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“If you want to identify with the spirit of the Quran, you must practically involve [yourself] with the struggle to fulfill its mission. For the Quran is not a book of abstract theories and cold ideas, which one can grasp while seated in a cosy arm chair. Nor is it merely a religious book like other religious books, whose meanings can be grasped in seminaries and oratories.”

On the contrary, it is a Book which contains a message, and invitation, which generates a movement. The moment it began to sent down, it impelled a quiet and pious man to abandon his life of solitude and confront the world that was living in rebellion against God. It inspired him to raise his voice against falsehood, and pitted him in a grim struggle against the lords of disbelief, evil and inquity. One after the other, from every home, it drew every pure and noble soul, and gathered them under the banner of truth. In every part of the country, it made all the mischevious and the corrupt to rise and wage war against the bearers of the truth.

This is a Book which launched a glorious movement, with the voice of a single individual, and continued to provide guidance to it for twenty-three years, till the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth. At every stage during this long and heart-rending struggle between truth and falsehood, this Book showed its followers the ways to eradicate the old order and usher in the new.

‘Is it, then, possible, to reach the heart of the Quran merely by reading its words, without ever stepping upon the battlefield of faith and disbelief, of Islam and Ignorance, without passing through any stage of the struggle? No, you can understand the Quran only when you take it up, begin to act upon it, and call mankind to God, and when every step you take is in obedience to its guidance.

‘Then and only then, you will go through all the events and experiences which occurred during the course of its revelation. You will then pass through Makka, and Habash, and Taif; you will face Badr, Uhud, Hunayn and Tabuk. You will encounter Abu Jahl and Abu Lahab; you will meet the hypocrites and Jews; you will come face to face with those who instantly responded to this call as well as those who were drawn into Islam seeking some gain. You will come across all of these human models; you will deal with all of them.

This is a path different from the so-called ‘mystic-path’, which I name the ‘Quranic path’ that, as you pass through its various stations and stages, certain Surahs and Ayahs will disclose their full message to you, and tell you that they were revealed precisely for this stage and station that you are passing through. You may miss some linguistic and grammatical subtleties, you may miss certain finer points in the rhetoric and semantics of the Quran, yet it is impossible that the Quran will fail to reveal its full and true spirit to you.

In the same way, no person can ever understand the legal injunctions, the moral teachings, and the political and economic directives of the Quran, unless and until he puts them into practice. Neither the individual who lives independently of the Quran nor the nation which runs its institutions in violation of its guidance can discover the spirit of the Quran.’

Reference: Tahfhimul Quran, Vol.I, Lahore, 1979, pp.33-4 quoted in Murad, Khurram, ‘Way to the Quran’, The Islamic Foundation, Leicester, UK, 1991. The above quoted passage appears in the latter on pages 117-118.

                                                                                               Sumber: Abulala.com

Saya sangat terkesan. Membaca artikel beliau The Quranic Path membuat saya merasa saya inI sebenarnya dalam kalangan huffaz. Perlu berjiwa besar. Tabah mengharung mehnah. Bukan untuk huffaz sahaja. Bahkan semua yang bernama manusia harus disedarkan. Tentang JALAN AL-QURAN.

AL-HAFIZ  wa AL-HAFIZAH

Gahnya nama. Kalau sebut al-hafiz/ al-hafizah, siapa yang tidak kagum.

“Inilah penghuni syurga”

“Huffaz adalah pemimpin!”

“ Huffaz adalah front liner”

Pelbagai komen dan perpektif masyarakat yang kita boleh dengar.

Pendek kata, orang pandang tinggi huffaz ini.

Begitu besar amanah yang perlu dipikul.

26 Mei 2011

Pagi

Pelajar Persijilan Semester 3  DQ-UIAM Sesi 10/11 kelihatan bersedia untuk melalui peperiksaan Syafawi  Al-Quran. Macam-macam ragam, gaya dan rencana yang boleh dilihat. Ada yang sekejap buka depan, buka belakang pula. Tak habis baca lagi satu muka dah buka muka surat lain. Tak kurang pula bagi yang masyi, sekadar mengulang di dalam kepala. Tak keruan melihat. Hari ini merupakan kembara huffaz yang sebenar. Setelah hampir setahun setengah membanting tulang, memerah keringat, sekali lagi kita diuji.

Petang

“Perhatian kepada pelajar persijilan, nama pelajar yang terpilih mengikuti tasfiyah telah ditampal di papan kenyataan.”

Kedengaran di corong telinga, pengumuman berkumandang. Terus berdebar macam nak tercabut jantung. Kecoh satu asrama dengan pengumuman itu. Dalam hati berdetik, letakkan jiwa dalam genggaman Dia. Mengharap yang terbaik dariNYa untuk hamba hina.

Bayangkan kehendak ALLAH,adik-beradik IQRaC kena tasfiyah. Memang sangat sakit. Sekali pandang ada yang cakap, alah dah habis sem pun.Biar aku bukan di tempat mereka.  Melihat sahaja rasa terseksa. Hingga terasa diri ini yang patut kena. Letakkan diri di tempat mereka. Tuntutan pengorbanan perasaan tu ALLAH sahaja yang tahu. Siapa tak sedih belum habis exam, mubtahil dah cakap hari jumaat(hari tasfiyah dijalankan) kita jumpa.

Nak katanya, kalau kita dah pilih jalan nak jadi huffaz, perlulah beribu kali ganda bersedia untuk menerima berbilion kali kesusahan, kesedihan, kesakitan, tanggungjawab, kesakitan. Kerana Al-Quran, bukan diturunkan sekadar perhiasan atau mainan. Huffaz bukan terpilih. Bahkan dipilh untuk menjadi ahli ALLAH.

Kalau rasa tertekan  sikit dah nak mengaku kalah. Memilih rebah daripada berubah. Silalah berundur. Jangan selarkan diri kita huffaz. Kerana bila kita nak pegang Al-Quran, kita perlu melalui seperti apa yang terkandung dalam Al-Quran. Segala keperitan dan penderitaan menghafaz, mengingat dan mengamalkan Al-Quran. Itulah yang layak unutk kita. Penderitaan itu menjadi satu rutin WAJIB dilalui.

 Lebih-lebih lagi kita yang menghafaz Al-Quran. Ingin membawa bersama yang lain menuju Quranic Path.

Kesakitan mengharungi tiga semester di Darul Quran itu hanya kecil berbanding kesakitan yang dialami Nabi Muhammad s.a.w dan para sahabat dalam mengakkan Islam sebagai satu sistem. Mempraktiskan segala yang terkandung dalam Al-Quran. Merasai dari jiwa yang dalam setiap perjalanan yang ditempuhi. At last, all the taste and flavours, bitter,sour sweet and salty turn into something we called, shiawase.

Akhirnya, indahnya derita kerana semua dinilai Yang Esa.