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Its all about the money (and God)
Bismillaah, Assalaamu ‘alaikum,
Antapani, @myRoom, 25-Des-2007, 9:45pm
A few moments ago, i’ve read some of my old articles founded on the net. Some of them were talk about how to make money from zero. This include the MLM games. I’ve recently read the truth story of the MLM victims. Despite of being rich, they’re all gone broke. 
Actually if they -for the first time- have had open their mind, their heart. To go into the deeper side of their humanity, what’s the positive things they’ll found in the MLM company? If its all just about the money. Should they’ll helping the people with the imaginary facts? (i’ve remind you all about these in my previous posts, “Pertemuan”). What they believe as success, happiness, famous, and all the beautiful things in this world, in my opinion, is just a false-reality.
The truth reality is that when you join an MLM company, you must follow and obey their rules. If you want to get success, happy, you must follow them (they often called as Leader, Sponsor or anything). How they do, how they act (and react), how they think. Even if they told you that you must broke on credits or robe a bank, you must do it.
And the fact is this, if (you think that) you’ve success and gain happiness in your life, they, as your leader, your sponsor will be success and happy first before you. And whether you realize it or not, congratulations you’ve been exploited!
Why? Because on how you’ve gain it, along with the people below you. You gain success, they’ll gone broke. Realize it or not, like it or not.
They often told you on how to reach the Great -but false- reality, they put the magic ‘successful and prosperous’ words into your head. They bombs you with ‘Lots of money could do or buy anything’. They shots you with ‘Financial Freedom’. They brainwashed you with ‘you could help others to reach their financial freedom’. — actually, all the hideous facts is this, ‘you should worship the money, in order to live successful and happy — Realize it or not, like it or not.
So, what’s wrong with ‘Financial Freedom’ anyway? In my opinion, its not a bad idea to chose this opt in your life. But as a moslem you must put aside the thought of ‘worship the money’ instead of worship Allah swt. In short term, you must divide them in two different things. First, you must conduct that Financial Freedom is just a way to Ibadah (worship Alloh swt) not as THE ONLY way of gaining successful and happy life!
And second, worship Allah swt and obey the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah’s Rule is THE ONLY way to gain successful and happy in life!
So, what’s wrong with ‘MLM’ and ‘MLM-Shariah’? Well, in my opinion, there are not much in different with them. Whether they’re in conventional MLM or in shariah. Coz the rule is that you’re obliged to gain people as much as you can, .. and eventually you must exploit them. Sorry to tell you this, sometimes the MLM-Shariah company and/or their leader often use the Holy Qur’an and Sunnah words within their prospecting sessions. Just to gain symphaties from their prospects (in order they’ll be thinking about joining). Such a shameful things.
If they want to get symphaties, then please, dont use the Holy words to them. If they really want to help them (as told within the Holy Qur’an), then help them with Ikhlas. Stop bothering the prospects that didnt want to join with them. As they’ll gonna broke the silaturrahmi, instead of getting a great silaturrahmi relationship with the prospects.
“Ikhlas is to give others with no expectations in return at all. Totally commence as pure devotion to Allah swt.”
With the quote of ikhlas above, we may conclude that, if we really want to help others, we shall never had a second thought within our heart. In the moslem’s heart, will never be a thoughtful words like this, “If he/she’ll join me/us, or buy something from me/us, we’ll getting closer to my/our Financial Freedom”.
Ikhlas is the contra verse term from Riya’, which is “want to be or to get an attention from others (mean here is the people)”. In this term, I think Riya’ is more likely the MLM people now. They want to be or to get an attention from others, by their rich, their successful things, their capable of doing anything good (in their eyes). I ask, if they’re not rich, not being success, and not having a happiness life, then why they’re joining? And what reason they really after?
Helping people by ‘asking them to join the MLM company, in order to get rich, successful, happiness life, famous, opportunity to help others, devotion to God etc.’. IS NOT an only way as an answer! Aaah,, please, hari geneh masih pengen ikutan MLM? cape deeh.. 
The great happiness in life is not being rich, famous, successful, but to totally devote ourselves to Alloh swt. (not by joining an MLM company, instead of having a descent job)
However as a moslem, i just want to tell you this, within this universe anything good in our eyes is not as great as we thought. And anything great as we thought here, is not as good as Allah swt judged. Everything here (in this world) is just a false-reality. The REAL truth of the truth-reality is only Allah swt. That’s all..
ps: This post was inspired by this article: Please click the link to download the article. (.PDF format / adobe reader)
Wassalaam.
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Hapunten pake bahasa Indonesia ya…Kurang hebat english nya euy…
Mengenai MLM memang pembahasan yang sangat rumit untuk diterima oleh khalayak apabila hal itu dikaitkan dengan apa yang disebut dengen riba. Seketika, jari ini tergerak untuk mengetik nasihat guru – semoga allah merahmatinya – bahwa diantara tanda akhir zaman, akan ada segolongan manusia yang menghalalkan apa-apa yang telah diharamkan Allah. Mungkin bisa jadi sekarang waktu tersebut dimana sebagian manusia menamakan riba dengan nama yang lain seperti bunga, MLM, atau yang lainnya sehingga tidak terkena larangan. Begitu juga ketika sebagian orang menamakan khamar dengan bir, whisky, vodka, pletok, atau apapun sehingga tidak terkena larangan. Semoga allah melindungi kita dari hal-hal yang diharamkan karena setiap daging yang tumbuh dari harta yang haram, maka api nerakalah yang pertama kali akan mencicipinya.
Tapi, kayaknya ada definisi yang keliru atau pemikiran saya yang keliru ya. Keliru dalam mengutarakan definisi Ikhlas. Sependek pengetahuan saya, Ikhlas itu hanyak terkait dalam hal Ibadah dimana kita hanya memberikan peribadahan kita kepada allah saja dan tidakkepada yang lain atau tidak bersama yang lain. Karena kalau kita artikan Ikhlas dengan memberikan kepada orang tanpa mengharap imbalan sama sekali, itu kayaknya si ndak ada kaitannya dengan Ibadah, karena memberi kepada orang lain, itu terkait dengan interaksi antara sesama ciptaan Sang Pencipta. Yuks, kita coba buka referensi lagi, takutnya saya keliru mengartikan Ikhlas ini.
Hapunten ya kang kalo ada kata-kata yang kurang berkenan.
Keep the spirit. (Wae-Fachri*gak pake y*)
Thanks a Lot 4uR suggestions and comments.
All of the truth is all subjected to Allah SWT. None of the truth is belong to me as Thy creature.
@Wae:
Trims untuk mampu meredefinisikan kembali tentang ikhlas. Semoga Alloh memberkahi semua pendapat kita. Karena bagi saya semua pendapat dalam berijtihad adalah memiliki pahala.
Mohon dimaafkan jika ternyata pendapat saya berakhir dalam kedangkalan proses berpikir saya sebagai makhluk Alloh SWT..
Wassalaam wr.wb.