Freegans

Mesti pembaca tertanya-tanya...apakah itu freegans? Dan kenapa pulak nak tulis psl freegans...

First encounter ngan freegans masa tgk tv...program tu bertajuk wife swap....satu keluarga ni mengamalkan freegan's lifestyle and satu lagi keluarga yg kaya raya, rumah besar etc...

Masa tu terkejut la ngan free gan lifestyle ni...sebelum tu kita introduce dulu apakah maksud freegan ni...

Menurut pakcik wikipedia :

Freeganism is an anti-consumerist lifestyle whereby people employ alternative living strategies based on "limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources". Freegans "embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed."^[1] The lifestyle involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket dumpsters, known as dumpster diving. Freegans salvage the food for political reasons, rather than out of need

A brief history of freegans : Freeganism started in the mid 1990s, out of the antiglobalization and environmentalist movements. Groups such as Food Not Bombs served free vegetarian and vegan food that was salvaged from food market trash by dumpster diving

so freegan ni take the exact extreme opposite of consumerism...erm..kita as muslim mmg tak terima consumerism and capitalism life...tapi mrk take it to the extreme...sampai mrk takkan beli makanan, mereka hanya akan korek2 dalam tong2 sampah, cari makanan2 lebihan org dan ambil apa yg elok2 utk di makan (dumpster diving).... dalam rancangan wife swap tu, ada la mrk tunjuk mrk buat ni, kat uk...geli pun ade..iskk

tapi kalau kita baca apa mrk nak bawa dlm life ni, mmg interesting cam apa islam bawa...kesian mrk tak nampak islam...tapi tu la, mrk nak kebahagiaan itu mengikut neraca akal mrk...tak makan daging at all kerana kesian kat binatang, walhal, Allah menciptakan binatang utk kita, kuat supaya dpt gigih beribadah kepadaNya!

Kenapa tulis psl depa ni? Sbb semalam, masa berjalan pulang drp student union, ada mat salleh ni duk passkan booklet kecil...dia menyapa 'Care to have a book me and my friends write?' Saya pun ambil la buku tu, tengok...Tajuknye ' Extreme Happiness '... masa tu belek kejap je..pastu dia kata, please have the book in the exchange of a few pennies...so saya tanya' How much for it?' Dia jawab, doesn't matter, a few pennies will do'...so sy bagi la beberapa pence....and take the book home..

Bila dah baca muqaddimah buku tu, baru sy tahu, buku tu ditulis oleh Freegan's people ni, and explaining mrk punya 'aqidah' dan segala kebaikan drp situ...tersenyum sendiri saya...bestnya kalau kita boleh buat booklet camtu...and pass to org awam, saying, me and my friends write this book, please have it :)

Islam is moderation, wasathiyyah....dalam apa2 jua keadaan...even dalam beribadat! Kalau kita extreme akan jadi lah seperti mrk2 ni, freegans la, vegans la, capitalist, communism... apa yg Islam gariskan tu lah yg paling cantek dan terbaik, alhamdulillah beruntung kita berada dalam Islam! Alhamdulillah ya Robb......