AL-BAQOROH 2 – 5
“Kitab Al-Quran ini tidak ada keraguan padanya, petunjuk bagi mereka yang bertaqwa, yaitu mereka yang beriman kepada yang gaib, yang mendirikan sholat dan menafkahkan sebagian dari rizki yang kami anugerahkan kepada mereka. Dan mereka yang beriman kepada kitan Al-Quran yang telah diturunkan kepadamu (Muhammad SAW) dan kitab-kitab yang telah diturunkan sebelummu serta mereka yakin adanya hari akhirat” (QS 2: 2-5).
Al-Quran adalah mukjizat yang terbesar yang diberikan ALLAH kepada Nabi Muhammad SAW. Mukjizat ini akan dapat disaksikan umat manusia sepanjang masa sampai akhir masa. ALLAH telah menjamin keutuhan Al-Quran. “Sesungguhnya Kami telah menurunkan Al-Quran dan sesungguhnya Kami tetap memeliharanya” (QS 15 : 9). Tidak perlu heran jika saat ini Quran masih utuh dalam kemurniannya, masih dalam teks aslinya tanpa sedikitpun mengalami perubahan walau satu huruf sekalipun. Tidak berlebihan bahwa dari sekian buku atau kitab yang pernah ada dan terdapat di dunia ini, Quranlah yang merupakan buku atau kitab yang paling banyak dibaca oleh manusia. Sejarah memberikan bukti betapa Quran yang diturunkan hamper 14 abad yang lalu telah diikuti dengan setia dan di amalkan oleh berjuta-juta manusia muslim sekaligus telah mengubah sejarah dan peradaban dunia menuju manusia yang berakhlak mulia.
Permulaan turunnya Al-Quran bersamaan dengan dinobatkannya Muhammad SAW sebagai Rasulullah pada usia 40 tahun. Saat itu beliau sedang berkhalawat di gua Hiramalam Senin 17 Ramadhan atau 6 Agustus 610 M. Ayat-ayat yang pertaman kali turun waktu itu adalah :
” Bacalah dengan menyebut nama Tuhanmu yang menciptakan. Dia telah menciptakan manusia dari segumpal darah. Bacalah,dan Tuhanmu yang amat Mulia. Yang mengajarkan kepada manusia apa yang tidak diketahuinya” (QS 96: 1-5).
Ayat-ayat yang penuh petunjuk ini disusul dengan ayat-ayat berikutnya yang turun secara berangsur-angsur sehingga lengkaplab Al-Quran dengan 6236 ayat, 74437 kalimat dan 325345 huruf yang terkandung dalam 114 surah.
Prof.Muhammada Abdul Azhiem Zargani yaitu seorang maha guru di Fakultas Ushuluddin Universitas Al-Azhar Mesir menyimpulkan penelitiannya tentang pengaruh Al-Quran terhadap masyarakat dan kehidupan manusia adalah sebagai berikut :
• Perbaikan aqidah. Al-Quran menunjukkan jalan tentang hakekat kehidupan dunia dan akhirat, membentuk kepercayaan (iman) kepada ALLAH, Malaikat, Rasul-rasul, Kitab suci dan hari akhirat serta qadar baik dan buruk yang ditetapkan ALLAH.
• Perbaikan ibadah. Al-Quran mengajarkan pengamdian dan kebaktian yang tulus hanya kepada ALLAH semata (Monotheisme) dan menghapuskan upacara keagamaan yang mengandung pengakuan dan unsure banyak tuhan (Polytheisme).
• Pembaharuan tentang ahlak. Al-Quran menanamkan ahlak atau budi pekerti yang baik dan terpuji serta menghapurkan ahlak yang merusak dan tercela.
• Perbaikan moral masyarakat. Al-Quran menumbuhkan perasaan persaudaraan, persamaan dan persatuan tanpa membedakan warna kulit, bangsa,turunan. Menghapuskan segala macam pembatasan-pembatasan dan perbedaan-perbedaan (Diskriminasi) yang menimbulkan kasta-kasta yang merupakan sebab perselisihan dan ketegangan.
• Perbaikan tentang politik dan ketatanegaraan. Al-Quran memberikan pelajaran tentang pengembangan de-mokrasi, mengakkan keadilan dan menantang kezaliman dalam segala bentuknya.
• Perbaikan bidang ekonomi. Al-Quran membangun ekonomi yang mengandung dasar ajaran ketuhanan dan nilai-nilai luhur kemanusiaan. Mengakui hak-hak manusia mencari kekayaan dengan ristriksi (pembatasan-pembatasan) tertentu.
• Perbaikan tentang kedudukan kaum wanita. Al-Quran melindungi hak-hak kaum wanita, baik yang mengenai soal-soal keagamaan, kesosialan maupun hak-hak masyarakat lainnya.
• Perbaikan mengenai peperangan. Al-Quran mengubah maksud dan tujuan perang untuk kepentingan perdamaian dan keselamatan umat manusia. Mengekang nafsu permusuhan serta peerselisihan antar bangsa-bangsa.
• Memberantas perbudakan. Al-Quran menghapuskan perbudakan dan mengakui tentang kemerdekaan.
• Memerdekakan akal dan pikiran. Al-Quran mengakui kebebasan mempergunakan akal dan fikiran, menghapuskan taqlid, memutuskan segala macam rantai yang membelenggu akal fikiran baik karena kebiasaan-kebiasaan kepercayaan, kekuasaan politik maupun yang bersifat tradisi dan adat istiadat.
Itulah Al-Quran. Sejarah kehidupan manusia telah mencatat bahwa Kitab Suci ini adalah Kitab yang benar-benar Suci dari perubahan oleh tangan-tangan kotor. Al-Quran yang kemurnian ajarannya sangat dijamin oleh ALLAH sampai akhir zaman adalah petunjuk yang sempurna bagi muslim yang bertaqwa tinggal bagaimana kita mempelajarinya lebih seksama lagi.
Pasuruan, 17 Ramadhan 1405 H
Monday, September 1, 2008
Friday, August 8, 2008
More Guns More Violence
By : Reza Jitno
Email : cloudzraven@hotmail.com
At Virginia Tech around 9:30am, April 16 2007, Emily Hilscher walked content into her German Class. Little did she know it was going to be the last thing she did in her life—as she became the first victim of Cho-Seung-Hui—a crazed madman who used two handguns bought from a nearby firearms store, Roanoke Firearms, under Virginia law, to brutally and without conviction end the lives of 32 innocent people. I watched this on the news, thinking, not only that America had unsuitable gun laws, but that Australia’s Gun Law Reforms had a mass impact in Australian societies—but heck, why didn’t America follow suit??
Guns have caused much bloodshed.
America’s culture was where guns and violence increasingly have become a part of life. Did this kind of culture not have a profound effect on Cho-Seung-Hui? According to Jeffrey A. Roth’s Firearm and Violence, guns make violence easier to commit, as they make it simple to kill or injure a person. Cho had problems— he would become more depressed and his life would become twisted—inside he started changing into an atrocious, cruel monster. He started despising everyone—Cho became ‘delusional’, and when he bought a semi-auto 0.9mm Glock and a Walther P22, his transformation was complete and he became the madman every American knows today.
In America, the only thing stopping you from getting a gun is if you committed a felony. Other than that, buy a gun and 80 rounds of bullets and no-one asks a question. Do these people know that 60% of all murder victims in the US, about 12000 people in 1989 (latest year for data from Dr. Roth’s study) were killed with firearms and that firearms attack injure, leaving some permanently disabled, a good 70000 more victims? Well, evidently America didn’t know or want strict gun laws, because they didn’t change the slightest on any of their current gun “laws”.
Many American’s don’t want gun laws because of their “freedom”. Obviously, typical gun-pro ideas of “freedom” were much more valuable than the lives of gun victims. What is freedom, anyway? Just because people have guns, people have freedom? Not everyone has the same values for freedom, but America’s typical, ideal ‘freedom’ is to have the ability to protect yourself with a gun—a weapon with an incredibly high fatality rate.
Unlike one of Australia’s biggest mass shootings, where at Port Arthur Martin Bryant killed 35 innocents and seriously injured 18 by a gun openly advertised and sold by law abiding fire-arm dealers as an “assault weapon”, America did not have a gun reform. Before Australia’s gun reforms and a decade up to and including Port Arthur, Australia experienced 11 mass shootings where 100 died and 52 were wounded. After 10 years of the gun reforms, not even one mass shooting has occurred. For this reason, Australia is a safer place—as finally, in 2002-2003, Australia’s rate of 0.17 gun-related homicides was one-fifteenth that of the US—an incredible difference.
American Gun Lobby leaders want us to believe that psychiatrically disturbed people are the main cause of the problems. In a book by Crook and Harding: “Gun Massacres in Australia”, there are 32 random killings examined in the book—and the evidence in the book indicates how inaccurate the information upheld by the Gun Lobby leaders are. The evidence states that only 4 of the 32 killers had a criminal conviction, and there were only three who had recognised psychiatric problems!
Before the gun reforms and in the eleven years between January 1987 and January 1998, Australia experienced about three horrible gun massacres per year, and on average, four people died in each of those massacres. There is only one other western nation to experience such a massacre rate—take a guess—it’s America!
Then why do American Gun Lobby leaders want American gun availability replicated in Australia? What stops an irrational, fury-filled person who bears an astronomical grudge on someone, blowing their victims heads off with a gun? The typical answer of gun pro Americans: another gun to defend yourself with. What would happen if both parties had no guns?? Michael Moore, “Bowling for Columbine” says, “Why don’t you use Gandhi’s way? He didn’t have a gun, and he defeated the British Empire.”
In the end, even though guns make it easy to defend yourselves—at a bitterly high price of even more innocent lives—they make it a cinch for an irrational person to kill, injure or threaten. It makes me think, if the statistics confirm that guns are causing more bad than good, why doesn’t the United States follow suit in Australia’s gun reforms? Or are the Lobby Leaders just in complete denial? All America’s doing is inevitably walking on the road that will cause, sooner or later, the devastating effects of another mass shooting.
Email : cloudzraven@hotmail.com
At Virginia Tech around 9:30am, April 16 2007, Emily Hilscher walked content into her German Class. Little did she know it was going to be the last thing she did in her life—as she became the first victim of Cho-Seung-Hui—a crazed madman who used two handguns bought from a nearby firearms store, Roanoke Firearms, under Virginia law, to brutally and without conviction end the lives of 32 innocent people. I watched this on the news, thinking, not only that America had unsuitable gun laws, but that Australia’s Gun Law Reforms had a mass impact in Australian societies—but heck, why didn’t America follow suit??
Guns have caused much bloodshed.
America’s culture was where guns and violence increasingly have become a part of life. Did this kind of culture not have a profound effect on Cho-Seung-Hui? According to Jeffrey A. Roth’s Firearm and Violence, guns make violence easier to commit, as they make it simple to kill or injure a person. Cho had problems— he would become more depressed and his life would become twisted—inside he started changing into an atrocious, cruel monster. He started despising everyone—Cho became ‘delusional’, and when he bought a semi-auto 0.9mm Glock and a Walther P22, his transformation was complete and he became the madman every American knows today.
In America, the only thing stopping you from getting a gun is if you committed a felony. Other than that, buy a gun and 80 rounds of bullets and no-one asks a question. Do these people know that 60% of all murder victims in the US, about 12000 people in 1989 (latest year for data from Dr. Roth’s study) were killed with firearms and that firearms attack injure, leaving some permanently disabled, a good 70000 more victims? Well, evidently America didn’t know or want strict gun laws, because they didn’t change the slightest on any of their current gun “laws”.
Many American’s don’t want gun laws because of their “freedom”. Obviously, typical gun-pro ideas of “freedom” were much more valuable than the lives of gun victims. What is freedom, anyway? Just because people have guns, people have freedom? Not everyone has the same values for freedom, but America’s typical, ideal ‘freedom’ is to have the ability to protect yourself with a gun—a weapon with an incredibly high fatality rate.
Unlike one of Australia’s biggest mass shootings, where at Port Arthur Martin Bryant killed 35 innocents and seriously injured 18 by a gun openly advertised and sold by law abiding fire-arm dealers as an “assault weapon”, America did not have a gun reform. Before Australia’s gun reforms and a decade up to and including Port Arthur, Australia experienced 11 mass shootings where 100 died and 52 were wounded. After 10 years of the gun reforms, not even one mass shooting has occurred. For this reason, Australia is a safer place—as finally, in 2002-2003, Australia’s rate of 0.17 gun-related homicides was one-fifteenth that of the US—an incredible difference.
American Gun Lobby leaders want us to believe that psychiatrically disturbed people are the main cause of the problems. In a book by Crook and Harding: “Gun Massacres in Australia”, there are 32 random killings examined in the book—and the evidence in the book indicates how inaccurate the information upheld by the Gun Lobby leaders are. The evidence states that only 4 of the 32 killers had a criminal conviction, and there were only three who had recognised psychiatric problems!
Before the gun reforms and in the eleven years between January 1987 and January 1998, Australia experienced about three horrible gun massacres per year, and on average, four people died in each of those massacres. There is only one other western nation to experience such a massacre rate—take a guess—it’s America!
Then why do American Gun Lobby leaders want American gun availability replicated in Australia? What stops an irrational, fury-filled person who bears an astronomical grudge on someone, blowing their victims heads off with a gun? The typical answer of gun pro Americans: another gun to defend yourself with. What would happen if both parties had no guns?? Michael Moore, “Bowling for Columbine” says, “Why don’t you use Gandhi’s way? He didn’t have a gun, and he defeated the British Empire.”
In the end, even though guns make it easy to defend yourselves—at a bitterly high price of even more innocent lives—they make it a cinch for an irrational person to kill, injure or threaten. It makes me think, if the statistics confirm that guns are causing more bad than good, why doesn’t the United States follow suit in Australia’s gun reforms? Or are the Lobby Leaders just in complete denial? All America’s doing is inevitably walking on the road that will cause, sooner or later, the devastating effects of another mass shooting.
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