My venerated and renowned friend, Izzah... I'm amazed! 2 years baby growing up - nurtured in the parliament... where would you be Raja Nur Safiyah, another 25 years?

Sunday May 10, 2009
It’s not easy juggling ‘two jobs’

KUALA LUMPUR: Busy mum Nurul Izzah Anwar insists on breast-feeding her daughter Raja Nur Safiyah and on days when the Parliament sits, the baby joins her there to be nursed.

Raja Nur Safiyah was only a few months old when Nurul Izzah, 29, won the Lembah Pantai parliamentary seat in the March 8 general election.
Quality time: Nurul Izzah playing with Raja Nur Safiyah at their home in Bukit Segambut.

Fortunately for the new Member of Parliament (MP), she can breast-feed in privacy using her mother’s former room at the Parliament office tower.

A partition had been created for Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, then the Opposition Leader, to rest and pray.

When her father Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim took over from Dr Wan Azizah, Nurul Izzah continued to breast-feed behind the partition.

“I prefer to breast-feed my daughter until she turns two,” said Nurul Izzah.

Chief administrator of Parliament building Datuk Kamaruddin Baria, when asked about a nursing room, said the administration would have to create space if Nurul Izzah requested for it.

Now seven months into her second pregnancy, Nurul Izzah will probably be the first woman to deliver a baby as a serving MP - and she insists on breast-feeding her second child as well.

Asked how she would cope with a newborn, a toddler and her duties as an MP, Nurul Izzah, who is still busy organising functions and activities in her constituency said: “I have no answer for that. It is not an easy task for any other working mother for that matter.”

Nurul Izzah’s husband Raja Ahamad Shahrir is working overseas and only comes home during weekends.

She said motherhood has made her more sensitive to the plight of single mothers and the struggles of women.

“It is tough, tiring but challenging,” she said.

SURI TAULADAN
PEJUANG WANITA MUSLIM






In the summer of 1987, I was riding the train out to British Columbia to start a tree-planting job in the mountains. I had just finished my undergraduate degree in Philosophy and had only recently begun my personal study of Islam. I came across Fazlur Rahman's Islam in a bookstore a few days before my trip. Reading that book as I traveled across the Canadian prairies, I made the decision to apply to graduate school in Islamic Studies. His book sparked in me a keen desire to study the classical heritage of Islamic theology and law. Going a step further, I wrote a letter to Rahman (this was before we all used email) describing my situation and inquiring if I might be able to study with him. I dropped the letter in a post box somewhere in the Rockies and forgot about it until I returned east in August. There I found a hand-written note from him, inviting me to come to the University of Chicago to study with him. Rahman died before I arrived in Chicago, but it was his book and his encouragement that inspired me to start on the path to scholarship that I have found so rewarding.

Dr. Ingrid Mattson is Director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Director of Islamic Chaplaincy and Professor at the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, CT.

Dr. Mattson earned her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago in 1999. Her research is focused on Islamic law and society; among her articles are studies on slavery, poverty and Islamic legal theory.

Dr. Mattson was born in Canada, where she studied Philosophy at the University of Waterloo, Ontario (B.A. ’87). From 1987-1988 she lived in Pakistan where she worked with Afghan refugee women. In 2001 she was elected Vice-President of ISNA and in 2006 she was elected President of the organization. Dr. Mattson is the first convert to Islam and the first female to lead the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
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Dr Rosnani Hashim is a Professor of Educational Foundations at the Centre for Education and Human Development, International Islamic University Malaysia. She specializes in philosophical and sociological foundations of Islamic Education. She obtained a Ph.D in Social Foundations of Education (Florida) in 1994, an M. Sc. in Curriculum and Instruction (Wisconsin-Madison) in 1978 and a B. Sc. (Cum Laude) in Mathematics (Northern Illinois) in 1976. Her works include "The Teaching of Thinking in Malaysia" (2003) and "Ekonomi dan Pendidikan dari Perspektif Islam" [Economics and Education from an Islamic Perspective] (2000). She has collaborated in international research projects on moral, religious and citizenship education (2000), and on 'September 11 and the Images of Islam and Muslims' (2002). These researches have been funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education and the Center for Pacific and American Studies, the University of Tokyo respectively. She is presently the Editor of "Jurnal Pendidikan Islam" [Journal of Islamic Education].
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Saya begitu tertarik untuk mengenali Dr. Ingrid Mattson selepas diperkenalkan oleh Kak Amani Salim beberapa tahun lepas. Selepas membaca tentang beliau, saya dapat merasakan betapa beruntungnya beliau mendapat ilham daripada Allah swt untuk belajar bersama Prof Fazlur Rahman, seperti yang dialami juga oleh guru saya, Prof. Rosnani Hashim (Kak Nani) yang banyak membaca tulisan Prof. Fazlur Rahman sehingga membuat keputusan untuk melanjutkan pelajaran dalam bidang falsafah pendidikan walaupun mempunyai latar belakang dalam bidang sains dan matematik.

Saya juga bertuah kerana diberi peluang oleh Allah swt untuk mengenali Kak Nani dengan dekat. Sebagai tokoh wanita yang melalui perjuangan pahit getir, bermula dari penubuhan MISG di Amerika sehinggalah terlibat dalam usaha awal penubuhan UIA di Malaysia, saya kira penglibatan beliau dalam gerakan dakwah selain dari terlibat aktif dalam dunia akademik tidak boleh dipandang enteng. Walaupun perkenalan kami hanya sebentar (beliau pernah membimbing saya untuk membuat translasi beberapa bab novel Pixie serta membuat kajian turun lapangan untuk projek 'Philosophy for Children' di Negeri Sembilan), kesempatan itu telah memberi peluang pada saya untuk mengenali hati budi beliau atau dalam erti kata lain "knowing the other side of her". Pandangan dan komentar beliau yang tuntas dan berani dalam menghuraikan pelbagai isu semasa dan sentiasa berlandaskan prinsip kebenaran dan keadilan membuatkan saya tertanya-tanya, diakah 'Zainab al-Ghazaliy' yang seterusnya...
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Perkenalan dengan Kak Amani merupakan suatu keajaiban juga dalam rentetan hidup saya. Saya terlebih dahulu mengenali bapa beliau (Prof. Madya Wan Salim) selaku murabbiy kami ketika di kampus dahulu...(USM) Pandangan beliau yang sederhana dan dakwah beliau tentang Islam dan gerakan Islam yang menyantuni kami siswa siswi dari pelbagai latar belakang ketika itu membuka mata dan mengetuk pintu hati saya untuk berjinak dalam harakah Islam. Saya percaya perkenalan saya dan Kak Amani seperti mana kata Buya HAMKA, roh kita pernah berjumpa suatu masa dahulu di alam roh dan apabila berjumpa di alam nyata ini, mereka akan bertemu dan saling berkasih sayang. Perjuangan Kak Amani dalam bidang nanoteknologi di Amerika adalah suatu usaha yang memerlukan kesabaran dan ketahanan dan wajar dicontohi. Kami sering bertukar pandangan terutamanya tentang ilmu dan perjuangan wanita Islam zaman ini dan idea beliau sering membuat saya berfikiran kritis dan memandang sesuatu perkara dari sudut perspektif yang berbeza.
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Walaupun mereka tidak berkesempatan seperti Dr. Mumahammad Nur Manuty yang sempat berguru dengan Prof. Fazlur Rahman, seperkara yang saya dapat buat kesimpulan tentang Dr. Ingrid, Kak Nani dan juga Kak Amani (yang sedang mengikut jejak mereka berdua) ialah mereka di antara para pejuang wanita dan akademia yang sentiasa memberikan saranan dan pandangan yang cukup bernas, hujah yang sarat dengan fakta, kebenaran dan keyakinan serta pemikiran reflektif yang sentiasa berlandaskan Al-Quran dan As-Sunnah. Moga kita diberi kekuatan untuk mengikut jejak mereka, diberi hati yang bersih agar membuahkan niat yang ikhlas dan amal soleh yang diterimaNya dalam memberi sumbangan pada ummah demi ad-Deen tercinta.

Catatan 1: MENGIMBAU ERTI PENDIDIKAN

Ini mungkin bukan karya falsafah, tapi ingin sekali saya berbicara tentang makna kehidupan, di mana permulaan dan pengakhiran, apa ertinya kebenaran dan keadilan. Catatan ini juga bukan catatan pengalaman semata-mata kerana saya sangat memandang tinggi maksud dan tujuan ilmu pengetahuan dan pendidikan, kesan dan implikasinya terhadap makna pembangunan insan, sehinggalah terbentuknya tamadun peradaban manusia dalam konteks yang lebih luas, yang mampu menterjemahkan erti kebahagiaan yang sering dicari-cari oleh insan sejak dahulu lagi.

Pendidikan… apa bezanya dengan pelajaran? Persoalan-persoalan ini selalu menerjah minda saya saban hari. Malah pertukaran nama Kementerian Pendidikan kepada Kementerian Pelajaran sering menimbulkan kegusaran dalam hati saya sehinggalah hari ini saya bertafakkur seketika tentang erti dan maknanya dalam hidup saya ketika dalam perjalanan pulang ke Taiping selepas menghadiri suatu majlis walimatul urus, anak kepada sepupu Mama di Bukit Beruntung pada tanggal 12 Rabiul Awwal 1428 Hijrah. Hari kebesaran seluruh umat Islam di dunia, yang pada hampir setiap tahun saya akan raikannya bersama sahabat-sahabat seperjuangan di majlis-majlis ilmu mahupun masjid-masjid. Sayu juga hati ini kerana tidak sempat menyambutnya seperti biasa pada tahun ini. Rupa-rupanya ada hikmah di sebaliknya yang baru saya sedari. Allah Maha Kaya lagi Maha Besar, ilmu yang saya perolehi hari ini sangat bermanfaat dan tidak mungkin saya perolehi di tempat dan ketika yang lain. SifatNya yang Maha Adil dan Maha Mengetahui menyebabkan saya tidak menyesal membuat keputusan untuk pulang ke kampung minggu itu meskipun masih banyak tugasan yang diberikan oleh pensyarah belum sempat disiapkan.

Dalam kereta, kami berbual panjang tentang zaman Mama dan Abah sewaktu kecil-kecil dahulu… bagaimana mereka menghabiskan zaman muda mereka, bagaimana mereka ‘dididik’ oleh semua kaum keluarga, bermula daripada peringkat nenek moyang, atok, opah dan encik (panggilan tradisi untuk emak bagi orang Perak) hinggalah ke bapa saudara, mak saudara, sepupu sepapat dan lain-lain lagi… Rupanya, baru saya sedar banyak juga sifat saya hari ini diwarisi daripada arwah atuk Ahmad (bapa Mama)… Sifat baik dan juga sifat yang kurang elok saya kira. Arwah atuk Ahmad memang terkenal dengan sifat penyayang dan pemurahnya; tak pernah lokek untuk menghulur wang ringgit kepada adik beradik, sanak saudara walaupun gajinya sebagai seorang anggota polis tidaklah seberapa pada masa itu. Arwah atuk Ahmad juga seorang yang tegas dan garang, siapa yang tidak kenal dengan Sarjan 2342 Ahmad bin Alang, melihat kelibatnya sahaja sudah buat mereka yang tidak mengenali hati budinya bergetar kepala lutut…

Menurut Mama, beliau mula bertugas di Kuala Lipis, dimana di situlah beliau berjumpa dengan arwah Yan (mak Mama) di sekitar tahun 1946…dan setelah beberapa kali berpindah, akhirnya arwah Tok Ahmad dan arwah Yan menetap di berek polis Taiping, di mana Mama dan Abah diijabkabulkan pada 3 April 1971 sebelum kedua-dua arwah mengakhiri sisa-sisa kehidupan mereka di Raub, Pahang sekitar tahun 1976. Sedikit sebanyak saya kembali merenung apa yang telah mereka korbankan pada zaman mereka demi untuk memastikan zuriat keturunan mereka mendapat ilmu dan menjadi insan yang lebih baik daripada mereka. Setelah bercerita panjang lebar, dapat saya simpulkan bahawa sememangnya penglibatan langsung generasi terdahulu dalam membangunkan insan yang baik (to produce a good man) sememangnya membawa impak besar dalam membentuk masyarakat yang baik (to build good citizen). Terhimbau baris-baris tulisan Profesor Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud yang mengulas panjang lebar dan penuh terperinci tentang gagasan falsafah pendidikan Islam yang dicetuskan oleh Professor Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas dalam karya ulungnya ‘Falsafah Pendidikan Islam’. Karya beliau ini saya sarankan untuk dimiliki, diamati dan dikhadami oleh semua mereka yang bergelar pendidik agar dasar dan asas kepada pendidikan yang diartikulasi dari perspektif Islami ini dapat difahami sedalamnya dan dihayati setulusnya.

Ironinya, para pendidik seharusnya meluruskan niat dan matlamat kita untuk berada di landasan ini supaya keberadaan kita bukanlah hanya bersifat terkebetulan, mengikut arus peredaran zaman atas dasar mencari punca rezeki mahupun pilihan yang dibuat itu diputuskan secara rela atas rasa menunaikan tanggungjawab untuk berkhidmat kepada bangsa dan negara.

Belated congartulations to adik..., the brilliant boy... Dalam sejarah family, adik dah dapat masuk utm skudai wpun belum dapat result spm. Tak ingat berapa A yg dia dapat-tapi for sure lagi banyak dari kakaknya ni. Dan sekali lagi, adik dapat offer kerja di JB sebelum pun keluar result final degree. Mg rezeki adik murah dan jadi anak yg soleh dunia akhirat...

Salam,

Tentunya sudah lama betul saya meninggalkan dunia blog saya... Niat di hati untuk 'mengimarahkan semula' blog ni dengan tambahan pengisian yang lebih bermakna dan 'gadget' yang menarik agar dapat dimanfaatkan sebaiknya... Sudah hampir 3-4 bulan juga tak menganjurkan program atau pengisian ilmu akibat desakan dan tuntutan tanggungjawab pendidik yang semakin bertambah..moga Allah permudahkan segala urusan. Ameen...

Teks Pengacaraan Majlis Konvokesyen TASKI ABIM TAIPING 2008 – 27 Oktober 2008

Sireh berlipat sireh pinang,

Sireh dari pulau mutiara,

Pemanis kata Selamat Datang,

Awal Bismillah pembuka Bicara.

Assalamualaikum w.b.t dan salam sejahtera.

Yang Berhormat, Tn. Hj. Mohd Zainudin Mohd Yusof, Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Agama, Pendidikan Islam, Wanita dan Kebajikan, Exco Kerajaan Negeri Perak.

Yang Berusaha, En. Mustaffa b. Bakar, Yang DiPertua ABIM Taiping,

En. Zamri b. Ariffin, Setiausaha ABIM Daerah Taiping,

Tn. Hj. Abd. Latip b. Hj. Ismail, Pengarah TASKI ABIM Taiping,

Ahli-ahli Jawatankuasa EXCO ABIM TAIPING, Guru Besar TASKI ABIM,

Guru-guru TASKI, Barisan Jawatankuasa Majlis Konvokesyen TASKI ABIM TAIPING 2008, para waris/ibu bapa/penjaga yang dihormati seterusnya para pelajar TASKI ABIM yang dikasihi sekalian.

Alhamdulillah, setinggi-tiggi kesyukuran dirafakkan kehadrat Allah swt kerana dengan limpah rahmat dan izinNya, kita diberikan kemudahan untuk sama-sama dapat berkumpul bersama-sama di Dewan MPT ini, tidak lain dan tidak bukan bagi meraikan anak-anak didik kita setelah tamat pengajian mereka di TASKI-TASKI ABIM seluruh TAIPING bagi tahun 2008. Selawat dan salam buat Nabi Junjungan Besar Kita Muhammad SAW dan pihak majlis dengan besar hati mengalu-alukan kehadiran sidang tetamu, para waris dan ibu bapa serta hadirin semua ke Majlis Konvokesyen TASKI ABIM TAIPING 2008.

Sebagai pembuka tirai majlis ingin menjemput wakil pelajar dari setiap TASKI bagi membaca surah al-Fatihah, nyanyian lagu Negaraku, ikrar TASKI ABIM dan doa kedua ibubapa. Dipersilakan;

Adik MOHD ZAFRIN B. MEOR RAZALI dari TASKI Assam Kumbang

Adik MUHAMMAD HASIF B. AZIZI dari TASKI Taman Marissa

Adik ALIF ZULQARNAIN B. AMIR dari TASKI Taman Lela

Adik NOR HELMI B.NOR FUADI dari TASKI Kg. Pinang

Adik MUHAMMAD HAFIZ B. MAZLAN dari TASKI Taman Mewah

Dan Adik HARIZ B.SYAHMI B. HAIRO ROSE SIDI dari TASKI Kg. Jambu

Buat pengetahuan sidang hadirin, acara lafaz ikrar TASKI ABIM dan doa kedua ibu bapa akan diketuai oleh adik ALIF ZULQARNAIN B. AMIR dari TASKI Taman Lela.

Diminta sidang hadirin berdiri.

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Jazakallahu Khairan Kathiro atas kerjasama yang diberikan.

Seterusnya, bagi memberkati lagi Majlis kita pada hari ini, majlis ingin menjemput Ustaz Abdul Rahman b. Abdullah, merangkap Guru Besar Sekolah Rendah ISLAM atau lebih dikenali dengan SRI ABIM TAIPING untuk bacaan doa. Dengan segala hormatnya dipersilakan.

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Ameen…Ameen….Ameen Ya Robbal ‘Alamin. Jazakallah ustaz.

Dengan ini majlis ingin membawa sidang hadirin sekalian untuk sama-sama menikmati persembahan multimedia ABIM Taiping yang disediakan khas oleh Ustaz Hj. Abdul Mohsin b. Musa, merangkap Timbalan Yang Dipertua ABIM Taiping.

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Syukran Jazilan atas halwa mata dan telinga yang cukup menarik sebentar tadi. Begitulah scenario yang pengrealisasian misi dan visi ABIM Taiping yang diterjemahkan melalui persembahan multimedia sebentar tadi.

Tanpa membuang masa lagi, Majlis ingin menjemput Tn. Hj. Abd. Latip b. Hj. Ismail selaku Pengarah TASKI ABIM Taiping bagi menyampaikan sepatah dua kata. Dengan segala hormatnya dipersilakan.

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Kiri jalan, kanan pun jalan,

Mana satu arah tujuan,

Syukran Pengarah TASKI kami ucapkan

Atas bimbingan serta dorongan.

Seterusnya, majlis ingin mempersilakan En. Mustaffa b. Bakar, Yang DiPertua ABIM Taiping bagi menyampaikan ucapan alu-aluan. Dengan segala takzimnya dipersilakan.

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Syukran Jazilan buat Yang Dipertua ABIM Taiping atas ucapannya sebentar tadi.

Buah Langsat di tepi busut,

Mari dimuat di dalam peti,

Besar hajat kami menjemput,

Besar niat di dalam hati.

Tibalah masanya ke acara yang dinanti-nantikan. Dengan ini majlis berbesar hati mempersilakan Yang Berhormat, Tn. Hj. Mohd Zainudin Mohd Yusof, Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Agama, Pendidikan Islam, Wanita dan Kebajikan, Exco Kerajaan Negeri Perak bagi menyampaikan ucapan seterusnya merasmikan Majlis Konvokesyen TASKI ABIM TAIPING 2008. Dengan segala hormatnya dipersilakan.

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Jazakallahu Khairan Kathiro. Majlis merakamkan setinggi-tinggi penghargaan atas kesudian Yang Berhormat bagi menyampaikan ucapan seterusnya merasmikan Majlis Konvokesyen TASKI ABIM TAIPING bagi sidang 2008 .

Dengan ini, Majlis sekali lagi ingin menjemput En. Mustaffa b. Bakar, Yang DiPertua ABIM Taiping bagi mengiringi Yang Berhormat, Tn. Hj. Mohd Zainudin Mohd Yusof bagi menyampaikan Hadiah kepada para anak didik yang dikasihi sekalian. Dengan segala hormatnya dipersilakan.

1. Bagi penyampaian Hadiah PELAJAR CEMERLANG:
2. Seterusnya bagi Hadiah Tempat PERTAMA, KEDUA dan KETIGA untuk Pelajar Tahun 5
3. Majlis diteruskan dengan penyampaian Hadiah Tempat PERTAMA, KEDUA dan KETIGA bagi Pelajar Tahun 6
4. Seterusnya majlis ingin mengumumkan anugerah Guru Cemerlang. Pada tahun ini 2 orang guru telah terpilih dan dengan ini majlis dengan besar hati mempersilakan
1. Cik Asmaa Diyanah bt. Yaacob dari TASKI Tmn. Lela dan
2. Cik Nurul Akmalily bt. Md. Salleh dari TASKI Kg. Jambu

Bagi menerima anugerah GuruCemerlang bagi tahun 2008.

Maka dengan ini selesai sudah penyampaian hadiah kepada anak-anak didik yang dikasihi serta para guru yang banyak menyumbang bakti. Tahniah kepada semua dan semoga proses menimba ilmu ini tidak berakhir disini malah diteruskan dengan penuh iltizam lagi selepas ini.

Setenang-tenang air di laut

Sampan kolek mudik ke hulu

Hati terkenang mulut menyebut

Budi yang baik dikenang selalu.

Sebagai tanda penghargaan dan terima kasih, majlis dengan ini mempersilakan En. Mustaffa b. Bakar, Yang Di Pertua ABIM Taiping bagi menyampaikan cenderahati tanda kenang-kenangan kepada Yang Berhormat, Tn. Hj. Mohd Zainudin Mohd Yusof, Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Agama, Pendidikan Islam, Wanita dan Kebajikan, Exco Kerajaan Negeri Perak.

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Jazakallahu Khairan Kathiro. Majlis merakamkan setinggi-tinggi penghargaan atas kesudian Yang Berhormat menyempurnakan acara penyampaian hadiah buat anak-anak didik TASKI ABIM Taiping pada Majlis Konvokesyen TASKI ABIM TAIPING 2008. Majlis mempersilakan Yang Berhormat, Tn. Hj. Mohd Zainudin Mohd Yusof, diiringi oleh YDP ABIM Taiping serta barisan Exco ABIM Taiping bagi menikmati jamuan ringan yang disediakan. Dipersilakan.

International Islamic University Malaysia

-class of 2006-
master of education
guidence and counseling

Alhamdulillah...

Assalamualaikum wrh hwb...

Setelah sekian lama meninggalkan blog ni... demi meneruskan usaha-usaha terakhir menyiapkan 'project paper' untuk tamatkan pengajian sarjana yang penuh cabaran...
ALHAMDULILLAH, akhirnya tiba hari graduasi yang ditunggu-tunggu; 2 Sha'aban 1427 ~ 26 ogos 2006. Namun hatiku sering bertanya sendiri, periksa niatmu-mengapa kamu menuntut ilmu hingga ke saat ini... ke mana nak ku lontarkan ilmu yang diperolehi ini...

Dari Ibnu Umar mereka berkata: "Rasulullah saw bersabda: "Barangsiapa menuntut ilmu untuk berdebat dengan ulama, meninggi atas orang-orang yang jahil ataupun untuk memalingkan wajah manusia kepada dirinya, maka ia di neraka." (Hadith riwayat Ibnu majah disahihkan oleh Syeikh al-Bani dalam Sahih at-Tarhib wat Targhib)

Teringat pesanan Imam Nawawi rahimahullah;

"Sabda Rasulullah saw tentang orang yang berperang, berilmu dan berinfaq serta balasan yang mereka terima kerana tujuan selain Allah, juga dilemparkan mereka ke neraka merupakan isyarat betapa besarnya pengharaman riya' dan kedasyatan hukumannya...Aku berkata: hadith Rasulullah tersebut mengingatkan para penuntut ilmu membetulkan niat mereka dalam belajar, yakni ditujukan kepada Allah semata-mata, mengharapkan redha dan pahalaNya. Bukannya supaya dipandang lebih tinggi oleh manusia, lebih menjulang di atas leher mereka, bahkan berdiri di atas bahu-bahu mereka"

Pesanan buat diriku terutamanya dan sahabat-sahabat yang disayangi,
sentiasalah musabah diri kita dengan usaha dan komitmen menuntut ilmu yang saban hari menjadi 'ritual' kita untuk mendapatkan segulung ijazah... Moga ALLah kurniakan Barakah dan Hidayah pada kita supaya ilmu yang ada ini dapat dimanfaatkan untuk diri, keluarga dan ummat seluruhnya... Inilah kekuatan Umat Muhammad saw yang perlu digembleng dan dimanfaatkan sepenuhnya dalam keadaan Umat Islam sekarang terus ditekan dan ditekan. Isu Palestin yang tak pernah sudah, kini di Lubnan dan serata ceruk dunia Timur Tengah... saudara-saudara kita dihalau dari negara sendiri dan yang menyedihkan, tanah suci umat Islam yang ketiga ini dikotori dan dicemari dengan pertumpahan darah ribuan nyawa saudara kita yang tidak berdosa...

Akhirnya, marilah kita panjatkan doa buat mereka semua dan di kesempatan ini marilah kita sedeqahkan Al-Fatihah buat sahabat seperjuangan di ABIM Kedah, Mohd Hazimi Hj. Mahmud yang telah kembali ke Rahmatullah pagi ini (8 Sha'aban 1427H~1 September 2006) jam 10 pagi di Sintok, Kedah. Moga rohnya dicucuri rahmat, segala amal solehnya menjadi bekalan buat beliau dan dimasukkan ke dalam golongan mereka yang mati syahid dalam memperjuangkan agama Islam yang tercinta ini... Al-Fatihah...

lihat itu...
lihat di sana...
mereka di bawa pergi
tanpa mengerti keinginan Tuhan pada aqalnya
kehendak Rabbul Jalil pada jiwanya
tuntutan Ilahi pada jasadnya

untuk bertafakkur sejenak
untuk berzikir sederap nafas
untuk berjihad buat bekalan...

jika patah bahumu
masih mahukah bertongkat dahi
andai disanggah prinsipmu
masih bertahankan suara hati
mahukah dibiarkan terus berlari
atau terjun dengan labunya sendiri
atau menanti saat perhitungan

andai ditanya bertubi-tubi
apakah yang kamu perbuatkan
apakah yang kamu sampaikan
apakah yang kamu usahakan
apakah yang kamu dambakan wahai insani

maka senyumlah tika itu
andai redha Ahkamul Haakimiin yang diimpi
buat penawar Yaumul Aakhiriin...

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The Concept of Ulum Naqliah and Ulum Aqliah and its alliance to the Emerging of the Ulul-Al-Bab أولواال ألبب)) Generation
By: Nor Azura Kamarudin Sohami
Institute of Education, IIUM.


Introduction
The attempt of define the concept of Ulum Naqliah and Ulum 'Aqliah in the basis of Islamic worldview is not an easy task. It need a wide-ranging understanding and deep comprehension on the tasawwur of knowledge itself in terms of it's epistemology, philosophy and foundation till the level of it's methodology and practice in order to grasp the whole idea. But with little understanding of this conception in the help of Professor Sidek Baba, it is an honored for the writer to put an effort in defining both concept then to relate it to meaning of ya'qiluun, yatafakkaruun and yatadabbaruun as the sign of rising the ulul-al-bab generation. In line with this, it is gratifying to quote a line of Professor Osman Bakar's writing in Tawhid and Science: Essay on the History and Philosophy of Islamic Science:
"In Islam, religious consciousness of tawhid is the source of the scientific spirit in all domains of knowledge. Consequently, Islamic intellectual tradition does not entertain the idea of the natural sciences alone as being scientific or as being more scientific than the other sciences." (Osman Bakar, 1991)

Thus, the key to perceive the realm of knowledge is to have the religious consciousness of tawhid; the faith in the Oneness of Allah, spiritually in nature. And conjunction to that, we have to admit that there is no such way of natural science standing alone or in this context, Ulum 'Aqliah unaccompanied with Ulum Naqliah as an authentic source of reveal knowledge. May Allah give us the light and the strength in order to value and appreciate this knowledge as foundation to explore something more worthwhile in the future.


The Concept Of Ulum Naqliah
The definition of Ulum Naqliah can be express as 'Divine knowledge' or at times as perennial knowledge. This comes across to us that the characteristic of this knowledge is constant, permanent, undeviating, can be trusted in its authority, authenticity, validity and so much reliable. Therefore, when it is understood that the knowledge is divine in nature, it must be conveyed to the human being by the course of revelation from the ultimate power of the Supreme Being. This is where the Devine knowledge was revealed to human kind all the way through the Messengers of Allah during the prophethood period across all human civilizations. Sayyid Abul 'Ala al-Maududi has mentioned in one of his masterpiece work:
"These chosen men are the Messengers of God-His Prophets. God has communicated knowledge and wisdom to them by means of Wahy (revelation), and the book containing the Divine Communications is called the Book of God, or the Word of God." (Sayyid Abul 'Ala al-Maududi, 1977)

And principally the faith in the Books of God is the third article of Faith which the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. has commanded us to believe which Allah has sent down these Books to mankind through His prophets before Muhammad s.a.w in the same way as he sent down al-Quran to Muhammad s.a.w. Among the prophets that has been revealed with the 'Book of God' were the Prophet Dawud (David) with the Book of Zabur (Psalms of David), the Prophet Musa (Moses) with the Book of Taurat (Torah), Prophet Isa (Jesus) with the Book of Injeel (the Gospel of Jesus) and finally to Prophet Muhammad s.a.w with the Book of al-Quran al-Karim, the Great Word of God. This is also lead to the manifestation of believe in the forth article of Faith that is to believe in the God's Messenger that have been raised among the chosen people as Allah explain to us in the Quran in surah al-Maaidah, verse 20:
"And (remember) Musa (Moses) said to his people: "O my people! Remember the favour of Allah when He made Prophets among you, made you kings and gave you what He had not given to any other among the 'Alamiin (mankind and jiin, in the past)."

And according to Maududi, not one of the earlier Book of God (except for al-Quran) exists today is in its original text and even the followers of these books confess that they do not possess the original books. Furthermore, al-Quran informs us that people have changed and interpolated these Books and God's words have been mixed up with text of their own making. And judging to this decisive factor, we believe the Prophet Muhammad saw teachings are the alive one, still stand uncorrupted and to the extend that the biography of the Prophet Muhammad saw is so well preserved as no other human being does. Hence we strongly believe that the Prophet Muhammad saw was sent to humankind as qudwah hasanah (قدوةحثنة) or role model or in other words his own life and his teachings is true, alive and complete where in every circumstances all his words and expressions are accepted, all his instruction and deeds are followed and all his ordered and command are obeyed.

And for that reason al-Quran is the Book of God to be assign through the Prophet Muhammad saw as reference and resource; as it exists in the original text, without the slightest alteration of letter, jot or even the title. It is magnificent in its 'strength' while Quran is a Wahy/source of revelation not only textual but also contextual in nature. This appears to us the sense that although it is revealed during the Prophet's lifetime, but it relates to us directly and indirectly as the life of mankind changed through time and places. This relate to us that Al-Quran is Huda-llilmuttaqiin(هدى للمتقين) as guidance for man to achieve taqwa (تقوا) and Huda-llinnaas (هدى للنس) as guidance to all humankind. There are so many points in the Quran that Allah grants us His guidance in so many ways including through His signs and hikmah (حكمة) or wisdom. The term hikmah (حكمة) can be defined in many perspectives and the Quran itself is a Book of Hikmah as stated in Surah al-Zukhruf verse 4.
"And verily, it (this Quran) is in the Mother of the Book (i.e. al-Lauh al-Mahfuz) with Us, indeed exalted, full of wisdom."




The value of Hikmah (حكمة)
Hikmah (حكمة) can be defined as deeper understanding, deeper intelligence and conceptual ability of making sound judgment and decision. In line with that, Siddiq Fadzil ascertain the underlie meaning of wisdom:
"Hikmah (حكمة) can be describe as (القصدوالعتدل) which means wisdom with the signification of the ability to make the most precise affirmation, stand and judgment, not to loose and not to the extreme of exceeding the limit, the capability to understand the cause and effect, the path and means that not lead to confusion in valuing something with the luminous mind that guide trough the truth (ال حق) and justice (ال عدل)."
(Siddiq Fadzil, 2003)
Harun Yahya also describe concisely;
“In brief, wisdom is an ability that provides us with greater comprehension than intelligence, deeper understanding, and ability to find the truth, and produce a solution for every problem. Furthermore, wisdom is a trait that gives us control of all aspects of our lives and brings us success.”

But then, Allah has disclose to us that hikmah (حكمة) is not given to any person without prior distinction. Allah explains to us clearly in Surah al-Baqarah, verse 269:
"He grants Hikmah to whom He pleases, and He, to whom Hikmah is granted, is indeed granted abundant good. But none remember (will receive admonition) except man of understanding."

In order to be granted with abundant goodness from Allah as the result of hikmah (حكمة), the requirement of acquiring it is one have got to be among who really understand and comprehend deeply that is ulul-al bab, (أولواالألبب). This is the affiliation that relates the source of Ulum Naqliah to the generation of ulul-al bab (أولواالألبب) that reflects the connection of ya'qiluun (يعقلون), yatafakkaruun (يتفكرون) and yatadabbaruun (يتدبرون). The whole idea will translate directly human relationship with the Creator (Allah) and also with the environment in his life.


The Integration Concept Of Ulum Naqliah and Ulum Aqliah: Its Strength
And Limitation
Generally, Ulum Aqliah is any form of acquired knowledge that act as tool and means for human to reach his God. Man has given the brain by Allah which the function operates as mind. However, when the mind works such as how to process the information so that it come across your mind, how do you connect your feelings and your thinking involves so much energy, sometimes can occur in conscious or unconscious state of mind but overall the thinking capacity and ability in order to grasp meaning is very limited and imperfect in nature. In Islamic point of view, it is al-'aql (عقل) that is given by Allah with the other human's spiritual substance including al-qalb, al-nafs and al-ruh which interrelated to each other and brings significant function to every asperts of human life.

The ethical and principal values that human gain solely from the thinking ability are imperfect and incomplete without the guidance (hudan) and wisdom (hikmah) that can only be embrace with the compliance of man in referring to the source of Ulum Naqliah as the fundamental form of references. This is because, due to the modern and recent tradition, the description on how human mind work or the information-processing ability or refer to the terms 'cognition' is entirely defined in scientific terms (where this scientific definition base on the West); which means rational, stand on facts, logic, theory and hypothesis, observable, tangible and could be analyze and evaluate by the means of your senses. For instance, according to the Reader's Digest recent encyclopedia due to the power of reasoning is explained purely in the quotation below:
"One of our greatest mental gifts is our reasoning ability, which enables us to make decisions and judgment based on the evidence before us."
(Making the Most of Your Brain, 2003)

This statement remind us on the definition of hikmah (حكمة) in the earlier part of the discussion where it shows to us that base on the so called 'scientific' view on reasoning, it mainly focus on the human's previous evidence as if it is all things happen in the past is all true and valid, applicable in every situation and condition. For instance, if someone use this kind of approach in the state of stress and depression, one will find solution by entertains themselves in the club; taking alcohol drinks drugs and ecstasy in order to find the healing and cure action. This is because they have experienced before the effects of taking those alternatives where the pleasure amused them for a short period of time although deep in their heart, they recognize that it is not efficient at all in long term.


The Emerging Of Generation Ulul-Al-Bab

Ya’qiluun (يعقلون)

The term “’Aql” has not been use in the Qur’an as a noun, but as a verb it has been used forty nine times in different terms. According to Al-Aqaad, (Jamal Badi, 2003), the one using ‘aql in Islamic view is the one that seeks truth and is always in search of it. And ta’aqqul is to use one’s mind in the right way. Ta'akul is a way of performing our act of syukur to what Allah's has given to us as 'aql is the most unique faculty that endowed to the best mould of Allah's creation. Allah mentions in the Quran, surah al-Hajj:
“Have they not traveled through the land, and have they hearts wherewith (ya’qiluun) to understand (to gain wisdom) and ears wherewith to hear?” (Al-Hajj, 32:46)

Yatafakkarun (يتفكرون)

Tafakkur comes with the meaning of think deeply, to reflect or to contemplate. Contemplation or to think deeply can be in any 'signs of Allah' that can be in many form and structure, for instance all His creation including our self as a unique one with all the spiritual faculty involved, the world, the planet, the galaxies and the universe and also the Quran itself. We can think and reflect through the facts and figures, hukum has been command to us and to the qisah written in most surah which we can take ibrah from it. This mentioned to us by the phrase 'scripture and wisdom' in the verse.
“Allah did confer a great favor on the Believers when He sent among them a Messenger from among themselves, rehearsing unto them the signs of Allah. Sanctifying them and instructing them in scripture and wisdom, while before they had been in the manifest error.”
(Ali-Imran, 3:164)

And according to Prof. Malik Badri in his outstanding masterpiece this decade, "the contemplation of God's creation is one of the greatest forms of worship in Islam." (Badri, 2000). His insight and also the inspiration of giving meaning to contemplation as a part of critical thinking in Islam corroborate the fine verse in the Quran which connote two main points that is reflection is an active action of remembering Allah and essentially, human have not been created for purposeless intention:
"Those who remember Allah, standing, sitting, and lying on their sides, and reflect (يتفكرون) on the creation of the heavens and the earth: "O Lord, You have not created this for nothing. Glory is to you! So safeguard us from the punishment of the Fire." (Ali Imran, 3:191)
Two main points that is reflection is an active action of remembering Allah in meaning that it can done in any situation and circumstances. And the essential part is human ought to be alert and aware that we have not been created for purposeless intention but to spread the peace and merciful to the world and to all humankind.

Yatadabbarun (يتدبرون)

Tadabbur (تدبر) connote to some deeper definition such as to ponder over. One has to deeply and fully understand and comprehend the meanings behind the words he/she recites, the signs that he/she grasp to build the structure of meanings and unveil its implications, analyzing, determining the main ideas and looking for details and being comprehensive in approaching those verses.
“This is a book (the Qur’an) which We have sent it to you, full of blessing that may ponder over (yatadabbur) its verses, and that men of understanding (ulul-albab) may engage in remembrance (yatadhakkur).”
(Shaad: 29)
This verse in surah Shaad comprise the whole concept of "fikr and zikr" (ال فكر والزكر) which leads to the rise of the generation of ulul-al bab ((أولواالألبب. This reveal to us that the concept of zikr where you relate everything in this world with he remembrance of Allah and the pre-condition of it is he ability and the capability to use your 'aql critically and creatively in the context of pondering over, reflecting and comprehending to His 'ayah'. And according to Sidek Baba in his great work to comprehend the meaning of reflective thinking in the horizontal and vertical approaches describe the generation of ulul-al bab ((أولواالألبب as:
"People of understanding are those who ponder and think reflectively so that human beings can relate to the proof of creation in giving life and benefits to man" (Sidek Baba, 2005).

This indicate that the people of understanding not only to have those capacity and capability but to translate and internalize it in the real world, so that they can become the savior, become the problem-solver to the ummah in order to bring goodness and ultimately to develop the human potency as a form of their task vicegerent of Allah.


Conclusion
Ulum Naqliah and Ulum Aqliah are the two form of basic knowledge that significant and relevant to human. Both are inter-related, Ulum Naqliah became the foundation to Ulum Aqliah; divinity as a source to thinking process where human starts with the process of thinking to inquire things, to make understanding which gives meanings to him. In gaining this aims, hikmah, wisdom and hudan, guidance needed to bridge between Ulum Naqliah and Ulum Aqliah as wisdom became the extremely powerful tools to develop thinking capabilities in the Muslim tradition in the past human civilizations. In the world of globalization today, the Muslim ummah is in its crucial era to develop the generation of ulul-al bab ((أولواالألبب in the condition where the group of people who use their mind in the truthful way, ya'qiluun (يعقلون), who use their mind to thinks creatively and reflects, yatafakkaruun (يتفكرون) and also who use their mind to inquire, to investigate and to ponder over deeply, yatadabbaruun (يتدبرون) to be the leaders in every parts of managing the system in the world as a form of fardhu kifayah as a compliment to the task of managing self (fardhu a'in) in order to gain Allah's Blessings.

“What befalls a society at critical turning points of its history is not the paucity of its material objects, but the poverty of idea”
-Malik bin Nabi-