Tolong! Pencuri!

tanpa kita sedar, banyak pencuri di sekitar kita. saya tidak bercakap tentang pencuri harta benda. tetapi pencuri benda-benda yang invisible (tak nampak).

belajar bekerja mengajar saya macam-macam. terutama bagaimana mahu mengaplikasi cara khalifah umar yang mengasingkan kegunaan minyak untuk pentadbiran negara dan peribadi. sewaktu saya mahu menggunakan pen kampeni untuk menulis aktiviti belajar bekerja, saya jadi terkedu mengingatkan kisah umar dan anaknya.

begitu juga penggunaan internet di kampeni tersebut. yang dapat saya akses di sana ketika waktu rehat hanyalah twitter dan email (yang lain kena block!). tetapi kini ia menghantui saya! boleh kah? saya tidak mahu mencuri.

harta tempat kita bekerja, tambah-tambah harta kerajaan, adalah milik rakyat... mampukah kita mengunjungi setiap warga malaysia yang membayar cukai demi mendapatkan status halal? bila ia adalah milik pelanggan, bagaimana pula? mampu kah kita menjejaki setiap pelanggan? huh, dengan jadi pekerja, kita sudah mencuri.

belum lagi bercerita hal mencuri masa bekerja dengan berehat. saya teringat ketika bekerja di kafe siber... di sana, saya tidak dihalang menggunakan internet untuk tujuan peribadi. asalkan saya tidak mengabaikan tugas saya menyantuni pelanggan. saya memang biasa bekerja di front-line.

saya rasa tentang harta benda pejabat, semua pun jelas... tak boleh ambil untuk tujuan peribadi, apatah lagi untuk digunakan untuk anak-anak mahupun diberi kepada kerabat lain. inikan pula tender-tender projek! sumber pendapatan adalah perkara yang mesti dititik beratkan kerana ia akan jadi darah daging. ya, kalaupun bukan keturunan pencuri tapi makan hasil 'curian invisible', jangan hairan nanti ada keturunan jadi pencuri.

hal jadi jujur ini juga boleh diambil dari kisah gadis penjual susu dengan ibunya. dari keturunannya lah lahir zuriat yang hebat yang kita kenal sebagai khalifah umar abdul aziz. biarpun hanya 2 tahun setengah memerintah, rakyat dibawah naungannya tidak ada yang layak menerima zakat!

tapi, kamu jangan pula dengki dengan orang yang dibayar untuk duduk menunggu aduan! nampak macam makan gaji buta, tapi kalau dah tak ada orang mengadu dan kerja sampingan yang lain selesai, nak buat apa lagi, ye dok?

ihsan dari Kembara Memburu Syahid

Surah Taubah: Why no Bismillah?

The following answer was given by Faqihul Ummah Hadhrat Mufti Mahmood Gangohi (rahmatullah alayhi) to the question why Surah Taubah has no Bismillah at the beginning.

When Hadrat Uthman رضى الله عنه was asked why there was no bismillah at the beginning of Surah al-Tawba like how there is bismillah at the beginning of other surahs, he replied that there was some doubt as to this surah being a separate surah, because Nabi صلى الله عليه و سلم passed away without explicitly mentioning anything regarding it. This is why Bismillah was not written at the beginning of Surah Taubah. However, since its subject-matter is similar to that of Surah Anfal, it was placed after it and a space for Bismillah has been kept because it is possible that this is a separate surah. (Tirmizi, Vol 2, Pg.139)

In Bukhari Shareef (Vol 2,Pg 271) it is mentioned that this surah was revealed to cancel the peace treaty. In it appears the command of killing the mushrikeen (polytheists) and the expression of Allah Ta`ala’s anger over them. Therefore, Bismillah was not written at the beginning of the surah since Bismillah signifies peace and mercy.

It appears in Shaatbi: لتنزيلها بالسيف لست مبسملا (Bismillah does not appear at the beginning of this surah, because it was revealed in connection to war.) This is not the actual reason though it is a point to consider. The actual reason is that which is narrated from Hadrat Uthman رضى الله عنه (Bayanul Qur’an, Vol 4, Pg 95)

Note : Original copy can be read from this site.

bible lama?

An undated handout photo released to Reuters February 6, 2009 shows an ancient manuscript which authorities in northern Cyprus believe is an ancient version of the Bible written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus. The manuscript was found in a police raid on suspected antiquity smugglers. Turkish Cypriot police testified in a court hearing they believe the manuscript could be about 2,000 years old. Experts were however divided over the provenance of the manuscript, and whether it was an original, which would render it priceless, or a fake.

NICOSIA (Reuters Life!) – Authorities in northern Cyprus believe they have found an ancient version of the Bible written in Syriac, a dialect of the native language of Jesus.

The manuscript was found in a police raid on suspected antiquity smugglers. Turkish Cypriot police testified in a court hearing they believe the manuscript could be about 2,000 years old. The manuscript carries excerpts of the Bible written in gold lettering on vellum and loosely strung together, photos provided to Reuters showed. One page carries a drawing of a tree, and another eight lines of Syriac script.

Experts were however divided over the provenance of the manuscript, and whether it was an original, which would render it priceless, or a fake. Experts said the use of gold lettering on the manuscript was likely to date it later than 2,000 years.

"I'd suspect that it is most likely to be less than 1,000 years old," leading expert Peter Williams, Warden of Tyndale House, University of Cambridge told Reuters.

Turkish Cypriot authorities seized the relic last week and nine individuals are in custody pending further investigations. More individuals are being sought in connection with the find, they said. Further investigations turned up a prayer statue and a stone carving of Jesus believed to be from a church in the Turkish held north, as well as dynamite. The police have charged the detainees with smuggling antiquities, illegal excavations and the possession of explosives.

Syriac is a dialect of Aramaic - the native language of Jesus - once spoken across much of the Middle East and Central Asia. It is used wherever there are Syrian Christians and still survives in the Syrian Orthodox Church in India. Aramaic is still used in religious rituals of Maronite Christians in Cyprus.

"One very likely source (of the manuscript) could be the Tur-Abdin area of Turkey, where there is still a Syriac speaking community," Charlotte Roueche, Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies at King's College London told Reuters.

Stories regarding the antiquity of manuscripts is commonplace. One case would be the Yonan Codex, carbon dated to the 12th century which people tried to pass off as earlier. After further scrutiny of photographs of the book, manuscripts specialist at the University of Cambridge library and Fellow of Wolfson College JF Coakley suggested that the book could have been written a good deal later.

"The Syriac writing seems to be in the East Syriac script with vowel points, and you do not find such manuscripts before about the 15th century. "On the basis of the one photo...if I'm not mistaken some words at least seem to be in modern Syriac, a language that was not written down until the mid-19th century," he told Reuters.

(Editing by Michele Kambas and Paul Casciato)

Source totally copied from here and here.

Nota Penyibuk : betul ke ni Reuter. Ke auta? siasat! siasat!