BAB 5 [From.Heart.To.Heart.]

“Assalamualaikum.” Iman memberi salam kepada kawan-kawannya. Dia kini bakal menghadapi SPM empat bulan lagi. Hari ni ada reunion dengan kawan-kawan dari sekolah lamanya. Almaklumlah, dua tahun lepas dia mendapat keputusan yang agak cemerlang dalam PMR, jadi dia pindah ke sekolah lain. Sebenarnya dia tidak mahu join pun reunion ini tetapi mama menyuruhnya pergi jadi dia ikutkan sahaja.

    Semua kawan Im berpaling ke arahnya dengan wajah tercengang. “Im?”

    “Are you really Im?”

    “Dey, what’s wrong? Macam tengok hantu je.” Iman ketawa kelat. “Ha’ah, aku la ni.”

    
    “Im, serious aku tak cam kau tadi.” Kay mula berbicara.

    “Mahunya tak cam, pakaian berbungkus macam tu!” Kata-kata Farhan mengundang tawa rakan-rakan yang lain. Iman menggeleng. Aku dah agak, mesti akan jadi macam ni.

    “Berbungkus amendenya? Aku just pakai dress labuh je la. Salah ke?”

    “Dress labuh tu no hal tapi sejak bila kau pakai tudung? Dulu rambut kau yang paling ke’omputih’an berbanding kitorang.” Deera menjawab.

    “Sejak tahun lepas. Dah-dah, tukar topik lain.” Im memandang rakan-rakannya dengan hujung mata. Pandangannya terhenti di wajah seseorang. Aiman. Ex-boyfriendnya. Mereka berpisah dua tahun lepas kerana Iman akan berpindah ke sekolah baru. Aiman memandangnya sambil tersenyum kelat. Iman memandang ke arah lain. Dah-dah Im, kau jaga buat hal. Dah lupa kata-kata Kak Lysa?

    “Dari mata, turun ke hati. Sebab itu kita kena jaga ikhtilat.”

    “Lepas makan ni kita nak ke mana?” Iman bertanya kepada rakan-rakannya.

    “Kita pergi musolla la. Ustazah ada ni.” Adam menjawab selamba seraya berpaling ke arah Iman. Serentak lagi kawan-kawannya tergelak kecuali Aiman.

    Hei pakcik ni aku cili mulut karang! Sabar Im, sabar. Iman hanya diam.

    “Ha, jomlah pergi beli makanan.”

*****

Ketika Iman sedang menuju ke kiosk makanan, Aiman datang ke arahnya.

    “Im.” Iman berpaling kerana suara yang memanggil namanya.

    “I miss you. How are you now?” Dia memulakan kata.

    Wajah Iman beku dengan kata-kata Aiman. Dia sekadar diam tidak berkutik lalu memalingkan wajah.

    “I still love you, Im. Let’s getting back together nak?” Aiman mencuba lagi.

    Iman berpaling ke arah Aiman. “I. Have. Nothing. To Say. Back. Off.” Sepatah-sepatah Iman menuturkan lalu meninggalkan Aiman di situ.

*****

“Guy, I’m off. Aku kena balik sekarang.” Pantas dia mengucapkan kepada rakan-rakannya yang berada di meja itu.

    “Tapi Im, kau tak makan lagi kan?”

    “It’s okay, aku boleh makan kat rumah. Bye, take care.” Dan dia meninggalkan tempat itu.

                                                   

CEPATNYA MASA BERLALU, sedar tak sedar dah selesai dia menduduki percubaan SPM dan sudahpun mendapat keputusannya. Alhamdulillah.

    “Kak.”

    “Hmm?”

    “Im dah habis trial SPM.” Iman menarik nafas sebentar sebelum menyambung, “Dan Im pun dah dapat ‘result’nya.”

    “Whoa. Acane result?” Lysa bertanya.

    “Alhamdulillah, Im dapat 9A 1C. C for Biology. Seriously Im bersyukur dengan result yang Im dapat ni tapi hari tu Im kena marah dengan papa.”

    Huh? Lysa dah berkerut dahi memandang Im. “Awatnya?”

    “Papa marah sebab Im tak dapat straight A’s. Dia cakap kata nak pergi sambung belajar kat overseas tapi kenapa tak dapat 10A? Dia marah-marah sebab Im tak dapat A dalam Bio, Im dapat C pulak tu. Dah la tak dapat 10A+. Im rasa down gila. Apa ingat senang ke nak dapat A dalam semua subjek? Penat tau study tapi alih-alih kena marah.”

    Lysa mengusap lembut kepala Iman yang bertudung. “Im, sabarlah. Tu kan papa Im juga. Biasalah, pemikiran orang tua kadang-kadang tak sama dengan orang muda.”

    “Tapi…” Im mendengus perlahan. “Mana boleh macam tu. Im yang jawab exam, Im yang hadapi semua tu, kenapa papa marah-marah pulak? Sepatutnya papa kena faham la perasaan Im macam mana. Memanglah papa bagi hadiah untuk result ini tapi kata-katanya sangat buat Im terasa. Im dah bersyukur dengan result Im tapi kenapa papa tak bersyukur pula?”

    “Im… Sometimes ada perkara yang kita tahu tapi orang lain tak tahu. Dan ada juga perkara yang kita tak tahu tapi orang lain tahu. Macam papa Im. Mungkin Im dah tahu how to bersyukur dengan nikmat tapi mungkin papa Im belum lagi. Bagi dia masa. Yang penting, Im kena sabar dan yakin pada diri Im. Allah kan tengok usaha, bukan natijah sebab natijah tu kan Allah yang beri. Dan remember, you have Allah.” Lysa tersenyum manis ke arahnya.

IMAN MENGEMASKAN SILA sambil membaca ebook yang Lysa tolong downloadkan untuknya kelmarin. Banyak juga ebook tentang Islam yang dia pulun baca seperti Al-Munthalaq edisi Indonesia. Sekarang dia nak sambung kembali membaca ebook The Amazing Quran by Dr. Gary Miller.

Some years ago, the story came to us in Toronto about a man who was in the merchant

marine and made his living on the sea. A Muslim gave him a translation of the Quran to read. The merchant marine knew nothing about the history of Islam but was interested in reading the Quran. When he finished reading it, he brought it back to the Muslim and asked, "This Muhammad, was he a sailor?" He was impressed at how accurately the Quran describes a storm on a sea. When he was told, "No as a matter of fact, Muhammad lived in the desert," that was enough for him. He embraced Islam on the spot.

He was so impressed with the Quran's description because he had been in a storm on the sea, and he knew that whoever had written that description had also been in a storm on the sea. The description of "a wave, over it a wave, over it clouds" (Surah Nur, 24:40) was not what someone imagining a storm on a sea to be like would have written; rather, it was written by someone who knew what a storm on the sea was like. This is one example of how the Quran is not tied to certain place and time. Certainly, the scientific ideas expressed in it also do not seem to originate from the desert fourteen centuries ago.

    Iman mengangguk-angguk lalu meneruskan pembacaan. Pembacaan diteruskan lagi tentang Dr. Keith Moore, seorang non-muslim yang merupakan profesor embriologi di Universiti of Toronto. Beliau begitu impressed dengan kenyataan ‘alaqah (leech-like clot) yang disebutkan dalam Al-Quran.

Dr. Moore also wrote a book on clinical embryology, and when he presented this information in Toronto, it caused quite a stir throughout Canada. It was on the front pages of some of the newspapers across Canada, and some of the headlines were quite funny. For instance, one headline read: "SURPRISING THING FOUND IN ANCIENT PRAYER BOOK!" It seems obvious from this example that people do not clearly understand what it is all about. As a matter of fact, one newspaper reporter asked Professor Moore, "Don't you think that maybe the Arabs might have known about these things - the description of the embryo, its appearance and how it changes and grows? Maybe they were not scientists, maybe they did some crude dissections on their own - carved up people and examined these things." The professor immediately pointed out to him that he [i.e., the reporter] had missed a very important point - all of the slides of the embryo that had been shown and that had been projected in the film had come from pictures taken through a microscope. He said, "It does not matter if someone had tried to discover embryology fourteen centuries ago. They could not have seen it!"

                                                                                                               

All of the descriptions in the Quran of the appearance of the embryo are of the item when it is still too small to see with the eye; therefore, one needs a microscope to see it. Since such a device had only been around for little more than two hundred years, Dr. Moore taunted, "Maybe fourteen centuries ago someone secretly had a microscope and did this research, making no mistakes anywhere. Then he somehow taught Muhammad (s) and convinced him to put this information in his book. Then he destroyed his equipment and kept it a secret forever. Do you believe that? You really should not unless you bring some proof because it is such a ridiculous theory." In fact, when he was asked, "How do you explain this information in the Quran?" Dr. Moore's reply was, "It could only have been divinely revealed!"

     
    Iman. Impressed.