BAB 16 [From.Heart.To.Heart.]

“There was a story mentioned by Ibnu Jawziyyah (Rahimahullahu ta’ala) and he mentioned about a pious man.” Sheikh memulakan cerita. “He said there was a man who used to fast throughout the day and he used to pray ( qiyamullai) throughout the night. He never used to involved himself in anything that was haram (forbidden). He knew that the people around him in his land were corrupt people so he didn’t sit in their gatherings because all the things they used to do are backbiting and slandering. So he stayed away from any gathering and he would just stayed in his house and never leave his house. When he ran out of food, he would leave his house and he would store and bought enough food to last him as long as it can and he would remain in his house, just workshipping Allah Subhanahu wata’ala. The people of the land, they gathered together and they said, “Look at this man, does he thinks that he is better that us? He doesn’t come and sit in our gatherings, he doesn’t walk around and talk to us, we just see him and he looks down the floor and he goes to the shop and he goes back to his house. Never did this man look right or left and even just in front of him, he would just look down and walk.” So the people became jealous of this man and this is how they were. Shaytaan doesn’t just attack you by himself but shaytaan has the people that he has. He inspires his haram into them and he commands them to attack the believers.” 

     Haseef Ashraff yang mendengar lecture tersebut mengangguk-angguk.

    “So this is what they did. So what they did was they looked around the land until they found the most beautiful woman in that land. And she was a young and chaste woman. They approached the woman and said, ‘We want you to seduce that man and we want you to commit zina with that man.’ She said, ‘How can I do such a thing?’ She was from amongst the most poorest woman in that land, she found it’s very difficult to live. They said to her, ‘If you can do this, then we will give you the equivalent to your weight in gold and even more that this. All this poverty that you are facing today will end. All you have just to do is commiting zina with that man.’ So the woman went home,  began to think until she looked at her situation and she thought, Subhanallah. What she thought to herself that there is nothing left for me, I am going die of poverty and I have nothing left. So she accepted the task that had given to her and she said, ‘I will go and I commit zina with this man.’ ”

    Haseef Ashraff terpempan seketika mengenangkan betapa senangnya wanita ini menyerahkan maruahnya.

    Sheikh menyambung lagi,”So one cold night and she knocked the door of the house of this man. The man opened the door and he saw a woman so he closed the door. So she raised her voice and she said, ‘Please allow me to come into your house. I was travelling and I thought I would reach my destination before night but now the night has come and I am in the middle of nowhere. I do not know where I am. I do not know anyone in this land and if you do not accept me into this house then I fear something will happen to me outside.’ So he said, ‘We have many neighbours around from the door. Please go and knock on the houses of these neighbours and inshaAllah ta’ala they will help you.’ So the woman she left. A little while later, she knocked on his door again. She said, ‘I went to the houses of neighbours but no one is in home and it is really cold outside. I fear I may die if you do not accept me and not allow me into your house. He said, ‘Just go further down the hills and you will find there a few more houses and inshaAllah they will allow you to live with them. There’s no one in my house so it is not permissible for you to be with me.’ So the woman left. A little while she came back again and she knocked the door. He opened the door and saw the woman. She said, ‘Wallahi, if you do not allow me to come into your house and if any man puts his finger on me, rapes and takes away my chastity then wallahi, on the Judgement day I will stand in front of Allah and say you were the one that were cause all of this. It is because of you he raped me, it is because of you, this happened. And I will blame on you.’ When he heard the name of Allah (SWT), he became really scared. Why? Because when the name of Allah is mentioned, the hearts of believers will tremble. He said to her, ‘Come and sit in this room and do not knock on my door and say anything to me. As soon as the fajr approaches, leave my house and continues with your journey.’ ”

    Habislah lelaki ni, bisik Haseef Ashraff dalam hati.

    “So the man left this woman in this room and he went into the second room he had and locked the door. He continued with his recitation of the Quran. Now the people of this land knew that she has entered his house so they gathered around the house, waiting to catch the two of them commiting zina. This pious man never faced anything like this in his life. So he was in the house  and reciting the book of Allah (SWT). The woman is ready to commit zina with this man. The man (he is reciting Quran) and the woman began to scream. She screamed and she screamed and she screamed. So the man opened his door and he walked into the room where the woman was. He had an oil lamp with him. He walked into the room and he found that this woman was lying on the floor, without her clothes on. She was calling him towards her and this man now, for the first time in his life, he is seeing something that he had never seen before because his gaze had always been lowered. He is feeling something in his heart now, that he has never felt before. His mind was telling him things, that it has never told him before. He had the most beautiful woman of their land in front of him, calling him for zina. What did he do? What would a person in this situation do? He had never seen anything like this in his life. The people now they know when they heard the first scream of the woman, they know that very soon, they will catch them commiting zina. So they came closer to the door of the house of the man. The woman,  all of a sudden began to scream and she screamed and continued to scream and screamed and she screamed. The people of their land broke the door of this man’s house and they entered to find that the woman was on the floor and the man was also on the floor but the woman was in one side of the room and the man was on the other side of the room. The woman continued to scream and screamed. They looked at the man, he was crying in the corner of the room and his hand was in the fire of the lamp he had. He was crying and crying and the woman was screaming so they  took the woman out of the house. The woman said, “Take me from this man because wallahi, the iman of this man is killing me. I see something in front of me that I cannot describe and this has done something to my heart and my mind. The iman of this man is killing me so take me away.” And the man was still crying in the corner because every single time he took a step towards the woman, he put his hand in the fire that he had and he said, ‘Remember that the fire of Jahannam Hell is hotter that the fire of this world,’ until he would fall to the floor.”

     Mata Haseef Ashraff bertakung.

    “And then, when he was able to stand up, he would stand up again and take a step towards the woman. When he took a step to the woman again, he would put his hand back in the fire and said, ‘Remember that the fire of Hell is more severe than the fire on this world.’ He kept on doing this until his hand was left inside the fire. After the woman was taken away, he turned to Allah (SWT) and he said, ‘Oh Allah! Forgive me for the sin that I have commited.’ Suara sheikh berubah. “What sin has this man committed? What did he do? He stayed away from zina. He stayed away from the most beautiful woman of the land. What sin did he commit? He said, ‘Oh Allah, forgive me for the footsteps I took towards the woman.’ Look at the iman of this man. Look at the iman of the righteous people. Nothing will tempt them. Nothing will take them away from Allah (SWT).”

    Menangis juga Haseef Ashraff di situ. 

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Lagu Syahadah Rabaah - Fetya berbunyi daripada handphone di atas sofa. Ain Jasmin mencapai handphonenya seraya melihat nama pemanggil. Tertera perkataan Zauj, Haseef di skrin. Ain Jasmin segera menjawab panggilan tersebut.

    “Assalamualaikum.”

    “Waalaikumussalam warahmatullah, Ain. Ain dah balik?”

    “Dah balik. Abang di mana sekarang?” Dia baru balik daripada sebuah program dakwah di Aberdeen. Dia yang menjadi AJK program itu jadi walaupun pregnant, dia tetap menghadiri program tersebut. Suaminya hendak ikut sekali tetapi terpaksa bertugas di hospital.

    “Oh. Tadi selepas bertugas di hospital, Afiq beritahu bahawa ada sebuah lecture disampaikan oleh seorang sheikh yang dia amat thiqah. Ni dah on the way balik rumah.” 

    Ain Jasmin perasan bahawa suara Haseef Ashraff lain sedikit. Macam orang baru lepas menangis. “Abang okay ke ni? Kenapa nangis?”

    Isterinya pandai mengesan perubahan suaranya. “I’m okay cuma lecture tadi agak menyentuh hati. Rasa macam jauh lagi nak dapat title orang yang betul-betul beriman dan soleh.” Sayu kedengaran suara Haseef Ashraff.

    “Abang janganlah cakap macam tu. Kita tengah berusaha kan? Allah lihat usaha kita. Drive safely ya? Ain nak masak ni. Nanti abang balik, abang ceritalah apa yang sheikh tu cakap.”

    “InshaAllah. Assalamualaikum.”

    “Waalaikumussalam warahmatullah wabarakatuh.”