To fast To Go To Piety
We need to go home, return to standard. If the term mobile phone, we have to restore or restart. We, as Muslims, restart five times a day. Every year we also restart with fasting. All Islamic ritual activities go towards Eid. Back to nature. Aware of his human existence.
That’s what Didik Purwodarsono, a spiritual speech at the UII FPSB Religious Ta’lim said on Friday, April 23, 2021, through the online conference application, Zoom Meeting. The speech which is routinely held by the dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Socio-Cultural Sciences, Universitas Islam Indonesia is carried out in the context of strengthening Islam and internalizing Islamic nuances. The speech was also held to enliven the month of Ramadan and the 26th Anniversary of FPSB this year.
According to Didik, fasting is also an educational momentum. “Education is teaching humans to be able to guide their every demand. As a lecturer, there are two tests, religious science and professional science, guiding students to have the ability to be smart and wise,” said Didik. Didik explains what he means by instructions and demands.
“We have to set from the epigastrium to top (guidance) and from the epigastrium to bottom (demand),” he said explaining the meaning of fasting like a cell phone, actually returning (restarting) the concept of the human future. The first restart, when referring to the Quran Surah Maryam (33), humans should not forget the three major events, namely the events of birth, death, and events of life after death. Didik said, in the Quran Surah Yasin (verse 12), Allah revives humans to appreciate their achievements and inscriptions (alms, useful knowledge, and pious children).
“Why do we have to wait for death, because life is to make achievements, not waiting for appreciation,” explained Didik, who is also the caretaker of a boarding school in Sleman. “If we have achievements just to wait to die is a loss, then the Quran in Surah Yasin (12) states that we need to live again to receive a fair award for our achievements and inscriptions.”
So for fasting to reach Eid al-Fitr, to achieve the sanctity of human life, humans must be perfect in looking at the future, namely worldly goodness and hereafter. “Therefore, it is not surprising that we are encouraged to pray in full to get good not only in this world but also in the hereafter. The trick is to read Rabbana Atina Fiddunya hasana Wa fil Akhirati Hasanah,” he said.
It is possible, said Didik, that we only conceptualize in educational teaching about future achievements before death, not after death. “In Javanese terms, wong iman iku bayarane katah, ganjarane turah. People of faith are paid a lot, and the rewards are excessive. So we are looking for rewards and payments,” said Didik. “Have we used our budget allocation to build the house we live in to wait to die and at the same time for the house we will live in in the afterlife?” Said Didik throws a reflective question sentence.
Didik gives the example of the people of Kuwait, Yemen, and the surrounding areas educating children not only to build a decent house that is sufficient (worldly) but also to prepare for a future home by saving mosque waqf.
“The world is the grass, the hereafter is the rice, the Javanese say. If we plant rice, we will reap the grass. On the other hand, if we plant grass, we will never get rice,” explained Didik with an analogy from Javanese local wisdom. That is, if we pursue the afterlife then there is the potential to get the world. On the other hand, if you pursue the world, it is impossible to get the afterlife.
The next human restart, said Didik, is as stated in the Quran Surah Ali Imron verse 112, is to become a valuable human being.
Humans who are valuable and useful are humans who are not greedy for plants, animals, and damage for the sake of humans. “Fasting brings humans back to take care of the earth,” said Didik. There is a servitude through what in Islam is called hablu minallah and hablu minannas. Connect with God and fellow creatures.
So if humans have restarted themselves, the hope of piety is the fruit. Taqwa is a necessity. Towards holiness or human nature as a leader with Islamic guidance is a mercy for the universe.
