MA’RIFATULLAH - MENGENAL ALLAH LEWAT AKAL

Suatu hari Anda membuka mata Anda dan menemukan diri Anda sendiri di tengah-tengah beragam kenikmatan yang berlimpah… Renungkanlah tentang segala sesuatu yang Allah karuniakan kepada Anda. Di setiap bagian terkecil dari alam semesta ini, di situlah Allah menyadarkan kita akan keberadaan-Nya. Film ini mengajak Anda memikirkan secara mendalam tentang jagat raya dan makhluk hidup, dan memahami bagaimana semua hal tersebut telah diciptakan secara sempurna, tanpa cela. Dengan memperlihatkan beberapa dari tanda-tanda kebesaran Allah yang tak terhitung jumlahnya di alam, film ini bertujuan mengarahkan Anda berpikir tentang kekuasaan dan pengetahuan Allah atas segala sesuatu.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Submit before the will of Allah

If you are destined for good fortune you will be blessed; if afflictions have been ordained, no matter where you hide they will seek you out. Submit therefore before the will of God; be grateful in well-being and endure adversity with fortitude that His light may radiate within your being.

- Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani , Futhul Ghaib

Fighting has been enjoined upon you while it is hateful to you. But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not -
Surat Al-Baqarah 216

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Thankfullness

Allah Swt says in the Holy Quran :

If you are thankful, I will surely give you more; but if you are ungrateful, My punishment is terrible indeed. (14:7)

This is reinforced by the traditional report, transmitted on the authority of 'Ata' (may Allah be well pleased with him), who said: "I entered the presence of 'A'isha (may Allah be well pleased with her), and said: 'Tell us about the most amazing experience you ever had in the company of Allah's Messenger (Allah bless him and give him peace).'

She wept at first, but then she said: 'Was there anything at all about him that was not a marvelous wonder? He came to me one night, and snuggled up beside me in my bed until his skin was touching my skin. But then he said: 'O daughter of Abu Bakr, let me go, so that I may devote myself to the worship of my Lord.'

"She said: ' So I told him: "I love your nearness, but I prefer to respect your dearest wish." I therefore allowed him to take his leave of me. So he got up, found a skin container full of water, and performed his ritual ablution. Then he stood up, and started to perform the night prayer. He wept as he did so, until his tears were streaming down onto his chest. Then he performed ruku', and shed more tears. Then he performed sujud, and again he wept. Then he raised his head, and wept still more. He went on like this until Bilal (may Allah be well pleased with him) arrived on the scene, and so he told him about the fajr prayer.

"'I then said: "O Messenger of Allah, what causes you to weep, when Allah has forgiven you your earlier and later sins?" To this he replied:

"Should I not be a thankful servant? Why should I not do it, since Allah has sent down to me the words of revelation:

Surely in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of night and day, and the ship that runs upon the sea with that which is of use to human beings, and the water which Allah sends down from the sky, thereby reviving the earth after its death, and dispersing all kinds of beasts therein, and the distribution of the winds, and the clouds set in orderly array between heaven and earth-surely there are signs for people who can understand. (2:164) "

Let us be more thankfull to Allah for all  nikmah and blessing He granted us since our coming to the world to these days.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Tahajjud Rabiatul Adawaiyah

Rabiatul Adawiyah seorang sufi wanita yang sangat terkenal pernah bermimpi menerima suruhan supaya ia tetap mengerjakan solat Tahajjud meskipun ia sedang sakit.

Beliau menjelaskan bahawa ketika ia sakit itu ia tidak dapat sembahyang Tahajjud sebagaimana kebiasannya sebelumnya. Maka, untuk menggantikan amalan tersebut dia membaca al-Quran pada waktu siang kerana ia tahu bahawa membaca al-Quran sama pahalanya dengan berjaga malam dalam ibadat.

"Namun, setelah aku kembali sihat aku terus melakukan kebiasaan membaca al-Quran itu. Lalu pada suatu malam aku bermimpi berada di sebuah padang yang luas yang dipenuhi tumbuhan yang menghijau. Di tengah-tengah padang luas itu ada sebuah istana yang sa-ngat cantik. Maka aku pun pergi bersiar-siar mengelilingi taman yang indah itu. Ketika itulah aku terpandang seekor burung sedang diburu oleh seorang kanak-kanak perempuan. Aku asyik menyaksikan kecantikan anak itu dan burung yang diburunya. Aku tidak tahu mengapa ia melakukan demikian rupa.

Akhirnya aku berkata kepada anak itu: "Mengapa engkau hendak menangkap burung yang cantik itu. Sesungguhnya aku belum pernah melihat burung secantik itu. Bukankah lebih baik ia dibiarkan lepas terbang sesuka hatinya di taman ini?" Lalu anak itu berhenti mengejar burung itu. Sebaliknya ia datang ke arahku dan membawa aku pergi berkeliling di taman yang indah itu hingga kami tiba-tiba sudah berada di pintu istana yang besar itu. Anak itu mengetuk pintu istana sambil meminta dibukakan pintu, maka pintu itu terbuka dengan sendirinya. Dari dalam istana terpancar cahaya yang terang benderang. Kemudian anak itu mempersilakan aku masuk ke dalam istana. Alangkah cantiknya istana itu dari dalam, lebih cantik daripada dipandang dari luar.”

"Aku dibawa berjalan-jalan mengelilingi istana itu. Di bahagian dalamnya kami berjumpa dengan beberapa pelayan yang sangat cantik wajahnya sedang membawa bejana-bejana yang berisi wangi-wangian. Anak itu bertanya: "Hendak ke mana kamu semua, wahai para pelayan?" Mereka menjawab: "Kami hendak pergi berjumpa dengan orang yang mati syahid kerana terbunuh di lautan."

"Setelah diam sebentar anak itu bertanya lagi:

"Apakah kamu tidak mahu memberi wangian itu sedikit kepada orang yang ada bersamaku ini."

Mereka menjawab: "la sudah pernah mempunyai wangian tapi ia telah membuangnya."

Kemudian anak itu menghadap ke arah aku, lalu mengucapkan kata-kata yang indah. Setelah ia selesai mengucapkannya ia pun terus menghilang. Aku pun terbangun dari tidur.

Mimpi itu begitu mengesankan di hati beliau, kerana setiap kali ia menceritakannya ia akan menangis terisak-isak. Sejak peristiwa itu beliau tidak pernah lagi meninggalkan solat Tahajjud walaupun ketika sedang sakit sehinggalah beliau meninggal dunia.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

A story of Rabiatul Adawiyah

Below is a story of Rabiatul Adawiyah who one day sent Hasan al Basri three things—a piece of wax, a needle, and a hair.

“Be like wax,” she said. “Illumine the world, and yourself burn.

Be like a needle, always be working naked. When you have done these two things, a thousand years will be for you as a hair.”

“Do you desire for us to get married?” Hasan asked Rabiatul Adawiyah.

“The tie of marriage applies to those who have being,” she replied. “Here being has disappeared, for I have become naughted to self and exist only through Him. I belong wholly to Him. I live in the shadow of His control. You must ask my hand of Him, not of me.”

“How did you find this secret, Rabiatul Adawiyah ” Hasan asked.

“I lost all ‘found’ things in Him,” She answered.

“How do you know Him?” Hasan enquired.

“You know the ‘how’; I know the ‘howless’,” Rabiatul Adawiyah said

Note to readers - During our journey to find our trueself, once we have reach certain level-meaning of the words uttered by Rabiatul Adawiyah would become clear to us -  until then it will remain a mystery to be discovered, understood and hopefully experience.

Hassan al Basri was trying to ask Rabiatul Adawiyah about the secret. What he got is only an indirect answer from her. It is a secret that she wanted him to discover himself!

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Hakikat mati sebelum mati

Seorang saudagar telah sekian lama memelihara seekor burung di dalam sebuah sangkar di rumahnya.

Satu hari ia mengambil keputusan untuk berangkat ke India, tanah asal burung itu, lalu menanyakan burung itu kalau-kalau ia ingin meminta sebarang buah tangan dari sana. Burung itu meminta kebebasannya, tetapi ditolak oleh saudagar. Karena itu ia minta saudagar itu pergi ke hutan di India dan memberitahu tentang keadaannya yang dalam hal dirinya yang di kurung itu kepada burung-burung lain yang masih bebas.

Saudagar itu pun melaksanakan pesan tersebut, dan sebaik sahaja ia mengucapkan pesan tersebut, seekor burung yang serupa dengan burung yang dipeliharanya jatuh dari sebuah pohon, tak sadarkan diri ke tanah.
Si saudagar berpendapat bahawa tentulah ia saudara kepada burung peliharaannya, dan ia pun merasa sedih kerana telah menyebabkan kematiannya.

Ketika ia pulang, burung peliharaannya bertanya apakah tuannya ada membawa sebarang khabar gembira dari India.

“Tidak,” jawab saudagar itu, “Aku membawa khabar buruk. Salah seekor saudaramu tak sedar diri lalu jatuh dekat kakiku ketika aku khabarkan tentang keadaanmu di sini.”

Sebaik sahaja kata-kata itu diucapkan, burung peliharaan saudagar itu pun tak sedarkan diri dan jatuh di dalam sangkar.

“Khabar kematian saudaramu telah menyebabkan kematianmu juga,” fikir saudagar itu. Dengan sedih diambilnya burung itu dari sangkarnya, lalu diletakkannya di tepi jendela.

Segera saja burung itu hidup kembali lalu terbang ke pohon berdekatan.
“Kini aku ingin memberi tahu kepada engkau,” kata Si Burung, “bahawa apa yang kau kira sebagai khabar buruk itu, ternyata merupakan khabar baik bagiku yang dipesan oleh saudaraku melalui kamu. Untuk mendapat kebebasan di dunia ini maka hendaklah kamu mematikan diri kamu, nescaya dengan itu engkau akan beroleh kebebasan.”

Dan burung itupun terbang, bebas merdeka akhirnya.

Cerita ini sesuai dengan hadis Nabi Muhammad s.a.w "Muutu Qobla An-Tamutu", artinya :"Matilah kamu sebelum Kamu Mati".

Kisah di atas memberi iktibar dan petunjuk penting kepada mereka yang ingin mencari identiti dan jati diri yang sebenar. Maka sebab itu lah barang kali Jalaluddin Rumi menukilkan sebagai tinggalan kepada mereka terkemudian untuk direnung-renungkan. Dr Wayne Dyer seorang pakar motivasi barat sendiri telah menyebut kisah ini di dalam sessi ceramah beliau. Lihat di sini

Adaptasi dari sebuah cerita yang diolah oleh Jalaluddin Rumi. Sumber foto diambil disini

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

No attachement - true love

When we do our duty to others, to the human race, we must do it without attachment, without selfishness, in the proper way, expecting no reward.

Act that pours forth like this is an act of true love.

(M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

A broken Love

If we pursue God, worship Him, ask Him for favors, for property, money, possessions, a baby, great titles, a kingdom, or even for heaven, if we love God with interested motives, with selfish love, that love will break down. It is a broken love...
(M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Hakikat ikhtiar..

Diambil daripada hadis dan Firman Allah Taala (Hadis Qudsi), mathumnya:

"Aku berasa hairan terhadap hamba-Ku yang sering teringat kepada hartanya. Mereka lupa bahawa Akulah yang memberikan rezeki, tidak berasa syukur berhadap nikmat-Ku, tangannya kedekut untuk bersedekah kepada fakir miskin. Dia menyangka bahawa harta yang diusahakannya itu adalah melalui ikhtiarnya sendiri. Dialah hamba-Ku yang paling bodoh yang tidak berilmu walaupun sezarah."

Bagaimanakah kita dapat melepaskan diri dari menjadi hamba Allah yang paling bodoh itu? Hanya dengan ilmu yang benar sahaja yang kita mampu memahaminya.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Hakikat Orang Arif Billah

Di dalam sebuah buku kecil "KasyafulAsrar – Pembukaan Segala Rahsia" ada menyebutkan ta’arif orang yang dinamakan orang Arif (Arif bermaksud mengetahui).

Mengikut penulis buku tersebut As-Syeikh Mohd Salleh bin Abdullah mengkabau (Q.S) orang Arif ialah:

a. Orang yang mengenal dirinya.
b. Orang yang mengenal Tuhannya.
c. Orang yang mengenal segala sifat Tuhannya.
d. Orang yang mengenal afaal ( Perbuatan) Tuhannya.
e. Orang yang mengenal Asma' (Nama-nama) Tuhannya.
f. Orang yang mengenal zahir dan batin.
g. Orang yang mengenal baik dan jahat.
h. Sama sahaja suka dan duka.
i. Tidak berasa gembira apabila dipuji.
j. Tidak berasa sedih apabila dikeji.

Persoalan yang selalu timbul kepada saya ialah mengapakah mereka dapat mencapai darjat akhlak begitu rupa. “Sama sahaja bagi mereka suka dan duka, tidak gembira apabila dipuji dan tidak merasa sedih bila dikeji”.

Tentulah ada sesuatu “rahsia yang sangat besar dan istimewa” dalam ilmu yang mereka miliki hasil dari pengetahuan mendalam tentang diri mereka sendiri dan sifat, Afaal dan Asma' Tuhannya.

Mereka orang Arif sebenarnya telah mencapai darjat "Insan kamil" disisi Tuhan yang telah redha sepenuhnya kepada semua hal dan keadaan mereka di dunia ini. Mereka hidup tanpa rungutan dan keluh kesah. Bagi mereka setiap kejadian sama ada baik atau jahat adalah sebenarnya baik belaka.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Knowing self

Knowing others is wisdom
Knowing the self is enlightenment.
Mastering others requires force
Mastering the self requires strength.
- Tao Te Ching

"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself,
you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not
know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and
lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you
will be imperiled in every single battle."
- Sun Tzu

"He who knows others is learned, but the wise one is one who knows
himself. Learning without wisdom is of no use." - A sufi

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Kata Hikmah

Sumber foto diambil di sini:

Kebaikan itu semuanya terhimpun dalam empat (4) perkara:

Percakapan, diam, pandangan dan gerak. Tiap-tiap percakapan yang tidak disertai dengan mengingati Allah adalah sia-sia, tiap-tiap diam yang tidak disertai dengan memikirkan kebersaran Allah adalah leka, tiap-tiap pandangan yang tidak disertai dengan pengambilan iktibar adalah lalai, dan tiap-tiap gerak yang tidak disertai dengan perhambaan adalah kosong. Semoga Allah merahmati hamba yang telah menjadikan percakapannya sebagai zikir, diamnya sebagai tafakkur, pandangannya sebagai iktibar, dan geraknya sebagai perhambaaan, dan daripada lisan serta tangannya manusia mendapat kesejahteraan - Saidina Ali Karramallahu Wajhah

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Woods for his fire

If you don’t have the Beloved why aren’t you looking for Him?
If you have the Beloved why aren’t you rejoicing?
If the Friend is truly your friend. Why not stay with Him?
If the rebec does not wail,Why not teach it how to sing?
If someone bars you from the truth, Why not fight him and his brother as well? You sit quietly and say to yourself, “Something strange is going on.”The only thing strange is that your best friend is a stranger.

You are the Sun of the world -Why is your heart so black?Why do you fall back on your drab and stagnant ways?Don’t stay melted like gold in a furnace -Become a piece of jewelry!

The treasure of Unity is found by those who look within.Why not join your spirit to the onewho sits inside your heart?

Did Majnun ever love two Laylas? Why seek more than one face and one cheek?

There is such a glorious moonhiding in the shadows of your being.Why not make it rise with the power of a midnight prayer? You have danced in the tavern for ages, Love’s wine never slips from your hand,Yet with each new sipyour soul is ravished like never before.

The wine I drink is the fire of love and God Himself pours it into my mouth! What use is your life If your bones are not used as wood for His fire? I’ll leave you with that.I could go on,I could fill pages with these elegant verses But this is a tale for the heart and soul, not the lips.
...

Rumi– Version by Jonathan StarFrom “Rumi - In the Arms of the Beloved”Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, New York 1997

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Life is an illusions?

Let us suppose, then, that we are dreaming, and that all these particulars—namely, the opening of the eyes, the motion of the head, the forth-putting of the hands—are merely illusions; and even that we really possess neither an entire body nor hands such as we see.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

The only love that is beneficial is selfless love.

The only love that is beneficial is selfless love.
Whatever we raise or touch – cattle, goats, donkeys, horses, dogs, cats, rats, house, property, possessions, learning, titles, fame, political status, or even wisdom – whatever it is we love, if our love is directed toward something and remains fixed on that thing, it is a love which can be lost, which can die...

(M.R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Abraham-Hicks: Feel Good Now, It's Important!

'If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different, so that you can feel good...' :)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

The Golden Rule

"Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal."
~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Religious groups, as well as non-theistic ethical systems, differ greatly in their beliefs and practices. There is, however, a common thread that runs through them all. Each of these systems of belief has some example of the Ethic of Reciprocity in their teachings. The most common version of this is known as:

The Golden Rule "Do onto others as you would have them do onto you."

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Don't Be Sad

This is a video for those who are going through a tough time or feel some sorrow and sadness. Insha Allah this video will cure your pain and relieve your sorrows; what we all go through are just tests and trials in life, from Allah to see if we are patient and have perseverance.

And remember what Allah said: " Verily after hardship comes ease."

So watch and smile! DON'T BE SAD!

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

~Abraham-Hicks~ ♥Expanded Version of You♥

"Just love everybody that interacts with you no matter how personally, or how peripherally, involved with you they are. The efficiency of the people who deal with you... everything is orchestrated by the manager called Law of Attraction. And your vibration is setting all of it into motion. Everything affecting you is a reflection of the vibration that you are emitting. Spend more time focused upon your dream than upon the reality. The reality gives birth to the dream -- but the dream is where you are wanting to put your attention." --- Abraham

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark

Power of Thought - A Quantum Perspective

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears - Glenn Clark