Source: CNN
CNN November 26, 2009 8:26 a.m. EST

The Iraqi military displays a car bomb built to be triggered by a cell phone in Baghdad on Wednesday.

Would you all agree with me that war is an ugly, but sometimes necessary thing? No SANE person ever wants to go to war. But when diplomacy fails and our national well being, safety, and security are at stake military action is sometimes necessary. When military action can no longer be avoided, for it to be truly effective it must be conducted violently and with overwhelming force to quickly defeat the enemy and make them KNOW that further resistance is futile. Contrary to what many opponents of any war believe, fewer people on both sides die if you hold to these principals. When you try to make war “nice,” as our spineless yellow bellied politicians have done, it turns into a slow war of attrition, a war of a thousand cuts. The enemy that threatened you is never defeated and will ALWAYS be a threat until they are defeated. They gain strength day after day and kill more and more of your people a few at a time.

With regard to Iraq, Afghanistan, or any other conflict in which our military is employed, just about every conservative I know, be they politician, talk show host, fellow soldier, sailor, Marine or airman, have universally held the opinion “let us win, or bring us home.” That includes me. When we went into Iraq and Afghanistan, there was a genuine military purpose and legitimate national security goal. Once the initial military victories on the ground had faded into history, the politicians got involved and began to tear down the success of our military. Especially those liberal politicians who didn’t want us to go to Iraq or Afghanistan in the first place, but who would not speak out because the POLLS said speaking out against the actions wasn’t popular. Cowards.

As each day passes, the liberals withdraw more and more support from our military men and women who are on the front lines risking and sacrificing their lives for America. The withhold money, new weapons, and reinforcements. They attack and belittle the military in the press. The two most notable examples of this are senator Harry Reid of Nevada who said the war in Iraq was lost before the surge ever began, and congressman Jack Murtha (spit) of Pennsylvania who with no proof or evidence came out publicly and loudly to proclaim that U.S. Marines in Haditha, Iraq were murderers and baby killers. Of course they were proven innocent, but Murtha (spit) couldn’t and still hasn’t found a microphone to say he was wrong, or that he is sorry for what he said. He calls himself a former Marine, but I assure you any REAL Marine would rather disembowel himself than shake this traitors hand.

Now we have the Obama administration about to prosecute three Navy SEALs for capturing a terrorist on the field of battle ALIVE. Keep in mind that usually SEALs don’t CAPTURE anyone. They kill them. Why are they being prosecuted? Because the terrorist, the mastermind of the abduction, torture, execution, and burning of four Blackwater agents whose bodies were then hung from a bridge, this scumbag got a bloody lip. I’m sure he wasn’t read his Miranda rights either. He should have died of acute lead poisoning. Navy “leadership,” in politically correct lock step with Obama and the liberals, tried to give these SEALs non-judicial punishment which would still effectively end their careers. Seeing the absurdity of this they exercised their option and demanded a trial by Courts Martial. God bless them.

Yesterday I heard several people who had been ardent supporters of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan say it was time to bring our troops home. Radio hosts Roger Hedgecock and Glenn Beck were two of the more notable. When our Commander-in-Chief (in this case the campaigner-in-chief) and the rest of our national command structure no longer support our military in a time of war, when they will throw our own soldiers under the bus, when they WILL NOT ALLOW OUR MILITARY TO WIN, it is time to bring them home. The lives of a million of those dirt bag, swine excrement, satanic terrorists is not worth the life of even one single American.

Bring them home. Now.
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Navy SEALs Face Assault Charges for Capturing Most-Wanted Terrorist

Wednesday, November 25, 2009
By Rowan Scarborough

Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And three of the SEALs who captured him are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.

The three, all members of the Navy’s elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral’s mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial.

Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named “Objective Amber,” told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.

Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.

Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class (SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.

Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction of performance of duty and making a false official statement.

Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an additional charge of impediment of an investigation.

Neal Puckett, an attorney representing McCabe, told Fox News the SEALs are being charged for allegedly giving the detainee a “punch in the gut.”

“I don’t know how they’re going to bring this detainee to the United States and give us our constitutional right to confrontation in the courtroom,” Puckett said. “But again, we have terrorists getting their constitutional rights in New York City, but I suspect that they’re going to deny these SEALs their right to confrontation in a military courtroom in Virginia.”

The three SEALs will be arraigned separately on Dec. 7. Another three SEALs — two officers and an enlisted sailor — have been identified by investigators as witnesses but have not been charged.

FoxNews.com obtained the official handwritten statement from one of the three witnesses given on Sept. 3, hours after Abed was captured and still being held at the SEAL base at Camp Baharia. He was later taken to a cell in the U.S.-operated Green Zone in Baghdad.

The SEAL told investigators he had showered after the mission, gone to the kitchen and then decided to look in on the detainee.

“I gave the detainee a glance over and then left,” the SEAL wrote. “I did not notice anything wrong with the detainee and he appeared in good health.”

Lt. Col. Holly Silkman, spokeswoman for the special operations component of U.S. Central Command, confirmed Tuesday to FoxNews.com that three SEALs have been charged in connection with the capture of a detainee. She said their court martial is scheduled for January.

United States Central Command declined to discuss the detainee, but a legal source told FoxNews.com that the detainee was turned over to Iraqi authorities, to whom he made the abuse complaints. He was then returned to American custody. The SEAL leader reported the charge up the chain of command, and an investigation ensued.

The source said intelligence briefings provided to the SEALs stated that “Objective Amber” planned the 2004 Fallujah ambush, and “they had been tracking this guy for some time.”

The Fallujah atrocity came to symbolize the brutality of the enemy in Iraq and the degree to which a homegrown insurgency was extending its grip over Iraq.

The four Blackwater agents were transporting supplies for a catering company when they were ambushed and killed by gunfire and grenades. Insurgents burned the bodies and dragged them through the city. They hanged two of the bodies on a bridge over the Euphrates River for the world press to photograph.

Intelligence sources identified Abed as the ringleader, but he had evaded capture until September.

The military is sensitive to charges of detainee abuse highlighted in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The Navy charged four SEALs with abuse in 2004 in connection with detainee treatment.

Chi  crede al mito che i paesi occidentali vanno in giro per il mondo ad esportare la democrazia nei paesi sottosviluppati farà bene a leggere la storia di una donna delle pulizie irachena che ha accusato manager britannici della società texana Kbr di averle usato violenza all’interno della sede diplomatica del Regno Unito a Baghdad.
Lavicenda si svolge fra il 2006 e gli inizi del 2007 e ha come protagonisti la donna delle pulizie e alcuni funzionari di nazionalità britannica alle dipendenze della Kbr, una compagnia statunitense incaricata di gestire il personale locale operativo all’interno dell’edificio diplomatico a Baghdad. Gestione del personale che, secondo quanto denunciato da Asah, madre di cinque figli, si è ben presto trasformata in un vero e proprio abuso dello stesso. In  un primo momento un contractor britannico offrì ad Asah un raddoppio di stipendio in cambio di una notte di sesso. Dopo aver incassato il netto rifiuto della donna l’affaire passò da proposta di promozione a riduzione della paga e, successivamente, a licenziamento immotivato. Lo stato maggiore dell’azienda, preferì confermare il licenziamento della donna e procedere con quello di due cuochi, sempre iracheni, che in qualità di testimoni accreditarono l’intera versione.

 Ad un anno e mezzo di distanza dagli ultimi sviluppi alla donna è stato riconosciuto il diritto di adire le vie legali contro il governo di Sua Maestà britannica, reo di aver permesso che il Fco fallisse nel suo compito di proteggere i diritti della donna. Lo scorso agosto Tessa Gregory, suo rappresentante legale, si è recata a Beirut per raccogliere una testimonianza firmata dei tre ex dipendenti. “É venuto da dietro e mi ha spinto con violenza sul letto – ha raccontato Asah -. Ho lottato e sono riuscita ad alzarmi dal letto. L’ho spinto via. Mentre stavo scappando mi ha afferrato per la camicia, ma sono riuscita a liberarmi e a chiudermi nel bagno”.
La Kbr non è nuova ad episodi del genere. Va ricordata la vicenda di  Jamie Leigh Jones ex dipendente della Kbr. La donna allora diciannovenne accusò sette suoi colleghi di averla drogata e violentata in gruppo il 28 luglio del 2005 a Camp Hope, Baghdad. I suoi legali dichiararono che: “Quando si svegliò la mattina dopo ancora sotto l’effetto della droga, trovò il suo corpo nudo e gravemente ferito, con lacerazioni alla vagina e all’ano, sangue che colava dalla gamba, le sue protesi mammarie rotte e i muscoli pettorali strappati”. Conseguenze penali o civili per gli imputati: nessuna. Ora si aspetta l’udienza che dovrà rendere alla donna “i miei diritti e di riacquistare la mia dignità”.

Excerpted from: Rashahat ‘Ain al-Hayat [Beads of Dew from the Source of Life: Histories of the Khwajagan: The Masters of Wisdom]. Translated by Muhtar Holland. Al-Baz Publishing. P.194-5, 201-2.

“Mawlana Ala’ ad-Din Abizi was also one of Mawlana Sa’d ad-Din Kashghari’s companions. He came from a village called Abiz in the vicinity of Kuhistan. After the death of the venerable Mawalana Sa’d ad-Din, he continued in the service of the venerable Mawlana Jami, who treated him with great care and attention, and likened his character to fresh and pure soil.

…The venerable Shaikh ‘Abd al-Kabir once asked Mawlana Ala’ ad-Din: “When your Shaikh was ill at ease, what did he say to you?” Mawlana replied: “When you come to my side, you collect yourself and remember Allah. Even if you are far away from me, you must not forget, so that you do not fall apart!”

The Shaikh then asked him: “And how did you respond?” He said: “With silence.” The Shaikh said: “That was very inconsiderate of you! You ought to have said: ‘We cannot know Allah, but we do know you!”

According to the author of the Rashahat:

One of the great saints has said: “The disciple sees himself in his own mirror, but he does not see himself in the mirror of his Shaikh.” In Samarqand, I heard the venerable Khwaja ‘Ubaidu ‘llah say: “Since you have not been able to see Allah while I am still alive, what will you do after I have died?” The saying of Shaikh ‘Abd al-Kabir must also be understood in this sense. What the venerable Shaikh sought to convey is not that one cannot recognize and know Allah from the fundamental standpoint, and that spiritual knowledge of the Divine [ma’rifa Ilahiyya] is of little importance. It is rather intended to show the seeker the method of concentration, and to establish him in this practice. The pilot of those who learn by direct experience, the venerable Amir Husain, says in his works: “The seeker must become annihilated [fani] in his concentration on his spiritual guide, so that inner knowledge may be revealed to him from the countenance of his Shaikh.”

If the seeker strives to reach his goal by ways of the Shaikh alone, he will reach his goal… the seeker must therefore remind himself, the one road to Allah’s good pleasure is the good pleasure of the Shaikh, and he must act accordingly The route to arrival at the Truth, and to contact with the Truth, passes through the heart of the Shaikh. In reality, the heart of the Shaikh is the home of Allah…This means that the wisdom contained in the saying of the venerable Shaikh ‘Abd al-Kabir -“We cannot know Allah, but we know you!”- is also related to this subtlety. It is tantamount to saying: “You are the door that leads to Allah! The house is entered through the door!” It shows the seeker the way to his goal.”

Browsing the tweets of celebritydom we found this little treat tweet from Arnold Schwarzenegger in Baghdad:

View him speaking to the Troops on Vidly!

Arnie’s Twitter (1,435,678 followers)

“Look, I am not speaking from myself. I am always in contact with the Spiritual Power Center. The Prophet’s servant Anas Ibn Malik once said the following about his life with the Holy Prophet – and from his description you may know whether our methods resemble his, on whom be Peace, or whether we are following some other way. Anas reported: “I served the Messenger of Allah for ten years, and never once did I hear him object to any of my actions, saying ‘Do this’ when I hadn’t done something I should have done, or ‘Don’t do this’ or ‘Why did you do this?’ when I had done something wrong.”

Now do you understand, or not? This is proof that comes down to us from the Prophet; and just as that tradition is still intact that we may refer to it today, so also the inner spiritual authority passed down from the Prophet to our Grandsheikh and then to us remains intact. That spiritual authority for the guidance of people has come down to me, has been given to me. I am not such a person who appoints himself to be a guide for people – no, rather I have been given authority by those who have authority to give.

Our way is a way of authority and integrity, and a way that is safe for a seeker to follow. Because of the high rank that this Path holds among the various ways, the seeker who wishes to follow this path must abandon himself to the discretion, wisdom and understanding of the Sheikh. Our Grandsheikh often said to me: “O Nazim Effendi, don’t put my words and actions in a scale and weigh them. Don’t say ‘Why is that Sheikh saying such-and such or doing so-and-so’. If you are thinking and evaluating in such a manner you will never be able to derive any benefit at all from your teacher, and we will leave you on your way and go on ours. In order to follow us you must follow without judging or objecting. Only if you can follow in this manner may you come to know anything of our realities.

Why did Allah Almighty tell the story of Moses and Khidr in the Holy Qur’an? What does that story have to tell us about using our minds to judge that is beyond our understanding? What is our position when we think that we know so much whereas we actually know nothing?

Yes, that tale was told so that we might take wisdom from it, not just for amusement, for people to read and enjoy such an entertaining story. It is an undisputable fact that hidden wisdom may be found in the actions of Saints, even if those actions appear to contradict our idea of how things should be done. For your own good you must learn how you can acquire the attributes necessary to go with such people.

As far as the actions of your Sheikh are concerned, don’t try to weigh and evaluate them with your mind, even if you be the Prophet Moses! For if you be a Moses, someone else may be a Khidr, and so despite your station, he may be above you and may be able to teach you. Moses kept weighing Khidr’s actions (Peace be upon them both!) and Khidr kept saying: “Don’t confront me or object to anything I do until I explain its meaning to you.” Finally, when Moses found it too difficult to keep these instructions and objected to the actions of Khidr which were beyond his understanding, Khidr told him: “You will never be able to be patient with me – go on your way.”

So, all that the follower of a Sufi Path may do is to try and learn from the Sheikh’s way of dealing with people and from the Sheikh’s attributes in general. A follower can never fully understanding the meanings and implications of an authorized Sheikh’s actions. He cannot know what orders may be coming to the Sheikh from the Holy Prophet. He who has the guidance of the Holy Prophet has been given the wisdom and authority to catch people from the road of self-destruction and degradation and bring them to the Path of Eternal Happiness.

Source: Mercy Oceans: Pink Pearls, p. 44-48

L’Associazione per i Popoli Minacciati (APM) è molto preoccupata per la sorte di Sattar Jabbar Rahman di Baghdad, di fede mandea e membro del direttivo della sezione irachena dell’associazione per i diritti umani. Sattar Jabbar Rahman è scomparso nel nulla da dieci giorni e la famiglia teme che sia stato vittima di un crimine violento. La moglie ci conferma telefonicamente che ogni giorno che passa diminuisce la speranza di ritrovarlo vivo. Finora né la famiglia né l’APM hanno ricevuto lettere o telefonate di rivendicazioni e di richieste di un riscatto. All’interno dell’APM Rahman si occupava della situazione e delle violazioni dei diritti umani nei confronti della comunità mandea in Iraq. L’ultimo caso trattato da Rahman riguardava un giovane mandeo rapito il 23 settembre a Baghdad. Nella primavera 2009 Rahman aveva accettato l’invito dell’APM in Germania e della Fondazione Friedrich Neumann e si era recato in Germania per partecipare alla conferenza internazionale “Minoranze etniche e religiose nell’Iraq di oggi”, tenutasi il 11 e 12 aprile 2009 a Francoforte, durante la quale Rahman ha dettagliatamente informato l’opinione pubblica europea sulla situazione dei Mandei nell’Iraq centrale e meridionale. Dopo il suo rientro a Baghdad Rahman ha ripetutamente ricevuto minacce, ma ciò nonostante ha continuato a svolgere il suo lavoro in difesa dei diritti umani rilasciando interviste alla televisione e a diverse emittenti radiofoniche irachene sulla situazione dei Mandei e delle altre minoranze nel paese. L’ultima apparizione pubblica di Sattar Jabbar Rahman è stata ad una trasmissione dell’emittente televisiva irachena Al-Fayha. Circa 25.000 dei complessivamente 30.000 Mandei iracheni sono fuggiti nei paesi confinanti per sfuggire alle violenze mirate contro la piccola comunità religiosa. Mondialmente la comunità mandea, che si richiama direttamente a Giovanni Battista, conta circa 60.000 seguaci, di cui una piccola parte si è rifugiata anche in Europa.

Interview with Alive in Baghdad’s Brian Conley

مقابلة مع :  براين كونلي

المقابلة في المقطع الفيديو التالي

Interview in the following video

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Source: daily news

The wives of four South African men abducted on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, nearly three years ago have made an emotional plea for help to President Jacob Zuma.

Speaking to the media in Pretoria on Thursday the women cried as they spoke of their sadness and hope that they might one day find out what had happened to their husbands – whether they were dead or alive.

“As the wives, we are here to plead for help. Would someone out there please show compassion and human kindness,” said Marie Enslin, whose husband Johann was kidnapped on December 10 2006 along with Hardus Greef, Callie Scheepers and Andre Durant.

“We are sincerely appealing to our new leader Mr Jacob Zuma to assist us and our children.”

Referring to the Koran, Enslin said it read that husbands and wives were each other’s garments and in the Bible they were each other’s convents.

“Our garments and our convents have been missing for 1 074 days,” she said.

The men were working for the private security operations company Safenet when they disappeared.

This Christmas would be the fourth she and their four children were without her husband, said Enslin.

“Whether dead or alive, the stress of living and missing loved ones is like a black hole in the heart. Please release them,” she appealed to the men’s captors.

“We need closure. If they are dead, God forbid, please be compassionate and hand over their remains so that we can have closure.”

Retha Scheepers echoed her fellow wives’ prayers that they needed to know what had happened to the men.

“We [my family and I] don’t know where he [Callie] is and every morning I wake up and think today is the day I’m going to get good news or bad news, and at night, nothing.

“We were married for one year and two months, I haven’t really got a marriage beyond the honeymoon stage. My family is broken because their father isn’t here,” she said.

Elmarie Greef said Safenet had promised to “unconditionally” support the women financially, however this had stopped when they went to the media.

“As we started speaking to the media… in December we did not get paid. They said we must declare our men dead and claim from the US government,” said Enslin.

In a statement shortly after the payments stopped, Safenet said this was no longer the responsibility of the company, which had done more than enough to help.

It was also unclear whether Safenet — which no longer operates in Iraq — had ever paid a ransom, even though it had assured the women it would.

“The rumour is just that it wasn’t paid. It was asked for, but never paid,” said Enslin.

“There are people out there who must know what’s going on,” she said.

Lourika Durant is the only one of the four women who heard from her husband Andre after his abduction.

He called her briefly on December 23, 2006, but the call was quickly disconnected.

“I was excited. It was such a high. I just can’t imagine what it would be like to hear his voice again.

“When my phone rings and it’s a no number or a private number, my heart beats. My youngest is one-year-old, so she doesn’t even know her daddy,” Durant said.

The women are receiving money from the US treasury department. Their husbands are not officially declared dead, but are still listed with the United Nations as being among the 45,000 people missing.

Shortly before the briefing, the department of international relations and cooperation issued a statement recognising that the abductions had left “numbness of unexplained cause and effect”.

The department said it had worked on the case since the start and had shared the families’ countless disappointments, dashed hopes and the absence of communication from the captors. – Sapa

Un grupo de Heavy Metal fueron a Iraq, y estuvieron en Baghdad. Aquí os dejo el reportaje de YouTube (está en inglés, pero algo es algo).

Q. Is it correct for Sunni Muslims to believe in the Twelve Imams?

A. In light of the Hadith of Gabriel (alaihi salam), also known as the Hadith of Ihsan, the Messenger of Allah (sallallahu alaihi wa aalihi wa sallam) defined his religion as Islam, Iman and Ihsan. Based on the study of this Hadith, it is clear that according to the Holy Prophet (sallallahu alalihi wa aalihi wa sallam) Ihsan is one-third of the faith of Islam.

Unlike those who deny Tasawwuf, Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jam’ah, are clear that the vehicle to taste the Maqam al-Ihsan is Tasawwuf, what is termed as Sufism by the people today.

With that established, to answer your question, I say, based on the teachings of the greatest leaders of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jam’ah throughout history, the Illustrious Twelve Imams (may Allah be well pleased with them all) are THE Qutbul-Aqtaab of Tasawwuf, meaning the highest ranking Saints of Sufism, under whose shelter every Wali attained his Wiliyah, and each Muslim is able to approach or even reach the state of Ihsan. I say to you, that without them, there is no Tasawwuf, and without Tasawwuf, there is no Ihsan. Ihsan is one-third of the faith, and hence, belief in the Twelve Imams is in reality, one-third of the faith!

In his book the Ghadir Declaration, Shaykh al-Islam Dr. Tahir al-Qadiri quotes Imam Rabbani’s comments on the status of Hadrat al-Murtada and the Twelve Imams, and the dependence of those who seek guidance directly on them for it, stating,

“And there is another way close to the spiritual sovereignty and this is the way of the Saints and the general friends of Allah, and this way is marked by its characteristic passion and it carries the guarantee of mediation and the leader and chieftain of the Saints of this way is ‘Alī al-Murtada. And this grand office is reserved for him. On this way, the feet of the Holy Prophet are on ‘Alī’s head and Fatima and Hasan and Husayn are included with him. I believe that he enjoyed this position even before his physical birth, as he did after it, and whosoever has received the divine blessing and guidance, has received it through him, because he is closest to the last point on this way and the centre of this spot belongs to him. And when his period ended, the grand office passed on to Hasan and Husayn and then on to each one of the Twelve Imāms, individually and elaborately. And whosoever received guidance in their life and after their death, received it through these Saints. And the refuge and place of shelter of the Saints of high ranks are these Saints, (because they are the centre of all spiritual activity) and the sides tend to converge on the centre” (Maktubat, Volume 9:173#123).

To elaborate further on the topic of the Ummah’s dependence on the Twelve Imams in order to obtain Ihsan, the Masterful Khwaja; Imam Rabbani Mujaddid Alf Thani Ahmad al-Faruqi as-Sirhindi (qadas Allahu sirrahul ‘aziz) describes the dependence of the Qutb al-Aqtab, who is responsible for the guiding the entire creation, on Hadrat ‘Ali’ al-Murtada (karram Allahu wajhu), stating in the Maktubat Sharif Vol. 1,

“O Brother! Indeed Imam ‘Ali is the holder of the keys of the Sainthood, Wilayah, of the Prophet Muhammad [s] and the training regime for the status of Aqtab, Awtad and Abdaal, who are from amongst the reserved Awliya, is done under the shelter of his Sainthood. The rank of Qutb al-Aqtab, who is the greatest Qutb and the guide and mentor of others, lays under his (‘Ali’s) feet. His orders are issued under the supervision and support of ‘Ali and he performs his duties under the supervision and support of ‘Ali and fulfills his tasks. Sayyida Fatima and both of her sons, the Imams (Hasan and Husayn) share this rank with ‘Ali.” (Maktubat Imam Rabbani, Volume 1:438#251)

Furthermore, Hadrat Shah Wali Allah Muhaddith al-Dahlawi echoed this belief, that dependence on the Sainthood of the Illustrious Twelve Imams is one-third of the faith, as it is the Twelve Imams who are the Pivots of Guidance in Tasawwuf, and since Tasawwuf leads to Ihsan, and since it is them who are the Pivots of that science, it is clear that it is the Twelve Imams then who lead one to the perfection of faith, Ihsan.

I say to you again, without the Twelve Imams, ones faith cannot be completed, as Ihsan is the completion of faith, and the science of Ihsan; Tasawwuf, depends entirely on them!

The venerable Muhaddith Shah Wali Allah wrote:

“This faqir [referring to himself] has come to know that from all the other relations, the Twelve Imams [ra] have the relation of central pole leadership (Qutb). And the way of Tassawuf (Sufism) had taken birth during their lifetime. But all the orders of Aqaed and Shariah are limited to the ahadeeth of the Prophet (saww). And they have the order (Amr) of inner (Batin) leadership (Qutbiyat), which is free from the problems of Shariah. And in regards to the very leadership (Qutbiyat), each of them had an indication and ‘Nas’ for the next one to come, and the affairs of imamate which they said, actually referred to this kind of central pole leadership (Qutbiyat).” [Maqalaat al Waziyah fi Naseehat al-Wasiyah, page 7 (Lucknow)].

“Glory be to your Lord, the Lord of Honor, above what they describe.
And peace be on the Apostles.
And all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds” (Qur’an, 37:180)

And Allah Knows Best!

Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin
Deputy, Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani, al-Qubrusi

di Simona Maggiorelli

MAXXI, Roma foto di Richard Bryant

Piani inclinati, superfici ondulate e inserti di vetro nel pavimento. L’archistar Zaha Hadid ha creato un edificio dalle forme fluide e di straordinaria eleganza
n orizzonte fluido di linee che corrono verso inaspettati punti di fuga. Spazi che si schiudono l’uno sull’altro senza soluzione di continuità. Agili scale e poi percorsi lungo ballatoi con la sensazione di una morbida salita fino alla vista mozzafiato del piano alto dalla grande vetrata, affacciato sui palazzi dello storico quartiere dove sorge il MAXXI di Roma. Il museo del ventunesimo secolo costruito dall’architetto anglo- irachena Zaha Hadid sabato e domenica prossime, a dieci anni dalla sua ideazione (e dopo non poche traversie economiche e burocratiche), apre finalmente le porte al pubblico. Anche se non è stata ancora allestita all’interno la collezione permanente di oltre 350 opere di arte contemporanea destinata a questi spazi. Nel fine settimana una coreografia creata ad hoc da Sasha Waltz accenderà di musica e danza questa grande “nave-museo”, ma chi abbia già percorso questi spazi nella breve anteprima di ieri può testimoniare che anche l’esperienza che offrono le sue sale nude e vuote non è indifferente. I piani inclinati dei pavimenti, le superfici ondulate, l’assenza di barriere e confini danno il senso di un luogo aperto alla fantasia e all’immaginazione. «Fin dagli inizi la mia idea è stata quella di costruire un campus d’arte, piuttosto che un museo in senso stretto» ha detto la stessa Hadid presentando in conferenza stampa la sua opera. «Ho progettato il MAXXI- ha spiegato- in modo che i curatori delle mostre, in futuro, possano organizzare i loro percorsi espositivi sviluppandoli narrativamente lungo i piani dell’edificio, oppure sfruttando gli spazi laterali». Un pensiero progettuale che poi ha preso concretamente forma nel lavoro con Patrik Schumacher, da oltre trent’anni socio e stretto collaboratore dell’archistar di Baghdad. «Con lui ricorderemo sempre ogni linea tracciata e le notti trascorse a disegnare il complesso» ha sottolineato Hadid, ringraziando poi il presidente della Fondazione MAXXI Pio Baldi per il sostegno, ma anche scherzosamente minacciando il ministro dei Beni culturali Sandro Bondi e l’assessore alla cultura del Comune di Umberto Croppi di tornare sovente per vegliare sul buon uso della sua creazione. Originale interprete di un nuovo modo di pensare le superfici, Hadid di fatto ha decomposto lo spazio del vecchio edificio militare di via Guido Reni per aggiungere fluidità e bellezza ma anche un funzionalità più duttile all’edificio. Un lavoro di scomposizione e ricomposizione delle forme qui realizzato usando materiali diversi, dal cemento, al ferro al vetro (con inserti anche nei pavimenti), mentre un ruolo di primo piano gioca il complesso sistema di illuminazione, che di giorno filtra o amplifica la luce naturale e di sera offre una raffinata regia di luci artificiali.

dal quotidiano Terra  del 13 febbraio 2009

Nama dan Nasab:

Kunyah beliau Abu Abdillah, namanya Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hambal bin Hilal bin Asad Al Marwazi Al Baghdadi. Ayah beliau seorang komandan pasukan di Khurasan di bawah kendali Dinasti Abbasiyah. Kakeknya mantan Gubernur Sarkhas di masa Dinasti Bani Umayyah, dan di masa Dinasti Abbasiyah menjadi da’i yang kritis.

Kelahiran Beliau:

Beliau dilahirkan di kota Baghdad pada bulan Rabi’ul Awwal tahun 164 Hijriyah. Beliau tumbuh besar di bawah asuhan kasih sayang ibunya, karena bapaknya meninggal dunia saat beliau masih berumur belia, tiga tahun. Meski beliau anak yatim, namun ibunya dengan sabar dan ulet memperhatian pendidikannya hingga beliau menjadi anak yang sangat cinta kepada ilmu dan ulama karena itulah beliau kerap menghadiri majlis ilmu di kota kelahirannya.

Awal mula Menuntut Ilmu

Ilmu yang pertama kali dikuasai adalah Al Qur’an hingga beliau hafal pada usia 15 tahun, beliau juga mahir baca-tulis dengan sempurna hingga dikenal sebagai orang yang terindah tulisannya. Lalu beliau mulai konsentrasi belajar ilmu hadits di awal umur 15 tahun itu pula.

Keadaan fisik beliau:

Muhammad bin ‘Abbas An-Nahwi bercerita, Saya pernah melihat Imam Ahmad bin Hambal, ternyata Badan beliau tidak terlalu tinggi juga tidak terlalu pendek, wajahnya tampan, di jenggotnya masih ada yang hitam. Beliau senang berpakaian tebal, berwarna putih dan bersorban serta memakai kain.
Yang lain mengatakan, “Kulitnya berwarna coklat (sawo matang)”

Keluarga beliau:

Beliau menikah pada umur 40 tahun dan mendapatkan keberkahan yang melimpah. Beliau melahirkan dari istri-istrinya anak-anak yang shalih, yang mewarisi ilmunya, seperti Abdullah dan Shalih. Bahkan keduanya sangat banyak meriwayatkan ilmu dari bapaknya.

Kecerdasan beliau:

Putranya yang bernama Shalih mengatakan, Ayahku pernah bercerita, “Husyaim meninggal dunia saat saya berusia dua puluh tahun, kala itu saya telah hafal apa yang kudengar darinya”.

Abdullah, putranya yang lain mengatakan, Ayahku pernah menyuruhku, “Ambillah kitab mushannaf Waki’ mana saja yang kamu kehendaki, lalu tanyakanlah yang kamu mau tentang matan nanti kuberitahu sanadnya, atau sebaliknya, kamu tanya tentang sanadnya nanti kuberitahu matannya”.

Abu Zur’ah pernah ditanya, “Wahai Abu Zur’ah, siapakah yang lebih kuat hafalannya? Anda atau Imam Ahmad bin Hambal?” Beliau menjawab, “Ahmad”. Beliau masih ditanya, “Bagaimana Anda tahu?” beliau menjawab, “Saya mendapati di bagian depan kitabnya tidak tercantum nama-nama perawi, karena beliau hafal nama-nama perawi tersebut, sedangkan saya tidak mampu melakukannya”. Abu Zur’ah mengatakan, “Imam Ahmad bin Hambal hafal satu juta hadits”.

Pujian Ulama terhadap beliau:

Abu Ja’far mengatakan, “Ahmad bin Hambal manusia yang sangat pemalu, sangat mulia dan sangat baik pergaulannya serta adabnya, banyak berfikir, tidak terdengar darinya kecuali mudzakarah hadits dan menyebut orang-orang shalih dengan penuh hormat dan tenang serta dengan ungkapan yang indah. Bila berjumpa dengan manusia, maka ia sangat ceria dan menghadapkan wajahnya kepadanya. Beliau sangat rendah hati terhadap guru-gurunya serta menghormatinya”.

Imam Asy-Syafi’i berkata, “Ahmad bin Hambal adalah Imam dalam delapan hal, Imam dalam hadits, Imam dalam Fiqih, Imam dalam bahasa, Imam dalam Al Qur’an, Imam dalam kefaqiran, Imam dalam kezuhudan, Imam dalam wara’ dan Imam dalam Sunnah”.

Ibrahim Al Harbi memujinya, “Saya melihat Abu Abdillah Ahmad bin Hambal seolah Allah gabungkan padanya ilmu orang-orang terdahulu dan orang-orang belakangan dari berbagai disiplin ilmu”.

Kezuhudannya:

Beliau memakai peci yang dijahit sendiri. Dan kadang beliau keluar ke tempat kerja membawa kampak untuk bekerja dengan tangannya. Kadang juga beliau pergi ke warung membeli seikat kayu bakar dan barang lainnya lalu membawa dengan tangannya sendiri. Al Maimuni pernah berujar, “Rumah Abu Abdillah Ahmad bin Hambal sempit dan kecil”.

Tekunnya dalam ibadah

Abdullah bin Ahmad berkata, “Bapakku mengerjakan shalat dalam sehari-semalam tiga ratus raka’at, setelah beliau sakit dan tidak mampu mengerjakan shalat seperti itu, beliau mengerjakan shalat seratus lima puluh raka’at.

Wara’ dan menjaga harga diri

Abu Isma’il At-Tirmidzi mengatakan, “Datang seorang lelaki membawa uang sebanyak sepuluh ribu (dirham) untuk beliau, namun beliau menolaknya”. Ada juga yang mengatakan, “Ada seseorang memberikan lima ratus dinar kepada Imam Ahmad namun beliau tidak mau menerimanya”. Juga pernah ada yang memberi tiga ribu dinar, namun beliau juga tidak mau menerimanya.

Tawadhu’ dengan kebaikannya:

Yahya bin Ma’in berkata, “Saya tidak pernah melihat orang yang seperti Imam Ahmad bin Hambal, saya berteman dengannya selama lima puluh tahun dan tidak pernah menjumpai dia membanggakan sedikitpun kebaikan yang ada padanya kepada kami”.

Beliau (Imam Ahmad) mengatakan, “Saya ingin bersembunyi di lembah Makkah hingga saya tidak dikenal, saya diuji dengan popularitas”.

Al Marrudzi berkata, “Saya belum pernah melihat orang fakir di suatu majlis yang lebih mulia kecuali di majlis Imam Ahmad, beliau perhatian terhadap orang fakir dan agak kurang perhatiannya terhadap ahli dunia (orang kaya), beliau bijak dan tidak tergesa-gesa terhadap orang fakir. Beliau sangat rendah hati, begitu tinggi ketenangannya dan sangat memuka kharismanya”.

Beliau pernah bermuka masam karena ada seseorang yang memujinya dengan mengatakan, “Semoga Allah membalasmu dengan kebaikan atas jasamu kepada Islam?” beliau mengatakan, “Jangan begitu tetapi katakanlah, semoga Allah membalas kebaikan terhadap Islam atas jasanya kepadaku, siapa saya dan apa (jasa) saya?!”

Sabar dalam menuntut ilmu

Tatkala beliau pulang dari tempat Abdurrazzaq yang berada di Yaman, ada seseorang yang melihatnya di Makkah dalam keadaan sangat letih dan capai. Lalu ia mengajak bicara, maka Imam Ahmad mengatakan, “Ini lebih ringan dibandingkan faidah yang saya dapatkan dari Abdirrazzak”.

Hati-hati dalam berfatwa:

Zakariya bin Yahya pernah bertanya kepada beliau, “Berapa hadits yang harus dikuasai oleh seseorang hingga bisa menjadi mufti? Apakah cukup seratus ribu hadits? Beliau menjawab, “Tidak cukup”. Hingga akhirnya ia berkata, “Apakah cukup lima ratus ribu hadits?” beliau menjawab. “Saya harap demikian”.

Kelurusan aqidahnya sebagai standar kebenaran

Ahmad bin Ibrahim Ad-Dauruqi mengatakan, “Siapa saja yang kamu ketahui mencela Imam Ahmad maka ragukanlah agamanya”. Sufyan bin Waki’ juga berkata, “Ahmad di sisi kami adalah cobaan, barangsiapa mencela beliau maka dia adalah orang fasik”.

Masa Fitnah:

Pemahaman Jahmiyyah belum berani terang-terangan pada masa khilafah Al Mahdi, Ar-Rasyid dan Al Amin, bahkan Ar-Rasyid pernah mengancam akan membunuh Bisyr bin Ghiyats Al Marisi yang mengatakan bahwa Al Qur’an adalah makhluk. Namun dia terus bersembunyi di masa khilafah Ar-Rasyid, baru setelah beliau wafat, dia menampakkan kebid’ahannya dan menyeru manusia kepada kesesatan ini.

Di masa khilafah Al Ma’mun, orang-orang jahmiyyah berhasil menjadikan paham jahmiyyah sebagai ajaran resmi negara, di antara ajarannya adalah menyatakan bahwa Al Qur’an makhluk. Lalu penguasa pun memaksa seluruh rakyatnya untuk mengatakan bahwa Al Qur’an makhluk, terutama para ulamanya.

Barangsiapa mau menuruti dan tunduk kepada ajaran ini, maka dia selamat dari siksaan dan penderitaan. Bagi yang menolak dan bersikukuh dengan mengatakan bahwa Al Qur’an Kalamullah bukan makhluk maka dia akan mencicipi cambukan dan pukulan serta kurungan penjara.

Karena beratnya siksaan dan parahnya penderitaan banyak ulama yang tidak kuat menahannya yang akhirnya mengucapkan apa yang dituntut oleh penguasa zhalim meski cuma dalam lisan saja. Banyak yang membisiki Imam Ahmad bin Hambal untuk menyembunyikan keyakinannya agar selamat dari segala siksaan dan penderitaan, namun beliau menjawab, “Bagaimana kalian menyikapi hadits “Sesungguhnya orang-orang sebelum Khabbab, yaitu sabda Nabi Muhammad ada yang digergaji kepalanya, namun tidak membuatnya berpaling dari agamanya”. HR. Bukhari 12/281. lalu beliau menegaskan, “Saya tidak peduli dengan kurungan penjara, penjara dan rumahku sama saja”.

Ketegaran dan ketabahan beliau dalam menghadapi cobaan yang menderanya digambarkan oleh Ishaq bin Ibrahim, “Saya belum pernah melihat seorang yang masuk ke penguasa lebih tegar dari Imam Ahmad bin Hambal, kami saat itu di mata penguasa hanya seperti lalat”.

Di saat menghadapi terpaan fitnah yang sangat dahsyat dan deraan siksaan yang luar biasa, beliau masih berpikir jernih dan tidak emosi, tetap mengambil pelajaran meski datang dari orang yang lebih rendah ilmunya. Beliau mengatakan, “Semenjak terjadinya fitnah saya belum pernah mendengar suatu kalimat yang lebih mengesankan dari kalimat yang diucapkan oleh seorang Arab Badui kepadaku, “Wahai Ahmad, jika anda terbunuh karena kebenaran maka anda mati syahid, dan jika anda selamat maka anda hidup mulia”. Maka hatiku bertambah kuat”.

Ahli hadits sekaligus juga Ahli Fiqih

Ibnu ‘Aqil berkata, “Saya pernah mendengar hal yang sangat aneh dari orang-orang bodoh yang mengatakan, “Ahmad bukan ahli fiqih, tetapi hanya ahli hadits saja. Ini adalah puncaknya kebodohan, karena Imam Ahmad memiliki pendapat-pendapat yang didasarkan pada hadits yang tidak diketahui oleh kebanyakan manusia, bahkan beliau lebih unggul dari seniornya”.

Bahkan Imam Adz-Dzahabi berkata, “Demi Allah, beliau dalam fiqih sampai derajat Laits, Malik dan Asy-Syafi’i serta Abu Yusuf. Dalam zuhud dan wara’ beliau menyamai Fudhail dan Ibrahim bin Adham, dalam hafalan beliau setara dengan Syu’bah, Yahya Al Qaththan dan Ibnul Madini. Tetapi orang bodoh tidak mengetahui kadar dirinya, bagaimana mungkin dia mengetahui kadar orang lain!!

Di kampung miskin di kota Ghazzah (orang Barat menyebutnya Gaza ) di bumi Palestina, pada th. 150 H (bertepatan dengan th. 694 M) lahirlah seorang bayi lelaki dari pasangan suami istri yang berbahagia, Idris bin Abbas Asy-Syafi`ie dengan seorang wanita dari suku Azad. Bayi lelaki keturunan Quraisy ini akhirnya dinamai Muhammad bin Idris Asy-Syafi`ie.
Demikian nama lengkapnya sang bayi itu.

Namun kebahagiaan keluarga miskin ini dengan kelahiran bayi tersebut tidaklah berlangsung lama. Karena beberapa saat setelah kelahiran itu, terjadilah peristiwa menyedihkan, yaitu ayah sang bayi meninggal dunia dalam usia yang masih muda. Bayi lelaki yang rupawan itu pun akhirnya hidup sebagai anak yatim.

Sang ibu sangat menyayangi bayinya, sehingga anak yatim Quraisy itu tumbuh sebagai bayi yang sehat. Maka ketika ia telah berusia dua tahun, dibawalah oleh ibunya ke Makkah untuk tinggal di tengah keluarga ayahnya di kampung Bani Mutthalib. Karena anak yatim ini, dari sisi nasab ayahnya, berasal dari keturunan seorang Shahabat Nabi shallallahu `alaihi wa alihi wasallam yang bernama Syafi’ bin As-Sa’ib. Dan As-Sa’ib ayahnya Syafi’, sempat tertawan dalam perang Badr sebagai seorang musyrik kemudian As-Sa’ib menebus dirinya dengan uang jaminan untuk mendapatkan status pembebasan dari tawanan Muslimin. Dan setelah dia dibebaskan, iapun masuk Islam di tangan Rasulullah shallallahu `alaihi wa alihi wasallam.

Maka nasab bayi yatim ini secara lengkap adalah sebagai berikut: Muhammad bin Idris bin Al-Abbas bin Utsman bin Syafi’ bin As-Sa’ib bin Ubaid bin Abdi Yazid bin Hasyim bin Al-Mutthalib bin Abdi Manaf bin Qushai bin Kilab bin Murrah bin Ka’ab bin Lu’ay bin Ghalib bin Fihr bin Malik bin An-Nadhr bin Kinanah bin Khuzaimah bin Mudrikah bin Ilyas bin Mudhar bin Nizar bin Ma’ad bin Adnan.

Dari nasab tersebut, Al-Mutthalib bin Abdi Manaf, kakek Muhammad bin Idris Asy-Syafi`ie, adalah saudara kandung Hasyim bin Abdi Manaf kakek Nabi Muhammad shallallahu `alaihi wa alihi wasallam . Kemudian juga saudara kandung Abdul Mutthalib bin Hasyim, kakek Nabi Muhammad shallallahu `alaihi wa alihi wasallam, bernama Syifa’, dinikahi oleh Ubaid bin Abdi Yazid, sehingga melahirkan anak bernama As-Sa’ib, ayahnya Syafi’. Kepada Syafi’ bin As-Sa’ib radliyallahu `anhuma inilah bayi yatim tersebut dinisbahkan nasabnya sehingga terkenal dengan nama Muhammad bin Idris Asy-Syafi`ie Al-Mutthalibi.

Dengan demikian nasab yatim ini sangat dekat dengan Nabi Muhammad shallallahu `alaihi wa alihi wasallam . Bahkan karena Hasyim bin Abdi Manaf, yang kemudian melahirkan Bani Hasyim, adalah saudara kandung dengan Mutthalib bin Abdi manaf, yang melahirkan Bani Mutthalib, maka Rasulullah shallallahu `alaihi wa alihi wasallam bersabda:

“Hanyalah kami (yakni Bani Hasyim) dengan mereka (yakni Bani Mutthalib) berasal dari satu nasab. Sambil beliau menyilang-nyilangkan jari jemari kedua tangan beliau.” (HR. Abu Nu’aim Al-Asfahani dalam Hilyah nya juz 9 hal. 65 – 66).

Dalam masalah Keilmuan

Pada usia tujuh tahun telah menghafal di luar kepala Al-Qur’an keseluruhannya. Remaja yatim ini belajar fiqih dari para Ulama’ fiqih yang ada di Makkah, seperti Muslim bin khalid Az-Zanji yang waktu itu berkedudukan sebagai mufti Makkah. Kemudian beliau juga belajar dari Dawud bin Abdurrahman Al-Atthar, juga belajar dari pamannya yang bernama Muhammad bin Ali bin Syafi’, dan juga menimba ilmu dari Sufyan bin Uyainah. Guru yang lainnya dalam fiqih ialah Abdurrahman bin Abi Bakr Al-Mulaiki, Sa’id bin Salim, Fudhail bin Al-Ayyadl dan masih banyak lagi yang lainnya.

Berangkat ke Madinah

Demi kehausan ilmu, akhirnya berangkat dari Makkah menuju Al-Madinah An Nabawiyah guna belajar di halaqah Imam Malik bin Anas di sana. Di majelis beliau ini, si anak yatim tersebut menghapal dan memahami dengan cemerlang kitab karya Imam Malik, yaitu Al-Muwattha’ . Kecerdasannya membuat Imam Malik amat mengaguminya. Sementara itu As-Syafi`ie sendiri sangat terkesan dan sangat mengagumi Imam Malik di Al-Madinah dan Imam Sufyan bin Uyainah di Makkah.

Beliau menyatakan kekagumannya setelah menjadi Imam dengan pernyataannya yang terkenal berbunyi: “Seandainya tidak ada Malik bin Anas dan Sufyan bin Uyainah, niscaya akan hilanglah ilmu dari Hijaz.” Dari berbagai pernyataan beliau dapatlah diketahui bahwa guru yang paling beliau kagumi adalah Imam Malik bin Anas, kemudian Imam Sufyan bin Uyainah.

Kedudukannya dan Kepindahannya ke Bagdhad

Ketika Muhammad bin Idris As-Syafi’i Al-Mutthalibi Al-Qurasyi telah berusia dua puluh tahun, dia sudah memiliki kedudukan yang tinggi di kalangan Ulama’ di jamannya dalam berfatwa dan berbagai ilmu yang berkisar pada Al-Qur’an dan As-Sunnah. Tetapi beliau tidak mau berpuas diri dengan ilmu yang dicapainya. Maka beliaupun berangkat menuju negeri Yaman demi menyerap ilmu dari para Ulama’nya. Disebutkanlah sederet Ulama’ Yaman yang didatangi oleh beliau ini seperti: Mutharrif bin Mazin, Hisyam bin Yusuf Al-Qadli dan banyak lagi yang lainnya.

Dari Yaman, beliau melanjutkan tour ilmiahnya ke kota Baghdad di Iraq dan di kota ini beliau banyak mengambil ilmu dari Muhammad bin Al-Hasan, seorang ahli fiqih di negeri Iraq. Juga beliau mengambil ilmu dari Isma’il bin Ulaiyyah dan Abdul Wahhab Ats-Tsaqafi dan masih banyak lagi yang lainnya.

Sejak di kota Baghdad, Imam Muhammad bin Idris Asy-Syafi`ie mulai dikerumuni para muridnya dan mulai menulis berbagai keterangan agama. Juga beliau mulai membantah beberapa keterangan para Imam ahli fiqih, dalam rangka mengikuti sunnah Nabi Muhammad shallallahu `alaihi wa alihi wasallam . Kitab fiqih dan Ushul Fiqih pun mulai ditulisnya. Popularitas beliau di dunia Islam yang semakin luas menyebabkan banyak orang semakin kagum dengan ilmunya sehingga orang pun berbondong-bondong mendatangi majelis ilmu beliau untuk menimba ilmu.

Dari murid-murid beliau di Baghdad, yang paling terkenal sangat mengagumi beliau adalah Imam Ahmad bin Hambal atau terkenal dengan gelar Imam Hambali.

Berpindah ke Mesir

Imam As-Syafi`ie tinggal di Baghdad hanya dua tahun. Setelah itu beliau pindah ke Mesir dan tinggal di sana sampai beliau wafat pada th. 204 H dan usia beliau ketika wafat 54 th. Beliau telah meninggalkan warisan yang tak ternilai, yaitu ilmu yang beliau tulis di kitab Ar-Risalah dalam ilmu Ushul Fiqih. Di samping itu beliau juga menulis kitab Musnad As-Syafi`ie , berupa kumpulan hadits Nabi shallallahu `alaihi wa alihi wasallam yang diriwayatkan oleh beliau; dan kitab Al-Um berupa kumpulan keterangan beliau dalam masalah fiqih.

Sebagaimana Al-Um , kumpulan riwayat keterangan Imam As Syafi`ie dalam fiqih juga disusun oleh Al-Imam Al-Baihaqi dan diberi nama Ma’rifatul Aatsar was Sunan . Al-Imam Abu Nu’aim Al-Asfahani membawakan beberapa riwayat nasehat dan pernyataan Imam As-Syafi`ie dalam berbagai masalah yang menunjukkan pendirian Imam As-Syafi`ie dalam memahami agama ini. Beberapa riwayat Abu Nu’aim tersebut kami nukilkan sebagai berikut :

Imam As-Syafi`ie menyatakan: “Bila aku melihat Ahli Hadits, seakan aku melihat seorang dari Shahabat Nabi shallallahu `alaihi wa alihi wasallam .” (HR. Abu Nu’aim Al-Asfahani dalam Al-Hilyah nya juz 9 hal. 109)

Ini menunjukkan betapa tinggi penghargaan beliau kepada para Ahli Hadits.

Imam As-Syafi`ie menyatakan: “Sungguh seandainya seseorang itu ditimpa dengan berbagai amalan yang dilarang oleh Allah selain dosa syirik, lebih baik baginya daripada dia mempelajari ilmu kalam.” (HR. Abu Nu’aim Al-Asfahani dalam Al-Hilyah nya juz 9 hal. 111)

Diriwayatkan oleh Ar-Rabi’ bin Sulaiman bahwa dia menyatakan: Aku mendengar As-Syafi`ie berkata:

“Barangsiapa mengatakan bahwa Al-Qur’an itu makhluk, maka sungguh dia telah kafir.” ((HR. Abu Nu’aim Al-Asfahani dalam Al-Hilyah nya juz 9 hal. 113)

Imam Asy-Syafi`ie menyatakan pula: “Semua hadits yang dari Nabi shallallahu `alaihi wa alihi wasallam maka itu adalah sebagai ucapanku (fatwaku). Walaupun kalian tidak mendengarnya dariku.”

Penutup

Masih banyak mutiara hikmah yang ingin kami tuangkan dalam tulisan ini dari peri hidup Imam Asy-Syafi`ie.

Bahkan telah ditulis oleh para Imam-Imam Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah kitab-kitab tebal yang berisi untaian mutiara hikmah peri hidup Imam besar ini. Seperti Al-Imam Al-Baihaqi menulis kitab Manaqibus Syafi`ie , juga Ar-Razi menulis kitab dengan judul yang sama. Kemudian Ibnu Abi Hatim menulis kitab berjudul Aadaabus Syaafi’ie . Dan masih banyak lagi yang lainnya. Itu semua menunjukkan kepada kita, betapa agungnya Imam besar ini di mata para Imam Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama’ah.

Semoga Allah Ta`ala menggabungkan kita di barisan mereka di hari kiamat nanti. Amin ya Mujibas sa’ilin.

Those damn dirty contractors.

Each night, KBR throws out garbage cans full of food.  Contractors are not allowed to take food out of the Dining Facility.  I suppose the US Army thinks that Contractors get paid enough and they should be satisfied.  Contractors don’t need any extra benefits like taking all of that fabulous food out of the Dining Facility.  The US Army would rather throw it all in the garbage.

The message here is what?

“Fuck Contractors!  We’d rather throw all that extra food in the garbage than let them take a few scraps back to their rooms to eat.”

Typical Army bullshit.

The guy who made this rule is probably a pissed off Master Sergeant who wound up a Contractor after he retired.

That’s usually what happens.

I’ve seen it hundreds of times.  The biggest assholes that I’ve had to deal with overseas while contracting with the Army were guys who came to you at the end of their tour of duty begging for a job.  If it were up to me, I’d not hire one of them.

Bunch of hypocritical assholes all.  Fuck ‘em.

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The Army is doubling the number of mental health specialists in Afghanistan to address soldiers’ psychological troubles due to combat stress. The Army had about 43 behavioral health personnel in Afghanistan, one for every 1,100 soldiers. The Army is working to improve that ratio to one for every 700 soldiers, and to assign more mental health providers to brigades and battalions. About 30 percent of soldiers who have deployed three times or more meet the criteria for having a psychological problem, compared with about 14 percent on the first deployment and 18 percent on the second deployment. 65 mental health specialists will join 43 specialists in Afghanistan in an effort to reach more of the 68,000 U.S. troops.

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Farhan Bokhari, Islamabad

China has agreed to sell Pakistan at least 36 advanced fighter jets in a deal worth as much as $1.4bn, according to Pakistani and western officials.

Beijing will supply two squadrons of the J-10 fighter jet in a preliminary agreement that could lead to more sales, said a Pakistani official. The official said Pakistan might buy “larger numbers” of the multi-role aircraft in the future, but dismissed reports that Islamabad had signed a deal to purchase as many as 150 of the fighter jets.

Defence experts described the agreement with China as a landmark event in Pakistan’s defence relationship with the military power. China’s transition from a manufacturer of low-fighters to more advanced jets comparable to some western models is seen as evidence of Beijing’s increasing strategic clout in Asia.

“China is developing a real capacity to produce and export its arms. At one point, the Chinese were dependent on imported Russian technology, but obviously China has advanced significantly beyond those days,” said Marika Vicziany, Professor of Asian studies at Monash University in Melbourne.

“This agreement should not simply be seen in the narrow context of Pakistan’s relations with China,” said Abdul Qayyum, a retired Pakistani general.

“There is a wider dimension. By sharing its advanced technology with Pakistan, China is … also saying to the world that its defence capability is growing rapidly.”

China has supplied Pakistan with fighter jets for more than three decades. But Beijing has seldom supplied Pakistan’s air force with advanced fighter aircraft. Islamabad turned to France for Mirage fighter jets in the 1970s and to the US for F-16s in the 1980s.

Pakistan has a fleet of 45 F-16s built by Lockheed Martin. The Pakistani air force is using the fighter jet in its campaign against militants in South Waziristan.

The US has agreed to sell Islamabad another 18 new F-16s and Pakistani officials also expected the US to supply about a dozen older versions of the aircraft.

Over the past decade, China and Pakistan have collaborated on building their first jointly produced advanced fighter jet, known as the JF-17, or “Thunder”. Pakistan is expected to roll out the first domestically built version of the Thunder within weeks.

Pakistan’s air force plans to purchase at least 250 of the Thunder fighters over the next four to five years.

Experts see the new Pakistani focus on China as evidence that Beijing is trying to expand its military power.

“Countries like Iran and possibly some of the Middle Eastern countries would be keen to deal with China if they can find technology which is comparable to the west,” said one western official in Islamabad.

“Pakistan will work as the laboratory to try out Chinese aircraft. If they work well with the Pakistani air force, others will follow.”

Source: http://pakistankakhudahafiz.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/pakistan-in-chinese-fighter-jet-deal/

un inno alla pace e all’armonia tra i popoli

«Difendimi dalle forze contrarie,
la notte, nel sonno, quando non sono cosciente,
quando il mio percorso, si fa incerto.
E non abbandonarmi mai…
Non mi abbandonare mai!
Riportami nelle zone piu’ alte
in uno dei tuoi regni di quiete:
E’ tempo di lasciare questo ciclo di vite.
E non mi abbandonare mai…
Non mi abbandonare mai!
Perche’ le gioie del piu’ profondo affetto
o dei piu’ lievi anditi del cuore
sono solo l’ombra della luce.
Ricordami, come sono infelice,
lontano dalle tue leggi;
come non sprecare il tempo che mi rimane.
E non abbandonarmi mai…
Non mi abbandonare mai!
Perche’ la pace che ho sentito in certi monasteri,
o la vibrante intesa di tutti i sensi in festa,
sono solo l’ombra della luce»
(Franco Battiato).