Bacalah al-Quran

Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) bersabda yang bermaksud : 'Bila seseorang lelaki itu mati dan saudaranya sibuk dengan pengebumiannya, berdiri lelaki yang betul-betul kacak di bahagian kepalanya. Bila mayatnya dikapan, lelaki itu berada di antara kain kapan dan si mati.

Selepas pengebumian, semua orang pulang ke rumah, 2 malaikat Mungkar dan Nakir, datang dalam kubur dan cuba memisahkan lelaki kacak ini supaya mereka boleh menyoal lelaki yang telah meninggal itu seorang diri mengenai ketaatannya kepada Allah. Tapi lelaki kacak itu berkata,

Dia adalah temanku, dia adalah kawanku. Aku takkan meninggalkannya seorang diri walau apa pun. Jika kamu ditetapkan untuk menyoal, lakukanlah tugasmu. Aku tidak boleh meninggalkannya sehingga aku dapati dia dimasukkan ke dalam Syurga.'

Selepas itu dia berpaling pada temannya yang meninggal dan berkata,'Aku adalah Al-Quran, yang mana kamu membacanya, kadang-kadang dengan suara yang nyaring dan kadang-kadang dengan suara yang perlahan. Jangan bimbang. Selepas soal siasat dari Mungkar dan Nakir, kamu tidak akan bersedih.'

Selepas soal siasat selesai, lelaki kacak mengatur untuknya daripada Al-Mala'ul A'laa (malaikat dalam Syurga) tempat tidur dari sutera yang dipenuhi bauan kesturi

Rasulullah (Sallallahu alaihi wasallam) bersabda yang bermaksud:'Di hari pengadilan, di hadapan Allah, tiada syafaat yang lebih baik darjatnya daripada Quran, mahupun dari nabi atau malaikat.'

Jadikan Al-Quran sebagai teman dimana saja sebagai panduan hidup.

Kekuatan Manusia Pada al-Quran

Dr. Tariq al-Swaidan dalam penelitiannya mendapati beberapa perkara yang disebut dalam al-Quran mempunyai persamaan dengan lawannya. Perkataan lelaki disebut sebanyak 24 kali dalam surah-surah tertentu. Disebut juga sebanyak 24 kali perkataan wanita dalam keseluruhan al-Quran. Seterusnya dalam penelitian beliau, perkara lain juga didapati berjumlah yang sama. Perkataan Dunia disebut sebanyak 115 kali dan Akhirat juga 115 kali; perkataan Malaikat 88 kali manakala Syaitan juga 88 kali; Hidup 145 kali manakala Mati 145 kali; Zakat 32 kali, Barakah juga 32; Berfikir 49, Nur 49, dan Penderitaan 114, "Kesabaran" juga 114 kali.

Apakah semua ini kebetulan?
Lebih menakjubkan perkataan solat muncul sebanyak lima kali, hari bulan sebanyak 12 kali dan hari terdapat sebanyak 365 kali. Penemuan ini telah disebarkan melalui internet secara meluas untuk dikongsi manfaatnya oleh seluruh manusia.

Orang yang mempunyai akal yang sihat akan mengatakan, Tidak mungkin suatu itu berlaku secara kebetulan bahkan ada perancangan yang jitu daripada yang menjadikan alam ini. Akal yang tajam akan mengakui kewujudan Tuhan yang Maha Berkuasa dalam menetapkan semua itu.

Tidak mungkin Rasulullah s.a.w. melakukan sendiri tanpa bimbingan penuh atau wahyu yang diturunkan. Sememangnya semua perkara itu berada dalam perancangan dan pengetahuan Allah. Dia menurunkannya kepada manusia pilihan-Nya?
Di sinilah kekurangan kita, banyak membaca al-Quran tanpa mengetahui maknanya. Kalaupun kita mengetahui maknanya tetapi tidak mengetahui tafsirannya. Tetapi kalau kita mengetahui tafsirannya, kita tidak mengetahui rahsianya. Rahsia al-Quran keseluruhannya sudah tentu hanya ada di sisi Allah S.W.T. Namun manusia perlu terus berusaha memahami rahsia-rahsia ini setakat yang terdaya. Sebenarnya nilai iman dapat ditingkatkan jika rahsia demi rahsia itu dapat diungkai selari dengan bertambahnya usia manusia. Bukan sahaja nilai iman mereka yang beragama Islam, malah mereka yang ingkar selama ini, tidak mustahil akan menerima nur hidayah.
Allah berfirman :

"Wahai manusia, sungguhnya telah datang kepadamu bukti kebenaran dari Tuhan-mu (Nabi Muhammad dan mukjizatnya) ; dan Kami telah menurunkan kepadamu satu cahaya (al-Quran) yang terang benderang." (An-Nisaa, 174)

Pada suatu masa Rasulullah s.a.w. ditanya, "Apakah Nur itu?" Baginda menjawab, " Apabila Nur itu memasuki hati maka lega dan lapanglah hati itu."
Kemudian ditanya lagi, Bagaimanakah tandanya? Sabda baginda, " Hati itu tidak lupakan tempat kembalinya ke Darul Khuld (negeri Akhirat yang kekal). Dia tidaklah bermasyghul (sibukkan) dengan keduniaan kerana dunia ini merupakan tempat perayaan (dan percubaan). Hati itu selalu mengingati kematian sebelum tibanya kematian itu."

Abdullah bin Masud berkata, "Ilmu itu diperoleh bukanlah kerana semata-mata banyak riwayat (sumber biasa), tetapi diperoleh dengan nur yang dicampakkan oleh Allah ke dalam hati seseorang."

Sudah tentu untuk mendapat nur itu, hati perlu didekatkan selalu kepada Tuhan. Al Quran merupaka penghubungnya. Dizaman keagungan Islam dahulu para bijak pandai dari Greek pergi belajar ke Baghdad, banyak ilmu telah diterjemahkan kedalam Bahasa Latin. Pada zaman selepas kegemilngan Islam, para cendiakawan dari Eropah telah mempelajari ilmu dari Greek dan dibawa pulang ke Eropah dengan katanya ilmu itu diterjemah dari Bahasa Latin. Oleh itu wahai penghuni global ketahuilah oleh kamu bahawa segala ilmu yang ada didunia ini adalah berasal dari al-Quran.

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Hosni Mubarak resigns as president - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

Pro-democracy protesters in Tahrir Square have vowed to take the protests to a 'last and final stage' [AFP]

Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, has resigned from his post, handing over power to the armed forces.

Omar Suleiman, the vice-president, announced in a televised address that the president was "waiving" his office, and had handed over authority to the Supreme Council of the armed forces.

Suleiman's short statement was received with a roar of approval and by celebratory chanting and flag-waving from a crowd of hundreds of thousands in Cairo's Tahrir Square, as well by pro-democracy campaigners who attended protests across the country on Friday.

The crowd in Tahrir chanted "We have brought down the regime", while many were seen crying, cheering and embracing one another.

Mohamed ElBaradei, an opposition leader, hailed the moment as being the "greatest day of my life", in comments to the Associated Press news agency.

"The country has been liberated after decades of repression,'' he said.

"Tonight, after all of these weeks of frustration, of violence, of intimidation ... today the people of Egypt undoubtedly [feel they] have been heard, not only by the president, but by people all around the world," our correspondent at Tahrir Square reported, following the announcement.

"The sense of euphoria is simply indescribable," our correspondent at Mubarak's Heliopolis presidential palace, where at least ten thousand pro-democracy activists had gathered, said.

"I have waited, I have worked all my adult life to see the power of the people come to the fore and show itself. I am speechless." Dina Magdi, a pro-democracy campaigner in Tahrir Square told Al Jazeera.

"The moment is not only about Mubarak stepping down, it is also about people's power to bring about the change that no-one ... thought possible."

In Alexandria, Egypt's second city, our correspondent described an "explosion of emotion". He said that hundreds of thousands were celebrating in the streets.

Pro-democracy activists in the Egyptian capital and elsewhere had earlier marched on presidential palaces, state television buildings and other government installations on Friday, the 18th consecutive day of protests.

Anger at state television

At the state television building earlier in the day, thousands had blocked people from entering or leaving, accusing the broadcaster of supporting the current government and of not truthfully reporting on the protests.

"The military has stood aside and people are flooding through [a gap where barbed wire has been moved aside]," Al Jazeera's correspondent at the state television building reported.

He said that "a lot of anger [was] generated" after Mubarak's speech last night, where he repeated his vow to complete his term as president.

'Gaining momentum'

Outside the palace in Heliopolis, where at least ten thousand protesters had gathered in Cairo, another Al Jazeera correspondent reported that there was a strong military presence, but that there was "no indication that the military want[ed] to crack down on protesters".

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She said that army officers had engaged in dialogue with protesters, and that remarks had been largely "friendly".

Tanks and military personnel had been deployed to bolster barricades around the palace.

Our correspondent said the crowd in Heliopolis was "gaining momentum by the moment", and that the crowd had gone into a frenzy when two helicopters were seen in the air around the palace grounds.

"By all accounts this is a highly civilised gathering. people are separated from the palace by merely a barbed wire ... but nobody has even attempted to cross that wire," she said.

As crowds grew outside the palace, Mubarak left Cairo on Friday for the Red Sea resort of Sharm al-Shaikh, according to sources who spoke to Al Jazeera.

In Tahrir Square, hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered, chanting slogans against Mubarak and calling for the military to join them in their demands.

Our correspondent at the square said the "masses" of pro-democracy campaigners there appeared to have "clear resolution" and "bigger resolve" to achieve their goals than ever before.

However, he also said that protesters were "confused by mixed messages" coming from the army, which has at times told them that their demands will be met, yet in communiques and other statements supported Mubarak's staying in power until at least September.

Army statement

In a statement read out on state television at midday on Friday, the military announced that it would lift a 30-year-old emergency law but only "as soon as the current circumstances end".

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The military said it would also guarantee changes to the constitution as well as a free and fair election, and it called for normal business activity to resume.

Al Jazeera's correspondent in Tahrir Square said people there were hugely disappointed with that army statement, and had vowed to take the protests to "a last and final stage".

"They're frustrated, they're angry, and they say protests need to go beyond Liberation [Tahrir] Square, to the doorstep of political institutions," she said.

Protest organisers have called for 20 million people to come out on "Farewell Friday" in a final attempt to force Mubarak to step down.

Alexandria protests

Hossam El Hamalawy, a pro-democracy organiser and member of the Socialist Studies Centre, said protesters were heading towards the presidential palace from multiple directions, calling on the army to side with them and remove Mubarak.

"People are extremely angry after yesterday's speech," he told Al Jazeera. "Anything can happen at the moment. There is self-restraint all over but at the same time I honestly can't tell you what the next step will be ... At this time, we don't trust them [the army commanders] at all."

An Al Jazeera reporter overlooking Tahrir said the side streets leading into the square were filling up with crowds.

"It's an incredible scene. From what I can judge, there are more people here today than yesterday night," she said.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters havehered in the port city of Alexandria [AFP]

"The military has not gone into the square except some top commanders, one asking people to go home ... I don't see any kind of tensions between the people and the army but all of this might change very soon if the army is seen as not being on the side of the people."

Hundreds of thousands were participating in Friday prayers outside a mosque in downtown Alexandria, Egypt's second biggest city.

Thousands of pro-democracy campaigners also gathered outside a presidential palace in Alexandria.

Egyptian television reported that large angry crowds were heading from Giza, adjacent to Cairo, towards Tahrir Square and some would march on the presidential palace.

Protests are also being held in the cities of Mansoura, Mahala, Tanta, Ismailia, and Suez, with thousands in attendance.

Violence was reported in the north Sinai town of el-Arish, where protesters attempted to storm a police station. At least one person was killed, and 20 wounded in that attack, our correspondent said.

Dismay at earlier statement

In a televised address to the nation on Thursday, Mubarak said he was handing "the functions of the president" to Vice-President Omar Suleiman. But the move means he retains his title of president.

Halfway through his much-awaited speech late at night, anticipation turned into anger among protesters camped in Tahrir Square who began taking off their shoes and waving them in the air.

Immediately after Mubarak's speech, Suleiman called on the protesters to "go home" and asked Egyptians to "unite and look to the future."

Union workers have joined the protests over the past few days, effectively crippling transportation and several industries, and dealing a sharper blow to Mubarak’s embattled regime.

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Krisis Mesir: Akhirnya Hosni Mubarak Letak Jawatan

KAHERAH: Presiden Mesir, Hosni Mubarak akhirnya meletak jawatan, selepas 18 hari tunjuk perasaan besar-besaran menentang pemerintahan 30 tahunnya.

Sehubungan itu, Naib Presiden, Omar Suleiman yang mengumumkan perletakan jawatan itu menerusi televisyen, menamakan sebuah majlis tentera untuk mentadbir sementara negara berkenaan.

“Presiden mengambil keputusan untuk menyerahkan kedudukannya,” kata Omar.

Seorang pegawai parti pemerintah sebelum ini berkata Hosni dan keluarganya meninggalkan Kaherah, berlepas ke kawasan peranginan di Laut Mati di Sharm el-Sheikh, tempat dia mempunyai istana.

Tentera Mesir sebelum itu berusaha mengurangkan kemarahan rakyat dengan memberi jaminan, pembaharuan yang dijanjikan akan dilaksanakan. Tetapi, beratus ribu penunjuk perasaan menjadi semakin berang, memenuhi dataran di sekurang-kurangnya tiga bandar besar negara itu semalam dan berarak menuju istana presiden dan bangunan televisyen milik negara, simbol penting rejim Hosni.

“Apa yang kamu tunggu lagi,” jerit seorang lelaki ke arah seorang pegawai tentera di luar istana Hosni di Kaherah. Lebih 5,000 orang menunjuk perasaan di depan istana itu yang dilindungi empat kereta kebal.

Tunjuk perasaan di depan istana itu adalah yang pertama dilakukan selepas tiga minggu tertumpu di Dataran Tahrir.

Ketika khutbah Jumaat di dataran berkenaan, penunjuk perasaan melaungkan slogan ‘Pergi! Pergi!’ setiap kali khatib menyebut nama Hosni.

Dalam pada itu, lebih 10,000 orang merempuh sekatan tentera di depan bangunan Radio Dan Televisyen Mesir.

Sambil memukul gendang, mereka menjerit ‘Pergi! Pergi!’ Tentera dalam kereta kebal depan bangunan itu tidak berbuat apa-apa. - AFP

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