ABSTRACT : All mankind's deeds are controlled under certain regulations based on Islamic teaching. The knowledge of such regulation is called as Fiqh. The regulation is arranged in a certain hierarchy. The firt and the highest structure is the source of the regulation, the ones called as al qur'an and as sunnah. The second source is the interpretation of Ulama as the effort to understand the me…
ABSTRACT : An Na'im's idea of adopting public reasoning in implementing syari'ah law confirm that syari'ah is a moral foundation. But, if it is introduced to the public, it must be able to be understood rationally and logically even by an atheist. Syari'ah principles must be modified and adapted into the political terms, not in its theological terms.
ABSTRACT : Religious propagation in Islam becomes an activity that getting more attention from all of Muslims. It sits as a lead in development of Islam and as a prime mean for providing understanding within Muslims community and spreading of Islam. There are movements of religious wanderer whose self-imposed duty to spread the teaching of Islam. This phenomenon developed in a great speed, One …
ABSTRACT : This article tries to discuss and criticize Syahrur's thought on the pillars of Islam and Iman. In his view, Islam begins from the Prophet Noah and ends in the Prophet Mohamed through the Prophet Abraham, Jacob, Moses and Jesus Alaihimussalam. The pillars of Islam and Iman which are commonly believed by moslems so far are not referred to Al qur'an. According to him, the pillars of Is…
ABSTRACT : Development of democracy in Indonesia, according to Bung Hatta, souced on three things : Western socialism that of strunggling for humanistic principles which at the same time deemed as a goal of democracy, Islamic teaching that of urging for God justice within society, and way of life which implemented in country-side of Indonesia. Post falling of New Order, Indonesian democracy fac…
Abstract : The value of sufism has appeared since the time of Prophet Muhammad SAW, so it is not difficult to track when the seeds of sufism began to emerge. In fact, adherents of sufism is regarded as an ancient society that antipathy toward modernization and away from the life of the world. But this assumption is misguided and far from the values of the truth sufism, because if he understands…
Abstract : No doubt does the hadith is a second source for muslim teaching. It is the tradition of Muhammad which reports all his daily life along with the companions. It is quite different from that of the qur'an which is transmitted in unquestionable group of transmitters ; the haditd is transmitted in large number of it within single transmitter. Some muslim scholars avoid that kind of the h…
Abstract : Muhammad al Ghazali referred to some important themes which are hardly detected thus far within the Qur'anic discussion, and even within Muslim's interaction with The Holy Book. He stated that the Qur'an is the thorough-going Book, a necessity for understanding sunnah ijtima'iyah, grasping the Qur'an in concomitant with the curren age, a compulsory to provide an accurate meaning of I…
Abstract : This article focus on philosophy of concept of materialism and its develpment from old Greek era to this era. This research was conducted by studying literature through interpretation method and logical thinking. The result of the research shows that the concept of materialism always has a change from era to era, due to the materialism followers always expanded and reformed, on mater…
ABSTRACT : The concept of afterlife is not a cognizant belief in Islam alone. It is present in almost all religions belonging eithrto the primitive or modern categories. This concept postulates God who is just and merciful, omniscient and omnipotent and transcendent and immanent. The concept would become meaningless without a priori existence of God. He is indispensable to pass judgment of rewa…