BAB 10 [From.Heart.To.Heart.]

Kedengaran Seven 8 Six sedang menyanyikan nasyid Ya Allah di atas meja belajar, menandakan ada mesej yang masuk. Iman mencapai handphonenya seraya meletakkan buku The Other Side of A Coin tulisan Aiman Azlan dan Ameen Misran ke atas bantal di tepi.

    Mesej daripada Kak Lysa.

   “Assalamualaikum Im. Sihat tak? Bila nak mai rumah akak? Parents akak nak jumpa Im ni.”

   Iman membalas mesej tersebut.

 “Waalaikumussalam warahmatullah. Alhamdulillah sihat :) Akak sihat? Eh, kenapa parents akak nak jumpa Im? Malulah.” 

   Kak Lysa :

  “Alhamdulillah, akak pun sihat jugak ^^ Parents akak datang rumah sewa akak tadi. Kan Im nak dah fly to Scotland next week, so diorang nak jumpa dengan Im sebelum Im fly. Nak bekalkan nasihat kut :D”

   Iman :

  “InshaAllah petang esok Im datang ke rumah akak =)”

   Kak Lysa :

  “Rightio. Im, akak nak tanya ni. Nama penuh Im apa sebenarnya? Selama ni akak duk panggil Im je T_T”

   Iman :

  “Haha :D Ingatkan akak dah tahu nama Im. Nama Im, Nur Iman Maqsurah.”

    Kak Lysa :

   “MashaAllah, cantiknya nama Im ❤ Im tahu tak maksud nama Im?”

   Iman :

  “Tak, taktau. Akak tahu?”

   Kak Lysa :

  “Maksudnya, Cahaya Iman Yang Dipelihara ❤ Selama ni ada tak orang yang panggil nama Im yang sebenar?”

  Iman :

  “Takde. Biasanya orang panggil Im je.”

   Kak Lysa :

  “Im, akak sebenarnya nak panggil Im dengan nama  Iman. Cantik maksudnya. Boleh?”

   First time orang nak panggil aku as Iman. Iman membalas,

  “Tafaddhol kak. Semoga Iman betul-betul menjadi orang yang mempunyai iman yang dipelihara J  InshaAllah.”

*****

“Hi, I’m Iman from Malaysia.” Iman tersenyum manis.

    “I’m Priya from New Delhi.” 

    “Aapsey milka khushi huey.” Nice to meet you. Lebar senyuman Iman.

    Priya membulatkan mata. “You can speak Hindi? Whoa!”

    Iman tergelak. “Muchey kuch Hindi aatii hai.” I do speak some Hindi. “Just a little bit.”

    “Yeh accha hai!” That’s good!

*****

Dah sebulan sampai Aberdeen. Hmm, Aberdeen is nice. Iman mengguman. Communication and travel links are excellent. With global air, rail and road connections, Aberdeen is easily reachable from anywhere in the UK within an hour and a half. Local transport services offer a reliable and regular service throughout Aberdeen and surrounding areas. Cewah, speaking sekejap.

    Universiti pun not bad. A student population of around 14500, ramai student perempuan daripada lelak, dalam ratio lebih kurang 54:46. Iman membaca pamphlet di tangan. 

• 89% of subjects rated excellent/highly satisfactory.
• Scotland’s top Medical School.
• The University has been praised by the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education for the quality of relationships between students and staff.
• The University’s main library – The Sit Duncan Rice Library – contains over a million volumes, over 300,000 e-books and over 21,000 journals. The library also hosts a series of events, presentations and exhibitions throughout the year.

   

    Nice. Rumah Ain Jasmin dengan Haseef Ashraff pun dekat je, ambil masa lebih kurang 15 minit kalau naik bas. Dia tinggal off-campus, tinggal serumah dengan senior yang dia kenal semasa dia Form 4 dahulu. Senior bernama Balqis tu baik orangnya walaupun dulu Iman tak rapat pun dengan beliau. Dalam rumah ni ada dua orang lagi housemate, Paige dari United Kingdom dan Aya, muslimah dari Pakistan. Paige sahajalah yang non-muslim di rumah ini tetapi Paige baik apa, dia tak rebel pun apabila tiga orang housematenya orang Islam. Dakwah tentang Islam pun inshaAllah boleh dilakukan kepada Paige di rumah ni. Hari tu masa sampai kat sini rasa hidung dengan tangan beku, sejuk sangat. Dia jenis yang tak tahan sejuk. Tapi lama-lama tu dah okay. Badan dah mula tahan dengan suhu di sini.

    Priya tu classmate di uni. Baik gila budak tu. Sempat la berborak hari tu dengan dia, Priya macam tertarik dengan Islam. Dia selalu tanya pasal Islam. Yang boleh jawab tu dia jawab, kalau yang susah tu hold dulu, balik hostel dia contact Ain Jasmin or Lysa untuk tanya soalan yang diajukan oleh Priya. Yang bestnya, Priya tak makan pork or seorang yang drinker. Pernah Priya cerita dulu, dia cuba untuk minum arak tapi badannya menolak minuman tu. Kesannya dua hari dia demam dan dia promise untuk tidak minum arak lagi.

    Iman merenung sekeliling. Ingatannya terhadap Palestin belum padam sebenarnya. Dia harap sangat agar dia dapat menjejakkan kaki ke Palestin serta Syria suatu hari nanti. Terngiang-ngiang nasheed Palestine nyanyian Seven 8 Six di telinga. 

Allah, stop all of the screaming
Allah, restore the one true dream
Palestine, it has to be the one to see
Islam will shine
no matter what they try to say
there's got to be a way

how can we get back on track
now tell me how it's gonna be done
will we win or lose this one?
(don't care about the fact)
cuz they are in the lead
they say we all should be scared
Palestine will never be theirs

    Allah will always be with you, Palestinians. Always.

*****

Iman membuka laptopnya. Dia teringat akan Priya. Nampaknya kawan barunya itu sedang mencari-cari arah kebenaran. Iman menggoggle nama Dr. Zakir Naik lalu dia tertarik akan sebuah website. Banyak penceritaan tentang fahaman seperti Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, Hinduism di website ini.

CONCEPT OF GOD IN HINDUISM        by Dr. Zakir Naik

1.  Common Concept of God in Hinduism:
Hinduism is commonly perceived as a polytheistic religion. Indeed, most Hindus would attest to this, by professing belief in multiple Gods. While some Hindus believe in the existence of three gods, some believe in thousands of gods, and some others in thirty three crore i.e. 330 million Gods. However, learned Hindus, who are well versed in their scriptures, insist that a Hindu should believe in and worship only one God.

The major difference between the Hindu and the Muslim perception of God is the common Hindus’ belief in the philosophy of Pantheism. Pantheism considers everything, living and non-living, to be Divine and Sacred. The common Hindu, therefore, considers everything as God. He considers the trees as God, the sun as God, the moon as God, the monkey as God, the snake as God and even human beings as manifestations of God!

Islam, on the contrary, exhorts man to consider himself and his surroundings as examples of Divine Creation rather than as divinity itself. Muslims therefore believe that everything is God’s i.e. the word ‘God’ with an apostrophe ‘s’. In other words the Muslims believe that everything belongs to God.

The trees belong to God, the sun belongs to God, the moon belongs to God, the monkey belongs to God, the snake belongs to God, the human beings belong to God and everything in this universe belongs to God.

Thus the major difference between the Hindu and the Muslim beliefs is the difference of the apostrophe ‘s’. The Hindu says everything is God. The Muslim says everything is God’s.

    Iman mengangguk. Dia masih teringat lagi kata-kata beliau dalam suatu program tv Tonight With Dr. Zakir Naik yang disiarkan di TV Alhijrah,  “Hindu says everything is God but Muslim says everything is God’s.” Nice statement, doktor. Dia tabik dengan Dr. Zakir Naik yang merupakan anak murid kepada Sheikh Ahmed Deedat, pakar dalam bidang comparative religions ini.