After the Maghrib prayer, the women who had not received their
prayer kits earlier, wasted no time and took their new
mukenas which were just taken from the PTPN, as a lot of
evacuees still had not received their allotment on the first
distribution (before Maghrib prayer). In fact there
were two mothers who kept on nagging, fearing of not getting
their mukenas and worrying of missing other gifts,
such as Al-Qur'an and Islamic books. But a community leader of
the surrounding areas, Mr. Edi Sutopo, who always accompanied
us, told them, "Don't worry ma'am, there are still a lot,
we have just taken them from the store, you will all get it."
Amid
the enthusiasm and spirit of the evacuees in receiving our
assistance, came a number of pastors and church activists to
the same place. When asked by Mr. Edi, they replied with an
excuse that they want to see their people (Christians). When
the team enquired Mr. Edi about the arrival of the pastors, he
answered, "He may get a report from his people who are
here, about the presence of a team who are distributing kits
for ibaadah". He continued, "Let them come (the
priests), this is already an open war".
At
'Isha prayer, the imam was still Ustadz
Wahyu, followed by the jama'ah whose number was much
bigger than in the Maghrib prayer earlier. In fact,
the available space was insufficient to accommodate them all.
In the end, the team laid some mats outside the room to
overcome the overflow of the jama'ah. After the 'Isha
prayer, the team made an initiative to organize a religious
talk as requested by the evacuees, which was filled in by Mdm.
Dr. Dewi Purnamawati (ex-church activist).
In
her lecture, Mdm. Dewi talked about the story of her life
which was smitten by all sorts of trials, from the time she
embraced Islam in 1999 until today. The one which left the
most impressions on her memory was when she was helping the
Jogja earthquake victims in 2006, she saw many of the evacuees
being struck by the disaster in this world, and then the
missionaries came bringing the disasters of the hereafter, in
the sense that they were draining out the aqeedah of
the Islamic ummah, which in that case it was the
disaster evacuees, to be proselytized. Like her experiences
while still active in the churches, when there is a disaster
like this, the missionaries would have one jargon "A
DISASTER IS A BLESSING", because with disasters a lot
of new souls could be proselytized or made murtad.
The contents of the message that she wanted to convey is that
these trials come from Allah, and Allah brings trials due to
His love for us, to remind us so that we return and bring
ourselves closer to Him.
(Klaten,
11 Nov 2010). [muslimdaily.net]
Proselytizing Efforts Of The Missionaries And The Danger Of
Leaving Islam
The former nun told about her life story when
changing religion, from the follower of Christianity into
the light of Islam. She talked about her life which was
always in lies, be it to humans or God, because in
Christianity it is naturally allowed to lie for the
interests and objectives of the churches or priests.
After nearly half an hour delivering her materials, she
disclosed that the greatest happiness for the Christians to
get “rewards” from God and the worldly luxuries is in the
event of a disaster or calamity such as landslide,
earthquake, tsunami, etc. How come? because in the events of
a disaster, the people who are afflicted by the disaster
have unstable hearts and thoughts to seek God. We may have
often heard from the former priests, church activists and
also nuns that the slogan of the Christian people and
activists in the events of a disaster is “A DISASTER
IS A BLESSING, BECAUSE WITH DISASTERS A LOT OF NEW SOULS
COULD BE PROSELYTIZED”.
Therefore, we must be careful with the assistance
given by the Christians to the people outside of their
religion. Not that we are refusing the assistance given by
the Christians, but we must really know and really watch
over the deals which may be given for a long-term period, as
well as medium, because, it is impossible for the Christians
(kafir) to be kind to us if they have no hidden
agenda behind it. Because Allah has said, which means:
“Never will the Jews or the
Christians be satisfied with you unless you follow their form
of religion. Say: "Indeed, the Guidance of Allah is the (only)
Guidance." If you were to follow their desires after what has
come to you of knowledge, you would have against Allah no
protector or helper.”
(QS. Al-Baqarah 2 : 120)
After the failure of the first Crusade,
the Christians began to study and make plans to destroy the
Islamic ummah by means of:
1. Destroying
the Islamic Governance.
2. Destroying and Eradicating the Qur’an.
3. Destroying the Ideology of Islam.
4. Destroying the Unity of the Islamic Ummah.
5. Corrupting the Muslimahs.
A
missionary, Catly, said, "We must use the Qur’an, the most
powerful weapon in Islam, to fight against Islam itself, until
we can destroy it altogether."
The
chairman of the Christian Missionaries Society, Samuel Zueimir,
in his holy conference had said, "The task of the
missionaries is not to make the Muslims become Christian, but
the task is make the Muslims leave Islam, so that they become
a creature who has no relation with Allah. Until they give
birth to a generation of Muslims who do not pay heed to the
greatness of Allah, who like to relax and be lazy, and all
their activities in this world are only for the fulfilment of
their carnal desires, in all of their undertakings."
Due to that, we
must be very careful and vigilant with the ploys of the
enemies of Islam, and it is also necessary to develop
preventive measures for our siblings, relatives, neighbours
and families specifically and the Islamic ummah
generally, so that that we do not fall into the trap holes
of those missionaries, because their movements today have
reached areas where the basis of Islam is strong. Allah
says,
“O ye who believe! save
yourselves and your families from a Fire whose fuel is Men and
Stones, over which are (appointed) angels stern (and) severe,
who flinch not (from executing) the Commands they receive from
Allah, but do (precisely) what they are commanded.”
(QS. At-Tahrim 66 : 6)
Besides us knowing, anticipating and averting the efforts of
the missionaries, we must also convey to the Islamic ummah
specifically, and the society at large the DANGER OF
MUSLIMS LEAVING THEIR RELIGION. For example, we give
them the understanding that if the Muslims leave their
religion, then all their good deeds that they had done all
their lives will be wiped out. And in the akhira,
Allah will right away throw them into hell without first being
brought to account. This is different from the people who are
still Muslims in the end of their lives, because if a Muslims
dies and he still brings with him sins (except the sin of
shirk), he still have a chance to enter paradise after
being brought to account first.
KLATEN
Indonesia - Thursday, 11/11/2010, a team
made up of the Anti-Proselytizing Front of Bekasi
(FAPB), Mustikajaya Islamic Ummah Forum (FUIM),
Community of Ansarut Tauhid for Disaster Cares
(KATIBAH) of Solo and Klaten, Hidayah Social Wallets
(DSH) of Klaten, Youths of Muhammadiyah of Kebonarum
Province, Masjid Teenagers of Kebonarum
Province, Arimathea Forum of Solo
and facilitated by the Religious Affairs Office of
Kebonarum Province, Kebonarum Province
Party, as well as community leaders of Pluneng
Village, Kebonarum Province, carried out humanitarian social
acts by distributing relief aids to the evacuees of the
Merapi volcano disaster who are from the district of
Surowono (6 km from the summit of Merapi) which is in the
province of Kebonarum. The team have prepared as many as 3
trucks and 2 pickup vehicles of goods which were stored in
the National Plantation Inc. (PTPN) Kebonarum. The plan was,
the relief goods would be distributed evenly to the evacuees
in the province of Kebonarum Klaten.
