Baru-baru ni ada banyak kejadian yang berlaku terhadap diri sendiri dan sahabat-sahabat yang menyebabkan saya terfikir, betapa sangatlah pentingnya untuk sentiasa menjaga muamalat antara lelaki dan perempuan. Kalau ikutkan fikiran, rasa macam dah bosan asyik tulis tentang ni tetapi manusia memang kena sentiasa diperingatkan berulang-ulang kali.
Biasalah, bila berbincang dengan perempuan, pastilah kita sering cenderung untuk menyalahkan lelaki atas segala permasalahan yang sedari awal tidak patut timbul. Namun apabila difikirkan kembali, pohon tidak akan bergoyang jika tiada angin~
Salah satu perkara yang sering buat kami (perempuan) tertanya-tanya adalah kenapa lelaki 'senang' untuk diajak bersembang dengan perempuan yang kononnya dikatakan sebagai 'biasa-biasa', boleh bersenda gurau, tetapi apabila dengan perempuan 'bertudung labuh' atau 'akhwat' sangat menjaga pergaulan. Nampak seperti tidak ada pendirian disini. Ada beberapa jawapan yang pernah diberikan, seperti kita bercakap dengan mereka ikut rentak mereka, dia A kita ikutlah cara A, dan contoh lain jawapan seorang ustaz yang popular : "Sebab dengan mereka ('akhwat') kita tidak cenderung untuk tertarik kepada mereka jadi taklah menjaga sangat."
Ada timbul rasa tidak setuju di fikiran... kenapa harus berbeza?
Sering kita mendengar kata-kata 'bercampur tetapi tidak berbaur' namun aplikasinya terlihat sangat lemah. Berbaur lebih. Diri sendiri pun bukanlah sempurna, tidak langsung namun ada beberapa prinsip yang tetap berusaha untuk dipertahankan. Pembaikan dari semasa ke semasa tetap harus berjalan dan muhasabahlah kembali apa salah silap yang telah dilakukan. Kita bukan maksum namun itu bukan alasan untuk tetap melakukan dosa, bukan?
Dan salah satu soalan yang sering terngiang-ngiang di kepala: Bolehkah lelaki dan perempuan bersahabat?
Bersahabat dalam erti kata berkongsi cerita, bercurhat, dan sebagainya. Platonic relationship bak kata orang. Platonic atau tidak, bagi saya mereka tetap halal untuk dikahwini jadi haruslah tetap menjaga aturan, jangan sampai dah terlajak baru nak tengadah. Tapi kalau memang dah rasa macam terlajak tu, cepat-cepatlah tarik balik, istighfar banyak-banyak dan bertaubat untuk tidak mengulangi lagi...
Biar ada jawapan yang konkrit dan jelas atas alasan apa. Kerana apabila sebab untuk bercampur itu tidak ada, maka hilanglah alasan untuk melakukannya, bukan?
Janganlah disangka apabila lelaki sekadar bersahabat dengan perempuan, perempuan itu turut sama begitu. Equationnya tidaklah sama. Men are built differently than woman. Perempuan jiwanya sangat halus, sangat. Dan apabila abang-abang menunjukkan bahawa mereka 'care', fikir-fikirkanlah sendiri apa episod seterusnya. Kita katakan kita berpegang kepada Al-Quran dan sunnah, jadi ikutlah secara keseluruhan bukannya bab ibadah sahaja. Akhlak bagaimana? Itu semua orang lihat. Sunnah itu seluruh kehidupan baginda, bukan sekadar retorik sahaja... (Entah-entah orang bila nampak saya cakap begini ya? Hurm... Kena muhasabah banyak-banyak...)
Dan untuk perempuan pula, jagalah secebis malu kita. Bukankah itu mahkota seorang perempuan? Rasulullah sallaLlahu 'alaihi wasallam adalah lelaki yang paling pemalu, kita contohilah baginda. Tak sebegitu mudah untuk bergurau senda dengan kaum Adam walau di mana pun. Biasanya terutama di alam maya ni rasa malu itu terhakis sikit demi sikit. Bermujahadahlah! Rapat-rapatlah dengan kaum Hawa. Jangan terlalu ikutkan emosi dan nafsu... Matanglah dalam mengurusnya :) Teringat tulisan Imam Muda Asyraf bertajuk "Jatuh Cinta dengan 'Ustaz'nya Dia" kalau tak salah. Sempoi tapi tepat. Katanya, perempuan sekarang dah pandai memilih lelaki... Kalau dulu nak yang hensem kaya etc, tapi sekarang paradigm dah berubah, nak lelaki ala-ala ustaz. Sebab agama itu bekal. Lagi-lagi yang ada rupa kan.. huhu lagilah. Lucu pulak bila baca, tapi memang betul pun rasanya. Tengok jela Asyraf Muslim berapa ramai peminat dia walaupun dia bukanlah seorang ustaz. -_-'
Pokoknya, wanita itu fitnah yang besar buat lelaki. Berjaga-jagalah dengan fitnah wanita!
Dan begitu juga sebaliknya. Lagi-lagi di akhir zaman ni. Wanita pun kena sedar yang mereka itu fitnah(ujian) bagi kaum Adam. Ikutilah aturanNya, insyaAllah selamat... Islam is the best way of life kan? Jaga iman, jaga ibadah, jaga akhlak... Katakanlah : "Aku beriman kepada Allah, kemudian istiqamahlah~"
Sebab itu, bagi saya...
I'd rather set up a mental barrier that I can control, just to protect myself. You may not be seeing the real me~ That barrier may be weak, as I am, but it is there for reasons only I understand. For my deen. For myself. You may not get it, but if you try to understand, you will...
Sekian curhat daripada saya~
p/s: Tidak terlalu melampau dan tidak terlalu longgar. La ifrat wala tafrit. Pertengahan. Wasatiyah~
p/s2: Esok exam.
p/s3: Jangan hilang fokus. Ada target jangka masa pendek dan panjang yang mahu dicapai!
p/s4: Ujian tanda Allah sayang. Kuatkan hati ya Farhana~ Semoga sabar dan syukur tetap jadi pegangan...
p/s5: Ada beberapa perkara yang sangat ditakuti. tapi akhirnya... Takut dan Harap itu hanya layak bagi Allah~
Kita hanya manusia, dan manusia sering terlupa. Marilah mengingatkan sesama kita, moga berjumpa di syurga~
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Shaykh Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid
Dear brother! O slave of Allah! Allah has opened the door of repentance, so why should you not enter? "Repentance has a door whose span is the distance between East and West," says a hadith; (and in another version "its span is the distance traveled in 70 years"). "It will not be closed until the sun rises from the West."
Listen to the call of Allah: "O My slaves! You sin morning and evening and I forgive all your sins. So call on Me, I will forgive you all your sins."
Allah extends His Hands in the night to forgive the sinner of the day and extends His Hands in the day to forgive the sinner of the night. And He loves to hear excuses. So why don't you turn to Him?
How beautiful are the words of the repenting man who says:
"I beseech You O Lord, in the name of Your honor, and (by) my ignominy that You have mercy on me. I beseech You in the name of Your Strength and my weaknesses. Your Self-sufficiency and my dependence. To you I submit my sinning, guilty forelock. You have many slaves apart from me. But I have no Master save you. There isn't any refuge but with You nor escape from You except to You. I plead You O Lord, in the manner of the pleading of a destitute, and entreat You in the manner of a broken, downtrodden man. I beseech You in the manner of a blind man in fear. This is a supplication, O Lord, from one whose head is bowed down before your Majesty, whose nose is in the dust, whose eyes are filled with tears and whose heart has submitted."
Consider this story:
It is reported by a trustworthy man of the past that as he was passing through a street he saw the door of a house open. A woman came out with a child who was crying and pleading while she was pushing him out. She left him outside the house and slammed the door shut in his face.
The child left the door and walked a distance. Then he stopped, looked about, began to think, and not finding any other place but his own house where he could take shelter nor anyone who would care for him as his mother would, he returned to his house dejected, sad. He found the door shut. He sat at the sill, put his cheek on the threshold and slept with tear marks on his cheeks. He was in this state when the mother opened the door.
When she saw him in this state she could not control herself. She bent down, grabbed him to her bosom, began to kiss him and say in tears: "Oh my boy! My dear child! My very soul! Where were you? Didn't I tell you not to disobey me? Do my bidding, and don't force me to punish you, while I hate to do that." Then she carried the child back and closed the door behind her.
That is the story of a mother and a child: the story of disobedience, punishment, return, forgiveness and unbound love. But the Prophet, salla Allah u alihi wa sallam, has told us that: "Allah loves His creation more than a woman does her child." In fact, there is no comparison between the love of a mother for her child and that of Allah whose Mercy encompasses everything. Allah, azza wa jall, is immensely pleased with a man when he repents and turns to Him. And we shall never be deprived of anything by a Lord who is more pleased with the repenting man, than that man....
"..who was traveling through an arid land.
He dismounted and took shelter under a tree seeking some rest.
He lay there with his beast, loaded with food and water, at his side.
But when he awoke, lo! The beast was gone! He began to search for it frantically.
He climbed a hill but couldn't see a trace of it. He climbed another hill and still no trace of it.
Finally, when hunger and thirst overtook him, he said, 'Let me go back to the tree, and lay down there until death overtakes me.'
So he went back to the tree, and lay there with eyes closed - in total despair.
And lo! As he opened his eyes and raised his head, there the beast was, right before his very eyes, with all the food and water loaded on it intact! He rushed to it and picked up its halter.
(Can you imagine his happiness)
But lo! Allah is happier with a man when he turns to Him seeking His forgiveness, than the man who found his beast when he had lost all hopes."
Know it, my dear brother, that true repentance of every sin also brings with it humility and devotion to Allah, and that pleading of a penitent is very dear to Allah. So that what follows after repentance is obedience of a greater degree to the extent that sometimes Satan regrets that he enticed him into that sin at all. That is why you will see that those who repent become very much changed personalities.
Allah does not abandon a man who comes to Him a penitent. Compare the situation with that of a father who used to look after his son with great love and care, providing him with the best of clothing, food and toys. Then one day the father sent him on an errand. But, as the boy was walking an enemy took hold of him, tied him and carried him away to the land of the enemies.
There his master treated him exactly in the opposite manner. So that whenever the boy remembered his father and his treatment, his eyes swelled with tears, and the heart with pain. He was in this condition of ill-treatment at the hands of his enemies, when their caravan happened to pass by his father's place again.
As he looked around he found his father standing nearby. He ran to him and threw himself at him crying "My father! My very father!". His master followed him and was trying to pull him away, but the boy clung to his father, refusing to let him go. What do you think of this father? Do you think he will abandon him to the enemy, refusing to take back the child? If not, then what is your opinion of the Lord whose love of His creation is greater than the love of a father for his child?
When a slave of His runs away from his enemies, and throws himself at the threshold of His door, rolling down in dust before him, saying: "O my Lord! Have mercy upon him who has no one to show Mercy save You, no Helper save you, no refuge save You, no Savior save You, I am Your slave, in Your need, dependent on You, beggar at Your door, You are the refuge, with You is the shelter, there is refuge but with You, nor escape from You except to You" then surely the Lord is not going to turn him back empty handed.
Come along then. On to the good deeds, to virtuous living, in the company of the righteous, steering yourself safe from deviations after the right direction, and misguidance after guidance. And Allah is with you.
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Subhanallah.
How Allah loves us.
How could we not love Him back?
Reminder for the soul
“Aku hairan dengan orang yang mengetahui kematian, tapi mengapa ia masih tertawa;
Aku hairan dengan orang yang tahu bahawa dunia adalah sementara, tapi mengapa ia sangat mencintainya;
Aku hairan dengan orang yang mengetahui semua urusan telah ditakdirkan, tapi mengapa ia takut kehilangan;
Aku hairan dengan orang yang mengetahui bahwa hisab adalah suatu kepastian, tapi mengapa ia tetap mengum
Aku hairan dengan orang yang tahu bahawa dunia adalah sementara, tapi mengapa ia sangat mencintainya;
Aku hairan dengan orang yang mengetahui semua urusan telah ditakdirkan, tapi mengapa ia takut kehilangan;
Aku hairan dengan orang yang mengetahui bahwa hisab adalah suatu kepastian, tapi mengapa ia tetap mengum
pulkan harta dan menghitung-hitungnya;
Aku hairan dengan orang yang mengetahui panasnya api neraka, tapi mengapa ia tetap berbuat dosa;
Aku hairan dengan orang yang mengaku mengenal Allah, tapi mengapa ia meminta tolong kepada selain-Nya;
Aku hairan kepada orang yang mengaku mengetahui kenikmatan syurga, tapi mengapa ia merasa hidup tenang di dunia;
Dan aku hairan kepada orang yang mengetahui syaitan adalah musuhnya, tapi mengapa ia mentaatinya.”
Uthman bin Affan Radhiyallahu anhu
Aku hairan dengan orang yang mengetahui panasnya api neraka, tapi mengapa ia tetap berbuat dosa;
Aku hairan dengan orang yang mengaku mengenal Allah, tapi mengapa ia meminta tolong kepada selain-Nya;
Aku hairan kepada orang yang mengaku mengetahui kenikmatan syurga, tapi mengapa ia merasa hidup tenang di dunia;
Dan aku hairan kepada orang yang mengetahui syaitan adalah musuhnya, tapi mengapa ia mentaatinya.”
Uthman bin Affan Radhiyallahu anhu