27.01.2012

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Menulis? Bisa (talk about Muhammad)

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim

Jadi, ceritanya begini...

Well, it's been along time since i went away from blogging and tumblr-ing. But some writings I've just read today made me get a passion to come back and write my thought out on blog so I ended up here. I try to write minimum of 450 words today. I hope it is a good start err.. sign too. :)

So, what should i write?

Just think easy, don't think too hard. just write...

Well then, (lol. suddenly I remembered what mr.Amin said that female quantitatively use more hedge words than male :P) yup, so last night approximately five and half hours ago I did my routine ‘tadarus Al-Qur'an’. These two days I did not use my very own English Qur’an because my Mum borrowed it and happened to forget to return it back, but it doesn’t matter at all.

I picked the nearest Qur’an lies in my desk shelf and it is “Syamiil Al-Qur’an terjemah perkata”. Interestingly, I felt confused at first day I read the ayahs in each pages as it translation word per word inscribed exactly below the Arabic words though I enjoyed it at last. Let’s back to my main focus in this matter, a sophisticated thing I found in Qur’an today is 38 verses of Qur’an surah Muhammad.

After I read all of the translation in my Bahasa Indonesia, I’ve been started to questioning the name selection of this surah, why should it be named Muhammad? Does it have any historical background of this name to be a surah in Qur’an?

http://irajimmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/muhammad.jpg

These questions came up after I read this surah and all of that ayah translations are talking about mu’min deeds and kafirun deeds, heaven description as the fruit of labour that mu’min will get and punishments for the kafirun. None of it talks about Muhammad unless two ayahs which hint that Muhammad is being addressed by Lord (Allah subhanahu wata’ala) about kafirun traits. How come this surah named Muhammad if it’s only given a slight hint (noted: if we read the translation) that Muhammad is the one that Lord(Allah) in conversation with?

I do not mean to offend or anything, it just pure curiosity of a nut-brainshell girl who love to seek and dive into beautiful tantalizing journey of Qur’an al Karim. :)

Actually, I have a simple guess at this surah named Muhammad because all of mu’min and kafirun description in these ayahs is the main topic that Lord (Allah subhanahu wata’ala) ought to talk to Muhammad and be applied in the reality. The curiosity led me to search Asbabun nuzul of this surah and some explanation about the name of surah Muhammad. This is what I found:

·         Makna Ayat: Meski ayat ini berisi perintah kepada Nabi SAW, tapi sesungguhnya ibrah (pelajaran) yang terkandung tetap berlaku bagi seluruh orang beriman. Ayat ini memerintahkan Nabi SAW akan dua hal utama dalam berislam: menuntut ilmu dan istighfar (memohon ampun) kepada Allah. (Hidayatullah)

·         Surah ini menampilkan sisi lain dari sosok Nabi Muhammad SAW. Amru Khalid di dalam karyanya yang berjudul, Khawatir Quraniyyah: Nazharat fi Ahdaf Suwar Al-Quran, yang diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Indonesia dengan judul, Pesona Al-Qur’an Dalam Mata Rantai Surah dan Ayat, menyimpulkan, tujuan surah Muhammad adalah, "Ketaatan dan peneladanan Nabi Muhammad SAW adalah kreteria diterima atau ditolaknya perbuatan kita. (Waspada)

·         Menurut M. Quraish Shihab dengan mengutip Ibn ‘Aysur inti dari surah Muhammad adalah anjuran untuk berjuang (jihad) menghadapi kaum musyrikin. Kesimpulan ini juga diakui oleh Sayyid Quthub. Ini pula yang menjadi dasar mengapa surah ini dinamai juga dengan surah qital dan surah allazina kafaru karena isinya menjelaskan sifatsifat buruk kaum kafir yang harus dimusnahkan. (Waspada)

Hm, astaghfirullahal’adzim... I just know now if surah Muhammad has another names =..=`tsk, forgive me ya Ghafurur Rahim... Where am I all this time? What I learned from 4 years ‘mondok’ in pesantren?

Thanks God, it’s a little too late but at least I knew it since the present moment. :’)

In conclude, according to the descriptions above, it is not strange if this surah named as Muhammad. And if you think it does not fit yet then you should considering the other name of this surah “Al-Qital” which means ‘war’ that I perceived is the suitable one with the translation of the ayahs. 

Subhanallah, all the knowledge come from Allah, human only do the effort in Allah’s provision.

Asbabun-nuzul source: Q.S.Muhammad

P.S. Is my writing topic this early morning too hard to swallow? Well, but I guarantee it will be good for your left-brain consumption, insyaalla…^^ Thanks to you who accidentally read it.Nox!*