So know, [O Muhammad], that there is no deity except Allah and
ask forgiveness for your sin and for the believing men and believing women. And
Allah knows of your movement and your resting place.
[MUHAMMAD Ch.47:V.19]
Alhamdulillah, it is good to be back
in here to write another entry. It looks like lesser entry per month. I am so
sorry about this. I already back in university to continue for a few more years
here. It is a little bit busy here when the classes already start; there are a
few “homework”, assignments and so on. Today’s topic I took from my note in
Facebook translated into English. It is about the knowledge we have going to
strengthen our faith and believe in Allah.
Actually knowledge is very important
in everything that we want to do. It helps us to make the work easier or helps
us understand the work or it can be many other ways. For me, knowledge is
something that is new to us, something that fills in our brain or mind. But others
may give different definition on knowledge, and it is up to you. The definition
is something that is subjective.
I like the verse above, I like it very
much. There is one person that taught me on that verse. He said that, Allah
says the verse to show to us that knowledge is very important and also very
powerful thing. To know that Allah is only one, we need to have knowledge. This
verse shows that in Islamic faith to believe Allah is one is not only to follow
the others but to know by having knowledge. Without knowledge, yes you can
still believe Allah is only one, but you cannot prove and explain to other
person. Without knowledge you cannot make the non-Muslims to become a Muslim. I
am very anti with person that always say; “we just have to follow”.
He gives wisdom to whom He wills, and whoever has been given
wisdom has certainly been given much good. And none will remember except those
of understanding.
[AL-BAQARAH Ch.2:V.269]
I prefer to follow this path, where
the knowledge is the backbone of many things or more accurate is for
everything. Because of my style like this, so I love to watch videos of Dr
Zakir Naik. I think that in my blog, many entries I always mention his name and
also the great teacher of him, Syeikh Ahmad Deedat. When I watched his videos
debating with the non-Muslims; atheists, Christians and others, his argument,
his stands can make us clear about this religion, Islam. When he gave examples,
the examples suit to current modern age and the analogies can make us very
understand on his speech.
So Dr Zakir Naik maybe the best model
for the da’ie to follow for the time being. His critical thinking, his knowledge
about science, his knowledge about the other religion helps him a lot in his
speech and in his work to revert the non-Muslims. If in Malaysia, I prefer Dr
MAZA and also Dr Danial as the scholars that critical in giving their opinions
and they also have minds that thinking further than the others. Therefore,
their speech is very good and the knowledge they gave can make our mind think
wider and also make us become critical thinking like them.
In the Quran, Allah have repeated the
word ‘ulul al-bab’ which means the person that us their brain to think. Allah
praise people like this and Allah also said that people with knowledge is
better and is more love by Allah than the people that did not think and also do
not have knowledge. People that do research on Quran are better than those who
are only reading the Quran but they did not understand it. There are many
people who have embrace Islam after doing some research on Quran. Only a little
part of the Quran can change their lives because of the knowledge they have.
So the magicians fell down in prostration. They said, "We
have believed in the Lord of Aaron and Moses."
[TAHA Ch.20:V.70]
There a few examples in the Quran that
shows the important of having knowledge. The Quran records there are people who
embrace the true religion that is submitted themselves to Allah after Allah
shows to them the true power and with their knowledge in their specific field. For
the first example is the story of the witches in the age of pharaohs and
Prophet Moses with his cousin, Prophet Aaron. The story is recorded in the
chapter named Taha, chapter number 20. If you are good enough maybe you can
read from the start of the verse. However, the part that I want to highlight in
this entry is just around verses 60-80.
When Prophet Moses and Prophet Aaron
came to see Pharaoh, to teach him the true religion and also to tell him not to
do tyranny in his country, the Pharaoh did not want to listen to them. In addition,
he challenged Prophet Moses to show his ability to fight with his witches. Pharaoh
gathered all the people in his country to witness the competition between
Prophet Moses and his witches. The witches start first by throwing their ropes
and the ropes turn to look like snakes. The snakes are just the illusion that
cheats the eyes of everyone that see that. When time comes for Prophet Moses
turn, Allah asks him to throw his stick.
With the power and with Allah
permission, the stick turns into a snake. However, this time the stick really
changes into a snake, a very big snake that ate all the ropes (snakes) of the
witches. It is true snake and not an illusion. With the knowledge that the
witches have, they know that the snake from the stick of Prophet Moses is
really the power of Allah and not from the devils. Then they turn to be with
Prophet Moses and Prophet Aaron as in the verse above tells us.
Although Pharaoh wanted to kill them
all for the punishment to loss and also not to obey him by saying he is the
god, all the witches remain with their faith in the teaching of Prophet Moses
and Prophet Aaron. Their faith stand firm and nothing can make them repels or
rebels against Allah. This story shows the important in having knowledge. Because
of their mastering in some sort of fields make them to believe in Allah and His
promises.
And [subsequently] the king said, "Indeed, I have seen
[in a dream] seven fat cows being eaten by seven [that were] lean, and seven
green spikes [of grain] and others [that were] dry. O eminent ones, explain to
me my vision, if you should interpret visions."
[YUSUF Ch.12:V.43]
It is also the same happen to Prophet
Joseph. When the king in his country dreamed about the cows such as in the
verse above, there is nobody can explain and can predict the future from his
dream. At that time, the king has a few people that very well in predicting the
future, astrologers. When comes to this dream, there is no one can tell the
story behind the dream.
When Prophet Joseph in the prison, he
predicts the food that the guard will give to him and his partner in the jail. His
prediction is very accurate. He also explain other prisoners dream for a few
times. When his friend (the person in the prison) get out from the prison and
heard the news about the king’s dream, he try to meet the king and trying to
recommend Prophet Joseph to explain the dream. In the Quran, the story is in
chronology. You can check it in the chapter of Joseph or Yusuf, chapter number
12.
At last, the king called Prophet
Joseph to explain about his dream. Because the king believes Prophet Joseph’s
prediction on his country’s future, he took Prophet Joseph as a ministry in his
country. It goes the same for other Prophets such as Prophet Solomon, Prophet
Jesus and the others. The signs (mukjizat) that Allah gave to them (His
messengers) is compatible and suitable for that time. It goes the same with
Prophet Muhammad.
His case special that the other
prophets because Allah left behind the signs in the form of scripture, that is
Quran. Quran is compatible to all ages until the end of the day. It can be proven
through the language, through the histories in it, through the scientific facts
in it and many others. Only those who do research and understand Quran can feel
it is signs from Allah.
Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth and the
alternation of the night and the day are signs for those of understanding.
[ALI IMRAN Ch.3:V.190]
~Quran is not book of
science but it is book of signs~
~Wallahua’lam~
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