Usai menyelesaikan program diploma sekolah teknik tahun 1939M, saya berangkat ke Kairo untuk mencari pekerjaan. Menjadi kebiasaan kami untuk singgah di pejabat Ikhwan, lalu saya berjumpa dengan asy-syahid Hassan al-Banna.
"Saya telah lulus dan ke Kairo ingin mencari kerja." saya memberitahu beliau.
"Tidakkah terfikir olehmu untuk bekerja secara sukarela di sekolah teknik jurusan mekanik senjata?" beliau bertanya kemudian menyambung, "risalah dan misi kita mewajibkan untuk berkhidmat dan bekerja di bidang ini".
"Baiklah kalau demikian, namun saya ragu kerana doktor mengesahkan salah satu mataku rabun" jawab saya ragu-ragu.
"Tawakkallah kepada Allah, InsyaAllah kamu akan berjaya."tegas beliau.
"Bagaimana saya akan berjaya sedangkan salah satu mata saya rabun?" saya bertanya lagi.
"Maka, dari itulah saya katakan bertawakkallah kepada Allah.. kerana jika penglihatanmu sihat, pastilah kamu akan bertawakkal kepada matamu." jawab asy-Syahid Hassan al-Banna.
Nasihat itu benar-benar menyentak dan merasakan keimanan menuruni ke lubuk hati. Saya menuju ke Sekolah Teknik Senjata 'Abbasiah dengan penuh perasaan tawakkal kepada Allah. Saya optimis untuk lulus pemeriksaan dan berjaya.
Saya ingat lagi ketika perang dunia kedua meletus, kami diperintahkan ke medan perang. Saya dan 100 lagi pelatih dibawa ke lapangan tembak untuk memulakan latihan. Saya risau akan gagal kerana masalah penglihatan tetapi segera ingat akan nasihat asy-syahid, bertawakkalah kepada Allah. Saya menuju arena latihan menembak dengan penuh ketenangan dan kepercayaan diri walau hanya dengan sebelah mata. Akhirnya, Hussain Ahmad mengumumkan 'Abbas Hassan as-Sisi sebagai penembak terbaik.
Bertawakkal kepada Allah menjadi hakikat yang menolong saya dalam banyak kejadian dan peristiwa dalam hidupku. Sebuah keyakinan kukuh yang selalu menemaniku di setiap kesulitan yang menghadang. Saya mengingatinya dengan penuh kepercayaan yang akhirnya mengilhamkan harapan, ketenangan, kesabaran dan keteguhan.
Catatan 'Abbas as-Sisi dalam buku Biografi Dakwah Hassan al-Banna halaman 23.
Catatan ini benar-benar signifikan. Pada 5 Mei 2009, saya telah menduduki peperiksaan bagi kursus pengurusan pendidikan, suatu topik yang sukar melekat dalam kepala saya. Ia adalah kertas terakhir bagi semester akhir di tahun akhir. Saya cuba menjawab dengan baik dan yakin. Namun pada malamnya, seorang kawan dan kawan-kawan yang lain sedang membincangkan tentang satu soalan pengurusan tersebut. Barulah saya dapati bahawa ada satu soalan yang saya anggap senang dan dijawab dengan riang ria, rupanya salah dijawab dari A sampai Z. Esoknya saya berjumpa dengan pensyarah bertanyakan status soalan tersebut, beliau enggan mengulas dan meminta saya melupakan perkara lepas kemudian berkata,
"just forget it and enjoy your long vacation". Jawapan yang neutral dan lansung tidak menyedapkan jiwa saya yang gundah gulana.
Saya kemudiannya membuat kesimpulan bahawa telah berusaha dan kesalahan itu adalah kelalaian biasa di dewan peperiksaan. Saya berdoa dan berharap tidak perlu mengulang kertas tersebut memandangkan ia semester akhir. Sekiranya gagal pasti memalukan.
Akhirnya, keputusan keluar dan saya mendapat gred A bagi kertas tersebut. Alhamdulillah, terima kasih Allah yang selalu mengingatkan saya bahawa Dia Maha Segalanya. Maka sila lihat ali-imran ayat 173.
amal harun
rumah tok, kepala batas
mereka mencalonkan dirimu untuk suatu perkara, seandainya kau memahaminya, maka jagalah dirimu dari hal-hal yang hina...hassan al-banna
Monday, 29 June 2009
Bukan tawakkal sebiji mata
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Saturday, 27 June 2009
Jawatan Kosong;Hamba
Tidak terungkap satu perkataan
apabila Tuhan memberi nikmat
kasih sayang-Nya
menerusi kedua orang tua
kemudian bertemunya dua hati
mengangkat mithaqan ghaliza
lalu dianugerahkan si kecil
yang mengalun zikir
cinta Tuhan pada hamba
Tuhan, ini hamba, hamba, hamba
cuai dalam ibadah
lalai tika berdoa
sombong bila berjaya
lupa saat berduka
zalim, zalim, zalim
Dia maha, maha, maha
alunan nama-nama
sedang hamba, hamba, hamba
lupa, lupa, lupa dan derhaka
Malulah kiranya diri
mengaku sujud padaMu
mengungkap syahadatain itu
dengan lafaz kosong
dan cinta pura-pura
hinalah diri ini
bila mahu terlihat baik saja
di mata manusia yang hamba
Barangkali esok ajalku tiba
terimalah ampunku
dan izinkan jiwa itu kembali dengan tenang
kerana Tuhan itu hampir
daripada hablil warid
barangkali amalku ringan untuk meraih firdausi
rahmat dan kasih sayang itu jua
sering dipohon setitis cinta
dari hamba.
*maaf tidak tahu mencantum ayat, maka ia jadi begini dan agak klise
apabila Tuhan memberi nikmat
kasih sayang-Nya
menerusi kedua orang tua
kemudian bertemunya dua hati
mengangkat mithaqan ghaliza
lalu dianugerahkan si kecil
yang mengalun zikir
cinta Tuhan pada hamba
Tuhan, ini hamba, hamba, hamba
cuai dalam ibadah
lalai tika berdoa
sombong bila berjaya
lupa saat berduka
zalim, zalim, zalim
Dia maha, maha, maha
alunan nama-nama
sedang hamba, hamba, hamba
lupa, lupa, lupa dan derhaka
Malulah kiranya diri
mengaku sujud padaMu
mengungkap syahadatain itu
dengan lafaz kosong
dan cinta pura-pura
hinalah diri ini
bila mahu terlihat baik saja
di mata manusia yang hamba
Barangkali esok ajalku tiba
terimalah ampunku
dan izinkan jiwa itu kembali dengan tenang
kerana Tuhan itu hampir
daripada hablil warid
barangkali amalku ringan untuk meraih firdausi
rahmat dan kasih sayang itu jua
sering dipohon setitis cinta
dari hamba.
*maaf tidak tahu mencantum ayat, maka ia jadi begini dan agak klise
**foto: ihsan daripada luqmanaziz.fotopages
Maka hadapkanlah wajahmu dengan lurus kepada agama (Islam) sesuai
fitrah Allah disebabkan Dia telah menciptakan manusia menurut fitrah itu. Tidak ada perubahan pada ciptaan Allah. Itulah agama yang lurus tetapi kebanyakkan manusia tidak mengetahui. ar-Rum;30
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Friday, 12 June 2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The novel is divided into four parts. The first part focuses exclusively on Mariam, the second and fourth parts focus on Laila, and the third part switches focus between Mariam and Laila with each chapter.
Mariam lives in a house with her mother. Jalil, her father, is a wealthy man who lives in town with three wives and several children. Because Mariam is his illegitimate daughter, she cannot live with them, but Jalil visits her every Thursday. On her fifteenth birthday, Mariam wants her father to take her to see Pinocchio at the movie theater. When he does not show up, she hikes into town and goes to his house. He refuses to see her, and she ends up sleeping on the porch. In the morning, Mariam returns home to find that her mother has hanged herself out of fear that her daughter has deserted her.
Mariam is then taken to live in her father's house. Jalil arranges for her to be married to Rasheed, a shoemaker from Kabul. In Kabul, Mariam quickly becomes pregnant, but the child miscarries, and Rasheed becomes abusive towards his young bride.
In the same neighborhood live a girl named Laila and a boy named Tariq, who are close friends, but careful of social boundaries. War comes to Afghanistan, and Kabul is bombarded by rocket attacks. Tariq's family decides to leave the city, and the emotional farewell between Laila and Tariq ends with them having sex. Laila's family also decides to leave Kabul, but as they are packing a rocket destroys the house and kills her parents. Laila is taken in by Rasheed and Mariam.
After recovering from her injuries, Laila discovers that she is pregnant with Tariq's child. She arranges to marry Rasheed, who is eager to have a young and attractive second wife. Laila, who has been told that Tariq is dead, gives birth to Aziza, a daughter. Rasheed is unhappy and suspicious, and he becomes more abusive. Mariam and Laila eventually become confidants. They plan to run away from Rasheed and leave Kabul, but they are caught at the bus station. Rasheed beats them and deprives them of water for several days, almost killing Aziza. Just because they were travelling without 'mahram'.
A few years later, Laila gives birth to Zalmai, Rasheed's son. The Taliban has risen to power, and there is a drought, and living conditions in Kabul become poor. Rasheed's workshop burns down, and he is forced to take jobs he is ill-suited for. The family sends Aziza to an orphanage. Then one day, Tariq appears outside the house. He and Laila are reunited, and their passions flare anew. When Rasheed returns home from work, Zalmai tells his father about the visitor. Rasheed starts to savagely beat Laila, so Mariam kills Rasheed with a shovel.
Laila and Tariq leave for Pakistan with the children. Mariam confesses to killing her husband and is executed. After the fall of the Taliban, Laila and Tariq return to Afghanistan. They stop in the village where Mariam was raised, and discover a package that Mariam's father left behind for her (trough Mullah Faizullah's son): a videotape of Pinocchio, a small pile of money and a letter. Laila reads the letter and discovers that Jalil regretted sending Mariam away. Laila and Tariq return to Kabul and fix up the orphanage, where Laila works as a teacher.
Huhu (a sad sound), a letter wrote by Jalil to Mariam is very touchy. A letter from father to daughter!
Mesti baca.
Mariam lives in a house with her mother. Jalil, her father, is a wealthy man who lives in town with three wives and several children. Because Mariam is his illegitimate daughter, she cannot live with them, but Jalil visits her every Thursday. On her fifteenth birthday, Mariam wants her father to take her to see Pinocchio at the movie theater. When he does not show up, she hikes into town and goes to his house. He refuses to see her, and she ends up sleeping on the porch. In the morning, Mariam returns home to find that her mother has hanged herself out of fear that her daughter has deserted her.
Mariam is then taken to live in her father's house. Jalil arranges for her to be married to Rasheed, a shoemaker from Kabul. In Kabul, Mariam quickly becomes pregnant, but the child miscarries, and Rasheed becomes abusive towards his young bride.
In the same neighborhood live a girl named Laila and a boy named Tariq, who are close friends, but careful of social boundaries. War comes to Afghanistan, and Kabul is bombarded by rocket attacks. Tariq's family decides to leave the city, and the emotional farewell between Laila and Tariq ends with them having sex. Laila's family also decides to leave Kabul, but as they are packing a rocket destroys the house and kills her parents. Laila is taken in by Rasheed and Mariam.
After recovering from her injuries, Laila discovers that she is pregnant with Tariq's child. She arranges to marry Rasheed, who is eager to have a young and attractive second wife. Laila, who has been told that Tariq is dead, gives birth to Aziza, a daughter. Rasheed is unhappy and suspicious, and he becomes more abusive. Mariam and Laila eventually become confidants. They plan to run away from Rasheed and leave Kabul, but they are caught at the bus station. Rasheed beats them and deprives them of water for several days, almost killing Aziza. Just because they were travelling without 'mahram'.
A few years later, Laila gives birth to Zalmai, Rasheed's son. The Taliban has risen to power, and there is a drought, and living conditions in Kabul become poor. Rasheed's workshop burns down, and he is forced to take jobs he is ill-suited for. The family sends Aziza to an orphanage. Then one day, Tariq appears outside the house. He and Laila are reunited, and their passions flare anew. When Rasheed returns home from work, Zalmai tells his father about the visitor. Rasheed starts to savagely beat Laila, so Mariam kills Rasheed with a shovel.
Laila and Tariq leave for Pakistan with the children. Mariam confesses to killing her husband and is executed. After the fall of the Taliban, Laila and Tariq return to Afghanistan. They stop in the village where Mariam was raised, and discover a package that Mariam's father left behind for her (trough Mullah Faizullah's son): a videotape of Pinocchio, a small pile of money and a letter. Laila reads the letter and discovers that Jalil regretted sending Mariam away. Laila and Tariq return to Kabul and fix up the orphanage, where Laila works as a teacher.
Huhu (a sad sound), a letter wrote by Jalil to Mariam is very touchy. A letter from father to daughter!
Mesti baca.
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Monday, 8 June 2009
Gagal menulis
Beberapa kali saya cuba menaip kata demi kata, akhir sekali saya padam semuanya. Tiada apa yang mampu saya tulis dan kongsi buat seketika. Atau juga terlalu banyak sehingga kosong minda. itu tanda kurangnya membaca. Jika tidak sudah tentu tiada bunyi seperti ini; Manusia ialah apa yang dia fikir, dia fikir ialah apa yang dia baca.
Barangkali saya tidak pasti apa yang saya fikir atau gagal membuat tafsiran terhadap ujian kelapangan masa yang Allah beri.
foto disalin daripada ummuhani.com, sedang membaca travelog haji.
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Thursday, 4 June 2009
Berhenti sekolah
"Eh, kau ni jangan datang sekolah la kalau nak susahkan cikgu dan pihak sekolah, nyusahkan mak bapak, baik kau berenti saja la."
Sering kali terdengar dialog di atas apabila guru ingin melampiaskan kemarahan dek kerana gagal menekan butang 'pause' tatkala berhadapan dengan salah laku pelajar. Namun saya sekadar mengandaikan ia hanya dituturkan oleh hanya segelintir guru yang semakin dibebani masalah pelajar, masalah dalaman, konflik di tempat kerja atau rumahtangga yang tersendiri. Apa yang pasti, saya memang mendengar dengan telinga sendiri keluhan seperti ini di hadapan pelajar.
Saya mendapat sms bahawa Ibrahim (memang nama sebenar) sudah berhenti sekolah setelah tamat PMR. Saya kecewa. Ia mungkin suatu kelegaan buat guru yang mengajar tingkatan empat, tetapi bagaimana pula nasib Ibrahim di luar sana?
Kakak Ibrahim pula mendapat keputusan SPM yang 'cukup makan' dan kini menyambung pengajian di tingkatan enam, semoga dia kekal bersemangat meneruskan pengajian.
"Kami tak nampak hidup kami kat sekolah la cikgu, kalau laut tu kami tau la apa yang kami dapat buat, menoreh ka, buat bata rumah ka"
Kelu, bagaimana perlu saya jawab. Saya berharap Ibrahim akan mendapat "homeschooling" dan belajar tentang hidup sambil menolong ibu bapanya di pasar 'tamu'. Bersyukur kerana Allah campakkan kesedaran dan lembutkan hati mahu ke sekolah dan mahu belajar, hatta diberi keizinan belajar peringkat ijazah lanjutan, Subhanallah.
Dan pada nikmat Tuhanmu hendaklah kamu menyebut-nyebutnya dengan bersyukur. ayat terakhir, surah ad-Dhuha
amal
kg aman
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