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1. Business means buying and selling, and English is the name of our mother tongue. Business English is obviously such English as is used in mercantile transactions. Our definition is quickly made.

But it will bear expansion. We must answer certain questions that inevitably arise. Is some special brand of English used in business? And how are we to know when we are studying business and when merely the English of business?

Take the first of these two questions. There are of course certain words which name business transactions primarily. Buy, sell, exchange, barter, trade, purchase, shop, customer, hire, rent, pay, fee, price, retail, wholesale, lease, mortgage, merchandise, commodity, goods, stock, office, factory, finance, money, funds, capital, interest, sum, amount, balance, cash, currency, bill, receipt, note, draft, check, bank, cashier, bookkeeper, stenographer, clerk - hundreds of words like these will occur to us at random as being mercantile words in a peculiar sense.

To be sure, they are not all limited to business transactions. Note the word brand. It is primarily mercantile, naming a particular kind of goods. But in the second paragraph, above, the phrase "special brand of English" appears. Here the word is used figuratively. Every business word can be extended in that way to social or literary use. When we speak of wholesale slaughter, or of a stock of words, we use commercial figures of speech, and Americans are exceedingly fond of doing so. You have heard people speak of a thoroughly posted man, as if a man were a ledger. You have heard them speak of the balance of the day, as if time were literally money. You have noticed that an American likes to claim everything in sight; I mean, he prefers to claim that a thing is so, rather than assert, declare, contend, allege, maintain, or swear that it is so.

§2.But the strictly commercial words, again, aria not the only ones employed in business. In addition to such words as are listed above in our third paragraph, business employs thousands of terms from science and technology. If a man is buying or selling machinery, he must know the names of the machines. If it falls to him to buy the parts of them, he must know the names of the parts. Does business English, then, include the study of everything that is bought or sold? If it did, it would include nearly the whole dictionary. Everything is bought or sold, from surgical instruments to Egyptian mummies. Nothing is exempt but heaven and love and faith. "Tis only heaven that is given away; Mis only God may be had for the asking." And there are gloomy times when we feel that even faith and love are sold.

Quite clearly we are not called upon to master the whole dictionary. No man's life is long enough for that. So far as special study of words is concerned, we must limit it to a few which are most commonly employed in mercantile transactions.

And I fear that even with these we shall not be quite certain what to do. In our eleventh chapter will be found brief histories of certain commercial terms. But it is not pretended that knowing the history of a word will usually be of much practical value to the young man in business. The word dollar has a curious history, being connected with our word dale, a valley. A dollar is a dale-coin, a piece of money first coined in a certain dale, or Thal. But who cares, except the philologist or the antiquary? "Show me how to get the dollar," says our business man, "and you bookworms may have the derivation." He feels that he is quite literary enough if he manages to spell dollar with two ll's. It bores him to go farther into derivations. And it would be bad business to urge him to go back far into history when he is interested only in the burning present and the glowing future.

§3. If we pick up any business letter we see at once that the words it contains are chiefly common words, not especially mercantile. The technical buying or selling words are present, but they are in the minority. What makes the letter good or bad is the choice and arrangement of words to express thought and feeling. It is their composition, or putting together. And this is really the subject that we are after. "Business English" in the sense here used is merely short for "Business English Composition. "

"English," as used in schools and colleges, now means primarily English composition. It includes also the study of English literature, but chiefly because a mastery of literature helps the student to a mastery of writing and speaking. None of us common people ever invents a word, and the few Edisons are lucky if they add half a dozen to the language. We go to other people or to books for our words. They are the great social heritage into which we enter, and literature is the best place to find them, because there they are alive, each in its context. The proper study of literature is so practical that I dare not confess how practical - because some people think it is a matter of pleasure pure and simple. The words of literature are practical; the setting of them is practical; the knowledge of life that they give us is practical. The right sort of business man cannot read Shakspere without getting a clearer insight into those springs of human emotion which he has to consider daily. And if this reading makes him better in point of courage and good cheer and character, why, that is practical too.

But this is not a plea for the study of Shakspere. For all the illustrative matter used in this book we shall go to business documents pure and simple. We shall have business narratives, business descriptions, business arguments, business explanations. We are to try to get at the principles of English composition on business topics:

Our purpose is to point out some of the established principles which govern effective expression. Everybody is ready to admit that the power of effective expression is a financial asset. It helps the stenographer, the salesman, the manager, the advertiser, the correspondent. It makes for more responsible positions and advanced salaries. Good selling-talk sells goods. Judicious explanations remove difficulties. Persuasive arguments reach buyers.

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1. Business means buying and selling, and English is the name of our mother tongue. Business English is obviously such English as is used in mercantile transactions. Our definition is quickly made.

But it will bear expansion. We must answer certain questions that inevitably arise. Is some special brand of English used in business? And how are we to know when we are studying business and when merely the English of business?

Take the first of these two questions. There are of course certain words which name business transactions primarily. Buy, sell, exchange, barter, trade, purchase, shop, customer, hire, rent, pay, fee, price, retail, wholesale, lease, mortgage, merchandise, commodity, goods, stock, office, factory, finance, money, funds, capital, interest, sum, amount, balance, cash, currency, bill, receipt, note, draft, check, bank, cashier, bookkeeper, stenographer, clerk - hundreds of words like these will occur to us at random as being mercantile words in a peculiar sense.

To be sure, they are not all limited to business transactions. Note the word brand. It is primarily mercantile, naming a particular kind of goods. But in the second paragraph, above, the phrase "special brand of English" appears. Here the word is used figuratively. Every business word can be extended in that way to social or literary use. When we speak of wholesale slaughter, or of a stock of words, we use commercial figures of speech, and Americans are exceedingly fond of doing so. You have heard people speak of a thoroughly posted man, as if a man were a ledger. You have heard them speak of the balance of the day, as if time were literally money. You have noticed that an American likes to claim everything in sight; I mean, he prefers to claim that a thing is so, rather than assert, declare, contend, allege, maintain, or swear that it is so.

§2.But the strictly commercial words, again, aria not the only ones employed in business. In addition to such words as are listed above in our third paragraph, business employs thousands of terms from science and technology. If a man is buying or selling machinery, he must know the names of the machines. If it falls to him to buy the parts of them, he must know the names of the parts. Does business English, then, include the study of everything that is bought or sold? If it did, it would include nearly the whole dictionary. Everything is bought or sold, from surgical instruments to Egyptian mummies. Nothing is exempt but heaven and love and faith. "Tis only heaven that is given away; Mis only God may be had for the asking." And there are gloomy times when we feel that even faith and love are sold.

Quite clearly we are not called upon to master the whole dictionary. No man's life is long enough for that. So far as special study of words is concerned, we must limit it to a few which are most commonly employed in mercantile transactions.

And I fear that even with these we shall not be quite certain what to do. In our eleventh chapter will be found brief histories of certain commercial terms. But it is not pretended that knowing the history of a word will usually be of much practical value to the young man in business. The word dollar has a curious history, being connected with our word dale, a valley. A dollar is a dale-coin, a piece of money first coined in a certain dale, or Thal. But who cares, except the philologist or the antiquary? "Show me how to get the dollar," says our business man, "and you bookworms may have the derivation." He feels that he is quite literary enough if he manages to spell dollar with two ll's. It bores him to go farther into derivations. And it would be bad business to urge him to go back far into history when he is interested only in the burning present and the glowing future.

§3. If we pick up any business letter we see at once that the words it contains are chiefly common words, not especially mercantile. The technical buying or selling words are present, but they are in the minority. What makes the letter good or bad is the choice and arrangement of words to express thought and feeling. It is their composition, or putting together. And this is really the subject that we are after. "Business English" in the sense here used is merely short for "Business English Composition. "

"English," as used in schools and colleges, now means primarily English composition. It includes also the study of English literature, but chiefly because a mastery of literature helps the student to a mastery of writing and speaking. None of us common people ever invents a word, and the few Edisons are lucky if they add half a dozen to the language. We go to other people or to books for our words. They are the great social heritage into which we enter, and literature is the best place to find them, because there they are alive, each in its context. The proper study of literature is so practical that I dare not confess how practical - because some people think it is a matter of pleasure pure and simple. The words of literature are practical; the setting of them is practical; the knowledge of life that they give us is practical. The right sort of business man cannot read Shakspere without getting a clearer insight into those springs of human emotion which he has to consider daily. And if this reading makes him better in point of courage and good cheer and character, why, that is practical too.

But this is not a plea for the study of Shakspere. For all the illustrative matter used in this book we shall go to business documents pure and simple. We shall have business narratives, business descriptions, business arguments, business explanations. We are to try to get at the principles of English composition on business topics:

Our purpose is to point out some of the established principles which govern effective expression. Everybody is ready to admit that the power of effective expression is a financial asset. It helps the stenographer, the salesman, the manager, the advertiser, the correspondent. It makes for more responsible positions and advanced salaries. Good selling-talk sells goods. Judicious explanations remove difficulties. Persuasive arguments reach buyers.

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1. Business means buying and selling, and English is the name of our mother tongue. Business English is obviously such English as is used in mercantile transactions. Our definition is quickly made.

But it will bear expansion. We must answer certain questions that inevitably arise. Is some special brand of English used in business? And how are we to know when we are studying business and when merely the English of business?

Take the first of these two questions. There are of course certain words which name business transactions primarily. Buy, sell, exchange, barter, trade, purchase, shop, customer, hire, rent, pay, fee, price, retail, wholesale, lease, mortgage, merchandise, commodity, goods, stock, office, factory, finance, money, funds, capital, interest, sum, amount, balance, cash, currency, bill, receipt, note, draft, check, bank, cashier, bookkeeper, stenographer, clerk - hundreds of words like these will occur to us at random as being mercantile words in a peculiar sense.

To be sure, they are not all limited to business transactions. Note the word brand. It is primarily mercantile, naming a particular kind of goods. But in the second paragraph, above, the phrase "special brand of English" appears. Here the word is used figuratively. Every business word can be extended in that way to social or literary use. When we speak of wholesale slaughter, or of a stock of words, we use commercial figures of speech, and Americans are exceedingly fond of doing so. You have heard people speak of a thoroughly posted man, as if a man were a ledger. You have heard them speak of the balance of the day, as if time were literally money. You have noticed that an American likes to claim everything in sight; I mean, he prefers to claim that a thing is so, rather than assert, declare, contend, allege, maintain, or swear that it is so.

§2.But the strictly commercial words, again, aria not the only ones employed in business. In addition to such words as are listed above in our third paragraph, business employs thousands of terms from science and technology. If a man is buying or selling machinery, he must know the names of the machines. If it falls to him to buy the parts of them, he must know the names of the parts. Does business English, then, include the study of everything that is bought or sold? If it did, it would include nearly the whole dictionary. Everything is bought or sold, from surgical instruments to Egyptian mummies. Nothing is exempt but heaven and love and faith. "Tis only heaven that is given away; Mis only God may be had for the asking." And there are gloomy times when we feel that even faith and love are sold.

Quite clearly we are not called upon to master the whole dictionary. No man's life is long enough for that. So far as special study of words is concerned, we must limit it to a few which are most commonly employed in mercantile transactions.

And I fear that even with these we shall not be quite certain what to do. In our eleventh chapter will be found brief histories of certain commercial terms. But it is not pretended that knowing the history of a word will usually be of much practical value to the young man in business. The word dollar has a curious history, being connected with our word dale, a valley. A dollar is a dale-coin, a piece of money first coined in a certain dale, or Thal. But who cares, except the philologist or the antiquary? "Show me how to get the dollar," says our business man, "and you bookworms may have the derivation." He feels that he is quite literary enough if he manages to spell dollar with two ll's. It bores him to go farther into derivations. And it would be bad business to urge him to go back far into history when he is interested only in the burning present and the glowing future.

§3. If we pick up any business letter we see at once that the words it contains are chiefly common words, not especially mercantile. The technical buying or selling words are present, but they are in the minority. What makes the letter good or bad is the choice and arrangement of words to express thought and feeling. It is their composition, or putting together. And this is really the subject that we are after. "Business English" in the sense here used is merely short for "Business English Composition. "

"English," as used in schools and colleges, now means primarily English composition. It includes also the study of English literature, but chiefly because a mastery of literature helps the student to a mastery of writing and speaking. None of us common people ever invents a word, and the few Edisons are lucky if they add half a dozen to the language. We go to other people or to books for our words. They are the great social heritage into which we enter, and literature is the best place to find them, because there they are alive, each in its context. The proper study of literature is so practical that I dare not confess how practical - because some people think it is a matter of pleasure pure and simple. The words of literature are practical; the setting of them is practical; the knowledge of life that they give us is practical. The right sort of business man cannot read Shakspere without getting a clearer insight into those springs of human emotion which he has to consider daily. And if this reading makes him better in point of courage and good cheer and character, why, that is practical too.

But this is not a plea for the study of Shakspere. For all the illustrative matter used in this book we shall go to business documents pure and simple. We shall have business narratives, business descriptions, business arguments, business explanations. We are to try to get at the principles of English composition on business topics:

Our purpose is to point out some of the established principles which govern effective expression. Everybody is ready to admit that the power of effective expression is a financial asset. It helps the stenographer, the salesman, the manager, the advertiser, the correspondent. It makes for more responsible positions and advanced salaries. Good selling-talk sells goods. Judicious explanations remove difficulties. Persuasive arguments reach buyers.

Resensi Novel

Tugas bahasa indonesia#2

SALJU SAKINAH

      

Tajuk : Salju Sakinah

Pengarang : Zaid Akhtar

Penerbit : PTS Millenia Sdn Bhd

ISBN : 978-983-3604-41-8

Muka Surat : 576 Halaman

Kisah Sumayyah yang belajar di Universiti Yarmouk Jordan. Dari situ kisah berkisar tentang cara hidup mahasiswa dan mahasiswi Malaysia yang belajar di Jordan. PERMAYA - persatuan pelajar malaysia yang hidup dengan penuh tanggung jawab dan forum-forum diadakan dari semasa ke semasa.

Sumayyah pula di tahun akhir dan dia merupakan bekas ketua mahasiswi PERMAYA yang tegas dan lantang ketika berforum tetapi masih lagi dalam norma-norma mahasiswa islami. Di penghujung peperiksaan, dia mendapat keputusan lulus dan balik ke Malaysia. Pada waktu itu juga dia telah dengan tidak sengaja bertemu dengan Naufal yang berkopiah Raihan. (manis juga jalan cerita ni, dan sangat romantik dalam bentuk2 islami).

Bila pulang ke tanahair, tempat lahirnya di Batu Pahat, dia terpaksa mendepani situasi sulit, dimana dia telah kehilangan ayahnya, dan dia terpaksa juga meneruskan perniagaan kerepek usaha ayahnya. Sambil itu dia juga mendapat undangan berceramah agama setelah dipinta oleh ustazah Samihah, ustazah yang pernah mengajarnya. Dari sini dia telah bertemu semula Luqman (anak Ustazah Samihah) yang meminatinya sejak dari sekolah menengah. Luqman juga berasal dari sekolah agama dan sekarang menjadi pensyarah di Bangi.

Sementara itu, kemelut keluarga terpaksa dihadapi, di mana kak longnya Safiah dan suami disyakki mengikut ajaran sesat Tok Ayah Mit. Malang sekali cerita ini diakhiri dengan kematian Tok Ayah Mit dan suami Safiah akibat disambar kilat di atas bukit Teguh.. (kematian yang tragis!). Kesudahan cerita yang terperanjat juga!. Kak Ngah nya pula kematian tunangan, dalam kemalangan..... sedih dan tragis.

Kemudian Sumayyah disunting Luqman tetapi setelah istikharah, dia masih belum mendapat petunjuk, sehinggalah dia mengunjungi majlis perkahwinan Hakimah dan Hakimi di Melaka, dan dia mendapati dia telah gagal satu subjek di universiti yarmouk itu.....

Dia kembali ke Jordan, dan di sini lah bermula kisah cinta Sumayyah dan Naufal. Secara begitu islamik, Sumayyah disunting Naufal melalui Hakimi dan Hakimah, dan dia serasa begitu tersentuh dan menerimanya....-setelah dia menerima VCD melalui pak Arab penjaga kedai.

BULAN RAMADHAN

B.INDONESIA 2#

KISAH RASULULLAH PADA 10 MALAM TERAKHIR BULAN RAMADHAN

Diriwayatkan bahwa Rasulullah SAW sedang duduk i’tikaf semalam suntuk pada hari-hari terakhir Bulan Suci Ramadhan. Para sahabat pun tidak sedikit yang mengikuti apa yang dilakukan Nabi SAW ini. Beliau berdiri shalat mereka juga shalat, beliau menegadahkan tangannya untuk berdo’a dan para sahabatpun juga serempak mengamininya. Saat itu langit mendung tidak berbintang. Angin pun meniup tubuh-tubuh yang memenuhi masjid. Dalam riwayat tersebut malam itu adalah malam ke-27 dari Bulan Ramadhan.

Disaat Rasulullah SAW dan para sahabat sujud, tiba-tiba hujan turun cukup deras. Masjid yang tidak beratap itu menjadi tergenang air hujan. Salah seorang sahabat ada yang ingin membatalkan shalatnya, ia bermaksud ingin berteduh dan lari dari shaf, namun niat itu digagalkan karena dia melihat Rasulullah SAW dan sahabat lainnya tetap sujud dengan khusuk tidak bergerak. Air hujan pun semakin menggenangi masjid dan membasahi seluruh tubuh Rasulullah SAW dan para sahabatnya yang berada di dalam masjid tersebut, akan tetapi Rasulullah SAW dan para sahabat tetap sujud dan tidak beranjak sedikitpun dari tempatnya.

Beliau basah kuyup dalam sujud. Namun sama sekali tidak bergerak. seolah-olah beliau sedang asyik masuk kedalam suatu alam yang melupakan segala-galanya. Beliau sedang masuk kedalam suatu alam keindahan. Beliau sedang diliputi oleh cahaya Ilahi. Beliau takut keindahan yang beliau saksikan ini akan hilang jika beliau bergerak dari sujudnya. Beliau takut cahaya itu akan hilang jika beliau mengangkat kapalanya. Beliau terpaku lama sekali di dalam sujudnya. Beberapa sahabat ada yang tidak kuat menggigil kedinginan. Ketika Rasulullah SAW mengangat kepala dan mengakhiri shalatnya, hujan pun berhenti seketika.

Anas bin Malik, sahabat Rasulullah SAW bangun dari tempat duduknya dan berlari ingin mengambil pakaian kering untuk Rasulullah SAW. Namun beliau pun mencegahnya dan berkata “Wahai anas bin Malik, janganlah engkau mengambilkan sesuatu untukku, biarkanlah kita sama-sama basah, nanti juga pakaian kita akan kering dengan sendirinya. ” Anas pun duduk kembali dan mendengarkan dengan seksama cerita Rasulullah SAW mengapa beliau begitu lama bersujud. Masya Allah….ternyata ketika tadi Rasulullah SAW, dan disaat hujan mulai turun, disaat itu pula

malaikat dibawah pimpinan jibril

turun dalam keindahan dan bentuk aslinya. Mereka berbaris rapi dengan suara gemuruh tasbih

dan tahmid mereka bergema dilangit dan dibumi serta alam semesta saat itu dipenuhi dengan cahaya ilahi. Inilah yang membuat Rasulullah SAW terpaku menyaksikan keindahan dan cahaya yang sama sekali tidak pernah dilihat oleh mata. Gema tasbih dan tahmid malaikat yang tak pernah didengar oleh telinga dan suasana

yang tidak pernah bisa dibayangkan oleh pikiran manusia.

Itulah lailatul qadar. Tahukah kalian, apakah Lailatul Qadar ?

Lailatul qadar yang sesaat itu lebih baik dari pada seribu bulan. Di malam itu, para malaikat dibawah pimpinan Jibril turun atas izin Allah SWT, mereka menebarkan kedamaian, keselamatan, kesejahteraan dan

mengatur segala urusan, mereka menyampaikan salam sampai terbitnya fajar keseluruh semesta alam. Sekarang Kita sudah hampir mencapai puncak terakhir dari Bulan Ramadhan, dan dipuncaknya kita mendapatkan pembebasan dari api neraka. Pada malam-malam terakhir, para malaikat turun dari langit untuk menaburkan kasih sayang Allah SWT kepada para hambanya dan menyampaikan salam kepada kaum beriman hingga terbitnya fajar, itulah yang dinamakan lailatul qadar, malam yang lebih afdhal daripada seribu malam.

Lailatul Qadar adalah malam kebesaran Allah SWT, malam keagungan-Nya, malam pengampunan-Nya, malam yang dimiliki-Nya untuk memberi maaf

kepada para pembuat dosa dan menebarkan kasih sayang kepada para hamba-Nya. Dilangit ada kerajaan sangat besar yang mengatur dan mencatat segala amal manusia dimuka bumi ini. Ketika para malaikat melihat kitab catatan

amal manusia, mereka iri dengan amal yang hanya khusus dilakukan penduduk bumi dimalam-malam lailatul qadar. Malaikat pun tidak ada yang dapat menirunya. Salah satu di antaranya adalah rintihan taubat para pembuat dosa yang kemudian diampuni segala dosa- dosanya.

Allah SWT berfirman dalam sebuah hadist qudsi: “Aku lebih suka mendengarkan rintihan para pembuat dosa ketimbang gemuruh suara tasbih. Karena gemuruh suara tasbih hanya menyentuh kebesaranKu, sedangkan rintihan para pembuat dosa menyentuh kasih sayangKu.”

Shalawat dan salam selalu tercurahkan atas junjunganMu Nabi Muhammad SAW, beserta keluarga dan para sahabatnya. Amin….

BULAN SYA'BAN

B.INDONESIA 2#

KISAH TELADAN DIBULAN SYA'BAN

“Barang siapa yang mengagungkan bulan Sya’ban, bertakwa kepada Allah dan taat kepada-Nya, serta menahan diri dari perbuatan maksiat, maka Allah SWT mengampuni dosanya dan menyelamatkannya pada tahun itu dari segala macam bencana, dan dari bermacam-macam penyakit.”

Sahabat sebuah hadist tentang bulan Sya’ban memulai catatan kisah hari ini, tepat pada tanggal dua dibulan sya’ban. Dan Ramadhan kini tinggal sekitar 29 hari lagi. Begitu istimewanya bulan menjelang ramadhan ini, namun tak sedikit yang lalai dalam bulan ini, banyak kisah menarik tentang bulan sya’ban sahabat, diceritakan dari Muhammad bin Abdullah az Zahidiy bahwa dia berkata: Kawan saya Abu Hafshin al Kabir telah meninggal dunia, maka saya menyalatinya. Dan saya tidak mengunjungi kuburnya lagi selama delapan bulan. Kemudian saya bermaksud menengok kuburnya.

Ketika saya tidur di malam hari, saya bermimpi melihatnya, mukanya berubah menjadi pucat. Saya bersalam kepadanya dan dia tidak membalasnya. Kemudian saya bertanya kepadanya: “Subhanallah, mengapa engkau tidak menjawab salam saya?”

Membalas salam adalah ibadah, sedang kami sekalian telah terputus dari ibadah,” jawabnya. “Mengapa saya melihat wajahmu berubah, padahal sungguh engkau dulu berwajah bagus?” tanya saya.

Dia menjawab: “Ketika saya dibaringkan di dalam kubur, telah datang satu malaikat dan duduk di sebelah kepala saya seraya berkata: “Hai si tua yang jahat!,” lalu dia menghitung semua dosa saya dan semua perbuatan saya yang jahat, bahkan dia memukul saya dengan sebatang kayu sehingga badan saya terbakar. Kubur pun berkata kepada saya: “Apakah engkau tidak malu kepada Tuhanku?”, lalu kubur pun menghimpit saya dengan himpitan yang kuat sekali sehingga tulang rusuk saya menjadi bertebaran dan sendi-sendinya menjadi terpisah-pisah, siksaan itu berlangsung sampai malam pertama bulan Sya’ban. Waktu itu ada suara mengundang dari atas saya: “Hai malaikat, angkatlah batang kayumu, dan siksamu dari padanya, karena sesungguhnya dia pernah menghidup-hidupkan satu malam dari bulan Sya’ban selama hidupnya dan pernah berpuasa pula satu hari di bulan Sya’ban.”

Maka Allah SWT menghapuskan siksa dari padaku karena aku memuliakan malam hari di bulan Sya’ban dengan shalat dan juga dengan puasa satu hari di bulan Sya’ban. Kemudian Allah memberi kegembiraan kepadaku dengan surga dan kasih sayang-Nya.

Menurut Imam Ibnu Mandzur dalam Lisanul Arob, makna kata Sya’ban adalah dari lafadz ‘Sya’aba’ atau berarti ‘dhoharo’ (tampak) diantara dua bulan mulia, yaitu Rajab dan Ramadhan.

Sedangkan Menurut As-Sayyid Muhammad bin Alawi Al Malikiy dalam kitab beliau ‘Madza fi Sya’ban’, dalam bulan Sya’ban ini ada kejadian-kejadian besar yang berkaitan erat dengan perjalanan hidup umat. Kejadian-kejadian tersebut diantaranya: Allah berkenan untuk merubah arah kiblat umat Islam dari Masjidil Aqsho ke arah Masjidil Haram, yang sebelumnya tatkala umat Islam berada di Kota Madinah, jika melakukan shalat kiblatnya mengarah ke arah Baitul Maqdis.

Apa yang mereka lakukan ini menjadi bahan cemoan orang-orang Yahudi di Kota Madinah. Mereka mengatakan, katanya Muhammad membawa risalah dan agama baru yang lengkap. Tapi ternyata kiblat mereka masih menggunakan kiblatnya orang Yahudi, yaitu Baitul Maqdis.

Ucapan tersebut, bagi sebagian umat Islam yang baru masuk Islam dan sangat tipis imannya, sudah lebih dari cukup untuk memurtadkan mereka kembali. Sehingga kondisi ini menjadi pemikiran yang sangat mendalam bagi Nabi SAW. Karena itu, Nabi selalu berdoa dan sering melihat keatas berharap ada firman Allah, yang memberi solusi masalah ini. Kemudian tepatnya pada 15 Sya’ban, Allah berkenan memindah kiblat umat Islam menuju Masjidil Harom.

Pada bulan Sya’ban, segala amal manusia dalam jangka waktu satu tahun dilaporkan kehadirat Allah SWT. Sebagaimana hadits yang disampaikan sahabat Usamah bib Zaid ra. ; “Saya pernah berkata: Ya Rasulullah! Saya tidak melihat Anda berpuasa penuh pada bulan lain, seperti puasa Anda di bulan Sya’ban ini? Beliau menjawab: Pada bulan ini adalah sebuah bulan yang banyak dilalaikan oleh umat manusia, dan dia berada diantara Rajab dan Ramadhan yang pada bulan tersebut seluruh amal manusia dilaporkan ke hadirat Allah, maka aku senang tatkala amal ibadahku dilaporkan sedang aku dalam keadaan berpuasa.” (HR. An-Nasaiy).

Pada bulan ini, khususnya pada malam nisfu Sya’ban, Allah berkenan untuk menentukan umur manusia. Seperti dalam hadits Aisyah ra, yang pernah bertanya kepada Nabi SAW : Wahai Rasulullah, apakah bulan yang Anda paling sukai untuk melakukan puasa adalah bulan Sya’ban? Beliau menjawab: Sesungguhnya Allah pada bulan ini menetapkan setiap jiwa manusia yang akan mati pada satu tahun ke depan, maka aku senang tatkala ajalku tiba aku sedang dalam keadaan puasa.”

Karenanya, para ulama salaf menganjurkan pada malam nisfu Sya’ban setelah maghrib mengadakan acara khusus dengan membaca surah Yasin tiga kali, dengan niatan, semoga dipanjangkan umur dalam ibadah kepada Allah. Kedua, dengan niatan semoga dijauhkan dari segala balak dan musibah. Ketiga, kita berdoa agar selalu diberi kecukupan dunia oleh Allah SWT. Selain itu, dianjurkan untuk memperbanyak bacaan shalawat kepada Nabi Muhammad SAW, memperbanyak puasa sunnah, dan memperbanyak melakukan shalat malam, dengan iringan doa dan istighfar.

BULAN SYA'BAN

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FADHILAH DIBULAN SYA'BAN

Dikutip dari buku al-Fawaaidul Mukhtaaroh, ada beberapa fadhilah yang terkandung dalam bulan sya'ban.

Diceritakan bahwa Ibnu Abiy as-Shoif al-Yamaniy berkata,
“Sesungguhnya bulan Sya’ban adalah bulan sholawat kepada Nabi saw, karena ayat Innallooha wa malaaikatahuu yusholluuna ‘alan Nabiy … diturunkan pada bulan itu. (Ma Dza Fiy Sya’ban?)

Tuanku Kanjeng Syaikh‘Abdul Qadir al-Jailaniy berkata,
“Malam Nishfu Sya’ban adalah malam yang paling mulia setelah Lailatul Qodr.” (Kalaam Habiib ‘Alwiy bin Syahaab)

Konon Sayidina Ali bin Abi Tholib Karromalloohu Wajhah meluangkan waktunya untuk ibadah pada 4 malam dalam setahun, yakni: malam pertama bulan Rojab, malam 2 hari raya, dan malam Nishfu Sya’ban. (Manhajus Sawiy dan Tadzkiirun Nas)

Al-Imam As- Subkiy.rhm berkata, bahwa malam Nishfu Sya’ban menghapus dosa setahun, malam Jum’at menghapus dosa seminggu, dan Lailatul Qodr menghapus dosa seumur hidup.

Diriwayatkan kapadaku bahwa Sahabat Nabi Usamah bin Zaid.ra berkata kepada Nabi SAW, “Ya Rasulullah, aku belum pernah melihat engkau berpuasa di bulan lain lebih banyak dari puasamu di bulan Sya’ban.” Kata Nabi,
“Bulan itu sering dilupakan orang, karena diapit oleh bulan Rajab dan Ramadhan, padahal pada bulan itu, diangkat amalan-amalan (dan dilaporkan) kepada Tuhan Rabbil Alamin. Karenanya, aku ingin agar sewaktu amalanku dibawa naik, aku sedang berpuasa.” (HR Ahmad dan Nasai – Sunah Abu Dawud).

Adapun keutamaan bulan Sya’ban lainnya akan lebih jelas lagi dalam hadis-hadis berikut:

Hadis Pertama

Aisyah RA bercerita bahwa pada suatu malam dia kehilangan Rasulullah SAW, ia keluar mencari dan akhirnya menemukan beliau di pekuburan Baqi’, sedang menengadahkan wajahnya ke langit. Beliau berkata,
“Sesungguhnya Allah Azza Wajalla turun ke langit dunia pada malam Nishfu Sya’ban dan mengampuni (dosa) yang banyaknya melebihi jumlah bulu domba Bani Kalb.” (HR Turmudzi, Ahmad dan Ibnu Majah)

Hadis Kedua

Diriwayatkan oleh Abu Musa Al-Asy’ari RA bahwa Rasulullah SAW bersabda, “Sesungguhnya Allah pada malam Nishfu Sya’ban mengawasi seluruh mahluk-Nya dan mengampuni semuanya kecuali orang musyrik atau orang yang bermusuhan.” (HR Ibnu Majah)

Hadis Ketiga

Diriwayatkan dari Ali bin Abi Thalib KW bahwa Rasulullah SAW bersabda,
“Jika malam Nishfu Sya’ban tiba, maka salatlah di malam hari, dan berpuasalah di siang harinya, karena sesungguhnya pada malam itu, setelah matahari terbenam, Allah turun ke langit dunia dan berkata, ‘Adakah yang beristighfar kepada Ku, lalu Aku mengampuninya, Adakah yang memohon rezeki, lalu Aku memberinya rezeki , adakah yang tertimpa bala’, lalu Aku menyelamatkannya, adakah yang begini (2x), demikian seterusnya hingga terbitnya fajar.” (HR Ibnu Majah).

Demikianlah fadhilah malam Nishfu Sya’ban, marilah kita manfaatkan malam yang mulia ini untuk mendekatkan diri dan memohon sebanyak- banyaknya kepada Allah.