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I forgot when the exact time I saw the article in yahoo news told me about the Brand New Sins released by The Vatican for the Catholic believers. One of the new sins is damaging the environment. This is a very nice release sides to environment and human kind. Isn’t it!

And on the other day, I read the March edition of TIME magazine. I found the similar article on the last page of the magazine.

The first passage was very interesting.

“The New Road to Hell. The Vatican reflects on its mortal sins for the modern age. Want Salvation? Pick up your trash“

These are part of those brand new sins: Genetic Modifications, Human Experiment such as cloning, polluting the environment, causing social injustice, causing poverty, becoming obscenely wealthy, taking drugs.

Wow.. Those were so specific!! Cool…Vatican seems keep their eyes on such world’s problems and those causes. Very nice job.

Actually, I don’t really understand how many kinds of sins are there in Catholic’s believer, and I’m not going to talk about it, too.

I just wanna share something about my thought after I read those articles (from yahoo news and TIME magazine). I thought about one notion. How about in my religion? What is the definition of sins in Islam actually? If the religion is established by God, why can we add many varieties of sins, like what Vatican did? If so, it means human take part in God’s power, doesn’t it?! By our intelligence, we will quickly response, that religion which adds so many brands new sins is not yet the perfect religion, isn’t it? Because that religion’s teaching cannot cope with the world’s movement.

Hmm…Doesn’t it interesting…..Let’s talk about sins in Islamic point of view. How Islam teaches us about this notion in such a beautiful way.

Let’s refer our discussion with Hadits Arba’in An-Nawawi #30 :

On the authority of ABu Tha’laba al-khushani Jurhum ibn Nashir (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon Him) said:

Allah the Almighty has laid down religious duties, so do not neglect them; He has set boundaries, do not over step them; He has prohibited something, so do not violate them; about some things He was silent – out of compassion for you, not forgetfulness-, sp seek not after them. (A good Hadits related by Ad-Daraqutni and others)

[Abu Tsa'labah Al-Khusyaniy Jurtsum bin Nasyur ra. berkata, Rasulullah saw bersabda,

"Sesungguhnya Allah telah menetapkan sejumlah kewajiban, maka janganlah meremehkannya. Dia telah meletakan batasan-batasan (hukum) maka janganlah kalian melanggarnya; Dia telah mengharamkan sejumlah perkara, maka janganlah kalian jatuh ke dalamnya; Dia juga telah mendiamkan beberapa perkara sebagai rahmat untuk kalian dan bukan karena lupa, maka janganlah mempersoalkannya (Apa yang telah didiamkan oleh Allah ini)]

Moreover, we have another Hadits narrated by Imam Muslim.

On the authority of An Nawwas bin Sam’an may Allah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allah (May the blessings and peace of Allah be upon Him) said:

“I asked to the Messenger of Allah (PBUH – peace be Upon Him-) about the righteous deed and the fallacious one. And Prophet Muhammad said:

Righteous deed is noble character and sin is anything that clutter in your mind, in fact you don’t like it if other people know about it (Narrated by Muslim # 2553)

Isn’t it very simple?! Sins are everything that hanging in your mind and you feel uncomfortable when others know about it.

Actually, in order to be honest to ourselves is very difficult, isn’t it! It is all about our heart’s speaking. Whether what we’ve done was sin or not. We need to continuously cleaning up our heart so that we’ll able to recognize it.

My point is -from presenting those two Hadits above- Islam has already defined what is Sin in a very general way. It can cope to every situation and every stage of world’s development. We do not need to redefine it anymore. We don’t have to discuss whether abortion is kind of a sin or not. Just ask your heart!! Or we shouldn’t doubt whether throw rubbish anywhere is kind of sin or not. Obviously, those makes us feel uncomfortable and we don’t want other people know about it, right!!?

Islam is the only perfect religion as Allah stated in Holy Quran Surrah Al-Maidah: 3:

“….This day, I have perfected your religion for you, completed my Favor upon you, and have chosen for you Islam as your Religion….”

We, as the believer do not allow adding anything to what Prophet Muhammad brought and spread all over the world. It will be considered as bid’ah. And Bid’ah is refused. Islam is established by The Holy Quran and As Sunnah Rasulullah (PBUH). Moreover, it is a way of life (Minhajul Hayyah). Holy Quran is a Miracle from Allah SWT.

This proves show us that everything (definition of Islam, what is sin, etc) has already defined and completed in era of Prophet Muhammad. And it is valid until the end of the world. We, as the believer of Islam, only follow what Prophet Muhammad PBUH did in his lifetime through is As-sunnah. And always use Holy Quran as our manual book. InsyaAllah we will not get lost in our journey in this world.

May Allah always enlighten our path, through the straight way to His Jannah. Amiin

Wallahu’alam bishawab.

Pewaris Sejati Pemikiran Bung Karno: Siti Fadilah Supari

Wahai Generasi Muda!!! Tunjukkan taringmu dihadapkan dunia, tunjukkan pembelaanmu terhadap kaum papa. Sibukkan dirimu dengan beramal sholeh, jangan pikirkan dirimu sendiri. Insya allah, Allah yang mengurus dirimu. [Arin]

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Meruntuhkan Arogansi Amerika Serikat, Memenangi Peradaban Manusia Pewaris Sejati Pemikiran Bung Karno: Siti Fadilah Supari

Saatnya Dunia Berubah. Neo-kolonialisme, neo-imperialisme, neo-kapitalisme, neo-feodalisme yang mewarnai perjalanan Republik Indonesia dan dunia saat ini harus ditumbangkan —seperti yang puluhan tahun lalu digaungkan oleh Bung Karno— secara cerdik, jujur dan berani. Dunia pendidikan sangat diharapkan menjadi pilar mendidik anak bangsa sebagai calon pemimpin yang cerdas tapi berhati nurani. Pendidikan yang berkarakter akan menghasilkan manusia yang berkarakter!

Oleh: Cardiyan HIS

Presiden RI, DR. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono menjuluki Siti Fadilah Supari, Menteri Kesehatan RI sebagai “Menteri Maju Tak Gentar”. Ini barangkali buah sukses perjuangan panjang, Siti Fadilah Supari di forum dunia sidang WHO (World Health Organization) , di Jenewa, dalam melawan ketidak-adilan badan kesehatan dunia ini terhadap negara-negara yang sedang berkembang yang umumnya negara miskin yang justru menderita sakit berbagai penyakit antara lain Flu Burung. Sebagai catatan, setiap negara yang terkena penyakit Flu Burung harus menyerahkan seed virus-nya ke WHO, tetapi tanpa diimbangi WHO dengan keterbukaan, kemana virus itu dimanfaatkan. Ujung-ujungnya sudah menjadi vaksin yang ditawar-tawarkan industri farmasi negara maju kepada negara-negara yang terkena Flu Burung yang nota bene negara-negara miskin.

Siti Fadilah Supari menengarai ada sesuatu yang ditutupi soal ini. Dengan sangat cerdas dan sangat berani Menkes RI untuk pertama kalinya tidak mau mengirimkan seed virus Flu Burung strain Indonesia ke WHO, kecuali harus ada “Material Transfer Agreement” (MTA) antara WHO dengan Pemerintah RI sebagai pemilik, sebagai negara yang Merdeka dan Berdaulat terlebih dulu. WHO mengancam dan juga Amerika Serikat melalui Secretary of Health and Human Services of the USA, Mr. Michael O. Leavitt, menemui langsung Menteri kesehatan RI di sela-sela sidang WHO, ikut-ikutan menekan bahwa tindakan Indonesia ini bisa mengancam terjadinya pandemi Flu Burung di dunia. Siti Fadilah bergeming. Ia hanya akan mengirim seed virus Flu Burung bila WHO menjelaskan mekanisme pengiriman dan pemanfaatan seed virus-nya secara transparan.

Dunia geger. Ilmuwan di dunia kaget dan sangat senang. Karena selama 50 tahun terakhir ini WHO hanya dikangkangi oleh ilmuwan eksklusif, yakni 15 orang saja, yang semuanya tidak merupakan ilmuwan independen tetapi adalah “antek” kepentingan negara tertentu dan atau perusahaan industri farmasi tertentu. Ini memang “very very big business” dengan nilai ratusan milyar dollar Amerika Serikat. Keberanian Siti Fadilah Supari boleh jadi sangat mengusik dan sangat berpotensi mengancam kepentingan bisnis mereka.

Media dunia bahkan media Barat sangat mendukung tindakan Menteri Kesehatan RI ini. Majalah bergengsi the Economist (UK), 10 Agustus 2006 menulisnya dalam headline news: “For the sake of basic human interest, the Indonesia government declares that genomic data on bird-flu viruses can be accessed by anyone. With those words, spoken on August 3rd, Siti Fadilah Supari started a revolution that could yet save the world from the ravages of a pandemic disease. That is because Indonesia’s health minister has chosen weapon that may prove more useful than todays best vaccines in tackling such emerging threats as avian flu: transparency” .

Pewaris Sejati Pemikiran Bung Karno
Megawati pasti adalah pewaris darah Ir. Soekarno karena ia adalah anak kandung pasangan Ir. Soekarno-Fatmawati, tetapi ia belum tentu pewaris pemikiran nyata Ir. Soekarno dalam praktek bernegara ketika ia menjadi Presiden RI ke 5. Tetapi Siti Fadilah Supari dipastikan pewaris sejati pemikiran Bung Karno. Saya kutipkan kalimat dari buku tulisannya: “I told my self, How cruel it is when the suffering of some people being exploited and made into commodity by other people without ethics and without conscience. Moreover, the practice involving a world organization expected to do the duty of promoting global health. The wound in my heart split again, exerting an irresistible pain to the whole of my bodies and mind. This is the second time since the incident of Tamiflu in the beginning of the endemic. Unconsciously, my tears roled down my cheek and dropped to the surface of the desk of the front of me, the desk of Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia. How useless I am
behind this official desk if I let the inequity keeping on ripping the right of living equally in the same world. Is it the neocolonialism, which was often mentioned by Soekarno? Is it exploitation de l’home par l’home? Is it neocapitalism? Or, is it imperialism? Should I ignore the situation by presuming that it is none of my business? Or, should I do something to stop it? But who am I? Oh, my GOD, am I just a Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia, who for more than three decades has been wellknown as country with no courage to stand against the establishment, except under the administration of Soekarno?”.

Negara-negara di dunia berkat kepeloporan Indonesia akan memulai babak baru dimana “charity” yang selama ini selalu melekat pada negara miskin manakala menghadapi WHO, mulai berubah menjadi “empowering” dalam mekanisme seed virus di WHO. Negara-negara miskin menemukan jati dirinya kembali menjadi bangsa yang bermartabat, yang berhak memiliki seed virus yang memang miliknya sendiri dan mengolahnya menjadi vaksin kalau memang mampu; sementara mekanisme di WHO menjadi transparan!

Bisa Menjadi Model Pengelolaan SDA dan SDH
Keberhasilan Siti Fadilah Supari mensiasati “bargaining power” kepemilikan seed virus strain Indonesia terhadap negara adidaya yang memiliki modal dan teknologi, sebenarnya bisa dijadikan model untuk berbagai sektor industri di Indonesia. Model pengelolaan sumberdaya alam (SDA) dan sumberdaya hayati (SDH), dalam empat dekade terakhir selalu menempatkan Indonesia merasa inferior di mata adidaya, yang memiliki uang dan teknologi. Padahal Indonesia yang memiliki kekayaan SDA dan SDH yang termasuk terkaya di dunia sebenarnya memiliki “bargaining power” ini.

Mental “rendah diri” inilah yang harus di kubur dari diri para birokrat dan legislator di Indonesia dalam menyikapi kekayaan Indonesia tadi. Mereka selalu berkilah “Sekali kita membatalkan perjanjian dengan investor, maka akan larilah investor selamanya dari bumi Indonesia. Padahal mencari dana itu sangatlah sulit”. Mengapa tidak dibalik; “Amandemen perjanjian adalah dimungkinkan demi suatu keadilan nyata untuk mensejahterakan rakyat dan lagi pula tidak dimaksudkan meniadakan keuntungan investor tetapi hanya menempatkannya kepada memperoleh keuntungan yang wajar dan fair. Dana itu akan mudah disiasati kalau potensi SDA dan SDH memang sangat atraktif karena telah terbukti di lapangan”.

Kalau Presiden Venezuela, Hugo Chavez dan Presiden Bolivia, Evo Morales sudah mengadopsi pemikiran besar Ir. Soekarno dalam pengelolaan sumberdaya alamnya. Maka, mengapa Indonesia yang menjadi tempat lahirnya pemikiran Ir. Soekarno, —yang selalu mendahului jamannya— malah tidak dipraktekkan. Ir. Soekarno selalu bilang; “We are owner” SDA dan SDH, dan para kapitalis Barat adalah “You are contractor”. Lupakan dana yang kapitalistik imperialistik karena sumber dana masih berserakan di pelosok dunia karena Indonesia kaya raya SDA dan SDH. Barangkali kalau masih ada “kemiskinan” adalah kemiskinan rohani birokrat dan legislator yang masih juga korup dan tidak produktif dan efektif dalam kinerjanya. Dan ini harus dibenahi melalui investasi pendidikan sumberdaya manusia yang mendasar dan berjangka-panjang, yang berkarakter.

Saatnya dunia berubah. Mari kita para insinyur dan ilmuwan belajar dari seorang Dr. dr. Siti Fadilah Supari, SpJP. Ia semula adalah seorang dokter peneliti tetapi karena memiliki kesempatan mendapat amanah rakyat sebagai Menteri Kesehatan RI dan pribadinya memiliki hati nurani untuk selalu berada pada keberpihakan kepada rakyat; ia telah membawa Indonesia mendapatkan martabatnya kembali sebagai Bangsa yang Merdeka, Bangsa Berdaulat, Bangsa Besar di peta bangsa-bangsa di dunia!

REFERENSI:
Dr. Siti Fadilah Supari, PhD (Editor: Cardiyan HIS); “It’s Time for the World to Change. Divine Hand Behind Avian Influenza”, Publisher: PT. Sulaksana Watinsa Indonesia (SWI), Jakarta, 2008.

“The Force behind Trends”

Why did the New York City crime rate drop so dramatically in 1990s? Why did fax machines become popular so quickly in the United State? Author Malcolm Gladwell has explored the forces behind the sudden, swift transmission of ideas that change society, and he has found that new ideas and trends originate with three types of exceptional people : mavens, connector, and salesman.

In his book, The Tipping Point : How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Gladwell profiles the three groups to explain how word-of-mouth epidemics take hold in society.

Gladwell says maven, the type of people who have specialize knowledge, are the first group of exceptional people responsible for trends. If you examine why you make certain decision, such as where to shop or dine or what movie to see, he says, you find that you are relying on the same person -a maven- over and over again for recommendations.

Connector, are the kind of people who know everybody, the handful of individuals in any social group who have extraordinary social ties. Gladwell explains that connectors are incredibly powerful in generating word-of-mouth epidemics because if they like something, they can spread information about it five or six times, much farther than the average person.

Once a new idea has spread, Gladwell attributes the ability to persuade people to adopt it to the third group, the salesman. Salesman have an extraordinary natural ability to win people over, to get hold on an idea and make it go a long way, he says.

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Now the question is where is our position?
Is it important to define our position in those three criterion above?
In my opinion, it is important to know our strength whether you are a maven, a connector, or a salesman. If you have all of them in your personality, please peruse yourself one more time. You must have the most dominant one.

This is important for the one who do not want to be like other common people.^__^

Actually everybody is special. They came to this earth with their own function. For instance, around 1775 in Boston, there was a man named Paul Revere. He was phenomenal for US citizen in the way through snatch independence from the British colonization. He was phenomenal because of his bravery to ride from Boston to Lexington, to warn citizen about the British battle plans to Boston.
The question is, why Revere was successfully warn people about the British battle plan. Why did people trust in his warn? What was the secret behind his success?
Gladwell said that new idea catch on partly because socially connected people spread them. Revere was a connector who knows everybody. He has a wide network of social connections- the type you always go for the latest news. In fact, Revere learned about the British attack from several sources. After so many rumors came his way, naturally he jumped on his horse and took his legendary ride to Lexington. And the rest history, literally. His news gave the colonial army time to organize and meet the enemy with fierce resistance.

So what is the answer of his success? Revere lived his entire life in Boston, so he knew everybody. He had a social network from childhood, from business, from community work. He made friends among his business patrons. He owned a lot of shop: silver shop, printing press, an arms factory, and dentistry. He belonged to almost every club and organization around. So Revere connected with people everywhere and he was very popular.

As you see, Revere had build such a wide circle of friends that he was the ideal person to spread a piece of critical news as far as possible. Consequently, Revere’s tale, his word-of-mouth epidemic, was a legend that we can take the pith from it.

I would rather be the Connector too..^__^ how about you?