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"SCIENCE brings"

A young man to the Prophet Muhammad SAW. He said, "O Messenger of Allah, let me commit adultery!" People were shouting to hear the statement. But The Prophet said, "Tell him closer to me" The young man approached the Prophet and sat on hadapanya. The Prophet said to him, "Do you like anyone else menzinai your mother?" Immediately he replied, "No, may God make me as a ransom." Of the Prophet. Said, "So did anyone else, do not want adultery took place at their mothers,'' adultery'' Sukakah if it happened to your daughter?"'' No, may God make me as a ransom. "" So did others, adultery does not want that to happen to their daughter. "" adultery Sukakah you if it happens to your sister? "

That's The Prophet. called maternal aunt and the father. For all questions of the Prophet, he replied, "No!" Allah's Apostle put his hand on the noble young man's chest as he prayed, "O Allah, purify his heart, forgive his sins, and maintain kehormatanya. "After that there is not the most hated boy in addition to adultery (Al-Manar, 4:33)

When I read this hadith, I am reminded of an article in Harper's magazine, August 1988. Title: Gang Banger Reflektions of A (reflection Gang Leader). When interviewed, the famous gang leader said, "I used to love those mengompas Yes, sometimes with a pistol in his hand, grabbed or reached into their pockets. Therefore, the behavior is so, I think good. But, if you're getting old, you do not want other people to do that to you. You're also not going to be somebody willing to attack the mother, taking dompetnnya, or whatever. Well, I started thinking, I do not want to do that anymore, because when people do that to my mother, I was ready to kill him. Yes, from that moment, I regret what I did. "

There is a very long time span between the two diaolog it. However, there is the golden thread that connects them both. Become better human beings, if he can feel the experience of others such as those that experience it for yourself. He not only thought of the mind or feelings of others, it involves all of himself in other people's experiences. He experienced it himself. Martin Buber, the philosopher ekstensialis, making mention present - present.

The Islamic philosophers have long discussed the kind of science, "presents", which they call science hudhuri. You can find out the existence of God with BuEtPbukti 'aqli and naqli. However, this knowledge will not affect your life. Only, when you feel or experience the presence of God, your whole existence will be amended.

You can read something about the hadiths of the Prophet. carefully. You can discuss it in great depth. However, the hadiths it will only change yourself, if you can feel the feelings of the Prophet and the Prophet's experience. Berkuncang your body, your neck hairs stand up, stretch all your muscle fibers when the Prophet told the meeting. with God in Sidrah al-Muntaha. drip your water, you feel like the sky is falling pinching your breathing when narrated that the Prophet. sermon delivered last.

Can any person "to bring" other people's experiences in her? Not always. Potentially, every person in the Arm ability to do so. In the part, this potential is actualized at some potential is neglected altogether. When the Holy Prophet. let be a disaster in a row that will befall Muslims sepeninggalanya, he could not sleep. He was reportedly never smiled after that.

The Qur'an describes the Prophet's experience. beautifully: "It has come to the apostle of their own clans, the weight of her sorrow that you bear. He wants you all happiness, very gentle and very compassionate to the believers. "(QS.9: 128). In the Prophet himself, the full potential of "presenting" it tertualisasi.

Are you sad, when millions of mothers die in childbirth because of malnutrition, while countless patients who died "at discharge" from the hospital, because it could not afford the treatment, when large numbers of school children leave school and their bodies burned in the scorching the sun, just to survive? Can you feel the pain of small children that you yatimkan with your greed? Tergetarkah your heart, when thousands of people lost their jobs because of your big projects? Do you feel the pain of stomach and sluggish body your employees that you pay the cost? Are you angry, disappointed, and miserable at the same time, when you hear the Indonesian maid tortured her employer in Saudi Arabia?

I'm afraid you answered "no" to any question. However, "not" you are not the same as "no" in his youth by the Prophet asked. "No" you show how difficult it is "present" the experience of others, even though he was your brother countrymen and compatriots.

(Lifted from the Sufi Reform, dlalaluddin Rahmat, Hidayah Library, London, 2002-AH).