What is Islam?

i am a Muslim, yes, a Muslim who also blogging like most of us do. I hope this sharing can help and answer the question about Islam.. but i explain it like no other and i will add some more. First of all Islam is a religion of faith and Muslim is person who embrace Islam.

1) Muslim believe there is a creator,the creator is exist not a myth or not an imaginary stuff. A creator who creates everything, every single thing, not just on earth but everything, even the thing you can't imagine. The is only ONE and only creator. The creator is flawless and supreme. Which means the creator does not need help, does not forget, does not tired, the All Seeing, the Most knowledgeable, Most Wise, Most Loving and Caring, the Most Powerful. The creator in Islam also means there is not such thing that creator can give birth or being born and not just that, the creator IS NOT as the SAME as other things and NOT the same as ANYTHING. In Islam God is referring to Allah.

So if you see other people said there are lots of gods, god of heaven, god of war, god of earth, god of sea, god of animals, god of sleep OR god has family like son or daughter, married to another god or anyone, god has relatives (uncle,mother etc) OR god crying, god eat, god walking, god feel pain which is means it is NOT ISLAM eventhough the one who claim is he or she who is a Muslim.

2) In Islam, there is prophets, angels, books of guidance. These are the things people can see or could not see. Not many people can see angels or even seen them not in a true form of angels. The angles are created by Allah from the light. The angel is the one has been  given certain roles upon them such as guarding the hell and heaven, angels who record a person's good and bad deeds, among other tasks.
However there is the thing which human can see which is the last book which is known as Quran (the book of guidance). The prophets were sent to guide human to do the things that God wants them to do as Islam said human is created for a mission, with a reason, not a coincidence and not even for nothing. Prophets is a messenger who conveys about Islam and fully committed the life as a Muslim until their end of life and Quran is the words of God. As prophet Muhammad is the last messenger and died many hundred years ago, the remaining guidance is Quran and the dictation of the words and actions of him by his companions and being preserved after their death until present.

3) In Quran, it is a compass of life which tells the readers of Quran how to make use of our life, show the evidences about the existence of the creator, make us think what is good and bad choices we make, how to lead our life safely until the end, the reason of human living in this world, how we should behave and the sign of love and care by Allah, how we can have a balance life, how we can live happily, how we can live in harmony and many more.

Furthermore Quran gives direction to very walk of life, from born to death, any genders, from death to the life after death, from young to old, from single to married and even being divorce, from being a child to being grandparents, from being a neighbour until a large group of community, from household to politics, from environment to economy, from hygiene to the purification of soul.

4) The belief of Islam is  there is divine decree, life after death and everything happened in this world is already decreed by Allah. He knows every choices we make, knows how many stars and sands, He knows why we feel sad, He knows everything as He owns everything. Human will be reward or punished in the hereafter. They just not die and there's it! No, the journey continues with all the deeds we do, what we said, what we think, what we hear, how we use our time when we alive, how we spend our money, how we behave with other people, what we do with our wealth and everything will be asked in front of Him. All of these will be asked and the righteous will be given rewards of heavens and the evil doers will be punished and send to hell to cleanse themselves from the sins they have made.

5) As a sign of we are the creations of Allah, we declare ourselves by saying syahadah ( There is no god but Allah and the prophet Muhammad is the messenger of Allah) and to show our daily gratitude to Him we need to pray to Him 5 times in a day, 3 times in days ad 2 times at night, fasting for one month from 12 months in a year, pay zakat (share the wealth to the needy), perform annual pilgrimage once in a life time.

6) there is no such thing as freedom of thinking in Islam yet does not meant we should not use our brain, but our thinking is guided by Allah. Anything is in a frame of Islam. From we sleep until we wake up again we already have been guided by Allah.

7) As we believe there is life after death so every second of time really counts. We are highly encourage to do good and be good every time as it will be counted as a good reward to enter paradise. So it means we plants the seeds and harvest it rewards after we die. World for us is not permanent same as human, it will definitely will be getting old then die or perish. Nothing is permanent, from life there is death, from jobless and having job, from marriage and divorce, from failure to success and vice verse. What is good and bad also is determine in Islam, in the frame of Islam and not in the frame of humans desire and rationale.

Dekat tetapi jauh..isu yang tidak lapuk buat masa sekarang

    REAL scene in Ghozzah(Gaza),not a great wall but some pieces of rocks    

    that show arrogance and oppression from its architects

                        Ya,Kebenaran PASTI MENANG!yang batil takkan kekal!

Tidak terlalu ironi untuk membuat sedikit kilasan perspektif  mengenai tembok pemisah di Ghozzah dengan tembok pemisah dalam diri kita.Isu may seem sensitive but the main purpose to reveal the issue is all about muhasabah.

Dalam menjalankan kebaikan pun ada spekulasi,ada prasangka,ada rasa kurang senang apabila ada pihak lain turut melakukan perkara hampir sama tetapi cara sahaja yang berbeza.Wujud kosa kata khas iaitu 'KLIK' atau 'JEMAAH' atau 'KUMPULAN' atau 'FIKRAH'

*Mereka bukan 'Klik' kita,biarkan mereka*

*Buat apa dekati dia,dia bukan nak ikut jemaah kita pun*

*Sedih rasanya apabila awak bukan dalam fikrah kita*

*Si Q tu 'kumpulan' lain,kita kumpulan lain,mana sama!*

{Perebutan mad'u boleh jadi satu perebutan yang sihat kerana menunjukkan betapa seriusnya dan ambil beratnya kita dalam dakwah dan islah kepada masyarakat.Tetapi boleh jadi satu BAHAYA Besar apabila masing-masing bercakaran,label melabel dalam merebut mad'u yang sama}....Inilah yang patut kita sedihkan.

Sila jawab situasi ini:

Destinasi saya ,anda dan mereka ialah ingin ke negeri Pahang pada 23 Januari 2012.Adakah salah jika saya ingin ke sana dengan kereta?Adakah satu kesalahan jika anda membeli tiket kereta api ke sana?adakah salah jika mereka menempah tiket kapal terbang untuk ke Pahang?

Majoriti yang waras tidak akan menghalang kehendak saya,anda dan mereka kerana tetap sampai ke destinasi yang sama,cuma perbezaan masa sampai sahaja.Kalau naik kapal terbang tentunya sampai awal,kalau kereta api lambat lagi nak sampai tetapi harganya lebih murah.Saya memilih kereta kerana saya berkemampuan memandu sendiri,ada kereta buat apa tak guna,ye tak?anda memilih kereta api kerana kosnya paling murah dan lebih selesa (dapat tidur dan menikmati kerehatan dengan baik),manakala mereka memilih kapal terbang kerana ingin sampai dengan cepat dan mempunyai kewangan yang cukup (plus mampu beli tiket kapal terbang)

Isinya di sini ialah kemampuan dan keserasian para pengguna kenderaan menyebabkan saya,anda dan mereka membuat pilihan masing-masing betul tak?saya,anda dan mereka akan berada di tempat yang sama juga akhirnya betul tak?Pahang kan?takkan terlajak pula ke Kelantan atau Terengganu?

Kesimpulan :Walaupun kita berbeza kumpulan dakwah,cara pendekatan kita berbeza,cara sudut pandang pun berbeza TETAPI matlamat kita tetap sama iaitu supaya agama Allah (Islam-dianalogikan dengan Pahang) tertegak dengan yang sepatutnya diperintahkan oleh Nya,tak begitu?akidah kita tetap sama,betul tak?cara sahaja yang berbeza (ada yang bermula dengan individu muslim,ada bermula dengan politik,ada yang bermula dengan jihad,ada yang bersifat menyampaikan directly,face to face) kerana saya rasa diri saya sesuai dengan cara itu,dia rasa dia serasi dengan cara ini dan mereka rasa rela menyumbang untuk Islam dengan cara selain ini dan itu.Semuanya diredhai Allah asalkan caranya tidak bertentangan dengan syara'.

Dipersilakan berada dalam klik itu jika saya rasa saya mampu optimumkan sumbangan saya dalam Islam dengan klik itu,

yes,really support you if that jemaah can make you feel the practising of Islam look great to you in that way,

sangat gembira seandainya mereka sertai fikrah lain jika mereka dapat aktifkan diri untuk terus menegakkan kebenaran Islam.

saya gembira adanya kepelbagaian dalam dakwah kerana saya tidak rasa keseorangan dalam menunaikan amanah Allah,saya bersyukur ada kepelbagaian jemaah dakwah kerana kita saling melengkapi antara satu sama lain,saya rasa sangat best kerana kepelbagaian klik dan fikrah(cara fikir Islam) kerana menunjukkan indahnya Islam dalam menambat hati raaaaaamai orang melalui pendekatan masing-masing.kalau satu sahaja pendekatannya,percentage untuk orang yang tertarik menjadi duta Islam yang komited takkan ramai kerana perwatakan manusia berbeza-beza.Satu pendekatan tak mampu memberi jiwa kepada 101 jenis karakter manusia.

Mampukah saya,anda dan mereka memberi cadangan klik,jemaah atau kumpulan dakwah yang lain seandainya mereka rasa tidak serasi dengan jemaah saya@kumpulan anda@klik dakwah mereka?

Sayang sekali membiarkan potensi untuk mereka berdakwah disembunyikan dan tidak lagi digilap apabila mengetahui bahawa mereka tidak lagi mahu bersama saya/anda/mereka.Sebaiknya berilah,tunjuklah,cadanglah kepada mereka mengenai satu pandangan lebih luas mengenai jalan Islam bahawa ada lagi pendekatan dakwah yang lain daripada klik/kumpulan/jemaah yang lain yang mungkin sesuai dengan mereka.

Seronok apabila kita sama-sama bantu membantu dalam melakukan kebaikan,menyampaikan kebenaran betul tak?

Ayuh,jangan merugikan diri sendiri merebut mad'u,biarkan mereka membuat pilihan untuk memilih yang mana satu yang sesuai dengan perwatakan mereka.Kerana insyaAllah kita akan bertemu kembali di titik yang sama kerana jangan lupa,destinasi kita serupa! =)

Surah an-Nisa' ayat 110 

Yang bermaksud : 'Kamu wahai umat Muhammad adalah sebaik-baik umat yang dilahirkan bagi umat manusia kerana kamu menyuruh berbuat segala perkara yang baik dan melarang segala yang salah. Serta kamu beriman kepada Allah dengan sebenar-benarnya.

surah al-Maaidah,ayat 2: 

Maksudnya:Hendaklah kamu bertolong-tolongan untuk membuat kebajikan dan takwa dan janganlah kamu bertolong-tolongan pada melakukan dosa (maksiat) dan pencerobohan.

sama-sama perbaiki diri 

Ya Allah,janganlah Engkau menjadikan kami menzalimi orang yang berusaha mendekatkan diri kepadaMu dan jauhkanlah kami daripada sifat mazmumah yang menyebabkan kami seolah-olah telah melupakan ajaranMu

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