Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Adha

Aidil Adha membawa sejuta makna kepada umat Islam tidak kira di mana sahaja mereka berada dan apa taraf mereka. Dalam Aidil Adha ini, umat Islam boleh merayakannya selama 4 hari iaitu daripada 10 hinggalah 13 Zulhijjah. Umat Islam boleh merayakannya dengan melaksanakan Ibadah Korban. Dalam kita menyambut Hari Raya ini dengan penuh kesyukuran dan kegembiraan, janganlah dilupa kepada mereka yang memerlukan. Terdapat kisah yang menyayat hatiku di sebalik Aidil Adha ini, kisah seorang anak dan ayah yang sangat patuh kepada Allah sehinggakan sanggup mengorbankan insan yang paling disayangi. Persoalannya di sini, mampukah kita sebagai hamba mencontohi apa yang dilakukan oleh mereka?? Dimanakah letaknya iman kita sekiranya berhadapan dengan situasi ini?? Renung-renungkan dan selamat beramal......

Asal-Usul Aidiladha

Pada suatu hari Nabi Ibrahim bermimpi, dalam mimpinya itu Allah menyuruh Nabi Ibrahim menyembelih anaknya yang bernama Ismail. Selepas dari mendapat mimpi itu, Nabi Ibrahim pun memberitahu isterinya yang bernama Siti Hajar.

Maka berbincanglah Nabi Ibrahim, Siti Hajar dan Ismail. Siti Hajar berkata, “Mungkin mimpimu itu hanya mainan tidur saja tetapi kalau mimpi itu merupakan wahyu, wajiblah dituruti.” Apabila mendengar kata-kata ibunya, Ismail berkata kepada bapanya, “Ayahku, sekiranya ini merupakan wahyu dari Allah S.W.T., aku sedia merelakan diriku untuk disembelih.”

Setelah persetujuan dicapai, keesokan harinya Nabi Ibrahim pun membawa puteranya Ismail untuk disembelih. Perkara Nabi Ibrahim hendak menyembelih anaknya telah sampai kepada pengetahuan orang ramai. Hal ini membuat orang ramai takut sehingga ada yang mengatakan, “Nampaknya Nabi Ibrahim mungkin sudah gila hinggakan mahu menyembelih anaknya sendiri. Kalau kita biarkan perkara ini, nanti kitapun akan dibunuhnya.”

Walau apapun tuduhan orang terhadapnya, namun Nabi Ibrahim tetap menjalankan tugas yang diperintahkan oleh Allah S.W.T terhadapnya. Setelah Nabi Ibrahim dan anaknya Ismail sampai pada tempat yang dituju, berkatalah anaknya, “Wahai ayahku, aku fikir cara yang baik untuk menyembelih adalah dengan cara aku disembelih dalam keadaan menelungkup tapi mata ayah hendaklah ditutup. Kemudian ayah hendaklah tahu arah pedang yang tajam dan ayah kenakan tepat kepada leherku.”

Kemudian Nabi Ibrahim pun melaksanakan perintah yang Allah S.W.T perintahkan dalam mimpinya. Baginda pun mengucapkan kalimah atas nama Allah lalu memancungkan pedangnya pada leher anaknya itu. Maka terperciklah darah mengenai badan Nabi Ibrahim. Sebagai seorang manusia biasa, Nabi Ibrahim pun menggeletar dan membuka penutup matanya.

Tetapi alangkah terperanjatlah apabila melihat yang disembelihnya itu bukanlah anaknya melainkan seekor kibas. Dengan memuji kebesaran Allah S.W.T, kedua-duanya pun berpeluk-peluk sambil bersyukur kepada Tuhan kerana memberi kekuatan sehingga dapat melaksanakan amanat dari Allah S.W.T.

Peristiwa ini ada diterangkan dalan surah Ash-Shaffat ayat 101 hingga ayat 111

The Largest Admiral Fleet in History

Zheng He (Cheng Ho) 

Decades before Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in search of a water route to Asia, the Chinese were exploring the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific with seven voyages of the "Treasure Fleet" that solidified Chinese control over much of Asia in the 15th century.

      The Treasure Fleets were commanded by a powerful eunuch admiral named Cheng Ho. Cheng Ho was born around 1371 in China's southwestern Yunan Province (just north of Laos) with the name Ma Ho. Ma Ho's father was a Muslim hajji (who had made a pilgrimage to Mecca) and the family name of Ma was used by Muslims in representation of the word Mohammed

     When Ma Ho was ten years old (around 1381), he was captured along with other children when the Chinese army invaded Yunan to take control over the region. At the age of 13 he was castrated, as were other young prisoners, and he was placed as a servant in the household of the Chinese Emperor's fourth son (out of twenty-six total sons), Prince Zhu Di.

      Ma Ho proved himself to be an exceptional servant to Prince Zhu Di. He became skilled in the arts of war and diplomacy and served as an officer of the prince. Zhu Di renamed Ma Ho as Cheng Ho because the eunuch's horse was killed in battle outside of a place called Zhenglunba. (Cheng Ho is also Zheng He in the newer Pinyin transliteration of Chinese but he's still most commonly called Cheng Ho). Cheng Ho was also known as San Bao which means "three jewels."

      Cheng Ho, who was said to have been seven feet tall, was given greater power when Zhu Di became emperor in 1402. One year later, Zhu Di appointed Cheng Ho admiral and ordered him to oversee the construction of a Treasure Fleet to explore the seas surrounding China. Admiral Cheng Ho was the first eunuch appointed to such a high military position in China.


      Surpisingly, until now, no one can beat his fleet. Imagine how determine he was to make, to conduct, to control and to handle such mammoth-sized fleet at that time. It was said that there were more than 300 ships in his fleet during his voyage. It was very amazing! He must have a good leadership skills. I wish to had characteristics like this scholar but I guess, there are many things in this world that I had to study but first, I have to study about myself.

The Greatest Inventors

Al-Jazari

Abu Al-Iz ibn Isma'il ibn Al-Razaz Al-Jazari (1136-1206) (أَبُو اَلْعِزِ بْنُ إسْماعِيلِ بْنُ الرِّزاز الجزري‎) was a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, matematician and also astronomer from Al Jazira, Mesopotamia, who lived during the Islamic Golden Ages. He is best known for writing the (Book of knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) in 1206, where he described fifty mechanical devices along with instructions on how to construct them.

Little is known about al-Jazari, and most of that comes from the introduction to his Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices. He was named after the area in which he was born, Al Jazira, the traditional Arabic name for what was northern Mesopotamia and what is now northwestern Iraq and northeastern Syria, between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Like his father before him, he served as chief engineer at theArtuklu Palace, the residence of the Mardin branch of the Turkish Artuqid dynastywhich ruled across eastern Anatolia as vassals of the Zanghid rulers of Mosul and later Ayyubid general Salahuddin.

Al-Jazari was part of a tradition of craftsmen and was thus more of a practical engineer than an inventor who appears to have been "more interested in the craftsmanship necessary to construct the devices than in the technology which lay behind them" and his machines were usually "assembled by trial an error rather than by theoretical calculation. His “Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices” appears to have been quite popular as it appears in a large number of manuscript copies, and as he explains repeatedly, he only describes devices he has built himself. According to Mayr, the book's style resembles that of a modern "do-it-yourself" book.

Some of his devices were inspired by earlier devices, such as one of his monumental water clocks, which was based on the Archimedes Principles. He also cites the influence of the Bani Musabrothers for his fountains, Al Asturlabi for the design of a candle clock, and Hibatullah Ibn Al-Hussain (1139) for musical automata. Al-Jazari goes on to describe the improvements he made to the work of his predecessors, and describes a number of devices, techniques and components that are original innovations which do not appear in the works by his precessors.

What interesting about this guy was his vision that beyond and far away from his time until he was also certified by the western specialist. He could be able to create and invent incredible machines that never thought by the people in his time. This man should be an icon to those who wants to think outside the box and became an extraordinary people. I'm proud of the muslims scholar.