friends, dato and tansri,
thanks to the bludgeoning petrodollar economy starting in the early nineties we have
'wahabism' [ for want of better term ] perspective of looking at the ugama taking almost centre stage at least for sometime until lately when its advances were curtailed.
you have ustaz and so-called 'scholars', 'experts' on ugama who commit to memory 300 to 500 hadiths going around the world, real and virtual [ via cyberspace ], telling the uneducated ummah here and there 'these are bidaah and that are bidaah'; the four great imams were misguided; maulidurasul is heretical etc etc and etc .
so sure are they of the irrelevance of thousands of other hadiths, rubbishing layers upon layers of scholars and zuhud individuals over centuries, that they with confidence pushed them aside as not only being irrelevant but also irreverant and oftentimes labelled as heretical.
they have only two tok gurus, ibnu taymiah and his mureed, ibnu qayyim.
admittedly,two bright stars and reformers of the ugama in their time, no doubt.
of what is doubtful is their stance that the rest can go and fly kites.
luminaries such imam ghazali , let alone ibnu arabi, for example are 'unmentionable', and can be thrown away into the dustbin of history.
these very same people who, arrogantly at home, demolished nabi's makkan house and turn it into a public toilet near a very public bus stop near the haram, on the premise these relics of history could arouse 'bidaah' especially from the ignorant muslims coming from the indian sub-continent and the malay archipelago.
these very same people, literalists to the core, wanted to excavate nabi's grave in masjid nabawi in the 60's, and move it elsewhere.
myopic as they are and were, nothing is fundamentally wrong with these people.
i have no querrel with their fundamentalism and austere outlook to their 'ugama'.
to be austere and fundamentalist is their choice and vocation.
in fact their brand of islam is ok,
it is safe , albiet very narrow and blinkered.
they miss the 'honey' and 'milk' and 'tenderness' in the ugama.
which is what ugama is supposed to be anyway.
from the other side of the ugama we have people who fast every monday in remembrance of the nabi, and celebrate allah's ultimate gift to the universe, al insan al kamil in their daily selawat.
to know him is to love him
and when we love our nabi and remembers him with our selawat and zikr, allah loves us more.
islam is a spectrum.
it is your choice , to follow the ugama, blinkered like a 'school prefect' or with passion like a 'lover'. experiential tauhid tells me if one has passion, waking up at 4 am in the wee hours of the morning to pray the tahajud, learn the qur'an and throw in a 'solatul tasbeeh' as well before witr, is a pleasure rather than a chore. the 'school prefect' amongst us will already have minor convulsion at the mention of 'solatul tasbeeh!'.
let them be.......
if you guys want to follow the 'lover's way, then knowing rasullallah better constitute a good start.
there is and was only one al insan al kamil in the short history of this universe.
our nabi was and still is the ultimate rahmatul alamin to not only muslims . he is rahmatul alamin to christians, buddhists, hindus, to all animals, insects, birds and all inanimate objects.
we, at best, by knowing him and trying to emulate his ways, can only hope to be islands and oases of peace and serenity in the midst of a sea of utter confusion.
HAQIQAH RASULLALLAH, or in English, THE MUHAMMADAN REALITY, here by shaykh mokhtar al magrhaoiu is excellent plus plus.
a long discourse, but an excellent one indeed.
enjoy him , before we move on to surah ash shuura, insyaallah. :-
part 1 [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPTZVDmGGCk ]
.....especially poignant, 'the crying palm tree'....[ 1.32.30 ]
even from stones and rock, water does flow....most human hearts, in this 21st century, are harder than stones and rock
part 3 [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dM_9xfr1jY ]
on intercession / tawassul by rasullallah, tabarruk, wasilah,
dr m, during his heyday was given an arab stallion, al bariq, by the saudi king of that time....
specially airflown from riyad, in a private jet with two pilot, 2 special vets and asistant.
al bariq, an almost 100 % black most beautiful stallion, is currently based in langkawi. it is a direct descendent of prophet's stallion, al borak.
years back, i asked it's langkawi handler how much i have to part with to have my arabian mare, ms gedebe, impregnated by al bariq....to have a small relic of the nabi's past, in my paddock, dreaming of having a jewel in my eyes perhaps...
" doc , the going rate is 5k usd per 'screw' ..."
i almost had a major epileptic convulsion on the spot!
" omg!"... i thot to myself.." how many screws would be needed to impregnate my lazy , but fierce male-shy mare, ms gedebe!? .."
in this time of economic downturn though in this god forsaken country,caused by the gross excesses of mr razak junior, al bariq can certainly give a helping hand...at 5k usd a 'screw'.
at least get to pay for a small portion of a tail end of a boeing 737 jetliner....!!
i can smell another scatter- brain project of his fermenting in the back ground.
all schemes to reduce further the collective national wealth, not that we still have a lot to spare.
there seemed to be no end to this profound stupidity and utter 'ghaflah ' of mr razak junior and his pea brained advisers!......both economic and political.
ya allah buka kan lah pintu hati depa ini!
supaya takut sikit pada MU!
supaya mereka meraka yang alpha ini ingat akan jumpa MU di hari yaumiddin nanti..
ya allah ! beri kan lah balasan yang setimpal dengan apa yang mereka lakukan di dunia mu yang fana ini.
letak kan lah mereka mereka ini dan kuncu kuncu mereka yang sama pendekatan dengan mereka di maqam yang sepatutnya di dunia ini dan di akhirat MU.
dan jika ini sudah menjadi ketentuan MU untuk memberi pengajaran dan satu bala kepada hamba2 mu yang lain yang leka dan alpha di negara ini, kita semua peka akan ketentuan MU, dan terima akan bala MU dengan redha.
beri kan lah maqam yang sepatutnya di akhirat MU nanti kepada mereka mereka ini.....
amin... ya rabbal alamin.
on intercession / tawassul by rasullallah, tabarruk, wasilah,
dr m, during his heyday was given an arab stallion, al bariq, by the saudi king of that time....
specially airflown from riyad, in a private jet with two pilot, 2 special vets and asistant.
al bariq, an almost 100 % black most beautiful stallion, is currently based in langkawi. it is a direct descendent of prophet's stallion, al borak.
years back, i asked it's langkawi handler how much i have to part with to have my arabian mare, ms gedebe, impregnated by al bariq....to have a small relic of the nabi's past, in my paddock, dreaming of having a jewel in my eyes perhaps...
" doc , the going rate is 5k usd per 'screw' ..."
i almost had a major epileptic convulsion on the spot!
" omg!"... i thot to myself.." how many screws would be needed to impregnate my lazy , but fierce male-shy mare, ms gedebe!? .."
in this time of economic downturn though in this god forsaken country,caused by the gross excesses of mr razak junior, al bariq can certainly give a helping hand...at 5k usd a 'screw'.
at least get to pay for a small portion of a tail end of a boeing 737 jetliner....!!
i can smell another scatter- brain project of his fermenting in the back ground.
all schemes to reduce further the collective national wealth, not that we still have a lot to spare.
there seemed to be no end to this profound stupidity and utter 'ghaflah ' of mr razak junior and his pea brained advisers!......both economic and political.
ya allah buka kan lah pintu hati depa ini!
supaya takut sikit pada MU!
supaya mereka meraka yang alpha ini ingat akan jumpa MU di hari yaumiddin nanti..
ya allah ! beri kan lah balasan yang setimpal dengan apa yang mereka lakukan di dunia mu yang fana ini.
letak kan lah mereka mereka ini dan kuncu kuncu mereka yang sama pendekatan dengan mereka di maqam yang sepatutnya di dunia ini dan di akhirat MU.
dan jika ini sudah menjadi ketentuan MU untuk memberi pengajaran dan satu bala kepada hamba2 mu yang lain yang leka dan alpha di negara ini, kita semua peka akan ketentuan MU, dan terima akan bala MU dengan redha.
beri kan lah maqam yang sepatutnya di akhirat MU nanti kepada mereka mereka ini.....
amin... ya rabbal alamin.
still on tawassul by rasullallah: 2 raka'at hajat prayer and do'a; the story about the drought during saidina umar's time; on visiting graves.......
a poem at rasullallah's grave in masjid nabawi:
all the best of whose remains has been laid out in the ground,
from the scent exhumed in purity, the grave and all above it,
my soul is ransomed to a grave in which you dwell,
wherein the sanctity, magnamity and benefit.....
46.30......'kissing the grave and mimbar of rasullallah', comment by imam ahmad hanbal
Q and A session.
" sir! if you know 5000 hadith very well, what about the 5000 hadith that you don't know? that practise that you deemed as 'bida'ah' maybe is within that 5000 hadith that you don know! "....... a paradox that present day self declared wahabi should give serious thot."
read , read, read,, the arguments and counter-arguments of real ulama, not some phd's or lay press.
rasullallah asked umar to pray for him during his haj.....
which is the best way to do doa to allah?..tawassul by the nabi or tawassul by his most beautiful divine names?
.........when you grow spiritually , when you reach there, your 'hal' inside would make you decide which way to ask HIM
34.05 .....on swift punishment for mistreatment of parents in this world and the next.
those who mistreat their parents, even if they did wrong to you...alllah's wrath is severe and very swift, in this duniya as well as akhirat.
on maulid rasul, etc etc
on bida'ah part 2 : [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyErmqrc3BY ]
friends, dato and tansri,
at the end of the day tansri, friends and dato,
we have an ugama which is deeply nuanced.
we can have scholarly debates on our differences
and allah has blessed us with different ways of doing the same things and all are within the spectrum of our ugama.
people who want to go about life in our ugama with a blinkered approach may do so.
we respect that choice and right with the proviso that this is all permitted within our ugama.
this deen is about adab
...and adab does not come free.
it is a transformation of character arising from ilm and wisdom.
dr nik isahak
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