I get sick?

If you live in areas where swine flu cases have been identified and become ill with flu-like symptoms, including fever, body aches, runny nose, sore throat, nausea, or vomiting or diarrhea, contact your doctor. Your health care provider will determine whether influenza testing or treatment is needed. If you are sick, you should stay home and avoid contact with other people as much as possible to keep from spreading your illness to others. If you become ill and experience any of the following warning signs, seek emergency medical care.

In adults, emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include:

• Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath • Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen • Sudden dizziness • Confusion • Severe or persistent vomiting In children emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include: • Fast breathing or trouble breathing • Bluish skin color • Not drinking enough fluids • Not waking up or not interacting • Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held • Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough • Fever with a rash

How serious is swine flu infection?

Like seasonal flu, swine flu in humans can vary in severity from mild to severe. Between 2005 until January 2009, 12 human cases of swine flu were detected in the U.S. with no deaths occurring. However, swine flu infection can be serious and some new deaths have been reported.
Can I get swine influenza from eating or preparing pork?

No. The swine flu viruses are not spread by food. You cannot get swine flu from eating pork or pork products. Eating properly handled and cooked pork products is safe.

I need to travel; what should I do?

At this time, the CDC recommends that U.S. travelers avoid all nonessential travel to Mexico, the epicenter of the swine flu. If you are planning travel to countries or states impacted by the swine flu, the following recommendations will help you to reduce your risk of infection and stay healthy:

• Be sure you are up-to-date with all your routine vaccinations, including seasonal influenza vaccine if available.
• Identify the health-care resources in the area(s) you will be visiting.
• During your visit to an area affected by swine flu monitor the local situation.
• Pay attention to announcements from the local government.
• Follow local public health guidelines, including any movement restrictions and prevention recommendations.
• Practice healthy habits to help stop the spread of influenza, i.e., wash your hands often with soap and water. This removes germs from your skin and helps prevent diseases from spreading. • Use waterless alcohol-based hand gels (containing at least 60% alcohol) when soap is not available and hands are not visibly dirty.
• Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze and put your used tissue in a wastebasket.
• If you don't have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve, not your hands.
• Wash your hands after coughing or sneezing, using soap and water or an alcohol-based hand gel.
• Follow all local health recommendations. For example, you may be asked to put on a surgical mask to protect others.

• Seek medical care if you feel sick.

• If you become sick with a fever plus a cough and sore throat or have trouble breathing, seek medical care right away. Tell the doctor if you have had contact with a sick person or farm animals while traveling.

• Antiviral Medications: You may want to ask your doctor for prescription antiviral medications to take on your trip as a precaution since the seasonal influenza vaccine is not expected to protect against infection with swine flu viruses. The CDC recommends two prescription influenza antiviral drugs to treat and/or prevent swine flu. The drugs are oseltamivir (brand name Tamiflu®) or zanamivir (brand name Relenza®). Both are prescription drugs that fight against swine flu by keeping flu viruses from reproducing in your body. These drugs can prevent infection if taken as a preventative. If you get sick, they can make your illness milder and make you feel better faster. They may also prevent serious health problems from developing. For treatment, the drugs work best if started within two (2) days of getting sick. Talk to your doctor about correct indications for treatment or prevention. Always seek medical care if you are severely ill.

• You should avoid further travel until you are free of symptoms, unless traveling locally for medical care.

• After you return from your trip: Pay close attention to your health for ten days. If you become sick with a fever plus a cough, sore throat or have trouble breathing during this 10-day period, see a doctor. When you make the appointment, tell the doctor your symptoms, where you traveled, and if you have had close contact with a sick person or farm animals. This way, he or she can be aware that you have traveled to an area reporting swine Influenza.
• Do not travel when you are sick, unless it is to get medical care. By limiting contact with others as much as possible, you can help prevent the spread of an infectious illness.
Adapted from materials by the CDC.

Source and courtesy Thirdage.com

TAKZIAH buat Ketua Menteri Sarawak

2009-04-29T18:02:00.002+08:00

Klik di sini

~ UCAPAN TAKZIAH ~

Seluruh warga HIKMAH WP mengucapkan takziah kepada Pehin Seri Hj Abdul Taib Mahmud atas kembali ke rahmatullahnya isteri beliau, Puan Seri Laila Taib petang tadi.

Semuga rohnya dicucuri rahmat.

~ AL-FATIHAH ~

Menjelang Sambutan 40 Tahun BINA-HIKMAH oleh YAB KM

2009-04-27T23:52:00.015+08:00

Antara tanggal 27 April 2009 dan 26 Mei 2009 ahli-ahli kommuniti HIKMAH SARAWAK di seluruh Malaysia mempunyai kira-kira empat minggu lagi untuk turut serta dalam Majlis Pelancaran Sambutan 40 Tahun BINA-HIKMAH oleh YAB KM Sarawak di Petra Jaya, Kuching, Sarawak. Pihak pentadbiran HIKMAH telah mengatur beberapa acara yang akan diadakan untuk majlis tersebut dan tiap-tiap bahagian/cawangan HIKMAH di seluruh Malaysia telah dijemput untuk turut serta dalam acara-acara yang diadakan kelak.

Sungguhpun HIKMAH SARAWAK telah menghadapi pelbagai dugaan dan cabaran dalam perjalanannya laporan-laporan yang telah disiarkan oleh Bahagian2 Hikmah Sarawak di seluruh negeri Sarawak menunjukkan bahawa HIKMAH SARAWAK masih aktif dan cukup giat dalam beberapa usaha dakwah dan pendidikan di peringkat TADIKA. Di peringkat HIKMAH PUSAT pihak pentadbiran sedang mengatur rancangan untuk menghidupkan pusat latihan dakwah HIKMAH SARAWAK di sebuah kawasan yang berdekatan dengan Bandaraya Kuching.

Selain itu pihak pentadbiran juga sedang mengatur satu projek yang dinamakan sebagai Dakwah Kembara HIKMAH sedikit masa. Projek "Dakwah Kembara" ini adalah satu program yang bercorak multi-dimensional dan melibatkan pelbagai pihak. Projek seperti ini pernah dibincangkan oleh AJK PUSAT HIKMAHWP dalam satu perjumpaan yang tidak formal pada awal tahun 2009. Kita berharap beberapa orang AJK HIKMAHWP yang telah menyatakan minat pada perjumpaan informal pada bulan Februari 2009 akan bersedia untuk mengikuti projek yang akan diadakan di Sarawak sedikit masa lagi.

Kita berharap sebelum pihak HIKMAH PUSAT mengadakan program tersebut Bahagian/Cawangan Hikmah di seluruh negara akan dimaklumkan tentang beberapa cadangan tarikh yang sesuai untuk diadakan program tersebut supaya ramai ahli HIKMAH SARAWAK di seluruh Malaysia dapat turut serta. Dalam mesyuarat MT yang telah diadakan pada 3-4 April 2009 baru-baru ini pihak YDP Tan Sri Datuk Amar Haji Abdul Aziz telah menyeru supaya semua AJK MT turut serta. Kita berharap semua AJK MT dan ahli-ahli lain menyambut baik seruan YDP Tan Sri Datuk Amar kita.

oleh

Dr A.H. Awang Mois

BSB

Untuk Mereka Yang ingin Tahu Tentang Islam di Hawaii

2009-04-27T23:03:00.014+08:00

Islam in Hawai'i
by Aziz Poonwalla
Tuesday April 21, 2009

I am attending the ISMRM conference in Honolulu this week, which is why I've been understandably distracted these past few days :) I was rather curious about the muslim presence here in paradise, and it turns out that Hawai'i has a very vibrant muslim community. In hindsight this should have been obvious, given that Hawai'i is culturally and georaphically as connected to Southeast Asia as it is to the mainland United States. Due to its crossroads status, there is a tremendous diversity here, even more so than muslim communities in large cities on the mainland, because of the infusion of culture from east as west. In fact, this diversity has actually been a source of conflict, a microcosm of the cultural and religious dfferences of the global Ummah itself...Sila Ke Islamerica

Source: Beliefnet.com

Blogging Bukan Tugas Utamaku...

2009-04-19T10:23:00.009+08:00

Assalamualaikum WRWB,

Dengan menyebut nama Allah Yang Maha Pemurah lagi Maha Penyayang,

Sdr/i sesama dalam Hikmah Sarawak dan yang bukan anggota Hikmah di mana sahaja saudara/i berada,

Ada beberapa orang pengunjung dan kawan sesama HIKMAH yang sentiasa berharapan tinggi tentang apa yang seorang pengendali blog bernama HikmahWP ini boleh lakukan untuk menambah jumlah hits maupun pengunjung ke blog ini.

Blog ini sebenarnya bukan bermatlamatkan mendapat HITS kerana tujuan seperti ini mungkin akan memesongkan kita dari matlamat pertama dan utama pertubuhan kita sebagai sebuah badan dakwah yang tidak berhasrat untuk mencari populariti. Blog ini telah diadakan khusus untuk menyiarkan berita penting berhubung dengan KEGIATAN HIKMAH SARAWAK yang dulunya benama BINA.

Dalam kes Blog HikmahWP tujuan kita mengadakan blog ini adalah untuk menyiarkan berita tentang kegiatan yang dilakukan oleh Hikmah Cawangan atau Bahagian kita di Wilayah Persekutuan. Ini bermakna ada kegiatan adalah laporan atau tulisan yang boleh kita siarkan untuk mengisikan ruangan di blog yang ada. Secara logiknya juga tidak ada kegiatan tidak ada laporan atau tulisan yang boleh kita siarkan.

Untuk mengelakkan blog ini daripada terbiar dan menjadi terlalu kosong maka saya selaku pengendali blog ini telah mengisikan blog ini dengan beberapa artikel yang diambil dari blog lain yang ada kaitannya dengan Islam dan menyentuh nasib masyarakat yang mengaku dan bernama Islam, tidak kira di mana mereka berada. Ini termasuklah memuatnaikkan salinan khutbah yang pernah disiarkan sama ada dari Pontianak, Kalimantan Barat Indonesia maupun salinan khutbah dari Negara Brunei Darussalam, tempat saya bekerja, kerana isu-isu atau topik-topik yang dibicarakan oleh Ustaz-Ustaz, Khatib-Khatib maupun pendakwah-pendakwah Islam ini tidak kira dari mana datangnya semuanya hampir sama sahaja. Adakalanya blog ini juga diisi dengan artikel2 dari blog atau lama web lain yang cukup relevan dan berguna kepada pendawah atau dakwah di negara yang majoriti penduduknya bukan Islam kerana artikel2 ini menceritakan bagaimana seseorang yang bukan Islam di sebuah negara bukan Islam seperti Amerika Syarikat akhirnya memeluk agama Islam hanya kerana dia tertarik dengan cara orang yang beragama Islam menguruskan jenazah mengikut hukum Islam.

Teman dan kawan yang pernah mengendalikan blog ini telah menyerahkan tugas mengendalikan blog ini kepada saya kerana beliau juga seorang manusia biasa yang banyak tugas harian lain untuk disempurnakan. Seperti saya dia adalah seorang manusia dan insan biasa yang telah dianugerahkan ALlah 24 jam (24 HOURS) sahaja sehari untuk mengendalikan pelbagai tugas dan tanggungjawab yang utama untuk majikan dan juga keluarga. Jadi untuk kawan2 di luar sana dan juga mereka yang berada di dalam persatuan yang sama apa sahaja yang ternampak dan termuat di blog ini anggaplah itu sahaja yang terdaya oleh kita dengan mengambilkira jumlah masa yang ada, jumlah kegiatan yang boleh dilaporkan dan tugas utama yang harus dilaksanakan. Sebagai pengendali blog sebuah badan dakwah seperti HIKMAH Sarawak, kita tertakluk kepada tujuan dan matlamat asal pertubuhan kita iaitu berdakwah dan menyampaikan berita yang ada hubungan dengan keadaan, masalah dan harapan masyarakat Islam.

Bagi pengunjung yang telah membuat complaint bahawa blog ini terlalu akademik sila beritahu atau tunjukkan kepada kita secara ikhlas apa muatan di blog ini yang saudara/i ingin adakan. Adakah saudara/i inginkan muatan yang bercorak hiburan atau gossip2 yang ingin dikongsikan dengan kawan? Seperti yang telah dimaklumkan blog ini adalah blog milik sebuah pertubuhan dakwah dan apa yang tersiar di blog ini harus akur kepada tujuan dan matlamat perjuangan pertubuhan kita sebagai sebuah pertubuhan dakwah.

Kepada rakan2 di dalam HikmahWP sekali lagi saya nyatakan blog ini bukannya blog peribadi Pengerusi HikmahWP. Blog ini blog kita semua, blog kita bersama. Sama-samalah kita tolong mengisikannya dengan sumbangan tulisan atau laporan. Usahlah ditanya apa sumbangan teman seperti saya sahaja, tanya juga sumbangan diri anda kepada blog yang sedia ada. Ingatilah prinsip perjuangan pertubuhan kita: Inna solati wanusukii wa mahyaaya wa mamaatiililaahirabbil 'aalamiin.

Saya sudahi dengan sebuah firman Allah SWT dalam Surah 103 Al-'Asr

In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.

By (the Token of) Time (through the Ages),

Verily Man is in Loss,

Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual of Truth,

and of Patience and Constancy.

Terjemahannya

Demi masa,

Sesungguhnya manusia itu benar-benar berada dalam kerugian,

Kecuali orang-orang yang beriman dan mengerjakan amal salih dan nasihat menasihati supaya menepati kesabaran.

Wabillahiitaufikwalhidayah Wasalamualaikum WRWB,

Dr Awang Hasmadi Awang Mois,

BSB.

Manusia dan Tugas Yang Sering Dilupainya

2009-04-17T06:57:00.001+08:00

Bismillaahir rohmaanir rohim

Pada pagi Jumaat 17 April 2009 bersamaan 21 Rabiul Akhir 1430 Hijrah yang mulia dan indah ini ada baiknya kita sebagai manusia dan insan yang telah dijadikan oleh Allah Yang Maha Berkuasa bertanya diri kita beberapa soalan yang mudah sahaja untuk mempastikan kehidupan kita di muka bumi ini cukup bermakna dan tidak sebaliknya menjadi seperti kiambang yang hanyut ke sini dan ke sana sia-sia sahaja.

Kita mungkin boleh bermula dengan soalan "Siapa Saya?" atau dalam Bahasa Melayu Sarawak (BMS) Sapa Aku Tok? atau Apa Aku Tok ? Soalan yang kedua ialah "Kenapa Saya" atau BMS "Kenaknya AKU-kah?". Seterusnya kita boleh bertanya lagi "Jadi bagaimana ini?" "Apa Nak Buat Ni?", atau BMS Jadi Macam Ney Tok? atau "Apa Nak Polah Tok?" Lepas itu kita boleh bertanya diri lagi "Jadi Bila Agaknya?" atau BMS "Bila Nak Mulakah?" dan seterusnya "Di Mana Nak Mulakah?" atau BMS "Di Seney Nak Mulakah?"

Dalam pengajaran Kaedah Penyelidikan Sains Sosial (Social Science Research Methodology) kaedah pertanyaan seperti ini sering dirumuskan sebagai formula 5W1H - five (or four Ws and 1 H - seperti Who, What, Why, When Where and How. Bagi seorang pelajar sains sosial sama ada dia berada di peringkat BA, MA atau PhD formula ini cukup berguna kerana formula ini memudahkan kerja memahami sesuatu fenomena sama ada fenomena itu berupa sesuatu masalah sosial seperti pelacuran, penganguran atau fenomena lain seperti devians sosial, devians agama maupun konflik agama maupun konflik kaum.

Dalam konteks agama Islam formula ini juga harus kita pakai untuk memahami kenapa kita berada di bumi yang begitu luas (tetapi kecil) ini dan apa tujuan kita berada di muka bumi ini. Kaedah seperti ini perlu dipakai supaya perjalanan hidup kita lebih senang difahami dan tanggungjawab kita sebagai mahluk yang telah dijadikan Allah lebih senang dimengerti. Saya mengajak para pengunjung blog ini turut sama memikir dan merenungi persoalan-persoalan yang saya timbulkan di sini kerana persoalan-persoalan ini adalah isu lama tetapi sering dilupai oleh kita mahluk bernama manusia seperti saya dan juga anda atau awda.

Firman Allah subhanu wataala dalam surah al-Baqarah ayat 30 yang bermaksud:

"Ingatlah ketika Tuhanmu berfirman kepada para malaikat: Sesungguhnya Aku hendak menjadikan seorang khalifah di muka ini".

Dan semua kita tahu siapa yang telah dijadikan Allah untuk menjadikan khalifah di muka bumi ini; tidak lain - Nabi Allah Adam - datok kepada segala datok manusia seperti saya dan juga pengunjung seperti anda dan awda.

Apakah tugas sebenar manusia seperti saya dan saudara sebagai seorang pemimpin di muka bumi yang sebegitu luas dan kecil ini? Hanya sekadar bertanya di ruangan ShoutMix Chat ini soalan2 senda dan lucu akan tugas pengendali blog apa dia nak buat dengan blog yang tidak sepertinya ini? Blog ini bagi Allah SWT hanya perkara yang halus dan kecil saja. Tapi yang lebih besar ialah persoalan dan peringatan yang telah ditinggalkan untuk kita semua dari junjungan Nabi Muhammad SAW seperti yang diriwayatkan oleh al-Imam Bukhari dan Muslim dari Ibnu Umar radiallahuma yang bermaksud:

"Ketahuilah! Setiap kamu adalah pemimpin, dan setiap pemimin bertangungjawab ke atas sesuatu yang berada di bawah peliharaannya. Seorang amir adalah pemimpin kepada manusia dan bertanggungjawab ke atas mereka. Seorang lelaki adalah pemimpin kepada ahli keluarganya dan bertanggungjawab ke atas mereka. Seorang wanita pula adalah pemimpin kepada orang-orang yang berada di rumah suaminya dan anak-anak suaminya dan beranggungjawab ke atas mereka. Manakala hamba adalah pengurus kepada harta tuannya dan bertanggungjawab ke atasnya. Ketahuilah, setiap kamu adalah pemimpin dan bertanggungjawab ke atas orang yang berada di bawah pimpinannya".

WaAllahuaklambisawab

Wabillahitaufikwalhidayah Wasalaamualaikum WRWB

Sumbangan dan tulisan

Pengurusi Hikmah WP,
Awang Hasmadi Awang Mois, PhD (Cambridge)
UBD,
BSBegawan

HikmahWP Menyambut Maulidur Rasul Dengan Usrah

2009-03-09T13:12:00.002+08:00

Seperti yang telah dirancangkan pada bulan Februari 2009 HikmahWp telah mula mengisi Kalendar Aktiviti Tahun Hijri 1430 (2009) dengan satu Majlis Usrah. Majlis Usrah I HikmahWP telah diketuai oleh Sdr Ibn Mahmud, dari Wilayah Persekutuan Putra Jaya. Sungguhpun kawasan petang/malam Sabtu 7hb Mac cukup sesak dengan kegiatan pasar malam Bandar Baru Bangi yang terkenal "orang-orang kuat" HikmahWp TYPM, SU, SU Perhubungan dan Al-Ustaz Ibn Mahmud sendiri telah berulang kali menghantar SMS kepada rakan-rakan dari Bangi dan BSB untuk hadir.

Syukur alhamdulillah dengan izinNya ALlah maka majlis telah dapat diadakan seperti yang dirancang dengan dihadiri oleh enam ahli dewasa selaku AJK dan seorang ahli muda. Selepas sembahyang Maghrib berjemaah, Ustaz Ibn Mahmud telah memulakan majlis Usrah dengan mengingat dan merenung kembali Kitab Suci AL-Quran dengan menumpukan perhatian kepada isi kandungan Surah Al-Baqara dengan fokus kepada ayat 31.

PENGUMUMAN

2009-02-19T08:14:00.000+08:00

Assalamualaikum,

Kepada semua para pengunjung dan khususnya kepada mereka yang telah mendaftar untuk menjadi ahli Hikmah WP pada majlis Jamuan Hari Aidul Fitri tahun 2008 yang telah lalu. Hikmah WP sedang merancang untuk mengadakan satu majllis perjumpaan tahunan di Bandar Baru Bangi, mungkin pada awal Mac 2009 ini untuk tujuan berkenal-kenalan dan mengerat hubungan siratulrahim antara para ahli dan AJK Hikmah WP. Tujuan sebenar kita ingin mengadakan majlis ini ialah untuk sama-sama membincang beberapa aktiviti yang boleh kita jalankan di Semenanjung dan khususnya di negeri asal kita Sarawak untuk menghidup dan menggerakkan persatuan kita sebagai sebuah Cawangan dan Bahagian HIKMAH SARAWAK. Kerjasama kalian semua amatlah kami hargai. Sekian dan terima kasih untuk sokongan kalian. Untuk sebarang pertanyaan dan cadangan sila hantar e-mel di alamat berikut:

hikmahwp@gmail.com

Terima kasih,

Pengerusi HikmahWP

Khutbah Jumaat dari BSB: Amalan Membaca

2009-02-14T07:22:00.001+08:00

Amalan Membaca
Kategori : Jumaat (16-May-2008)
10hb Jamadilawal 1429H

AMALAN MEMBACA

Muslimin yang dirahmati Allah,

Marilah kita sama-sama meningkatkan keimanan dan ketaqwaan kita kepada Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala dengan melakukan segala suruhan-Nya dan meninggalkan segala larangan-Nya dengan penuh keyakinan dan keikhlasan. Mudah-mudahan kita menjadi insan yang bertaqwa dan beriman serta selamat di dunia dan di akhirat.

Firman Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala dalam Surah Az-Zumar ayat 9 tafsirnya :

"Katakanlah lagi kepadanya : Adakah sama orang-orang yang mengetahui dengan orang-orang yang tidak mengetahui? Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang dapat mengambil pelajaran dan peringatan hanyalah orang-orang yang berakal sempurna".

Ilmu merupakan anugerah Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala yang amat besar faedahnya kepada umat manusia. Ia merupakan cahaya yang menerangi kegelapan. Tanpa ilmu, hidup manusia setentunya dalam kejahilan dan kemunduran. Tidak ada masyarakat yang berjaya dan maju tanpa adanya ilmu pengetahuan. Kerana itu di dalam al-Qur'an telah menyebutkan perkataan yang berkaitan dengan ilmu pengetahuan tidak kurang dari 755 kali, bahkan khusus perkataan ilmu sahaja tidak kurang 105 kali disebutkan. Memandangkan ilmu itu amat penting dalam kehidupan manusia, maka kerana itulah agama Islam mewajibkan umatnya supaya menuntut ilmu sebagaimana sabda Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam maksudnya :

"Dari Annas bin Malik ia berkata : Sabda Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam : Menuntut ilmu adalah satu kefarduan (wajib) ke atas setiap Muslim". (Riwayat Al-Imam Ibnu Majah)

Menuntut ilmu juga merupakan suatu ibadah yang dijanjikan ganjaran yang sangat tinggi di sisi Allah Subhanahu Wata�ala. Sabda Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam maksudnya :

"Dari Abi Hurairah Radiallahuanhu ia berkata : Sabda Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam : Barangsiapa yang menempuh satu jalan untuk mencari ilmu pengetahuan maka Allah akan mempermudahkan baginya suatu jalan untuk menuju ke syurga". (Riwayat Al-Imam At-Termidzi)

Telah tercatat dalam sejarah bahawa ilmu itu faktor utama yang menjana kemajuan dan temadun kepada sesebuah kerajaan, contohnya sebagaimana yang telah berlaku pada zaman kerajaan Bani Abasiyah yang berpusat di Baghdad khususnya semasa pemerintahan Khalifah Harun Al-Rasyid dan Khalifah Al-Ma'mun. Pada ketika itu Kota Baghdad telah menjadi sebagai pusat ilmu pengetahuan. Ilmu-ilmu agama seperti tafsir, hadis dan fikah telah berkembang dengan pesatnya. Di samping itu ilmu-ilmu bukan agama seperti sains, falsafah, perubatan dan matematik juga turut dikembangkan yang antaranya diperolehi dengan cara menterjemah buku-buku dari bahasa Yunani dan India ke dalam bahasa Arab.

Muslimin yang dirahmati Allah,

Kita semua tahu betapa ilmu itu sangat berharga tetapi untuk memperolehinya tidaklah begitu susah kerana ilmu ada di mana-mana, terserah kepada kita, mahu atau tidak untuk menuntutnya. Tetapi perlulah kita ingat bahawa orang yang memiliki ilmu dan menjadikannya sebagai harta adalah sangat beruntung kerana ilmu itu adalah cahaya dan harta yang tidak akan hilang dan habis, lain halnya dengan harta dan wang ringgit akan berkurang dan habis jika digunakan. Demikianlah kedudukan ilmu dalam kehidupan manusia.

Sebenarnya jika ada kemahuan di situ ada jalan. Jika kita mahu ilmu, banyak cara boleh dilakukan untuk mencapainya, misalnya dengan amalan membaca, perkara ini diperkukuhkan lagi dengan turunnya wahyu pertama yang diterima oleh Rasulullah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam semasa di Gua Hira' sebagaimana dalam Surah Al 'Alaq ayat 1-5 tafsirnya :

"Wahai Muhammad bacalah dengan nama Tuhanmu yang menciptakan sekalian makhluk, Dia menciptakan manusia dari sebuku darah beku, bacalah dan Tuhanmu yang Maha Pemurah, yang mengajar manusia melalui pena dan tulisan, dia mengajarkan manusia apa yang tidak diketahuinya".

Berdasarkan ayat tersebut menunjukkan betapa membaca merupakan faktor yang penting dalam menimba ilmu pengetahuan kerana dengan membaca, pengetahuan akan bertambah dan minda akan berkembang. Kemudahan ke arah itu ternyata begitu luas, lebih-lebih lagi pada zaman ini banyak bahan-bahan bacaan boleh diperolehi dengan mudah dan cepat, terserah kepada kita untuk memilih bahan-bahan yang hendak dibaca. Pembaca yang bijak setentunya akan memilih bahan-bahan bacaan yang bermanfaat dan berfaedah seperti bahan-bahan berbentuk ilmiah, yang mengandungi info dan maklumat, pengajaran, sejarah, etika dan sebagainya.

Ahli Jumaat yang dirahmati Allah,

Membaca merupakan salah satu aktiviti yang sangat baik bagi mengisi masa lapang. Mengisi masa yang kosong dengan membaca bukanlah suatu perkara yang sia-sia tetapi suatu langkah yang bijak yang menguntungkan diri sendiri, misalnya bagi pelajar-pelajar semasa cuti sekolah, janganlah keseluruhannya untuk berehat panjang tetapi isikanlah dengan membaca kerana faedahnya amat besar jika mahu mencapai kejayaan. Bagi kemudahan orang ramai, kerajaan telah pun menyediakan perpustakaan-perpustakaan sama ada di Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, di sekolah-sekolah, di jabatan-jabatan kerajaan dan juga di masjid-masjid.

Oleh itu, ibu bapa perlulah memberikan kesedaran dan galakkan kepada anak-anak mereka supaya minat membaca dari sejak kecil lagi seperti membaca al-Qur'an, membaca kisah-kisah para nabi dan sahabat, kisah-kisah yang mengandungi pengajaran dan tauladan yang elok untuk dicontohi, bahan-bahan yang mengandungi sumber maklumat dan sebagainya. Sebenarnya bahan bacaan boleh mempengaruhi pemikiran dan jiwa anak-anak, maka adalah menjadi tugas para ibu bapa untuk memastikan anak-anak mendapat bahan yang baik dan bermutu, yang mengandungi nasihat dan cerita-cerita yang baik. Selain daripada itu, ibu bapa juga seharusnya menjadi 'role model' dengan menunjukkan sikap minat membaca kepada anak-anak mereka kerana dengan cara yang demikian akan menimbulkan rasa minat membaca yang mendalam pada jiwa anak-anak.

Muslimin yang dirahmati Allah,

Marilah sama-sama kita kembali kepada seruan Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala dengan memperteguhkan iman dan memperkukuhkan jati diri sebagai Muslim sejati. Satu-satunya cara untuk membina dan membentuk identiti ialah dengan memperbanyakkan ilmu. Orang yang kaya dengan ilmu akan mampu menangkis unsur-unsur yang negatif.

Oleh itu, marilah kita meneruskan dan mempertingkatkan budaya membaca dari semasa ke semasa. Perlu diingat, satu-satunya jalan untuk mendapatkan ilmu yang berguna dan membina ialah dengan banyak membaca dari sumber yang benar dan sahih. Mudah-mudahan dengan kekuatan ilmu pengetahuan, dapat mencipta kecemerlangan dan memartabatkan umat Islam ke mercu kejayaan. Amin Ya Rabbalalamin.

Firman Allah Subhanahu Wata'ala dalam Surah Al Mujaadilah ayat 11 tafsirnya :

"Allah meninggikan darjat orang-orang yang beriman di antara kamu dan orang-orang yang diberi ilmu pengetahuan agama dari kalangan kamu beberapa darjat. Dan ingatlah Allah Maha Mendalam Pengetahuan-Nya tentang apa yang kamu lakukan".

Sumber: KHEU Negara Brunei Darussalam

Zikrul Maut

2009-02-14T01:57:00.001+08:00

Jum'at, 06 Februari 2009 , 07:29:00
Zikrul Maut
Oleh : Uti Konsen.U.M.

“Perbanyaklah kalian mengingat mati, sebab seorang hamba yang banyak mengingat mati, maka Allah akan menghidupkan hatinya, dan Allah akan meringankan baginya, sakitnya kematian “ (HR. Dailami).

“ZIKRUL MAUT merupakan salah satu upaya menghidupkan hati. Tanpa zikrul maut, hati mempunyai kecenderungan menjadi keras, membatu, lalu mati karena dipenuhi oleh kerak-kerak kemaksiatan. Zikrul maut , ia adalah “ilmu“ yang mampu menerangi hati, serta mengingatkan bahwa aktivitas keduniaan kita sebenarnya fana. Hal yang kita kerjakan di dunia ini, tidak lain adalah aktivitas dari ‘menabur benih‘ untuk kelak menuainya di akhirat.” (Buku Zikrul Maut oleh Aa Gym).

Satu saat Rasulullah SAW sampai di satu majelis. Ada seseorang yang memuji sahabatnya si Fulan. Rasul SAW bertanya, “Bagaimanakah dia itu mengingat mati?“ Mereka menjawab, “Kami hampir tidak pernah mendengarnya mengingat-ingat mati“. Lalu Nabi SAW bersabda “Sahabat kalian tidak layak untuk dipuji“.
Ibnu Umar RA berkata, “Saya pernah menemui Rasulullah SAW, yang tengah dikelilingi sekelompok orang. Seseorang bertanya, “Ya Rasulullah, siapakah orang yang paling mulia dan paling bijak “ Beliau SAW menjawab, “Orang yang paling banyak mengingat dan paling tekun melakukan persiapan untuk akhirat. Mereka itulah orang yang bijak yang memperoleh kemuliaan dunia dan keagungan akhirat”.

Dilain waktu, Aisyah RA bertanya, “Ya Rasulullah, adakah seseorang yang bisa berkumpul dengan para syuhada?“ Nabi Mulia SAW itu menjawab, “Ada, yaitu orang yang mengingat mati dua puluh kali dalam sehari semalam“ (Al Hadis). Berbagai sikap orang-orang saleh zaman dahulu untuk mengingat mati (Zikrul Maut). Maymun bin Mahran misalnya, menggali kuburan dalam rumahnya. Setiap malam ia masuk kuburan ini dan membaca Quran di situ. Setelah keluar ia berkata kepada dirinya , “Hai Maymun, engkau telah kembali ke dunia, maka perbuatlah amal saleh.”

Ustman bin Affan RA sering berdiri seorang diri diatas kuburan sambil menangis. Lalu ada yang bertanya, “Kenapa, ketika ingat surga dan neraka engkau tidak menangis, tetapi ketika ingat kuburan engkau menangis“. Ustman menjawab, “Aku pernah mendengar Rasulullah SAW bersabda, “Kuburan merupakan salah satu tempat tinggal Akhirat yang pertama. Jika selamat darinya, maka setelahnya akan lebih mudah darinya. Tetapi jika tidak selamat darinya, maka setelahnya akan lebih parah dan pedih darinya.”

Syaikh bin ‘Anan, beliau berziarah ke makam-makam setiap hari Jumat, baik yang dia kenal atau tidak. Ketika melihat suatu makam, dia selalu menangis karena teringat berbagai dosa dan kesalahan yang telah dilakukannya. Khalifah Umar bin Abdul Aziz RA. biasanya mengumpulkan para fukaha setiap malam untuk mengingatkan kematian dan dahsyatnya hari akhirat.

Abu Darda RA, sering menghadiri pemakaman dan menziarahi kubur. Beliau memberi nasehat kepada para muridnya. “ Obat keterikatanmu dengan dunia adalah kematian“. Nasehatnya yang lain, “ Jika engkau mengunjungi rumah sakit, bayangkanlah dirimu berada di tempat tidur tersebut dan ingatlah bahwa suatu saat nanti kau akan berbaring dan tidak pernah bangun kembali. Ketika kau menghadiri pemakaman, bayangkanlah dirimu berada di dalam peti mati. Ingatlah, niscaya datang suatu waktu ketika pemakaman itu digali untukmu. Ketika kau berziarah ke kubur, bayangkanlah itu adalah nisanmu. Ketahuilah makammu akan menjadi tempat peristirahatan terakhir jasadmu.” (Buku Jejak Langkah Mengenal Allah oleh Asfa Davy Bya)

Dengan menjenguk orang sakit dan yang meninggal dunia, juga bisa Zikrul Maut. Rasulullah SAW bersabda, “Jenguklah orang sakit dan iringilah jenazah, maka sesungguhnya hal itu akan mengingatkanmu pada akhirat“. Dalam hadis lain Rasulullah SAW menerangkan, “ Bahwa barang siapa yang menyaksikan jenazah hingga ia menshalatkannya, maka baginya adalah satu qirath, dan barang siapa yang menyaksikannya hingga menguburkannya maka baginya adalah dua qirath“. Seorang sahabat bertanya, “ pakah yang dimaksud dengan dua qirath?“ Beliau menjawab, “ eperti dua bukit yang besar “ (HR.Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Dawud, Turmuzi dan Ibnu Majah).

Diantara hikmah Zikrul Maut , Insya Allah akan mendorong kita untuk banyak beramal saleh baik saleh ritual maupun saleh sosial. Pertama, istiqamah membaca Quran. Sebab Rasulullah SAW bersabda, “Bacalah Al Quran karena ia akan membawakan syafa’at bagi para pembacanya pada Hari Kiamat “ (HR.Muslim). Orang yang hidupnya gemar membaca Al Quran, lidahnya akan tertuntun mengucapkan kalimat “Laa ilaaha illallah“ ketika sakratul maut. Kedua, memotivasi untuk terus berbakti kepada kedua orang tua kendati mereka sudah wafat. Sebab Rasulullah SAW bersabda, “Sungguh amal orang yang hidup selalu diperlihatkan kepada keluarga dan teman-temannya yang sudah berada di alam kubur. Bila amal yang dilakukan baik, keluarga yang berada di alam kubur langsung memuji kepada Allah dan merasa bahagia. Bila amal yang dilakukan buruk, keluarga yang berada di alam kubur langsung berkata, ‘Ya Allah, janganlah Engkau mencabut nyawa saudara dan kerabatku yang masih berada di dunia, hingga lebih dahulu Engkau memberikan ampunan kepada mereka“.

Patut kita renungkan. Dari hari ke hari, hitungan umur kita memang bertambah. Namun, sebetulnya, jatah hidup kita di dunia ini semakin berkurang. Kita hanya punya sisa umur. Mudah-mudahan, dengan zikrul maut (mengingat mati), kita bisa menyikapi detik demi detik dari sisa umur kita dengan benar, yaitu mengisinya dengan aktivitas ibadah dan perbuatan utama yang didasari oleh niat yang benar. Sebab kata Rasulullah SAW, “Seorang mukmin, saat menjelang kematiannya, akan didatangi oleh malaikat sambil menyampaikan dan memperlihatkan kepadanya apa yang bakal dialaminya, setelah kematian. Ketika itu, tidak ada yang lebih disenanginya kecuali bertemu dengan Tuhan (mati). Berbeda halnya dengan orang kafir yang juga diperlihatkan kepada apa yang bakal dihadapinya, dan ketika itu tidak ada sesuatu yang lebih dibencinya daripada bertemu dengan Tuhan.“ (HR.Imam Ahmad).

Wallahualam. **

Sumber: Pontianak Post Online

Israel Fights Islam to The Last American

2009-02-08T22:02:00.000+08:00

Mohamed Khodr | Freelance Writer

Prejudice and demonization has been the "white man's burden" and justification for colonialism and enslavement of "colored" man throughout history. It began with the Greeks and Romans, followed by the hostility toward Jews, then Islam, until the miraculous irony of the post-Holocaust era where the newly found partnership of the "Judeo-Christian" world became the defenders of freedom against the "evil empire" of Communism and the establishment of the Western Zionist colony of Israel. That was followed by the newly created "evil du jour - Islam" in 1990 after Communism's fall in order to serve and maintain the military-industrial-media complex of America's elite.

It is no coincidence that Bernard Lewis, America's Islamophobic spokesperson, wrote his article "Roots of Muslim Rage" in 1990 immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union (Sept., Atlantic Monthly). Samuel Huntington, Jewish American, followed in 1993 with his infamous "The Clash of Civilizations" (Foreign Affairs), although Huntington obviously took the title from Basil Matthews' 1926 book "Young Islam on Trek: A Study in the Clash of Civilizations." Matthews, a missionary, saw a massive opportunity for Christian conversion among Muslims after the Ottoman Empire's collapse. He wrote: "They [Muslims] have discovered that the possessors of such power - the rulers over nine tenths of the habitable earth and six out of every seven Muslims on the surface - are the races of Western Christendom."

European Christian literature is replete with derogatory and insulting characterizations of Islam and it's Prophet (pbuh). Their argument runs like this: Christianity, founded by God himself, could not tolerate or accept faiths espoused by mere mortals. Thus, superimposed on the "white man's burden" of civilizing the world, Christianity brought a religious zeal to save the world and exterminate the obstinate "infidels." Neither the faiths preceding it, such as Judaism, nor a faith following it denying Christ's divinity is acceptable to the white Western mind. It was Christianity, not Islam, which invented the trigger phrases of: Infidel - Holy War - Fundamentalism. And it was Israel that first introduced terrorism in the form of car bombing and airplane hijacking into the Middle East.

A combination of Holocaust guilt and sympathy, and the birth of the "strong" Western rich Jewish lobbyist, founded Israel for European immigrants via the genocide and "ethnic cleansing" of the "other, the colored, the infidel," the invisible second victims of the Holocaust. Ironically, Israel was founded due to Christianity's "us vs. them" holocaust, and now thanks to Israel, the "them du jour" are Muslims. From its founding, Israel's leaders such as David Ben Gurion, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres identified "Islam" as the true enemy of Israel, and now by extension to Israel's colony - the United States.

With the entry of the naive, isolated, gullible U.S. government into Mideast politics after World War II, Israel cleverly formulated a strategy to win "America's money, weapons, vetoes, and blind support" through the only educational and opinion molding medium the West understands: the media, with its film power of Images and Words.

America's politics became hostage to Israel, Jewish political activism and campaign donations, and a media and Hollywood powerhouse all designed to wield the "carrot and stick." While the rest of America was self-centered on "me", Israel's influence around Washington D.C. became a belt encircling the power centers of government much akin to the physiologic blood brain barrier of the brain that filters harmful compounds and allows entry of only pro-Israeli messages. Hence, the creation of America's split personality and erratic foreign policy that is often embarrassing, humiliating, stupid, irrational, and dangerous, to America's long term interest in the world; America's national interest logically lies with 56 Muslim nations, a fifth of the world's market population with 60% of the world's oil reserves, YET America's cowardly, greedy, short-sighted pandering to one nation - Israel - may ultimately lead to America's definitive war and American deaths within the Muslim world.

Given America's impotence toward Israel, as clearly articulated by Bush's silence and Powell's "Blame Arafat for Israel's 53-year murder and occupation of Palestine, for Sharon's military madness, and for forcing us to look cowardly," what have Arab leaders done to solve the Palestinian Diaspora and regain world respect for Arabs? In a word: NOTHING. In fact, American impotence is only superseded by Arab impotence, dishonesty, inter-Arab conflict, undemocratic and inhumane self-survival policies, wasted time, lives, money, and resources, all while living a hypocritical image of true Islam.

For 53 years the Arab and Muslim world did not, and could not, develop one single strategy to counteract Israel's hegemony of America and Europe. How shameful it is to hear U.S. officials say that Arab leaders say one thing in private while denouncing Israel in public. Islam has been shredded in the Western media as a faith of violence, terrorism, and intolerance. Yet not one leader has stood up to the American-Israeli hegemony with faith, courage, and the trust of his people.

America is a capitalistic society that responds to money and power regardless of politics. Israel has the financial and political power to wield its influence via the Congress and the Media. Both are money dependent. Recently, it was reported that thousands of Saudi Arabian princes, alone, have between $500 billion and one trillion dollars in American banks and government bonds. That's just one family. Imagine if the Arab and Muslim world would adopt a two-pronged strategy: one politico-financial, the other cultural.

Imagine if Muslim money and resources were wielded as political power via American banks and financial institutions, stocks in major companies including advertising firms, stocks in media corporations even beginning with local markets, stocks in Hollywood production companies, supporting and strengthening Arab and Muslim political action committees with a presence in every state to lobby for Arab/Muslim causes, establishing Islamic institutes and centers in universities, scholarships for Arab/Muslim students in Communication/Media/Film studies, hiring or developing professional public relations firms on behalf of Islam and the Muslim victims in Palestine, India, Kashmir, Chechnya, Afghanistan, China, Burma, Philippines and so on. The Business of America is Business, yet Arabs act as if that's none of their Business until they are forced to meet and whine about the "injustice" to Arabs and Muslims and how great Islam was instead of how great Islam is and will always be.

Secondly, the need to develop a strategy to reach the American people at the grassroots media and cultural level. Americans are not Islam's enemy. They are a kind, generous, open-minded people who seek to live in peace and are thirsty to for others to reach out to them and inform them of their world and culture. Currently, even American Muslims are silent, intimidated, fearful and ignorant regarding political activism. Education and training for them is needed urgently. Today, Muslim schools and mosques serve Muslims, but not Islam.

For their part, the 56 Muslim nations need to develop a unified organization for the sole purpose of informing Americans and Europeans on the truth of Islam via media, film, and cultural events in museums, colleges, and film. There is not one single entity in the U.S. that performs this function with any professionalism and effectiveness. A coordinated effort, even state-by-state, that brings Muslims together with pride, joy, and trust among themselves will alter the landscape of the West. Americans and Europeans are converting to Islam despite Muslims, not because of them.

A short-term strategy of pressuring the U.S. that its interests are in jeopardy in the Muslim world will bring the peace process back on track. America has been looking to invest its interests and energy policies beyond the Middle East such as in the Caspian Sea, so the timeframe to influence American policy is short. If Americans can learn to love the Germans, the Italians, and the Japanese, and accept Russians and Chinese as strategic friends, surely Muslim lands can do the same given that the only wedge between Muslims and the Christian West is Israel.

The first strategy is to make clear that no attack on Iraq is acceptable, and that the Arab League will resolve the issue of the weapons inspectors. Second, suspend the Arab League Peace Plan and recall Arab and Muslim ambassadors from the U.S. and England until Sharon withdraws immediately from all Palestinian Authority areas. Third, insist on a U.N.-sponsored International Conference on the Palestinian-Israeli issue and on defining "terrorism." America needs the 56 Muslim nations more than Muslims need them.

Will the Arabs ever manifest such courage and spine? It's hard to believe. If they don't, however, then surely their political survival and U.S. interests will suffer in the long term for one simple reason: neither the U.S., nor the Arab/Muslim world, nor the United Nations have the courage to stand up to Israel and say enough is enough.

Source and Courtesy: Jihadunspun

An Anthropology of Death: To Be a Tree

2009-02-06T09:54:00.000+08:00

To Be a Tree
by
LINDA “ilham” BARTO on 17 January, 2009 00:15:00

MY sister died this week. She had a lovely, Christian funeral, but it was stained with things I hate –embalming, a casket, a cement vault, and a cold cemetery. Until I became a Muslim, I was not sure why I absolutely despised the standard burial rituals. It’s because those things add up to an unnatural way for the body to continue. The human body, as with all living bodies of creation, was designed to return to the earth in a beautiful continuation of energy. An Islamic burial respects the natural process of decay and emphasizes the “dust to dust” aspect that is often heard in funeral speech but seldom taken as a directive.

I can’t stand to think of my sister’s body, robbed of its blood and filled with formaldehyde, locked in a metal box, deep in the cold vault, without the comfort of the earth’s embrace. In a natural burial, the body of the deceased is washed and shrouded. An autopsy is performed only if necessary, and embalming is not done unless, for some reason, the body cannot be buried right away or cannot be preserved with dry ice or cold storage. Although not everyone will agree with me, I think that it is a final act of charity for a deceased person to have willed that his or her organs be donated for the sake of others. Prophet Muhammed (peace and blessings upon him) said that these three things continue to benefit a person after death: charity that continues to help others, knowledge from which people continue benefit, and a righteous child who continues to pray. Certainly donating an organ to improve or continue the life of another is a form of enduring charity.

In a natural burial, the body is returned to the earth either without a casket or in a biodegradable coffin. Such a coffin may be made of wood, paper, and/or woven fiber and contains nothing toxic or synthetic. All materials are environmentally friendly. You can see a “Natural Coffin Gallery” on www.naturalburialcompany.com.

Most cemeteries require vaults with all the artificial accompaniments, but there is a growing movement for natural burials, also called “green burials” because they contribute to the sustaining of earth’s green beauty. Dr. Billy Campbell, founder of Memorial Ecosystems, explained, “What we’re doing is basically land conservation. By setting aside woods for natural burials, we preserve it from development. At the same time, I think we put death in its rightful place, as part of the cycle of life. Our burials honor the idea of dust to dust.”

There are several natural burial sites now available in the USA and Canada. The first in the world was Ramsey Creek Preserve near the mountains in South Carolina. It began in 1998 with thirty-three acres that included natural woods and shoals, streams, and a variety of wild plants and animals. In 2006, the wildlife preserve acquired protection of an additional thirty-eight acres.

In such ecosystems, bodies are returned to the earth in a dignified and respectful manner. No elaborate monuments or other grave markers are allowed, but a simple, natural stone may be engraved and placed in a graceful style to blend with the landscape. Native plants cloak the gravesite as life continues as it was intended.

I plan to grow up to be a tree! If you would like to find a green cemetery near you, research on www.forestofmemories.org under the “Find a Green Cemetery” option. I hope that, insh’Allah, someday there will be an entire Muslim forest in North America.

Originally Published as "To Be a Tree"

Source: Daily Muslims

Posted by Dr. A.H.Awang Mois

Israeli Hatred For Palestine Arabs Knows No Limits: With American Military Aid Israeli Troops Even Shoot and Kill Animals in Gaza Zoo

2009-02-04T23:36:00.000+08:00

Israeli Troops Shoot and Kill Animals in Gaza Zoo

By Ashraf Helmi and Megan Hirons

The Gaza Zoo reeks of death. But zookeeper Emad Jameel Qasim doesn't appear to react to the stench as he walks around the animals' enclosures.

A month ago, it was attracting families - he says the zoo drew up to 1,000 visitors each day. He points at the foot-long hole in the camel in one of the enclosures.

"This camel was pregnant, a missile went into her back," he tells us. "Look, look at her face. She was in pain when she died."

Around every corner, inside almost every cage are dead animals, who have been lying in their cages since the Israeli incursion.

Qasim doesn't understand why they chose to destroy his zoo. And it's difficult to disagree with him. Most of them have been shot at point blank range.

"The first thing the Israelis did was shoot at the lions - the animals ran out of their cage and into the office building. Actually they hid there."

The two lions are back in their enclosure. The female is pregnant, and lies heavily on the ground, occasionally swishing her tail. Qasim stands unusually close to them, but they don't seem bothered by his presence.

As he takes us around, he is obviously appalled at the state of the animals. The few animals that have survived appear weak and disturbed.

"The foxes ate each other because we couldn't get to them in time. We had many here." There are carcasses everywhere and the last surviving fox is quivering in the corner.

The zoo opened in late 2005, with money from local and international NGOs. There were 40 types of animals, a children's library, a playground and cultural centre housed at the facility.

Inside the main building, soldiers defaced the walls, ripped out one of the toilets and removed all of the hard drives from the office computers. We asked him why they targeted the zoo. He laughs. "I don't know. You have to go and ask the Israelis. This is a place where people come to relax and enjoy themselves. It's not a place of politics."

Israel has accused Hamas of firing rockets from civilian areas. Qasim reacts angrily when we raise the subject.

"Let me answer that with a question. We are under attack. There was not a single person in this zoo. Just the animals. We all fled before they came. What purpose does it serve to walk around shooting animals and destroying the place?"

Inside one cage lie three dead monkeys and another two in the cage beside them. Two more escaped and have yet to return. He points to a clay pot. "They tried to hide", he says of a mother and baby half-tucked inside.

Qasim says that his main two priorities at the moment are rebuilding the zoo and taking the Israeli army to court. For the first, he says he will need close to $200,000 to return the zoo to its former state - and he wants the Israelis to cover the costs. "They have to pay me for all this damage."

We ask him why it's so important for Gaza to have a zoo. "During the past four years it was the most popular place for kids. They came from all over the Gaza Strip. There was nowhere else for people to go."

- Ashraf Helmi and Megan Hirons are both photographers.

(Originally published in Gulf News)

Source: The Palestine Chronicle

Religious Obligation for Muslims: Defeating The Enemies Of Islam With Knowledge

2009-02-04T23:03:00.000+08:00

Defeating The Enemies Of Islam With Knowledge

29-01-2009

Ignorant hearts ever ask, why Allah tries the Islamic ummah with wars, treacheries, starvations, persecutions and slaughterings at the hands of the kuffar? Why are these tribulations never-ending?

We always question, but we already know the answers and the conditions in order to get through those heavy trials. The previous Muslims had already fulfilled the conditions and they were successful, but we, who are more modern are neglectful and still seeking for answers.

Whereas Allah has already promised in His commandment which means:

“O ye who believe! If ye will aid (the cause of) Allah, He will aid you, and plant your feet firmly.” (Qur’an 47:7)

When will the help from Allah come? In the past, because of the excessive afflictions suffered by the Sahabahs alongside Rasulullah SAW, they pressured Rasulullah with a question: "O Rasulullah, are you not pleading for help for us? Are you not praying for us?" The blessed Prophet SAW who at that time was lying down, got up with his face reddened due to anger and said: "Know that verily the earlier people preceding you, some of them were buried alive, some had their bodies sawed from the top of the heads until they were cut into halves and there were those whose bodies were combed with sharp iron combs until they cut through their flesh and caused it to be separated from their bones, all those did not shake off their faith."

“By Allah, Allah will surely make this religion triumph until it spreads from Sana’a reaching to Hadhramaut and mankind at that time does not fear anything except Allah surpassing the sheep's fear for the wolf. But you are too haste (in asking for victory)” (Hadith riwayah Imam Al-Bukhari)

The anguish of the Islamic fighters all over the world following the bloodsheds and intrusions on Palestine should not lessen their fighting spirits to remain istiqomah in defending the religion of Allah from the evil scheming of the enemies, and much less to despair from Allah’s mercy due to being infected by the disease of being too attached to the ‘dunya’ and the fear of death.

The call to boycott American goods surely produced a very hot polemic that ignited opinions between “the supportive” and “the unhelpful” towards the call. Those who just lay back and deafen their ears, or those who merely sweet talk in protest without any further and true actions could be clearly seen through this tragedy.

It was actually a form of trial for the iman so that Allah would purify the ummah and select from amongst the ranks the chosen ones to be the fighters in His path and those who are excluded from the ranks, sit in fear, worry about losing the thrones, wealth and lives. Whereas, the akhira is far better and more everlasting, evidently this world has drugged the souls of mankind a lot.

Nevertheless, apart from the men who are ignorant, negligent and choose to sell the akhira for a cheap price, there certainly exists a group who are saved by Allah from the fitnah of the world. They are always raised for an important role for the sake of defending Allah’s religion.

They do not have to be in the open battle field, facing the guns, bombs and rockets, in fact they can follow the footsteps of the Mujahideen through their expertise in knowledge and technology for the sake of Islam’s future.

They understand the advice from the Qur’an commanding the Islamic ummah to be vigilant all the time, as wars will always exist whether in the open or silent way, not because the ummah is inciting the fire but it is the enemies who are always inflaming the ill feelings which could never be extinguished.

Allah says which means:

“Nor will they cease fighting you until they turn you back from your faith if they can. And if any of you Turn back from their faith and die in unbelief, their works will bear no fruit in this life and in the Hereafter; they will be companions of the Fire and will abide therein.” (Qur’an 2:217)

With the more sophisticated power of the kafir’s weaponry, the strategies and plan of the Islamic ummah must be arranged wisely and not in a hurry, in line with the hadith of Rasulullah SAW which reminded his ummah not to be hurried and impatient in their struggles. A long term plan that involves Muslim scientists and intellectuals along with the umara (leaders) and the entire ummah must be laid down.

The role of the umara, as Islamic leaders, should involve providing visions that are far ahead and plans that are accurate so that the ummah are able to stand at par with the Jews and Christians who have been more advanced so far.

Has there been any nuclear expert comparable to the American and Jewish scientists? What new technologies and discoveries have been explored by the Muslim generations? Are the national, political and economical stability becoming the main agenda for the leaders of different political outlooks?

How far have been the efforts to produce Muslim tycoons on an international level and to train educators, scientists and intellectuals in order to receive the transmission of knowledge from every window of the world as provisions to prepare for the future generations who are competent in every field of knowledge and on a par with other advanced nations.

It is so sad, historical facts listed 180 Jews who had won the Nobel prizes in a period of 105 years and only three Muslims had so far won it, in the ratio of 14 million Jews to 1.5 billion Muslims all over the world.

Then, how about the role of the ulama in encountering the waves of the Jewish and Christian revival? The ulamas must be more flexible and ready to open dialogues with people of other religions and faiths in order to present them true information about Islam.

The efforts to convey authentic Islam through a modern da’wah strategy must be made as priority. The slogan of ‘return to Islam’ should become a brand that could be sold in the world markets. Not only for the Islamic ummah but also for the others who still do not know about the beauty of Islam.

Don’t be so engrossed in prohibiting things and issuing fatwas that cause tensions within the religious community and ummah, as though being hostile and wanting to dominate using the power of the majority.

Didn’t Rasulullah SAW send his ulama ambassadors abroad to establish diplomatic relations and do da’wah to them? The humanitarian spirits must be emphasized more than the racial spirits and being blindly fanatic to religious belief. Islam does not in any way allow its ummah to enforce aqeedah on the other communities.

It should have been the role of the Muslim intellectuals to approach the orientalists who are studying Islam by way of muzakarah, having dialogues and discussions about Islamic facts with a spirit of peace, not hatred.

In the 20th century, the attitude of the orientalists varied, if before they were working for the benefits of imperialism and used the result of their studies as weapons to invade and destroy the Islamic ummah. Today, a lot of them behave openly, sincerely and independently in agreement with the diminishing imperialist power. If the ulamas do not prepare high quality books, as well as academic works for the purpose of answering the negative arguments about Islam, it’s impossible for these orientalists to find the truth and hidayah in Islam.

Examples of those who are famous are; Rene Guenon (Abdul Wahid Yahya), Martin Lings, Titus Burchhardt and Leopold Weiss (Mohammad Asad), Murad Hoffman and many others who are yet to say the shahadah.

The strength of the ulama's knowledge must be taken advantage of for the da’wah transmission by means of direct involvements in the da’wah arena, molding a da’wah struggle that has an authoritative bearing, conveying al-Quran and hadith in a beautiful way, not intimidating, much less oppressive.

Sometimes the mentioning of the words haram is more audible, making the ummah phobic and leave their religion, whereas the haram is less compared to the halal in our religion. In the end, ignorance is widespread in the generations that rejected religion, they consider Islam as an inherited religion for administering the matter of death, birth and celebration of its big days only but not capable of answering worldly problems.

Due to the negligence of the ulama and dai’e, a dangerous phenomena was born in the midst of the ummah, the birth of two Islamic generations. First, those who entirely let go of the religious ties and second, the traditional and intolerant camp who makes others feel religious issues as a burden to the extent of forgetting the true struggle.

If the kafir had already reached the moon and done research on the outer space war technology, the narrow-minded Muslims are still quarelling and at odds with each other about whose madzhab is the best in matter of ablutions.

The fanaticism to madzhab becomes the root cause of the disunity amongst the ummah, it is responsible for the backwardness of the Islamic ummah who are unable to compete through technology, economy and the strength of the kafir’s weaponry.

Whereas Rasulullah SAW had never asked his ummah to hold onto one madzhab only, did not the madzhab appear only after the death of Rasulullah SAW and nothing is higher in value than the validity of al-Quran and the hadith of Rasulullah SAW? Did not Imam al-Syafie forbid his followers to become blind followers and order them to prioritize the Book of Allah and Sunnah of Rasul more than his judgements.

The next role of the ulama and dai’e is to stand shoulder to shoulder with the umara to resolve the problems of the ummah. The attitude of the ulama towards the umara must be in accordance with the commandment of al-Quran and the hadith of Rasulullah SAW which means:

“I bequeath to you dutiful devotion [taqwa] to Allah, and paying heed and obedience [to your leader], even if he happens to be an Abyssinian slave” (Hadith riwayah Abu Daud and Tirmizi)

Amongst the weakness of the Islamic ummah is the removal of the feeling of love and mercy between the ulama and umara. How would the future of the ummah be if the umara let go of the religious ties in leading a state? And at the same time the ulama are distancing themselves from leading a nation and let errors happen until the religion, society and countries are harmed.

Wouldn’t doom occur if the duty of "amar makruf nahi mungkar" not done? The roles of the ulama alongside the umara is to give judgements, as well as issue fatwas in the spirit of ijtihad for the sake of the ummah’s success.

The ulama and umara should sit together to plan strategies to prepare a future generation that would fight for the religious missions. The absence of it would stifle the life of the ummah. Invasions into the ummah happen everywhere due to backwardness, poverty, ignorance and narrow-mindedness in thinking. However, it should be remembered that the main factor for the cause of Islam’s destruction is the ignorance of the ummah towards their religion.

Religion becomes the strongest defense in winning a struggle because it is an important foundation and the greatest motivator in fighting oppressions. Without religion, nobody is willing to die in defending Islam.

At times they are never scared of death, in fact they are even hoping to die shaheed in the path of Allah. They see the price of world as cheap and therefore they choose paradise which is eternal, to be with their God.

The return to Islam has become a slogan which is commonly shouted out load, how far it would succeed depends on the roles of the ulama and umara as well as the attitude of the ummah which we hoped is willing to change. Is the revival of Islam able to be realized by the generation who look upon the West, with a capitalist soul and an appetite for liberalism?

Rasulullah SAW had already prophesized this subject more than 1400 years ago and no words were uttered by the blessed Prophet except pure truth:

“You would tread the same path as was trodden by those before you inch by inch and step by step so much so that if they had entered into the hole of the lizard, you would follow them in this also. We said: Allah's Messenger, do you mean Jews and Christians (by your words) "those before you"? He said: Who else (than those two religious groups)?” (Hadith riwayah Muslim)

Submitted by a Mujahid

Source: TheUnjustMedia.com

While Arab Leaders Remain Silent Turkey's PM Erdoğan wins praise at home, in Gaza

2009-02-01T18:14:00.000+08:00

PM Erdoğan wins praise at home, in Gaza

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received a hero's welcome yesterday upon his return to İstanbul from the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos after his public spat with Israeli President Shimon Peres over Israel's Gaza offensive.

Erdoğan angrily left a debate at the WEF in Switzerland on Thursday after telling Peres, "You killed people." Erdoğan and Peres raised their voices and traded accusations.

Approximately 5,000 people gathered at the İstanbul Atatürk Airport around 2 a.m. on Friday to greet Erdoğan when he returned from the gathering of business and political leaders, waving Turkish and Palestinian flags and chanting “Turkey is proud of you.” Other banners said “Delegate of the oppressed” and “Let the world see a true prime minister.”

Turkish TV stations broadcast the prime minister’s arrival and the crowd waiting for him. CNN Türk said extra buses were added to routes so more people could turn out to welcome him.

“Our people would have expected the same reaction from any Turkish prime minister,” Erdoğan said at a press conference at the airport on Friday morning after speaking to the crowd.

The Turkish public continued its passionate support of Erdoğan following Friday prayers in İstanbul. Prime Minister Erdoğan was hailed with slogans of praise by thousands of people who were in and around the Büyük Piyalepaşa Mosque. The crowd waited for the prime minister to complete his prayers at noon and when Erdoğan came out of the mosque, they shouted “Turkey is proud of you.”

Erdoğan also won praise from Gazans. In the Gazan refugee camp of Jebaliya, Turkish flags now decorate the ruins of a local mosque that was destroyed during Israel’s war against Gaza’s Hamas government.

A preacher told worshippers at an outdoor service on Friday that Erdoğan had “raised the head of the Islamic nation.” Jalal Bin Yousef al-Sharifi called on other Muslim leaders to do the same.

Later on Friday, a smaller crowd of about 1,500 people applauded Erdoğan as he inaugurated a subway station in İstanbul. They also chanted “Turkey is proud of you.”

Peres had launched a fiery defense of his country’s offensive in Gaza over the past month, and with a raised voice and pointed finger questioned what Erdoğan would do if rockets were fired at İstanbul every night.

“When it comes to killing, you know very well how to kill,” Erdoğan, visibly angry, responded as he sat next to Peres in the debate, which also included United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa.

At a press conference in Davos following Erdoğan’s walkout and again in İstanbul, Erdoğan said Turkey’s reproaches were not against the Israeli people or Jews but against the Israeli administration.

Palestinians wave Turkish flags during a rally in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday. Turkish flags decorate the ruins of a local mosque that was destroyed during Israel’s war against Gaza’s Hamas government.

“There has been a feeling among Arabs and those in the Middle East that someone needs to speak out in this way against Israel. Erdoğan did this,” Fuat Keyman, an international relations professor at Koç University, said in comments on NTV.

Turkey harshly criticized Israel over its Gaza offensive in which Israeli forces killed more than 1,300 Palestinians. Israel lost 11 soldiers and three civilians.

Erdoğan’s stance shocked Israel and has been interpreted by some as an attempt to increase his support ahead of local elections in March with an electorate deeply sympathetic to the Palestinians.

Meanwhile, some in the opposition in Turkey hailed Erdoğan for his stance while others were critical of him. Felicity Party (SP) leader Numan Kurtulmuş said Erdoğan had improved Turkey’s standing with his stance in Davos. He added that if Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) adopts this stance in its diplomatic approach as well, the SP will support the government “to the end.”

On the other hand, former ambassador and Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Onur Öymen accused Erdoğan of being a Hamas spokesman. On a live NTV appearance yesterday Öymen added that Erdoğan harmed Turkey’s image because he defended an organization that has chosen violence as a method. Öymen further said Turkey had lost its chance to be a regional mediator for peace.

Deniz Bölükbaşı, a former ambassador and a deputy of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), said, “Heroism isn’t achieved through leaving that stage but by taking Peres off of the stage.”

31 January 2009, Saturday

Source: TODAY’S ZAMAN İSTANBUL

Obama Should Prove America isn't the Enemy of the Muslim World in Deeds Not in Empty Words

2009-01-28T22:26:00.000+08:00

Obama tells Muslim world 'America is not your enemy'

US President seeks to restore respect of Muslim nations, calls on Iran to 'unclench' fist for diplomacy.

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama Monday told the Muslim world that "Americans are not your enemy" and renewed his pledge to travel to make an address in the capital of a major Muslim nation.

Obama noted that he had lived in Indonesia for several years while growing up, and said his travels through Muslim nations had convinced him that regardless of faith, people had certain common hopes and dreams.

"My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy -- we sometimes make mistakes -- we have not been perfect," Obama said in an interview with the Al-Arabiya satellite television network.

"But if you look at the track record ... America was not born as a colonial power, and that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there's no reason why we can't restore that."

During the 2008 election campaign, Obama vowed to improve US ties with the Muslim world and said he would travel to a major Islamic forum abroad to send that message.

"We're going to follow through on our commitment for me to address the Muslim world from a Muslim capital," Obama said in the interview with the Dubai-based channel.

"We are going to follow through on many of my commitments to do a more effective job of reaching out, listening as well as speaking to the Muslim world," he said.

Obama did not give a time, or a venue for his visit to a major Muslim capital.

He was also asked about the highly personal tone of recent Al-Qaeda messages released since he was elected president in November.

He agreed with his interviewer that the tone of recent videos seemed "nervous."

"What that tells me is that their ideas are bankrupt," he said.

Obama calls on Iran to 'unclench' fist

Obama on Monday said that the United States would offer Iran an extended hand of diplomacy if Tehran's leaders "unclenched their fist."

Obama said he would in the next few months lay out a general framework of policy towards Tehran in an interview with Al-Arabiya.

"As I said in my inauguration speech, if countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us."

"It is very important for us to make sure that we are using all the tools of US power, including diplomacy, in our relationship with Iran," Obama said.

Earlier, Susan Rice, the new US ambassador to the United Nations made her debut and pledged vigorous" and "direct" nuclear diplomacy with Iran but warned of increased pressure if Tehran refuses to halt uranium enrichment.

"We will look at what is necessary and appropriate with respect to maintaining pressure toward that goal of ending Iran's nuclear program," she added.

"Dialogue and diplomacy must go hand in hand with a very firm message from the United States and the international community that Iran needs to meet its obligations as defined by the Security Council and its continued refusal to do so will only cause pressure to increase."

Time for Israelis and Palestinians to return to talks

Obama told Israelis and Palestinians Monday it was time to return to the negotiating table, as he dispatched his new special envoy George Mitchell on a debut tour of the region.

The US president, a week after his historic inauguration, cautioned however that he did not want expectations raised too high of swift progress in the volatile region, following the Israeli war on Gaza.

"I do believe that the moment is ripe for both sides to realize that the path that they are on is one that is not going to result in prosperity and security for their people," Obama told Al-Arabiya television network.

"Instead, it's time to return to the negotiating table."

The new US president had earlier met Mitchell at the White House along with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, before sending him off on a mission to Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, London and Paris.

Obama, who has promised to directly address Middle East questions at the start of his presidency, rather than waiting for years like his predecessor George W. Bush, warned however against expectations of quick results.

"I want to make sure that expectations are not raised so that we think that this is going to be resolved in a few months," the president told the Dubai-based satellite television channel.

"But if we start the steady progress on these issues, I'm absolutely confident that the United States, working in tandem with the European Union, with Russia, with all the Arab States in the region -- I'm absolutely certain that we can make significant progress."

He said in the interview that he would formulate a "specific response" to recent events in the Middle East once Mitchell has reported back to him.

Mitchell begins his Middle East tour in Cairo Tuesday with a brief from Obama to "engage vigorously" to achieve real progress in Arab-Israeli peace efforts.

"The charge that Senator Mitchell has is to engage vigorously and consistently in order for us to achieve genuine progress," Obama said after the talks at the White House attended also by Clinton.

Source: Middle East Online

Beware of France: Hamas slams France for sending frigate to Gaza

2009-01-28T22:20:00.000+08:00

Hamas PM: we expected France to send hospital ships to treat Palestinian children burned by banned Israeli weapons.

GAZA CITY - The head of the Hamas government in Gaza Ismail Haniya on Tuesday lashed out over the deployment of a French frigate to take part in a mission that Paris claims is against arms smuggling into the Palestinian territory.

"We expected France, whose motto is 'liberty, equality, fraternity' to send hospital ships to treat the children burned by banned weapons or to set up a humanitarian bridge... rather than deploy a navy ship to reinforce the blockade," Haniya said in a statement.

The Germinal frigate has been deployed to international waters off Gaza.

Haniya also dismissed criticism by European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel who on Monday said Hamas bore "overwhelming responsibility" for the Israel's 22-day war in Gaza.

"We are astonished by the European position which blames the victims and the oppressed people for the tragedy that befell the Gaza Strip," he said.

Observers note that the "weapon's smuggling" issue has further exposed the system of hypocrisy and double standards that the Middle East conflict has been subjected to.

While Israel, a brutal occupying power that is a threat to all of its neighbours, has access to advanced and sophisticated military aid (which is often used against civilians) from the US and elsewhere, Hamas, a democratically elected government and a resistance group determined to free Palestinian territories (Gaza, West Bank and east Jerusalem) from illegal Israel occupation, is denied the means to even defend itself or fight back.

“Israel’s total defence budget in the previous year was 7.2 billion USD, plus of course, another 2.2 billion USD in US ‘aid’ and this has risen since...Of course, Israel imports their arms directly, using seaports, airports and land borders,” notes Pat Bernstein, who writes about the situation in Palestine and its parallels to Apartheid South Africa.

“If Gaza was actually a state, without a total and illegal blockade, they too could import arms. Their qassam rockets would not need to be ‘smuggled’,” Bernstein adds.

“On average, every Israeli spends more on arms, than a Palestinian in Gaza has to live on.”

Source: Middle East Online

Yusuf Islam records charity song for Gaza: UNWRA

2009-01-27T23:26:00.000+08:00

Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:42pm GMT E

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British singer Yusuf Islam released a charity song on Monday for which all proceeds will be donated to a United Nations agency helping refugees in Gaza.

Islam -- who changed his name from Cat Stevens when he became a Muslim -- will donate the money made from "The Day the World Gets Round" to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and Save the Children to help families in the Gaza Strip, UNRWA said in a statement.

The song, which was originally recorded by the late Beatle George Harrison, features Islam on vocals and Klaus Voorman, known to many as the fifth Beatle, on bass.

Islam said he hoped the music will "help remind people of the immense legacy of love, peace and happiness we can share when we get round to looking at mankind's futile wars and prejudices, and start to change our foolish ways."

Israel's three-week Israeli in Gaza killed 1,300 Palestinians, including 700 civilians.

The war, which began on December 27, tentatively ended on January 18 when Israel and Hamas began separate ceasefires. Israel says it launched the offensive because of rocket fire by Hamas into Israel, which has killed at least 21 Israelis since 2001.

UNRWA said it has provided over 50,000 civilians refuge in over 50 improvised shelters, mostly in its school buildings, and has been a focal point for aid supplies.

It is also playing a leading role in recovery response as well as providing on-going education, health relief and social services. This includes providing schooling for over 196,000 children and food aid to over 750,000 refugees.

(Editing by Dominic Evans)

Source: Reuters

Qunut Nazilah dalam solat

2009-01-26T16:22:00.001+08:00

اللهُمَّ إنَّا نَسْتَعِيْنُكَ وَنُؤْمِنُ بِكَ ، وَنَتَوَكَّلُ عَلَيْكَ وَنُثْنِيْ عَلَيْكَ الْخَيْرَ وَلَا نَكْفُرُكَ ، اللهُمَّ إيَّاكَ نَعْبُدُ ، وَلَكَ نُصَلِّيْ وَنَسْجُدُ ، وَإِلَيْكَ نَسْعَى وَنَحْفِدُ ، نَرْجُوْ رَحْمَتَكَ وَنَخْشَى عَذَابَكَ ، إنَّ عَذَابَكَ الجِدَّ بِالْكُفَّارِ مُلْحَقٌ ، اللهُمَّ عَذِّبِ الْكَفَرَةَ أهْل الكِتَابِ الَّذِيْنَ يَصُدُّوْنَ عَنْ سَبِيْلِكَاللهُمَّ أَعِزَّ الإسْلَامَ وَالْمُسلمين، وَأَذِلَّ الشِّرْكَ وَالْمُشْرِكِيْنَ، وَدَمِّرْ أَعْدَاءَكَ أَعْدَاءَ الدِّيْن, اللهم أَهْلِكِ الْكَفَرَةَ وَالطُّغَاةَ وَالظَّالِمِيْنَ يا رب العالمين.. اللهم اِنَّنَا نَجْعَلُ فى نُحُورِ أعداءِنَا و نَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ شُرُورِهِم, اللهُمَّ بَدِّدْ شَمْلَهُم وَ فَرِّقْ جَمْعَهم و شَتِّتْ كَلِمَتَهم و زَلْزِلْ أَقْدَامَهم يا قهَّار , يا جبَّار , يا مُنْتَقِم, يا الله, يا الله, يا الله.اللهُمَّ يَا مُنْزِلَ الْكِتَابَ وَيَا مُجْرِيَ السَّحَابَ وَيَا هَازِمَ الْأَحْزَابَ اِهْزِمْهُمْ وَاْنصُرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ.اللَّهُمَّ أَنْجِ المسلمين في فلسطين اللَّهُمَّ أَنْجِ المسلمين في كُلِّ مَكَان, اللَّهُمَّ أَنْجِ الْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ, اللَّهُمَّ أهْلِكْ أمْرِيْكَانَ وَمَنْ وَالَاهُمْ, اللهُمَّ أَهْلِكِ الْيَهُوْدَ وَمَنْ وَالَاهُمْ,اللهُمَّ انْصُرْ إِخْوَانَنَا الْمُجَاهِدِيْنَ فِيْ سَبِيْلِكْ، والْمُضْطَهَدِيْنَ فِيْ دِيْنِهِمْ فِيْ كُلِّ مَكَانٍ، اللهُمَّ انْصُرْ إخْوَانَنَا فِيْ فَلَسْطِيْن ، اللهُمَّ انْصُرْهُمْ عَلَى عَدُوِّكَ وَعَدُوِّهِمْ، اللهُمَّ اجْمَعْ كَلِمَتَهُمْ، وَوَحِّدْ صُفُوْفَهُمْ يَا رَبَّ الْعَالَمِيْنَ, رَبَّنَا ظَلَمْنَا أَنفُسَنَا وَإِنْ لَمْ تَغْفِرْ لَنَا وَتَرْحَمْنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنْ الْخَاسِرِينَ.

Maksudnya: “Ya Allah sesungguhnya kami memohon pertolongan dariMU dan kami beriman denganMu, dan kami bertawakkal kepada Mu, dan kami memuja Mu dengan kebaikan dan kami tidak mengkufuriMU, Ya Allah hanya engkau yang kami sembah dan kepada Mu kami menunaikan solat dan bersujud, kepadaMu kami menuju, dan kami menyegerakan langkah, kami mengharapkan rahmatMu dan kami takutkan azabMu, sesungguhnya azabMu sangat pedih akan dikenakan kepada orang-orang yang kafir, Ya Allah azablah orang-orag kafir Ahli kitab yang menghalang-halangi dari jalanMU.Ya Allah muliakanlah Islam dan kaum muslimin, dan hinakanlah kesyirikan dan kaum musyrik, Ya Allah hancurkan musuh-musuhMu yang merupakan musuh-musuh agama (Islam), Ya Allah binasakanlah kekufuran, toghout dan orang-orang yang zalim, Wahai tuhan sekelian alam.
Ya Allah kami serahkan leher-leher musuh kami (kepadaMu) dan kami berlindung denganMu daripada kejahatan-kejahatan mereka. Ya Allah cerai-beraikan himpunan mereka, pecah-belahkan kesatuan mereka, selerakkanlah kalimah mereka, dan goncangkan kedudukan mereka, Wahai tuhan yang maha gagah, wahai tuhan yang maha keras, wahai tuhan yang maha membalas, Ya Allah, Ya Allah, Ya Allah,Ya Allah, wahai tuhan, yang menurunkan al-Kitab, wahai tuhan yang menjalankan awan, wahai tuhan yang mengalahkan tentera al-Ahzab, kalahkanlah mereka (orang-orang kuffar) dan bantulah kami menghadapi mereka.Ya Allah, selamatkanlah kaum muslimin di Palestin, Ya Allah selamatkanlah kaum muslimin di semua tempat, Ya Allah selamatkanlah kaum-kaum yang lemah dari kalangan orang-orang yang beriman, Ya Allah hancurkan Amerika dan sekutu-sekutunya, Ya Allah hancurkan Yahudi dan sekutu-sekutunya.Ya Allah bantulah saudara-saudara kami para pejuang di jalanMu, yang ditindas kerana agama yang mereka anuti di semua tempat.
Ya Allah bantulah saudara-saudara kami di Palestin, Ya Allah bantulah mereka, Ya Allah bantulah mereka berdepan dengan musuhMu dan musuh mereka, Ya Allah satukanlah kalimah mereka, dan saf-saf mereka, wahai tuhan sekelian alam, Wahai tuhan kami sesungguhnya kami telah menzalimi diri kami sendiri, jika Engkau tidak mengampunkan kami dan mengasihani kami, sudah pasti kami akan tergolong dari kalangan orang-orang yang rugi.”

Dari Abu Hurairah ra katanya "Demi Allah! Akan kuajarkan kepadamu cara solat Rasulullah saw. Maka Abu Hurairah qunut ketika solat zohor, isyak dan subuh. Mendoakan kebaikan bagi orang-orang mukmin dan mengutuk orang-orang kafir"(Hadis riwayat Muslim)

Sumber : http://abunajmi-asqalani.blogspot.com/

Jagailah Hubungan Insan yang kerdil dengan Allah Maha Pencipta

2009-01-26T12:30:00.000+08:00

Berdoa dan Berwirid medekatkan Insan yang kerdil dengan Allah Maha Pencipta
BERDOA dan berwirid mendekatkan hubungan insan dengan Allah, sekali gus mengelakkan penulisan persenda Islam.

Penulis jahil sering salah guna blog, internet untuk persenda kemuliaan ajaran Islam.

LAUNGAN slogan kembali kepada Islam menimbulkan reaksi pelbagai lapisan masyarakat. Ada bersikap prejudis penuh kecurigaan dan menganggap sebagai seruan kembali kepada kemunduran, semua serba haram dan bayangan kerumitan dalam melaksanakan nilai ajarannya.

Wujud juga golongan mahu mengambil kesempatan terhadap Islam, mereka mengambil semangat Islam untuk kepentingan peribadi. Ada pula golongan yang Islamnya hanya kulit, mereka menggunakan Islam pada saat diperlukan untuk mendapat keuntungan duniawi.

Sementara inti ajaran Islam yang mengatur seluruh dimensi kehidupan dicampak bagai sampah tidak terpakai. Lalu, bagaimanakah sikap seorang Muslim ketika menyahut seruan ini?

Sudahkah dikaji keaslian Islamnya bersih daripada penyelewengan akibat percampuran fahaman buatan manusia seperti kapitalisme, sosialisme, nasionalisme, liberalisme, hedonisme dan pelbagai isme lainnya.

Apakah Islam yang dianuti itu bebas sama sekali daripada pengaruh transformasi budaya yang sudah membuka pintu dunia seluas-luasnya? Atau masih digigit dengan gigi geraham peninggalan nenek moyang tanpa usul periksa?

Untuk itu, sesiapa yang mahu hidup dalam pimpinan Islam yang benar hendaklah kembali kepada asal. Hanya pendedahan ilmu yang boleh menjawab semua persoalan itu kerana pusaka nabi yang tidak akan hilang ditelan zaman.

Pada masa teknologi maklumat yang semuanya serba hebat dan cepat seperti sekarang, muncullah Islam yang terpampang di blog ciptaan manusia. Ramai pula orang Islam yang mencari hidayah Allah dengan belayar di lautan siber tanpa sempadan.

Hakikatnya pemikiran dan fahaman dipaparkan dalam blog berkenaan perlu dikaji, diuji dan diperiksa kesahihannya, adakah benar ia tidak menyalahi al-Quran dan hadis Rasulullah SAW. Proses mencari ilmu tidak boleh terlepas daripada amalan membaca, berdialog bersama ulama dan melakukan perbandingan kajian secara bertanggungjawab.

Boleh jadi, ajaran sesat sudah menyusup masuk tanpa disedari melalui teknologi maklumat dengan begitu mudah. Sikap menerima dan mengikut secara membuta-tuli tanpa usul periksa dan mencari daripada sumber lain boleh memudaratkan seorang penuntut ilmu.

Mencari kebenaran Islam mestilah dipandu oleh ulama yang amanah dengan ilmunya. Jangan pula taksub kepada seseorang dan menolak pandangan ulama lain. Ada kala hujah dinyatakan dalam blog sebegini terlalu miskin ilmu umpama perbualan di kedai kopi dengan memperguna dalil al-Quran dan hadis yang disalah guna, lebih teruk lagi sikap hentam dan caci maki, fitnah dan kebencian mula menjadi aliran dihalalkan dalam blog yang kononnya berlandaskan Islam itu.

Islam yang begitukah boleh diharap membangkitkan jiwa umat supaya berjuang memartabatkan agama? Tidak nampak keindahan ketika membaca maklumat yang bertajuk Islam tetapi berisi sumpah seranah tidak bertamadun.

Rasulullah SAW bersabda bermaksud: “Setiap Muslim itu bersaudara, maka jangan kamu menganiaya dan menghina saudaramu. Takwa itu ada di sini (me-nunjuk dada tiga kali). Seseorang cukup dianggap jahat apabila ia menghina saudara muslimnya, setiap Muslim diharamkan darah, harta dan kehormatannya.” (Hadis riwayat Muslim)

Bukankah satu ayat yang ditulis itu akan menjadi saksi bagi penulis pada hari kiamat nanti, adakah dia berkata jujur atau menipu manusia atas nama Allah dan Rasul-Nya? Seperti sabda Baginda SAW bermaksud: “Sesungguhnya kebenaran itu menunjukkan jalan kebaikan dan kebaikan pula memimpin ke syurga. Sesungguhnya seseorang itu bersikap jujur (siddiq) sehingga ditulis di sisi Allah sebagai orang yang siddiq.

Sesungguhnya dusta itu menunjukkan kepada jalan kemaksiatan dan maksiat menunjukkan pada neraka. Sesungguhnya seseorang itu berbuat dusta hingga ditulis di sisi Allah sebagai pendusta.” (Hadis riwayat al-Bukhari, Muslim, Abu Daud dan al-Tirmizi)
Melalui tulisan, seorang penulis boleh membuka mata hati manusia dan menolongnya mencari cahaya Allah di atas jalan yang diredai. Tetapi tidak mustahil dia bertanggungjawab menjerumuskan manusia dengan tulisan ke lembah gelap, penuh kebencian dan membutakan hati.

Oleh itu, pencari Islam mesti mengikuti arahan al-Quran dalam mengumpulkan maklumat supaya mereka tidak tersesat dalam pencariannya. Firman Allah bermaksud; “Wahai orang beriman, jika datang kepadamu orang fasik membawa suatu berita, maka periksalah dengan teliti supaya kamu tidak menimpakan suatu musibah kepada suatu kaum tanpa mengetahui keadaan menyebabkan kamu menyesal atas perbuatanmu itu.” (Surah al-Hujurat, ayat 6)

Penulis mesti bersikap adil dalam memandang suatu isu. Sikap fanatik dengan pandangan sendiri biasanya terbentuk kerana mereka tidak berminat bermuzakarah dan berbincang dengan orang berlainan pendapat dengan mereka.

Tertutup pintu musyawarah dan usaha menganalisis kesahihan maklumat antara mereka. Keadaan mereka seperti diceritakan al-Quran bermaksud: “Iaitu orang memecah-belah agama mereka dan mereka menjadi beberapa golongan. Tiap-tiap golongan berasa bangga dengan apa yang ada pada golongan mereka.” (Surah al-Rum, ayat 32)

Apabila sikap fanatik itu mencapai puncaknya, kadang-kadang mereka berdusta atas nama Rasulullah SAW untuk menguatkan hujah mereka tanpa takut lagi atas ancaman neraka. Sabda Rasulullah SAW bermaksud: “Sesiapa yang berdusta ke atasku secara sengaja dia sudah menempah tempatnya dalam neraka.” (Hadis riwayat al-Bukhari dan Muslim)

Di manakah kedudukan ilmu jika hati mereka dipenuhi kebencian dan permusuhan. Keadaan sebegini bukan hanya ditemui di internet bahkan di masjid yang mengadakan majlis ilmu pun dijumpai sikap tak beradab yang semestinya dikawal oleh seorang penuntut ilmu.

Tidakkah mereka melihat keagungan Al-Imam Al-Syafi’ie yang mencari ilmu daripada pelbagai sumber dan manhaj. Beliau bersedia menerima pandangan guru mempunyai manhaj dan kaedah berlainan.

Beliau pernah berguru dengan Imam Malik, bahkan pernah dikatakan berguru pada guru berfahaman Muktazilah dalam menzahirkan ilmu kalam tetapi tidak pernah mengakui bahawa beliau termasuk daripada golongan Muktazilah. Sesungguhnya penyelewengan di atas jalan ilmu terjadi apabila matlamat akhir dalam mencari ilmu itu berada pada puncak kepuasan hawa nafsu.

Penulis dan pembaca blog yang bernafaskan Islam akan mendapatkan faedah dan ganjaran serta keluasan ilmu daripada aktiviti mereka jika mereka mengamalkan adab yang dituntut al-Quran dan hadis kepada seorang pencari hidayah antaranya:

* Meletakkan sumber utama bagi setiap pandangan berasaskan al-Quran dan hadis.
* Berbuat adil dan menghormati kewibawaan, ketokohan dan pandangan orang lain walaupun bertentangan dengan pendapat peribadi seperti seruan Al-Quran bermaksud: “Jangan sekali-kali kebencianmu terhadap sesuatu kaum, mendorong kamu untuk berlaku tidak adil. Berlaku adillah, kerana adil itu lebih dekat kepada takwa dan bertakwalah kepada Allah. Sesungguhnya Allah Maha mengetahui apa yang kamu kerjakan.” (Surah al-Maidah)

* Tidak terikat dengan taklid buta dan semangat asabiyah yang memandulkan kajian ilmiah.
* Ikhlaskan niat, bersihkan hati dan meletakkan matlamat mencari ilmu untuk mendekatkan diri kepada Allah, mengenal kelemahan diri dan memperbaiki hubungan sesama manusia.
* Sentiasa mengemaskini maklumat dan menganalisis semula maklumat dengan melakukan ujian dan pemeriksaan berterusan terhadapnya serta bersedia berubah pandangan jika menepati al-Quran dan al-Sunnah.

Penulis ialah pendakwah dari Sarawak dan boleh dihubungi melalui Juanda@msu.edu.my

This post was submitted by Ibnu Bhatutah.

Reposted on HikmahWP by Dr A.H. Awang Mois

Source: Brudirect.com

BBC's Impartiality or An Indirect Admission of Strong Support of Israeli Genocide in Gaza?

2009-01-25T21:33:00.000+08:00

BBC refuses to air Gaza aid film

Posted: 24-01-2009 , 14:28 GMT

The BBC has defended a decision not to air a TV fund-raising appeal for Gaza Strip, saying it wanted to avoid compromising public confidence in its impartiality. It said a decision was taken with other broadcasters not to show the Disasters Emergency Committee crisis appeal on any network in the UK.

A corporation statement added there were also doubts about "the delivery of aid in a volatile situation". On its part, DEC said there was "clear evidence" the British public wanted to help.

In a statement, the BBC said: "The BBC decision was made because of question marks about the delivery of aid in a volatile situation and also to avoid any risk of compromising public confidence in the BBC's impartiality in the context of an ongoing news story.

"However, the BBC will, of course, continue to report the humanitarian story in Gaza." Later on Saturday, a protest was held over the BBC's decision.

DEC is an umbrella organisation representing a number of aid agencies. Spokeswoman Shaista Aziz said it was confident in the abilities of DEC members and other parts of the organisation to respond and there was an "overwhelming humanitarian need". She added: "We regret the fact that the message we wanted to get across will not reach as many people as hoped."

ITV and Channel 4 are to air the charity appeal for Gaza. ITV said its move came after "the majority of broadcasters" reached a consensus. The BBC, ITV and Sky had previously agreed not to show the ad.

Before the new decision, a spokesman for ITV told the Times website: "The DEC did ask broadcasters if they could support the appeal. "We assessed the DEC's request carefully against agreed criteria and were unable to reach the consensus which is necessary for an appeal."

A cabinet minister urged broadcast of the Disasters Emergency Committee film to recognise "immense human suffering".

© 2009 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)

Canada Staunch Supporter of Israel Against Gazan Palestinians

2009-01-25T21:28:00.000+08:00

Arab leaders criticize Canada's support of Israel

Arab ambassadors urge Ottawa to be more balanced, take into account ‘realities on the ground’.

OTTAWA - Arab ambassadors have complained to Canada's top diplomat about his "unbalanced" Mideast policies, which they said Friday favor Israel and disregard the plight of Palestinians.

"We've encouraged Canada to take a more balanced position, which takes into account the realities on the ground and does not side with one party," said Amin Abou-Hassira, the Palestinian Authority's representative in Ottawa.

Canada's position now is "unbalanced," he said.

The 15 envoys, including Abou-Hassira, met with Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon earlier this week to ask him why his official statements "do not reflect reality and place blame for the war in Gaza entirely on Hamas's rocket-firing into Israel," he said.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government, since its election in 2006, has been unabashedly pro-Israel.

Ottawa had echoed Israel’s propaganda, despite the facts on the ground.

"The Palestinian movement's home-made rockets, which are more cries of hardship in the face of occupation and a heartless blockade than weapons of war, killed 13 Israelis in eight years," the diplomats told Cannon.

More than 1,300 Palestinians –mainly civilians and a third of them children - dead and 5,000 wounded during Israel's 22-day Operation Cast Lead, while on the Israeli side three civilians and 10 soldiers died in combat and rocket strikes and dozens were wounded, according to Israeli official figures.

Canada, during Harper's administration, was the first to suspend aid to the Palestinian government after the election of Hamas in 2006.

Canada is also the only country to vote against a UN Human Rights Council resolution in Geneva to condemn Israel's offensive in Gaza.

Source: Middle East Online

To All The Faithful: A Letter From Gaza

2009-01-23T18:35:00.001+08:00

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

My dear sisters and brothers I wanted to take this opportunity to send you a message from the sisters and brothers in Gaza. Please hear our situation and tell everyone that you know and don't know.

When the Zionists attacked us on 27th December 2008, they not only attacked Hamas, they not only attacked the Muslims of Gaza, they attacked Muslims everywhere. They attacked Islam in the hope that they will weaken it and ultimately destroy it and ummah of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم.

And they will never stop here. They want the beloved Al Aqsa, they want the West Bank and believe me when I tell you that they want the whole of the Middle East.

But they will never succeed. They will never remove the light of Allah inshAllah.

Our situation is dire but our iman is strong Alhamdulillah, even though we have no water to speak of, and when we do, it is polluted and diseased. We have no money to buy mineral water. When we find the money those that sell it say that it is too dangerous for them to travel out to get new supplies. We have no gas, and have not had for the last four months. We cook the little food we have on real fires that we have learned to prepare.

Our men have lost all of their jobs. They spend their days at home now. My husband can spend a day just going from place to place just for the basic need of water. He usually returns empty handed. There are no schools, no banks from which we can withdraw our money. Few hospitals are open for our wounded. You are constantly aware that you risk your life when you go out and when you are indoors. They give us a curfew between 1-4pm. We can go out, they say, in safety to get your supplies, but that is a lie. They have often used that opportunity to add more shuhadaa to their list.

We eat one day rice and one day bread. Meat and milk are a luxury. They are using chemical warfare in the areas which are on the borders. They are killing us by bullets and tanks and B52s, but they are also killing us slowly by starving our children, inflicting indescribable diseases with their chemical warfare and laughing as our suffering becomes prolonged and unbearable.

All this and we are being told that people demonstrate all over the world. MashAllah the fact that you go to embassies and leave your homes makes us feel truly that we are not alone in our struggle.

But you go home at night and lock your door. We cannot do that. I have to leave my home on the second floor every night and stay with my sister on the ground floor. Should there be an attack, it's quicker to leave from the ground floor.

But the ummah is asking where are the Muslim armies? Where is the victory? And where is our true leader who will save us from this death? Where are the armies of Salahadeen Ayubi? Do not look to the UN, they recognised Israel in 1949 as a state and sealed our fate as it is today. Do not turn to America or Britain, did they not invade our ummah in Iraq and Afghanistan. Call the armies in Egypt, in Syria, in Turkey, in Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. In Bangladesh, in the Gulf, in Indonesia and in Libya where are they? Are they content to watch women scream for their help as they bury their young children? Are the screams of their sisters and brothers falling on deaf ears? We have a right to eat and drink in safety and security. We have a right to laugh and live in hope, do we not?

Yes we are tired. When we hear rockets and bombs and see planes that fly too close to our building, I scream with my young son and my husband feels helpless. The brothers will know what it must be like to feel helpless to protect the honour and lives of your family. It kills something of him inside. We often wonder when will they sell our land cheaply, will it take one thousand or two thousand deaths. We wait to see. The Israelis have started to plan where their settlements will be in Gaza. This is what we have become.

In all this there is no one but Allah سبحانه وتعالى that can save us. Don't forget us because you are all that we have now. Your sadaqaat is not reaching us, and when they open borders it only reaches a few who can do nothing with it because we risk our lives just to buy food. They will kill anyone, anyone even if he is a five year old child carrying food for his family. We want to live from the sweat of our men, not from the sweat of others because we are dying.

Keep up the work of Allah and pray and work for the victory that will come soon and rescue our ummah everywhere inshAllah.

May Allah سبحانه وتعالى make us steadfast in our deen, during struggle and during ease. Ya Allah bring us the victory soon and re-establish Islam as the authority by which we live, Ya Allah send us the sons of Salahudeen, the army of Islam to rescue Mohammed's صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم ummah from the oppression under which we live. Ya Allah protect our children and remove the zionists from our land. Ya Allah witness today that we account our rulers, we pray that you return our true leader the Khaleefah soon. Ameen.

والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

Your sister umm Taqi

Source and Courtesy: Khilafah.com

Obama calls for 'new way forward' with Muslim world

2009-01-21T19:52:00.000+08:00

Obama calls for 'new way forward' with Muslim world

New US President says America’s dealing with Muslim world to be based on mutual interest, mutual respect.

WASHINGTON - New US President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to seek a "new way forward" with the Muslim world after eight rocky years under his predecessor George W. Bush.

In his speech upon taking office, Obama echoed campaign promises by saying the United States will "begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan."

The first black US president said "we reject the false choice between our safety and our ideals" of liberty and the rule of law, which critics worldwide say the Bush administration trampled on in its handling of the so called “war on terror”.

In a jab at the use of unilateral military force Bush used to invade Iraq in 2003, Obama said previous American generations had defeated fascism and communism with "sturdy alliances and enduring convictions" in addition to using brute military force.

These generations "knew that our power grows through its prudent use; our security emanates from the justness of our cause, the force of our example, the tempering qualities of humility and restraint," Obama said.

"Guided by these principles once more, we can meet those new threats that demand even greater effort -- even greater cooperation and understanding between nations," Obama declared.

"We will begin to responsibly leave Iraq to its people, and forge a hard-earned peace in Afghanistan," he said.

During his long presidential campaign, Obama vowed to mend alliances, in particular with Europe, whose support he seeks to help stabilize Afghanistan where a resurgent Taliban has emerged after its ouster by US forces in 2001.

"With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat," he said.

He was alluding to a new approach of engaging diplomatically with Iran to rein in its nuclear ambitions.

"And for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you," he said.

He said the United States is a mix of people of different ethnic, language and religious groups from around the world who have tried to overcome tensions and hatred among such groups.

"We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve," he said.

"To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect," he added.

Source: Middle East Online

Usaha Meringankan Beban Golongan Miskin di Brunei Darussalam

2009-01-20T16:59:00.000+08:00

Khamis, 15 Januari 2009

Sekitar 16,000 fakir miskin sudah berdaftar

Oleh Nurul Hayatee Badaruddin

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Rabu - Seramai 16,000 fakir miskin termasuk tanggungan didaftarkan oleh Majlis Ugama Islam Brunei bagi menerima agihan zakat fakir miskin.

Pengagihan zakat kepada asnaf fakir miskin itu dibuat berdasarkan syarat yang diletakkan oleh Majlis Ugama Islam Brunei, kata sumber Majlis Ugama Islam Brunei kepada Media Permata dalam temu bual hari ini.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika diminta mengulas kandungan titah Kebawah Duli Yang Maha Mulia Paduka Seri Baginda Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah, Sultan dan Yang Di-Pertuan Negara Brunei Darussalam ketika mempengerusikan Persidangan Majlis Agama Islam Brunei semalam.

Dalam titah itu, Baginda Sultan bertitah mempersoalkan baki wang zakat yang berjumlah hampir $240 juta, sedangkan masih ada golongan miskin di negara ini.

Baginda Sultan juga bertitah menanyakan sama ada wang zakat boleh ditahan, ditangguhkan dan dilaburkan sedangkan masih ada orang miskin yang layak menerimanya.

Satu lagi soalan yang dititahkan oleh Baginda Sultan ialah sama ada baki wang zakat dari Brunei boleh dipindahkan dan diagihkan kepada fakir miskin di tempat lain, sedangkan masih ada orang miskin di Brunei yang layak menerimanya.

Sementara itu, sumber Majlis Ugama Islam Brunei memberitahu Media Permata mereka juga menggunakan wang zakat bagi membantu fakir miskin membayar hutang tertunggak seperti bayaran bil elektrik.

Mengenai agihan zakat kepada penanggung hutang Al-Gharimin, beliau berkata sepanjang tahun lalu saja, agihan zakat itu membabitkan pembinaan lima buah masjid.

Baginda Sultan bertitah jika bahagian Al-Gharimin itu turut ditimbangkan untuk membayar hutang tertunggak adalah tidak munasabah bagi penghutang yang berhutang kerana maslahat peribadi jika mereka layak untuk menerima wang zakat bahagian Al-Gharimin.

Dalam titah itu, Baginda Sultan menanyakan sama ada kedudukan penanggung hutang yang tidak dapat membayar hutang mereka seperti membeli rumah kerajaan melalui Skim Tanah Kurnia Rakyat Jati, Rancangan Perumahan Negara dan Skim Perumahan Yayasan pernah dikaji.

Selain itu jurucakap Majlis Ugama Islam Brunei juga menyatakan wang zakat berkenaan turut diagihkan kepada mualaf yang memeluk agama Islam di negara ini termasuk digunakan untuk perbelanjaan kursus bimbingan, sambutan Hari Raya, menunaikan fardu haji dan perumahan bagi mualaf berkenaan.

Majlis Agama Islam Brunei pada masa ini mengadakan mesyuarat khas bagi membincangkan titah Baginda Sultan itu.

Sumber: Media Permata Online

Posted by: Dr. A.H.Awang Mois

Middle East: Arab Traitors

2009-01-20T00:53:00.000+08:00

Arab Traitors

Original Publication time: 29 September 2008, 21:06

Our Arab friends have to suffer many sad things, but perhaps the saddest of all is when their suffering is due to the cowardice and treachery of Arab rulers, whose only interest is in staying on their thrones or presidential armchairs. They are willing to force their weaker brethren to bow down before the military might of the clapped-out former super-power, the USA, and to permit the expansion of the Zionist colonisation of the Holy Land and subjection of adjoining lands to the Zionist 'state'.

It is particularly galling when these traitors are lauded by the Angle-Saxon media as being "moderate", when we all know that they are among the most repressive régimes in the world. Certain Arab rulers stand out by their refusal to betray those who have every right to expect their help, and we can see the moves made by the presidents of Syria and the Lebanon, despite severe interference by the rulers of the USA, and even by the Emir of Qatar, in contrast with too many other rulers.

The present rulers of the USA continue to pretend that there was a link between the late Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti and al-Qaeda, when they know that this movement was set up, as were the Taliban, by the Mossad/CIA to cause as much damage as possible to the former Soviet empire, without any thought for the future effects on the whole world. The Mossad/CIA, the worst and most powerful terrorist organisation in the world, has as its main aim the total destabilisation of the Arab world. The ordinary taxpayer in the USA is thereby funding those whose aims are certainly not to help said taxpayer.

If the present rulers of the USA really wished to fight terrorism, they would put an immediate end to the Mossad/CIA, and remove the obvious excuses for others to indulge the same bloodthirsty whims by copying this organisation. This is, of course, highly unlikely, since these rulers, like the treacherous Arab rulers, only hold on to power by the use of such means. With such "friends" as the Zionists and their puppets in the USA, these rulers feel safe behind their bodyguards and barriers. But we have to hope that all their respective reigns may end as speedily as possible.

Robert Thompson

Source: Axis of Logic

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Posted by Dr. A.H. Awang Mois

We have told our readers Attitude of Arab and Muslim Leaders Pathetic: Even Qatari Emir disappointed over lack of quorum for emergency Arab summit ...

2009-01-16T08:04:00.000+08:00

[ 15/01/2009 - 11:14 AM ]

DOHA, (PIC)-- The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, has expressed disappointment at the lack of quorum to hold the emergency Arab summit which he called for to discuss the Israeli occupation forces' devastating aggression on the Gaza Strip that has been ongoing for three weeks.

In a speech he delivered Wednesday night to the Arab World, he said that whenever quorum is almost secured it fails to anew.

He said it was a shame to reduce discussion of the IOF aggression to a consultative meeting at the sidelines of a previously prepared summit. He asserted that his call for the extraordinary summit was still on and the decision was left to the Arab leaders.

Sheikh Hamad said that when he delivered his first speech in which he called for holding the summit the number of Palestinian martyrs was 500 and 2400 wounded but now the number has risen to 1033 martyrs and the wounded to 4560.

The Emir said that the summit could have taken important steps such as suspending the Arab peace initiative and ending all forms of normalization with Israel including re-considering diplomatic relations. He added that the summit could also call for an immediate ceasefire, withdrawal of troops, opening crossings and lifting all forms of the illegitimate siege.

He announced the establishment of a fund for the re-construction of the Gaza Strip, declaring that his country would donate 250 million dollars to this fund. He also called for organizing a sea route through which all Arab countries would supply Gaza with its needs.

Israel must be brought to account for its war crimes and crimes against humanity before international courts, Sheikh Hamad underlined in conclusion.

Source: PIC

Bolivia Negara Kristian Latin Amerika Yang Kedua Tegas Memutuskan Hubungan Diplomatik Dengan Negara Yahud Israel

2009-01-15T19:10:00.000+08:00

Bolivia breaks Israel ties, claims Gaza 'genocide'
18 hours ago

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — President Evo Morales announced Wednesday he was breaking relations with Israel over its invasion of the Gaza Strip and said he will ask the International Criminal Court to bring genocide charges against top Israeli officials.

Morales' ally Hugo Chavez of Venezuela broke ties with Israel last week.

Morales told the country's diplomatic corps that the Israeli attack "seriously threatened world peace" and he called for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his Cabinet to face criminal charges.

Morales chided the United Nations' "Insecurity Council" for its "lukewarm" response to the crisis and said the U.N. General Assembly should condemn the invasion.

He also said Israeli President Shimon Peres should be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize for failing to stop the invasion.

Israel launched the onslaught in Gaza on Dec. 27, seeking to force the ruling Hamas militant group to stop rocket attacks on southern Israel. The offensive has killed more than 940 Palestinians, about half of them civilians, according to Palestinian officials.

Morales and Chavez have worked to cultivate ties to Iran, which supports Hamas. Morales met Tuesday with visiting Iranian officials, who gave him a letter from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thanking Morales for his previously voicing supporting for the Palestinians.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Risalah Usrah 1 – Konsep-konsep Umum Islam oleh Abu’ Urwah.

2009-01-13T18:42:00.000+08:00

(Sambungan 1.1 Muqaddimah)

Pengertian kepada keimanan atau aqidah itu tersusun daripada enam perkara:

Keimanan kepada Allah,
Keimanan kepada yang ghaib,
Keimanan dengan kitab-kitab,
Keimanan kepada nabi-nabi dan rasul-rasul,
Keimanan kepada hari Akhirat,
Keimanan kepada qada’ dan qadar atau taqdir.

Asas aqidah Islamiyyah adalah tauhid kepada Allah. Tauhid dalam Islam adalah inti bagi Islam itu sendiri. Al-Quran keseluruhannya berbicara tentang tauhid, baik dalam ayat-ayat yang mengandungi cerita, berita tentang adanya Allah serta sifat-sifat Nya dan juga dalam ayat-ayat yang menerangkan makhluk dan perbuatannya.

Bersumber daripada tauhid ini lahirlah cabang-cabangnya yang berupa peraturan-peraturan yang mengatur hubungan sesama manusia dan manusia dengan Tuhannya. Dalam semua bentuk peraturan ini, tujuan utamanya adalah untuk memperkuatkan serta menanam tauhid terhadap Allah ke dalam hati setiap orang yang beriman.

Petikan daripada Risalah Usrah 1, Konsep-konsep Umum Islam oleh Abu' Urwah.

Keprihatinan Indonesia Dalam Isu Palestina: HAMAS ucapkan Salam dan Terima Kasih Kerana Bantuan Islam Indonesia

2009-01-13T07:39:00.000+08:00

JAKARTA-Para pejuang Haroqah Al Muqowammah Al Islamiyah ( Hamas ) di Palestina menitipkan salam untuk masyarakat Indonesia. Solidaritas dan sumbangan dana kemanusiaan sudah diterima dan siap digunakan.

Salam itu dititipkan pada Ketua MPR Hidayat Nur Wahid yang baru saja pulang dari Timur Tengah. Hidayat berangkat dalam kapasitasnya selaku anggota organisasi Al Quds International yang dipimpin oleh Dr Yusuf Qardhawi.

"Saya sudah bertemu pemimpin-pemimpin mereka di Damaskus, Syria dan Amman, Jordania.Mereka mengucapkan salam dan terima kasih untuk bangsa Indonesia," ujar Hidayat saat berorasi di Tugu Monas, Jakarta kemarin. Ribuan massa PKS menyambutnya dengan teriakan takbir.

Menurut Hidayat, dirinya berkunjung ke sejumlah negara Arab untuk mencari jalan perdamaian. Hidayat berangkat sejak Kamis 1 Januari dan pulang Kamis 8 Januari.. Dia sempat bertemu Amir Qatar Syeikh Hamd Khalifah Ali Tsani , Raja Arab Saudi King Abdullah, Presiden Syria Bashar Assad, Raja Abdullah ke II Yordania (Selasa), dan Presiden Turki Abdullah Gul.

Hidayat juga bertemu dengan pimpinan empat kelompok Palestina, Faksi Hamas, Faksi Jihad, Faksi Nasional dan Kemasyarakatan, dan Faksi Fatah. Ketika di Jordania delegasi mengunjungi korban agresi Israel di Rumah Sakit Elia.

"Para pejuang Palestina bersyukur saudaranya di Indonesia ikhlas membantu dengan apapun yang bisa dilakukan," kata Hidayat yang kemarin berkoko lengan pendek warna putih. Selain Hidayat dan tokoh-tokoh PKS, demo juga dihadiri perwakilan umat Budha, perwakilan PGI, dan beberapa organisasi masyarakat.

Menurut Hidayat, PBB sudah tak bisa lagi diharapkan. "Resolusi saja diingkari oleh Israel, mereka tak bisa berbuat apa-apa. Jadi, sebaiknya memang perlu ada badan baru," kata mantan Presiden PKS itu. Hidayat juga akan menemui SBY agar segera melakukan langkah lebih nyata. "Saya akan bicara dengan bapak Presiden karena Indonesia punya peran yang sangat strategis di dunia Arab maupun di badan-badan internasional," katanya.

Demo yang berakhir tengah hari itu juga diikuti anak-anak. Bahkan, putra Hidayat Hubaib, juga ikut berorasi di atas panggung. Massa PKS tidak membawa bendera partainya. Hanya bendera merah putih dan bendera Palestina.

Aksi ditutup dengan happening art berjudul Menembus Camp Israel. Hidayat dan Adang berlari membawa bendera Palestina dan menerobos semacam papan tipis bergambar bendera Israel. Massa juga membakar bendera Israel lalu berdoa bersama.(rdl)

Sumber: Fajar online, (berita nasional)

Di Sulawesi Usaha Membantu Rakyat Palestina Diteruskan:Wahdah Islamiyah Bantu Palestina Rp 5,68 Juta

2009-01-13T07:21:00.000+08:00

Minggu, 11-01-09 13:33 111

PALOPO -- Wahdah Islamiyah (WI) Palopo terus menggalang bantuan dana untuk Palestina. Hingga hari tiga sejak Kamis, 8 Januari, WI Palopo telah berhasil mengumpulkan dana sebesar Rp 5.680.000.

Jumlah tersebut belum termasuk dengan bantuan yang kembali diperoleh Minggu, 11 Januari. Kemarin, WI menggelar Tablik Akbar dan Sejuta Doa Palestina di Masjid Agung Palopo, sambil mengedarkan kotak amal untuk Palestina. Peserta yang ikut di antaranya Walikota HPA Tenriadjeng dan Wakil Walikota Rahmat Masri Bandaso.

Walikota secara tegas mengatakan, Pemkot Palopo mengecam dan mengutuk agresi militer yang dilancarkan Israel ke Palestina, khususnya di Jalur Gaza. Tenriadjeng menilai, tindakan Israel yang telah menghilangkan ratusan jiwa warga Palestina tidak berperikemanusian. (ram)

Sumber: Fajar online

Why Muslims Have Failed

2009-01-13T06:42:00.000+08:00

Education! The figures speak for themselves very loudly.

Extracts of a speech by Hafez A.B Mohamed,
Director-General, Al-Baraka Bank, SouthAfrica.

Demographics:

World Jewish Population.

7m in America
5m in Asia
2m in Europe
100 thousand in Africa

World Muslim Population:

1,500 million
I, 000 million in Asia/Mid-East
400 M in Africa
44 M in Europe

6 M in the Americas

o Every fifth human being is a Muslim.

20%
o For every single Hindu there are two Muslims
1 : 2
o For every Buddhist there are two Muslims
1 : 2
o For every Jew there are 107 Muslims
1 : 107

Yet the 14 million Jews are more powerful than the entire 1,500 million Muslims Why? Here are some of the reasons.

Movers of Current History
O Albert Einstein
Jewish
O Sigmund Freud
Jewish
O Karl Marx
Jewish
O Paul Samuelson
Jewish
O Milton Friedman
Jewish Medical Milestones
O Vaccinating Needle
Benjamin Ruben
Jewish
O Polio Vaccine
Jonas Salk
Jewish
O Leukaemia Drug
Gertrude Elion
Jewish
O Hepatitis B
Baruch Blumberg
Jewish
O Syphilis Drug
Paul Ehrlich
Jewish
O Neuro muscular
Elie Metchnikoff
Jewish
O Endocrinology
Andrew Schally
Jewish
O Cognitive therapy
Aaron Beck
Jewish
O Contraceptive Pill
Gregory Pincus
Jewish
O Understanding of Human Eye
G. Wald
Jewish
O Embryology.
Stanley Cohen
Jewish
O Kidney Dialysis
Willem Kloffcame
Jewish Nobel Prize Winners In the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 180 Nobel prizes whilst 1.5 billion Muslims have contributed only 3 Nobel winners (all Egyptians) Inventions that changed History
O Micro- Processing Chip.
Stanley Mezor
Jewish
O Nuclear Chain Reactor
Leo Sziland
Jewish
O Optical Fibre Cable
Peter Schultz
Jewish
O Traffic Lights
Charles Adler
Jewish
O Stainless Steel
Benno Strauss
Jewish
O Sound Movies
Isador Kisee
Jewish
O Telephone Microphone
Emile Berliner
Jewish
O Video Tape Recorder
Charles Ginsburg
Jewish Influential Global Business
O Polo
Ralph Lauren
Jewish
O Coca Cola

Jewish
O Levi's Jeans
Levi Strauss
Jewish
O Sawbuck's
Howard Schultz
Jewish
O Google
Sergey Brin
Jewish
O Dell Computers
Michael Dell
Jewish
O Oracle
Larry Ellison
Jewish
O DKNY
Donna Karan
Jewish
O Baskin & Robbins
Irv Robbins
Jewish
O Dunkin Donuts
Bill Rosenberg
Jewish Influential Intellectuals/ Politicians
O Henry Kissinger
US Sec of State
Jewish
O Richard Levin
President Yale University
Jewish
O Alan Greenspan
US Federal Reserve
Jewish
O Joseph Lieberman

Jewish
O Madeleine Albright
US Sec of State
Jewish
O CasperWeinberger
US Sec of Defence
Jewish
O Maxim Litvinov
USSR Foreign Minister
Jewish
O David Marshal
Singapore Chief Minister
Jewish
O Isaacs Isaacs
Gov-Gen Australia
Jewish
O Benjamin Disraeli
British Statesman
Jewish
O Yevgeny Primakov
Russian PM
Jewish
O Barry Goldwater
US Politician
Jewish
O Jorge Sampaio
President Portugal
Jewish
O Herb Gray
Canadian Deputy - PM
Jewish
O Pierre Mendes
French PM
Jewish
O Michael Howard
British Home Sec.
Jewish
O Bruno Kriesky
Austrian Chancellor
Jewish
O Robert Rubin
US Sec of Treasury
Jewish Global Media Influential
O Wolf Blitzer
CNN
Jewish
O Barbara Walters
ABC News
Jewish
O Eugene Meyer
Washington Post
Jewish
O Henry Grunwald
Time Magazine
Jewish
O Katherine Graham
Washington Post
Jewish
O Joseph Lelyeld
New York Times
Jewish
O Max Frankel
New York Times
Jewish Global Philanthropists
O George Soros
Jewish
O Walter Annenberg
Jewish

Why are they powerful? So why are Muslims powerless? Here's another reason. We have lost the capacity to produce knowledge. o In the entire Muslim World (57 Muslim Countries) there are only 500 universities. o In USA alone, 5,758 universities o In India alone, 8,407 universities o Not one university in the entire Islamic World features in the Top 500 Ranking Universities of the World o Literacy in the Christian World 90% o Literacy in the Muslim World 40% o 15 Christian majority-countries, literacy rate 100% o Muslim majority - countries , None o 98% in Christian countries completed primary o Only 50% in Muslim countries completed primary. o 40% in Christian countries attended university o In Muslim countries a dismal 2% attended. o Muslim majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims o The USA has 5000 per million o The Christian world 1000 technicians per million. o Entire Arab World only 50 technicians per million. o Muslim World spends on research/developmen t 0.2% of GDP o Christian World spends 5 % of GDP Conclusion. The Muslim World lacks the capacity to produce knowledge. Another way of testing the degree of knowledge is the degree of diffusing knowledge. o Pakistan 23 daily newspapers per 1000 citizens o Singapore 460 per 1000 citizens. o In UK book titles per million is 2000 o In Egypt book titles per million is only 17 Conclusion. o Muslim World is failing to diffuse knowledge Applying Knowledge is another such test. o Exports of high-tech products from Pakistan is 0.9% of its [gross] exports. In Saudi Arabia is 0.2% o Kuwait , Morocco and Algeria 0.3% o Singapore alone is 68% Conclusion. Muslim World is failing to apply knowledge. What do you conclude? no need to tell …… the figures speak for themselves very loudly. [We have not listened to Allah's commandments in the first ayah revealed to the Holy PBUH ]

My Advice: Please educate yourself and your children. Always promote education, don't compromise on it, don't ignore your children's slightest misguidance from education (and please, for God's Sake, don't use your personal contacts or sources to promote your children in their education; if they fail, let them and make them learn to pass; b/c if they can't do it now, they can't ever). We are World's biggest and strongest nation, all we need is to identify and explore our ownselves. Our victory is with our knowledge, our creativity, our literacy....And nothing else. Please Muslims all over the world....Wake up... Its not too late....

Posted by: Riziandy b. Nawawi

Ed. Due to the haphazard nature of the original posting the posting is only slightly edited. The Blog's main intention is to show how much Muslims have neglected the teachings of the religion itself and why as a result we have lagged behind some other communities.

Risalah Usrah 1 - Konsep-konsep Umum Islam

2009-01-12T23:35:00.000+08:00

1. Aqidah Tauhid

1.1 Muqaddimah

Islam adalah Ad-Din yang telah diwahyukan Allah kepada Rasulullah s.a.w. Ia adalah Ad-Din yang berintikan iman dan amal. Iman itu merupakan aqidah atau pokok dan di atasnya berdiri syariat Islam. Dari pokok itu keluarlah cabang-cabangnya.

Firman Allah;

"Tidakkah kamu perhatikan bagaimana Allah telah membuat perumpamaan kalimah yang baik seperti pohon yang baik, akarnya teguh dan cabangnya (menjulang) ke langit, pohon itu memberi buahnya pada setiap musim dengan izin Tuhannya. Allah membuat perumpamaan-perumpamaan itu untuk manusia supaya mereka selalu ingat."

(Ibrahim: 24-25)

Iman dan amal ataupun dengan kata lain, aqidah dan syariat, tidak dapat dipisahkan antara satu sama lain. Keduanya adalah umpama buah dengan pohonnya atau sebagai natijah dengan muqaddimahnya.

Petikan daripada Risalah Usrah 1, Konsep-konsep Umum Islam oleh Abu 'Urwah.

This Brutality Will Never Break our Will to be Free

2009-01-10T08:26:00.000+08:00

For six months we in Hamas observed the ceasefire. Israel broke it repeatedly from the start

FOR 18 months my people in Gaza have been under siege, incarcerated inside the world's biggest prison, sealed off from land, air and sea, caged and starved, denied even medication for our sick. After the slow death policy came the bombardment. In this most densely populated of places, nothing has been spared Israel's warplanes, from government buildings to homes, mosques, hospitals, schools and markets. More than 540 have been killed and thousands permanently maimed. A third are women and children. Whole families have been massacred, some while they slept.

This river of blood is being shed under lies and false pretexts. For six months we in Hamas observed the ceasefire. Israel broke it repeatedly from the start. Israel was required to open crossings to Gaza, and extend the truce to the West Bank. It proceeded to tighten its deadly siege of Gaza, repeatedly cutting electricity and water supplies. The collective punishment did not halt, but accelerated - as did the assassinations and killings. Thirty Gazans were killed by Israeli fire and hundreds of patients died as a direct effect of the siege during the so-called ceasefire. Israel enjoyed a period of calm. Our people did not.

When this broken truce neared its end, we expressed our readiness for a new comprehensive truce in return for lifting the blockade and opening all Gaza border crossings, including Rafah. Our calls fell on deaf ears. Yet still we would be willing to begin a new truce on these terms following the complete withdrawal of the invading forces from Gaza.

No rockets have ever been fired from the West Bank. But 50 died and hundreds more were injured there last year at Israel's hands, while its expansionism proceeded relentlessly. We are meant to be content with shrinking scraps of territory, a handful of cantons at Israel's mercy, enclosed by it from all sides. The truth is that Israel seeks a one-sided ceasefire, observed by my people alone, in return for siege, starvation, bombardment, assassinations, incursions and colonial settlement. What Israel wants is a gratuitous ceasefire.

The logic of those who demand that we stop our resistance is absurd. They absolve the aggressor and occupier - armed with the deadliest weapons of death and destruction - of responsibility, while blaming the victim, prisoner and occupied. Our modest, home-made rockets are our cry of protest to the world. Israel and its American and European sponsors want us to be killed in silence. But die in silence we will not.

What is being visited on Gaza today was visited on Yasser Arafat before. When he refused to bow to Israel's dictates, he was imprisoned in his Ramallah headquarters, surrounded by tanks for two years. When this failed to break his resolve, he was murdered by poisoning.

Gaza enters 2009 just as it did 2008: under Israeli fire. Between January and February of last year 140 Gazans died in air strikes. And just before it embarked on its failed military assault on Lebanon in July 2006, Israel rained thousands of shells on Gaza, killing 240. From Deir Yassin in 1948 to Gaza today, the list of Israel's crimes is long. The justifications change, but the reality is the same: colonial occupation, oppression, and never-ending injustice. If this is the "free world" whose "values" Israel is defending, as its foreign minister Tzipi Livni alleges, then we want nothing to do with it.

Israel's leaders remain in the grip of confusion, unable to set clear goals for the attacks - from ousting the legitimately elected Hamas government and destroying its infrastructure, to stopping the rockets. As they fail to break Gaza's resistance the benchmark has been lowered. Now they speak of weakening Hamas and limiting the resistance. But they will achieve neither. Gaza's people are more united than ever, determined not to be terrorised into submission. Our fighters, armed with the justice of their cause, have already caused many casualties among the occupation army and will fight on to defend their land and people. Nothing can defeat our will to be free.

Once again, Washington and Europe have opted to aid and abet the jailer, occupier and aggressor, and to condemn its victims. We hoped Barack Obama would break with George Bush's disastrous legacy but his start is not encouraging. While he swiftly moved to denounce the Mumbai attacks, he remains tongue-tied after 10 days of slaughter in Gaza. But my people are not alone. Millions of freedom-loving men and women stand by its struggle for justice and liberation - witness the daily protests against Israeli aggression, not only in the Arab and Islamic region, but worldwide.

Israel will no doubt wreak untold destruction, death and suffering in Gaza. But it will meet the same fate in Gaza as it did in Lebanon. We will not be broken by siege and bombardment, and will never surrender to occupation. (Guardian)

• Khalid Mish'al is the head of the Hamas political bureau

Source: Daily Muslims

Mesir Sebahagian Axis of Evil Amerika & Israel: Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradawi dan Para Ulama Islam Tidak Dibenar Masuk

2009-01-09T00:21:00.000+08:00

DOHA, (PIC)-- Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradawi, the head of the world federation of Muslim scholars, on Wednesday said that Egypt refused to receive a delegation from the federation in order to meet with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and said that the conditions are not appropriate for such a visit.

In a press conference held in Doha, Dr. Qaradawi stated that the delegation urged the leaders of the visited countries (Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and Turkey) to mediate with the Egyptian regime and pressure it to open the Rafah crossing and allow the passage of humanitarian aid to the Gaza people.

The noted Muslim scholar affirmed that the delegation highlighted during its visits to Arab countries that the Palestinian resistance in Palestine must continue and receive all support, and stressed the need to confront the Israeli attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause.

He also pointed that most of the leaders positively responded to the delegation's demands and some of them expressed willingness to hold the Arab summit.

Source: PIC

Pictures of Palestinian Children Killed and Wounded by American-Funded Israeli Terrorism and Genocide in GAZA

2009-01-08T15:53:00.000+08:00

Sources: Muslim Websites

The Security Council is Now Under American-Israeli Seige: Muslims and Palestinians No Longer Secure

2009-01-08T07:27:00.000+08:00

UN general assembly slams security council's failure to take action about Gaza
[ 07/01/2009 - 04:14 PM ]

NEW YORK, (PIC)-- Miguel Brockmann, the head of the UN general assembly, strongly denounced the security council's failure to take action to stop the Israeli wanton aggression on the Gaza Strip, pointing out that some council members are trying to protect their political interests.

"Do they not think that the illegitimate occupation of the Palestinian lands and the treatment they are daily exposed to is deemed as an act of aggression?" Brockmann said in reference to the members of the security council.

In a news conference held in New York, Miguel held the security council members responsible for the deterioration of the UN image because of their inability to take action, highlighting that the security council urgently needs deep reform.

In his response to a question about the Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli targets, the UN official confirmed that the Palestinians have the right to defend themselves, adding that the responsibility for this entire situation is due to the security council's resolutions which were not fulfilled.

The UN official also noted that the US protection of Israel did not enable the UN to force Israel to comply with the international resolutions.
In another related context, Turkish premier Recep Erdogan strongly denounced Israel for committing massacres in Gaza, affirming that the Israeli aggression on Gaza is aimed to achieve electoral gains.

In a speech in the presence of his party's justice and development parliamentary bloc members, Erdogan held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the tension in the region.
The Turkish premier underlined that the Israeli massacres against the Palestinians cause hard-to-heal wounds in the conscience of humanity.

John Ging, the director of UNRWA operations in Gaza, said that three Israeli artillery shells fired on its school in the Jabaliya refugee camp killed more than 30 people and injured 55 others, pointing out that all the victims were families who took refuge at the school.

Ging underscored that all UN schools in Gaza are easy to recognize and clearly marked with UN flags, adding that the locations of the UN buildings had been already reported to the Israel.

Posted by Dr.A.H.Awang Mois

Courtesy: PIC

This May Not Be Israel's Good Middle-East Outing

2009-01-07T21:39:00.000+08:00

January 7, 2009

Abu Jundal stands on a Gaza City street, unarmed and wearing civilian clothes. Only his black, multi-pocketed tabard and his beard give a hint of who he really is: a Hamas platoon commander having a day off in the middle of the war with Israel.

“We work in shifts, one day on, one day off, so we do not get exhausted,” he said, adding that his shifts run from 10pm until 5am every other night. His was one of three platoons operating in this sector of the northern Gaza Strip.

Ehud Barak, the Israeli Defence Minister, has promised “all-out war” against the Islamist movement, but Abu Jundal, 29, said that Hamas had so far thrown only a fraction of its 15,000-strong guerrilla force into the fray. At the current rate of attrition, he said, it could carry on the battle for another three months.

“We are only working at 10 per cent of our capacity. There is always somebody backing us up, held in reserve. There are different lines of defence,” he said, looking strained from days of fighting. Despite serving on the shifting front lines, Hamas fighters still have to provide for their families in their time off, as Gaza runs out of basic supplies of food and fuel.

He said that his unit had not yet seen close-quarters combat, having used only rocket grenades, landmines and mortars to try to halt the onslaught, in which Israeli officials claim have killed 130 Hamas fighters. “The Israelis are not coming on foot, they are mostly in tanks and using helicopters and drones,” he said.

To combat the superiority of Israel's US-funded war machine, Hamas has prepared a number of what the platoon leader called “surprises”. He refused to elaborate, but said that the key priority for him and his comrades was to kidnap Israeli soldiers in an attempt to use them as bargaining chips. Hamas already holds one Israeli corporal seized in a tunnel raid under the border in 2006.

“Our main aim is to capture as many Israeli soldiers as we can,” he said. “We'll do whatever we can to achieve this and to destroy the myth of the invincible Israeli army.”

Israeli security sources have described finding elaborate tunnel complexes running from houses and mosques, allowing Hamas to outflank Israeli forces, emerge with anti-tank rockets and to try to snatch soldiers who have strayed too far from their units.

Israeli media reported a capture attempt on the first day of the ground offensive, when a soldier from the Golani Brigade climbed into a tunnel that his unit had found underneath a house.
He ran into waiting Hamas fighters and fought a gunfight in which he was wounded as the guerrillas tried to capture him. The Israeli managed to flee back to his comrades, who blew up the tunnel.

“Until now, we have not faced any enemy worthy of our respect. Any army that concentrates on killing civilians does not deserve our respect,” said Abu Jundal, whose comrades have been firing crude but occasionally deadly rockets at Israeli towns for years. “They will pay a high price for their crimes,” he said, adding that morale was high among his men.

The overall commander of Hamas's armed wing said yesterday that close combat had occurred in some sectors of the front, which now snakes around the outskirts of Gaza City and down to Khan Younis, a large city in the south.

Abu Obeida, head of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, said that his fighters had ambushed a unit of undercover Israeli soldiers trying to infiltrate deep into the strip, hitting them with mortar shells and a buried landmine weighing 100lb.

He said that another Israeli unit had entered a house with Hamas fighters inside, one of whom had blown himself up with a suicide bomb.

“We have hundreds of suicide bombers waiting for the Israelis, whose options are limited to either be killed, wounded or captured,” he said in a telephone interview with al-Jazeera, the Arabic television news channel.

Source: Times Online

Posted by Dr A.H. Awang Mois

Only Turkey's Erdogan Dares to Rap Israel For Its Gazan Holocaust?

2009-01-07T15:11:00.000+08:00

Erdogan Raps Israel's Gaza Savagery

IslamOnline.net & News Agencies

There is an atrocity in our region, and we cannot support those who are responsible for it," said Erdogan. (Reuters)

ANKARA — With more bloodshed spelt in the devastated Gaza Strip, Turkish Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan rapped Israel on Tuesday, January 6, insisting its slaughter of armless civilians, including children, is unjustifiable.

"Any reason cannot justify the fact that 550 people were killed and more than two thousand others were injured in the strikes," Erdogan told the parliament, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

"What reason can justify such savagery?"

More than 40 Palestinians were killed Tuesday in an Israeli strike on a UN-run school in the northern town of Jabaliya where civilians had taken shelter.

Earlier in the day, two people were killed when an artillery shell slammed into another UN-run school in the southern town of Khan Yunis and three in a raid on a school in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City.

One strike killed 13 -- including seven children -- from the same family in Gaza City.

The latest fatalities, which included 13 members of the same family, took the Palestinian death toll in 11 days of Israeli attacks to over 600.

"They should have been aware of the fact that lives of children, women and the elderly are so sacred," said Erdogan, who shuttled Arab countries to broker a truce conducive the end of Israeli onslaught.

"We are trying to do our utmost in search for a ceasefire in the region. There is an atrocity in our region, and we cannot support those who are responsible for it."

Israel has spurned all international calls, including an initiative by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, for an immediate ceasefire.

Millions of Turks have taken to the streets in recent days to condemn the Israeli onslaught.
A basketball game between a Turkish and an Israeli team was suspended on Tuesday after hundreds of Turkish fans began chanting "Israel, killers!"

Political War

Erdogan, whose country has good ties with Tel Aviv, accused Israeli leaders of waging an all-out war against the coastal enclave of 1.6 million people for political gains.

"I am telling Ehud Barak and (Tzipi) Livni to forget about the elections, because history will judge them for the black stain they are leaving on humanity," he said, refereeing for the Israeli defence and foreign ministers.

Many observers believe the Gaza offensive may make or break Barak’s political future, and that of his Labor Party.

Success probably wouldn’t be enough to propel Barak to the premiership but would strengthen his position within the ruling coalition and help restore Labor’s flagging political fortunes.

"It is unforgivable that the people who suffered profound pains in their history, could do such a thing," said Erdogan.

"In fact, they should have displayed more respect to human life than anyone else in the world."

The Turkish premier noted that hundreds of Jews have protested against the Israeli aggression.

"As a matter of fact, Jewish people living in different parts of the world also express their concerns about the developments."

On Tuesday, more than 100 Australian Jews, including a former environment minister, two novelists and a politician, denounced Israel's invasion of Gaza.

"We are Australian Jews who join thousands in Israel and around the world condemning ongoing Israeli military attacks on Gaza," they said in a joint statement.

"Together with Israeli peace group Gush Shalom, we condemn the current war as 'inhuman, superfluous' and 'abominable.'"

Source: IslamOnline.net & News Agencies

Posted by Dr. A.H. Awang Mois

One of the 44 Ways of Supporting Jihad

2009-01-07T02:29:00.000+08:00

44 Ways of Supporting Jihad
05-01-2009
By Anwar al Awlaki

No (13) Fighting the lies of the Western Media

The perceptions of many Muslims are formed by the Western media. Allah says: “O you who have believed, if there comes to you a disobedient one (fasiq) with information, investigate, lest you harm a people out of ignorance and become, over what you have done, regretful” (49:6) So what about when the news is coming from a kafir rather than a fasiq?!

The danger of the Western media stems from the fact that it puts on the cloak of truth and objectivity when in reality it is no more than the mouth piece of the devil. Can’t you see that the Western media is constantly trying to underplay the atrocities committed by the West while exaggerating the violations – which are few and far in between - committed by Muslims? Can’t you see how the Western media succeeded in presenting the awlyaa’ (friends) of Allah, the ones who are fighting in His cause, as the followers of evil, while it presents the Pharaoh of this day and his armies as the army of good? The Western media is so good in its deception that its lies pass on a wide section of the Muslim ummah. The fact is that this media demonizes the Mujahideen, spreads lies about them, blows out of proportion their mistakes, tries to sow the seeds of disunity amongst them, attempts to ruin the reputations of their leaders, and ignores or demonizes the scholars of truth when on the other hand, it glorifies and promotes the scholars of falsehood.

So my dear brothers and sisters part of your duty is to campaign amongst Muslims to raise their awareness regarding this issue. You should encourage them to be careful and critical of the Western media. A Muslim should not believe Western sources unless they are confirmed by a trustworthy Muslim one. I say a “trustworthy” Muslim source because the verse was warning us from accepting the news of a disobeying Muslim. Now that is not to say that we should not believe the media in anything it says even in its weather forecasts! No, what we are saying is that you should not believe what they say about Islam and Muslims. A media source that could otherwise be very objective and truthful could become a fabricator when it comes to covering news on Muslims. That is how the disbelievers dealt with Muslims since the dawn of history…and there is no reason for us to believe why that would change.

Source: TheUnjustMedia.Com

Analysis: How HAMAS Wins by Losing

2009-01-06T18:24:00.000+08:00

By Bobby Ghosh Tuesday, Jan. 06, 2009

Watching the TV coverage of Israel's ground offensive on Gaza over the weekend, I could have sworn that I heard the ghost of Abdel Azzis Rantissi laughing. (See pictures of Israel's sweep into Gaza.)

Rantissi was Hamas' political leader in Gaza when we met, in a dark safehouse, in April 2002. The second Palestinian intifada was at its height. The previous week, Israeli troops had bulldozed into the refugee camp in Jenin, in the West Bank, smashing the terror infrastructure of another militant group, Islamic Jihad, but also killing civilians. Israeli forces were also easily beating Hamas forces in Gaza; in Ramallah, Yasser Arafat was practically under house arrest as Israeli snipers took up position around the seat of Palestinian government.

I put it to Rantissi that Palestinian militancy was failing, that groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad were only playing into Israel's hands. In any confrontation that involved guns and tanks, I said, Israel would win. Rantissi gave me a patronizing smile, and explained that military defeat was the best thing that could happen to Hamas.

In Rantissi's view, it didn't matter if a few dozen — or a few hundred — Hamas fighters were killed. Their "martyrdom" would only strengthen Palestinian hatred for Israel, and sympathy for Hamas.

It didn't matter if Israeli jets bombed Hamas offices, because cinder-block structures could easily be replaced. And it didn't matter if Israel took out Hamas' leaders, either, because they were replaceable.

"Any moment, a rocket could come through that window and kill me," Rantissi said, "But even before the smoke has cleared, there will be a replacement ready." What the Israelis didn't realize, he concluded, "that when they win, we don't lose — we win, too."

Almost exactly two years later, an Israeli missile did come through the window, killing Rantissi. Only three weeks before, a similar strike had killed Hamas' founder, the paraplegic, blind Ahmed Yassin.

The assassinations of its two top men were meant to break the back of Hamas's leadership. But Rantissi was right: he and Yassin were replaced in short order, and Hamas actually grew stronger, more radical — and more popular.

Rantissi's analysis, which had seemed so perverse and bizarre in 2002, has now become conventional wisdom: most commentators agree that while Israel's incursion into Gaza may leave Hamas deeply wounded in the short term, the militants will ultimately benefit.

In every scenario short of a long, long Israeli occupation — which is unlikely — Hamas will have the opportunity to eventually regenerate. New fighters can be trained, new rockets acquired, new smuggling tunnels built. If Israel's chokehold on Gaza for the past year hasn't stopped Hamas from arming itself, then it's a good bet that the presence of international monitors won't either.

The argument that Israel's incursion will give it an upper hand in any future talks — and allow it to dictate the terms of a new ceasefire — doesn't really wash. Any new truce will be brokered by third parties; while U.S. President-elect Barack Obama chooses to remain silent, France's Nicholas Sarkozy is offering himself for the role. That alone means Israel won't have everything its way.

The international outcry over the humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Gaza means the broker will insist Israel loosen the economic shackles as well as withdraw troops. And when the money begins to flow in, it will flow through the Hamas networks that control every aspect of Gaza. The militants will distribute some of the money to Gazans, and look like generous benefactors; the rest, they will use to rebuild their military capability.

And Rantissi's ghost will be laughing the whole time.

Source and courtesy: TimeCnn

Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said that Israeli government has started to look for a political solution to the war ?

2009-01-06T07:21:00.000+08:00

An Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth said that the Israeli government has started to look for a political solution to the war after the first moments of the ground military operation against Gaza?

Banyak persoalan yang ditimbulkan oleh laporan surat khabar yang disiarkan oleh Palestine Information Center di sebelah. Kenapakah negara haram Israeli yang telah dibina atas tanah Palestin oleh negera2 besar Perancis, Inggeris, Amerika dan Russia tiba-tiba ingin mencari penyelesaian politik kepada peperangan yang dicetuskan oleh Israeli bersama Tukang Kasut No 1 Amerika bernama Presiden Bush. Bukankah selama ini dunia yang dipimpin oleh Amerika dan Great Briatin bersama konco2 mereke seperti France dan Russia telah mengadakan beratus-ratus mesyuarat di merata tempat di dunia untuk mencari penyelesaian politik kepada perperangan yang berlarutan antara orang Arab dan pendatang haram Yahudi di bumi Palestin? Tetapi apa dah jadi kepada penyelesaian-penyelesaian politik atau penyelesaian-penyeselaian damai ini? Ke mana pergi formula perdamaian yang telah dihasilkan oleh Mesyuarat Camp David, Persidangan Oslo dan sebagainya? Berapa orang pemimpin negara Arabkah yang sudah meninggal dunia sama ada kena bunuh oleh orang-orang Arab sendiri atau kena racun oleh agen-agen Zionist seperti arwah Presiden Palestine Yasser Arafat dan pemimpin Israel sendiri pula yang telah bertukar ganti secara permainan ala magical chair yang ada daripada mereka yang sudah dan ada pula yang sedang mampus (Ariel Sharon) tetapi negara Israel terus belum dapat hidup damai dengan rakyat dan negara Palestin. Kalau Seniman Agong P.Ramlee yang memegang watak salah seorang Abdul dalam cerita hasil karyanya Tiga Abdul masih hidup, saya percaya beliau pasti akan bertanya kepada Abdul-Abdul yang lain, "Eh, Berapa Kali Mau Damai Da...Tapi Tak Damai-Damai Lagi?"

Satu pertanyaan yang juga ditimbulkan oleh kenyataan dalam surat khabar Yahudi ini ialah adakah Angkatan Tentera Penyerang Israel (IOF) kali ini masih fit atau sekuat pasukan tentera negara Israel pada zaman 1970an untuk menawan negara atau bumi Arab. Adakah mereka masih ada daya sustenance untuk meneruskan perang lebih daripada tempoh masa dua minggu atau dua bulan. Nampak macam pasukan Tentera Israel selepas peperangan Israel dengan Hezbollah di Lebanon tempoh hari sudah semakin kehilangan semangat (dan kita doakan mereka memang sudah kehilangan semangat atau demoralised). Perlu kita ingatkan bahawa tentera negara Israeli dan Israel sendiri pun wataknya hampir sama dengan Arab kerana orang Yahudi (bukan Zionists) dengan Arab ini sebenarnya sepupu - atuknya sama. Beza Israel dengan Arab Palestin ini Israel mempunyai penaung yang bernama Amerika dan Israel adalah anak angkat Amerika yang sangat manja sehingga kalau Israel terkena demam selsema dan hidungnya berhingus, Amerika sanggup tebang satu batang pokok di hutan Tropika yang jauh di khatulistiwa untuk dijadikan tisu paper bagi menyapu hinggus yang meleleh di hidung Israel ini! Dan falsafah ketenteraan Angkatan Bersenjata Isareli ini pun sama seperti falsafah peperangan Angkatan Tentera Amerika - mereka mahu perang tetapi tidak mahu mati. Eh mana ada perang dan tentera yang berperang itu tidak akan mati? Apa jenis perang seperti itu? Perang di Studio Filem Hollywood bolehlah. Perang sebenar lain. Dalam perang sebenar manusia mesti bersedia untuk mati. Di sinilah letaknya perbezaan antara nilai perperangan yang dianuti oleh tentera Islam di seluruh dunia tak kira namanya tentera HAMAS seperti Qassam Brigade, tentera Hizbollah, Mujahid Chechen dan Inguhsetia, Muslim Insurgents di Iraq atau tentera Islam yang selalu dipersenda-sendakan oleh Amerika dan konco-konconya di Afghanistan yang bernama Taleban. Tentera-tentera yang menjadi kesayangan majoriti umat Islam di seluruh dunia ini TIDAK TAKUT MATI. Malah mereka memang pergi berperang untuk mencari mati. Kerana mati dalam perang dengan musuh2 Islam menjanjikan SYURGA yang memang diingini oleh semua Mujahid Islam sejak bermulanya sejarah Islam yang diperjuangkan oleh Nabi Muhammad SAW.

Jadi kenapa Israel tiba-tiba mahu mencari political solution pada waktu dia menyerang HAMAS di Gaza pula? Ada beberapa kemungkinan saja: (i) Israel ingin berpura-pura menunjuk kepada dunia bahawa dia ni budak baik, walaupun dia anak luar nikah Amerika, nakal dia, samseng dia, memang samseng seorang budak baik, samseng seorang anak manja kesayangan bapanya yang bernama Amerika dan emaknya yang bernama Great Britain dan paman2nya bernama Perancis dan Russia. Dalam Bahasa Indonesia ini disebut sebagai "psikolohi murahan" atau "psikolohi anak jalangan"; (ii) Israel sedang berhadapan dengan pasukan tentera berani mati HAMAS yang bergelar Qassam Brigades yang memang berani mati, cukup terlatih, cukup bersedia dan cukup bersenjata untuk berperang secara guerilla. Pada bulan Julai 2008 sebuah laman web yang pro-jihad bernama Jihad Unspun telah melaporkan bahawa Qassam Brigades ini telah mengadakan pertemuan dan memohon bantuan ketenteraan dari satu Pertubuhan Jihad Islam yang cukup terkenal di seluruh dunia sehingga dibenci oleh Amerika dan konco2nya bernama Al-Qaeda. Mungkin selepas perjumpaan ini Qassam Brigades telah belajar teknik-teknik silat dan mempertahankan diri yang baru dan ganggeh dari Al-Qaeda atau pasukan-pasukan tentera Islam yang lain sehingga di round pertama serangan Israel ke atas HAMAS dan Gaza negara Israel sendiri yang merasa risau kerana meriam-meriam katak yang dilancarkan oleh tentera HAMAS ini capaiannya agak jauh dan Israeli takut pula missile yang dituju ke atas bumi Israel menggena Logi Nuklearnya sendiri. Inilah dasar perang Hollywood bila berperang bangunan yang dibom pun mahu dikekalkan bersih dan tidak rosak. Israel harus ingat bahawa kalau dia serang negara orang sehingga hancur lebur dan badan-badan orang Arab dan Islam sampai berkecai-berai orang2 Arab dan Islam juga akan serang dan bom negaranya sampai hancur lebur dan kecai bederai. Ini hukum perang! (iii) Israeli ingin melihat pandangan atau reaksi dunia sama ada dakyahnya yang menganggap dirinya teraniaya oleh lautan negara Arab menyebelahi anak Samseng bikinan Amerika dan Great Britain atau menyebelahi HAMAS; (iv) menawarkan satu hidangan atau "menu" lama untuk seorang presiden Amerika yang baru bernama Barak Obama. Seperti presiden-presiden Amerika yang lain USAH mengharap banyak dari presiden Amerika yang seorang ini, kerana banyak laporan di laman web di Amerika yang melaporkan Obama ini pun terikat dengan kumpulan rahsia dan pelobi Yahudi dan yang lebih kita takuti Zionist Amerika. Maka itulah Obama telah digelar oleh salah seorang strategist dan perancang Al-Qaeda sebagai "House Slave". Mungkin juga Israel pada kali ini tidak seyakin Israel pada zaman pemerintahan Ariel Sharon kerana Israel tahu bahawa negara Amerika yang mendakwa dirinya "Kuasa Terbesar Dunia" pun sudah terbukti tidak sekuat mana; di Iraq pun kereta-kereta kebal Amerika didapati sudah tidak kebal lagi. Malah banyak kereta perang yang baru berupa Humvee-nya sudah dijadikan seperti Tin Milo murahan atau besi buruk yang tidak laku di padang pasir Iraq akibat diletupkan oleh kumpulan Mujahid Iraq yang cukup mahir dalam bidang letupan. Di Afghanistan pula Amerika terkial-kial dan menjerit-jerit minta tolong konco-konco dan boneka-bonekanya untuk melawan tentera kesayangan umat Islam bernama Taleban yang berjuang dengan motosikal scrambler dan Toyota pacuan 4Roda. Dan satu satu demi satu konco-konco dan boneka-boneka Amerika meninggal Amerika untuk melawan pasukan Taleban yang serba-serbi kekurangan kelengakapan dan makanan. Itu pun tentera Amerika tidak terlawan! Namun begitu Si Tukang Kasut No 1 Bush dan yang sedihnya penasihat beliau dari Gerakan Neo-Conservatives di Amerika masih lagi ingin meneruskan perjuangan mereka untuk menghapuskan Islam dan masyarakat Islam.

Walau apapun kemungkinan yang ada dalam otak dan perut busuk Israeli kita boleh meminjam sekali lagi pertanyaan yang pernah ditimbulkan oleh arwah P.Ramlee dalam filem Tiga Abdul , "Eh berapa kali mau damai da?". Doa kita yang sesuai dengan Tahun Baru Hijri inilah ialah kemenangan untuk pihak tentera Islam HAMAS, seperti Qassam Brigades dan sekutu2 mereka di tanah suci Palestin. Amin.

Tulisan oleh

Dr. A.H. Awang Mois,

Bangi

6 Januari 2009

Tabung Bantuan Palestin HiKMAH Sarawak?

2009-01-05T11:08:00.000+08:00

Bagi pihak HikmahWp saya ingin mencadangkan semua cawangan Hikmah Sarawak memulakan kempen memunggut dana untuk membantu saudara-saudara kita di bumi Palestin khususnya di wilayah Gaza. Di seberang sempadan Sarawak iaitu di Kalimantan Barat mereka sedang menunggu untuk menghantar pasukan Sukarela dan dana untuk membantu rakyat Palestin dalam kesusuhan. Kita berharap pihak Hikmah Pusat dapat membantu dengan membuka akaun khas untuk tujuan tersebut.

Dr Awang Hasmadi A Mois
Pengerusi HikmahWp
Bangi.

Israel says it has learned a valuable lesson in Lebanon; so let Almighty Allah Teaches Them More in Gaza!

2009-01-05T00:48:00.000+08:00

News Analysis
Is the Real Target Hamas Rule?
By ETHAN BRONNER
Published: January 3, 2009

Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers waited Saturday at the Gaza border for a ground assault. It is not clear who would lead Gaza if Israel were to push Hamas from power.

EREZ CROSSING, on the Israel-Gaza border — As Israel’s tanks and troops poured into Gaza on Saturday, the next phase in its fierce attempt to end rocket attacks, a question hung over the operation: can the rockets really be stopped for any length of time while Hamas remains in power in Gaza?

Israeli soldiers took position on Saturday before entering Gaza at its northern border. It is not clear whether Israel hopes to overthrow Hamas, or who would lead Gaza if Hamas were ousted.
And if the answer is determined to be no, then is the real aim of the operation to remove Hamas entirely, no matter the cost?

After her visit to Paris on Thursday to explain to French authorities why she thought this was not the time for a quick cease-fire, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni of Israel said, “There is no doubt that as long as Hamas controls Gaza, it is a problem for Israel, a problem for the Palestinians and a problem for the entire region.”

Vice Premier Haim Ramon went even further Friday night in an interview on Israeli television, saying Israel must not end this operation with Hamas in charge of Gaza.

“What I think we need to do is to reach a situation in which we do not allow Hamas to govern,” Mr. Ramon said on Channel One. “That is the most important thing.”

Neither Prime Minister Ehud Olmert nor Defense Minister Ehud Barak has made such a statement. Still, there is a growing and shared concern among Israeli leaders that any letup against Hamas would be problematic for Israel’s broad goals in the long term because it could bolster and validate the group, which says Israel should be destroyed.

“If the war ends in a draw, as expected, and Israel refrains from re-occupying Gaza, Hamas will gain diplomatic recognition,” wrote Aluf Benn, a political analyst, in the newspaper Haaretz on Friday. “No matter what you call it,” he added, “Hamas will obtain legitimacy.”

In addition, any potential truce deal would probably include an increase in commercial traffic from Israel and Egypt into Gaza, which is Hamas’s central demand: to end the economic boycott and border closing it has been facing. To build up the Gaza economy under Hamas, Israeli leaders say, would be to build up Hamas. Yet withholding the commerce would continue to leave 1.5 million Gazans living in despair.

Implicit in Mr. Benn’s argument, however, is that the only way to stop Hamas from gaining legitimacy is for Israel to fully occupy Gaza again, more than three years after removing its soldiers and settlers. That is a prospect practically no one in Israel or abroad is advocating.
Moreover, while it may sound decisive to speak of taking Hamas out of power, almost no one familiar with Gaza and Palestinian politics considers it realistic. Hamas legislators won a democratic majority in elections four years ago, and the group has 15,000 to 20,000 men under arms. It has consolidated its rule in the past 18 months since pushing out its rivals loyal to the more Western-oriented and moderate Fatah party of President Mahmoud Abbas, who sits in Ramallah in the West Bank.

And while there are plenty of Gazans who would prefer Fatah, they seem hardly organized or strong enough to become the new rulers, even with the help of former colleagues in exile in Ramallah who say, anyway, that they would never be willing to ride into Gaza on the back of an Israeli tank. In fact, the longer Israel pounds Gaza, the weaker Fatah is likely to become because it will be seen as collaborating.

The likelier result of a destruction of the Hamas infrastructure, then, would be chaos, anathema not only to the people of Gaza but also to those hoping for peace in southern Israel.

Yet in its campaign so far, which has killed scores of children and other bystanders, Israel has not spared the trappings of Hamas sovereignty or limited itself to military targets. It says that the mosques it has destroyed were weapons storehouses and that the Islamic University, which it has hit repeatedly, housed explosives factories. But it has also reduced many government buildings to rubble without any claim that they were military in nature.

“The government buildings are a place where financial, logistical and human resources serve to support terror,” said Capt. Benjamin Rutland, a spokesman for the Israeli military. “Much of the government is involved in the active support and planning of terror.”

Taken together, it suggests that even if Israel intends to hold back from completely overthrowing Hamas, its choice of assault tactics could head that way anyway. And the Israelis may already be facing a kind of mission creep: after all, if enough of Hamas’s infrastructure is destroyed, the prospect of governing Gaza, a densely populated, refugee-filled area whose weak economy has been devastated by the Israeli-led boycott, will be exceedingly difficult.

In the background, too, is broad international criticism of this war on Gaza, not only because of the unspeakable suffering seen on television screens but also because of a feeling that Israel has tried such tactics in the past and never succeeded.

In particular, many point to the 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, where Israel also tried to destroy rocket launchers and a hostile organization’s infrastructure, only to end up killing many civilians and leaving Hezbollah more popular and perhaps ultimately stronger than before the war.

But military planners here say that the parallel is inexact and that they, too, have learned a lesson. Gaza is smaller and flatter than southern Lebanon and, most important, does not have a sievelike border with a country like Syria where arms can be constantly resupplied. Destroying the smuggler tunnels from the Egyptian Sinai into Gaza and systematically eliminating weapons depots and launcher sites, along with their supporting infrastructures, will ultimately succeed, they contend.

It may take weeks or months, they assert, but it can work. If true, questions still remain: At what human cost? And who will be in charge when it is all over?

Source: New York Times

Mahmoud Abbas: American-Israeli Palestinian Lackey

2009-01-04T20:41:00.000+08:00

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas feels quite depressed these days, having been unceremoniously told by President Bush that the US administration won’t pressure Israel to halt Jewish settlement expansion nor commit itself to a total Israeli withdrawal from the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967.

Some of Abbas’s aides have described his recent visit to Washington as the “straw that broke the camel’s back.” Abbas himself described the visit as “a clear failure.”

One Palestinian commentator from Ramallah labeled the visit “ a gigantic and monumental fiasco,” arguing that it amounted to a virtual breakdown of Abbas’s entire strategy of counting on the Bush administration to create a viable and contiguous Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

According to sources in Amman, Abbas informed Bush that he wouldn’t run for a second term as Chairman of the PA.

One source quoted an aide to Abbas as saying that the chairman concluded his meeting with Bush by telling him “you can look for another donkey to preside over the Palestinian Authority.”

The PA chairman reportedly asked Bush to declare his support for the creation of a Palestinian state on the entirety of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem and also to pressure Israel to put an end to Jewish settlement expansion in the occupied territories, especially East Jerusalem.

Abbas, according to aides, was stunned when Bush told him that he couldn’t meet Palestinian demands since that would violate the letter of guarantees he gave former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on 14 April, 2004. Bush further argued that any departure from the infamous letter would lead to the downfall of the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s government.

“President Abbas felt as if he was talking to the wall,” one Palestinian official was quoted as saying. “Both Bush and (US Secretary of State Condoleezza) Rice refused to discuss details related to the current peace talks with Israel. We are very depressed.”

Rice arrived in Israel-Palestine Saturday evening, 3 May, apparently to save “the peace process” from an imminent danger of collapse.

Rice told the Israeli media that the purpose of her visit was to press Defense Minister Ehud Barak to remove some of the roadblocks the Israeli occupation army maintains throughout the West Bank in order to punish, torment and control the estimated 2.5 million Palestinians living in the West Bank.

The US has asked Israel for the umpteenth time to remove the roadblocks in order to ease up Palestinian daily life and boost Abbas’s popularity in the eyes of his people.

For its part, Israel made numerous promises to remove the barriers, but to no avail. Last month the Israeli government said it was removing some of the key roadblocks in the West Bank in order to facilitate the flow of goods and services throughout the West Bank.

However, Palestinians, peace activists and human rights organizations operating in the occupied territories have accused the Israeli army of practicing deception and of creating fictitious barriers in the morning and removing them in the evening in order to give Washington a false impression that Israel was honoring the pledges it had made to Rice.

This protracted, lingering procrastination, along with the absence of any substantive progress in Israeli-Palestinian talks, especially over the so-called core issues, such as Jerusalem, the refugees and the settlements, is obviously exasperating the Palestinian leadership, desperate and eager to “clutch an achievement” which it would use to convince the increasingly desperate and skeptical Palestinian masses that Abbas’s way, not Hamas’s, was the right and only way to wrest Palestinian rights from Israel’s parsimonious hands.

Now, however, the manifestly deleterious effect of Abbas’s policy of over-trusting and over-relying on the Bush Administration, are becoming obvious.

Abbas is now realizing, belatedly if not too late, that Bush has never been truly serious about pushing for a dignified and even-handed resolution of the Palestinian plight.

I am saying “belatedly or too late” because Abbas nearly wrecked his relations with his own people, especially since the Gaza events of last year, all for the purpose of appeasing Bush and Rice and receiving from them a certificate of good conduct.

He thought, out of naivety, ignorance, and weakness of character, that the neocons in Washington would award him for his subservience and obsequiousness by pressuring Israel to end the occupation and halt unrelenting theft of Palestinian land.

However, Abbas’s most scandalous blunder has been his uneducated conviction that the big liar of Washington, the man who invaded, occupied and destroyed two sovereign Muslim countries based on lies, would behave honestly and straightly with the Palestinians.

Now it would be very hard for Abbas to salvage his legacy by trying to undo or at least rectify some of the blunders he and his regime committed against the Palestinian masses and their enduring just cause, all in order to please Washington.

As Chairman of the PA, Abbas and his hangers-on abducted, detained, tortured and even killed political opponents in order to demonstrate Palestinian commitment to peace to the malicious duo of the US and Israel. This happened at a time when Israel continued to murder Palestinians in droves and grab more Palestinian land for Jewish settlement expansion.

Abbas also readily accepted, even welcomed, naked American interference in Palestinian internal affairs to the point of allowing Washington to conspire in coordination with certain Palestinian security officials to corrode and overthrow the democratically elected government led by the Hamas movement.

More to the point, Abbas went as far as tacitly collaborating with Israel and the US in maintaining the Nazi-like blockade of 1.5 million Gazans, all in order to weaken Hamas.
I don’t really know if Abbas has the moral courage and intellectual honesty to say to Washington “enough is enough.”

If he does, he should do it now, because tomorrow might be too late.

Source: The Palestinian Information Centre

From Gaza: Al-Qassam fighters inflicted heavy casualties in the ranks of IOF troops

2009-01-04T20:08:00.000+08:00

GAZA, (PIC)-- Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said that its fighters inflicted heavy casualties on the invading IOF troops in the east and north of the Gaza Strip, affirming that it managed to kill more than five Israeli soldiers and wound about 30 others.

According to reports published by the Israeli media, which are subject to military censorship on the publication of any information about the number of soldiers killed or wounded, the Israeli soldiers who were injured were from the infantry, artillery, armored brigades and the engineering corps.

In a communiqué received by the PIC, the Qassam Brigades stated that its fighters detonated anti-personnel explosive devices in an Israeli special force near the Beit Hanoun crossing and an Israeli tank.

The communiqué added that the Qassam fighters also managed to detonate other explosive devices in different special units in Al-Zeitoun suburb, east of Gaza city, and in the Atatra area, northwest of Beit Lahiya.

According to the communiqué, the Qassam fighters were able to penetrate the radio waves of the IOF troops and heard Israeli soldiers as they were screaming in pain and talking about the death of five soldiers in their ranks.

A Palestinian field commander affiliated with the Qassam Brigades revealed that the armed wing of Hamas uses in the confrontations with the IOF troops new methods and tactics which cannot be penetrated or discovered by the invading Israeli forces.

The field commander pointed out that Qassam rocket firing units operate cautiously and skillfully and no one is able to know the places from which rockets are fired.

"We continue our mission normally and we are not affected by these raids because we have taken all precautions for such an operation and a larger one as well. We have the ability to operate in this way for a long time," the commander underscored.

In the same context, Palestinian eyewitnesses have reported that ferocious confrontations were raging between Qassam fighters and the invading IOF troops who advanced from the eastern side of Zeitoun district, east of Gaza city.

According to the eyewitnesses, the IOF troops failed to advance several meters because of the intensity of the confrontations they faced in the area despite the heavy aerial reconnaissance.

The Palestinian resistance managed to fire a homemade rockets at dawn Sunday on the Israeli Eshkol settlement built inside the 1948 occupied lands despite the intensive Israeli overflights and the ground military operation against Gaza.

The resistance also fired Saturday evening other homemade rockets on the Sha'er Hanegev settlement in the western Negev.

According to the Israeli media, a Palestinian rocket landed on a crowd of Israeli soldiers in the Sderot settlement and six others fell on the Eshkol settlement on the same day.

In a communiqué received by the PIC, the Qassam Brigades announced that it fired 41 rockets and mortar shells on different Israeli settlements and posts on Saturday, the eighth day of the aggression on Gaza.

Hamas leader Mushir Al-Masri stated that the Palestinian resistance spearheaded by the Qassam Brigades pursues special tactics and move steadily in their confrontations with the invading IOF troops.

Source: The Palestinian Information Centre

Pesanan Tahun Baru Hijri 1430 dari Seorang Teman Seperjuangan dalam HikmahWP

2009-01-01T11:37:00.000+08:00

Pada tahun Hijri 1430 yang baru ini kita harus berazam untuk lebih efisien dan berdisiplin; mengguna usia muda, masa, harta, kesihatan sebelum Allah SWT menarik anugerahnya ini daripada kita.

Prof. Datuk Abang Abdullah Abang Ali

Housing Research Centre, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Israeli' New Year Present to Muslims and the Arab World: While OIC says just that Israel continues its genocide...

2008-12-31T07:15:00.000+08:00

Agence France-Presse - 12/30/2008 9:09 PM GMT

Israel warns assault could last for weeks

Israel on Tuesday mulled a proposed 48-hour truce as world leaders stepped up calls for an end to the violence and warplanes pummelled Hamas targets in the battered Gaza Strip for a fourth day.

Defence Minister Ehud Barak was looking favourably at the proposal for a brief ceasefire, his spokesman said, stressing however that this would not prevent Israel from preparing for a possible ground offensive.

Israeli officials warned that the onslaught, which has killed at least 373 Palestinians, could continue for weeks(1), while Hamas militants fired more deadly rockets and threatened to step up their attacks on Israel.

"We tell the leaders of the enemy -- if you continue with your assault, we will hit with our rockets further than the cities we have hit so far," a masked spokesman for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the Hamas armed wing, said in televised comments.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday evening discussed with his foreign and defence ministers the French proposal for a 48-hour truce.

And US President George W. Bush spoke with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to discuss a "sustainable ceasefire."

"They agreed that for any ceasefire to be effective, it must be respected, particularly by Hamas ," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe told reporters in Crawford, Texas.

The European Union separately called for a "permanent" ceasefire in and around the Gaza Strip, while the Middle East Quartet called for "an immediate ceasefire that would be fully respected."
But throughout the day, Israeli officials insisted the armed forces would press on with the offensive, which has sparked Muslim outrage and protests worldwide.

"What we want is not a ceasefire but a stop to terrorism," said President Shimon Peres.
Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer warned a ceasefire would allow Hamas "to regain strength, recover from the shock and prepare an even stronger attack against Israel."
"There is no reason that we would accept a ceasefire at this stage," he told AFP.

With tanks and troops massed on the Gaza border, the Israeli military said ground forces are ready to join what politicians have warned would be a prolonged offensive.

Olmert said the bombardment so far was "the first of several stages approved by the security cabinet," while deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai warned the offensive -- one of Israel's deadliest against Gaza -- could turn into "weeks of combat."

World leaders have expressed serious concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, a tiny, aid-dependent territory of 1.5 million which Israel has virtually sealed off since Hamas seized power in June last year.

Israel opened one of its crossings into Gaza for a third consecutive day on Tuesday, the defence ministry said, adding that a total of 179 truckloads of humanitarian supplies and 10 ambulances were delivered since the start of the military offensive.

Warplanes, meanwhile blew up dozens of tunnels along Gaza's border with Egypt, which Hamas used to smuggle weapons and bring in "terror activists," a military spokesman said in a statement. "These tunnels play a major role in supplying Hamas with the means of strengthening its ability to carry out terror," the statement said.

It said 30 additional targets were attacked on Tuesday, including rocket launchers, weapons manufacturing facilities and "armed terror operatives."
Four days of intensive bombardment have killed several senior Hamas officials and reduced much of the Islamist movement's infrastructure in Gaza to rubble, but have failed to stop rocket fire.

Three Israelis -- two civilians and one soldier -- were killed on Monday by rockets fired from Gaza, with one slamming into the southern port city of Ashdod more than 30 kilometres (18 miles) from the border.

Hamas has threatened to carry out suicide attacks inside Israel for the first time since January 2005.

Since the massive aerial attack was unleashed on Saturday, at least 373 Palestinians, including 39 children, have been killed and 1,720 wounded, Gaza medics say.

Palestinian militants have also fired more than 250 rockets and mortar shells, killing four people inside Israel and wounding around two dozen more.

Israel's offensive followed days of rising violence after a tenuous six-month truce in and around Gaza ended on December 19. It also comes ahead of early parliamentary elections in Israel called for February 10.

Posted by Dr Awang Hasmadi Awang Mois

(1) Footnote: Since when had Israeli's attack, murder and genocide of the Arabs and Palestines only lasted for a few weeks, days, hours or a few seconds? It is sad and most tragic that while the rich and loudspeaking Arab and the Muslim world leaders continue to talk, watch and brag about their wealth, the Israelis celebrate the beginning of the Muslim 1430 Hijri and the coming of the Gregorian New Year 2009 by continuing its destruction of the Arabs/Palestinians in the Middle East. I wonder when will the OIC call for, or convene a meeting in Geneva, Bangkok or anywhere to deliberate on this new round or series of Israeli genocide and holocaust of the Palestinians? The content of this report by AF-P raises several interesting questions which members of the conspiracy bent on the destruction of HAMAS only know. Firstly, what is the outgoing American President George W Bushoe's role in this whole sad and tragic episode. Secondly, did America ask Israel to do them a favour to ensure that the next American president remains preoccupied with this whole mess that the Bushoes's had created and managed to sustain in the Middle-East. Thirdly, is the Jewish lobby hanging around Mr. Barak Obama involved in this meticulously prepared genocidal conspiracy And finally what will Mr Mahmud Abbas reap out of this mass-killing of his brother Palestinians on the side of Gaza? A big pay-cheque from the big US philanthropist called the CIA perhaps? Will Mr Mahmud Abbas be able to sleep and live in peace after this? We will pray for lots of Allah's justice in the beginning of this Muslim New Hijri. Amin (Dr. A.H. Awang Mois)

Advice from the Perak Mufti: Be Sensitive to other Religions

2008-12-30T02:28:00.000+08:00

Published: Monday December 29, 2008 MYT 2:03:00 PM
Updated: Monday December 29, 2008 MYT 4:03:56 PM

By MAZWIN NIK ANIS

PUTRAJAYA: The racial and religious harmony enjoyed by multi-ethnic Malaysia would end if irresponsible parties start criticising other religions, Perak Mufti Datuk Seri Dr Harussani Zakaria said.

He said such action would spark religious tension as nobody can tolerate their religion being condemned.

“This kind of behaviour is rude and uncalled for. I liken it to someone who greets someone kindly but gets a slap or is shouted at in return. Sooner or later, the person will retaliate.

“For the sake of peace and harmony, one should refrain from condemning other people’s religions.

“Those who want to talk about or discuss religions apart from their own should exercise care when they speak to avoid insulting or saying the wrong things.

“We do not want this to result in tension among the races,” he said Monday when asked to comment on the existence of a blog that allegedly contains insults against the Prophet Muhammad.

Harussani said Islam does not teach its followers to look down on other religions and those who embrace them, adding that in fact, Muslims were constantly reminded to respect those of other faiths.

“We do not condemn Jesus because he too is a Prophet in Islam. Neither do we destroy temples and places of worship because our religion restrains us from doing so,” he said.

He said that religious and racial tolerance has been Malaysia’s strength and unique quality for the past 50 years, adding if the country wanted to continue to prosper, such traits must be maintained.

“The rest of the world has always looked at Malaysia as an example as far as this is concerned. We must continue to work to maintain the good qualities so that the country and its people can continue to prosper,” he added.

Source: thestar online

Posted by: Dr Awang Hasmadi Awang Mois

Selamat Menyambut Tahun Baru Islam 1430H

2008-12-28T23:06:00.000+08:00

Assalamualaikum Wr. Wb ... Bismillahirahmanirrahim ...

Selaku pengerusi HIKMAHWP saya ingin mengucapkan selamat menyambut Maal Hijrah atau awal Muharram 1430 kepada seluruh anggota HIKMAH WP yang bermastautin di Semenanjung Malaysia khasnya, dan anggota pertubuhan HIKMAH Sarawak yang bergerak aktif di seluruh bahagian negeri Sarawak amnya.

Seperti-hari-hari besar dalam Takwim Islam, Maal Hijrah adalah satu titik yang sangat penting dalam sejarah perkembangan masyarakat dan budaya Islam kerana ia menandakan perpindahan keluar Rasulullah SAW dengan para sahabatnya dari Kota Makkah, kota yang penuh ancaman yang dikuasai oleh golongan kafir keturunan Quraish yang anti-perubahan dan anti-Islam. Perpindahan ke kota Madinah, kota yang lebih aman, tenteram dan conducive kepada kemajuan, kejayaan dan pertumbuhan socio-ekonomi yang baru ini telah dilakukan secara senyap-senyap dan berperingkat-peringkat supaya Rasulullah SAW dan para sahabatnya dapat mengelakkan ancaman, penindasan dan penghapusan oleh golongan kafir Quraish yang mendiami Kota Makkah. Di Kota Madinah-lah Rasulullah SAW bersama para sahabatnya telah berjaya membina negara Islam yang pertama dengan penyatuan tenaga (synergy) dari dua kelompok, iaitu kelompok muhajirin yang berasal dari Kota Makkah, beserta dengan kelompok Ansar (indigenous) kota Madinah. Sejak peristiwa penghijrahan yang pertama ini , istilah hijrah telah memberi pelbagai makna kepada masyarakat Islam di seluruh dunia.

Walau apapun maksud simbolik yang kita ingin berikan kepada fenomena hijrah Rasulullah SAW ini, marilah kita dalam pertubuhan seperti HIKMAH merenung semula fenomena yang bersejarah ini dan cuba menghayati nilai-nilai murni yang terkandung di dalamnya untuk menjadi panduan kepada pergerakan, kemajuan dan kejayaan pertubuhan kita pada tahun-tahun yang akan datang.

Wabillahit Taufiq Walhidayah, wassalamu ‘Alaikum Warahmatullaahi Wabarakatuh.

Tulisan dan ucapan Pengerusi HikmahWP

Dr Awang Hasmadi Awang Mois

BSB.

Takziah dan Al-Fatihah Untuk Seorang Sahabat di HIKMAH Bintulu

2008-12-22T11:48:00.001+08:00

Assalamualaikum Wr. Wb.
Bismillahirahmannirrahim,

Bagi pihak saya sendiri dan juga seluruh warga HIKMAH WPersekutuan saya ingin mengucapkan takziah dan mensedekahkan Al-Fatihah untuk seorang rakan seperjuangan kita Allahyarham Sdr Abang Bohari b Abang Morshidi di HIKMAH Bintulu yang telah kembali ke rahmatullah.

Kita warga HIKMAH WP berdoa semoga rohnya ditempatkan oleh Maha SUCI ALLAH di kalangan mereka yang soleh dan disukai Allah. Kita juga berdoa semoga ahli keluarga Allahyarham dapat menerima pemergian Sdr Abang Bohari dengan tenang dan bersabar.

Inalillah Wa Ina Illayhirajiun

Dr A.H. Awang Mois,
Pengerusi HIKMAH WP
dari
UBD, BSB

Memperingati Ucapan Pengasas BINA Tun Datuk Patinggi Abdul Rahman Ya'kub Tentang Kenapa BINA Ditubuhkan

2008-12-19T07:36:00.000+08:00

Assalamualaikum Wr. Wb ... Bismillahirahmanirrahim ...

Bagi ahli-ahli HIKMAH atau BINA yang telah lupa kenapa pertubuhan ini diwujudkan beberapa tahun yang lalu elok kiranya kita membaca dan memperingati semula apa yang telah ditulis mengenainya oleh pengasas pertubuhan itu sendiri supaya perjalanan dan urusan pertubuhan kita menjadi lebih terurus, lebih terfokus semula dan kembali kepada landasan perjuangan pertubuhan kita yang asal dan yang sebenar. Ini adalah satu perkara yang sangat pokok untuk melihat di mana letak kekuatan dan kelemahan kita dan menilai di mana kita telah terpesong atau telah tersasar. Sejarah pelakuan manusia telah menunjukkan bahawa dalam beberapa hal ramai daripada mahluk yang bergelar manusia mudah terikut-ikut sahaja untuk menyertai satu-satu pertubuhan tanpa mengetahui ideologi pertubuhan yang kita sertai sehingga akhirnya kita sendiri tidak tahu apa yang ingin lakukan dalam pertubuhan yang kita sertai.

Apakah kata-kata pengasas BINA tentang pertubuhan yang beliau telah wujudkan?

"BINA telah lahir atas desakan sekumpulan pelajar-pelajar belia yang menyedari betapa pentingnya sebuah badan ditubuhkan untuk memberi pimpinan kepada mereka dan untuk membina satu ummat yang kelak akan dapat merasa bertanggungjawab membela dan memperjuangkan Islam yang selama itu terhimpit dan tertekan hingga tidak berdaya hidup subur sekalipun di dalam masyarakat Islam sendiri di negara ini." BINA telah ditubuhkan, "tidak lain melainkan untuk meyatupadukan tenaga, membina belia-belia yang berdisiplin, dan paling penting bertaqwa kepada Allah; sekurang-kurangnya memberi keinsafan bahawa sebagai umat Islam mereka mempunyai tanggungjawab bagi diri mereka terhadap Allah dan mempunyai tugas-tugas dan tanggungjawab terhadap ugama dan bangsa." (Tun Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Abdul Rahman Ya'kub n.d. hal 7)

Sumbangan

Dr A.H. Awang Mois,

Pengerus Hikmah WP

Ucapan Tahniah Dari YBhg Tan Sri Pengerusi Hikmah Sarawak

2008-12-16T11:21:00.000+08:00

Tan Sri Abdul Aziz HusainPresiden, HIKMAH SarawakURL: www.sarawakenergy.com.myTel:+6082-441188 Fax:+6082-444433H/P: +6019-8889009E-Mail:azizh@sarawakenergy.com.my

Assalamualaikum WBT

Saya mewakili seluruh Warga HIKMAH Sarawak dengan sukacitanya ingin mengucapkan SETINGGI TINGGI TAHNIAH kepada Datuk Professor Abang Abdullah bin Abang Mohamed Ali, DPMS atas kurniaan Darjah Kebesaran Datuk Paduka Mahkota Selangor (DPMS) yang membawa gelaran DATUK sempena Hari Keputeraan ke-63 Sultan Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah pada hari ini, 11 Disember 2008. Semoga dengan pengurniaan ini dapat meningkatkan lagi taraf perjuangan dan kerjasama di antara semua ahli Hikmah untuk mencapai objektif dan matalamat bersama

Daripada Seluruh Warga HIKMAH, Sarawak

Tahniah Datuk Professor Abang Abdullah

2008-12-12T15:40:00.000+08:00

Assalamualaikum WBT

Pihak Pengerusi, Timbalan Pengerusi dan Seluruh Anggota Jawatankuasa HIKMAH WP

Dengan Rasminya Ingin Mengucapkan

SEKALUNG dan SETINGGI TAHNIAH Kepada Senior Kami

Datuk Professor Abang Abdullah bin Abang Mohamed Alli, DPMS

atas kurniaan Darjah Kebesaran Datuk Paduka Mahkota Selangor (DPMS)

yang membawa gelaran DATUK Sempena Hari Keputeraan ke-63 Sultan Selangor, Sultan

Sharafuddin Idris Shah pada hari ini, 11 Disember 2008.

Daripada Seluruh Warga HIKMAH WP

Hari Raya Korban dan Cabaran Masyarakat Moden

2008-12-07T17:20:00.000+08:00

Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar الله أكبر الله أكبر الله أكبرLaa Ilaaha IllaAllahu لا إله إلا اللهWallahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar الله أكبر الله أكبرWa li-illaahil-hamd ولله الحمد

Hari Raya Eid ul-adha adalah salah satu perayaan yang utama di kalangan ummat Islam. Ia adalah satu perayaan yang disambut oleh ummat Islam di seluruh dunia. Allah yang maha kuasa telah mengurniakan kepada ummat Islam dua perayaan yang terbesar pada satu tahun dan oleh kerana kedua-duanya adalah anugerah Allah kepada hambaNya maka kedua-duanya harus dirayakan dan justeru kerana itu ummat Islam dilarang berpuasa pada kedua-dua hari besar tersebut iaitu pada Hari Raya Eidul-Fitri dan Hari Raya Eidul-Adha.

Hari Raya Eidul Fitri disambut setelah ummat Islam selesai menyumpurnakan ibadah puasa selepas satu bulan. Manakala Eidul Adha pula dirayakan setelah ummat Islam yang pergi mengerjakan ibadah haji di tanah suci Makkah selesai menyumpurnakan salah satu rukun Islam yang menjadi tiang dan inti ibadah haji yang utama iaitu mengerjakan wukkuf di Arafah. Justeru Hari Raya Eidul Adha adalah satu perayaan yang dirayakan di seluruh dunia sempena menandakan berakhirnya tempoh mengerjakan ibadah haji di Tanah Suci Makkah. Seperti yang semua ummat Islam sedia maklum anjuran mengerjakan ibadah haji adalah rukun Islam yang kelima dan terakhir bagi ummat Islam yang mampu mengerjakannya.

Hari Raya Eidul Adha adalah satu perayaan yang istimewa kerana di samping dikenali sebagai Hari Raya Haji ia dikenali juga sebagai Hari Raya Kurban. Bagi mereka yang baru biasa dengan agama Islam atau bagi mereka yang mudah lupa di kalangan kita ummat Islam, ia disebut juga dengan nama Hari Raya Kurban untuk memperingatkan seluruh ummat Islam tentang kisah pengorbanan Nabi Allah Ibrahim dalam menunaikan perintah Allah SWT dan kesabaran, ketaqwaan dan keimanan anaknya untuk merelakan dirinya dikorbankan sebagai simbol ketaqwaan, keimanan dan keyakinan ayahandanya kepada perintah Allah demi memperolehi keredhaan Allah SWT.

Kisah Nabi Ibrahim dan Nabi Ismail bukan kisah biasa; ia kisah cinta manusia kepada Allah dan kesanggupan manusia untuk berkorban kepada Allah. Kisah ini adalah kisah yang istimewa kerana terkandung di dalamnya adalah nilai-nilai pokok dan utama yang Allah telah perkenalkan untuk kemajuan dan kejayaan ummat Islam di seluruh dunia. Dan nilai-nilai yang telah diperkenalkan oleh Allah kepada dua orang hambaNya Nabi Ibrahim dan anaknya Nabi Ismail ialah nilai-nilai sanggup berkorban kerana ketaatan, ketaqwaan, keimanan dan keyakinan kepada Allah.

Sempena menyambut Hari Raya Haji atau Hari Raya Kurban ini marilah kita bertanya apakah yang harus dilakukan oleh manusia dalam konteks membangunkan masyarakat Islam yang mantap dan berkualiti tinggi? Salah satu isu yang sering diperkatakan oleh anggota masyarakat Melayu yang beragama Islam di Malaysia pada hari ini ialah kepincangan institusi famili. Anak-anak Malaysia yang mengambil kursus sosiologi maupun antropologi semua tahu bahawa institusi famili adalah adalah satu unit yang paling asas dalam pembentukan sesebuah masyarakat. Semua pelajar disiplin sosiologi dan antropologi sedia maklum bahawa kalau institusi ini pincang, maka pincanglah juga masyarakat dan kalau is sudah mula porak peranda maka porak perandalah akhirnya masyarakat. Ini sudah mulai berlaku di negara kita Malaysia.

Sebuah famili yang lengkap terdiri dari pasangan suami-isteri beserta dengan seorang atau berapa orang anak; anak-anak yang dilahirkan hasil hubungan kelamin antara suami dan isteri atau anak-anak yang diambil atau diangkat dari keluarga lain kerana kesukaran pasangan suami dan isteri untuk menghasilkan anak (issue atau progeny).

Sebuah famili yang ideal terikat oleh berapa jaringan hubungan yang bersifat timbal-balas dan saling lengkap lagi melengkapi. Antara pasangan yang bergelar suami dan isteri itu harus ada ikatan yang sah dan lagi mengesahkan. Ikatan itu haruslah sah dan diiktiraf sebagai sah sehingga kedua-dua orang yang bergelar suami dan isteri tadi boleh mengadakan hubungan kelamin sah dan tidak boleh dipersoalkan oleh mana-mana rakan, taulan maupun lawan. Oleh kerana hubungan itu sah maka dengan sendirinya anak yang lahir dari ikatan atau hubungan itu nanti juga akan dianggap oleh masyarakat sekitar sebagai anak2 yang sah.

Dalam sebuah unit yang dikatakan famili itu pasangan suami dan isteri masing-masing ada hak dan tanggungjawab: seorang suami ada hak dan tanggungjawabnya ke atas isterinya; dan sebaliknya seorang isteri juga memiliki hak dan tanggungjawab ke atas seorang suami. Selain mempunyai hak dan tanggungjawab ke atas satu sama lain pasangan suami-isteri juga mempunyai hak dan tanggungjawab ke atas anak-anak yang mereka miliki. Sebaliknya anak-anak juga mempunyai hak dan tanggungjawab ke atas ayah dan ibu yang mereka miliki.

Di kalangan masyarakat Melayu pada masa kini, masalah sosial yang sering diperkatakan oleh ketua kampong, tokoh2 pertubuhan, pemimpin-pemimin masyarakat dan Sang Pak Menteri terhasil dan kian menjadi kerana di peringkat asas atau unit sosial yang disebut family itu lagi kita sudah berhadapan dengan masalah. Masalah ini bermula dan berpunca daripada ketidakupayaan sang suami untuk melaksanakan hak dan tanggungjawabnya sebagai suami dan sebaliknya sang isteri pula gagal melaksanakan hak, tanggungjawab dan peranannya sebagai seorang isteri.

Masalah ini menjadi rumit apabila sang suami dan isteri sudah mempunyai anak dan sang suami pula bukan lagi sekadar mempunyai peranan dan tanggungjawab sebagai suami malah sang suami juga mempunyai peranan dan tanggungjawab sebagai seorang ayah. Dengan adanya seorang anak maka dengan sendirinya tugas seorang lelaki yang dulunya hanya bergelar suami sudah bertambah kerana keperluan anaknya juga harus dipenuhi dan ditunaikan sama ada dari segi minuman, makanan, pakaian maupun dari segi persekolahan. Kalau dulu sepasang suami-isteri boleh jimat duit dengan menunggang motosikal, dengan adanya anak yang baru dilahirkan seorang suami bersama isterinya mungkin perlu bekerja kuat dan berkorban untuk mendapatkan sebuah kereta kecil seperti “Kancil” untuk mempastikan anak yang baru dilahirkan tadi selamat dan terlindung dari hujan, angin dan panas matahari.

Begitu juga halnya dengan seorang isteri tatkala sudah memperolehi anak dan memegang tanggungjawab sebagai seorang isteri dan juga seorang ibu. Kalau dulu seorang isteri hanya perlu menjaga dan melayan suaminya; dengan kehadiran anak kesayangan si suami dan si isteri, seorang isteri harus memainkan peranan tambahan sebagai seorang ibu kepada anak yang baru dilahirkan. Dalam keadaan hidup moden yang begitu sukar dan mencabar ini ramai suami dan isteri, ayah dan ibu terlupa akan tanggungjawab mereka dalam membangunkan sebuah keluarga mengikut apa yang telah dituntut dan dianjurkan oleh Islam. Akhirnya banyak keluarga pada masa kini yang mengalami pelbagai kepincangan. Seringkali kalau ibu dan anak2nya baik si ayah pula bermasalah dan memerlukan perhatian dan bantuan yang lebih berat daripada bantuan dan perhatian yang diperlukan oleh seorang anak dan manusia biasa. Sebaliknya apabila seorang suami atau ayah dan anak-anak tidak menghadapi masalah si isteri dan ibu pula yang terperangkap dalam pelbagai cabaran dan isu rumah tangga sehingga tumpuan dan fokus yang seorang ayah harus berikan kepada anak-anaknya terpaksa diberikan sepenuhnya kepada seorang isteri dan ibu yang ditimpa masalah.

Kita berdoa pada sempena Hari Raya Eidul-adha yang mulia ini anggota masyarakat Islam di Sarawak khasnya dan di Malaysia amnya dapat memikirkan semula dan kembali kepada nilai-nilai Islam yang terkandung dalam peristiwa Korban yang diadakan oleh Nabi Allah Ibrahim dan anak kesayangannya Nabi Ismail supaya kita dapat menyempurnakan tugas kita di muka bumi ini sebagai manusia yang sentiasa tunduk, hormat, yakin, sabar dan bertaqwa kepada Allah dan pada masa yang sama sentiasa sedar kita mempunyai tanggungjawab dan tuntutan agama yang mulia dan suci yang harus dilaksanakan.

Sekian, Wabillahit Taufiq Walhidayah, wassalamu ‘Alaikum Warahmatullaahi Wabarakatuh.

Tulisan dan ucapan Pengerusi HikmahWP

Dr Awang Hasmadi Awang Mois

UBD di BSB

Nabi Muhammad SAW pernah bersabda: "Tiada suatu hari pun dalam setahun yang amalan kebaikan padanya mempunyai kelebihan melainkan pada hari 10 Zulhijjah. Oleh itu, hendaklah kamu memperbanyakkan zikir, takbir dan tahmid. " (Riwayat Bukhari)

PROGRAM IBADAH KORBAN HIKMAH PUSAT 1429H

2008-11-24T10:31:00.000+08:00

Kepada

Tan Sri / Puan Sri / Datuk / Datin / Tuan / Puan
Ahli Majlis Tertinggi
Harakah Islamiyah (HIKMAH)

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

PER: PROGRAM IBADAH QURBAN 1429 H

Program Ibadah Qurban 1429 H akan diadakan sempena dengan sambutan Hari Raya AidilAdha pada 8 Disember 2008. Sehubungan itu, HIKMAH PUSAT telah mencadangkan pengagihan daging qurban ke kawasan Perkampungan Baru Islam (PBI) di Serian, Padawan dan Tebedu.

Pihak Pejabat HIKMAH PUSAT mengalu-alukan sumbangan qurban daripada pihak Tan Sri / Puan Sri / Datuk / Datin / Tuan / Puan bagi menjayakan program ini. Tarikh tutup untuk pengesahan penyertaan adalah pada 27 November 2008 /29 Zulkaedah 1429 H.

Sila hubungi Puan Hamisah bt Bohari atau Cik Haniaryana Mustaffa di nombor Pejabat HIKMAH PUSAT +6082441150 untuk pertanyaan.

Semoga ibadah kita diberkati hendaknya oleh Allah s.w.t.

Wasssalam.

HANIARYANA MUSTAFFA

Pejabat HIKMAH PUSAT

Kuching, Sarawak.

"Tips Menghadapi Tekanan"

2008-11-18T12:16:00.000+08:00

Pendahuluan

Kita adalah sebaik-baik makhluk ciptaan Allah, namun kita masih tidak terlepas daripada menghadapi tekanan ketika bekerja. Pelbagai tekanan yang dihadapi menyebabkan hati menjadi runsing dan semua kerja tidak akan terlaksana. Tidak mustahil bagi individu yang berhadapan dengan masalah ini akan terbawa-bawa ke rumah hingga anak-anak pula menjadi mangsa. Namun, hati akan menjadi tenang sekiranya kita kembali kepada Allah. Apa jua yang dilakukan mestilah berdasarkan kepada Al-Quran dan Al-Sunnah disertai dengan niat yang ikhlas semata-mata untuk mendapat keredhaan Allah.

Terdapat beberapa tips yang kita boleh amalkan bertujuan mengurangkan tekanan hidup. Antaranya ialah :

1) Biasakan diri berada dalam keadaan berwuduk

Jiwa kita akan menjadi tenang jika kita membiasakan diri mengambil wuduk sebelum melakukan pekerjaan. Kerja yang susah akan menjadi senang dan mudah diselesaikan. Para pelajar misalnya, disarankan agar membiasakan diri mengambil wuduk sebelum mengulang kaji pelajaran agar apa yang dibaca akan mudah diingati.

2) Perbanyakkan bacaan Al-Qur'an

Ganjaran yang besar akan diberikan Allah bagi sesiapa yang membaca Al-Quran walaupun satu ayat. Waktu yang sesuai bagi kita untuk membaca Al-Quran ialah selepas solat lima waktu dan waktu-waktu lain seperti ketika berehat dan sebelum tidur. Oleh itu, jadikanlah Al-Quran sebagai teman paling akrab pada sepanjang waktu.

3) Perbanyakkan Solat Sunat

Sebagai makhluk paling mulia di sisi Allah, kita disuruh membanyakkan amal ibadat kita sehari-hari. Antaranya, dengan mendirikan solat sunat. Solat sunat hajat, solat sunat taubat, solat sunat tasbih adalah antara pelbagai solat sunat yang terdapat dalam Islam. Kita bangun pada sepertiga malam dan mendirikan solat-solat sunat tersebut agar beroleh ketenangan dan kekuatan daripada Allah.

4) Selalukan Berdoa kepada Allah

Allah telah berpesan iaitu jangan menyembah selain daripada-Nya. Ini bererti kita disuruh berdoa hanya kepada Allah yang Maha Esa dan dilakukan secara berterusan. Waktu-waktu mustajab berdoa adalah pada malam Jumaat, tengah malam, pagi sebelum waktu Subuh, malam hari raya, ketika waktu azan dan iqamah. Insya-Allah, Allah akan memakbulkan doa setiap hamba-Nya yang benar-benar ikhlas. Namun, kita perlulah sedar bahawa sebarang rezeki tidak akan datang bergolek sekiranya tanpa usaha yang bersungguh-sungguh. Maka kita perlulah berusaha supaya mencapai sesuatu di samping berdoa hanya kepada Allah yang Esa. (Ed. Di Negara Brunei Darussalam pada Jumaat minggu lepas 14 November 2008 seluruh masjid negeri telah diarahkan untuk memberikan khutbah tentang keperluan ummat Islam sentiasa rajin berdoa untuk mengekalkan hubungan antara manusia dan Allah Maha Pencipta.)

5) Bersangka baik dengan Allah

Kita sebagai manusia biasanya tidak akan terlepas daripada berhadapan dengan ujian dalam hidup. Semuanya itu adalah ujian daripada Allah yang Berkuasa bertujuan menguji keimanan kita sebagai hamba Allah. Oleh itu, kita mestilah bersangka baik dengan Allah dan janganlah menyalahkan- Nya jika terjadi sesuatu ke atas diri kita. Kita juga mesti percaya bahawa tentu ada hikmah di sebalik kejadian itu.

6) Lakukan kegiatan Luar seperti Bersukan

Orang ramai selalu berkata bahawa badan yang cerdas akan membentuk otak yang cergas. Segala tekanan sewaktu bekerja akan dilupakan apabila kita melakukan aktiviti-aktiviti luar yang dapat menyihatkan tubuh badan seperti bersukan. Situasi akan menjadi lebih menggembirakan jika kita meluangkan masa membawa
keluarga pergi beriadah. Ikatan kekeluargaan juga akan bertambah erat dan kukuh.

7) Amalan Diet dengan Disiplin yang Kuat

Pengambilan makanan yang berlebihan dan tidak seimbang juga merupakan salah satu faktor tekanan sewaktu bekerja. Oleh itu, cara untuk mengurangkan tekanan adalah mengamalkan diet dengan disiplin yang kuat. Diet yang tidak terkawal akan menyebabkan kegemukan dan menimbulkan penyakit kronik yang lain seperti lemah jantung, darah tinggi, kencing manis.

8) Menangis dengan Sepuas Hati

Tekanan yang dihadapi sekiranya melibatkan individu yang lain dapat diredakan melalui luahan hati kita dengan menuliskan rasa ketidakpuasan hati kita itu dalam sehelai kertas. Sikap cuba menyimpan perasaan tersebut dalam hati boleh menyebabkan diri merana. "Luaran lain hati lain" ada sesetengah individu apabila mereka mengalami sesuatu tekanan, mereka seolah-olah tidak menunjukkan permasalahan mereka itu. Sebagai contoh, bila dilihat bersama rakan-rakan tetapi dalam hatinya hanya Allah yang Maha mengurangkan tekanan yang dihadapi di tempat kerja.

9) Hargai kebolehan Diri Sendiri

Kita perlu mempunyai satu sikap yang dipanggil yakin diri. Apabila kita mempunyai keyakinan diri, maka kita tidak akan mempunyai masalah untuk melakukan sesuatu pekerjaan yang disuruh oleh pihak lain sewaktu bekerja. Kita yakin bahawa kita boleh melakukan kerja yang disuruh dengan mudah dan tiada sebarang masalah yang dihadapi. Apa yang penting ialah, kita mesti menghargai kebolehan diri sendiri dan memulakan hidup dengan lebih ceria.

10) Cintai diri sendiri

"Cintailah diri kamu sendiri sebelum kamu mencintai diri orang lain". Jelas daripada maksud sepotong hadis ini, kita dapat memahami bahawa kita perlu mencintai diri sendiri terlebih dahulu berbanding orang lain. Diri kita yang selama ini masih pada tahap lama dalam pekerjaan perlu dipertingkatkan dengan cara yang dinyatakan di atas. Kita perlu memulakan kehidupan kita dengan ceria dan penuh dengan senyuman.

Kesimpulan

Sebagai kesimpulannya, tekanan kerja bukanlah satu bebanan yang sukar untuk diatasi. Dengan usaha yang gigih dan kesabaran yang tinggi serta jalan penyelesaian yang jitu, bebanan yang kita alami pastinya akan dapat diselesaikan dengan jayanya.

Wallahualam.

Riziandy Nawawi,

Bangi.

Manusia & Masyarakat

2008-11-12T19:44:00.000+08:00

Hai manusia! Sesungguhnya Kami menciptakan kamu dari seorang laki-laki dan seorang perempuan, dan Kami jadikan kamu beberapa bangsa dan suku-suku bangsa, Supaya kamu mengenal satu sama lain. Sesungguhnya yang paling mulia di antara kamu dalam pandangan Allah
Ialah yang lebih bertaqwa (memilahara diri dari kejahatan).
Sesungguhnya Allah itu Maha Tahu dan Mengerti.

Terjemahan (English translation)

O Mankind! We created You from a single (pair)
Of a male and a female. And made you into Nations and tribes, that
Ye may know each other (Not that ye may despise Each other).
Verily The most honoured of you
In the sight of God
Is (he who is) the most
Righteous of you
And God has full knowledge
And is well acquainted
(with all things)

Al-Quran Surah XLIX - Al Hujurat 13-15

Sebagai sebuah cawangan HIKMAH atau BINA Sarawak yang telah lahir di tengah-tengah komuniti ilmu, mulanya di Lembah Pantai dan kemudiannya berpindah ke tengah-tengah pusat Multi-Media Super Corridor Malaysia HIKMAH WP ingin memulakan satu ruangan khas yang mengajak anggota ummah Islam yang prihatin di seluruh Malaysia untuk membincangkan isu-isu pokok yang menyentuh masyarakat dan budaya masyarakat Islam di Malaysia pada hari ini. Kami di HIKMAH WP ingin mengajak dan mengalu-alukan penyertaan teman-teman dari cawangan-cawangan HIKMAH yang lain di negeri Sarawak untuk turut serta membicarakan isu-isu pokok yang menyentuh masyarakat Islam di negeri Sarawak khasnya, dan Malaysia amnya. Kami di HIKMAH WP yakin HIKMAH sudah mempunyai tenaga mahir yang mencukupi dan terlatih dalam pelbagai bidang untuk membincangkan isu-isu yang melibatkan kepentingan kita bersama. Selama ini komuniti Islam di negeri Sarawak hanya mendengar rakan-rakan senegara berceramah kepada mereka. Kami di HIKMAH WP ingin merubah tradisi itu. Kami ingin kembali dan menghidupkan semula satu amalan dan tradisi yang telah dimulakan oleh pengasas pertubuhan kami iaitu YBhg Tun Datuk Patinggi Abdul Rahman Yaakub semasa beliau memimpin BINA SARAWAK dahulu untuk turut berceramah sambil kita mendiagnosa secara rasional punca dan penyebab kepada pelbagai masalah yang dihadapi oleh seluruh rakyat Malaysia.
Semua rakyat Malaysia yang telah terdidik pada tahun 1970an dahulu masih ingat bagaimana YAB Tun Rahman Yaakob semasa menjadi Menteri Pendidikan Malaysia pada akhir tahun 1960an telah dengan berani dan tegas membuat keputusan untuk menubuh dan menjadikan penubuhan Universiti Kebangsaan satu realiti dalam keadaan penduduk Melayu di Semenanjung Malaysia masih ragu-ragu, kurang yain dan kurang pasti sama ada universiti yang beraliran Bahasa Melayu itu nanti berjaya melahirkan graduan Melayu dan mampu meletakkan Bahasa Melayua sebagai satu bahasa ilmu yang boleh digunakan di peringkat antarabangsa. Dalam keadaan negara Malaysia kian haru-biru, sudah tiba masanya kita ummat Islam di Malaysia saling dengar mendengar ceramah dari satu dan yang lain supaya kita saling manfaat dan manfaati supaya kita tidak dituduh sebagai manusia yang hanya pandai mengajar tetapi tidak pandai belajar. Kita di HIKMAH WP mahu supaya pandangan kita sama-sama diketahui supaya pandangan kita tidak berat sebelah, sesuai dengan ajaran Islam supaya kita saling dengar mendengar nasihat menasihati dan lebih-lebih lagi belajar dan mempelajari.

dari

Pengerusi HikmahWP

A.H.Awang Mois

November 12, 2008 5:29 AM

Gambar di Sekitar Ramah Tamah HWP

2008-11-03T14:03:00.000+08:00

[Untuk menghayati gambar Ramah Tamah Aidilfitri HWP dengan lebih FEEL, lakukannya sambil mendengar @ dalam hati mengalunkan lagu Dendang Perantau. Bak kata urang Malaya "Mesti tangkap leleh punya lah brader"]

DENDANG PERANTAU

Di Hari Raya
Terkenang daku kepada si dia
Kampungku indah nun jauh di sana
Ayah serta bundaku

Di tepian mandi
Danauku hijau yang damai selalu

Nun di sana tempat ku bertemu

Aku dan dia

Apa kan daya
Masa tak akan kembali
Hancur musnalah
Semuanya

Impian yang murni
Tinggal menjadi kenang-kenanganku
Hanya rangkaian kata dengan lagu

Dendang perantau

Senilagu : P. Ramlee
Senikata : S. Sudarmaji

Sekitar di Meja Pendaftaran

Meja Pendaftaran Ahli HIKMAH

Ruang Rehat VIP

Prof Abang & Suami YB Perasmi

Bertemu kawan lamak pok eh! Sik sangka saya bah.

Ucapan Aluan oleh Ketua Pengarah RTA08

Ucapan TYDP HIKMAH, Tuan Hj Ahmad Shazaly Aba Ibrahim

Ucapan Perasmian oleh YB Norah Tun Datuk Patinggi Hj Abdul Rahman Yaakub

Cenderahati kenang-kenangan buat YB Perasmi daripada Urusetia

Persembahan Multimedia FLASH yang disediakan khas oleh Urusetia RTA

Meja VVIP

Jamuan pun bermula... Tinggi juak songkok kitak ya jang. Macam Made in Roban eh! :-)

Sambutan di luar jangka sampey meja pendaftaran pun terpaksa jadi meja makan... layan...

Malu saya tok eh.. gambar kandid indah

"Ya Rabbi... sitok juak kita duak bertemu eh!" (Mungkin ya dipadah sidak ya)

Suasana di dalam dewan - Riuh rendah ajak bunyi bila bertemu

Tiada kerosakan gigi! Betul..betul.. betul..

Segmen mari membaca Warta HIKMAH

"Aih.. Ada urang ngambik gambar kita ya.. tapok tapok muka kita lok"kata sidak ya

Di antara famili yang hadir

Penuh sesak di gerai makanan...

Gaya macho embiak Sarawak di Malaya

Beratur pok!

Meneliti buku program yang diedarkan oleh Urusetia

Pandangan dari sudut depan

Pandangan dari hadapan dewan - Ramey sik kamek urang?

Di ruang legar makanan di dalam dewan

Perjumpaan dengan YB Perasmi selepas program

YB beramah mesra dengan hadirin

Mahasiswa mengambil peluang bertemu YB. "Klaka Serawak jak sia, paham saya tuk",kata YB (tersipu-sipu student bila terklaka Malaya dengan YB)

VIP & ahli keluarga + Urusetia

Tulang belakang Ramah Tamah Aidilfitri 2008

Sesi bergambar dengan Mahasiswa.

Jumpa lagik tahun depan! InsyaAllah.

Meraih Pahala dari Fitnah Harta dan Anak

2008-10-23T19:39:00.000+08:00

Terdapat dua ayat di dalam Al-Qur’an yang menyebut harta dan anak sebagai fitnah, iaitu surah Al-Anfal ayat 28 dan surah At-Taghabun ayat 15.

“Dan ketahuilah bahawa harta benda kamu dan anak-anak kamu itu hanyalah menjadi fitnah (ujian), dan sesungguhnya di sisi Allah jualah pahala yang besar.” (Al-Anfal 08: 28)

“Sesungguhnya harta benda kamu dan anak-anak kamu itu hanyalah menjadi fitnah (ujian), dan di sisi Allah jualah pahala yang besar.” (At-Taghabun 64:15)

Perbezaannya: pada surah Al-Anfal, Allah menggunakan ayat pemberitahuan “ketahuilah”, sedangkan pada surah At-Taghabun menggunakan ayat penegasan “sesungguhnya”. Namun ungkapan yang mengakhiri kedua-dua ayat tersebut adalah sama, iaitu “di sisi Allah jualah pahala yang besar”. Sehingga boleh difahami bahwa fitnah harta dan anak berupaya menjerumuskan ke dalam kemaksiatan, namun di sudut yang lain juga berupaya untuk menjadi peluang bagi meraih pahala yang besar dari Allah s.w.t. Makna yang kedua itulah yang dikehendaki oleh Allah, sehingga Allah mengingatkannya di akhir ayat yang berbicara tentang fitnah anak dan harta “dan di sisi Allah jualah pahala yang besar”.

Fitnah dalam kedua ayat ini bukan dalam arti bahasa yang biasa kita gunakan, iaitu bermaksud memburukkan orang lain, seperti memburukkan nama baik atau mencemar reputasi seseorang. Tetapi fitnah yang dimaksudkan dalam konteks harta dan anak seperti yang dikemukakan oleh Asy-Syaukani adalah bahawa keduanya boleh menjadi sebab seseorang terjerumus dalam banyak dosa dan kemaksiatan, demikian juga boleh menjadi sebab mendapatkan pahala yang besar.

Inilah yang dimaksud dengan ujian yang Allah uji pada harta dan anak seseorang. Fitnah di sini juga dalam maksud boleh menyibukkan atau memaling dan menjadi penghalang seseorang dari mengingati dan mengerjakan amal soleh kepada Allah, seperti yang digambarkan oleh Allah tentang orang-orang munafik sehingga Dia menghindarkan orang-orang beriman dari kecenderungan ini dalam firmanNya, “Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Janganlah kamu dilalaikan oleh (urusan) harta benda kamu dan anak-pinak kamu daripada mengingati Allah (dengan menjalankan perintahNya). dan (ingatlah), sesiapa yang melakukan demikian, maka mereka itulah orang-orang yang rugi.” (Al-Munafiqun 63: 09).

Rasulullah s.a.w. juga menyebut kedua kemungkinan ini dalam hadits Aisyah r.a. ketika beliau memeluk seorang bayi, “Sungguh mereka (anak-anak) dapat menjadikan seseorang kikir dan pengecut, dan mereka juga adalah termasuk dari haruman Allah s.w.t”.

Fitnah anak dalam konteks boleh mengganggu dan menghentikan aktiviti seseorang pernah dirasakan juga oleh Rasulullah s.a.w. Dalam sebuah hadith yang diriwayatkan oleh Tirmidzi dan Abu Daud dari Abu Buraidah bahwa ketika Rasulullah s.a.w. sedang menyampaikan khutbahnya kepada kami, tiba-tiba datanglah kedua cucunya Hasan dan Husein mengenakan baju merah sambil berlari dan saling kejar-mengejar. Melihat kedua cucunya, Rasulullah lantas turun dari mimbar dan mengangkat keduanya sambil mengatakan, “Maha Benar Allah dengan firmanNya, “Sesungguhnya harta dan anak-anak kamu adalah fitnah”. Aku tidak sabar melihat keduanya sehingga aku menghentikan khutbahku dan mengangkat keduanya”. Dalam konteks ini, Ibnu Mas’ud mengajarkan satu doa yang tepat tentang harta dan anak. Beliau menyatakan, “Janganlah kamu berdoa, dengan doa ini, “Ya Allah, lindungilah kami dari fitnah”. Kerana setiap kamu ketika pulang ke rumah akan mendapati harta, anak dan keluarganya boleh mengandungi fitnah, tetapi katakanlah, “Ya Allah aku berlindung kepada Engkau dari fitnah yang menyesatkan”.

Secara perbandingan, mengenai fitnah harta dan anak dalam surah At-Taghabun, Imam Ar-Razi dalam At-Tafsir Al-Kabir menyebut, kerana anak dan harta merupakan fitnah, maka Allah memerintahkan kita agar sentiasa bertaqwa dan taat kepada Allah setelah menyebutkan hakikat fitnah keduanya, “Oleh itu bertaqwalah kamu kepada Allah sedaya supaya kamu; dan dengarlah (akan pengajaran-pengajaranNya) serta taatlah (akan perintah-perintahNya); dan belanjakanlah harta kamu (serta buatlah) kebajikan untuk diri kamu. dan (ingatlah), sesiapa yang menjaga serta memelihara dirinya daripada dipengaruhi oleh tabiat bakhilnya, maka merekalah orang-orang yang berjaya.” (At-Taghabun 64:16).

Apatah lagi pada ayat sebelumnya, Allah menegaskan akan kemungkinan sebagian keluarga berbalik menjadi musuh bagi seseorang, “Hai orang-orang mukmin, sesungguhnya di antara isteri-isterimu dan anak-anakmu ada yang menjadi musuh bagimu maka berhati-hatilah kamu terhadap mereka dan jika kamu memaafkan dan tidak memarahi serta mengampuni (mereka) maka sesungguhnya Allah Maha Pengampun lagi Maha Penyayang.

“Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Sesungguhnya ada di antara isteri-isteri kamu dan anak-anak kamu yang menjadi musuh bagi kamu; oleh itu awaslah serta berjaga-jagalah kamu terhadap mereka. dan kalau kamu memaafkan dan tidak marahkan (mereka) serta mengampunkan kesalahan mereka (maka Allah akan berbuat demikian kepada kamu), kerana sesungguhnya Allah Maha Pengampun, lagi Maha Mengasihani.” (At-Taghabun 64:14)

Sedangkan mengenai fitnah harta dan anak dalam surah Al-Anfal, Sayyid Qutb menyebut kaitannya dengan tema amanah “Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Janganlah kamu mengkhianati (amanah) Allah dan RasulNya, dan (janganlah) kamu mengkhianati amanah-amanah kamu, sedang kamu mengetahui (salahnya).” (Al-Anfal 08:27), bahawa harta dan anak merupakan objek ujian dan cubaan Allah s.w.t. yang dapat menghalang seseorang daripada menunaikan amanah Allah dan RasulNya dengan baik. Padahal kehidupan yang mulia adalah kehidupan yang menuntut pengorbanan dan menuntut seseorang agar mampu menunaikan segala amanah kehidupan yang dipikulnya. Maka melalui ayat ini Allah s.w.t. ingin memberi peringatan kepada semua khalifahNya agar fitnah harta dan anak tidak melemahkan mereka dalam memikul amanah kehidupan dan perjuangan agar meraih kemuliaan hidup di dunia dan di akhirat. Dan inilah kelemahan manusia di hadapan harta dan anak-anaknya. Sehingga peringatan Allah akan besarnya fitnah harta dan anak diiringi dengan khabar gembira mengenai pahala dan keutamaan yang akan diraih melalui harta dan anak.

Lebih jauh, kaitan ayat di atas dapat ditemui di dalam beberapa ayat yang lain. Al-Qurtubi menemukan kaitannya dengan surah Al-Kahfi 18:46 yang bermaksud, “Harta benda dan anak-pinak itu, ialah perhiasan hidup di dunia; dan amal-amal soleh yang kekal faedahnya itu lebih baik pada sisi Tuhanmu sebagai pahala balasan, dan lebih baik sebagai asas Yang memberi harapan.”

bahawa harta kekayaan dan anak wajar menjadi perhiasan dunia yang mententeramkan pemiliknya kerana pada harta ada keindahan dan manfaat, sedangkan pada anak ada kekuatan dan harapan. Namun demikian kedudukan keduanya sebagai perhiasan dunia hanyalah bersifat sementara dan boleh menggiurkan serta menjerumuskan. Maka adalah sangat tepat jika ayat “Sesungguhnya harta benda kamu dan anak-anak kamu itu hanyalah menjadi fitnah (ujian), dan di sisi Allah jualah pahala yang besar.” (At-Taghabun 64:15); dan ayat “Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Janganlah kamu dilalaikan oleh (urusan) harta benda kamu dan anak-pinak kamu daripada mengingati Allah (dengan menjalankan perintahNya). dan (ingatlah), sesiapa yang melakukan demikian, maka mereka itulah orang-orang yang rugi.” (Al-Munafiqun 63: 09); menjadi peringatan jika terjadi harta dan anak yang menjauhkan pemiliknya daripada Allah s.w.t.

Berbeza dengan At-Thabari, ia memahami kaitan yang berlawanan di antara ayat ini dengan surah Ali Imran ayat 38, “Ketika itu Nabi Zakaria berdoa kepada Tuhannya, katanya:" Wahai Tuhanku! Kurniakanlah kepadaKu dari sisiMu zuriat keturunan yang baik; Sesungguhnya Engkau sentiasa mendengar (menerima) doa permohonan". (Ali Imran 03:38); Menurut Ath-Thabari, secara tekstual ayat ini boleh difahami bertentangan dengan ayat yang memberi peringatan mengenai kemungkinan bahaya dan fitnah yang ditimbulkan dari harta dan anak. Padahal Nabi Zakaria sendiri berdoa agar dikurniakan keturunan yang banyak. Maka pemahaman yang kontra ini diluruskan sendiri oleh Ath-Thabari dengan mengemukakan bahwa anak yang di pohon oleh Nabi Zakaria adalah anak keturunan yang soleh yang boleh memberi manfaat di dunia dan akhirat. Sedangkan yang dikhuatiri adalah kriteria harta dan anak yang akan melalaikan dari mengingati Allah s.w.t seperti yang Allah tegaskan dalam salah satu firmanNya, “Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Janganlah kamu dilalaikan oleh (urusan) harta benda kamu dan anak-pinak kamu daripada mengingati Allah (dengan menjalankan perintahNya). dan (ingatlah), sesiapa yang melakukan demikian, maka mereka itulah orang-orang yang rugi.” (Al-Munafiqun 63: 09); Dalam konteks ini, Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. sendiri pernah mendoakan harta dan anak yang banyak kepada sahabat Anas bin Malik r.a., “Ya Allah perbanyaklah untuknya harta dan anak, dan berkatilah setiap apa yang Engkau anugerahkan kepadanya”.

Demikianlah keseimbangan yang diajar oleh Allah s.w.t. dalam berdepan dengan fitnah harta dan anak yang menduduki kedudukan tertinggi dari kelemahan manusia. Harta dan anak memiliki potensi yang sama dalam menuju kebaikan atau menjerumuskan seseorang kepada dosa dan kemaksiatan. Sudah pastinya peringatan Allah dalam konteks fitnah harta dan anak perlu sentiasa kita ingat karena hanya peringatan Allah yang mencerminkan kasih sayangNya yang layak untuk diingat, “Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! peliharalah diri kamu dan keluarga kamu dari api neraka yang bahan-bahan bakarannya: manusia dan batu (berhala); neraka itu dijaga dan dikawal oleh malaikat-malaikat yang keras, kasar (layanannya); mereka tidak menderhaka kepada Allah dalam segala yang diperintahkanNya kepada mereka, dan mereka pula tetap melakukan segala yang diperintahkan.” (At-Tahrim 66:06).

(Posting oleh saudara Satria Arjuna bin Haji Julaihi)

Artikel ini adalah terjemahan Bahasa Melayu daripada tulisan asal artikel ini iaitu dalam Bahasa Indonesia oleh Dr. Attabiq Luthfi, MA. Artikel ini telah dipetik daripada “www.dakwatuna.com”.

Kepada Allah Kita Berserah

2008-10-23T19:35:00.000+08:00

Dan janganlah engkau berkata mengenai sesuatu (yang hendak dikerjakan): "Bahawa aku akan lakukan yang demikian itu, kemudian nanti". Melainkan (hendaklah disertakan dengan berkata): "Insya Allah". dan ingatlah serta sebutlah akan Tuhanmu jika engkau lupa; dan katakanlah: "Mudah-mudahan Tuhanku memimpinku ke jalan petunjuk yang lebih dekat dan lebih terang dari ini". (Al-Kahfi 18:23–24)

Setiap tindakan yang dilakukan mahupun yang ditinggalkan, setiap nafas yang dihela oleh manusia, adalah bergantung kepada ketentuan Allah. Hijab telah dilabuhkan sepenuhnya dihadapan kita, agar manusia hanya berupaya untuk melihat masa kini sahaja, dan melindungi masa akan datang. Penglihatan manusia tidak akan dapat melepasi hijab ini, dan pengetahuan kita adalah amat terhad, walau setinggi mana pengetahuan yang kita ada.

Justeru, manusia tidak boleh sama sekali menyatakan secara pasti apa yang akan dilakukan pada esok hari, melainkan menyertakan kehendaknya bersama dengan ketentuan Allah. Ini adalah kerana hari esok terletak pada satu daerah yang berada di luar pengetahuan manusia. Hari esok adalah hanya di dalam pengetahuan Allah. Oleh itu, kita tidak sepatutnya meletakkan kepastian untuknya.

Namun, kenyataan ini bukanlah bermaksud manusia perlu berserah dan tidak berusaha, tidak merancang dan mempunyai visi untuk masa hadapan. Manusia tidak sepatutnya hidup hanya untuk hari ini, dengan memisahkan diri dari masa silam dan akan datang. Sudah pasti ini bukanlah maksud firman Allah di atas. Apa yang sepatutnya difahami adalah, setiap perancangan manusia itu perlu disertakan dengan ketentuan Allah di dalamnya. Manusia boleh berkehendakkan apa sahaja, namun perlu sentiasa memohon pertolongan Allah, merasakan ketentuan Allah mempunyai kekuasaan mutlak ke atas segalanya. Ini termasuklah kemungkinan keputusan Allah yang akan bertentangan dengan perancangan asal manusia. Sekiranya Allah membantu manusia untuk mencapai segala kemahuan yang telah dirancangkan, maka segalanya akan berjalan dengan lancar. Sebaliknya, jika kehendak Allah adalah bertentangan dengan kamahuan asal manusia, dia (manusia) tidak sepatutnya merasa sedih atau berputus asa. Kerana sesungguhnya, segala urusan adalah milik Allah dari awal hingga ke akhirnya.

Apa yang dimaksudkan disini adalah, di dalam kehidupan, kita boleh merancang dan berciti-cita semahunya, namun sentiasa disertakan dengan penyerahan kepada Allah untuk segala bantuan dan petunjukNya. Manusia patut menyedari bahawa kita hanya memiliki keupayaan aqal dan pemikiran yang telah dianugerahkan oleh Allah. Ini pula tidak sepatutnya membawa manusia ke arah kemalasan dan kurang daya usaha. Sebaliknya, perihal ini sepatutnya memberi kita lebih kekuatan, kesungguhan, keyakinan dan keazaman. Sekiranya di dalam beberapa perkara, ketetapan Allah telah menentukan arah yang bertentangan daripada perancangan kita, kita perlu menerima ketentuan tersebut dengan ketenangan dan keyakinan penuh kepada Allah. Kita berserah kepada ketentuan Allah, kerana segala urusan adalah di luar pengetahuan kita sehinggalah Allah menjadikan ia diketahui.

Inilah pendekatan yang telah Islam tanamkan kepada setiap penganutnya. Oleh itu, setiap muslim itu tidak akan merasa bersendirian di dalam merancang atau memikirkan masa hadapan. Dan pada masa yang sama, seorang muslim itu juga tidak akan merasa bangga diri atau sombong apabila beliau berjaya, atau dikuasai oleh rasa putus asa dan kemurungan apabila beliau gagal. Dalam semua keadaan, dia akan mengingati Allah, merasa lebih kuat apabila bergantung kepadaNya, bersyukur kepadaNya atas kejayaan, dan berserah kepada apa jua ketentuan Allah.

“Dan ingatlah serta sebutlah akan Tuhanmu jika engkau lupa” (Al-Kahfi 18:24). Inilah yang perlu dilakukan oleh seorang muslim tatkala dia lupa untuk menyandarkan niat dan perancangannya kepada ketentuan Allah. Dia perlu mengingati Allah dan memperbaharui meyakinan kepada Allah. Dia juga perlu berharap untuk sentiasa menyedari kekuasaan Allah, kembali kepada Allah dalam setiap perkara dan tindakan pada masa akan datang dan berkata "Mudah-mudahan Tuhanku memimpinku ke jalan petunjuk Yang lebih dekat dan lebih terang dari ini" (Al-Kahfi 18:24).

Doa dalam ayat di atas menggambarkan bahawa bukanlah mudah untuk sentiasa kembali kepada Allah di dalam setiap urusan. Dan doa ini adalah untuk kita sentiasa beristiqamah dan memperbaiki penyerahan diri kepada Allah.

(Posting oleh saudara Satria Arjuna bin Haji Julaihi)

Artikel ini adalah terjemahan Bahasa Melayu atas terjemahan Bahasa Inggeris oleh ‘Adil Salahi. Tulisan asal artikel ini adalah dalam Bahasa Arab oleh Sheikh Sayed Qutb. Artikel Bahasa Inggeris telah dipetik daripada “www.islamonline.net”.