Ikhwan Ng's Blog, page 4

Dakwah Express

Bila dakwah kepada non muslim.. Kita ajarkan Akidah dulu, baru masuk ke bab hukum hakam Islam.

Apa yang kita selalu tersilap adalah ajarkan "hukum Islam" dulu.. Do and don'ts in Islam. Kononnya "Dakwah Express", janji biar Non Muslim yang kita dakwah itu nampak dari luaran semuanya "suci, halal dan bersih", malah pada hakikatnya belum sempat lagi sentuh bab Pencipta kita adalah siapa, manusia berasal dari mana..

Andai kata kita telah berjaya mengajarkan seseorang Non Muslim mengikuti segala hukum Islam, makan yang halal dan jauhkan perbuatan yang haram.. Akhirnya mereka akan bertanya kita balik, "Saya susah2 tinggalkan semua benda haram, tapi apa yang saya buat semua ni untuk 'siapa'? Apa tujuan kehidupan saya selama ini?"

Sebab tu kita mulakan dengan Akidah dahulu, kenali Tuhan alam semesta.. Baru yakinkan mereka segala perbuatan adalah kerana menyerah kepada Allah, yakni makna "Islam":

"menyerah diri kepada Pencipta yang Maha Berkuasa dengan mentauhidkannya dengan penuh kenyakinan serta melaksanakan segala suruhan dan meninggalkan larangannya. "

Bila dah faham erti daripada ayat "Islam" sendiri, baru boleh belajar cara hidup seorang "Muslim".

Habis Madu

Terkilan juga apabila terdapat seorang dua wanita cina muslim yang diceraikan oleh suaminya bila dah "habis madu".. Mereka bawakan anak2 ke kelas agama fardhu Ain dan teruskan kehidupan sebagai Muslim.

Bila kami cuba bantu dan tanya khabar, baru diberitahu bekas suaminya jarang bersolat.. Maka jauh sekali bekas suami berikan bimbingan dan nasihat agama kepada pasangannya sebelum ni.

Apatah lagi ditinggalkan begitu sahaja selepas mempunyai anak tanpa alasan munasabah.. Ia semestinya sangat menguji kekuatan dan keimanan seseorang reverts.

Sekiranya mereka masih mempunyai inisiatif untuk meneruskan perjalanan sebagai seorang Muslim, kita dapat membantunya dari segi kelas dan saraan hidup.. Bagaimana pula dengan reverts yang murtad dalam senyap dan tidak dijejaki?

Andai kata ingin berkahwin campur/berkahwin dengan reverts, pastikan diri sendiri telahpun bersiap sedia dalam memberikan bimbingan agama dan sokongan yang tak terhenti kepadanya.. Kerana reverts pasti menerima tentangan hebat daripada keluarga non muslim dan masyarakat, pasangan hidup mampu memainkan peranan penting dalam membimbingnya.

Sekiranya kita dapat membantu seseorang menemui Islam dan terjaga keimanannya sehingga hujung hayat, insyaallah pahala akan datang secara berterusan dari waktu beliau mengucap kalimah syahadah, menjalankan amal ibadat dan segala perkara yang mendekati Allah SWT.

Maka hendaklah bersiap sedia 200% sebelum menempuh perkahwinan campur.. Jangan pujuk non muslim memeluk Islam "atas syarat" saja kemudian tinggalkannya kelak.. Walhal ia akan menjadi salah satu sebab kes murtad yang selalu jadi di Malaysia.


Take it or leave it.

Mencari Ayat-ayat al-Qur'an

Masa baru memeluk Islam, saya gemar beli buku dari kedai buku Islamik. Buku tebal sampai ratusan muka surat, macam2 tajuk buku ada.. Tapi apa yang menarik perhatian saya hanyalah beberapa patah ayat al-Qur'an dan terjemahan yang terselit dalam buku.

Kadang-kala tak baca sangat isi kandungannya pun, dengan merenung ayat-ayat al-Qur'an hati turut berasa tenang. Sampai setiap kali dapat gaji bulanan saja pasti beli buku baru untuk mencari beberapa patah ayat al-Qur'an yang lain.


Maka adalah tidak menghairankan apabila kita membaca kisah warga negara barat menemui hidayah hanya kerana membaca nas-nas dalam al-Qur'an. Hati mereka tersentuh dengan mesej Tauhid yang begitu kukuh dan indah, sehingga mereka berasa teringin kembali kepada agama fitrah.

Di Malaysia pula ramai yang menghalang Non Muslim daripada membaca al-Qur'an terjemahan, dilarang menyebut nas-nas Quran sekalipun.

Siapakah kita untuk menghalang hambanya daripada mencari-cari jawapan dalam al-Qur'an? Sekiranya nabi-nabi pun merata tempat menyahut semua orang sekeliling untuk kembali kepada Pencipta.. Membaca nas-nas Kitab yang datang daripada Ilahi dan bukannya digantung sebagai "azimat", "pelaris duniawi".. Sehinggalah Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. menjadi utusan terakhir dan agama Islam dilengkapkan sebagai agama yang sempurna untuk seluruh umat akhir zaman.

Siapa pula kita nak menghalang nas-nas al-Qur'an daripada dibaca dan disebut oleh Non Muslim sekiranya untuk tujuan penghayatan dan pemahaman yang ikhlas. Saya ingin bertanya..

children of Israel

My daughter occasionally asking me about how I've became a 'Muslim'.

"Isn't dad Chinese? How could dad be Chinese and Muslim at the same time?"

I just smiled and try to explain with her.. Actually I'm encouraging her to ask more questions about faith and Creator. Which is something that I haven't really went through during childhood.

I was raised up as a faithful believer, my family won't allowed me to question anything about the belief except obey and follow every footsteps of others. "So that people would recognize you as a 'Chinese', blend in well and be part of the community." Ironically I didn't even know that I was following either belief or acceptance of community.

Community ruled out the lifestyle and cultural, slowly become as a self recognition and identity regardless of the core beliefs itself. It's doesn't matter anymore as long as it could bring up one's reputation.

Indeed, it took lots of courage and patience to get off the track. May be I should call it the 'good-ole track'. My ancestors draw out the track towards 'religions' and 'family traditions'.. Whenever my family members asking me about my so called new faith, instead of questioning about Creator, they care more about family dignity. It rules most of the Chinese sons who bring along the surname as family inheritance.

There's a verse in Quran stated :

"And when it is said to them, "Follow what Allah has revealed," they say, "Rather, we will follow that which we found our fathers doing." Even though their fathers understood nothing, nor were they guided?"

 (al-Qur'an, Al-Baqarah 2:170)

As we can see, the mindset of embracing tradition more than faiths itself is beyond the time and place. People tend to follow the tradition blindly till ignore the importance of recognizing who is our Creator.

Therefore when my daughter mixed with multiracial friends in school and came up with the paradox of 'Chinese' and 'Islam', I understand that there's a few kids who trying to label me as a filthy Chinese who eat.. pork?

Being labelled as a 'pork consumer' is another strange tradition in our different side of community. Whereby Chinese Muslim still being ridiculed in whichever way.. Stuck between Muslim and Non Muslim self perception under one roof.

"There's a whole lot of Chinese, good Chinese, bad Chinese.. Chinese who believe in Islam, Chinese who believe in any religions except Islam.. We can't rule them all under one circumstance. Just remember, don't let the ethnicity fool your vision against the hikmah from Allah SWT.."

"It's similar with the children of Israel (Yahudi) who reject prophet Muhammad s.a.w. just because he's from Quraysh tribe. Can't you see the ignorance in them regarding upraising and self-glorifying their own tribe till reject the messages from Creator?"

Those to whom We gave the Scripture know him as they know their own sons. But indeed, a party of them conceal the truth while they know [it].
(al-Qur'an, Al-Baqarah 2:146)

And [mention] when Jesus, the son of Mary, said, "O children of Israel, indeed I am the messenger of Allah to you confirming what came before me of the Torah and bringing good tidings of a messenger to come after me, whose name is Ahmad." But when he came to them with clear evidences, they said, "This is obvious magic."
(al-Qur'an, As-Saf 61:6)

And when there came to them a Book from Allah confirming that which was with them - although before they used to pray for victory against those who disbelieved - but [then] when there came to them that which they recognized, they disbelieved in it; so the curse of Allah will be upon the disbelievers.
(al-Qur'an, Al-Baqarah 2:89)

Never Ask Too Much

When I was a kid, I was taught not to ask too much about religions.All I had to do is just stay down and 'believe'.

Until I look up one day and asked myself, "Where is God?"

I keep on looking everwhere, trying hard to find an answer that most probably looks like dead end to me. My heart still couldn't give up yet, I had a very strong feelings that God existed in a mysterious way.

I've excluded every possibilities that trying to convince me the 'image' of God. It's pretty simple, I was looking for the Creator not the 'creations' instead.

However my faith looking journey just started when I had the chance to learn who is prophet in Islam.

"Muhammad is not the father of [any] one of your men, but [he is] the Messenger of Allah and last of the prophets. And ever is Allah, of all things, Knowing."
(Al-Ahzab 33:40)

The guidance came to me in a mysterious way, and here I am today, carrying the name of 'Muhammad Ikhwan Ng' as my respect to Islam.

Mana Budaya Orang Islam

Berkhatan di kalangan anak-anak kaum Cina non-muslim adalah suatu perkara yg biasa di Kelantan... 
"Sesiapa yang memeluk Islam pasti akan hilang kebudayaan dalam dirinya." saya terbaca komen kritis ini dalam artikel majalah.

"Kerana mereka (muslim) akan terikut-ikut dengan budaya orang arab sehingga tinggalkan akar umbinya, terutamanya wanita terpaksa memakai scarf seperi orang Arab." saya terus letak balik majalah terbitan dari negara asing itu ke rak..

Itulah persepsi yang amat umum dan terpesong apabila non muslim cuba memahami karenah reverted muslim. Bila orang luar negara masuk Islam dikritik 'masuk Arab', di Malaysia pula dikritik 'masuk Melayu'.

Terutama sekali, menjadi seorang Muslim tidak bererti mengikuti mana-mana kebudayaan. Islam bukannya suatu produk yang dibentuk atas budaya masyarakat dan 'superstitions', sebaliknya Islam hanya menyuruh manusia mencari satu jawapan hakiki, siapakah Tuhan Alam Semesta?

Sekiranya Islam hanya budaya orang Arab semata-mata, maka hendaklah semua orang Islam mencari baju jubah buatan Arab sahaja, sehingga nasi arab, roti arab, kopi arab menjadi menu harian.. Pada hakikatnya nikmat Allah adalah amat luas, muslim tidak pernah disuruh tinggalkan kebudayaan dalamnya selagi tidak terlibat dengan syirik, khurafat dan makanan haram.

'Hilang budaya' adalah suatu persepsi yang salah apabila orang luar cuba memahami Islam secara andaian semata-mata.. Maka Muslim sendiri memikul tanggungjawab yang besar untuk cuba berdakwah dan menjelaskan erti Islam yang sebenar kepada semua dengan merujuk kepada nas Quran dan Hadis..


Kalau tak sampai bila-bila muallaf dilabel masuk Arab, masuk Melayu..

Drinking

"Do you smoke cigarette?" The doctor asked me this when he knows that I have a broken femur bone. We met outside of meeting room after some sort of dengue prevention discussion.

"No I don't smoke." I replied. Cigarette may cause delayed union or nonunion of broken bone..

"Well.. how about drinking?"
"Hmm.. Nope."

"Great! Not to forget that you should be avoid drinking cold drinks as well, it's very harmful for your recovery progress."
Drinking, oh well that's really something that happened long ago in my life.. Actually I did think about liquor and it's banning. Most of the religions ban followers from drinking, while certain followers might assume "it's fine to take a sip".

While at the time before I'm knowing teachings of Islam, I do believe everything has a Creator.. If there's something harmful to mankind, for sure Creator warns His mankind to stay away from it.. It's just the same as mother who protect her kids from danger, while the kids might be too naive to avoid being hurt.

I had a silly time with my friends while I was about 16. My friends invite me to stay overnight at his house and tell me there's a "special event" while his parents asleep.. we're playing some​ PS2 games and watching movies whole day long. During watching Hong Kong VCD, there's a intro commercial advertisement about beer, showing a handsome dude who hold a glass of beer and immediately get attraction from ladies around him (I guess 90s Chinese kids remember this scene hehe)

"How cool is that huh.. " My friends said. Apparently that's a misleading advertisement but we're too young to filter the harm against us.

Eventually when we stayed up till midnight and their parents fall asleep.. they open the fridge at downstairs and show me tons of tin beers. "This is the craze we're talking about."

In the end we woke up with serious headache and dizziness in the next morning, not to mentioned being ban to visit their house ever again even though it's my silly friends who had the absurd idea first.

Later on I've learned about the harm of drinking by studying articles from internet. So I've stopped it on my self initiative.. If it's harmful to our body then we should be stay away from it. While this attitude brings me to another question, what if Creator already warn us but I didn't know? For sure Creator won't leave His creations alone..

Therefore I'm no longer drinking since 19, ironically the age of permitted buying liquor.. It's never about the age, it's realization and protect ourselves from harms that we don't know or choose to ignore about it in being "cool"..


That's not cool at all when dealing with "rehabilitation" one day. There's lots of misleading commercial packing to make it sounds cool while it's not the fact, that's just a trap of dunya.

Rugi ohh

(Buat masa ini saya tengah sibuk menguruskan hal peribadi dan kaki yang patah masih kurang sihat.. Jadi saya tidak dapat update blog sehingga awal tahun depan. Sementara waktu ini saya hanya repost status dari Facebook saja. Harap maklum)


"Rugi ohh you masuk Islam, ini tak boleh makan itu tak boleh minum.." sudah biasa dengan kritikan sebegini apabila kawan lama ketahui saya dah Islam.

Saya tak rugi, sebaliknya yang rugi adalah orang yang terpedaya dengan godaan duniawi yang fana sehingga melupakan akhirat yang kekal.

Setiap manusia tetap diuji dengan berbagai jenis bentuk godaan di atas dunia namun ia bukannya bermaksud kita hendaklah menghentikan sebarang nafsu kerana kita bukan malaikat.. Pada hakikatnya Islam menyuruh kita "menguruskan" nafsu dan jangan melampaui batas. Contohnya makanan.. Memang khinzir diharamkan tapi ia tidak merugikan sedikit pun, dah makin banyak masakan cina muslim yang berjaya menghasilkan masakan cina tradisional yang jauh lebih lazat daripada yang non-halal.

Berbagai jenis minuman tetap boleh dihidang kecuali yang memabukkan.. Kerana Islam menyuruh kita menjaga akal hati dan tidak memerosotkan diri sendiri. Apakah kita menjadi insan yang "rugi" kerana menjaga kesihatan akal kita sebagai suruhan Allah?


Biar nampak rugi di duniawi tapi untung di akhirat.

Cerita Kedai Kopi

Semalam kami sekeluarga makan sarapan pagi di suatu restoran Hainan.. Bila pelanggan dah ramai sangat kami terpaksa menunggu meja kosong, sehinggalah seorang uncle cina panggil dan suruh kami kongsi meja dengannya..

Hampir setengah jam menunggu masih belum sampai lg makanannya. Tiba2 hp uncle berdering dan nampaknya dia tengah berbicara tentang bab bisness dengan kawannya.

"How can you do like that.. You know that's kind of betrayal if you ever do that to me, that's not what we promised with the deal right? "


Selepas habis bercakap dalam hp, tetiba uncle tu bersembang dengan saya dalam bm pula.. Saya pun dah biasa sebab memang ramai yang ingat saya ni orang sabah/sarawak haha

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Alhamdulillah.. Senaskah Quran terjemahan cina dan senaskah Kitab Hadis Shahih Muslim telah diberikan kepada saudara Razif Lai yang memeluk Islam tahun lepas.

Beliau pernah menghubungi saya sebelum memeluk Islam lagi dan mengatakan bahawa beliau sering tertarik dengan laungan azan dari masjid. Jika berlalu masjid mesti berhenti sekejap waktu laungan azan sebagai tanda hormat.

Semenjak Razif Lai mengambil keputusan memeluk Islam, beliau terus pergi ke PUSBA sg petani melafaz syahadah dan mempelajari Islam di sana beberapa bulan. Walaupun tentangan kuat daripada pihak keluarga, Razif Lai tetap mengaji Islam sehingga sekarang..

Mohon doa-doakan untuk saudara kita Razif Lai terus beristiqamah dalam Islam.