The Usefull of Dzikir Jahr (Dhikr Jahr) Part-1

The Usefull of Dzikir Jahr (Dhikr Jahr) Part-1 : Applicates on Muamalah According My Experiences in Journeys following Manaqib at Pondok Pesantren Suryalaya, Induring The Last of 2016 Until a Half Least 2017.

Written by: Yusni Tria Yunda

Since the middle of 2016, my mind doesn’t got calm at all. Especially in the muamalah concepts; what kind of this economyc’s system that could taking by me to ride it?. I didn’t think to “drive” it, just to “ride” it, cause: if ride concept been applicated to a vehicle’s post in an accounting theory and it mechanism working on a vehicle with two wheels which always needing to keep moving as uts balance that make me never getting falling down, it will be defferent with a vehicle with three, four, or more wheels which always stable on its position of it’s stay eventhough in an idle conditions from moving on. Always keep on moving was my concept that I trust before the last of 2016 year. However, my movements on a few of muamalah’s side make me too far from the essence, or haqikat, from the true purposes of muamalah by it self as good as Muhammad,- the prophet of Islam,- and also a professional trader.

What I felt was always uneasy to got everythings of my purposes in my muamalah’s activities. I told to my thoriqot’s teacher, Mr. Indra Purwita, SH., about my difficulty struggles in muamalah. He said a few things of important thinks as my assets on balance. I still remember, he said: “ulah ngalakukeun nu geus bisa, cobaan nu can bisa, ameh bisa!”. To his sentence, I gave meaning that he doesn’t perhaps if I’m doing somethings which I’m already have a skill of talent in the that things before. I guess he want me to do another things those I never have the skills of it before. And this mean I have to keep moving on learning as real as I have to face it. I know, the real things is the memories of the past; may past. The way I look at the past with new meanings based on the new experiences at this time, can make me more strength rater than before, in order to breaking the stone as my heart’s attitudes that I’ve read on “Miftahus Shudur”.

“Kemudian maka keraslah hatimu, jadi batu atau lebih keras dari batu” <be attached from al-Qur`an, Suroh al-Baqoroh, 74^th, at: Tajul Arifin, Shohibulwafa, A., K.H. “Miftahus Shudur: Kunci Pembuka Dada Juz 1”, translated from Arab Language by: Atjeh, Aboebakar, K.H., Prof. DR. Published by PT. Mudawwamah Warohmah. Yayasan Serba Bhakti Pondok Pesantren Suryalaya. Tasikmalaya, 1970: 18.>. “Oleh karena itu sebagaimana batu tidak dapat dipecahkan dengan kekuatan luar biasa, maka demikian pula dzikir tidak akan berbekas pada se;uruh kekusutan hati, kecuali dengan kekuatan yang luar biasa pula, yaitu dengan dzikir jahar.” <ibidem>.

For a few days, I have thinkink about what aspects in muamalah’s partitions has any correlation with dzikir jahr <dhikr jahr>?. My confuses may be cause in that time I just think there were only in obedient activities, specially obedient in mahdhoh’s activities, such as sholat, and so does dhikr. I was wrong meaning. Obidient activity and muamalah activity are the couple those balanced each other. It were both Rosululloh Muhammad’s sunnahs, and I shouldn’t leave them as possible as I can. But my teacher sentences weren’t only about the skills which I’ve got, but also: “engke bakal mangggihan aya bener dina salah, jeung aya salah dina bener!”. He told me about some day I will found there is the true in the false, and there is the false in the the true. My mind couldn’t catching his mean, but my heart konown. I interested to following his next instructs, so I said” “abdi hoyong diajar dzikir nu leres, hoyong ngiring manakiban di Suryalaya”. And then he said: “mun arek ibadah mah ibadah weh, tong bari dagang!”.

This was the point that I need. If I wanna my self being obidiented in order to serve to Alloh, I shouldn’t to trade. And I catch the meaning as: it was the time for me to left all of my dependence to my world which I playing on with it in long time of years. I can say there were 21 years I done activities as money maker, with working as employee, business, and another commercial of muamalah’s sides. That was my minds as the response to his sentences at that time. New challenge for me, and it must be also need new actions to get new esperiences, eventhough I relized there are several difficult things that possibly to emerge. But of course I have try to passing it all.

So that soon I lefting all of my commercial muamalahs, and trying to learning in ibadah as “abid” as “obidient” to serve Alloh. That was my first intention. In the facts, my journeys gave me more than what I assumpt before. Eventhough trading’s sectors have been leaving by me, but with left it, as unintended I’m  learning about fee based income sectors, those I’ve learned by a fe sides as partitions in muamalah’s relationships. These unique’s effects make me felt happy, because I’m getting some feeling becoming rich in thinks from my own self and from another in many interactions with them. At that time, my eyes were open, after my ear heard to my teacher. That’s why my mind being opening too, as my heart being more square than before.

I am not often have or bring money enough, but I am happy. I didn’t knew why, my heart became sensitive if there is any viewer or heard by me; some clue to remind me. And in this step, my second intention has added to the first. What was my second intention?. Beside on my first intention to obedient to Alloh, this second intention was pulled me to re-collect my memories about some mistakes which I’ve done in my life before. Islamic’s terminology has a word for it as: sin.

In this second step, my dzikir jahr’s effect was needing to be more growth up as soon as possible. It wasn’t meaning that I have to leave my khofii’s dhikr, I felt it helping my khofii was born in real in acts with the ways of dzikir jahr. Simplify: what I felt that was what I have to told, what I told that was what I have did or what I will going to do lillahi ta`ala. And of course it have to doing in the true acts and in the false acts too cause it  were must be the same attitude of mine for both balanced.

But to got this second step, it wasn’t easy I did at that time, and it wasn’t directly I could. The process always needing, and an unique thing was: my teacher make me learn more in muamalah’s cases to try me on my ability of jahr. It were about various cases of akad or contracts whenever almost in every tours to Suryalaya I always have no money enough to went away and to go back. From Bandung City to that place has 90 of Kilometers of distance. If the post cash that I predicted still enough in my pocket to go by public’s vehicle transportation, such as a bus or an ELF, I could paid the post cost as the tarrif should be pay. But in the fact, in nine times I went there in nin month’s calculates, I could went to these seven times by a public’s transportation, and two times by ride a bicycle to went away and go back after manaqiban’s ceremony. From seven times went by a public’s vehicle transportation, it were twice I could go back to Bandung City by it, and five times I go back by walking use a couple of sandals on my foot.

Those tours with walked, from the east area of West Java Province to Bandung City, has many lessons for me. One from the lessons was about the struggles history of the Islamic’s warriors; Hizbulloh-Sabilillah,-in the year of 1946 after Bandung City have been burned by its own citizen whenever the amry of allies and the Dutch in the name of NICA <with long words: Netherland Indie’s Civil Administration> expanding their military’s power from Jakarta as Capitol City of Indonesian Republic’s States <with short word: RI> to West Java that called as Priangan, and as the result of agreement consequence later: Indonesian Republic’s Army in that time <TRI> was went out from West Java’s area cause their hijrah event to the Central Java Province and Jogjakarta Special Province which become the areas of RI. The rules of Islamic’s warriors organization partition from the east area of West Java at that time <year of 1946> in their acts to attacking the allies and NICA should being important facts in history of Indonesian Republic in the history to defending the independence’s declaration in 1945 belong. This facts I knew cause I’ve wrote and typed some parts about it as my paper script. So that these tour has multify meanings for me. One of them was: I felt could directly re-following physically steps foot of the warriors journey in order to getting back the power at Bandung City in the early revolution’s of Indonesian modern period. For those chance, I have to say many thank to all of my teacher, specially to Mr. Indra Purwita, SH.

Whenever  tired, I took a rest in a masjid <mosque>, a store, or just sitting for a while on the out sider areas from the road. Whenever thirsty or also hungry, I remember another sentence from my teacher: “<…> lamun boga duit, meuli. lamun teu boga, nginjeum. lamun teu boga tapi ngarasa teu bias ngagantian nu diinjeum, kajeun ngomong menta. eta leuwih hade <…>”. His lesson for these muamalah’s ways already heard by me in first in 1995 year, when I fifteen years old. But until the last of 2016, I have no chances enough to practice it at all those three conditions above;

1.       If you have some money, buy it <buy the goods which I needing>,

2.       If you have no money, borrow it from the other <I think this mean is for the money, not for the goods which I needing, cause I’ve assumpt: with any value of money I can buy the goods>,

3.       If you have no money but predict feel couldn’t exchange what you borrow, the better is: you talk to be given to you.

These three points become my basic things of jahr in muamalah’s contracts that would practiced by me in many chances. On the early acts, I felt shy to use the third way, so does with the second way. But at that time, the situations and conditions didn’t gave me many chances to practice without use the first way. At time time I often have no money, I am not trading anymore as long as the days induring that period in the theme above, at my town and another city, and I ussually didn’t know the peoples which I meet in the journeys, they were strangers for me at began, and I have to survive without money enough, without probabilities to get a normally process in bought somethings I needing. Alhamdulillah, I’ve passed that exams, after almost full in a year <induring 2017> I get no trading activities, but in the early of 2018 my teacher has open the end of that “riyadhoh” as my practice. So that now I get my start.