The new semester has just began.Being the final year student, I am allowed to choose my preferred elective courses which total up to 12 credit hours, which is equivalent to four elective courses.Alhamdulillah, this semester, I chose al-Iqtisad fi Qur'an wa Sunnah (Economics in the Quran and Sunnah), lectured by Dr Mustafa Omar, a foreign lecturer. Most of the time, Dr Mustafa will share his life experience with us (his students) and often relate the knowledge we learnt in class with practical examples.
Alhamdulillah, today he shared with us something beautiful on the topic of Challenges in Reviving the Institution of al Amanah. I shall not dicsuss further this time what is al Amanah and its challenges. I will just elaborate on one point that will bring us to the examples that the lecturer gave. One of the challenges in reviving the institution of al Amanah is the absence of role model.
Here, he first quoted the example of Tuan Guru Hj Nik Abdul Aziz b Nik Mat, the previous Menteri Besar of Kelantan that served for almost 22 years. He started by posing this question to us , " How many people in the Muslim world who are like TGNA? " Then, he told his story to us about his experience of visiting TGNA in Kelantan. " TGNA just wore a simple sarong and did not show any extravagance , yet very humble. I was shocked at the time when TGNA cross the road to go and buy some 'kuih muih' to entertain us as his guest. The humbleness, the place and the muamalah of TGNA indicated how he really assume his position as the Menteri Besar of Kelantan as an amanah from Allah, though at political level there are lots of temptations that could have distracted somebody without clear objectives in this world." There are many other good things in the characters of TGNA though there are many people out there who didn't like this figure.
DrMAZA once quoted TGNA had his own standard whereby if somebody accused him of taking bribes or commiting crimes , people would not believe it. Why? The reason is simple, it is because he had taken almost the entire of his life in serving the people as the way that is regulated in Islam (by showing good examples to the people and walk the talk) and only the less-intelligent people would call him a kafir or any other accusations. I wondered, how people can accuse TGNA of being a kafir when he had only missed his tahajjud prayer three times in his life?
An ustaz once said that TGNA used to call his secretary (Ust Fadhli), in the early morning around 3-4 am to give some media-statement and at the same time asked his secretary to come to the mosque and pray solat Subh in congregation. The ustaz said that how husnu dzon is TGNA when he's expecting other people also woke up for tahajjud every night, as he is.
Though some might argue why we should take a person that is alive as our role model and why not just take Prophet Muhammad SAW as our role model? It is good to bear in mind that sometimes we need practical examples in our life.This does not mean taking Prphet Muhammad SAW as not a practical example, but to suit with the current era, it is also practical to take somebody who eat the same rice that we eat , live in the same era that we live as long as that person is also following the teachings of Prophet Muhammad SAW and whatmore when the person is encouraging us to also follow the teachings of Prophet.
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| Tn Guru Hj Nik Abdul Aziz b Nik Mat |
May Allah guide us to the right path.
Amin.
