Napoleon Bonaparte adalah Seorang MuslimSiapa yang tidak mengenal Napoleon Bonaparte, seorang Jendral dan Kaisar Prancis yang tenar kelahiran Ajaccio, Corsica 1769.
Namanya terdapat dalam urutan ke-34 dari Seratus tokoh yang paling berpengaruh dalam sejarah yang ditulis oleh Michael H. Hart. Karier militer Napoleon menyuguhkan paradoks yang menarik. Kegeniusan gerakan taktiknya amat memukau, dan bila diukur dari segi itu semata, bisa jadi dia bisa dianggap seorang jendral terbesar sepanjang jaman. Sebagai seorang yang berkuasa dan berdaulat penuh terhadap negara Prancis sejak Agustus 1793, seharusnya ia merasa puas dengan segala apa yang telah diperolehnya itu. Tapi rupanya kemegahan dunia belum bisa memuaskan batinnya, agama yang dianutnya waktu itu ternyata tidak bisa membuat Napoleon Bonaparte merasa tenang dan damai.
Akhirnya pada tanggal 02 Juli 1798, 23 tahun sebelum kematiannya ditahun 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte menyatakan ke-Islamannya di hadapan dunia Internasional. Namanya berubah menjadi ‘Aly (Ali) Napoleon Bonaparte’.
Apa yang membuat Napoleon ini lebih memilih Islam daripada agama lamanya, Kristen ?
Berikut penuturannya sendiri yang pernah dimuat di majalah Genuine Islam, edisi Oktober 1936 terbitan Singapura.
“I read the Bible; Moses was an able man, the Jews are villains, cowardly and cruel. Is there anything more horrible than the story of Lot and his daughters?”
“The science which proves to us that the earth is not the centre of the celestial movements has struck a great blow at religion. Joshua stops the sun! One shall see the stars falling into the sea… I say that of all the suns and planets,…”
“Saya membaca Bible; Musa adalah orang yang cakap, sedang orang Yahudi adalah bangsat, pengecut dan jahat. Adakah sesuatu yang lebih dahsyat daripada kisah Luth beserta kedua puterinya?” (Lihat Kejadian 19:30-38)
“Sains telah menunjukkan bukti kepada kita, bahwa bumi bukanlah pusat tata surya, dan ini merupakan pukulan hebat terhadap agama Kristen. Yosua menghentikan matahari (Yosua 10: 12-13). Orang akan melihat bintang-bintang berjatuhan kedalam laut…. saya katakan, semua matahari dan planet-planet ….”
Selanjutnya Napoleon Bonaparte berkata :
“Religions are always based on miracles, on such things than nobody listens to like Trinity. Yesus called himself the son of God and he was a descendant of David. I prefer the religion of Muhammad. It has less ridiculous things than ours; the turks also call us idolaters.”
“Agama-agama itu selalu didasarkan pada hal-hal yang ajaib, seperti halnya Trinitas yang sulit dipahami. Yesus memanggil dirinya sebagai anak Tuhan, padahal ia keturunan Daud. Saya lebih meyakini agama yang dibawa oleh Muhammad. Islam terhindar jauh dari kelucuan-kelucuan ritual seperti yang terdapat di dalam agama kita (Kristen); Bangsa Turki juga menyebut kita sebagai orang-orang penyembah berhala dan dewa.”
Selanjutnya :
“Surely, I have told you on different occations and I have intimated to you by various discourses that I am a Unitarian Musselman and I glorify the prophet Muhammad and that I love the Musselmans.”
“Dengan penuh kepastian saya telah mengatakan kepada anda semua pada kesempatan yang berbeda, dan saya harus memperjelas lagi kepada anda di setiap ceramah, bahwa saya adalah seorang Muslim, dan saya memuliakan nabi Muhammad serta mencintai orang-orang Islam.”
Akhirnya ia berkata :
“In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate. There is no god but God, He has no son and He reigns without a partner.”
“Dengan nama Allah yang Maha Pengasih dan Maha Penyayang. Tiada Tuhan selain Allah. Ia tidak beranak dan Ia mengatur segala makhlukNya tanpa pendamping.”
Napoleon Bonaparte mengagumi Al-Quran setelah membandingkan dengan kitab sucinya terdahulu, Alkitab. Akhirnya ia menemukan keunggulan-keunggulan Al-Quran, juga semua cerita yang melatar belakanginya.
Dalam buku yang berjudul ‘Bonaparte et I’Islarn oleh Cherlifs, Paris, halaman 105’, Napoleon Bonaparte berkata sebagai berikut: “I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the prinsiples of the Qur’an wich alone can lead men to happiness.”
“Saya meramalkan bahwa tidak lama lagi akan dapat dipersatukan semua manusia yang berakal dan berpendidikan tinggi untuk memajukan satu kesatuan kekuasaan yang berdasarkan prinsip–prinsip ajaran Islam, karena hanyalah Qur’an itu satu-satunya kebenaran yang mampu memimpin manusia kepada kebahagiaan.”
Beberapa sumber lain yang menyatakan ke-Islaman beliau:
- Buku ‘Satanic Voices – Ancient and Modern’ dengan penulis David M. Pidcock (1992 ISBN: 1-81012-03-1), pada hal. 61.
- Surat kabar Perancis ‘Le Moniteur’, yang menulis bahwa beliau masuk Islam pada tahun 1798.
- Buku ‘Napoleon And Islam’ dengan penulis C. Cherfils (ISBN: 967-61-0898-7).
Islam hadir tidak hanya mayoritas di suatu negara tapi juga sebagai minoritas khususnya di benua Eropa dan Amerika. Napoleon Bonaparte adalah salah satu contoh dari pribadi muslim yang sukses sebagai minoritas di Perancis.
Meskipun pada akhirnya Napoleon dimakamkan secara Kristen di Perancis pada tgl 15 Desember 1840 di gereja Paris, namun sepertinya hal tersebut sebagai sesuatu untuk mengaburkan fakta bahwa beliau adalah seorang Muslim. Sama halnya di Indonesia, Pattimura yang seorang muslim bahkan cicitnya menyatakan mereka adalah muslim, lalu tiba-tiba menjadi Thomas Mattulesi Pattimura.
Terlepas dari semua hal tersebut, kiranya kita mesti merenungkan ucapan beliau tidak lama setelah mempelajari isi Al-Quran dan sebelum masuk Islam; yang pertama menguntungkan kaum muslimin dan yang kedua membahayakan mereka. Ucapan yang keluar dari mulut politikus besar ini dan menguntungkan kaum muslimin adalah, “Aku telah belajar dari buku ini, dan aku merasa bahwa apabila kaum muslimin mengamalkan aturan-aturan komprehensif buku ini, maka niscaya mereka tidak akan pernah terhinakan.”
Adapun kata-kata yang membahayakan kaum muslimin adalah, “Selama Al-Quran ini berkuasa di tengah-tengah kaum muslimin, dan mereka hidup di bawah naungan ajaran-ajarannya yang sangat istimewa, maka kaum muslimin tidak akan tunduk kepada kita, kecuali bila kita pisahkan antara mereka dengan Al-Quran.”
Wallahu a’lam.
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hanya orang berfikir yang bisa menemukan kebenaran dalam sebuah kegelapan.
Di Indonesia Kebenaran jarang diluruskan, makanya kita negara yang sudah berumur puluhan tahun kaga’ maju2.
Berita keislaman Napoleon ini bisa jadi benar (perlu literature research untuk memastikannya). Berikut ini berita sebuah berita di Brusselsjournal yang mengulas disertasi doktoral Maya Jasanoff.
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Author: Maya Jasanoff
France Pays Homage to Islam
From the desk of Elaib Harvey on Tue, 2006-01-10 17:38
Who was the first man to claim that the “French are also sincere Muslims”? Who attempted to bring forth the Arabs to rise up in harmony with the French to aid the French in their opposition to the Anglo-Saxons? No not de Villepin, and his lachrymose prose but his great hero, Napoleon Bonaparte.
In an extended doctoral thesis that became a book, “Edge of Empire, Conquest and Collecting on the Eastern Frontiers of the British Empire, 1750-1850” published last Summer, Maya Jasanoff, now assistant professor of British history at the University of Virginia, brings us to the attention of the behavior of Napoleon when he set out to conquer Egypt.
When Richard Gott, as always obsessively anti-American, reviewed the book in The Guardian last August he regretted that Britain had not been defeated by Napoleon because “Britain was largely engaged [...] in what was essentially a ‘counter-revolutionary’ war against Jacobinism. In fighting against France, the country that had launched the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the British were laying the groundwork for a permanently counter-revolutionary empire that would keep those rights low on the agenda.”
It must first be remembered that Napoleon’s purposes in attacking Egypt were to strangle Britain’s commerce and thus facilitate the invasion of England. Indeed when his troops left Toulon on France’s Mediterranean coast he called them “one of the wings of the army of [against] Angleterre.”
Having overthrown the conquered Malta and thrown out the Knights who had guarded it against all comers (particularly non Christian all comers) for the previous 500 years he set sail on his flagship the L’Orient. This ship, that was soon to be turned into flaming matchsticks by Admiral Nelson at the Battle of the Nile, housed what was to become Egypt’s first Arabic printing press. The first document to be printed on it was to become known as Napoleon’s “Proclamation to the Egyptians.” These are extracts translated from the contemporary Egyptian historian Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti by Dr Saladin Boustany, now director of the Al Arab publishing house in Cairo.
“O Egyptians! You have been told that I have come to this land with the intention of eradicating you religion. But that is a clear lie; do not believe it […]. I […] worship God, glory be to him, and respect his prophet and the great Quran […] O you shaykhs, judges, imams, jurbaiyya, and leading men of the country that the French are also sincere Muslims.”
In evidence for this sincerity Napoleon goes on,
“[The French] entered Rome and destroyed the throne of the Pope, who had always urged Christians to combat Islam. Then they marched to Malta, whence they expelled the knights, who claimed that God, exalted is He, sought of them that they fight the Muslims […]”
According to another eyewitness Napoleon topped and tailed the proclamation with the immortal and significant phrase, “God is great and Mohammed is his prophet.” According to Islam to say that, is to become a Muslim. In their eyes he was converting to Islam by that very proclamation, and by the tone of the proclamation he was doing it for the whole of France. Indeed one of his generals, Jacques ‘Abdallah’ Menou did convert and Bonaparte promised the conversion of the entire army (with the provisos that they were to be allowed to continue drinking wine and could keep their foreskins). None of this, however, convinced the Caliph in Constantinople or many locals who launched a Fatwa against the French.
Napoleon no doubt thought that he was very clever, trying to bring the Muslim world out in opposition to the British, but first his defeat of the Egyptians, then his pandering to them is seen across the Muslim world as the spark that lit the first stirrings of Pan-Arab nationalism and the growth of militant Islam.
One last thing. As all this was happening it is reported that a holy man was wandering around the streets of Cairo who claimed a vision in which Mohammed met up with Destiny. Mohammed was raging that the French were all over Egypt, but Destiny was able to calm him: “Console yourself,” Destiny said, “I have decided that these conquerors will become Muslims.” Apparently, she has kept her word.
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Author: Maya Jasanoff
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