Empat Jenis Manusia

Perumpamaan orang munafiq yang membaca Al-Quran seperti buah raihanah baunya enak dan rasanya pahit.

Rasulullah SAW bersabda :

"Perumpamaan orang Mukmin yang membaca Al-Quran seperti buah utrujah, baunya harum dan rasanya enak. Dan Perumpamaan orang Mukmin yang tidak membaca Al-Quran seperti buah korma, tidak wangi dan rasanya manis. Dan perumpamaan orang munafiq yang membaca Al-Quran seperti buah raihanah baunya enak dan rasanya pahit. Dan Perumpamaan orang munafiq yang tidak membaca Al-Quran seperti buah hanzhalah, tidak beraroma dan rasanya pahit." (HR. Bukhari dan Muslim)

Allah SWT telah memberikan banyak kekhususan kepada Rasulullah SAW, diantaranya adalah beliau telah diberikan jawami’ al-Kalim, terkadang keluar dari mulutnya yang mulia kalimat singkat namum Allah SWT berikan pengertian yang amat luas dan penuh makna. Atau ada banyak hadits dalam bentuk perumpamaan-perumpamaan, namun memiliki pengertian yang amat dalam dan luas pula maknanya.
Dalam hadits di atas ini Rasulullah menggambarkan empat jenis manusia dalam penyikapannya terhadap Al-Quran :

Pertama : Mukmin yang selalu membaca Al-Quran

Jenis pertama ini akan memiliki aroma yang indah lahir dan batin. Dia diumpamakan bagaikan buah utrujah, rasanya enak dan aromanya wangi semerbak. Seorang yang selalu membaca Al-Quran pasti dia akan merasakan ketenangan, kenyamanan jiwa dan hari-harinya akan selalu menyenangkan. Demikian pula orang yang berada di dekatnya, akan merasakan kenikmatan akan keindahan bacaan orang mukmin tersebut.

Apalagi kalau dia juga ikut mendengarkannya dengan penuh kekhusyu’an, maka dia akan mendapatkan rahmat Allah SWT. Rasulullah pun berdoa agar Al-Quran dijadikan untuk sebagai penyejuk hatinya (rabi’al qalb). Al-Quran pun pada hari kiamat kelak akan memberikan syafa’at kepada orang gemar membacanya. Diantara hikmah dari dikhususkannya buah utrujah yang memiliki aroma yang enak dan nikmat rasanya dari buah lainnya dari perumpamaan di atas adalah karena kulitnya saja bisa dijadikan obat dan dari bijinya dapat dikelurkan minyak yang memiliki banyak kasiat.

Kedua : Mukmin yang tidak membaca Al-Quran

Orang Mukmin yang tidak suka membaca Al-Quran maka pada hakikatnya dia telah kehilangan aroma lahir ini. Dia telah kehilangan kenikmatan yang begitu besar. Dia diumpamakan bagaikan buah korma, rasanya enak namun tidak memiliki wangi yang semerbak. Jadi ada sesuatu yang kurang pada diri mukmin tersebut. Bagaimana dia dapat merasakan kenikmatan iman namun Al-Quran jarang dia sentuh atau bisa jadi sama sakali tidak dibacanya, atau dia ingin dijadikan seperti orang yang dibacakan Al-Quran setelah ajal menjemput, seperti kebiasaan sebagian kaum Muslimin yang membacakan Al-Quran kepada orang yang sudah mati?

Ketiga dan keempat : Munafiq yang membaca dan tidak membaca Al-Quran

Orang munafiq yang hakiki adalah orang yang menampakkan keimanan dan menyembunyikan kekafiran. Ada beberapa ciri orang munafiq, diantaranya apabila dia berbicara dia berdusta, bila dia berjanji dia ingkari dan apabila dia diberi amanah dia menyalahinya. Apabila ada orang memiliki sifat tersebut dan dalam hatinya dia mengingkari keimanannya kepada Allah SWT maka dia akan termasuk orang munafiq yang akan ditempatkan di neraka yang pang bawah (fiddarkil asfali minannar) dan kekal di dalamnya.

Orang munafiq ini walaupun dia terus berusaha ingin menampakkan keimannya di hadapan manusia maka akan bisa terlihat dari sikap dia terhadap Al-Quran. Walaupun dia membaca Al-Quran tetap saja dia menyembunyikan kekafirannya, maka Rasulullah SAW mengumpamakan dia bagaikan buah raihanah, aromanya semerbak namun rasanya pahit.

Tilawah Al-Quran baginya hanyalah sekedar amalan zhahir yang hanya lewat kerongkongannya saja tidak lebih dari itu. Jenis manusia yang keempat lebih jelek lahir dan batin. Dia diumpamakan bagaikan buah hanzhalah, pahit dan buruk rasanya.Jadi hanya orang bodoh saja yang akan terpedaya oleh penampilannya.

Sekarang apakah diri termasuk seperti buah utrujah yaitu Mukmin yang suka dan pandai membaca Al-Quran dan suka mengamalkannya? atau malah termasuk tiga jenis manusia lainnya, silahkan tanya diri kita masing-masing. Ataukah mulut dan lidah kita lebih banyak dan suka dibasahi oleh selain Al-Quran? Atau mata kita lebih sering dan suka melihat selain Al-Quran, ataukah telinga kita lebih suka dan sering mendengarkan kata-kata atau ucapan yang sia-sia dan tidak berguna untuk kehidupan di akhirat kelak? Atau apakah kita manusia super sibuk sehingga tidak ada waktu dan lupa untuk belajar dan membaca Al-Quran?...

Ya Allah jadikanlah Al-Quran penerang dan penyejuk hati kami, jadikan lidah kami selalu basah dengan berzikir kepada-Mu, jangan Engkau sibukkan kami dengan segala sesuatu yang dapat melalaikan kami dari berzikir dan membaca kitab-Mu...aamiin.

Wallahu a‘lam

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Palestine under attack, December 27, 2008

Saya hanya mengambil dari rekan yang sudah dahulu mempublikasikan foto-foto serangan Israel atas Palestine pada penghujung tahun ini, 27 Desember 2008. Semoga diberi kekuatan bagi umat muslim untuk bersatu melawan penjajahan kaum yahudi! Amin......

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sumber lain yang mengungkapkan tragedi ini:
1. www.eramuslim.com
2. www.voanews.com
3. beritasore.com
4. www.ranesi.nl

dan banyak lagi...tinggal searching dengan kata kunci serangan israel ke palestine 2008....
Apa ini tidak masuk dalam pelanggaran HAM?
PBB hanya jadi Persatuan Budak-Budak kali ya??? speechless

Hubbles-secret

In 1999, Astronomers focusing on a star at the center of the Milky Way measured precisely for the first time how long it takes the sun to complete one orbit (a galactic year) of our home galaxy: 226 million years. The last time the sun was at that exact spot of its galactic orbit, dinosaurs ruled the world. The Solar System is thought to have completed about 20–25 orbits during its lifetime or 0.0008 orbit since the origin of humans.

Using a radio telescope system that measures celestial distances 500 times more accurately than the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers plotted the motion of the Milky Way and found that the sun and its family of planets were orbiting the galaxy at about 135 miles per second. That means it takes the solar system about 226 million years to orbit the Milky Way and puts the most precise value ever determined on one of the fundamental motions of the Earth and its sun.

The sun circles the Milky Way at a speed of about 486,000 miles per hour. And every object in the universe is moving apart from the other objects as the universe expands at a constantly accelerating rate.

The sun is one of about 100 billion stars in the Milky Way, one of billions of ordinary galaxies in the universe. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, with curving arms of stars pinwheeling out from a center.The solar system is about halfway out on one of these arms and is about 26,000 light years from the center. A light year is about 6 trillion miles.

For their solar system measurement, the astronomers focused on Sagittarius A, a star discovered over two decades ago to mark the Milky Way's center. Over a 10-day period, they measured the apparent shift in position of the star against the background of stars far beyond. The apparent motion of Sagittarius A is very, very small, just one-600,000th of what could be detected with the human eye, the astronomers said.

The measurement adds supports to the idea that the Milky Way's center contains a supermassive black hole- an object, much smaller than our own solar system, contains a black hole about 2.6 million times more massive than the sun.

Earlier this year, a team of researchers at the University of Kansas came up with an out-of-this-world explanation for the phenomenon of mass extinctions on Earth that hinges upon the fact that stars move through space and sometimes rush headlong through galaxies, or approach closely enough to cause a brief cosmic tryst.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley found that marine fossil records show that biodiversity increases and decreases based on a 62-million-year cycle. At least two of the Earth's great mass extinctions-the Permian extinction 250 million years ago and the Ordovician extinction about 450 million years ago-correspond with peaks of this cycle, which can't be explained by evolutionary theory.

Our own star moves toward and away from the Milky Way's center, and also up and down through the galactic plane. One complete up-and-down cycle takes 64 million years- suspiciously close to the Earth's biodiversity cycle.

Once the researchers independently confirmed the biodiversity cycle, they then proposed a novel mechanism whereby which the Sun's galactic travels is causing it.

It’s no secret that the Milky Way is being gravitationally pulled toward a massive cluster of galaxies, called the Virgo Cluster, which is located about 50 million light years away. Adrian Melott and his colleague Mikhail Medvedev, speculate that as the Milky Way rushes towards the Virgo Cluster, it generates a so-called bow shock in front of it that is similar to the shock wave created by a supersonic jet.

"Our solar system has a shock wave around it, and it produces a good quantity of the cosmic rays that hit the Earth. Why shouldn't the galaxy have a shock wave, too?" Melott asks.

The galactic bow shock is only present on the north side of the Milky Way's galactic plane, because that is the side facing the Virgo Cluster as it moves through space, and it would cause superheated gas and cosmic rays to stream behind it, the researchers say. Normally, our galaxy's magnetic field shields our solar system from this "galactic wind." But every 64 million years, the solar system's cyclical travels take it above the galactic plane.

"When we emerge out of the disk, we have less protection, so we become exposed to many more cosmic rays," Melott has said.

The boost in cosmic-ray exposure may have a direct effect on Earth's organisms, according to paleontologist Bruce Lieberman. The radiation would lead to higher rates of genetic mutations in organisms or interfere with their ability to repair DNA damage. In this way, the process could lead to new species while killing off others.

Cosmic rays are also associated with increased cloud cover, which could cool the planet by blocking out more of the Sun's rays. They also interact with molecules in the atmosphere to create nitrogen oxide, a gas that eats away at our planet's ozone layer, which protects us from the Sun's harmful ultraviolet rays.

Richard Muller, one of the UC Berkeley physicists who co-discovered the cycle, said Melott and his colleagues have come up with a plausible galactic explanation for the biodiversity cycle.

If future studies confirm the galaxy-biodiversity link, it would force scientists to broaden their ideas about what can influence life on Earth. "Maybe it's not just the climate and the tectonic events on Earth," Lieberman said. "Maybe we have to start thinking more about the extraterrestrial environment as well."

by Casey Kazan, December 22, 2008 (original here)

NEW YORK, KAMIS - Tahun ini, lubang ozon yang ada di atas Antartika, Kutub Selatan mencapai luas maksimal hingga 26,88 kilometer persegi. Ini tercatat sebagai lubang terbesar kelima yang pernah terekam sepanjang sejarah.

Gambar lubang ozon yang dicapture dari satelit

Luas lubang ozon merupakan hasil pengukuran badan antariksa AS (NASA) yang telah melakukannya sejak 30 tahun terakhir. Pakar atmosfer dari badan antariksa AS (NASA), Paul Newman menilai hal tersebut sebagai lubang yang tergolong besar.

Lubang ozon terbentuk akibat menipisnya lapisan ozon. Hal tersebut membahayakan karena lapisan ozon berfungsi menyerap radiasi ultraviolet dari Matahari. Meluasnya lubang ozon dinilai sebagai salah satu pemicu pemanasan global.

Biasanya lubang ozon terbentuk setiap bualn Agustus dan mencapi luas maksimum antara September hingga Oktober sebelum kembali menutup. Tahun lalu luas lubang ozon maksimum hanya 24,83 kilometer persegi.

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Barack Obama....?

US presidential candidate Barack Obama is to air a half-hour, prime-time advert on seven US TV channels.

The move comes after his Republican rival John McCain, campaigning in Florida, launched an attack on Mr Obama's national security credentials. In a speech in Tampa, Mr McCain made it clear he thought Mr Obama unqualified to act as commander-in-chief.

Mr Obama is also in the key battleground state, for a rally later with former President Bill Clinton. Six days from the 4 November election, Senator Obama leads in national and most swing-state opinion polls.

Unprecedented

Mr Obama's half-hour TV spot will be shown on CBS, Fox and NBC, at a cost of about $1m (£630,000) per network, as well as on Spanish language channel Univision, BET, MSNBC and TV One.

Mr McCain has also been attacking his rival's defence and security policies

During one portion of the spot, Mr Obama will speak live from a rally in Florida.

The BBC's Justin Webb in Washington says that while it is not unheard of for American politicians to buy large chunks of television time - millionaire Ross Perot did it in 1992 - Mr Obama's move is unprecedented in its scope.

Only one of the major TV networks, ABC, is not running the film - which has been weeks in the making - and Fox News has decided not to broadcast its pre-game show ahead of the fifth game of the baseball World Series in order to accommodate it.

Earlier on Wednesday, in a speech to supporters in Tampa, Mr McCain questioned his rival's security credentials, saying: "The question is whether this is a man who has what it takes to protect America from Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and the other great threats in the world."

"He has given no reason to answer in the affirmative".

Mr McCain's assault on his opponent's defence and security policies came after a meeting with a number of senior former military officials.

US election polltracker in full

At an earlier event in Miami, Mr McCain had launched a series of attacks on his rival's tax policies.

"This is the fundamental difference between Senator Obama and me," he said.

"He thinks taxes are too low, and I think that spending is too high."

Mr Obama, at an event in North Carolina, poured scorn on Mr McCain's recent accusations that he is a "socialist".

"By the end of the week, he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in Kindergarten," he told supporters.

After his TV spot airs, the Democratic candidate is scheduled to join Mr Clinton for an evening rally in Kissimmee, near Orlando, timed to coincide with the late evening news shows.

The latest Associated Press-GfK poll has Mr Obama and Mr McCain virtually tied in Florida and North Carolina. It has Mr Obama leading Mr McCain in Colorado, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

The latest Gallup poll has Mr Obama leading Mr McCain nationally by 50% to 43%.

From: BBC NEWS