AYATUL QURSI

Allah, tiada Tuhan (yang berhak disembah) melainkan Dia, Yang Tetap hidup, Yang Kekal selama-lamanya mentadbirkan (sekalian makhlukNya).
Yang tidak mengantuk usahkan tidur.
Yang memiliki segala yang ada di langit dan yang ada di bumi.
Tiada sesiapa yang dapat memberi syafaat (pertolongan) di sisiNya melainkan dengan izinNya.
Yang Mengetahui apa yang ada di hadapan mereka dan apa yang ada di belakang mereka, sedang mereka tidak mengetahui sesuatu pun dari (kandungan) ilmu Allah melainkan apa yang Allah kehendaki (memberitahu kepadanya).
Luasnya Kursi Allah (ilmuNya dan kekuasaanNya) meliputi langit dan bumi dan tiadalah menjadi keberatan kepada Allah menjaga serta memelihara keduanya.
Dan Dialah Yang Maha Tinggi (darjat kemuliaanNya), lagi Maha Besar (kekuasaanNya). (QS.2:255)

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Allah. There is no god but He,-the Living, the Selfsubsisting, Eternal296.
No slumber can seize Him nor sleep.
His are all things in the heavens and on earth.
Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permitteth?
He knoweth what (appeareth to His creatures as) before or after or behind them297.
Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He willeth.
His Throne doth extend298 over the heavens and the earth, and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them299 for He is the Most High, the Supreme (in glory).

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296. This is Ayat al Kursi, the "Verse of the Throne".
Who can translate its glorious meaning, or reproduce the rhythm of its well-chosen and comprehensive words?
Even in the original Arabic the meaning seems to be greater than can be expressed in words.
The attributes of Allah are different from anything we know in our present world:
He lives, but His life is self-subsisting and eternal:
it does not depend upon other beings and is not limited to time and space.
Perhaps the attribute of Qayyum includes not only the idea of "Self-subsisting" but also the idea of "Keeping up and maintaining all life."
His life being the source and constant support of all derived forms of life.
Perfect life is perfect activity, in contrast to the imperfect life which we see around us, which is not only subject to death but to the need for rest or slowed-down activity, (something which is between activity and sleep, for which I, in common with other translators, have used the word "slumber") and the need for full sleep itself.
But Allah has no need for rest or sleep.
His activity, like His life, is perfect and self-subsisting.
Contrast with this the expression used in Psalms 78:65: "Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine." (Cf. 20:109-110). (R).

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297. After we realise that His Life is absolute Life, His Being is absolute Being, while others are contingent and evanescent, our ideas of heaven and earth vanish like shadows.
What is behind that shadow is He.
Such reality as our heavens and our earth possess is a reflection of His absolute Reality.
The pantheist places the wrong accent when he says that everything is He.
The truth is better expressed when we say that everything is His.
How then can any creatures stand before Him as of right, and claim to intercede for a fellow-creature?
In the first place both are His, and He cares as much for one as for the other.
In the second place, they are both dependent on His will and command.
But He in His Wisdom and Plan may grade His creatures and give one superiority over another.
Then by His will and permission such a one may intercede or help according to the laws and duties laid on him.
Allah's knowledge is absolute, and is not conditioned by Time or Space.
To us, His creatures, these conditions always apply.
His knowledge and our knowledge are therefore in different categories, and our knowledge only gets some reflection of Reality when it accords with His Will and Plan. (Cf. 20:110).

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298. Throne: seat, power, knowledge, symbol of authority. In our thoughts we exhaust everything when we say "the heavens and the earth".
Well, then, in everything is the working of Allah's power, and will, and authority.
Everything of course includes spiritual things as well as things of sense. (R).

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299. A life of activity that is imperfect or relative would not only need rest for carrying on its own activities, but would be in need of double rest when it has to look after and guard, or cherish, or help other activities.
In contrast with this is the Absolute Life, which is free from any such need or contingency.
For it is supreme above anything that we can conceive.

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Pada hari itu, tidak berfaedah syafaat (dari dan kepada sesiapapun) kecuali dari orang yang diizinkan oleh Allah yang melimpah-limpah rahmatNya dan kepada orang yang diredai perkataannya. (QS.20:109)

On that Day shall no intercession avail except for those for whom permission has been granted by ((Allah)) Most Gracious and whose word is acceptable to Him.(QS.20:109)


Allah mengetahui apa yang di hadapan mereka (dari hal-hal dunia) dan apa yang di belakang mereka (dari perkara akhirat); sedang mereka tidak mengetahuinya secara meliputi. (QS.20:110)

He knows what (appears to His creatures as) before or after or behind them: but they shall not compass it with their knowledge. (QS.20:110)

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Terima kasih Ya ALLAH Ya Rahman Ya Rahim kerana telah menyelamatkan diriku dan kedua-dua ayahanda dan bondaku dari kemalangan jalan raya 4 tahun lepas.

Sesungguhnya kami adalah kepunyaan ALLAH dan kepada ALLAH jualah kami kembali. [QS.2:156].

"Tiada daya (mengelak suatu maksiat) dan tiada kekuatan (mengerjakan ketaatan) melainkan (sebenarnya) dengan pertolongan ALLAH Yang Maha Tinggi, lagi Maha Agung".

Aku bersaksi Ya ALLAH bahawa Tiada Tuhan melainkan Engkau dan Muhammad itu Pesuruh ALLAH. Aku sedar akan Engkau YA ALLAH dan Engkau amat penting dalam kehidupanku ini.
Aku serahkan pergantungan kepadaMu dan Engkaulah tempat aku memohon pertolongan.
Tiada dapat digambarkan dengan kata-kata peristiwa yang menyayat hati itu. Hanya kepadaMu tempat aku mengadu Ya ALLAH.

Terima kasih Ya ALLAH. Peristiwa itu menjadikan diriku semakin dekat kepadaMu. Tiada sesiapa yang dapat menyelamatkan diri aku ketika itu melainkan Engkau Ya Rahman Ya Rahim. Walaupun ayahanda dan bondaku berada bersama aku ketika itu, namun hanya padaMu aku serahkan segala-galanya.

Dengan izinmu diriku, ayahanda dan bondaku masih dapat meneruskan kehidupan di duniamu ini untuk terus mencari dan menambahkan bekalan untuk ke negeri yang ABADI nanti. Terima kasih Ya ALLAH.