Why Must Be Only One?

They said, "Exalted are You; we have no knowledge except what You have taught us. Indeed, it is You who is the Knowing, the Wise."

[AL-BAQARAH Ch.2:V.32]

          In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. It is good to start all your works with this verse. Not forget to praise Him, as we still have the chances to live, to have good health, and the most important things are Faith and Islam. I started this entry with the verse above, to remind me that all these knowledge are not originated from me but it comes from Allah. Only He knows everything, what we reveal and what we conceal.

          Maybe we do not realize that we are under attack from many different angles. For Muslims, I think that I have so many obstacles and challenges in front of us. The other religion also is trying to convert us, in the name that to save us from hell fire. From the other angle, we are under attack from those that claiming they are also Islam like us, but actually they are false. Not forgetting the people that thinking critical, maybe too critical and rejecting the religion.

          The key to all these problems is knowledge. Without knowledge we are easily influence by them. The knowledge is there with us, it is the Quran that differentiate the truth and the false. The problem now is we Muslims, lazy to read, to understand and to learn. We just like spoon feeding and that is the reason we are easily influence by the free thinker and also the ideology from other religion. We already have the Quran and Hadith, now it is our job to prove to the other, show them the evidence that we have.

Arise and deliver thy warning!

[AL-MUDDATHSIR Ch.74:V.2]

          Insha’Allah, with the God wills, I am going to answer the question in the title. I am not the best to answer this, but I will do my best to answer it.

Allah has not taken any son, nor has there ever been with Him any deity. [If there had been], then each deity would have taken what it created, and some of them would have sought to overcome others. Exalted is Allah above what they describe [concerning Him].

[AL-MUKMINUN Ch.23:V.91]

          Firstly, Allah says that He never has son. He does not need someone or something to be His son. People say that God came down to the earth as a man because He wanted to feel the human’s pain. Most people say that God can do anything and everything that is the reason they claim God can be a human and can has a son. As a Muslim, we need to learn nature of God or nature of Allah (sifat-sifat Allah). There are three categories, the compulsory, the impossible and should have. Therefore, for Allah to have son and to be a man, it is His impossible nature, never going to happen. There many more, but I just touch on the related things only.

          Why Allah did not have to become a man to understand the people? I will give a short answer to this. This is because He is the Almighty, He knows everything. He did not have to become a man to understand human. He is the creator. Like an engineer creating a machine, did he need to become the machine to understand it? Look for your own answer.

          Allah also says that there is no other God with Him. He already stated clearly the reasons in the verse. If there are many Gods, they will fight with each other to create their best creature, their best universe and so on. If there are many Gods, you will find it many other creatures that can be a rivalry to human kind. Look around you, only human that can talk, rules the world, manage the countries, and manage the financial and many other things. Can animal and plant do such things? Again you have to think by yourself.

          If there are many Gods, to whom you are going to pray for? When you in a trouble, in the prayer you will wish to have many things. Are you going to pray the same prayer to every God you have? Or in the prayer, are you going to say out you Gods one by one? People will get confused if there are things like this. This is the reason the people with critical thinking leaves their religion as they confused with many Gods. Islam offering the human kind with only one God and nothing is equivalent to Him. Only to Him we worship and pray to, Allah.

          Let’s us say we have two Gods. I am sure that there will be among us who are going to make a comparison with these two Gods. When we have two best friends also we make comparison between them. This shows our human nature that is to make comparison. Now, how we are going to know which God is the best? Come let me tell you something. Our brains have limitation. There are many things that our brain cannot give picture or cannot give answer to. For examples, the beauty of the heaven and the virulence in the hell. God will not do something that going to confuse us and something that hard for human to accept.

          So Allah alone rules this universe? Yes, only one God that is Allah. How come He can rule this universe by His own? He is the Almighty, why not? Then some people that use their brain will ask why Allah created many angels? My answer for now is it takes many paragraphs to answer this question. If Allah still gives me chance to live, I will write another entry on that only.

Proclaim! (Or read!) In the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who created-

[AL-‘ALAQ Ch.96:V.1]

          The first ayah in the revelation Allah asks our prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to read. We have to realize the importance of reading. Our civilization depending on the knowledge we have. One of the ways to get knowledge is that by reading. People who are lazy to read will lack of knowledge. The person that lack of knowledge is easy to be fools, to be influenced, to be cheated and so on. It is our fault if we cannot solve problems, not Allah. He already sends His messages to us in the Quran and it is up to us now to read it or not.

And seek help through patience and prayer, and indeed, it is difficult except for the humbly submissive [to Allah].

[AL-BAQARAH Ch.2:V.45]

~Wallahua’lam~

God is Only One

Say, "O People of the Scripture, come to a word that is equitable between us and you - that we will not worship except Allah and not associate anything with Him and not take one another as lords instead of Allah." But if they turn away, then say, "Bear witness that we are Muslims [submitting to Him]."

[ALI IMRAN Ch.3:V.64]

          Alhamdulillah, praise to Allah as we still have chance to meet in this blog again. This entry is going to be my third entry in English and talking about God. Before this, I am not really touching many on the others’ religions. Just only on a few sentences or paragraph, and this time in going to be more than before. So I want to ask for apologies if you feel that I am insulting your religion. Because this is going to be sensitive issues and people also will get sensitive. But I already remind the other Muslims and me early in my entry before.

          I hope that we will learn new things here with no one getting hurt. I hope with this topic also can make the readers rethink on their religion’s practice and can find the truth through this blog, insyaAllah. As you can read the title of today’s topic is about only one God. Before giving evidence from my beliefs, I will try to bring evidence in the other scripture also. Our religion teaches us to find the similarities first and the difference let forget for a while, like I quoted above.

          Firstly, I will quote from Hindu’s scripture that giving the evidence that the God is only one.

He is One only without a second.

(Chandogya Upanishad 6:2:1)

His form is not to be seen.

(Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:20)

There is no likeness of Him.

(Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:19)

These three verses not only saying that God is only one, but also say that his form or his image cannot be imagined. This is also meant that cannot worship to the idols. Unfortunately, this is what happening in Hinduism. Maybe some of them know that their God is only one but only the image they made into many. When the time passes, people tend to forget. They will think that they have many Gods and the worship to the idol is allowed, whereas they only have one God and they are forbidden to worship the idols.

          Now, we are going to take a look on the Bible, the scripture that Christians believes to be a word from God.

 For the Father is greater than I.

(Gospel of John Ch.14:V.28)

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all.

(Gospel of John Ch.10:V.29)

"I can do nothing on my own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of Him who sent me.

(Gospel of John Ch.5:V.30)

Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord.

(Gospel of Mark Ch.12:V.29)

There are two things that we can conclude from the verses above. Firstly, the God is one. Secondly, Jesus Christ (pbuh) does not claim he is the God. Yet Christians believe that Jesus is God and believing in trinity. There is no verse in the Bible saying about trinity. Maybe there is one verse that closes to it, saying that the God, the Word and the Holy Spirit, all these are one. But the Christian scholars themselves say that this verse was add in, was created the people themselves and not originate from Jesus.

          There no verse talking about trinity in the Bible but there are two verses in Quran says about trinity.

O People of the Scripture, do not commit excess in your religion or say about Allah except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, was but a messenger of Allah and His word which He directed to Mary and a soul [created at a command] from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers. And do not say, "Three"; desist - it is better for you. Indeed, Allah is but one God. Exalted is He above having a son. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. And sufficient is Allah as Disposer of affairs.

[AN-NISA’ Ch.4:V.171]

They have certainly disbelieved who say, "Allah is the third of three." And there is no god except one God. And if they do not desist from what they are saying, there will surely afflict the disbelievers among them a painful punishment.

[AL-MAIDAH Ch.5:V.73]

          For example, you have another two twin brothers or sisters. Three of you are so similar which no one can find the difference. One day, one of you committed murder. So the judge decided to hang all three of you, is that fair? You will say that no, we are not the same. We are different person with different personality. Maybe some of you going to say that it is not 1 + 1 + 1 = 1, but it are 1 x 1 x 1 = 1. I would not say anything; just leave it to you to choose by our own, to choose either summation or multiplication.

          Maybe there will be a question, how about Buddha? What they believe in? According to Dr. Zakir Naik, he said that Buddhism does not say that there is a God and also does not say that there is no God. They silence about it. Why I took the answer from Dr. Zakir Naik? Because I think that he is a great person and he did study on many other religions and making the comparisons. Therefore, he knows well about these things.

          How about Islam? I do not think I have to answer it as the answer already stated in the verse in the Quran that I quoted above. Clearly I can say that the other religion is deflected from their original teaching. Now they are following the teaching from the church and also the temple and not following their scripture. From my opinion, if we are claiming that the scripture is from the God, so we need to follow it. The only evidence and the witness that we have today, to prove for the past.

          I hope that Islam will not diverging from the original teaching. I hope that we as Muslims do not blindly follow the others. As we have Quran and the authentic hadis from Nabi Muhammad (pbuh), we should follow these two. For those who want to find more information about the difference in religion, I recommend to you to see videos from Allahyarham Syeikh Ahmad Deedat dan Dr. Zakir Naik. There a lot of debate they did with other religion.

          For the conclusion, it is not about whose religion is more superior. In religion it is the matter of the truth and the truth for religion is only one. We have the responsibility to find the truth through the authentic sources. If you seek for the truth, surely you will find the truth, insyaAllah.

Those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists were not to be parted [from misbelief] until there came to them clear evidence.

[AL-BAYYINAH Ch.98:V.1]

~Wallahua’lam~

Creator Been Created??

Indeed, [O Muhammad], you do not guide whom you like, but Allah guides whom He wills. And He is most knowing of the [rightly] guided.

[AL-QASAS C.28 : V.56]

          Alhamdulillah, praise to Allah as we have given another chance to meet in this blog. For Muslims, we must be grateful because we got the greatest graces that are Iman and Islam. For the non-Muslim, do not give up on the grace and the mercy of Allah as He is the Most Gracious and the Most Merciful.

          This blog generally and my entries specifically are not totally my ideas. There are many things that inspired me to write in this blog, so I took the ideas from various places and combined together with my ideas to produce entries. So all these things are just sharing my ideas, not to teach others. Based on the above verse from Quran said that only Allah can give guidance (hidayah) to people He wanted. The prophet and other people can only deliver the messages but not to open others hearts.

He is Allah, the Creator, the Inventor, the Fashioner; to Him belong the best names. Whatever is in the heavens and earth is exalting Him. And He is the Exalted in Might, the Wise.

[AL-HASHR C.59 : V.24]

          In the above verse, Allah claimed that He is the Creator and He claimed He is the true God. In other religion they believe in other God with different name, different in terms of characters and others. There are also people that does not believe in God. So insyaAllah, today we are going to discuss about how God come to an existence. Before going further, we must know a few definition that may and may not related to God first.

God - being conceived as the perfect, omnipotent, omniscient originator and ruler of the universe, the principal object of faith.

Created – bring (something) into existence.

Born – existing as a result of birth.

Birth - the emergence of a baby or other young from the body of its mother; the start of life as a physically separate being.

          People said that everything have the creator. It sounds nice, but it is not true statement. The true statement is, every created thing have the creator. Allah is uncreated; therefore there is no creator of Allah. The true definition of God is, He is uncreated. The moment you ask, who create God, he is not God. I brought along the definition of born and birth because some believes that God was born. That is not true.

          I want to give an example from Dr. Zakir Naik. If your friend name John, he said that he admitted in hospital. He gave birth to a child. Can you tell me or can you guess, he gave birth to baby girl or boy? Can a man give birth to a child? So now you can realize that you make a mistake. God cannot be created. When you ask a wrong question, of course you will not get the right answer forever.

          When we say that Allah the Almighty, the most powerful, then we must think that if something created Allah, he must be greater than Allah. For example we have 60V bulb, to light it we must have electric source more than 60V. If we use 10V battery the bulb will not going to light up. Similar here for Allah, where we can find something that more powerful than Allah to give Him “the most powerful” title? Where to find the most extensive knowledge to give to Allah so that He has the all knowledge? You will never find it.

Say, "He is Allah, [who is] One (1). Allah, the Eternal Refuge (2). He neither begets nor is born (3). Nor is there to Him any equivalent (4).”

[AL-IKHLAS C.112 : V.1-4]

          In the Quran, Allah already mention in one chapter about Him. We can use the verses in this chapter as the definition to the creator or God. If there are someone claims he is God, we can identify it using these verses. The shortest chapter in the Quran, but with powerful meanings. Hold firmly this chapter and insyaAllah it gives many benefits to you.

          Let’s take a look on the first verse, Allah said He only one. It is going to be very long if I want to explain this. Maybe it needs another entry to talk about that. But in other religion, they believe in one God. However their God is three God, the father, the son and the holy spirit. There are three, but they claimed to be one. It is illogical for most of us, but in reality there are people can accept that.

          The second verse said that Allah is eternal. If something or someone claims to be God, ask him whether he going to die or not. Of course all things and all human beings going to die, so he will never be a god. Only to Allah we hope, we rely on, we depend on and we pray to. The third verse said that Allah does not give birth and not born. This verse we already discuss above. All human beings come to earth when their parents gave birth, except Jesus (pbuh) because he was born without father and Adam and Eve as they are the first human beings. Although Adam and Eve are special, but they are not god as they died.

          The last and the important verse, there are nothing equivalent to Allah. If my brother has 1 dollar and I have 5 dollar. That means I am richer than my brother. I wanted to say that it still can be compare. 1 to 5 or 1 to thousands or 1 to millions or 1 to infinity, all this can be compare. But Allah, we cannot compare even a single drop of water. His is the greatest, how great He is? We cannot even think about it. Allah is not like others, and nothing like Him. If you can imagine something, and you call it God. You are wrong, that is not God.

He is the First and the Last, the Ascendant and the Intimate, and He is, of all things, Knowing.

[AL-HADID C.57 : V.3]

          Allah has no beginning and has no end, He is eternal. He is the first and also the last. All of us are difficult to accept this statement as we always see things that have beginning and have the end. Human is born and die, trees grow and die, even the earth has the beginning and going to be perish one day and so on. Even angels and devils also will be taken their soul. So for our logical, it is difficult to accept this fact. The conclusion is, that is Allah. Only He can do the impossible things. When our mind is impossible to think about, that is Allah.

          I hope that from this entry we can learn something. To believe it or to refuse it, totally is your choice. No one is forcing you to accept all these things. I just only deliver this message, and only Allah that gives you the understanding. That’s all from me for the time being. Thank you for giving your time to read this. Hope to meet you again, insyaAllah.

 Indeed, those who disbelieve - it is all the same for them whether you warn them or do not warn them - they will not believe (6). Allah has set a seal upon their hearts and upon their hearing, and over their vision is a veil. And for them is a great punishment (7).

[AL-BAQARAH C.2 : V.6-7]

~Wallahua’lam~

There Is A Creator

Indeed, your Lord is Allah , who created the heavens and earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne. He covers the night with the day, [another night] chasing it rapidly; and [He created] the sun, the moon, and the stars, subjected by His command. Unquestionably, His is the creation and the command; blessed is Allah , Lord of the worlds.

[AL-A’RAF C.7 : V.54]

          I decided to write this entry in English because I wanted to attract the non-Malay readers and also wanted the non-Muslims to read this entry. I also think that the people outside from Malaysia also can read and understand it rather than writing it in Malay. Most of the non-Muslim I think prefer to read article or others in English. Moreover, I think that this the right time for me to practice writing in English and this is the right time to spread the good news to the others. I am still new in writing in English, I am sure that there will be many mistakes, but give me time and I will learn from it.

          My purpose to attract the non-Muslims to read this entry or my blog not to revert or convert them. Now we are using revert because the Prophet Muhammad said every child that was born is in fitrah, and then their parents make them into jews, christian, hindu and others. When we say revert means that return back to the fitrah state, which believes in one God, there are nothing equivalent to Him and so on. My true purpose is that to make the non-Muslim friends to understand Islam and change their misconceptions in Islam. Reminder to my Muslim friends, this is the attitude that we should have in ourselves. :

And do not insult those they invoke other than Allah, lest they insult Allah in enmity without knowledge. Thus We have made pleasing to every community their deeds. Then to their Lord is their return, and He will inform them about what they used to do.

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Dan janganlah kamu cerca benda-benda yang mereka sembah yang lain dari Allah, kerana mereka kelak, akan mencerca Allah secara melampaui batas dengan ketiadaan pengetahuan. Demikianlah Kami memperelokkan pada pandangan tiap-tiap umat akan amal perbuatan mereka, kemudian kepada Tuhan merekalah tempat kembali mereka, lalu Ia menerangkan kepada mereka apa yang mereka telah lakukan.

[AL-AN’AM C.6 : V.108]

          Back to the title of this entry, There Is A Creator. I think all religion belief that there is a creator, God. There is a group of people that does not belief in God, we called them an atheist. But most of us become what we are today because of our parents. They Muslim, we also Muslim. They christian, we also follow. We are blindly followed, without knowing anything. I hope that from my entry, we can think and look back into ourselves. Find the proves of the existence of the creator. I will give some analogies and hope from that we can already prove by logically.

Have those who disbelieved not considered that the heavens and the earth were a joined entity, and We separated them and made from water every living thing? Then will they not believe?

[AL-ANBIYA’ C.21 : V.30]

          In the modern age, with advanced technologies scientist has come out with a theory of big bang. They said that our universe initially all in one, patch up. And then a very big explosion occurs, making them tear apart. The universe keeps expanding until now. However, Muslim who understand Quran and do revision in the Quran already knows this occurrence. Quran came 1400 years ago, how cans someone in that era can give an explanation on something that only found in modern age? So this big bang occurs by itself or there is superior power behind it?

          For those who did not believes in the existence of the creator, they said that all this happened by itself. So let we give our mind to this analogy. Now we have two big vehicles, bus and train. If these two vehicles collide with each other, there will be an explosion. Imagine that from the very big explosion, and then BMW 5 series car comes out from the flame. New car and new creation created after the explosion. Is that logic to our brain? If you tell this story to 6 years old kids also they will not believe it. It is ok; we go to the next analogy.

          I want to cross the river, and this river is very broad. Unfortunately, I do not know how to swim. So I need raft or something like that to go across the river. I wait there doing nothing, and hoping some miracle going to happen. Suddenly, many woods afloat at the surface of the river. All these woods join together and the raft created from the woods. Therefore I can use the raft to go across the river. But miraculously my raft can moves by itself, and can direct to the direction that I wanted. At last, I arrive at the other river side. Can you believe me, based on my story? 100% sure everyone will not agree with me.

Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and earth, and the alternation of the night and the day, and the [great] ships which sail through the sea with that which benefits people, and what Allah has sent down from the heavens of rain, giving life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness and dispersing therein every [kind of] moving creature, and [His] directing of the winds and the clouds controlled between the heaven and the earth are signs for a people who use reason.

[AL-BAQARAH C.2 : V.164]

          If you cannot believe a simple raft created by its own self, how you can believe our complex universe can exist without a creator? If you cannot belief a raft can sails by its own, how you can believe our earth, moon, sun, stars and others can move can rotate can circulate by themselves? You can go back and think by yourself, is there any existence of God. I already gave some signs from the verse of Quran and also gave some analogies. Hope from that, your mind can open and can realize that there must be a creator behind the created things.

[He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him].

[AL-BAQARAH C.2 : V.22]

~Ilmu yang ada datang diberikan oleh Allah~

~Tidak akan tertulis jika bukan kerana keizinan Allah~

~Tidak akan terjadi sesuatu melainkan dengan izin Allah~

~Semoga kita selalu berada dalam rahmat-Nya~

~Semoga mendapat keredhaan-Nya~

~Wallahua’lam~

DIRIKU MUSAFIR

And I did not create the jinn and mankind except to worship Me.

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Dan (ingatlah) Aku tidak menciptakan jin dan manusia melainkan untuk mereka menyembah dan beribadat kepadaKu.

[SURAH AZ-ZARIYAT : AYAT 56]

          Mungkin ada antara kita yang terlupa seketika tentang tujuan utama kita dihantar kemuka bumi ini kerana sibuk menjalani kehidupan seharian. Ramai yang tahu akan hakikat ini, cuma sejauh manakah kita sedar akan perkara ini dan sedalam mana kita menghayati tanggungjawab yang telah diberikan kepada kita. Entry ini bukanlah untuk mengajar pembaca untuk beribadat kepada Allah. Semoga dengan entry yang ringkas ini membuat diri kita bermuhasabah kembali atas kehidupan seharian yang telah kita lalui.

          Saya petik kata-kata ini daripada seorang ustaz, semoga kita sama-sama dapat mengambil iktibar. Katanya, manusia ini mempunyai dua kelemahan. Jika ditawarkan dua perkara ini, kebanyakan kita akan tewas kepada tawaran ini, iaitu kekuasaan dan juga keabadian. Nabi Adam As juga tewas dengan tawaran ini yang telah ditawarkan oleh iblis kepadanya. Namun Nabi Adam As bukanlah tewas dengan sekali pujukkan, malah kata para ulama terlalu banyak kali Nabi Adam menolak godaan iblis dan akhirnya barulah dia termakan dengan janji palsu itu.

          Lihatlah, kerana ingin memiliki kekuasaan manusia sanggup berperang antara satu sama lain, berperang antara saudara, berperang sesame kaum, sanggup berbunuhan demi mendapatkan kekuasaan. Lihatlah pula bagaimana manusia kini berusaha bersungguh-sungguh demi mencapai sesuatu yang tidak mungkin dia miliki iaitu hidup yang abadi. Ada sesetengah manusia yang percaya bahawa satu hari nanti dengan kecanggihan teknologi, manusia yang mati pasti dapat dihidupkan kembali, lalu mereka pun menyeruh orang-orang menyimpan mayat mereka nanti supaya mereka dapat dihidupkan kembali.

          Lihatlah juga diri kita ini, yang bertindak seakan-akan kita pasti hidup keesokan harinya. Amal kebajikan, amal ibadat serta taubat kita sering ditangguh-tangguhkan kerana telah terbiasa dengan esoknya pasti kita akan bangun seperti biasa. Hal ini membuatkan diri kita leka dan terus terleka. Terlalu asyik mengejar dunia yang sementara sehingga lupakan akhirat yang kekal selamanya. Mengumpul harta seakan-akan kita akan hidup selamanya. Ingatlah wahai sahabatku sekalian, hidup itu hanyalah insyaAllah (dengan keizinan Allah), manakala mati itu pasti.

Every soul shall have a taste of death

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Tiap-tiap yang bernyawa akan merasai mati

[SURAH ALI IMRAN : AYAT 185]

Dari Ibnu 'Umar RA berkata,

"Rasulullah SAW memegang kedua pundakku lalu bersabda, 

"Jadilah engkau hidup di dunia seperti orang asing atau musafir (orang yang bepergian)." 

Lalu Ibnu 'Umar RA menyatakan, 

"Apabila engkau berada di sore hari, maka janganlah menunggu hingga pagi hari. Dan apabila engkau berada di pagi hari maka janganlah menunggu hingga sore hari. Pergunakanlah waktu sihatmu sebelum datang waktu sakitmu. Dan pergunakanlah hidupmu sebelum datang kematianmu."

[HADIS RIWAYAT BUKHARI]

Blessed be He in Whose hands is Dominion and He over all things hath Power

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Maha Berkat (serta Maha Tinggilah kelebihan) Tuhan yang menguasai pemerintahan (dunia dan akhirat) dan memanglah Ia Maha Kuasa atas tiap-tiap sesuatu.

[SURAH AL-MULK : AYAT 1]

Allah - there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of [all] existence. Neither drowsiness overtakes Him nor sleep. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who is it that can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, and they encompass not a thing of His knowledge except for what He wills. His Kursi extends over the heavens and the earth, and their preservation tires Him not. And He is the Most High, the Most Great.

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Allah, tiada Tuhan (yang berhak disembah) melainkan Dia, Yang Tetap hidup, Yang Kekal selama-lamanya mentadbirkan (sekalian makhlukNya). Yang tidak mengantuk usahkan tidur. Yang memiliki segala yang ada di langit dan yang ada di bumi. Tiada sesiapa yang dapat memberi syafaat (pertolongan) di sisiNya melainkan dengan izinNya. yang mengetahui apa yang ada di hadapan mereka dan apa yang ada di belakang mereka, sedang mereka tidak mengetahui sesuatu pun dari (kandungan) ilmu Allah melainkan apa yang Allah kehendaki (memberitahu kepadanya). Luasnya Kursi Allah (ilmuNya dan kekuasaanNya) meliputi langit dan bumi; dan tiadalah menjadi keberatan kepada Allah menjaga serta memelihara keduanya. Dan Dia lah Yang Maha Tinggi (darjat kemuliaanNya), lagi Maha Besar (kekuasaanNya).

[SURAH AL-BAQARAH : AYAT 255]

[AYAT KURSI]

          Ingatlah bahawa mati itu sangat dekat dengan kita. Malaikat maut datang menjenguk kita 70 kali sehari, hampir setiap 20 minit. Setiap hari kubur memanggil kita. Usia semakin lanjut, dan tidak mungkin dapat kembali ke masa lalu. Tidak ada yang kekal bersama kita, kecuali bekalan pahala. Masih banyak lagi perhentian yang kita perlu lalui selepas kehidupan di dunia ini.

Sabda Rasulullah SAW yang bermaksud: 

“Sesungguhnya kubur itu, singgahan pertama ke akhirat, sekiranya yang singgah itu terselamat, maka perjalanan selepas daripada itu lebih mudah lagi. Dan jika tidak selamat, maka perjalanan selepas daripada itu lebih sukar lagi.”

[HADIS RIWAYAT AT-TARMIZI]

          Antara tujuan hidup kita ini secara ringkasnya adalah untuk mengabdikan diri kepada Allah iaitu beribadat kepada-Nya. Tujuan yang seterusnya pula ialah menjadi khalifah di muka bumi ini untuk mentadbir bumi ini dengan mengurus alam ini dengan bijaksana dan dengan cermat. Tugas khalifah juga untuk menegakkan agama Allah dengan apa cara sekalipun. Contohnya dalam bidang ekonomi, bidang akademik, bidang politik dan juga lain-lain lagi.

And [mention, O Muhammad], when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I will make upon the earth a successive authority."

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Dan (ingatlah) ketika Tuhanmu berfirman kepada Malaikat; "Sesungguhnya Aku hendak menjadikan seorang khalifah di bumi".

[SURAH AL-BAQARAH : AYAT 30]

~Apa yang baik itu daripada Allah~

~Apa yang buruk itu daripada diri sendiri~

~Wallahua’lam~