Istilah Tashkeel

a)  Penjelasan Mufti

Istilah, 'Tashkeel' (yang biasa digunakan dalam Jamaah Tabligh), bermaksud menyeru orang ramai kaum Muslimin untuk memberi masa mereka, untuk keluar ke jalan Allah bagi tujuan pengislahan diri dan membuat kerja dakwah dan tabligh dalam jangkamasa tertentu, seperti 3 hari, 10 hari, 15 hari, 40 hari, 4 bulan, 7 bulan, 1 tahun dsbnya. Jangkamasa tersebut bukan satu kemestian, tetapi ia hanya dianjurkan seperti mana seseorang yang mengikuti kursus kecemasan (first aid), misalnya, dianjurkan untuk mengikuti kursus praktikal selama sebulan. Walaupun tidak bermakna yang dia terus akan jadi doktor pakar, sekurang-kurangnya dia tahu apa yang perlu dia lakukan semasa kecemasan.

Begitu juga, seseorang yang keluar ke jalan Allah selama 3 hari, atau 40 hari, atau 4 bulan dsbnya, bukan bermakna dia telah menjadi seorang yang ahli atau pakar dalam syari’ah, tetapi sekurang-kurangnya dia tahu kehendak-kehendak asas dalam syari’ah. Lebih lama masa yang dia berikan untuk keluar ke jalan Allah, maka lebih banyak dia akan belajar dan menyempurnakan dirinya sebagai seorang mukmin. Jangkamasa keluar tersebut bukanlah kriteria yang diwajibkan mengikut syari’ah..

Dan Allah Maha Mengetahui.

(Mufti Ebrahim Desai, FATWA DEPT, Jawapan No. 2611)
Oleh Mufti Ebrahim Desai, Darul Ifta, Madrasah In'aamiyyah, Camperdown, South Africa.



b)  Tulisan Sheikh Abu Bakar Jabir Al-Jazairy

Persoalannya ada orang berkata:
Orang-orang Tabligh membuat bida’ah berupa keluar di jalan Allah secara berjemaah dan membatasi masa keluar 3 hari, 40 hari dan 4 bulan.

Kami katakan: Sesungguhnya keluar untuk memperbaiki diri adalah seperti keluar untuk menuntut ilmu dan hidayah. Juga seperti keluar untuk mendakwah manusia kepada Allah dan mengajar mereka hal-hal yang bermenafaat di dunia dan akhirat. Semuanya itu adalah keluar di jalan Allah, apabila dilandasi niat yang benar dan untuk mengapai redha Allah Ta’ala, bukan untuk memperolehi harta dan penghormatan atau untuk hiburan, permainan dan kebatilan. Adalah termasuk kelakuan bodoh atau pura-pura bodoh apabila ada orang yang mengingkari keluarnya Jemaah Tabligh untuk kepentingan hidayah bagi manusia, mengajar mereka, memperbaiki diri mereka dan mendidik rohani mereka. Padahal Rasulullah saw bersabda, “Satu petang atau satu pagi keluar di jalan Allah, lebih baik daripada mendapatkan dunia dan segala isinya".

Sabda Rasulullah saw, “Barangsaiapa mendatangi masjid ini, semata-mata untuk kebaikan yang ia ajarkan atau ia pelajari, laksana mujahid fi sabilillah.”

Dan banyak lagi hadith sahih dan hassan yang mengajarkan dan memberi semangat untuk keluar di jalan Allah. Alangkah ajaibnya perkataan mereka bahawa keluarnya Jemaah Tabligh adalah bida’ah! Dan lebih ajaib lagi mereka berhujah terhadap “keluar fi sabilillah secara berjemaah adalah bida’ah” dengan jangkaan mereka bahawa Rasulullah saw mengirimkan Mu'az r.a. ke Yaman secara bersendirian sahaja dan tidak berjemaah. Mereka lupa atau tidak tahu bahawa Rasulullah saw tidak mengirimkan Mu'az r.a. sendirian, tetapi mengirimkan Abu Musa Al Asy’ary r.a. bersamanya.

Baginda saw bersabda kepada keduanya, “Gembirakanlah mereka dan jangan kalian buat mereka lari. Mudahkan mereka dan jangan kalian persulit. Bertolong-tolonglah kalian dan jangan berselisih.” Baginda juga mengirimkan Ali bin Abi Talib dan Khalid bin Sa’id bin al Ash r.a. Bersama mereka baginda saw mengirimkan rombongan yang besar untuk dakwah, ta’leem dan memutuskan perkara di antara manusia.

Tentang pembatasan masa keluar yang mereka katakana sebagai bida'ah, adalah peraturan dakwah sebagaimana peraturan sekolah dan universiti yang mengenal batasan masa belajar dan kerihatan, untuk menyiapkan bekal dan perbelanjaan selama masa keluar. Apakah dengan demikian, orang-orang tabligh dianggap membuat bida’ah kerena mereka mengatur hari-hari untuk kepentingan dan khuruj fi sabilillah (keluar di jalan Allah)? Subhanallah!

Mereka yang mengatakan demikian seperti yang dikatakan di dalam syair “Pandangan ridho/senang selalu tumpul terhadap setiap aib, sedang pandangan benci selalu membongkar keburukan.”

Apakah yang menyebabkan kemarahan kalian, wahai hamba-hamba Allah!?

Seorang hamba Allah, mendakwah manusia pada Allah Ta’ala, kemudian dia mendapat keredhaan untuk diri dan saudara-saudaranya yang dia dakwahkan. Jiwa mereka menjadi suci, hati mereka menjadi bersih dan akhlak mereka menjadi mulia disebabkan mereka selalu mengucapkan kata-kata yang baik dan melakukan amal-amal yang soleh.

Apakah yang menyebabkan kalian marah, wahai hamba-hamba Allah? Semoga Allah sentiasa menjaga kita. Kami tidak dapat mengatakan bahawa dalam Jemaah Tabligh ada sesuatu yang dapat dianggap sebagai penghalang manusia dari jalan Allah. Alhamdulillah.


Ditulis oleh Sheikh Abu Bakar Jabir Al-Jazairy
Guru Besar di Masjid Nabawi dan Universiti Madinah Al-Munawarrah

* Dipetik dari buku “Menyingkap Tabir Kesalahfahaman Terhadap Jemaah Tabligh"

Ulasan:  Tabligh memang tidak salah - ia bermaksud menyampaikan. Apa yang dipersoalkan ialah tentang hal-hal khurafat, tahyul dan dongeng yang terdapat dalam pembawaan gerakan tabligh seperti dalam tajuk "Kebatilan Jama'ah Tabligh" itu. Kemudian dalam hal pengisian ilmu juga tidak dititik-beratkan.

Berdasarkan tempat berdakwah terbagi menjadi dua, yaitu intiqoli dan maqomi. Intiqoli yaitu dakwah keluar di tempat orang lain dengan masa tertentu. Orang di sekitar tempat tersebut diharapkan akan memberi bantuan untuk kerja dakwah sehingga terjalin kerjasama antara pendatang dengan orang setempat, ibarat jalinan sahabat muhajirin dan anshor di Madinah. Sedangkan maqomi adalah dakwah di tempatnya masing-masing. Setiap tabligi dianjurkan untuk meluangkan beberapa jam setiap harinya untuk bersilaturahmi dengan orang-orang di sekitar tempatnya masing-masing untuk mendakwahkan agama. Istilah lainnya membagi dakwah infirodi (dakwah individu) dan Ijtima’I (dakwah berjamaah). Pada malam ijtima’ diadakan bayan (majelis penerangan untuk menerangkan maksud serta tujuan dakwah dan tabligh) oleh petugas bayan (mubayin).

Majlis Keselamatan PBB telah mengambil tindakan terhadap tindakan kekerasan regim Muammar Gaddafi dalam menekan bantahan penunjuk perasaan di negara berkenaan.
Duta Amerika syarikat ke Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu, Susan Rice berkata, "Apabila kekejaman dilakukan terhadap mereka yang tidak bersalah, masyarakat antarabangsa hendaklah bertindak dengan satu suara - dan malam ini ia terbukti."
 
Harta milik Gaddafi, anaknya Saif al-Islam dan empat orang lagi anggota keluarga turut dibekukan.

Majlis Keselamatan secara sebulat suara telah memutuskan sekatan penghantaran senjata dan siasatan dibuat terhadap pertumpahan darah yang berlaku dengan merujuk pemerintah Libya itu ke Mahkamah Jenayah Antarabangsa.

Mereka yang dikenakan tindakan larangan perjalanan adalah ketua pejabat perhubungan Dr Abdulqader Mohammed al-Baghdadi, ketua pengawal peribadi Gaddafi, Abdulqader Yusef Dibri, ketua agensi inteligens luar, Abu Zayd Umar Dorda, menteri pertahanan - Major General Abu Bakr Yunis Jabir, setiausaha kemudahan awam - Matuq Mohammed Matuq, Sayyid Mohammed Qadhaf Al-dam (hit squad chief), anak perempuan Gaddafi - Aisha, anak-anaknya - Hannibal Muammar, Khamis Muammar, Mohammed Muammar, Mutassim, Saadi, Saif al-Arab dan Saif al-Islam. Ia termasuk juga pengarah inteligens tentera - Col Abdullah al-Senussi - dan Gaddafi sendiri.

Sementara itu bekas menteri kehakiman Libya, Mustafa Mohamed Abdel-Jalil telah membentuk sebuah kerajaan peralihan di timur Bandaraya Benghazi pada hari Sabtu.

Beratus-ratus penunjuk perasaan anti-kerajaan yang disokong oleh tentera yang berpaling tadah yang mengawal bandar berhampiran dengan Tripoli bersedia pada hari Ahad bagi menghadapi tentera yang masih setia kepada Gaddafi yang mengepung bandar Zawiya.

Tunisia telah menghantar mesejnya kepada dunia Arab - bahawa pemimpin mereka sudah tidak kebal lagi



Di bandar-bandar seluruh negara Arab mula mendapat kekuatan selepas kebangkitan di Tunisia. Kebangkitan itu telah berjaya menjatuhkan presiden Zine El Abidine Ben Ali di samping telah melenyapkan ketakutan, tertegak kembali kekuatan yang telah mengembalikan harapan dan kemampuan menuntut keadilan sosial dan menamatkan kekejaman.

Ia merupakan satu amaran kepada semua pemimpin, sama ada mereka disokong oleh kuasa luar atau dari daerah berdekatan, mereka sudah tidak kebal untuk menghalang kemarahan rakyat. Adalah benar, pemergian Ben Ali dari negara itu merupakan permulaan kepada satu perjalanan yang sukar terhadap kebebasan. Pencapaian rakyat Tunisia itu masih terikat dan dirampas oleh elit pemerintah, yang masih bergantung kepada kuasa yang ada.

Walau apa pun intifada rakyat Tunisia itu telah meletakkan dunia Arab di persimpangan. Jika ia berjaya membawa perubahan sebenar bererti ia bakal membuka pintu yang luas kepada kebebasan dunia Arab seluruhnya. Jika aralnya tidak sampai kita bakal menyaksikan penindasan lama oleh pemerintah yang cuba bertahan dengan cengkaman kekuasaaan yang masih di tangan.

Walau apapun, sistem yang menyatukan agihan kekayaan yang tidak adil dengan penafian kebebasan telah runtuh sebenarnya.

Satu contoh kekejaman
 
Rakyat Tunisia mungkin satu contoh yang melampau, tetapi semua regim Arab cuma ada sedikit perbezaan dalam model yang sama; yang secara taat membuta hanya menurut arahan Barat dalam kesederhanaan ekonomi sementara bergelut dengan hak asasi dan kebebasan awam.

Sejak lama Barat memang tertarik dengan sistem Tunisia, mengkagumi sekularisme dan polisi ekonomi liberal mereka dalam pencarian pasaran terbuka dunia dan memaksimumkan keuntungan dengan menidakkan hak asasi dan mengawal media - dua bidang yang Ben Ali berjaya sepenuhnya.

Namun rakyat Tunisia di bawah Ben Ali, bukan contoh sekularisme, tetapi model kekejaman yang memalukan. Ia meletakkan sekularisme menjadi satu ideologi yang menggerunkan - bukan setakat dalam menghadapi Islam, tetapi dalam usaha melenyapkan semangat penentangan - Islam, sekular, liberal malah sosialis sekalipun.

Sebagai mengambil contoh negara-negara yang berjaya dalam model ekonomi seperti Chile di bawah diktator Augustino Pinochet, Barat khasnya Amerika dan Perancis mendokong regim Ben Ali dalam mengekalkan kestabilan di atas demokrasi.

Namun walaupun kerajaan sedemikian memegang kuasa terlalu lama, dengan sokongan Barat alat keselamatan yang menekan rakyat dengan kekebalan; ia sekadar menunggu masa sebelum menempuh saat akhir yang memalukan. Barat, khasnya Amerika sentiasa membendung rakan sekutu - satu contoh bagaimana Amerika mengenepikan Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, bekas Shah Iran apabila kemarahan ramai menggugat kestabilan negara.


Dunia Arab yang sedia mendengar!

Rakyat Tunisia telah menunjukkan jalannya, jadi orang Arab lain pun sedia mendengarkan. Protes di Tunisia telah mendorong demonstrasi aman di Jordan, di mana rakyat membantah akan keadaan inflasi dan usaha kerajaan menafikan hak politik dan kebebasan akhbar sehingga menuntut Samir al-Rifai, Perdana Menterinya disingkirkan.

Kerajaan nampak prihatin dengan pembangunan yang lembab, mencari jalan menyabarkan kebangkitan, sedangkan kenaikan harga barang makanan melonjak, dan rakyat Jordan dijangka akan meneruskan demonstrasi mereka dalam minggu-minggu mendatang.

Kerajaan patut belajar daripada keadaan di Tunisia di mana pasukan keselamatan bukan lagi cara untuk menyelesaikan masalah dan menjamin kerelaan penduduknya.

Di Mesir, penetangan Gerakan Perubahan nampak terkesan daripada apa yang berlaku di Tunisia. Dan di ibu kota negara-negara Arab - dari Sana'a ke Kaherah rakyat menghantar mesej kepada kerajaan masing-masing, di samping menyatakan sokongan terhadap rakyat Tunisia dengan mengadakan tunjuk perasaan di hadapan kedutaan Tunisia.

Arab di segenap peringkat, bukan setakat menyatakan sokongan tetapi menggerakkan keadaan yang sama di negara mereka. Malah di rangkaian facebook mereka menukar gambar profil dengan imej bendera Tunisia, meletakkan diri mereka dalam warna revolusi.

Ketakutan dan Sorak-sorai

Kegagalan sebuah pasukan keselamatan dunia Arab paling menekan kuasa rakyat telah membangkitkan sorak-sorai. Para blogger telah membandingkan keadaan tersebut seperti tumbangnya tembok Berlin dengan mendakwa bahawa orang Arab akan punya suara dalam menentukan masa depan mereka.

Mohamed Bouazizi, seorang pemuda Tunisia yang membakar dirinya kerana memprotes pengangguran dan kemiskinan, telah menjadi simbol pengorbanan bagi menuntut kebebasan. Para aktivis di seluruh rantau berkenaan telah menyeru Arab yang sejiwa dengan kebangkitan Tunisia itu mengambilnya sebagai model dalam menentukan kuasa rakyat dalam aspirasi kepada keadilan sosial, melenyapkan rasuah dan meningkatkan demokrasi.

Namun kebangkitan yang dirayakan itu masih terikat dengan ketidak-tentuan yang masih menyelubung. Mereka berhati-hati di mana keadaan di Tunis masih belum jelas dan ketakutan terhadap rampasan kuasa, di mana kuat kuasa keselamatan dikenakan, tetapi menekan aspirasi ramai.

Sama ada kebangkitan rakyat Tunisia itu akan berjaya membawa kepada perubahan drastik atau sebahagiannya terbantut masih belum dapat dilihat dengan jelas. Namun ia telah berjaya menarik dunia Arab untuk bangkit menentang regim yang membawa dogma Barat yang hanya memperbodohkan rakyat dan menyelamatkan kuasa untuk lebih lama.

Sejarah telah menunjukkan bahawa pasukan keselamatan boleh menutup mulut rakyat, tetapi mereka tidak mampu memadamkan api yang membara di dalam sekam.

The world’s attention has been focused on a handful of countries - Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain and Libya - since the first popular protests broke out in Tunisia in December. But nearly a dozen countries in the region have seen political unrest, and the protest movement shows no signs of stopping.

Below is a summary of the demonstrations so far, and links to our coverage. You can also click a country on the map above for more information.


Tunisia

Protesters in Tunisia ousted Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, their president for more than 23 years, after nearly a month of protests.

The protests started when a street vendor, Mohamed Bouazizi, set himself on fire after his cart was confiscated by police. His anger - over unemployment, poverty and corruption - resonated in Tunisia, and led to weeks of street protests against Ben Ali’s autocratic government. Security forces cracked down brutally on many of the protests, with more than 200 people killed. But the rallies continued, and Ben Ali eventually fled the country for exile in Saudi Arabia.

His departure on January 14 has not stopped the protest movement, though: Many Tunisians continue to demand the ouster of Mohamed Ghannouchi, the prime minister, and fellow members of the Constitutional Democratic Rally (Ben Ali’s party) who remain in power.


Egypt

After Ben Ali, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was the second Arab autocrat to resign, his nearly 30-year rule brought to an end by 18 days of protests.
The revolt began on January 25, when tens of thousands of protesters marched against Mubarak’s government. A “day of rage” on January 28 drew even larger crowds in downtown Cairo, where they were attacked brutally by Egyptian security forces. They stood their ground, though, and the police eventually withdrew, ceding control of Tahrir Square to the protesters.

That led to a two-week standoff between the protesters and the government, with the former occupying Tahrir Square and fending off a sustained assault from government-sponsored thugs. Mubarak was at first defiant, pledging reforms - he sacked his cabinet and appointed a vice president, longtime intelligence chief Omar Suleiman - but vowing to remain in office. In a televised address on February 10, he promised to finish his term.

Behind the scenes, though, Mubarak had clearly lost the support of the military, and Suleiman announced his departure in a brief statement less than 24 hours later.

Egyptians have continued to stage rallies, though, with hundreds of thousands demanding that the new military government pursue real democratic reforms.


Libya

Longtime autocrat Muammar Gaddafi has reportedly lost control of eastern Libya, and his army, supported by foreign mercenaries, is waging a savage war against civilians.

Small protests in January led to larger rallies in mid-February, mostly in the east - in Benghazi, Libya’s second city, and other towns like Al-Bayda. The protests continued to grow over the next few days, with thousands of people in the streets on February 17 and 18 - and dozens dead, many killed by snipers.

Less than a week later, Benghazi was reportedly in the hands of the protesters, and demonstrations had spread to the capital Tripoli. Eyewitnesses reported Libyan military jets bombing civilians, and gangs of mercenaries roaming the streets, firing indiscriminately.

Gaddafi’s 42-year rule, the longest in the Arab world, has been sustained by widespread political repression and human rights abuses. Protesters are also angry about his economic mismanagement: Libya has vast oil wealth - more than half of its GDP comes from oil - but that money has not filtered down. Unemployment is high, particularly among the country’s youth, which accounts for more than one-third of the population.


Algeria

The Algerian government has so far kept a lid on protests, most of which have been centered in the capital, Algiers.

Demonstrators staged several scattered rallies in January, mostly over unemployment and inflation. They planned a major rally in the capital on February 12, when a crowd - estimates of its size vary between 2,000 and 10,000 - faced off with nearly 30,000 riot police who sealed off the city. Dozens of people were arrested, but the rally remained peaceful; demonstrators chanetd slogans like “Bouteflika out,” referring to president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria’s ruler for the last 12 years.

A second rally, on February 19, attracted a smaller crowd - in the hundreds - which was again outnumbered by riot police. The government also suspended train service and set up roadblocks outside the capital. Several people were arrested.

Bouteflika has tried to head off further protests by promising to lift the country’s decades-old emergency law.


Bahrain

Anti-government protests have continued for a week, and show no sign of stopping. The demonstrations began on February 14, when thousands converged on Pearl Roundabout to protest against the government; they were later dispersed by security forces who used deadly force.

In the following days, funeral marches and other rallies also came under fire by police; they have since been withdrawn, and the army has allowed peaceful rallies to continue in the roundabout.

Protesters started out calling for economic and political reform, but many demonstrators are now calling for the ouster of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

The protest movement largely draws from Bahrain’s Shia population, a majority group that often complains of oppression from the country’s Sunni rulers. They argue that the king’s economic policies favor the Sunni minority. Khalifa tried to defuse tensions by giving each Bahraini family a gift of 1,000 dinars (US $2,650), but the move won him little support.


Morocco

The first significant protests in Morocco broke out on February 20, when tens of thousands of people (37,000, according to the country’s interior minister) took to the streets. They were organised by a loose coalition of human rights groups, journalists and labor unions.

Demonstrators demanded not the ouster of King Mohammed VI, but instead a series of more modest reforms. They want the king to give up some of his powers - right now, he can dismiss parliament and impose a state of emergency - and to dismiss his current cabinet. “The king should reign, not rule,” read one banner held by protesters.

The rallies were peaceful, though acts of vandalism did happen afterwards: Dozens of banks were burned down, along with more than 50 other buildings. (The culprits are unknown.)

Mohammed has promised “irreversible” political reforms, though he has yet to offer any specifics.


Jordan

Protests in Jordan started in mid-January, when thousands of demonstrators staged rallies in Amman and six other cities. Their grievances were mostly economic: Food prices continue to rise, as does the country’s double-digit inflation rate.

Jordan’s King Abdullah tried to defuse the protests earlier this month by sacking his entire cabinet. The new prime minister, Marouf Bakhit, promised “real economic and political reforms.”
But the firing - Abdullah’s perennial response to domestic unrest - did little to dampen the protests. Thousands of people took to the streets once again on February 18 to demand constitutional reforms and lower food prices. At least eight people were injured during that rally.


Yemen

Rallies in Yemen have continued for nearly two weeks, with the bulk of the protesters concentrated in Sana’a, the capital; the southern city of Aden; and Taiz, in the east. Their grievances are numerous: As much as one-third of the country is unemployed, and the public blames government corruption for squandering billions in oil wealth.

Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh conceded little during a news conference in the Yemeni capital on Monday. He promised reforms, but warned against what he called “coups and seizing power through anarchy and killing.” He also offered a dialogue with opposition parties, an offer that was quickly rejected.

He has also likened the protests to a “virus” sweeping the country. His security forces have responded to the rallies with deadly force, particularly in Aden, where at least ten people have been killed.


Iraq

Thousands of people have rallied in the northern province of Sulaymaniyah during four days of protests over corruption and the economy. At least five people have been killed, and dozens more injured, by Kurdish security forces who opened fire on the crowds.

Several other small protests have popped up across the country in recent days: Nearly 1,000 people in Basra demanded electricity and other services; 300 people in Fallujah demanded that the governor be sacked; dozens in Nassiriyah complained about unemployment.

Iraqi protesters, unlike their counterparts in many other countries, are not (yet) calling for the government’s ouster. Instead, they’re demanding better basic services: electricity, food, and an effort to stamp out corruption.

In response to the unrest, the Iraqi parliament adjourned for a week, its members instructed to travel home and meet with constituents - an odd response, perhaps, given that the government’s inaction is a leading cause of popular anger.


Iran

Opposition movements in Iran have tried to stage several protests in recent days, and the movement’s two unofficial leaders - Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi - remain under house arrest.

The first round of protests, on February 14, drew people to the streets for the first time in months. At least two people were killed, and several others wounded, according to Iranian officials.

Tens of thousands of people then tried to rally on Sunday, but were met by riot police wielding steel batons and clubs. Three more people were killed. More protests may be planned for the coming days, and Iranians have resorted to "silent protests," small marches aimed at avoiding conflict with the security forces.

By: RICHARD PENDLEBURY
(Last updated at 9:26 AM on 25th February 2011)


They were a pretty sorry bunch, these ‘Gaddafi mercenaries’. Assembled for my inspection in a scruffy, whitewashed room on the top floor of the courthouse building in ‘free’ Benghazi, six West African men shuffled nervously under the stern gaze of Arab youths.

If they tried to speak they were told to shut up. You could smell their fear.

And no wonder. A few days ago the boot was on the other foot. These men are alleged to have been among several thousand foreign thugs and gunmen that Muammar Gaddafi sent against his own people, to kill and destroy and quell the uprising in eastern Libya.


'A sorry bunch': Mercenaries paid for by Gaddafi who had been rounded up and become prisoners of the people

Now they are the prisoners of the people, whose revolt against the 41-year-old regime is spreading rapidly westwards and likely to engulf the capital Tripoli in coming days.

I arrived in Libya’s second city yesterday in a driving rainstorm, which failed to dampen the fervour for new-found freedom that had seen half a million people assemble for a ‘victory’ rally the night before.

Benghazi is a large, sprawling and down-at-heel sea port. And it was clear from the evidence of my own eyes and the testimonies of many witnesses, that terrible events recently took place here.

In the past week anti-aircraft cannon and shoulder-launched rockets were deployed at close range against civilians armed with stones. Mobs of Gaddafi thugs in plastic construction helmets – dubbed ‘yellow hats’ by the protesters – also killed with machetes and clubs.

Reliable medical sources told me that more than 1,000 people have died so far in Benghazi as a result of Gaddafi-orchestrated violence. Some were killed when funeral processions for earlier casualties were attacked by snipers.

Thousands more have been wounded, with a score dying of their injuries on Wednesday alone. The city’s 1,200-bed main hospital has been overwhelmed.

The courthouse building on the corniche next to the docks has been a focus of the popular uprising since it began in the middle of the month. Occupied by the protesters early on, 20ft lengths of building timber are still wedged along the main doors as a barricade against Gaddafi loyalists.

From here an interim council of local professionals and intellectuals is trying to get Benghazi back on its feet.

And it is here that some of the alleged Gaddafi foot soldiers are being held.

After some negotiation I was allowed to see a handful. Those in charge were worried that if the thousands of people still chanting victory slogans on the seafront were to know of their presence so close there would be a lynch mob.

Scores of mercenaries have been captured in the fighting. I was told they come from a number of African countries with which Gaddafi has ties, usually through sponsoring conflict.

Many are said to be from war-stricken Chad, Niger and Sudan. At least one former member of the Tunisian special forces is supposed to be among those held in Benghazi, though I did not meet him.


The Africans I saw ranged from a 20-year-old to one in his late 40s with a grizzled beard. Most were wearing casual clothes. When they realised I spoke English they burst out in protest.

‘We did not do anything,’ one told me, before he was silenced. ‘We are all construction workers from Ghana. We harmed no one.’

Another of the accused, a man in green overalls, pointed at the paint on his sleeves and said: ‘This is my job. I do not know how to shoot a gun.’

Abdul Nasser, a 47-year-old, protested: ‘They are lying about us. We were taken from our house at night when we were sleeping.’ Still complaining, they were led away. It was hard to judge their guilt.

Then I was shown a prisoner who was prepared to admit some part in the bloodshed.


A tough-looking young man in a black corduroy jacket, he would not give me his name, but admitted to being a 27-year-old member of Gaddafi’s presidential militia and having wounded one protester on the evening of February 19.

‘The African mercenaries put guns to our heads and forced us to open fire on the people,’ he claimed. ‘If someone refused then the mercenaries poured petrol over their head and set them alight. I saw this with my own eyes. I had to do what they said.’

The man said he was guarding the gates of the militia base in central Al Berka Square against stone throwing protesters when he shot one man in the leg at a distance of 50 metres.

‘He had stones in his hand,’ he said. ‘When he fell down he pulled himself up and gave the victory sign.’

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How many people had he seen killed that night? About 40 members of the militia, executed by the mercenaries, he claimed. And what about the people they were shooting at? ‘More than a hundred,’ he admitted.

He claimed he had deliberately aimed only to wound and had fired over the crowds’ heads when the mercenaries were not present. He had not been able to sleep for the guilt at what he had done.

This was his story. I did not quite believe him.

What did he expect to happen to him now? ‘It is in God’s hands,’ he replied.

The overthrow of dictators in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt was the catalyst. But like many uprisings, the one in Benghazi was sparked by one small event.

In 1996, Gaddafi had some 1,200 prisoners killed at the Abu Saleem jail near Tripoli. In recent years families of those killed have held small, peaceful demonstrations for justice in and around central Benghazi.


On February 14, spurred by events elsewhere, they held their vigil outside the militia base in Al Berka Square. The following day, the authorities reacted by arresting Fathi Terbl, a lawyer representing three of the families, whose own brother was also killed in the jail massacre.

This enflamed popular feeling. Hundreds of people now gathered in the square. The security forces responded by opening fire, killing as many as 20.

The fuse had been lit. Benghazi rose as one on February 17. Gaddafi’s response was to flood the centre of the city with his ‘yellow hats’. Then came the African mercenaries, uniformed and armed with automatic weapons.

‘They began shooting anyone on the street,’ said Ali, a university academic from the English Midlands, who moved to Libya three months ago.

‘I saw them with my own eyes.’

British passport holder Mahmoud Elgin told me that he was savagely beaten by Gaddafi thugs who chanted as they swung: ‘Who is your master? Gaddafi is your master!’ In Al Berka Square, Gaddafi’s forces used a 14.5mm anti-aircraft gun against the crowds, said oil worker Mamdouh El Ferjani, who was present. ‘I saw one man whose face was blown off,’ he recalled. ‘Another was cut in two. Rockets designed to destroy tanks were fired at people in cars.

‘Even if they were unarmed or running away they were shot down. Our people had to fight back.

‘And it was the young people, the teenagers even, who fought hardest. Their example gave me the strength to stay and not be a coward.’ Saadi Gaddafi, the ruler’s thuggish third son, arrived in Benghazi on February 17 to try to pacify the protesters with promises of talks and reform.

I met a judge, Marwan Ahmed, who led the opposition side in the two-hour talks. ‘He acted like he was a polite gentleman, he was so desperate,’ said the judge. But Gaddafi junior refused to let the people demonstrate free from military interference. An hour after the talks ended the security forces arrested dozens more and the fighting continued until this week.

Yesterday Al Berka Square looked like a battlefield. The military buildings were burned out – as were all the police stations and regime offices across Benghazi. Thousands of small and heavy-calibre bullet holes pock marked the walls. Some had obviously been hit by either tank shells or rockets. It was a killing ground.

But the people won.

On Nasser Street, Benghazi’s main thoroughfare, the stanchions where Gaddafi’s image was displayed every 50 yards are now covered with posters which read: ‘Keep Benghazi Tidy’. Mustafa Gheriani, a member of the interim council, told me: ‘The western world has dealt closely with this man in recent years and he has tried to pretend he is just another dictator.

‘But he has done things here that no other tyrant, even Saddam Hussein, would dare. Also in an oil-rich country where the income per capita should be $10,000, the average person lives on two dollars a day.’

He added: ‘This is the young people’s revolution. We did not think those hair-gelled kids could be so brave.’

The interim committee is not happy about the number of looted guns still at large. But it is proud that streets are being cleaned, the banks are open and bread is being baked. And that the red, green and black flag embossed with crescent moon and star, symbol of the pre-Gaddafi monarchy, is flying on every corner.

To get to Benghazi we drove hundreds of miles across desert, hills and lush pastures of what was, until a few days ago, Gaddafi’s Libya.

We foreign journalists have been called ‘outlaws’ by Gaddafi’s loyalist Foreign Minister. We are supposed to be in the pay of Osama bin Laden.

That is not an unusual tactic for a failing regime; blame domestic discontent on outside interference, make outrageous allegations.

But if we are outlaws it is only because Gaddafi considers Libya to be his own, rather than belonging to the people who have greeted us as honoured guests rather than thieves in the night.

There is an undisputed public enemy number one in Libya. Surely justice is about to catch up with Colonel Gaddafi at last.

Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradhawi telah mengeluarkan fatwa; "Tindakan Gaddafi (pemerintah Libya) yang mengarahkan tentera untuk menembak sama ada dengan peluru, jet pejuang dan bom ke atas rakyat adalah tindakan yang melayakkannya dihukum mati."

Doha – Infopalestina: Syeikh Yousef al-Qaradhawi, ketua Persatuan Ulama' Antarabangsa menfatwakan boleh menumpahkan darah Pengawal Revolusi Libya, Kolonel Muammar Gaddafi atas pembunuhan yang dilakukan terhadap rakyatnya dengan mengebom mereka dengan menggunakan pesawat dan tentera upahan asing (dari Chad dan Niger) untuk membunuh mereka.

Qaradhawi mengatakan hal ini dalam pernyataan yang dia sampaikan di televisyen Al-Jazeera, Qatar. Dia mengatakan, "Saya sekarang mengeluarkan fatwa untuk membunuh Gaddafi. Siapapun, seorang perwira atau tentera atau orang biasa yang bisa menembaknya, biarkan dia lakukan, untuk meringankan rakyat Libya dan umat ini dari kejahatan orang gila dan kezalimannya itu" Dia menambahkan, "Sesiapapun perwira atau tentera tidak diperbolehkan mematuhi orang ini dalam melakukan dosa, ketidakadilan dan penindasan terhadap rakyat."


Qaradhawi juga meminta kedua-dua pemerintah Tunisia dan Mesir, Liga Arab, Pertubuhan Persidangan Islam, Kesatuan Afrika dan PBB untuk tidak tinggal diam melihat apa yang terjadi di Libya. Qaradhawi menyeru rakyat Libya "...untuk mengalahkan Gaddafi dan orang-orangnya.”

Libyan forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are waging a bloody operation to keep him in power, with residents reporting gunfire in parts of the capital Tripoli and other cities, while other citizens, including the country's former ambassador to India, are saying that warplanes were used to "bomb" protesters.

Nearly 300 (1,000!) people are reported to have been killed in continuing violence in the capital and across the North African country as demonstrations enter their second week.


Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has warned that the widespread attacks against civilians "amount to crimes against humanity", and called for an international investigation in possible human rights violations.

Witnesses in Tripoli told Al Jazeera that fighter jets had bombed portions of the city in fresh attacks on Monday night. The bombing focused on ammunition depots and control centres around the capital.

Helicopter gunships were also used, they said, to fire on the streets in order to scare demonstrators away.

Several witnesses said that "mercenaries" were firing on civilians in the city, while pro-Gaddafi forces warned people not to leave their homes via loudspeakers mounted on cars.

Residents of the Tajura neighbourhood, east of Tripoli, said that dead bodies are still lying on the streets from earlier violence. At least 61 people were killed in the capital on Monday, witnesses told Al Jazeeera.

'Indiscriminate bombing'

Protests in the oil-rich African country, which Gaddafi has ruled for 41 years, began on February 14, but picked up momentum after a brutal government crackdown following a "Day of Rage" on February 17. Demonstrators say they have now taken control of several important towns, including the city of Benghazi, which saw days of bloody clashes between protesters and government forces.

There has been a heavy government crackdown on protests, however, and demonstrators at a huge anti-government march in the capital on Monday afternoon said they came under attack from fighter jets and security forces using live ammunition.

"8:20 am There have been multiple reports out of Libya that security forces there are using "high caliber" or "anti-aircraft" weapons against civilian protesters. We've seen video of Libyans holding spent rounds, both large and small, comparing the two for cameras. To get a sense of what high caliber really means, look at this photo:

The round second from right is standard 5.56mm - of the type used by NATO forces, as the photo illustrates. The round on the far left is .50 caliber and has reportedly been used against protesters. Sources in Tripoli who have spoken with doctors in the capital also said some believe explosive rounds are being used.

One blogger noted: "I had a discussion with my brother, who’s currently training in the police academy, about weapons that law enforcement/the military uses. Do you want to know what police departments who even have these bullets use them for? Immobilizing vehicles and shooting through walls ... These bullets are designed to shred things much tougher than the human body."


"What we are witnessing today is unimaginable. Warplanes and helicopters are indiscriminately bombing one area after another. There are many, many dead," Adel Mohamed Saleh said in a live broadcast.

"Anyone who moves, even if they are in their car, they will hit you."

Ali al-Essawi, who resigned as Libyan ambassador to India, also told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that fighter jets had been used by the government to bomb civilians.

He said live fire was being used against protesters, and that foreigners had been hired to fight on behalf of the government. The former ambassador called the violence "a massacre", and called on the UN to block Libyan airspace in order to "protect the people".

'Genocide'

The country's state broadcaster quoted Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan leader, and widely seen as his political heir, as saying that armed forces had "bombarded arms depots situated far from populated areas". He denied that air strikes had taken place in Tripoli and Benghazi.

The government says that it is battling "dens of terrorists".

Earlier, Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, said Gaddafi had started a "genocide against the Libyan people".

During Monday's protests, gunfire was heard across the capital, with protesters seen attacking police stations and government buildings, including the offices of the state broadcaster.

Witnesses told the AFP news agency that there had been a "massacre" in Tajura district, with gunmen seen firing "indiscriminately".

In Fashlum district, helicopters were seen landing with what witnesses described as "mercenaries" disembarking and attacking those on the street.

Mohammed Abdul-Malek, a London-based opposition activist who has been in touch with residents, said that snipers have taken positions on roofs in an apparent bid to stop people joining the protests.

Several witnesses who spoke to the Associated Press news agency said that pro-Gaddafi gunmen were firing from moving cars at both people and buildings.


State television on Tuesday dismissed allegations that security forces were killing protesters as "lies and rumours".

Benghazi situation dire

Benghazi, Libya's second city, which had been the focal point of violence in recent days, has now been taken over by anti-government protesters, after military units deserted their posts and joined the demonstrators.

Doctors there, however, say that they are running short of medical supplies.

Dr Ahmed, at the city's main hospital, told Al Jazeera that they were running short of medical supplies, medication and blood.

He said that the violence in Benghazi had left "bodies that are divided in three, four parts. Only legs, and only hands,".

While no casualties had been reported in the city on Tuesday, he estimated the number of people killed in Benghazi alone over the last five days to be near 300.

He also said that when military forces who had defected from Gaddafi's government entered an army base, they found evidence of soldiers having been executed, reportedly for refusing to fire on civilians.

The runway at the city's airport has been destroyed, according to the Egyptian foreign minister, and planes can therefore not land there.

Possible 'crimes against humanity'


According to the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR), protesters are also in control of Sirte, Tobruk in the east, as well as Misrata, Khoms, Tarhounah, Zenten, Al-Zawiya and Zouara.

On Sunday, the US-based rights group Human Rights Watch said that at least 233 people were killed in the violence. Added to that are at least 61 people who died on Monday, which brings the toll since violence began on February 17 to at least 294.

Pillay, the UN's human rights chief, called on Tuesday for an international investigation into the violence in the country, saying that it was possible that "crimes against humanity" had been perpetrated by the Libyan government.

In a statement, Pillay called for an immediate halt to human rights violations, and denounced the use of machine guns, snipers and military warplanes against civilians.

Evacuations

Meanwhile, Royal Dutch Shell, a major oil company, said on Tuesday that all of its expatriate employees and their dependents living in Libya have now been relocated.

Emirates airlines and British Airways suspended all flights to Tripoli on Tuesday, citing the violence in the country, even as Italy, France, Turkey, Greece and several other countries were preparing to send aircraft to evacuate their nationals from the country.

Two Turkish ships that were sent to evacuate citizens were not allowed to dock at Tripoli, and one of them then sailed to Benghazi in an attempt to dock there, Anita McNaught, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Istanbul, reported.

Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's became the second agency in as many days to downgrade Libya on Tuesday, as it cut the country's rating from A- to BBB+.


Twitter user @_Noura posted this to twitpic:


** 'Gaddafi does not have a post to resign from, Gaddafi is the leader of the revolution,' he said as he pounded his fist on a podium set up in the entrance of a bombed-out building - possibly his Tripoli residence, hit by US airstrikes in the 1980s and left unrepaired.

'This is my country, I will not leave the land of Libya.'

During the defiant speech, 68-year-old Gaddafi described protesters who have carried out days of anti-government demonstrations as 'rats and mercenaries' who want to turn Libya into an Islamic state, blaming the unrest on 'cowards and traitors'.

Note:  Now he shows his true colour! He's against Islam... seems quite familiar with those remark in Malaysia!

Libyan forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are waging a bloody operation to keep him in power, with residents reporting gunfire in parts of the capital Tripoli and other cities, while other citizens, including the country's former ambassador to India, are saying that warplanes were used to "bomb" protesters.

Nearly 300 people are reported to have been killed in continuing violence in the capital and across the North African country as demonstrations enter their second week.


Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has warned that the widespread attacks against civilians "amount to crimes against humanity", and called for an international investigation in possible human rights violations.

Witnesses in Tripoli told Al Jazeera that fighter jets had bombed portions of the city in fresh attacks on Monday night. The bombing focused on ammunition depots and control centres around the capital.

Helicopter gunships were also used, they said, to fire on the streets in order to scare demonstrators away.

Several witnesses said that "mercenaries" were firing on civilians in the city, while pro-Gaddafi forces warned people not to leave their homes via loudspeakers mounted on cars.

Residents of the Tajura neighbourhood, east of Tripoli, said that dead bodies are still lying on the streets from earlier violence. At least 61 people were killed in the capital on Monday, witnesses told Al Jazeeera.

'Indiscriminate bombing'

Protests in the oil-rich African country, which Gaddafi has ruled for 41 years, began on February 14, but picked up momentum after a brutal government crackdown following a "Day of Rage" on February 17. Demonstrators say they have now taken control of several important towns, including the city of Benghazi, which saw days of bloody clashes between protesters and government forces.

There has been a heavy government crackdown on protests, however, and demonstrators at a huge anti-government march in the capital on Monday afternoon said they came under attack from fighter jets and security forces using live ammunition.

"What we are witnessing today is unimaginable. Warplanes and helicopters are indiscriminately bombing one area after another. There are many, many dead," Adel Mohamed Saleh said in a live broadcast.

"Anyone who moves, even if they are in their car, they will hit you."

Ali al-Essawi, who resigned as Libyan ambassador to India, also told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that fighter jets had been used by the government to bomb civilians.
He said live fire was being used against protesters, and that foreigners had been hired to fight on behalf of the government. The former ambassador called the violence "a massacre", and called on the UN to block Libyan airspace in order to "protect the people".


'Genocide'

The country's state broadcaster quoted Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of the Libyan leader, and widely seen as his political heir, as saying that armed forces had "bombarded arms depots situated far from populated areas". He denied that air strikes had taken place in Tripoli and Benghazi.

The government says that it is battling "dens of terrorists".

Earlier, Ibrahim Dabbashi, Libya's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, said Gaddafi had started a "genocide against the Libyan people".

During Monday's protests, gunfire was heard across the capital, with protesters seen attacking police stations and government buildings, including the offices of the state broadcaster.
Witnesses told the AFP news agency that there had been a "massacre" in Tajura district, with gunmen seen firing "indiscriminately".

In Fashlum district, helicopters were seen landing with what witnesses described as "mercenaries" disembarking and attacking those on the street.

Mohammed Abdul-Malek, a London-based opposition activist who has been in touch with residents, said that snipers have taken positions on roofs in an apparent bid to stop people joining the protests.

Several witnesses who spoke to the Associated Press news agency said that pro-Gaddafi gunmen were firing from moving cars at both people and buildings.

State television on Tuesday dismissed allegations that security forces were killing protesters as "lies and rumours".

Benghazi situation dire

Benghazi, Libya's second city, which had been the focal point of violence in recent days, has now been taken over by anti-government protesters, after military units deserted their posts and joined the demonstrators.

Doctors there, however, say that they are running short of medical supplies.

Dr Ahmed, at the city's main hospital, told Al Jazeera that they were running short of medical supplies, medication and blood.

He said that the violence in Benghazi had left "bodies that are divided in three, four parts. Only legs, and only hands,".

While no casualties had been reported in the city on Tuesday, he estimated the number of people killed in Benghazi alone over the last five days to be near 300.

He also said that when military forces who had defected from Gaddafi's government entered an army base, they found evidence of soldiers having been executed, reportedly for refusing to fire on civilians.

The runway at the city's airport has been destroyed, according to the Egyptian foreign minister, and planes can therefore not land there.

Possible 'crimes against humanity'

According to the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR), protesters are also in control of Sirte, Tobruk in the east, as well as Misrata, Khoms, Tarhounah, Zenten, Al-Zawiya and Zouara.

On Sunday, the US-based rights group Human Rights Watch said that at least 233 people were killed in the violence. Added to that are at least 61 people who died on Monday, which brings the toll since violence began on February 17 to at least 294.

Pillay, the UN's human rights chief, called on Tuesday for an international investigation into the violence in the country, saying that it was possible that "crimes against humanity" had been perpetrated by the Libyan government.

In a statement, Pillay called for an immediate halt to human rights violations, and denounced the use of machine guns, snipers and military warplanes against civilians.

Evacuations

Meanwhile, Royal Dutch Shell, a major oil company, said on Tuesday that all of its expatriate employees and their dependents living in Libya have now been relocated.

Emirates airlines and British Airways suspended all flights to Tripoli on Tuesday, citing the violence in the country, even as Italy, France, Turkey, Greece and several other countries were preparing to send aircraft to evacuate their nationals from the country.

Two Turkish ships that were sent to evacuate citizens were not allowed to dock at Tripoli, and one of them then sailed to Benghazi in an attempt to dock there, Anita McNaught, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Istanbul, reported.

Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor's became the second agency in as many days to downgrade Libya on Tuesday, as it cut the country's rating from A- to BBB+.

Apa sebenarnya jalan kembali?

Dari mana datangnya ilmu kembali kepada Allah? Apa yang perlu dilakukan oleh ummat untuk kembali kepada Allah.? Siapa guru mereka? Siapa yang boleh dicontohi pada zaman ini? Bagaimana sifat mereka?

Namun langkah-langkah ini sering tergendala dan tersasar apabila adanya manusia-manusia engkar dan kufur akan ni'mat Allah yang telah memberikan 'pewaris' Nabi yang siddiq.

Banyak cerdik pandai agama pada hari ni. Ramai yang bijak laksanan memberi komen tentang sufi, dan alam kesufian - alhamdulillah.


Pada tanggapan setengah pihak, sufi ini mesti orang yang pemalu, duduk-duduk di hutan tidak suka bercampur orang, memakai pakaian buruk. Di mana sesetengah yang lain pula menganggap si sufi itu orang yang lemah lembut selalu, tiada ketegasan, ikut saahaja apa kata orang lain. Tidak kurang pula yang menganggap si sufi ini mencari nafkah dengan menjadi peminta sedekah!

Keterlanjuran sikap dalam memberi pengertian dan tanggapan terhadap si sufi dilakukan sewenang-wenangnya oleh semua manusia walaupun mereka baru mendengar perkataan sufi. Mereka itu tidak mengenal erti sufi, tidak pernah bergaul dengan ahli sufi dan tidak pernah menghayati apa itu pengertian sufi pun.

Benarkah si sufi itu sentiasa lemah lembut, tidak tahu marah, tiada ketegasan, hanya pak turut, tidak mencegah kemungkaran?

Peribadi terunggul kesufian adalah baginda Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم. Baginda adalah sumber inspirasi dan sumber cahaya bagi anak-anak ruhani baginda. Baginda adalah model dan contoh yang diikuti oleh kesemua ahli sufi.

Bagaimanakah sifat dan watak baginda?

Baginda Nabi adalah orang yang paling lemah lembut. Baginda adalah seorang yang sangat penyayang. Namun baginda juga insan yang paling tegas dan gagah ketika melaksanakan hukum-hukum Allah, ketika menghadap musuh-musuh Allah, ketika menghadap manusia-manusia yang engkar akan agama Allah. Tangan yang membuai adalah tangan yang sama memancung kepala musuh-musuh Allah!

Siapakah yang terlebih bijak, lebih hebat, atau terlebih sempurna dalam hal-hal ini, selain daripada Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم.

Seorang ahli sufi mengambil acuan yang sama seperti Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم kerana mereka adalah 'pewaris' Nabi صلى الله عليه وسلم. Rujuk sini...
http://kerjayahalal.blogspot.com/search/label/A1-%20ULAMA%20PEWARIS%20NABI%20SEBENAR

Cuba perhatikan pula bagaimana Nabi mengajar ummat baginda cara mendidik anak; mulai dari bayi, kanak-kanak kecil sehingga dewasa. Semuanya berbeza, iaitu dengan pendekatan yang berlainan berdasarkan peringkat umur dan keadaan. Kanak-kanak yang masih kecil dibelai dan di manja. Apabila berumur 7 tahun anak itu mula diperintahkan solat. Jika sampai umur 10 tahun masih tidak solat, anak itu boleh dirotan. Adakah ini tanda kekerasan? Mengapa tidak dibelai terus kanak-kanak itu walaupun tidak solat?

Islam memerintahkan lelaki dan wanita yang berzina dipukul 100 kali dengan rotan. Jika sudah berkahwin hendaklah direjam sampai mati. Adakah hukuman itu dikira zalim? Adakah ia keras? Mengapa tidak dinasihatkan secara lemah-lembut sahaja kepada pasangan telanjur berkenaan?

Orang Islam yang murtad diperintahkan taubat dan diminta rujuk kembali kepada Islam. Jika enggan, dia dipancung. Adakah itu dikira sebagai zalim? Adakah ia keras? Mengapa tidak dibuat kaunseling sahaja bagi menasihatkan mereka atau dibiarkan terus dengan kebejatan berkenaan!

Sayyidina Abu Bakar رضي الله عه memerangi orang-orang Islam yang enggan membayar zakat. Adakah itu dikira sebagai keterlaluan? Adakah itu dikira sebagai zalim? Adakah ia keras? Mengapa tidak berlemah lembut sahaja atau dibiarkan sahaja golongan yang enggan berzakat itu?

Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم mengatakan Empayar Parsi akan dirobek-robek seperti mana rajanya telah bertindak merobek-robek surat Rasulullah صلى الله عليه وسلم dan membunuh utusan baginda itu. Adakah Nabi mengambil sikar keras? Adakah Nabi tiada sifat halim?

Maka berkatalah orang-orang yang baru hendak berjinak dengan Islam; kita mesti berlemah lembut selalu. Jika kita keras bagaimana pandangan orang kafir nanti. Ahli-ahli sufi mestilah lemah lembut selalu, kata mereka. Ahli sufi tidak boleh mengutuk orang lain, tidak boleh mengkritik juga. Jika ada orang Islam yang menolak ulama 'pewaris' Nabi dan mempersendakan aulia Allah, pada pandangan mereka biarkan sahaja.

Adakah ini tindakan dan cara orang Islam? Sejauh mana benarnya tindakan ini? Adakah Nabi pernah mengajar kita supaya berlemah lembut dalam semua keadaan. ?

Pada akhir zaman ini terlalu banyak manusia menjadi penentang ulama-ulama pewaris Nabi yang siddiq. Mereka menyanggah sistem 'kerahiban' yang berleluasa di kalangan penganut Kristian, jika ulama pewaris itu dimuliakan! Mereka tertawa dan mempersendakan kata-kata aulia' Allah.

Di antaranya adalah golongan yang paling berbahaya dari kalangan wahabi-talafi-najdi dan yang sebangsa dengannya. Mereka tanpa segan silu mempersendakan ulama dan aulia Allah. Mereka sebarkan fahaman tajsim, membid'ahkan amalan-amalan sahih yang diterima daripada Nabi dan ulama-ulama yang benar!

Bagaimanakaha sikap kita sebagai orang beriman?

Apa tindakan kita?

Oleh: sdra rafie1357 TKO)

Sedikit penjelasan sdra getzer:

Ulama'-ulama' juga berperanan dalam menjaga ilmu agama dengan berijtihad terhadap memahami nas-nas Al-Qur'an dan As-Sunnah. Ingatlah kisah para sahabat dalam hadith Bani Qurazhoh, di mana para sahabat juga memahami nas daripada Rasulullah s.a.w. secara berbeza, di waktu hidup Rasulullah s.a.w., namun Rasulullah s.a.w. tidak mencela salah seorang pun daripada mereka.

Sdra rafie1357 telah meletakkan nas-nas Al-Qur'an dan As-Sunnah dan kefahaman para ulama' mengenainya. Ini bukan soal Al-Qur'an atau As-Sunnah. Ini soal ada pihak yang tidak tahu apa itu nas-nas, dan apa tu istinbath. Bahkan, majoriti nas-nas Islam itu bersifat zhonni yang mana para ulama' mengambil ijtihad mengenainya.

Ada orang yang sudah belajar tinggi-tinggi, tapi takkanlah tidak tahu apa itu nas, dan apa itu istinbath, apa itu istidlal, dan apa itu ijtihad? Kalau sesuatu masalah tiada dari Al-qur'an dan As-Sunnah, secara lafzi (yang majoriti nasnya bersifat zhonni), dan tiada juga dalam ijma' sahabat, lalu para ulama' beristidlal dengan nas-nas Al-Qur'an dan As-Sunnah tentang ijtihad dan kefahaman mereka, siapa pula yang boleh menentukan, ijtihad dan kefahamannya bersesuaian dengan Al-Qur'an dan As-Sunnah, sedangkan majoriti daripada nasnya bersifat zhonni?

Dalil Al-Qur'an dan As-Sunnah telah disertakan berdasarkan kefahaman para ulama' mengenainya, maka jelaslah dalam masalah ijtihad, tiada ijtihad boleh membatalkan ijtihad yang lain dalam masalah zhonniyah seperti ini, kecuali hanya golongan ta'sub sahaja yang syok sendiri, dengan menyangka, hanya mereka sahaja yang betul dalam memahami nas-nas zhonniyah....