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19 November 2010 By Ahmed Abdullah Thursday, November 11, 2010, a
team made up of the Anti-Proselytizing Front
of Bekasi (FAPB), Mustikajaya Islamic
Ummah Forum (FUIM), Community of
Ansarut Tauhid for Disaster Cares (KATIBAH)
of Solo and Klaten, Hidayah Social Wallets
(DSH) of Klaten, Youths of Muhammadiyah of
Kebonarum Province, Masjid Teenagers
of Kebonarum Province, Arimathea
Forum of Solo and facilitated by the
Religious Affairs Office of Kebonarum Province,
Kebonarum Province Party, as well as
community leaders of Pluneng Village, Kebonarum
Province, carried out humanitarian social acts by
distributing relief aids to the evacuees of the Merapi
volcano disaster who are from the district of Surowono
(6 km from the summit of Merapi) which is in the
province of Kebonarum. The team have prepared as many
as 3 trucks and 2 pickup vehicles of goods which were
stored in the National Plantation Inc. (PTPN)
Kebonarum. The plan was, the relief goods would be
distributed evenly to the evacuees in the province of
Kebonarum Klaten. Approaching the Maghrib
prayer, the team distributed new prayer kits such as
prayer dress for women (mukena), sarongs, Al-Qur'an
and Islamic books, at one site of the shelter i.e. SDN
1 Pluneng to be exact. The evacuees looked
enthusiastic in receiving their shares. Such was their
enthusiasm that they ran and right away put them on in
preparation for the Maghrib prayer. The team
held a congregational Maghrib prayer, where
Ustadz Wahyu Abdurrahman from the KATIBAH volunteers
became the imam. The atmosphere in the
evacuee camp suddenly turned religious where a scene
like that was not seen before. After the Maghrib prayer, the
women who had not received their prayer kits earlier,
wasted no time and took their new mukenas
which were just taken from the PTPN, as a lot of
evacuees still had not received their allotment on the
first distribution (before Maghrib prayer).
In fact there were two mothers who kept on nagging,
fearing of not getting their mukenas and
worrying of missing other gifts, such as Al-Qur'an and
Islamic books. But a community leader of the
surrounding areas, Mr. Edi Sutopo, who always
accompanied us, told them, "Don't worry ma'am,
there are still a lot, we have just taken them from
the store, you will all get it." Amid the enthusiasm and spirit of
the evacuees in receiving our assistance, came a
number of pastors and church activists to the same
place. When asked by Mr. Edi, they replied with an
excuse that they want to see their people
(Christians). When the team enquired Mr. Edi about the
arrival of the pastors, he answered, "He may get a
report from his people who are here, about the
presence of a team who are distributing kits for
ibaadah". He continued, "Let them come (the
priests), this is already an open war". At 'Isha prayer, the
imam was still Ustadz Wahyu, followed by the
jama'ah whose number was much bigger than in the
Maghrib prayer earlier. In fact, the
available space was insufficient to accommodate them
all. In the end, the team laid some mats outside the
room to overcome the overflow of the jama'ah.
After the 'Isha prayer, the team made an
initiative to organize a religious talk as requested
by the evacuees, which was filled in by Mdm. Dr. Dewi
Purnamawati (ex-church activist). In her lecture, Mdm. Dewi talked
about the story of her life which was smitten by all
sorts of trials, from the time she embraced Islam in
1999 until today. The one which left the most
impressions on her memory was when she was helping the
Jogja earthquake victims in 2006, she saw many of the
evacuees being struck by the disaster in this world,
and then the missionaries came bringing the disasters
of the hereafter, in the sense that they were draining
out the aqeedah of the Islamic ummah,
which in that case it was the disaster evacuees, to be
proselytized. Like her experiences while still active
in the churches, when there is a disaster like this,
the missionaries would have one jargon "A
DISASTER IS A BLESSING", because with
disasters a lot of new souls could be proselytized or
made murtad. The contents of the message that
she wanted to convey is that these trials come from
Allah, and Allah brings trials due to His love for us,
to remind us so that we return and bring ourselves
closer to Him. (Klaten, 11 Nov 2010). [muslimdaily.net]
Proselytizing Efforts Of
The Missionaries And The Danger Of Leaving Islam "Never will the Jews or the
Christians be satisfied with you unless you follow
their form of religion. Say: "Indeed, the Guidance of
Allah is the (only) Guidance." If you were to follow
their desires after what has come to you of knowledge,
you would have against Allah no protector or helper."
(QS. Al-Baqarah 2 : 120) After the failure of the first
Crusade, the Christians began to study
and make plans to destroy the Islamic ummah
by means of: 1. Destroying the Islamic
Governance. A missionary, Catly, said,
"We must use the Qur'an, the most powerful weapon in
Islam, to fight against Islam itself, until we can
destroy it altogether." The chairman of the Christian
Missionaries Society, Samuel Zueimir, in his holy
conference had said, "The task of the missionaries
is not to make the Muslims become Christian, but the
task is make the Muslims leave Islam, so that they
become a creature who has no relation with Allah.
Until they give birth to a generation of Muslims who
do not pay heed to the greatness of Allah, who like to
relax and be lazy, and all their activities in this
world are only for the fulfilment of their carnal
desires, in all of their undertakings." Due to that, we must be very
careful and vigilant with the ploys of the enemies of
Islam, and it is also necessary to develop preventive
measures for our siblings, relatives, neighbours and
families specifically and the Islamic ummah
generally, so that that we do not fall into the trap
holes of those missionaries, because their movements
today have reached areas where the basis of Islam is
strong. Allah says, "O ye who believe! save
yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is
Men and Stones, over which are (appointed) angels
stern (and) severe, who flinch not (from executing)
the Commands they receive from Allah, but do
(precisely) what they are commanded." (QS. At-Tahrim
66 : 6) |
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