وفاة شيخ قراء الشام الشيخ محي الدين الكردي

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم

..اللهم صلّ وسلّم وبارك على سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه أجمعين

Syria sister: "ok alima, kite dah kena offline.. nak pegi ngaji.. jumpa awak di syria soon, ok?"

Masa tu, hatiku berbisik; "nak pergi ngaji??? biar betul... kelakarnya....."

A year ago, i thought "Ngaji" was just for kids.. Youngsters who was just about to start Alif Ba Ta.. Little, or maybe none, did i believe that a Pre-U madrasah graduate like me had to attend "Ngaji" classes..

However, syria changed my perspective...

Here, i got to know, that even the best Qari'ah from Singapore Musabaqah tilawatul Qur'an recitation isn't perfect.

Yes, we do know tajweed.. We did learn it, but that was far from basics. We learned the hukum of Nun Sakinah and Mim Sakinah, mudud, but that's it.. Are we exacly aware of Makhaarijul Huruf? How many makhraj are there actually? Do we know sifaatul huruuf? Are we aware of Ahkaamur Raa' in our daily recitation? Have we ever heard of the term Istitolah, Hams, Itbaaq, Isti'laa..??

SubhaanaLLAH...

And those are suppose to be the basics, BEFORE we get to izhaar, ikhfaa', idgham, and iqlaab!

U all may not understand what i'm talking about...

I wouldn't too, if i hadn't been in syria...

But alhamduLILLAH, ALLAH gave me the chance to learn that i'm nothing compared to those great Masyayeikh Qurra', those sheikh who really master the language of the Qur'an and tajweed, knows all qira'at, memorise every word of HIS perfectly.... SubhaanaLLAH wal hamduLILLAH...

So here i am, with 2 Qur'an teachers, both teaching me to recite the Quran with proper tajweed.

And, once i've finished reading with one of the teachers, i was supposed to see Sheikh Qurra' Al-Kurdi and recite the Qur'an to him, to determind that i've really learned the 'Ilm of Tajweed and know to read the Holy Qur'an with proper tartiil..

However...

ALLAH knows best.

I didnt get to see Sheikh before he went.

I started late, and ALLAH took him away from us all on 8th August 2009...

..اللهم اغفر له وارحمه وعافه واعف عنه

Moga pemergian sheikh semakin menyemarakkan semangat kami untuk terus hidupkan generasi Al-Qur'an yang membaca secara tartiil, menghafal, serta mengamalkan akhlak Al-Qur'an...

Sesungguhnya kesedihan atas pemergian 'ulama tidak mencukupi dengan iringan doa dan airmata..

ianya perlu diiringi dengan semangat dalam diri untuk menjadi sepertinya, dan melahirkan generasi 'Ulama sepertinya pada masa hadapan...

..اللهم اجرنا في مصيبتنا واخلفنا خيراً منها

..رحم الله الشيخ القرّاء أبو الحسن محي الدين الكردي

Moga pemergiannya

ada pengganti di kalangan kami....

Ameen ya RABBAL 'aalamiin.