The How is Not the Why

بِسْــــــــــــــــــــــمِ اﷲِارَّحْمَنِ ارَّحِيم

pagi yg hening, alhamdulillah..bumbung rumah masih kukuh dengan izin Allah.
moga bumbung yg lebih kukuh menjadi lindungan kpd awliya Islam diluar sana.

saye nak share satu cerita dr buku yg awesome ni, it's called Guidance From Confusion, containing many personal stories by reverts of Islam, complied by Dr. Ahmad H. Sakr.
alhamdulillah...walaupun ini cerita psl revert, bila saya bace, saya pon rase mcm ade cerita yg nak share. mcm reverts, kita semua ada turning point masing2 on how they view and accept Islam wlpn kita dilahirkan as Muslim. alhamdulillah, nikmat yg  sgt besar Allah bg kita adalah nikmat Islam. kita tak pernah minta untuk dilahirkan Muslim. Allah dah bagi kita mudah untuk relate dgn Islam sejak lahir. which should make us rasa tak kekok sgt nak seek out what Islam is abt. tapi kan, pada masa yg sama, sebenarnya kita juga prone utk jdkn Islam sekadar "agama nenek moyang" i.e. Islam by name. oleh ituu, jom kita berusaha mengenali Islam yg sebenar :) sbb macam rezqi dan jodoh, hidayah juga perlu dicari!

dan di bawah ni adalah excerpt cerita Omar psl truth. i love this guy!

Setting Standarads: There is No Truth!

          Many people never arrive at the "absolute" truth because they perceive life through an incorrect lens to start with. In other words, their standard for truth is faulty, and thus the conclusion is faulty. For example, Gustave Flaubert said, "There is no truth." So the non-Muslim may think, "wow, there is no truth." Without even thinking, the non-Muslim may accept it. 

Now that standard is set. So when they are approached by a Muslim, then they say things like, "Well, that may be true for you but that is not true for me." They have been indoctrinated, or rather; they have indoctrinated themselves with a faulty premise. So, the conclusion is faulty. The conclusion in this case is that truth is relative or based upon perception. So the Muslim is left with some work to do.  

First we have the correct and the incorrect standard. When approached with the argument, "there is no truth", simply ask the person, "Are you sure?' This will expose fallacy. There are only three possible answers: Yes, No, and I don't know.
If the person answers "Yes", then they have contradicted themselves. They have asserted from the beginning that there is no truth. So if they say "Yes" then they have asserted that it is true that there is no truth! They will then be forced to admit that they believe an impossible statement.

If someone answers "No", then the obvious question begs to be asked, "Well, then why'd you bring it up, knucklehead?" Why does this person state things that they don't believe? But alas, there is a third answer, "I don't know?" This can be answered much in the same fashion as if they said, "No." Just ask them, "well, then why'd you say it?" Now you got them right where you want them. 

They are now, presumably, viewing the world with the correct lens, which is this; there is such a thing as truth, and it is not relative, or subjected to our desires. There may be an aspect of truth that we don't like to believe or don't want to believe but that doesn't make it any less true. Before we can decide if something is true or not, we need to know what truth is and have a correct standard of truth from the beginning. 

i dig this vid. hope you do too! Hamza Yusuf simplified it in two minutes on how we should question the "unquestionable" :)

take care and be kind to people!