Al-Hamdulillah, segala puji milik Allah, Rabb semesta alam. Shalawat dan salam semoga terlimpah kepada baginda Rasulillah –Shallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam-, keluarga dan para sahabatnya.

. . . Allah menyiapkan pahala besar kepada orang yang memaafkan karena ia memperlakukan hamba dengan sesuatu yang ia suka jika Allah memperlakukan dirinya dengan hal itu. Ia suka kalau Allah memaafkan kesalahannya, karenanya ia memaafkan orang yang telah berbuat salah kepada dirinya. . .

. . . jika orang yang berbuat jahat dimaafkan ia tetap pada kejahatannya atau akan berbuat jahat kepada selainnya atau akan lebih banyak lagi membuat kerusakan maka syariat memerintahkan untuk menghukumnya. . .

Maka Muqtashid adalah "Dan balasan suatu kejahatan adalah kejahatan yang serupa." Sedangkan Sabiqum Bil Khairat bi Idznillah adalah , "Maka Barang siapa memaafkan dan berbuat baik maka pahalanya atas (tanggungan) Allah." sementara zalimun Linafsih adalah "Sesungguhnya Dia tidak menyukai orang-orang yang zalim.” Maka Allah memerintahkan berbuat adil, lalu menganjurkan berbuat yang lebih utama, dan melarang dari berbuat zalim. Wallahu Ta'ala A'lam.

Law of attraction

The law of attraction is the name given to the belief that "like attracts like" and that by focusing on positive or negative thoughts, one can bring about positive or negative results.^[1][2][3][4] For example, if a person opened an envelope expecting to see a bill, then according to the law of attraction, the envelope would "confirm" those thoughts and contain a bill when opened. A person who decided to instead expect a check might, under the same law, find a check instead of a bill.^[5]
Although there are some cases where positive or negative attitudes can produce corresponding results (principally the placebo and nocebo effects), there is no scientific basis to the law of attraction.^[6]

Contents 1 History 2 Reception of the idea 3 See also 4 Notes 5 External links

History

Thomas Troward, who was a strong influence in the New Thought Movement, claimed that thought precedes physical form and that "the action of Mind plants that nucleus which, if allowed to grow undisturbed, will eventually attract to itself all the conditions necessary for its manifestation in outward visible form."^[7]
In 1906, William Walker Atkinson (1862–1932) used the phrase in his New Thought Movement book Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World, stating that "like attracts like."^[8] The following year, Elizabeth Towne, the editor of The Nautilus Magazine, a Journal of New Thought, published Bruce MacLelland's prosperity theology book Prosperity Through Thought Force, in which he summarized the principle, stating: "You are what you think, not what you think you are." ^[9]
The book "The Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles espouses similar principles — that truly believing in the object of your desire and focusing onto it will lead to that object or goal being realized on the material plane (Wattles indicates in the Preface and later chapters of this book that his premise stems from the monistic Hindu view that God pervades everything and can deliver what we focus on). In addition, the book also indicates that negative thinking will manifest negative results.^[10]
Richard Weiss explains in his book The American Myth of Success that during the New Thought movement, the "principle of "non-resistance" was a popular concept taught in conjunction with the law of attraction.^[11]
The phrase "law of attraction" appeared in the writings of the Theosophical authors William Quan Judge in 1915,^[12] and Annie Besant in 1919.^[13] Besant compared her version of the 'law of attraction' to gravitation, and said that the law represented a form of karma.^[14]
Israel Regardie published many books with the theme of Law of Attraction as one of the prevailing Universal Laws. His book The Art of True Healing written in 1937 is fully titled "The Art of True Healing, A Treatise on the Mechanism of Prayer and the Operation of the Law of Attraction in Nature". The book teaches a focused meditation technique to help the mind to learn to heal itself on both a physical and spiritual level. Regardie goes on to explain that The Law of Attraction is not only a valid method for attracting good physical health but is applicable in the pursuit of any aspect of life you would like to see changed.
Napoleon Hill published two books on this theme. The first was The Law of Success in 16 Lessons (1928) which directly and repeatedly referenced the law of attraction and proposed that it operates by use of radio waves transmitted by the brain. Then in 1937, he published Think and Grow Rich which went on to become one of the best selling books of all time, selling over 60 million copies. In this book, Hill discusses the importance of controlling one's own thoughts in order to achieve success, as well as the energy that thoughts have and their ability to attract other thoughts. In the beginning of the book, Hill mentions a "secret" to success, and promises to indirectly describe it at least once in every chapter of the book. It is never named directly for he says that discovering it on one's own is far more beneficial. Many people have argued over what the secret actually is, with some arguing that it was the law of attraction. Hill states the "secret" to which he refers is mentioned no fewer than a hundred times, yet reference to "attract" is used less than 30 times in the text. Most students of the book claim the secret is hidden in its title: THINK (i.e., thoughts). After this, the book, Three Magic Words (1954), by American author, U.S. Anderson became an forerunner to present phase of information on the subconscious mind and the law of attraction.^[15]
The Secret (2006) was a film based on the law of attraction. It was then developed into a book of the same title in 2007. The movie and book gained widespread attention in the media also from Saturday Night Live to The Oprah Winfrey Show in the United States.^[1]
The success of the film and various books led to increased media coverage. Oprah Winfrey devoted two episodes of her show to discussing the film and the law of attraction.^[3][4] Talk show host Larry King also discussed it on his show with Bob Solis but criticized it for several reasons. He pointed to the sufferings in the world and asked: "If the Universe manifests abundance at a mere thought, why is there so much poverty, starvation, and death?"^{[citation needed]}
In August 2008, Esther and Jerry Hicks's book Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth & Happiness appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list.^[16]

Reception of the idea

Skeptical Inquirer magazine criticized the lack of falsifiability and testability of these claims.^[5] Critics have asserted that the evidence provided is usually anecdotal and that, because of the self-selecting nature of the positive reports, as well as the subjective nature of any results, these reports are susceptible to confirmation bias and selection bias.^[17] Physicist Ali Alousi, for instance, criticized it as unmeasurable and questioned the likelihood that thoughts can affect anything outside the head.^[1]
The Law of Attraction has been popularized in recent years by books and films such as The Secret. This film and the subsequent book^[18] use interviews with New Thought authors and speakers to explain the principles of an alleged metaphysical law that one can attract anything that one thinks about consistently. Writing for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, Mary Carmichael and Ben Radford wrote that "neither the film nor the book has any basis in scientific reality", and that its premise contains "an ugly flipside: if you have an accident or disease, it's your fault." They asked, "If an airplane crashes, does that mean that one or more of the passengers brought that on himself? Do soldiers killed in Iraq simply not think enough positive thoughts?"^[5]
Others have questioned the references to modern scientific theory, and have maintained, for example, that the law of attraction misrepresents the electrical activity of brainwaves.^[19] Victor Stenger and Leon Lederman are critical of attempts to use quantum mysticism to bridge any unexplained or seemingly implausible effects, believing these to be traits of modern pseudoscience.^[20][21][22] Writing in the New York Times, Virginia Heffernan characterised The Secret as "a series of misquotations ... and fraudulent maxims" that nonetheless "takes [her] to a happy place."[23