Senin, 26 September 2011

5 Fakta Mengagumkan Seputar Adzan

Adzan adalah media luar biasa untuk mengumandangkan tauhid terhadap yang Maha Kuasa dan risalah (kenabian) Nabi Muhammad saw. Adzan juga merupakan panggilan shalat kepada umat Islam, yang terus bergema di seluruh dunia lima kali setiap hari.


Betapa mengagumkan suara adzan itu, dan bagi umat Islam di seluruh dunia, adzan merupakan sebuah fakta yang telah mapan. Indonesia misalnya, sebagai sebuah negara terdiri dari ribuan pulau dan dengan penduduk muslim terbesar di dunia.


1 . Kalimat Penyeru Yang Mengandung “Kekuatan Supranatural”

Ketika azan berkumandang, kaum yang bukan sekedar muslim, tetapi juga beriman, bergegas meninggalkan seluruh aktivitas duniawi dan bersegera menuju masjid untuk menunaikan salat berjamaah. Simpul-simpul kesadaran psiko-religius dalam otak mereka mendadak bergetar hebat, terhubung secara simultan, dan dengan totalitas kesadaran seorang hamba (abdi) mereka bersimpuh, luruh dalam kesyahduan ibadah shalat berjamaah.



2. Asal Mula Yang Menakjubkan:

Pada jaman dulu, Rasulullah Saw. kebingungan untuk menyampaikan saat waktu shalat tiba kepada seluruh umatnya. Maka dicarilah berbagai cara. Ada yang mengusulkan untuk mengibarkan bendera pas waktu shalat itu tiba, ada yang usul untuk menyalakan api di atas bukit, meniup terompet, dan bahkan membunyikan lonceng. Tetapi semuanya dianggap kurang pas dan kurang cocok.

Adalah Abdullah bin Zaid yang bermimpi bertemu dengan seseorang yang memberitahunya untuk mengumandangkan adzan dengan menyerukan lafaz-lafaz adzan yang sudah kita ketahui sekarang. Mimpi itu disampaikan Abdullah bin Zaid kepada Rasulullah Saw. Umar bin Khathab yang sedang berada di rumah mendengar suara itu. Ia langsung keluar sambil menarik jubahnya dan berkata: ”Demi Tuhan Yang mengutusmu dengan Hak, ya Rasulullah, aku benar-benar melihat seperti yang ia lihat (di dalam mimpi). Lalu Rasulullah bersabda: ”Segala puji bagimu.”

yang kemudian Rasulullah menyetujuinya untuk menggunakan lafaz-lafaz adzan itu untuk menyerukan panggilan shalat.



3. Adzan Senantiasa Ada Saat Peristiwa2 Penting:

Adzan Digunakan islam untuk memanggil Umat untuk Melaksanakan shalat. Selain itu adzan juga dikumandangkan disaat-saat Penting. Ketika lahirnya seorang Bayi, ketika Peristiwa besar. Peristiwa besar yang dimaksud adalah:



- Fathu Makah : Pembebasan Mekkah merupakan peristiwa yang terjadi pada tahun 630 tepatnya pada tanggal 10 Ramadan 8 H, dimana Muhammad beserta 10.000 pasukan bergerak dari Madinah menuju Mekkah, dan kemudian menguasai Mekkah secara keseluruhan, sekaligus menghancurkan berhala yang ditempatkan di dalam dan sekitar Ka’bah. Lalu Bilal Mengumandangkan Adzan Diatas Ka’bah.



- Perebutan kekuasaan Konstatinopel : Konstantinopel jatuh ke tangan pasukan Ottoman, mengakhiri Kekaisaran Romawi Timur. lalu beberapa perajurit ottoman masuk kedalam Ramapsan terbesar Mereka Sofia..lalu mengumandangkan adzan disana sebagai tanda kemenagan meraka.



4. Adzan Sudah Miliyaran kali Dikumandangkan:

Sejak pertama dikumandangkan sampai saat ini mungkin sudah sekitar 1500 tahunan lebih adzan dikumandangkan. Anggaplah setahun 356 hari . berarti 1500 tahun X 356 hari= 534000 dan kalikan kembali dengan jumlah umat islam yang terus bertambah tiap tahunnya. Kita anggap umat islam saat ini sekitar 2 miliyar orang dengan persentase 2 milyar umat dengan 2 juta muadzin saja. Hasilnya = 534.000 x 2.000.000 = 1.068.000.000.000 dikalikan 5 = 5.340.000.000.000



5. Adzan Ternyata Tidak Pernah Berhenti Berkumandang

Proses itu terus berlangsung dan bergerak ke arah barat kepulauan Indonesia. Perbedaan waktu antara timur dan barat pulau-pulau di Indonesia adalah satu jam. Oleh karena itu, satu jam setelah adzan selesai di Sulawesi, maka adzan segera bergema di Jakarta, disusul pula sumatra. Dan adzan belum berakhir di Indonesia, maka ia sudah dimulai di Malaysia. Burma adalah di baris berikutnya, dan dalam waktu beberapa jam dari Jakarta, maka adzan mencapai Dacca, ibukota Bangladesh. Dan begitu adzan berakhir di Bangladesh, maka ia ia telah dikumandangkan di barat India, dari Kalkuta ke Srinagar. Kemudian terus menuju Bombay dan seluruh kawasan India.

Srinagar dan Sialkot (sebuah kota di Pakistan utara) memiliki waktu adzan yang sama. Perbedaan waktu antara Sialkot, Kota, Karachi dan Gowadar (kota di Baluchistan, sebuah provinsi di Pakistan) adalah empat puluh menit, dan dalam waktu ini, (Dawn) adzan Fajar telah terdengar di Pakistan. Sebelum berakhir di sana, ia telah dimulai di Afghanistan dan Muscat. Perbedaan waktu antara Muscat dan Baghdad adalah satu jam. Adzan kembali terdengar selama satu jam di wilayah Hijaz al-Muqaddas (Makkah dan Madinah), Yaman, Uni Emirat Arab, Kuwait dan Irak.

Perbedaan waktu antara Bagdad dan Iskandariyah di Mesir adalah satu jam. Adzan terus bergema di Siria, Mesir, Somalia dan Sudan selama jam tersebut. Iskandariyah dan Istanbul terletak di bujur geografis yang sama. Perbedaan waktu antara timur dan barat Turki adalah satu setengah jam, dan pada saat ini seruan shalat dikumandangkan.



Iskandariyah dan Tripoli (ibukota Libya) terletak di lokasi waktu yang sama. Proses panggilan Adzan sehingga terus berlangsung melalui seluruh kawasan Afrika. Oleh karena itu, kumandang keesaan Allah dan kenabian Muhammad saw yang dimulai dari bagian timur pulau Indonesia itu tiba di pantai timur Samudera Atlantik setelah sembilan setengah jam.



Sebelum Adzan mencapai pantai Atlantik, kumandang adzan Zhuhur telah dimulai di kawasan timur Indonesia, dan sebelum mencapai Dacca, adzan Ashar telah dimulai. Dan begitu adzan mencapai Jakarta setelah kira-kira satu setengah jam kemudian, maka waktu Maghrib menyusul. Dan tidak lama setelah waktu Maghrib mencapai Sumatera, maka waktu adzan Isya telah dimulai di Sulawesi! Bila Muadzin di Indonesia mengumandangkan adzan Fajar, maka muadzin di Afrika mengumandangkan adzan untuk Isya


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Sabtu, 24 September 2011

[ Westlife ] Nicky Byrne { Part II }

Personality
Describe yourself in three words: Thoughtful, reliable, trustworthy
Bad habit: Drinking tea with the spoon still in the cup
Rule of Life: "Never think that anyone's better than you, and never think that you are better than anyone else"

Phrase that you use often: Le Grá it means with love in Irish
If you were an animal, what kind of animal would you be? a fox or a tiger
Dream house: Big house just outside Dublin
Most embarassing moment: falling over at Elland Road, Leeds United's stadium in front of 30,000 people

Likes/Dislikes
Hobbies: Football and snooker
Instrument: Learning to play piano

Likes: Football (especially Man U and Leeds cos he used to be the goalie in the junior team), eating out, shopping and travelling home to Ireland to see his family

Dislikes: Smoking and nasty people
Worst class(es): I was never any good at maths 
Best class(es): English was easy and geography wasn’t bad 
Fave sport(s): Soccer and snooker 
Fave actor: Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt
Fave actress: Demi Moore, Cameron Diaz 
Fave male singer: Phil Collins
Fave female singer: Natalie Imbruglia
Most like to meet: Phil Collins, Madonna
Best movie ever: Titanic, Die Hard, Armageddon
Fave cereal: Sugar Puffs
Fave food: Sunday dinner, Mum's cooking, Japanese
Worst food: Prawns
Fave soft drink: Pepsi 
McDonalds or Burger King: McDonalds definitely 
Fave place to chill: My couch in my front living room in Dublin 
Fave place to visit: Caribbean or New York or Sydney 
Fave football team: Manchester United
Fave perfume, men’s: Dolce & Gabbana 
Fave perfume, women’s: CK Eternity 
Fave clothes: smart clothes
Fave designer: Gucci
Fave colour: Blue or white or black
Fave book: The Mammy by Bruce O'Carroll
Fave group: Boyzone
Fave song: Phil Collins - 'Against all Odds', What I want Is What I've Got
First record you bought: Kylie Minogue - 'I Should Be So Lucky'
First concert: The Cranberries in Dublin
U2 or B*Witched: U2 
BSB or Boyzone: Boyzone

Lovelife!
Blondes or brunettes: Depends 
Ideal woman: Elegant, smart, humourous, nice eyes

Have a girlfriend: Nicky married Georgina Ahern, Irish premier Bertie Ahern's daughter, on 4 August 2003. They have two children - Georgina gave birth to fraternal twin sons Rocco and Jay on 20 April 2007. 

Nicky with Georgina at a Newcastle United football game, 26 April 2002.

His first kiss : was when he was a wee rugrat of nine years old with his mum's friend's daughter! But then Nicky did have 'steady' girlfriends at that age - about one a month!

Fave one-liner: How do you like your eggs in the morning 
Romantic move (eg. flowers): Surprised my girlfriend by coming home after being away for two months 


Quotes
"I'll know I'm famous when my mum asks me for my autograph" 

"The lads say that girls want to grab hold of my bum, but I think it's probably more my blue, twinkly eyes."
- Nicky on what girls fancy about him. 

"I must have been about 17 and I was living in Leeds. My and three other lads from Dublin got chatting to these girls who asked us what we were doing in England. So we told them we were in a new Irish boy band called OTT cos it was around the time when OTT were just about to hit Britain. And they believed us! They asked us if we knew Boyzone and we pretended we did. They even asked us for our autographs! In a way though it wasn't so much of a lie, but a premonition cos three years later I am in an Irish boyband and I do know Boyzone!" 

"It was at a party to celebrate our exam results and I must have been 15. Its one of those nights when everyone goes out and goes mad. I was at this nightclub called The Furnace in Dublin, which is actually closed down now, and I must of had about 11 snogs. I don't think it was any more than that!" 


Classic by Adrian Gurvitz ...This song marks a special moment between me and my girlfriend, Georgina. Even though I'm too young to remember the track when it originally came out, it was a favourite of my dad's - Nicky senior - and I have memories of hearing it in the early 1980s. It's a ballad that I grew to love and more importantly it was the soundtrack to my first kiss with Georgina."

- Nicky on his favourite romantic song 

"My fave place we've been on this tour so far has been Copenhagen in Denmark. It's a really great atmosphere there. But we've always got to get back on the bus..." 

"At the very start of the band people from Ireland would travel our houses but now it's at the stage where you get people from Switzerland, everywhere, coming to the house...my mum was sitting to the house one time there was group of girls in a taxi with a video camera and they asked my mum if they could come in and take a picture of the house. They come from all over and they will take rose bushes out of our garden and stuff, it's crazy"
- on the fans 

"We've been working so hard, we love it when we get a day off to go home to our families...and spending our time to go shopping... and i like to watch TV with my mum or eat my mum's cooking."
- what he does on his days off 

"We come from normal families and £700 for a pair of trousers is a lot. If my mum asked, I'd probably say £450. Spending a lot on clothes or a watch or ring makes me feel guilty but I think that's a good thing. We appreciate what we've got." 
- Nicky on his extravagant shopping sprees 

"It's like an angel has come out of the sky and asked us five guys, 'What would you like to do with your lives?' The answer is Westlife." 

Mark on Nicky: "He doesn't like anyone talking about his girlfriend" 

"At school everyone would act really cool about how many Valentines cards they got, and you knew everyone exaggerated. I'd always say I got seven." 

"If you wanted the world to stop turning you'd call Ronan!" - Nicky

Did You Know...?
When Nicky joined the band he couldn't swim! 

His mum does all his washing 


He speaks nicely when Georgina's parents are around (lol - and when they're not?!!) 



Nicky reckons he could make a good racing driver 



He used to live with footballer Alan Smith when he was training at Leeds Utd. 



He broke his elbow at football training and still has a big scar 



He wears 'lucky socks' to gigs 



Nicky missed his first week of school, because he was in a road accident 



He hated maths at school 



He keeps a karaoke machine under his bed 



He used to sing karaoke with his dad - who is also called Nicky - and who has a band called 'Nicky and the Studz' 



Nicky bought a car when he signed to Westlife, but sold it cos he was never home 



He once threw Bryan's boxer shorts out of a hotel window! 



He would like a pet dog, if he had time to look after one. 



He hates going to the gym 



Nicky used to love dancing to 'Mickey' by Lolly 



He always carries photos of his family with him 



Nicky used to pray before every football match that he would play well, and it was him who started the Westlife tradition of praying and saying a Hail Mary before every concert!


Source : @Sophie_Byrne ( sophiebyrne.blogspot.com )