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Pertama-tama, hiks TT ini harusnya ditulis beberapa pekan kemarin. Tapi qadarullah, salahku juga, aku ga nulis. Jadi SSS NAK Indonesia awal Desember kemarin tuh agak sedikit beda, karena yang dibahas video tanpa subtitle.

*semoga gak salah nampilin video. Judulnya pakai Nightly Reminder May dan tanggalnya. Seingetku 29.

Yang mau baca english transcriptnya bisa buka link ini.

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Nabi Ayyub 'alaihi salam berdoa begini, "Inni massaniyadh dhurru wa anta arhamurrahimin" 

(۞ وَأَيُّوبَ إِذْ نَادَىٰ رَبَّهُۥٓ أَنِّى مَسَّنِىَ ٱلضُّرُّ وَأَنتَ أَرْحَمُ ٱلرَّٰحِمِينَ)

Sebelum bahas ke ayatnya, ustadz Nouman terlebih dahulu memberitahu kita keunikan letak ayat ini. Ayat tentang Nabi Ayub ini terletak setelah ayat tentang Nabi Sulaiman. Dua gambaran kisah yang begitu kontras bukan. Nabi Sulaiman 'alaihi salam adalah nabi yang Allah berikan banyak kekuasaan. Sedangkan Nabi Ayub adalah nabi yang Allah uji dengan begitu banyak kehilangan dan juga sakit keras yang membuatnya diasingkan. Keduanya adalah Nabi, dan dari keduanya, kita bisa banyak sekali mengambil pelajaran. Salah satunya, bahwa ketika kita sakit pun, itu bisa menjadi ladang amal kita. Bahwa ujian setiap orang berbeda, dan bahwa dalam dua keadaan yang bertolak belakang tersebut, terdapat rahmat dariNya. 

Ustadz Nouman juga menekankan tentang kondisi psikologis seseorang yang sakit. Saat sakit, kita tidak bisa melakukan hal normal yang bisa dilakukan saat kita sehat. Dan jika sakitnya parah dan lama, kita mungkin akan didera perasaan "tidak berguna". Dan gak ada manusia, yang mau hidup sebagai seseorang yang tidak berguna, yang cuma jadi "parasit". Setiap manusia ingin keberadaannya memberikan manfaat meski hanya sedikit pada orang lain/lingkungan sekitarnya. Manusia butuh merasa bahwa ia berarti, bahwa keberadaanya, hidupnya, bukanlah sesuatu yang sia-sia.

The first thing to note here is, you know, when somebody gets sick, they're not able to do the normal things that other people are able to do, right? So they're not able to maybe go to work anymore. They're not able to go to college or university or study or continue their studies like they used to be able to study. Maybe they can't even drive anymore. Some basic functions that people do.

As a result of that, a person can start feeling that they're useles, right? That they used to be capable of so many things. And now they're capable of nothing. So they're basically a purposeless existence, you know, for, for a man and a woman, Allah put inside of human beings, this difference than animals, for human beings we don't feel fulfilled, even if there's food on the table, even if everything else is okay, if we're not able to fulfill a purpose or be feel like we're productive and something is inside of us, that's missing.

And so the feeling of not being able to do something because you're sick is a very powerful, negative feeling that can weigh on somebody. And really turned them into a pessimist.

- Nouman Ali Khan 

Ya, seseorang bisa menjadi pesimis saat ia merasa menjadi sosok yang tidak berguna. Dan doa Nabi Ayub mengajarkan kita mindset untuk membantu kita melalui masa-masa berat dalam hidup tanpa menjadi seorang pesimis dengan doa ini.

Nabi Ayub memandang sebuah dhurr dengan lensa pengecil. Ia menggunakan kata 'mass' yang artinya slightly touch. 

The word he's using is saying, "I have barely been touched by harm", just strange language. Cause he's basically paralyzed. He should be saying harm has flooded me. It whipped me. It beat me. You know, barabaniyadh-dhurr, you know, qatananiyadh-dhurr, ahlakaniyadh-dhurr, the harm has destroyed me. Harm has killed me. Harm has ruined me. No, no, no harm has barely touched me.

In this, there's a realization from him, that we don't, we don't acknowledge. And that is as hard as my life can be. As hard as things can be, there is much greater harm that Allah prevents from me. And compared to the harm that Allah has prevented from me, this is just barely a touch. Whatever I'm going through in life. This is actually just a touch of what actual harms there can be.

- Nouman Ali Khan

Yang kedua, Nabi Ayub mengenal Allah. Wa anta arhamurrahimin. Dua asma Allah yang ini begitu familiar bagi kita. Tapi seringkali kita lupa maknanya. Di lecture lain, ustadz Nouman menjelaskan bahwa rahim memiliki asal kata yang sama dengan Arrahman dan Arrahim. Bentuk arrahman dan arrahim Allah itu sifatnya 

Seperti janin, dilingkupi kasih sayang sang ibu, diberi asupan makanan, rasa hangat, dan tidak tahu sama sekali hal-hal buruk di luar rahim. Begitu pula kasih sayang Allah. Kita tidak tahu, bagaimana Allah tidak pernah putus memberikan kasih sayangnya, perlindungan dari bahaya yang tidak kita ketahui. Kita tidak tahu, bagaimana Allah menurunkan air hujan, untuk menumbuhkan tanaman, yang kelak dari tanaman itu, kita akan bisa makan. Dan begitu banyak nikmat lainnya, yang gak akan bisa kita sebut satu per satu.

Dan yang terakhir, Nabi Ayub tahu, bahwa sebuah dhurr itu baru benar-benar bahaya, saat itu sudah mulai menyentuh (mempengaruhi) keimanan kita.

There's another powerful realization and that is physical wellbeing, financial wellbeing, social wellbeing are all one thing. But spiritual well being, my relationship with Allah, if this sickness got to a point where I started getting cut off from Allah Himself, that will be the worst thing that could ever happen. That's the ultimate harm. And compared to that harm, this is nothing.

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He's also saying, "my inability is starting to hit on me." My incapabilities are starting to mess with me. It's starting to affect me and it's touching on me now. And the massa here is not even referring necessarily to his body. It's now starting to affect my heart. My incapability and my incapacity, my weakness, my flaw, is actually starting to affect my heart. And before it gets any worse, he declared something to Allah.

He says, (وَأَنتَ أَرْحَمُ ٱلرَّٰحِمِينَ)

That's the dua. Actually, in this dua, he asked nothing. He didn't ask for healing. He didn't ask for relief. 

- Nouman Ali Khan

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Satu catatan lagi. Banyak yang mengira doa ini hanya untuk orang yang sedang sakit. Tapi kata dhurr mencakup lebih dari itu.

He said (أَنِّى مَسَّنِىَ ٱلضُّرُّ)

Harm, difficulty. Some kind of calamity has touched me and every one of us is going through some difficulty in life. We're going through some challenges in life. And dhurr can incorporate all of them. Both can incorporate all.

Terakhir, ustadz Nouman mengingatkan bagaimana doa ini istimewa, karena Allah menyebutkan di ayat selanjutnya. Bahwa ini adalah pengingat untuk 'abidin.

And so at the end of this dua, when Allah said, (وَذِكْرَىٰ لِلْعَـٰبِدِينَ). He's talking about all those who will ever worship allah, they should have this in particular, this attitude in particular.

I remind you again, Suratul Anbiya in the eighties. This is 83 and 84. Just remember one thing. Usually when Allah tells us a dua of other prophets, He doesn't at the end say, "and by the way, in this dua, there's a special reminder for everyone". We automatically know it's a special reminder for everyone.

When Ibrahim's dua is there, at the end of that, Allah doesn't say, "and by the way, that's for you also"

When he taught us the dua of Musa 'alaihi salam, at the end, He didn't say, "by the way, that's also, it's not just a story, it's for you also." It's understood.

But when Allah goes out of his way to say (وَذِكْرَىٰ لِلْعَـٰبِدِينَ), that means you better not miss this one. This is new, this is a really important one. This is like extraordinary emphasis placed on its relevance on you and me by Allah mentioning (وَذِكْرَىٰ لِلْعَـٰبِدِينَ). And so, we should take extra care to make, to incorporate this dua into our life.

- Nouman Ali Khan

Meminjam penutup yang sama dari video ini. Allahummaj'alna minal 'abidin wadzakirin. Barakallahuli walakum fil quranil hakim, wa nafa'ni wa iyyakum bil ayati wa dzikril hakim. Wassalamu'alaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh.

Wallahua'lam bishowab.

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PS: Tahun ini pengen banget nulis MFA2022 dengan ayat ini. Tapi baru bisa nulis ini. Semoga beneran bisa submit tulisan untuk MFA (My Favorite Ayat) -- program bulan Ramadan Komunitas NAK Indonesia, share tulisan tentang ayat favorit kita.