I would like to share my fav ayat in the Quran. For my own future reference.
"Abundance diverts you."
Short yet powerful.
"Al haakumu" (sorry keyboard ni tak boleh tulis arab) bermaksud you get distracted.
It derives from the word "ilha" which means "distraction". Dalam bahasa arab dieja alif, lam, dan ha bulat. That ha bulat represents "extreme action". Thus, "ilha" means an extreme distraction and "al haakumu" means you are being EXTREMELY distracted. Do we even realized that???
Question is, what kind of distraction?
First, entertainment. Because the word ilha is also related to "lahu" (lam, ha, wau) which means entertainment.
Second, something that preoccupies you and keeps you from doing something more important.
Something. But what is that something? Who's that pokemon?
Allah calls that culprit as "at takathur".
Makna at-takathur ni sangat deep. It has multiple meanings. Tak ada satu perkataan dalam BM yang boleh directly translate makna at-takathur. Jadi at-takathur inilah yang banyak distract kita kat dunia ni. Dialah yang extremely distracts us from doing things that we supposed to do.
Kita semua tahu tujuan kita kat dunia ni apa. [2:30] [51:56]
Tapi berapa ramai yang fulfill these tujuan? Berapa ramai pula yang get drifted away from these tujuan?
Macam student yang ada assignment nak kena buat lepastu tiba-tiba wifi jadi laju and then we end up layan youtube padahal kita tahu kita ada assignment nak kena buat eh tercakap pasal diri sendiri pula. Youtube tu lah contoh at-takathur.
Jadi apa maksud at-takathur?
1. The want. The desire. Keinginan. Kemahuan. Kehendak.
The desire to want more. The plentiness. The piling up. Dah nama pun manusia kan mana pernah kenal erti puas. Bila kita ada gaji 2k kita nak 4k. Bila kita dapat gaji 10k kita nak 20k.
Ada sorang artis perempuan ni kaya nurhurum. *jemah mode on* Still single. Dia ada harley davidson, banglo tiga tingkat siap dengan swimming pool kauuu. Dalam rumah dia ada arcade. Tahu tak arcade tu apa? Tempat orang main game. Kaya natam. Kauhado?
Orang tanyalah apa lagi yang dia nak capai dalam hidup ni. Since dia kaya gila so aku expect dia akan jawab dia nak kahwin. Untuk ada family sendiri. Tapi dia tak jawab macam tu siut.
Dia jawab antara benda yang dia nak capai is bila dia pergi shopping dekat TOP ke Tangs ke Sephora ke dia tak nak tengok price tag. Asal rasa berkenan je ambil, ambil, ambil without looking at the price tag. Speechless aku dengar. Aku nak beli pisang goreng tepi jalan pun aku tanya dulu harga booo miskin rakyat marhaen duk dendiam sana.
Kadang-kadang aku rasa kesian kat orang kaya. Dekat certain2 orang kaya.
Harta benda, duit, anak-anak, perniagaan, haiwan ternak semua tu sejenis distraction. Basically, anything yang distract us from our purposes adalah sejenis at-takathur.
2. Maksud at-takathur yang kedua is the struggle for more.
Not just we desire for more, but we also work for it. We put so much efforts on it. We invest our time and energy on it sehingga kita tak ada masa for our main purposes. Contoh macam kita nak plan a trip lah. Kita tak jadikan solat tu sebagai agenda utama dalam itinerary kita. It's like, instead of our life revolves around solat, it is the solat that revolves around our life.
3. The third meaning is the urge to switch off. Eh I mean, show off. Kahkah sorry bebudak wechat.
Keinginan untuk impress people. Wuuu dia ada rumah besar, kereta besar, bini besar. Lepas tu bangga sendiri. Contohnya instead of beli myvi kita beli honda city. Padahal drive kereta apa pun kita still sampai ke destinasi. So kenapa mesti nak beli kereta yang mahal? Padahal bila kita dalam kereta kita tak nampak pun betapa cool nya kereta kita. Siapa yang akan nampak? Orang lain. Orang kat luar. That's the point. We just want to show off. Kita terlalu fikir apa pandangan orang terhadap kita. Padahal kita ada more important things to think. Ini semua at-takathurrrrrrr.
Tapi ni contoh ja la. Tak semua orang lagu tu.
So basically ayat ni bermaksud the desire and struggle for plentiness distracted you.
Tapi persoalannya, distracted us from what?
"O you who have believed, let not your wealth and your children divert you from remembrance of Allah . And whoever does that - then those are the losers." [63:9]
They distract us from remembering Allah and from every good things.
How to remember Allah? Solat.
Lagi satu benda yang menarik pasal ayat ni ialah ayat ni ayat past tense. Dalam Alquran, grammar ni main peranan yang sangat penting. Definisi dia pun tak sama macam apa yang kita paham dalam kelas grammar english.
Apa yang kita paham past tense tu something that happened in the past. So kita akan fikir ayat ni cakap pasal orang arab jahiliyyah bukannya cakap pasal kita pun. Well you might want to reconsider that.
Because in the quran, past tense means something that is definitely happening in the present or will definitely happen in the future as if it is already happened in the past. Tak faham kan? kahkah. Cane eh nak cakap. Maksudnya benda tu memang pasti terjadi seolah-olah dia dah pun terjadi that's why past tense is use here. Maknanya ayat ni bagitahu kita yang that is definitely the case whether you realize it or not you are absolutely being distracted right now. Bangun!! Bangun!! That is the reality.
Lagi satu (banyak pulak lagi satu. Cakap jelah lagi dua tadi) benda yang menarik pasal ayat ni ialah ayat ni macam tergantung.
"Abundance diverts you".
That's it. Kenapa stop situ je? Sebab Allah wants us to ponder. Reflects before you continue with the next ayat.
Macam "Abundance diverts me? What does it mean? What kind of abundance? How does it diverts me?And diverts me from what? I dont feel like diverted pun? What is it that I supposed to do instead of doing what I'm doing right now?" Perlulah buat contoh ayat kan.
After I study this ayat, barulah aku realized this harsh reality. Dia buat aku tersedar yang alquran ni memang satu manual to guide us, to tell us what we suppose to do on this earth. If i didn't read this ayat, I wouldn't know that I am being distracted right now, that I am supposed to do something else. It's like a wake up call. Aku rasa macam nak buat press conference and bagitahu satu dunia "heyy human beings look at this ayat. Look what He told us. Wake up guys. We have to realize this before it's too late!!!" Haa perlulah speaking kan nak bagitahu satu dunia kenalah guna lingua franca. Ahaks.
Till then,
Ciao!
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