Quran: Juz 'Amma

Assalaamu'alaikum wa rahmatullah

Yesterday Evening

Yesterday brother Rosli from the musalla congregation near our neighborhood had invited me to a feast at his house just after 'Isha prayer service. His house is just at the junction at our neighborhood. I actually did not promise him whether I would be there or not. I just went home to see my father cause I am afraid my sisters would forgotten to feed him with his milk and medicine while my mother was at the masjid for her Quran lessons. I am supporting her to study Quran and Islam since she had no time to study since she took care all of us who were little children. After that I feel lazy to go to his house because there was already lots of people. When I saw that many people had gone home only I went to his house just to fulfill his invitation as it is impolite to make the host feel sad. I did not eat much just three sticks of satay (grilled chicken) and few glasses of water before thanking him. He shoved me some chicken but I had politely turned it down saying that I have some problem with meat. There is a limit for poor people to take meat and it is also a no to take few seafood or those living under the water. 

Most of the times I feel safe with vegetarian foods. I sometimes would feel uneasy when I have to explain things to people. So, I would pick the first food that I had seen there just to make the host feel happy and not to make them seeing me as a weird quite guy. Currently, we are in high holy days. Those in Mecca were observing it. So do me here. I am bringing the prohibitions in the respected land outside of the boundary as a sacrifice for Allah. Anyway I am thankful to brother Rosli and his wife for hosting me. He is a nice guy and he prays regularly at the musalla. I just feel shy because I was just a Shari'a stream student who is now still struggling with European Union policy and decision making thesis while those uncles there discussing trillion dollars projects in government lead companies (GLC). It is not good to compare our selves with others but it is just the effect of post-trauma for me, hehehe. 

I am scared to be closer to rich people. I think brother Idris is right when he said I am scared to mingle with people. I spend most of my time with low-class labors, poor students and I don't know how to discuss about business or investment. If I know I am with a rich guy I would immediately leave him. The same thing for example when I chat with karkun Firdaws at the hostel in RST and suddenly few of his colleagues joined in and talked about setting up cyber cafe business. I just stood up of my sit and went off. I just don't know why people can't talk about common things like TV programs, musics, movies, cats, plain hobbies like gardening, cooking, sports, health and so on to start the friendship. I know prophet Muhammad s.a.w had managed to help his wife, Khadija in her business in Syria but did he do it for a life? There were stages in his life. That is what all of the people should be acknowledged. Nothing is so specific in his life except Allah is the One who is specific in his life. Well, I am not talking about religion 24/7 too. I know how to switch my speech into "secular" ones when it is necessary. 

Those are just what happened yesterday. I just did not sleep for few days writing up thesis so kind of high, haha. I am just posting for the Quran as I had draw a new schedule for Quran recitation plan for myself. To those who are so fond with conspiracy theories around the world. I would suggest you people to make up thesis out of your "confidential" information and data, hehe. Submit it to any recognized university and try to get the feedback from International Relations and World Politics professors. I am sure you will get the doctorate out of your theories about what ever topics be it about a certain race supremacy, history or about anthropology to be linked with regional nationalism or religion just to make you feel secure about your selves. I am sure you will enjoy the process of writing a "thesis" and get to know how theories or speculations work within time and space. Life is not only about theories of war, dominion, racial supremacy and life it self is not of any importance because it is a test before another test coming at the gate of the hereafter. Theories are just a bunch of speculations. They are used to frame the events and what ever happening in the world. Just don't let theories controlling our life. To act and to feel like a scholar or academician is easy but the torture to achieve it is like being tortured in the hell. Only Allah knows. Just recite the Quran like what our elders recite it and immediately try to implement them in our daily life. It is better than speculations or dreaming.

Juz 'Amma     

Juz 'Amma actually referring to the last juzu' of Quran or the 30th part. Other terms referring to juzu' that I would use is perhaps parah or parashat. This part is usually the part that we always listen in the imam's recitation in prayer services. During our childhood, we were taught with this part and memorized few surats from this part. This part is quite easy to be memorized because those surats are simple.

This part contains many surats as compared to others. Most of the surats here were revealed in our holy Mecca. I think they are about 34 surats and they are known as the Surat al-Makkiya which means they were revealed during Mecca period before the hijra event. The balance three surats which are al-Bayyinat, al-Zalzalat and al-Nashr were revealed in Medina period. Altogether, there are 37 surats out of the juzu'.           

Special Characteristics of Makkiya Surats

They are simple sentences, words are eloquently structured, high in aesthetic and literature. Their arguments are strong. They were characterized with reminders to human that Allah is omnipotent, life in the hereafter, meeting with Allah and His promise on the result of the deeds. Basically, they are in poetical Arabic so if we speak in English we should not comment it through the translation. The same thing as Shakespeare's masterpieces could not be commented in other languages as it could be appreciated in its English form. Translation only serves to bring the messages to audience of different languages and world view. Currently I am studying Yemenite Arabic poetry just to appreciate our ancestral art and heritage. 

Coming to this issue of language and cultural appreciation, I don't understand why some people in our country love to classify Arabs who are married to Malay women as a Malay? Or the peranakan Arab is also claimed as a Malay? I know that both Malay and Arabs are of same religion but is it wrong for us to be recognized as Arabs or non-Malay natives just like the Thai in regional northern Malaysia or identified according to our paternal side? I think the nation-state nationality which was practiced by British in identity certification is complicated and it has caused us who were the Arabs of the past facing identity crisis especially those of the flows in 15th century down to 19th century. I found that our community did not really marry or pairing their children with non-Arab except in special cases. Elders just married among relatives until the situation changed in 19th century where many had broken traditions. There are also conflicts in the time period for our flows which also confused us and the registration officers because we speak in regional Malay. Some local nationalists perhaps would say to us, you can return to your homeland if you refuse to identify with us but our elders had been here since before independence, involved in regional history for example in the battle to protect local sultanate and its citizens, serving the state court and we're denied with our identity and culture. I am currently doing a thesis about European nationality and how Muslims of diverse ethnicity as those among various types of minority in Europe needs to be framed for social integration policy without losing their religious and cultural identity of their first generation's country when they were promoted to European nationality. Personally for me, denying our selves is to deny our religion and our past. Those who identify their selves for purposes other than da'awa but for worldly affairs should be boycotted.  

Moqadaam

In our country, these surats were separated into a book which is known as Moqaddam. It means the introduction which could be immediately recited and memorized. I usually would buy few Moqaddams and prayer books as presents to few friends or brothers that I know or closer to me. I am actually hoping that they would recite it with me though they are far away. They could also recite them for my soul to hear because we do not know when we are going to die. I am praying to Allah to listen to their recitations when the light is filled wit the darkness if they live longer than me. Wishing to help me to accumulate meritorious deed because I am poor. They can help me in that way and also gaining benefit for their selves and their family, hehe.  

Surats List

al-Nabaa', al-Naazi'at, 'Abasa, al-Takweer, al-Infithaar, al-Mutaffifeen, al-Inshiqaaq, al-Buruuj, al-Taariq, al-A'alaa, al-Ghaashiyaat, al-Fajr, al-Balaad, al-Shams, al-Layl, al-Dhuhaa, al-Nashrah, al-Teen, al-'Alaq, al-Qadr al-Bayyinat, al-Zalzalat, al-'Adiyaat al-Qaari'at, al-Takatur, al-'Asr, al-Feel, Quraish, al-Maa'un, al-Kautar, al-Kaafirun, al-Nasr, al-Lahab, al-Ikhlaas, al-Falaq and al-Naas.     

Non-Arabic speaker Muslims perhaps would need to find the meaning and contents of the surats in the Quran. Nowadays we have many kind of Quranic translations. There are Quran with parallel translations in various languages for Muslims of different mother tongue. Important for us is to collect as much as possible lessons from the surats and to execute it beginning with our own selves. Try it, we will feel the difference : )  

Sawmana gaadin eemanan wahtesaaaban, allahomma taqabbal minna siyaam. Allah help us with the yearning, inshaAllah...

          

Sealed with prayers for mercy, peace and love, amin!

Tracking Apostolic Civilization Series: 13 Zulqa'ida 1432

Assalaamu'alaikum wa rahmatullah

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Thank You, Lord. I managed to practice Your hidayah and tawfeeq. I had got a good lesson today regarding branches of religious science, which is seerah nabawiyyah (prophethood history). The talk was delivered by Dr. Sheikh Abdullah Hassan Mydin at Islamic Center just after Maghrib service. 

I didn't take any commuter bus to the mosque or to return to my room. It is just to remind myself that I must be sincere to You, dear Lord. It is for Your pleasure, please don't hate me. It is OK I am unfortunate in this world. This world is just a dream, the hereafter is the truth. I am sorry I blamed You and I hate You, last time. I was an ignorant but You still are Merciful to me :'(

This talk is based from the Fiqh Seerah by Dr. Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti. There is divine wisdom within the life of prophet Muhammad s.a.w. We can not just learn about prophethood history like learning other figures for examples, Napoleon Bonaparte or Mahatma Gandhi. Prophetic historical line is according to the era where it prolongs until the resurrection. It is holistic where it could be applied in all aspects of life. How about Ahimsa taught by Mahatma Gandhi? It can't be used in all aspect of life. 

I know the professor who delivers the talk does not mean to belittle Ahimsa or the late Mahatma Gandhi. He is a Muslim Indian as well so I believe he is familiar with the figure. But as far as I know, Ahimsa is not the philosophy introduced by Mahatma Gandhi. I am lazy to open up my mouth, but in here I would like to clarify it since the professor has no time to talk about Ahimsa in detail due to time constraint. Ahimsa was introduced by Jina Mahavira Vardhaman, the 24th Thirthankar of Jain tradition. Last time when I followed Buddha's path, I was also attached to this philosophy where I avoid from harming environment around, avoid meat, choosing to walk on pavement rather than walking on grass, looking down the pavement to avoid from harming insects and discreet animal, and etc. When I performed pilgrimage and performing repentance to return to the path of our patriarch Abraham a.s, it was not so difficult for me because there are also requirements for us to avoid from harming environment around the haram ash-shareef area. I had also avoid from drinking milk taken by force from a camel where the little camel was also drinking at its mother breast. The camel owner had kicked the little camel so I refused to buy his milk, and it serves him right!  

First important question for this talk, why is it important for us to learn and understand seerah? The main objective is for us to understand the value of fact regarding Islam. The glorious Quran that we recite and read everyday has basic principles but the reference for execution of practices and principles is based from the seerah. There is a story by the professor about his non-Muslim Indian friend who reverted to Islam. He said that he reverted to Islam after he understood the seerah or the life of Muhammad s.a.w. Before that he was an anti-religion person and he hates religion. But he reads on how prophet Muhammad s.a.w deals with his wife, 'Aisyah r.a. How he treats his wife and how his wife has to choose to live like hermits with their husband or being released to enjoy the life and world. Through seerah, we will know what happened during prophethood time. 

Now, in Malaysia there are many polemics regarding the criminal law within shariah law which is called as hudud. Some 'modernists' think that it is a cruel and inhuman law so they had put up statements in newspapers and medias as apart of political strategies to win over the opposition side who talks about the issue. In divine law, there is actually many space for forgiveness to criminals but it is just a matter of concern if crimes hit their family member or themselves, whether they have 'Great Soul' to forgive the criminals who harmed them? There is a story and evidence on how prophet Muhammad s.a.w had actually asked an adulterer to go home after he came by to prophet Muhammad s.a.w asking for punishment. The noble prophet Muhammad s.a.w had asked the man to go home three times and each time he returned home he felt guilty because of the level of faith in his heart. The fourth time he came, then only the judgement has to be decided on him. But many people had articulated this wrongly and it also includes Muslim ourselves : ) So, it would also be the matter of judgement in the hereafter where the Lord will ask us after the resurrection why we being such a 'snake' in the world to slander our own prophet, Muhammad s.a.w. 

Regarding the issue of forgiveness value in criminal law of shari'ah (way), we could also watch a Hindi-Urdu movie titled Dor to get a picture. This movie was adapted from a Malayalam movie but I can't remember it's Malayalam title. The movie was released in 2006 and was directed by Nagesh Kokoonor. So, anyone from the US or Europe who fails geography could try google where is India. It is about two women of different religious background being together after an incident. Zeenat, a Muslim woman from Himachal Pradesh has to travel to Rajasthan in Central India in order to seek forgiveness and getting signature from a widow for ma'afi nameh (forgiveness letter) to release her husband from the judgement. Her husband, Amir was accused in Saudi Arabia on the crime of causing death to his compatriot, a Hindu man which is the husband of the Hindu lady in Rajasthan. How the movies go on? They had also exchanging thoughts about forgiveness with Quranic verses (basic principles) in a scene. In Islam it is regardless a person is proved guilty or not, he or she is still having the space to be set free from sin through forgiveness of the family of the victim or the victim itself if the victim is still alive. But would anyone in this world being so generous? Even those 'modernists' or those who think that Dull Continental European Law or British Common Law based is more advanced, can they forgive those who raped them or those who kill their beloved ones like dad, mum, siblings, pets and etc?

In order for us to understand the fact of Islam and the value within our daily practices, we need all of these branches of sciences which are:

1. Quranic sciences for basic principles of divine way     

2. Hadith in which they are further elaboration and explanation of the Quran

3. Seerah for the example and model of execution of divine way and law

Many people today do not actually understand what is shari'ah so when we talk about shari'ah, they think that it is barbarity. Why is that so? Because those idiots in Pakistan or Afghanistan had sprayed acid to womens' face or raping lower caste women? That is not shari'ah, that is evil desire of those particular group who are mistaken as Muslims. Shari'ah is not like that. Those who maintain the knowledge of shari'ah are not as idiot as what 'modernists' think. They are just the same like those who wear ugly white wig in British Court. Only that they do not wear ugly wig and robe like those in British Court. Shari'ah Court also has representatives or wakeel (attorney) for defendants and plaintiffs and it is just the matter of terminologies. In divine way, there is also no need to be graduated from Oxford, Harvard, Institute of Europe or from universities but it is acquired through faith, the scripture, sunnah, comprehension of Divine law and Way, and from hardworking teachers who are knowledgeable.

Shari'ah is not only revolving around jinayyah (criminal), but also in other matters which forms the life such as creed, worship, morality, matrimonial, financial and commerce. Basic principles for all of these come from the glorious Quran which is divinely revealed by the God to prophet Muhammad s.a.w. Media should not just put the notion about something without knowing anything which lies behind the notion. This is not only the problem in medias in the West but everywhere. I do not know whether there are media etiquette in the West but many elderly reporters in my country are quite high in morality and dignity. They do not only do their job for the sake of living, comfort or for their nation but also doing community service. But nowadays, I could only see evil here and there, including in my country.

Now comes to sub-objectives of learning seerah nabawiyyah...

1. To understand the fact of Islam internally and externally. Externally, when we see the event of life through seerah, we will feel the impact. We love the God, we follow the prophetic tradition, and we recite the life of prophet Muhammad s.a.w. We don't read about prophet Muhammad s.a.w like we read the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. When we recite his life, we implant intention because of the God. What are we following in our daily life as example? Are we following our ancestors? Are we following our favorite singers or actors? For us, Muslims, our prophet and messenger of the God, Muhammad s.a.w is the leader for the whole life. He is still here with us though he had long passed away. Christian fellows regard Jesus Christ as their King. For us, our King is the Lord our God, who needs no crown and our example to lead the life in the earth is Muhammad s.a.w.

2. We learn about prophet Muhammad s.a.w characteristics not because we want to be great or intelligent. This is about revelation and the Divine Light of the God. We follow the noble prophet Muhammad s.a.w due to revelation and the command of the God. Some of apologetic Orientalists maybe would write about prophet Muhammad s.a.w as the great man in history just like other figures. As to say, once again we accept this man and learning about him not as a great man like other figures. It is because of the revelation. Muhammad s.a.w is not a magnificent man like European orientalists or 'modernists' today but he was directly educated by the Lord. We call this as Rabbaniyyah Education. It has to do with our Creed since it is related to the Revelation. Prophet Muhammad s.a.w is a universal example for nations. Gandhi or Napoleon is not universal example. Their situation could not be applied at all places. We take holistic example as a model. We already have our own basic principles consisted in the glorious Quran for our selves. We do not need other people's standard to measure our life standard. We don't need people to tell us what to do since only the God is the One who command us. The God's standard is far more higher than human made standards. Many of people who call themselves Muslims yet mocking whatever being told through seerah because of doubt and crisis of confidence. They have this kind of disease of shaqq which means doubt. It will never end in this very world but will also bring consequence to them in the hereafter. Other figures are just side models.

3. Our reliance is within the glorious Quran. Our guidelines regarding daily life is portrayed through the messenger of the God, Muhammad s.a.w. We do not want to regret in our life or in hereafter due to our lack of confidence to the God and His messenger. Through seerah, we could also understand the glorious Quran. Seerah is also in the glorious Quran and they are related to each other. We may make comparison between figures of the world and figures of seerah. What happened? In war and battle for example, there is a report that prophet Muhammad s.a.w cried without stop when the war has to be waged when people around threatened the Light of Revelation. He does not want any war. If we compare with other figures in Europe, perhaps they are having meeting with women and alcoholic drinks beside them and later they accuse people in the East with immoral accusation through their Orientalists. What an ugly attitude. 'Modernists' perhaps think that some matters in sunnah are not relevant today, so they just take whatever they feel suit them and leave whatever they do not agree with and it is 'religion' which is also the 'nature.' To understand seerah does not take us hundred of thousand years. The noble prophet Muhammad s.a.w is actually the most soft-hearted person and he hates war but when the Divine judgement comes, it has to be executed. If he loves war and chaos, he did not have to go far from the society and meditate in the cave before the revelation and his ordination to prophethood.

On the other hand I think that, chaos in the modern world happened because of the West. They dragged the world into World War and we may look at the World War I. The theory of socio-political realism was proposed in the West. In Asia we do not need such theories and we do not even know what is that. I had to break a leg to understand what it is since I am not a violent person. I don't even kill an ant.

Here I also have something to share regarding the Italian girl who stayed at our house for an exchange program. The one who wrote a blog about white ghosts and refers it to our mum wearing white hijab during prayer service session. She supposedly staying at elder sister's house since the one who was excited to take European kid as the guest is eldest sister. But it ends up she stays in our house and we are actually doing charity with her free internet to bash others who provide her the facilities. Now, she was transferred to Perlis as what has been told by little sister. Serves her right anyway ingat orang heran ke hang. Ungrateful European kid who thinks she is so pretty that people would worship her ass. Last time she looked at me and hoping that I would become like a typical Asian who never sees Caucasians. I am so sorry, I am not a boy anymore though I may look young, hehehe. I am not also a cheap man who only thinks about genital 24/7 like what is shown in European movies as romantic and I am not a pervert. I would had been a monk if I am still a Buddhist and I did tried to enter monastery and prepared myself by memorizing Vinayya Law and Pattimokh stuffs for monks. We are far different from Europe and these kind of immature kids always bring misunderstanding to people when they do not do any research but just burst out to people who do not see her attitude. She said that she was forced to go to the mosque. Well, during Ramadan people are not cooking at home. Mum usually breaks her fast at the masjid and she was afraid that the silly girl hungry so she brings her together. But she nor my sisters never force her to enter the masjid area nor doing any force conversion to people. There were other two kids from Germany and Belgium who had previously being dumped at our house too. Religion is not something to play with and we are far more tolerant than Europeans in term of ideologies or religion. Though last time nobody realizes about I had been a Buddhist but I still could live without any problem with parents and sisters. I had warned eldest sister not to receive any guest especially immature exchange students if she only wants to dump them here in our house!     

4. We learn seerah to understand the life of a Muslim. We also try to understand the Rabbaniyyah civilization. It is a divine civilization where the God is the Generator of the civilization. When we have a civilization, we do not proud of it and telling everyone that our civilization is the greatest so everyone must submit themselves to us but we give credits to the God who is the Real Generator. Divine civilization is universal and it is not only about Arabian Peninsula and its civilization. Arab civilization is actually a weird case as it develops within desert. Usually when we learn about World Civilizations like the Egyptian, the Indus, the Chinese, and the Mesopotamian, all of them began near river. In Arabian Peninsula, Mecca only has a well which is the result of water emerging from the sand when Jurhumite tribes of Yemen met Hagar and Ishmael a.s. Our practice and life as Muslims are actually a lot more easier compared to those who think that they are modern. In this sense, I do not reject modernity but I think that those who think that they are modern are just wannabes while they are not, haha. Knowledge and education is very important for everyone. Knowledge of shari'ah and 'aqeedah are also important. Prophets of the God from Noah a.s until Jesus a.s. had taught the same thing regarding the God and life. For Moses a.s. the shari'ah imposed to the nation of Israel is heavier compared to others. In Islam, regarding criminal law, the space for forgiveness is very wide. But in the shari'ah of Moses a.s. the space is very tight. Prophetic traditions and lineage is actually a heritage and inheritance. 

5. We learn seerah as the example for da'awa and educating ourselves. It is the manual for us to bring everyone together to the God and for salvation and mercy. It taught us how to perform da'awa to ignorants like my self, and how to approach them.

In management, there is a statement saying that: "to achieve success, ones need clarity of mind." We need clarity of mind to achieve success and to achieve clarity of mind we need to follow steps divinely revealed to us by the God. Seerah is a component of knowledge and science to understand the glorious Quran. Shari'ah is the Way to reach the source of Water. A faithful man is a living man while a non-faithful ones are those who are dead. I had also listened to Easter hymn for Paschal Troparion sung by Madame Fairuz regarding Jesus Christ where it talks about the Christ trampling the death. Those who believe in the God and His messenger will taste no death but only eternal life. It's not difficult at all for me to understand it. During Ramadan, Malaysian radio sometimes playing song by Madame Fairuz, but I bet not all really know about her background, hehehe. She's actually a Christian of Greek Orthodoxy after she married to her husband. Before she married, she was a Syriac Orthodox Christian based in Antioch and Damascus. She did communities work and also a polite mother and one of her children is not blessed like other children. She also sings song about prophet Muhammad and Hegira New Year in Lebanon for example the song aquul wa aanastu : )

Youngsters have to learn seerah for their practices. Example of youngsters who are matured is prophet Muhammad s.a.w. He understood his family situation, environment around him, he understood and think about the problem faced by society. Nowadays, many youngsters had get wrong impression about life. They think that they must enjoy the life by totally abandoning their religion. Maybe when they grow old, they would return to religion. But what is wrong if we achieve high morality and characteristics while we are young? It is better we receive salvation earlier compared to when we are old, and we say we are going to repent our sins. Who knows while we just said that, we already collapsed and being buried right away at the point where we collapse, naudzubillah.

Prophet Muhammad s.a.w has no self-interest at all, he leads the people with the Divine assistance. He passed away without any 'national' ceremony like figures that came after. He has no property at all. He has no sons to inherit his property or fame or anything like power (politics). His sons were all taken away by the God. He only teaches people to live in manner and politeness. It is up for people to choose it or to leave it. Even his followers like Imam Ahmad, Imam Syafi'ie, and other imams also live modest life. Some even were tortured by their governments like Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal for their strong abiding to principle. Look at their life and background. We will know.

Allahumma salli 'alaa Muhammad, wa 'alaa aali Muhammad. Sealed with prayers for mercy, peace, and love, amin! 

What is Tauheed?

Bismillahirrahmaanirrahim!

In the name of God the Most Merciful, the Most Beneficent. We are still in saturday. Saturday is counted just after 'asr prayer time. Usually in thursday until fajr of sunday we use the time to memorize Quran and prayers so that our time could be used in a beneficial way. That time is what I mean by peaceful saturday. Some people do not understand the term but that is just how we refer to few things. We also may learn about Him and His teachings during these free times so we may become good Muslims and improving our submission to Him, may He help us.

Today we learn about what is tauheed? Tauheed is our arabic word from the root word ahad which means One. So, tauheed basically means Oneness and it refers to the Lord. Another word for it is monotheism. It is an ideology if it is according to politicial studies academician speech and I frankly hate their terms. Everyone in this world know that Allah is an arabic word used by people in arabic speaking and semitic area in reference to the Creator of the Universe. Other reference for Him is, He who is the King without crown. 

In this post, I would like to talk about this Oneness of God. In our syar'iah or the way of life, it is a sub-branch of 'aqidah (belief). 'Aqidah is the first component in the law of life. So, those who talk about secularism in Muslim community. The first thing to be noted is that we are not like western world. Some muslims becoming secular muslims when they believe that religion should be a separate part of human life differentiated with political entity. Eastern world is no west, and even there are christians in the east whom are the adherents of the church of the east, they are not like the french.

Eastern is as diverse as europe and complicated in different ways to europe or the States. It is the area where philosophies emereged since the Mesopotamia civilization. Persian, Greek, and Rome civilizations began to emerge just after Mesopotamian civilization in Semites' area.  

Please do not assume people around the world are the same when europe put this brand where it is promoting diversity in unity as it would show how silly is the brand when europeans do not walk the talk, and are no different from other bigots in the world but masking itself like uncivilized easterners according to european's perception. I am not anti-europe nor western world. 

I'm myself taking the course about european union and I learned about French Revolution when I was in my first degree. I could recall my class with my kamceng colleague and a close friend, Amir. He passed the paper but I didn't pass the paper because I don't really understand revolution at that time. But now, when I go through the previous notes and discussing it with friends online. I manage to understand those tricky reasons behind the French Revolution. Many reasons that could possibly being related to the revolution.

Back to tauheed. It is then simplified by the ulamas (religious science scholars) in the orthodox sunnah pillars of creed. We call it as arkaanul imaan and its meaning is as what we mentioned. Every Muslim regardless sunnah or shi'ite would profess that they believe in the One God which is Lord God. Shi'ite muslims have their conclusion for pillars of creed which are slightly different from sunnah muslims formulation because they have their ulamas and terms.  

Non-muslims too believing Him but some of them tend to take mediators for Him. I had once being an infidel where my 'aqidah is deflected due to environment and circumstances around so basically I understand how non-muslims religious thinking works. Some are taking their teachers as their mediator to be close to Him. Some may take angels as the mediators to be close to Him or asking this and that. Some personify His attributes to different personifications so that is why we can see many gods and goddess emerge to represent another entity which is Supreme but could not easily being achieved by their mind. Some may take money, positions, and others as their gods. Muslim ulamas too had differentiated this model of tauheed into two branches which are called as Uluhiyyah and Rubbubiyah. We would talk about this later according to our understanding from lectures, may He permits it.

In orthodox sunnah creed, the belief in Allah is concluded as the first pillar. It is the first condition to be a muslim. We profess that there is no gods but only the God. It is also concluded in our first pillar of Islam or arkaanul Islam. We recite this in our salaat during a postion called tasyahud (testimonial), and in each salaat we have twice tasyahuds. This matter has connection with creed and faith. Then, what does tauheed in Islam signifies? It signifies the Oneness of Lord God, without any partner, He is the Most Perfect, the Holiest, the Most Mighty, and the Most Just.

How do we perceive faith as muslims? We must have pure confidence in our soul and professing in our heart and orally the testimonial that there is no gods but only the God, and verbally display it with our acts. So from here we may proceed to arkaanul imaan or the pillars of creed.

The pillars of creed consists of six conclusion about the belief of a muslim which are:    

1. We believe in the only God without any partners nor mediators to pray to Him, Allah.

2. We believe in angels and each muslim must at least aware or recognize ten angels.

3. We believe in prophets and messengers appointed by Allah to teach his servants which are humans, each muslim must at least know 25 of the main prophets from Adam (as) to Muhammad (saw) with four of them are called as ulul 'azmi (prophets and messengers of God with great determination and preserverance).

4. We believe in celestial scriptures which are the scrolls given to our father Ibrahim (Abraham), the torah revealed to Musa (Moses), the zabur (psalmer) revealed to Dawud (David) the ewungal or injil (gospel) revealed in the heart of Isa the son of Maryam (Jesus), and the Quran as the conclusion of all scriptures revealed to prophet of this nation of the period near the end revealed in the heart and soul of our beloved prophet Muhammad (saw).

5. We believe in the Day promised by Lord God, which is also known as the Akhirat. Akhirat means the End which would happen just after the Resurrection or Yom al-Qiyamah.

6. We believe in the Qada' and Qadar. Qada' means the good divine pre-destination and Qadar means the evil divine pre-destination. Everything is in His wisdom.

So, this is how tauheed is related to the pillars of creed. We also touched some point of arkaanul islam which are also related to the tauheed. In Islam, there is also jinayat (criminal) component. A person who is known as muslim bounds to the Islamic way of life so this is the point that could not easily be understood by non-muslims.

A person who violates any component in the way of life would have to face consequences in criminal law. When a person violating his 'aqidah by being an apostate, he or she is also violating the law of life. Islam is the religion of nations and it builds up a society. It has nothing to do with fascism. Fascism was created by westerners and they became paranoid and obsessed with their own terms.

I wonder why people including some muslims who think that they are modernized when they followed others' way of life could easily understand civil law but when it comes to celestial law, it is different thing? I am aware that europe had banished death penalty because it is inhuman, but the United States which is among advanced countries still practising it. Till now, how many persons being killed by Syari'ah court? There is not any country with majority muslim population and with leaders identified as muslim in this world executing the way of life.  

In Malaysia nobody was killed because of apostacy. Instead, many had also won their case like the case of Lina Joy. In southern part of Thailand dominated by muslim malays, there are also remote cases of apostacy such as the case of Im Daoloth around 1960's who embraced buddhism to get incentives from central government as he was a government servant. He wasn't killed by syariah court but died in natural way.

A person who understands his or her own religion would never doing something out of ignorance. A bigot in the opposite showing their ignorance when they talk like they were tyrannized because their real god is not the God but others which only they could decipher who it is or who they are. This is just my personal opinion. As a person dependant to the God, I know where is my level and I am a lowly creature of Him. Not to persuade nor forcing anyone into Islam. I would also like to express gratitude if brothers and sisters in faith could help me correcting the notes about pillars of faith for everyone's benefit. And Allah knows well! 

Allahumma salli 'ala muhammad wa 'ala aali muhammad kamaa sallai-ta 'ala ibrahim, wa 'ala aali ibrahim. Allahumma baarik 'ala muhammad wa 'ala aali muhammad, kamaa barak-ta 'ala aali ibrahim wa 'ala aali ibrahim. Lord God our God be in connection with our prophet muhammad (saw) and his family, as You had been in connection with our father ibrahim (as) and his family. O Lord our God, please bless our prophet muhammad (saw) and his family as You had blessed our father ibrahim (as) and his family. May Allah guide us to the straight path. May there be light from His guidance in our life. Please forgive me my sins if I wrote something wrong, dear Lord. Sealed with prayers for peace and love.