ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN BEING: REVIVING OLD BELIEFS IN THE MODERN CONTEXT

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yelena Muzykina ◽  
Shamshiya Rysbekova
2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-48
Author(s):  
Safii Safii

This article elaborates an important role in the history of Mu'tazila theology in the Islamic World. Services that have been provided by this school seems to be forgotten by the Muslims, even it became despised and persecuted theology. In fact, this theology has made a large contribution in defending against attacks originating from the Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Materialist. In the modern context, the spirit of this theology is relevant to be recalled that the freedom of thought as an integral part of the human being can grow and develop so that science and technology in the Islamic world can grow back. It must be recognized that this is indeed the flow had already given a negative image by traditional Islamic theology and hadith experts. Theology is imaged as a carrier of heresy


Pustakaloka ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Ahmad Anwar

The study of Ideal leadership concept currently still becomes an interesting topic. From Islamic perspective, the nature of human being who descended to earth is to be a leader. Furthermore, during the leadership history, Prophet Muhammad is named as an ideal leader due to his success of gaining many followers in the religious proselytizing. The leadership model that is conducted by the prophet is known as prophetic leadership. During his time of being a prophetic leader, he is also included in the situational leadership theory, in which the theory is the combination of authoritarian, laissez faire, and democratic leadership. This kind of leadership model is very suitable to be applied in anywhere. In this study, the writer explains about situational leadership that has been applied by Prophet Muhammad in a micro organization called library. This study is significance as an alternative leadership model that can be applied by the head of library


2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-71
Author(s):  
Azman Ab Rahman ◽  
Zulkifli Mohamad Albakri

The Concept of Islamic criminal law incorporates particular principles such as protecting the religion i.e Islam, preserving life and the sanctity of human soul, safeguarding the soundness of mind, preserving the heredity, property and dignity. In case of Qazaf (accusation against one's chastity), the reason behind this ruling is to protect the dignity of human being from wild slander and libel. As we are in the middle of information technology era, a number of people committing crimes have distinctly increased including Qazaf involving people's life, honor, and property. Surprisingly, this kind of crime has been widely spread for no specific purpose. According to Syariah law, any person who accuses other people committing zina or sodomy must provide with four witnesses otherwise he or she shall be inflicted with hadd for committing Qazaf. The issue in this matter is that: is it a requirement for the accuser, in the absence of witnesses, to apply oath to prove his or her accusation and does the aforementioned matter applied to the accused? This article is intended to explain the concept of oath, its legal injunction and its divisions according to Islamic law. Apart from that, it would also clarify particular situations which oath is permitted to be administered as a mean of proof, in the case of Allah's right or human's right. The authors intend to elucidate the definition of Qazaf and its application, offenses under Qazaf, the mode of proof, and other issues pertaining to sodomy. The finding of this study shows that oath could be applied to deny the allegation of committing zina or sodomy if the plaintiff makes a request to the judge ordering the defendant to administer oath in the absence of witnesses. This ruling could be found in Shafi'l school of law. Nevertheless, Imam Malik and Ahmad opined that oath could only be applied when it is related to human's right such as property but not to Allah's right for instance punishment for Qazaf. It is hope that the public would gain clear picture from this writing regarding with the concept of oath and Qazaf under Islamic perspective.  Abstrak Konsep hukum jenayah yang ditetapkan dalam Islam mempunyai beberapa konsep tertentu iaitu menjaga nyawa dan kehormatan jiwa manusia, menjaga kewarasan akal, menjaga agama, menjaga keturunan dan zuriat serta menjaga harta benda. Begitu juga hukuman Qazaf, ia ditetapkan di dalam Islam berdasarkan kepada konsep untuk menjaga kehormatan jiwa manusia dan menjaga maruah seseorang. Pada zaman sains dan teknologi masa kini, kita dapat melihat dan sering mendengar pelbagai jenayah yang dilakukan  oleh  manusia  sama  ada yang melibatkan nyawa, maruah, harta benda dan sebagainya. Jenayah Qazaf merupakan jenayah yang semakin berleluasa pada masa kini yang dilakukan sama ada mempunyai tujuan yang tertentu atau sebaliknya. Mereka yang melakukan qazaf hendaklah mempunyai saksi bagi mensabitkan orang yang didakwa atau dituduh. Namun, apa yang berlaku sekarang ini, kebanyakan mereka yang melakukan jenayah qazaf tidak mempunyai saksi bagi mensabitkan kesalahan orang yang didakwa. Timbul persoalan, adakah orang yang melakukan kesalahan qazaf yang tidak mempunyai saksi perlu bersumpah ataupun orang yang didakwa dikehendaki bersumpah. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui konsep sumpah, pensyariatannya dan pembahagiannya dalam Islam. Di samping itu, artikel ini akan menerangkan situasi- situasi tertentu yang mengharuskan sumpah dipakai sebagai kaedah pembuktian, sama ada yang melibatkan hak Allah ataupun hak manusia. Penulis juga akan menjelaskan pengertian qazaf, jenis-jenis kesalahan qazaf dan pengsabitan kesalahan qazaf serta isu yang melibatkan tuduhan melakukan liwat. Hasil daripada artikel ini penulis mendapati dalam mazhab Shafie sumpah boleh digunakan untuk menafikan tuduhan liwat ataupun zina jika pendakwa memohon daripada hakim supaya yang didakwa bersumpah disebabkan ketiadaan saksi. Walau bagaimanapun Imam Malik dan Ahmad berpendapat sebaliknya iaitu sumpah hanya boleh dilakukan apabila melibatkan hak manusia seperti mal, manakala hak Allah seperti hadd Qazaf tidak boleh dilakukan sumpah. Diharapkan artikel ini dapat memberikan gambaran dan pendedahan sebenar kepada masyarakat tentang konsep sumpah dan jenayah qazaf menurut perspektif Islam.


2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-60
Author(s):  
Wahyu Tejo Mulyo ◽  
Muzakki Afifuddin ◽  
Widyastuti Purbani

This paper attempts to discover the characteristics of the human being through William Blake's Poems as an alternative definition. Among Blake's poems, The Divine Image and The Human Abstract are the most representative of discovering human characteristics. Moreover, this study strives to establish the correlation between Islamic values and European literature. The study uses new criticism in discovering the characteristics in the poems by two steps of analysis; paraphrasing and explication. After conducting the analysis, it is found that there are four positive characteristics in The Divine Image and four negative characteristics in The Human Abstract. The positive characteristics consist of mercy, pity, peace, and love, while the negative ones are exploitation, cruelty, conflict, and hypocritical humility. An Islamic expert, Murtadha Muthahhari, perceives the result of the analysis of the poem. Muthahhari explains fourteen positive and eight negative points of humans following the Holy Qur'an. It is found that the poems' human positive and negative characteristics include in MurtadhaMuthahhari's points of thought. Thus, the ideas of human being’s characteristics in the poems are related to Murtadha Muthahhari’s thoughts.


ICR Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-243
Author(s):  
Gowhar Quadir Wani

The concept of human nature is central to both Islamic and Western thought, as manifested in the rich legacy of literature on human psychology in both intellectual traditions. A comprehensive account of human nature (or fitrah) from an Islamic perspective, can be gleaned from the Qur'an, Prophetic narrations and works of Muslim scholars like al-Farabi, Ibn Sina and al-Razi. The famous Zaytuna Imam, Tahir Ibn Ashur (d.1973), in his book on the objectives of Islamic Law, Maqasid Shar’ah al-Islamiyyah, provides fitrah-based model for building human civilisation, thereby linking Islamic law to psychology. The present paper is a humble attempt to study the views of Ibn Ashur on human nature and to highlight the relevance of Islamic perspectives on the 'human being' with regards to civilisational development.  


2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-158
Author(s):  
Aries Dirgayunita ◽  
Robiatul Adawiyah

Human being is a unique creature. This uniqueness can be source of sustainability, peace, and happiness if managed properly. In fact, the are a lot of gaps of ideal realm and its reality as reflected in abundance of domestic violence whether it is physically, verbally, sexually, or ecomically. This kind of violence continuously happens despite PKDRT (Penghapusan Kekerasan dalam Rumah Tangga) Law. This is because the implementation of the Law has not yet been widespreading. This article aims at exploring the causes of domestic violence, the forms, the implications, and how to avoid and handle it from individual sphere until the wider sphere like society and government from psychological and Islamic perspective


2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 345
Author(s):  
Zaprulkhan Zaprulkhan

<p class="IIABSBARU">In Islamic perspective, researching universe is not only investigate the universe materially but also what is behind the universe itself. So, the universe was not viewed autonomously. This paper tried to elaborate significance of philosophy of science for humanity in Islamic perspective by using three fundamental structures of knowledge, namely ontology, epistemology, and axiology. Both Islam and science have to put humanity as center for research. The paradigm of Islamic science opens up an integral-holistic thought, and can not be separated from axiological meaning, that the purposes toward the enlightenment, progress, welfare, safety, and happiness for the whole human being in this world. So, Islam and science could give the most important roles to human’s welfare and safety.</p><p class="IIABSBARU" align="center">***</p>Dalam perspektif Islam, meneliti alam semesta tidaklah hanya mengkaji alam dari aspek materialnya, melainkan juga aspek spiritual di balik yang nyata sehingga alam semesta tidak dikaji secara berdiri sendiri. Tulisan ini mencoba meng­elaborasi tentang signifikansi filsafat sains untuk kemanusiaan dari perspektif Islam dengan menggunakan tiga unsur pokok pengetahuan: ontologi, episte­mo­logi dan aksiologi. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa Islam dan sains sama-sama menjadikan nilai kemanusiaan sebagai objek penelitian. Paradigma ilmu penge­tahuan Islam itu membuka cakrawala berpikir yang menyeluruh dan terintegrasi, dan tidak dapat dipisahkan dari makna aksiologinya yang bertujuan untuk pencerahan, perkembangan, kesejahteraan, keselamatan, dan kebahagiaan bagi seluruh umat manusia di dunia. Oleh karena itu, Islam dan ilmu pengetahuan memberikan peran yang sangat penting bagi kesejahteraan dan keselamatan manusia.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yudianto Achmad

Pendidikan karakter dalam perspektif Islam dipandang sangat penting dan merupakan bagian tak terpisahkan dari konsep pendidikan Islam secara keseluruhan berdasarkan petunjuk Alquran. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan perumusan konsep dan model implementasi pendidikan karakter indigenous dalam perspektif Alquran untuk peserta didik di masa usia pranikah, prenatal, dan golden age. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Data dikumpulkan dengan melakukan observasi terhadap surat dan ayat-ayat Alquran, serta sains yang terkait dengan pendidikan karakter indigenous dalam perspektif Alquran, teknik analisis data menggunakan model analisis tafsir al-maudlu’iy. Hasil penelitian ini antara lain mengungkapkan tentang perumusan konsep dan model implementasi pendidikan karakter indigenous dalam perspektif Alquran di masa usia pranikah, prenatal, serta golden age. Simpulan dari penelitian ini antara lain bahwa dalam perspektif sains dan Alquran, manusia dari sejak dilahirkan memiliki dua jenis karakter indigenous yang berpasangan dan bersifat saling berlawanan, yakni karakter kebaikan (taqwa) dan karakter keburukan (fujur). Aktualisasi dan pengembangan karakter indigenous manusia dilakukan melalui pendidikan karakter yang memaksimalkan karakter kebaikan (taqwa) dan meminimalkan karakter keburukan (fujur). Kata Kunci: Pendidikan karakter indigenous, taqwa, fujur, perspektif Alquran. CONCEPT OF INDIGENOUS CHARACTER EDUCATION IN THE QUR'AN PERSPECTIVE Abstract: Character education in Islamic perspective is considered very important and is an inseparable part of the concept of Islamic education as a whole based on Qur'anic instructions. This study aims to reveal the formulation of concepts and models for the implementation of indigenous character education in the perspective of the Qur'an for students in premarital, prenatal, and golden age. This research uses a qualitative approach. Data is collected by observing the letters and verses of the Qur’an, as well as science related to indigenous character education in the perspective of the Qur’an. The data analysis technique uses the analysis model of al-maudlu'iy interpretation. The results of this study, among others, reveal about the formulation of concepts and models for the implementation of indigenous character education in the perspective of the Qur'an at the time of premarital, prenatal, and golden age. The conclusions of this study include that in the perspective of science and the Qur'an, humans from birth have two types of indigenous characters that are paired and are antagonistic, namely the character of goodness (taqwa) and the character of badness (fujur). Actualization and development of indigenous character of human being is done through character education that maximizes the character of goodness (taqwa) and minimizes the character of badness (fujur). Keywords: Indigenous character education, taqwa, fujur, Qur’an perspective


2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 445
Author(s):  
Sukarni Sukarni

There is no doubt that the problem of environment has become the most formidable issue faced by human being in the modern history. The danger imposed by the environmental crisis is much greater than the danger of any forms of war. This crisis has thus become the greatest enemy of humanity. The level and extent of the danger requires equally a great effort to address and tackle it. It is here that this paper tries to contribute. It attempts to offer an Islamic perspective of environment and its conservation. The paper is convinced that Islam is rich with perspectives on this issue. It therefore, introduces the many theories and views on environment that the sciences of Islam have spoken about. It brings into discussion the view of the science of theology (kalam), jurisprudence (fiqh) and sufism  (tasawuf) on environment. Each of these sciences is discussed in relation to the others, as well as in the context of what the paper calls fiqh lingkungan (the jurisprudence of environment). The idea that underlines the paper is thatthese sciences are—generally speaking—concerned with the idea of personal and collective responsibility; an idea that already has a direct relevance to the problem of environment.


Author(s):  
Ahmad Asad Ibrahim ◽  
Radwan Jamal Elatrash ◽  
Mohammad Omar Farooq

Purpose – The purpose of the paper was to explore the issue of hoarding and dishoarding in a modern context, especially as it relates to circulation of wealth, an important economic objective from the Islamic viewpoint. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a survey of scholarly positions on the issue of hoarding and circulation of wealth from Islamic perspectives and analyzes how these positions affect the shaping of financial and economic dimensions of life in our contemporary time. The paper draws on the primary sources, the Qur'an and hadith, and examines the positions of the classical and contemporary scholars, especially in the context of the growing interest in finance, the financial system and economy from the Islamic perspective. Findings – The paper identifies the fact that the notion of hoarding (kanz) needs significantly revised understanding, as money as a concept and tool has evolved substantively in modern times. It also examines variant positions regarding the concept of hoarding and finds more merit in favor of the position that paying zakat is not enough to be exempted from the Qur'anic implications about hoarding. It also identifies and examines securitization, such as sukuk, as an important tool for better circulation of wealth. Originality/value – Hoarding and dishoarding are not widely explored topics in contemporary literature on Islamic economics and finance. This paper makes a valuable contribution in its attempt to highlight the problem of hoarding and the challenge toward greater circulation of wealth.


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