A few days ago, I've encountered with one professor from bosnia. Wandering around in Masjid Negara with 2 companions including his malaysian 'tour guide' that little to know about his own country and completely blur about what his 'client' wanted. He (the prof.) was a lecturer from the 1st Bosnian University that are build just after the war and he also is a fiqh scholar but importantly, he have a daughter studied in UIA!!!
When I asked him about the wellbeing of Muslim in Bosnia, he replied that they are slowly developing and they learnt mistakes from the past. Insya Allah, they can rebuild their country and embrace Islam as the way of life on the same time. Lets us all pray for our brothers and sisters there in Bosnia will achieve peace and harmony with Islam as their way of life.
He also commented about ENJOYing ISLAM as our religion. It comes to my senses and made me think all the way back from Masjid Negara to my home (shah alam). Nowadays we perform all our obligatory that are the 5 pillars of Islam with forceful feeling. We felt that the 5 prayers is a must and we exercise it with no heart at all. Not only the wajib ones, but also the sunnah practice like attending kuliyyah, congregational (jemaah) prayers and other religious activities. We have no heart at all (or Malay called it Hati Kering-dry heart-) in doing all of those. Imam Al-Ghazali once said that ikhlas have three levels :
1) Ikhlas because of fear
2) Ikhlas because of trade (pahala)
3) Iklhas because of slave
So guys, think what level that we are at now??
Maybe we can change our motto now from "Islam is the way of life" to "Enjoy Islam as Our Way Of Life" or "I'm Enjoy to be a Muslim" or any other relevant ones. We have to plow into our hearts Islam that all of our daily Islamic activities are fun (please do not define fun as music and any futile and benefit-less practice).
Please do change our approach to the Muslim because from our ancestors until now we prefer to say to our children 99% of prohibition statement rather than encouraging statement. In Jumaat prayer for an instance, the khatib always said we should do this, we should not do that and giving all the graphs and facts about the consequences of doing the wrong.
We should encouraging the young ones to develop their minds and creatively tell them how fun it is to perform all of the 5 pillars. The benefits and the pros and of course we should also tell them what are the cons of doing maksiat.
-Insan Yang Cemerlang adalah daripada mindanya yg ..............- :)
