By: Samsul Nizar
Professor & Head of STAIN Bengkalis
In our life, humans need to interact with one another. The whole of human existence is always a partnership. Humans interact and contract with each other in every sector of life, whether it is economics, politics, or government. In all their interactions, humans have lost the vertical dimension. As a result, human contracts and humanitarian partnerships cause them to grow detached from their creatures and become arrogant. In social media, arrogance leads to uncontrollable superiority over actions taken at the power and wealth levels.
Honestly, humans have forgotten to do “partnership with Allah”. Partnering with Allah for all virtuous activities will receive Allah’s protection and help because everything that belongs to all humans comes from and with His permission. Activity in life. There are several dimensions of the benefits of human partnership with God, among others:
First, making God, our partner will motivate us to be steadfast servants. His decree can only be obtained after maximum effort and prayers have been offered.
Second, expect Allah to protect and guide you in all your activities. Connect with God to experience endless peace of mind. As a partner with Allah, you become aware of your role as a servant, avoiding envy, especially when compared to others that aren’t partners with Allah.
Third, managing and deciding life activities by including partners (Allah). A harmonious dialogue between self and partners will produce wise decisions. After maximum effort, the final decision will be accepted with sincerity, and its use will be decided with partners through His verses on things Allah commands.
Fourth, feel God’s supervision as a “partner” in protecting all activities from evil. Those who can monitor their activities will save people from going astray when success is achieved or despair when reaping failure.
Fifth, giving birth to the figure of a humble servant bringing up his contributions and even breaking promises. But when partnered with Allah, Allah never demands, is self-sufficient and breaks a promise.
Partnering with God wants people to be kind to all of His decrees. Partnering with Allah means relying on Allah’s love and help. There are many benefits to partnering with God. It is imprinted in us to worship and serve. In this way, all human activities contribute to the true purpose of creation. Sadly, humans often neglect to partner with Allah in all their activities. It seems that humans can only partner with God when performing religious rituals or when disaster strikes. It is often forgotten about God when it receives pleasure. It’s natural that when humans get into a disaster, it’s God’s turn to ignore it. In fact, all life should be done in partnership with God to achieve happiness.
The choice of partnering is like planting a plant that will produce fruit. It depends on the type and on whom the partner is chosen. When partnering with position and power, glory will be obtained when status and power are owned. After the position and power disappear, glory will be lost. Partnering with material, glory will be brought when wealth is held. After wealth disappears, glory is lost. Partnering with the title of glory, he will be glorified only when God has not opened his disgrace; after the disgrace is exposed, humiliate yourself. But, if you partner with Allah, eternal glory will be obtained even if all humans try to offend you, and the whole world will not be able to. Indeed, Allah will give fruit to the choice of His servant’s partner. This can be seen in what Allah stated in the hadith Quds: from Abu Hurairah; he said that the Prophet Muhammad said, “Allah Ta’ala said: I am by what my servant thinks of Me” (HR. Muttafaqun ‘alaih).
The hadith Quds above clearly shows that Allah will give the servant according to his partner’s choice. Partnering with Allah means partnering with the truth of His verses. When the invitation to the fact no longer gets human attention, it means that one has entered the realm of God’s word: “God has sealed their hearts and hearings, and their eyes are closed. And for them, it is a very severe punishment. Some humans say: “We believe in Allah and the Last Day; in that, they are not believers” (Al – Baqarah: 7-8).
So firmly, Allah explains in His word about human nature. Still, humans are often only able to read (even memorise) the verse but never ask whether the word of Allah is His dialogue with the servant. Or maybe the heart doesn’t understand because Allah has never been in. After all, Allah is not a life partner. Humans are only more concerned with choosing partners with others without taking God as their primary partner. As a result, the partnership (without bringing God as the primary partner) that is forged often justifies all means, violates the boundaries of religious teachings, and sometimes even steps on spiritual teachings with various well-organized evils. The neatness of the evil built is in synergy with the agreement of partners and the power to commit offence after the violation.
As such, self-attitude reflects the choices made by the partner. Every human being has a mirror reflecting their position and option of partnership. You can only know the choices you have made if you interact with your heart and its Lord because God’s truth is always truth and never denied by the heart.
Wa Allahua’lam bi al-Shawwab
Translated by Riska Saputra, S.Pd
Alumni of the English Education Study Program of STAIN Bengkalis
Master Student at Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology in National Central University, Taiwan
