Ummi's Anecdotes: Kita Bagaimana?

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Kita Bagaimana?

Bi ismi Allah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim

Ummi belajar dari bonda Ummi bahawa memberi itu lebih menenangkan jiwa dari menerima. Malam tadi Ummi menghubungi MQ untuk bertanya khabar...Kesibukan dengan tanggungjawab di depan mata kadang-kadang membuatkan kita lupa dengan tanggungjawab kita kepada yang lain. Senang hati Ummi mendengar suara manja MQ...maaf MQ tapi anda sememangnya manja...hehe

Semalam Ummi menerima kunjungan dari MS...Beliau datang melepaskan rindunya kepada IIUM dan juga kepada Ummi...ada jugaklah orang rindu kat Ummi...bahagia rasanya... :D hehe...

Hari ini MS datang lagi...Ummi membawa MS menziarahi Pengerusi PTS di pejabat

beliau di Batu Caves. Tujuan Ummi ke sana adalah untuk berjumpa dengan seorang ustaz dari Kemboja yang datang menemui Pengerusi PTS...Ummi ingin mendengar sendiri keadaan ummat Islam di Kemboja...

Ya Allah...dari penerangan ustaz Hasan, Ummi mendapat maklumat bahawa kanak-kanak Kemboja hanya berbuka puasa dengan segelas air sejuk...sekiranya ada biskut, mereka makan beberapa keping biskut yang dikongsi dengan ahli keluarga yang lain... sekiranya ada gula dan perasa sirap, mereka akan minum air sirap yang dibubuh sedikit gula...ada orang tua di antara mereka yang tidak pernah minum susu disepanjang hidup mereka...

Kemiskinan mereka memang tidak dapat digambarkan kerana kita tidak pernah melihat atau mengalami keadaan hidup yang sebegitu...Ustaz itu meneruskan dengan ceritanya...bahawa di bulan Ramadhan dia akan membeli bertin-tin biskut untuk orang-orang kampung berbuka puasa... bapa yang berbuka di masjid akan makan sekeping biskut dan simpan beberapa keping lagi di dalam poket mereka untuk anak-anak di rumah yang ketiadaan makanan untuk berbuka...Mata Ummi mula memerah... dan Ummi lihat airmata Pengerusi PTS bergenang...

Ummi bertanya...mereka tidak berbuka dengan kurma kah? Ustaz itu berkata bahawa kurma adalah makanan mewah dan oran-orang kampung tidak pernah merasa kurma dalam hidup mereka...Ya Allah....bayangkan...dan kita membuang kurma yang tidak habis dimakan begitu sahaja...Ummi terfikir kurma ajwa di bilik Ummi yang Ummi beli beberapa bulan yang lepas..sudah berulat kerana Ummi selalu lupa untuk makan kurma tersebut...dan kurma ajwa itu berharga RM65.00 untuk setengah kg.

Untuk bulan Ramadhan tahun ini, Ustaz Hasan bercadang untuk menjamu orang kampung dengan bubur nasi untuk berbuka...Ummi hairan kenapa bubur nasi...Ustaz itu menjelaskan supaya semua kanak-kanak kampung dapat makan...sekiranya mereka masak nasi, mereka memerlukan banyak beras. Ya Allah...bayangkan semalam di dalam surat khabar ada iklan berbuka puasa di restoran lima bintang dengan harga RM108.00 sekepala... dan kanak-kanak di Kemboja hanya makan bubur nasi tanpa lauk...hanya bubur kosong yang ditambah garam...Ummi bertanya tentang ikan masin...kata ustaz tersebut, mereka tidak mampu beli ikan masin kerana harganya mahal...

Dalam hati Ummi bertanya...sampai bilakah mereka ini harus bergantung kepada derma dari Malaysia? Mereka perlu diajar kemahiran...give a person a fish, we feed him a day, teach a person how to fish, we feed him a life time...SOmething has to done... Ummi's mind starts cracking....

3 comments:

Abu Mukhlis ShahputraJune 16, 2011 at 9:22 PM
yup sgt setuju dgn cadangan ummi
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Wan MazwatiJune 16, 2011 at 11:23 PM
Kalau Indra ada masa lapang...kalau dah penat belajar tu...sambil dok rehat-rehat, boleh tak buat brainstorming session utk fikirkan cara mana paling berkesan membantu mereka ini :)
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SumaiyyahJune 18, 2011 at 7:04 PM
Kesiannya... nak makan biskut pun susah ya.
Maybe Ummi boleh rancang satu program di Kemboja? jangan lupa ajak saya sekali, hehe ;)
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SMS to Sir Muhammad Iqbal

O Iqbal!

The spring of 2002 beckoned my soul and body;
to witness the Muslim remains of Alhambra, Cordova and Sevilla,
to retrace your noble steps and feel the vibrations of your ectasy,
to feast my aging vision on the haunting grandeur of Alhambra and relish the marchless beauty of Moorish art…

I glided through the cold ruins,
searching for the secrets of the humiliating downfall of Al-Andalus…
The flowing fountains of Jannat’ul-Arif (Generalife) continue to narrate the melancholy of Muslim follies…
How, they succumbed to the same diseases which brought down the mighty Roman Empire
They wrote all over Al-Andalus “La-Ghaliba Illa’Llah”
(There is no vanquisher except Allah)
but they began to worship the mata ad-dunya (pleasures of the world)
and traded their souls for gold, glory, women and wine,
only to end like stray donkeys,
kicked around by the boots Ferdinand and Isabella
Today, pigeons nestle and make love in the ruins,
their droppings strewn all over the walls,
Western tourists pour out buses and planes,
frolicking in romance, obliterating all pains
while Muslim architectural glory continues to boost the coffers of Catholic Spain

I stood, O Iqbal,
on the hill of Alhambra,
“a stranger, gazing at things gone by, dreams of another age”.

O Iqbal!
Your dreams of Islamic renaissance are in tatters,
In your time the tyrant was Frankish colonization,
Today the Slave Master dons the cloak of globalization,
Piercing through the iron curtain, the bamboo curtain, the sahara and the tropical jungles carrying a civilization of McDonalds, KFC’s and Coca Colas,
While eight hundred million people languish in famine and squalor,
You predicted the collapse of godless and materialistic Europe,
But today she is more united and mightier than the Muslim world.

Today, O Iqbal!
The West is supreme and capitalism triumphantly arrogant,
Islam is the new enemy; in your time it was Bolshevism,
and today every Muslim is a potential terrorist,
You are either with the West or you are against it.
If you conform, the Slave Master’s mercy will descend upon you,
offering bread and dust and blankets
(lest you shiver in the thinderstorm of the New Alliance rage)
Today Musulman is languishing
in the trap of the New World Disorder,
a New Slavery in a Boardless Prison.

O Iqbal!
I wish you have heard the guns of Israel,
the cries from Deir Yassin, Shabra, Shatilla and Jenin,
the savage rimblings of Sharon’s tanks,
the merciless bull-dozers tearing into Palestinians homes,
the explosions of teenage suicide bombers,
the ruthless retaliations of Zionist terrorism
(no, no, no, you cannot call it a terrorist state!)

O Iqbal!
You would weep if you know that Pakistan is now bleeding,
Kashmir is bleeding, Chechnya is bleeding, Moroland is bleeding,
And Acheh is bleeding!
And Indian Muslims are burned alive!
A Muslim holocaust is in the making!
Do you know that you cannot call the Slave Master and his friends terrorists?
Only the victims who fight back are terrorists,
Never mind if the Zionist media terrorizes truth or Palestinians or Muslims.
Do you know that
Those who preach pluralism cannot give space to the Din of Islam?
Those who preach democracy in Europe cannot accomodate it in Indonesia, Algeria and Turkey lest would be liberated.

O Iqbal!
Do you know that Islam is to be tolerated by the New Slave Master only if it is Protestantized, Liberalized, Secularized or Westernized?
Only if it is confined to the mosque, to mysticism,
Only if it preaches that all religions are the same.

O Iqbal!
Have you heard what George Tenet said other day:
“The United States is mightier than the Roman Empire and Israel is our friend.”
If you want “peace” you have to lick our shoes,
or else you will be terrorized in the name of peace,
Or else, we will send the thugs and robbers to loot your banks
And they blame you
for “lack of transparency” and “poor corporate governance”.

O Iqbal!
Sixty four years after you returned to the mercy of Ar-Rahman
The world of the Musulman is still in disarray
As beggars, we wait for crumbs to fall from the Slave Master’s plate
Like hungry wolves, we bark and bite one another and plunge at one another’s throat in the name of Jihad
Killing more of our kind than the real enemy,
Kafirizing more than we can Islamize,
Monopolizing the Paradise of Al-Rahman to one’s own Jama’ah
While the Slave Master and his friends rejoice at the Muslim tragedy,acting their script.

O Iqbal!
Don’t turn in your grave if I tell you
that the Muslim world is the champion today in corruption and illiteracy
Or, that our rulers are among the smartest in deceiving the masses,
Having mastered the art from Machiavelli’s Prince.
Or, that some of our elites are the greatest drinkers of the wine of Kafirun,
intoxicated, they try to sell cheap versions of it in their stores,
beguiling the local youth as they deconstruct the blessed Zam-Zam to make it taste like beer and wine,
and succeeding in making the young worship celebrities as divine.
Or, that the Muslim Malay community excels in fitnah menfitnah
pouring the poison of hatred where love once stood.

O Iqbal!
Where is the ishq that used to drive you to divine ecstasy?
Where is the nur that illumines the heart and obliterates man’s egoism?
Where is the mahabbah and rahmah that forge the bonds of love and salam?
Where is the hidayah taht destroys insincerity, hypocrisy and greed?
Where is the ‘ilm that elevates the soul to its True Master?
Where is the taqwa that imbues thought and action with righteosness?
Where is the bal-i-jibrail that will deliver us from this earthly misery?…
Can the Khairu Ummatin ever emerge from robots, rubbles and bubbles?

O Iqbal!
Behind this veil of melancholy, I see an array of hope,
In the places of today’s Pharaoh, many Moses are being born,
Out of the gospel of Trinity into the glad of Tawhid,
Among the ruins of Cordoba, I met Sister Tamara,
a blend of the tulip of the Occident and the rose of the Orient.
Many more Tamaras are blossoming
in the wasteland of modernity and post-modernism,
lighting candles in the dungeons and hedonism.
Many more Bilals are growing up in Harlem
to proclaim the rise of Isa, son if Maryam.
From the minarets of New York, London and Paris,
He will preach the true meaning of “La ilaha illa’Llah, Muhammad Rasulu’Llah”.

Yes, O Iqbal, the sun will rise the West
As Musa (alaihi’s s-salam) rose in the palace of Firaun.

Muhammad Kamal Hassan
I.I.U.M. Gombak, 3rd July 2002.