Category: Agama

  • Ustaz Hariri Mengamuk, Injak Leher Jemaah

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    JAKARTA — Video Ustaz Hariri yang diunggah ke youtube menuai banyak komentar. Karena dalam video tersebutmuballigh berambut panjang itu tampak menginjak salah seorang jamaahnya dengan lutut.

    Ia juga menyuruh jamaah untuk mencium kakinya sembari memakinya dengan Bahasa Sunda. Hal ini menuai kritikan dari Ketua Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) Amidhan. Menurutnya, tindakan kekerasan dalam berdakwah bukan cara yang diajarkan Rasulullah SAW.

    “Kalau itu benar adanya, tentu itu menyalahi metode dakwah yang diajarkan Alquran. Di dalam Alquran berdakawah harus dengan kata-kata yang lembut dan dengan cara mau’izhatil hasanah,” tuturnya kepadaRepublika, Rabu (12/2) malam.

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    Amidhan mengatakan, jika cara yang dinilai kasar tersebut yang dipakai Ustadz Hariri, tentu akan menjadikan orang lari dari Islam. Sedangkan tujuan dari dakwah itu sendiri adalah mengajak umat kepada Islam.

    “Yang begitu itu, tentu akan menjadi dakwah yang kontra produktif. Jangankan orang akan mematuhi dan melaksanakan ajarannya, kalau begitu orang bisa menjauhi,” papar Amidhan.

    Menurut Amidhan, dalam Islam diajarkan cara berinteraksi dengan dua dimensi. Yaitu, hubungan vertikal kepada Allah dan hubungan horizontal sesama manusia.

    Keduanya harus diperhatikan seorang Muslim. Di samping membina hubungan baik dengan Allah, seyogyanya pula ia menjalin hubungan yang baik di tengah masyarakat.

    Source: Republika

  • Pork Thrown into a Mosque in Penang

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    A piece of meat believed to be pork found at the mosque in Machang Bubuk in mainland Penang on 16 Feb 2014.

    Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has called on Penangites to unite and keep calm hours after the discovery early this morning of a slab of meat believed to be pork in the compound of a mosque in Cherok Tok Kun.

    Lim said mutual respect for each others’ differences are the most effective way to defect provocateurs and such criminal acts.

    “We condemn this treacherous act. We should not fall into such irresponsible elements that seek to disrupt our harmony.

    “Penangites must stand united and maintain the peace we enjoy,” he said today after visiting the Cherok Tok Kun Atas mosque in Machang Bubuk on the mainland.

    The mosque’s deputy imam, Saad Arop, 78, found a slab of meat at one of the entrances of the mosque at 5.30am this morning.

    Lim said closed circuit television (CCTV) will be installed outside the mosque to prevent similar incidents in the future.

    He said the state has also instructed Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim and Machang Bubuk assemblyman Lee Khai Loon to look into it immediately.

    “The mosque is just next to the main road so anyone could have thrown the meat.

    “So far, the mosque congregation is calm and we advise everyone to remain so,” he said.

    Earlier today, Penang crime investigation department chief senior assistant commissioner Mazlan Kesah confirmed the incident and said a police report on the matter was lodged at about 7.20am.

    Mazlan said there were no CCTVs in the area and that the meat had been sent to the Bukit Minyak Veterinary department to be tested and verified.

    The incident is being investigated under Section 295 of the Penal Code for injuring or defiling a place of worship with intent to insult a religion.

    Today’s incident is the second involving a place of worship in the state.

    On January 27, two molotov cocktails were thrown into the compound of the Assumption Church in George Town.

    Since the incident, police have been patrolling around churches and mosques. – February 16, 2014.

    Source: The Malaysian Insider

  • Denmark bans religious slaughter, affecting Jews and Muslims

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    A Danish government’s move to ban ritual slaughter has angered both Muslim and Jewish faith communities, seeing the ban as a direct attack on their religious practices.

    “We and the Muslim organizations are talking about this,” local Jewish leader Finn Schwartz told The Jerusalem Post.

    Schwartz added that his community is in discussions with Danish authorities and is in contact with the Agriculture and Food Minister Dan Jørgensen.

    The controversy erupted last Thursday when Jørgensen announced that starting from next Monday, Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter will be illegal in Denmark.

    “Animal rights come before religion,” the minister was quoted as saying by Danish station TV2.

    The move was widely criticized by religious leaders, dubbing it as an attack on the freedom of the religious minorities.

    “When you have religious minorities in a society you should also respect the religious minority even if you really don’t like some of the things [they] are doing,” Schwartz said.

    “If you want to change fundamental rules that concern the religious minorities then you should have an open discussion,” he said.

    Similar debates surrounding halal and kosher slaughter erupted last summer when previous Agriculture minister Karen Hækkerup stated her opposition to all slaughter without pre-stunning.

    Hækkerup was responding to the demand of a Muslim organization, that it be allowed to butcher animals without any stunning either prior to or following the cutting.

    Replying to critics who accused him of violating his citizens’ religious rights, the minister said that “when [Jews and Muslims] are upset about the ban, even though they have not taken advantage of the exemptions available, it can only be because in the future they would like to carry out slaughter without stunning.”

    Criticism

    Jewish organizations harshly censured Denmark over the impending ban on Thursday.

    “This attack on basic Jewish religious practice in Denmark puts into question the continuance of community life in the country and follows strongly on the heels of persistent attacks on Jewish circumcision,” European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor said.

    Kantor said that he hoped the ban was not an attempt to “placate or mollify animal rights activists in light of the international criticism” Denmark received after zookeepers shot and killed a giraffe in Copenhagen.

    European Commissioner for Health Tonio Borg has also condemned the ban, saying that it “contradicts European law.”

    The Conference of European Rabbis intends to raise the issue of “continuous attacks against religious minorities in Europe,” during a meeting with European Commission President José Manuel Barroso on Monday, CER head Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt told the Post.

    The Danish ban constituted a “further erosion of religious liberties and freedoms in Europe,” Goldschmidt said.

    According to the Islamic and Jewish ritual, the animal is slaughtered by a sharp blade.

    The concept of halal, — meaning permissible in Arabic — has traditionally been applied to food.

    Muslims should only eat meat from livestock slaughtered by a sharp knife from their necks, and the name of Allah, the Arabic word for God, must be mentioned.

    Muslim scholars agree that Shari`ah provides a divine law of mercy that should be applied on all Allah’s creations, including animals.

    Islam also provides details about avoiding any unnecessary pain.

    Denmark is home to a Muslim minority of 200,000, making three percent of the country’s 5.4 million population.

    The Scandinavian country has a Jewish minority of about 6,000.

    Source: Onislam.net

  • Jakim is a ‘pervert’

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    COMMENT:  Jakim is at best a ‘pervert’ for condemning Valentine’s Day and abusing the Friday sermons to incite racial unrest. The department seems to be enjoying playing the devil’s advocate.

    Last year, just days before the Allah issue returned to court, the Department of Islamic Development of Malaysia (Jakim)  rebuked non-Muslims for challenging the Muslim faith by insisting on using the word.

    “The position of Islam is being threatened from every corner. We must be aware of our responsibility in this issue.

    “These are the rights of Muslims that cannot be intruded by anyone as it will affect the beliefs and thoughts of Muslims,” Jakim’s sermon went.

    Looks like the Islamic department is getting carried away with its responsibilities, so much so that its focus has turned fuzzy.

    Jakim pushed the religion envelope a little too far when it declared as “unlawful” a  YouTube clip of Maznah Mohd Yusof and her three dogs which went viral.

    However, the “attack Valentine’s Day” campaign is Jakim’s all-time favourite.

    The department has engaged in a perpetual war with Valentine’s Day, spinning yarns about how morally damaging the event is.

    In Jakim’s calendar, February 14 is marked as ‘Valentine’ Day bashing’ with the department trying every trick in the book to defame the occasion, calling it the ‘devil’ of all evils.

    Thirteen years ago, authorities arrested nearly 100 Muslims in a crackdown on Valentine’s Day.

    They were detained for khalwat (close proximity), the crime of being alone with a member of the opposite sex other than one’s spouse or close relative.

    It can bring up to two years in jail upon conviction in the Syariah courts.

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    Then there were reports that Muslim authorities in Selangor this week launched a leaflet distributing campaign aimed at youths, warning against celebrating Valentine’s Day.

    This year’s Valentine’s Day condemnation by Jakim was no different. Jakim has now decided that the country’s many social and moral headaches are all the doing of the Feb 14 event that celebrates love.

    It is worrying that Jakim without any solid evidence is holding Valentine’s Day at ransom for the many social ills the nation is facing, be it alcoholism or abortion.

    Will Jakim also conveniently blame Valentine’s Day for crimes like corruption, domestic abuse and marital rape?

    “Social ceremonies such as this are a stepping-stone towards greater social ills such as fraud, mental disorder caused by alcohol, abortion and baby-dumping, and other negative ills that can invite disaster and moral decay among youths,” Jakim’s official Friday sermon text distributed to mosques read.

    Unable to pin-point the exact reason why Muslims of this country have gone astray, Jakim has taken the easy way out by blaming it all on Valentine’s Day.

    Misleading the rakyat about the ABCD of Valentine’s Day was bad enough; it was despicable that Jakim abused the Friday sermon to achieve its aim of maligning Valentine’s Day.

    “It will begin with lies, mental instability due to alcohol consumption and being pregnant out of wedlock,” the sermon stated.

    Jakim’s sermon also said that many young Muslims today lacked faith in Islam, causing them to be easily led astray by practises and culture which do not comply with religion.

    “We should not be following practises of Jahiliyah (pre-Islamic times). Doing good alone is not enough if we do not keep our faith in Islam strong.”

    Jakim is both irresponsible and pervert in its ‘Valentine’s Day bashing’ campaign through its allegations that the event thrives on promiscuity and other vices.

    Truth be told, Jakim’s finger-pointing is a coward’s way out of dealing with the real issues at hand.

    Source: http://bit.ly/1dVrEBD

  • Kisah benar pengalaman seorang bomba mengeluarkan mayat kemalangan

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    Ini merupakan satu kisah benar yang diceritakan oleh seorang ahli bomba dari utara semenanjung.. Sama-sama kita renungi dan hayati kisah ini, jadikan pengajaran!

    Satu hari beliau dan rakan-rakan telah menerima satu panggilan palsu berkenaan satu kemalangan yang telah berlaku di lebuhraya utara selatan. Oleh kerana untuk mengesahkannya maka beliau dan rakan2 telah ketempat yang dikatakan oleh pemanggil namun tiada apa yang terjadi disana. Dalam perjalanan pulang, waktu itu pukul satu pagi, hujan turun renyai-renyai.

    Di satu persimpangan susur keluar dari lebuhraya, mereka ternampak sebuah mpv mewah yang terbalik dan remuk sekali kerana melanggar divider yang tajam. Mereka segera turun dan melihat kemalangan itu dengan niat ingin menolong kiranya ada yang terselamat. Tetapi apa yang mereka saksikan sungguh dahsyat dan menyayat hati. sesuatu yang tidak tergambarkan dahsyatnya.

    Mereka jadi terkedu, tergamam, tiada sepatah perkataan pun yang dapat menggambarkan betapa dahsyatnya kejadian itu, semoga Allah melindungi kita semua dari kejadian yang seumpama ini. Pemandu mpv mewah itu telah pun mati terkulai di kerusi pemandu kerana kecederaan parah di kepala.MPV tersebut begitu remuk sehingga bumbungnya menghimpit kesemua pemandu dan penumpang di dalamnya.

    Di bahagian belakang mpv mewah tersebut terdapat tiga susuk tubuh manusia. Seorang wanita dalam empat puluhan dan dua lelaki dalam dua puluhan. Tidak terdapat seurat benang pun pada tubuh mereka. bo gel-sebogelnya. Wanita dan salah seorang lelaki itu dalam keadaan berpelukan kepala mereka pecah, darah menyembur di merata tempat, tulang rusuk mereka hancur dan tikam menikam antara satu sama lain, dahsyat sekali. Tulang punggung wanita itu pula hancur.

    Lebih dahsyat lagi dengan jelasnya mereka lihat zakar lelaki itu masih di dalam kemaluan wanita itu. Langsung mereka tidak dapat dipisahkan. Lelaki yang seorang lagi sedang dalam nazak dengan kecederaan parah di kepala, dan sayup-sayup kedengaran suaranya memanggil.. mummy…. mummy…. mummy……

    Tangan pemuda yang melekat pada perempuan itu masih memegang zakar lelaki yang nazak itu.

    Ahli bomba itu terjelepuk. Tidak pernah dalam hidupnya terbayang akan boleh terjumpa keadaan seperti ini. Dengan semangat dari kawan-kawan, beliau segera bangun dan mengambil gergaji besi untuk memotong kenderaan yang remuk itu. Mereka mesti melakukannya secepat mungkin, sebelum kejadian yang memalukan itu dilihat oleh orang ramai.

    Dalam kegelapan malam itu mereka bertungkus lumus membuat apa yang patut.

    Dalam kesibukan bekerja tiba tiba bulu roma ahli bomba itu meremang naik, badan nya menjadi seram sejuk dan dada berdebar kencang. Sambil bekerja, dengan jelas dari sudut mata beliau kelibat satu makhluk hitam yang sungguh besar memegang pedang, dengan muka yang sungguh bengis dan berang, nafasnya mendengus radang, mundar mandir dan mengelilingi kawasan kemalangan dengan gaya orang yang tersangat marah. Dalam hati ahli bomba itu berkata,

    “Ya Allah, besarnya kekuasaan mu, mungkin inilah dia malaikat maut yang dikatakan itu”.

    Mereka mengeluarkan mayat-mayat tersebut satu persatu kecuali mayat wanita dan lelaki yang tidak dapat dipisahkan itu. Pada leher wanita tersebut terkalung tasbih yang memancar apabila terkena cahaya. Ahli bomba itu melihat dengan jelas terdapat ukiran salib pada setiap butiran tasbih tersebut akibat pancaran cahaya bulan. Astaghfirullah hal azim!! MasyaAllah!! Apakah yang telah terjadi???

    Selepas memeriksa dokumen pengenalan diri mayat2 tersebut, jelaslah bahawa wanita itu adalah ibu kepada kedua lelaki tersebut. Agama yang tertera dalamnya ialah Islam dan nama-nama mereka didahului dengan mohd dan nur.

    Beginilah akibatnya orang yang telah melampaui batas melepasi garisan yang telah di tetapkan oleh Allah. Balasan Allah terlalu pantas sehingga kita tidak sedar ianya datang. Begitu juga orang yang menyebarkan dosa dan maksiat insan lain. Apa yang akan terjadi jika orang lain terpengaruh dengan apa yang dilihat?

    Mereka akan melakukan kemungkaran hasil pengaruh kita. Selagi mereka melakukannya selagi itu kita mendapat bahagian dari kemungkarannya itu.

    Apakah akan terjadi jika mereka melahirkan anak luar nikah? Itulah tanggungan kita hinggalah ke akhir hayat mereka dan cucu cicit mereka. Akan datang apabila kita telah berumur, janganlah kita tanya mengapa musibah terjadi kepada kita, mengapa anakku cacat? Mengapa aku, anakku cucuku kena kanser? mengapa berlaku kemalangan yang dahsyat hingga mencacatkan aku, anakku dan ahli keluarga ku? Mengapa aku di tipu?,mengapa aku, anakku, ahli keluargaku dirompak, dirogol, dicederakan, mengapa ahli keluargaku melakukan jenayah, dipenjara dan dihukum?

    Sesungguhnya Allah itu Maha Adil. Dia akan membalas setiap apa yang kita lakukan secara sedar atau tidak. Bertaubat dan kembalilah ke jalan yang diredai. Membuat dosa adalah fitrah manusia. Allah akan mengampunkan dosa kita kepadaNya walaupun sebesar mana sekalipun. Tetapi berbangga dengan dosa yang kita lakukan dan mempengaruhi manusia lain untuk sama membuat dosa adalah seburuk-buruk dosa dan hutang dosa ini bertambah selagi manusia yang kita pengaruhi itu membuatnya akibat kita.

    Sumber: http://bit.ly/1kKAef6