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maulidur rasul S.A.W

MENYELUSURI sirah Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. selama 63 tahun hayat baginda, kita dapati junjungan mulia ini telah menjejaki beberapa kota sama ada atas tujuan dakwah, hijrah, perjalanan mukjizat mahupun perniagaan.
Sempena sambutan Maulidur Rasul tahun ini, barangkali menjadi sesuatu yang menarik andai kita dapat mengimbas kembali kehidupan baginda bukan sahaja dari sudut keperibadiannya, bahkan juga mengekori jejak perjalanannya.
Mengenali lebih dekat kota-kota yang pernah baginda jejaki pastinya akan menambahkan penghayatan kita dalam mendalami sejarah hidup baginda.
Kota pertama yang begitu sinonim dengan Nabi Muhammad s.a.w tentulah kota kelahirannya iaitu Mekah. Nabi Muhammad telah diputerakan di Mekah, Arab Saudi pada hari Isnin, 12 Rabiulawal bersamaan 20 April 571 Masihi.
Kelahiran putera kepada Abdullah dan Aminah ini membawa lentera ke seluruh pelosok tanah haram dan diriwayatkan penduduk Mekah, mereka melihat sinaran cahaya yang sungguh menghairankan dan menggirangkan saat baginda dilahirkan. Kala itu, api-api yang disembah kaum Majusi turut terpadam.
Dengan kelahiran junjungan mulia itu, bertambah terkenal kota Mekah yang berpasir dan berdebu.
Kini, kota Mekah, tempat terbinanya Kaabah menjadi tumpuan umat Islam seluruh dunia bagi menunaikan ibadat haji, Rukun Islam kelima. Mekah atau Makkah al-Mukarramah terletak kira-kira 73 kilometer (km) dari timur Jeddah, ibu kota Arab Saudi di ketinggian 277 meter (910 kaki) dari paras laut.
Bandar raya ini terletak di antara gunung-ganang yang telah ditakrifkan sebagai pengembangan kontemporari bandar raya itu. Ia berpusat di sekitar Masjid al-Haram.
Dianggarkan sejumlah 3.5 juta umat Islam membanjiri tanah suci Mekah khususnya pada bulan Zulhijjah setiap tahun ketika musim haji.
Kota kedua yang dijejaki Nabi Muhammad s.a.w ialah Bosra di Syam (kini, Syria) ketika mengikuti bapa saudaranya, Abu Talib. Ketika itu, baginda berusia 12 tahun. Abu Talib yang amat menyayangi Nabi Muhammad merupakan penjaga baginda setelah bapa, ibu dan datuknya, Abdul Mutalib wafat.
Semasa pemergian baginda ke kota itulah, sifat kenabian Nabi Muhammad s.a.w berjaya dikesan oleh seorang pendeta Nasrani, Bahira. Antaranya, Bahira menyaksikan kelompok awan yang menaungi rombongan perniagaan Abu Talib ketika perjalanan dan ia tidak pernah berlaku sebelum ini. Bahira adalah insan pertama yang meminta agar Abu Talib benar-benar menjaga Nabi Muhammad s.a.w kerana jika diketahui kewujudan baginda, pasti orang Yahudi akan menghapuskannya.
Bosra kini merupakan satu bandar bersejarah mengandungi kota-kota era Rom, Byzantine dan Islam yang telah musnah. Ia telah diiktiraf sebagai kawasan warisan dunia oleh Pertubuhan Pendidikan Sains dan Kebudayaan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu (UNESCO).

Nabi Muhammad s.a.w direkodkan pernah ke Syam sekali lagi ketika membantu memperdagangkan barangan hartawan wanita, Siti Khadijah Khuwailid yang kemudiannya menjadi isteri baginda. Siti Khadijah terpikat dengan keluhuran akhlak dan sifat amanah yang dimiliki baginda yang terkenal dengan jolokan al-Amin dalam kalangan masyarakat Arab Quraisy.
Setelah diangkat menjadi Rasul ketika berusia 40 tahun, Nabi Muhammad s.a.w mula menyebarkan dakwah. Antara kota yang pernah dijejaki Rasulullah untuk berdakwah ialah Ta'if yang merupakan sebuah bandar dalam negara Arab Saudi dan terletak kira-kira 97 km dari kota Mekah.
Nabi Muhammad s.a.w memilih kota itu kerana menyangkakan kota subur itu lebih mudah menerima Islam setelah baginda menerima tentangan hebat daripada kaum musyrikin Mekah.
Namun kedatangan baginda telah diejek dan dihina oleh penduduk Ta'if dengan balingan batu sehingga tubuhnya berdarah. Keadaan itu menyebabkan malaikat Jibril turun dan bertanyakan kepada Nabi Muhammad s.a.w, adakah baginda mahu malaikat menghancurkan kota itu dengan menghempapkan gunung. Namun Nabi Muhammad s.a.w menolak dan sekadar berdoa moga-moga Ta'if melahirkan zuriat yang menyembah Allah yang Esa. Doa baginda dimakbulkan apabila kota Ta'if kemudiannya menerima Islam.
Begitulah terpujinya akhlak Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. Biar seteruk mana tentangan yang diterima, baginda tidak menyimpan dendam dan tidak akan membalas perbuatan yang jahat dengan kejahatan.
Ta'if kini merupakan satu daerah yang cukup terkenal dengan tanaman anggur dan madu. Padang pasirnya juga ditumbuhi kaktus. Berpopulasi penduduk 521,273 orang, majoriti penduduknya adalah Islam bermazhab Sunni.
Selain itu, Nabi Muhammad s.a.w juga menjejaki masjid al-Aqsa di kota Baitulmuqaddis (Jerusalem) di Palestin menerusi satu perjalanan mukjizat yang dinamakan Isra' Mikraj. Masjid al-Aqsa disebutkan dalam al-Quran sebagai tempat transit baginda sebelum dimikraj ke langit dalam peristiwa yang berlaku pada 27 Rejab 620 Masihi.
Kini, Baitulmuqaddis adalah sebuah kota yang kaya dengan tamadun dan budaya. Kota lama Baitulmuqaddis (juga dikenali sebagai Baitulmuqaddis Timur) dikelilingi dengan tembok yang dibina sejak kurun ke-15 lagi. Kota lama ini terbahagi kepada empat kawasan iaitu Islam, Kristian, Yahudi dan Armenia.
Sehingga hari ini, status semasa kota itu masih menjadi konflik dan terus dipertikaikan.
Sebelum berhijrah ke Madinah, Nabi Muhammad s.a.w meminta sebahagian pengikutnya berhijrah ke Habsyah (kini Euthopia) untuk mendapatkan perlindungan rajanya, Raja Najasyi yang diketahui tidak berlaku zalim. Najasyi mengalu-alukan ketibaan mereka dan tidak membenarkan mereka diserah kepada penguasa di Mekah.


Walaupun Nabi Muhammad s.a.w tidak turut serta dalam hijrah itu, namun peristiwa penghijrahan sekumpulan umat Islam Mekah ke Habsyah tetap menjadi sejarah.
Peristiwa hijrah ke kota Madinah atau nama asalnya, Yathrib pula berlaku pada 622 Masihi. Ketika itulah bermulanya permulaan kalendar hijrah. Penghijrahan ini berlaku bukan kerana umat Islam takut ancaman puak Quraish Mekah tetapi kerana jemputan penduduk Madinah sendiri.
Selepas tiba di Madinah, Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. merangka sebuah perlembagaan bagi menyatupadukan penduduk Madinah. Perlembagaan itu dipersetujui oleh semua penduduk Madinah dan dikenali sebagai Piagam Madinah.
Di Madinahlah terletaknya masjid pertama dalam Islam iaitu Masjid Quba'. Di kota itu jugalah terletaknya Masjid an-Nabawi yang mana terdapat makam Nabi Muhammad s.a.w, kawasan yang dibina di atas tapak rumah baginda.
Nabi Muhammad s.a.w wafat di Madinah pada tahun 632 Masihi.

Ibn Kathir

His name was :Ismail ibn Kathir (Arabic: ابن كثير‎) (1301–1373) was an Islamic scholar and renowned commentator on the Qur'an.

His full name is Abu Al-Fida, 'Imad Ad-Din Isma'il bin 'Umar bin Kathir Al-Qurashi Al-Busrawi. He was born in 1301 in Busra, Syria (hence Al-Busrawi). He was taught by Shaikh ul-Islam Ibn Taymiyya in Damascus, Syria and Abu al-Hajjaj Al-Mizzi, (d. 1373), Fiqh with Ibn Al Firkah, Hadith with ‘Isa bin Al-Mutim, Ahmed bin Abi-Talib (Ibn Ash-Shahnah) (died in 730AH), Ibn Al-Hajjar (died in 730AH), the Hadith narrator of Ash-Sham (modern day Syria and surrounding areas), Baha Ad-Din Al-Qasim bin Muzaffar bin ‘Asakir (died in 723AH), Ibn Ash-Shirazi, Ishaq bin Yahya Al-Ammuddi, aka ;Afif Ad-Din, the Zahriyyah Shaykh (died in 725AH), and Muhammad bin Zarrad , [1].

Upon completion of his studies he obtained his first official appointment in 1341, when he joined an inquisitorial commission formed to determine certain questions of heresy. Thereafter he received various semi-official appointments, culminating in June/July 1366 with a professorial position at the Great Mosque of Damascus. Ibn Kathir wrote a famous commentary on the Qur'an named Tafsir ibn Kathir which linked certain Hadith, or sayings of Muhammad, and sayings of the sahaba to verses of the Qur'an, in explanation. Tafsir Ibn Kathir is famous all over the Muslim world and among Muslims in the Western world, and is one of the most widely used explanations of the Qu'ran today.

Ibn Kathir was renowned for his great memory regarding the sayings of Muhammad and the entire Qur'an. Ibn Kathir is known as a qadi, a master scholar of history, and a mufassir (Qur'an commentator). Ibn Kathir saw himself as a Shafi scholar. This is indicated by two of his books, one of which was Tabaqaat ah-Shafai'ah, or The Categories of the Followers of Imam Shafi.

In later life, he became blind. He attributes his blindness to working late at night on the Musnad of Ahmad Ibn Hanbal in an attempt to rearrange it topically rather than by narrator.

Ibn Kathir died in February 1373 in Damascus.

Asbab al-nuzul

something i would like to share with you. its about quran and the knowledge of it.

on this entree i start with:-

1. Asbab al-nuzul:

Asbāb al-nuzūl اسباب النزول, an Arabic term meaning "occasions/circumstances of revelation", is a secondary genre of Qur'ānic exegesis (tafsir) directed at establishing the context in which specific verses of the Qur'ān were revealed. Though of some use in reconstructing the Qur'ān's historicity, asbāb is by nature an exegetical rather than a historiographical genre, and as such usually associates the verses it explicates with general situations rather than specific events.

Asbāb is the plural of the Arabic word sabab, which means 'cause', 'reason', or 'occasion', and nuzūl is the verbal noun of the verb root nzl, literally meaning to descend or to send down, and thus (metaphorically) to reveal, referring Allah sending down a revelation to his prophets. Though technical terms within Qur'ānic exegesis often have their origins in the book itself (e.g. naskh), sabab/asbāb does not: Despite the appearance of the stem sbb over 11 times in the Qur'ān (Q.2:166, , Q.18:84, Q.18:85 Q.18:89, Q.22:15, Q.38:10, Q.40:36-37), "none of the verses seem the least bit connected to a statement concerning revelatory procedure".[1]

Within exegetical literature, the use of sabab in a technical sense did not occur until relatively late: the material which would be later culled by asbāb writers used alternate phraseologies to introduce their reports, such as al-āya nazalat fī hādhā- "the verse was revealed about such and such"- or fa-anzala allāh- "so God revealed/sent down". The first sustained use of the word occurs in the tafsir of al-Tabarī and the naskh work of al-Nahhās (d. 950), where it can be seen solidifying into its later technical sense.
No asbāb works from earlier than the 11th Century are known, and it is unlikely that this genre of exegetical literature existed before then. Though there is a section titled Nuzūl al-Qur'ān in Ibn al-Nadīm's 10th Century bibliographical catalog Kitāb al-Fihrist (including one Nuzūl al-Qur'ān attributed to the semi-legendary Ibn 'Abbās as transmitted through 'Ikrima), there is no evidence to believe that most of these works ever existed, or that their ambiguous titles signify texts within the asbāb al-nuzūl genre. In Rippin's detailed examination of pre-18th Century exegetical literature, only the following four works qualify as belonging to the asbāb genre:

* Kitāb asbāb al-nuzūl (Book of occasions of revelation) by al-Wāhidī (d. 1075). The first instance of the asbāb genre and still among the most popular. It examines verses from a total of 83 different suras, with the majority of asbāb as traditional hadith reports with isnad chains of transmission.

* Asbāb al-nuzūl wa qisas al-furqāniyya by Muhammad ibn As'ad al-'Irāqī (d. 1171). Contains sabab reports mixed with qisas al-anbiyā (stories of the prophets) material. The former seem independent of al-Wāhidī's compilation and are isnad-less. Exists in two manuscripts copies, one at the Chester Beatty Library (Manuscript 5199).

* A manuscript (Berlin Staatsbibliothek, Catalog no. 3578). ascribed to al-Ja'barī, probably pseudepigraphicaly. Consists of sabab and naskh material interspersed, with the former containing very abbreviated isnads where only the first authority is listed. According to its final page this manuscript was written in 1309.

* Lubāb al-nuqūl fīq asbāb al-nuzūl by al-Suyūtī (d. 1505). A re-working of al-Wāhidī's Kitāb asbāb al-nuzūl, covering 102 suras in total. Cites a broad range of hadith, Sunnah, and tafsir material, with isnads containing only the last authority. A very popular instance of the genre, having gone through many printings and currently available within Tafsīr al-Jalālayn (Tafsīr of the Two Jalāls) [Suyūtī and Jalāl al-Dīn al-Mahallī].

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbab_al-nuzul

getting older

you have your own will and desire but you have no strength..you got money and luxury but u cant buy happiness..time is ticking down but you let it go..blow by the wind..
you have someone beside you but there is no love in between..

But we have faith that we must believe..He give us everything that we need..
He look upon us while we asleep..but we just keep ignore Him...

we are getting older and it`s keep running..we didn`t realize what we had been through..for all the years had pass..where are we now..where are we heading to?

for all the sacrifices that we did, what will we get?

keep me wonder and ponder and still hope for the best...

May the Almighty do the rest...

Winter Holiday~

Rehlah 2009 was to Luxor and Hurgada.Luxor (in Arabic: الأقصر al-Uqṣur) is a city in Upper (southern) Egypt and the capital of Luxor Governorate. Its population numbers 376,022 (1999 survey), and its area is about 416 square kilometres (161 sq mi) [1]. As the site of the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes, Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open air museum", the ruins of the temple complexes at Karnak and Luxor standing within the modern city. Immediately opposite, across the Nile River, lie the monuments, temples and tombs on the West Bank Necropolis, which include the Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens.

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Hurghada (ar.: Al Ghardaqah, الغردقة) is a city in the Port Said Governorate of Egypt. It is a tourist center located on the Red Sea coast.

The city was founded in the early 20th century, and since the 1980s has been continually enlarged by Egyptian and foreign investors to become the leading seashore resort on the Red Sea. Holiday villages and hotels provide aquatic sport facilities for sailboarders, yachtsmen, scuba divers and snorkelers. Hurghada stretches for about 36 kilometres (22 mi) along the seashore, and it does not reach far into the surrounding desert.

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3 days 2 nite, it is very chip compare to SGD..relaxing and most importantly i enjoyed my trip to those places.

stay tune...

salam... :)

i am just addicted to read,on the Cairo book fair i did buy some books, English and Arabic. i came across this one book store and found out this one very interesting to me..THE IDEAL MUSLIM


i had completed reading it and honestly its very recommendable. its for those who want to be a good servant to GOD Almighty. quoted from the Holy Quran and ahadeeth prophet Muhammad (PBUH), from the story of the Sahabah and some explanation from the Islamic scholars. Trust me, its will makes you feel motivated and firmly realize that as a muslim , we must follow what had our prophet Muhammad (PBUH) done in His life time.

you should try to read it.