Who Is Harun Yahya?

Adnan Oktar, who writes his books under the pen-name "Harun Yahya", is an idealist person who devoted his entire life to share his views on the existence and unity of God and the graces of the Quranic morals with other people. Starting from his university years, he has spent every moment of his life, serving to this cause and never dreaded facing difficulties. There has been several campaigns of persecution against Mr. Oktar because of his faith and ministry. He has been arrested many times, kept in custody, tortured by Turkish authorities for many months,
 but always found innocent at the end. Today, he still stands firmly against all the pressure and slanders that he confronts by displaying the same patience and fortitude.

Below, you will find the brief biography of Adnan Oktar, whose works you will find on website listed at the end of the page.

Adnan Oktar was born in 1956 in Ankara and spent his life in Ankara until the end of high school. His commitment to Islam got even more steadfast during high school years. Reading various religious books during this period, he gained profound knowledge about Islam. Moreover, he himself grasped important facts and decided to share these with the people surrounding him. In 1979, Adnan Oktar moved to Istanbul to attend Mimar Sinan University. It was by this time that he undertook the mission to call people to the faith and morals of Islam.

YEARS IN MIMAR SINAN UNIVERSITY

By the time Adnan Oktar entered Istanbul Mimar Sinan University, the school was already under the influence of various illegal Marxist organizations and militantly atheistic views were prevalent in the university. Everyone, be him a faculty member or a student, was a materialist adhering to the atheist way of thinking. Indeed, instructors took every opportunity to propagate the materialistic philosophy and Darwinism in their lectures albeit irrelevant with their topic.

In an environment where each and every religious and moral value was disrespected and outright rejected, Adnan Oktar started to call the people around him to the unity and existence of God. As may be understood, under such circumstances, any theistic idea was not given an opportunity to gain ground. As Mediha Oktar, his mother, relates, during that period he only had a few hours sleep each night, spending his time reading, taking notes and keeping files. He read hundreds of books, including the basic works on Marxism, communism and materialistic philosophy and thoroughly studied the books on secular ideologies, both classical works and rarely-read ones. He worked on them, marking the significant sections and taking notes at the back. He became highly knowledgeable about these philosophies and ideologies, far better than their own advocates. He also made extensive research on the evolutionary theory, the allegedly scientific basis of these ideologies, and gathered documents and information about it.

Having gathered ample information on deadlocks, contradictions and lies inherent in these philosophies and ideologies based on the rejection of God, Mr. Oktar used this accumulation to tell the facts. He told the existence and unity of God and the truth of the Qur'an in the light of rational and scientific evidence almost to everyone, including the students and instructors in the university. In the course of a conversation in the school cafeteria, on the corridors or during breaks, one could see him refuting the materialist philosophy and Marxism, quoting from these ideologies' own reference books.

He particularly gave emphasis to the theory of evolution, i.e. Darwinism. This theory, advanced against the fact of creation, was widely adopted by university students.

HIS FIRST BOOKLET ON DARWINISM

With this purpose in mind, Adnan Oktar primarily concentrated his efforts on proving the invalidity of this deception. As Darwinism was advanced in the name of science, he thought science would serve as the best means to disclose its fallacy. He wrote a booklet titled The Evolutionary Theory, which was a summary of his extensive researches and studies. He, himself, paid all costs of this booklet by selling some of the estates he inherited from his family. Then, he started distributing free copies of this booklet to university students and discussed it with anyone he met. This booklet was indeed a comprehensive work revealing that the evolution theory was a fraud which had no scientific and rational value whatsoever. Furthermore, some militant students at the university were straightforwardly threatening Oktar stating that he would put his life to risk if he did not stop his activities. Yet, all these pressures and threats made Oktar even more committed and resolute.

In a university under the Marxists' domination where terror was reigning, the religious people were harassed because of their beliefs. At that time in Turkey, many young people were murdered because of the ideological tension. Under such circumstances, Adnan Oktar was openly preaching the existence and the unity of God, and the righteousness of the Qur'an. In a school where people never dared to disclose their faith, he regularly went to the Molla Mosque and fulfilled his prayers, never being intimidated the reactions and threats he encountered.

THE ANXIETY OF THE ATHEIST INSTRUCTORS

Adnan Oktar always entered the lectures with scientific documents and research files he always kept with him and had discussions with the instructors about the materialist philosophy and the evolutionary theory. At that time, there were two well-known faculty members who were continuously talking about evolution and making atheist propaganda. Thus, they were popular among Marxist students and earned their respect. However, their desperate efforts to defend their ideas throughout the discussions they had with Adnan Oktar, and the illogical answers they provided revealed the futile and unrealistic nature of their ideologies.

One day after the lecture, one of these instructors made a brief, yet efficient discussion about the deadlocks of the evolutionary theory with Adnan Oktar. This person could bring no reasonable explanation and answer to the scientific and rational arguments provided by Adnan Oktar. All he could do was to leave that place immediately.

However, that he met such a defeat before the very eyes of the students was what most distressed him. From that time on, this person, who used to wander around the corridors and hold serious lengthy philosophical conversations with his students after the lectures, started to hastily run to his room all alone to avoid Adnan Oktar.

ALONE FOR THREE YEARS

Adnan Oktar was alone when he started communicating Islam at Mimar Sinan University. For more than three years, there was no one supporting his views. However this lack of support did not change his commitment. He knew that God was his sole Companion and he did all this to earn the good pleasure of God.
Adnan Oktar made a remarkable exam score in the entrance exams of the Mimar Sinan University. He had an exceptional ability in drawing. If it was what his goal, he could easily have a degree in fine arts and make a brilliant career. He could normally think, "First let me make my career and then I can start communicating Islam"; but he didn't. He devoted all his time, energy and means to only one purpose.

Having no support throughout these years, Adnan Oktar could simply think his efforts to be vain and simply give up. But he did not. With determination and commitment, he continued to convey the words of God to people around him. Keeping in mind the words of Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, "The skill is not to have many listeners but to earn the good pleasure of God", he went on.

In 1982, for the first time, a few young people who were new at Mimar Sinan University, decided to support Mr. Oktar in his ideological struggle. As months and years passed by, the number of young people embracing the same views increased. The evidence for creation, the invalidity of Marxism and materialist philosophy, which was then a dominant ideology, were the major subjects of Adnan Oktar's conversations with these young people. His main ambition was to guide them in being honorable people. From 1982 to 1984, a group of 20-30 young people was formed.

During the two years following 1984, conversations held with young people, who were then attending private high schools in Istanbul, were about moral values. During these years, Oktar did not attend Mimar Sinan University. He enrolled to a new faculty, Istanbul University, Philosophy Department.

His name appeared in Nokta (The Point) magazine for the first time in 1986 and this was the first time he became to be known by the general public.

FIRST IMPRESSION IN THE PRESS

The news about Adnan Oktar appeared as the cover story of Nokta (The Point) magazine after the visit of Rusen Cakir, a correspondent for the Nokta (The Point) magazine, to the mosque where Adnan Oktar gathered with his friends and held conversations. The story published under the headline "Disciples from Colleges"covered basically Adnan Oktar and the way he communicated the message of Islam to the young people who shared his ideas. During this period, many university students, mostly from Bosphorus University, one of the most prestigious universities of Turkey, started to participate in the conversations of Adnan Oktar.

Until the beginning of the summer of the same year, press organs made a full coverage of Adnan Oktar almost everyday. Many newspapers carried his name to the headlines. Adnan Oktar, who spread the message of Islam into the section of society which seemed to be the most secularized, was understandably startling for the media.

THE FIRST PERSECUTION

The powers in the Turkish society who are at odds with Islam, which are traditionally organized under the banner of Freemasonry, were greatly disturbed by the ministry led by Adnan Oktar. On the other hand, some distinguished families of Istanbul were concerned about their children who changed their way of living and started to observe their religious duties. Essentially these two factors initiated a campaign of persecution to halt the activities of Adnan Oktar.

In the summer of 1986, Adnan Oktar was arrested for a crime he never had the chance to know. As was related later, he was arrested because of his words "I am from the nation of Abraham and Turkish ethnicity." This statement appeared in an interview which was published in a newspaper. This was also the time when false reports, unfounded information and slanders started to appear in the media.

TORTURE IN THE MENTAL HOSPITAL 

Adnan Oktar was first arrested and imprisoned. Then, he was transferred to Bakirkoy Mental Hospital and placed under observation on the pretext that he was mentally unwell. In the hospital, he was placed in the "14A" ward, a special section where only very dangerous patients who were immune to punishment were kept. Since murders were very ordinary incidents among these mentally sick people, Oktar was expected to be murdered. For a certain period of time, he was chained to bed by his ankles and exposed to cruel treatments. By force, he was given drugs blurring consciousness. Meanwhile, his young friends who had the chance to secretly visit and see him witnessed that he never lost his commitment and enthusiasm in the meanwhile. Moreover, all the things he went through added more to his commitment.

Oktar was held in prison and mental hospital for a total of 19 months and then acquitted and released by the court since his statements were found to be inoffensive. After his release, he saw that during the time he was in the mental hospital, the number of his young supporters increased dramatically. Since visiting him was prohibited they could only see him behind the hospital bars. A few minutes talk they had with Adnan Oktar behind these bars -one could only go to this place by jumping over the hospital fences- made these young people have a profound and everlasting love and respect for him.

DARWINISM

Since 1979, the year he started to communicate his views about religion, disclosing the real face of the Darwinism had been the major goal of Adnan Oktar. This subject never lost its importance throughout the years however. The theory of evolution always had priority for Oktar. With resoluteness, he carried out his studies on Darwinism. In 1986, he compiled all his valuable researches on Darwinism in his book Living Beings and Evolution. In the light of scientific sources, this book showed the impasse of the theory of evolution and revealed the fact of creation.

During those years, the friends of Adnan Oktar also concentrated their efforts on the evolutionary theory. They put forth a great effort to tell people the groundless nature of the theory. In colleges and high schools, scientific arguments were carried out among students. This was a total surprise to some instructors blindly attached to Darwinism. In their lifetime, this was the first time they met such students, who were very knowledgeable about the theory. To their surprise, they actually knew more than themselves and defended creation eloquently.

These were actually the preliminary works of the campaign which would be launched in 1998. The goal of the campaign was already set: to eradicate the evolution theory and materialism from the Turkish society. 

By the time Adnan Oktar was released in 1988, most of his friends were in the university. Mr. Oktar's efforts to spread the message of Islam and moral values were no longer limited to schools. It was the time when different sections of society were informed about these views. Adnan Oktar and his friends took upon themselves the responsibility to remind young people, who aimed nothing but to make the most of their life, that they will be hold responsible for their acts and thoughts and that they will be ultimately judged in the presence of God. Accordingly, they recommended them to reorient their lives and submit to the Will of God. Indeed, some of those who were indulged in extremes as a way of life abandoned this degenerate life style and became conscientious and responsible people.

THE SCIENCE RESEARCH FOUNDATION 

During the two years following his release in 1988, Adnan Oktar laid the ideological basis of the Science Research Foundation which was founded in 1990. He held conversations over moral values with his friends who shared his views. It was during this period that the intellectual groundwork of the Science Research Foundation was shaped by the contribution of Adnan Oktar.

Finally, in January 1990, Adnan Oktar and his young friends founded the Science Research Foundation to carry out their services under the name of an institution and to address to larger masses. Adnan Oktar was declared the Honorary President of the foundation. The Foundation carried out several activities; the members of the foundation published books and conducted cultural studies, held panels, discussions and conferences to cherish and revive moral values.

After the establishment of the foundation, a great police raid was made to a regular meeting in which more than 100 members participated. More than a hundred members were taken into custody and were interrogated by the police. The following day, some newspapers covered the story of this operation as if a big crime ring was caught. Majority of the members were released in 3-4 hours. However the slander campaign launched by the press continued for days. The press wrote incredible scenarios about Adnan Oktar and the members of the foundation. The main purpose of the subjective news was to mislead the security and judicial institutions by these imaginary accusations. Yet all these efforts were in vain. Adnan Oktar who was kept in custody and interrogated for a week was released, as there was no element of crime in the incident. It was evident that the same circles were trying to give a message in their own way.

COCAINE PLOT 

During 1990, activities of the Science Research Foundation continued with an even stronger determination. In the midst of 1991, two foundation members officially married. However, the families of these young people filed complaints against this marriage. What is more, Adnan Oktar was surprisingly blamed for this ordinary marriage, which had by no means any illegitimate aspect. Accordingly, Adnan Oktar was once again arrested. However, this time, the existence of a more inclusive plot was evident. Officers who broke into the house of Mr. Oktar in Ortakoy where he lived with his mother found a packet of cocaine in a book. There were some thousand books over the bookshelves covering two walls, and the officers found the cocaine in a few minutes as if they had just left it there.

Just after this event Adnan Oktar, who was then in Izmir with a couple of his friends, was arrested. He was then transferred to Istanbul Security Headquarters, where he was detained for 62 hours. After 62 hours, he was sent to Forensic Medicine Institution for a cocaine test. The result was very interesting indeed! Very high doses of a by-product of cocaine were detected in Adnan Oktar's blood!

Yet subsequent evidences proved that this was merely a plot. Firstly, it was found out that the cocaine alleged to be found in Mr. Oktar's house was part of the plot. A short while before this plot, Adnan Oktar felt that a stealthy plan was being hatched against him and left his house in Ortakoy, Istanbul. Then, he called his mother and said that it was likely that a plot was being hatched against him and he wanted his mother to clean and check the house thoroughly with a couple of other people so that they could be witnesses. Upon this, Mr. Oktar's mother Mediha Oktar called one of her neighbors and the doorkeeper and they all together thoroughly cleaned the house, dusted one by one all the books over the bookshelves. Despite the fact that Adnan Oktar had never been at home after this cleaning, 16 police officers raided the flat and suddenly found a "a packet of cocaine" in one of the books. The neighbor of Mediha Oktar and the doorkeeper gave their individual testimonies before the notary public stating "We cleaned Adnan Oktar's books thoroughly one by one; and there was not such a packet there."

The second part of the cocaine plot was the cocaine by-product detected in Adnan Oktar's blood. Scientific and judicial evidences disproved this allegation. Adnan Oktar had been in the Security Headquarters for 62 hours and the test was conducted after 62 hours. Normally, by looking at the amount of the by-product of cocaine detected in the blood, one can scientifically calculate the exact amount of cocaine taken. This calculation can also indicate how many hours ago the cocaine was taken. The dose of the cocaine detected in Adnan Oktar's blood was, however, at a fatal level, had it been taken 62 hours ago. In other words, such a high dose of cocaine would kill him if he had taken it 62 hours ago. This result clearly revealed that the cocaine detected in Adnan Oktar's blood was given to his body during those 62 hours. In other words, he was given cocaine during the time he was detained in the security headquarters. The cocaine was actually mixed to his food when he was under police detainment.

This fact was also confirmed by 30 international forensic medicine institutions, including Scotland Yard. They all examined the file sent to them about the case. Their conclusive view was the following: "Cocaine was mixed to his food when he was under police detainment. The event is a plot. "

THE SECLUDED LIFE OF ADNAN OKTAR 

After Mr. Oktar shaped the mission of the Science Research Foundation, he closely monitored the activities of the foundation for an uninterrupted two years and then by 1991, he devoted all his time to work on his books. Especially after the cocaine plot made against him, he retreated into a secluded life in order both to prevent similar plots and assaults and to have time for his books. He spent all his time in his house. He occasionally visited his friends and participated in discussions. He constantly refused to give interviews to newspapers and TV channels despite their insistent requests.

During this time, Adnan Oktar's involvement in the activities of the Science Research Foundation was limited to giving ideas at the stage of laying down the general principles of the foundation. Meanwhile, he was only giving some recommendations to the members of the foundation about the principles of the Qur'an and good manners. This period lasted until November 12, 1999, the day a police operation was conducted against the SRF community.

COMMUNICATING ISLAM TO THE PROMINENT PEOPLE 

One of the major goals of Adnan Oktar was to make a radical change in society's firm conviction about religion that "religion is a phenomenon that addresses merely to elderly people or a particular section of society." This conviction utterly hampered the penetration of the Qur'anic truth to a considerable part of society. Those who were to set examples for the young people were homosexuals, forgers, indecent people etc. Degenerate masses, totally bereft of their religious and moral values, were committing themselves to more destruction each day. However, there might be a hope to save majority of these people if they were told the truth.

In order to eliminate this prejudice prevalent in society, Adnan Oktar took the initiative to contact people who could make a "symbolic" impact over society and inform them about moral values. This was why some SRF members contacted celebrities like models, singers and movie stars. This is explained in the press release of the SRF as follows:

Gulay Pinarbasi is a notable example of this spiritual awakening. She was a model before she met the SRF community; but then she decided to change her entire life. Soon she abandoned her old way of living and started a decent life. She devoted all her time to scientific and religious studies and after a while she started her career as a columnist in a conservative newspaper. Meanwhile, some male models who were also impressed by the truths told by the SRF members quit their career and started to reorient all their lives in a totally different way.

UNRELENTING STRUGGLE AGAINST DARWINISM

In early 1998, Adnan Oktar and his friends launched a great intellectual campaign against Darwinism. To start with, thousands of free copies of Adnan Oktar's book, The Evolution Deceit and the booklets based on this book were distributed in every corner of Turkey. The Science Research Foundation started to hold a series of conferences "The Collapse of the Evolution Theory and the Fact of Creation" all around Turkey. The first three of these conferences which were held in Istanbul and Ankara hosted world renowned American scientists as lecturers.

Then similar conferences were held in 120 different cities and towns of Turkey. In these conferences, the SRF members, each an expert in his own field, delivered lectures. The purpose was to scientifically disprove Darwinism, a fallacy propagated under the guise of science, and thus to bring the materialist thought and moral understanding to ruin.

These activities carried out by the Science Research Foundation in the leadership of Adnan Oktar proved to be a great success. People, who were not knowledgeable about the theory of evolution until then, had the opportunity to learn the real truth about the evolutionary theory and the dimensions of the scientific forgery it committed worldwide. Turkish people acknowledged the fact that the education system, based on the indoctrination of the evolutionary theory to the young brains, was a part of the stealthy plan against the social and moral values and our future generations.

Publication of books, organization of conferences, production of videotapes and CDs were the basic activities carried out by the contribution of the Science Research Foundation. These productions were essentially about the scientific invalidity of the evolutionary theory, the ideological background of the theory and the fact of creation.

The books written under the pen name "Harun Yahya" and the productions made by the contribution of the Science Research Foundation include more than 190 books on political, scientific and religious issues, 14 documentaries, dozens of tape-cassettes and interactive CD on the collapse of the theory of evolution and the fact of creation. This collection of high quality works with aesthetic appeal and well-founded content is an important source.

AND PRESSURE AGAIN...

All these committed activities highly annoyed and disquieted some particular centers. With the provocation of materialist centers and Mason circles, they launched a campaign against these activities. The circles in question made declarations like "Conferences held by the Science Research Foundation must absolutely be stopped." The aim was to prevent any scientific study refuting evolution. They were enraged by the deathblow these activities gave to their philosophy they could hardly sustain. Unable to provide any scientific response, they only claimed that these activities had to be stopped as soon as possible. They could not stand the total rebuttal of the theory they were blindly attached to before the very eyes of the Turkish Public. These efforts of Adnan Oktar and his young friends to prove the scientific invalidity of the theory of evolution continued until the fall of 1999. This was exactly the time when the news about the Global Freemasonry, a great book by Harun Yahya in three volumes, spread. All these laid the ground for the greatest police operation of the Turkish Republic.

Surely Adnan Oktar was not openly accused of "inviting people to the true path of God, reminding them God, religion and the good morals of Islam, and standing against materialism, disbelief and immorality."

By November 12, 1999, some media organs, which had enmity against Adnan Oktar, employed their usual methods to produce groundless slanders, scenarios and lies. Inconceivable lies and slanders appeared in the press every day, all of which, interestingly, contradicted with one another.However, as Adnan Oktar always states, they, too, have inevitably submitted themselves to the Will of God and, albeit unknowingly, they perform the duty assigned to them in the best manner possible since this is what is predestined for them by God.

They are not aware but they actually served to the purposes of Muslims in the sense that Muslims were tested and they earned the good pleasure of God by means of these incidents. Furthermore, by this way, those who tell the truth became apparent so that everyone could recognize them.

In accordance with the verse, "Repel (Evil) with what is better" (Surah Fussilat: 34), Adnan Oktar always has a peaceful and tolerant approach to those who bear enmity against him. He underlines the fact that "The fate God creates is always perfect and there is goodness in all".

Adnan Oktar's website- www.harunyahya.com

Email- info@harunyahya.com

6 Peringkat Manusia Lalai Solat

6 Peringkat manusia lalai solat

Tuesday, 08 March 2011 12:49 | Written by Zawawi Yusoh |    | 

Pondok Pasir Tumboh

PERNAHKAH kita bersedih kerana tertinggal sembahyang, terlewat mengerjakannya atau pernahkah perasaan rugi kerana tidak sempat melakukan solat secara berjemaah?

Pernahkah kita terasa berdosa tidak ‘beradab’ menghadapi Allah?

Jawapannya ada pada diri kita sendiri. Kali ini penulis ingin menyentuh soal lalai dalam solat.

Lawan lalai ialah khusyuk dan ia bukan setakat dapat menumpukan perhatian dan faham apa yang dibaca dalam sembahyang tetapi menimbulkan rasa-rasa dengan Tuhan.

Kalau tidak ada rasa-rasa yang berubah dalam sembahyang seperti gerun, hebat, cinta, takut, berharap kepada Tuhan maka itu tanda tidak khusyuk.

Lalai dalam sembahyang ada beberapa peringkat seperti berikut:

1. Lalai habis. Takbir sahaja sudah ingat perkara lain di luar sembahyang yang tidak ada kena mengena langsung dengan sembahyang. Ia berterusan sampai salam. Tidak ada rasa apa-apa dengan Tuhan sepanjang sembahyang. Malahan sedar pun tidak.

2. Dalam sembahyang. Ada masa lalai dan ada masanya ingat dan sedar bahawa dia sedang bersembahyang. Sembahyang diselang-seli dengan lalai dan mengingat hal-hal dunia.

3. Boleh ikut dan menyorot apa yang dia baca dalam sembahyang tetapi tidak faham akan maksud apa yang dibaca dan dilafazkan. Kalau hendak diukur dengan nisbah khusyuk, ini masih dianggap lalai.

'Bila tidak faham, masakan boleh menghayati. Kalau tidak menghayati, masakan boleh merasa apa-apa dengan Tuhan.'

4. Boleh faham segala apa yang dibuat, dibaca dan dilafazkan di dalam sembahyang. Sembahyang seperti ini sudah agak baik. Namun ini masih dianggap lalai mengikut kehendak dan tuntutan sembahyang kerana belum ada apa-apa rasa dengan Tuhan. Khusyuk adalah rasa bukan setakat tahu atau faham.

5. Faham akan segala apa yang dibaca dan dilafazkan dalam sembahyang dan kadang-kadang ada rasa tetapi tidak pada sepanjang masa dan waktu di dalam sembahyang.

Walaupun ini sudah baik tetapi masih ada lalai. Walaupun tidak membawa dunia ke dalam sembahyang tetapi rasa-rasa dengan Tuhan tidak wujud sepanjang waktu dalam sembahyang.

6. Sembahyang yang tidak lalai itu ialah yang sentiasa mempunyai rasa dengan Tuhan yang berubah-ubah dari satu rasa ke satu rasa yang lain mengikut apa yang dibaca dan apa yang dilafazkan, bermula dari takbiratul ihram hinggalah kepada salam. Inilah sembahyang yang tidak lalai. Inilah sembahyang yang benar-benar khusyuk.

Lalai berpunca daripada pengaruh dunia. Kalau dunia berada di hati amat sukar untuk mendapat khusyuk dalam sembahyang. Dunia akan terbawa dalam sembahyang.

Sebab itu kalau dalam sembahyang hanya ada rasa-rasa keduniaan seperti seronok baru berjumpa kawan, teringat polis saman kereta kita salah parking atau bimbang tak sempat pergi ke bank sebelum bank tutup dan sebagainya.

Rasa-rasa ini ialah rasa dunia yang melalaikan, bukan rasa-rasa khusyuk. Sekiranya kita tidak kenal Tuhan, hanya setakat tahu dan percaya sahaja, kita tidak akan dapat rasa khusyuk.

Paling tinggi ketauhidan kita hanya di peringkat akal atau fikiran sahaja kerana tahu dan percaya itu perkara akal. Kita dikatakan orang yang berfikiran tauhid, bukan yang berjiwa tauhid.

Mengenal Tuhan ialah langkah pertama untuk mendapat khusyuk. Setelah mengenali Tuhan barulah kita akan dapat merasakan kehebatan dan keagungan Tuhan di hati kita kerana kenal itu perkara hati.

Barulah kita akan dapat rasa bertuhan. Selagi hati kita tidak dapat rasa bertuhan, ia tidak akan dapat rasa kehambaan dan ia tidak akan dapat rasa khusyuk.

Ada hadis berbunyi: "Awal-awal agama adalah mengenal Allah" Maksudnya, selagi kita tidak kenal Allah, agak sukar untuk kita beragama. Kita tidak akan boleh khusyuk.

Selagi kita tidak boleh khusyuk kita sebenarnya belum berjiwa Tauhid. Kalau kita belum berjiwa Tauhid kita tidak akan mampu mengamalkan dan menegakkan syariat Islam secara lahir dan batin.

Mungkin kita boleh laksanakan syariat lahir tetapi batinnya kosong. Tidak ada khusyuk, tidak ada roh dan tidak ada jiwa. Padahal Islam itu mesti ada lahir dan batinnya.

Cara membuktikan cinta kita kepada Nabi Muhammad Salallahu Alaihi Wassalam

Oleh:  Panel Penyelidikan, Yayasan Sofa Negeri Sembilan (klik nama untuk pautan ke laman rasmi).

Setelah nyata kepada kita kewajipan menyintai dan mengasihi Nabi Muhammad SAW berdasarkan dalil-dalil naqli dan aqli yang jelas, marilah pula kita cuba membincangkan tanda dan bukti kasih dan kecintaan seseorang terhadap baginda . Deklarasi cinta yang tidak disusuli dengan pembuktian amali tentu sahaja masih belum mencukupi untuk membentuk cinta sejati.

Bukti yang paling mudah dilihat, seseorang yang benar-benar mengasihi kekasihnya, akan mengutamakan insan yang dikasihinya daripada dirinya sendiri dan kehendak peribadinya. Jika tidak mencapai tahap ini hubungan tersebut belum layak dinamakan kasih sejati yang ikhlas-murni, tetapi baru sekadar dakwaan semata-mata.

Keutamaan mentaati dan mengutamakan orang yang dikasihi ini jelas dapat dilihat dalam ungkapan seorang pencinta Allah SWT dan NabiNya SAW yang tidak asing lagi, Rabi’ah al Adawiyyah dalam syairnya: "Sesungguhnya seorang kekasih itu akan taat-patuh kepada yang dikasihinya."

Selain memiliki semangat di atas, orang-orang yang benar-benar mengasihi Nabi SAW harus terdapat pada dirinya bukti dan tanda berikut:

1. Menjunjung agama Nabinya, mengamalkan Sunnahnya, menurut perkataan dan perbuatannya dalam setiap keadaan,   melaksanakan suruhannya dan menjauhi larangannya. Dia juga mengamalkan adab-adab kehidupan Rasulullah SAW dalam segala keadaan, sama ada ketika susah atau pun senang, ketika gembira atau pun sedih. Ikatan antara ‘kasih’ dan ‘taat’ ini terlihat jelas dalam firman Allah SWT: 

"Katakanlah (wahai Muhammad), "Jika benar kamu mengasihi Allah maka ikutilah daku, nescaya Allah akan mengasihi kamu." (ali ‘Imran: 31)

Namun semangat semata-mata tidak memadai jika tidak berpaksikan di atas ilmu yang kukuh. Lebih-lebih lagi pada zaman fitnah ini, kegagalan seseorang itu mengenal mana satu Sunnah dan bidaah akan memungkinkan terjebak ke dalam lubuk bidaah yang dianggap sebagai Sunnah. Akhirnya Sunnah dipinggirkan dan bidaah ditegakkan.

Orang yang tersemat di dalam hatinya kasih yang sejati terhadap Rasulullah SAW juga, tidak akan mempedulikan kemarahan manusia lain dalam usahanya mentaati Allah SWT dan Rasul SAW.

2. Sudah menjadi adat dan lumrah berkasih, seorang kekasih akan sering menyebut dan mengingati kekasihnya. Justeru, apabila hati seseorang itu telah mengisytiharkan kecintaan terhadap Rasulullah SAW, maka lidahnya akan sering menyebut nama Kekasihnya SAW dan kotak fikirannya akan sentiasa mengingati Baginda SAW.

Selaku umat Muhammad SAW, kita amat bertuah kerana telah diajar berselawat ke atas kekasih kita Nabi Muhammad SAW sebagai salah satu bentuk ibadah dan taqarrub kepada Allah SWT. Maka kita beruntung kerana dapat beribadah dengan menyebut, memuji dan berselawat kepada insan yang paling kita cintai dengan membaca ayat-ayat al-Quran yang memuji Nabi SAW serta lafaz selawat yang diajar sendiri oleh Baginda SAW.

Kita juga dididik oleh Nabi SAW dan ulama pewaris Baginda SAW menghormati hari dan bulan kebesaran Islam seperti Maulid al-Rasul SAW dan Isra’ Mikraj dengan mengisinya dengan pelbagai amalan yang kesemuanya ada kaitan dengan Nabi SAW dalam kerangka ubudiah kepada Allah SWT. Walaupun ada segelintir di kalangan orang Islam sendiri mencurigai bacaan dan amalan-amalan ini.

Menghayati dan memperjuangkan agama seiring dengan berkasih-sayang dengan Nabi SAW dirasakan begitu indah dan menyegarkan. Sebaliknya tanpa dimensi ini, menghayati agama boleh terasa gersang dan membebankan serta cenderung membentuk jiwa keagamaan yang keras dan kasar.

3. Orang yang mengasihi Nabi SAW akan sentiasa berasa rindu untuk bertemu dengan Baginda SAW; untuk melihat zatnya di alam yang kekal abadi kelak, atau sekurang-kurangnya jika dapat menatap kelibat wajahnya yang mulia barang seketika dalam mimpi-mimpi mereka. Sudah pasti setiap kekasih sangat merindui untuk bersua dan menatap wajah kekasihnya.

Kerinduan sebeginilah yang dapat kita rasakan jika kita menyorot kehidupan generasi sahabat. Misalnya, kita dapat turut berkongsi keriangan dan kegembiraan Abu Musa al Asy’ari r.a dan rombongan kaumnya dari Yaman yang berkunjung ke Madinah.

Mereka mempercepatkan langkah dan begitu girang untuk menemui Rasulullah sambil mendendangkan syair kegembiraan: "Esok kita akan bertemu dengan para kekasih kita, Muhammad dan sahabat-sahabatnya!" Setibanya mereka di Madinah dan Masjid Nabi, mereka terus menghadap dan memuliakan Nabi SAW. (riwayat Al-Baihaqi)

4. Seseorang yang mengasihi Baginda SAW juga akan membesarkan diri dan suruhan Baginda termasuk memuliakannya ketika menyebut namanya. Malah ada yang sehingga menunjukkan rasa rendah dan hina diri ketika mendengar nama Baginda SAW disebut di hadapan mereka.

Berkata Ishaq al-Tujibi r.a, sahabat-sahabat Nabi SAW selepas kewafatan Baginda SAW tidak akan menyebut nama Baginda SAW melainkan mereka akan merendahkan diri dan menggigil serta menangis kerana diselubungi perasaan rindu yang dalam akibat berpisah dengannya.

Hal ini sangat berbeza dengan sesetengah mereka yang mengaku sebagai ahli agama pada zaman kita yang tidak mahu membesarkan dan menobatkan keistimewaan Nabi Muhammad SAW tetapi hanya menumpukan kepada risalahnya dan sunnah yang dibawa olehnya. Seolah-olah Nabi SAW hanyalah berperanan seumpama posmen penghantar surat atau orang suruhan bawahan!

Sedangkan apabila seseorang makhluk itu mempunyai sifat-sifat istimewa tersebut, maka sifat-sifat itu hanya sekadar yang bersesuaian dengan kemanusiaannya yang diciptakan terbatas dan diperolehi dengan izin, kurniaan dan kehendak-Nya.

Mengasihi Nabi SAW

Ada juga sesetengah mereka yang menolak penggunaan gelaran Sayyidina bagi Nabi SAW sedangkan Nabi SAW lebih daripada layak mendapat gelaran tersebut tetapi dalam masa yang sama mereka bebas menggunakan pelbagai gelaran dalam kehidupan mereka.

5. Orang yang mengasihi Nabi SAW juga sepatutnya akan mengasihi orang yang dikasihi oleh Nabi SAW terutamanya nasab keturunannya dari kalangan ahli-ahli bait dan sahabat-sahabatnya yang terdiri daripada kaum Muhajirin dan Ansar.

Mereka juga akan memusuhi orang yang memusuhi mereka dan membenci orang yang membenci mereka dan keturunan mereka.

Hakikatnya, sesiapa yang mengasihi seseorang, dia akan mengasihi semua perkara yang disukai oleh orang yang dikasihinya.

Ini ialah sirah para Salaf al-Salih; mereka akan mengasihi segala yang dikasihi oleh Rasulullah SAW sehinggakan terhadap perkara-perkara yang sekadar diharuskan dan digemari oleh nafsu (yang tidak diharamkan oleh syarak).

Anas ibn Malik r.a misalnya, setelah melihat Rasulullah SAW mencari-cari labu di dalam dulang ketika sedang menikmati makanan, maka semenjak hari itu dia turut sentiasa suka kepada labu.

6. Orang yang mengasihi Nabi SAW akan membenci apa yang dibenci oleh Allah dan Rasul-Nya, menjauhi orang yang menyalahi Sunnahnya, melakukan perkara bidaah dalam agamanya dan memandang berat setiap perkara yang bercanggah dengan syariatnya.

Allah SWT menjelaskan: Engkau tidak akan mendapati sesuatu kaum yang beriman kepada Allah dan hari Akhirat, tergamak berkasih mesra dengan orang-orang yang menentang (perintah) Allah dan Rasul-Nya, sekalipun orang yang menentang itu ialah bapa-bapa mereka, atau anak-anak mereka atau saudara-saudara mereka, ataupun keluarga mereka. (al-Mujadalah: 22)

"Mereka" yang dimaksudkan di dalam ayat di atas ialah para sahabat Baginda SAW yang telah membunuh orang yang mereka kasihi dan juga bapa-bapa mereka yang ingkar dan kafir semata-mata mengharapkan keredaan Allah. Ibnu Abbas RA menyatakan, di antara sahabat Baginda SAW yang dimaksudkan di dalam ayat itu ialah Abu Ubaidah al-Jarrah.

Beliau sanggup membunuh bapanya dalam peperangan Uhud manakala Saidina Abu Bakar r.a sanggup berlawan satu lawan satu dengan anaknya sebelum memulakan peperangan Badar, tetapi dihalang oleh Rasulullah SAW. Inilah antara bukti cinta yang tidak berbelah-bagi terhadap Baginda SAW.

7. Orang yang benar-benar mencintai Nabi SAW juga pasti akan kasih terhadap al-Quran yang diutuskan kepada Rasulullah SAW yang dengannya manusia mendapat petunjuk. Mereka akan mengikut jejak Baginda SAW yang menjiwai al-Quran dan berakhlak dengannya seperti yang ditegaskan oleh Ummul Mukminin, Aisyah r.ha dalam katanya, "Akhlak Baginda SAW adalah al- Quran itu sendiri".

Mengasihi al-Quran bererti membacanya, beramal dengannya, memahaminya, menjunjung suruhan dan meninggalkan larangannya.

8. Tanda kasih terhadap Nabi SAW juga ialah berasa kasih dan belas terhadap umatnya dengan memberi nasihat kepada mereka, berusaha melakukan kebaikan dan menghapuskan kemudaratan daripada mereka.

Inilah sebahagian daripada bukti dan tanda yang harus ada pada para pencinta Nabi SAW. Oleh itu marilah kita bersama-sama memuhasabah diri, adakah kita ini pencinta sejati atau pendakwa semata-mata?

Tepuk dada, tanyalah iman. Semoga Allah SWT mengurniakan kita semua kesempurnaan kecintaan kepada Rasulullah SAW!

Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihi Wassalam jadikan dugaan, motivasi bakar semangat perjuangan

Tuesday, 01 March 2011 23:48 | Written by Mohd Hishammuddin Mansor from Pondok Pasir Tumboh, Kelantan Malaysia.

RASULULLAH SAW diutuskan membawa rahmat ke atas sekalian alam seperti difirmankan Allah yang bermaksud: "Dan tiadalah Kami mengutuskan engkau (wahai Muhammad), melainkan untuk menjadi rahmat bagi sekalian alam." (Al-Anbiya’ : 107)

Baginda kasih kepada umatnya, tidak mahu mereka teraba-raba dalam kesesatan mencari Tuhan sebenar. Baginda juga tidak mahu umatnya melakukan penderhakaan kepada Allah SWT yang kelak mengakibatkan mereka memperoleh azab yang dahsyat di akhirat.

Justeru, Rasulullah SAW tidak jemu-jemu mengajak umatnya mentauhidkan Allah SWT. Dalam menyebarkan ajaran yang suci ini, Rasulullah SAW berdepan dengan pelbagai cabaran daripada kalangan Musyrikin Makkah dan kaum munafik di Madinah, selain orang Yahudi yang bersifat degil serta Nasrani yang menganggap Nabi Isa sebagai Tuhan.

Pelbagai dugaan, ancaman dan penderitaan yang baginda alami, semuanya dihadapi dengan sabar dan tabah kerana baginda sedar apa yang disampaikan olehnya ialah sesuatu yang hak. Rasulullah SAW menginsafi bahawa rasul terdahulu sebelum baginda juga berdepan dengan pelbagai fitnah dan kerenah daripada kaumnya.

Ada rasul yang dibunuh dengan kejam seperti Nabi Zakaria dan ada rasul yang dicampak ke dalam api seperti Nabi Ibrahim dan ada juga rasul yang hampir disalib seperti Nabi Isa. Semuanya menjadi motivasi dan pembakar semangat kepada Rasulullah SAW untuk melaksanakan tugas dan tanggungjawabnya yang maha suci.

Firman Allah SWT yang bermaksud: "Sesungguhnya telah datang kepada kamu seorang rasul daripada golongan kamu sendiri (iaitu Nabi Muhammad SAW), yang menjadi sangat berat kepadanya sebarang kesusahan yang ditanggung oleh kamu, yang sangat tamak (inginkan) kebaikan bagi kamu, (dan) ia pula menumpahkan perasaan belas serta kasih sayangnya kepada orang yang beriman." (At-Taubah : 128)

Walaupun ditawarkan dengan pangkat, harta dan gadis jelita, Rasulullah SAW tidak pernah berganjak, apatah lagi berundur sejengkal dalam perjuangan menyebarkan ajaran tauhid kepada umatnya. Sifat Rasulullah SAW yang mulia ini memberi isyarat kepada musuh-musuh Islam bahawa baginda bukanlah seorang yang gilakan kuasa, apatah lagi tamakkan harta serta kaki perempuan.

Sifat kasih Rasulullah SAW tidak terbatas kepada umat yang hidup sezaman dengan baginda saja. Dalam sebuah hadis yang diriwayatkan oleh Imam Ahmad, Ad-Darimi, Al-Baqawardi dan Ibnu Qani daripada Abi Jum’ah Al-Ansari yang bermaksud: 

"Berkata dia (Abi Jum’ah Al-Ansari) : Aku bertanya: Ya Rasulullah! Adakah satu kaum yang lebih besar pahalanya daripada kami, padahal kami beriman dan kami mengikut akan (ajaran) engkau? Jawab baginda SAW: Apalah akan halangannya bagi kamu (untuk beriman kepadaku), sedangkan Rasulullah ada di hadapan kamu, dan datang kepada kamu wahyu (langsung) dari langit. Tetapi akan ada lagi satu kaum yang akan datang sesudah kamu, datang kepada mereka kitab Allah yang ditulis di antara dua Luh, maka mereka pun beriman kepadaku dan mereka amalkan apa yang disebut di dalamnya. Mereka itu adalah lebih besar pahalanya daripada kamu."

Jika dilihat kepada kesungguhan baginda dalam membasmi syirik sekali gus menyebarkan tauhid, sebenarnya ia adalah pemakbulan doa moyang baginda Nabi Ibrahim as seperti yang dirakam dalam al-Quran.

"Ya Tuhan kami, utuskanlah untuk mereka seorang Rasul daripada kalangan mereka, yang akan membacakan kepada mereka ayat Engkau, dan mengajarkan kepada mereka al-kitab (al-Quran) dan al-hikmah (As-Sunnah) serta menyucikan mereka (daripada syirik). Sesungguhnya Engkaulah yang Maha Berkuasa lagi Maha Bijaksana." (al-Baqarah : 129)

Oleh kerana terlalu besar jasa baginda SAW, maka wajib bagi umatnya menyintai Rasulullah SAW melebihi kecintaan terhadap yang lain. Firman Allah SWT yang bermaksud: "Katakanlah jika bapa kamu dan anak kamu dan saudara kamu dan isteri kamu dan kaum keluarga kamu dan harta kekayaan yang kamu usahakan dan perniagaan yang kamu khuatiri kerugiannya dan rumah tempat tinggal yang kamu sukai, lebih kamu cintai daripada Allah dan Rasul-Nya dan daripada berjihad di jalan-Nya, maka tunggulah sampai Allah mendatangkan keputusan-Nya dan Allah tidak memberi petunjuk kepada orang fasik." (At-Taubah : 24)

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Alfaqir menambah:

Begitulah Besarnya dan Indahnya Kasih Sayang seorang manusia pilihan Tuhan pada umatnya.Sudah sampai masanya kita sebagai umat baginda sekarang yang mengaku mencintai Nabi menjadikan Tujuan hidup kita, Kerisauan kita, Kasih Sayang kita sama seperti Tujuan Hidup, Kerisauan dan Kasih Sayang baginda Rasulullah Salallahu Alaihi Wassalam. Allahu Allah. 

Ya Allah Ya Tuhan kami,

Bantulah kami mengapai Ridho-Mu setiap masa dari bangun celik kami hingga engkau menjemput kami kembali, 

Ya Allah Ya Tuhan kami,

 Engkau angkatlah darjat dan martabat Nabi kami yang mulia ini, makhluk ciptaanmu yang  teragung dan terindah ini, pada makam yang tinggi dan terpuji. pertemukanlah kami pada suatu saat nanti dengan Nabi kami. Selawat dan Salam pada baginda, ahli bayt baginda yang suci, seluruh sahabat - sahabat setia baginda dan sahabat baginda yang menghuni Baqi dan Ma'la juga Para tabiin dan yang mengikut mereka sehingga hari Kiamat.