Al-Hakkawi

Tariqa and Dinar - Get Closer To Allah

2011-12-06T20:39:00.000-08:00

by Sh.Umar Ibrahim Vadillo-

That is the nature of tariqah, you coming closer to Allah swt. If there is no sense of moving towards Him, that you get up and act, nothing will happen to you. You dont benefit, even though Allah swt gives you everything that you want. Without moving towards Allah swt, this does not help you at all in your journey to come closer to Him.

When you actively make that journey there is a sense of commitment associated with any action that you do for Him.

Science does not think – Martin Heidegger. He said that simply because that way of reasoning cannot think the truth. If you cannot think the truth, you cannot think. Science is completely heartless ( no heart)and therefore destructive. As long as you take science as a tool and compliment it alongside with your heart it is alright. But if you take Science as an ultimate, without your heart, it is an absolute danger.

It is not enough to use reason to comprehend the shariah. Attempt to bring this matter to the people with reasoning will have no effect. You may explain the contents of a book with all the reasoning that is needed and the other person who listens will say, 'Yes, I understand.' But he does nothing. So what have you achieved? What is worse is when the next time the same matter is brought to him he will say, 'Oh I know that subject already. You dont have to tell me.' Until he acts, he does not understand. Until he acts he has no knowledge. Reasoning stops him. That is the danger.

Reasoning is like a vaccine against any further knowledge to the listener. That stops him from serving Allah swt.

Haqiqah is witnessing Allah swt.

1.Allah has given you the tool, the Shariah, and this is what you have got to do.
2.Then you come closer to Him, this is the excuse of doing the journey.
3.The coming of serving Allah swt is the way of witnessing Him. Whatever you encounter in your journey is Him. By His Power, it is the manifestation of Him.

Unless you witness Allah swt, the gold dinar is useless. This for us, is the best opportunity for us to teach the people about Allah swt. I worship Him and I come closer to Him. And that is my journey. Remove your fantasy and He appears. In His appearing, it is your witnessing of Him. Its all within you. The path is already given.

Allah swt is our revolution. Hold on to that. This is the revolution of the truth. With this, success is inevitable. The very recipe of success. The moment you do it for other-than-Allah swt, failure is inevitable. When He takes away what you desire more, other-than-Him, it so that you know that He loves you.

Without the journey you take upon yourself, you cannot advance in these matters.
We take upon ourselves this affair, that we only do it for HIM. The only way that you can be protected in this journey is by taking it with Haqiqah.

Real Economy Swalowed Up by Elite Bankers

2011-12-06T20:16:00.000-08:00

Global Financial Collapse: What Makes It Tick? - By Adrian Salbuchi (7/12/11)
Adrian Salbuchi
Wednesday, 07 December 2011 11:18

The mind becomes confused and dismayed when confronted with chaotic situations it can hardly figure out - situations such as today’s Global Financial Woes. Maybe we’re looking too close-up. Let’s take a step back and look again...

Complexity is often engineered into what are basically simple problems by people who benefit from manufactured complications and have the power to control them. When money is involved, the powerful people who benefit from ripping off untold millions of hard workers make sure that their “money machine” will just keep steaming ahead. Take the ongoing Global Financial Crisis.

Firstly, it is not a “crisis” at all: what the world is confronted with today is a full-fledged, irreversible and unsustainable Global Financial Collapse that, if not properly addressed, may bring down the whole global economy with it.

Secondly, this has pushed the Real Economy into a “crisis” from which, if proper measures are taken, it can – and must! – be saved. because all national economies are basically intact (although many have been badly clobbered!) they can be brought back to health.

Thirdly, the real core of today’s problem is that Finance – that virtual world of banking, fractional lending, usury compound interest, fraudulent derivatives, casino-like speculative “investments” and other parasitic and anti-social activities – has illegitimately risen above the Real Economy which is the world of work, production, manufacturing, effort, toil, sweat and creativity.

In numbers, we see that today Finance has grown to be 20, perhaps 30 times larger than the Real Economy.

First Key Question: HOW AND WHY did that happen?

Easy: all you need to grow Finance is to design a complex, perverse and fraudulent Model that will allow bankers and traders to type in irrational formulae into a Computer Spreadsheet (Spreadsheets never complain: they will compound interest and unsavory profits with no sweat!), so that it churns out “profits” for the few, making them grow and grow and grow. The Real Economy, however, uses WORK as its input, not funny virtual numbers. And work is what runs planet Earth: you need work, talent and effort to build new cars or airplanes or clothes or new homes or roads; work to bake more bread and harvest more food. That’s why the Real Economy can only grow arithmetically, whilst Virtual Finance can grow exponentially… Ah, there’s the rub!

Second Key Question: WHO made that happen?

Global Power Elite international bankers have been doing this openly, knowing few will understand what is actually happening. I mean, was not it former US Federal Reserve Bank governor Alan Greenspan who, during a black-tie Washington DC dinner of the American Enterprise Institute on 5 December 1996, “explained” away such inexplicable growth as being due to “irrational exuberance”? What a solid technical explanation coming from the then No. 1 Central Banker!

This fraudulent but extremely (and illegitimately) strong Money Power minority controlling Finance today have made it grow like a cancerous tumor. Starting in 2008 with the collapses of Bear Stearns, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and the bailouts of Goldman Sachs, CitiCorp, HSBC and Bank of America, Finance today seems to have “metastasized” and now threatens to kill parts of the global Real Economy. So… we had better do something about this, and quickly. And “doing something” means more than just fighting on the streets and throwing rocks at the police (although admittedly, that is often a necessary collective first step).

Finance has usurped the upper echelons which do not legitimately belong to it but rather to the Real Economy. It is the Real Economy that must always be on top because that is where True Value is created. Finance, in turn, must always be subordinated to the Real Economy, not the other way around. This means that today’s key problem is that the whole economic-financial-monetary system is upside down… We need to immediately put it right-side-up again!!

Third Key Question: WHERE to start?

It starts with each country taking back their central bank so that it will provide the necessary amount of interest-free money to meet the needs of the Real National Economy, so that all the powerful funny-money bankers can be routed. That means freeing your central bank from global banker control. Former Argentine president Juan Domingo Perón did just that 60 years ago and the Powers That Be bombed him out of power. Muammar Gaddafi did that much more recently, and look at what happened to him….

“Money is a Powerful Lord”, 17th Century Spanish poet Don Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas once said. Four centuries later, nothing new under the sun…

Journey To Cape Town

2010-12-22T00:12:00.000-08:00

Ismail Wolff ( father Sidi Abdur Rahman Wolff)

I left London for Cape Town and the Moussem of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir As-Sufi in October 2010 in the hope of finding out about my past.

My mother and father converted to Islam with Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi before the first zawiya in Bristol Gardens was established, but they left the community in the mid-1980s, when I was about seven years old. Since then I had had little contact with people from those early years. But in the months leading up to the moussem I had begun reconnecting with a past that I had for so long ignored, but never forgotten. Heading to Cape Town was, I thought, a chance for me to speak to people who knew my parents from times gone by, to hear stories and recollections of a place and time that no longer existed. And while, in many ways I did achieve that, the journey also offered me a chance to experience something still very much alive.

This was my first ever moussem and I wasn’t sure what to expect. Having only recently come back into contact with the community it was all very new to me. The nights of dhikr were hypnotic. The voices, the faces, the light, I was swept up by it all. But I see now that the dhikr opened the door for what was to come.

The Moussem

I arrive for the first night of dhikr early. I make wudu and take some time to sit in the tranquil courtyard downstairs at the mosque, enjoying the peacefulness and solitude and the sound of the water flowing in the fountain. The day’s journey may have been simple, but in my moment of peace I contemplate the longer voyage that has brought me here. I go upstairs to pray Maghrib and afterwards, sit in the mosque and wait for the night.

As the night sky darkens and Isha approaches, the room gradually starts filling up, and the pace of people coming in quickens; the number of people doubles in the last 15 minutes leading up to the Isha prayer, perhaps 300 or more men and women now fill the mosque. The dhikr is powerful, beautiful, intoxicating. Any attempt, by me, to describe it in words would, I fear, not do it justice. I lose myself in the Wird and Qasidas. The sounds and the night of dhikr culminate in the hadra. It is organic. The hadras resonate strong in my mind from childhood. I remember clearly the feeling of the bass of rhythmic voices and breathing vibrating in my child’s chest.

But the moussem is not only dhikr. It is this gathering of brothers that opens a new window into the community for me. Who are all these people that have travelled from all over the globe to be here? I am just one story in hundreds that make up this narrative, but we recognise each other. I have spent a lot of time in solitude in this life, but I see here that in brotherhood there is something special. We are supposed to live in community. All together in the Jumu’a Mosque; there is a community of solitaries, and we achieve our solitude in community.

After the dhikr I make contact with the fuqara I was hoping to meet, people that knew my parents well, people that knew me. My intention was to do some research into the early days of the community and I hoped I could spend some one-on-one time with those who had been with the Shaykh since the early days in Morocco and London and the United States – those who had sat with Shaykh Muhammad Ibn al-Habib, Radhiallahu Anhu. As I introduce myself to people like Hajj Issa Bryce, Hajj Idris Mears and Hajj Abdullah Luongo, to name but a few, they react with kindness and curiosity. They all immediately ask about my parents, as would be expected, for they all knew each other well. It is in these exchanges that I realise I am not just there as myself, with my own intentions.

I am struck by the variety and beauty of the fuqara. From all corners of the world people have come and been united through dhikr. It isn’t just the spectacle of the “exotic”, the jalabas and turbans, it is what is underneath that grabs my attention. The light in people’s faces is clear. I feel humbled to be there – at times I wonder if I really belong. But I revel in the social nature of the event – speaking to people from Russia, from Indonesia, America, Spain, Germany, Italy, England, Scotland, South Africa – the list goes on.

After we have all eaten, I introduce myself to the Amir of Cape Town, Hajj Orhan, and ask him if he knows of a bed I can sleep in for the night. I tell him I am happy to sleep in the mosque if that is an option but he says no, “send him with the Russians”. I am introduced to Ali and Salman and others from the Russian fuqara and we agree to leave together to go to the house in Bo Kaap where they are staying.
But it’s not all new faces. Before leaving I walk over to Hajj Uthman Morrison, who is sitting with his back against a pillar. I thank him for his help in getting me here. He is kind and asks if I have met the people I had hoped to for my research. I say I have. He then asks how I found the dhikr and I say it was fantastic, mashallah. He tells me I am glowing and offers me a kind, warm smile.

As I am heading to leave, standing in the doorway to the mosque talking to Hajj Idris Mears, Shaykh Abdalhaqq Bewley walks through and stops. “Sidi Ismail, how was it?” he asks me with smiling eyes. “Wonderful,” I reply. I am among the company of the fuqara.

When it comes time to leave, after the sumptuous feast and all the socialising, mingling and endless hugging, the Russians and I set off into the night. The Jumu’a Mosque is in the centre of Cape Town and by now it is well past midnight and Long Street is thronging with drunken people and beggars and the usual clamour of a Saturday night in a big city. I follow the Russians as we glide through the revellers in our jalabas and turbans, seemingly unnoticed. I instantly like the Russians. They are fun and wide-eyed. They are on an adventure too.

We end up at a 24hr eatery opposite the Dallas College on Long Street, all the time Salman, a big, smiling and gentle man, is ensuring I am entertained and at ease. “Russians and English man, Muslims, sitting in coffee shop in Cape Town at 1am listening to Bollywood music – what a wonderful world,” says Salman. I have to agree with him.

Cape Town is, in and of itself, a remarkable city. It’s a multicultural garden set against the stunning backdrop of Table Mountain and the mountainous spine and beaches that stretches out into the Atlantic and Indian oceans. This unquestionably spiritual setting is home to over a million Muslims – and over 20 recognised karamats of Awliya. You can feel why the Shaykh is here, why the community is here.

The next night of dhikr is as sublime as the first. I feel more composed and focussed, less self-conscious. Shaykh Abdalqadir leads tonight’s dhikr and the hadra and there is a sense of importance of occasion. This is the first time I have seen the Shaykh in person. After the hadra the Shaykh addresses us all. He speaks of the importance of brotherhood and it now being a time for action, not talk.

The opening of doors

After the moussem I had planned to stay on a few weeks and speak to a number of the fuqara about the early days of the community. I also hoped to have the chance to meet with the Shaykh. I was granted that opportunity when the Shaykh invited some of the fuqara for lunch at his home in the week after the moussem. It was a Tuesday. The winds had calmed, the clouds had cleared and the air was clean and warm. On that day, the Shaykh was hosting fuqara who had travelled from Germany and the UK. We all sat on blankets laid out on the lawn at Mormaer Mansion, shaded from the sun by a grand marquee. I would say I was nervous about meeting the Shaykh, as I thought I would be, but I wasn’t.

Shaykh Abdalqadir joined us for the lunch and we all enjoyed the conversation and wonderful food – a rice dish topped elegantly with edible rose petals. Sitting on the floor and sharing these plates of food always takes me back to my childhood, when all our meals were eaten this way, whether at home or at the mosque or other people’s houses.

After the lunch was finished, Shaykh Abdalqadir took time to sit with each group and speak with each person one-by-one. Our table was last. I introduced myself and the Shaykh immediately remembered my father and asked about him and my grandparents, for they had a mutual friend in the celebrated but controversial psychoanalyst Ronald Laing.

“As Rasulullah, salallahu alaihi wasallam, said, the child is the hidden secret of the father, and you are the outcome of what is true in him, so that is very good, that is very good news,” Shaykh Abdalqadir says to me, smiling. I was here to find out about my father and my past, but by travelling outward I was indeed finding out about the “inward”, the self.

With the Moussem over I was not totally sure what I was going to do. My initial plan was to try and spend some time with people like Hajj Issa and Hajj Abdallah, as well as Hajja Zulaikha and Hajja Rabea Redpath and others who had known my parents since Bristol Gardens in the 1970s. I managed to spend time with some of them, and it was a joy to speak about theirs and my parents’ lives; stories of the past, how all of this came to be – the formative years of the community and all those in it. It felt familiar, like meeting old friends, like meeting family. I also had the pleasure of reconnecting with other children that were born into those early years in the community in London and Norwich, especially Shaykh Habib Bewley, who was one of the many that invited me into his home.

The last few weeks were a pleasure. I spent time with many of the fuqara, from England, the US and Spain, as well as many of the young fuqara from South Africa. I found their worldview compelling – the importance placed on establishing the deen, the extraordinary economic and political consciousness. I sensed an astute awareness of the inherent flaws and failures in the global capitalist system and it’s contempt for humanity – a clear insight into a world dictated by weak political systems and the caprice of undulating mass public opinion.

What I sense from the fuqara in Cape Town, especially the younger ones, is a dynamism, a sense of purpose and direction – and always humour, always kindness. These are, I see, men of action, not just of words.

Society has to be able to give us access to our own inwardness, and, as the Shaykh has said, a truly human society cannot be achieved unless the ultimate undertaking of that society is not just its survival, progress or expansion, but rather the realisation of the meaning of man in this lifetime. If we learn from the Qur’an and our elders then we have access to truth, unchanged by time and circumstance.

My original plan was to leave Cape Town by early November, but I ended up postponing my flight back to London twice. There was still something I had to do. I am glad I stayed. I managed to get to know many of the fuqara better, become friends, companions. I was invited into homes, into lives and into ideas. For this recollection here, there is no space for details, but after several weeks of spending time with the fuqara I felt I belonged. I no longer felt like an outsider looking in. As Hajj Abdullah Luongo said to me one evening: “We recognise each other on the path.”

On my penultimate night in Cape Town a dhikr was held at the zawiya by the mosque. If anything, I drank more from this dhikr than I did the moussem – perhaps I was nervous before, when now I was at ease. Whatever the reason, it was a night of beauty. I woke the next morning early, and laughing. That day, a beautiful Sunday with a vast blue sky, the fuqara gathered in Constantia at the tomb of the great wali Shaykh Abdurrahman Matebe Shah, the last of the Malaccan Sultans. We recited Yasin and the Nasiri du‘a. After, everyone mingled and soaked up the great company. It was here I had the pleasure of speaking with Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi again. Towards the end of our conversation the Shaykh tells me that my presence there, as the son of my father, has closed something for him that had not been completed.

We sometimes travel with one intention, but unbeknown to us, our real purpose has already been determined.

I left our conversation, and Cape Town, with much to contemplate.

Part 2 : Moroccan Adventures

2010-10-07T18:09:00.000-07:00

So, insha’Allah, the task as a writer or poet is to always put oneself in the midst of what may come, wherever Allah’s manifestation may be happening. Of course, it is happening everywhere, whether we are aware of it nor not, but we want to be in a state of dhikr to recognize it as often and as deeply as possible. This requires a certain training, which, for me, came partly from the time I spent with the muqaddem and shaykh, as well as my earlier Zen Buddhist meditation, and something I became more aware of as I traveled in other parts of the world, and saw what Allah has done with other civilizations, present and past, as Allah ta’ala counsels in the Qur’an.

In the late 1970s, six of us western Sufi Muslims, fuqara of Shaykh ibn al-Habib, traveled throughout northern and south-eastern Algeria in the late 70s, when it was still easier to travel there, and met many awliyya, some wellknown and some more hidden. Every moment you sit with a wali is worth many years of ‘ibada, as it is said, because these men and women of Allah, who have reached a high station with Allah, show us more than words can tell what the grace of Allah and the Prophet, peace be upon him, really is, and how they manifest among us in our present life.

We also spent time living and traveling in Morocco, and attended many mawlids and moussems. In the tomb of Ali al-Jamal in Fez we discovered the book that was translated and published by The Diwan Press as The Meaning of Man. We were told his fuqara, even today, are still coming down to his tomb, which is situated in a low place in Fez, to read from and study his book. We photographed each hand-written page and later transcribed it and translated it into English, a first-time event of great importance. We also journeyed to Shaykh Ibn Mashish’s mountaintop tomb in Larache, raheemullah, and did dhikr and prayer among the wild cork trees, prostrating in sajdah on the flat cork-floored crest above the canyons as if flying among clouds.

In a way of nourishing the heart and soul, all of these experiences have invested my poetry in a way that I really can’t even explain, and it may not be obviously evident. To this date, I have not written an account about the trip to Shaykh ibn al-Mashish’s tomb, because I’m not a scholar-historian nor memoirist, but a writer of poems. If you remain an open field, from the creative, poetic point of view, Allah works through you however He wills.

Back in the beginning when I was first a Muslim, the poets that I knew and loved, in San Francisco and California at that time, were mostly Buddhist, and they wrote poetry out of their Buddhism, both philosophically and through their love and interest in nature and our natural “enlightened” consciousness. Their poetry is often meditative, recognizing the essence of stillness, and above all, recognizing the goal of the end of mankind’s suffering, which is spiritual wisdom.

At the time, when I thought about my poetic intentions, I said to myself, “This is what I want to do, insha’Allah, for Islam, for Sufism, I want to be a voice that isn’t specifically only speaking to Muslims,” because this time in our history is the era of the Prophet Muhammad, salallahu alayhi wa salam, where Islam is the deen of Allah. We “Muslims” in particular have to remember that the Prophet came for every human being, and it will be so until the end of time — we must speak to everyone. At the inception of my being Muslim and Sufi, I wanted to create a body of work that reminds people, and myself, about Allah, praying and hoping that every poem I write is a dhikr for me, and insha’Allah, also a dhikr for other people. Because as Allah says in Qur’an, “When you forget, remember!” which is an ayat of tremendous mercy. When we go through a moment of unconsciousness, or torpor, ghafla (forgetfulness), then we turn and remember, we remember Allah and His beloved Prophet, salallahu alayhi wa salam, we remember who we are and the path of life we are on, and the heart ticks back into a wider consciousness.

Abdal Hayy Daniel Moore's Journey

2010-10-07T18:01:00.000-07:00

GRATITUDE TO MOROCCO

I would also like to express an enormous gratitude to the people of Morocco, who have always shown us the deepest generosity. At first, filled with longing and excitement to be a part of a tariqat in Morocco, I went to Meknes to the zawiyya of our shaykh thinking it would be a kind of perfect Utopia, and it was perfect, but not in the way we think. It was perfect the way the world is perfect. And at the same time, the intention, the niyyat, of everyone, even the imperfect ones, like us, like me, was to be in a circle of dhikr, and to find the Presence, the Hadrat of Allah. There is something deeply imbedded in the heart of the Moroccan people that is very beautiful and essential, full of iman, having available to it the various steps toward real knowledge of God, and as a citizen of the world with spiritual thirst, for that I am deeply grateful. When our little community of European Muslims passed through the market streets, in our djalabas and turbans, purchased in Tangiers before we went south into the Moroccan heartland, people would stop and weep to see obviously Muslim westerners respectful of Moroccan culture, instead of as with the earlier influx of Europeans who came as hippies in the 60s, and who seemed only to indulge in some of the less Islamic aspects of Moroccan culture.

Although I was born in Oakland, in the North American state of California, I consider Meknes, Morocco, my real birthplace, where I met Shaykh ibn al-Habib, raheemullah, wali of Allah, Qutub shaykh of the time, and where I also lived for a time that had the taste of eternity in it, in his zawiyya with his disciples. It was there I saw the old men (and some of the women as well, most especially his wives) of his spiritual community who had been with him for decades, who were now like trees, forests of trees — I was living in a forest of ‘ilm and ma’rifa. Among all the variety of people we encountered there we found these giant trees, like towering redwoods. That was the world of our shaykh’s domains. So when my wife and I visited Meknes a few years ago, in early 2000, I suddenly felt at home again.

HAJJ IN 1972
I was with a group of us living in the zawiyya during the last Ramadan of Shaykh ibn al-Habib’s life, and I went on Hajj in 1972, with Shaykh Dr. Abdal-Qadir, Shaykh Abdalhaqq Bewley, Abdal-Aziz Redpath and the great photographer, Peter Abdal-Adheem Sanders. It was a truly momentous Hajj for us. We were meant to meet the shaykh in Jeddah. We had asked permission in Meknes at that Ramadan to go on Hajj and he had said, “Meet me in Jeddah.” But we arrived in Jeddah and he wasn’t there. So we went on to Mecca, and still didn’t see him. Then the sheriff of his zawiyya, Sidi Moulay Sheriff, came running up to us, greeted us very happily, asked how we were, how our travels were, and if we were satisfied with our accommodations (which we were not, our mutawwif had not really taken care of us). He then went and found us a good place to stay, took us to a place to eat, for we were all very hungry, and after all that, which must have taken over an hour or so, took Abdalhaqq Bewley off to speak to him privately.
When Abdalhaqq came back he had tears streaming down his cheeks. Shaykh ibn al-Habib, raheemullah, wouldn’t meet us in Mecca, for he had died on his way from Meknes by automobile, in Blida, Algeria. So our Hajj was one of deep grief as well as the deep experience of the Hajj itself, and was therefore a doubly difficult journey, and continued to be so when we returned to England to tell the community there the very sad news. But I’ve always felt, and this has been a constant in my own spiritual life as a living example of true ‘adab, that the way in which this faqir greeted us, carrying such a terrific burden of news, was so extraordinary, in that he didn’t run up to us saying, “The shaykh is dead! The shaykh is dead!” But in fact, he made sure we were comfortable, and fed, and then spoke the right words to Abdalhaqq privately.

We found in all our journeys to Morocco and our visits with the people, that with the natural beauty of the country itself, with its lavender valleys and rolling green hills, and its variegated and rich culture, among the people there’s an innocence and a deep wisdom, there’s a depth, a beauty in the people, and certainly in the profound tradition of Sufism and Islam that is so much a part of Morocco, in all of its manifestations. And the tradition is still very much alive that makes available, through the living scholars and shuyukh and awliyya, the Path to Allah, The Ultimate Reality, through correctly and sincerely receiving the proper initiation and ‘idhn, from a real shaykh of m’arifa, of whom there are many great and magnificent living exemplars today.

May Islam and Sufism continue to grow and thrive among all humankind everywhere, with Morocco again at its peak of a golden age of Sufism and true Islamic teachings, and constant nourishment for all those who go with a hunger for true spiritual experience and deep-rooted foundational learning.

Amen.

Debt and the Prostitution of America

2010-10-03T18:32:00.000-07:00

(We just read Tun Dr.Mahathir comment on USD 4.0 Trillion Derivatives Trade Per Day. How the world did not care much. How our intellect and action gone kaput ? Why lower interest rates in US will rob the poor in other countries ? The crash day will come and be prepared,like the Flood in Nabi Nuh's time).

Submitted by Cris Sheridan on 30 Sep 2010 (Financial Sense)
"The borrower is a slave to the lender." Proverbs 22:7

Our entire nation is largely indebted to a single private corporation! Yes, that's right, the Federal Reserve—a privately held bank that is closing in on being the 2nd largest holder of US debt. At the rate its going, the Fed may actually be the largest holder in the space of a few months. This is not a good sign.

"The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil." —Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1802. ME 10:323

Many people are aware that America is the largest debtor nation in the world. What they don't understand is that this means the US must depend upon borrowing other people's money in exchange for a service. Sounds like prostitution doesn't it? You see, although the selling and servicing of debt is a common practice among many nations, the nature of this type of contract was rewritten on a global scale when America went from being the world’s greatest lender to the world's largest borrower. The consequences of such led, by necessity, to a bill of divorce under the presidency of Richard Nixon where foreign powers were cheated from their previously agreed to dowry. This severing of gold from the issuance of debt and currency now allows America to merely exchange debt for more and more debt. Unfortunately, what was once a contract of fair exchange is now a continual debasement. The world's most desired bride has now become a harlot.

There is a huge reason why foreign nations continue to slum it up at the Treasury auction every year and pay America for her services—they are drunk with our money! They cannot sober up because she has inflated and multiplied her favors all over the world. Madam America is fighting hard to keep her clientele happy, but her assets are becoming visibly stretched. The American taxpayer cannot afford to pay the bill. Therefore, she has no choice but to inflate or die!

Many are bewildered by the huge increase in gold's value over the past decade. To them, it is an anomaly; something that can't be explained in terms of modern finance. They are deceived; unable to see outside their unyielding faith in paper money because it is issued in God's name—"In God We Trust"—or because they believe that nations, and not just companies, are too big to fail. History proves otherwise...and God does not look favorably upon blasphemy.

I do not believe this system will end soon. Though America has been elevated to a precarious position atop an unwieldy beast, her services are still loved more than she is hated. Eventually, however, one will outstrip the other...turning what has been, so far, from a consensual agreement into a forced act. Until then, America will continue to become a slave to both the Federal Reserve and foreign nations—prostituting her wealth by selling her body to the highest bidder. The question is, will there be a final day of reckoning?

Aqida, Amal and Jamaat

2010-09-28T18:52:00.000-07:00

Preface:
As an individual, we lost the political power. As citizen, we become slave of the state. As consumer, we are swamped by material goods. As we accept paper money, we enslaved by banks and usurious system. As one take up arm, one is defeated militariry and branded as terrorist. How do we begin to take Allah deen and commands ?. This article show the pointers....)

In the present world situation it is important that we, the Muslim nation, both protect and propagate the Deen. On the face of it, admittedly, it appears confusing. We have been landed with a secret society of terrorists in a secretly funded and executed guerrilla war. There is a hidden leadership with a hidden agenda, and one highly dubious, iconic ‘Old Man of the Mountains’. While pretending to be Islamic, they slaughter Muslims. Yet at the same time that they pose as ‘extremist’ Muslims, they have a zero ideological position. The founding terrorist groups of 19th century Russia had Proudhon, Bakunin and Marx. The Chinese revolutionaries had Mao’s Little Red Book. Yet when they call on us to rise up and destroy, they do not tell us what they are calling us to establish.

Since Deen is not founded on ideology but on ‘aqida and ‘amal and jama’at, how can we, the Muslim masses, fall behind them when they have no jama’at, we cannot approve of their ‘amal, and we know nothing of whatever ‘aqida they may claim? Added to this is that while terrorism and anarchism have an ideological base, Deen has a ruhani base which traces social equity back to the right-acting individual. ‘Birr’ is a term both of Fiqh and Tasawwuf. Qadi Iyad’s ‘Tartib al-Mudarak’ was written to demonstrate that, properly speaking, the Shari‘at is not founded on canon principles, but in reality is founded on right-guided and right-acting individuals. In other words, without a just Qadi there can be no just society. The existence of the zahid fuqaha is the evidentiary necessity of a Muslim society.

Our present difficulty does not lie with these people, but in the bitter fact that kafir media and indeed state authorities in some cases have taken this as a licence to persecute the Muslims and in a massive anti-Da’wa have used these grisly events to stand as a denunciation of Islam itself.

In order to steady our own ship of state, which at present has no commanding officer on the bridge, just as, in our metaphor, in a similar situation the sailors without a captain would simply go back to the basic rules of sailing in order to survive, so we must return to the basic essentials of our Deen in order to steady the boat and give a safe passage. Our compass, the Book of Allah, gives us clear guidance. So important to the Deen is it, that we repeat it in at least five Salat in a day.

The first benefit we gather from this modest glance at our Fatiha is that this affair is a Divine matter that can never be reduced to the dialectics and vengeance of a chaotic insurrection led by an embittered secret society which is now no longer secret, for Allah has laid bare their identity through His ruling of the universe from within the universe, devoid of interventions yet held in constant dynamic by His generous answering of the prayers of the muminun.

Now it is clear that in effect there is no such thing as Al‑Qaeda, and this was confirmed to us by the foolish Saudi ambassador to Britain when, in a TV interview, he mentioned their name 20 times. It had to mean they were not what he said, but something else, and what that something else turns out to be is the embittered second and third generation wave of wahhabis turning against their two old enemies, the Saudi tribe and the great Jama’at beyond their desert sands who not only worship Allah but also love the Rasul, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

Allah is “the King of the Day of Judgment,” that is, ‘King’ in the Riwayat of Warsh, which as our scholars confirm was the Reading of the Salaf communities. This reminds us daily that the Judgment which matters, when that Judgment comes, is neither on nations nor on ideologies. The Judgment is on the person, that person who had been appointed in this world as the representative of the King Himself. What is at issue, that is, what matters, is what the individual makes of his life. What sum of actions does he bring to the Reckoning? So, paramount to everything is the central reality that we come before Allah to face Him alone, or, as in His generosity He grants that we may stand before Him as couples, but the meaning of the Day of Judgment is that the ultimate reality is what we do with our lives.

This, we must note, is also why we disagree with the Shi’a. Because it means that taking a sect is no protection, that making Takia is no protection, that practising Mu’ta is no protection. The One who is the King is also Ar‑Rahim. What we bring to Allah that may rescue us are those deeds which in His Book He has reminded us are those actions pleasing to Him, and they are all actions of mercy and generosity, and their motor-force which has realised them is Taqwa.

In the central ayat of the Fatiha comes the position of the slave. Our ‘ulema have pointed out that the first part of Fatiha is about Allah, the middle portion is about the slave, and the last portion is about the slave’s journey to Him. The middle ayat is the ayat of absolute dependence, and our dependence is on Allah, the Lord of all the Worlds.

Awakening on Chechen Freedom and Islam

2010-09-21T02:09:00.000-07:00

(Message from Chairman Zakayev (Chechenpress.UK)

My respected compatriots, we need today to understand that it is up to us to change the situation in which we find ourselves. We are believers, and the Almighty tells us in His Q’uran, “Truly, Allah does not change the condition of any people unless they themselves make the decision to change.” (13:11).

But in order for us to change ourselves and embark on the correct path, we have first to acknowledge our mistakes and repent of them. No matter how disadvantageous this may be for us on a political level, there is no doubt that we must do it.

The mistakes we have made and continue to make are what has allowed Putin to proclaim to the whole world that the four-centuries long war which we have been waging for our freedom is a conflict “between Chechens”. In 1996 Chechnya amazed the world by gaining a military victory over Russia, but because of our mistakes Russia has been able to turn that against our nation. Their most important weapon was their own agents from Islamic states whom they infiltrated into our country. These people, using financial resources they brought with them, claimed to be spreading “pure Islam”, and succeeded in setting active participants of the war against President Maskhadov, a leader chosen in a general election by the entire Chechen people.

Infamous acts carried out under the guise of proclaiming Islamic values and Sharia law are particularly sinful. These preachers of “pure Islam” carried out abductions, robberies and acts of violence. They instigated a war against the very Chechen traditions which had won our nation great admiration throughout the world. Respect of the young for the old, a particularly respectful attitude towards women, hospitality, the safeguarding of the life and dignity of guests – all these traditions which are at the heart of Chechens’ national identity were contemptuously cast aside and trampled underfoot by these zealots of “religious purity”.

The enemies of all that is Chechen came to occupy high positions in the institutions of the Chechen state authority. It was these people who gave Russia a welcome pretext for unleashing the Second Chechen War. When that war began, some of these individuals, wearing epaulettes as Russian officers, actively joined forces with the Russian aggressors, while others hastily left Chechnya and are now giving Chechen soldiers a bad reputation throughout the world. Lending credence to every claim by Russian propagandists that the Chechen Resistance is “part of international terrorism”, these people have become consistent helpmates of Putin in international politics.
Among the greatest villainies of these helpers of Putin, who live outside Chechnya, is the fact that during the presidency of Dokka Umarov they tried to strip the Chechen state of its legal foundation. Despite their occupation of Chechnya and the establishment of a puppet regime, the Russian leaders are well aware that they are far from victory while the legal foundation of the independent state re-established by the Chechen nation remains.

They are also fully aware that they cannot remove this legal basis while the institutions of our state authority remain intact. In an attempt to remove the obstacle Russia, through the arm of its intelligence services, has murdered three Chechen presidents. It has not, however, managed to destroy the institutions of the Chechen state.

Accordingly, a decision was taken in Moscow to deprive the Chechen state of its legal basis through the agency of Dokka Umarov, who was under the influence of agents of the Russian intelligence services. This was something Russia urgently needed because it was intending to recognise the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia after America and the European Union recognised the independence of Kosovo. Before that happened, the Kremlin wanted the topic of Chechen independence removed from the international agenda.

Having failed to destroy the Chechen people’s aspirations for independence by military force and terror, Putin’s helpmates had Dokka Umarov proclaim the abolition of the Chechen state. It was after this that Russia annexed Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia, first recognising their sovereign independence. When international public opinion faced Putin with the question, “Why do the Chechens not have a right to create their own state like the Abkhazians and South Ossetians?” Udugov’s people had Supian Abdullayev reply, “The aim of the Chechen fighters is not to construct a Chechen state but a caliphate from sea to sea and, moreover, we are at war not only with Russia, but also with America, Britain, and Israel.”

Although we succeeded in putting a stop to this nonsense, protecting the legal basis of Chechen statehood, these declarations did do us immense harm, sowing dissension and divisions between Chechens, among our fighters, and depriving us of mutual trust. For any nation this is a severe blow, especially for a nation fighting a hard, unequal battle for its freedom. Divisions weaken the nation, and it is essential that we should strive to overcome this sickness. Its causes lie in a loss of mutual trust and in the fact that traitors and cowards have emerged among our people from among those no longer able to endure Russian barbarity.

The truth, however, is that those who have openly lined up under the Russian flag to assist the occupiers in realising their aims are less dangerous than those who claim to be on our side on the march to freedom but whose overt and covert intrigues sow dissension in our ranks and prevent us from regaining our strength. They say what matters most in politics is not who said what, but who benefitted from what was said. Although Muslim sermons are never far from their lips, everything that they do redounds to the benefit of our enemies.

If we pay less attention to what particular people and groups are saying and instead analyse who is benefitting from their actions, we will see clearly whose side they are on in the continuing struggle. That will help us to re-build trust within our ranks and spare our people the mutual suspicion which weakens it.

The Web of Debt: Ellen Brown USA

2010-09-17T23:07:00.000-07:00

Our money system is not what we have been led to believe. The creation of money has been "privatized," or taken over by private money lenders.

Thomas Jefferson called them “bold and bankrupt adventurers just pretending to have money.” Except for coins, all of our money is now created as loans advanced by private banking institutions — including the privately-owned Federal Reserve. Banks create the principal but not the interest to service their loans. To find the interest, new loans must continually be taken out, expanding the money supply, inflating prices — and robbing you of the value of your money.

Not only is virtually the entire money supply created privately by banks, but a mere handful of very big banks is responsible for a massive investment scheme known as "derivatives," which now tallies in at hundreds of trillions of dollars.

The banking system has been contrived so that these big banks always get bailed out by the taxpayers from their risky ventures, but the scheme has reached its mathematical limits. There isn't enough money in the entire global economy to bail out the banks from a massive derivatives default today.

Web of Debt unravels the deceptions in our money scheme and presents a crystal clear picture of the financial abyss towards which we are heading. Then it explores a workable alternative, one that was tested in colonial America and is grounded in the best of American economic thought, including the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. If you care about financial security, your own or the nation's, you should read this book.

Learning To Sight New Moon of Ramadhan

2010-09-07T19:12:00.000-07:00

(A large number of Muslims in N. America started Ramadan fasting on August 11, 2010, not because Ramadan moon was seen but because ISNA fixed the date weeks ago.

Do you know ISNA has abandoned the Qur’an’s command, and Prophet (SAW) Sunnah to start Ramadan by moon-sighting. ISNA Fiqh Council bid’ah of forcing Saudi dates on the Muslims in N. America has blinded the Muslims to the fact that the Muslims always started Ramadan and prayed Eidain after sighting a Hilal. See below how Saudis violate the Quran and the Sunnah.)when they declare 10 Sept as first Shawal
or 9 Sept as 30th of Ramadhan!

Here an excellent article to refute the Saudi/ISNA claims :

A crescent moon’s first sighting depends on several interrelated factors. (For details see “Earliest Visibility Criteria” section.
Moon’s Age:

For a crescent moon to be visible its age should be around 24 hours, although the youngest sighted moon was only 14+ hours old. Often moon’s age may be 30+ hours but you cannot see it because its angle from the sun (elongation) and altitude (above the horizon) do not reach a minimum (12+10 degrees) visibility threshold.

Angle (Elongation):

For a naked-eye sighting the moon’s angle from the sun at sunset should be approx. 12 degrees.

Altitude:

Moon’s altitude at the sunset should be 10 degrees or more for a casual observer.

(Higher elongation may sometimes compensate lower (8+ degrees) altitude.
Moonset After Sunset:

You cannot see a faint crescent moon within the first ten minutes after the sunset when the time lag between the moonset and the sunset is less than 42 minutes. Usually a 29 days old moon will be visible 20-30 minutes after the sunset and a 30 days old moon will be seen after 10-12 minutes after the sunset.

Visibility Curve:

A crescent moon may first become visible from as far east as New Zealand or as far north as Japan, but it may not be seen in Saudi Arabia hours later. Moon’s visibility extends within a parabola and it takes 48+ hours to cover most of the globe.

Words of Caution:

Experienced professional moon-watchers may SEE a crescent moon at a little lower visibility threshold after meticulous preparation when the horizon is exceptionally clear. A good example was Sha’ban 1426 (Sep. 2005) moon from Arizona:

Sunset (at sea level) = 18:49
Moonset (at sea level) = 19:30

Age at 18:39 pm = 31 hr. 50 min.
Moon lag time = 41 minutes

Relative Altitude = 8.45 degrees
Elongation from sun = 13.77degrees

Crescent width = 26 arcseconds Illumination = 1.44 percent

Casual Muslim Observers:

However, casual Muslim observers all over the world claim seeing moons that are “Impossible”. Naïve “experts” and Ulema accept their claim only because they are “Adil”. The results are disastrous. Eid al-Fitr on the last day of Ramadan, Eid al-Adha on 9thD. Hijja and Ramadan on 28 Shaban.

If the earliest sighting is not by a large group and not confirmed from places located west of the first claim the “Shahadah” should be rejected as doubtful.

(This year, Malaysia begin fasting 2 days early than Morocco (Friday) eg. Wednesday due to wrong ideas/experts. The sunna is look for new visible moon on the horizon after maturity age/conditions, not to look for new moon too young too be seen or mot birth of new moon according to falak/computer calculation !)

Behind The Accidental Border : Patani

2010-09-06T18:32:00.000-07:00

Book Review By Zhang Ming

The insurgency in Thailand’s southernmost provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla, collectively defined as the Patani Region, is the most misunderstood conflict in the world today. In relative terms, the toll on human lives over the past half decade is surpassed only by the Iraqi and Afghan conflicts.

But unlike those well-reported hotspots, very little is known about the Patani insurgency – its root causes; the identity and objectives of the main players; the historical context; the role and legitimacy of the Thai state; the sentiment of the populace – and this multifaceted ignorance sustains the ongoing socio-political tragedy. The insurgency has been vividly painted by many as a religious conflict perpetrated by misguided “Thai Muslims,” effectively calibrating all discourses towards a Pan-Islamist terrorism agenda.

This is further embellished by tales of economic backwardness due to lack of educational and vocational opportunities. The combination of religious zealotry and abject poverty are supposed to be the main catalysts of the insurgency and this narrative has largely shaped world perception, with policy initiatives geared towards economic development, scholastic reforms and inculcation of “moderate” Islamic teachings among the Patani people. These programmes come and go but the insurgency rages on with heightened intensity and brutality in a region also known cryptically as the Thai Deep South. Why is this the case? Who are the real stakeholders? What would be the end game? And could we resolve this conflict without a firm understanding of its root causes?

Together we shall seek the answers. This book will provide a definitive analysis of the insurgency in a region that was a prominent Malay Sultanate for a half-millennium but now tethered precariously to the southern underbelly of the Thai nation. Necessary attention will be given to its historical dimension and current regional geopolitical context and realities.

This may dilute the conventional narrative meticulously crafted by others, and the revelations may be unpalatable to some. But without the historical truth and a firm grasp of the real issues, a just, meaningful and permanent solution could never be conceived. The detailed processes and methodologies of the Pattani Peace Initiative presented in this book would hopefully form the building blocks for sustainable peace, justice and reconciliation for the Patani Region.

Famous awliya and ulamak from Patani Darus Salam:

Sheikh Daud Patani-author of Kanzun Minan Syarah Hikam Abu Madyan
Sheikh Ahmad Zain alPatani - Faridatul Faraid
Sheikh Ismail Patani etc

Control of Money Supply Is The Key of US Power

2010-09-05T19:55:00.000-07:00

Currency Wars is a very popular book in China. It’s author, Bing Debkang, has tapped into a rich vein of nationalism and suspicion about the West, especially the role of US investment banks and global jewish bankers.

His book was part of Beijing IFS special project, which is entirely futuristic, is that group of investment bankers of khazar elites have dictated the course of world history since the Napoleonic wars, are the gatekeepers to the US presidency, and - should they be allowed into the Chinese economy - would bring the current benign social order crashing down to serve their own evil interests. The US had created a USD 13 Trillions Debt in 2010 by issuing more bonds, securities, derivates and credits through the FED and megabanks.

We discussed this book with a Japanese and Korean researcher who works in the financial sector and he said that its popularity was an interesting social phenomenon. But the author was so obviously a crazy conspiracy theorist that his work had no influence at all in policy or finance circles.

Central bankers and Finance graduates might be able to see through the smoke and mirrors, but the book had a major influence on public opinion, and a follow up - imaginatively entitled ‘Currency Wars II’ - has just hit the book stores. If you dont understand just read the comments by Warren Buffer and G.Soros- the manipulators of Asian currencies crisis in 1998s.

This is R.Fekkel translation of the main points from a chapter in the first Currency Wars, focusing on the potential evils of allowing foreign investment banks into the Chinese economy, and the benefits of returning to gold as the basis of the international financial system:

‘Control of money supply is key to control of the economy. You might think that foreign banks have no way of influencing the money supply in China, that the People’s Bank of China controls the supply of money. In fact, by issuing loans, banks influence the money supply. Let foreign banks into China, and they would deliberately manipulate the money supply, using excess supply to cause inflation, and restricting supply to cause deflation, crippling the economy, as they have done to destabilize foreign countries throughout history. Remember how the British wage an opium war to China and establish the capitalistic Hong Kong port?

The US is already using its influence to disrupt China’s money supply. By manipulating its trade deficit with China, the US can increase the money supply in China, and that can lead to bubbles in the property sector and equity markets. China’s Central Bank can only control the problem by selling bonds to soak up the additions to the money supply, but this increases the national debt. Today China hold about USD 2 Trillions of US bonds or debts ! What if it just devalued 10% by tommorrow, next week or month ? A lost of USD 200 billions !

These are the currency wars, and as long as the US dollar is the main international currency, China has no way to fight back. Only when gold again becomes the basis of the international currency system can we have an independent, fair, and harmonious financial system.’

Of course, there is a kernel of truth in all this. Hedge funds, many of them US hedge funds, were instrumental in destabilising Asian economies in the Asian Financial Crisis. China’s trade surplus, combined with the fixed exchange rate, does cause problems for the People’s Bank of China. The role of the US dollar in the international financial system is beneficial to the US and harmful to its creditors. Many muslim nations already thinking of using the gold dinar currency to safeguard against the fiat paper money instability and crash like Iceland, Greece and Euroland soon.

But the way all of these facts is put together is not completely wrong. It’s not foreign banks who are creating a problem in China’s money supply, it is all the mega banks interlinked together with prime rates, credit creation and printing presses controlled by Governments. And a US dollar based international financial system might have its flaws, but the world moved away from the gold standard for a reason - because it tied money supply to the availability of a scarce commodity - and a return is not on anyone apart if you are smart enough. The gold prices had jumped 300% in the last 5 years ! Gold is the ultimate fortress for our financial tsunanmi !

Happy reading and decoding between the enemy lines and eyelashes -Sun Tzu.

Impostor And Disconnection

2010-07-21T02:47:00.000-07:00

Abbas Firman (former amir of jakarta) creator of DinarFirst and Islamic Mint Nusantara is an impostor.

There is no power except by Allah. Victory belongs to Allah. By this knowledge as my only authority I started a movement to return the Dinar and the Dirham as the currency of the Muslim Ummah and the Shariah currency valid to pay and receive Zakat.

Allah is my witness that our work has been from the start a work fisabilillah: we have worked for the sake of Him and His pleasure only; we have not compromise with His Shariah which remains a non-negotiable matter and with this intention in our hearts we have started what a victorious fight back against Riba and his servants. In this fight Allah is our Commander. And Allah knows best.

We have in the last 20 years of work occasionally encountered individuals which came to us at first with apparent sincerity in our cause fisabilillah, pledge alliance to our authority but later separated from us, often to engage in outrageous scams which we dissapproved of. One of this men is Abbas Firman.

Abbas Firman, representing DinarFirst and Islamic Mint Nusantara, came to us with the apparent intention of helping our cause and we consequently welcomed him and educated him on what the Dinar and Muamalat are. He knew nothing before he met us. In the last few months Abbas Firman broke his alliance to us and started a path of his own. His companies separated and continue to separate from our Wakala Induk Nusantara and Jawara that follow World Islamic Mint and WITO standards in Indonesia. Adding insult to injury, his "copy coins" are sold at different prices that our standard prices (at times higher and at times lower), creating confusion amongst some users in Indonesia. This behavior of his is not working for the Dinar but against the Dinar.

In addition, against my consent, Mr Firman has used my name and my work in Indonesia spreading the ideas of the Dinar in order to promote his "private venture". While he is free to do whatever he likes as a private individual we strongly object to the use of our names, our terminology and ideas, and our logos and designs misguiding people into belief that his coins are the same as ours. We have also heard that he is claiming to have the authority of our Shaykh, Shaykh Abdalqadir As-Sufi to do what he does. As Khalifa of the Shaykh I deny this statement as being utterly false.

Abbas Firman does not belong to our movement.

THEREFORE It must be known to all WHOM IT MAY CONCERN that WE, WITO, WAKALA INDUK NUSANTARA, THE WIM NETWORK, E-DINAR, Amir Pak Zaim Saidi, Shaykh Abdalqadir As-Sufi and Umar Vadillo totally DISASSOCIATE FROM THE ACTIVITIES OF ABBAS FIRMAN.

We stand before Allah for what we say. May Allah forgive us for our shortcomings and we turn to Him in Tawba. Amin.

@Umar Vadillo
Founder of WIM and WITO
posted from Jakarta

Those Who Tasted Really Know

2010-07-21T02:05:00.000-07:00

Someone gave the Prophet (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) honey, he asked Abu Bakr (may Allah be pleased with him) what is was, he said, “Honey, O’ Messenger of Allah.” He asked Umar ibn Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) , he said, “Honey, O’ Messenger of Allah.”

Then he asked Ali ibn Abu Talib (may Allah be pleased with him), who tasted some and said, “Its honey, O’ Messenger of Allah.”

The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon be him) said, “The one who tastes, knows.”

Nota: Tidak lengkap sekiranya para pencinta sufi gagal menangkap apa disebalik metafora teh China dijamukan oleh Shaykh Yusuf Hamadhani. Beliau juga adalah guru sufiyya kepada Imam Junayd jika tak salah.

The Sufi Story of Chinese Tea – Who Lost The Marifa ?

In Ancient times, Tea was unknown beyond China. Rumors of its Existence had reached other Lands, and those who Heard of it tried to Find out what it was in Accordance with their Desires or Imaginations….The King of India/Bukhara sent an Envoy to China, who returned with a Gift of Tea from the Emperor. But the envoy had seen peasants drink tea, and decided that it was unfit for his royal master; he suspected that the Emperor was trying to deceive them by substituting some lesser substance for the celestial drink.

A philosopher of Anja gathered what information he could find, and determined that tea must be rare, unique and mysterious, for it was known as an herb, a beverage, green, black, at times bitter, at other times sweet. In West and East, people tested every herb and liquid they could find. Many were poisoned; all were disappointed. The tea plant had never been brought to their lands, so no one could find it. Still they continued the search.

The people of Mazhab knew of tea — a small bag of it was carried in their religious processions as a talisman. But no one thought or knew how to taste it. When a wise man told them to pour boiling water over it, he was hanged as an enemy of their religion, for who else but an enemy would suggest destroying their magic? Before he died, he told his secret to a few, who then managed to get some tea and drink it secretly. When someone noticed and asked what they were doing, they answered that it was a simple medicine.

It was this Way throughout the world. Some had seen the Bush, but did not Recognize it; others had tasted Tea, but thought it Common, certainly not a Drink of Legend. Still others Possessed and Worshipped It. Beyond China only a Few drank it, and only in Secrecy.

A man of understanding spoke to the tea merchants and tea drinkers. “The one who Tastes, Knows. The one who tastes not, knows not. Don’t Speak of a Heavenly Beverage; Offer it at your Banquets and Say Nothing. Those who like it will Ask for More; those who don’t aren’t fit to drink it.

Close the Shop of Debate and Mystery. Open The Tea House of Experience.”

Tea was soon carried on every caravan on the Silk Road. Pausing to rest, merchants made tea and offered it to their guests and companions, whether they knew the legends or not. This was how chaikhanas came to be established from Peking to Bukhara and Samarkand. ….And Those Who Tasted, Knew.

“ At first only the Powerful and those who Pretended to Possess Wisdom sought the Tea of Ambrosia, then protested, “But this is only Dried Leaves!”

or “Why do you boil Water when all I want is the Celestial Drink?” or yet again, “Prove to me what this is. It looks like Mud, not Gold!” .

When the Truth was Widespread, and when Tea was given to All who would Taste, only Fools asked such Questions. And it is still that Way ( of Tea –Sufi- Tao )”

- Master Khawja Yusuf al-Hamadhani

The Private Life Project

2010-07-10T22:03:00.000-07:00

(Preface -for those too lazy to surf, seek and enter my Bamboo Forest...)

By His Grace i write. I remembered our master did talked about the human condition in these days. On how we have become the 'private life' with concerns that consumes the whole of our life such as 'life-long career', 'bank loans' which are all dunya-based they are individualistic in a limited and materialistic sense.

There are those who have even more grandeur designs such as imbuing those career paths with so called charitable activity such as building institutions that justify world aid and looking at the human condition as 'humanistic' and 'fatalistic' rather than adamic or in the true karmic created condition of success at the
final akhira.

Many do have such words still lying in the books and those books in some bookshelves and so i will dispense academising further as some charlattan journalist would - to mix words between ..the real people and fiction..

What i here take upon responsibly in my posting to this newsgroup is that i just received an SMS from SK.. and we should honour such a man
of our age. We should place ourselves at his feet and take instruction from him.

All i have done in my life, and u know what i have done so far, is nothing, just nothing compared to someone who has done great but in the right direction. And these last years i began to learn on what is the right direction.

Indeed i have found no other shaykh or teacher who speaks of this concentric circles so subtly and sharply that we cannot have zikir in the inner circle when our outer realm of muamalah is filth besides filth.

And that this shaykh has gone forth and brought so many into Islam is so overwhelming for me who also having come to this path by Allah's Grace. But how do i place my condition after that act of taslim ? Do i return to the human condition that i find myself before? I did try to bring my people into islam. I hardly brought any except my own children. And they arent even chinese.

Back to nasihat from what i am able. I wish to say well or not at all. I wish to say here on how i observe of a man who has left his world. Who has gone on a journey. Who has acted not by his wish for he has none anymore.

When this man was here last month, i took as often as i have done before since i first encountered him about 6 years now. I will make the pilgrimage to wherever he is and wait in case he passes my way. Whenever possible he would tell me what i do not know.

Latest i have a chance to sit for some hours with him and he told me how the teacher suddenly ask him to leave for Indonesia. He said he tried to evade, giving excuses, that he just came back from a journey and hardly able to be settled, his clothes are with the dry cleaner. With the dry cleaner? The Shaykh showed a queer look. He told me that indeed that was the most idiotic reason that has ever come in between a murid and his master. And the look from the master brought those thoughts into his mind.

The teacher has an instruction. He asks you to leave at once. He asks you to leave for a land most far. He asks you to return to this journey of the nafs. Nay , its a journey of the sharia. Nay, its the journey to Allah.

He left the dry cleaner and took the journey. He went without inkling of the cost. He landed with Amir Abbas of Jakarta whom i know himself to be broke. Abbas issued out a call for funds. Some came running to assist. I did not. I also classify myself equally if not more broke that time.

But what this journey brought? He then told me how he has stayed for 3 months and that he can see thousands if not millions coming to the sharia and to the muamalah of madinah. ....(in the coming years).

( courtesy@red1 written in 2007 )

...continue in part 2

Unite Me With The Salihun

2010-07-04T04:01:00.000-07:00

My Lord, give me right judgement and unite me with the Salihun;
and make me highly esteemed among the later peoples;
and make me one of the inheritors of the Garden of Delight;
and forgive my father - he was one of the misguided;
and do not disgrace me on the Day they are raised up,
the Day when neither wealth nor sons will be of any use –
except to those who come to Allah
with sound and flawless hearts.’

Wang Emas (Gold Coins) Di Negara Kuffar

2010-06-18T20:37:00.000-07:00

Saudara jangan bimbang.

Kepingan atau duit Dinar-dinar emas dan driham perak yang dijual di Malaysia sekarang adalah sah disisi Undang-Undang.

Bank Negara juga ada mengedar dan menjual duit emas mengingati hari/peristiwa bersejarah Malaysia, keputeraan atau pertabalan Raja/Sultan. Bank-bank besar juga diluluskan untuk menjual duit emas dan bulion emas.

Ini satu petanda baraka usaha dan kebangkitan umat menerajui muamalah dan tijarah yang dihalalkan Allah dalam KitabNya.

Berikut ini dibuktikan penempaan(minting), pengedaran dan penjualan duit emas/perak adalah sah disisi undang-undang antarabangsa !

1. Amerika Syarikat/USA - Eagle Gold Coins
2. South Africa - Kruger rand Gold Coins (since 1967)
3. Canada - Maple Leaf Gold Coins
4. Taiwan - Prosperity Gold Coins
5. China - Panda Gold Coins
6. Mexico - Gold Libertad
7. Austria - Philharmonic Coins (2007)
8. Swiss - Vernelli Coins
9. Russia - Chervonets Coins

Manakala di Malaysia sejak tahun 1990 telah beredar dan dijual anika versi Dinar emas and Dirham perak tanpa sekatan Kerajaan seperti berikut:

a. Dinar emas dari Scotland and Granada, Sepanyol.
b. Dinar emas WITO dari Dubai
c. Dinar emas dari Islamic Mint Nusantara/PT Logam Mulia.
d. Dinar emas versi Royal Mint Malaysia.
e. Dinar emas Kelantan
f. Dinar emas oleh Public Dinar Sdn Bhd (milik China)dari P.Pinang
g. Dinar emas IGD (kini telah tutup and bangkrap)
f. Dinar emas oleh Dinar& Dirham International (Meer Khan/telah tutup)
g. Dinar mas/dirham perak dari Wakala Induk Nusantara (WIN).

Diantara peristiwa penting dan bersejarah penggunaan dan muamalat dinar dirham di Malaysia dan antarabangsa adalah seperti berikut :

a. Seniman M.Nasir guna 10 dinar sebagai Mas Kahwin dgn Maria Musa serta ramai lagi.
b. Kerajaan Kelantan beri hadiah 1/4 dinar kepada pasangan kahwin anak negeri.
c. Kerajaan Negeri tertentu bersedia terima zakat dinar.
d. Dinar mas sempena hari keputeraan Sultan Kedah dan Sultan Kelantan.
e. Mantan PM dr.Mahathir setuju sokong penggunaan dinar diarena OIC/dunia.
f. Turki, Moroko dan Dubai sudah menerima dinar dirham dipasar-pasar.
g. Dinar EMU(European Muslim Union)sedang diperluaskan di Jerman dan Switzerland.
h. Dinar dirham sudah ada 2 pelopor di Indonesia (WIN dan IMN). Telah beredar di Jawa, Sumatera, Riau, Makasar dan Kalimantan.

The Reality of Gold As Money and Freedom

2010-06-18T19:40:00.000-07:00

Preface:
This brilliant essay taken from enlightened kuffar-The Privateer Gold Pages (USA)- are in accord with Islamic view. It showed the false economic, banking, financial global system are controlled by the usurious elites. For details read- Coup De Banque, The Return of Islamic Gold Dinar, The Web of Debt, The Death of Money..etc.

The Case For Gold

It will come as no surprise to you for us to state that Gold is money. Why? because it fulfills, to an extent unmatched by any other physical commodity (Silver comes closest), all the pre-requisites of a money. It was rare and prized long before the concept of "money" was ever discovered. It has many other unique uses, and always has had. But for nearly three thousand years (since the first Gold coins were struck in Lydia in 700 BC) Gold's primary utility has been recognized as a MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE.

The history of Gold as money in modern coin form spans 2630 years, from 700 BC to about 1930 AD. The history of nothing but paper and base metal and silver coin in circulation spans about 40 years from 1930 to 1970. And the history of paper and base metal coin as "money", with no connection to Gold (or silver) anywhere on earth also spans a period now approaching 40 years - from 1970 to date.

To be more precise, silver coinage in circulation as money vanished from the world between 1963 and 1965. And on August 15, 1971, the world entered the first era in its history in which no circulating paper anywhere was redeemable in Gold by anyone. On that date, U.S. President Richard Nixon "closed the Gold window". This broke the last official tie between Gold and a circulating currency - which also happened to be the world's "Reserve Currency" - the currency held by all other nations as the reserve behind their own currencies.

The result has been the world financial system of our "modern" era - the "floating currency" system.

Gold And Freedom

The founder of Communist China, Mao Tse Tung, is quoted as having said that: "Power grows out of the barrel of a gun". Actually, it doesn't. Political power grows out of the ability to interfere in the voluntary interaction between individuals. In a society in any stage of advanced development, the way to do that has always been to gain control of what the society or nation uses as its money.

"There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."

John Maynard Keynes - The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)

Keynes was obviously a much more subtle thinker than Mao. A gun is not a simple product. The ability to produce guns only comes in the later stages of the development of an advanced economy. But money is a pre-requisite of that development starting at all. As has already been stated on these pages, without a functioning money, progress towards an advanced economy is impossible.

Now, it is impossible to "debauch" Gold itself. But debauching money is not difficult at all. Both the Greeks and the Romans "clipped" their Gold and silver coinage - they began to mix more and more base metals with the Gold and Silver in their coins. Marco Polo brought to the West the first stories of paper money, introduced by Kublai Khan and made from the bark of the mulberry tree. Bankers, who were originally Goldsmiths who stored Gold for other people and charged a fee for their services, began to issue paper "receipts" for the Gold. As these receipts became more widely acceptable in exchange, the idea of "paper money" was introduced. Of course, the bankers couldn't resist. They began to issue more "receipts" than they had Gold with which to redeem them. And one of the first things that these bankers did with this "excess paper" was to lend it to Monarchs, and to early governments.

The Development Of Central Banks

The world's first major Central Bank (the Swedish Central Bank is actually older) was the Bank of England, established as a joint stock company (similar to the East India Company) in 1694. The bank was formed for the express purpose of making a loan in the amount of 1.2 million Pounds to William III, who had been running up huge bills in his Continental wars. The next major Central Bank was the Bank of France, established by Napoleon in 1800. With the exception of the short-lived "Bank of the United States", the U.S. did not have a Central Bank until the formation of the Federal Reserve in 1913.

The Central Banks actually had two purposes. In Europe, they were established to lend to Monarchs (which is one of the main reasons why they were anathema to the Founding Fathers in the U.S.). The other reason, which only evolved over time, was to bail out private bankers when they were caught out in issuing more paper than they had backing in Gold. It was the Bank of England which bailed out the Aristocracy in England after the 1720 paper adventure of the South Sea Bubble.

But the turning point for banking in general, and Central Banks in particular, came in England in 1844. This was the passage of "Peel's Bank Act", the culmination of a long debate between what was called "The Banking School" and "The Currency School". The "Banking School" held, as did the advocates of the Federal Reserve some 70 years later, that there was a need for an "elastic currency", a paper money that could be expanded to "meet the needs of business". The "Currency School", echoing Adam Smith and the U.S. Founding Fathers, abhorred this idea. They held that Banks should NOT be able to issue paper in excess of the Gold held by the banks of issue. Under Peel's Bank Act", the Currency School actually won the debate.

The problem was that there was a fatal flaw in the theory of the Currency school, which became embedded in Peel's Bank Act. The Bank Act failed to take into consideration the simple fact that not all paper circulating as money did so in the form of bank notes. There was also paper issued in the form of cheques, and this form of paper escaped the strictures of the Act. Banks in general, and Central Banks in particular, have been dining out on this mistake ever since.
The Transition - The Nineteenth Century

Up until the Napoleonic era in Europe, the major purpose of debauching the currency was to finance the adventures of the Monarch. Maintaining courts was costly, but supportable. What became unsupportable was the cost of wars. Most of the historical financial collapses prior to Napoleon can be traced home to the expenses of war. The other point to be made here is that "paper money" did not circulate amongst the mass of the people at all, and that few "ordinary people" had ever possessed a gold coin in their lives.

The Nineteenth century was a century of peace and genuine economic growth. This was the century which transformed the life of the "ordinary people". In Britain, the most advanced economy of the 19th century, the life of an ordinary person in 1800 was in many respects markedly inferior to what life had been like under the Romans 1600 years earlier. By 1900, luxuries that neither the Romans nor even the Royal Family of 1800 could have imagined were taken for granted.

All of this was the result of the world's only era of truly free international finance and trade, in which Gold progressively became the world's money. Both of these developments grew naturally out of a century of political freedom. As a corollary, there were no major wars between 1815 and 1914. The world was transformed to a degree which it never had been before, and never will be again. Why "never again"? Because the 19th century was also the end of the "frontier era". By 1900, there were no more blank spaces on the globe. Another such "frontier era" is certainly possible in future, but it will have to take place on another planet. There are no frontiers left on earth.

This closing of physical horizons led to a shrinking of mental horizons, and the result was one of the great tragedies of human history. This statement began to be heard: "The problem of production has been solved, it is now time to work on the problem of distribution". As all ideas do, this one became a physical reality, in Germany in the 1870s, when Otto von Bismark invented the modern welfare state.
The Century Of The Welfare State

"This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against Gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the hidden confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism towards the Gold Standard."

Alan Greenspan - Gold and Economic Freedom (1966)

No nation ever goes to war relying only on its taxing power to raise the necessary means to pay for it. The cost of the war is always disguised by debauching the currency. But in times past, there have been many instances when the debt incurred to fight the war has actually been either substantially or completely paid off afterwards. The U.S. did this after their Civil War (1861-65) - the "Greenbacks" issued to fight the ware were redeemed in full - and in Gold - in 1879.

The provision of a welfare state, with cradle to grave "security" regardless of the productiveness of those made "secure", is not financed through taxation. What is, partially, financed through taxation is the gigantic bureaucracy necessary to administer such a state. The actual provision of "security" is made, in its entirety, through borrowing, facilitated through the operations of Central Banks and national Treasuries or Ministries of Finance. The original (and only valid) definition of inflation is an increase in the stock of money. Only comparatively recently has the definition come to be a rise in the general price level. The reason for the change in definition is obvious, it conceals the mechanism through which the welfare state is maintained.

It is the rise of the welfare state in the century just ended which has made politically "necessary" the complete separation of Gold and what circulates as "money" today. This is the process that has led to the total destruction of money. Money is NOT wealth, it is a medium by which wealth can be exchanged between consenting adults. If an adult does not consent, then money cannot produce an exchange. Nothing can produce an exchange if the potential parties to it do not consent. But an expropriation can be produced, by a government with sufficient power. To obtain that power, money must be controlled by government. Today, it is.

And because the money you use is totally controlled by your government, dear reader, so are you. That is the case for Gold as money.

New Gold Dinar of Nusantara In The East

2010-06-08T06:57:00.000-07:00

Umar Vadillo:

...and finally.... The Dinar and the Dirham of the Sultanate of Kelantan (Malaysia), under the new standards of WIM, will arrive tomorrow. THIS IS THE OPENING. Oh Allah, forgive us, we return to You in Tawba.

Greetings to all of you, my friends. From tomorrow everything will change. No other Dinar minted since we started in 1992 has the Light that is contained in these new Dinars, except perhaps the very first we did in Granada. These ones are charged with meaning: new features, new dimensions, larger range, larger penetration. ...and when the Light ... See More comes the darkness disappears: users of the Dinar will become aware of what is present yet hidden, the present paper fraud, the easeness of Muamalat. ...and yes, Mimi, for the muminun this is an event that calls for astaghfir and tawba. Indeed, as we read in the Alhambra: Victory belongs to Allah. Blessings to our Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wa salaam, and our Teacher, Shaykh Abdalqadir, who cleared the path before us. Saludos a mis andalusis.

Abdalwasi McCormack:

Sidi Umar, over 20 years ago, in the little village of Bacharach on the Rhine, you told me that you were going to make the ghazwah of the century! Well ... ALLAHU AKBAR! YOU HAVE DONE IT!

May Allah make it the ghazwah of the millenium!
May Allah give you Kawthar!... See More

This is the proof of the people of the 'Aml of the Ahli'l-Madinah! It is proof of the wisdom and guidance of Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi -ad-Darqawi who first sounded the clarion call for jihad against riba, way back in 1982 or earlier. It is also the greatest proof that the Muslims of the world, whether Maliki or Shafi'i can work together to obtain victory.

It also portends that the next Khilafah will rise in Nusantara! May this be just the beginning of a train of such victories for you Umar Pasha because it is also proof that when you so often say "Laa hawla wa la quwwata illaa billaah!" ........ YOU MEAN IT!!!

Oh Allah, bless our Master Muhammad and grant him peace. Oh Allah, forgive us, turn towards us and grant us the favour of serving Ghazi Umar Pasha in his mighty struggle.
Amin!

The Rise and Demise of IGD Gold Dinar

2010-05-31T21:09:00.000-07:00

1. IGD (Sdn Bhd) started somewhere in 2003 by Dr.Shamshudeen Yunus (ex-Abrar director) to mint gold dinar in kuala lumpur. Later he collaborated with chinese investors to operate an gold account exchange and forex dealing or accounts in gold. They also control another company named ISLAMIC MINT SDN BHD to do the minting. First, IGD stand for 'Islamic gold dinar', later changed it to 'International gold dinar'.

2. IGD managed to confuse the public by forming an IGD SYARIAH CONTROL COUNCIL using several alim and scholars such as ex-mufti of Perlis, University lecturers, Imam of Bukhari Mosque KL etc.

3. In 9 Feb.2007, IGDX Ltd was registered in Adelaide, Australia to raise 2 million Australian Dollars share to start buying and mining gold activity. It was launched prominently in Kuala Lumpur by the TPM Najib Tun Razak in 14 Feb.2007.

4. IGD claimed to operate a gold refinery in Penang, branch trading in Indonesia, Hong Kong and signing MOU with a Kazakstan mining company.

5. When gold price was good and rising, IGD making hefty profits. Its report a turnover of RM9 million and profit of RM3 million in 2006 (Is this real or bluff ?)

6. A friend went to IGD office in KL Plaza to buy one dinar. After paying, one IGD officer insisted he convert it to Dinar Account. He refused and just bolted away from the office after locked up several minutes. Just with one real Dinar, IGD may opened endless DInar Account with several real buyers if they do not take the real Dinar away ! This is derivative riba business !

7. In 2008, IGD was warned to cease the unlawful financial practices by representatives of World Islamic Trading Organization WITO and excluded from connection with the nusantara amirates.

8. IGDX was delisted on 2 MAC 2009 from Australia Securities exchange ASX bcos of failures to adhere to trading and business rules.(Running away with investors money !) Beware...! Your Dinar Account may be useless, cannot claim paper money !

9. IGD failures was compounded by the rise several competitors in minting the gold dinar in Malaysia such as Kelantan Dinar, Public Dinar, Dinar Dirham International and in Indonesia by PT Logam Mulia, Islamic Mint Nusantara, Wakala Induk Nusantara, etc.

10. The return and circulation islamic gold dinar must done correctly in the name and command of Allah, supervised or connected to leadership and community needs, not
individual interest and vulture profits disregard the riba/usurious practices.

11. 'Those who spend in the Way of Allah, will be rewarded sevenfold or more...' :Quran. Those who take riba will not stand up in the Day of Rising...."

Muhammad Fendi Leong Jihad Berniaga

2010-05-19T03:39:00.000-07:00

Mukaddimah:
Madinah Syariah -pasar wakaf untuk umat islam berniaga di kota Medan, Sumatera !
Mengutip Hadis Nabi : Berbahagialah orang asing (ghuraba) ketika manusia buat kerusakan, dia menegakkan sunnah ! Islam itu asing dan kembali jadi asing !

Letaknya di Gedung Millenium Plasa, lantai 1 dan 2, di Jl. Kapten Muslim no III, Medan. Sesuai dengan namanya, toko serba ada ini memang dimaksudkan untuk menerapkan syari'ah dalam berniaga. Semua produknya juga dijamin halal. Aneka buku-buku Islam juga dijual di sini.

Salah satu hal unik dari Madinah Syari'ah adalah adanya kegiatan rutin, setiap Jumat siang, yaitu pengajian yang dihadiri oleh umum, tentu saja kebanyakan adalah pelanggan Madinah Syari'ah sendiri. Bpk Zaim Saidi, Direktur WIN, yang tengah bermuhibah di kota Medan pekan lalu itu pun, dihadirkan dalam pengajian Jumat siang (7 Mei 2010) tersebut. Dihadapan lebih dari 30 peserta, Pak Zaim menjelaskan telah kembali beredarnya Dinar dan Dirham di kota Medan, serta manfaatnya dalam kehidupan sehari-hari.

Peserta pengajian, yang umumnya dari kalangan ibu-ibu, sengat bergembira mendengar telah hadirnya Wakala Baitul Dinar di Medan. Meskipun kebanyakan baru kali ini mendengar penjelasan tentang riba dan hubungannya dengan Dirham dan Dinar, mereka dapat memahaminya dengan baik.

Ceramah Dinar Emas Dirham Perak"Wah, kami ingin segera berhijrah dan keluar dari sistem riba yang telah begitu merasuk dalam kehidupan sehari-hari ini," ujar salah seorang ibu peserta. Toko swalayan Madinah Syari'ah sendiri oleh pemiliknya, Bpk Muhammad Fendi Leong, seorang muallaf dan salah satu pengusaha terkemuka di Sumatra Utara, dimaksudkan sebagai ajang dakwah, bukan bisnis semata. Slogan Madinah Syari'ah adalah "Halal itu Berkah".

Dan, inilah langkah terbaru mereka: memberikan bonus kepada para pelanggannya Dinar emas. Caranya adalah dengan toko swalayan ini memberikan poin belanja bagi pelangganya yang berbelanja di situ pada nilai belanja tertentu. Bila poin belanja yang dikumpulkan telah mencapai 20.000 poin, si pelanggan akan mendapatkan hadiah 1 koin Dinar emas.

Catatan Tambahan:

Macan Yaohan is the local champion in Medan modern retail industry. It has been in the business since 20 years ago.

When Bobby Leong, the third son of Leong family came back from overseas in 1999, Macan Yaohan had only three supermarkets. Bobby felt that the progress had been so slow for Macan Yaohan. "At that time I just thought that we have to expand or die !.." Bobby once told me.

As for today, local as well as global brands of modern retail are already in Medan. With the blessings of his father and supports from his brothers and sister: Fendi (1st son), Hendi (2nd son) and Sanny (the only younger sister), Bobby decided to expand.

Today Macan Yaohan has 9 outlets in Medan. He told me that some branded supermarkets have closed down, each time Macan Yaohan open an outlet close to them.

Today, after MarkPlus Forum gathering yesterday, i visited the Leong family's 10th upcoming outlet. The first (maybe in Indonesia in such a serious one!) Shariah Supermarket..!

To be postioned as a Shariah Supermarket, all employees are Muslims with Muslim dress. A Mushollah equipped with movie projector and big screen is also available for customers and staffs. Many Islamic books are displayed at the Book Section. (They also plan to have a Hermawan Kartajaya Corner overthere..)

All shoppers, Muslims or non Muslims would be blessed by God. Why? Zakat rule 2.5 pct of net profit will go to Charity purposes. The official launch will be on February 9.

The logo includes three Hearts. They symbolize Intellectual, Emotional and Spiritual Hearts...And the Leong Siblings are the reflections of this. Bobby Leong (on the left) is The Strategic Thinker(Intellectual), Sanny Leong(at the Center) is The Customer Service Champion(Emotional) and Muhammad Fendi Leong is The Dai (Spiritual)..

I told them that I am impressed with the concept very much! I also admire their Mission through such business. It would contribute for the "Unity in Diversity" of Indonesia. The Leong family also reflects on how a Chinese Indonesian family is a Pancasila Family. Bobby and Hendi are Buddhist. Sanny is Christian. and Fendi is a Muslim who also preach in several Medan Mosques...God Bless Indonesia from Medan..!

Maulid Rasul, Hol Sh.Abdal Qadir alJilani dan Maulana Rumi

2010-05-16T06:20:00.000-07:00

The sufi's book is not ink
and letters; it is nothing
but a heart as white as snow.

I am but a dust on the Prophet's path - Rumi.

Alhamdulillah wa syukrillah. Semalam hamba berpeluang mengikuti majlis tersebut di Masjid Negara, Kuala Lumpur lepas salat Asar. Kira-kira 5,000 orang memenuhi dewan dan melimpah dikoridor dengan 2 screen besar. Antara undangan dan tetamu yang hadir adalah
alim ulama dari Mesir, Arab saudi, Yemen, Indonesia, India, Singapura dan Nusantara.

Salawat Nabi, Qasidah, Zikir dan bacaan Quran didendangkan dengan merdu. Anika bahasa digunakan untuk tetamu asing iaitu Inggeris, Arab, Urdu dan BM. Penganjur Yayasan al-Waritheen juga menjemput YDPAgung Tuanku Mizan untuk maghrib. Satu bait sajak Maulana Rumi juga dibacakan memuji keagungan Rasul sallallahu alaihi wasallam serta alhi keluaraganya yang mulia menyibar nur din islam sejak 1500 tahun lalu.

Naik semangat melihat begitu ramai umat islam, lelaki wanita dan kanak-kanak turut hadir dimajlis antarabangsa ini.Moga-moga penghayatan islam secara syumul dizaman kuffar menindas umat islam menggerakan jihad sebenar iaitu bebas dari dominasi sistem ekonomi riba. Bulan Jun 2010...akan diadakan First World Dinar Conference di PWTC menepati ayat Quran: Allah dan RasulNya mengisytiharkan perang atas riba!
Bermuamalah cara Syariah agar ekonomi kufar tumbang bersama ekonomi riba mereka yang ditegakkan atas hutang, kredit, perbankan dan wang kertas/bon dicetak tanpa sekatan.

Ayuh umat islam bangkitlah dan maju kemedan mujahadah dengan ilmu, ulama dan berjemaah ditimur dan barat. Tegakkan dinar emas dan dirham perak berarti menegakkan tiang rukun zakat yang runtuh dek sistem wang kertas dajjal bermata satu !

Pertembungan Dengan Tasawwuf Dan Wen Bao Xin

2010-05-01T20:26:00.000-07:00

(Prakata: Esei ini diambil dari blog Red1 dan peristiwa benar yang berlaku pada sekitar tahun 1979-80 di Petaling Jaya. Tapi sayang, bangunan asal IDP telah diroboh pada 1990an dan digantikan kondo mewah, tercegat dengan PPUM/Hospital Universiti. Wen Bao Xin adalah nama mandarin beliau)

Semasa di Institut Dakwah Perkim (IDP) pada 1980, saya dapat berkenalan dengan Abuzuhri Shin yang baru sahaja tamat IDP itu tetapi sering mengunjungi saya dan berkongsi hasil bacaannya yang agak tinggi-tinggi. Beliau adalah kelulusan Universiti 1st kelas dalam ekonomi (jika tak silap saya) dari Bentong, Pahang dan duduk menumpang pula di rumah Kak Azizah Ibrahim di belakang IDP masa itu.

Beliau rajin menyalin dari sumber bacaan berfalsafah tasauf maupun orientalis serta tokoh masyur Islam yang lain yang beliau boleh pinjam dari perpustakaan Intan kerajaan yang tidak biasa didapati di perpustakaan lain maupun kedai buku. Beliau sering menziarah tokoh-tokoh setempat waktu itu untuk bertukar pendapat dan dengan mengikutinya saya dapat juga manfaat perjalanan ilmiah buat diri saya. Menerusinya saya lebih berkenalan dengan Fadhullah Wilmont, Ustaz Nasuha dari Jeram, dan Koyakutty, editor Readings In Islam yang mendedahkan saya kepada terjemahan hasil kerja Kalim Sidiqui dari UK, Syed Qutb dari Mesir dan The Darqawi Journal dari Norwich.

Saya mula membaca dengan lebih mendalam tentang Shaykh Abdal Qadir As-Sufi, seorang pemeluk Islam dari Scotland dan buku-bukunya seperti Jihad, The Ground Plan yang amat tinggi kaedah pengunaan bahasa Inggerisnya.

Sahabat saya itu amat berminat dengan material tasauf yang saya dapati ada persamaan dengan prinsip Tao dan Zen. Saya juga turut bersamanya ke majlis zikir tariqa Ahmadiah yang ada masa itu di Negeri Sembilan.

Oleh kerana terpengaruh secara mendalam dalam satu ilmu baru yang ada persamaan dengan fahaman yang saya dukung sebelum ini, maka saya banyak mengambil ide-ide dari Shaykh Abdal Qadir dan serapkan dalam perbincangan saya dengan rakan-rakan.

Satu pagi, giliran saya untuk memberikan ceramah kuliah selepas solat subuh dan saya pilih konsep bahawa 'ulama kini adalah musuh Islam' dari buku Jihad - The Ground Plan. Ustaz 'Wan' yang bersama mendengar ceramah saya menegur saya selepas itu dari mana saya dapat bahan tersebut dan apakah saya yakin dengannya. Saya tentu sekali jawab 'ya'.

Selepas itu semasa kelas berjalan saya dipanggil oleh Tan Sri Abdul Jalil Hassan (bekas Dekan Fakulti Islam UKM) untuk masuk pejabatnya. Beliau bertanya saya apa yang saya faham tentang tasauf dan tariqa. Saya pun menjawab sepertimana saya terbaca bahawa "Tariqa itu adalah adab". Beliau pun ajak saya cuba pandang rak buku-buku bahasa Arab yang ada belakangnya, yang penuh dari kiri sehingga kanan, atas sehingga bawah dengan buku-buku dalam bahasa Arab.

"Ah, baca semua ini dulu sebelum nak cakap tentang Tasauf!", ujarnya. "Saya ada ijazah lanjutan dalam Tasauf" (Yakni mengenai Imam Ghazali).

Saya pun termenung tetapi tetap degil bahawa dia adalah dia dan saya adalah saya. Saya sudah mengenal apa itu 'tasauf' sebelum saya masuk Islam lagi. Maka saya angguk je la kerana tidak mahu menimbulkan kontroversi dengannya.

Saya tetap mencintai ilmu dari pelbagai sumbe dan tidak kira mazhab mahupun ideologi. Lagi berbeza lagi saya curious dan ingin go to the bottom of it. Tak kira mengenai ideologi Shia, anti-hadits, bahai, atau political thought seperti Islamic State, Socialism, Marxism, Democracy, Monarchy, Feudalism, Pragmatism dan macam-macam lagi ism yang duk ada.

Tidak jarang juga saya mengadakan debat di kedai kopi maupun kat serambi masjid atau tepi katil dengan pelbagai pihak sehingga jauh malam pun ada. Cuma saya tidak berapa suka jika pihak lain itu cepat emosi atau hilang kawalan dirinya lalu marah-marah demi mempertahankan hujahnya.

A Stranger Friend Crossing My Path

2009-07-05T18:04:00.000-07:00

Open-source experts are a rare breed in the country and we found one in the unlikeliest place — a farm.

OPEN-SOURCE evangelists seem to be everywhere these days. But you’d still never expect to find one on a farm in Kuang, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur.

Redhuan Oon certainly looks the part of an evangelist, working intently on his notebook amidst fruit trees swaying to a cacophony of goats, cows and chickens.

But don’t let the rustic simplicity fool you. Oon is a giant in the open-source community and proof that the Internet enables people to work from anywhere.

He leads some of the most savvy and cutting-edge open-source practitioners in the world as they push the envelope of distributed collaboration and the concept of software designed and supported by volunteers.

“Not just an evangelist. He’s better, he’s also an open-source expert,” said Datuk Badlisham Ghazali, chief executive officer of the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), singing Oon’s praises.

“He has helped put Malaysia on the world technology map thanks to his community developed and supported enterprise resource planning (ERP) open-source effort,” he said.

“This proves to the world that Malaysians can not only embrace technology but also lead in improving, even building new technology.”

MDeC oversees the MSC Malaysia initiative that was conceptualised in 1996, to give Malaysians a boost into the Information Age.

MSC Malaysia now hosts about 2,500 foreign-owned and homegrown companies focusing on areas that include multimedia and communications products, as well as research and development.

Despite those gains, open-source experts are a rare commodity in the country. “There is only one open-source expert for every 50 proprietary software experts,” Badlisham said.

Out of the ashes

Oon’s story starts with the dotcom bust in 2001 when he became a “burned-out chief technology officer in the city.” Married and a father of two, he had just lost his high-flying, five-figure-salary job.

In despair, he searched his feelings and realised that “I actually hated my job. It was meeting after meeting, day in and day out, and I felt straitjacketed in a coat and tie,” said the 47-year-old.

His worsening financial situation brought on by the loss of his job eventually drove him to move his family to the two-acre farm in Kuang. He rented the place to hide and recover financially, and to regain his heart and soul.

He found it a pleasant change from his previous time in the city and his family soon embraced the idyllic lifestyle of living in the countryside.

“I learned how to catch fish from the pond, plant taugeh (bean sprouts) and did my own plumbing and wiring for the house,” Oon said.

He and his wife Fatimah, and their his two young kids Naguib and Mira (who are now 14 and 18 years respectively), lived on a shoestring budget.

“Money was so tight my kids had to sell nasi lemak in school to help us get by,” said Oon.

Oon couldn’t get another job after the dotcom bust. “There was no demand for technology workers at that time,” he said.

He started his 20-year career as a programmer, writing in Cobol, or Common Business-Oriented Language. “But I ended up giving tuition in Maths and English to secondary school students to eke out a living,” he said.

“And then I also began breeding tilapia fish.”

But Oon was just as unlucky with fish breeding. A mud slide wiped out his pond and any dreams he had of becoming a successful commercial fish breeder about a year into the endeavour.

Hope rekindled

Fortunately, a friend showed up shortly later and turned him on to an open-source ERP solution, called Compiere. This rekindled Oon’s interest in programming and the more he found out about open source and Compiere, the more interested he became.

Compiere was produced in 1999 by American Jorg Janke and was used for tracking goods, warehousing, inventory management, sales tracking, and other business functions.

“I find it strange that I discovered open source when I was on farm and not when I was a programmer in the big city,” Oon said.

“What struck me about open-source software is that tweaks and other changes can be made at lightning speed compared to doing the same with proprietary software because open source offers full access to any of the programs’ source code.

“The open-source community is the key to success. The power of many minds is brought to bear on any problems to be tackled and solutions are always quickly found. Many hands do make light work,” he said.

Oon also sees open source as a marketing opportunity. “What better way to market something than to give it away for free?” he said.

Discovering open source was the turning point in Oon’s life. “I also knew that ERP was going to be big deal, where a single contract can be as much as RM400mil,” he said.

He took to studying the inner workings of Compiere, spending hours on end tweaking it.

“It is a powerful ERP tool but it wasn’t very user-friendly in the beginning and I wanted to change this,” Oon said.

“It became a challenge and I would get so involved that on most days I would be up and at it from 5am and wouldn’t quit till midnight or later,” he said.

Oon eventually hooked up with some like-minded people and in 2003 became one of the founders and leader of ADempiere — an open-source community project to develop Compiere further and push it into the mainstream market.

He also decided to create a website — red1.org — that offers technical and basic tutorials on Compiere.

These days, he spends at least eight hours a day programming and configuring Compiere to meet specific customer needs.

He does his coding over a 512Kbps (kilobits per second) copper-line ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) connection.

“I built my little empire on a copper line and I work from my farm. I have no intention of changing this,” he said.

It is still hard work, though. “There are times when I do not get much sleep for 36 hours at a stretch,” he said. “This is because I need to sometimes communicate live with other members of the team who are in different time zones.”

Passion aflame

The toil has paid off for Oon and the ADempiere core community which comprises 30 members worldwide. Compiere has been one of the top three downloads on the sourceforge.net portal the past two years. (SourceForge.net is an online repository of open-source applications.)

Oon claims Compiere is catching on; it is being used by three major international shippers and a supplier to a huge supermarket chain in the United States.

Also, an Australian manufacturing company, GBC Scientific Equipment (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, uses Compiere at its Penang branch. It will be implementing the application at its headquarters in Melbourne next year.

“There are also hundreds of manufacturing, as well as small- and medium-scale enterprises, using the open-source application in Malaysia,” Oon added.

He is confident that Compiere will be able to give ERP software giant SAP a run for its money in the next two years.

“Our consultancy charges will be half that of SAP’s by that time, too. What ADempiere only lacks is a commercial face and front. We also need to build up our pool of expertise and we have started on this,” said Oon.

Fanning the fire

Oon has bigger plans. He is creating the first Masters programme for Compiere in the world this year at the Asia eUniversity in Kuala Lumpur — the only Malaysian university that offers certified open-source courses.

“The first year-long executive Masters programme is already underway with a dozen students. I am finalising the Masters programme which should begin in February next year.

“Degrees in open source are rare. There are some Linux courses but there are none in the world for ERP,” Oon said.

He believes that a certifiable knowledge base is important to make sure that Compiere remains a success. “Open source without a supporting talent pool is unthinkable,” he said.

Due to his indepth knowledge of Compiere, Oon is very much in demand and his career is beginning to take off again. “In the open-source community, information is free but expertise is not and is in demand,” he said.

Being an open-source guru is a far cry from the days when he was hoping to just survive the bad times. “I’ve even had the luxury of being able to turn down jobs because they would take me away for too long from my family and farm,” he said.

“I’ve grown accustomed to having the sounds of nature around me while I ponder lines of code.”

The simple life must suit him. Oon has been prolific in his work and has even found time to write a technical book called Open Source ERP, which will be out in stores in August.

What’s next after that?

“Well, I want to build a wooden sailing ship, like the one in Pirates of the Caribbean, and sail around the world,” Oon answered.

“Of course, it’ll have to be equipped with special antennas so that I’ll have Internet access wherever I go,” he added with a hearty laugh.

A Seeker Old Notes

2009-05-28T07:14:00.000-07:00

Notes of 19.11.2007 after reading The Triumphal Sun:

Many seekers are being called travelers of the Path
but no one can claim to be a full sufi yet.
A traveler may arrives or get lost on the Way.
The Forest of Dunya is never kind to travelers
who enter it without a tested Guide.
Without a Weapon of Tawhid.
Without a Light of Discrimination-Furqan.

Buying sufic books and reading many old jawi
or Arabic kitab/texts of commentaries cannot help one
to see in the night of modernists anti-sufi.
On daytime the goats from the University Farms will attack
and chew up the green books because they are very hungry
and not trained well by their Masters and Dukturs
who prefer to feed them with spiritual empty grasses
and syllabus from the Orientalist wastelands.

(Dont ask me who is Hsue Tou and Neo-Hsue Tou, too late to learn mandarin and open the Blue Cliff Record of Thomas Cleary)

My student Zuigan Commentary ( free style spining poem)

Maulana Rumi Mountain collect clouds
Darqawi Deserts pour the rains
Half falls north of Master Izi River
Half falls into Attendant Zuigan Hut
Others may be stuck at Old Temples

Those who fear the Reality will be given knowledge
Do not say I have not warned you
A sufi a zen a monk still a name
Forest, desert and mountains
They cheat people most time
Or make them fight in politics
Sichuan Lu Xun Pur Erh

The Tea of China never Smells
Three sufi will make loud Noise
One solitary wali sat facing a city Wall
Music and drums they sell Tariqats

Kitaro and Wu Ming is my Friend
Leave all books journal and papers
Took the Sun burning Path
Where Universities cannot teach
_________________
Tubba alal-ghuraba
Fasalamun ala man tabaal-huda
Rabbi habli hukman wa ahiqni bis-salihin

Catatan Dari Jakarta

2009-05-26T20:40:00.000-07:00

POJOK ZAWIYYAH RIBAT JAKARTA

Bismillah! yang dapat duduk dalam lingkaran ini
adalah yang berhati bening..walaupun kesalahan menutupinya,
dengan ijin Allah! masya Allah la quwatta ila billah
- hasbuna Allah wanimal wakil...

Pengetahuan terbesar adalah pengetahuan
yang di iringi rasa takut (kepada Allah). (ibn Ata'illah)

Hanya orang bodoh dan tertipu yang merasa dirinya tinggi
dan rendah karena apa yang ada ditangannya (al-faqir)

Pecinta sejati tiada bertepi, rindu tanpa batas
dan cinta tanpa kahir, tidak dimiliki dan memiliki (al-faqir)

Aku akan berjalan ribuan kilometer bersama kepalsuan,
sampai aku bisa menemukan satu langkah yang benar dan sejati (al-Junayd)

For those who travel to Allah and do not listen to its conversation or follow its opinion, it is like a strong wind released for sailors. In one hour, it makes them arrive whereas others arrive there after a month or a year. Allah knows best. When someone halts with conversation and opinion, by Allah, he remains becalmed, at a standstill, as occurs to sailors. Such is its nature. We think that the one who leaves what does not concern him will find that the least of means is enough for him. If he does not leave it, nonthing will be enough for him, no matter what he does. (Shaykh ad-Darqawi)

A Hundred Resolutions

2009-03-30T09:22:00.000-07:00

Sharing one of the poems that speaks to me...

Lovers are Made Aware

You make a hundred resolutions
to journey somewhere,
He draws you somewhere else,
He turns the horse's bridle in every direction
So that the untrained horse may know there is a rider
The clever horse is well paced
because it knows a rider is mounted upon it.
He fixed your heart on a hundred passionate desires,
disappointed you, and then broke your heart.
Since He broke the wings of your first intention,
how do you doubt the existence of the Wing-Breaker?

Since His ordainment snapped the cord
of your contrivance,
how can you remain blind to His Command?
Your resolutions and aims now and then are fulfilled
so that through hope your heart
might form another intention
which He might once again destroy.
For if He were to keep you completely from success,
you would despair:
how would the seed of expectation be sown?

If your heart did not sow that seed,
and then encounter barrenness,
how would it recognize its submission to Divine will?
by their failures lovers are made aware of their Lord.
Lack of success is the guide to Paradise:
Pay attention to the tradition,
" Paradise is encompassed with pain"

Maulana Rumi, MATHWANI III, 4456-67
-Gift from traveler friend @mariefleur

Wun Tung

2009-03-15T03:04:00.000-07:00

1. Hamba ditakdirkan dilahirkan didaerah pergunungan banjaran titiwangsa. Kampungku pernah digunakan kawasan laluan dan operasi perang gerila zaman jepun dan darurat komunis.Lebih awal lagi mungkin jadi markas atau tempat persembunyian dato' bahaman/mat kilau melawan penjajah mat salih. Jadi semasa membesar dalam pengembaraan mencari ilmu dunia dan akhirat terpaksa keluar dari bandar wuntung (bahasa dialek ibundaku).

2. Datuk dan ayahku (tungshan mari)telah melakukan satu revolusi atau cuba merealisasikan satu wawasan suci jauh kehadapan untuk seorang anak china hakka dilahirkan ibuku pada tahun 1956. Sempat bersuara dan menjerit untuk kemerdekaan malaya ketika itu. Malaysia hanya terbentuk pada tahun 1963 tatkala hamba berusia 7 tahun dan dihantar memperjuangkan masadepan sekolah aliran melayu kebangsaan !
Cuba fikir logik tak, kakakku dua orang dihantar belajar sekolah inggeris dan sekolah china tapi anak lelaki sulung dihantar sekolah melayu ? Hamba protes dalam senyap menggengam bara api...yang akhirnya bertukar percikan nur iman.

3. Bandar Bentong memiliki banyak keunikan dan memecahkan REKOD SEJARAH MALAYSIA seperti berikut :

a. Bandar ini diteroka kerana bijih timah, emas dan getah oleh pendatang china yang majoritinya puak hakka, kwongsai dan kantonis. Jika waktu malam hampir 99% pekan ini dikuasai orang china, penuh dengan basikal pada zaman 1960an dan 1970an serta burung-layang layang beribu-ribu ekor bermalam atas talian letrik panas dijalan loke yew, ah peng and chuiyin.

b. Ahli Parlimen bandar kecil diapit dua banjaran gunung dengan sebatang anak sungai pahang mengalir deras ditengahnya yang diwakili oleh MCA tak pernah TEWAS dalam pilihanraya sejak merdeka. Melahirkan tokoh politik china dan bekas menteri terkenal Tan Sri Chan Siang Sun, Lim Ah Lek, Chan Kong Choy, Liow Tiong Lai dan termasuk Menteri Besar Pahang mutakhir Adnan Yaakub (dari kg.benus).

c. Ramai terlupa sejarah bahawa Dato' Hussein , ayahanda Tun Razak (TR) pernah menjadi DO daerah ini dan kuburnya diziarahi setiap tahun oleh sanak saudaranya di perkuburan Batu Satu, Jalan Tras menghala ke Raub.Salah seorang sepupu TR yang sohor adalah Pak Busu yang membuka kedai runcit dan jual nasi lemak/kuih di persimpangan ke Air Terjun Chamang/Kg.Repas, kira-kira 1 km dari pekan. Kini kedai beliau sudah ditutup dan tanah kebun getah dibelakang rumahnya telah dijual kepada pemaju china pada 1975 lalu dibangunkan Taman Shahbandar Hussein sekarang !

d. Semasa TR menjadi TPM dizaman Tunku, daerah ini dipilih menjadi Tanah Rancangan Felda(getah) Pertama di Malaysia iaitu FELDA LEMBAH BILUT kira-kira 15 km dari bandar.

e. Seterusnya rekod Malaysia lain ialah pembinaan KOTA KASINO GENTING HIGHLAND diatas banjaran titiwangsa terletak dalam pentadbiran DO Bentong ! Ada sebuah Masjid di Genting bernama Tan Sri Noah iaitu bapa kepada Toh Puan Rahah isteri arwah TR. Dan anak sulungnya kini hampir beberapa hari lagi menjadi PM Malaysia !

f. Rekod satu lagi: pembinaan Lebuh Raya KL-Karak dan Terowong paling tinggi di Malaysia dekat Genting Sempah, 1500 kaki.

Hari Wanita Antarabangsa

2009-03-11T23:55:00.000-07:00

1. Pada Isnin lepas 9 Mac 2009 diraikan media massa sebagai hari wanita atau international woman day. Maka tergerak hati saya mencatatkan sejarah tarikh unik dalam kamus hidup keluarga berdarah naga utara dan sang rimau nusantara ini.

2. Hampir 3 hari mengurus hidup berdikari tanpa wanita pada 7-9 Mac 2009 kerana isteri dikasih terbang balik ke Kota bahru menziarahi ahli keluarganya yang uzur.

3. Hamba ada 3 puteri mujahidah telah besar, dewasa dan boleh hidup berjauhan kerana kerja (anak sulung lulusan UIA mengajar di kolej Muar), anak kedua berkursus BTN dan Induksi di Perak dan Langkawi selama 2 minggu (baru habis mengaji di Melbourne) dan anak ketiga mengasah ijazah doktor di UK.

4. Jadi, yang tinggal serumah dengan sang bapa tunggal sementara adalah anak lelaki sulung (bersiap ke Ireland/Russia/ukraine begitulah bunyinya jika tamat Baccalaurate nanti)dan anak lelaki bongsu berjiwa samurai,dragonball,kitaro ...darjah 4 bisa menyanyi lagu inggeris dan jepun, mengaji Quran habis 10 juz..

5. Sebab tak pandai masak, maka kami sempena Hari Wanita buat keputusan makan musafir di Medan Selera Alamanda. Banyak mata memandang...eh mana emak atau ibu, kakak mereka ? Kasihan , bapa berumur lebih separuh abad makan masakan western, cina dan melayu dengan 2 anak lelaki ?

6. Begitulah secebis kisah hidup keluarga moden Malaysia. Adik isteri saya pernah belajar 5 tahun di universiti hiroshima dan kini sedang mengajar di UITM dan buat Ph.D di UKM. Jumpa suami di jepun. Adik lelaki seorang lagi mengaji di University of California hampir bekerja dengan NASA. Balik malaysia kerja dengan Petronas, berhenti. Kerja dengan JKR , berhenti. Masalah hasad dengki musuh sesama melayu dan muslim. Baik kerja dengan syarikat minyak US dapat gaji lebih Rm20,000 sebulan. Berkat biasiswa MARA taja dia belajar overseas.

7. sekian, akan sambung cerita Hari Bapa bila ada ilham.

Melawan Kufr dengan Kasut, Apa yang hilang ?

2009-03-11T23:45:00.000-07:00

Tanpa Kasut Tanpa Mengenal Musuh Diri, Akal,Bangsa, Negara atau Kufr

By Abdas Samad Clarke

A shoe was thrown. It was thrown because of the destruction of Iraq, its infrastructure, and the million deaths of men, women and children, and the exile of substantially more people as refugees, because of the theft of Iraq’s resources and their being handed over to crony capitalism by what they like to call the ‘US government’, a rubric for what has been a kind of gangsterdom long before Mr Bush the clueless assumed the helm and which will certainly continue to be so with the next incumbent.

Now the man who threw the shoe is regarded as bad mannered, and possibly an extremist. So to throw a shoe is extremism but to kill a million people is not. And in other eyes, he is a new hero, a Saladdin. One man will buy the shoe for $10 million and another has offered his willing daughter in marriage.

However, if we now campaign for the one man who threw the shoe, to stop him being beaten in an Iraqi jail, where were we when the million people were being murdered, the millions exiled to suffering and poverty? Surely our efforts should have been many million-fold stronger on their behalf. This is a classic case of how information levels, it makes each crime seem the same: the throwing of a shoe-thrower in jail equates to the murder of a million people. The outrage felt is equivalent in both cases.

In reacting to the shoe, we are simply reacting to the signal fed us by the apparatus ironically called the ‘media’, ironically, since media are what transmit signals to the public, but this apparatus largely blocks real and true signals from getting to us. But how can that be?

The media came to the forefront in history during the French Revolution, for after all, the word journalism comes from the French word jour ‘a day’. They are a part and parcel of the theory of democracy, for how can you have a citizenry voting on the affairs of state and those who are to represent them in making decisions if the citizenry are not well informed? Theoretically the media are crucial in this process. But something has gone wrong, horribly wrong.

That wrongness comes from something so simple and so obvious that few people can see it, and if they are shown it they refuse to see it. Just as in this theory there is a need for media to inform the citizenry, there is clearly a need for journalists, staff, editors, printers, distributors, and a whole host of others to produce, sell and distribute the ‘news’, and equally there is a need for a great deal of technology, not least printing machines, but today PCs, faxes, and a host of other devices, and this costs a great deal, capital expense.

Our age in its lemming-like rush to extinction sees no alternative to taking loans that grow exponentially and destroy their host just as parasites do. That necessarily means that the whole apparatus of the news must think first and foremost about sales, rather than about informing people. Actions are by intentions. The news has become a matter of sales and is not about informing.

That is a great part of why, although there has never been a people so over-informed as we are today, it results in us being absolutely ineffective and impotent, until finally one of our number, one of the swarm of the impotent, after being thoroughly searched for any possible dangerous object, simply lost it and threw his shoes and he did not even hit the target. And we, right across the globe, have felt a rush of sympathy and support for this pathetic brave man who simply responded humanly to the awful liar, mass murderer and war criminal he saw before him. And he threw his shoes.

Ingin Menjadi Burung Hud-Hud ?

2009-03-03T23:34:00.000-08:00

Karya kedua ini dihidangkan untuk pembaca budiman. Takut nanti hilang terus entah kemana. Insya'Allah, akan disambung dengan balasan surat pembaca misteri dari pahang. Dia komen, hanya orang sufi yang tahu bahasa rohani dan alam haiwan. Jangan guna intelek sangat. Setuju juga tapi dia tak beri alamat.

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The original article - dated July 1998 (Muslimah Magazine, Malaysia)

Terbang Bersama Hud-hud –

Apakah relevannya kisah Burung Hud hud dengan kehidupan manusia yang semakin kalut dengan krisis ekonomi, budaya sekular dan konflik politik agama serta gersangnya pengisian rohaniah sejati? Jika kita rajin dan serius, kita boleh menggali seribu makna dari kisah-kisah Hud-hud dalam al-Quran surah Al-Namli ayat 20. Tuhan Maha Bijaksana menggunakan perlambangan dan bicara seekor burung untuk mengajar manusia beberapa hikmah penting.

Hud-hud adalah simbol pencari kebenaran tak lekang di zaman. Dia pengikut setia, pembawa berita menakjubkan dan ketua masyarakat haiwan dari jenisnya. Hud-hud utusan kepercayaan Nabi Sulaiman alaihi salam. Dia mengikut perintah tet
api tidak buta. Dia tidak hadir perhimpunan ada alasan tersendiri. Hud-hud dipuji di dalam al-Quran. Dia pengikut beriman yang memiliki fikiran terbuka, cerdik dan innovatif. Dari kisah istimewa melencungnya penerbangan Hud-hud, kita dipaparkan dengan kedudukan dan kuasa Nabi Sulaiman dan Ratu Balqis. Dua pemimpin bangsa dan negara yang bertembung kekuatan dan identitinya sendiri. Apakah mereka akan berperang atau berdamai?

Para sufi dan ariffin membuat tafsiran bahawa setiap insan dalam perjalanan menuju Tuhannya telah dibekali dengan syarat/cermin Hud-hud. Semua manusia memiliki Hud-hud yang berkicau dengan berita berita penting dunia, yang terkadang menggembirakan dan kadang menyedihkan. Berita-berita kemajuan teknologi, kemewahan, kenikmatan sensori dan keuntungan material, kebebasan beragama dan demokrasi idaman. Berita-berita zalim, dominasi, putarbelit kuasa elit, krisis wang dan perang sana sini, manusia hanyut tanpa iman dan melawan perintah Tuhan.

Dengan kata lain, setiap hidup insan ibarat perjalanan berbahaya dan juga sangat berharga. Setiap kita pasti ada Sulaiman dan Balqisnya, ada penasihat-penasihat di keliling istana kuasa. Siapa patut tunduk pada siapa? Sulaiman adalah akal memimpin dan Balqis adalah nafsu dunia yang mengagungkan matahari material. Sementara itu, Hud-hud adalah jambatan, peneroka dan bekal Ilahi berupa ilham, intuisi, fitrah, kabar, informasi dan petunjuk dari Allah.

Setiap makhluk alam ada perlembagaannya untuk mengisyaratkan sesuatu yang tinggi. Insan dengan akalnya, pohon nyiur dengan lambaiannya, sungai dengan arus airnya, laut dengan gelombangnya, karang dengan ketegarannya, bumi dengan kitarannya, bintang dengan kerlipan cahayanya, burung dengan kicau dan penerbangan bebasnya. Betapa sayap sayap rohani mereka dapat menghantarkan mereka kepada Maharaja Simurgh. Jika Ibnu Sina telah menulis darihal perubatan penyakit zahir dan spiritual, manakala Imam Ghazali darihal peritnya ujian kembara seorang salik dalam Munqiz Minad Dhalal, maka Fariruddin Attar menuliskan Mantiqul At-Thairu bagi mengisahkan keinginan insan kembali ke asal usul syurgawinya melalui penerbangan burung burung metaforis ke arah Simurgh dengan citarasa mistik dan makrifah. Attar bercerita laksana seorang furu hakim seperti Luqman mengajak anaknya menuju Tuhan dengan mengasah dan menggunakan al-Hikmah.
'Wa'man yu'tal hikmata, faqad utiya khairan kathiran.'

Istilah bahsa burung (Mantiqul Thairi) yang dijadikannya judul kitab oleh Attar ada banyak rahsianya. Ianya satu warisan para Nabi yang dapat menguraikan bahasa batin burung-burung dalam percaturan, konflik dan perdebatan mereka uyntuk terbang menuju Tempat Misteri. Simurgh bererti tiga puluh dalam bahasa Parsi yakni 30 sifat/jenis manusia yang ada potensi melakukan perjalanan khas, mencapai pemberian agung Tuhan.Kesemuanya tewas, gagag atau enggan mara terus kecuali 30 ekor burung yang sampai ke Simurgh.

Adakah kita tergolong jenis pencari yang dimaksudkan? Cari dan bacalah buku Attar itu jika anda ingin terbang bersama Hud hud. Jangan dengar lagu M Nasir sahaja. Seronok tapi hanya sebentar. Akhir sekali saya mengaku mendapat ilham daninspirasi menuiskan artikel Burung Hud hud ini dari catatan Iftitah Sayyid Musa al-Kazim dalam Jurnal bernama Al-Hikmah terbitan MIZAN, Indonesia Bil 15.1995. Perlukah kita terbang ke Jakarta untuk mencari hikmah yang tiada terdapat di Malaysia? Pembaca boleh menjawabnyua sendiri. Kesimpulannya, setiap peluang, peristiwa, buku atau renungan yang boleh membawa insan kepada Jalan Pulang menuju Penciptanya adalah ibarat burung Hud hud.

Dia ibarat mursyid petunjuk jalan dan impian yang mesti diteruskan seperti mana penulis fizik moden Gary Zukav mengajak pembaca menari bersama The Dancing Wu Li Masters bagi menemukan hikmah rohani timur. Jika Dr Sachiko Murata berupaya mendalami bahasa Arab dan fahaman sufi lantas menghasilkan karya masyhurnya The Tao of Islam yang membuat perbandingan dengan prinsip Yin Yang dalam falsafah klasik China, maka selaku Muslim, kita lebih berhak menguasai ilmu ilmu , bahsa dan hikmah yang berkaitan.

Oleh itu setiap Muslim atau pencari beraniu yang mahu terbang bersama burung Hud hud sayugianya memahami bahasa wahyu, bahsa akal dan bahasa makrifah yang terbentang di bumi luas nan indah. Sebagai satu amaran, jangan kita biarkan angka angka matawang , indeks bursa saham dan ekonomi, formula teori sains dan teknology menewaskan huruf huruf bahasa ajaib kurnia Illahi untuk dijadikan peta rujukan semua insan bagi merealisasikan maknawi diri masing masing.

Gold Dinar A Threat To Kuffar System

2009-02-21T22:48:00.000-08:00

Ramai tidak tahu kejatuhan daulah Islam terakhir, khalifah Uthmaniyya Turki pada 1920s disebabkan racun kuasa riba, wang kertas dan perbankan kuffar telah menjajahi dunia islam. Sistim riba ini telah meruntuhkan tiang rukun zakat ! 'Perbankan islam' kini hanya label,slogan dan kuda tunggangan sistim kufar. Awas.

IS THE ISLAMIC GOLD DINAR A REAL THREAT?
July 1, 2004. By Craig R. Smith, CEO SATC( website: swiss america rediscover gold)

What's an Islamic gold dinar? ...
Is it a threat to the U.S. dollar? ...
Can radical Islamic convince Muslims to use the gold dinar instead of the dollar?
How will a falling dollar impact the priced-for-perfection U.S. stock market?

Disini ingin kami paparkan kegentaran kufar dan kebangkitan blog/webiste yang membuka matahati kita kepada realiti sebenar.

1. Universiti sains malaysia : Gold Dinar Research Group at http://usm.my/dinar/

2. Dinar Mas kelantan at http://www.dinarkel.com

3. Dinar Nusantara di http://www.wakalanusantara.com

4. Swiss America di http://www.321gold.com/info/gold_dinar

5. www.islamhariini.com

6. www.shaykhabdalqadir.com

7. www.rapidtrends.com

8. http://wealthbygold.com

Krisis Riba Melanda Singapore

2009-02-20T18:59:00.000-08:00

Kini giliran Singapura kerugian kira-kira USD58.0 bilion (x3.4= RM197.2 bilion):Source Business Asia 17.2.09. Malaysia baru nak lancar pakej ransangan RM7.0 bilion ? Sebenarnya dalam 'off balance sheets' banyak bank malaysia telah rugi akibat pinjaman derivatif asing. Ini perang jihad terbesar zaman mutakhir tetapi pak arab telahpun hangus lebih US1.0 trilion/1,000 bilion kerana eksport minyak disimpan dalam USD/bank USA ! Beli saham/bon USA yang jatuh teruk bcos toxic debts derivates. Bila pemimpin islam bangkit dari mimpi kuasa politik demokrasi ?

SINGAPORE - Government of Singapore Investment Corp, which has helped bail out troubled global financial institutions, suffered an investment loss of about 50 billion Singapore dollars (33 billion US) last year, sources told Dow Jones Newswires on Tuesday.

In late 2007 and early last year GIC injected billions of dollars into Swiss bank UBS as well as US banking giant Citigroup, both of which suffered massive losses from US subprime, or higher-risk, mortgage investments.

Subprime troubles later evolved into the worldwide financial slowdown.

"The loss on the investment portfolio last year is estimated at around 45 billion to 50 billion," one of two people familiar with the GIC situation told Dow Jones.

"But, GIC has no thoughts to sell down any of its major investments. They'll wait until they recover."

UBS this month posted an annual loss of 17 billion US dollars, the largest in Swiss corporate history, and announced 2,000 new job cuts.

A second person said GIC's investment loss last year was "recently estimated to be similar to Temasek's."

The portfolio of Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings, which helped bail out Wall Street icon Merrill Lynch, fell about 31 percent over eight months last year, Senior Minister of State for Finance Lim Hwee Hua told parliament last week.

She said Temasek's portfolio of investments fell to 127 billion dollars at the end of November, down 58 billion from 185 billion dollars on March 31 last year.

Matawang Amerika Topeng Boneka

2009-02-04T19:28:00.000-08:00

While the world economy collapses the American dollar continues to strengthen its position in the world, to little wonder – it’s getting back to its basics as the backup currency on every continent except Antarctica.

Yet since the U.S. has debts two times exceeding the world’s GDP one cannot help but ask oneself – what’s next?

The web is flooded with lots of theories and rumours about what would happen to the American currency whether, when and where it would fall – or what else. Some of them look like senseless fantasies, others resemble futurologist’s predictions, but the conspiracy theories of all kinds and colours are firmly on top of all.

“Dollar will crash soon”, “U.S. will change currency”, “Dollars will be sold by weight” – as some smart Russian blogger put it – who creates such buzz and is there a rational reason for the slightest of anxieties?

Well, there is a fact that poses a question, with a big Q. Dollar monetary stock worldwide has grown two-fold over the last half-year and this printing press does not seem to be slowing down.

Would this financial pyramid eventually collapse (since these lots of green paper are not based neither on gold or something equally solid nor collateralized to be collateral)? No one from the U.S. Federal Reserve System so far has intelligibly explained what they are planning to do with the paper, and this mystery probably holds the key answer to the question posed above.

The unimaginable trillions of dollars of national debt make the currently realised $US 700 billion bailout plan look pale in comparison – as well as the $US 850 billion next one currently being discussed.

The truth is that all this money just does not exist. You can print banknotes but you cannot necessarily call them “money”. Imagine this money distributed equally among every living person and fancy what would happen if they all decided to buy goods simultaneously – there’d not be enough goods on this planet. What’s next? Guess for yourself.

So, the devaluation of the dollar is probably not far away but what could happen before this event? Here are just some of the most fabulous yet entirely possible worst-case scenarios.

Option 1. Have you heard about Amero? Not yet?! Well, that’s how most probably will be called the currency of the united economic zone of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Unimaginable? You’d better imagine what to do with the green paper stockpiled throughout the world if the exchange rate is 1:10 or even 1:100.

Option 2. This world is infested with forgers and false dollars (most of them not in the U.S.) When the hour comes and the new (let’s say red) dollar is produced, all the rest of the world would face the problem of how to use the green ones. Beware! The print is toxic and you’d die anyway when trying to burn them in your fireplace once you survive the heart attack of hearing the news itself.

Option 3. Everyone knows that the U.S. is a cheap country. Americans do not hellishly spend popular $US 100 banknotes as often as the rest of us. No use – no need. Why don’t they call them off altogether? They are nearly all false, anyway.

Option 4. The U.S. declares itself technically bankrupt. Impossible? There are RULES, you’d say? Everything’s possible for the country that has changed the rules of the game countless times to become the biggest consumer sponging on the rest of the world.

Option 5. Uncontrollable printing of the dollar banknotes alone would collapse the dollar system that would make the debt returning for the U.S. Federal Reserve System a task somehow much easier than it is nowadays.

There are economists that do hope that a number of regional unified currencies would emerge within the near future in Asia, Latin America, and Arab world, and even among post-Soviet countries. The euro is a spectacular example, but you do not need to be an economist to understand that such processes expand for decades (consider again the euro example) while the crisis has already stepped in and mushroomed as straight and tall as an atomic cloud.

That is why the more probable seems an Option 6, which is a good old receipt when some countries are busy exterminating each other’s population while the other countries are just accepting arms contracts from both warring parties. Just keep in mind we live in a nuclear age. Again unthinkable? Than take a closer look at the Islamist-torn Pakistan and India and their relations after the Mumbai massacre. Nuclear weapons? They have them both.

If they wage war against each other, they’d be no such thing as Asian, Arab or even European financial markets at all and nobody would care what the hell happened to the dollar.

Komentar:

Nampak pemimpin utama dunia Islam masih tidur nyenyak, leka dengan habuan dan kekayaan minyak/gas, percaya 100% pada sistem kewangan kafir, kapitalis, IMF, Bank Dunia, WTO etc. Saat kehancuran sistim RIBAWI wang kertas, bon, kredit, saham, derivatifs amat hampir. Hanya wang dinar mas, perak merupakan jalan keluar...titik permulaan yang sukar difahami, diyakini oleh akal insan....kerana meninggalkan amar wahyu. Hamba suka berjuang dibalik tabir dan gunung Miyazaki dengan air sungai sejuk dan angin hutan segar. Kalau turun ke kota pasti ada sasaran perang gerila matrix.

Call It Qi And Paint It Zhen

2009-02-01T19:54:00.000-08:00

Catatan Usang ini merupakan komentar keatas syarahan Master Izi ketika hamba mengaji di institut Dailin nur. Tersembunyi jauh di pergunungan wilayah Prefecture Miyazaki, Jepang.

" Menuding kearah seekor Rusa, rupakan ianya jelmaan seekor Kuda Perang ". Siapa pula berani menunggangnya ? Teknik klasik guru Zen untuk mengajar muridnya berfikir diluar kotak akal. Apakah bahasa bisa melukis landskap rohani nan indah lagi suci quddusi ? Apakah metafizika akademik berupaya mengajar kita sufisma atas buku dan ijazah ? Apakah para Awliya mesti mengajar kitab ? Apakah tasawuf bisa dihidupkan melalui pena Tao and senaman Qi Gong ? Mari kita meniti semula cerpen separa fiksi dibawah.

Journal Notes of 19 September 2006

This morning of Ramadhan around 4.00 am my wife woke me up for sahur. She prepared the hot coffee, soup, fish with tomato sauce and at the kitchen she put on the Radio IKIM-islamic channel. We don’t know how and what criteria they label this song/music /singers as Islamic or not-islamic. So I asked my wife Sophia Zhou teasingly,
“ Tell me what are just two happiness the singers got when their songs are being praised and put on air ? She replied, ‘ Are you quizzing me or make fun of my little knowledge ? No, this questions just to awaken and polish your memories !

‘ Polish your heart with Remembrance of Divine’. Meanwhile, the our kitchen radio churned out this song, that song, new songs by Yusuf Islam, another by M.Nasir, another piece of Kitaro…and one overplayed until very familiar with my ears is the Beautiful Names song ! Do this music really clean our hearts ? Do it put subtle awareness and love of truth into our beings ? Or it was just another sensational voice like Mawi, Yassin, Raihan, Siti Nurhaliza, Sharifah Aini, eccentric rock/pop like Ramli Sarip, Aqil Hayy, Imad, Yasin, deep Eastern qasidas from Rabbani, some pieces of Burdah, Barzanji and Thalaal ?

My wife put a brave forced answer-‘ they are happy bcos they make money from singing! ’.
Another answer, we need just two reasons. What about singers who sing to pour out his heart contents as a lowly slave in face of this vast existence and moving Reality, deep in the night and he dont want anyone to listen or pay him anything ? My wife retorted, ‘ this singer is mad , no money and no audience ?.

So we reverse or put matrix layers of opposite questions and way of posing or answering, then we will get insight into extraordinary revelations ! Yes, there are many mad singers outside…!

But they are as Maulana Rumi, Yunus Emre of Anatolia or Hafiz 700 years ago pointed out , they are not singers of this sensory-lower-media hyped world, but the strangers, seekers , dervishes who sang the in secretive circles and to draw out the bird of meanings or spirit from the caged prison of bodies to soar to another level of being, realm of existence or spiritual station.

They had sold their riches and wealth and freedom just to taste a drop from the Ocean. A gleam of ruh from the Unseen. A light from the arrogant corner of the nafs al-ammara self. A moment of coolness in the Fire of the Friend.

An triple isolation of the self-people, ship-ocean and
night raging storms–tranquil darkness/safety in the Fish Belly.
Subhanaka la ilaha illa Anta, inni kuntu minaz-zalimin.
An escape from Magic of Firaun court of power, death and slavery.

Throw away your Staff, Oh Musa.(your self/intellect reliance)
Put off your two Sandals (realms of inward/outward), Oh Musa.
Draw out your shining Hand from your shirt.
Climb and put your foot in the Burning Bush.
Step into the Sacred Valley of Non-Time/Place..

The Time, Place, Body and Language of humanity has been folded up in a jalali moment. Look the Mountain had melted away, gone, annihilated and became dusts, nothingness. That is your adamic reality. What are we to claim and acquire this dreamlike unseen realm ? How can any sufi or sages or pretenders make claims they can fly, enter, ascend or withdraw inwardly to this Presence of Nearness ? Witnessing the inner reality that make them a slave to bodily form and limitations.

They had not tasted it like the Tea of Ecstasy.
Drink the Nectar of Arrival. From the Cup of TAO.
Except by the mercy, gift and overflowing of the Real.
Not at the time/place they choose/boasted
but only after total stripping away (tajrid/tafrid)
and being BROKEN HEARTED. STAND at the DOOR.

Hot but not fire, wet but not water,
dry but not air and hard but not stone/wood,
this Jewel belongs to the Seeker who had SEEN,
SPOKEN, EMBRACED, KISSED, LEAD the prayer
and followed BEHIND, send OUT, put FORWARD,
taken ABACK, spoken AGAINST, CRUSHED,

TRAVELLED much and covered SHORT distance,
being COOKED, flung to the EAST,
unknown and trampled in the WEST,
he brew TEA but fools say it was COFFEE.
People call it TAO, hide the CHI,
spell it QING and painted it ZHEN.
Recite it KE’LAN CHING.

ENTER the empire of MING.
Journey to DESERT and ARRIVE at DRAGON INN.
BLOWN away the next DAY. RAMADHAN soon over.
NIGHT of POWER is with MY MASTER.

You are still RAW. Learn ADAB from
the YOUNGEST FAQIR and SERVE the OLDEST.
HONOR your WIFE and treat the WOMEN
with LOVE and CARE. They help PURIFY
your NAFS and smell the PERFUME of sincerity.

KICK OUT the bad guys and put them in KITCHEN.
Enter the CAVE of sidi FUDUL.
READ from the Library of al-QARAWYN.
Compare your STATUS with BLIND man of Bahlil.
STAY at the tiny hamlet of AGHLAB until you DIE.

Dance with MOZART. SOAR with Ninth Symphony.
Get ANNIHILATED by just A GLANCE.
This PRICELESS ….ONE DOT beneath the letter of Ba.

NO more voice. No sound, no seeing,
no meeting, no teaching, no books,
no inks and paper to WRITE ON.
No computer to PLUG ON.
Just a TINY VISION SOME WHERE.
CAN YOU KEEP IT. LOST IT ?

Between The Eyebrows And Sultaniyya

2009-02-01T19:29:00.000-08:00

Pointing to a Deer, it become a Horse.
Grubbing the Soil, it becomes Gold
On the tongue, Wind and Thunder are Raised.

Between the Eyebrows, a bloody Blade is Stored.
While sitting, Success or Failure is Perceived
While standing, life and death are Examined.

Tell me: what kind of wisdom teaching is this ?

We are happy to add recent book review of Sh.Abdal qadir as-sufi touching the most pertinent questions of this age: statism, power, islamic governance, riba and true restoration of sharia..etc as follow:

The SULTANIYYA (www.madinahmedia.com)

This new book by Shaykh Abdalqadir is unequivocal in its placing the Deen of Islam and the Muslims who hold to it as being over and above the collapsed and failed ethos of kufr. From its first sentence the author reverts the whole affair back to Allah.

Chapter One gives us an understanding of deen from its root of 'dal-alif-nun, daana, which means to be indebted and also to judge.' This debt begins with a loan from Allah and we spend from it out of the life He gave us, and then He, subhannahu wa ta 'ala, repays us for it. On the Day of the Deen all debts fall due. This is also called the Last Day. The Shaykh next explains the Command of Allah, 'kun fa yakun' (BE AND IT IS) and then unfolds the most beautiful and intellectually sublime description of Rububiya, 'the inter-linked and inter-connected pattern which runs through all creation.' The Great Question that was asked: Alastu bi rabbikum (Am I not your Lord?), and then was answered, originated from before time yet is confirmed or denied in the lived-out in-time reality of each and every human soul that all said "Yes." Those that confirm their answer and those who cover over (make kufr of) what they answered now stand on two opposing 'sides of an abyss.' On one side are the muminun, on the other the kafirun.

The Second Chapter is Dawla, a unique and very special term for the Islamic polity, which does not mean State, as understood within the dominant world view of kufr and has been accepted by the unfortunate Islamic Modernists. The word dawla, the Shaykh informs us, derives from the root dal-alif-lam, and means to change periodically, to take turns, to alternate and to rotate. This is a 'movement' that creates a recognisable pattern that is the deen of Islam. This patterning is expressed through the movement of wealth that occurs through trade (from which usury is prohibited), through the distribution of Zakat (that has been taken by authority before it is released to those to whom it is due), and lastly by means of booty, ghanam, that is the permitted wealth of those who go out and strive in the 'way of Allah.' Again relating to the internal flow of wealth is the jiziya, taken from the Dhimmis in exchange for their being protected, choosing to live within a Muslim society.

Before going to the next chapter it is useful to draw attention to the previous book written by the Shaykh, Technique of the Coup De Banque, which so clearly demonstrates the 'machine' quality of the modern State and how it is inimical to the nature of Dawla. The fiscal State runs on the fuel supply of riba and has a power nexus or engine, which is Bankism, that operates outside of democratically elected Government. The function of Government, therefore, remains only as an inter-face between the non-elected elite, what can be identified as a financial oligarchy, and the general public. The model of Dawla given us in Sultaniya is exemplified by movement, change and distribution, and is the diametrical alternative to the kafir State system, whose underlining characteristic would be 'hoarding' through the concentration of wealth and assumed power amongst a non-elected elite.

The next chapter, which is on Waqf, is written by Professor Mehmet Maksudoglu, the author of Osmanli History 1289-1922, and a leading authority in the field of Ottoman studies. The role of the waqaf (a charitable trust set up in perpetuity for providing a specific service or benefit) within the Islamic model is essentially one of an energy source (derived from seeking the Pleasure of Allah) for the growth, prosperity and the taking care of the basic welfare of society.

The fourth chapter is provided by Umar Ibrahim Vadillo, the leading alim (scholar) in the world today on Islamic Trade. Mr.Vadillo is a scholar of the fiqh (the science of the application of Shar'ia) and Sunna (confirmed practice) of the Rasool, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, pertaining to tijara (trade), and, furthermore, is a demention of Islam that has been allowed to atrophy for over a century.

Significantly, this important alim fully understand the complex machinations of usury Capitalism (modern economics) as it operates in our present time, and not only deconstructs the myth of false [fiat] money but outlines the means of re-establishing halal trade with the Islamic Gold Dinar and Silver Dirham, Islamic Contracts, Open Markets and the Caravans of the twenty-first century. Halal must be taken to mean lawful (by Divine Law) and healthy in regards to a commercial intercourse that produces equity and shared benefit. The author of this essential chapter clearly distinguishes between a pseudo-scholarship that has attempted to Islamisise a kafir economic system and authentic Madinan Islam based on the amal of the community of the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace.

In Chapter Five, As Sultan, Shaykh Abdalqadir begins with the sobering statement that 'there is no extant Islam on the face of the planet,' and while there are probably as many as two billion Muslims there is 'no Islamic command.' The author provides an historical breakdown of events starting with the rule of Mahmud II in the first years of the nineteenth century and ends in the first years of the twentieth with the Kamalist secular (read kafir) State.
The chronology is the record of the dismantling of the Deen, as piece by piece it is surrendered in order to accept in its place another deen. The last heroic effort to divert the entropy of collapse was made by Sultan Abdalhamid II, until the Islamic command stopped. This chapter is by far the most challenging to the hollow religion of Humanism, as it deals with Personal Rule, Genetic Inheritance and Qur'anic Revelation.

The sixth and final chapter, Tasawwuf, provides both a précis to the two main formulations that make up the previous chapters as well as adding an essential third one. The first formulation would be the validity of 'the practiced science of heredity,' based on the Shari'at, relating to inheritance and includes 'personal rule, kingship and for us [most] crucially Kalifate.' The second formulation is that of 'a sound currency, that is the Zakat-collectable Islamic Gold Dinar and Silver Dirham.'

The third formulation is neither a political program nor a personal one. It is nothing less than the returning of the whole of the Deen of Islam to that of being a Divine matter. The 'final conclusion is that where there is a terrain governed by Amirs who have Sultaniyya in the matters of the Faara'id,' the 'Great Moment' can arrive where men choose the 'noblest and bravest amongst them' to lead the Muslims.
An insight into who these leaders were who ruled in this manner can be glimpsed by recognising that they all had spiritual Shaykhs who guided them in their inward as they lead the Umma in strengthening and expanding the Deen. There the text ends, with the passing on of authority from Allah, first to the Rasool, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and then to those who followed in command, with Allah's words from Al A'raf: "Say, Mankind! I am Messenger of Allah to you all."

Abdullah Luongo

Contacts for information and books by Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi:
Orhan Gazi, Amir in Cape Town of the Murabitun
Abdurrahman Shabalala: 083 673 7871 (PRESS SECRETARY)

Commentary on Master Calligrapher Haji Noor Deen

2009-01-29T07:02:00.000-08:00

Part 2 :

f. He shows the mark of sincerity and being put forward to lead others.

g. I don't instruct the trouble somes.

h. Dispelling of ignorance and use of punishment.

i. To remove the shackles of intellect who claim
and the sun rise. To know too much and make complaints.

j. Admitting the virtues of women-seekers.

They can melt the men hearts to affirm the One. To witness the light of the Last Sage. To kneel and bow to the Lord of the Worlds in five daily prayers in the Ancient Rite.

k. He will suffer the small injury of being spoken against,
but in the end, there will be good fortune.

Hikam of Shaykh Ibn Athaillah
( which closely related oracle of I Ching)

Idfin wujduka fil-ardhi khumuli
Fa ma nabata mimma la yudfan
La yatimmu natajahu

(Bury your existence in the earth
of moister obscurity what coming out without being
planted properly will not give fruit/blossoms)

Sweep the rubbish heap
Of your spirits with the broom of `La – Negation'
As Maulana Rumi indicated in his Mathnawi
You are coming from non-existence. Hear Irji – Return !

How do you claim to have power and life
By NoT surrendering in Bowing and Sajda
No carpet and wool but dust under your prayer mat.

Lieh Tzu will take leave
one month from Master Kung court
due to coming winter Season. Cai jian.
Meet again where the Border of Reality
merge into Island of Fiction
Stand on your Firm Ground
The Unwobbling Cord..
CHUNG XIN of your Heart.

Jolted haphazardly at Pondok
Dailin Nur, 1st January 2001.

Teka Teki Koan Miyazaki

2009-01-29T05:53:00.000-08:00

Ihsan itu lautan tak bertepi dan cahaya matahati tak pernah tenggelam dibarat atau ditimur. Memburu dan diburu menjadi satu. Salat Asar diwaktu zuhur kata Imam Junayd dan basahi bumimu dengan air lautan wudu.

Tayamumlah dengan batu dan debu jika belum terjumpa dengan kolam air ihsan. Tiga panah dilepaskan, satu melintas depan mu sekarang dan dua lagi menunggu mu membuka bicara dan siapa pemanahnya ?
Tersesat masuk ke gua Marifa ?

(Dari Bamboo Notes of Miyazaki
Almost Worn Out and Tattered)

Sheng Ren and Yin-Yang Mana Satu

2009-01-29T05:42:00.000-08:00

We found this excellent malay poems somewhere which expressed the admiration of teachings from ancient chinese/philosophy. Hopefully someone can translate it into english or mandarin as below.

SHENG REN CHUN TZI

Kebangkitan asia pembina jenerasi
kitab klasik I Ching masyur kembali
Sheng ren chun tzi bawa mesej sejati
tiori samuel huntington kita hindari

JalanTao menyinari kancah dunia.
Memaut insan harmoni alam semesta.
Imbangkan diri mengikut Jalan Li mulia
Pupuk akal budi-Te tiada henti
kelak engkau mencapai rahsia Tian-ti

Semua tafsiran ini payah dimengerti
Ajaran klasik china hilang seri
jenerasi baru jahil tiada mengaji
takdir langit tao tinggal fragmentasi
syurga firdausi bukan ilusi
rabbi habli hukman wa hiqni
bis-shalihin. Zhenzhu xie-xie ni.

YIN YANG MANA SATU

Hurrah penterjemah seberang selat melaka.
Karyawan tetangga dahului dewan bahasa.
buku dr.sachiko murata popular dijakarta.
The Tao of Islam.apa komen ulama kita
jika tiada berminat dengan falsafah china.
harta mukmin yang hilang ilmu berharga
tuntutlah dia hingga hujung benua

Pemikir jerman herman hesse –
pertama kali nama menjelma.
pujangga mana belajar jampi mantera ?
Novelnya-Perjalanan keTimur tidak lapuk
buat mereka yang berakal katup.

Insan barat mencari pendita hukama,
jenerasi muda kota desa asyik berfoya.
Tanda Islam kita sudah sengsara.
Ibu bapa moden tiada kurangnya.
Tak sempat mengaji di sekolah sekular
Bukan mencari salah dan cerca.
Ayuh kita atasi masalah kritis segera
Jemput guru arif india jepun china,
menyuburi hikmah nurani bangsa.

MAWAR DURI

Semua insan percaya Tuhan.
Kacau dunia kerana menafi agama.
Binasa punah puak tak percaya.
Ideoloji liberal pujaan mereka
Jika tiada awas diri dalam bahaya

Dialog arnold tonbyee dan ikeda suzuki.
Saring istilah sempit ambil yang murni,
baru mudah realiti melintasi dominasi.
Fukuyama berkata sejarah menuju sepi
Kapitalis barat menakluki musuh tradisi

Ibn khaldun menulis Muqaddimah terperi
Hafiz dan Rumi memecah benua sunyi
Penuh cinta asrar rabbani merawat diri.
pembaca bebas mengutip mawar atau duri.
Sangat sedih pujangga tanah pertiwi
bila puisi maknawi dicemari mediokriti

TIUPAN NAFIRI

Jernal Elit Pemikir bila nak beli
Bicara pelik berstatus tinggi
Harga mahal membuat kita gigit jari
kekosongan rohani sukar diisi

usah menunggu tiupan nafiri
sajak puisi memukau inderawi
huruf makna membina bahasa
bahasa membina tamadun
kaligrafi senjata sifu sufi
seruling kitaro pengganti.

(Ihsan karya @ Dailin Nur
bertarikh 18.10.2006 )

Listen To Yunus Emre

2009-01-27T17:47:00.000-08:00

Salam Prof Wan ,

As time glide pass
your voice sweeter
and sharper

may your path
shorter and richer
sow the seeds for
future strangers !

-from dailin nur teahut

Yunus Emre – Riches To Dust

A single word can brighten the face
of one who knows the value of words.
Ripened in silence, a single word
acquires a great energy for work.

War is cut short by a word,
and a word heals the wounds,
and there's a word that changes
poison into butter and honey.

Let a word mature inside yourself.
Withhold the unripened thought.
Come and understand the kind of word
that reduces money and riches to dust.

Know when to speak a word
and when not to speak at all.
A single word turns the universe of hell
into eight paradises.

Follow the Way. Don't be fooled
by what you already know. Be watchful.
Reflect before you speak.
A foolish mouth can brand your soul.

Yunus, say one last thing
about the power of words --
Only the word "I"
divides me from God.

(nota: semoga coretan sufi musafir yunus emre memberi kita nafas baru 2009 !)

PERTEMUAN KEDUA MASTER IZI DAN DR.ANQARAVI

2009-01-25T02:39:00.000-08:00

Jam 7.15 pagi di Institut Semazen, bangunan kayu 2 tingkat berbalam hijau biru diselaputi kabus pagi dan penduduk Miyazaki masih tidur nyenyak. Cahaya suria baru saja menyinar lembut dicelah ufuk timur Gunung Fujiyama. Maklumlah musim salji sekarang di Jepun sudah tak menentu. Suhu diluar 18 Celsius dan kalau di Malaysia…28 Celsius dikira normal. Kena pakai baju/kot berlapis.

Kami dipanggil oleh Master Izi Kurashowa melalui anak buahnya, Atikato: ‘ Zhao san…Dr.Anqaravi ! Our master invite your honorable self to participate on the lesson of Ta Hsue at 8.00 am this morning. We will wait you at Kenji Tatami Tea Room just 100 meter left to your suite. Please also bring along your text and commentary of Maulana Rumi. We think he may ask you something on ‘the language of Sufis and China sages’.

‘My master, the philosopher Chang says’:

‘The Great Learning is a book transmitted by the Confucian school,

and form the Gate by which first level students enter into virtue.

That now we can perceive the Order in which the Ancients scholars

pursued their knowledge is solely owing to the preservation of this work,

the Analect and Book of Mencius coming after it.

Seekers must commence their Path

with this and then it may be hoped,

they be will kept from Error (by Heaven).

James Legge footnotes: ‘ I have pointed out, in the prolomegna, the great differences which are found among Chinese commentators on the criticism and interpretation of it. We encounter them on the very threshold (of early Islamic texts equivalent). Kung Ying-ta says,’ It is the highest principles-Li. Chu Shi definition is contrary- the Tao of Great Learning is –

To cultivate illustrious virtue (te’);

to renovate the people; and
to rest (firm) in the highest excellence
(of complete human nature/spiritual capacity).

He explained it further, ‘ Te’-virtue is the metaphysical part of men nature, all comprehended under the terms- mind, soul, heart and spirit’.

Master Izi quoted then the Oracle of I Ching;

‘In observing the signs, the superior man (chun zi)
stand in awe of the Ordinances of Heaven (Tian)
he follow and carried out the

Teaching of the Sages (Sheng ren) and
he obey/submit to the Great men-king/rulers
(of wisdom who combined the inward/outward/Ta ren)’.

Siapakah para Guru/Filasuf yang dipanggil ‘Shengren’ dalam ajaran china klasik tersebut ? Teks itu bersambung dimuka surat 108 para 5:

‘Such a rulers/sages (ta ren/sheng-ren)
illustrating his ‘virtue’, constitute an example
(model/pattern) to the world for ages.

His Acts are for ages a Law to the kingdom.
His Words are for ages a Lesson to the kingdom/people.
Those who are far from him look longingly for him;
those who are near him are never wearied with him….

He may compared to heaven and earth, and
below he was conformed to the water and land. (p.109)

It is only he, possessed of all SAGELY qualities
that can exist under heaven, who show himself
quick in Apprehension, clear in Discerning,
of far reaching Intellect and all embracing
Knowledge, fitted to exercise RULE; (p.112)

Magnamious, benign, mild, fitted to Forbearance,
Impulsive, maintain a Firm Hold, Self Adjusted,
Grave, never swerving from the Pivot and
Correct-Truthful, fitted to COMMAND Reverence,
Accomplished, distinctive, concentrative,
Searching and fitted to exercise Discrimination.(p.113)

..sambung..

Kurnia Ijazah Doktor Kehormat USM 2001

2009-01-17T19:30:00.000-08:00

SHAYKH DR.ABDAL QADIR AS-SUFI :

THE ACCEPTANCE SPEECH AT THE CONVOCATION TO RECEIVE HON. D. LITT. HONOUR

Conferred by UNIVERSITI SAINS MALAYSIA on 9th August 2001

Invocation of Allah and Prayer on the Prophet, may Allah be pleased with him.

Saya amat berbangga dapat bersama dalam perhimpunan akademik yang mulia ini.

Naib canselor dan para hadirin yang dihormati, kita pohon Rahmat Allah untuk Tuanku Canselor dan kita pohon kejayaan untuk universiti.

I was profoundly moved to receive the message from your distinguished Vice Chancellor informing me that this renowned seat of learning had decided to bestow upon me the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature. It is all the greater privilege for me because it represents not only the crown of my lifetime's activity as a writer in the service of Islam, but for the tremendous significance that in choosing me you have recognised the intellectual imperative of placing Islamic knowledge over all other knowledges, indeed, one which defines the parameters of the sciences and the arts. Islam is a Divine instrument whose task is to create just and excellent civilisation in this world and at the same time to guarantee the entry into the blessed Garden of the next world, and that is to say a Garden which holds the meanings of sensory beauty and another which holds the realities of Divine knowledge and witnessing.

There is a further reason that I would like to share with you because of the personal joy it brings to me and for the good news it carries for the university life of this great Islamic state of united Sultanates. Your Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohammad, having served your country over these two decades and having steered the nation to a significantly higher level of development, thanks to his enormous experience and his innate wisdom was able to understand and interpret the massive betrayal which the kafir society visited on the Muslim lands of Nusantara, which resulted in the virtual halving of the country's monetary wealth.

The first Muslim leader to recognise that the solution to escape from the kafir world enslavement was the return to what Allah, glory be to Him, had ordained, the use of the golden Islamic Dinar and silver Dirham as instruments of trade and the only permissible money of Zakat - was the then Prime Minster of Turkey, Dr. Erbakan, who publicly declared, "This is the currency of the Muslims."

The next Islamic leader to recognise this was the late King Hasan II of Morocco, may Allah be merciful to him and reward him for having saved his kingdom from the disasters of republicanism suffered by his neighbour Algeria. In the last year of his life during his Ramadan gathering in his palace at Rabat, he received from my fuqara a gift of the Islamic Dinar and Dirhams. He accepted the gift and was profoundly moved. Two days later he announced his intention of setting up a group of 'ulema to restore the means of a correct and halal Zakat using the Islamic Dinar of 'Umar Ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him.

However, the third and most important step has been taken by your distinguished Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohammad in his now famous public address in which he indicated that only a real money currency, that is the Islamic Dinar, could free the state from the manipulations of its enemy. It was significant at this point that those who opposed the Prime Minister and were removed from office, while pretending to reform, had as their allies the World Bank and the IMF which are themselves the militant instruments of the kafir bid for world government.

Thus Malaysia is at the threshold of a new age both for the world in general and the Muslim nation in particular. In one decision your leader had taken a step into the future in advance of every Muslim leader today.

In the light of this new situation I would like to propose to you that new times demand new ways of thinking, and old configurations of both political structure and method have to be speedily and courageously abandoned in order to achieve the restoration of Islamic greatness and a new vigour for the future of this whole area which is the Muslim heartland in our time.

Firstly, we have already abandoned the twentieth century model of political power. Government no longer has substantive power. It is reduced to the feeble task of taxation and domestic spending on medicine, policing, and basic infrastructure. In an age when individual corporations, including worthless ones like Coca Cola, command annual capital sums vastly in excess of any middle-sized political state, it is now inescapable that power has passed from the political zone to the zone over all others, of finance.

Secondly, we should look now at a new model of power interaction held in tension between a triad of forces-the zone of commodities power, the zone of media power and the zone of financial power. These three groupings of wealth, power and command both interrelate with each other and at the same time are in conflict with each other due to the different primacy of their goals. We could demonstrate this briefly by pointing out that the Balkan War was a media-controlled event under an American presidency, Clinton's, which was media-supported. The abdication of the Indonesian President Suharto, for the first time in history, was made not by the commanding hand of a dictator as France surrendered to Hitler, but to the head of the IMF in the Presidential Palace. The new apparently irrational missile shield of the new American administration, in itself useless, is the vital method necessary to restore power to the commodities sector through the vast programme of missile defence.

Thirdly, I would like to take this opportunity while in the presence of this distinguished gathering, and because of the enormous influence the country's intellectuals rightly wield, to also bring attention to the Islamic dimension of your current situation. There can be no such thing as an Islamic party because in logic that would imply that the sovereignty of the people was above the sovereignty of Allah, glory be to Him, and that if they chose to reject the Islamic party they would be responsible for legalising the right to devolve from Islamic obligation. By the same token a reform party setting itself against the government of the state is a kind of treason, or a Shi'a trying to undermine the authority of the government. If the reformers are allied to the power institutions of kufr, the World Bank, IMF and so on, it is clear that their agenda is the destruction of and not the revitalising of the Islamic body politic.

If I were asked to indicate any grave error that I perceived in the state I could only do it as your guest on the issue of any serious aspect of the Deen that seemed to be neglected. It is here that the 'ulema must bear the full brunt of any such weaknesses and the reason for this is not any defect of their characters, but simply that since 1945 the only version of Islam promulgated inside Malaysia and Indonesia has been one that at its inception has been vetted and approved by the forces of kufr and which stems from the modernist movement, itself the servant of the oil producing states. If we restore to Malaysia a correct 'aqida, that is an understanding of Allah's power and majesty and of the Deen itself, Malaysia and its neighbouring countries will be transformed.

You have all but liberated yourselves from political colonial rule but you allowed your Deen to be colonised and all that was returned to you was the zone of 'ibada, that is you are allowed to fast and to pray. It is the duty of the new generation to recover from kafir colonial power the whole world of trade, financial instruments and practice as well as the separation of Islam from false religions, a recovery of our self-respect which will put an end to the masonic doctrine of Tolerance.

An inexorable and powerful growth of Islam in Nusantara will restore again the proper laws of Jizya paid by the non-Muslims for our protection of them. As your great nation develops along these powerful lines of obedience, defined by strong 'aqida, it will be assured that the next Khalif of the whole Muslim Ummah will emerge from among your people.

Jejak dan Debu Fuqara Darqawiyya Di Nusantara

2009-01-17T15:42:00.000-08:00

1968. Shaykh abdalqadir as-sufi diarahkan oleh guru pertamanya shaykh Muhammad ibn al-habib (fez dan meknes, moroko)untuk kembali ke England menjalankan dakwah dikalangan bangsa eropah. Beliau diberi izin dan tugas sebagai muqaddim sufi, mengamalkan Miftah al-Wird dan bacaan Diwan gurunya yang berisi berbagai qasidah,doa,zikir, salawat dan ilmu tasawwuf. 1971-shaykh Muhammad ibnul habib meninggalkan dunia.

1972-1974. Beliau menulis buku The Book of Stranger dan The Way of Muhammad yang menarik ramai pembaca barat kepada Islam. Jemaah semakin berkembang disekitar London dan menarik perhatian pelajar Malaysia.

1976. Shaykh abdalqadir bertemu shaykh Muhammad al-Fayturi di Benghazi, Libya dan setelah menjalani suluk/khalwa dan pembukaan nur asrar oleh Allah Tabaraka wa Taala , beliau mendapat izin sebagai guru mursyid. Kata gurunya : ‘Tariqa ini adalah satu. Bukan silsila, wazifa, wirid atau sanad tetapi matlamatnya adalah marifa Allah. Sekarang tiada tangan atas tanganmu ! Journal of Darqawi Institute diterbit-kan mengandungi anika rencana menarik mengenai aktiviti dakwah, terjemahan karya sufi dan ulasan isu semasa.

1976-1977. Sidi Umar dilantik sebagai muqaddim pertama dari Malaysia. Sidi Shams dilantik sebagai muqaddim kedua. Sekumpulan fuqara melayu telah diarahkan menziarahi Maghribi untuk mengambil baraka dan pengajaran dari para salihun dan arifun dari kalangan murid dan muqadim shaykh Muhammad ibnul-Habib. Mereka adalah SZ, MS, MD, WZN , NJK dan ZH. Dua murid kanan dari golongan salihun dan arifun iaitu Wali Bahlil dan sidi Muhammad Kursi telah membacakan doa khusus untuk kumpulan fuqara dari Malaysia yang julung kali sampai keceruk padang pasir Sahara di selatan Moroko.

1978-79. Kebanyakan fuqara telah habis mengaji dan pulang ke tanah air dan memulakan amalan taiqa bersama dengan jemaah kecil sediada. Jemaah semakin aktif dengan adanya majlis zikir/ilmu setiap minggu dan program bulanan. Kami diberi arahan supaya melawat semua guru dan ulama melayu serta menyampaikan mesej shaykh abdalqadir untuk menghidupkan tariqa sufi dialam melayu.

1980. Buku Jihad A Groundplan dicetak di Malaysia yang menggariskan program kebangkitan islam melalui model ribat serta isu gerakan modenis. Faqir Ahmad Thomson penulis buku Jesus A Prophet of Islam dan Dajjal melawat Malaysia serta menziarahi pondok di Kelantan. Dua fuqara china muslim iaitu sidi hilmi dan sidi hashim mengembara ke Pakistan untuk mengaji bersama shaykh zamzami.

1981. Ribat atau zawiya pertama beroperasi di pinggir kota KL, kemudian berpindah ke Bangi dan jemaah makin berkembang.Buku The Hundred Steps dihasilkan oleh shaykh abdalqadir yang mengupas istilah, maqam dan tangga-tangga perjalanan sufi untuk fuqara mengikut tradisi tariqa darqawi-shadhili yang muktabar.

1982. Buku Root Islamic Education dihasilkan dan beliau menggunakan nama al-Murabit sempena perkataan ‘ribat’ yang terdapat dalam al-Quran dan Hadis Nabawi merujuk kepada orang yang berjihad fisabiliLlah serta mempertahankan Islam dari serangan kuffar. Beliau mengarahkan fuqaranya mempelajari al-Muwatta Imam Malik, as-Shifa Qadi Iyad, Tafsir Jalalayn, Risalah Ibn Zaid, Ibnu Rusyd, Amal Madinah dan mendalami bahasa Arab. Sidi umar dilantik sebagai amir Malaysia yang pertama.

1983-88. shaykh abdalqadir menghasilkan buku-buku penting seperti QuranicTawhid, For The Coming Man, The Sign of Sword, Letter To African Muslim, Resurgent Islam, Self Knowledge dan disamping itu melalui Diwan Press/Madina Press, karya-karya klasik terjemahan diterbitkan seperti Fusus al-Hikam Ibnu Arabi, The Meaning of Man-sidi Ali Jamal, Darqawi Letters, Knowledge of God –sh.Alawi dan Handbook of Islam-sh.Uthman Danfodio.

Dalam tempoh ini, ramai murid beliau telah melawat, bermusafir dan berdakwah di Malaysia seperti dr.muhammad kassim, umar vadillo, asadullah yates, dr.dalmau, haji abdul hasib, dr.abdal hamid evans, sidi abdullah powell dan haji amin mayet. Sidi Idris bertemu sidi shaykh di Granada, sepanyol dan dikurniakan izin khalifa untuk alam melayu nusantara.

1989. Buku The Hundred Steps, Root Islamic Education dan Diwan Shaykh Muhammad ibn al-habib diterjemahkan kebahasa Malaysia.

1990. Sebuah ribat telah disewa di Ulu Klang sebagai pusat aktiviti. Shaykh abdalqadir melawat Malaysia selama dua bulan dan mengadakan pertemuan dengan alim ulama, para pemimpin dan fuqaranya, memberi syarahan di Universiti Malaya. Buku Usury the Injustice of Our Times dan al-Muwatta diterbitkan di Malaysia.

Lawatan dibuat ke pondok Patani dan Ustaz Baba Abdul Aziz di Yarang menerima izin wirid sufiyya . Hubungan dibuat dengan jemaah pondok di Tar Tujuh, kelantan.

1991-2000. Jemaah memulakan pengajian tafsir kitab jawi Baidhawi. Sidi shams memulakan pengajian syarah kitab Hikam Abu Madyan karangan Shaykh Daud Patani. Usaha membuat dan menyibarkan penggunaan dinar emas dilakukan dengan pelancaran oleh Rais Umar Vadillo di Kelantan. Buku The Return of The Islamic Gold Dinar (Umar vadillo) dan The Return of The Khalifate ( shaykh abdal qadir) diterbitkan.

Majalah SINAR setebal 72 muka surat dalam bahasa malaysia dan inggeris dilancarkan di Malaysia mengandungi anika artikel menarik dan kupasan isu umat islam semasa termasuk dinar islam, tiang zakat, krisis ekonomi riba, terjemahan kanzun minan hikam abu madyan dan ulasan ringkas buku-buku shaykh abdalqadir.

Melalui usaha dan kunjungan ukhuwah ke Kuala Lumpur, tiga pemuda Indonesia telah membuat perjalanan ke Tangier, Maghribi untuk menghadiri Moussem Shaykh abdalqadir. Alhamdulillah wa syukrillah, dalam pertemuan julung kali tersebut sidi ahmad iwan telah dilantik sebagai amir Indonesia dan juga sebagai muqaddim. Perkara ini jarang terjadi tetapi mencerminkan keikhlasan dan kekuatan azam mereka yang mengenali kelebihan seorang guru sufi yang tidak mundur berjihad dan berdakwah disemua bidang.

Persidangan Ekonomi Politik Islam USM Ke3 diadakan di Dewan Muzium Islam, Kuala Lumpur pada 20 November 2000 dengan thema kerjasama Islam Asia-Eropah yang melibatkan ramai tokoh, intelektual dan fuqara pelbagai bangsa dari seluruh dunia. Diantara kertas kerja utama dibentangkan adalah seperti berikut :

a.Keynote address by Shaykh Abdalqadir as-Sufi
b.Pemikiran Ibnu Rushd – Dr.Asadullah Yates, Weimar institute, jerman.
c.Amal Madinah dan Imam Malik – Dr.Yassin Dutton, Oxford.
d.The Political Philosophy of sh.Abdal qadir as-sufi- oleh Riyad Asvat,Australia.

e.The Works and Da’wa of Shaykh abdal qadir as-sufi and recovery of Islamic teachings- Haji Abdal Haqq Bewley.
f. The Politics of Medicine – Dr.Muhammad Dalmau, Highland clinic, Scotland.
g. Heiddeger and Technological Society- Haji Abu Bakar Rieger, Germany.

2001. Tahun ini merupakan detik terpenting dalam sejarah murabitun Malaysia dimana usaha lebih tiga tahun telah menyakinkan Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) menganugerahkan Ijazah Doktor Kehormat kepada shaykh abdal qadir as-sufi pada majlis konvokesyen pada bulan Ogos 2001 di Pulau Pinang oleh Canselor USM Sultan Perlis. Beliau juga memberikan syarahan bertajuk – ‘The Return of Fiscal Islam ‘ kepada para jemputan khas dalam siri ceramahan wacana antara-bangsa USM.

bersambung...

Mengenal Mi Guang Jiang @ Haji Noor Deen

2009-01-15T07:24:00.000-08:00

Catatan:
Personaliti unik, mengabungkan tao, zen dan khat sufi. Menyelami dan membebaskan jiwa musafir, terbang keluar dari sangkar diri. Bertasbih memuji Ilahi.

Haji Noor Deen Mi Guang Jiang is a renowned master of Arabic calligraphy. Born in 1963 in Shangdong province, China, he brings an immense learning in traditional thought and Islamic art to a modern audience, juxtaposing them in a new calligraphic style all his own, both Eastern and Western. Please click through to read about Haji Noor's achievements or explore his artwork gallery.

The Chinese and Arabic calligraphic traditions have often been compared as the two of the world's finest manifestations of the written word, but never likened; indeed, they are at once opposites and complements. When combined the result is an artistic piece that is a work of incredibly unique beauty, and a testimony to man's synthesizing genius.

Noor Deen's extraordinary mastery and genius along with his unique ability to spectacularly deliver his craft to an audience has brought him lecture and workshop invitations from some of the most renowned and prestigious institutions around the world, including: Harvard University, Cambridge University, University of California-Berkley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Bukhari Institute and many others. He currently lectures Arabic calligraphy at the Islamic College in Zhen Zhou, China and the Zaytuna Institute in California.

Puisi Musim Salju

2009-01-12T15:56:00.000-08:00

Silence is your richness
it permeates your whole being
no one can steal it within
your best companion that speak
with love, intimacy and light

when everyone else was gone
your silence sustain me
your echoes filled me
your presence encompass all
I surrender, I float free
a vast silence of universe
that one day will take me away...

I am the companion
of one who remember me
in his innermost silence
he hide my secret
I hide his where about
he wish to die the old self
I give him a new life
he shed tears of yearning
I watered him to thirst more
so his river become my ocean !

( Monday September 8, 2008 )

Notakaki:

Ramai bertanya, adakah hamba boleh menulis puisi atau sajak ?
Nah, ini yang terbaru ilham dari pondok dailin nur dimusim salju.
Guruku master Izi juga rajin hasilkan haiku and tekateki koan zen.

The Living Sword: Self Poisoning

2009-01-12T08:12:00.000-08:00

On his website (in the subscribers-only section) Dr. Heiner Fruehauf translates a story regarding a 20th Century Chinese physician by the name of Wang Fengyi. Dr. Wang was a young and gifted physician who seemed to take particular exception to the wrongdoings and bad practices of others (I’m greatly paraphrasing this as I’m having to recall it from memory), to the point where his righteous indignation began to eat at him, literally.

His bitterness over Other People’s Failings was so potent and so pervasive that while yet very young he developed a particularly vicious form of testicular cancer, so much so that he had festering accumulations on his testicles. The cancer proved to be completely unresponsive to treatment and he found himself in the position of expecting to die young, his medical prowess useless to help himself and his bright future wasted.

Dr. Wang, in his desperation, sought out a peasant healer in a small village who worked according to a Five Phase-oriented form of storytelling. He would tell the patient stories of all kinds-frequently re-tellings of well known classic tales-that could last anywhere from an hour to a couple of days. Wang approached the storyteller physician who agreed to treat him.

As the storyteller spoke, Wang began to realize that the true source of the thing killing him was himself. All the bitterness, anger, self-assuredness, and superiority he felt over those who just didn’t “get it” was the virulence responsible for his terminal illness. Over the next several days as he kept ritual watch over his father’s grave, he came to terms with his worldview and experienced a purging of sorts (something which I understand typically involves a lot of vomiting, crying, sweating, and diarrhea) releasing his poisonous mentality. Within a short time, the cancer was completely gone, never to return. Wang lived a long and full life as a doctor in the storytelling tradition.

My point: it doesn’t matter that you are right. Being right is primarily for your benefit and hopefully the benefit of others, like acquired wealth being shared with the less fortunate. Truth exists independently of us and does not require our acknowledgement or confirmation to continue existing.

Acknowledgement and acceptance of Truth requires conforming oneself to it, not using it as a means of self-aggrandizement and “showing up those idiots over there.” Doing so is wrong, destructive, self-destructive, and contrary to the objective nature of the situation. You found the answer, you didn’t invent it.

So consider this an injunction to all people who are deeply invested in doing things the right way (including myself) to divulge yourselves of all attitudes and practices that involve looking scornfully at others for their (perceived) stupidity, weakness, ignorance, evil, etc. because such attitudes create a much bigger problem. It helps nothing and noone when in an attempt to be rid of the pest of misinformation you create in yourself the devil of Bigotry.

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(courtesy @ G.Michael Reynolds)

Hadiah Kitab Salawat DiMasjidil Haram

2009-01-12T07:25:00.000-08:00

SubhanaLlah, tak sangka disuatu pagi sebelum salat Fajar di Masjidil Haram pada 2004 hamba duduk bersebelahan dengan 2 fuqara dari Turki. Jarang jemaah Turki berjubah dan serban putih. Mesti ikhwan sufiya-teka hatiku. Selepas bersalam, cium pipi ,kami bertukar khabar dan lalu mereka hadiahkan sebuah kitab hijau kecil.

Bila diamati ianya Dalailul Khayrat karangan Sh.Jazuli as-Shadzili dari Marakesh, Moroko. Baraka hari Jumaat agaknya ! Hamba berazam membaca sebahagian kitab/isi selawat ini setiap Jumaat atau masa lapang semasa musim haji. Ole-ole unik dari negeri bermakamnya Sahabat Ayyub al-Ansari. Fotonya diatas.

Mozart Basho Sakako

2009-01-12T07:05:00.000-08:00

"I pay no attention whatsoever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought."

- Matsuo Basho

"If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet."

- Nanao Sakako

courtesy @Yasmin 9.1.2007

The great Lao Tzu often said that all external knowledge would only lead to falsehood. The only truths are within you. You just have to dig deep.

If you fancy yourself as a fledgling artist, I suggest you try this ancient principle of introspection and see where it takes you.

I did. It may not have taken me very far, but at least I know myself a little better now.

From Yasmin Blog Rekindling My Younger Days:

2009-01-12T06:32:00.000-08:00

Entitled "Tan Hong Ming In Love", the English version of this commercial ended with the lines "Our children are colour blind. Shouldn't we keep them that way?"

At a time when ads try too hard to be clever and fancy, it was heartwarming to see a simple little film, where a six year old Chinese boy expressed his secret love for a Malay girl, turn out to be the most highly-awarded television commercial of the year.

I feel so blessed to have been given the chance by Petronas to write the concept and direct this spot myself, of course, but truth beknown, it was little Tan Hong Ming and Ummi Qazrina who deserved all the applause that night, just for being their charming, lovable selves.

Praise the Lord!
Entitled "Tan Hong Ming In Love",

the English version of this commercial ended with the lines "Our children are colour blind. Shouldn't we keep them that way?"

At a time when ads try too hard to be clever and fancy, it was heartwarming to see a simple little film, where a six year old Chinese boy expressed his secret love for a Malay girl, turn out to be the most highly-awarded television commercial of the year.

I feel so blessed to have been given the chance by Petronas to write the concept and direct this spot myself, of course, but truth beknown, it was little Tan Hong Ming and Ummi Qazrina who deserved all the applause that night, just for being their charming, lovable selves.

Praise the Lord!

When Hearts Change

2009-01-12T06:07:00.000-08:00

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
(Arabic text follows English)

[Extracts from Abu'l-'Abbas Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Fasi's Commentary on al-Sharishi's Poem Rhyming with R]

Raise no objection to the Shaykh for this
Is likely to cause disconcertedness to the
novice in addition to his desertion

Shaykh al-Sharishi means, and Allah knows best: O novice! Do not raise any objection towards your Shaykh regarding any of his words, actions or states, at any time, whether inwardly or outwardly, after submitting to his guidance. This is because your objection is likely to cause you disconcertedness in your religion and worldly affairs, and you will suffer the Shaykh's desertion, banishment and exclusion. Sometimes the Shaykh banishes the novice both inwardly and outwardly, such that he drives him out of his house and shuts his door on him.

Sometimes the Shaykh banishes the novice inwardly. This is more harmful to the novice for, in this case, the latter is not aware that he has been banished or that he deserves expulsion. This state of banishment will remain until the novice hearkens to his Shaykh: repentant, remorseful, meek and heartbroken. It is due to this subtlety that Shaykh Abu'l-Qasim al-Qushayri, may Allah be well-pleased with him, said:

If there is an aspirant among the folk of spiritual discipline who has not reached his goal, let him know that his failure is due to a concealed objection in his heart towards his teacher - an objection that he might have had at some point of time.

Al-Qushayri also said, may Allah be well-pleased with him: I heard the Shaykh Abu 'Ali al-Daqqaq, may Allah have mercy on him, say:

The beginning of all discord lies in opposition.

He means that whoever opposes his Shaykh no longer follows the Shaykh's path and his relation with his Shaykh is dissevered, even if they both happen to be physically close to each other. Whoever attaches himself to a Shaykh and then inwardly raises objections towards him has annulled the covenant of his attachment, and ought, therefore, to repent, despite the fact that the Shaykhs of the path have said: 'The disobedience to spiritual teachers cannot be expiated through repentance'. And with regard to the first case, when the banishment of the novice is done both inwardly and outwardly, Shaykh Muhyi al-Din ibn 'Arabi may Allah be well-pleased with him, said:

When the Shaykh knows that his reverence has dropped in the heart of the novice, he should tactfully drive him out of his house, for such a novice is one of the greatest enemies. The Shaykh should endear to the objecting novice a preoccupation with the outward requirements of the Sacred Law as well as with the way of the desired acts of worship in general. But he should close his door on him and prevent his other students from keeping his company, for nothing is more harmful to the novice than keeping the company of someone who is not like-minded.

Baraka Tok Kenali

2009-01-10T15:32:00.000-08:00

Prakata:

(Foto: Bergambar dengan anak / sanak saudara Dr.Che Husna dalam majlis perkahwinan anak perempuan beliau pada akhir tahun 2008 di Bangi)

(Ditakdirkan Allah Taala maha kaya dan pemurah, seputar 30 tahun lalu hamba diberkati bertemu dengan satu keluarga angkat kelantan. Rupanya Abe Ru atau Nazru Azhari lulusan Engineer UK, baru bekerja dengan Petronas pada tahun 1979 melalui jalur ibu nya arwah atau Che Wan Khairiah adalah isteri salihah kepada Ustaz Azhari yang pernah berguru dengan Tok Guru Ustaz Wan Abdul Kadir pendiri Pondok Melor. Dia juga adalah anak murid kepada Tok Kenali. Jadi, ramai keturunan Wan di Kelantan ada percikan talian samada ilmu, darah dan dakwah dengan Tok Kenali ! Hamba sempat singgah dan menginap sebentar di sebelah masjid atau madrasah Melor. Bertemu dan salam dengan Dato' Hj Zainal Abidin Abdul Kadir, bekas pengetua Kolej Islam, pengarah Pusat Islam, ADUN Melor. Dia adalah adik Che atau bapa saudara Abe Ru. Sembilan anak Che hebat belaka termasuk Prof.Dr.Che Husna Azhari dari UKM, pernah menjawat pengarah ATMA. Cerita atau hubungan lain eloklah disimpan dan diketahui oleh mereka yang rajin mengembara, bertanya, berziarah dan menghormati tetamu musafir. Biar orang gembira ingin berjumpa kita sebab baraka Tok Kenali, percikan awliya terus hidup dalam pergolakan semasa )

Tok Kenali ulama peringkat wali
Oleh TG Ustaz Wan Mohd. Shaghir Abdullah

DALAM sekian banyak e-mel yang saya terima, ada orang memprotes kenapa sudah sekian banyak ulama Nusantara yang diperkenalkan dalam halaman Agama Utusan Malaysia, namun cerita tentang Tok Kenali tidak muncul?.

Pada prinsipnya kisah semua ulama Nusantara akan saya muatkan dalam akhbar ini, hanya gilirannya belum sampai. Ada ulama kisahnya disegerakan dan ada yang artikelnya masih dalam pemerosesan.

Tok Kenali ialah satu nama yang paling terkenal dalam dunia pengajian Islam menggunakan sistem pondok di Malaysia. Bahkan beliau juga terkenal di seluruh alam Melayu. Oleh itu, memang riwayat beliau perlu diketahui oleh masyarakat. Dalam dua keluaran terakhir perbicaraan tentang ulama, telah disentuh perjuangan tokoh yang antipenjajah (Tok Ku Paloh Terengganu dan Haji Sulong al-Fathani). Ada orang berpendapat bahawa Tok Kenali tidak pernah terlibat dalam perjuangan yang bercorak demikian.

Bagi saya, pendapat seperti demikian itu adalah hanya ditinjau dari satu sudut yang belum menyeluruh. Tok Kenali ialah murid yang paling dipercayai oleh Syeikh Ahmad al-Fathani, oleh itu hampir-hampir tidak ada satu rahsia perjuangan Syeikh Ahmad al-Fathani yang tidak diketahui oleh Tok Kenali.

Di sini saya sentuh sedikit saja. Syeikh Ahmad al-Fathani ialah tokoh pertama dari lingkungan dunia Melayu sejagat yang secara diplomatik pergi ke Istanbul, Turki untuk melaporkan perbuatan tiga bangsa yang menjajah di dunia Melayu ketika itu. Bangsa-bangsa itu ialah Inggeris, Belanda dan Siam.

Walau bagaimanapun, supaya suasana tidak selalu keras dan tegang dalam corak pemikiran jihad zhahiri, kisah Tok Kenali saya fokuskan kepada pemikiran jihad shufi. Jihad zhahiri lebih menitikberatkan perjuangan secara fizikal, sedang jihad shufi lebih mengutamakan pembinaan dalaman, qalbi atau hati dan rohani. Kedua-dua jenis jihad itu adalah penting dikombinasikan secara sepadu. Selain itu dalam disiplin ilmu akidah dan tasawuf ia dikenali dengan istilah ‘Wali Allah’ dan ‘karamah’ (istilah Melayu: keramat).

Tradisi penulisan para ulama Islam juga banyak menceritakan tentang ‘karamah’ para Wali Allah. Tulisan saya dalam Utusan Malaysia yang telah lalu (133 siri) tentang ‘karamah’ sengaja tidak saya sentuh kerana saya lebih mengutamakan riwayat yang berdasarkan fakta. Oleh kerana ramai yang minta kepada saya supaya menulis tentang karamah yang pernah berlaku pada Tok Kenali maka permintaan itu saya paparkan berdasarkan cerita yang telah saya kumpulkan daripada pelbagai sumber sejak tahun 1950-an lagi.

Karamah Tok Kenali

Dari Bamboo River To New York

2009-01-10T15:16:00.000-08:00

Bhg2.

Yang tolong menjawab dalam forum saya adalah dari seluruh dunia (tak kira lagi yang memuji sampai over) seperti Peter Shen (China), Eldir Thomassen (Belanda), Michael Judd (UK), Steven (Australia). Kalau tidak, akan datang lagi banyak ocntact kerana website saya adalah 24 X 7, tak tidur pun walaupun kita nyenyak tidur. Ia di akses dari seluruh dunia. Saya cerita ini semua bukan kerana ingin menunjuk-nunjuk atau merendah2kan lagi mereka yang sudah memang rendah.

Saya cuma want u not to be fired in New York, but u can fire people in New York. Ini mudah tercapai dengan. 2 bulan lagi kod MFGSCm akan dilepaskan kepada dunia. Berdasarkan rekod Compiere atau mana2 kod yang berharga, yang mendapat 750ribu download dalam 3 tahun singkat, dengan 50 pelanggan berbayar, dan beberapa kontrek tertutup, saya yang merupakan salah satu dari 4 orang yang menjadi custodian kod tersebut akan menjadi terlalu berharga. Saya tidak mampu pun menjawab kontrek2 yang bakal menanti di Eropah. Saya mahu outsource ke Uniti_IT. Jangan sebut Jepun yang menjadi sasaran saya.(Jepun adalah ekonomi kedua besar dalam dunia - both physical and siber. Dan Jepun adalah yang paling disparate dengan bahasa Inggeris yang merupakan kekuatan saya).

Maka pasaran kami bukanlah disini atau disana, tetapi merata2 dan juga saya tidak perlu meninggalkan kolam saya ditengah hutan ini untuk melakukan projek! Ini terbukti semasa saya membantu anda untuk mendirikan Compiere dalam ofis.
Ialah adalah satu petanda dari mukjizat yang dilafazkan oleh Jibrail a.s. kepada junjungan kami s.a.w. di gua Hira pada malam Lailatul Qadar. Mesti ada sebab.

Dan mesti ada petanda untuk manusia akhir zaman.
Allah berjanjji dan Allah sebaik-baik Pejanji.

But u may ask, "Apa yang Allah janjikan?". Allah sudah menjanjikan Rezeki anda (but not your Iman). Maka i tak faham why we lost so much time on rezeki finding.) Allah menjanjikan Ilmu tadi serta memberikan tools nya, but why we refuse to grab it. Allah menjanjikan alam ini tunduk kepada anak Adam. but why we refuse our destiny?.

Siapa itu Donald Trump? Dia makhluq biasa. Siapa itu Bill Gates? Siapa itu (berikanlah nama idola anda). Dan apa bezanya dengan kami?
Allah janjikan minta dari Dia dan Dia tunaikan. Dan dia berjanji akan mampu menjatuhkan mahupun menaikkan sesiapa yang DIa ingini.

Semua ini saya harap kami mencapai kejayaan yang sebenarnya dunia wa akhirat, dan dengan Izin Nya jua.

Sekian saja kuliah subuh dari secebis kilauan akalbudi Anak Naga yang atuk moyangnya berhijrah 100 tahun dulu dari Benua Utara dan berpindah dari Bamboo River dan kini menjadi master Streamyx ,partime farmer and full time ruler of Kuang sub-district with 4 active,wild, running ponies and horses plus many goats and fish in the pond :

Akulli Qauli hadza, astaghfiruLlahal Azhimli wallikum,
wasalamualaikum warahmatullahiwabarakatuh.

(Atas segala yang diucapkan, saya memohon ampun
dari Allah, bagi pihak anda, salam..)

This Edict/Royal Scroll was issued from:

t.r. Amir Kapitan Sidi Red One (Red1)

c/o Headquarter of Neo Matrix Networks
Dated – circa 18 August 1998,
Bird Valley of Kuang, Bamboo River
Under Sultanate of Sharif ad-Din
Al-Idrisi

Nota : News terkini sd Red1 telah bina Adempiere setelah bercerai dengan Compiere atas prinsip perjuangan mulia, bukan keuntungan kapitalis.

Thanks REd1,

We had planted your name with 'idhin', special weapons and created a vast/sensory empire for you many years ago.From Riau to cape Town and from Chiapas to Inverness etc.. and valueless time and secrets from the noble company of Sidi Umay Pasha/Bey. He taught and entrusted you with a kingdom not seen by many eyes and not heard by ordinary ears. All directly from the ones whom we taste, drink and surf beyond our natural borders.

We have been blessed by Allah tabaraka wa taala with many awliya, fuqara, salihun, strangers and also many enemies, both within and without.We told our restless friends, hold back, be patient, work you away out, ahead and go where no real murids of sidi shaykh had ever ventured. One story was retold- a faqir sent to a far continent and he did not come back. no news and no one know why. Our shaykh send a second neo matrix. He arrived at a small town, saw many people prayed with this man, wearing dirty boots. He shouted at this people,remonstrated with his companion and chase these people out.

The first faqir said to him,' I took 2 years to get this people back to the deen, wash and pray with their boots on. You chase them out and shouted/find wrong with us in just 10 minutes ! Get out and report to our Shaykh, you are fired and must be punished !

So sidi redhuan, we make doa that Allah will help and expand your initial success in the Alam Compierean and its networks. More see the light of islam, some get the perfume of ihsan and also make a living if not tons of halal rezeki. For two hours we labored to find, extract, edith and re-script your first command:

'Belajarlah Realiti Hidup dan Compiere Dari Sidi Redhuan Oon'

Dear all matrix friends and new comers who yet to meet dan talk face to face with an Amir with only one pure chinese disciple, how we have failed to recognize him, assist,strenghten, befriend/soothen him and seek out his little dots and tots..

.until the right time, place, people, with right knowledge and a flurry of action crashing the sensory/meaning barriers. Perhap we use the wrong words and at the wrong forum. Allah....Allah...Allah. Wa ma taufiqi illa bi'Llahi aliyyil azim.

Cai jian.

Alam Realiti Cyber Redhuan Daniel Oon

2009-01-10T15:03:00.000-08:00

Belajar Komputer dan Realiti Hidup
Dari Pengasas Compiere Sifu Redhuan Oon
tapi mulai tahun 2007 telah ranap berpecah dan kini
dijenamakan sebagai Adempiere)

Salam buat pelajardan pengikut setia Compiere,
Cik Puan Ain, Lily dan Mardina (IT Expert of UNITI),

Pertama sekali saya ingin merakamkan setinggi tahniah kerana berjaya mendirikan Compiere dengan sepenuhnya di premis Uniti-IT Sdn Bhd. Bangi/Kuala Lumpur.
(Our friend Dr.Fuad Yeoh Ph.D from Aberdeen UK & BA Quranic Studies, Univ.Yarmuk, Jordan, in UKM then was drafted early to form the pioneer/base operation of University Informasi dan Teknoloji Islam M’sia/Uniti. Progress was slow, until found a land/seaside temporay campus in Port Dickson, he pulled out)

Sukacita dimaklumkan bahawa Anda bertiga telah berjaya setelah berhempas pulas otak,masa, diskusi, bimbingan dan mencuba, gagal, berdaya kreatif dan :

1) Install Oracle 9i (selepas 3 percubaan) –software Filem Matrix/Neo
2) Install Java –bahasa/system computer jenerasi kedua.
3) Compiere-2 – system terbaru dari reject nerder/surplus hackers.

Anda masih perlu (4) Install Eclipse (5) Setup Source dan banyak lagi. Sang Neo akan diberitahu bila perlu mencari Clues, ambil kunci dari Morpheus dan simulasi Kungfu, bercinta dulu dengan Trinity. Unplug from Agent Smith paid by Microsoft. Conduct street batlle with IT students from LimKok wing univ dan MMU foreign legions.

Dan kali ini saya tidak akan lagi membantu tetapi ingin melihat ketabahan anda mencuba dan semangat tidak putus asa yang memang ada pada diri anda (walaupun banyak berlaku kepanikan. You would have been fired if you are in New York, but luckily you are in Uniti where the bosses never want you to quit and even refused any resignation).

Sila sedia maklum bahawa selepas berjaya atau sebaliknya dalam sesuatu tindakan, hendaklah dicatat perjalanan pengalaman secara terperinci, sebelum terlupa.
Fadzilatnya saya sudah acapkali terangkan.

a. Sebaiknya ialah merakamkan butiran berkenaan dalam red1.org forum bahagian Bahasa Malaysia.

b. Sesiapa yang paling banyak membuka tajuk akan diberikan status Moderator dalam forum tersebut.

c. Sila menaikkan status anda demi kebahagian masa depan yang lebih cerah.

Ini bukan amaran, tetapi hakikat pasaran. Anda semua sedia maklum pendapatan alam mutakhir ini adalah bergantung kepada nilai ilmu (dari Ma Lam Ya' Lam) dan bukanlah berbentuk fizikal sekali pun. Kalau anda masih ingat semasa dulu, bahawa dalam zaman gua, ilmu mengenai api dan batu mampu menaikkan taraf manusia.

Hari ini kita berada dalam zaman siber yang saya anggap cuma salah satu lapisan dari Alamiin (anika alam) ciptaan Allah Azza wa Jalla, dan anda tidak ada pilihan kerana Allah 'memaksa' anda memeluk lapisan ini dengan memberikan habuan paling sedikit kepada mereka yang mampu menghidupkan api dan angkat batu kepada habuan paling besar kepada mereka yang mampu membangunkan applikasi internet!!

Saya mempunyai ramai teman dalam perjalanan hidup yang berjaya melanjutkan pelajaran sehingga ke New York tetapi tidak mampu mendapat kerja atau manfaat ilmu itu kerana mereka masih berada pada tahap ilmu yang superseded oleh lapisan ilmu terakhir.

Saya bagi contoh bahawa 15 tahun dulu saya berpendapatan selesa dengan hanya membuat memasang PC, dan 5 tahun kemudian saya jatuh kerana bila Taiwan rakus tu mengeluarkan Klon tak bernilai bernama Acer yang bertaburan di kawasan lanun siber yakni Imbi Plaza sehingga menjatuhkan hasil pendapatan saya dari RM500 satu PC kepada hanya RM100 satu PC.

Saya terpaksa mencipta semula kerjaya saya dengan memasuki bidang pembangunan Laman Web yang memberikan kontrek pertama saya dari Bank Bumiputra (1996) dengan nilai cek RM70 ribu !! tanpa soalan banyak dari sedare saya dalam bank tersebut kerana waktu itu mereka amat terkejut dan takut dengan alam baru ini dan tidak tahu bahawa kerja saya dengan HTML dan Photoshop hari ini boleh dilakukan dengan hanya RM22!

Selepas munculnya FrontPage setahun kemudian (1997) nilai kerja saya masih bertahan pada RM7 ribu sebulan gaji dari Bank tersebut tetapi saya terpaksa sekali lagi mencipta diri dengan memasuki era DotCom dimana Chase Perdana Bhd memerikan kami RM1.5 juta! (on paper je... tak sampai pun) dan sepertimana anda semua maklum saya menjadi WebMaster Siti Nurhaliza (oh ya, saya baru terjumpa 2 keping gambar saya bersama Siti, rupa2nya reporter ada tangkap dan tersimpan dalam album tanpa saya teringat sehingga krew Jakim mari baru2 ini. Maka boleh lihat di TV, apabila Jakim menyiarkan nya Isnin ketiga bulan Syawal di RTM1, 6 ptg nanti).

Tetapi dengan jatuhnya era DotCom (dengan Nasdaq, Nasdaq sekali), saya terjatuh lama kali ini kerana tidak menyangkakan alam ini begitu cepat berakhir. Dan maklum, orang biasa bergaji lima angka takkan nak minta kerja peon. Saya terpaksa berkebun, ya jangan ketawa, dan tidak ada kemaluan disana. Itupun selepas saya musafir selama 2 bulan di bumi Indonesia (meninggalkan isteri sehingga beliau risau ana sudah nikah lagi satu) untuk membawa diri serta mencari makna ayat-ayat Allah yang menyeru kita musafir, saya kembali dan berpindah dari rumah mewah (yang ber AirCond 5 biji, autogate, Jetski, 4 kereta, 2 tingkat, 4 bilik, 3 bilik air, dan Astro - waktu tu amat berstatus tinggi, ler ni taklah, mat kedai rokok pun ada astro untuk pelanggannya).

Saya berpindah ke sebuah kebun 2 ekar yang berkolam. Saya membersihkan tanah kawan saya (Nazri, pengasas Kosmopoint) tu yang sebelah tanah Yousuf Lee (bekas kawan En Zayed jua) juga seorang Cina Mualaf macam saya. Tanah nya yang terbiar saya usahakan (inspirasi dari musafir menyaksikan bagaimana orang Jawa di pulau Jawa membangunkan tanah walaupun ditepi jalan bas stop), sehingga kolam itu berisi 5 ribu ekor ikan telapiah, dan saya tanam sayur-sayuran.

Satu hari ibu kandung saya datang cari saya dan ternampak saya dalam panas terik matahari sedang mengikat batang2 buluh untuk menjadi perangkap nurseri benih ikan dalam kolam tersebut lalu menangis melolong kerana anaknya hidup dalam hutan (Kuang bukan jauh pun tetapi masih berhutan) dan kulit menjadi hitam (Cina amat sensitip kalau anaknya berwarna lain)

Dengan itu saya berhasil menyara hidup saya sekeluarga isteri (still one only) dan anak2 (still 4 only) selama 6 bulan tanpa pergi pasar malam (dulu hypermarket). Saya juga membuat taugeh sendiri dalam jamban yang tidak diguna dalam rumah, air tauhu, roti, dan hampir2 ayam kampung (tetapi kerajaan kita tak boleh diharap apabila menjanjikan mahu tolong petani moden, tetapi benih tak sampai2)

Saya menghasilkan sawi, kacang botol, ulam raja, kacang panjang, timun, keledek, pisang (disapu oleh monyet) malberi, kacang bendi, serai, dll.

Tetapi adalah tidak mengejutkan kalau saya kata apabila say membawa kacang botol yang keluar2 tak henti2 sehingga anak saya muntah makan, lalu itu sebagai alamat bolehlah saya tolak ke kedai runcit, tetapi sebakul besar kacang botol hanya menghasilkan RM5. Sekilo sawi dijual dipasar dengan harga RM0.40!

Itu petanda Allah membuktikan bahawa ya! memang kita tidak susah cari makan dan Allah tidak sekali2 akan membiarkan anda mati kelaparan, tetapi Allah tidak reda anda berhenti di tahap lama. Itu sebabnya hanya 4% peratus dari manusia bercucuk tanam atau terlibat dalam pengeluaran makanan yang mengisi perut 100% 4.5 billion people in this world. Itupun boleh makan over dan over supply darah dalam badan, dan menjadi No1 Killer, bukan lagi harimau atau buaya, atau pacak.

Memendekkan cerita, saya berdoa, untuk petunjuk Allah, maka hari ini saya menjadi the Uno Numero Compierean in the World. I am the Best of the Best of the Best.
Rakan saya adalah tertabur di seluruh dunia, dan mereka bukan calang2 orang mahupun memandang rendah saya.

Isnin depan Mr. Martin Koenig dari Switzerland ingin berjumpa saya. Hari-hari Andre Lengendre (pembuat sistem Renault, Alcatel dan France Olympics security system akan berinteraksi tugas dengan saya). Steven Sackett dari Australia akan outsource projek baru kepada saya (dan anda berpeluang terlibat dalam kek yang global ini).

(yang penting dalam cerita ini adalah siapakah 'red1' dan apa rahsia kekuatan beliau mengharungi jalan cyberia persis menerokai satu alam lain atau jalan tariq yang unik..dalam hidup kita semua yang ditenggelami arus, cahaya dan berita sensasi IT saban saat jam dan hari..)

sambung...bhg.2

Imam Junayd : Membasahi Bumi Dengan Air Laut

2009-01-10T13:59:00.000-08:00

Bhg.4:

Al-Junayd, may Allah be pleased with him said:

'Purify yourself with the water of the Unseen if you are one possessing a secret. If not, do tayammum with dust or stone. Go before an Imam in front of whom you stand, and pray the noon prayer at the beginning of the afternoon. This is the prayer of those who are the gnostics of their Lord. If you are one of them, then moisten the dry land with the sea.'

He, may Allah be pleased with him, commanded the murid to purify himself with the water of the Unseen. It is understood that purification is of two sorts: sensory purification which is the sensory water, and pertains to the whole body if it is a major impurity, and to specific limbs if it is a minor impurity. This is not what the poet meant, may Allah be pleased with him.

The second sort is spiritual purification which is the purification of the hearts from the ailments which veil them from the presence of the Knower of the Unseen. This purification is only done with spiritual water which is the water of sciences, gnoses and secrets that flow from the presence of the Unseen into the heart of the Shaykh who is a gnostic of Allah, purified of fault.

The Shaykh pours it over the murid and so he purifies his heart from otherness and it is filled with gnoses and secrets. This is if the murid himself possesses a secret, that is to say inner sight, which brings him into contact with the one who takes him by the hand, that is, the Shaykh who draws his power from the presence of the Unseen as we have stated. If the murid does not possess this secret and inner sight then he must do tayammum with the dust of outward deeds and formal knowledge until Allah endows him with the secret and the inner sight.

He indicates, may Allah be pleased with him, by his statement: 'Go before an Imam in front of whom you stand,' that the murid must go before an Imam, a Shaykh, a gnostic of Allah, to copy him in the spiritual prayer which is the direct perception of the worshipped King, as it is necessary for the one behind the Imam in the prayer to do ruku' and sujud (bowing and prostrating). His words: 'In front of whom you stand,' indicate to the murid that he should not follow any Shaykh except one he already knew in the world of spirits.

The Prophet, peace by upon him, said: 'The spirits are numerous hosts, whoever of them become acquainted will be in harmony, and those not acquainted will be at variance.' The meaning then is: 'Go before in the world of spirits. Because of the encounter and acquaintance which occurred in the world of the spirits, harmony will occur in the world of forms.'

By his words, 'Pray the noon prayer at the beginning of the afternoon,' he means pray the Dhuhr prayer (noon prayer), that is the manifestation (dhuhur) of your desire for your Lord, which is uninterrupted witnessing of the worshipped King, as we have said. 'Asr (afternoon prayer) means 'being together' (mu'asara) with your Shaykh and the negation of your will for him.

He does not refer, may Allah be pleased with him, to the prayers of Dhuhr and 'Asr containing ruku' and sujud, because it is known that dhuhr is set to be prayed at the beginning of its time and not at the beginning of 'Asr. Thus the meaning falls into place, so understand and you will be guided - and Allah has charge of our guidance and the guidance of creation. Amin.

As regards his statement: 'This is the prayer of those who are gnostics of their Lord,' it means this is uninterrupted contemplation of the worshipped King. Their prayer is not interrupted because it is constant. They persevere in the witnessing of their Lord. His word:

'If you are among them, then moisten the dry land with the sea,' means if you are one of the gnostics -and they are not veiled by creation from the truth, nor by the truth from creation - then moisten, that is sprinkle, the dry land of your road (Shari'a) with the sea of your reality (Haqiqa), and be among those who unite the two.

Likewise, our Imam, Malik, may Allah be pleased with him, said: 'He who follows the Shari'a and does not ascertain (i.e. have direct experience) has strayed from the proper course. He who ascertains and does not follow the Shari'a has become a heretic. Whoever unites the two has realised!' That is, he has realised the two forms of worship ('ubudiyya), the worship of obligation and the worship of instruction.

As-Sairina Muridin Wal Tuhfatul Salikina Arifin

2009-01-10T13:49:00.000-08:00

Kami dengan sukacitanya menukilkan satu contoh bagaimana seoarang Shaykh Darqawiyya menerangkan izin dan otoritas dari gurunya sebelum berani mengajar orang ramai dan memikul tugas tarbiya sufiyya seperti dibawah (diambil dari Aisha Bewley homepage):

INTRODUCTION TO THE DIWAN
(AL-BUGHYATUL SAIRINA MURIDIN WAL-TUHFATUL SALIKINA ARIFIN)
OF SHAYKH MUHAMMAD IBN AL-HABIB (D.1971, MOROCCO) OF DARQAWI-SHADHILIYYA TARIQA

The Shaykh said, may Allah be pleased with him:

Praise belongs to Allah Who has established men in every age to revive His Tariqa. He has revealed to them the lights of Muhammad, from which all the lovers who followed them would derive aid, be they couples or individuals.

We praise Him, the Glorious and Exalted, for the secrets with which He has entrusted us, and for the sciences, gnoses and lights He has poured out on us. We greatly thank Him, may His Majesty be exalted, in recognition of all the blessings that have come to us and all the slaves of Allah, free or in bondage.

We declare that our master Muhammad is His slave and His Messenger, sent by Allah as a mercy to the creation, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and his family and Companions who spent themselves and their wealth in the revival of His Way and the setting up of His Sunna, and who did not turn to the destruction of the hypocrites and the veiled.

Brothers ikhwan of the Darqawiyya-Shadhiliyya order and all others of the Lord's slaves in all of Allah's countries who desire to emulate a master, know, that Allah the Exalted has destined for this noble path in every age one who sets right its deviations and manifests its secrets and its lights.

He is the Shaykh who unites the Haqiqa and the Shari'a with the idhn of Allah and His Messenger and all the Perfected of Allah. He is the unique man of Muhammad of whom there is only one in every age. If there are numerous Shaykhs in his age, he rules over them all, whether they are aware of it or not.

Many have laid claim to the Station of uniqueness with falsehood and lies because they seek leadership and desire to possess this passing world. The pretender is unaware that whoever claims what is not in him is exposed by the witnesses of the test, since in their presence a man is either exalted or humiliated. True Shaykhs are satisfied with the knowledge of Allah and depend only on Allah. All that emanates from them speaks of the blessing of Allah. He, may He be exalted said:

"As for the blessing of your Lord - declare it." –Surah adh-Dhuha

So let Muhammad ibn al-Habib, al-Amghari al-Hasani by lineage, dwelling in Fez, the poor slave of his Master, yet enriched by Him with other-than-Him - declare, in speaking of Allah's blessing - that idhn (authorisation) has come to him from Allah and the Messenger of Allah and all the Perfected of Allah, and that Allah has singled him out with sciences and secrets which only the unique man of Muhammad possesses.

Had we wished to reveal all that Allah has blessed us with we would need volumes, we shall however relate to the fuqara only that tribute with which our Shaykh and teacher Sidi Muhammad ibn 'Ali favoured us. When he, may Allah be pleased with him, became head of the order, we wrote him a letter renewing our contact with him although we had taken Tariq from the Shaykh and gnostic of Allah, Sidi al-'Arabi ibn al-Huwari. He, may Allah be pleased with him, wrote to us and ordered us to come to his presence. So we obeyed his command and went to Marrakesh.

When we went in to him he was filled with limitless joy and happiness and said to us: 'The whole order came to me when you came!' On another occasion he said to us in a prophecy, may it long be remembered, 'Your rank with us in our order is that of Ibn 'Ata'Allah in the Shadhiliyya order.

As Allah revived the Shadhiliyya path through Ibn 'Ata'Allah, so also He will revive this blessed Tariqa through you, if He wills!' And Allah has realised his hope in us.

..sambung Bhg 2.

Mencairkan Kekakuan Muzik Barok

2009-01-10T13:40:00.000-08:00

Pertunjukan di Goethe Haus, Jakarta ( 2006)

“ Orkes kamar Musica Antiqua Koln memainkan serangkaian komposisi muzik zaman Barok dengan sejumlah interpretasi. Hidup, cair, tapi elegan.”

“ Seharusnya konser Musica Antiqua Koln pada malam Jumat pertengahan Oktober 2006 lalu ditutup dengan Overtur G Minor- sebuah komposisi Johann Sebastian Bach. Tapi tepuk riuh penonton , yang memang royal sejak awal konser, memaksa kelima pemain muzik orkes kamar dari Jerman itu menambah sebuah repertoar lagi. Mereka memainkan Ciconna karya Heinrich Franz Biber.(demikian tulis Nurdin Kalim, kolumins Tempo)

Dibuka dengan gesekan viloin, Ciconna mengalir dalam tempo lambat. Berangsur-ansur viloin dua, viola, cello dan cembalo, mengikuti di belakangnya. Kelima instrumen itu, bersahut-sahutan, sambung-menyambung, bergerak seperti air mengalir dan tak berkesan patah-patah. Di bawah pimpinan violin, muzik berkembang menjadi suatu jalinan harmoni khas Barok.”

Wah, rupanya warga Jakarta sudah hangat apresiasi muzik klasik. Ada kekosongan tak terisi oleh agama, material, wanita atau dadah, gila kuasa dan pengikut. Adakah dangdut juga tewas. Goyangan Inul Darasista hanya sebemtar.

Alunan muzik lebih mendalam selepas dipukul gelombang jiwa, rohani dan spiritual dilautan wujud nan luas. Demikian kata Maulana Rumi, sang sufi agung menyanyikan Mathnawi 500 ratus tahun dahulu dari Konya, Turki. Orang sufi cukup simpel. Sebatang buluh Ney tepi tasik dan sungai, digesek dengan cinta Ilahiyya, didispilinkan dengan adab Tariqa dan dibimbingi Pir Celebi. Terkadang oleh samazen. Para darwis berpesta muzik dari paksi Qutb qalbu. Awas, tentera ganas Mongol Tartar tidak jauh beribu kilometer mahu menbantai umat yang lalai. Umat yang akur dengan Sultan berfoya dan korup. Kini umat Iraq dan Palestin dibantai peluru dan bom setiap hari, disulami bantuan humanitarian dari Barat. Alangkah beruntungnya Malaysia 50 tahun merdeka.

Komentar Musafir pada 24 Augutus 2007:

Yu bu zhuo, bu cheng qi ( An Uncut jade will not make a jewel )

Muzik untuk apa ? Membuat hati gembira ? Merasakan kebebasan spiritual ? Menikmati keindahan bunyi ? Mengingati manusia akan mati ? Menghargai akal yang tajam dan mendengar maknawi melepasi sensori. Persoalannya adakah muzik Barok, Bach, Franz Biber dan Antiqua Koln untuk orang kaya saja. Mereka yang mampu beli tiket. Mereka yang pakai kemas bow, tie , suite and jacket.

Di Masjid Biru Istanbul, dimakam Hijau Konya atau di Dataran Jemaah alFana Marrakesh, para sufi menyanyi sambil berdikir, semuanya percuma. Gendang ada, seruling ney ada, Qasidah Burdah ada dan lebih lagi...sang faqir bebas merdeka dibumi Allah.

Di sebelah Timur, mari, mari..ke Pondok teh Dailin Nur, masuk percuma dan diambang timur tasik cyberjaya. Lupakan sebentar penat lelah tugas dikantor dan bisnes. Kata Master Te Shan : Before you want to learn Zen, let know how to beat the Drum. Let go drink Tea. Do you see my Yellow Olive Tree lately. Perhap Masako San and Atikato will guide you to our teahut door.

Notakaki :
Komentar diilhamkan dari Majalah Tempo Edisi 30, tanggal Oktober 5, 2006 Harga Rp.22.500 (Yang Berdakwah Di Luar Layar Kaca), muka surat 60. Hamba beli kat kedai MPH KL Sentral minggu lepas.

“Violin yang dimainkan oleh Lisa Marie Landgraf buatan David Teccler pada 1720 di Roma,Italia. Lalu Cello yang dimainkan Klaus Dieter Brandt dibuat oleh pemuzik Sebastian Wolfram”. Begitu detail sekali Nurdin Kalim mencatatkan kehadirannya malam itu.

Sultan Alauddin Belajar Tasawuf

2009-01-10T13:33:00.000-08:00

(dengan ihsan sumbangan FAISAL TEHRANI)

MENURUT cerita orang, sejarah seorang guru tasawuf dari negeri China baru tiba di Melaka, menawarkan ilmunya untuk mengajar ilmu kalam dan ilmu tasawuf.

Nuh Ha Mim, guru agama berbangsa Cina itu menetap di Hujung Medini. Sekarang ini di Melaka pekan ini dinamakan Ujong Tanah. Tidak jelas bagaimana tok guru Nuh Ha Mim ini boleh datang dari negeri China dan menginap di Melaka. Apa yang jelas, tok guru itu tidak datang bersama rombongan Hang Li Poh.

Menurut orang setempat tok guru tersebut berhijrah dari China bersama anak perempuannya setelah dakwahnya diganggu pemerintah dan penjahat. Nuh Ha Mim telah berhijrah ke Maguindanao dan mengislamkan ramai masyarakat di sana. Sekarang ini Maguindanao adalah wilayah di dalam negara Filipina.

Ketika itu Kerajaan Islam Maguindanao belum ada lagi. Tok guru tersebut juga banyak mengislamkan orang di Manila. Memang waktu itu Kesultanan Islam Manila belum kukuh. Tetapi ramai juga yang berjaya diislamkan oleh Nuh Ha Mim. Kemudiannya nanti kerajaan Islam di Manila ini jatuh di tangan penjajah Sepanyol dalam tahun 1571 dan ramai penduduk Manila yang sebenarnya Melayu, murtad menjadi penganut Kristian. Setelah beberapa lama di Sulu, Nuh Ha Mim berpindah ke Pulo Upih.

Sekarang ini Pulo Upih ialah Pulau Upih di perairan negeri Melaka yang kurang dipedulikan orang. Madrasah di Pulo Upih memang tersohor waktu itu dalam menawarkan pengajian tasawuf. Nu Ha Mim menjadi salah seorang guru di sana. Antara muridnya termasuklah Sunan Kalijaga dan Syeikh Sutabris. Apabila muridnya makin ramai, Nuh Ha Mim berpindah ke tanah besar iaitu di Hujung Medini dan membuka pengajian di rumahnya.

Tatkala itu Sultan Alauddin belum bergelar sultan lagi. Baginda hanya dikenali sebagai Raja Husain. Baginda yang memang sukakan ilmu amat berminat untuk berguru dengan Nuh Ha Mim tetapi tidaklah semudah itu.

Pada mulanya memang sedikit sukar Raja Husain meyakinkan Nuh Ha Mim bahawa baginda memang benar-benar berniat dan mahu belajar tasawuf. Berulang-alik Raja Husain ke Hujung Medini. Berulang kali Raja Husain meyakinkan Nuh Ha Mim bahawa baginda tidak mahu menjawat takhta menjadi Sultan Melaka. Baginda tahu ada orang alim yang memang kurang gemar bergaul dengan pembesar-pembesar dan keturunan raja-raja.

“Tak hendak kita menjadi sultan. Apatah lagi kekanda Raja Ahmad lebih layak menjadi pemerintah mengikut turutan. Tidak ada sebab tok guru mahu menolak kita dari menjadi murid. Dinding emas perak lidah kita, bahawa tak terlintas di hati mahu menjadi raja. Kerja menjadi raja itu banyak tanggungjawabnya. Tak terpikul kita.

“Kalau ada seekor lembu patah kaki kerana jalan di Melaka ini rosak berlubang, nanti akan ditanya Allah di hari akhirat mengapa sultan tidak memperbaiki jalan. Kita bukan jenis yang mampu memikul kerja sebesar itu. Biarlah kita mengaji agama saja daripada tok guru.”

Tok Guru Nuh Ha Mim masih belum mahu menerima dengan mudah Raja Husain menjadi muridnya. Tok guru itu meletakkan syarat pula.

“Datangkan kepada kita tujuh jenis benda yang bukan ada harga melainkan kita meletakkan harga padanya, ia bermula ejanya dengan huruf sin.”

Berpeluh Raja Husain, “Tok guru berilah kita petanda satu demi satu agar dapat dipuaskan hati seorang guru.”

“Benda pertama bermula ejanya dari huruf sin itu duduknya di bawah punggung kita.”

Bergegaslah Raja Husain ke Pasar Melaka mendapatkan safra untuk Nuh Ha Mim.

“Inilah kain alas, duduknya di bawah punggung tok guru. Bukanlah ia benda berharga jika tidak dihargai begitu.”

“Datangkan kita sebuah rumah kecil, tidak berpenghuni lagi, tidak ada kekayaan lagi di rumah itu.”

..sambung Bhg.2

Imam As-Sya'rani dan Kejujuran Meniti Tariqa

2009-01-10T13:15:00.000-08:00

(Hamba post semula karya ini dikira amat bernas dan syukran kepada sahabat musafir
albazrah serta sejadah usang berkongsi angin baraka timur)

Imam As-Sha'rani r.a. memang terkenal dalam dunia sufi, khususnya di Mesir. Sheikhuna Yusuf sering menceritakan tentang Imam As-Sha'rani r.a., sambil katanya, anda kenal Imam As-Sha'rani dari kebesaran namanya di alam sufi. Tetapi, kenalilah bagaimana beliau bermula, supaya kita dapat mengambil iktibar dari kegigihan beliau dalam permulaan tariq ila Allah.

Sheikhuna Sidi Yusuf Al-Hasani seterusnya menceritakan bagaimana permulaan Sidi As-Sha'rani dalam perjalanan sufi:

"Beliau pada mulanya merupakan seorang ulama' yang amat terkenal dalam keilmuannya. Namanya tersohor di kalangan para ulama' khususnya dalam ilmu rusum (ilmu-ilmu zahir seperti fiqh dan sebagainya). Beliau juga telah mengarang beratus-ratus kitab, dengan tulisan tangannya.

"Suatu ketika, beliau terdengar tentang seorang hamba Allah bernama Ali Al-Khawwas. Katanya, Ali Al-Khawwas ini mengetahui jenis ilmu yang tidak diketahui olehnya (Imam As-Sha'rani). Lalu, beliau mengorak langkah untuk mencari Ali Al-Khawwas dalam usaha untuk mengenali tentang ilmu tersebut.

"Dengan izin Allah, maka beliau bertemu dengan Ali Al-Khawwas r.a., lantas meminta supaya Ali Al-Khawwas mengajarkan kepadanya ilmu kaum sufi. Ali Al-Khawwas mengatakan: "Duhai anak, kamu pada ketika ini tidak layak untuk mempelajari ilmu kami, kerana kamu telahun terhijab dengan ilmu yang kamu miliki. Ilmu kami membawa kepada mengenal Allah s.w.t., sedangkan ilmu yang kamu miliki, menghalang kamu dari mengenal Allah s.w.t."

Kata Imam As-Sha'rani r.a.: "Duhai tuan, sudikah kiranya tuan membantuku untuk menghilangkan hijab tersebut?"

Sheikh Ali Al-Khawwas menjawab: "Kalau anak betul-betul jujur inginkan ilmu ini, maka hancurkan hijabmu dengan menjual semua kitab-kitab yang kamu miliki. Setelah itu, duit hasil jualan tersebut perlu diberi kepada faqir miskin."

Imam As-Sha'rani terkilan dengan permintaan Sheikh Ali Al-Khawwas, dan terbayang kitab-kitab hasil penat-lelahnya selama berpuluh-puluh tahun, perlu dijual serta-merta. Namun, dengan penuh kejujuran dan keikhlasan untuk menempuh jalan sufi, dalam rangka untuk mengenal Allah s.w.t., akhirnya beliau sanggup menjualkan kitab-kitab milik beliau dan seterusnya memberi sedekah kepada faqir miskin dengan duit yang didapatinya dari jualan tersebut.

Berkat kejujuran dan keikhlasan beliau, yang sanggup mengorbankan hasil usaha beliau dalam ilmu-ilmu zahir, maka Allah s.w.t., menggantikannya dengan limpahan Makrifat dan Futuhat sehingga beliau mampu mengarang lebih banyak karya dalam bidang ilmu-ilmu batin, di bawah didikan dan tarbiah dari wali Allah, Sheikh Ali Al-Khawwas r.a..

Inilah sikap kejujuran seorang murid yang sanggup berkorban dalam menghancurkan punca-punca yang menjadi sebab, terhijabnya hatinya dengan Allah s.w.t..

Semoga Allah s.w.t. membantu kita dalam berlaku jujur di dalam perjalanan menuju-Nya..Amin...

Nukilan Al fadhil Ustaz Mukhlis @ Al Faqir101
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Bhg.3 : Penghujung Jalan

2009-01-10T13:06:00.000-08:00

sambungan: Bhg.3

Jadi, tilik diri kita apakah sudah bersedia menjadi muridin , salikin, faqir ilaLlah atau salihin, muttaqin , siddiqin dan sehingga mencapai taraf tertinggi sang ariffin. Tak ada nama pun selamat asalkan ada ikatan hati dan nur dari mereka yang kita terima didikan kerana Allah Taala. Aku ingin mengakhiri catatan ini dengan ungkapan bernas Jalaluddin Rumi tokoh sufi Parsi dan Turki yang terkenal dengan kitab Mathnawi seperti berikut :

You are your own bird , you are your own prey
and you are your own trap. You got the whole thing.

Beliau memberi isyarat bahawa setiap muslim yang beramal dan berjalan menuju keridhaan Tuhan boleh terbang tinggi , bebas dan mencapai maqam rohaniah para sufi jika kita ikhlas berjuang. Kita juga akan tersekat menjadi mangsa sendiri apabila dunia atau hawa nafsu menguasai diri yang rendah. Kita juga memasang perangkap sendiri dengan khayalan dan cita-cita duniawi yang menghalang kita dari menjejaki tariqa menuju Allah Taala. Tiada orang lain dapat menolong jika kita ambil keputusan untuk tidak berguru , berzikir , mengembara dan berkhidmat kepada para awliya serta alim ulama.

AlhamduliLlah, alam melayu kini tidak kurang dengan kebangkitan jemaah sufiyya yang tulin mengabungkan jihad ekonomi dan politik sunna. Islam tidak terpisah dari arus cabaran perdana yang melanda dunia. Rumi juga berkata :’islam is war and terror’ bermaksud islam ditegakkan atas jihad dan kuasa, baik menakluki musuh zahir atau batin. Yang batin kita sedia faham iaitu nafsu , syaitan dan seribu satu penyakit hati –nifaq, takut mati, kedekut, riyak dan berbagai lagi. Musuh zahir mungkin sulit ditewaskan kerana terlampau banyak ! Terpulanglah kepada pilihan saudara untuk memulakan langkah pertama.

Imam Ghazali berkata : orang yang baru menjejaki tariqa sufi ibarat bintang. Dia yang sudah jauh dihadapan ibarat bulan. Mereka yang sudah sampai kehujung tariqa ibarat matahari. Siapa yang jahil dan tak kenal jalan sufi ini , hatinya ibarat batu, keras degil dan susah diperbaiki.

(nukilan hamba al-ghuraba
dikaki banjaran titiwangsa
1998. Jika berani, maka mulakan
pencarian anda, semoga wusul
kata Sh.Ibnul Arabi) )

Bhg.2 : Pencarian

2009-01-10T13:04:00.000-08:00

....sambungan:

Aku pun melangkah turun ditangga bucu kanan depan masjid. Turun tangga nak menuju tempat parking keretaku. Alhamdulillah, tepi koridor bangunan masjid ada sebuah kafe ala barat. Aku pun jenguk, biar aku rehat nikmati rezeki chicken soup dan teh tarik. Ya Allah ,aku telah pertama kali menghabiskan bacaan wirid melalui izin muqadim sidi umar pada tahun 1979 dimasjid UIA ini , maka tunjukkanlah rahsia barakaMu. Aku tak mengetahui langkah seterusnya. Aku teringat wirid fajar yang berbunyi:

Ya Awwalu ya Akhiru ya Zahiru ya Batin
–biyadika khair, yuhyi wa yumit.
Inna Allaha ala kulli syain qadir
(Ya Allah ..ditangan genggamanMu
terletak segala kebaikan . Engkau maha berkuasa
menentu segala urusan)

Aku mulai mencecahkan sudu ke sup ayam cendawan dengan bacaaan BismiLlah. Tiba-tiba sekonyong-konyong ,muncul saudara Ikmal berjalan betul-betul dihadapan mejaku ! Masya Allah, sungguh cepat doaku ditunaikan Allah Taala. Aku mencari Ikmal atau dia yang mencari aku setelah hati kami digerakkan Allah ? Kenapa pertemuan dikafe bukan dibilik asrama atau dalam masjid ?

Rupanya Ikmal memang ada tujuan mulia singgah dikafe ini selepas selesai usrah dengan pelajar lain diasrama. Pelajar UIA memang diwajibkan berusrah dalam kurikulum. Rupanya Ikmal pergi kesana untuk ambil 2 naskhah fotostat buku- The Darqawi Way – dikedai berhampiran. Satu untuk dirinya dan satu lagi untuk sahabatnya bernama Azmi berasal dari Kelantan. Sama-sama belajar jurusan kejurute-raan tahun tiga.

‘ Assalamualaikum , Ikmal ! Allahu akbar. Dapat juga jumpa saudara walaupun aku gagal jumpa diasrama tadi !’ Lepas bersalam , aku peluk dia dengan erat dengan dakapan ukhuwah. ‘ Sila duduk, ikut sama aku makan atau minum. Sila buat pesanan , aku bayar ! Dia pun minta dari pelayan kafe itu dua keeping chicken pie dan segelas air milo panas.

Aku membelek buku fotostat bercorak sufi dalam bahasa Inggeris. Dia pinjam dari jemaah Murabitun Kuala Lumpur . SubhanaLlah , inilah tanda seorang faqir atau murid yang ikhlas mengaji. Dia dahagakan ilmu. Dia mahu tahu apa syarat dan rahsia jalan tariqa Darqawiyya Shadhiliyya yang masyur diAfrika dan Timur Tengah. Pengarang buku ini bernama Mulay Arabi ad-Darqawi hidup pada zaman 1700an seorang sufi besar dan pernah mendidik hampir 40,000 anak muridnya yang diberi izin membimbing manusia kejalan Malikul Haqq. Dia dikurnia Allah Taala menyibar marifa diBarat dan Timur. Ini satu kelebihan awliya tertentu dan dia juga insan unik dizamannya. Bagaimana jalan sufi ini sampai keMalaysia ? Dan dibincangkan oleh dua orang fuqara, seorang melayu dan seorang berbangsa china muslim ?

Mukadimmah buku – The Darqawi Way ini ditulis oleh Shaykh Abdul Qadir as-Sufi yang berbangsa eropah. Dia menerima Islam di Masjid Fez, Maghribi dan berguru dengan Shaykh Muhammad ibnul Habib. Kemudian berguru dan menghabiskan suluk sufiyya ditangan Shaykh al-Fayturi diBenghazi, Libya pada tahun 1977. Aku berbicara dengan Ikmal darihal ‘transmission of sufic teaching from one shaykh to another’. Semua ini telah didokumenkan dan dicatitkan dengan teliti oleh para shuyukh dijalan Darqawi Shadhiliyya kami. Tiada orang boleh menolak atau menjumpai kecacatan sanad atau dakwaan palsu/rekaan nafsu sendiri dalam perkara penting . jika seorang guru sufi berbohong maka senang kita kenal. Dan kita kena tinggalkan dia, kemudian cari guru lain yang bias membawa kita kehadrat keagungan ilmu, qudrah dan hikmah kurnia Allah Tabaraka wa Taala.

Aku mulai bicara dengan bertanya :
‘saudara Ikmal , cuba kau baca sajak pada mukaddimah buku ini dan beritahu apa yang kau faham ?’.

Oh Mulay al-Arabi ! I greet you.
The West greets the West.
Although the four corner had gone
And the season are joined
In the Tongue of the People
I welcome you –the man of the time.
Wild, in rags, with three hats
And wisdom underneath them.
You flung dust in the enemy’s face
Scattering them by the secret
Of a rare sunna the ulama’ forgot.
Oh Mulay al-Arabi ! The Pole greets the Pole
- the center is everywhere.

Aku pun memberi keterangan kepada bahasa isyarat yang dipakai orang sufi. Mereka jarang mahu menggunakan perkataan – aku, diriku atau dia. Mereka telah menfanakan dakwa atau wujud nafsu diri, maka mereka akan membicarakan kurnia Allah dan rahsia yang mereka rasai atau tempohi.

Ayat sajak diatas bermaksud : sang Guru Barat sekarang memberi salam dan penghormatan lansung kepada Mulay Darqawi yang juga berasal dari barat iaitu negeri Maghiribi. Mereka adalah mercu ilmu dan pemimpin agung dizaman masing-masing. Tanda mereka sudah mencapai makam sufi sejati. Jadi , apa pilihan atau tindakan sang murid sekarang setelah mengenali hajat yang terpendam ?

Baris sajak seterusnya berbunyi :

‘This is one hadra, one circle
one grain of sand beneath
the sandal of Muhammad
sallaLlahu alayhi wa salam’

Ayat diatas meletakkan semua ilmu dan kemuliaan serta rahsia jalan sufi yang dilalui dan diajarkan kedua Guru Shaykh ini adalah berasal dari limpahan keagungan Nabi sallallahu alayhi wa salam. Macam sebiji debu halus dibawah tapak kasut Nabi kita. Mereka begitu merendah diri, tawadhuk bila berhadapan dengan ukuran dan hubungan rohani atau zahir dengan seorang Rasul al-Mustafa.

Ada seorang sufi lain berkata –
‘ cukuplah jika aku dapat menjadi seorang yang mengikat tali kasut Rasulullah bagi merasakan kemuliaan yang Allah curahkan kepada hamba yang berkhidmat kepada seorang Rasul yang dikasihi Allah Taala’.

Shaykh Muhammad ibnul Habib pernah menulis dalam Kitab Diwannya :

‘Ukuran ilmu / makam / nur seorang wali qutub dengan Nur Rasul seperti satu titik air dari lautan samudera yang luas tak bertepi’.

Jadi semua dalil dan bahasa isyarat sufi adalah bagi mengukuhkan keyakinan dan himma sang murid supaya terus maju dan mujahadah bagi mencapai matlamat agung yang menanti, sesuai dengan seruanNya :

‘Ya ayyatatuhal nafsul muthmainna
Irji ila Rabbiki , radhiyyatan mardhiyya
Fadkhuli fi-ibadi , wadkhuli jannati’

Dan ayat :

‘Allahu waliyyul lazina amanu
Yukhriju minaz zulumati ilan-nur’.

Alhamdulillah, selepas habis minum, kami pun balik kebilik asrama Idrus. Kemudian berjumpa dengan Azmi , Fauzi dan Ibrahim. Sempat juga aku nasihatkan mereka agar sentiasa menilik apakah disebalik perjalanan orang sufi dizaman moden ini. Agar kita tidak diperlekehkan oleh jemaah politik, birokrasi, intelektual akademik yang gersang rohani, alim secular dan alim tablighi yang hilang peta dan izin guru sufiyya. Pendekata tidak mudah untuk pelahar universiti keluar dari jerat maklumat dan gelaran imej akademik yang mengabui ilmu haiqat sebenar.

Aku juga berpesan agar mereka menatap kembali apa doa Shaykh Daud Patani amalkan diakhir kitab Munyatul Musalli . aku hanya ingat sebaris saja :

Allahumma inni as-aluka taufiqa
ahlul-huda wa amala ahlil-yaqin
wa munasahata ahlit-tauba
wa azma ahlis-sabri
wa jiddan ahlil-khasyiati
wa irfana ahlil-ilmi hatta akhafaka.

Jam didinding blik Ikmal sudah melebihi jam 12.00 malam , maka aku pun minta diri untuk beredar. Esok kena kerja makan gaji dan punch kad jam 7.30 pagi. Tapi sebenarnya kita boleh mencuri atau membelahi masa yang lembut dengan gerak hati dan amalan zikir sirr serta menyembunyikan wujud kerdil ini dengan langkah seribu tatkala insan lain terlupa kepada saat-saat mustajab siang dan malam. Aku akhiri majlis muzakarah malam itu dengan ayat Quran –kenalilah para guru dan arifun yang meniru jejak Rasul iaitu :

‘Ya ayyuhan nabiyyu
Inna arsalnaka syahidan
wa mubasyiran
Wa naziran wa daiyyan
ilaLLahi bi-iznihi
Wa Sirajan muniran’

Yakni mereka yang menyeru insan atau mengajar ilmu al-haqq dengan penuh kesaksian dari Allah , dari Rasul , dari Awliya dan Imam besar. Mereka menyaksikan alam nasut dan malakut.

Kemudian ,mereka memberi khabar gembira akan kemuliaan insaniah yang Allah sembunyikan dalam tiap diri jika digali dan di suburkan dengan mujahadah ikhlas pasti bersinar hati mereka dengan furqan dan petunjuk. Mereka juga memiliki ilmu menilik perkara yang menyesatkan dan membinasa-kan manusia, jadi mereka beri amaran halus dan keras ikut keadaan.

Ramai umat sekarang tersalah anggap dapat Islam warisan datuk nenek dan ustaz pondok sudah cukup. Dapat salat dan berjemaah disurau atau masjid serta dengar pengajian/syarahan agama sudah hebat. Sudah selamat. Tapi belum lagi. Guru atau awliya yang menyeru kita kepada hadrat Allah amat menakutkan nafsu yang cintakan dunia. Mereka berpegang dengan amal atau kekayaan atau ilmu yang secebis..tapi bagi alim ulamak muhaqiqin mereka adalah laksana lampu bercahaya gemilang ( sirajan munira atau matahari bercahaya). Yakni ilmu dan ihwal rohaniah insan begini menerangi jalan hidup kita dengan kasih sayang, adab dan bertanggung jawab. Kena bersahabat dan bermuzakarah dengan mereka yang maju dihadapan.As-sabiqunal muqarrabun.

Pencarian Malam Jumaat Di Universiti Islam, Gombak

2009-01-10T13:00:00.000-08:00

Pencarian Malam Jumaat
DI KAMPUS UNIVERSITI ISLAM ANTARABANGSA
(ditulis sekitar 10 tahun lalu-separa fiksi)

Cahaya suria masih merah dikaki langit disulami kehijauan Banjaran Titiwangsa disebelah utara kota Kuala Lumpur. Entah macamana, disuatu malam Jumaat dalam bulan April tahun alaf 2000, aku tergerak hati ingin ziarah sahabatku bernama Ikmal dikampus UIA Gombak. Tiada agenda khas kecuali aku mencintai saudaraku macam diri sendiri dari segi perjalanan sufiyya dan limpah baraka dari para guru Awliya. Jenerasi muda kini jauh dari kefahaman ilmu tasawuf. Nak kenal orang sufi lagi susah. Sebab ada beranika pendapat, pandangan dan kritikan terhadap ilmu sufi dan amalan yang salah.

Imam Ghazali sudah menerangkan golongan yang tersasar dan terpedaya dalam bab al-ghurur dalam kitab Ihya. Dicampur dengan kemunculan puak modenis , wahabiyya dan pseudo sufi dibarat , ilmu tasawuf dianggap satu bidaah. Alhamdulillah, aku telah menempuhi detik getir dan kekalutan ini pada tahun 1970an. Dengan berkat doa serta bimbingan guru yang arif bi’Llah , kini aku sedang menyusuri jejak para salikin dan muridin dengan istiqamah.

Lepas salat maghrib dirumah dikaki banjaran titiwangsa, aku pun berwirid secara ringkas dan berdoa :

Allahumma ainni ala zikrika
wa syukrika wa husni ibadatika
( Ya Allah , beri pertolongan bagi
diriku berzikir mengingatiMu,
memanjat syukur pada nikmatMu dan
memperbaiki ibadatku kepadaMu ).

Kemudian aku membaca salawat Kanzul Haqaiq dari nukilan Shaykh Muhammad ibnul Habib, Shaykh pertama kepada guruku seperti berikut :

‘Allahumma salli ala sayyidina Muhammadin abdika
wa rasulika nabiyyi ummiyyi wa ala alihi wa ashabi
wa sallim tasliman adada khalqika wa ridha-a nafsika
wa zinata arasyika wa midada kalimatika’.

Mudah-mudahan dengan zikir dan selawat ini membantuku dalam perjalanan fisabilillah malam jumaat. Orang lain mungkin sibuk baca yasin dan tahlil ,mendengar ceramah politik atau kempen reformasi. Yang lain mungkin menonton forum islam perdana dalam kotak tv. Dimanakah keberkatan malam ini berada ? Malam kebanyakan orang mukmin dan salihin berzikir ,bermunajat dan berwirid mahu mendekati Hadrat Ilahiyya. Mereka mahu mensucikan nafsu dan qalbu dari kesibukan duniawi dan tarikan sensasi manusiawi, media hiburan dan kelalaian waktu yang membunuh rohani.

Maka, beruntunglah mereka yang memulakan langkah pertama sang sufi. Apakah aku layak mengikut jejak mereka, para imam, shaykh ,awliya dan arifin macam imam ghazali , imam nawawi, ibnu athaillah, imam junaid, shaykh abdul qadir jilani, shaykh daud fatani, shaykh abdul samad palembani, ibnul arabi dan hamzah fansuri ?

Aku memecut perlahan kereta kancilku ditepi lebuhraya taman melati menuju kampus UIA, Gombak. Nama glamour sebab ramai teringin masuk ‘U’ tapi hanya dapat sebut ‘ I and you’. Sayang, setelah aku singgah dan jenguk bilik G33 diblok B, sahabatku Ikmal tiada didalam. Mana pergi dia agaknya ? Salat berjemaah dimasjid atau pergi jumpa kawan ? Tak apa, asal niat aku ikhlas kerana Allah Taala dapat pahala biar pulang dengan tangan kosong. Allah. Allah . Allah. Ya Hayyu ya Qayyum. Ya Dzal Jalai wal-Ikram. Ya Arhamar Rahimin. Engkau maha Mengetahui disebalik urusan sang hamba dhaif ini.

Dengan hati sedih, aku pun putar balik keretaku turun bukit menuju kemasjid baru uia yang jarak hanya 0.5 km dari asrama. Hebat juga masjid ini ,menaranya nampak dari jauh. Boleh isi lebih 50,000 jemaah. Warna biru langit. Waktu hampir masuk salat Isyak. Jadi aku ambil peluang salat jemaah dan buat zikir senyap disebalik tiang masjid. Orang tak nampak. Tiada gangguan. Juga aku boleh sandar. Habis juga Miftah al-Wirid aku baca dalam masa 20 minit lepas Isyak. Sekitar masjid, ramai siswa lelaki buat kelompok usrah atau muzakarah. Ada seorang dua khusyuk berdoa dan berzikir sendirian. Ini mesti ada wirid khas dari guru kesayangan mereka. Mungkin wirid Imam Ghazali atau Shaykh Abdul Qadir Jilani macam aku temui disebuah pondok diKelantan bulan April lalu. Siapa sangka ditahun 2000 ini kita dapat menilik kitab arab al-Fayudhat Rabbaniyya awrad amalan Tariqa Qadiriyya cetakan Darul Maarif tahun 1960an dulu.

Aku tak puas hati lalu bertanya kepada ustaz Mukhtar yang empuya pemilik kitab ini. ‘ Ustaz , masih adakah pewaris tariqat atau guru yang mengajar atau mengamalkan kitab ini di Malaysia pada zaman sekarang ? ‘ Dia menjawap dengan sedih, ‘ Aku jumpa kitab ini kat kedai, orang dah tak nak benda ini lagi. Halamannya sudah uzur dan kuning. Tapi masyaa’ Allah , isinya memang untuk mereka yang dahagakan pengisian rohani. Tuan punya pewaris ilmu ini mungkin sudah tiada lagi’. Aku turut simpati dengan keterangan ustaz tersebut.

Diakhir zikir dalam masjid, aku berdoa hiba dalam hati : “ Ya Allah, malam ini aku tak berhasil menemui sahabatku yang dihajati dikampus ini. Maka, pertemukan aku dengan sesiapa saja yang mencintaiMu dari kalangan pelajar yang ada’. Dalam hati, aku teringat nama saudara azmi kelantan , saudara ibrahim atau redhuan dari korea. Mungkin mereka boleh mengisi kekosongan ini . Aku tak pasti mana blok asrama mereka tinggal. Susah nak cari. Nak tanya semua orang, rasa segan.

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Sebentar Bersama Nizamudin Awliya di Old Delhi

2009-01-03T07:45:00.000-08:00

Saudara pembaca budiman,
Alhamdulillah pada 13-16 Feb.2007 ditakdirkan hamba terpaksa terbang ke new delhi untuk hadiri mesyuarat dengan menteri luar India mr.Pranap Murkerji bersama delegasi Malaysia diketuai YB Menteri Syed Hamid Albar. Peluang hanya sekali tapi sebab dah lama baca buku Sh.Nizamudin Awliya guru Chisti tersohor dan juga Sh.Waliyullah Dehlavi dan cerita tablighi markas Nizamudin maka dapat juga hamba bertolak dengan teksi vesps tut-tut dari Taj Palace Hotel kira-kira 15 km ke kota lama Nizamudin.

Lorong kecil di Dergah(Makam dan Masjid)Nizamudin penuh dengan ribuan manusia, pengemis, kambing-kambing bebiri juga lalu sama, penjual bunga dan para pengunjung berdoa serta bersedekah. Oh masjid asal depan makam Nizamudin kecil juga. Berwarna merah, lalu hamba salat sunat, berdoa dan berbisik seraya menyerahkan suatu amanah kepada seorang faqir disudut masjid. Lega dan terus keluar. Sempat berdoa dan baca Fatihah depan makam wali mulia ini yang dulu berjuang dan berdakwah mengislam ramai penduduk india utara zaman Raja Mahmud Ghzani dan keturunan Mughal Timurlane.

Kami akhiri lawatan dengan doa :

Rabbi habli hukman wa alhiqni bis-salihin.
Allahumma aina ala zikrika wa syukrika wa husni ibaditika.

Rabbi adhkhilni mudhkhala sidqin wa akhrijni
mukhraja sidqin waj-alli min ladunka sultanan nasira.

Perjalanan Ke Barat

2009-01-03T07:10:00.000-08:00

Tatkala guru LaoTzu mengadakan Perjalanan ke Barat, percayalah wahai anakku sayang, bahawa beliau membuka langkah itu sama seperti yang aku musafirkan kini.

Angin takdir membawa benih mulia ini ke Barat. Nah, sesudah waktu yang lama, angin berdesau. Dan benih yang ringkih atau yang tersangkut pecah tak dapat ditawar lagi pasti terhempas melintasi Gurun ke hamparan benua barat yang tak dikenal.

Begitulah sunnatullah Angin.Ketahuilah bahawa Guruku terpaksa henti rehat sekali disepanjang perjalanannya ke barat. Beliau menghentikan kuda tungganganya dipintu gerbang sempadan pengawal tentera....selepas 3 malam bermeditasi, dia menulis kitab
Tao Te Ching yang masyur itu.

Dia meneguk apa yang ada disendok. Mulutnya penuh dengan madu kemilau. Madu kayarasa, le,but, hangat. Rasanya seperti batang senak pergunungan, penuh aroma bunga-bunga kuning. Sejenis rasa unik, namun ada pahitnya dan baunya bagai matair gunung, berisi mineral dan menyengat. Madu itu seakan mengalir kekuatan bunga popi, lantaran energinya memenuhi kepala guruku...

Selanjutnya yang dia ketahui adalah dia bersendirian dan meski lewat berbagai cara, dia tak mampu menangkap kilas peristiwa bahawa sang Guru telah menghilang dari pandangannya.

Demikian nukilan Fao Mun Ji
( muka surat 25 -31 : Yang Asing, Yang Terasing
karya Ian Dallas 1991, terbitan Pustaka, Bandung)

Notakaki :

Semoga benih itu tersibar juga ke Timur dan menjadi pohon hikmah nan rendang, berbunga dan buahnya masak ranum untuk santapan para pencari lapar dahaga sesuai dengan maksud Hadis: 'Hikmah itu khazanah sang mukmin yang hilang, carilah dimana saja sebagai hak murni kamu'.

Separation or Togetherness

2009-01-02T08:13:00.000-08:00

One shaykh said the flood in the time of Nuh
was one of water and in our times it is the
flood of separation between each other.

Make it a jihad to battle against the forces
that conspire to keep you separate, to isolate,
and these forces are pervasive, recognize
this and however difficult.

Eat together, travel together, talk, TALK!,
read poetry to each other, laugh, cry, pray
together remember Allah with enthusiasm together.

Share your pain and your joy with each other
while you can. Drink in your differences!
When your red flag goes up with the stranger
you've met, give it some time, some patience,
don't tune out or walk out, see who he is.

Give and take from each other and
be with each other. Listen to your wives
and your children, just listen to them!

This is medicine, insha'Allah.

Bhg.2 : Hikam Abu Madyan

2009-01-01T15:21:00.000-08:00

Dan adalah bagi Shaykh itu berapa alamat yang menunjokkan dengan dia oleh murid yakni mengambil dalil oleh murid apabila berdiri cahaya mata hatinya dan dikehendak daripadanya memberi menafaat atas dua tangannya dan iaitu tiga alamat :-

a. Alamat yang pertama bahawa melihat zatmu yakni hatimu itu baginya dengan terdahulu yakni dengan mendahulukan dia dan sirr kamu itu dengan memuliakan dia dan membesarkan dia seperti sabda Nabi SAW ï¿½Minta petua hatimu dan jika mempetua akan dikau yang mempetua.”

Akan ini alamat seperti umpama pintu nisbah dengan yang kemudian dua lagi kerana tiada dapat masuk akan dia kepada tempat sekedudokkan nya dan tiada nyata suatu daripada pengertian makna nya melainkan dengan dia seperti kata setengah daripada musyaikh yang mursyidin bagi orang yang menuntut daripadanya berpaling olehmu kepadanya yakni melihat akan dia katanya tiada dapat yang demikian itu hingga datang ia akan kami seperti orang sakit apabila datang kepada dukunnya maka tiada memberi faedah hingga datang kepadanya dengan iqtikad yang sempurna dan menerima barang yang ia beri kepadanya dan melihat ia ialah yang terlebih memberi menafaat ubat bagi sakitnya maka tatkala itu diputuskan memberi bekas ubat itu bagi orang sakit itu. Demikian lagi sakit nafsu dan hawa.

b. Alamat yang kedua bahawa adalah ia menyucikan dikau perangainya dan menadabkan dikau oleh jalan kelakuannya dan menerangkan dikau batin engkau dengan cahayanya kerana Shaykh itu orang yang sudah suci dengan kelakuan dengan Tariq Muhammadiyyah maka barangsiap kesedudokkan dengan dia jadilah padanya sifatnya dan perangainya kepada mertabat yang ketinggian maka zahirnya berhias dengan jalannya dan batin bercahaya dengan terangnya maka jadi tipis dan berhias ia tatkala itu dengan tiap-tiap makna kilatnya.

c. Alamat yang ketiga bahawa menghimpunkan hati engkau didalam khudurnya dan memelihara akan dikau dariapda bercerai-cerai didalam ghaib engkau daripadanya oleh bekas nurnya kerana adalah ia sempurna perentahnya dan pelihatnya maka memerintahkan didalam ghaibah kamu seperti memerintahkan keadaan didalam khudur kamu dihadapannya dengan ketiadaan bersalahan dan ini maqam yang amat tinggi diberi akan dia Allah SWT.

d. Setengah orang yang kamal daripada Mursyidin maka bahawasanya melihat dan memerintahkan jikalau bukan daripada syarat pada Shaykh seperti barang yang sudah tetap pada perkataan orang yang Arifin tetapi adalah daripada menunjokkan kelebihan pemberian Tuhannya dan sunggohnya syaratnya yang tak dapat tiada daripadanya itu berjalan akan jalan ini serta taulan dan telah memutas padang dan rimba di dalam perjalanannya dan mengetahui akan segala tempat perhentiannya dan manahalnya supaya menunjokkan ia atasnya akan orang yang salik apabila berjalan serta mereka itu dengan kenderaannya didalam demikian jalan itu.

e. Maka ijtihad olehmu hai saudaraku pada menghasilkan umpama Shaykh ini dan gigit dengan gigimu atas berkhidmat akan dia dan peliharakan adab bertaulan dan baikkan perangai supaya sempurna bagimu barang yang terdahulu sebut dan berkekalan tuntut pada hadratnya seperti kata,

Hikam Terakhir : Shaykh RA :

”Jadi olehmu (hai salik) berserta(berkumpul)
Fuqara dengan berjinak-jinak dan terhampir hati
sertanya dan berserta ahli Sufi (ahlil tasauf)
dengan adab dan bertambatan hati sertanya

dan berserta guru-guru Masyaikh
dengan berkhidmat dan loba

dan beserta orang yang Arifin
dengan tawadhu dan merendahkan diri
baik perangai didalam perjual beli engkau
serta tiap-tiap seorang
dengan barang yang menjinak akan dia
dan jangan kamu liar akan dia

maka berserta Ulamaï dengan baik
mendengar dan berkehendak

dan berserta Ahlil Makrifah
dengan diam dan menanti

dan berserta Ahlil Maqamat
dengan tauhid dan inkisar”

Sekian, dari hamba kini menetap dipondok Dailin Nur, pimpinan Dr.Anqaravi dan Master Izi negeri matahari terbit.

Mengenali Shaykh Mursyid Dari Hikam Abu Madyan

2009-01-01T15:18:00.000-08:00

Di alam melayu, isnad ini diperolehi oleh Sh.Daud al-Patani yang berjaya mensyarah Kitab Hikam Abu Madyan. Manakala sh.Wan Ali Kutan juga membangsakan tariqatnya kepada silsila Syaziliyya-Shattariya seperti dicatit dalam kitabnya Lamaatul Awrad yang masyur).

Ketika mengemaskan almari khazanah buku dan kitab lama minggu lepas, hamba terjumpa kembali satu fail lama. Bila dibuka, wah ada draf Kanzun Minan karya Sh. Daud Patani yang dirumikan oleh sahabat tidak dikenali. Kata orang sufi. Rajin mencari pasti jumpa. Oleh kerana zaman ini ramai orang nak mencari Guru, maka dua petikan ini dirasakan amat relevan. Hamba bukan ustaz, bukan alim dan tiada ijazah sarjana dibidang Tasawwuf. Tapi dah lama mengaji dan kembara. Dialam perpustakaan, alam cyber dan alam gelombang islam zaman 1980 an dulu. Seorang Alim pernah berpesan pada jemaahnya : Lagi faqir merendah diri lagi diangkat dan dibuka alam rohani. Hamba tak layak mencari dan mengajak jadi murid. Macam nasihat Sh.Abu Madyan seperti berikut :

Baris Hikam Kedua terakhir :

”Bermula Shaykh itu orang yang mensaksikan
baginya zat(hati)mu dengan mendahulukan dia
dan sirrmu dengan ihtiram (kemuliaan)
dan membesarkan Shaykh itu orang yang menyucikan
dikau dengan perangainya dan mengadabkan dikau
dengan jalannya dan mencahayakan batinmu
dengan terang cahayanya Shaykh itu
orang yang menghimpunkan dikau
didalam hadrat engkau dan memeliharakan dikau
didalam ghaibnya dengan athar cahayanya.”

1. Maka apabila berhias hai saudara ku dengan kelakuan
syariat dan berpakai engkau dengan adab tariqat maka tak dapat tiada serta yang demikian itu daripada Shaykh taulanmu didalam jalan ini yang mengambil dengan tangan engkau didalam sesat dan memberi menafaat pada tiap-tiap kepicitan.

2. Kata Abu Yazid RA-‘Barangsiapa tiada Shaykh baginya maka syaitan itu Shaykhnyaï¿½ dan barangsiapa berkehendak memutuskan perjalanan didalam bumi tiada dapat yang demikian itu melainkan dengan dalil yakni orang bawah jalan dan jikalau tiada maka sesat dan putus dan berpaling daripada jalan maka betapa dengan orang berkehendak memutuskan umpama ini jalan.

Maka berjauh-jauhan dapat yang demikian itu melainkan dengan Shaykh yang mursyid tak dapat tiada daripadanya supaya dapat tahkik dan didapat umpamanya sangat sedikit tetapi terlebih tinggi sedikit ada daripada Kibritulahmar tetap orang yang bersunggoh-sunggoh tuntut dimudahkan Allah baginya yang demikian itu dan tiada sampai seorang kepada Haq SWT melainkan dengan kurnianya.

3. Demikian lagi tiada dapat sampai kepada Shuyukh yang Murshidin melainkan dengan kurnia seperti kata pada Hikam Ibn Ataillah :

”Maha suci Tuhan yang tiada menjadikan dalil atas AuliaïNya melainkan daripada sekira-kira dalil atasnya dan tiada disampaikan kepada mereka itu melainkan orang yang hendak disampaikan dia kepadaNya”

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Meclevi Discourse : Istanbul 1996

2009-01-01T15:06:00.000-08:00

Hamba postkan syarahan ini kerana sangat menarik mengenai cerita awliya dan sufi walaupun telah meninggal tetapi baraka dan nur rohani mereka masih dapat mengubah/menyinari hidup semasa/zaman kita. cuma kena usaha sikit fahami .inggeris. maaf sebab hamba pun kurang mahir terjemahan.

The Mevlevi Discourse – Instanbul, Turkey, 1996

By Sh.Abdal Qadir as-Sufi

Maulana, our Maulana, tells of this instance. There was a kafir master who had a slave, who was Muslim, and the Muslim slave was walking in the street with his master and they passed the mosque. And the slave said to him, "Please just let me go into the mosque to do two raqats." And the kafir said, "I will wait outside. Go and do your two raqats." So he went into the mosque, but he did not come out until the kafir put his head into the mosque and said, "Come out at once." And he heard the slave say, "I cannot come out, this thing is beyond the bounds." And the kafir said, "I do not believe you. Who is stopping you from coming out?" The Muslim said, "The same one who is stopping you from coming in." Here Maulana shows the secret of the destiny and the proof of the Deen.

You see, we have to recognise the life of the awliyya and the knowledge of existence that Allah has given to these awliyya and it is unconquerable, indestructible. Look at the miracle of the unseen world that has brought us all together today. Look at the connection that we have to the tariqa of Maulana. Look at the connection you have from Konya with Maulana, the master of Konya. Now, we know there was an attempt to destroy it utterly. We know the names of the blessed men who were hanged because of no other thing than that they were the masters of this secret. The great tekkes were shut, they were turned into museums and their libraries were rendered unreadable by changing the alphabet.

What an amazing thing that the man who holds the army under his command is afraid of these fuqara turning round and round and round yearning for Allah. What a tremendous thing, what a great thing, what a great light Maulana Rumi, radhi"allahu anhu. What spiritual power was released in those days and those nights in Konya. Kuffar came on their hands and knees to taste something of this. But though they see the tree they do not understand the root.

This is the miracle of the great wali Jalaludin, our master. And this is the miracle by which, drawn to this light, one of our brothers came all the way from America and went to Konya to learn with Suleiman Dede, radhi"allahu anhu. Shaykh Aziz, radhi"allahu anhu, studied under Suleiman Dede and his two sons are here. Shaykh Aziz went on Hajj and after the Hajj he had a dream and he saw the earth just bursting with flowers. Flowers burst out of the earth and Rasulullah, salallahu alayhi wa salem, came to greet him. He got to Madinah. He fell ill.

When they saw he was very ill, they said, "We must take you to hospital." They said, "Do not worry you will soon be well." He said, "I am very very happy. I have seen the Rasul, salallahu alayhi wa salem, and he has told me something." They took him to hospital, the next morning he was dead. He was buried in Baqi alongside his Imam, Imam Malik, and close to Sayyedina Uthman. Two hundred people fought to carry his body to the grave.

So the light of this knowledge and the love of this knowledge was not dead. And the destiny had taken this servant of Maulana to Madinah to unite him with Rasul, salallahu alayhi wa salem. But one thing has happened, and that is that they have shut the book of the Maulana, they have shut Mathnawi. The tariqa will recover by the turning and by the opening of Mathnawi. Because there is a special message to the lovers of Allah in the Mathnawi and it is that you are unconquerable, that the world belongs to you, both the worlds belong to you.

This is the message to those ones who love Allah. When I came out of khalwa my Shaykh said to me, "Now" he said, "no hand is over your hand." It is this freedom of slavery that is that power from Allah that the kafir fears because he cannot get it, cannot take it, cannot conquer it, so that even when the Shuyukh of the Mevlevi were hanged their bodies on the rope turned to Qibla.

This path of knowledge is the path of the power of Allah. It is a great, great thing in this world because it is indestructible while the world is here. Look what it is founded on. They shut the tekkes, but what were they going to do, kill everybody? There had awakened in a man and awakened in a woman, a desire for Allah that cannot be destroyed. But once you realise that you have been taken by Allah all the people are raised up by you. The reality of Maulana"s tariqa was the glory of the Sultan and his government. His Shaykh, Shaykh al-Islam, his Qadis, his army, his order to Jihad. It was the dynamic of the Mevlevi that gave the dynamic to the court of the Sultan. The elite of the country were turned to Allah, they were not turned to the gaining of the victory. They were free from that.

So when the Mevlevi were strong the whole of the Sultaniyya were strong, the whole "Ummah of Islam was strong. The Shari'at was strong because the Haqiqat was strong. So the ones who follow the path of this are the ones who will restore the Shari"at to its glory, not because they think it is a great thing, but because they know it will be pleasing to Allah and Rasul, salallahu alayhi wa salem. And victory will come because to the faqir this world is a little thing. But we must make it clean for Allah, we must give Allah what He wants. And what does Allah want? He wants "ibada, He wants the poor to be protected, He wants the Zakat to be collected by force, He wants a Sultan to rule his people in the image of the Topkapi like the shepherd looks after his flock.

He wants an army of Jihad to follow the orders of Rasul, salallahu alayhi wa salem. He wants His juma"ah to be complete with his dua for his Sultan. How does he achieve it? Because he (Fqdir) does not care, he does not care about this world. He has moved from fear of creation to fear of Allah. And the kuffar, the enemies of Islam, they care and their care weighs them down. And that is why the victory is with the people who love Allah.

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Celebration At Masjid Bukhari

2009-01-01T14:39:00.000-08:00

Just to reflect back, in past there weeks of May and 2 June of 2007, our fuqara sons overhelmingly outnumber the old veteran and their fathers. Ha ha very encouraging signs. Anyway, the young travelers like to take the KL Monorail, LRT-Star or KTM Commuter rather than suffer the traffic jams especially at Jalan Hang Tuah leading to the crowded popular Bukit Bintang and Puduraya area.

Alhamdulillah, last night we recited Yasin and Tahli after Maghrib with the alBukhari Foundation people and feted to a sumptous dinner of beriyani, mutton, ayam merah, dalca and fruits, then after Isyak prayer, we joined the Ba Alawi or alHaddad fuqara in reciting the full Qasida Burda lasting about 45 minutes. We were given opportunity to sing in between Qasida od Ahimu Wahdi from Diwan Shaykh Muhammad ibn al Habib.

So after that event, we hold our short zikr at basement floor joined by SZ from Shah Alam, a close friend of AZM who now studying in Syria. Welcome also to Haji WN and wife NH from Wangsa Lake East, who pioneered the minting of Emas Dinar Kelantan with success in Kota Bharu supported by the state government. They are preparing a big Dinar Seminar in July 2007 inviting Umar Pasha, insya Allah to give lecture. We pray for success all the da'wa work fi sabilillah.

Our Muqadim gave a short talk on his encounter with our Shaykh in 1978 and his visit to a zawiya in Moroccan Souhtern Desert. The awliya told them: ' Here Islam is losing ground and being isolated, go to land/place where Islam is growing and in need.' He indicates that our da'wa shall be in land of West or our homeland where the light of Allah are needed by people after being colonialized and secularised. Tasawwuf is the journey of ihsan where we must fulfill our basic Islamic practices/ibadah and our iman/aqida is correct.

He quoted a reply by a Turkish man who said Islam is in the heart !. This is a wrong answer. Islam is outward, iman is inward and unseen, not the other way round. Our amir later informed us the latest development and activity. He asked us to use fully the space and freedom given by Bukhari Mosque for teaching and dawa and meeting with various jemaah.

We end our blessed night with Salawat Najiyya from our Diwan as follow:

O Allah, bless our master Muhammad and the family of Muhammad
with a blessing by which You will save us from every fear and harm.
Supply us with all our needs by it,
and purify us from all evils by it,
and raise us to the highest degrees by it,
Through it, let us attain the furthest goal of good
in this life and after death.

O Allah, in this hour send down some of Your good
and Your baraka on us as You send it down
on Your Awliya-Friends and
send us what is kept for Your Lovers.

Let us taste the coolness of Your Pardon
and the sweetness of Your Forgiveness.
Spread over us Your Compassion which encompass
all things. Sustain us with Your Love,
Your Acceptance, our renewal in You,
Your Counsel, Your response to our asking
forgiveness and well being, taking in the present
and the absent, the living and the dead
in Your Mercy. O Most Merciful of the Merciful,
O Lord of the Worlds.

Bulan Sabit Nur Nusantara : Jambak Suffina

2009-01-01T14:30:00.000-08:00

Maka berbisiklah pulau beribu
KasihNya di riak air danauKu
CintaNya di alun ombak menderu
Shahadunya dalam angin malam bergema
Ertinya dalam sinar fajar purnama
Bangkitnya dalam firasat para nakhoda
NurNya ikat roh dalam jasad berganda
Batinnya dalam gah pelautraja
Bakanya nyior menghampar pulau merata

Jambak suffina menjadi tamrin
Bunganya diboi wangi semusim
Bersama deguknya jantung iklim
Bersama dua kalimahnya lima paksi
Bersama azan laungnya berganti
Bersama roh shuhada para wali

Dari Kampong Som ke Teluk Fathani
Dari luknya ke Sabang meranti
Taman suffina merentas Tahan-Andalas
Semananjung emas pancaran Fansuri berbalas
Disambut kraton tujuh wali tarikas
Ambunnya tercairlah Marauke
Itulah Bulan Sabit di Nusantara kake

Brunei-Mindanao acuan bintang
Dua sahabat bertindis kerdipan
Disambut ribuan pulau taulan
Dalam irama kicauan fiona wadisis
Ledak bumi lontar metamorphosis
Tumbuh hijau tunjang naluri
Naluri pelautraja naluri baktisejati.

NurNya pancaran sabit pancaran bintang
Dari tujuh langit Nurnusantara terentang.
Berbaktilah ia perantara benuaKu
Singgahnya fakir fuqara mencari jalanKu.
UmmahKu kaya pancaran batinya
Getaran Musim uratmuka mukminnya.

Nurnusantara
Salam Antara Benua Kita.

- Dr.Abdad ar-Rauwi, Penang (ex-USM)

Part 3 : Mengaji The Hundred Steps

2009-01-01T14:14:00.000-08:00

Malam penuh baraka dan luar jangkaun nota diari harian itu, kami pun meneruskan aktiviti mingguan mengulangkaji pelajaran atau kupasan mengenai buku The Hundred Steps SAQ bermula sejak 2006 lalu iaitu meliputi topic-topik berikut :

Minggu pertama Ogos – Bab Nafs
Minggu kedua Ogos – Bab Ruh
Minggu ketiga Ogos – Bab Sirr
Minggu keempat Ogos – Bab Mulk
Minggu pertama September – Bab Malakut
Minggu kedua September –Bab Jabarut

Perlu dijelaskan ini buku pertama dihasilkan pada tahun 1980 selepas guru kami menerima IZIN sebagai Shaykh al-Mursyid dengan menamatkan suluk sufiyyanya dibawah bimbingan Shaykh al-Fayturi, Benghazi Libya. Dia adalah pewaris wilayat yang tersembunyi dari Shaykh Mustafa Ahmad Alawi, Mostagnem, walaupun terdapat cabang lain tariqa Alawiyya-Darqawiyya disampaikan kepada Shaykh al-Hashimi di Jordan. Shaykh Fayturi berkata kepada guru kami: ‘ You are free now (finish/complete your suluk as to become a Sufic Shaykh). No hand are over your hand. He has the authority to join the separate branch of Alawiyya and Habibiyya as the overflowing Darqawiyya-Shadhiliyya again. Sufism is not about silsila or Shuyukh. Not wirid, wazifah or zikir, but the real matter is Marifa ! (Do the teacher you take from had the real jewel of Marifa, meaning only the true Wali possess this wisdom, others are inherited/self appointed teachers).

In the sufic steps outlined by Sh.Abdal Qadir clearly showed that a seeker must master, struggle and overcome and experience through the battlefield and arena of six things : journeying through the nafs, ruh, sirr and then passing over the realms of mulk, malakut and jabarut..! No other short cuts. Take this message.. and return to Riau. Begin a new adventure ! May Allah unite us again.

Jam dinding mencecah 11.15 malam. Besok kebanyakan kami akan bekerja dan bangun awal pagi. Terima kasih, tuan rumah kerana menyediakan makanan lebih dari kadar dibenarkan. Termasuk sebiji cheese cake dari Syedi, kaset CD bacaan Doa Nasiri hadiah dari Sidi Khairuddin dan diingatkan supaya memulangkan buku Sheikh Izzudin Abdul Salam mengenai catatan bahasa kiasan allegori sufi dari alam tumbuhan, bunga, pohon dan haiwan. Ianya satu cermin atau symbol kepada berbagai jelmaan nafsu, akal, ruh dan hati sang murid dalam merentasi alamaya ini. Sidi Badris meninggalkan begnya dirumah saudara di Kundang, Sungai Buloh dan akan bermalam di rumah sahabat kami di Kajang Utama sebelum dihantar ke stesen bas esok menuju Kuala Lumpur.
‘Tidak lupa, kirim salam pada Pak Angka dan Pak Huzrin serta hadiah buku berjudul ‘Kesultanan Melayu dan Ahlul-Bayt di Nusantara’ oleh Suzana Othman, Crescent Press 2006.’

Buku ini menyarankan kebangkitan Sultan/raja Melayu, para Alim Ulama/sufi serta keturunan Sayyid/Sharif untuk menaungi, mempertahan dan menyuburkan din Islam. Cinta kepada Allah dan RasulNya. Menghidupkan majlis ilmu, zikir, selawat, Burdah, ajaran sufiyya, fiqh-hukum Shariat islam dan berwaspada terhadap fahaman modenis dan tipudaya kuffar. Penulis juga menggalakan bacaan Doa Nasiri dilampirkan diakhir bukunya.

Yang menarik diceritakan juga gelombang kedua kedatangan para sayyid/sharif jurai al-Idrus, al-Attas, al-Haddad, Ba Alawi, al-Jufri, al-Bakri, al-Husayni dan al-Segaff yang bertaraf Alim Ulama, Awliya, Shuyukh, Imam dan Ahli Sufiyya ke alam Melayu Nusantara apabila berlaku konflik dan peperangan saudara di Timur Tengah yang mengancam survival Ahlul Bayt yang mulia. Buku ini diberi kata pengantar oleh Sayyid Umar al-Idrus, cicit Tok Ku Paloh Sayyid Abdul Rahman al-Idrus yang dianggap Guru Mursyid oleh muridnya Sultan Terengganu Zainal Abidin III. Sultan Pahang juga mempunyai seorang Shaykh Tasawwuf pada zaman yang sama bernama Tok Ku Bermin. Arwah Sultan Idris Shah di Perak juga pernah berguru kepada Shaykh Muhammad as-Samani dan diberi kedudukan sebagai Mufti Negeri.

Demikian juga di Negeri Sembilan, hampir semua Mufti Negeri adalah pemuka dan pemimpin Tariqat Ahmadiyya Idrisiyya seperti Muhammad Said Linggi. Shaykh Ahmad Zain al-Fatani pernah mengirim surat kepada Sultan Kelantan, anak muridnya dengan panggilan anakanda dan mendoakan pemerintahan Sultan dan menjaga kekuatan Islam di Kelantan agar tidak dicerobohi kaum kuffar dan penjajah British dan Siam ketika itu. Beliau juga dilantik oleh Khalifa Uthmaniyya berpusat di Istanbul untuk mentashih, mentahqiq dan mencetak buku-buku agama/kitab-kitab jawi dan arab untuk kegunaan umat Melayu Nusantara.

Kini usaha itu diteruskan oleh cucunya Tuan Guru Wan Muhammad Saghir Abdullah. Penulis Ulama Asia Tenggara terkenal, pengasas Yayasan Fataniyya dan Pondok-Pesantren di Mempawah, Kalimatan Barat. Pak Huzrin kita apa kurangnya pejuang umat Islam Kepri, ditarbiyya dalam penjara Sukamiskin Bandung, pewaris Raja Ali Riau, Tuhfat an_Nafis, calon Gabenor dan Robin Hood moden, dipertemukan dan bayat dengan Rais Abu Bakar Rieger. Akhirul kalam, berikut ini kita nikmati Sajak Nurnusantara cetusan ilham membara Dr. Abdad ar-Rauwi dari Pulau Mutiara:

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Sidi Badris : Part 2

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Sayang sekali, pada tahun 1982, buku Meaning of Man yang dibeli dengan harga RM35 telah hamba sedekahkan kepada seorang tetamu dari Filipina semasa zawiya kami bergerak di Gombak. Kini ianya diterbit semula oleh Madinah Press, 2006 dijual harga RM120.00 di kedai-kedai MPH. Bagi diriku, mahal bukan kerana wang ringgit. Manuskrip tunggal kitab ini diwaris dan dijaga dengan penuh rahsia oleh keturunan Sidi Ali al-Hassani. Masih dibaca dizawiya dan disyarahkan oleh muqadim-sufi dimalam Jumaat di Kota Fez, Maghribi untuk sekelompok fuqara terasing. Tubba alal-ghuraba.

‘This Darqawi line of teaching still survive today. They hide in mountain, live in the city, retreat to desert, serve as Alim, travel as traders, act as imams, they sing Burdah, open a Tea shop in Weimar, Just renovated a book shop in London- Taqwa Publication. Managing a Flower farm at West Java and churns out bread-bakery at Chiapas, conduct Heideggerian and Zen studies at Dallas College. They publish a one-off Magazine- Sinar 2000 for the Islam Political Economy Conference organized by USM and Muzium Islam, Yayasan Bukhari and Muslims of Europe Society. Another faqir taught advance statistical and mathematical simulation for gold-financial investment at UTM and one got halfway of PhD dissertation on AI with University of Nantes, France.

‘Saudaraku Sidi Badris, jangan tinggalkan Pak Angka seorang diri dalam kerja dakwah ini. Bantu dia mengadakan majlis zikir’. ‘Dia panggil saya- Tuan Guru..ha ha..walaupun saya bukan alim dan tak habis mengaji’.

‘Pak Angka, murid istimewa Sidi Shaykh. Dia telah diamanahkan untuk mengutus secara peribadi tiga surat dari Shaykh atau Rais kepada Pemimpin tertinggi di Jakarta’. Hasilnya Bapak Adi Sasono ketika itu memegang Menteri Koperasi dizaman Gur Dur amat bersetuju dengan gagasan Dinar uang umat Islam. Rombongannya juga menghadiri Moussem Shaykh di Cape Town pada 2003. Tempat bersemadinya makam seorang Pahlawan Nasional –Shaykh Yusuf Makasari al-Khalwati. Ibu Rachmawati Sukarnoputri juga pernah bermuzakarah dengan wakil Sidi Shaykh dan mau membuka Studi Ekonomi Dinar di kolej atau universitas swasta bersama Institut Weirmar dan Granada Islamic Center.

‘Seorang pencari yang diberi IZIN sebagai Muqaddim (pemuka, pelopor atau wakil Shaykh untuk menghidupkan wird dan amalan tariqa) merupakan cahaya lilin dimalam gelap dilanda gelombang angin ribut dan kilat. Jangan biarkan api dia berpusing, kecil-besar, malap atau terbakar habis, jatuh dan dipijak orang’. Hidupkan jalal zikir, selawat dan doa dari Diwan Shaykh Muhammad ibn alHabib.’

Siapa saja murid yang diberi amanah menjalan tugas ini dan berkhidmat kepada fuqara dengan nur isyarat dan pertalian rohani kudus..dari gurunya yang muhaqiq , dialah seorang muqadim. Walaupun tak bernama, tiada pangkat dan tidak alim sangat dalam bahasa arab atau pengajian kitab. Walaupun dia masih amat muda..’. Ada muqadim Darqawi yang berusia hanya 20an sahaja dan fuqara tua lebih 60-70 tahun duduk menghormatinya. Demi penyerahan hati , kasih sayang, keyakian teguh dan ketaatan mukhlis keatas tilikan Sang Mursyid yang lebih mengenali alam-alam nafsu, mulk dan malakut yang sudah ditempuhi. Sudah dilipatkan dalam fana. Disembunyikan balik tabir basyariyyah. Ini bukan berarti sudah tertutup. Masih terbuka untuk hati yang dahaga dan intelek yang cekal.

Hud-hud yang Terbang tinggi di Hamparan Quddusi, pulang membawa kicau Rohani. Sinar Kewalian. Izin sang Khaliq. Setitis Marifa dari Telaga Rasul. Teguklah kamu dari cawan-cawan, piala dan gelas diraja para Awliya-Salihun. Dizaman pancaroba. Zaman sufi palsu tersibar luar. Zaman orang tak mahu lagi memadamkan ‘title’ keakuan dan kehebatan jemaahku. Bacalah kitab terjemahan bahasa Inggeris Shaykh Ibn Ajibah –The Basic Research (Mahabith al-Asliyya).

Ini kayu ukur kita keatas para pendokong, pendiri dan penyibar jalan sufiyya. Potong nafsu dia dengan fana dan baqa. Leburkan dia dilautan al-qudra. Periksa dia sudah melepasi hijab dinding malakut. Belum lagi padang luas al-jabarut tak bertepi. Tak berbahasa dan tiada penghuni. Siapa yang masuk rumah Abu Yazid dan menyeru – Oh Abu Yazid, dimana kau ? Ada suara menjawap: ‘Abu Yazid tiada disini. Dia sudah pergi, bersama mereka yang berpergian’.

Manusia mencari musyahada dibumi nafsu, manakan jumpa sebab nur sang wali haram dibukakan kepada anak jalanan yang buat bising. Anak santri yang sudah banyak berguru. Senaraikan kitab-kitab yang kalian pernah duduk mengaji..Tiada adab untuk menunggu. Mengetuk pintu bila diizinkan. Panjat dulu gunung mujahada. Sucikan dahulu janabamu dengan air gunung Jabal Alami. Imam Junayd berpesan- ‘Jika sang murid tiada bekalan Air Segar dari mereka yang ada IZIN, maka hendaklah kamu bertayyamum dengan DEBU Kering atau BATU sahaja.’ Malam Rabu 16 September sungguh bertuah buat Sidi Badris. Dimana kita akan jumpa para fuqara sejati seperti yang dipuji oleh Sh.Abu Madyan:

‘ Mereka –fuqara-adalah ibarat para Sultan, Putera
dan Pemimpin. Semoga Allah mengumpulkan aku
bersama mereka dan mengampuni kesalahanku.
Bila daku mendengar khabar mereka ?
Majlis mereka meninggalkan baraka keharuman.
Tinggalkan bagianmu (keraguan/kekurangan),
bila engkau diletakkan dihadapan (qadama)

Sebelum berangkat ke rumah SidiMuzammil di Bangi, kami salat berjemaah Maghrib dahulu. Sempat juga dibacakan Selawat Najjiyyah dan doa Bi-jahi Nabiyyika Mustafa dari Diwan SMH. Ada satu rangkap doa sangat berkesan dihati kami iaitu :

‘Allahumma anzil alaina fi hadzihi sa’ati
min khairika wa barakatika. Kama anzal-ta ala Awliya-ika
wa khassasta bihi ahibba-aka.
Warzuqna min-ka mahabbatan wa qabulan..

( Oh Allah, turunkan pada saat/waktu ini
segala kebaikan dan barakaMu pada kami,
apa yang Engkau kurniakan kepada para AwliyaMu
dan kurniakan kepada kami
Apa yang Engkau khususkan kepada mereka
yang Engkau kasihi dari kalangan hambaMu.
Dan bekalkan juga kami dari sisiMu
dengan Kasih Cinta dan doa diMakbuli..)

Tidak lupa dicatitkan mereka yang hadir malam itu : Sidi Ikrami, Sidi Abdal Rahim, Sidi Khairudin, Sidi Syedi, Sidi Muzammil dan isterinya. Seperti biasa, kami mulai dengan bacaan Miftah al-Wird dan diikuti dengan satu Qasidah iaitu

Kam laka min ni’matin alayya
Wa lam tazal muhsina alayya

Jalal-chorus zikir:
(Allahu Allah ..Allahu Rabbi..
Auni wa Hasbi ..mani siwahu
Auni wa Hasbi ..mani siwahu )

Khalaq-tani musliman wa lau laa
Fadh-luka lam a’rifin Nabiyyaa

(Engkau telah menjadikan aku Muslim
jika bukan kerana Fadhal-KemurahanMu
pasti aku tidak mengenal akan Nabiku)

Ya Rabbi salli ala Nabiyyi
Maa tuliyat suratul-Mathani

Wa ath-lubul haqqa fis saadah
li-kulli man dhammahu zamaani.

Diari Kembara Sidi Badris Dari Riau, 2006

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Salam pembaca dan pencinta sufi budiman,

Hamba menerima emel menarik dari seorang sahabat lama mengenai kisah perjalanan sidi badris dari riau, dirasakan amat menarik dan unik kerana melibat pelbagai kisah, kitab dan shuyukh dan dakwah semasa. Silakan menatap dan insya Allah, lebih banyak soalan dari jawapan yang kita akan temui. Apakah ini kisah realiti atau fiksyen dan dimanakah para fuqara/salik yang dipaparkan dikalangan kepulauan nusantara ini ?

CATATAN PERJALANAN FAQIR SIDI BADRIS
DARI RIAU PADA 16 SEPTEMBER 2006

Ring-ring..telefon dirumahku banglo berkembar Presint Promenade, Putrajaya berbunyi. Sang isteri lalu angkat.. ah tiada kenal suara orang ini. Lalu aku ambil gagang dan bicara dengan pemanggil asing itu. “ Saya Badris, dikirim oleh Bapak Angka dari Riau untuk berkunjung dengan sahabat jemaahnya di Kuala Lumpur. Dia bilang nama Sidi Karim dan Sidi Amir. Saya baru habis hadiri seminar Jaringan Alam Melayu Antarabangsa di Melaka dari 13-15 Sept. 2006’. “Okay, saudara bisa jumpa saya pada petang atau malam Sabtu ini. Kita ada majlis zikir dan pengajian The Hundred Steps Sh.Abdal Qadir as-Sufi dirumah Sidi Muzammil di Bangi. Harap telefon lagi bila sampai Kuala Lumpur’.

Besok harinya, langit amat cerah dan awan biru bergerak ditiup angin melepasi ruang damai persekitaraan Putrajaya and Cyberjaya. Kira-kira 4.00 petang ring..ring..ah bunyi telefon lagi.

‘Sidi, saya Badris sudah sampai di Putrajaya. Mahu salat Zuhur sekarang. Saya naik bas dari Puduraya, turun di Kompleks Perdana dan jalan kaki sampai Mesjid Besar tepi tasik’. ‘tunggu didana. Sepuluh minit saya akan sampai dengan kereta Neo Satriaku. Lepas mencari parking ditepi pohon lazuardi, lorong as-Souq, aku berjalan kepintu mesjid. Sidi Badris melabaikan tangannya bila kenal saya dari jauh. Kami pernah bersua ketika berlansung Seminar Pengakraban Murabitun Riau-Malaysia di Tanjung Pinang pada Disember 2005. Lapan fuqara dan 2 faqirat Malaysia menaiki feri dari Stulang Laut berjaya mendarat dan disambut Pak Ahmad Angka dijeti. Van mini sedang menunggu kami dipandu oleh Pak Boerhanudin. Kami bersalam dan berpeluk erat bila bertemu diruangan air pancur masjid. Wah, ramai pelawat asing petang itu. Ada berbangsa china, jepun , arab dan Pakistan. Apa gelora rasa yang manusia moden gersang sedang mencari ? Sementara itu…khazanah dan permata hikmah islam hilang dibawa arus konflik, catur politik, perang, korupsi, faham ismaili, kemajuan ekonomi, naga kapitalis dan bunga-bunga riba dihiasi neon globalisasi.

Anak muda Sidi Badris berasal dari Sumatera. Berusia sekitar 27 tahun. Belum kahwin atau belum mampu mendirikan rumahtangga. Ramai muslimah menanti. Warga Minangkabau ujarnya. Serigarpari.. tak jelas marga kampungnya di Padang. Orang tuanya keturunan alim dan bercucuk tanam kopi dll . Atas gunung sejuk, amat subur juga. Tapi sudah lama merantau ke Jakarta, terlibat gerakan reformasi islam ketika di Universitas. Bantut belajar, tak habis ..apa sebab tiada dinyatakan. Kemudian berkelana musafir ke Kepulauan Riau (Kepri). ‘ Asalnya saya mengaji di beberapa pesantren dan mahir juga bahasa arab. Tiada kerja tetap. Boleh juga mengajar kitab-kitab macam Minjaul Abidin, Hidayatul-Salikin, Hadis Bukhari-Muslim, Hadis 40 Imam Nawawi dan Hikam Ibnu Athaillah.’ Jadi sekarang, saya diamanah buka Wakala Dinar Emas di Riau atas dokongan Pak Angka dan Pak Huzrin. Ketika ditanya : ‘ Saudara boleh berbahasa Inggeris ? Dia jawap: ‘Maaf, bahasa Inggeris saya amat kurang. Seputar faham 20% sahaja’.

Sidi Badris kagum melihat pemandangan indah sekitar Dataran Putrajaya, Boulevard dan ternampak Istana Agung Melawati disaluti atap merah serta Residen Perdana Menteri warna hijau muda.’ Disini hampir 80% pejabat Kementerian,agensi dan kantor Kerajaan Federal Malaysia telah dipindahkan dari Kuala Lumpur’. Kami naik kereta berpusing di jembatan gantung unik, keliling tasik dan masuk ke Presint 10 dan menuju Presint 11. ‘Rumah Dinas’, kata Badris bermakna rumah atau kediaman rasmi pegawai kerajaan jika di Indonesia. Bukan rumah sendiri.

Sambil muzakarah berbual dan minum teh petang, kami bincang juga kisah –kisah Umar Vadillo, Shaykh Abdal Qadir as-Sufi, Amir Ahmad Iwan Bandung, Sidi Abbas di Jakarta, Dr.Asadullah Yates dan Rais Abu Bakar Rieger yang berkunung ke Indonesia tahun 2005 yang lalu. Sidi Badris kurang mengikuti perkembangan murabitun dunia luar kerana tiada memiliki komputer internet. Masih miskin dan kalau mau, kena pergi ke Warung-Kafe Internet. Rp1,500 satu jam katanya. ‘. Homepage Islamhariini.org yang masyur itu berbahasa Indonesia itu dia belum kunjungi. Kesian, juga.

‘Nah, lihat ini gambar –gambar Guru kepada Shaykh kami iaitu Shaykh al-Kamil Muhammad ibn al-Habib, Shaykh Fayturi, Shaykh Zamzami dan beberapa sufi-fuqara Maghribi, Wali al-Bahlil as-Sahrawi , Mulay Sadiq, Sidi Hasan . Badris termenung sebentar dan bertanya, ‘ Buku Meaning of Man – karangan Sidi Ali al_Jamal, saya belum baca. Wah…jika penulisnya Guru kepada Shaykh al-Arabi ad-Darqawi, tentu dia banyak karama dan baraka.

‘It is book for the shuyukh’.
‘One word or one sentence from the light of the wali can transform a seeker’.
One man of inward can illuminate a whole city. We write it on the cave wall.
We write it on your heart’.

Demikian beberapa komen mengenai buku ini. Ada juga berkata- ‘ Aku sudah baca, tak berapa faham’. Pintasku, ‘ Buat zikir dan duduk dengan fuqara dulu. The hearts of awliya are the ruh or support for books. Reading books alone can be veils to traveling. So many kuffar orientalists wrote and commented on Ibnu Arabi books. Are they muslims ? Are they become Sufis ? Look at such names as William Chittick, Choldzerski, Henri Courbin, Carl Lewinson, Anne Marie Schimmel and T.Isutzu.’

..sambung Bhg.2...

Maulana Rumi in Today Admiration

2009-01-01T13:48:00.000-08:00

You Are The Path and Map: Mathnawi

I need a lover and a Friend
All Friendships you Transcend
And impotent I Remain

You are Noah and the Ark
You are the Light and the Dark
Behind the veil I remain

You are passion and are rage
You are the Bird and the Cage
Lost in Flight I remain

You are the wine and the Cup
You are the Ocean and the Drop
While Afloat I remain

I said, "O Spirit of the World
My desperation has taken Hold!"
"I am thy essence," without scold,
"Value me much more than Gold."

You are the bait and the Trap
You are the Path and the Map
While in Search I remain

You are poison and the Sweet
You are defeated and Defeat
Sword in hand I remain

You are the Wood and the Saw
You are cooked, and are Raw
While in a Pot I remain

You are Sunshine and the Fog
You are Water and the Jug
While Thirsty I remain

Sweet Fragrance of (my teacher) Shams is
The joy and pride of Tabriz ( whole of world indeed)

Perfume(sufi) Trader we remain
Beside attending Dailin Nur teahut

By Derek Beres - Pop - Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The Sufi poet formerly known as Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi is celebrating 800 years, and the entire spectrum of Persian culture is throwing a party.

Thanks to a former University of Georgia poetry/creative writing professor with a penchant for Sufism, the name Rumi went from an esoteric otherworldly moniker to common parlance in America.

Coleman Barks began studying this small sect of Islam in 1977 and has since translated thousands of the famous poet’s works into English. And considering the man formerly known as Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi is celebrating a rather special anniversary—800 years young—the entire spectrum of Persian culture is throwing a party.

Born in what is now a region in Afghanistan and passing on in Turkey, Rumi’s name alone has become synonymous with a region often looked upon with misunderstanding and scorn. Considering that major media outlets look at this area as an addendum to and co-conspirators with a country Americans are at war with, the propagation of a poet whose entire career was about the bonding forces of humanity is a timely, and important, occurrence.
(...)

The lasting power of Rumi’s legacy has been through his words used as lyrics for qawwali and ghazal song forms. Setar player and vocalist Haale, on her two latest EP releases, Paratrooper and Morning (both self-released), works the words of Rumi and Hafiz into a panoramic blend of luscious rock, heady bass, and brilliantly produced rhythms.
She began feeding her lifelong love of Persian poetry by translating them from Farsi into English for magazines like Rattapallax, and continues to spread this song form to American ears.

“He’s been a sort of towering, mythical figure in my mind since I was a kid,” she says. “In the ‘90s I got to witness the Rumi explosion in America, when he really got into the mainstream via Coleman Barks’s translations and the Bill Moyers show. Suddenly he was everywhere.

I started translating him myself, singing his lyrics in Persian. Traditional Sufi music is a tool to put listeners and players into a trance state, to usher them into higher states of consciousness. This is a deep, powerful way to conceive of music.”

Since his remarkable life began, Rumi’s influence has spread widely. The ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes, one of the main vocations of Sufis worldwide, owes its credit to a young scribe in love with life, wine, and his teacher Shams.

Eight-hundred years later today in 2007, he continues to remind us that between perception and reality is a great distance, and if we can find it within ourselves to close that gap, an entire new world can appear.

Maulana Rumi Mountain

2009-01-01T13:41:00.000-08:00

My student Zuigan Poem ( free style spining koan)
to share with malay thirsty wayfarers, too exhausted
by mengaji old kitabs, long wirid and zikir jahar:

Maulana Rumi Mountain collect clouds
Darqawi Deserts pour the rains
Half falls north of Master Izi River
Half falls into Attendant Zuigan Hut
Others may be stuck at Old Temples

Those who fear the Reality
will be given divine knowledge
Do not say I have not warned you
A sufi a zen a monk still a name
Forest, desert and mountains
They cheat people most time
Or make them fight in politics
Sichuan Lu Xun Pur Erh

The Tea of China never Smells
Three sufi will make loud Noise
One solitary wali sat facing a city Wall
Music and drums they sell Tariqats

Kitaro and Wu Ming is my Friend
Leave all books journal and papers
Took the Sun burning Path
Where Universities cannot teach
_________________
Tubba alal-ghuraba
Fasalamun ala man tabaal-huda
Rabbi habli hukman wa ahiqni bis-salihin

Lost In The Forest of Dunya

2009-01-01T13:35:00.000-08:00

Old Poem of 19.11.2007

Many seekers are being called travelers of the Path
but no one can claim to be a full sufi yet.
A traveler may arrives or get lost on the Way.
The Forest of Dunya is never kind to travelers
who enter it without a tested Guide.
Without a Weapon of Tawhid.
Without a Light of Discrimination-Furqan.

Buying sufic books and reading many old jawi
or Arabic kitab/texts of commentaries cannot help one
to see in the night of modernists anti-sufi.
On daytime the goats from the University Farms will attack
and chew up the green books because they are very hungry
and not trained well by their Masters and Dukturs
who prefer to feed them with spiritual empty grasses
and syllabus from the Orientalist wastelands.

(Dont ask me who is Master Hsue Tou and Wu Ming, too late to learn mandarin and read the Zen Koans of Blue Cliff Records translated by Thomas Cleary)

BAIAH ATAU IZIN GURU SHAYKH SUFI

2009-01-01T13:13:00.000-08:00

(8.12.2002 Dari Jernal Miyazaki)

Hamba telah lama membaca dan mengaji kitab jawi serta buku-buku berunsur tasawwuf dan tawhid tetapi jarang menemui huraian terperinci bagaimana seorang murid/salik yang bertariqat mencapai maqam Shaykh /Murshid. Atau juga disebut si-salik telah sampai/wusul kepenghujung jalan/.suluknya dan berada dimaqam Ihsan. Ulama sufi juga menggelarkan kemenangan rohani ini sebagai anugerah ‘kewalian’ kepada mereka yang melepasi maqam ‘Fana’. Dia memperoleh kurnia ilmu, cahaya, asrar/rahsia alam ghaib dari Hadratul Rabbani Quddusi yang tak terperi dengan kalam dan bahasa insane kecuali dengan bahasa isyarat dan kiasan duniawi.

Setengah ulama menamakan pengalaman ini sebagai musyahadah, pembukaan nur alan-nur, fana/baqa, penyingkapan marifatullah dan maqam al-jami’. Kebanyakan kitab-kitab lama memberi gelaran kepada ulama, tok guru dan penulis ahli sufi seperti berikut :

Arif bi’llah/ al-Imam/al-Ustaz
Al-Allamah/ al-Alim Rabbani
As-Sheikh/Shaykh
Wali Allah
As-Sufi/al-Murshid
Al-Ghawth
Al-Qutb
Guru Al-Muhaqiqin/ al-Kamil

Secara ringkas kita perhatikan terdapat 3 kategori IDHIN /IJAZAH /SANAD /TALQIN jalan Sufiyya atau Tariqa ini disampaikan dan disibarkan oleh mereka yang layak mengikut syarat dan kesaksian para guru/khalifa /muqadim/wakil murid yang dikhususkan seperti berikut :

A. PENYAMPAIAN IZIN SHAYKH (KHUSUSIYYA) DARI SHAYKH SEZAMAN YANG HIDUP KEPADA MEREKA/MURID YANG MENCAPAI MAQAM IHSAN/MARIFATULLAH.

B. IZIN SHAYKH KEPADA KHALIFA /MUQADIM BAGI MENGAJARKAN TARIQA/JALAN SUFI KEPADA ORANG RAMAI.

C. IZIN SHAYKH/KHALIFA /MUQADDIMNYA KEPADA PARA MURID/FUQARA UNTUK MENGAMALKAN WIRD/ZIKIR TARIQA.

Dalam banyak kitab para masyaikh Shadziliyya dan Qadiriyya, 3 jenis IZIN diatas juga seringkali bertukar atau sama erti/makna dengan istilah ‘berba’iat’ dan ‘mentalqin/ijazah’ dari Tuan Guru /Shuyukh kepada orang bawahannya.

Hanya kategori pertama (A), seorang murid dibenarkan oleh Guru Murshidnya yang masih hidup setelah mencapai maqam ihsan/wali/fana untuk mengisyitiharkan dirinya telah dipilih/diangkat menjadi seorang Shaykh al-Murshid. Seterusnya dia perlu mendapat pengiktirafan 3 orang Wali besar dizamannya bagi memastikan dia tidak membuat dakwaan sebelum waktu atau memenuhi syarat ditetapkan. Seorang mencapai maqam Wali tidak semestinya menjadi seorang Shaykh/Murshid. Tapi semua Masyaikh adalah Wali dan telah melepasi penyucian nafsu serta pendidikan rohaniah untuk membenarkan mereka diamanah/perintahkan menjalan tugas suci /berat tersebut.

Terdapat syarat penting lain ialah bukti /dalil dari seorang Shaykh baru ialah dia juga mendapat IZIN/PETUNJUK dari Rasul al-Mustafa, sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Para Awliya besar sezaman yang masih hidup juga mengetahui perkara ini dan akan membenarkan jika diminta secara khususi bagi memutuskan waham, keraguan dan kekeliruan seorang murid yang ikhlas dan berhimma suci dan istiqamah. Jika himma para murid itu rendah, suka nama/pangkat dan dikenali sebagai sufi sebelum masak dan bersemangat memuji Gurunya tinggi menggunung tanpa dalil kukuh, maka dia akan mendapat dan terlorong mengikut seorang Guru/Mushid yang separuh masak juga. Walaupun hebat dari segi zahir. Ribuan pengikut. Bangunan zawiya atau markaznya sentiasa penuh dan dikunjungi VIP. Zikir dan paluan musiknya juga menusuk hati. Para pembesar, raja-raja dan orang kaya memang suka mengambil baraka dan menumpang karama dari golongan ini.

Kita perhatikan bahawa ramai pendakwa Sufi/Shaykh (bukan muhaqiqin) zaman ini menggunakan KHABAR /CERITA MIMPI GHAIB bahawa mereka telah mendapat IZIN/IJAZAH/TALQIN tersebut dari para Guru Awliya/Masyaikh yang telah mati. Bagaimana hujah ini boleh diterima kecuali kita berupaya memeriksa dan mengesahkan bahawa MIMPI mereka adalah benar, bohong/palsu atau permainan dan tipudaya ALAM JIN/SYAITAN. Ramai mendakwa mereka telah bermimpi berjumpa dengan Sultanul Awliya Shaykh Abdal Qadir al-Jilani yang hidup dikurun 300 Hijrah, sedangkan kita sekarang dikurun 1400 Hijrah !.

Apabila seorang Shaykh Murshid yang mendapat IZIN kategori A meningal dunia, para khalifa/muqaddim atau muridnya yang sudah menerima IZIN untuk mengajar/mengamalkan Tariqa Gurunya dalam kategori B dan C, tidak boleh atau layak mengisytiharkan diri mereka sebagai Shaykh al-Murshid yang baru semata-mata kerana berlaku ‘kekosongan’ jawatan/kedudukan tersebut. Walaupun mereka ini amat alim, sudah berpengalaman dan bergelar Ustaz, Imam dan Tok Guru juga, amat rapat hubungan dengan Guru semasa hidupnya, menjadi orang kanan atau merupakan anak atau saudara akrabnya. Urusan ini bukan DEMOKRASI atau peralihan kuasa dalam sebuah Jemaah atau Tariqat dimana suara majority ahli jemaah menentukan siapa akan menduduki maqam Shaykh al-Murshid tersebut.

Kita juga jangan keliru dengan gelaran/pangkat didunia pengajian islam atau madrasah/universiti, dimana seorang pengajar/ulama yang sangat alim, berwibawa dan mungkin berketurunan alim ulama sufi juga, kita panggil dia dengan…as-Shaykh/Sheikh atau al-Allamah, al-Mudir, al-Murabbi, al-Ustaz, al-Imam dan seterusnya.. Gelaran keilmuan dan kepakaran serta zuhud/.warak/ mujahadahnya serta lama atau banyaknya dia bergaul dan mengaji dari pelbagai Masyaikh dizamamnya tidak boleh dibuat ukuran dalam dispilin/urusan sufiyya ini. Allah Taala yang memilih, membimbing, menyokong dan menentukan mana para Awliya yang akan mewarisi ilmu, marifa dan asrar rabbani dariNya untuk disibarkan melalui jalan/tariqa Muhammadiyya yang zahir, terkenal, kurang/tidak terkenal dan terpelihara dari segala bidaah dan pendakwaan palsu.

Ada tariqa tertentu IZIN Shaykh sezaman mereka telah putus tetapi mereka tidak sedar atau tidak mahu terima. IZIN TARIQA yang putus boleh dihidupkan semula dengan IZIN Allah dan RASULNYA melalui tangan/jalan para Awilya atau Masyaikh tariqa/ahli sufiyya yang lain daripada ISNAD/SILSILA tariqat asal mereka.

Seyogianya kita tidak mahu memanjang isu pewarisan Masyaikh dan Guru Tariqat ini kerana tidak ramai yang diberikan nur furqan dan keilmuan rohaniah bagi menjernihkan segala dakwaan dan pertelingkahan teresbut.

Kata seorang sufi, ‘ Anak-anak murid taksublah menyebabkan Guru mereka boleh terbang/kembara kesana sini dialam ghaib dan bergaduh dengan Guru/Masyaikh/Awliya lain mengenal siapakah lebih besar kerajaannya atau lebih tinggi maqamnya’. Anak murid begini jauh dari menciumi bau wangian alam malakut. Dimana letaknya alam malakut berbanding dakwaan Guru/Shaykh mereka ? Dimana alam nafsu atau alam jin/syaitan berbanding dengan kembara alam ghaib mereka ? Bolehkah mereka ini masuk dan keluar dari alam ghaib sesuka hati seperti bermimpi setiap malam ?

BEBERAPA PETIKAN MENGENAI PEMBERIAN IZIN SHAYKH

Rasail Darqawiyya (RD) ms.52 :

‘The tariqa is established by the power of Allah. Whoever is sent to lead it, that is by the Permission(Idhin) of Allah and His Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace and the Shaykhs’.

Shaykh AbulMursi said:

‘No Master put himself forward/infront unless waridat (great openings) pounced upon him and he has Permission/Idhin from Allah and His Messenger. The baraka and secret of the permission is that supports our affairs and keeps the state of its people in order. Allah knows best’.

Ms.150 (RD):
None miss him (the Shaykh) except the one who makes himself independent by his own opinion and thinks he knows more. As far as the one who needs him is concerned, I think he will find him wherever he is, near or far, in the land of Islam or in the land of Christians.

His need of him (the Shaykh) will join him to him wherever he is. Either the Shaykh will come to the murid or the murid will come to the Shaykh. Capacity will carry the Shaykh to the murid or the murid to the Shaykh’.

(the full text and narration about the transmission of Shaykh Idhin/Permission from Shaykh al-Fayturi Hamudah to our Master Shaykh Abdal qadir as-sufi is available at our website Aisha Bewley website.

he Mesenger of Allah s.a.w said:
‘ The Hajj is Arafat’.

And so it was that-
what had been difficult become easy,
and what had been far become near,
what had been absent become present,
what had been alive became dead,
and what had been dark became LIGHT.
(this indication of fana /baqa
/illumination /marifa/ gatheredness)

Rasail Darqawiyya p.151:

‘ This Path has guardians who protect it and guards who guard it until the Day of Rising. Allah has given them outward and inward knowledge. He has helped them with His Name the Helper (an-Nasir) and the Protector (al-Hafiz)’.

RD p.152:

‘We (Shaykh Darqawi) spoke about the states (ahwal) of the office (function/rank) of the Qutb and we had absolutely no knowledge of it. Our Lord brought it to us from the Unseen and from Nearness.’

'When I went into Shaykh al_Fayturi (at his zawiya in Tripoli/Benghazi), his first words to me were: ‘ THE PATH IS ONE’ and by his Authority (Idhin/Permission), he joined together the two separate branches of the Habibiyya (of Sh.Muhammad ibn al_Habib) and the Alawiyya (Sh. Ahmad al-Alawi), so that in us, they become again by Allah’s overflowing generosity, as the DARQAWIYYA (after the name of earlier great Master Mulay al-Arabi ad-Darqawi)’.

He also said: ‘ The Gnostics/arifun cares nothing for the WIRDS or WAZIFAS or SILSILAs. All that matter is gnosisi (marifa) of Allah’.

And we say to the seeker who is sincere in his quest: ‘ Don’t look for Shuyukh or turuq, seek only istiqamah and suluk’. Meaning if you had found one real Shaykh, you has no need to look/learn from many numerous Shuyukh or tariqats. It only show your ignorance and veiling of the nafs. The important thing is seek firmness in your traveling or suluk/wayfaring under the expert guidance and piercing light of the true Murshid/wali.
‘
(Insya Allah, akan hamba sambung jika
diberi kekuatan dan ilham dengan izinNYa)

Master Izi

2009-01-01T12:58:00.000-08:00

Who is Master Izi of Dailin Nur Institute
nobody ask this question before. He is good friend
of Dr.Anqaravi, dedicated reseacher of Rumi and Zen.
Here are my fellow student Zuigan description:

A man whose life is
like a wind blown piece of leaf
ardent composer of sufic kyoku.
Bitter severity, the angry face,
with a broadly relaxing air of tenderness.

The compassionate heart with
frosty wintriness of
an unbending spirit.

Wherever there is a stream of wisdom
and cool mountains of remembrance
there is my friend wayfarers tea hut
for meditation and muzakarah of intellects

But what I like is where
the Bamboos of illumination is thick,
surrounded by majestic clouds
gathering the rains for thirsty travelers
before Winter snow cover up the Way up

One word that bring joys
And another word that blinds
Be careful and stay close hsiao xin
to your teacher or guide
With the samurai sword
and code of honor drawn

(old diary notes @hakkawi)

Mencari Ilmu dan Kebenaran Sejagat

2009-01-01T07:40:00.000-08:00

Sambungan Bhg.5 (Akhir)

19. Salah satu jalan untuk menguasai hikmah kebenaran yang ditemui dalam falsafah china adalah maksud dan rahsia dibalik Hadith Nabawi mulia.yang berbunyi: "Tuntutlah ilmu walau sampai kenegeri China" . Bagi mereka yang berminat mendalami aspek falsafah china dan Islam secara perbandingan ilmiah bolehlah merujuk kepada buku-buku penting orientalis dan ulama mutakhir seperti berikut :

The 4 Chinese Classics – James Legge

Tao Te Ching – berbagai edisi terjemahan dalam Bahasa Inggeris

Sufism and Taoism – T.Isutzu

The Tao of Islam – Sachiko Murata

The Analect of Confucius- Arthur Waley

An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy – Fun YuLan

Papers from the Seminar on Confucianism and Islam
– ed. by Dr.Osman Bakar,University of Malaya Press

20. Kertas kajian ini hanyalah satu permulaan bagi memahami dan menggunakan falsafah klasik china bagi tujuan dakwah kepada jenerasi china moden. Sebenarnya mereka mempunyai tradisi dan fitrah yang dekat dengan Islam jika kita dapat menghuraikan melalui bahasa china dari perspektif Islam. Kaedah ini telah diteroka oleh ulama china muslim muktabar seperti shaykh Liu Chih dan Imam Wang DaiYue dimana ramai intelektual china memeluk islam melalui dialog, tulisan dan penerangan yang diberikan oleh kedua tokoh ini pada zaman dinasti Ming dan Qing. Kita berharap usaha dakwah secara berhikmah ini akan terus diteroka dan didalami oleh jenerasi baru intelektual muslim.

Sekian, wa ma taufiqi illa bi’Allah, wassalamu alaikum wa rahmatuLlah.
Cai Jian. Zhen zhu bao yuni.

REFERENCE BOOKS

1. The Analects saying of Confucius- Arthur Waley
2. Chuang Tzu Inner Chapters
3. Tao Te Ching – James Legger trs.
6. I Ching – Richard Wilhem
7. The Book of Strangers - Sh.Abdal Qadir as-Sufi (SAQ)
9. The Way of Muhammad- SAQ
11. A History of Chinese Philosophy – Fun Yulan
12. Ta Hsue and Chung Yung – J.Legge
13. J. Gladneys – Muslims in China
14. Secret History of Ming Dynasty- Yusuf Chang
15. Islam in China – R.Disraeli
17. The Way of Tai Chi – AlHuang
18. Zen and Japanese Culture – Dr.Suzuki
19. Heidegger and Asian Philosophy

Tao Te Ching : Erti Te/Budi/Taqwa/Birr

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TE – Akhlak/Budi/ Ihsan

15. Istilah Te seringkali disebut dalam kitab klasik china dimana semua manusia beradab dihendaki mengisi dirinya dengan sifat dan amalan selaras dengan prinsip te. Huruf TE - juga ada 3 huruf asas /makna komposit yang saling berkait. Kita petik dari ANALECTS/LUN YUN mengenal TE :

"What the Great Learning teaches is to cultivate illustrious virtue, to renovate/transform the people; and to rest in the highest excellence".

"The ancients who wished to cultivate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their state, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulated their families, they first cultivated their persons. Wishing to cultivate their persons, they first rectified their hearts.

Wishing to rectified their hearts, they sought to be sincere/pure in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended/seek to the utmost of their knowledge. In the Ta Chia, it is said: 'He contemplated and studied the illustrious decrees of Heaven"

16. Huruf gabungan pertama dalam TE disebelah Kiri: …….menunjukkan interaksi dua manusia iaitu mereka mesti berurusan dengan baik/ saling hormat/menunaikan hak. Huruf kedua dikanan ……..atas bermakna offerings to Heaven. Ibadah/persembahan/pengorbanan diri, harta/ makanan.Macam kewajipan zakah dalam Islam atau sedekah. ! Huruf asas dipetak bawah TE ialah hsin/hati. Yakni semua ibadah/ pekerjaan itu dilakukan dengan hati yang ikhlas. Penuh iman. Disini fahaman klasik china mementingkan hati/qalbu sebagal jiwa insan bukan akal fikiran yang diagungkan oleh Barat. Intelek itu berlainan fungsi dengan hati. Sains dan teknoloji serta kemajuan kebendaan adalah hasil intelek tetapi apa terjadi kepada agama bagi orang barat ? Bagaimanapun soal manusia beriman atau tidak tertakluk kepada pencarian melalui ketajaman akal dan juga keikhlasan hati serta hidayat dari Allah seperti disentuh dalam ayat Quran 5:48 :

Kepada setiap bangsa/kaum , Kami berikan mereka Shariat /Agama dan Jalan Hidup ( Manhaj). Jika Allah kehendaki niscaya Dia membuat kamu semua beriman tetapi (hikmahnya) Dia mahu menguji kamu dalam apa yang diberikan kepada kamu dalam kehidupan dunia ini.

17. Kekurangan dan kelemahan ajaran klasik china adalah ketiadaan otoritas Wahyu Tuhan/Langit/Tian dan shengren/filasuf mereka sudah diabaikan dan tidak dianggap mengikat. Mereka tiada prinsip kewajipan beriman/taat kepada Tuhan/Tian dan Rasul atau Kitab suci, jika ingkar dianggap binasa dan disiksa dihati Akhirat. Mereka mengganngap Kitab TaHsue, Chung Yung, LunYu dan Tao Te Ching itu sebagai khazanah / pemikiran/ilham dan ajaran manusiawi yang agung tetapi tidak ‘divine’.

Mereka juga menghadapi masalah mengenal , memuji, menyeru dan mengagungkan Tuhan/Pencipta yang Esa kerana keterbatasan istilah/nama Tuhan dalam bahasa mandarin. Ini tidak menjadi masalah dalam Islam yang menganjurkan umatnya memuji,,berzikir , beribadah dan berdoa melalui 99 Asmaul Husna / Nama Allah yang Indah dinukilkan dari al-Quran dan Hadis Nabi. Kita juga bermasalah apabila tidak faham apa itu KeLan Jing !

18. Masalah kita adalah bagaimana hendak mengajak bangsa china menghayati akarumbi falsafah mereka tapi dengan melalui perspektif dan sinar nur Islam. Kita mungkin hanya boleh ambil sekitar 10% atau 20 % daripada ajaran klasik tersebut untuk dibicarakan dengan mendalam dan memerkayakan fahaman tersebut dengan dimensi Tawhid. Kita perlu menambahkan gambaran Islam melalui huraian hakikat Alam Ghaib seperti alam Malaikat, alam Akhirat , Kewujudan Iblis/Syaitan, Hari Qiyamat, Syurga dan Neraka ,Hari Masyar/Hisab. Tanpa kita mendalami aspek tawhid dan tasawuf /jalan Sufi, kajian perbandingan dengan falasafah china yang mengagungkan hikmah agak sukar dilaku¬kan.

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Bahagian 3 : Hui Jiao dan Sheng Ren

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Hui Jiao - Pengertian Islam Dalam Mandarin

12. Saya ingin rnenyingkap mengapa umat muslim china mengelar agama Islam dengan bahasa/huruf china sebagai HUI JIAO. HUI hurufnya seperti mim atau dua petak 4 segi macam Kaabah.HUI berarti Kembali,Pulang Kesumber Asal,yakni semua manusia dicipta Tuhan,diuji dan mati/kembali kepada Tuhannya untuk balasan hakiki .

Arwah Ustaz Ishak Ma (Yunnan/Madinah/Perkim) menerangkan arti Hui boleh diambil dari ayat Quran- Inna li'Llahi wa inna ilaihl rajiun ( Sesungguhnya kita datang dari Allah dan akan kembali kepadaNya). Juga makna dari ayat – sami’na wa atha’na , ghufranaka wa ilaika masir ( kami dengar dan taat, ampuni kesalahan kami dan kepadaMu kami semua akan kembali ) dan makna ayat : fa-subhnal lazi bi-yadihi malakutu kulli syaian wa ilaihi turjaun ( maha suci ditanganNya terletak segala kekuasaan dan tempat kembali segala urusan ).

13. Kita bernasib baik jika diMalaysia dapat berdialog dengan orang china mengenai ajaran Confucius/Tao/I Ching. Mungkin hanya terdapat 20 % yang akan faham kerana berpendidikan aliran Mandarin, itupun setakat darjah enam sahaja. Mereka sendiri pun tidak ambil peduli fasal 'superior man' , shengren atau cultivation of virtue / te. Ramai yang berpendidikan Inggeris akan cenderung kepada nilai Barat/Kristian. Tapi kita masih ada harapan untuk berdialog dan berdakwah jika mereka bersifat terbuka dan terus mahu memburu kebenaran.

Ini dapat dilihat melalui kejayaan Seminar Antara bangsa Mengenai Islam dan Confucisma pada tahun 1995 oleh Universiti Malaya. .Ajaran Kristian semakin hilang dibarat dan kini adalah giliran kebangkitan Islam. Sebagai contoh terdapat ramai intelektual barat telah memeluk agama Islam setelah membuat kajian dan penyelidikan mendalam seperti berlaku kepada Muhammad Pickthall ( Inggeris) , Muhammad Asad ( Jerman) , Yusuf Islam ( Greek) , TB Irving ( USA) dan Anne Marie Schimmel (Jerman) penulis terkenal dari Jerman.

Huraian Makna Sheng Ren (The Sage /Perfect Man )

14. Kita kembali kepada makna SAGE/ SHENG REN, saya ingin menghuraikan komposisi huruf-huruf tulisannya. Ada tiga komponen atau root word dalam Sheng. Bahasa china/mandarin dibina atas 3 asas iaitu bercorak gambar (pictorial/image) , bercorak bunyi (sound-borrowed meanings ) dan bercorak huruf/makna gabungan ( composite meanings). Kita takkan dapat appreciate/menghargai bahasa china yang kaya dengan berbagai tafsiran kecuali menghayati keindahan dan keunikan makna yang hidup macam kaligrafi china atau khat arab . Contohnya gunung/ huruf shan dilukis dengan tiga garis lurus tinggi rendah macam bukit dan gunung. Ma – huruf kuda ada haiwan empat kaki dan manusia tunggang atas belakang.

Istilah Sheng –dalam bahasa Malaysia bererti orang Arif / Hukama atau Filasuf dibina dengan 3 huruf . Pertama huruf wang/raja dipetak bawah. Insan Sempurna/orang Arif mesti ada sifat khalifah/raja dalam dirinya.Boleh menjadi contoh/petunjuk kepada orang lain dgn memahami kehendak Langit. Huruf komposit kedua dalam Sheng ialah KO/ bicara/ajar. Dia mesti berupaya menga¬jarkan kebenaran itu kepada orang lain. Tiada disembunyikan atau untuk kegunaan sendiri sahaja. Ini sama dengan sifat Rasul/Nabi iaitu Tabligh/menyampaikan.Sidiq dan amanah.Huruf komposit ketiga sebelah kanan ialah ERH artinya mendengar/Hears.Dia seorang manusia yang mendengar mesej dari Langit. Atau diilhamkan kedalam hatinya atau disebut Ming/illumination. Arti lain Erh ialah taat dan mendengar perintah Tuhan.

To know the Will/Decree/Command of Heaven
is also to follow/practice its instructions.

‘ the Sage is a superior man who teach/transmit
what he receive from Heaven/Creator in correct worship
and living and transaction with other men.

This bring us to the meanings of TE / VIRTUE.
It also means RIGHTEOUNESS/PROPRIETY.
To attain virtue we must follow/practice the LI / Rule of Ethics.

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Bhg.2 : Falsafah China dan Islam

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Huraian Istilah Tian / Tuhan Langit

5. Kita melihat bagaimana ajaran china amat mementingkan tiga prinsip penting iaitu hubungan antara Insan , Langit dan Dunia/ Kehidupan. Tian berarti Tuhan Langit atau Pencipta seperti difahami oleh filasuf mereka. Huruf Tian terdiri dari huruf TA – besar/agung dan huruf garis datar diatas /langit. Ini selaras dengan fahaman Islam melalui Nama Allah iaitu al-Kabir , al-Azim dan al-A’la. Perkataan agama ‘Samawi’ dalam bahasa arab berarti agama yang diturunkan dari langit/Tuhan. Agama yang tidak datang dari Langit adalah ciptaan atau sumber ilmah/pemikiiran manusia atau sekadar ideoloji duniawi sahaja.

Manusia Sebagai Pemimpin atau Khalifah diMuka Bumi

6. Kedua, kita analisa perkataan yang mudah iaitu "WANG" berarti raja. Apakah makna/tugas manusia yang dipilih menjadi Raja ? Huruf 'wang' ada tiga garis mendatar. Garis atas adalah menandakan Langit.Garis kedua ditengah bermaksud ren-insan yang hidup dibumi-diwakili oleh garis ketiga dibawah sekali. Dr.L.Wieger seorang pakar pengkaji bahasa china menerangkan dalam bukunya: 'according to the ancients, the king /wang is the man who connects together the heaven,earth and humanity' . Garis tengah menegak menunjukkan raja itu mesti hidup memerintahkan dengan adil/benar diatas bumi. Seorang raja mesti menerima dan mematuhi kehendak amanah Langit. Dia mesti mengamalkan Li/Rite/Propriety/ Shariat terdahulu yang diwarisi turun temurun. Jadi, Ancetstor Worship dalam ajaran china adalah bermakna meneruskan agama nenek moyang mereka yang telah mendapat pentunjuk Langit melalui 3 King Sage iaitu Maharaja Yao, Shun dan Zhao.

7. Jika dalam Islam,amat mudah kita memahami siapakah manusia yang mene¬rima Perintah/Amanah Langit iaitu Wahyu Tuhan .Mereka adalah para Rasul dan Nabi. Kelebihan Rasul atas Nabi menurut tafsiran ulama tertentu ialah para Rasul diberikan Kitab Suci dan membawa Shariat baru. Manakala para Nabi hanya meneruskan Shariat sediada dan tiada menerima Kitab suci. Mereka menerima Wahyu , menyampai ajaran Tawhid dari Tuhan Pencipta , membuat penyucian dan pembaikan /islah supaya manusia kembali ke Jalan yang benar.

Semua insan memiliki sifat khalifah / raja iaitu menjalani hidup didunia dengan mengikut ajaran Langit. Mereka yang jahil atau bodoh mesti belajar dari CHUN TZI ( the superior man) atau SHENG REN ( Sages) . Jika tidak,kita kekal jadi HSIAO REN -inferior/common man' yang sentiasa lalai dan jahil darihal ajaran langit .

Tugas Rasul dan kehidupan insan ada dijelaskan
dalam ayat Quran-surah Sad ( 38:26) :

Inna ja’alna khalifatan fil-ardhi,
Fahkum bainan-nasi bil-Haqq, wa la tat-tabiil-hawa
fa-yudhillaka an sabili’Llah.

( Sesungguhnya Kami jadikan manusia sebagai khalifah dimuka bumi, maka hendaklah kamu perintah/hukum manusia dengan kebenaran al-haqq. Jangan kamu ikut hawa nafsu (manusia) yang akan menyesatkan kamu dari Jalan Allah)

8. Dalam Kitab I CHING , huraian keatas hexagram/tafsiran yang ke-14 amat menarik kerana menerangkan sifat seorang chun tzi iaitu bermaksud seperti berikut:

"In observing the sign, the superior man (chun tzi)
study the words and deeds of the ancient Sages( sheng ren)
and nourishes his own virtue ( Te )"

Jadi, dengan beriman dengan Rasul Terakhir yang diutus menjadi Rahmat bagi sekalian Alam Semesta,umat bangsa china tidak terke¬cuali dari pesanan/ajaran Confucius. Mereka mesti menyahut seruan yang warisi. Saya fikir amat hampir kepada kebenaran,jika 'the Ordinances of Heaven' boleh ditafsir sebagal WAHYU LANGIT, ianya sudah diturunkan tetapi bukan terhad dinegeri China.

Sebab itu ulama China Muslim mengelar Nabi Muhammad, sallaLlahu alaihi wa salam sebagai CHIN SHENG atau 'the Great Sage From the West'. Jika Confucius dipanggil 'a Sage/Teacher of A Hundred Generations' maka bagi Nabi kita dimuliakan dengan gelaran ‘the Sage/Teacher of A Thousand Generations'.

Dimasjid tertua Nanjing , China ada terpahat suatu satu sajak indah dalam bahasa mandarin oleh Maharaja Ming memuji Islam dan Nabi Muhammad sallaLahu alaihi wa salam iaitu dengan gelaran Sheng juga. Keterangan diatas juga sesuai dengan maksud al-Quran :
Ya ayyuhan Nabiyyi , inna arsalnaka syahidan
wa mubasyiran wa naziran wa daiyyan ila Allahu wa sirajan muniran

( Wahai Nabi, sesungguhnya engkau diutuskan menjadi Saksi, Membawa Khabar Gembira dan Memberi Amaran dan menyeru manusia kepada Allah dan menjadi lampu contoh petunjuk yang benderang ( untuk umat manusia)

9. Kita membuat kesimpulan bahawa perkataan/ajaran dan amalan dari ‘ the Sages’ yang dimaksudkan dalam ajaran china tersebut amat cocok dengan tugas Rasul membawa Khabar Wahyu (words) dan amalan hidup(deeds) /Sunnah yang menjadi cahaya petunjuk kepada semua umat sehingga Hari Kiamat. Dalam ayat lain diterangkan bahawa Rasul berfungsi –yuallimuhul-kitaba wal-hikmata wa yuzakkihim ( mengajari Kitab/Wahyu dan hikmah serta menyuci/sempurnakan jiwa manusia ).

10. Soal bahasa wahyu dari Tuhan sangat penting kerana tidak semua umat dan negara mempunyai bahasa yang sama. Keterangan mengenai Wahyu Tuhan yang disampaikan kepada sesuatu umat bangsa terdahulu oleh para Rasul melalui bahasa kaum mereka sendiri ada disebut dalam Surah Ibrahim 14: 4 :

Wa ma arsalna min Rasulin illa bi-LISANI qaumihi li-yubayyina lahum. Fa –yudhilluLlahu man yasyaau wan yahdi man yasyaau , wa huwal-Azizul Hakim

( Tidaklah Kami utuskan seorang Rasul melainkan menyampaikan kebenaran yang haq dengan bahasa kaumnya sendiri. Allah menyesatkan siapa yang dikehendakiNya dan memberi petunjuk kepada siapa yang dikehendaki)

11.Dengan kedatangan Rasul Terakhir , kepercayaan terhadap Kitab Suci terdahulu masih dikekalkan sebagai rukun Iman dalam Islam tetapi kandungan kitab suci dalam bahasa lama terdahulu seperti Zabur, Injil dan Taurat sudah tiada lagi ,lenyap dan telah diubahsuai oleh manusia yang ingkar. Hanya Kitab al-Quran sahaja menjadi pentunjuk hingga akhir zaman. Allah Taala telah berfirman : Inna nahnu nazalna wa inna alaina hafizun ( Sesungguh Kami yang menurunkan al-Quran dan Kami tetap akan memeliharanya hingga hari Kiamat ).

12. Jika umat yang awal tidak berpegang teguh kepada agama Allah , maka akan didatangkan bangsa baru untuk menegakkan risalahNya sesuai dengan ayat Quran
–Surah alMaidah 5:57 :

‘ Wahai kamu yang beriman , jika ada diantara kamu meninggalkan agamaNya, kelak Allah akan mendatangkan satu bangsa lain yang Dia kasihi dan mereka mengasihiNya. Mereka keras terhadap kuffar dan lembut keatas kaum mukminin, mereka berjuang diJalan Allah tanpa takut kepada cercaan manusia’

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