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Ini adalah tajuk buku yang baru aku baca… ia menarik, penuh dengan tip-tip. Pembawaan buku ini santai, tidak seperti pembawaan THMSI.  Pembawaan THMSI lebih kepada perjalanan emosi. Pembawaan buku ini, seperti membaca buku travel tips yang biasa kita ketemui ketika kita mahu ke China, Jerman dan lain-lain. Namun ingat, ia sama tapi tidak serupa…

Antara yang menarik, penulis buku ini mengetengahkan 3 sebab kenapa beliau perlu bertaubat ketika usia muda. Ringkasnya yang pertama adalah kerana kesedaran bahawa ketika menjalani liku kehidupan, kita tidak sedar kemungkinan kita mengangkah Tuhan selain daripada Allah. Nauzubillah… ini adalah logik yang kalau kita renungi, terlalu banyak benarnya. Asshadu – Allahilahaillallah, wa ashaduanna muhammadar rasulullah.

Yang kedua, amalan kita selama ini, tiada indicatornya. Kita tiada log book atau reportcard tentang amalan yang telah kita lakukan. Jadi bagaimana kita boleh selesa dengan amal kita selama ini sedangkan prestasinya kita pun tidak tahu.

Yang ketiga, semua maklum , syurga itu banyak peringkatnya, yang tertinggi, syurga firdaus! namun sejauh mana amalan kita semua kita perhebat dan kita perapikan untuk mengejar tempat di syurga firdaus ini? Ironinya, di dunia, kita bermisikan dan berusaha sehabis daya untuk mendapat status kehidupan yang berpangkat dan mewah.

Memanglah benar, kemasukan ke syurga itu adalah atas belas dan rahmat Allah jua. Namun apa yang di tulis oleh penulis seperti diatas banyak logiknya. Semoga kita semua beroleh manfaat.

Cukup menarik juga apabila, penulis berkongsi cerita bagaimana beliau merancang kewangan untuk menunaikan Haji. Bagi saya..tip ini sangat-sangat berguna.

Selamat membaca.

Buku yang menjadi fenomena di Indonesia ini telah lama berada dalam simpanan ku, Terima kasih kepada Ghaz, kerana menghadiahkannya kepada ku. (Kalau Ghaz tak introduce, sampai kapan pun aku tak kan beli dan baca!! buku-buku genre begini bukan minat ku.)

Tapi pulang bercuti aidilfitri tahun lepas, aku bertekad untuk menghabiskannya. Namun, tak sampai separuh buku cuti perayaanku sudah sampai ke penghujung. Buku itu aku tinggalkan di kampung dan aku pinjamkan kepada Kakak iparku yang merupakan seorang guru.

Buku itu cukup mengasikkan. Dan itu adalah kali pertama aku menghabiskan bab-bab awal buku tersebut di dalam bas ekspress. Sebelum ini aku tidak pernah pun membaca di dalam bas!!

Cerita ini adalah cerita yang membangkitkan emosi tentang keazaman anak-anak kampung di kawasan pendalaman indonesia. Banyak juga unsur-unsur lucu di dalamnya. Bagi aku ia benar-benar memberi motivasi.

Motivasi kepada kita, untuk terus mencari ilmu, kepada guru-guru agar membulatkan tekad mengajar untuk pembangunan anak bangsa.

Kini, sudah terbit filem Laskar Pelangi. Bila lah cerita ini hendak sampai di bumi Malaysia ini, tidak  pula aku tahu. Namun, OSTnya sudah sampai. Tidak sabar lagi untuk menonton movie ini.

Aku begitu teruja apabila melihat cinematography filem ini. Nyata, pembikinannya tidak diambil mudah. Tidak hanya menumpang populariti bulu terlaris ini.

Entri kali ini akan melihat sedikit tulisan mengenai buku diatas yang saya perolehi dari internet. Selamat membaca. Begitu menarik kerana ia mengiktiraf Nabi Muhammad S.A.W yang hidup pada 1400 tahun hijrah yang lalu sebagai Manusia paling berpengaruh dalam sejarah dunia!

 

Tajuk Buku:

The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History

Penulis:

Michael H. Hart

 

 

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular levels.

 

Of humble origins, Muhammad founded and promulgated one of the world’s great religions, and became an immensely effective political leader. Today, thirteen centuries after his death, his influence is still powerful and pervasive.

 

The majority of the persons in this book had the advantage of being born and raised in centers of civilization, highly cultured or politically pivotal nations. Muhammad, however, was born in the year 570, in the city of Mecca, in southern Arabia, at that time a backward area of the world, far from the centers of trade, art, and learning. Orphaned at age six, he was reared in modest surroundings. Islamic tradition tells us that he was illiterate. His economic position improved when, at age twenty-five, he married a wealthy widow. Nevertheless, as he approached forty, there was little outward indication that he was a remarkable person.

 

Most Arabs at that time were pagans, who believed in many gods. There were, however, in Mecca, a small number of Jews and Christians; it was from them no doubt that Muhammad first learned of a single, omnipotent God who ruled the entire universe. When he was forty years old, Muhammad became convinced that this one true God (Allah) was speaking to him, and had chosen him to spread the true faith.

 

For three years, Muhammad preached only to close friends and associates. Then, about 613, he began preaching in public. As he slowly gained converts, the Meccan authorities came to consider him a dangerous nuisance. In 622, fearing for his safety, Muhammad fled to Medina (a city some 200 miles north of Mecca), where he had been offered a position of considerable political power.

 

This flight, called the Hegira, was the turning point of the Prophet’s life. In Mecca, he had had few followers. In Medina, he had many more, and he soon acquired an influence that made him a virtual dictator. During the next few years, while Muhammad s following grew rapidly, a series of battles were fought between Medina and Mecca. This was ended in 630 with Muhammad’s triumphant return to Mecca as conqueror. The remaining two and one-half years of his life witnessed the rapid conversion of the Arab tribes to the new religion. When Muhammad died, in 632, he was the effective ruler of all of southern Arabia.

 

The Bedouin tribesmen of Arabia had a reputation as fierce warriors. But their number was small; and plagued by disunity and internecine warfare, they had been no match for the larger armies of the kingdoms in the settled agricultural areas to the north. However, unified by Muhammad for the first time in history, and inspired by their fervent belief in the one true God, these small Arab armies now embarked upon one of the most astonishing series of conquests in human history. To the northeast of Arabia lay the large Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanids; to the northwest lay the Byzantine, or Eastern Roman Empire, centered in Constantinople. Numerically, the Arabs were no match for their opponents. On the field of battle, though, the inspired Arabs rapidly conquered all of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine. By 642, Egypt had been wrested from the Byzantine Empire, while the Persian armies had been crushed at the key battles of Qadisiya in 637, and Nehavend in 642.

 

But even these enormous conquests-which were made under the leadership of Muhammad’s close friends and immediate successors, Abu Bakr and ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab -did not mark the end of the Arab advance. By 711, the Arab armies had swept completely across North Africa to the Atlantic Ocean There they turned north and, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, overwhelmed the Visigothic kingdom in Spain.

 

For a while, it must have seemed that the Moslems would overwhelm all of Christian Europe. However, in 732, at the famous Battle of Tours, a Moslem army, which had advanced into the center of France, was at last defeated by the Franks. Nevertheless, in a scant century of fighting, these Bedouin tribesmen, inspired by the word of the Prophet, had carved out an empire stretching from the borders of India to the Atlantic Ocean-the largest empire that the world had yet seen. And everywhere that the armies conquered, large-scale conversion to the new faith eventually followed.

 

Now, not all of these conquests proved permanent. The Persians, though they have remained faithful to the religion of the Prophet, have since regained their independence from the Arabs. And in Spain, more than seven centuries of warfare 5 finally resulted in the Christians reconquering the entire peninsula. However, Mesopotamia and Egypt, the two cradles of ancient civilization, have remained Arab, as has the entire coast of North Africa. The new religion, of course, continued to spread, in the intervening centuries, far beyond the borders of the original Moslem conquests. Currently it has tens of millions of adherents in Africa and Central Asia and even more in Pakistan and northern India, and in Indonesia. In Indonesia, the new faith has been a unifying factor. In the Indian subcontinent, however, the conflict between Moslems and Hindus is still a major obstacle to unity.

 

How, then, is one to assess the overall impact of Muhammad on human history? Like all religions, Islam exerts an enormous influence upon the lives of its followers. It is for this reason that the founders of the world’s great religions all figure prominently in this book . Since there are roughly twice as many Christians as Moslems in the world, it may initially seem strange that Muhammad has been ranked higher than Jesus. There are two principal reasons for that decision. First, Muhammad played a far more important role in the development of Islam than Jesus did in the development of Christianity. Although Jesus was responsible for the main ethical and moral precepts of Christianity (insofar as these differed from Judaism), St. Paul was the main developer of Christian theology, its principal proselytizer, and the author of a large portion of the New Testament.

 

Muhammad, however, was responsible for both the theology of Islam and its main ethical and moral principles. In addition, he played the key role in proselytizing the new faith, and in establishing the religious practices of Islam. Moreover, he is the author of the Moslem holy scriptures, the Koran, a collection of certain of Muhammad’s insights that he believed had been directly revealed to him by Allah. Most of these utterances were copied more or less faithfully during Muhammad’s lifetime and were collected together in authoritative form not long after his death. The Koran therefore, closely represents Muhammad’s ideas and teachings and to a considerable extent his exact words. No such detailed compilation of the teachings of Christ has survived. Since the Koran is at least as important to Moslems as the Bible is to Christians, the influence of Muhammed through the medium of the Koran has been enormous It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. On the purely religious level, then, it seems likely that Muhammad has been as influential in human history as Jesus.

 

Furthermore, Muhammad (unlike Jesus) was a secular as well as a religious leader. In fact, as the driving force behind the Arab conquests, he may well rank as the most influential political leader of all time.

 

Of many important historical events, one might say that they were inevitable and would have occurred even without the particular political leader who guided them. For example, the South American colonies would probably have won their independence from Spain even if Simon Bolivar had never lived. But this cannot be said of the Arab conquests. Nothing similar had occurred before Muhammad, and there is no reason to believe that the conquests would have been achieved without him. The only comparable conquests in human history are those of the Mongols in the thirteenth century, which were primarily due to the influence of Genghis Khan. These conquests, however, though more extensive than those of the Arabs, did not prove permanent, and today the only areas occupied by the Mongols are those that they held prior to the time of Genghis Khan.

 

It is far different with the conquests of the Arabs. From Iraq to Morocco, there extends a whole chain of Arab nations united not merely by their faith in Islam, but also by their Arabic language, history, and culture. The centrality of the Koran in the Moslem religion and the fact that it is written in Arabic have probably prevented the Arab language from breaking up into mutually unintelligible dialects, which might otherwise have occurred in the intervening thirteen centuries. Differences and divisions between these Arab states exist, of course, and they are considerable, but the partial disunity should not blind us to the important elements of unity that have continued to exist. For instance, neither Iran nor Indonesia, both oil-producing states and both Islamic in religion, joined in the oil embargo of the winter of 1973-74. It is no coincidence that all of the Arab states, and only the Arab states, participated in the embargo.

 

We see, then, that the Arab conquests of the seventh century have continued to play an important role in human history, down to the present day. It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history.

 

1. Prophet Muhammad

2. Isaac Newton

3. Jesus Christ

4. Buddha

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100. Niels Bohr

 

Other non-Muslim verdicts on Prophet Muhammad (May Peace and Blessings of Allah upon him)

 

“If a man like Muhammad were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world, he would succeed in solving its problems that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness.”

George Bernard Shaw

 

“People like Pasteur and Salk are leaders in the first sense. People like Gandhi and Confucius, on one hand, and Alexander, Caesar and Hitler on the other, are leaders in the second and perhaps the third sense. Jesus and Buddha belong in the third category alone. Perhaps the greatest leader of all times was Mohammed, who combined all three functions. To a lesser degree, Moses did the same.”

Professor Jules Masserman

 

“Head of the State as well as the Church, he was Caesar and Pope in one; but, he was Pope without the Pope’s pretensions, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar, without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a police force, without a fixed revenue. If ever a man had the right to say that he ruled by a rightdivine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the powers without their supports. He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life.”

Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith

 

“Muhammad was the soul of kindness, and his influence was felt and never forgotten by those around him.”

Diwan Chand Sharma, The Prophets of the East,

Calcutta 1935, p.122.

 

“Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race… Mohammed… “

J ohn William Draper, M.D., L.L.D., A History of the Intellectual

Development of Europe, London 1875, Vol. 1, pp.329-330.

 

“In little more than a year he was actually the spiritual, nominal and temporal ruler of Medina, with his hands on the lever that was to shake the world.”

John Austin, “Muhammad the Prophet of Allah,”

in T.P.’s and Cassel’s Weekly for 24th September 1927.

 

“Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Warrior, Conqueror of ideas, Restorer of rational beliefs, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty-terrestial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?”

Lamartine, Histotie de la Turquie, Paris 1854,

Vol. 11 pp.276-2727.

 

“It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence! for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.”

Annie Besant, The Life and Teachings of Muhammad,

Madras 1932, p.4

 

“Muhammad is the most successful of all Prophets and religious personalities.”

Encyclopaedia Britannica

 

“I have studied him – the wonderful man – and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.”

George Bernard Shaw in “The Genuine Islam ”

 

“By a fortune absolutely unique in history, Mohammed is a threefold founder of a nation, of an empire, and of a religion.”

Rev. R. Bosworth-Smith in

“Mohammed and Mohammedanism 1946.”

“Kau baca buku ni bagus!!! … siap masuk majalah tiga lagi” Itulah kata-kata Ghaz suatu ketika dulu pada aku. Ketika itu aku tengah sibuk menghabiskan buku ‘You have got to read this book’ yang aku juga pinjam dari Ghaz. Belum sempat aku booking nak pinjam buku baru itu, Ghaz pulang ke ibupejabat di Kuala Lumpur! Aku ingat juga Ghaz bercerita susah untuk dapatkan buku itu. Walaupun di area Masjid India di Kuala Lumpur.

 

Bila Ghaz pulang ke Kuala Lumpur, buku itu tinggal nama saja di benak ku. Buku itu ialah ‘Travelog Haji – Mengubah Sempadan Iman’(THMSI). Karangan Prof. Muhd Kamil Ibrahim.

 

Dua kali aku outstation di Kuala Lumpur, benar seperti kata Ghaz, memang tiada buku itu. Habis di jual!!!!!!

 

Lantas aku tanya En. Google… manalah tau kot-kot ada di jual online. Aku temui yang lebih baik.. Blog penulis itu sendiri. Lantas terus ku hubungi penulis tersebut dan memesan sebuah buku. Buku itu sampai jua…..

 

Belum pun habis bab satu buku itu aku ketepikan…. Ayat-ayatnya menyentuh hati. Aku terbayang banyak dosa aku lakukan… lantas aku sebak.. tak dapat teruskan, lalu aku ketepikan. Minggu depan aku sambung lagi, sebak lagi tak tertahan. Aku ketepikan lagi selama sebulan!!!!!!

 

Bercuti di kampung halaman, aku berjumpa dengan abang sulung ku. Dia juga penggemar buku, Ku hadiahkan dia buku ‘The Secret oleh Rhonda Byrne’ bersama sebuah buku yang ditulis bagi mengulas bagaimana latihan praktik buku The Secret itu. Kata abang ku dia sibuk sekarang, banyak kerja, tak apalah buku itu nanti dia baca.

 

Lantas aku ceritakan padanya, Bacalah buku THMSI, bagus, penulisnya begitu begini… aku ceritakan panjang lebar. Dia seronok dan teruja. Lantas kuhubungi lagi Prof untuk memesan lagi buku THMSI. Kebetulan semasa buku itu belum pun sampai, abang aku telah pun mendapatkan buku itu dari sebuah kedai buku di daerah ku. Lantas dia suruh aku batalkan saja pesanan aku itu. Aku hanya tersenyum dan berkata,“Tak apa, buku lebih tu, simpan saja di rumah Mak, supaya adik-adik boleh baca.”

 

Pulang dari kampung halaman, selepas seminggu di daerah mencari rezekiku, aku menelefon abang ku. Dia kata dia dah habis baca buku THMSI. Bila aku tanya berapa hari dia ambil masa, dia kata dua hari! “Habis tu, buku the secret tu dah habis baca ke?,”Tanya ku, dia menjawab, “nanti dulu la, sibuk sekarang banyak kerja.” Lantas dia terus bertanya aku, “bila nak pergi Haji? Pergilah” katanya. Aku tersenyum….. “Insyallah”..kataku

 

Aku teruskan pembacaan THMSI, perlahan-lahan, baca dan letak, sebak sepanjang masa, simply because aku manusia berdosa! Garapan ayat-ayat THMSI begitu menusuk nurani ku. Aku menghabiskan THMSI sambil aku menonton Diari Akademi Fantasia musim ke 6!

 

Satu benda yang melekat di benak ku, Solatku selama ini, Kosong dan Tak sampai!!!!! Aku tidak menonton Diari Akademi sekadar untuk menambah bahan gosip untuk bercerita di pejabat keesokkan harinya. Aku suka melihat apa yang diajarkan, walaupun sampai hari ini, tidak kutahu apa itu pitch sebenarnya! Tapi aku faham apa itu tempo!

 

Justeru dari Diari Akademi, aku mendapat ilham yang solat ku selama ini adalah seperti sekadar buat saja, kurasakan tidak sampai apa yang ku solatkan kepada Allah. Harus aku gali lagi solat ku dan ku cari pengertiannya. Kenapa melalui diari ku perolehi ini?

 

Kerana pencarian aku untuk mendekati Allah telah berlegar di benak ku semasa aku membaca THMSI dua bulan sebelum aku menonton diari AF!

 

Jika kita mencari Allah, maka Allah akan pasti mengilhamkan kita di mana-mana sahaja. Walaupun ketika kita sedang merasa kasihan melihat seekor anjing mati di tepi jalan di langgar kereta. Mungkin ketika itu kita baru pulang dari parti dunia yang penuh dengan maksiat! Melihat anjing itu mati, terdetik di hati, kalau aku mati hari ini seperti anjing itu, aku tidak mungkin akan masuk syurga! Lalu apabila pulang kita membentangkan sejadah yang sudah dua tahun ditinggalkan dan sujud mengadap Allah lalu bertaubat! Hal ini agak pelik tapi tidak mustahil terjadi. Kerana sudah fitrah setia manusia di lahirkan begitu. (Penghuraian ini lebih lanjut di entri akan datang!)

 

Abang aku juga dalam perbualan telefonnya berkata, dia sempat rekomenkan buku itu kepada dua rakan nya. Kedua-dua rakan nya itu telah habis membaca dan berniat untuk mengerjakan haji dan umrah. Ahamdulillah.

 

Seorang rakan ku, akan pergi melanjutkan pelajaran di UK. Lantas ku hadiahkan buku THMSI dan Sebuah Terjemahan Al-Quran (Versi Indonesia). Dia bertanya “Kenapa, kau beri buku dan hadiah macam tu kat aku?” Sambil tersenyum aku ceritakan pengalaman aku membaca THMSI dalam kepayahan (3 bulan lamanya baru aku mampu menghabiskannya) dan ilham dari AF6!

 

Pulang saja sebelum sampai dirumah ku, sedang aku menunggu rakan untuk mengambil aku di airport, satu sms masuk, rupanya kawan ku yang aku jumpa semalam. Dia berkata, “aku baru baca buku ni suku, dah terasa macam nak pegi haji… Thank you.. Thank you.”

 

Besoknya, di pejabat aku serahkan buku THMSI kepada rakan sebelah kubikel ku (dia telah memesan buku itu kerana dia tahu aku akan ke K.L minggu lalu, dan dalam lawatan aku ke K.L itu, aku hanya membeli dua buku THMSI. Tapi aku harus mencarinya di dua kedai berbeza, kerana stau naskah yang ku perolehi dari kedai pertama adalah yang terakhir!!), rakan sepejabat ku itu yang baru separuh membaca buku THMSI yang aku pinjamkan kepadanya, begitu gembira. Dia teruskan pembacaan melalui buku yang di pinjam dari ku itu. Apa yang menarik apabila buku baru yang dia perolehi itu, dia pinjamkan kepada rakannya.

 

Aku manusia berdosa, dosa ku ini terlalu banyak sehingga hatiku gelap. Ada peristiwa mengusik hati ku tahun lepas yang membuat aku tersedar bahawa Cinta Allah lah yang perlu di cari, Lantas aku temui THMSI, melalui seorang rakan yang suka membaca, dia berkongsi sesuatu yang begitu mengusik hati ku agar melihat semua ibadah yang aku selama ini kerjakan. Aku manusia berdosa, mungkin nasihatku, tidak mungkin menyentuh hati sesiapa, namun dengan adanya cerita THMSI aku dapat berkongsi bersama rakan. Kerana terbukti, banyak jiwa tersentuh kerana membaca buku itu.

 

Hebatkan penulis THMSI? Ya, Hebat sekali… tapi hebatnya bukan menagih riak, hebatnya bukan membina bangga. Hebatnya kerana ikhlas berkongsi pengalaman dia sebagai hambaNya yang mendambakan cinta suci dari Allah Yang Maha Mencintai.

 

Anda mungkin, tidak akan tersentuh apabila membaca cerita THMSI, kerana mungkin anda manusia Alim yang suci dan bersih. Tapi saya pasti, ada sedetik perasaan yang anda akan akui yang di ceritakan oleh Prof Muhd Kamil itu benar dan jujur – lantas anda mengangguk. Ketika anda menggangguk itulah, sedetik waktu itulah, yang mungkin kecil atau tidak signifikan bagi anda. Begitu signifikan dan besar buat saya khususnya sebagai Hamba Allah yang penuh noda.

 

Buku ini bukan khusus untuk mereka yang mahu pergi haji, kalau anda renungkan, perubahan pada Prof. bermula sebelum beliau pergi haji lagi. Justeru, jangan fikir, buku ini harus dibaca apabila mahu pergi haji ataupun umrah saja. Banyak pelajaran lain yang boleh diperolehi.

 

Kesyukuran pada Allah dipanjatkan kerana di dalam dunia yang melekakan ini, masih terdapat insan-insan tabah seperti Prof Muhd Kamil yang berkongsi rasa berdosanya dengan kita, lalu tidak lah dia riak apabila berkongsi bahagianya bersama kita apabila dia mendapatkan percikan cinta Allah Yang Maha Kuasa daripada ibadat yang dilakukannya.

 

Semoga kita semuanya mendapat hidayah Allah berterusan- Amin

 

Bagi mereka yang suka surfing, lawatilah blog penulis THMSI di http://muhdkamil.net/mystory/

 

Terima Kasih kepada:

 

1)      Ghaz kerana merekomen buku ini.

2)      Along yang memberi motivasi untuk menghabiskan buku ini.

3)      AF6 Khususnya Fauziah Nawi, Ogy, Adlin Aman Ramli. (tidak bermaksud menyokong apa-apa yang terlarang di AF6).

Terakhir tetapi sebenarnya yang terutama, Siapa lagi kalau bukan penulisnya Prof Muhd Kamil kerana usaha murninya