The essence of Islamic scholarship Map

Shalatu wa Alhamdulillah wa salamu 'ala amma rasulillah .......... ba'du. A few days before Prof. KH. Ibrahim Hosen, sick and ultimately to God Almighty, I am a car with him. At that time he gave something, which is as if the essence of what I've been taught.

In the QS. Ali Imran, verse 7 God Almighty says: "huwa al-ladzî anzala 'al-alaîka paragraph kitâba minhu muhkamât hunna umm kitâbi wa al-ukharu mtasyâbihât, amma fa fi al-ladzîna ma qulûbuhum zaîgun fayattib'ûn minhu tasyâbaha wa al-fitna abtigâ 'a ta'wîlih, wa ma ta'wilahû illa Allahu wa al-rasikhûna fi al-'ilmi yaqûlûna amannâ al-dad .... ....

Above verse states that in the Qur'an there are two kinds of verse, there are verses and there are also muhkamât verses Book;. Muhkamât verses do not need interpretation, while the verses of Book; still needs interpretation to memhaminya.

In interpreting the verses that are necessary interpreted (verse Book;), the scholars are divided into two major groups. First, a group that interprets the verses Ahkam (verses related laws), the expert group of scholars of fiqh. And second, scholars who interpret the verses related to 'aqidah. This is done by the scholars of the science of kalam and Muslim philosophers.

What is produced by the scholars of fiqh (Islamic jurists) is something that finished among the jurists. What dianafihasilkan from an expert's view of fiqh, and is different from the view of scholars in other fiqh, it is a common thing. That's why different traditions view (deviation) between the scholars of fiqh is a common trdasi. This is something that is clear, obvious.

In the meantime, what is produced by the philosophers, the scholars kalam, is something that nature is always a process.

The scholars of fiqh scholars, many of them, but which is considered the most productive is only 4, Imam Maliki, Imam Hambali, Imam Shafi'i and Imam Hanafi. They are trying to interpret the Qur'an, and from the interpretation that they produce Islamic laws. They are scholars, thinkers and producers of Islamic laws.

Who are its customers? Certainly Muslims in general, or commonly referred to as the 'Awwam, as we are-we are all. So we as Muslims, it is to consume and poisisnya practice fiqh opinions produced by the experts, the scholars of fiqh experts.

In addition to the 'Awwam, consumer products are also thinking of the jurists are also community groups tashawuf (shufi).

Facing the Persaoalan 'mengkosumsi Awwam in fiqh expert's view is that when a lot of difference (khilafiyah) in determining the law of one case. So should the 'Awwam holding on the proposition, "he yasirrû wa tu'assirû". Adhered to the principle of the difficult easier.

In contrast to the 'Awwam, shufi the problem knows no deviation. For the Sufis, if there are two groups of scholars, have different views between the one and the other, the Sufis would choose the most damning view. If there are two groups of scholars, the group declared that it is haraam to eat squid and group B declared kosher, then people will choose shufi A. This is different from the 'Awwam, if there are two different views as above, then the' Awwam choose an easier opinion, because there is an underlying proposition, yassirû wa la tu'assirû earlier. And Allaah knows best bi al-shawab (AM)

Trivial deeds High Value in God's eyes

There are practices which looks like a trivial but in the eyes of God high value, so that can cause a person to enter heaven. There is also a practice that was apparently trivial but could cause people to hell. This is told in the books 'small' is often studied and read in the pesantren-pesantren.

It is told that when Hujjat al-Islam Shaikh Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad al-Gazali (Imam Ghazali) died, there was a scholar to see his dream. His name mimipinya clergy is different from our dreams, we are, our dreams, we are most of the flowers to sleep alone, while the dream of a scholar is a dream come true (al-ru'yah al-shadîqah).

In the dream of him, he asked the Imam al-Ghazali, "Did the priest go to heaven or hell? "Heaven" replied al-Ghazali. Then, the cleric asked, "Does that cause you to go to heaven? Is it because of the many works that you write? Is it because you are diligent tahajud and other worship? Is that your defense against Islam and the triumph of the Muslims? "Al-Ghazali calmly replied," No, not because it was all I go to heaven "" And what caused you to go to heaven? "Asked the priest with great curiosity. Al-Gazali also explained, that he entered the heaven by Allah, because during his life, when al-Ghazali wrote the book, there are thirsty to drink the ink fly, without the knowledge of al-Gahzali. Because the goodness to let fly thirsty to drink ink, although he did not know, God put it into heaven. This is because the ink was thirsty fly drunk, given by al-Gazali accidentally genuinely to the fly. So righteous deeds seem trivial if done genuinely meant it in the eyes of God. And can cause a person to enter heaven.

There is also a story about the deeds that seem trivial but it can cause a person to go to hell. Previously there was supposedly a diligent prayer, fasting and worship others. These people take cooking in the kitchen. Without deliberately and without his knowledge, there is a cat locked in the kitchen, can not open, until the cat died. As a result of this trivial carelessness, the person is rejected in heaven. And Allaah knows best bi al-shawab. (AM)

TESTING WITH A SENSE SHARPNESS RAMADHAN

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)

Will IIQ Jakarta International Seminar Held

Monday, 31 August 2009
JAKARTA - Institute of Al-Qur'an (IIQ) Jakarta will host an international seminar on the development nagham (the songs) Al-Quran on Monday, September 14, 2009. "This international seminar was held in order to improve the quality of scholarship in the field of the Qur'an's and culture. This seminar will be attended by national and international sources "said Nadjematul Faizah, as chairman of the organizing committee.
She further explained that this international seminar is one of a series of events held since 10 September 2009 date.
Regarding the seminar, Mrs. Mariah Ulfah, Qira'ah IIQ expert, stated that; "This trend now songs (nagham) of the Qur'an are currently experiencing a shift, where the current trend is to include songs from the Iranian region ". That's why later, one of the speakers who presented comes from Iran.
From the organizers also note that technically, this seminar will be held in the afternoon, so when the time comes iftar, the event finished. And then continued with the buka puasa together. (AM)