MANAJEMEN HARTA

Allah SWT berfirman, "Dan orang-orang yang apabila menginfaqkan harta, mereka tidak berlebihan, namun tidak pula kikir, melainkan di antara keduanya secara wajar" (QS.25:67).
Firman Allah SWT ini mengingatkan manusia tentang manajemen harta. Tentu saja sebagai manusia, setiap manusia wajib memanaje (mengelola) harta dengan baik. Pemahaman ini penting, karena tak ada seorang manusiapun yang dapat memastikan harta yang diperolehnya. Sesungguhnya hanya Allah SWT yang memastikan harta bagi setiap manusia.
QS.25:67 menekankan manajemen harta pada sisi proporsionalitas, yang dalam terminologi Al Qur'an disebut "wajar". Proporsionalitas mendorong setiap manusia yang memanaje harta, untuk memperhatikan efektivitas (pengutamaan dampak sebesar-besarnya), dan efisien (pengutamaan maksimalisasi hasil per satuan usaha).
Oleh karena itu, setiap manusia wajib membuat perencanaan, pelaksanaan, pengendalian, dan evaluasi pengelolaan harta yang dimilikinya. Dalam format proporsionalitas, harta dimanaje dengan memperhatikan koridor aqidah (keimanan Islami), koridor ibadah (format berbakti kepada Allah SWT), koridor muamallah (tata interaksi sosial Islami), koridor adab (tata kesopanan dan etika Islami), dan koridor akhlak (format ekspresi manusia, sebagai konsekuensi manusia yang beraqidah, beribadah, bermuamallah, beradab, dan berakhlak).

THANKS GOD

THE MAN FROM HEAVEN

Allah (God) said, "Remember please, when your God (Allah) said to the angels, "I am going to place in the earth a khalif (a man as a leader)." And they (angels) asked, "Why will You (Allah) place in earth, such as shall make mischief in it, and shed blood? While we celebrate the praise and extol the holiness." Allah said, "Surely I know what you do not know" (Qur'an, 2:30).
To make evidence of His statement, Allah taught Adam (peace be upon him) all the names, then presented them to the angels. Allah said to the angels, "Tell Me the names of those, if you are right." The names is a symbol of knowledge (science), which had absorbed in the reason of human. So the angels said, "Glory be to You (Allah)! We have no knowledge, but that which You has taught us. Surely You art the Knowing, and the Wise."
Then, Allah said, "Hi Adam! Inform them of their names." So, when Adam had informed them of their names, Allah said again, "Did I not say to you, that I surely know what is the secret of the heaven and the earth, and that I know what you manifest, and what you hide!" Then, Allah said to the angels, "Make obeisance to Adam!" So they (the angels) did obeisance. But Iblis (Satan, Evil, or Devil) did it not. Iblis refused, because he was proud. Then Iblis was one of the unbelievers.
Allah said to Adam, "Hi Adam! Dwell you and your wife in the garden (heaven), and eat from it a plenteous food wherever you wish, and do not approach this "tree", which you will not be obey My command." When Iblis knows about Allah command to Adam, Iblis made Adam and his wife (Adams wife) not obey Allah command, and caused them (Adam and his wife) to depart from heaven in which they were. Allah said, "Get forth, some of you (human) being the enemies of others, and there is for you in the earth, an abode and a provision for a time!" Then Adam received some words to hope forgiveness from Allah, so Allah turned to him mercifully.
Allah said, "Go forth from heaven all (Adam, his wife, and Iblis)! So surely there will come to you a guidance from Me. Then whoever follows My guidance, no fear shall come upon them, nor shall they grieve. And those who disbelieve in, and reject My guidance, they are the inmates of the hell, in it they shall abide."
In now context, a guidance from Allah is the Islamic values, which based on The Holy Qur'an. So, who disbelieve the Islamic values, and reject The Holy Qur'an, they are the inmates of the hell, in it they shall abide.

MENYONGSONG KEMATIAN

Setiap manusia, baik muslim maupun non muslim sesungguhnya sedang menyongsong kematian. Suka atau tidak suka, hari-hari yang dilaluinya justru mengarah pada kematian. Ia dapat mengalami kematian kapan saja, dan dengan cara apa saja. Apapun prosedur yang ditempuhnya, ia sedang memproses dirinya menuju kematian. Allah SWT adalah penentu waktu dan cara kematian setiap manusia.
Setelah kematiannya, maka manusia yang bersangkutan akan dimintai pertanggung-jawaban atas semua pemikiran, sikap, dan perilakunya ketika masih hidup. Mereka yang tidak mengakui Allah SWT sebagai Tuhan, tentu saja akan terkejut, tetapi semua itu terlambat, karena ia harus segera mempertanggung-jawabkan pemikiran, sikap, dan perilakunya kepada Allah SWT. Saat itu, suasananya tentu sangat mendebarkan dan dramatis.
Imam Al-Ghazali pernah mengingatkan, "Akherat mendekat, dan dunia akan segera berlalu. Perjalanan masih panjang, namun bekal sangat kurang, dan "bahaya" semakin besar." Oleh karena kepongahan seorang manusia, ia seringkali melupakan kematian, seolah-olah kematian hanya untuk orang lain. Seolah-olah kematian hanya tayangan di televisi, berita di radio, atau sekedar tulisan di surat kabar harian.
Para pecinta dunia, seringkali melupakan akherat. Para pecinta dunia, seringkali mengabaikan kematian. Para pecinta dunia, seringkali meremehkan nilai-nilai Islam. Mereka hidup untuk memperebutkan dunia, dan dengan berbagai cara haram (tidak halal) mereka berupaya mendapatkannya. Mereka terkejut, karena ketika dunia didapatkan, berupa harta, pangkat, jabatan, dan segenap asesorinya, ternyata ia berada pada track menyongsong kematian. Ketika ia sadar, ia telah terlambat, kematian telah datang menjemput.
Rasulullah Muhammad SAW pernah mengingatkan, "Banyak-banyaklah mengingat mati, sebab mengingat mati itu akan mengurangi kecintaan seseorang terhadap dunia" (HR. Anas RA).

SERVE ALLAH AS YOUR GOD

Allah (God) said, "Hi men (human)! Serve your God (Allah), who created you and those before you, so that you may have the righteousness" (Qur'an, 2:21).
Allah has created the earth, as a resting place for human, and the sky as canopy. Allah also sends down rain from the cloud, then brings for with it subsistence for you of the fruits. Therefore do not set up rivals to Allah while you know. So for that, read The Holy Qur'an, or learn the Islamic values please.
If some peoples are in doubt to The Holy Qur'an, which Allah have revealed to Allah servant (The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him), then Allah challenge them to produce a chapter like it in similar quality, and then call on them witnesses. But, if they do it not, and never shall they do it, then be on them guard against the punishment by Allah.
Convey good news to the peoples who believe, and do good deeds as implementation of the Islamic values, that they shall have heaven. In heaven, whenever they shall be given a portion of them needs. They shall understand, "This is what was given to us before." They shall be given them needs by Allah.
Surely Allah is not ashamed to set forth any parable that of a gnat or anything above that. For the peoples who believe, they know that it is the truth from their God (Allah). They know that The Holy Qur'an is the truth from their God, and they also know that the Islamic values is the truth from their God.
For the peoples who disbelieve, they always say, "What is it that Allah means by this parable." Allah causes many to err by it, and many leads a right by it. But Allah does not cause to err by it, except the transgressors.
The transgressor is any peoples who break the covenant of Allah (the Islamic values), after its confirmation, and cut asunder what Allah has ordered to be joined, and make mischief in the land. This fact can be the evidence, that transgressors are the losers.
Many peoples life in fool, when they do deny Allah. They never understand, that they were dead, and Allah gave they life. Allah will cause they to die, and again bring they to life, then they shall be brought back to Allah, who created for you all that is in the earth. So that, implement the Islamic values please....

BELAJAR DARI BENCANA

Sejak tahun 2004 hingga saat ini (Oktober 2009), Bangsa Indonesia didera oleh berbagai bencana yang bertubi-tubi. Mulai dari Tsunami Aceh (2004), Gempa Yogya (2006), hingga Gempa Sumatera Barat (2009), keseluruhannya tentulah menghadirkan simpati kepada mereka yang tertimpa bencana. Namun selain itu, kesemuanya tentulah juga menjadi pelajaran bagi segenap Bangsa Indonesia, tentang pentingnya menjadi bangsa yang bertaqwa kepada Allah SWT, yaitu bangsa yang berkenan mempraktekkan nilai-nilai Islam dalam kehidupan sehari-hari.
Allah SWT berfirman, "Hai sekalian manusia, sungguh telah datang kepadamu pelajaran dari Tuhanmu (Allah), sebagai penyembuh penyakit yang ada di dalam dada, serta petunjuk, dan rahmat bagi orang-orang yang beriman" (QS.10:57).
Istilah "penyakit dalam dada" dalam QS.10:57 ini dapatlah dimaknai sebagai "Berbagai kesalahan pemikiran dan persepsi manusia tentang sesuatu, yang kemudian menyesatkannya, hingga terasa sesak dadanya, karena sulit bernafas dengan baik, disebabkan banyaknya persoalan yang tak pernah terselesaikan."
Oleh karena itu, Bangsa Indonesia harus terus menerus mempelajari konsepsi kehidupan yang diajarkan oleh Allah SWT. Selanjutnya, agar konsepsi tersebut mudah diterapkan, maka sebagian dari Bangsa Indonesia perlu mengkaji prospek penerapan terintegrasi konsepsi kehidupan tersebut, lalu menyampaikannya dengan jujur kepada segenap Bangsa Indonesia. Dengan metode ini, maka Bangsa Indonesia dapat dikenali sebagai bangsa yang mampu "Belajar Dari Bencana". InsyaAllah....