Siapa John Dalam Islam

Ummul Darda Hujaima binti Uyyay Al-Sughra

Ia merupakan cendekiawan perempuan muslim yang terkenal di generasi kedua setelah masa Nabi SAW. Ummul Darda adalah seorang perawi hadits, guru, serta ahli hukum. Ia mempelajari dan menurunkan hadits dari Aisyah RA, Salman Al-Farisi, Abu Hurairah dan sahabat lainnya.

Ummul Darda juga seorang penghafal Al-Qur'an di usianya yang belia. Ia kemudian pindah ke Damaskus, dan mengajar ratusan murid muslim. Banyak dari siswa-siswi didikannya yang berhasil menjadi ulama terkemuka dan dihormati dalam dunia Islam.

Yianis Christodoulou Foundation

Christodoulou is involved in philanthropic endeavours. Inspired by his own childhood, displaced from his homeland as a child, in 2016 he founded the Yianis Christodoulou Foundation (YCF),[40] which seeks to support disadvantaged children and their families in the UK and abroad, with a special focus on poverty alleviation and education.[14]

Christodoulou has donated £1 million to the eponymous philanthropy organisation.[41]

The charity commenced in 2017 with donations of £51,842 and in 2018 donations totalled £1,200,559. Fundraising fell significantly in 2019, with just £17,756 raised. In 2020 donations totalled £15,238. Charitable grants made to date are: £260,998 (2018), £112,039 (2019) and £93,199 (2020).[42]

He has hosted fundraising events, such as the 2017 Star Ball at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate where apparently over £1.5 million was raised.[43] It is unclear whether this sum is separate to the £1 million said to have been donated by Christodoulou as the accounts filed with Companies House indicate donations/funds raised since 2017 total £1,285,395.[42]

In July 2021, Christodoulou sailed Zeus to Cyprus where the Foundation raised €365,000 to support the island country's disadvantaged children as well as local schools destroyed by wildfires.[14]

The Foundation backed King Charles III, then heir apparent to the British throne as Prince of Wales, at a charity event in Dumfries House, in Ayrshire, Scotland.[44]

The Foundation funded the distribution of free food packages offered to the homes of 355,000 members of the Cypriot community in the UK for the in need, vulnerable and elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic.[45] It also funded 6,000 individual care packs for the NHS staff at The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London.[46] In 2021, Christodoulou stood alongside Monaco ruler Prince Albert as he opened a new gym facility for staff of the Princess Grace Hospital Centre which had been built and paid for by the Foundation.[47]

During the pandemic on Cypriot Labor Day "Thank You" snack parcels were delivered to all 9 public hospitals in Cyprus to more than six thousand doctors, nurses and other health care workers from the Christodoulou's foundation.[48]

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

Yianis Group offered two of its hotels for free to home 750 Ukrainian refugees from the Ukraine war, for a year. The two hotels in question are the Radisson Blu Hotel in Liverpool and the Palace Park Inn in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Christodoulou gave support to the UK government's flagship Homes for Ukraine scheme and urged families and businesses everywhere in the UK to "get involved and do their bit". He said he was providing the accommodation for free because "as a child, I know what pain my parents went through", who fled Cyprus due to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.[44]

Tommy Foster Racing sponsorship

In March 2022, the Foundation entered into a sponsorship deal with the Tommy Foster Racing team. The team's main driver Tommy Foster is a Cornish racing prodigy. The team competes in the Le Mans Cup and enjoyed a podium finish with third place in the opening 2022 cup. The YCF livery and support for Tommy Foster racing team aligns with the organisation's aims to support the physical and mental development of gifted young people, especially those from working class backgrounds.[49]

Guinness World Record

On June 25, 2024, over 4,100 people in Cyprus broke the Guinness World Record for the longest alternating chain of people clasping wrists. Organized by John Christodoulou and the Yianis Christodoulou Foundation, the event at Nicosia’s GSP Stadium surpassed the previous record of 4,052 set in Japan in 2016. The participants included children, adults, and celebrities, with the event concluding with a concert by Greek singer Konstantinos Argyros. [50]

Christodoulou's business practices have attracted considerable media attention. The Times notes that "his company has been challenged by residents of a luxury development of more than 300 flats who complained they were being charged sky-high service charges and unreasonably high sums for repairs."[3] This is a reference to Canary Riverside, where Christodoulou was stripped of day-to-day management control over the property in October 2016, with a professional court appointee installed to act in the best interests of the site. Leaseholders were able to prove fault against CREM, a subsidiary company,[51][52][53] that they had suffered over many years due to poor management of the estate, in particular a lack of transparency surrounding how their money was being used.[54] Tribunal judges found that the managing agent Marathon Estates (a company set-up in 2011 by Richard Paul, a chartered accountant and partner at accountancy firm Nyman Libson Paul, to manage the Christodoulou-owned estates of Canary Riverside and 1 West India Quay) "has been unable to produce accurate financial information on time, including budgets and accounts, has not engaged with leaseholders and has a muddled hierarchy of command."[55]

Similar complaints of estate mismanagement by Christodoulou leaseholders at 1 West India Quay have emerged in a Sunday Times feature on the so-called leasehold property scandal.[54] Leaseholders there have taken legal action against Christodoulou over expensive energy bills, raising concerns that they have been subsidising his commercial interest on the site.[54][56] In May 2014, they won the right to form a recognised residents' association, despite Christodoulou having hired a QC and spent £74,000 in trying to block their efforts.[57] In 2022, it was reported that Christodoulou had admitted before a tribunal that he had overcharged the 1 West India Quay flat owners by 26% on utilities, wrongly adding commercial rate VAT and a climate change levy to their bills for heating, cooling and hot water.[58]

Christodoulou has also been named in parliament, with former MP for Poplar and Limehouse Jim Fitzpatrick claiming that the litigation and threats faced by the court-appointed manager at Canary Riverside are "little short of harassment".[59] A former secretary of the 1 West India Quay residents' association has been subjected to a defamation threat by Christodoulou's lawyers, as have more than 100 leaseholders at neighbouring Canary Riverside.[55] In July 2018, his lawyers unsuccessfully sought to prevent the then local MP, Jim Fitzpatrick, from raising the case of Canary Riverside in parliament. It had been claimed that Fitzpatrick's intervention could breach sub judice rules.[60]

In April 2020, The Guardian reported that tenants at Olympic House, Simpson House and St John's Court in Somerford Grove, east London, were denied a 20% rent cut, in spite of the COVID-19 pandemic and their allegedly precarious employment situations. The renters are said to have been told by the lettings agent, acting on behalf of the three corporate landlords all "majority owned" by Christodoulou, that the request was "unreasonable" and "unrealistic".[61] The agent had suggested that "any drop in tenants' income would be minimised by a reduction in spending on holidays, entertainment, travel, clothes and lunches." London mayor Sadiq Khan tweeted: "This is a prime example of how unrealistic it is to expect landlords & tenants to sort difficulties out amongst themselves," and that the story is "exactly why" he is calling on government to "introduce immediate measures to protect tenants who go into arrears" because of the public health emergency.[62] These tenants formed an advocacy group Somerford Grove Renters with the London Renters Union.[63] They were later threatened with legal action by the lettings agent and alleged harassment and surveillance by agent-hired security guards.[64] After continuing to make public statements about the situation, several tenants received eviction notices in August in what Hackney Mayor Philip Glanville called a "revenge eviction" and "a direct response to [the tenants] seeking greater security for themselves and their neighbours at a time of crisis."[65]

On 21 September 2020, around 70 rental and leasehold tenants protested outside Canary Riverside Plaza, which is part of the upmarket mixed use Canary Riverside scheme owned by the Yianis Group, to push back against unfair practices by Christodoulou and the government's ending of the eviction ban. Joined by local MP Apsana Begum, the protesters hand-delivered a letter to the Yianis Group headquarters.[66][67]

On 9 November 2020, former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott tabled an early day motion in parliament urging John Christodoulou to negotiate "fair and reasonable rent adjustments" with affected tenants in Somerford Grove. It noted that "far from entering into negotiations, residents have been harassed and spied on".[68]

In July 2021, it was reported that a tribunal had ordered Christodoulou to compensate four of his former tenants in Somerford Grove £19,000 for renting them properties as illegal HMOs.[69] In June 2022, the Upper Tribunal heard an appeal by the landlord where the tenants won again, increasing the award to £22,500 and permitting an application for costs due to the landlord withdrawing from the appeal at a "late stage without any explanation".[70] The judge noted that the Mr Christodoulou's landlord companies could not produce gas safety or energy efficiency certificates in addition to not obtaining the property licences required by law and concluded from this that "the Landlord's business practices involved a systematic or institutional neglect of regulatory requirements".[71]

In August 2022, the Upper Tribunal in a different case ordered that Mr Christodoulou's landlord company at Canary Riverside, Riverside CREM 3 Limited, pay £67,000 towards the legal costs of the independent court-appointed manager and the leaseholders at the site for its "unreasonable" conduct, having instigated a meritless appeal to the Upper Tribunal while conducting the appeal in a manner that was also deemed unreasonable, inexplicably advancing a new legal point at a very late stage in the proceedings that should have been used in the original case, if used at all. The Upper Tribunal determined that "the decision to do so can only have been taken with a view to impressing on the respondents the appellant’s determination not to back down, whatever the cost and thereby to harass and intimidate some or all of them." The costs order continued: "This litigation is being conducted with the intensity and expense and in the style of commercial litigation … the [Landlord] has full access to the FTT and to the [Upper] Tribunal and appears to be prepared to spend whatever it takes to promote its interests through litigation. The proposed [costs] order is not required to punish the appellant but to protect the respondents from its unreasonable conduct".[72] In the appeal hearing, the landlord was reportedly admonished by Deputy Chamber President Judge Martin Rodger KC for an "extremely unattractive" approach to tribunal. Mr Christodoulou had sought to resile from Canary Riverside's management order for independent and transparent estate management and also attempted to force the residential flat leaseholders to pay the £355,000 unpaid debt of a commercial tenant, Virgin Active, which had wiped out rent and service charge arrears at High Court as part of a restructuring and cross-class cram down.[73]

Christodoulou has been described as a "tax exile",[74] and for a number of years lived in the UK enjoying the controversial non-domiciled tax status.[3] He left the UK shortly before then chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling was to introduce a new £30,000 a year charge on nondoms who have lived in the country for more than seven years.[75] In October 2021, The Times newspaper reported that the low-profile billionaire property tycoon had covertly claimed millions of furlough money from the taxpayer despite telling a London audience that he was self-reliant through the crisis and criticising those businesses which did need government assistance. Christodoulou's use of shell and foreign incorporated companies to secure up to £6.5 million in taxpayer money occurred despite his public comment that "we borrowed no money from the government … because it shows the wrong sign."[7] After legal letters from Christodoulou's solicitors, Cypriot media outlets Knews, the English edition of Kathimerini Cyprus, and Economy Today apologised to Christodoulou for publishing the Times of London's furlough story and agreed that "it is clear that the funds received by Christodoulou's companies from state support schemes were solely for the benefit of the companies' employees. The funds did not benefit the companies themselves or Christodoulou personally. Neither Christodoulou nor his companies have received any loans from the government. The participation of some of Christodoulou's companies in state support schemes was exclusively for the purpose of supporting employees whose employment was suspended due to pandemic-related restrictions that had been imposed".[76][77] By contrast, The Times article has not been withdrawn following Christodoulou's legal complaint that it is defamatory and untrue.

In December 2022, a property tribunal ruled in the Canary Riverside case that John Christodoulou landlord companies, CREM and Octagon, misappropriated approximately £1.6 million in secret insurance commissions from flat owners.[78][79][80][81] This represented leaseholder overcharging of between £150,000 to £200,000 per annum. The tribunal heard that Westminster Management Services is the employing entity of all Yianis Group personnel. Christodoulou and WMS were unable to demonstrate that the payments were legitimate and could not produce any contract with the insurers. The tribunal also heard that WMS was "just told" about the fees payable and the cash was then sent across by Reich, an FCA regulated broker.[80] The tribunal criticized Christodoulou's "complete lack of transparency with leaseholders regarding these commission payments paid since 2010" as "lamentable", while noting the "woefully inaccurate" disclosure originally provided by Reich, which understated its commission by almost half. The decision was reported in the Financial Times as a "rare victory in service charges" for UK leaseholders, a development it suggested lends support to a recent warning by the FCA that freeholders, managing agents and brokers "may be selecting insurance policies that maximize their own remuneration . . . rather than the policy that offers the best value for the leaseholders".[78] In March 2024, the Upper Tribunal ruled in the appeal that the landlord "had failed to demonstrate" it was due any more than the £579,039 of the £1,638,709 that they had charged to the estate between 2010 and 2020, with £1,059,570 not payable by the leaseholders.[82] The overcharging represented 65% of the landlord insurance commissions.

In March 2024, the UK government and Michael Gove, the then Secretary of State, commenced legal action against Christodoulou's companies to pay £20.5 million towards remediation of the unsafe blocks of flats they own at Canary Riverside in London Docklands. It marked the first time the UK government has pursued a freeholder landlord for a remediation contribution order under new powers in the Building Safety Act 2022.[83][84]

Khadijah binti Khuwailid

Yakni istri pertama Nabi SAW, yang menjadi sosok terkenal paling berpengaruh dan inspiratif. Ia merupakan orang pertama yang menerima Islam dan mengakui kenabian Muhammad SAW.

Khadijah RA lahir pada tahun 555 M di Arab Saudi. Sebelum menikah dengan Rasul SAW, ia adalah seorang pedagang wanita sukses dan tokoh yang dihormati di Makkah. Ia juga dikenal karena kecerdasan, ketajaman bisnis, dan komitmennya yang tak tergoyahkan terhadap keadilan sosial.

Kemudian ia menyatakan ketertarikannya untuk menikahi Nabi SAW. Dan ia menjadi pendukung terkuat suaminya dan memainkan peran penting dalam perkembangan awal Islam.

Khadijah RA adalah ibu dari empat putri dan dua putra Rasul SAW, termasuk ibu dari Fatimah RA. Hingga akhir hayatnya di tahun 619 M, ia terus memercayai, menyemangati dan mendukungnya suaminya itu.

Izrail adalah nama malaikat pencabut nyawa dalam Islam. Dalam menjalankan tugasnya, malaikat Izrail diberikan kemampuan yang luar biasa oleh Allah Swt.

Ia mampu menjangkau seluruh wilayah dengan mudah saat hendak mencabut nyawa manusia. Selain itu, ia juga sanggup membolak-balikkan dunia sebagaimana orang membalikkan uang.

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Malaikat sendiri adalah makhluk yang tunduk pada setiap perintah yang diberikan oleh Allah Swt. Seorang muslim wajib untuk beriman kepada malaikat.

Dalam sebuah hadis, Rasulullah Saw bersabda: "Berimanlah kepada Allah, kepada malaikat-malaikat, kepada kitab-kitab, kepada rasul, kepada hari kemudian, dan kepada takdir, yang baik dan yang buruk." (HR. Muslim).

Perintah untuk beriman kepada malaikat dijelaskan dalam Al Quran dan hadis. Salah satunya dalam QS. An Nisa ayat 136 sebagai berikut:

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ ءَامِنُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِۦ وَٱلْكِتَٰبِ ٱلَّذِى نَزَّلَ عَلَىٰ رَسُولِهِۦ وَٱلْكِتَٰبِ ٱلَّذِىٓ أَنزَلَ مِن قَبْلُ ۚ وَمَن يَكْفُرْ بِٱللَّهِ وَمَلَٰٓئِكَتِهِۦ وَكُتُبِهِۦ وَرُسُلِهِۦ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْءَاخِرِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلَٰلًۢا بَعِيدًا

Artinya: "Wahai orang-orang yang beriman, tetaplah beriman kepada Allah dan Rasul-Nya dan kepada kitab yang Allah turunkan kepada Rasul-Nya serta kitab yang Allah turunkan sebelumnya. Barangsiapa yang kafir kepada Allah, malaikat-malaikat-Nya, kitab-kitab-Nya, rasul-rasul-Nya, dan hari kemudian, maka sesungguhnya orang itu telah sesat sejauh-jauhnya." (QS. An-Nisa: 136).

Bangsa Rum dalam Al-Qur'an

Kisah bangsa Rum di dalam Al-Qur'an termaktub dalam surat Ar-Rum ayat 1-6:

Arab latin: alif lâm mîm

Artinya: Alif Lām Mīm.

غُلِبَتِ الرُّوْمُۙ ۝٢

Arab latin: ghulibatir-rûm

Artinya: Bangsa Romawi telah dikalahkan,

فِيْٓ اَدْنَى الْاَرْضِ وَهُمْ مِّنْۢ بَعْدِ غَلَبِهِمْ سَيَغْلِبُوْنَۙ ۝٣

Arab latin: fî adnal-ardli wa hum mim ba'di ghalabihim sayaghlibûn

Artinya: di negeri yang terdekat dan mereka setelah kekalahannya itu akan menang

فِيْ بِضْعِ سِنِيْنَ ەۗ لِلّٰهِ الْاَمْرُ مِنْ قَبْلُ وَمِنْۢ بَعْدُۗ وَيَوْمَىِٕذٍ يَّفْرَحُ الْمُؤْمِنُوْنَۙ ۝٤

Arab latin: fî bidl'i sinîn, lillâhil-amru ming qablu wa mim ba'd, wa yauma'idziy yafraḫul-mu'minûn

Artinya: dalam beberapa tahun (lagi). Milik Allahlah urusan sebelum dan setelah (mereka menang). Pada hari (kemenangan bangsa Romawi) itu bergembiralah orang-orang mukmin

بِنَصْرِ اللّٰهِۗ يَنْصُرُ مَنْ يَّشَاۤءُۗ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيْزُ الرَّحِيْمُ ۝٥

Arab latin: binashrillâh, yanshuru may yasyâ', wa huwal-'azîzur-raḫîm

Artinya: karena pertolongan Allah. Dia menolong siapa yang Dia kehendaki. Dia Mahaperkasa lagi Maha Penyayang.

وَعْدَ اللّٰهِۗ لَا يُخْلِفُ اللّٰهُ وَعْدَهٗ وَلٰكِنَّ اَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُوْنَ ۝٦

Arab latin: wa'dallâh, lâ yukhlifullâhu wa'dahû wa lâkinna aktsaran-nâsi lâ ya'lamûn

Artinya: (Itulah) janji Allah. Allah tidak akan menyalahi janji-Nya, tetapi kebanyakan manusia tidak mengetahui.

Berdasarkan buku Ghulibat Ar-Rum Dzat Al-Qurun karya Mansur Abdul Hakim, penyebab turunnya ayat tersebut adalah karena bangsa Romawi dan Persia terlibat dalam peperangan sengit. Sejarah mencatat keduanya sudah berperang ratusan tahun.

Peperangan berakhir dengan kemenangan bangsa Persia. Hal ini membuat umat Islam berduka karena berharap bangsa Romawi yang menang. Sebaliknya, kemenangan Persia menjadikan kaum musyrikin bersuka cita.

Adapun menurut Tafsir Ibnu Katsir, Raja Persia bernama Sabur saat itu berhasil merebut negeri-negeri Syam serta berbagai wilayah kerajaan Romawi, termasuk yang berada di Jazirah Arab. Kaisar Romawi Heraklius kemudian mundur dan mengungsi.

Namun dalam waktu sekitar tujuh tahun kemudian, perang kembali berkecamuk. Kali ini sesuai dengan firman Allah, perang dimenangkan oleh bangsa Rum. Hal ini membuktikan kebenaran berita dari Al-Qur'an.

Mengapa Umat Islam Mendukung Romawi?

Dari penjelasan di atas, mungkin sebagian dari kita bertanya-tanya mengapa umat Islam mendukung kemenangan bangsa Romawi atas Persia. Padahal bangsa Romawi adalah kaum nasrani ahli kitab.

Hal ini dijelaskan dalam tafsir tahlili surat Ar-Rum ayat 1-6 di situs Al-Qur'an Kementerian Agama. Disebutkan umat Islam merasa lebih dekat dengan bangsa Rum karena sama-sama menganut agama Samawi.

Sementara bangsa Persia adalah kaum musyrikin yang beragama majusi. Kaum musyrikin Mekah pun bersuka cita dengan kemenangan Persia. Kemenangan ini membuat mereka semakin menentang umat Islam.

Untuk diketahui, yang dimaksud bangsa Romawi dalam surat Ar-Rum ialah Kerajaan Romawi Timur yang berpusat di Konstantinopel, bukan kerajaan Romawi Barat yang berpusat di Roma. Kerajaan Romawi Barat dalam masa peperangan itu sudah hancur sejak 476 M. Sementara kisah Al-Qur'an ini terjadi pada sekitar 616 M.

Fatimah binti Muhammad SAW

Merupakan putri Rasul SAW dari istrinya Khadijah RA. Ia menjadi panutan bagi wanita muslim dan terkenal karena kesholehan, keberanian, dan dedikasi kepada keluarganya. Ia diajarkan langsung oleh Nabi SAW mengenai ajaran dan syariat Islam.

Ia memiliki hubungan cinta yang solid dan dekat dengan ayahnya. Hingga Rasulullah SAW pernah bersabda tentangnya, "Siapapun yang melukai Fatimah, dia melukaiku; dan siapa pun yang melukai saya, melukai Allah; dan siapa pun yang melukai Allah melakukan kekafiran."

Fatimah RA menikah dengan salah satu sahabat dari ayahnya dan juga kerabatnya, yakni Ali bin Abi Thalib. Ia kemudian menjadi seorang istri dan ibu, dengan keturunannya yang sangat dihormati di dunia Islam.

Malaikat pencabut nyawa dalam Islam

Ada sepuluh nama malaikat dalam Islam yang wajib diyakini keberadaan dan tugasnya, yakni malaikat Jibril, Mikail, Rakib, Atid, Izrail, Israfil, Munkar, Nakir, Malik, dan Ridwan.

Empat malaikat utama adalah Jibril, Mikail, Israfil, dan Izrail, seperti dikutip dari buku Pendidikan Agama Islam dan Budi Pekerti SMA/MA/SMK/MAK Kelas X Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan (2017).

Malaikat Izrail dikenal juga dengan sebutan malaikat maut, ia bertugas mencabut nyawa semua makhluk apabila telah tiba waktunya.

Malaikat Izrail diberi kemampuan yang luar biasa oleh Allah Swt, di antaranya dapat menjangkau dengan mudah dari barat hingga timur.

Ia bagaikan seseorang yang sedang menghadap sebuah meja makan yang dipenuhi dengan berbagai makanan yang siap untuk dimakan.

Malaikat Izrail juga sanggup membolak-balikkan dunia sebagaimana kemampuan seseorang yang sanggup membolak-balikkan uang.

Ketika Malaikat Izrail menjalankan tugasnya mencabut nyawa makhluk-makhluk dunia, ia akan turun ke dunia bersama-sama dengan dua malaikat lainnya, yaitu Malaikat Rahmat dan Malaikat Azab.

Mengimani malaikat dalam Islam adalah wajib hukumnya. Dengan mengimani Malaikat Izrail membuat manusia lebih berusaha mempersiapkan diri untuk menghadapi kematian dan berdoa agar terhindar dari siksaan sakaratul maut.

Demikian penjelasan mengenai malaikat Izrail, malaikat pencabut nyawa dalam Islam. Semoga bermanfaat!

Tak hanya laki-laki, dikenal sejumlah nama perempuan yang turut berperan dan berpengaruh dalam sejarah Islam. Siapa saja?

Sebelumnya, mari kita bahas kedudukan wanita di mata Islam.

Banyak rumor beredar bahwa Islam merendahkan dan tak memikirkan hak-hak kaum wanita. Tentu saja hal itu keliru, karena Islam begitu memuliakan perempuan.

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Menukil arsip detikHikmah, Syekh Muhammad Mutawali asy-Sya'rawi dalam bukunya Fiqhu al-Mar'ah berpandangan, wanita justru punya keadaan yang kelam nan menyedihkan sebelum datangnya Islam.

Di mana dahulu, hak kekuasaan para perempuan sebelum menikah hanya dimiliki oleh ayah dan saudara laki-lakinya. Setelah menikah, hak tersebut berpindah menjadi milik suaminya. Sehingga bisa dikatakan bahwa wanita tak punya peran sama sekali, bahkan tak mendapat kemerdekaan bagi dirinya.

Kemudian hadirlah Islam yang dibawa oleh Nabi SAW. Posisi wanita terangkat oleh agama ini, hingga kedudukannya begitu ditinggikan. Seperti turunnya Surat An-Nisa yang artinya 'perempuan', hingga seluruh ayatnya pun membicarakan hal yang berhubungan dengan wanita. Dan Ini menjadi bukti Islam memuliakan para perempuan.

Dalam hadits pula, Ibnu Abbas meriwayatkan bahwa Rasul SAW bersabda, "Sebaik-baik kamu adalah yang paling baik kepada perempuan." (HR Hakim, kitab Al-Jami'us Shaghir, hadits nomor 4101)

Juga banyak dalil dan riwayat lain yang berbicara tentang perempuan beserta keistimewaannya. Muhammad Ibrahim Salim melalui bukunya Nisaa Haular-Rasul SAW berpendapat, "Sesungguhnya Islam telah memuliakan wanita, baik sebagai ibu, gadis, istri, saudari maupun sebagai seorang anak."

Tingginya kedudukan perempuan dalam Islam juga terbukti sebagai sosok yang membantu syiar agama Islam pada masa awalnya. Di mana terdapat sejumlah nama wanita muslim yang berperan aktif dan turut berjuang dalam berdakwah menyebarkan ajaran Allah SWT ini.

Aisyah binti Abu Bakar

Ialah istri termuda Rasulullah SAW. Aisyah RA merupakan ulama paling terkemuka dalam sejarah Islam, lantaran pengetahuannya yang luas tentang hukum syariat dan hadits, juga kepribadiannya yang kuat.

Diketahui Aisyah RA telah meriwayatkan 2210 hadits Nabi SAW, dengan menceritakan sunnah dan praktik sehari-hari beliau. Hadits yang diriwayatkan Aisyah RA ini menjadi sumber utama bimbingan bagi kaum muslim selain dari Al-Qur'an.

Nusaiba binti Ka'ab Al-Anshariyyah

Dikenal sebagai Umm 'Ammara, ia turut menjadi orang yang paling awal memeluk agama Islam. Ia merupakah salah satu sahabat Nabi SAW yang diketahui begitu setia kepada beliau.

Nusaiba RA diingat sebagai perempuan tangguh. Ia ikut terjun dalam perang Uhud dengan membawa pedang dan perisai untuk melawan orang kafir. Selama pertempuran ia mendapati beberapa luka hingga pingsan. Kemudian setelah bangun dan sadar, yang pertama kali ditanyakan olehnya adalah kondisi dari Rasulullah SAW.