Minhajul Abidin hari AHAD...

Salaam semua,
I just returned from SUNDAY ngaji at Jenderam. I went alone today, everyone else has their own agenda. Hopefully I will have company next time and may it be regular.

MINHAJUL ABIDIN...kita hari AHAD pagi.

In one posting several days back, I wrote about "COVERING WELL.." today there was some more piece of information that is worth sharing. New ilmu that should be shared with all.

In a hadith yang di riwayatkan oleh Uhsami bin Zaid waktu zaman RASULLULAH, ...Uhsami related that he was given a gift of a particular cloth by the Prophet. Uhsami was very happy with the gift and wanted to share the gift with his wife. When Rasullulah heard that Uhsami wanted to share the gift with his wife, our Prophet adviced Uhsami to inform his wife that she must have a second inner layer of cloth when she wears the cloth from our Prophet's gift because it is "jarang" dan dapat melihatkan bentuk badan nye. Sesungguh, Rasullulah told Uhsami, "Pastikan ahli keluarga kamu yang wanita kamu berpakaian tidak melanggar hukum, kerana sia sia ibadah mereka kepada ALLAH...HARAM itu  adalah pada hukumnye, tapi yang lebih menyedihkan lagi adalah kemurkaan ALLAH adalah yang menghalang keberkatan keatas mereka". Mereka tertipu dengan perasaan gembira dan suka mereka itu dalam pemakaian busana mereka, tetapi sesungguhnye gembira dan suka itu hanya lah kepada makhluk lain...keMURKAAN ALLAH di abaikan.

USTAZ shared that ramai wanita sekarang yang memakai tudung tapi tidak paham hukum menutup aurat. Incidentally, what I shared in my last posting was repeated without plan in today's ilmu. USTAZ kata yang pakai tudung tapi aurat kuilt lain terdedah, baik lah tak payah pakai. Jadi bahan cerca sahaja...atas tutup tapi lengan terdedah...atas tutup, seluar ketat!

Kalau Rasullulah telah menegur Uhsami dalam melindungi "bentuk badan" dari pandangan ajnabi...apa lagi dalam hal dedahan kulit. Dalam solat pun, ramai wanita lupa yang telekong nye mesti cukup tebal untuk tidak nampak warna kulit. Kalau tidak sia sia...

Peringatan dalam berbusana untuk muslimat,...wangi wangian yang di pakai oleh muslimah dan apabila bauan nye terhidu oleh ajnabi...dosa nye sama dengan BERZINA!...Auzubillah!

Another topic extracted from todays session...tajdrik dan asbab!


Ramai di antara kita, apabila membuat sesuatu, sering memikirkan tentang usaha itu lah yang mendatang sebab (asbab). But actually, dalam kebenaran ma'rifatullah, mengusahakan sesuatu adalah sepatutnya atas fahaman tajdriq (iaitu ALLAH sahaja lah yang menentukan segalanye).

Banyak yang di kongsikan oleh Ustaz berhubung dengan bab ini dengan menceritakan tentang ahli sufi. Terlebih dahulu, harus di ingat, cerita ahli ahli sufi seperti yang di dalam kitab ini, cannot be shared to the general audience. In additition, ia bukan untuk kupasan orang orang biasa. Ia nye hanya bagi mereka mereka yang "dekat" dengan jalan menuju ALLAH.

The reason he mentioned this is because, most stories about ahli ahli sufi are "out-of -this-world" where the normal rational cannot accept.

Dalam bab tajdrik, yang mana ianya menjadi amalan biasa ahli ahli sufi ..."membuat sesuatu usaha dengan hanya memikirkan yang hujungnya usaha tu adalah milik kuasa dan jaminan ALLAH swt sahaja."..keyakinan penuh keatas ini lah yang membezakan orang yang sungguh teguh IMAN nye kepada ALLAH dengan mereka mereka yang lemah iman nye. Kepada yang tidak kuat hati nye kepada kepercayaan ini, ia nya sentaisa memikikan "asbab"/ sebab dan akibat.
Seperti:
"Dengan segelas air dan sepinggan nasi, kita bule hilang dahaga dan hilang lapar.".... many of the common folks will only stop at that thought.

But for the those of elevated status, a status more proximate in "presence" to the DIVINE, a status we all should strive to achieve...the glass of water and the plate of rice is not the reason for the lost of thirst and hunger. In fact, many more glasses of water and more plates of rice will not necessarily achieve the same outcome...if YA RABB does not WILL it to. Simultaneously, NO GLASS and NO RICE can still achieve fullness in appetite!

Bagi ahli ahli sufi yang "maqam" nye tinggi, mereka langsung tidak memikirkan tentang sebab dan akibat. Dalam pada itu, Ustaz menceritakan tentang beberapa waliAllah yang tidak makan atau minum selama beberapa bulan. Di dalam satu kisah yang di riwayatkan dalam kitab Minhajul Abidin, seorang ahli sufi telah biasa dengan tidak makan dan tidak minum selama tiga hari, At the end of 3 days, he will get his portion of his ration from ALLAH. And again another 3 days will past without anymore food or drinks and again this continues for a years.

But one day, the third day arrives without any of his ration and it goes on for the forth day, and the fifth and so on. He began to worry...and this worry led him to start his journey to "search" for his ration as he feels so much of thirst and hunger. As he continues his search...he was "spoken" to and that "voice' asked him...YA ABU SAID, adakah kamu tidak tajdrik?...adakah kamu masih berasbab?"...

As soon as he "heard" this "voice"...his came into resentment and guilt of his lost of FAITH in HIM for his supplies and ration. He immediately became less hungry and less thirsty and left the outcome of all his worldly demands to HIM alone as ABU SAID conitnued ibadah as before. He was then deemed to have return to his tracks of tasawwuf!

Jangan hairan dengan kelainan atau keajaiban...kerana ALLAH swt itu TUHAN yang MAHAAAAA AGUNG dan MAHAAAAAA BERKUASA. (He stressed the word maha)

Pak Shiekh reminds us also...perjalanan tasawwuf tidak lari dari ... riadah wal mujahaddah - meaning, training dan mujahaddah. He gave example of a military officer in training. The officer is trained to live in a jungle for days without food and water and at the end of the training, he will come out as a well trained survivor ready for many other types hardship during battle assignments.

A "travelling" murid, i.e. a murid who wishes to travel towards HIM...will need to be trained too by his mursyid. In addition, his mursyid cannot train him without the syllabus of tariqat.

Wassalam

Good Advice...

Salaam,
After a long hiatus...I returned to the realm of "ngaji" at JENDERAM this morning...rather shyly I entered the zone of my favorite refuge in this part of the world. Pak Sheikh was entertaining guest from INDONESIA when I arrived. We started late, only after the guest had left for their arranged program for the day...

"Bermadai dengan dunia seperti orang lain yang memerlukan dunia, tapi jangan keterlaluan sehingga melalaikan tanggung jawab mu dengan ALLAH dan...mati!"

These are some very deep words drawn from MINHAJUL ABIDIN - today's reading by Pak Sheikh, but it was a good reminder for me and members of my family (only my second son was with me today) that I felt it worth the time to blog this just before I retire for the day, in hope that the rest of my family members will read this some day and reflect on it.

The advise hits deep in me...often we are embroiled too much in the worldly affairs and worry too much that with our"neglect" of it, we will loose out. On intent to avoid disaster, we misguidedly set ourselves and occupy our time and mind to protect it.

But as Pak Sheikh said...we should fear not as..."REZEKI kita, DIA sahaja yang susun dan tentukan nya". Whilst, it is true that we are obligated to act and react upon these worldly troubles ...but please bear in mind that our actions are a matter of "asbab" (sebab) but the result of our action is not the fruit of our own labor...but the result of HIS DIVINE detemination that it responses the way HE wants it to respond. So we should set time to deal with our affairs of the world but MINHAJUL ABIDIN teaches that we should not overwhelmed ourselves to it alone!

How little we actually are, we often forget...this is because we are trained too well with the thought that the WE ARE GREAT!..WE CAN DO GREAT THINGS, WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THE IMPOSSIBLE.....so much so that we forget that our greatness is the virtue of HIS OWN GREATNESS!

"Mortals are wired enough with the POWER to do great things, but the SUPPLY of that power is from the DIVINE alone! - rara"

We often fight for greatness and when it does be BLESSED upon us...we think it is our own mortal effort alone. NO NO NO....

Cover well...

I get easily annoyed and irritated when I see Muslim ladies dress with a head gear to cover their hair "tudung" as any muslimah should...but the rest of their body parts is "exposed". And to add further irritation they will keep adorn their attire with suggestive sights! Its either their neck flesh is showing or for some even have unbuttoned blouse to show their upper part of their chest....PROUDLY!...A'uzubillah!

And then of course there are those who will have tightly pulled up pants that shows the shape of their torso and even confidently and flauntingly show their VPL....(visible panty line!)

I hate seeing this....I don't enjoy it! and I think they are making fun of ISLAM.

If they are going to dress as  MUSLIMAH, PLEASE dress as a proper MUSLIMAH!

I hope those of my charges will take note of this!