Ketika melakukan tawaf, sunnah hukumnya berlari-lari kecil pada putaran pertama, kedua, dan ketiga. Pada saat berlari-lari kecil itulah para jamaah haji melingkarkan pakaian ihramnya di atas pundak kiri hingga ke ketiak sebelah kanan. Ujung yang satu berada di depan dada dan ujung yang lain berada di belakang punggung.
Secara historis, berlari-lari kecil saat melakukan tawaf ditujukan untuk membantah asumsi negatif orang kafir Quraisy yang mengatakan bahwa umat muslim yang baru datang dari tempat-tempat yang jauh sudah capai, tidak bersemangat, dan dalam keadaan terpaksa menjalankan ibadah. Untuk menghapus asumsi tersebut, Rasulullah SAW memerintahkan para sahabatnya mengerjakan tawaf dengan berlari-lari kecil dan penuh semangat.
Dari cerita tersebut, sebagai umat Nabi Muhammad SAW perlu memahami bahwa untuk menghapus citra negatif yang disematkan oleh musuh-musuh Islam kepada umat muslim dan agama Islam, dibutuhkan perjuangan yang serius. Perjuangan tersebut tidak boleh berhenti sebab permusuhan umat lain terhadap umat Islam pun tidak pernah berhenti.
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WASHINGTON — During a training course on defending against knife attacks, a young Salt Lake City police officer asked a question: “How close can somebody get to me before I’m justified in using deadly force?”
Dennis Tueller, the instructor in that class more than three decades ago, decided to find out. In the fall of 1982, he performed a rudimentary series of tests and concluded that an armed attacker who bolted toward an officer could clear 21 feet in the time it took most officers to draw, aim and fire their weapon.
The next spring, Mr. Tueller published his findings in SWAT magazine and transformed police training in the United States. The “21-foot rule” became dogma. It has been taught in police academies around the country, accepted by courts and cited by officers to justify countless shootings, including recent episodes involving a homeless woodcarver in Seattle and a schizophrenic woman in San Francisco.
Now, amid the largest national debate over policing since the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, a small but vocal set of law enforcement officials are calling for a rethinking of the 21-foot rule and other axioms that have emphasized how to use force, not how to avoid it. Several big-city police departments are already re-examining when officers should chase people or draw their guns and when they should back away, wait or try to defuse the situation
Police Rethink Long Tradition on Using Force