Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Tuduhan bahwa Nabi Muhammad mau bunuh diri


Baru2 ini saya berdebat dengan beberapa Christian missionaris yang menuduh bahwa Nabi Muhammad ingin bunuh diri melempar diri dari gunung karena Jibril tidak datang membawa wahyu (selama waktu fatrah). Ini bisa dijumpai dalam Bukhari vol.9, no.111:

"...But after a few days Waraqa died and the Divine Inspiration was also paused for a while and the Prophet became so sad as we have heard that he intended several times to throw himself from the tops of high mountains and every time he went up the top of a mountain in order to throw himself down, Gabriel would appear before him and say, "O Muhammad! You are indeed Allah's Apostle in truth" whereupon his heart would become quiet and he would calm down and would return home..."

Menurut mereka ini salah satu tanda bahwa beliau ditipu oleh Setan. Karena Tuhan tidak akan membiarkan Nabinya kebingungan dan stress sampai ingin bunuh diri. Kebetulan saya pernah membaca mengenai hal ini di salah satu forum. Penjelasannya demikian:

Meskipun hadits ini dijumpai dalam Bukhari, di dalam syarahnya Bukhari "Fath al-Bari", Imam Ibn Hajar Asqalani, menjelaskan bahwa dalam hadits tsb (dalam bagian Nabi ingin melemparkan dirinya dari atas gunung) dijumpai kalimat "fi ma balaghana" (yang diterjemahkan "as we have heard", dan kalimat ini biasanya digunakan untuk menunjukkan the degree of doubt of the narrator, dalam hal ini Zuhri, yang meriwayatkan dari Urwah dari Aisyah. Karena antara Zuhri dan Aisyah ada gap, dan similar story dapat dijumpai dalam hadits2 lain tanpa cerita keinginan bunuh diri ini (sebagai addition dari Zuhri), cerita ini dianggap mursal dan dhaif oleh scholars of hadith.

Lalu, misalnya for the sake argument, kisah ini bisa dianggap reliable (which is not according to the above fact), what's the objection here? Is it illogical for a person who had never experienced or heard anything about God's revelation, unlike the previous prophets, to feel stressed, confused and that he might be insane or deceived by evil spirit? If they read the Bible, they know that even the previous prophets in the Bible experienced hard and difficult times receiving revelation from God (e.g. Zech 13:4, Isa 21:2-4, Jer 23:9, Dan 10:8-9,8:15-27). If these happened to people who were raised and surrounded by God's and prophet's traditions, imagine if these happened to someone who had never heard of such difficult experience before.

Mudah2an bermanfaat.

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