Sekitar dialog "antar-iman", tanggapan di bawah, Mbak Ning. Soal "tuhan" dan "Tuhan" silakan dilanjut dengan cara beradab :-)
On 4/23/07, Tri Budi Lestyaningsih (Ning) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Balik lagi ke subject, saya punya pengalaman yang lucu waktu anak saya > yang tertua masih balita. Saat itu kami tinggal di apartemen dan > bertetangga dengan seorang nasrani, yang juga mempunyai anak seusia anak > saya itu. Anak saya sering bermain ke rumah tetangga saya itu, > sebaliknya pun demikian. > > Nah suatu hari, sepulang bermain di rumah tetangga, tiba-tiba anak saya > berkata :"Ma, kita harus berdoa kepada tuhan Yesus." > Saya kaget dan langsung bilang :"Bukan, teh. Kita berdoa bukan kepada > tuhan Yesus, tuhan kita itu Allah. Kita berdoa kepada Allah." > Trus dia dengan wajah kebingungan bilang :"Betul kok Ma, Kata Johnatan, > tuhan itu Yesus." > Karena saya tidak mau panjang lebar menjelaskan, saya bilang :"Bukan, > Yesus itu tuhannya orang kristen. Kalau kita, orang Islam, tuhan kita > Allah" > > Wajahnya berubah, seolah mendapat suatu insight seraya berkata " Ooo > jadi tuhan itu ada dua ya, ma ?" > Saya :"[EMAIL PROTECTED]&*" Saya terkesan sekali dengan dialog kedua anak balita tersebut. Mudah-mudahan generasi mendatang bisa meneruskan dialog semacam itu dengan damai, lebih damai daripada dialog "seiman" di milis ini :-) Coba bandingkan dengan dialog antar iman di Negara Paman Sam berikut ini. Lima mahasiswa muslim bergabung dengan 5 mahasiswa Yahudi, 11 Katolik dan 10 Protestan menjadi sukarelawan membantu korban topan badai Katrina di New Orleans tahun 2005. Sambil melakukan tugas, mereka juga saling belajar satu sama lain tentang agama dan kepercayaan masing-masing.. Apa yang mereka pelajari? "Kami semua percaya kepada satu Tuhan." salam, DWS http://www.newsobserver.com/419/story/565893.html Student volunteers get lessons in other faiths Tom Keyser, Albany Times Union ALBANY, N.Y. - After the five Muslims prayed during a break from gutting a house, after they went through their rituals and recitations, one of the Protestants said: "Point of information." The group consisted of students from the State University of New York at Albany, and that was one of the phrases they took with them to New Orleans to signal they wanted to ask a question about religion. The students went for a week in February to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, but they also went as an interfaith group -- five Muslims, five Jews, 10 Protestants and 11 Catholics -- to learn about each other's faiths. "We all believe in one God," said Shaun Bennett, a Jewish student. "The different religions have their prophets, and they all have their teachings and their writings. Sure, they have their differences, but everything is so closely related -- the Quran, the Bible, the Torah. It's all the same teaching, just different wording, different characters, different stories, different fables." The students gutted four homes flooded in the 2005 hurricane. They also visited a mosque, a synagogue and a Jewish community center. They attended an Ash Wednesday service at a Catholic church, and they celebrated Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath. Some went to Mardi Gras and witnessed another kind of religion. They slept in bunk beds in a converted furniture warehouse operated by Operation Blessing, one of the many faith-based organizations involved in the relief effort that continued 19 months after Katrina. They talked about religion informally and as a group with their three advisers from the university -- a Catholic priest, a Protestant minister and the director of Jewish student life. "Point of information," they would say. And a discussion about religion would ensue. After Jen Griswold, a Protestant from Burnt Hills, N.Y., watched the five Muslim students pray for several minutes in a driveway next to a house they had all been gutting, she said: "Point of information. What is prayer like for you? What are you doing, what are you thinking, when you're kneeling, standing, bowing?" A senior majoring in religious studies, Griswold recalls that one of Muslim student "explained how in different instances he's reciting the Quran, and then he's praising God, and then he's offering petitions, which is like asking God to help you, to help the people you love, just asking God for something." Griswold said that's what she does when she prays, except that she recites from the Bible. "That was really neat for me as a Christian, to realize the parallels of what happens in prayer," she said. The students discovered that keeping kosher and keeping halal -- the dietary laws for Jews and Muslims, respectively -- were similar. They learned that helping the poor and the needy was a tenet of each of their religions. The Catholics and Protestants found out they aren't the only ones who say "peace be with you." "When we walked into the mosque, we were greeted with -- I don't know how to say it in Arabic -- but it's basically 'Peace be upon you,' " Griswold said. "And when we had the Shabbat service on Friday, after the lighting of the candles, you go around greeting one another and saying, in Hebrew, 'Peace be with you.' "To me, that was really cool, this idea of it being a central practice of all the faiths to greet each other with tidings of peace." The students didn't talk much about war, conflicts in the Middle East or terrorism and suicide bombers. "Because of the context of where we were, I think, the dialogue revolved more around the situation in New Orleans and poverty and everybody's take on responding to the poor," said Sandy Damhof, the Protestant minister who accompanied the students. "It wasn't necessarily about world events." Several students asked the Muslim women about their dress, especially their head covering, or hijab, and about women's roles in Islam. "I know that many people think women are degraded in Islam," said Suman Ghauri, one of the Muslim students and president of the Muslim Student Association. "Women have their own roles in the family and in the society as a whole. "I can't really briefly explain it, but the Quran has sent down laws, and the laws are supposed to make men and women equal. If Islam minimized women, then we wouldn't be following it." She said it is a woman's choice, not a decree from men, whether she wears the head covering. "It's a way of modesty," she said. "It's not just about covering your head; it's about covering your body. You're not supposed to wear revealing clothes. In a way, it's so you're not seen as a sex object, you're seen as a person." The Muslims were the least understood group on the trip, and, Ghauri said, they welcomed the chance to explain themselves whenever a student directed a "point of information" to them. "The other students didn't know we believe in Mary," she said. "They didn't know we believe in Jesus, either. We don't believe that Jesus is God, but we believe that he's a very important prophet, and that God sent miracles to him."
