Friday, December 25, 2009
Angka
Salah satu penemuan terpenting manusia adalah angka. Tanpa angka, manusia akan mengalami kesulitan mengungkapkan suatu bilangan atau jumlah. Setiap bangsa memiliki cara tersendiri untuk menulis dan mengucapkan sesuatu bilangan.
Bagaimanapun, tidak semua bangsa memiliki karakter atau lambang khusus penulisan angka. Bangsa Arab merupakan salah satu bangsa di dunia yang memiliki karakter khusus dalam penulisan angka. Bangsa lain adalah Romawi Kuno, yang memiliki karakter penulisan angka Romawi seperti I,II,III dan seterusnya. Angka 1,2,3,4 dan seterusnya adalah karakter angka yang kini paling banyak digunakan.
Angka dikatakan dicipta oleh tamadun India yang kemudian diadaptasi oleh bangsa Arab pada masa awal kegemilangan Islam (sekitar abad ke-7).
Selama berabad-abad, penulisan angka ini diterapkan oleh ilmuwan dan penulis Arab Muslim. Di dunia Arab sendiri, penulisan angka seperti ini kini tidak popular lagi. Sebagai gantinya, orang Arab kini memiliki penulisan sendiri.
Abjad Arab
Orang Arab moden tidak menggunakan angka yang mereka ciptakan sekitar 1,300 tahun silam. Sebagai gantinya, mereka menciptakan sendiri angka yang berbeza. Terdapat dua penulisan yang mereka kembangkan: penulisan angka Arab moden dan penulisan angka dengan abjad Arab.
Angka India
Para ilmuwan tidak mengetahui secara pasti asal-usul angka Arab yang kini banyak dipergunakan. Beberapa sumber menyebutkan bahawa bangsa Arab terpengaruh oleh cara penulisan angka India. Meskipun telah menggunakan angka itu sejak abad ke-3 SM, orang India baru menggunakan angka sifar (0) pada abad ke-7, setelah orang Arab Muslim menemukan bilangan sifar (kosong) ini dari India. Dalam pengertian di India, sifar disebut sunya yang bererti “kosong”.
Skema munculnya angka yang kita gunakan sekarang, yakni angka Arab. Sistem angka Arab terutama dikembangkan oleh al-Khawarizmi (ahli matematik awal abad ke-9) yang mengambil susunan angka decimal dari sistem angka India. Pada abad ke-12, bukunya mulai dikenali di Eropah, lalu orang Eropah mengambil sistem angka Arab tersebut untuk menggantikan angka Romawi.
Angka Arab Klasik
Penemuan angka oleh kaum Arab Muslim kemudiannya tersebar luas dengan cepat. Kerajaan baru Islam di Asia Tengah dan Eropah (Sepanyol khususnya) mengetahui angka ini menerusi para pedagang dan orang yang datang ke wilayah taklukan Islam itu. Di Eropah, angka Arab diterima dengan baik.
Angka ini menggantikan penulisan angka Romawi yang dianggap lebih rumit, komplek dan panjang. Ketika mesin cetak pertama kali ditemukan pada abad ke-14, angka Arab menjadi pilihan utama. Sejak itulah angka Arab klasik tersebar luas dan digunakan di seluruh Eropah.
Sistem Digit
Bangsa Arab Muslim mengembangkan penulisan angka yang diadaptasi dari India seperti yang kita kenal sekarang: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0 (angka sifat – kosong – adalah penemuan asli ilmuwan Arab Muslim).
Untuk angka yang jumlahnya melebihi bilangan sepuluh, bangsa Arab Muslim menggunakan sistem digit dalam penulisannya. Misalnya, untuk menyebut bilangan “tiga ratus lima puluh sembilan” dalam angka Arab ditulis 359. Digit 3 mewakili nilai tiga ratus, 5 mewakili nilai lima puluh dan 9 mewakili nilai sembilan.
Begitu juga bilangan “enam ribu lima” ditulis 6005. Di sini, digit 6 memiliki nilai enam ribu, dan lima memiliki nilai lima, sedangkan 0 (sifar – kosong) menempati posisi kosong yang tidak memiliki nilai.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
The ruling and wisdom behind fasting
Ramadhan
1. Ramadhan is an auspicious opportunity for believers to renew their commitment to their Creator and the Sovereign of the Day of Recompense. This commitment must be both outward and inward, so that a Muslim not only recites more Qur'an and offers more units of prayer, but that she or he does so with reflection, humility and attentiveness.
2. Muslims must ensure they are not formalists who concentrate only on the outward. Achieving Allah's acceptance must be a believer's priority and is not easy. "Indeed, Allah only accepts from the righteous [who fear him - al muttaqoon]." [Qur'an 5:27]
3. Ramadhan is a wonderful opportunity for accounting of one's sins and making repentance. If one does not repent in Ramadhan, when will he or she do so?
4. Muslims should strive to worship Allah as best as they can from the beginning of the month, for that increases chances of the end of the month being good as well.
5. Muslims should consider what is it that they truly want to achieve in Ramadhan, whether they want to be from the winners or from the losers, and should make sure they do not perform acts of worship simply because it is the surrounding people's custom to do so.
6. Muslims must be firmly aware that Ramadhan is only a means and not an end.
Advice to Muslims in Ramadhan
From the book "Khulaasatul Kalaam" by Shaykh Jaarullah.
Brother Muslim, Sister Muslima:
1. Fast Ramadhan with belief and truly seeking the reward of Allah the Most High so that He may forgive you your past sins.
2. Beware of breaking your fast during the days of Ramadhan without a valid Islamic excuse, for it is from the greatest of sins.
3. Pray Salat ut-Taraweeh and the night prayer during the nights of Ramadhan - especially on Layatul-Qadr - based on belief and truly seeking the reward of Allah, so that Allah may forgive you your past sins.
4. Make sure that your food, your drink and your clothing are from halal means, in order that your actions be accepted, and your supplications answered. Beware of refraining from the halal while fasting and breaking your fast with the haram.
5. Give food to some fasting people to gain a reward similar to theirs.
6. Perform your five prayers on time in congregation to gain the reward and Allah's protection.
7. Give a lot of charity for the best charity is that of Ramadhan.
8. Beware of spending your time without performing righteous deeds, for you will be responsible and reckoned for it and will be rewarded for all you do during your time.
9. Perform `umrah in Ramadhan for `Umrah in Ramadhan is equal to Hajj.
10. Seek help for fasting during the day by eating the sahoor meal in the last part of the night before the appearance of Fajr.
11. Hasten breaking your fast after the sun has truly set in order to gain the love of Allah.
12. Perform ghusl before fajr if you need to purify yourself from the state of major impurity so that you are able to do acts of worship in a state of purity and cleanliness.
13. Cease the opportunity of being in Ramadhan and spend it with the good that has been revealed in it - by reciting the noble Qur'an and pondering and reflection of its meanings so that it be a proof for you with your Lord and an intercessor for you on the Day of Reckoning.
14. Preserve your tongue from lying, cursing, backbiting and slander for it decreases the reward of fasting.
15. Do not let fasting cause you cross your boundaries by getting upset due to the slightest of reasons. Rather, fating should be a cause of peacefulness and tranquility of your soul.
16. Upon completion of fasting, be in a state of taqwa of Allah the Most High, being aware of Allah watching you in secret and in public, in thankfulness for His favors, and steadfastness upon obedience of Allah by doing all what He has ordered and shunning all that He has prohibited.
17. Increase in remembrance of Allah, seeking of forgiveness, asking for Paradise and protection against the Fire, especially when fasting, while breaking the fast and during suhoor, for these actions are among greatest causes of attaining Allah's forgiveness.
18. Increase in supplication for yourself, your parents, your children and Muslims, for Allah has ordered making of supplications and has guaranteed acceptance.
19. Repent to Allah with a sincere repentance in all times by leaving sins, regretting those that you have done before and firmly deciding not to return to them in the future, for Allah accepts repentance of those who repent.
20. Fast six days of Shawwal, for whoever fasts Ramadhan and then follows it with six days of Shawwal, it is as if he fasts all the time.
21. Fast on the Day of `Arafah, the 9th of Dhul Hijjah, to attain success by being forgiven your sins of the last year and the coming year.
22. Fast on the day of `Aashuraa', the 10th of Muharram, along with the 9th, to attain success by being forgiven your sins of the past year.
23. Continue being in a state of iman and taqwa and perform righteous actions after the month of Ramadhan, until you die. "And worship your Lord until there comes to you the certainty (i.e. death)". [Qur'an 15:99]
24. Ensure that you attain the positive effects of your acts of worship such as prayer, fasting, zakat and hajj, sincere repentance and leaving of customs that are in variance with the Sharee`ah.
25. Invoke a lot of salawat and salam upon the Messenger of Allah, may Allah's blessings and peace be upon him, his Companions and all those who follow them until the Day of Judgment.
O Allah make us and all Muslims of those who fast and stand in prayer during the month of Ramadhan based on belief and truly seeking Your reward so that we are forgiven our past and future sins.
O Allah make us of those who fasted the month, attained full reward, witnessed Layatul-Qadr and attained success by permission of the Lord, Blessed and Most High.
O Allah, verily you are Forgiver, like to forgive, so forgive us.
O Lord, accept from us, verily you are the All-Hearing, all-Seeing, O Living, O Independent, O Owner of all majesty and honor.
And may Allah's blessings and peace be upon Muhammad, his family and his Companions.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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