Burung Pipit dan Ibrahim As

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PADA tulisan kali ini saya ingin kembali mengulas dalam ingatan kita tentang kisah burung pipit, cicak, dan Nabi Ibrahim as. Kisah yang selalu diceritakan oleh guru mengaji dan orang tua di kala kecil. Kisah yang kini mulai terlupakan. Padahal, ada hikmah besar yang dapat diambil dan diamalkan dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. 

Izinkan saya sedikit membuka ingatan saya dan kembali mengutip dari berbagai sumber agar cerita itu dapat saya paparkan secara utuh. Kala itu, ketika kekasih Allah Azza Wajalla Nabi Ibrahim as dibakar oleh Namrud bin Kan’an yang kejam, burung pipit nan kecil berusaha melakukan sesuatu dan tidak tinggal diam.

Pembakaran disebabkan suatu ketika saat rakyat Babylon sedang berpesta. Ibrahim as menuju tempat penyembahan mereka dan menghancurkan berhala-berhala kaum Babylon. Kejadian ini membuat Raja Namrud marah besar dan memerintahkan agar Ibrahim ditangkap dan dibakar hidup-hidup. 

Alquran mengabadikan kisah pembakaran Nabi Allah, Ibrahim as, dalam QS Al-Anbiya ayat 69. Ada sebuah momen menarik ketika tubuh Ibrahim as mulai dikelilingi bara api, seperti disebutkan oleh Ibnu Katsir dalam Tafsir al-Quran al-Azhim (Jilid 3/225). 

Bukan hanya api yang tidak mampu menghancurkan tubuh Sang Nabi, tetapi semua binatang melata pun berusaha memadamkan api yang membakar Ibrahim as, kecuali cicak. Kerja sama hewan-hewan yang membantu Nabi tersebut kemudian memunculkan percakapan yang sangat menarik antara burung pipit dan cicak. 

Burung pipit kecil merasa sangat bersedih karena sang Nabi Allah swt dibakar. Ia pun berusaha memadamkan api itu dengan cara mengangkut air di paruh kecilnya.

Ia bulak-balik ke sebuah danau untuk mengambil air dan menitikkannya ke atas api yang sedang melahap tubuh Ibrahim as. Cicak yang melihatnya tertawa mengejek, “Mana mungkin air dari paruhmu itu dapat memadamkan api. Itu hanya beberapa tetes saja,” ejek sang cicak.

Burung pipit tidak peduli, apakah air yang sempat diangkutnya mampu memadamkan kobaran api atau tidak, ia terus saja meneteskan air dari paruhnya. “Aku tidak sanggup melihat Nabi Ibrahim kekasih Allah dibakar. Biarlah air ini terus menetes, karena Allah Maha Tahu pada siapa aku berpihak,” burung pipit membela diri.

Sementara itu, cicak terus saja tertawa. Sambil menjulurkan lidahnya menghembuskan napas ke arah api agar api itu kian membesar. Memang tiupan cecak tidaklah sebanding kobaran api, tapi Allah swt menyaksikan di mana dia berpihak. 

Melalui tulisan ini, saya hanya ingin kembali mengingatkan diri saya sendiri dan pembaca yang budiman. Ketika kita melihat adanya kezaliman, jangan pernah berpihak pada kezaliman. Ketika tangan tak mampu mencegah, lisan tak mampu tergerak, setidaknya hati tidak berpihak.  

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IN this post I would like to comment back on our memory of the story of the sparrow, the lizard, and the Prophet Ibrahim as. Stories that are always told by recitation teachers and parents at a young age. The story is now beginning to be forgotten. In fact, there is great wisdom that can be taken and practiced in daily life.

Let me open my memory a little and quote again from various sources so that I can tell the whole story. At that time, when the beloved of Allah Azza Wajalla Nabi Ibrahim as was burned by the cruel Namrud bin Kan’an, small sparrows tried to do something and did not stay silent.

The burning was caused at a time when the people of Babylon were partying. Ibrahim as went to their place of worship and destroyed the idols of the Babylonians. This incident made King Namrud very angry and ordered that Ibrahim be arrested and burned alive.

The Qur’an immortalizes the story of the burning of the Prophet of Allah, Ibrahim as, in QS Al-Anbiya verse 69. There is an interesting moment when the body of Ibrahim as began to be surrounded by embers, as mentioned by Ibn Katsir in Tafsir al-Quran al-Azhim (Volume 3/225) .

Not only the fire that was not able to destroy the body of the Prophet, but all the reptiles also tried to extinguish the fire that burned Ibrahim as, except lizards. The cooperation of the animals that helped the Prophet later gave rise to a very interesting conversation between the sparrow and the lizard.

The little sparrow felt very sad because the Prophet Allah swt was burned. He also tried to put out the fire by transporting water to his small beak.

He went back and forth to a lake to fetch water and drip it over the fire that was devouring the body of Ibrahim as. The lizard that saw him laughed mockingly, “How could the water from your beak be able to put out the fire. That’s just a few drops, “mocked the lizard.

Sparrows do not care, whether the water he had transported was able to extinguish the flames or not, he just kept dripping water from his beak. “I can not bear to see Prophet Ibrahim, the beloved of God burned. Let this water continue to drip, because God knows who I am on my side, “the sparrow defended itself.

Meanwhile, the lizard just kept laughing. While sticking out his tongue he breathed towards the fire so that the fire grew bigger. It is true that the lizard’s blowing is not comparable to the flames, but Allah swt saw where he was on his side.

Through this writing, I just want to remind myself and my dear readers. When we see tyranny, never side with tyranny. When the hand is unable to prevent, the mouth is unable to move, at least the heart is not biased.

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