Masyarakat Muslim yang berencana melaksanakan ibadah Haji diminta untuk mempersiapkan segala sesuatunya. Bukan hannya dari segi materi atau kesehatan fisik, tapi juga dari sisi mental serta memahami rukun dan tata cara prosesi ibadah haji. Salah satu persiapan yang sangat penting bagi setiap calon jamaah adalah manasik. Biasanya Kementrian Agama meminta kepada setiap jamaah regular maupun haji hkusus untuk mengikuti manasik yang diselenggarakan oleh kelompok Bimbingan Ibadah Haji ( KBIH ) atau biro perjalanan haji. Dalam manasik, jamaah akan mendapatkan pembekalan mengenai tata cara ibadah, rukun, syarat, wajib, atau hal-hal yang tidak boleh dilakukan di Tanah Suci serta sosialisasi kebijakan pemerintah Arab Saudi. Manasik adalah sebuah keharusan, karena ini pembekalan untuk jamaah, ujar ustadz Muhammad hafidz kepada Republika, selasa (14/6). Manasik , lanjut dia, sangat bermanfaat bagi jamaah. Lewat kuliah singkat ini, jamaah bakal mengetahui apa yang harus dilakukan ketika berada di Tanah Suci. Karena untuk berhaji ataupun umrah, jamaah tidak cukup hanya berbekal niat atau mampu, tapi tidak tahu, ketika sampai di sana dan kembali ke Tanah Air, tidak aka nada perubahan, ujarnya Materi manasik yang diberikan, menurut hafidz, tidak hanya soal haji atau umrah, tapi juga pembekalan mulai dari apa itu Islam, bagaimana ber-islam yang benar dan hal lainnya, termasuk melaksanakan tawaf, sa’I, dan wukuf di Arafah. Pembimbing haji dan umrah, ustadz Ali Nurul Hak menjelaskan, manasik sangat penting agar jamaah mengetahui tujuan berangkat ke Tanah Suci untuk ibadah karena Allah. Supaya Jamaah bisa menjalankan syariah dengan benar. Cara Ibadahnya benar, akhirnya dapat yang baik, katanya. Dalam manasik calon jamaah akan mendapatkan pencerahan mengenai filosofi ibadah, tawaf, sa’I, dan tahallul. Selain itu, juga dijelaskan mengenai ritual ibadah, rukun, wajib dan syarat haji, dan juga tak ketinggalan mengenai regulasi Sekretaris Jenderal Forum Komunikasi Kelompok Bimbingan Ibadah Haji (FKKBIH), Qosim Shaleh mengataka, manasik memiliki multi manfaat, pengenalan lapangan, pendalaman substansi haji, sosialisasi situasi suasana, pengenalan budaya Arab, juga meningkatkan kualitas ilmu calon jamaah serta perluasan cakrawala ilmu pengetahuan. Jamaah yang tidak mengikuti manasik bakal mengalami kesulitan ketika di Tanah Suci. Mereka yang sudah berhaji dua kali pun, terkadang tetap mengalami kesulitan, khususnya dalam menghafal bacaan atau doa-doa penting. Apalagi jamaah yang baru kali pertama melaksanakan haji, tentu saja akan sangat kesulitan. Persiapan psikis jamaah juga penting disamping fisik. Para pembimbing juga mengajarkan agar jamaah mampu menendalikan sifat iri, emosi, takabur, dan lainnya. Setiap jamaah juga diminta bersosialisasi dengan jamaah lainnya. Hal ini penting agar jamaah memiliki akhlakul karimah dan akidah yang baik. Untuk itu dalam manasik, jamaah disarankan saling mengenal satu sama lain. Agar timbul rasa kekeluargaan dan persaudaraan. Sehingga ketika ada masalah bisa diselesaikan dengan kekeluargaan pula. Sebelumnya Wakil Ketua Umum Himpunan Penyelenggara Umrah dan haji, Djadjang Sudradjat mengatakan, pentingnya manasik haji bisa dilihat dari dua sisi pertama, sisi agama. Haji merupakan ibadah dan bagian dari rukun islam. Tentunya, semuanya harus ada syaratnya. Haji pun ada urutannya, mulai dari ihram, wukuf di Arafah, tawaf ifadah, sa’I, tahallul, serta tertib. REPUBLIKA

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BALTIMORE — In the afternoons, the streets of Locust Point are clean and nearly silent. In front of the rowhouses, potted plants rest next to steps of brick or concrete. There is a shopping center nearby with restaurants, and a grocery store filled with fresh foods.

And the National Guard and the police are largely absent. So, too, residents say, are worries about what happened a few miles away on April 27 when, in a space of hours, parts of this city became riot zones.

“They’re not our reality,” Ashley Fowler, 30, said on Monday at the restaurant where she works. “They’re not what we’re living right now. We live in, not to be racist, white America.”

As Baltimore considers its way forward after the violent unrest brought by the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died of injuries he suffered while in police custody, residents in its predominantly white neighborhoods acknowledge that they are sometimes struggling to understand what beyond Mr. Gray’s death spurred the turmoil here. For many, the poverty and troubled schools of gritty West Baltimore are distant troubles, glimpsed only when they pass through the area on their way somewhere else.

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And so neighborhoods of Baltimore are facing altogether different reckonings after Mr. Gray’s death. In mostly black communities like Sandtown-Winchester, where some of the most destructive rioting played out last week, residents are hoping businesses will reopen and that the police will change their strategies. But in mostly white areas like Canton and Locust Point, some residents wonder what role, if any, they should play in reimagining stretches of Baltimore where they do not live.

“Most of the people are kind of at a loss as to what they’re supposed to do,” said Dr. Richard Lamb, a dentist who has practiced in the same Locust Point office for nearly 39 years. “I listen to the news reports. I listen to the clergymen. I listen to the facts of the rampant unemployment and the lack of opportunities in the area. Listen, I pay my taxes. Exactly what can I do?”

And in Canton, where the restaurants have clever names like Nacho Mama’s and Holy Crepe Bakery and Café, Sara Bahr said solutions seemed out of reach for a proudly liberal city.

“I can only imagine how frustrated they must be,” said Ms. Bahr, 36, a nurse who was out with her 3-year-old daughter, Sally. “I just wish I knew how to solve poverty. I don’t know what to do to make it better.”

The day of unrest and the overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations that followed led to hundreds of arrests, often for violations of the curfew imposed on the city for five consecutive nights while National Guard soldiers patrolled the streets. Although there were isolated instances of trouble in Canton, the neighborhood association said on its website, many parts of southeast Baltimore were physically untouched by the tumult.

Tensions in the city bubbled anew on Monday after reports that the police had wounded a black man in Northwest Baltimore. The authorities denied those reports and sent officers to talk with the crowds that gathered while other officers clutching shields blocked traffic at Pennsylvania and West North Avenues.

Lt. Col. Melvin Russell, a community police officer, said officers had stopped a man suspected of carrying a handgun and that “one of those rounds was spent.”

Colonel Russell said officers had not opened fire, “so we couldn’t have shot him.”

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The colonel said the man had not been injured but was taken to a hospital as a precaution. Nearby, many people stood in disbelief, despite the efforts by the authorities to quash reports they described as “unfounded.”

Monday’s episode was a brief moment in a larger drama that has yielded anger and confusion. Although many people said they were familiar with accounts of the police harassing or intimidating residents, many in Canton and Locust Point said they had never experienced it themselves. When they watched the unrest, which many protesters said was fueled by feelings that they lived only on Baltimore’s margins, even those like Ms. Bahr who were pained by what they saw said they could scarcely comprehend the emotions associated with it.

But others, like Lambi Vasilakopoulos, who runs a casual restaurant in Canton, said they were incensed by what unfolded last week.

“What happened wasn’t called for. Protests are one thing; looting is another thing,” he said, adding, “We’re very frustrated because we’re the ones who are going to pay for this.”

There were pockets of optimism, though, that Baltimore would enter a period of reconciliation.

“I’m just hoping for peace,” Natalie Boies, 53, said in front of the Locust Point home where she has lived for 50 years. “Learn to love each other; be patient with each other; find justice; and care.”

A skeptical Mr. Vasilakopoulos predicted tensions would worsen.

“It cannot be fixed,” he said. “It’s going to get worse. Why? Because people don’t obey the laws. They don’t want to obey them.”

But there were few fears that the violence that plagued West Baltimore last week would play out on these relaxed streets. The authorities, Ms. Fowler said, would make sure of that.

“They kept us safe here,” she said. “I didn’t feel uncomfortable when I was in my house three blocks away from here. I knew I was going to be O.K. because I knew they weren’t going to let anyone come and loot our properties or our businesses or burn our cars.”