Assalamualaikum wbt
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| They said we were crushed, but deep inside they knew nothing. |
It was one late evening in 2008. I was on my way to my most longed hometown, Sekinchan, when the bus passed Bagan Datoh, a small town in Perak. The side road was packed with blue flags and one huge picture of a smiling man appeared in the midst of those blue banners. There were still some flags of different colours, but they were obviously outnumbered. I didn’t care much as I was still in form four though. I took least care of the politics.
“None of my business” I whispered, before went back to my luring sleep.
It was nearly 12.00 am in Adelaide. All of us were excitedly looking at the screen, it was 21 VS 9 and apparently we were losing.
“No worries, we haven’t reached Peninsular regions yet” my friend tried to ease the tense as we started to look worried and pale.
Here I was, anxiously updating the page, absolutely the opposite side of me, 5 years ago.
As the clock nearly struck 2 am, the simple majority was formed. Our hope crushed by the winning of the other armies. Soon, the Facebook was flooded with dismal comments and every pictures were turning black, for the very first time, we were celebrating 'Earth Hour' together.
“5.5.2013, the day where democracy of Malaysia died” one of them wrote.
Frankly, we were disappointed as well. We were praying and hoping for great news from the other armies.
Yet, Syeikh Jum'ah Amin said,
“We are relying too much upon our materials effort for victory, least we remember the Robbul Asbab, the Robb to those reasons”
The Robb of where every fate lied on His hand
The Robb that would grant us victory
Our Robb, Allah the All Mighty.
Right from beginning, we enthusiastically went down to streets and people “Honked” for revolution, updating status daily, fiercely protecting the voting boxes, sharply looking for “paid foreigners” and strongly criticizing the ink purchased from MYDIN. But, our armies might forget Him, late for prayers and worse some might not even had time to pray.
Verily, He would postpone the victory if our armies not yet deserving it.
He knew the triumph would not distinct us from the other armies.
He knew victory would make us far from Him.
If we couldn’t preserve good relationship with Him when we were weak, unlikely we would when were victorious.
It was a strong reminder to me indeed.
“None of my business” I whispered, before went back to my luring sleep.
It was nearly 12.00 am in Adelaide. All of us were excitedly looking at the screen, it was 21 VS 9 and apparently we were losing.
“No worries, we haven’t reached Peninsular regions yet” my friend tried to ease the tense as we started to look worried and pale.
Here I was, anxiously updating the page, absolutely the opposite side of me, 5 years ago.
As the clock nearly struck 2 am, the simple majority was formed. Our hope crushed by the winning of the other armies. Soon, the Facebook was flooded with dismal comments and every pictures were turning black, for the very first time, we were celebrating 'Earth Hour' together.
“5.5.2013, the day where democracy of Malaysia died” one of them wrote.
Frankly, we were disappointed as well. We were praying and hoping for great news from the other armies.
Yet, Syeikh Jum'ah Amin said,
“We are relying too much upon our materials effort for victory, least we remember the Robbul Asbab, the Robb to those reasons”
The Robb of where every fate lied on His hand
The Robb that would grant us victory
Our Robb, Allah the All Mighty.
Right from beginning, we enthusiastically went down to streets and people “Honked” for revolution, updating status daily, fiercely protecting the voting boxes, sharply looking for “paid foreigners” and strongly criticizing the ink purchased from MYDIN. But, our armies might forget Him, late for prayers and worse some might not even had time to pray.
Verily, He would postpone the victory if our armies not yet deserving it.
He knew the triumph would not distinct us from the other armies.
He knew victory would make us far from Him.
If we couldn’t preserve good relationship with Him when we were weak, unlikely we would when were victorious.
It was a strong reminder to me indeed.
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| A true believers will not be in grieve as Allah has provided the cure through His unbreakable promises |
Before coming to Australia, we were obliged to attend a BTN, a brainwash program by the government.
“Lets us talk about politics” she said when we were asked to rank government, law and citizen based on priority.*If I wasn't mistaken*
“I would put it to the very last, as politic is always dirty”
“No, no...Let’s talk about fair and clean politics” she argued
Well, it was now proven that mixture of politics and fairness did not go well, *if it was held by unrighteous people*
The next morning I woke up with hope that our soldiers weren’t tore severely. Alhamdulillah, thumbs up! The armies managed to block 2/3 majority of the parliament.
If we looked at the great battle of Badr, in which the greatness did not by the numbers *300 VS 1000*, yet it was due to the combat of haq against batil, the Muslims were victorious.
However, battle of Uhud came subsequently and the Muslims were defeated.
The tone in the Quran was totally different. It was declined to warning after the amazing triumph of Badr, yet more to consolidating in the aftermath of Uhud.
This was where my awesome friend quoted *verses revealed after the battle of Uhud*,
So do not weaken and do not grieve, and you will be superior if you are [true] believers. (Al Imran, 3:139)
“Don’t be weak and sorrow, because we are a superior against the other army. But, were we the true believer?” he said.
But it did not end there, next Allah said,
If a wound should touch you - there has already touched the [opposing] people a wound similar to it. And these days [of varying conditions] we alternate among the people so that Allah may make evident those who believe and [may] take to Himself from among you martyrs - and Allah does not like the wrongdoers. (Al Imran, 3:140)
There were reasons behind it. Allah knew best. He may grant us defeat as a way to separate those who believed and those who didn’t, to see how we reacted to it.
Did we still put all trust on Him?
Did we worship and rely on Him more than before?
Did we still have strong and undivided faith on Him?
Believe Him, Allah did not like the wrongdoers.
If you thought solving a rubic cube was complex enough, politics went deeper than that and it could only be overpower by maturity.
Maturity in making observation.
If you asked a random guy of why he was supporting our allies, he might not be able to answer it.
They yelled for fairness, equality and better future, yet deep in their heart they might not know the true reason.
Maybe it wasn’t the time for us to achieve islamic government.
Yet, it was still time for us to develop islamic individual.
To touch the hearts of these people.
To built the community who put all trust to Allah.
Who worship Him as He was the Ahad in their lifes.
To reach out to the heard of not yet muslims, who began to be open-minded towards islam.
Those who not yet muslim that rather standing under the overwhelming hot sun, holding a green flag, rather than a blue one.
Who never rejected the rules of Allah, but complemented it to be the best.
Indeed, this defeat was a great victory for islam.
In Sha Allah
Allahu'alam
