Oleh NADIRSYAH HOSEN

LADUNI.ID, Jakarta - Oprah Winfrey berbincang dengan penulis top Elizabeth Gilbert. Salah satu pertanyaan  menarik yang disampaikan Oprah adalah momen “true and pure grace” dalam hidup Elizabeth. Tanpa diduga ternyata Elizabeth berbicara mengenai pengalamannya saat menyendiri di Lombok dan jatuh sakit akibat keracunan makanan. Sebelumnya dia bertemu di jalan dengan seorang perempuan yang menunduk dan tersenyum ramah, dia pun membalas gestur itu.

Ketika dia sakit dan dehidrasi hanya sendirian di cabin-nya, tiba-tiba perempuan itu datang. Rupanya perempuan itu, yang khawatir tidak lagi melihat Elizabeth berjalan-jalan di luar, mencari dan mengetuk pintu kabin hingga akhirnya menemukan Elizabeth yang sedang terkapar parah. Perempuan yang bahkan dia tidak tahu siapa namanya itu kemudian mengambilkan air dan makanan untuk Elizabeth. Sejak saat itu, dimanapun ada perbincangan soal Islam, bagi Elizabeth, perempuan Indonesia itu adalah wajah Islam baginya.

Kisah ini menjadi viral. Dan sungguh kita belajar banyak dari kisah ini. Islam yang rahmatan lil alamin itu nyata adanya. Tanpa perlu perdebatan dalil, bahkan berbuat baik tanpa diminta, apalagi mendapatkan balasan. Mengasihi sesama tanpa melihat agama atau etniknya. Satu aksi nyata yang jauh lebih powerful ketimbang berjuta kata-kata. Jadilah wajah Islam yang ramah dan rahmah bagi semesta. Jangan jadi Islam yang bisanya hanya marah-marah terus.

Sentuh dunia dengan keramahan Islam Indonesia.

Transkrip videonya bisa dibaca di bawah ini:

She is my face of Islam

Oprah: So describe a moment when you experienced true and pure grace and you knew it.

Elizabeth: I was in Indonesia. I was going through my horrible divorce was 31 I was in a terrible depression and I took myself to this tiny little island and decided I needed spend 10 days in silence to try to have a Truth and Reconciliation hearing with myself because I was so full of shame and pain and I decide I would speak not a word for 10 days and I didn't know anybody who got it on a beach in this tiny little very poor fishing island off of Lombok in Indonesia and I got terribly terribly sick with food poisoning and my plan was to walk around the island every day except a tiny little island and there was this one woman this Muslim woman and you know when I say this island was poor I mean what these people fished that day is what they ate for dinner that night you know and this one woman on the other side of this island used to see me walking and she would put her head on her heart and smile at me when I walked by and I would do the same to her and then I got really sick and I was stuck in my cabin de hydrated terrified I actually thought I had malaria you know and far away from anyone who knew me and this woman came and found me something in her knew that I wasn't well she had seen me and she knew I wasn't doing well anyway but when she didn't see me on my daily walk she came and knocked on line door and and saw the condition that I was in and went like this and came back an hour later with fresh food and fresh water for me and I just started crying in her arms and she held me in her arms like I was her child and and just rocked me and took care.

Oprah: to even know her name

Elizabeth: didn't know her name still dont and and by the way she is my face of Islam whenever you know what ever conversation in the world has ever happening about Islamic she is my face of Islam that woman who went across an island knocked on every door in this little until she found the person who she knew suffer and came and took care of.

Tabik,

(Nadirsyah Hosen)