Ahemmm.. Islam terbelakang ? ngarang ach....hmmm aemmm..stigma itu sudah "kuno"...Islam is the best... Jeng KB harus banyak jalan-jalan and minta pencerahan kepada Allah :) Banyak-banyak mendekatkan diri kepada Allah yachhh ?! :) Nich tak kasih info ya, silahkan diresapi dan dihayati, Di west country sono, maksud saya bukan " jawa barat " tapi di America sono, umat Islam pada maju dan sejajar dengan saudara-saudara kita yang bangsa Amrik, and muslimahnya diakui kemampuannya oleh Negara Super Power tersebut, America's First Muslimah Judge
Zakia Mahasa, Master Chancery in the Family Division of the Baltimore City Circuit Court by Nadirah Z. Sabir, Zakia Mahasa, the first Muslimah ever to be appointed to a judgeship in the American courts, never apologizes for who she is; instead, she gains respect and accumulates success after success by focusing on being outstanding at whatever she does. A powerful presence in the courtroom and a dynamic woman who knows her own mind, Zakia has possessed this drive to achieve and strong sense of direction since her earliest years. "When I was about four years old," she smiles, "I was reading the newspaper. There's a game, Wishing Well. 'You'd count the letters in a name--mine spelled out, One day, you'll be a lawyer or doctor.' So I thought, I have to do really well in kindergarten so I can get into a really good first grade!" Since then Zakia's fortunes have multiplied with the power of that kind of determination and focus and on her belief in God. She asserts passionately that what gives her the aplomb to pursue her interests and to be herself is her Islamic faith. "You really have to have a certainty and surety and confidence about yourself," as a Muslimah, Zakia advises. "It carries me through everything I do. My way of life [as a Muslimah] is superior to anything out there. I believe God wanted me in this position." Zakia's study of Islam began while she was an undergraduate at the University of Maryland, where she was majoring in business management. She declared her shahadah [profession of faith] a year later. "It was initially difficult for my mother," Zakia recalls. "I had a cousin who had a bad experience with the Nation of Islam." But Zakia knew her path and stuck to it, and by the time Ramadan came, only two weeks after her conversion, Zakia says her mother "had my meals ready at the end of the day!" Zakia's father had more pragmatic concerns over his daughter's conversion to Islam. Since Zakia was headed toward law school at that time, he wondered whether there would be any place for a Muslimah in the circles of American law. Zakia herself was not at all worried. She explains, "Islam really does free you of all that. If God wants it for you, nobody can take it away. I felt that as long as I looked professional and really knew what I was doing," success would follow. Zakia's father asserted that appearances are important in the legal profession, but Zakia would not compromise her faith. "When I first became Muslim, from the very beginning I was covered," she says. "At work I knew it was important to look professional. I dress well. I wear suits, skirts, dresses, blazers. They're longer, looser. I don't wear over-garments to work, but it's evident I'm being modest. My hair is always covered, but pulled back and out of the way. I did my research and I am convinced that I am properly covered; you can dress many ways and still be properly covered." Much of her success Zakia attributes directly to this refusal to betray herself or her Islamic principles in order to be accepted by or blend in with others. Of her iman [faith], she says firmly, "I don't wear it on my sleeve. But I don't hide it. It's who I am." If you stand for what you are, even if it is different from the mainstream, Zakia believes, others will respect you. "My being a Muslim doesn't mean I'm standoffish or reclusive. I'm very approachable," she says. Above all, she advises, in order to earn the respect of others, "You have to be good," at what you do. Zakia excels at what she does. As Master Chancery in the family division of the Baltimore City Circuit Court, she presides over domestic cases, hearing anywhere from nine to thirty of them a day. These cases tend to be emotional and complicated, involving abused, neglected and delinquent children. Zakia unabashedly brings a healthy Islamic outlook to her work, believing that often the best way to propagate Islam is by example. ------ :) Kalau ada umat islam yang terbelakang itu mungkin saja, bisa aja di Bandung sono umat Islamnya ada yang terbelakang karena tergoda dengan duniawi. Repot ach kalau diskusi dengan insan yang kurang trappelingnya :( , maaf yang saya maksud adalah "travelling". :) Tak kasih lagi dech infonya, biar tambah tercerahkan yach.....yach ?! Why British Women are turning to Islam THE SPREAD OF A WORLD CREED The Times - Tuesday, 9th November 1993 - Home-news Page Lucy Berrington finds the Muslim Faith is winning Western admirers despite hostile media coverage Unprecedented numbers of British people, nearly all of them women, are converting to Islam at a time of deep divisions within the Anglican and Catholic churches. The rate of conversions has prompted predictions that Islam will rapidly become an important religious force in this country. "Within the next 20 years the number of British converts will equal or overtake the immigrant Muslim community that brought the faith here", says Rose Kendrick, a religious education teacher at a Hull comprehensive and the author of a textbook guide to the Koran. She says: "Islam is as much a world faith as is Roman Catholicism. No one nationality claims it as its own". Islam is also spreading fast on the continent and in America. The surge in conversions to Islam has taken place despite the negative image of the faith in the Western press. Indeed, the pace of conversions has accelerated since publicity over the Salman Rushdie affair, the Gulf War and the plight of the Muslims in Bosnia. It is even more ironic that most British converts should be women, given the widespread view in the west that Islam treats women poorly. In the United States, women converts outnumber men by four to one, and in Britain make up the bulk of the estimated 10, 000 to 20, 000 converts, forming part of a Muslim community of 1 to 1.5 million. Many of Britains "New Muslims" are from middle-class backgrounds. They include Matthew Wilkinson, a former head boy of Eton who went on to Cambridge, and a son and daughter of Lord Justice Scott, the judge heading the arms-to-Iraq enquiry. A small scale survey by the Islamic Foundation in Leicester suggests that most converts are aged 30 to 50. Younger muslims point to many conversions among students and highlight the intellectual thrust of Islam. "Muhammad" said, "The light of Islam will rise in the West" and I think that is what is happening in our day" says Aliya Haeri, an American-born psychologist who converted 15 years ago. She is a consultant to the Zahra Trust, a charity publishing spiritual literature and is one of Britain's prominent Islamic speakers. She adds: "Western converts are coming to Islam with fresh eyes, without all the habits of the East, avoiding much of what is culturally wrong. The purest tradition is finding itself strongest in the West." Some say the conversions are prompted by the rise of comparative religious education. The British media, offering what Muslims describe as a relentless bad press on all things Islamic, is also said to have helped. Westerners despairing of their own society - rising in crime, family breakdown, drugs and alcoholism - have come to admire the discipline and security of Islam. Many converts are former Christians disillusioned by the uncertainty of the church and unhappy with the concept of the Trinity and deification of Jesus. Quest of the Convert - Why Change? Other converts describe a search for a religious identity. Many had previously been practising Christians but found intellectual satisfaction in Islam. "I was a theology student and it was the academic argument that led to my conversion." Rose Kendrick, a religious education teacher and author, said she objected to the concept of the original sin: "Under Islam, the sins of the fathers aren't visited on the sons. The idea that God is not always forgiving is blasphemous to Muslims. Maimuna, 39, was raised as a High Anglican and confirmed at 15 at the peak of her religious devotion. "I was entranced by the ritual of the High Church and thought about taking the veil." Her crisis came when a prayer was not answered. She slammed the door on visiting vicars but travelled to convents for discussions with nuns. "My belief came back stronger, but not for the Church, the institution or the dogma." She researched every Christian denomination, plus Judaism, Buddhism and Krishna Consciousness, before turning to Islam. Many converts from Christianity reject the ecclesiastical heirarchy emphasising Muslims' direct relationship with God. They sense a lack of leadership in the Church of England and are suspicious of its apparent flexibility. "Muslims don't keep shifting their goal-posts ," says Huda Khattab, 28, author of The Muslim Woman's Handbook, published this year by Ta-Ha. She converted ten years ago while studying Arabic at university. "Christianity changes, like the way some have said pre-marital se is okay if its with the person you're going to marry. It seems so wishy-washy. Islam was constant about sex, about praying five times a day. The prayer makes you conscious of God all the time. You're continually touching base. Nah tuch, female - female Europe pada ber Islam ria, mau ikutan ? :) wassalam. kila4tb1roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pak Jano ko, anak SD juga tahu kalau pedoman utama untuk umat Islam itu Al-Qur'an dan hadis, tapi apa ini yang dijadika subject utamanya?? jika demikian pantas saja jika kita umat muslim seringkali menjadi umat yang "terbelakang". Yang paling penting bukan sekedar tahu bahwa pedoman umat Islam adalah Al-Qur'an tapi lebih kepada pemahaman terhadap Al-Qur'an sendiri. Semisal pemahaman ayat nusus dalam surat An-nisa, yang sering diartikan dengan kata memukul dan dipahami bahwa perempuan yang membangkang terhadap suami hendaknya di pukul. Padahal selain kata pukul secara tata bahasa (lingustik) kata "dharaba" bisa berarti merangsang atau menggairahkan, jadi mana yang kira-kira "pas" untuk di praktekan kepada istri anda yang membangkang apakah hendak dipukul agar menurut atau dirangsang (terserah mau pake apa bisa pake perhiasaan, uang, kartu kredit, rumah, mobil atau "adik kecil;) utnuk membuat istri anda menurut...mana yang memenuhi sifat keadilan?? --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, jano ko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Parameternya gampang aja lhah youwwww, > > Pedoman utama saya dan bu Mei kan Al Qur'an dan Hadis, hiya tho ?, buka saja Al Qur'an dan Hadis, kan engga ok kalau saya harus membacakan untuk bu Mei, kan bu Mei ini ustadzah .....:) , bu Mei yakin engga dengan pedoman umat Islam tersebut ? > > Kemudian kita lihat "ulamanya" itu perilakunya sesuai dengan Al Qur'an dan Hadis atau tidak, lha kalau oknum "ulamanya" itu berani sama gusti Allah ya didoakan supaya sadar, kalau engga sadar-sadar dan merugikan umat ya dilaporkan ke Police gitu. > > Salah satu parameter yang disebutkan oleh Al Qur'an tentang eksistensinya Ulama adalah "rasa takut" kepada Allah, hmmm, indah banget tuch parameternya, lha wong ada oknum "u" yang perbuatannya tidak mencerminkan ajaran Islam, bu Mei tahu tho dengan "Orientalis", nah mahluk yang banyak ini mempelajari Al Qur'an dan Hadis and soon, tapi bukan tujuan untuk memuliakan Allah tapi untuk tujuan yang lain, makanya "Orientalis" ini tidak pernah mempunyai "rasa takut" kepada Allah. > > Saya memakai bahasa Inggris itu kan karena saya menghormati insan-insan Liberal, mereka kan condongnya ke "barat", lha wong "idolanya" saja baru belajar di Barat, tapi saya engga tahu "barat" yang mana yang mereka condongi, lha wong orang-orang barat sekarang pada "convert" ke Islam Salafi....:). Apa salah kalau saya menghormati adik kita yang liberal-liberal itu ? > Jangan dikira di "Barat" sana tidak ada oarng yang "ndesit" atau berpikiran "udik", saya engga tahu yang mana yang diikuti, yang udik atau yang salafi... > > Selamat belajar. > > > > Wassalam > > "L.Meilany" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Numpang tanya Pak Jano ko, > Sekolah, pendidikan untuk ulama itu ada atau nggak? > Atau 'pengakuan' [ sertifikat] sebagai ulama itu ada atau ndak.. > Apakah otomatis pengelola/pemilik pesantren turun temurun itu ulama? > > Kalo pak Jano ko rujukannya selalu ke barat, bahasa inggris [ ndak paham saya] > Sebagai orang indonesia yg dikatakan ulama adalah : orang2 yg 'pandai', ahli, dalam pengetahuan agama islam. > Alim. Alim ulama, orang yg punya kepandaian agama islam dan orang yg baik perilakunya... > Jadi : > Gimana yg bisa diangkat jadi ulama, kriterianya [ kalo di indonesia; menyebut MUI] itu apa saja.... > Sebagai umat, kita ikuti ulama yg mana? yg muhammadiyah, nu, ht, al arqam, atau ulama di kampung.....? > Kalo ikuti ulama [baca :MUI] isinya macam2, kadang2 di MUI ngomong A, di organisasi ngomong B. > Contohnya ulama DS ; di MUI bilang perayaan natal ndak boleh, di organisasinya bilang 'o boleh, silaken, > pake gedung kami juga ndak pa-pa'........ > Itulah ulama di indonesia....... :-)) > > salam > l.meilany > [ kayaknya di WM juga banyak sekali ulama :-)) ] > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: jano ko > To: wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 3:57 PM > Subject: Re: [wanita-muslimah] Re: Kami 'dengar' dan kami taat - Ulama > > > Maaf, disini ada salah kaprah, > > Kalau ada orang yg merasa dirinya sebagai Allah, itu namanya orang yang tidak mendapat petunjuk, namanya bukan 'Ulama', > Menyamakan dirinya dengan Allah itu syirik, orang yang syirik itu jelas orang yang tidak mengerti aturan Islam. > > Sekarang kita baca bersama defisini Ulama : > > The direct translation would be 'the ones possessing knowledge'. Ulama is a plural term, and the singular can be both calîm (long i) and câlim (long a), where both can be translated with 'learned, knowing man'. câlim is the most frequently used of the two. > > Normally ulama is used for the group of men with religious education and religiously related professions. Ulama is the group of men expressing the true content of Islam towards both the people and the rulers. Men belonging to ulama have education in the Koran, the Sunna and Sharia. > > --------- > Al Qur'an > [4.116] Sesungguhnya Allah tidak mengampuni dosa mempersekutukan (sesuatu) dengan Dia, dan Dia mengampuni dosa yang selain dari syirik itu bagi siapa yang dikehendaki-Nya. Barang siapa yang mempersekutukan (sesuatu) dengan Allah, maka sesungguhnya ia telah tersesat sejauh-jauhnya > > [6.82] Orang-orang yang beriman dan tidak mencampur adukkan iman mereka dengan kelaliman (syirik), mereka itulah orang-orang yang mendapat keamanan dan mereka itu adalah orang-orang yang mendapat petunjuk > > --------------- > > Maaf lagi, dengan parameter apa anda menilai Pak HMNA perlu pencerahan?, maksud pencerahan itu apa ?, bertanya boleh ya...apakah anda merasa lebih baik dari HMNA dalam beragama islam ?, bertanya lagi.... > > > wassalam. > > > > sarinesia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > itu adalah ulama yg perlu pencerahan pak.. yaa seperti HMNA lah :)) > > --- In wanita-muslimah@yahoogroups.com, "st sabri" <st.sabri@> wrote: > > > > Yang menjadi persoalan, banyak ulama merasa dirinya "Allah" ketika > > menyampaikan ini. 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