Is it true Pakistan terrorize the Terrorist?

By Romi Adetio S

Graduate student of Aligarh Muslim University, India.

After the previous condemnation of the terrorist from the Non-Islamic alignment countries such as western people including America, they put ahead onto the region of Pakistan, Afghanistan and other Islamic countries, and notice that these areas are the base activities of the terrorism.

Pakistan under Pervez Musharraf who is an ideal man and obviously being under pressure from America for the link of terrorism in the country, becoming much more secular and behaving harshly to any groups who were proclaiming for jihad, without being consider their mission.

The present event in Islamabad about Lal Masjid where the hostages were inside mostly students, women and children, and the dispute between the government army with the head of jamiah, is one of the government respond to support America, and to my view Parvez opinion to pressure the “terrorist” who are settling inside Lal Masjid by attacking the mosque is totally fatal, there will be so many innocent people who are mostly students will be died. The gunfire attack to the mosque will never be convenient to any Muslim, they won’t allow the “house of God” to be fired, and it could be only done by negotiation or others.

I would like to say Government of Pakistan action is mostly limited by America; it is not enough to collect the information come from the American intelligent only; it should have a proof and the sequence in the reality. Has it really have action to terrorism, it is not enough to proof that a person has a link to terrorism by hearing from his delivery to a wake “jihad”, Jihad in Islam has a deep meaning, and different understanding, is it enough to proof the terrorist by looking at the availability of guns, and pistol in some one house?

You would never know the real till you know that he has done that action, I can say how narrow the thinking of that person who says that any people who do a “jihad” activity is terrorist? Not at all, even many students doing a “jihad” by learning the Islamic law, and Islamic traditions, let me explain what the meaning of “jihad” is:
Jihad derived from Arabic word means Struggle, Struggle in Islam is to be struggle in their live, struggle to strengthen their Iman, struggle for live barely for Allah.
So, has “Jihad” means terrorism? I really don’t feel convenient with the situation in Pakistan, and the unwise action done by the government of Pakistan. We all hope every thing will be cured soon, the right is right and the wrong is wrong.

Sense of Believe in Pilgrim

The last basic principle of Islam is to perform Pilgrim (Hajj) to those who are capable. The people who wanted to perform this pillar will be traveling from their homeland to Mecca with iman in their body. I am one of the people who had performed this pillar, from India I have straight intention for performing a hajj, I took flight from India and thus I arrived on the land of Arab, then we were brought to Indonesian Consulate General, where we clean the body and dress an Umrah clothe, and perfumed it. We leave from Jeddah to Mecca after Isha Prayer, on the way we saw the plateau and stone hills we keep pronouncing the praise to Allah almighty on our way, which make our iman far stronger then before.
Mecca is the city of Prophet Muhammad PBUH and his birthplace; I came closer to Masjidil Haram and pray in my hearth before stepping inside masjid. My eyes, ears, and body couldn't talk nor saying anything when I saw Ka'bah with my own eyes, then I am whispering; this is the place where the direction of Kiblah and the people from many parts of the world are praying toward this sacred thing. And nothing I found in it except the big house covered by the black clothe with the calligraphy writing stitched on it. I read some Arabic words to give praise of His greatness and omnipotent. I started thawaf rounding the Ka'bah with praying and praise upon Allah the almighty for seven times, finally I came to the small circle crack on the corner of Ka'bah to kiss a sacred stone hajarul aswad, there are a peaces of stone, I didn't see there is a danger for me and to other people came from the stone, then I lower my nose till it touch it, and pray for the goodness for me, family and Muslims.
Maqam Ibrahim is the step of foot of prophet Ibrahim, the founder and the first human who led down the foundation of Ka'bah and building. I pray behind it, to follow the prophet act, also it is compulsory to pray sunnah behind it after thawaf.
To believe Him but not to believe His creation, sometimes the pilgrimages unconsciously or consciously had done Syirik to acknowledge another god besides Allah, and it is ultimately condemned in Islam. Touching Maqam Ibrahim and wiped off to the face several times, with intention of getting blessing from it, many other things which have been done by the pilgrimage that followed others without acknowledging the meaning and the source of it.
Sya'i is to walk by reading Arabic word contents of praying and praise upon Allah between Saffa and Marwah for seven times back and forward, as the prophet Muhammad PBUH had done it before. The story of Sya'i is narrated to the Prophet Ibrahim's wife, Siti Hajar, she and her son Ismail in that time walking and running in small steps for several times between saffa and marwah to find the water, finally Allah presented them the water from the food step of Ismail, the water come out from the earth, which is known as Zam Zam. The water continuously flowing till now, giving the advantageous to the Arabs and their land.
Pilgrimage have to brought a peaces of stone and to throw it to jamarat in Mina, the side place out of Mecca, the stone should be thrown by the pilgrimage on their own or by some one others, however, it must follow the practice which had done by the prophet. But, during the practicing there are a number of pilgrimages who are innocently throwing a thing other then stone, such as a shoe, shock, wood, etc. and they were throwing the stone with an anger and some rudeness words, they were claiming that they are throwing a jinn or shaitan. But exactly it is not, it is just a big stone which is called jamarat and the pilgrimage had not to show a kind of anger or other abusing words but they ought to say Bismillahi Allahu Akbar in the name of Allah the almighty. Obviously the meaning of throwing the stone by mentioning the praise upon Allah is to accustom the pilgrimage to the saying of praising upon His greatness, as the obligation between creatures to his creator.
Hajj is to perform religious duties, the action is by visiting the holy places and to invest the whole body and property to Him alone and confessing the sins and to be sincere in every acts merely for Him. On the occasion of Hajj there will be no compare between a rich and a poor, a strong and a weak, a black skin and white, a king and a slave. Every human being is same in front of Him, each one are wrapped only by white clothe to cover their 'aurat or privy parts. Thus Islam taught every Muslims to be equal to others and to disregard the dignity as a big thing in this world, because the human are a small thing their head couldn't touch the sky and grab the whole earth in their hand. And finally all of them will be returned to their source.
With the passing of years the development is took place and the human increasing further and further, which will require the larger space for the pilgrimage in performing the hajj and avoiding the massive and unexpected substance which may occur due to the small space in performing hajj. Related to this matter there are many controversial opinions from the ulama or the scholars commenting on this matter, such as Sya'i on the second floor of masjid, mabit, to remain a night at a place, and many other matters. Sya'i at the second floor of masjid to my opinion is allowed, due to the insufficient place around ka'bah, furthermore, in the second floor the space is larger and the distance is more far to that of around ka'bah. While, mabit, to remain a night at a place called Mina, with the insufficient place to stay inside Mina, the ulama has decided in expanding the boundary, so that, the pilgrimage do not worry of remaining outside the previous boundary during the prophet time, because it is also important to avoid the inconvenient due to the massive place.
Finally, the reward for Muslim who had done pilgrimage is nothing save Jannah or paradise. The Muslim who had done the last pillar of Islam should keep in mind that they had completed the whole five pillars of Islam, now, the only believing on the oneness of Allah and always asking forgiveness whenever the irreligious action and the whisper of Shaitan hindering. Allah has mentioned in the Qur'an:
"And O my people! Let not my Shiqaq (enmity, anger and opposition) cause you to suffer the fate similar to that of the people of Nuh or of Hud or of Salih, and the people of Lut are not far off from you!
"And ask forgiveness of your Lord and turn unto him in repentance. Verily, my Lord is Most Merciful, Most Loving." (Hud 89-90).

Source of Emergent of Islamic Economic

Created By: Romi Adetio Setiawan
Student of BA (hons) Aligarh Muslim University, India.

Sources of Emergent of Islamic Economic

There are two factors led to the emergent of Islamic Economic in this Modern Era:
1. The background of religion, to hinder "Riba" and hold up the "sodaqah".
2. The emergent of surplus income from Oil Exporting Countries of the Middle East and the Islamic country which is led to the need of institution to keep their fund.

In Indonesia where the Muslim is the majority, the term of Islamic Economic has been prevailed since 1991, and it has a large response to the society. This system was implemented in the Banking system and other economic activities as well, such as Business Insurance, Multi-Level Marketing Business, and in a large scale of demand marketing.

With the begin of Jakarta Islamic Index, the investors will not face a complexity to invest their money in Islamic way, the system of Shari'ah has influenced many instances in Indonesia, meanwhile yet several people still misgiving in understanding the Islamic Shariah.

As far as the majority of population is concern in the Islamic country, it is necessary for the government to implement the Islamic Shariah wholly, and keep up on the existing in normalizing the economic of the country.

Brief about me

Name: Romi Adetio Setiawan
Place of Birth: Bengkulu, Indonesia.
Date of Birth: December 17, 1983
Romi has recently completed his education from Aligarh Muslim University, India. And now a day is residing in Delhi, his inspiration to built the people know about Islamic economic throughout the world has immerged his endeavor to deliver the Islamic knowledge from every media and demonstrate that Islam is compatible with modern sciences and progress and the Holy Book was the source of true progress and civilization.
This second son from Ibrahim and Nur'aini has a capability to speak in four languages (Indonesia, English, Arabic and Urdu), and by his strong motivation to study he has been awarded a scholarship by the government of India to study Islamic studies for undergraduate course and completed his graduation in 2006. Romi is a kind of prestigious person in the term of academic; it could be proven by his performance is among the top ten of his classmate, his total mark is 74% out of 100%, considered as the first top student in his class.

Romi is also a nickname commonly use by his close friends has fond of sport, often jogging in the morning and presently active in the gym, the basketball is his favorite game, and Lebron James is his idol. Due to his physical strong he has traveled to certain places not only in Indonesia it self but also to the other country as well, in India he has visited the state of Himanchal Pradesh, Madya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Northeast India and Delhi. And still he keeps on traveling, and having a lot of experience on. Despite of his favors Romi was never proud of himself and remained a humble servant of God Almighty and a most modest friend among human beings. "Desire for show and ostentation is a 'poisonous honey' extinguishing the spiritual liveliness of the heart ", is one of his golden sayings concerning humility.

Objectives

It gives me immense pleasure to get close with blogger.com in providing the articles around the Economic of Islam, in which the circumstance of Islamic Economy now a day become a vital issue among the people in Muslim and Non-Muslim countries.

The system of Economic Shari’ah had grown enormously, this tremendous change in economic had become a burning topic to discuss among the youth in the learning circle. The enthusiastic of people to the economic shariah were described by their willingness in understanding this recent type of economy, many questions grew among the peoples to the use of economic shariah, and it impact upon the societies particularly in this era of globalization.

After the main power had shifted to Western, for about two hundred years the economic main power was based on capitalism and socialism, the basis of its ideology does not relevant to the religion and morality, all the issues related to the economic will be solved according to the economic’s law which is mostly irreligious.

Seeing from the mentioned phenomenon, the Islamic scholars trying to put the balance between economic acts and shari’ah, the main objective is to bring into play the main stream of Islamic law in economics, so that there would be no collapse among the economic acts, religion and morality.

The questions regarding the economic issues exploded in the countries of the world, the era of globalization and diversity of the people would be much felt with the growing economic in the whole parts or the world. To my viewpoint it is not enough to impose a single-track vision if we want to get ahead. It is important to see the outlook of the different society and economic in this era of globalization.

Through the transfer of knowledge which I have obtained and through the various discussion and suggestions which I would publish in this blog, the smell of Islamic Economy will be well-understood by the people, hopefully it would be much more advantage for the young researchers in finding their sources.