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Pikir, Rasa, Fithrah…

Muhasabah of The Day

Sesaat di penghujung malam, terbersit pertanyaan (yang sudah sering dipertanyakan dan muncul kembali di saat banyak mata terlelap)…mengenai siapakah saya:

-          Saya menurut pikiran

-          Saya menurut perasaan

-          Saya apa adanya (secara fithrah)

Yang kemudian saya sadari bahwa saya menurut pikiran dan perasaan saya adalah sesuatu yang relativistic, yang berubah-ubah, yang selalu bergoyang mengikuti arus kehidupan…sehingga saya seharusnya berpegang pada diri saya apa adanya menurut fithrah saya, sebagai khalifatullah di bumi, yang mampu mengendalikan arus kehidupan, sebagai insan merdeka, yang tidak condong dan didominasi oleh sesama makhluk, yang tiada menyembah sesuatu kecuali Allah swt…

Secara primordial manusia telah dikaruniai fitrah. Fitrah sebagai karakter hakiki dan kepercayaan dasar manusia, yakni fitrah tauhid, suatu keyakinan akan keesaan tuhan (Allah swt) dan kesaksian bahwa tiada Tuhan (ilah) kecuali Dia, yakni allah swt. Dia itu MahaTunggal. Maha Berkuasa, Maha Menatap, Maha Mengetahui, Maha Dibutuhkan atau tempat satu-satunya bergantung. Oleh karena itu, Dia sebagai tujuan akhir dari setiap diri kita maupun semua makhluk NYA.

Hal ini ditegaskan dalam QS Al-A’raaf:172, yaitu:

Dan (ingatlah), ketika Tuhanmu mengeluarkan keturunan anak-anak Adam dari sulbi mereka dan Allah mengambil kesaksian terhadap jiwa mereka (seraya berfirman): “Bukankah Aku ini Tuhanmu?” Mereka menjawab: “Betul (Engkau Tuhan kami), kami menjadi saksi”. (Kami lakukan yang demikian itu) agar di hari kiamat kamu tidak mengatakan: “Sesungguhnya kami (bani Adam) adalah orang-orang yang lengah terhadap ini (keesaan Allah)”.

Fitrah tauhid jika senantiasa terpelihara berimbas dalam kehidupan sehari-hari berupa rasa “ikhlas”. Yakni, tindakan dan amalan apapun yang dilakukan berprinsip hanya karena Allah lillahi ta’ala. Tidak karena ilah-ilah/berhala yang lain. Ikhlas inilah yang menjadi landasan dari segala tindakan dan perbuatan kita, jika kita ingin semuanya berarti dan memiliki dimensi ibadah. Sebaliknya, jika “fitrah tauhid” ini dikotori dan dirusak oleh hadirnya ilah-ilah yang lain, yang bersarang di hati, maka dalam kehidupan sehari-hari akan melahirkan “syirik”. Syirik inilah yang menjadi sebab, mengapa amalan apapun yang kita lakukan akan berubah menjadi sia-sia, buruk dan batil. Ikhlas dalam hal ini jelas menjadi lawan dari syirik. Dengan ikhlas amal kita bermakna,dengan syirik amal kita akan sia-sia.

Ilah-ilah itu bukan lagi berbentuk berhala/patung atau dewa-dewa yang dipuja-puja, tapi bisa berupa “atribut-aribut artificial yang kita sandang”: nafsu kita, ego kita, tradisi/kebiasaan-kebiasaan buruk kita, kebodohan kita, ambisi/kepentingan pribadi kita, harta kekayaan kita, jabatan kita, profesi kita, gelar kita, rumah kita, mobil kita, popularitas kita, keluarga kita, pengetahuan kita, teman kita, orang yang kita cintai, tanda tangan kita, kecantikan/kegantengan kita, dan sebagainya.

Banyak tindakan yang kita lakukan hanya karena disandarkan oleh atribut-atribut kita sendiri. Atribut ini sebenarnya merupakan manifestasi topeng-topeng kehidupan yang dapat menghalangi hubungan kita dengan Allah. Kita sering bersembunyi di balik topeng-topeng ini demi mempertahankan harga diri dan kehormatan. Atribut-atribut lahiriyah seperti ini akan sangat berbahaya jika kita tidak bisa menempatkannya dengan benar, sebagai konsekuensi dan amanah dalam kehidupan. Jika “keberadaan dan kesadaran kita hanya merupakan derivate dari atribut-atribut artificial” tersebut, maka dapat merendahkan diri kita menjadi hamba sesuatu selain Allah. Ini adalah derajat yang sangat nista dan begitu rendah di mata Nya. Hal ini Allah tegaskan dalam salah satu firman Nya QS Al – A’raaf: 37.

Agar kita tetap mampu mempertahankan jati diri sebagai hamba Allah dan khalifah NYA, yakni agar “fitrah tauhid” tetap terjaga, maka hal yang pertama adalah kita harus buang segala bentuk ilah, kotoran dan penyakit yang melekat padanya terlebih dahulu. Hal ini tidak bisa kita raih, kecuali jika kita senantiasa melakukan zikir kepada Allah (zikrullah). Ketika hati sudah suci, bersih dan lurus, maka niat yang bersumber darinya akan memiliki keikhlasan (beramal hanya karena Alla) yang sangat kita butuhkan. Demikian pula, jika hati telah tersucikan, maka akan baik pulalah perilaku seluruh anggota tubuh kita. Dari sini lahirlah akhlak dan amal shaleh sebagai manifestasi ketakwaan. Inilah yang dimaksud hati yang sudah berzikir( source taken from Menzikirkan Mata Hati)...

“Ya Tuhan kami, janganlah Engkau jadikan hati kami condong kepada kesesatan sesudah Engkau beri petunjuk kepada kami, dan karuniakanlah kepada kami rahmat dari sisi Engkau; karena sesungguhnya Engkau-lah Maha Pemberi (karunia)”

Salam buat saudara2ku sesama pejalan cinta menuju Allah swt…

Terimakasih buat guru2ku yang telah menginspirasi dan memberikan banyak tausiyah dalam perjalanan ini…perbedaan itu indah jika kita mampu menyikapinya secara bijaksana…semua pilihan ada di tangan kita, ingin mengikuti pikiran, rasa, atau fithrah…

 

Hasbunallah ni’mal waqiil..ni’mal maulaa wanni’mannashiir..

Bittersweet

 In my hallucination
I saw my beloved’s flower garden
In my vertigo, in my dizziness
In my drunken haze
Whirling and dancing like a spinning wheel

I saw myself as the source of existence
I was there in the beginning
And I was the spirit of love
Now I am sober
There is only the hangover
And the memory of love
And only the sorrow

I yearn for happiness
I ask for help
I want mercy
And my love says:

Look at me and hear me
Because I am here
Just for that

I am your moon and your moonlight too
I am your flower garden and your water too
I have come all this way, eager for you
Without shoes or shawl

I want you to laugh
To kill all your worries
To love you
To nourish you

Oh sweet bitterness
I will soothe you and heal you
I will bring you roses
I, too, have been covered with thorns

Attitude … !

 
Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!”

He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?”

Jerry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, ‘Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.’ I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.”

“Yeah, right, it’s not that easy,” I protested.

“Yes, it is,” Jerry said. “Life is all about choices. When you cut way all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice how you live life.”

I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?”

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. “The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door,” Jerry replied. “Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.”

“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness? ” I asked.

Jerry continued, “The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He’s a dead man.’

“I knew I needed to take action.”

“What did you do?” I asked.

“Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Jerry. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breathe and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ Over their laughter, I told them. ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”

Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.
 
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You have 2 choices now:
 
1.  Crib about your daily life and what are you  doing and be unhappy . . .
 
2.  Enjoy every moment of your life & give in your Best . . .
 
Keep Smiling Always…

ATTITUDE

Looking for your face  enjoy it from Elle

A man wakes up home with a huge hangover. He forces himself to open his eyes, and the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins and a glass of water on the side table.He sits down and sees his clothing in front of him,all clean and pressed. He looks around the room and sees it is in perfect order. So’s the rest of the house.

He takes the aspirins and notices a note on the table :
Honey,
Breakfast is on the stove, I left early to go shopping.
Love you.

He goes to the kitchen.
Sure enough, a hot breakfast and the morning newspaper await him.

His son is also at the table, eating.
The man asks, “Son, what happened last night?”

His son says, “Well, you came home after 3 a.m., drunk and delirious. You broke some furniture, puked in the hallway, and gave yourself a black eye when you walked into the door.”

Confused, the man asks, “So, why is everything in order and also clean, with breakfast on the table waiting for me?”

His son replies, “Oh that ! Mom dragged you to the bedroom, and when she tried to take your pants off you shouted,

” LADY, GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME ! I’M MARRIED !’”