wah ga kerasa udah satu bulan kita berpuasa ( bagi yang menjalankan ), setelah berpuasa selama satu bulan penuh marilah kita Continue Reading ->

sekarang teknologi semakin canggih apalagi dengan kemudahan-kemudahan dalam mencari sesuatu di internet dengan yang dinamakan search engine.
sekarang chikmonk ingin share sebuah search engine yang di kembangkan oleh Dian Tresna Nugraha, yang disebut Al-Qu’an Search Engine. inisiatif ini di dorong oleh fakta bahwa kita membutuhkan referensi online untuk lebih mempelajari dan lebih memperdalam Islam. terutama ketika semua mata kini berfokus pada islam, banyak orang yang sangat ingin tahu apa islam itu sesungguhnya, dan chikmonk sendiri adalah pemeluk agama islam. terlepas dari semua bahan kajian yang tersedia di luar sana, Alquran Search Engine itu sedikit unik. pengembangnya menawarkan kemungkinan untuk mempelajari Al-Quran dalam berbagai bahasa dari Albania ke Swahili, menyediakan ayat Alquran acak untuk menaruh di website anda dan memiliki berbagai link ke sumber-sumber islam di internet.
mazingly juga dapat dioperasikan baik sebagai program mandiri atau sebagai modul untuk Postnuke. jika anda masih ingat, Al-Qur’an Search Engine dan PN Quran modul telah bekerja bersama di bawah proyek yang sama di Sourceforge.net. jadi, saatnya untuk menemukan kembali.

bagi anda yang ingin pergi ke Al-Qur’an Search Engine melalui link http://kemas.kinsky.or.id/quran . chikmonk berharap anda akan bisa menggunakannya dengan baik..

There are five simple but essential observances that all practicing Muslims accept and follow.  These “Pillars of Islam” represent the core that unites all Muslims.

1)      The ‘Declaration of Faith’

A Muslim is one who testifies that “none deserves worship but Allah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”  This declaration is known as the “shahada” (witness, testimony).  Allah is the Arabic name for God, just as Yahweh is the Hebrew name for God.  By making this simple proclamation one becomes a Muslim.  The proclamation affirms Islam’s absolute belief in the oneness of God, His exclusive right to be worshipped, as well as the doctrine that associating anything else with God is the one unforgivable sin as we read in the Koran:

“God does not forgive anyone for associating something with Him, while He does forgive whomever He wishes to for anything else.  Anyone who gives God partners has invented an awful sin.” (Quran 4:48) Continue Reading ->

One of the distinctive characteristics of the times we live in is the overwhelming presence of violence in our societies. Whether it is a bomb going off in a market place, or the hijacking of an aircraft where innocent people are held at ransom to achieve political ends, we live in an age, where the manipulation and loss of innocent lives has become commonplace.

Such is the all-pervasive nature of indiscriminate violence, that “terrorism” is considered as one of the prime threats to peace and security in our societies.

The word terrorism came into wide usage only a few decades ago. One of the unfortunate results of this new terminology is that it limits the definition of terrorism to that perpetrated by small groups or individuals. Terrorism, in fact, spans the entire world, and manifests itself in various forms. Its perpetrators do not fit any stereotype. Those who hold human lives cheap, and have the power to expend human lives, appear at different levels in our societies. The frustrated employee who kills his colleagues in cold-blood or the oppressed citizen of an occupied land who vents his anger by blowing up a school bus are terrorists who provoke our anger and revulsion. Ironically however, the politician who uses age-old ethnic animosities between peoples to consolidate his position, the head of state who orders “carpet bombing” of entire cities, the exalted councils that choke millions of civilians to death by wielding the insidious weapon of sanctions, are rarely punished for their crimes against humanity. Continue Reading ->

There are many aspects of belief in which one who adheres to Islam must have firm conviction.  From those aspects, the most important are six, known as the “Six Articles of Belief”.
1)      Belief in God
Islam upholds strict monotheism and belief in God forms the heart of their faith.  Islam teaches belief in one God who neither gives birth nor was born Himself, and has no share in His caretaking of the world.  He alone gives life, causes death, brings good, causes affliction, and provides sustenance for His creation.  God in Islam is the sole Creator, Lord, Sustainer, Ruler, Judge, and Savior of the universe.  He has no equal in His qualities and abilities, such as knowledge and power.  All worship, veneration and homage is to be directed to God and none else.  Any breach of these concepts negates the basis of Islam.
2)      Belief in the Angels
Adherents to Islam must believe in the Unseen world as mentioned in the Quran.  From this world are the angels’ emissaries of God, each assigned with a specific task. They have no free-will or ability to disobey; it is their very nature to be God’s faithful servants. Angels are not to be taken as demigods or objects of praise or veneration; they are mere servants of God obeying His every command. Continue Reading ->

But where does the message of Muhammad, may God praise him, fit in with the previous messages revealed by God? A brief history of the prophets might clear this point.

The first human, Adam, followed Islam, in that he directed worship to God alone and none else and abided by His commandments. But through the passage of time and the dispersal of humanity throughout the earth, people strayed from this message and began directing worship to others instead of or along with God. Some took to worshipping the pious who passed away amongst them, while others took to worshipping spirits and forces of nature. It was then that God started to send messengers to humanity steering them back to the worship of God Alone, which accorded to their true nature, and warning them of the grave consequences of directing any type of worship to others besides Him.

The first of these messengers was Noah, who was sent to preach this message of Islam to his people, after they had started to direct worship to their pious forefathers along with God. Noah called his people to leave the worship of their idols, and ordered them to return to the worship of God Alone. Some of them followed the teachings of Noah, while the majority disbelieved in him. Those who followed Noah were followers of Islam, or Muslims, while those that did not, remained in their disbelief and were seized with a punishment for doing so. Continue Reading ->

Among the blessings and favors that God has bestowed upon humanity is that He endowed them with an innate ability to recognize and acknowledge His existence.  He placed this awareness deep in their hearts as a natural disposition that has not changed since human beings were first created.  Furthermore, He reinforced this natural disposition with the signs that he placed in Creation that testify to His existence.  However, since it is not possible for human beings to have a detailed knowledge of God except through revelation from Himself, God sent His Messengers to teach the people about their Creator Who they must worship.  These Messengers also brought with them the details of how to worship God, because such details cannot be known except by way of revelation.  These two fundamentals were the most important things that the Messengers of all the divine revelations brought with them from God.  On this basis, all the divine revelations have Continue Reading ->

Surely you have been dating Ramadan, a month full of blessing. God has been to require fast-unto Him. In the month of Ramadhan is opened all the doors locked Heaven and Hell and all the doors be all syaithan. In it there is a night that is better than thousand months. He is not given to him good night, then he has be dissociated from the good. ”

Thus khutbah Rasulullah SAW to welcome Ramadan in a khutbah that Rasulullah SAW, would let you know that Ramadan is the month was full of mercy and forgiveness, even in the month of Ramadhan, Allah is like a servant to request surge of fire and safety. Once mulianya month of Ramadhan, until-until he was very long to see her.

In order to expect and welcome Ramadan, Rasulullah SAW, melazimkan a do’a the diriwayatkan by Anas bin Malik ra, he said, that when the incoming month Rajab, Rasulullah SAW. Always pray “Allahuma bariklana fii Rajab sya’ban wa, wa balighna Ramadan.” Means, “O God, berkahilah us in Rajab and Sya’ban, and we submit to the month of Ramadhan.” (Ahmad and HR. Tabrani). Hadits above indicate that, as a sincere Muslim, we should be pleased with the coming of Continue Reading ->