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THE MEANING OF ISLAM

Every religion of the world has been named either after the name of its founder or after thecommunity and nation in which that religion took its birth. For instance, Christianity takes its

appellation from the name of its prophet Jesus Christ; Zoroastrians from its founder zoroaster;and Judaism, the religion of the Jews, from the name of the tribe Judah (of the country of judea)

wherein it took its birth. Similar is the case with other religions. But not so with Islam. Thisreligion enjoys the unique distinction of having no such association with any particular person

or people. The word Islam does not confer any such relationship-for it does not belong to anyparticular person, people, or country. It is neither the product of any human mind nor is it

confined to any particular community. It is a universal religion and its objective is to create andcultivate in man the quality and attitude of Islam.

Islam, as a matter of fact, is an attributive title. Whosoever possesses this attributive, may hebelong to any race, community, country, or clan, is a Muslim. According to the Qur'an (theHoly Book of the Muslims), among every people and in all ages there have been good and

righteous people who possessed this attribute of them were and are Muslims.This automatically brings us to the question: What does Islam mean? And who is a Muslim?

Islam is derived from the Arabic root "Salema": peace, purity, submission and obedience. In thereligious sense, Islam means submission to the will of God and obedience to His law.

Everything and every phenomenon in the world other than man is administered totally by God-made laws, ie. they are obedient to God and submissive to his laws, they are in the State of

Islam. Man possesses the qualities of intelligence and choice, thus he is invited to submit to thegood will of God and obey His law, ie, become a Muslim.

Submission to the good will of God, together with obedience to His beneficial Law, ie, becoming aMuslim, is the best safeguard for man's peace and harmony.Islam dates back to the age of Adam and its message has been conveyed to man by God's prophets

and messengers, including Abrahim, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad.Islam's message has been restored and enforced in the last stage of the religious evolution by God's

last prophet and messenger, Muhammad.The word Allah in the Arabic language means God, or more accurately, The One and Only Eternal

God, Creator of the Universe, Lord of all lords, King of all kings, Most Compassionate, MostMerciful. The word Allah to mean God is also used by Arabic speaking Jews and Christians.

ISLAM means obedience to God. And it is a matter of common sense that this obedience cannotensure in full measure unless man knows certain basic facts of live and reposes firm faith in them.What are those facts? And what are the primary essentials, which a man must know to fashion hislife, in accordance with the Divine Way? This we propose to discuss in the present chapter.

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IMAN

alhamdulillah..

subhanaAllah

masyaAllah.

A pleasure..

A pleasure to meet muslim community.

Meet brothers and sisters because of Allah. and gain something that I don't ever expected.

MasyaAllah. Subhanallah. Alhamdulillah. All praise to Him.

I got something that really hit my heart at last. the only thing in my mind, when i stepped out my feet, and I choose to

step out only one thing, one hope. By this step, I can gain bless from Him.

hey, i still can choose other thing to do, but why still i'm doing it? still the 'other thing' is still can have a bless from Him if

the sake doing it for Him.

not here for argue it, but i'm thinking, it seems He is calling me to be closer to Him in other way around.

plus, I'm not thinking much in a way to step out. In my mind, I know I have task that need to be completed. Assignment

that need to be done and at the same time, there is like a call for me to go. Between this two good things, how I make a

choice? Based on what, I choose to be my step.

And this make me strong and shape myself and mylife with what I believe in. Assignments, study, yes its part of life but

still I don't want to make my life so dull which like 'no life'. I know it is important, but there are also other thing that

actually more important. but still, I'm not to argue with what I believe as everyone deserve to believe what they want to

believe for themselve.

I choose to believe this because this what I want to believe as it make sense to me. In the sense is that to me, 'the

worldly thing' will never ending. It will come to you on and on. It will never finish.

Reason for 'busy' can always be yours if you want to. Here, I finally got something mean. It such a precious gift that Icouldn't express by word and it's only deep inside that I want He to know, how I feel so thankful to have 'it' as something

that it precious and not worth like others.

That is iman. That is islam.

What I'm searching for?

I'm searching for iman, I'm searching for islam, I'm searching for Allah.

What I believe, iman is not come to you by itself without an effort. You need to search for it. Only by doing that, you will

get back what you give in. That will be a resulf from mujahadah which means for struggle + preserve.

and today, I have the sense that I learnt something on this earth.

something that I enjoyed doing it,

something that I feel passion in it.

Islam is my passion. which I will not stop searching for it even it needs me to sacrifice my life, my world.

However, don't get it wrong. Islam don't ask you exactly to sacrifice everything. But in term of iman, I believe that you

will let go of something(which could also replace the word of sacrifice), to have it.

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Today, two things that I learnt about iman and islam.

What I learnt is, iman means to testify and verify everything that comes to you.

iman is not a blind faith. its not only a blind belief but it always keeps you to verify your belief.

for example, how one can believe in Allah? believe that this world has God. How one believe that the Quran is the word

of God?

in stead of believe it, in what basis one believe in it?

iman that means testified, is after you testify what you believe in it will become your iman. (i'm not good in trying to

explain this but mashaAllah one brother in the session that I attend just now explain it very very well. )

I leave those questions without an answer just to trigger people's mind.

On what basis that you believe in something?

the other thing is about lailaha illah.

the claim that we make, will only be accepted by Him, only if we really mean it . Understand it and fulfull the condition

that required.

Syahadah that we claim, need submittance. It is not enough for you just say it but actually you are not believe in it. What

makes you believe in it is your iman.

Otherwise, there's nothing that will make any difference in our belief. When you belief in something, it must make a

difference from one that doesn't belief in the same thing like you. If you doesn't make any difference, then there's no

difference between you and others and if that so, what on earth actually are you believe in if you not submitted to it and

really mean it?

Fair enough. I feel like I make some points messed up but hopefully, at least it make sense to me and one that couldn't

understand can always feel free to ask me for further explaination.

my action is always related with what I believe in. Because of I believe in it, it makes myself as what I believe in.

I don't want devote myself for this hasty world that yet I know its going to end and I know my life can meet the deadline

in anytime. I know there things that required me to do, but I choose the way I want it to be. Believe keeps me always

forward in everything. Therefore, I choose to have something that is not temporary.

One of the reason, I am here because I believe it. If not, I'm not going to be here. It can be somewhere else on this Earth.

( but of course there He one that makes me here but still I believe, 'belief' is part of it)

The reason I'm here also because of few reasons. and due to that reasons that drive me in make up my single action anddecision even it seems uncommon or undesireable for others. but hey, who cares? Should I think what other people

might thinking more for my own life?

Should be no one I want to please.

..

Yet, belief will always make my day as what I want believe in.

Alhamdulillah.

Thank you ya Allah.

Today I found the meaning of iman.

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ya Allah. terima kasih kau pertemukan aku malam ini dengan ertinya islam dan iman.

Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah.

2 komentar:

Tanpa Nama berkata... 2009 November 21 13:08salam ya ukhti...good for you for having the chance to go in depth, searching for the most precious gift callediman...alhamdulillah...now,the responsibility is yours to deliver the message of iman and islam to the peoplearound you especially to those whose knowledge about Islam is zero and even some have misunderstandingabout our religion...haiyya najtahidu fil jihad!!! hopefully you can do your preaching well in Canada...is usrahgoing well there? I really hope that I can join the da'wah team there...Insya-Allah=P ~from zara~everjihad berkata... 2009 November 22 10:32

wassalam.

before deliver the message of iman and islam to other people, i need to apply it in myself.

true. it's really a big responsibility.

i love my friend's saying; implement iman and islam in urself, later, people will be infected..

but it is true. we also need to work on spreading the knowledge about iman and islam.

usrah is good. hopefully it's going well.

sure you can join da'wah here.(if you going to come here)..

nice to meet you, ukhti zara.May Allah bless us.

Ukhuwah fillah.

The Meaning of Iman

Abu Ja`far Ar-Razi said that Al-`Ala' bin Al-Musayyib bin Rafi` narrated from Abu Ishaq that Abu Al-Ahwassaid that `Abdullah said, "Iman is to trust.''. `Ali bin Abi Talhah reported that Ibn `Abbas said,

][(who have faith) means they trust. Also, Ma`mar said that Az-Zuhri said, "Iman is the deeds.'' In addition, AbuJa`far Ar-Razi said that Ar-Rabi` bin Anas said that, `They have faith', means, they fear (Allah).

Ibn Jarir (At-Tabari) commented, "The prefered view is that they be described as having faith in the Unseen bythe tongue, deed and creed. In this case, fear of Allah is included in the general meaning of Iman, whichnecessitates following deeds of the tongue by implementation. Hence, Iman is a general term that includes

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affirming and believing in Allah, His Books and His Messengers, and realizing this affirmation throughadhering to the implications of what the tongue utters and affirms.''

Linguistically, in the absolute sense, Iman merely means trust, and it is used to mean that sometimes in theQur'an, for instance, Allah the Exalted said,

] [(He trusts (yu'minu) in Allah, and trusts (yu'minu) in the believers.) (9: 61)

Prophet Yusuf's brothers said to their father,

] [(But you will never believe us even when we speak the truth) (12:17).

Further, the word Iman is sometimes mentioned along with deeds, such as Allah said,

] [(Save those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous deeds) (95:6).

However, when Iman is used in an unrestricted manner, it includes beliefs, deeds, and statements of thetongue.We should state here that Iman increases and decreases.

There are many narrations and Hadiths on this subject, and we discussed them in the beginning of ourexplanation of Sahih Al-Bukhari, all favors are from Allah. Some scholars explained that Iman meansKhashyah (fear of Allah). For instance, Allah said;

] [(Verily, those who fear their Lord unseen (i.e. they do not see Him, nor His punishment in the Hereafter))(67:12), and,

] [

(Who feared the Most Gracious (Allah) in the Ghayb (unseen) and brought a heart turned in repentance (to Himand absolutely free from every kind of polytheism)) (50: 33).

Fear is the core of Iman and knowledge, just as Allah the Exalted said,

] [(It is only those who have knowledge among His servants that fear Allah) (35:28).

The Meaning of Iman

Abu Ja`far Ar-Razi said that Al-`Ala' bin Al-Musayyib bin Rafi` narrated from Abu Ishaq that Abu Al-Ahwas

said that `Abdullah said, "Iman is to trust.''. `Ali bin Abi Talhah reported that Ibn `Abbas said,

][(who have faith) means they trust. Also, Ma`mar said that Az-Zuhri said, "Iman is the deeds.'' In addition, AbuJa`far Ar-Razi said that Ar-Rabi` bin Anas said that, `They have faith', means, they fear (Allah).

Ibn Jarir (At-Tabari) commented, "The prefered view is that they be described as having faith in the Unseen bythe tongue, deed and creed. In this case, fear of Allah is included in the general meaning of Iman, whichnecessitates following deeds of the tongue by implementation. Hence, Iman is a general term that includes

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affirming and believing in Allah, His Books and His Messengers, and realizing this affirmation throughadhering to the implications of what the tongue utters and affirms.''

Linguistically, in the absolute sense, Iman merely means trust, and it is used to mean that sometimes in theQur'an, for instance, Allah the Exalted said,

] [(He trusts (yu'minu) in Allah, and trusts (yu'minu) in the believers.) (9: 61)

Prophet Yusuf's brothers said to their father,

] [(But you will never believe us even when we speak the truth) (12:17).

Further, the word Iman is sometimes mentioned along with deeds, such as Allah said,

] [(Save those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous deeds) (95:6).

However, when Iman is used in an unrestricted manner, it includes beliefs, deeds, and statements of thetongue.We should state here that Iman increases and decreases.

There are many narrations and Hadiths on this subject, and we discussed them in the beginning of ourexplanation of Sahih Al-Bukhari, all favors are from Allah. Some scholars explained that Iman meansKhashyah (fear of Allah). For instance, Allah said;

] [(Verily, those who fear their Lord unseen (i.e. they do not see Him, nor His punishment in the Hereafter))(67:12), and,

] [

(Who feared the Most Gracious (Allah) in the Ghayb (unseen) and brought a heart turned in repentance (to Himand absolutely free from every kind of polytheism)) (50: 33).

Fear is the core of Iman and knowledge, just as Allah the Exalted said,

] [(It is only those who have knowledge among His servants that fear Allah) (35:28).