Monday, 6 October 2014

The Philosophy of Muhammadiyah:Different interpretation of practising Islamic values - The 25th of September 2014

Oleh: Ramdan Nugraha, transkripsi mata kuliah The Philosophy of Muhammadiyah pada program Magister Pend. Bahasa Inggris

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 Bismillaahirrohmaanirrohiim.

Philosophy can probably be stated as the love of truth. The philosophy will be understood well if the thoughts are guided by knowledge in its process to be an interpretation of study. The philosophy of Muhammadiyah deals with how the group (Muhammadiyah) views Islam as the religion with different understanding compared to other Islamic groups. These differences are not only things known in common, but they also influence the way of Muhammadiyah followers in interpreting the meaningful values in their daily life.
Some Islamic groups in Indonesia beside Muhammadiyah, they focus on doing the practical traditions which have been derived from the old generations without any adaptation even in the way of building up the point of view of new cases appear todays such as technology, science, and so on. Some groups still strongly believe what their grandfather and grandmother have been doing until today is what they should believe without any exception. If some do different things, it means that they do something wrong and need to go back to the right track.
When some groups do the ritual which is just done based on the old tradition no matter how hard they make it, for them, it will be the high-valuable action of being a good creature in life. However, Muhammadiyah has different understanding on raising the religious faith, it will be good to use the money or things for ritual in more beneficial and progressive ways to building up Islam instead, such as: donate the money for facilitating the Islamic teachers to deliver Islam’s values around the world, or building up the Islamic schools which can be accessed by learners to get better value of life. Those are some differences of what Muhammadiyah has been doing since K.H. Ahmad Dahlan in 1912 declared Muhammadiyah as the Islamic group for giving better values of viewing things in this life.

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