In Quest Of Knowledge (PART 2)

PART 2: A Tearful Goodbye

My mother’s heart melted, and tears began to flow from her eyes, and she replied, in great emotion, “No, my child, that is not the case. What you ask for is, actually the very answer to my fondest dreams and prayers about you. Little do you know how often I have kept awake nights, beseeching Allah Almighty to bestow on my beloved son the richest of learning about His noble Prophet, on whom be peace. I have prayed to Him again and again, lifting up the tattered forepart of my shirt in humble supplication, to grant you that learning of light of which may illumine the path of His creatures for so long as the world endures. If I have looked worried, my darling son, it is not for what appears to you to be the reason. It is because I have nothing at all to give you for your expenses. There aren’t even any food grains in the house for preparing something for you to eat on the way, nor any money with which to meet your needs”. And so saying, she broke down utterly and shed profuse tears.

However, with all this display of emotion, she was made of sterner stuff and had great inner strength, and was a person who could be both soft or determined and cheerfully make any sacrifices for the Faith. She soon collected herself, and went on to add:

“Very well, my son. Have no fears. He in Whose Path you are venturing forth will Himself make due provision for you and look to all your needs. It is He Who, in His inscrutable ways, fulfils the needs of His faithful servants in manners we humans cannot even think of ”.

Then she handed to me two Yemeni sheets, and said,
“Go now, my son. I consign you to the care of Him Who has given you to me as a trust from Him. I feel sure that He will not let you go waste”. Then she again patted me on the head, embraced me and, after wiping off her tears, raised both her hands heavenward, and prayed as follows:

“Dear Almighty God, I am sending out my only son, my own flesh and blood, in Your Path, to acquire learning about Your beloved Prophet (p.b.u.h). Dear God, just as You have granted my humble prayers in bestowing on him a yearning for knowledge, in the same way be his Protector and Provider and Guardian. Hold him by Your unseen Hand, and hasten the day when my fondest hopes and aspirations about him shall have borne fruit and when my heart will be filled with joy on seeing him return laden with the wealth of knowledge”.

Then with another kindly pat on my back she bade me farewell, praying once again that I might, by the Grace of God, shine like a sun on the horizon of knowledge, and recited the following Quranic verse:

‘Allah is the best Protector and He is (at the same time) the most Merciful of all mercy-givers’ [xii:64]

And then she bade me final goodbye and thus, with my mother’s prayers as my only stock of capital and my hands empty of any worldly pelf, I set forth, trusting solely in God.

In Quest Of Knowledge (PART 1)

In Quest of Knowledge: Imam Syafi'e (Abu Asad)

PART 1: Thirst For Knowledge

It was from my very childhood that I had had a longing for acquiring religious knowledge. It had not taken me long to learn much. I had learnt the Holy Quran by heart, as also many hadiths of the Holy Prophet (p.b.u.h). my eagerness for more knowledge only increased with the passing of time, and whenever I heard of any scholar I became impatient to hasten to learn what I could from him.

Then, hardly beard on my chin, that I began to beg my aged mother to let me venture forth in quest of more learning. She was a widow, and there were just the two of us in the house, with me as her soul, rather tender support. She would listen to my entreaties, and keep quite.

I persisted, and my eagerness at last seemed to be winning her over. But I noticed that she had lost air as if something was weighing on her mind, and so one day I caught hold of one of her hands in mine and, placing my own head on one of her shoulders, said, “Mother, dearest, if the prospect of my going away worries you so much, I shall give up the idea, and be content with whatever knowledge it may please God to enable me to pick up locally, staying on just to be by your side and serving you as best I can”

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Selamat Hari Raya

Today is hari raya..
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Bersedekah

Seseorang hamba apabila tiba waktu pagi, dia berniat untuk melakukan kebaikan untuk dirinya dan orang lain, dia akan berada di dalam pemeliharaan Allah SWT. Seseoang hamba diberi pahala sejak awal hari atau di tengah-tengah harinya mendapat inayah Allah SWT. Rasulallah saw menunjukkan cara memuji Allah, bersyukur dan bersedekah dengan anggota badan. Seseorang yang dicatat baginya nilai sedekah akan bearda dalam pemeliharaan Allah. Seorang yang bangun pagi dan mendapati dirinya sihat walafiat adalah wajar bagi dirinya bersedekah sebagai syukur dan pujian bagi Allah.

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  Rasullallah saw telah menjelaskan kepada kita beberapa cara untuk bersedekah dalam hadith ini :
  
  a. “ Engkau mendamaikan dua orang yang berselisih adalah sedekah”
  · Membantu yang lemah untuk menjadi kuat.
  · Membimbing yang berbuat dosa untuk bertaubat.
  · Mendamaikan dua pihak yang bersengketa sehingga mereka berbaik dan berkasih sayang
  · “Tidak ada kebaikan pada kebanyakan bisikan-bisikan mereka kecuali bisikan2 dari orang yang menyuruh memberi sedekah atau berbuat maaruf, atau mengadakan perdamaian di atara manusia.”
  ( Q.s. AnNisa’ : 114)
  
  b. “ Engkau membantu seseorang mengangkatnya atau mengangkat barang-barang nya ke atas tunggangannya adalah sedekah.
  
  · “ Allah akan sentiasa menolong seorang hamba manakala hamba itu sentiasa menolong saudaranya. ( H.r dari Abu Hurairah )
  · Membantu dalam apaj ua aspek - fizikal pemikiran dll.
  · Ini bergantung kepada kekuatan yang ada dalam jiwa kita,dorongan ‘mahu melakukan’ atau ‘malas melakukan'. Inilah yang harus kita didik.
  
  c. “Dan perkataan yang baik itu adalah sedekah”.
  
  · Perkataan yang baik tumbuh dari jiwa yang baik
  · Mengeluarkan perkataan yang baik hatta kepada orang yang jahat.
  “ Dan tidaklah sama kebaikan dengan kejahatan. Tolaklah kejahatan itu dengan cara yang lebih baik, maka tiba-tiba orang yang antaramu dan antara ia ada permusuhan seolah-olah telah menjadi teman yang sangat setia” ( Q.s. Fushilat :34).
  · Allah SWT memerintah kita untuk mempergauli manusia dengan akhlak yang baik”
  · Perkataan yang baik adalah ubat atau rawatan kepada orang membuat kejahatan
  
  d. “Dan setiap langkah kaki untuk salat adalah sedekah.”
  
  Solat yang benar-benar hadir jiwanya.
  
  e. “Dan menyingkirkan sesuatu rintangan dari jalan adalah sedekah.”
  
  · Menyingkirkan apa saja yang mengganggu manusia ketika di jalan atau di mana-mana tempat usaha mereka.
  · “ Iman itu terdiri dari 69 cabang, maka yang paling utama adalah perkataan “ Lailallaha Illallah’ dan yang paling rendah adalah menyingkirkan rintangan dari jalan, Dan malu merupakan cabang iman. ( H. r Muttafaq Alaih )

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Setiap kali aku memandang wajahnya, membuatkan aku ingat pada Allah..
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Aku mendoakan agar Allah memelihara diri mu..
Supaya kau terus menjadi sumber kekuatan buatku..