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Musyawarah or meeting is one of the sunnah of the Prophet SAW. Even the prophet himself also make a meeting asking the opinion of his companion on every issue regarding the ummah. Despite of he is messenger of ALLAH and the most noble person of all humankind and despite of he get the "wahyu" directly from ALLAH SWT.


a reflection of the past come into my head,...
that day happen when we are having a program. i came late that day, and all of the other brothers are already there. Some already sat, awaiting for the meeting to start,(Becuase meeting is sunnah and, in the jemaah it is a tradition and a must for us to start our program with a meeting) and some are about to finished their "tahiyatul masjid" and dhuha prayer.

soo, in my heart i said, i came already late, and they all are about to start the meeting. So why not i just sit, and wait for the meeting to start.
Then my murabbi came to me. Hold my shouder gently and warmly, he then ask me whether i already perform my 2 rakaat prayer or not.
i replay that i just came and still did'nt do my "sunnat" prayer yet. then he ask me, why not i recite my prayer first then only sit for the meeting. all of other brothers already finished their prayer at that moment.
then they all patiently wait for me, while i recite my prayer. after I've already finished then only the meeting was started.

the important thing of this story is, on how is our understanding of fiqh of priority "fiqh awlawiyat". On what basis does we make our judgement on which thing must come first.....

The anology is simple..
between a meeting and prayer. Each has it's own priority, the meeting is a sunnah and was done in purpose of discussting on the issue of the ummah. And the other one is prayer....worshiping Allah SWT. INDEED...prayer should come first. because throught prayer that we could please Allah SWT and ask for His guidance...

Everything happen with the permission of Allah. So brothers, when we maked a program we are saying that our intention is to please Allah. But...at the same time we did'nt worship Him and ask for his guidance. as if, we are thinking that our mind and logic could solve all the problem through the meeting. at some occasion we even delay our fardhu prayer for the reason of having a meeting... is this the way that being showed by the Prophet SAW?.

History had witnessed how the Companion R.HUM, crossed the Dajlah River with only 2 rakaat of prayer..and not even an inch of water touch their feet.

we should start to ponder arround..
is'nt it ALLAH SWT is the One who controling of everything, and benefits and harms only come from Allah...