MUSLIMS TO DO TAUBATAN~NASOHA June 4, 2011 by mthago Allah is so merciful, compassionate and most forgiving. He loves those who are making sins yet are willing to make repentance or taubah. Allah orders those who are transgressing His orders, to repent and He loves those who are fond of making repentance. It is commonly said that to error is human. In other words when you are a human, you must make mistakes and there is no human who does not make mistakes. When we make mistakes, we must think that we are human. Because we are human, we make mistakes and when we make mistakes, Allah orders us to do repentance. When we are repenting because it is the order of Allah and our intention is only to please Allah, Allah will loves us and when Allah loves us, Allah will forgive our sins. When we make doa for forgiveness, our intention should be only to please Allah but it is the common mistakes that we often made is our intention is not to please Allah but for Allah to forgive our sins. When we make a doa, we are making an actions and for every actions that we do, our intention should be sincere and sincere mean, only to please Allah. Our great grandfather, Adam makes doa for forgiven from Allah with profuse tearing for nearly 40 years. After 40 years of making doa, Allah asked him, Oh Adam, do you make doa for forgiveness because you want me to forgive you? Adam answered, yes oh Allah, I want, You to forgive me. Allah told Adam to make doa for forgiveness not with the intention for Allah to forgive him but with the intention for Allah to be please with him. When Allah is pleased, Allah will forgive all our sins. When Allah forgives all our sins we are clean as the newly born baby. When we make mistakes and we ask for forgiveness from Allah and from the persons that we have made mistakes, we are human. When we make mistakes but we do not want to ask forgiveness from Allah and from the persons that we have make mistakes, we are not human but we are the followers of Iblis. When we make mistakes only to Allah, we have to ask forgiveness only from Allah. When we make mistakes with other human being, we have to ask forgiveness not only from Allah but also from the human being that we had made mistakes. When we are asking for forgiveness, we must do it the way our Prophet Muhammad saw had shown to us to do that is, by personally meeting him and ask for forgiveness from him and not by sending SMS or via other electronic media. When we spread some lies about someone, we are making sins to those persons and also to Allah and we have to ask forgiveness from him personally and also from Allah. Our sins which involve other persons will not be forgiven, until we ask for forgiveness from those persons that we had make sins and from Allah. Our sins will also not forgiven by Allah when we ask for forgiveness from that persons by SMS or ways other than the ways shown by our Prophet Muhammad saw. Our sins will also not forgiven by Allah, when our intention is not to please Allah. Both Iblis and Adam is making mistakes but only Adam is asking forgiveness from Allah but Iblis is not willing to do so. Once Prophet Musa persuaded Iblis to ask forgiveness from Allah and it was told in the narration of the story that Iblis do agree to ask for forgiveness from Allah. Prophet Musa was so happy and told Allah that Iblis is willing to ask forgiveness from Him. Allah told Prophet Musa that Iblis will be forgiven only if Iblis is willing to prostrate before the graves of Adam. When the condition was told to Iblis by Prophet Musa, Iblis told Prophet Musa that he was not willing to ask forgiveness from Allah if he needs to prostrate before the grave of Adam. Iblis told Prophet Musa that he was not willing to prostrate before Adam when Adam was alive, how could he prostrate before Adam, when Adam was already dead. Iblis is an arrogant and proud person and because of his arrogance and pride, he declines to ask forgiveness from Allah when he needs to prostrate before the graves of Adam. Allah knows the disease in the heart of Iblis is pride or arrogance. Iblis think he is superior to Adam because he is made from fire and Adam is made from clay. Iblis does not know that when a person obey the order of Allah, Allah will make him superior and when a person disobeyed the orders of Allah, Allah will make him inferior. The superiority of the creation of Allah does not depend on the amount of wealth that he has or from what he has been made by Allah, but from the actions that the creations have done. When Iblis, although made from fire, disobeyed the orders of Allah, Iblis become degraded and inferior in the eyes of Allah and the entire creations. Why Allah orders Iblis to prostrate before Adam when Iblis had been prostrating before Allah for so many years? Allah did not order anyone to prostrate before anyone except before Him but in this case Allah ordered Iblis and the angels to prostrate before Adam. In this particular case, Allah want to test Iblis and the angels and Allah want to eradicates the diseases of Kibir and pride from the heart of the Iblis. If Iblis obeyed the order of Allah, the Kibir in the heart of Iblis will be eliminated by Allah and Iblis will be successful and if Iblis disobeyed the order of Allah, the Kibir in the heart of Iblis will increased and Iblis will be unsuccessful. Iblis had been prostrating before Allah for so many years but his prostration was not done sincerely and instead of gaining humility with his solat, Iblis gains kibir and pride. Iblis was prostrating before Allah with the intention, to become the Khalifah of Allah. Because the intention of Iblis was not sincere, Iblis prostrations and prayers was not accepted by Allah and the abundant prayers and prostration done by Iblis did not instilled iman and humility, but instead Iblis acquired arrogance and prideful. Both Iblis and Adam make mistakes as both are the creations of Allah. However in the actions taken after committing the mistakes, Adam and Iblis differ in their actions. Iblis makes mistakes but refused to ask for forgiveness. Adam makes mistakes, but willing to asked forgiveness from Allah. When Allah teaches Adam on how to ask for forgiveness, Adam follows and as a result, Allah love Adam and forgive him. All humans are the children of Adam and we must follow Adam and not Iblis. When we make mistakes and we are reminded by someone with the permission of Allah about the mistakes, we must immediately make repentance or taubah with great earnest and sincerity to Allah. Making repentance or taubah with great earnest and sincerity is known as taubatan~nasoha. I was given the name nasoha by my grandmother Hajjah Siti Norleka so that whoever hears my names will remember to make taubah. There are three conditions required when we want to make repentance or taubah. One condition is we must have the feeling of regretfulness; second condition is we must make taubah while we are doing good deeds and the third condition is we promise not to return back to the bad actions that we have done. Muslims, collectively have transgressed the very first order of Allah, the order to deliver the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims in the whole world CLICK. Although, individually there is probably one or two Muslims who are conveying this Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims but collectively Muslims have failed to conveys this Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims in the whole world. Collectively Muslims have transgressed the first order of Allah and so collectively Muslims have acquired great sins. The collective great sins of the Muslims have become the hindrance for Muslims to have the taufik to do the great work of Prophet Muhammad saw. When we are sinful, we will not have the taufik or guidance from Allah to do the great work of the Prophet saw. In order for Muslims to do the great work of the Prophet saw, the collective sins of the Muslims have to be forgiven by Allah. Muslims collectively must ask for forgiveness and taubah from Allah, known as taubatan~nasoha. There are so many sins that Muslims have commited, but there are no greater sins that Muslims do, either as individual or collectively, other than the sins of neglecting the work of conveying the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims. I will be sinful writing about Anwar Ibrahim if Anwar Ibrahim was not the person in the sex video clip but I will be rewarded by Allah if the person in the sex video clip is really Anwar Ibrahim CLICK. I have seen the video clip and I believe that person is Anwar Ibrahim. If I am sinful, the sins will not be greater than the sins of neglecting the work of conveying the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims. Anwar want to become the Prime Minister of Malaysia and he is a public figure and whatever he does must be under the public scrutiny. If he is not a good person and we choose him to become the Prime Minister of Malaysia, we are sinful and it is my responsibility and the responsibility of all who loves Muslims and this beloved country to stop him from becoming the Prime Minister of MalaysiaCLICK. One commentator of article JALAN KELUAR UNTUK ANWAR IBRAHIM who wants me to make taubah, was commenting that I’m now far deviated from the truth path and has to make taubatan~nasoha because I wrote the article. The article was written because I love the Muslims, Malaysians and Anwar Ibrahim as brother in Islam. I solemnly request all Muslims to ask forgiveness from Allah for neglecting the work of conveying the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims. For all this while we have not regarded the work of conveying the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims as our work. Previously none of the Muslims including me really knows the methods and ways on how to convey the Great Kalimah to the non-Muslims. Many Muslims think that the work is to convert the non-Muslims to Muslims and not to convey the Great Kalimah to non-Muslims. When Muslims think that the work is to convert non-Muslims to Muslims, the work naturally appear to all Muslims as a very difficult work and the work must require great knowledge about Islam and require great ability in talking and debating in order to convince the non-Muslims to become Muslims. Many well-known so call preacher of Islam like the late Mr Ahmad Dedat from South Africa was a person known to be well versed about the Quran and the Bible. Instead of conveying the Great Kalimah, many Muslims think the work is the work of converting non-Muslims to become Muslims and naturally many Muslims think that the work is a very difficult work to be done by an ordinary Muslims. Beside the wrong understanding of the work, many Muslims were convinced by members of Jamat Tabligh CLICK that we do not have to do dakwah to the non-Muslims because Muslims nowadays are mostly non-practicing Muslims. Members of Tabligh Jamat think that it is sufficient only to show good conduct to the non-Muslims and when Muslims have good conduct, the non-Muslims will automatically be converted to Islam. Members of Jamat Tabligh believe that it is sufficient to do the work of rectifying the Muslims only by asking Muslims to spend for 40 days and 4 months in a year. What is the basis of their opinion is really not known. There is nothing that I know in the Quran and Hadis that allow Muslims not to give dakwah to non-Muslims with the reason Muslims are not good in their conduct as claimed by Jamat Tabligh. Muslims generally have neglected the work of conveying the Great Kalimah to non-Muslim. All Muslims have to admit that they have disobeyed Allah and they have done injustice to themselves and they should do sincere repentance or taubah known as taubatan~nasoha. Prof. Dr. Nasoha Saabin June 2011 Dean of Faculty of Optometry International University College of Technology Twintech Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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