In the middle of Ramadan this way, have we - a little fun - ask about the purpose of fasting; what was obtained from fasting ritual?
Normatively, the purpose of human life is to serve God in order to achieve His pleasure, which is expressed in a polite manner, friendly, respectful and loving to others in life everyday, in any scale (social, economic, cultural, political and religious ). Long journey toward pleasure and self-restraint is very far and exhausting for the count ditapaki space (locus) and time (tempus) for men. The accumulation of human life is too short to reach it. Thus, it is necessary tactic and strategy, ie the time that allow efficient human-to transcendence transcendence (jumps).
One form of transcendence that is a decision to distance himself (self) and the earth. And fasting is making the distance itself. Fasting is worship temporal, which carried out a month in a year, starting from dawn and lasts until the drum maghrib.
The fast is a neutral worship. Fasting oriented perpetrators brought to the truth or otherwise, that is only 30 days of hunger and thirst story every day. Nothing more than that. Therefore, it is not necessarily if fasting really cautious to make the perpetrators, unless shoim (actor fasting) has intentions and goals correct first. Without the intention and purpose of the right, which gained only realities that naive. That is, as we witnessed during this, the anarchic religious attitudes, ways of worship that picky, half-half, the behavior of associating with people who want to win themselves, ethics in politics that justifies all means, the condescending attitude bersosial others (the other), berekonomi a greedy way, without calculation, how cultured without charge once sema value (meaningless).
This is not a "fruit" of fasting. This is all a result of fasting menginternalnya not in us, so that could not embodied in the behavior and attitude everyday. Perhaps from here, what the Prophet Muhammad said as a criticism of his people became a reality, namely that "many of my people are fasting, but they did not get anything except hunger and thirst" (Thurs shoimin laisa min shiyaihi illa lahu min l-juu 'wal Athos).
Human beings will not absorb and realize the value of anything without before he was willing to take a distance with him. Fasting is worship in order to take distance from the self (self-distance) and the earth. And, this is - to borrow a phrase Risang Miranda Ayu - penghangusan ego, so that the bow is not only the forehead, but also the soul, heart and consciousness. That way we can realize the value of self (self-knowing and controlling) and the value of natural resources, as the field operations. This is where training begins to hone the sharpness of taste. Fasting means to stop serving the demands of soul and body in a certain time and stop draining the earth. Here, shoim (actor fasting) will know how weak he was and how high the value of natural resources (earth) for the growth of human energy.
Without fasting, humans will never honed his sense of discernment when he was weak. Thus, no wonder, if humans are often stuck out his chest and was higher than everything that exists in this world. This causes no human constantly exploit other human beings or deplete the earth regardless of the contents of consequences far forward (greedy). Treatments anarchic, violent and immoral finally happened: corruption, destruction, bombings, illegal logging, exploitation of resources of the earth without the maintenance calculation and ecological balance, and so on. Here, for Asghar Ali Engineer - in his book On Deveolping Theology of Peace - to be sensitive is the subject of worship. Fasting means to make someone be sensitive (sensitive), because only a sensitive soul who can deal with and against untruth and injustice.
Awareness to know and feel themselves weak (dhaif) will provide lessons and guidance for shoim not mendholimi, persecute and abandoning others, but instead provides a good treatment and any form of fun. Hence, in this Ramadan are encouraged to, for example to shadaqoh, good works, to avoid conflict; if invited others to the conflict - as the Prophet - said to him that inni shoimun (I was fasting).
So is the treatment to the universe. Use of natural resources is necessary, without exaggeration, let alone filled up Hide scarcity, as the fact that we have seen so far, and then preserve and care for our children and grandchildren to come. Is not the essence of nature is the legacy of our children and grandchildren? Therefore, in this holy month, Muslims were ordered out of the staple food alms from the results of this earth (zakat Al-Fitr) to be given to those who are eligible.
According to Muhammad Zuhri - one an expert on Sufism - transcendence that occurs when people within the self and nature is that they are in "communicative situation" with God. Or, in other words, they already have the feasibility to dialogue with him. Perhaps this is where - what people often call it - has got Laylat al-Qadr.
Communicative situation is indeed a basic human need as the caliph of God, so that people know exactly what is the will of God by reducing various kinds of "signs" or signs of good-bad, wrong-right, happy-sad, like what had been This we witnessed together. Call it a tragedy that no cease (from the tsunami, landslides, accidents, bombings, etc.). That way, the journey of life can be wisely dihikmahi without need for despair and frustration.
This is where people will actually travel to the point fitri return (Idul Fitri). An acceleration of a point of mental and spiritual development of man who is more mature. Hopefully, this time after Ramadan, we can all achieve positive expectations for good in the future. Amen.
Hamam Faizin (Alumnus Graduate IIQ Jakarta)
Normatively, the purpose of human life is to serve God in order to achieve His pleasure, which is expressed in a polite manner, friendly, respectful and loving to others in life everyday, in any scale (social, economic, cultural, political and religious ). Long journey toward pleasure and self-restraint is very far and exhausting for the count ditapaki space (locus) and time (tempus) for men. The accumulation of human life is too short to reach it. Thus, it is necessary tactic and strategy, ie the time that allow efficient human-to transcendence transcendence (jumps).
One form of transcendence that is a decision to distance himself (self) and the earth. And fasting is making the distance itself. Fasting is worship temporal, which carried out a month in a year, starting from dawn and lasts until the drum maghrib.
The fast is a neutral worship. Fasting oriented perpetrators brought to the truth or otherwise, that is only 30 days of hunger and thirst story every day. Nothing more than that. Therefore, it is not necessarily if fasting really cautious to make the perpetrators, unless shoim (actor fasting) has intentions and goals correct first. Without the intention and purpose of the right, which gained only realities that naive. That is, as we witnessed during this, the anarchic religious attitudes, ways of worship that picky, half-half, the behavior of associating with people who want to win themselves, ethics in politics that justifies all means, the condescending attitude bersosial others (the other), berekonomi a greedy way, without calculation, how cultured without charge once sema value (meaningless).
This is not a "fruit" of fasting. This is all a result of fasting menginternalnya not in us, so that could not embodied in the behavior and attitude everyday. Perhaps from here, what the Prophet Muhammad said as a criticism of his people became a reality, namely that "many of my people are fasting, but they did not get anything except hunger and thirst" (Thurs shoimin laisa min shiyaihi illa lahu min l-juu 'wal Athos).
Human beings will not absorb and realize the value of anything without before he was willing to take a distance with him. Fasting is worship in order to take distance from the self (self-distance) and the earth. And, this is - to borrow a phrase Risang Miranda Ayu - penghangusan ego, so that the bow is not only the forehead, but also the soul, heart and consciousness. That way we can realize the value of self (self-knowing and controlling) and the value of natural resources, as the field operations. This is where training begins to hone the sharpness of taste. Fasting means to stop serving the demands of soul and body in a certain time and stop draining the earth. Here, shoim (actor fasting) will know how weak he was and how high the value of natural resources (earth) for the growth of human energy.
Without fasting, humans will never honed his sense of discernment when he was weak. Thus, no wonder, if humans are often stuck out his chest and was higher than everything that exists in this world. This causes no human constantly exploit other human beings or deplete the earth regardless of the contents of consequences far forward (greedy). Treatments anarchic, violent and immoral finally happened: corruption, destruction, bombings, illegal logging, exploitation of resources of the earth without the maintenance calculation and ecological balance, and so on. Here, for Asghar Ali Engineer - in his book On Deveolping Theology of Peace - to be sensitive is the subject of worship. Fasting means to make someone be sensitive (sensitive), because only a sensitive soul who can deal with and against untruth and injustice.
Awareness to know and feel themselves weak (dhaif) will provide lessons and guidance for shoim not mendholimi, persecute and abandoning others, but instead provides a good treatment and any form of fun. Hence, in this Ramadan are encouraged to, for example to shadaqoh, good works, to avoid conflict; if invited others to the conflict - as the Prophet - said to him that inni shoimun (I was fasting).
So is the treatment to the universe. Use of natural resources is necessary, without exaggeration, let alone filled up Hide scarcity, as the fact that we have seen so far, and then preserve and care for our children and grandchildren to come. Is not the essence of nature is the legacy of our children and grandchildren? Therefore, in this holy month, Muslims were ordered out of the staple food alms from the results of this earth (zakat Al-Fitr) to be given to those who are eligible.
According to Muhammad Zuhri - one an expert on Sufism - transcendence that occurs when people within the self and nature is that they are in "communicative situation" with God. Or, in other words, they already have the feasibility to dialogue with him. Perhaps this is where - what people often call it - has got Laylat al-Qadr.
Communicative situation is indeed a basic human need as the caliph of God, so that people know exactly what is the will of God by reducing various kinds of "signs" or signs of good-bad, wrong-right, happy-sad, like what had been This we witnessed together. Call it a tragedy that no cease (from the tsunami, landslides, accidents, bombings, etc.). That way, the journey of life can be wisely dihikmahi without need for despair and frustration.
This is where people will actually travel to the point fitri return (Idul Fitri). An acceleration of a point of mental and spiritual development of man who is more mature. Hopefully, this time after Ramadan, we can all achieve positive expectations for good in the future. Amen.
Hamam Faizin (Alumnus Graduate IIQ Jakarta)
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