Ibadah

Assalamualaikum wbt
After quite sometime menyepi dari dunia blogging…at last….Hope that Allah will give me strenth to write in His cause…
Just want to share something that ive just learned from kuliyah from Dr Asri Zainal Abidin.
Saum (puasa) and solah are our “ibadah khusus”. And this kind of ibadah, we have to refer it to revealed knowledge (Tauqifiyyah) in order to do it correctly. That’s y in Mekah prophet Muhammad did not perform saum, simply because wahyu@wahi regarding saum (puasa) had not been revealed till in Madinah.

Why do we have to do our ibadah correctly?? Can we just simply do it in a way that we want??? At least we are still worshipping HIM (some people might say this)

It is because only Allah knows how should we worship him. To make it clearer, think in this way, when we do hajj, we will shave our head right ?? Y?? that’s what our prophet asked us to do (according to the wahyu @ wahi) What about buddha monks?? They shave their head all the time..they are also doing that for the sake of God @ Allah. Logically, it might seem that they are better than us. Are they?? No..because they don’t do it in a correct way.

Before Islam, we have to bear in mind that people still worshipped Allah. They were still performing hajj…but sadly..they did it nakedly..simply saying, they were still doing ibadah but they did it not in the right way....Islam came to show the way in which this ibadah should be done.

Syeikh Ibnu Taimiyah, a hujjatul islam in his book “Al-ubudiyah” said, in order for our Ibadah to be accepted, it should have two elements. The first one is Al Hubb (Love), and second one Khudu’ (surrender). When we do solah, if we do it without love to our LORD, it will not be accepted.

Regarding love, Dr Asri beautifully described this by telling a love story between Laila and Qais. One popular phrase by Qais “aku mengusap batu2 bangunan, memegang tanah dan menciumnya bukan kerana mencintai tempat ini tapi kerana mencintai Laila yang tinggal di sini” (partly made up by me...obviously I cant remember word by word that come out from Dr's!!)

When we love someone (human being) we will try our best to make him /her happy, we will be very careful to make sure that we do not hurt him or her. Same rule applies to our love to GOD. We should be very careful in our love to him.

BUT, Love alone is not enough. We also have to surrender (Khudu’) to HIM. We should feel that we r very weak and need his guidance. Doing ibadah without this feeling will cause our ibadah to be rejected. Doing ibadah when we believe that there is a better law than Allah’s, not fullheartedly accept every ayah in the Koran might cause our ibadah to be rejected.

Wallahua’lam Hope this sharing will benefit all of us.

One final Q?? Our ibadah have these two elements?? HMMM........tanyalah iman anda...