Kesihatan : Edisi Lelaki, Rokok dan Shisha.

Dengan nama Allah SWT yang Maha Pemurah lagi Maha Pengasih.

Jujurlah.. Isu Rokok dan Shisha dalam golongan Adam nie dah jd satu lumrah.. so hari nie E'en nak cerite sikit tentang rokok dan shisha nie..

Mukadimah... Things that yang korang kena tahu...

Rokok.

1. Orang pertama yang menghisap rokok adalah orang pribumi Suku Indian Utara Amerika. (Yucatan Mexico)
2. Digunakkan untuk upacara memanggil dewa.

Hadis nabi, " Barangsiapa yang meniru atau menyamai sesuatu kaum, maka dia tergolong dalam kaum tersebut"

Riwayat Abu Daud.

Shisha.

1. Berasal dari Jazirah Arab.
2. Uknown function. Sekadar suka.
    

Hukum Berdasarkan Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Muzakarah Jawatankuasa Fatwa Majlis Kebangsaan Bagi Hal Ehwal Ugama Islam Malaysia Kali Ke-37 yang bersidang pada 23 Mac 1995 telah membincangkan Hukum Merokok Dari Pandangan Islam. Muzakarah telah memutuskan bahawa merokok adalah HARAM dari pandangan Islam kerana padanya terdapat kemudharatan.

Sebab pengharaman.

 1.  Keputusan yang telah diputuskan oleh Muzakarah Jawatankuasa Fatwa Majlis Kebangsaan Bagi Hal Ehwal Ugama Islam Malaysia tersebut adalah bersandarkan kepada hujah-hujah berikut:

 

i. Rokok mengandungi pelbagai jenis racun. Fakta daripada kajian-kajian perubatan telah membuktikan bahawa setiap batang rokok mengandungi 6-8 mg. nikotian dan pelbagai bahan kimia lain. Setiap sedutan asap rokok sebenarnya kita telah menghidu sebanyak 4,000 jenis bahan kimia yang boleh memudharatkan badan.

 

ii. Ketagihan tembakau bukan hanya menimbulkan masalah kepada perokok, malah ia berada di tempat keempat dalam senarai faktor risiko bagi penyakit serius yang menular di seluruh dunia. Tabiat merokok dikaitkan dengan risiko barah, penyakit jantung dan masalah pernafasan. Terdapat beberapa jenis penyakit yang berpunca dari merokok, antaranya ialah kanser kerongkong, kanser mulut, katarak (sejenis kerosakan mata yang menyebabkan kanta mata berselaput dan rabun), ulser perut, penyakit jantung, strok, penyakit paru-paru, emfisema paru-paru dan banyak lagi.

 

iii. Pada masa kini jumlah perokok sama ada dinegara maju atau negara membangun masih begitu besar, walaupun berbagai usaha telah dibuat oleh Kerajaan serta badan-badan sukarela bagi menyedarkan orang ramai tentang bahayanya merokok kepada orang ramai. Di Malaysia, merokok menyumbang kepada lebih 10,000 kematian setahun; 30% daripadanya disebabkan 10 jenis kanser, iaitu paru-paru, mulut, esophagus, tekak, pankreas, pundi kencing, buah pinggang, serviks, kolon dan perut. Sebanyak 50% kematian berpunca daripada sakit jantung dan strok. Kerajaan telah membelanjakan banyak wang untuk merawat berbagai jenis penyakit yang dikaitkan dengan tabiat merokok dan negara juga mengalami kerugian kira-kira RM 20 billion setahun bagi menanggung kos rawatan dan kehilangan produktiviti.

 

iv. Imam al-Syafi’e telah mengeluarkan fatwa dalam kitabnya yang masyhur al-Umm iaitu:” Jika mereka mengambil (sesuatu makanan, minuman atau sesuatu yang dihisap, dihidu dan disedut) yang boleh memabukkan, maka perbuatan itu adalah jelas haram. (Termasuklah) yang mengandungi racun yang menyebabkan kematian. Aku tetap menganggap (menfatwakan) ia adalah haram. Allah swt mengharamkan (apapun jenis) pembunuhan kerana pembunuh bermakna membunuh diri sendiri”.

 

v. Para ulama’ sepakat menyatakan bahawa merokok hukumnya haram kerana ianya jelas memudharatkan kesihatan, membazir dan mensia-siakan harta serta dikategorikan sebagai satu perkara keji, berdasarkan nas-nas berikut:

 

a. Firman Allah swt dalam Surah al-Baqarah, ayat 195 yang bermaksud: “Dan janganlah kamu sengaja mencampakkan diri kamu ke dalam bahaya kebinasaan”.

 

b. Firman Allah swt dalam Surah al-A’raf ayat 157 yang bermaksud; “ Dan ia menghalalkan bagi mereka segala benda yang baik dan mengharamkan kepada mereka segala benda yang buruk”.

 

c. Sabda Rasulullah s.a.w yang bermaksud: “ Tidak boleh memberi mudharat dan membalas dengan kemudharatan”. (Hadith riwayat Ahmad, Malik, Ibn Majah dan al-Daraqutni)

 

d. Kaedah Usul Fiqh: درء المفاسد مقدم على جلب المصالح yang bermaksud “ menolak kerosakan adalah didahulukan daripada mencari kemaslahatan”

 

e. Imam Ibn. Hazm dalam kitabnya al-Muhalla, jilid 7, halaman 503 (masalah no. 1027) menegaskan bahawa : “Pemborosan adalah haram”. Yang dimaksudkan dengan pemborosan di sini ialah:

 

i. Membelanjakan wang untuk perkara yang diharamkan oleh Allah swt, samada banyak atau sedikit, walaupun sebesar sayap nyamuk sekalipun.

ii. Pembaziran yang tidak ada keperluannya.

iii. Membuang wang, betapa kecilpun jumlahnya kerana dengan membuang tanpa tujuan itu menjadikannya sia-sia.

 

vi. Beberapa negara Islam dan beberapa ulama’ muktabar telah mengeluarkan fatwa tentang amalan merokok.

 

Antaranya seperti berikut:

 

a. Kerajaan Arab Saudi mengeluarkan fatwa bahawa merokok, menanam tembakau dan memperniagakannya adalah hukumnya haram kerana daripadanya terdapat kemudharatan.

 

b. Ulama’-ulama’ semasa Mesir seperti Dr. Abdul Jalil Shalaby mengatakan merokok adalah haram kerana ia boleh mendatangkan kemudharatan kepada kesihatan masyarakat.

 

c. Al Imam Abdul Halim Mahmud dalam kitabnya “Fatawa al-Imam Abdul Halim Mahmud” telah memberi fatwa merokok hukumnya makruh jika ia tidak mendatangkan kemudharatan kepada kesihatan. Sebaliknya adalah haram jika ia mendatangkan kemudharatan kepada kesihatan.

 

2. Hukum pengharaman arak dan khinzir tidak boleh disamakan dengan hukum haram merokok kerana hukum pengharaman terhadap arak dan khinzir telah dinyatakan secara jelas dan qat’ie oleh Allah swt dalam kitab suci al-Quran. Manakala hukum pengharaman terhadap perbuatan merokok telah diistinbatkan oleh para jumhur ulama’ terdahulu dan masa kini bersandarkan hujah-hujah kepada nas-nas syarak yang jelas dinyatakan seperti al-Quran, al-Hadith, Ijma’ Ulama’, Qaedah-qaedah Fiqhiyah dan sebagainya. Ayat-ayat al-Quran dan hadith seperti yang dinyatakan di atas jelas telah memperincikan isu ini.

 

3. Al-Syeikh Hasanain Muhammad Makhluf, bekas Mufti Mesir dalam Kitabnya Fatawa Syariyyah Wa Buhuth Islamiyah menyatakan:

“ Sesungguhnya tumbuhan (tembakau) ini dahulunya belum dikenali. Apabila ia diperkenal dan digunakan oleh manusia untuk merokok, maka ulama’-ulama’ fiqh daripada pelbagai mazhab Islam telah membincangkannya untuk menetapkan hukumnya berdasarkan prinsip (qaedah fiqhiyyah) yang telah ditetapkan.”

“Sesungguhnya berdasarkan hukum asal sesuatu itu harus. Tidak akan terkeluar daripada prinsip asal melainkan adanya perkara-perkara yang mengubah hukumnya menjadi haram atau sebagainya.”

 

Dalam isu merokok ini, sebab yang menjadikannya haram ialah kesan mudharat dan bahayanya sehingga meruntuhkan lima asas utama (al-Kulliyatul Khams) yang wajib dipelihara oleh setiap manusia iaitu agama, jiwa, maruah keturunan, akal dan juga harta.

So apa kaitanya dengan lelaki? 

Zahiriahnya...

1. Lelaki nampak cool kachak dan bergaya bila merokok.
2. Simbol lelaki sejati (wey..x jantan la kalo x merokok)
3. Dapat melepaskan tekanan.

Hakikat sebenarnya...

1.  Lelaki yang merokok tampak seperti bestfriend Syaitan dan Jin.
2. Simbol lelaki dayus, pengecut dan bacul. (tugas lelakikan melindungi kaum hawa..tp kalau diri sendiri x ley jaga, nie nak jaga org laen.
3. And the worst one.. korang akan di-Reject oleh wanita Muslimah.   

Yang HALAL itu jelas dan yang HARAM itu jelas, tp kenapa masih nak buat yg HARAM tue? 

Usul 20

Pernah dengar Usul 20?

Atau sekadar "macam pernah dengar tp x amik tahu la.. ngee.." (tersenyum mcm mintax pelempang)

Jom hari nie E'en nak cerita sikit pasal Usul 20.

Usul 'Isyrin (20) dinukilkan oleh Imam Asy-syahid Hassan Al-Banna, merupakan antara panduan dan pemudahcara bagi memahami konsep dalam menyusuri kehidupan sebagai Muslim yang syumul.

1. Islam adalah agama yang menyeluruh dan lengkap.

‎Islam adalah satu sistem yang syamil merangkumi seluruh aspek hidup. Islam adalah negara dan watan atau pemerintah dan umat, akhlak dan kekuatan atau rahmat dan keadilan, kebudayaan dan undang-undang atau ilmu dan kehakiman, material dan harta benda atau usaha dan kekayaan, jihad dan dakwah atau tentera dan fikrah, sebagaimana ia juga adalah aqidah yang benar dan ibadat yang sah.

2. Al-Quran dan As-Sunnah adalah rujukan asas dalam perundangan Islam.

Al-Quran Al-Karim dan Sunnah Rasulullah SAW merupakan sumber rujukan bagi setiap muslim dalam memahami hukum-hukum Islam. Al-Quran hendaklah difahami mengikut kaedah-kaedah Bahasa Arab tanpa memberat-beratkan dan tidak pula membabi buta. Sunnah pula difahami melalui periwayat-periwayat Hadith yang thiqah

3. Iman sejati, ibadah yang sah dan perjuangan mempunyai cahaya dan kemanisan didalam hati. Ilham, lintasan hati, mimpi tidak boleh dijadikan dalil hukum Agama.

Iman yang benar, ibadah yang sah dan mujahadah merupakan cahaya dan kemanisan yang dicampakkan oleh Allah ke dalam hati sesiapa yang dikehendaki di kalangan hamba-hambaNya. Tetapi ilham, lintasan-lintasan hati, kasyaf dan mimpi bukanlah dalil-dalil hukum syara’. Ia tidak diambil kira kecuali dengan syarat tidak berlawanan dengan hukum dan nas agama.

4. Tangkal, jampi selain ayat Al-Quran dan Hadis serta mendakwa tahu hal ghaib (yang belum berlaku) adalah munkar yang wajib dibenteras.

Tangkal, azimat, al-wad’ (sesuatu yang diambil dari laut seperti kulit kerang untuk menghindarkan sakit mata), al-ma’rifah (mengetahui sesuatu perkara dengan tanda-tanda awal untuk mencari barang kecurian, tempat orang sesat dsb), kihanah (pemberitahuan tentang perkara-perkara ghaib pada masa akan datang atau perkara yang tersembunyi di dalam hati orang lain) dan dakwaan mengetahui perkara ghaib dan perkara-perkara yang tergolong di dalam perkara ini merupakan perkara mungkar yang wajib diperangi melainkan jampi-jampi dari ayat Al-Quran atau jampi yang ma’thurah (datang dari Rasulullah SAW).

5. Keputusan pimpinan dalam organisasi wajib dilaksanakan dalam perkara maslahat,yang tiada nas atau ada nas tetapi mempunyai berbagai tafsiran.

Pendapat Imam atau Naibnya dalam perkara-perkara yang tidak ada nas, yang boleh menerima andaian pelbagai segi dan yang berhubung dengan masalih al-mursalah boleh diterima sekiranya tidak bertentangan dengan kaedah-kaedah syara’. Kadang-kadang ia berubah menurut keadaan, uruf dan adat. Asal pada ibadat ialah ta’abbud tanpa melihat kepada makna-makna. Dan asal pada adat ialah melihat kepada rahsia, hikmah dan tujuan.

‎6. Kata-kata seseorang selain Rasulullah saw tidak semestinya betul dan diterima.

Setiap orang boleh diterima dan ditolak kata-katanya melainkan Rasulullah SAW yang maksum. Setiap yang datang dari salafus soleh yang bertepatan dengan Kitab Allah dan Sunnah RasulNya kita terima dengan sebulat hati. Akan tetapi jika berlawanan dengannya maka Kitab Allah dan Sunnah RasulNya lebih utama diikuti. Walau bagaimanapun kita tidak sekali-kali mengecam atau mendedahkan keburukan peribadi-peribadi tertentu di dalam masalah yang diperselisihkan. Kita hanya berserah kepada niat hati mereka. Sesungguhnya mereka berlalu dengan apa yang mereka lakukan. 

7. Seorang yang belum pakar dalam Feqah, ikutlah salah satu dari 4 Mazhab tanpa taksub. Terimalah pandangan mazhab lain jika dalilnya lebih kuat.

 Setiap muslim yang tidak sampai ke peringkat meneliti (nadzar) dalil-dalil hukum cabang (furu’) boleh mengikuti mana-mana Imam. Elok sekiranya seseorang itu cuba berijtihad sekadar yang beliau mampu bagi mengetahui dalil-dalilnya. Beliau juga hendaklah menerima setiap petunjuk yang disertai dengan dalil apabila beliau yakin dengan kebaikan dan kepada orang yang memberi petunjuk kepadanya. Jika sekiranya beliau terdiri dari kalangan orang yang berilmu, beliau hendaklah mencukupkan kekurangannya dari segi ilmu sehingga sampai ke peringkat meneliti dalil-dalil hukum.

8. Perbezaan dalam Feqah jangan membawa kepada perpecahan hati.

Perselisihan fiqh dalam perkara cabang tidak sepatutnya menjadi sebab kepada perpecahan dalam agama dan tidak seharusnya membawa kepada perbalahan atau permusuhan. Setiap orang yang berijtihad ada pahalanya. Walau bagaimanapun tidak ada penghalang bagi melakukan tahqiq ilmu / penjelasan ilmiah dalam masalah-masalah yang diperselisihkan dalam suasana kasih saying kerana Allah SWT. Serta kerjasama dalam menyampaikan kebenaran tanpa terbawa-bawa kepada pertengkaran yang dicela serta taksub.

9. Jauhi perdebatan Feqah yang tidak membawa kepada tindakan amali.

Setiap masalah yang tidak berdiri amal di atasnya maka melibatkan diri di dalamnya adalah membebankan diri dengan perkara yang ditegah syara’. Di antaranya ialah banyak furu’ di dalam hukum hakam yang tidak berlaku, melibatkan diri di dalam makna-makna ayat Al-Quran yang ilmu belum sampai kepadanya dan bercakap tentang kelebihan di antara sahabat R.A. dan khilaf yang berlaku di kalangan mereka. Setiap mereka mempunyai kelebihan bersahabat dengan Rasulullah SAW dan dibalas menurut niat mereka, tambahan pula takwil adalah dibenarkan.

10. Kita beriman kepada Ayat-ayat Sifat tanpa menafsir atau menolaknya.

Mengenal Allah SWT, mentauhid dan menyucikanNya adalah setinggi-tinggi aqidah Islam. Ayat-ayat sifat dan hadith-hadithnya yang sahih serta penyerupaaan yang layak denganNya, kita beriman dengannya sebagaimana ia datang tanpa takwil dan ta’thil. Kita jangan cuba mendedahkan khilaf di antara ulama’ di dalam masalah itu. Sudah cukup bagi kita apa yang telah cukup bagi Rasulullah SAW dan sahabat-sahabatnya.

11. Semua Bid’ah yang tiada asas Syarak adalah munkar yang wajib dibenteras.

Setiap bid’ah dalam agama Allah adalah tidak mempunyai asas sama sekali yang dipandang baik oleh manusia hanyalah menurut hawa nafsu mereka, sama ada dengan cara menambah atau mengurangkannya adalah kesesatan yang wajib diperangi dan dihapuskan dengan cara yang paling baik sehingga tidak membawa kepada perkara yang lebih buruk dari bid’ah itu sendiri.

12. Bid’ah Idafiah, Bid’ah Tarkiah, Bid’ah Iltizamiah adalah khilaf ulamak.

Bid’ah dengan cara menambah, meninggalkan dan beriltizam dengan sejenis ibadat mutlak adalah masalah khilafiyah. Setiap orang mempunyai pendapatnya sendiri dan tidak mengapa mencari hakikat berdasarkan dalil dan bukti.

13. Keramat boleh berlaku pada Wali-wali Allah, namun mereka tidak boleh memberi manfaat atau mudharat kepada diri mereka, apatah lagi kepada orang lain.

 Mencintai orang-orang yang saleh, menghormati dan memberi pujian terhadap amalan-amalan baik yang mereka lakukan adalah jalan untuk mendekatkan diri kepada Allah SWT. Wali-wali Allah ialah mereka yang disebut oleh Allah di dalam Al-Qur'an iaitu orang-orang yang beriman dan bertaqwa. Karamah yang berlaku ke atas mereka hendaklah terjadi dengan syarat-syarat yang bertepatan dengan dengan syara’ serta mempercayai bahawa mereka adalah hamba yang diredhai oleh Allah SWT. Mereka tidak mampu untuk memberi manfaat atau mendatangkan mudharat ketika hidup atau pun setelah mereka mati. Mereka juga tidak mampu memberikan kurniaan yang ada pada mereka itu kepada orang lain.

14. Ziarah kubur adalah sunnah Rasulullah saw. Jangan dicampur dengan Bid’ah.

Menziarahi kubur dalam apa keadaan sekali pun adalah perkara sunat yang disyariatkan dengan cara-cara yang ma’thur. Tetapi meminta pertolongan dari ahli-ahli kubur siapa sekali pun mereka, menyeru mereka kerana perkara tersebut, menuntut mereka menunaikan segala hajat sama ada dari dekat atau jauh, bernazar kepada mereka, membangunkan binaan di atas kubur, menyelimutinya, meneranginya, mengusap-ngusapnya, bersumpah dengan sesuatu selain Allah dan seumpamanya yang terdiri daripada perkara-perkara bid’ah adalah dosa-dosa besar yang wajib diperangi. Kita tidak mentakwilkan amalan-amalan ini dengan tujuan menutup jalan kemungkaran.

15. Tawassul dalam berdoa adalah khilaf ulamak dan bukan dalam masalah Aqidah.

Berdoa apabila dibuat dengan cara bertawasul kepada Allah dengan salah satu makhluk-makhlukNya, merupakan perselisihan kepada masalah furu’ (cabang) di dalam kaifiat (cara-cara) berdoa, dan bukannya permasalahan aqidah.

‎16. Dalam mengeluarkan hukum, Syarak merujuk kepada intipati sesuatu perkara dan bukan nama yang dipakai orang ramai. Contoh “Faedah Bank”.

Uruf yang salah tidak mengubah hakikat lafaz-lafaz syariat. Malah wajib dipastikan batas-batas pengertian yang dimaksudkan dari lafaz-lafaz itu, dan tidak melewati pengertian-pengertian yang dimaksudkan itu. Begitu juga mestilah diawasi sebarang lafaz-lafaz yang sengaja dikemukakan dengan tujuan tipu helah di dalam perkara-perkara yang bersangkutan dengan urusan dunia dan agama. Yang diambil kira ialah sesuatu yang dinamakan, bukan nama yang diberikan”.

17. Amal hati lebih utama dari amal anggota. Kedua-duanya penting.

Aqidah merupakan asas setiap amalan. Amalan hati lebih penting dari amalan anggota badan. Mencari kesempurnaan pada kedua-duanya adalah dituntut oleh syara’ walaupun darjat tuntutan pada kedua-duanya berbeza.

18. Islam mengangkat peranan akal manusia.

Islam membebaskan aqal. Menggalakkan supaya memerhatikan alam semesta, mengangkat kedudukan ilmu dan ulama’, mengalu-alukan sesuatu yang baik dan bermanfaat. Al-Hikmah adalah barang yang hilang dari orang mukmin, di mana sahaja didapati maka dia adalah orang yang paling berhak terhadapnya.

19. Tiada pertembungan diantara Syarak dan ilmu Sains yang sahih.

Boleh jadi perkara yang diteliti oleh pandangan syara’ tidak termasuk ke dalam perkara yang diteliti oleh pandangan aqal, begitu juga sebaliknya. Sungguh pun demikian, pandangan syara’ dan pandangan aqal tidak bercanggah dalam perkara-perkara yang qath’i (muktamad dan putus). Hakikat ilmiah yang sahih tidak bertentangan dengan kaedah syara’ yang tsabit. Perkara dzanni, dari kedua-duanya ditakwilkan, agar bersesuaian dengan qath’i. Sekiranya pandangan syara’ dan pandangan aqal masih berada di peringkat dzann, maka pandangan syara’lah yang lebih utama untuk diterima. Hinggalah pandangan aqal dapat mentsabitkan kebenarannya atau ia akan gugur dengan sendirinya.

‎20. Kita tidak mengkafirkan orang Islam melainkan dengan syarat-syarat yang ketat.

Kita tidak mengkafirkan seorang Muslim yang telah mengucap dua kalimah syahadah, melaksanakan tuntutan-tuntutannya dan menunaikan kawajipan-kewajipannya dengan hanya berdasarkan kepada pendapat atau maksiat yang dilakukannya melainkan jika beliau:

• Mengakui kalimah kufur
• Mengengkari perkara agama yang diketahui secara dharuri
• Mendustakan ayat Al-Quran yang jelas pengertiannya.
• Menafsirkan Al-Quran dengan penafsiran yang tidak diterima oleh semua uslub Bahasa Arab dalam semua keadaan.
• Melakukan sesuatu yang tidak boleh ditafsirkan selain dari kufur.

P/S : Terasa mcm skema plak? Biasala tue.. ayat kitab..

Alhamdulillah

Ibnu Al-Qayyim Al-Jauziyyah memberikan gambaran bahawa:

Sabar bukan bererti menyerah tanpa usaha namun, sabar juga bukan bererti perjuangan tanpa hasil. 

Sabar adalah taman kesejukan di antara usaha yang maksima dan tawakkal yang sepenuhnya. 

Sabar adalah timbulnya keyakinan yang kuat kepada janji Allah. Allah tidak mungkir janji.

Dengan sabar, hati begitu optimis, bahawa Allah akan segera menyambut niat dan keinginan tulus seorang hamba.

Disetiap kegelapan pasti ada setitik terang

 

Disetiap DOA slalu ada jawapan

 

Disetiap kesukaranmu akan ada kemudahan

Disetiap ketidakmungkinan slalu ada keajaiban ..

BERTAHANLAH !

BERSABARLAH duhai jiwaku! 

Tetap Tabahkan hatimu ..

Kelak disaat yg tepat bahagia itu akan kau dapati ..

(Insya Allah)

"Maka bersabarlah kamu,sesungguhnya janji ALLAH itu benar "

(Q.S Al-Mukmin:55)

Abdul Al-Rahman ibn Sakhr Ad-Dausi

Siapa beliau? Apa jasa beliau? Kenal atau tidak?


Jom kita study sikit tentang beliau...

• Abu Hurairah ialah salah seorang perawi hadis yang terkemuka.

• Beliau dilahirkan 19 tahun sebelum Hijrah.

• Nama sebenar beliau sebelum memeluk agama Islam tidak diketahui dengan jelas, tetapi pendapat yang masyhur ialah Abd Syams.

• Nama Islamnya adalah Abd al-Rahman.

• Beliau berasal daripada kabilah ad-Dusi di Yaman. 

• Gelaran Abu Hurairah r.a. adalah kerana kegemarannya bermain dengan anak kucing.

• Diceritakan pada suatu masa ketika Abu Hurairah r.a. bertemu Rasullullah SAW, beliau ditanya oleh baginda apakah yang ada dalam lengan bajunya. Apabila dia menunjukkan anak kucing dalam lengan bajunya lantas dia digelar Abu Hurairah oleh Rasullullah SAW. Semenjak itu dia lebih suka dikenali dengan gelaran Abu Hurairah. 

• Dalam suatu peristiwa, tatkala seorang sahabat nabi bernama Abdul Rahman bin Sakhr menemui seekor anak kucing yang sedang mengiau kerana kehilangan ibunya. Beliau yang dalam perjalanannya menuju ke Masjid Nabawi, berasa kasihan kepada anak kucing itu, lalu mengambil dan meletaknya dalam baju besar beliau.Apabila sampainya di masjid, baginda bertanya Abdul Rahman, apa dalam bajunya? Ia menjawab anak kucing yang kehilangan ibu, aku mengambilnya kerana kasihan padanya. Lalu baginda menggelarkan Abdul Rahman dengan Abu Hurairah (bapa kucing kecil).

• Gelaran bapa kucing tidak sedikit pun menjejaskan maruah dan reputasi Abdul Rahman, malah inilah gelaran yang paling disukai tatkala namanya disebut, kerana nabi sendiri yang memberi gelaran itu. Selain itu juga, gelaran Abu Hurairah mengingatkan beliau kepada suatu amal soleh yang pernah dilakukannya menerusi pembelaan seekor anak kucing.

• Dan Abu Hurairah ialah seorang penghafal hadith2 nabi yang terbanyak dan dia telah dikenali juga sebagai GUDANG ILMU. Dia adalah sahabat yang paling suka bergaul dengan Rasulullah S.a.w. Dia tidakmempunyai tanah dan perniagaan dan seorang yang miskin harta tetapi kaya jiwa, maka masanya paling banyak diluangkan dengan nabi. Dengan kerana itu juga dia telah mempunyai banyak peluang meriwayatkan hadith2 nabi.

• Banyak hikmah dari riwayat hidup Abu Hurairah ini dan antaranya beliau telah mencontohi kepada kita betapa bagusnya dan satu amalan yang sangat disukai oleh nabi sendiri iaitu berbuat baik kepada kucing.

• Seorang wanita masuk neraka kerana kucing. Ia menahannya hingga mati. Ia masuk neraka kerananya, kerana ia tidak memberinya makan sebab ia menahannya, dan tidak membiarkannya makan serangga-serangga tanah.” Hadith riwayat Bukhari.

 

Adakah kita tahu.. atau sekadar tahu sahaja?

Khutbah terakhir dari insan yang paling dikasihi...


"Wahai manusia, dengarlah baik-baik apa yang hendak kukatakan, Aku tidak mengetahui apakah aku dapat bertemu lagi dengan kamu semua selepas tahun ini. Oleh itu, dengarlah dengan teliti kata-kataku ini dan sampaikanlah ia kepada orang-orang yang tidak dapat hadir disini pada hari ini.


"Wahai manusia, sepertimana kamu menganggap bulan ini dan kota ini sebagai suci, anggaplah jiwa dan harta setiap orang Muslim sebagai amanah suci. Kembalikan harta yang diamanahkan kepada kamu kepada pemiliknya yang berhak. Janganlah kamu sakiti sesiapapun agar orang lain tidak menyakiti kamu lagi. Ingatlah bahawa sesungguhya kamu akan menemui Tuhan kamu dan Dia pasti membuat perhitungan di atas segala amalan kamu. Allah telah mengharamkan riba, oleh itu, segala urusan yang melibatkan riba dibatalkan mulai sekarang.



"Berwaspadalah terhadap syaitan demi keselamatan agama kamu. Dia telah berputus asa untuk menyesatkan kamu dalam perkara-perkara besar, maka berjaga-jagalah supaya kamu tidak mengikutinya dalam perkara-perkara kecil.



"Wahai manusia sebagaimana kamu mempunyai hak atas isteri kamu, mereka juga mempunyai hak ke atas kamu. Sekiranya mereka menyempurnakan hak mereka ke atas kamu, maka mereka juga berhak diberikan makan dan pakaian, dalam suasana kasih sayang. Layanilah wanita-wanita kamu dengan baik dan berlemah-lembutlah terhadap mereka kerana sesungguhnya mereka adalah teman dan pembantu kamu yang setia. Dan hak kamu atas mereka ialah mereka sama sekali tidak boleh memasukkan orang yang kamu tidak sukai ke dalam rumah kamu dan dilarang melakukan zina.



"Wahai manusia, dengarlah bersungguh-sungguh kata-kataku ini, sembahlah Allah, dirikanlah solat lima waktu, berpuasalah di bulan Ramadhan, dan tunaikanlah zakat dari harta kekayaan kamu. Kerjakanlah ibadah haji sekiranya kamu mampu. Ketahuilah bahawa setiap Muslim adalah saudara kepada Muslim yang lain. Kamu semua adalah sama; tidak seorang pun yang lebih mulia dari yang lainnya kecuali dalam Taqwa dan beramal soleh.



"Ingatlah, bahawa kamu akan menghadap Allah pada suatu hari untuk dipertanggungjawabkan diatas segala apa yang telah kamu kerjakan. Oleh itu, awasilah agar jangan sekali-kali kamu terkeluar dari landasan kebenaran selepas ketiadaanku.



"Wahai manusia, tidak ada lagi Nabi atau Rasul yang akan datang selepasku dan tidak akan lahir agama baru. Oleh itu wahai manusia, nilailah dengan betul dan fahamilah kata-kataku yang telah aku sampaikan kepada kamu. Sesungguhnya aku tinggalkan kepada kamu dua perkara, yang sekiranya kamu berpegang teguh dan mengikuti kedua-duanya, nescaya kamu tidak akan tersesat selama-lamanya. Itulah Al-Qur'an dan Sunnahku.



"Hendaklah orang-orang yang mendengar ucapanku, menyampaikan pula kepada orang lain. Semoga yang terakhir lebih memahami kata-kataku dari mereka yang terus mendengar dariku. Saksikanlah Ya Allah, bahawasanya telah aku sampaikan risalah-Mu kepada hamba-hamba-Mu."

I Love U Forever

Kadang-kadang,

Cinta manusia banyak sebabnya,

Cinta manusia boleh buat pening kepala,

Manusia kagum bila kamu bijak berbicara,

Mereka cinta sebab muka kamu boleh tahan juga.

Manusia cinta bila kamu cantik,

Ada karisma, personaliti menarik,

Konon hebat, macam orang politik,

Senang cerita, mereka cinta sebab kamu unik.

Kamu dicintai, bila banyak ilmu agama,

Manusia datang, mengharap kamu jadi teman hidupnya,

Padahal taktau, dalam hatimu ada setan juga,

Cinta manusia, memang betullah buta!

Manusia cintakanmu sebab kamu hebat,

Manusia cinta sebab kamu ni kuat,

Pergi mana-mana, musuh tak berani dekat,

Mereka cinta, sebab kamu boleh jadi bodyguard!

Yang Pasti...

Kecantikanmu, bukanlah untuk selamanya,

Kepetahanmu, kadang-kadang buat orang terluka,

Kekuatanmu, hilang pabila diri semakin tua,

Kebijaksanaanmu, boleh ditarik bila-bila masa,

Di akhirnya, pabila kamu tak lagi sempurna,

Di akhirnya, pabila kamu hilang segalanya,

Di akhirnya, pabila kamu hanya seorang insan biasa,

Masihkah ada manusia berikan rasa cinta?

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Dan Selamanya...

Hanya cinta Allah yang sentiasa menemani,

Ke mana kita lari, Dia tetap memerhati,

Kamu insan hina? Ah.. Dia tak peduli,

Kerana kita hamba, dan Dia lah Rabbi!

Dia mencintaimu, sedang kamu tak sempurna,

Dia mengingatimu, tatkala kamu melupakanNya,

Dia tetap ada, menerima mu pada bila-bila masa,

Dia setia menanti, tapi kamu leka dengan cinta manusia!

Jom!

Cintailah Allah, kita akan happy,

Cintailah Allah, kerana cintanya abadi,

Terlalu cintakan manusia, manusia akan mati,

Cintakan Allah, Dia tak akan berlalu pergi. :-)

Rasulullah SAW dan Mueeza.

Diceritakan dalam suatu kisah, Nabi Muhammad SAW memiliki seekor kucing yang diberi nama Mueeza.

Suatu ketika, dikala nabi hendak mengambil jubahnya, di temuinya Mueeza sedang terlelap tidur dengan santai diatas jubahnya. Kerana tidak mahu mengganggu haiwan kesayangannya itu, nabi pun memotong belahan lengan yang ditiduri Mueeza dari jubahnya.

Ketika Nabi kembali ke rumah, Muezza terbangun dan tunduk sujud kepada tuannya.

Sebagai balasan, nabi menyatakan kasih sayangnya dengan mengusap lembut ke badan kucing baginda itu sebanyak 3 kali.

Dalam peristiwa lain, setiap kali Nabi menerima tetamu di rumahnya, nabi selalu menggendong mueeza dan diriba diatas pahanya.

Salah satu sifat Mueeza yang nabi sukai ialah dia selalu mengeong ketika mendengar azan, dan seolah-olah suaranya terdengar seperti mengikuti lantunan suara azan.

Kepada para sahabat, nabi selalu berpesan untuk menyayangi kucing peliharaan, seperti menyayangi keluarga sendiri.

Hukuman bagi mereka yang menyakiti haiwan manja ini sangatlah berat, dalam sebuah hadis sahih Al Bukhari, dikisahkan tentang seorang wanita yang tidak pernah memberi makan kucingnya, dan tidak pula melepaskan kucingnya untuk mencari makan sendiri.

Nabi SAW pun menjelaskan bahawa hukuman bagi wanita ini adalah siksaan neraka.

Tidak hanya nabi, isteri nabi sendiri, Aisyah binti Abu Bakar Ash Siddiq pun amat menyukai kucing, dan merasa amat kehilangan dikala kucingnya meninggalkan

Seorang sahabat yang juga ahli hadis, Abdurrahman bin Sakhr Al Azdi diberi jolokan Abu Hurairah (bapa kucing jantan), kerana kegemarannya dalam merawat dan memelihara banyak kucing jantan dirumahnya.

So.. sayangi kucing anda.

Kredit : AkuIslam.

Ini Dewi Yuliana..

Dewi.. still remember kertas hitam nie x??

Selamat Hari Lahir Dewi..

Thanks.. coz dulu sudi jadi tempat aku lepaskan kemarahan n share gosip ngan aku.. hahahaha... ko pun kuat gosip gak.. kata aku plak..

btw.. you are..

1. chantek..

2. Smart..

3. Caring.. tahu keadaan..

4. Memahami aku and suka wat aku ketawa..

even.. masing2 ada masalah masing2.. ko tetap suka wat org kat sekitar ko tersenyum.. semlm aku br bc (3 April 2012)..itukan janji aku..

Janggut..oh janggut

Janggut.. Ohh.. janggut..
Ko cuma segumpal rambut..
Yang berselirat di bawah daguku.
Tapi aku tetap simpan kau..
Bukan sebab aku ingin memachokan diriku..
Tetapi Rasulullah jua menyimpanmu..

"Dari Jabir berkata: Sesungguhnya Rasulullah lebat janggutnya". (Hadis Riwayat Muslim)

Janggut..Ohh janggut..
Mungkin orang yg membelamu rasa rimas..
Tapi aku selesa sebegitu..
ketahuilah gut..
Aku bangga menyimpanmu..
Bukannnya menunjukkan alimlah diriku kerana membelamu..
Tapi penampilan secara sunnah itu pilihanku.
Kerana lelaki Islam sebaiknya begitu..

Diceritakan bahawa seorang lelaki daripada kalangan Majusi datang mengadap Nabi Shallallahu 'alaihi wasallam, dan lelaki ini telah mencukur janggutnya dan memanjangkan misainya. Lalu Baginda bertanya: "Apa (yang engkau lakukan) ini?" Lelaki itu menjawab: "Beginilah ajaran agama kami". Kemudian Baginda berkata: "Akan tetapi dalam agama kami (Islam), kami memotong misai dan membiarkan janggut kami panjang. "
(Hadits riwayat Ibnu Abu Syaibah)

Janggut Ohh janggut..
Mungkin aku akan nampak tua kalo berjanggut..
dan mungkin wajahku tidak sesuai untuk berjanggut..
Tapi..Ketahuilah gut,
Aku tidak pernah menilai diriku dengan penilaian orang lain padaku..
Aku bangga aku menyimpanmu Gut,
Kerana penampilan itu yg membezakan aku dan lelaki bukan Islam yg lain..

"Abdullah bin Umar berkata: Bersabda Rasulullah sallallahu ‘alaihi wa-sallam: Janganlah kamu menyerupai orang-orang Musyrikin, peliharalah janggut kamu dan tipiskanlah misai (kumis) kamu".Hadis Riwayat Bukhari, Muslim dan Al-Baihaqi

Janggut oh janggut..
Aku tahu kumpulan korea tidak berjanggut..
Aku tahu mereka macho dan digilai wanita..
aku tahu jua si Justin Bieber baby face itu jua digilai wanita..
Kerana mereka jambu, maka mereka tidak berjanggut.. *=.=''*
Tapi aku yakin sunnah ku yg sekecil ini bukannya untuk aku digilai..
Bukan sekadar fesyen dan kesesuaiannya di mukaku untuk diperhati..
Cukuplah Allah menyukai amalku ini..

“Dan kamu menyangka suatu (dari Allah) itu ringan (remeh) sahaja, padahal dia pada sisi Allah adalah perkara besar”. (an-Nisa’ 14)

Janggut Ohh janggut..
Mungkin ada yang akan katakan..
"apalah sangat janggut dipertikaikan.."
Tetapi aku yakin Gut,
Sunnah Rasulullah sentiasa hikmah dan mempunyai sebab
Cukuplah kau menjadi saksiku di akhirat
Bahawa aku telah melakukan kebaikan yg kecil di pandangan mereka
secara istiqamah dan taat!! :)

Rasulullah S.A.W bersabda:
“SESIAPA YANG TIDAK SUKA TERHADAP SUNNAHKU, MAKA DIA BUKANLAH GOLONGANKU”. (Lihat: Jami’ul Ushul (1/294). Hadis Riwayat Bukhari dan Muslim dari Anas r.a.)

MARI BERKEMPEN BELA JANGGUT!

Kredit To : fatinhambahina.blogspot.com..nice pic lol..

Are Bible's Writer Believed That Jesus Is God?

 Assalamualaikum wbt.. Alhamdulillah.. Solu alan Nabi..

First of all, I would like to appreciate my father for helping me in my research about this article.. and also my fellow friends who also give an idea and contribution in this article.

Tag : Khalid Ibnu Ahmad.. Pauziah Bintu Hamiron and Friends.

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Christians and Muslims both believe in Jesus, love him, and honor him. They are, however, divided over the question of his divinity.

Fortunately, this difference can be resolved if we refer the question to both the Bible and the Quran, because, both the Bible and the Quran teach that Jesus is not God.

It is clear enough to everyone that the Quran denies the divinity of Jesus, so we do not need to spend much time explaining that.

On the other hand, many people misunderstand the Bible; they feel that the belief in Jesus as God is so widespread that it must have come from the Bible. This article shows quite conclusively that the Bible does not teach that.

The Bible clearly teaches that Jesus is not God. In the Bible God is always someone else other than Jesus.

Some will say that something Jesus said or something he did while on the earth proves that he is God. We will show that the disciples never came to the conclusion that Jesus is God. And those are people who lived and walked with Jesus and thus knew first hand what he said and did. Furthermore, we are told in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible that the disciples were being guided by the Holy Spirit.

If Jesus is God, surely they should have known it. But they did not. They kept worshipping the one true God who was worshipped by Abraham, Moses, and Jesus (see Acts 3:13).

All of the writers of the Bible believed that God was not Jesus. The idea that Jesus is God did not become part of Christian belief until after the Bible was written, and took many centuries to become part of the faith of Christians.

Matthew, Mark, and Luke, authors of the first three Gospels, believed that Jesus was not God (see Mark 10:18 and Matthew 19:17). They believed that he was the son of God in the sense of a righteous person. Many others too, are similarly called sons of God (see Matthew 23:1-9).

Paul, believed to be the author of some thirteen or fourteen letters in the Bible, also believed that Jesus is not God. For Paul, God first created Jesus, then used Jesus as the agent by which to create the rest of creation (see Colossians 1:15 and 1 Corinthians 8:6). Similar ideas are found in the letter to the Hebrews, and also in the Gospel and Letters of John composed some seventy years after Jesus. In all of these writings, however, Jesus is still a creature of God and is therefore forever subservient to God (see 1 Corinthians 15:28).

Now, because Paul, John, and the author of Hebrews believed that Jesus was God’s first creature, some of what they wrote clearly show that Jesus was a pre-existent powerful being. This is often misunderstood to mean that he must have been God. But to say that Jesus was God is to go against what these very authors wrote.

Although these authors had this later belief that Jesus is greater than all creatures, they also believed that he was still lesser than God. In fact, John quotes Jesus as saying: “...the Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28). And Paul declares that the head of every woman is her husband, the head of every man is Christ, and the head of Christ is God (see 1 Corinthians 11:3).

Therefore, to find something in these writings and claim that these teach that Jesus is God is to misuse and misquote what those authors are saying. What they wrote must be understood in the context of their belief that Jesus is a creature of God as they have already clearly said.

So we see then, that some of the later writers had a higher view of Jesus, but none of the writers of the Bible believed that Jesus is God. The Bible clearly teaches that there is only one true God, the one whom Jesus worshipped (see John 17: 3).

In the rest of this article we will explore the Bible in more depth, and deal with the passages which are most often misquoted as proofs of Jesus’ divinity. We will show, with God’s help, that these do not mean what they are so often used to prove.

Evidence From the Acts of the Apostles:

Jesus performed many miraculous wonders, and he without doubt said a lot of wonderful things about himself. Some people use what he said and did as a proof that he was God. But his original disciples who lived and walked with him, and were eyewitnesses to what he said and did, never reached this conclusion.

The Acts of the Apostles in the Bible details the activity of the disciples over a period of thirty years after Jesus was lifted up to heaven. Throughout this period they never refer to Jesus as God. They continually and consistently use the title God to refer to someone else other than Jesus.

Peter stood up with the eleven disciples and addressed the crowd saying: “Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.” (Acts 2:22).

It was God, therefore, who did the miracles through Jesus to convince people that Jesus was backed by God. Peter did not see the miracles as proof that Jesus is God.

In fact, the way Peter refers to God and to Jesus makes it clear that Jesus is not God. For he always turns the title God away from Jesus. Take the following references for example:

“God has raised this Jesus...” (Acts 2:32)

“God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.” (Acts 2:36)

In both passages, the title God is turned away from Jesus. So why he did this, if Jesus was God?

For Peter, Jesus was a servant of God. Peter said: “God raised up his servant...” (Acts 3:26). The title servant refers to Jesus. This is clear from a previous passage where Peter declared: “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.” (Acts 3:13).

Peter must have known that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob never spoke of a Triune God. They always spoke of God as the only God. Here, as in Matthew 12:18, Jesus is the servant of God. Matthew tells us that Jesus was the same servant of God spoken of in Isaiah 42:1. So, according to Matthew and Peter, Jesus is not God, but God’s servant. The Old Testament repeatedly says that God is alone (e.g. Isaiah 45:5).

All of the disciples of Jesus held this view. In Acts 4:24 we are told that the believers prayed to God saying: “...they raised their voices together in prayer to God. ‘Sovereign Lord,’ they said, ‘you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.’” It is clear that the one they were praying to was not Jesus, because, two verses later, they referred to Jesus as “...your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.” (Acts 4:27).

If Jesus was God, his disciples should have said this clearly. Instead, they kept preaching that Jesus was God’s Christ. We are told in Acts: “Day after day, in the temple courts and from house to house, they never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news that Jesus is the Christ.” (Acts 5:42).

The Greek word “Christ” is a human title. It means “Anointed.” If Jesus was God, why would the disciples continually refer to him with human titles like servant and Christ of God, and consistently use the title God for the one who raised Jesus? Did they fear men? No! They boldly preached the truth fearing neither imprisonment nor death. When they faced opposition from the authorities, Peter declared: “We must obey God rather than men! The God of our fathers raised Jesus...” (Acts 5:29-30).

Were they lacking the Holy Spirit? No! They were supported by the Holy Spirit (see Acts 2:3, 4:8, and 5:32). They were simply teaching what they had learnt from Jesus — that Jesus was not God but, rather, God’s servant and Christ.

The Quran confirms that Jesus was the Messiah (Christ), and that he was God’s servant (see the Holy Quran 3:45 and 19:30).


Jesus is Not All-Powerful, and Not All-Knowing:

Christians and Muslims agree that God is all-powerful and all-knowing. The Gospels show that Jesus was not all-powerful, and not all-knowing, since he had some limitations.

Mark tells us in his gospel that Jesus was unable to do any powerful work in his hometown except few things: “He could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.” (Mark 6:5). Mark also tells us that when Jesus tried to heal a certain blind man, the man was not healed after the first attempt, and Jesus had to try a second time (see Mark 8:22-26).

Therefore, although we hold a great love and respect for Jesus, we need to understand that he is not the all-powerful God.

Mark’s Gospel also reveals that Jesus had limitations in his knowledge. In Mark 13:32, Jesus declared that he himself does not know when the last day will occur, but the Father alone knows that (see also Matthew 24:36).

Therefore, Jesus could not have been the all-knowing God. Some will say that Jesus knew when the last day will occur, but he chose not to tell. But that complicates matters further. Jesus could have said that he knows but he does not wish to tell. Instead, he said that he does not know. We must believe him. Jesus does not lie at all.

The Gospel of Luke also reveals that Jesus had limited knowledge. Luke says that Jesus increased in wisdom (Luke 2:52). In Hebrews too (Hebrews 5:8) we read that Jesus learned obedience. But God’s knowledge and wisdom is always perfect, and God does not learn new things. He knows everything always. So, if Jesus learned something new, that proves that he did not know everything before that, and thus he was not God.

Another example for the limited knowledge of Jesus is the fig tree episode in the Gospels. Mark tells us as follows: “The next day as they were leaving Bethany , Jesus was hungry. Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.” (Mark 11:12-13).

It is clear from these verses that the knowledge of Jesus was limited on two counts. First, he did not know that the tree had no fruit until he came to it. Second, he did not know that it was not the right season to expect figs on trees.

Can he become God later? No! Because there is only one God, and He is God from everlasting to everlasting (see Psalms 90:2).

Someone may say that Jesus was God but he took the form of a servant and therefore became limited. Well, that would mean that God changed. But God does not change. God said so according to Malachi 3:6.

Jesus never was God, and never will be. In the Bible, God declares: “Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me.” (Isaiah 43:10).

The Bible clearly shows that Jesus was not all-powerful and all-knowing as the true God should be.

The Greatest Commandment in the Bible and the Quran:

Some will say that this whole discussion over the divinity of Jesus is unnecessary. They say, the important thing is to accept Jesus as your personal savior. On the contrary, the Bible’s writers stressed that, in order to be saved, it is necessary to understand who exactly is God. Failure to understand this would be to violate the first and greatest of all the commandments in the Bible. This commandment was emphasized by Jesus, on whom be peace, when a teacher of the Law of Moses asked him: “‘Of all the commandments, which is the most important?’ ‘The most important one,’ answered Jesus, ‘is this: Hear, O Israel , the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’” (Mark 12:28-30).

Notice that Jesus was quoting the first commandment from the book of Deuteronomy 6:4-5. Jesus confirmed not only that this commandment is still valid, but also that it is the most important of all the commandments. If Jesus thought that he himself is God, why did not he say so? Instead, he stressed that God is one. The man who questioned Jesus understood this, and what the man says next makes it clear that God is not Jesus, for he said to Jesus: “‘Well said, teacher,’ the man replied. ‘You are right in saying that God is one and there is no other but him.’” (Mark 12:32).

Now if Jesus was God, he would have told the man so. Instead, he let the man refer to God as someone other than Jesus, and he even saw that the man had spoken wisely: “When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, ‘You are not far from the kingdom of God .’” (Mark 12:34). If Jesus knew that God is a trinity, why did not he say so? Why did he not say that God is one in three, or three in one? Instead, he declared that God is one. True imitators of Jesus will imitate him also in this declaration of God’s oneness. They will not add the word three where Jesus never said it.

Does salvation depend on this commandment? Yes, says the Bible! Jesus made this clear when another man approached Jesus to learn from him (see Mark 10:17-29). The man fell on his knees and said to Jesus: “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus replied: “Why do you call me good? No one is good — except God alone.” (Mark 10:17-18).

By so saying, Jesus made a clear distinction between himself and God. Then he proceeded with the answer to the man’s question about how to get salvation. Jesus told him: “If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.” (Matthew 19:17, also see Mark 10:19).

Remember that the most important of all the commandments, according to Jesus, is to know God as the only God. Jesus further emphasized this in the Gospel According to John. In John 17:1, Jesus lifted his eyes to heaven and prayed, addressing God as Father. Then in verse three, he said to God as follows: “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” (John 17:3).

This proves beyond doubt that if people want to get eternal life they must know that the One, whom Jesus was praying to, is the only true God, and they must know that Jesus was sent by the true God. Some say that the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Ghost is God. But Jesus said that the Father alone is the only true God.

True followers of Jesus will follow him in this too. Jesus had said that his true followers are those who hold to his teachings. He said: “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.” (John 8:31). His teaching is that people must continue to keep the commandments, especially the first commandment which emphasizes that God is alone, and that God should be loved with all our hearts and all our strengths.

We love Jesus, but we must not love him as God. Today many love Jesus more than they love God. This is because they see God as a vengeful person who wanted to exact a penalty from them, and they see Jesus as the savior who rescued them from the wrath of God. Yet God is our only savior. According to Isaiah 43:11, God said: “I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.” Also God said according to Isaiah 45:21-22: “Was it not I, the LORD? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me. Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.”

The Quran confirms the first commandment and addresses it to all humankind (see the Holy Quran 2:163). And God declares that true believers love Him more than anyone else or anything else (Quran 2:165).

Paul Believed That Jesus is not God:

Many people use Paul’s writings as proof that Jesus is God. But this is not fair to Paul, because Paul clearly believed that Jesus is not God. In his first letter to Timothy, Paul wrote: “I charge you, in the sight of God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels, to keep these instructions. ..” (1 Timothy 5:21).

It is clear from this that the title God applies not to Christ Jesus, but to someone else. In the following chapter, he again differentiates between God and Jesus when he says: “In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession.. .” (1 Timothy 6:13).

Paul then went on to speak of the second appearance of Jesus: “the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in his own time.” (1 Timothy 6:14-15).

Again, the title God is deliberately turned away from Jesus. Incidentally, many people think that when Jesus is called “Lord” in the Bible that this means “God.” But in the Bible this title means master or teacher, and it can be used for addressing humans (see 1 Peter 3:6).

What is more important, however, is to notice what Paul said about God in the following passage, which clearly shows that Jesus is not God: “God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever.” (1 Timothy 6:15-16).

Paul said that God alone is immortal. Immortal means he does not die. Check any dictionary. Now, anyone who believes that Jesus died cannot believe that Jesus is God. Such a belief would contradict what Paul said here. Furthermore, to say that God died is a blasphemy against God. Who would run the world if God died? Paul believed that God does not die.

Paul also said in that passage that God dwells in unapproachable light — that no one has seen God or can see him. Paul knew that many thousands of people had seen Jesus. Yet Paul said that no one has seen God, because Paul was sure that Jesus is not God. This is why Paul went on teaching that Jesus was not God, but that he was the Christ (see Acts 9:22 and 18:5).

When he was in Athens , Paul spoke of God as “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.” (Acts 17:24). Then he identified Jesus as “the man he (i.e. God) has appointed.” (Acts 17:31).

Clearly, for Paul, Jesus was not God, and he would be shocked to see his writings used for proving the opposite of what he believed. Paul even testified in court saying: “I admit that I worship the God of our fathers...” (Acts 24:14).

He also said that Jesus is the servant of that God, for we read in Acts: “The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus.” (Acts 3:13).

For Paul, the Father alone is God. Paul said that there is “one God and Father of all...” (Ephesians 4:6). Paul said again: “...for us there is but one God, the Father . . . and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ...” (1 Corinthians 8:6).

Paul’s letter to the Philippians (Philippians 2:6-11) is often quoted as a proof that Jesus is God. But the very passage shows that Jesus is not God. This passage has to agree with Isaiah 45:22-24 where God said that every knee should bow to God, and every tongue should confess that righteousness and strength are in God alone. Paul was aware of this passage, for he quoted it in Romans 14:11. Knowing this, Paul declared: “I kneel before the Father.” (Ephesians 3:14).

The letter to the Hebrews (Hebrews 1:6) says that the angels of God should worship the Son. But this passage depends on Deuteronomy 32:43, in the Septuagint version of the Old Testament. This phrase cannot be found in the Old Testament used by Christians today, and the Septuagint version is no longer considered valid by Christians. However, even the Septuagint version, does not say worship the Son. It says let the Angels of God worship God. The Bible insists that God alone is to be worshipped: “When the LORD made a covenant with the Israelites, he commanded them: ‘Do not worship any other gods or bow down to them, serve them or sacrifice to them. But the LORD, who brought you up out of Egypt with mighty power and outstretched arm, is the one you must worship. To him you shall bow down and to him offer sacrifices. You must always be careful to keep the decrees and ordinances, the laws and commands he wrote for you. Do not worship other gods. Do not forget the covenant I have made with you, and do not worship other gods. Rather, worship the LORD your God; it is he who will deliver you from the hand of all your enemies.’” (2 Kings 17:35-39).

Jesus, on whom be peace, believed in this, for he also stressed it in Luke 4:8. And Jesus too fell on his face and worshipped God (see Matthew 26:39). Paul knew that Jesus worshipped God (see Hebrews 5:7). Paul taught that Jesus will remain forever subservient to God (see 1 Corinthians 15:28).

Evidence from the Gospel of John:

The Gospel of John, the fourth Gospel, was completed to its present form some seventy years after Jesus was raised up to heaven. This Gospel in its final form says one more thing about Jesus that was unknown from the previous three Gospels — that Jesus was the Word of God. John means that Jesus was God’s agent through whom God created everything else. This is often misunderstood to mean that Jesus was God Himself. But John was saying, as Paul had already said, that Jesus was God’s first creature. In the Book of Revelation in the Bible, we find that Jesus is: “the beginning of God’s creation” (Revelation 3:14, also see 1 Corinthians 8:6 and Colossians 1:15).

Anyone who says that the Word of God is a person distinct from God must also admit that the Word was created, for the Word speaks in the Bible saying: “The LORD brought me forth as the first of his works...” (Proverbs 8:22).

This Gospel, nevertheless, clearly teaches that Jesus is not God. If it did not continue this teaching, then it would contradict the other three Gospels and also the letters of Paul from which it is clearly established that Jesus is not God. We find here that Jesus was not co-equal with the Father, for Jesus said: “...the Father is greater than I.” (John 14:28).

People forget this and they say that Jesus is equal to the Father. Whom should we believe — Jesus or the people? Muslims and Christians agree that God is self-existent. This means that He does not derive his existence from anyone. Yet John tells us that Jesus’ existence is caused by the Father. Jesus said in this Gospel: “...I live because of the Father...” (John 6:57).

John tells us that Jesus cannot do anything by his own when he quotes Jesus as saying: “By myself I can do nothing...” (John 5:30). This agrees with what we learn about Jesus from other Gospels. In Mark, for example, we learn that Jesus performed miracles by a power which was not within his control. This is especially clear from an episode in which a woman is healed of her incurable bleeding. The woman came up behind him and touched his cloak, and she was immediately healed. But Jesus had no idea who touched him. Mark describes Jesus’ actions thus: “At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, ‘Who touched my clothes?’” (Mark 5:30). His disciples could not provide a satisfactory answer, so Mark tells us: “Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.” (Mark 5:32). This shows that the power that healed the woman was not within Jesus’ control. He knew that the power had gone out of him, but he did not know where it went. Some other intelligent being had to guide that power to the woman who needed to be healed. God was that intelligent being.

It is no wonder, then, that in Acts of the Apostles we read that it was God who did the miracles through Jesus (Acts 2:22).

God did extraordinary miracles through others too, but that does not make the others God (see Acts 19:11). Why, then, is Jesus taken for God? Even when Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead, he had to ask God to do it. Lazarus’ sister, Martha, knew this, for she said to Jesus: “I know that even now God will give you whatever you ask.” (John 11:22).

Martha knew that Jesus was not God, and John who reported this with approval knew it also. Jesus had a God, for when he was about to ascend to heaven, he said: “I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.” (John 20:17).

John was sure that no one had seen God, although he knew that many people had seen Jesus (see John 1:18 and 1 John 4:12). In fact Jesus himself told the crowds, that they have never seen the Father, nor have they heard the Father’s voice (John 5:37). Notice that if Jesus was the Father, his statement here would be false. Who is the only God in John’s Gospel? The Father alone.

Jesus testified this when he declared that the God of the Jews is the Father (John 8:54). Jesus too confirmed that the Father alone is the only true God (see John 17:1-3). And Jesus said to his enemies: “...you are determined to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God.” (John 8:40). According to John, therefore, Jesus was not God, and nothing John wrote should be taken as proof that he was God — unless one wishes to disagree with John.

God and Jesus Are Two Separate Beings:

Many people use certain verses of the Bible as proof that Jesus is God. However, all of these verses, when understood in context, prove the opposite!

For example, in Matthew 9:2, Jesus said to a certain man, “Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven.” Because of this, some say that Jesus must be God since only God can forgive sins. However, if you are willing to read just a few verses further, you will find that the people “...praised God, who had given such authority to men.” (Matthew 9:8). This shows that the people knew, and Matthew agrees, that Jesus is not the only man to receive such authority from God.

Jesus himself emphasized that he does not speak on his own authority (John 14:10) and he does nothing on his own authority, but he speaks only what the Father has taught him (John 8:28). What Jesus did here was as follows. Jesus announced to the man the knowledge Jesus received from God that God had forgiven the man.

Notice that Jesus did not say, “I forgive your sins,” but rather, “your sins are forgiven,” implying, as this would to his Jewish listeners, that God had forgiven the man. Jesus, then, did not have the power to forgive sins, and in that very episode he called himself “the Son of Man” (Matthew 9:6).

John 10:30 is often used as proof that Jesus is God because Jesus said, “I and the father are one.” But, if you read the next six verses, you will find Jesus explaining that his enemies were wrong to think that he was claiming to be God. What Jesus obviously means here is that he is one with the Father in purpose. Jesus also prayed that his disciples should be one just as Jesus and the Father are one. Obviously, he was not praying that all his disciples should somehow merge into one individual (see John 17:11 and 22). And when Luke reports that the disciples were all one, Luke does not mean that they became one single human being, but that they shared a common purpose although they were separate beings (see Acts 4:32). In terms of essence, Jesus and the Father are two, for Jesus said they are two witnesses (John 8:14-18). They have to be two, since one is greater than the other (see John 14:28). When Jesus prayed to be saved from the cross, he said: “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.” (Luke 22:42).

This shows that they had two separate wills, although Jesus submitted his will to the will of the Father. Two wills mean two separate individuals.

Furthermore, Jesus is reported to have said: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). If one of them forsook the other, then they must be two separate entities.

Again, Jesus is reported to have said: “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” (Luke 23:46). If the spirit of one can be placed into the hands of another, they must be two separate beings.

In all of these instances, Jesus is clearly subordinate to the Father. When Jesus knelt down and prayed he obviously was not praying to himself (see Luke 22:41). He was praying to his God.

Throughout the New Testament, the Father alone is called God. In fact, the titles “Father” and “God” are used to designate one individual, not three, and never Jesus. This is also clear from the fact that Matthew substituted the title “Father” in the place of the title “God” in at least two places in his Gospel (compare Matthew 10:29 with Luke 12:6, and Matthew 12:50 with Mark 3:35). If Matthew is right in doing so, then the Father alone is God.

Was Jesus the Father? No! Because Jesus said: “And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.” (Matthew 23:9). So Jesus is not the Father, since Jesus was standing on the earth when he said this.

The Quran seeks to bring people back to the true faith that was taught by Jesus, and by his true disciples who continued in his teaching. That teaching emphasized a continued commitment to the first commandment that God is alone. In the Quran, God directs Muslims to call readers of the Bible back to that true faith. God have said in the Quran:

Say: “O people of the Book (Christians and Jews)! Come to a word that is just between us and you: that we shall worship none but God, and that we shall associate no partners with Him, and that none of us shall take others as lords beside God.” (Quran, 3:64)

By : E'en Khalid and Friends