We Forgot The Big Picture

Yesterday, I went to a friend's house. His name is Ahmad Fadzil Mohamad. He is a home-bounded architect. Though he has a very successful family, he keeps his head low, but praising my family instead. What a guy to befriend with. Chatting with him is always the moment I treasure. If someone ask me to find an Ustaz to give a ceramah, his name should be in the list. He is indeed, a hidden gem in today's dusty society.

We had a couple hours of chat. He reminded me about a saying by the Prophet of Muhammad p.b.u.h, in which the meaning of the saying is something like this:

"I fear my ummah would start to believe in God less and less". Muttafaqun`Alaihi.

The above saying means he feared that the current Muslims would have double faith, or Syiriq, as we call it in Arabic, which means believe in something other than God. Here, syiriq is the big picture, where every single Muslim knows that it is prohibited totally to believe in something other than God. But little by little, we, in which including me, started to doubt the power of God without realising this act.

Just look back what we did through our life. We did good sometimes, and we we also did bad sometimes. When we did good, it was always us who deliver the result. And when we did bad, we simply pointing our fingers to everyone, claiming that the failure wasn't our doing. Giving you the situation like that, I think I hit it bull's eye.

The world of Muslim today, or to be exact, Malaysian Muslims, has been arguing for small, trivial things. We forgot the basic pillars of being a Muslim - The Five Pillars of Islam. We forgot to look into the Holy Furqan and Hadith as the first two sources of Islamic jusridictions. I still remember a few years back, when there was a debate over should Tarawikh be performed at prayer houses (mosques and suraus) or rather at home. What a shame to Malaysians who call themselves pure Muslims.

Here, I would like to stress that we go to the basic. Improve our basic doings (amaal), and be a good Muslim to our own selves first before we tell people that they are indeed wrong. Being a good Muslim to ourselves, is indeed, a good form of da`ie (Malays call it dakwah).