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Friday, March 16, 2018

Mata'

Bismillah.

#buku

Menulis judulnya, aku jadi teringat Mata' Salman. Majelis Ta'lim Salman, sebuah unit yang mungkin membersamainya singkat, tapi kenangan di dalamnya begitu banyak. Belajar banyak dari aktif di sana.

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Di sini, saya ingin membahas tentang mata' dalam bahasa arab. Sekedar ingin menuliskan sedikit yang aku pelajari dari bab Putting Life in Perspective di buku Revive Your Heart-nya Nouman Ali Khan.


Mata' adalah sesuatu yang bisa kita manfaatkan namun tidak untuk dinikmati. Mata' juga digunakan untuk menunjukkan bahwa sesuatu sudah sampai puncak kematangan (mature enough), siap untuk digunakan. Seperti tali yang sudah dipilin dan siap digunakan.

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"So, Allah is saying whatever experience happened to you, part of the reason for giving you these experiences is they're going to mature you. This is the part of your growing. The good things and the bad things that happen to you and me are part of us growing.

Part of our growth is sometimes things that we are proud and sometimes they are things that we're not proud of. Things that we've done, we look back and we say, 'I'm glad we've done those things' and there are things we look back and we say, 'I wish I never did those things'. Well actually that was part of your mata'; it was part of your growth and maturation process.

Even the regret that you feel looking back, that regret is a gift from Allah. That regret alone might save you. That might be the reason for you and me to enter jannah."
- Nouman Ali Khan, Revive Your Heart
Dibawah paragraf tersebut, ustadz Nouman juga menuliskan bagaimana kisah pemilik kebun di Surat Al Kahfi. *qadarullah banget hari ini hari jumat ^^

Jadi... pemilik kebun, yang pada akhirnya kehilangan kebunnya, berkata, ya laytani lam ushrik bi-rabbi ahada. Pemilik kebun tersebut menyesal karena telah menyekutukan Allah.

Menurut ustadz Nouman, kisah tersebut happy ending (: Kenapa? Karena penyesalan tersebut, pemilik kebun sekarang kembali pada Allah (tidak lagi menyekutukan Allah).

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Satu lagi, kutipan selanjutnya yang seolah mengingatkanku... kalau kita memahami mata', harusnya kita bisa menjadi seseorang yang kuat. Kalau kata anak-anak EP, Hidup itu (H)Arus Kuat hehe.
Looking back, for a lot of people when they look back at their life, their past experiences, their failures and their tragedies; they debilitate them and they are not able to do anything in their future. But for people who understand what mata' is, what this world is for, they look at their past experiences and it makes them stronger. That Allah put me through that must mean I'm stronger than this and maybe I can help a million other people; help them go through these experiences and see them in the way that they're supposed to be seen. This would be looking at one's own experiences as mata'.
- Nouman Ali Khan
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Semoga Allah mudahkan kita belajar memahami kalam-Nya, kemudian dari sana... kita belajar untuk mengamalkannya di kehidupan kita. Aamiin.

Semoga kita bisa termasuk orang-orang yang membuktikan: bagaimana sebuah bacaan tidak hanya bacaan, namun bisa mengubah hidup manusia. Al Quranul Karim ^^

Wallahu'lam.

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