Showing posts with label Sekularisme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sekularisme. Show all posts

Thursday, December 8, 2011

The Age of Confusion/Zaman Kekeliruan.



The Age of Confusion/Zaman Kekeliruan.

Bukanlah ini kali pertama saya berdialog dengan manusia melalui penulisan,malahan sebelum ini telahpun diwujudkan dua blog yang awal namun terpaksa dibelasungkawakan atas sebab-sebab tertentu.Dalam ruangan yang baru ini saya ingin memberi nafas yang baru,tulisan dan ide yang lebih terperinci  dan menzahirkan pandangan seorang insan muda yang masih bertatih dalam dunia akademik.Langkah saya langkah yang perlahan dan mungkin juga kurang cermat.Oleh yang demikian saya mengharapkan para pembaca yang budiman dapat melahirkan sebarang teguran,kerana dunia dan hidup ini adalah pentas pendidikan,taadib,dan tarbiyah.

Blog yang baru ini telahpun saya bungkuskan dengan wajah dan nama yang baru.”Age of Confusion” ataupun “Zaman Kekeliruan” pada hemah saya adalah antara ungkapan asas yang menjadi driving force untuk seseorang manusia pada hari ini untuk terjun ke dalam dunia ilmu dan intelektualisme.

Adalah benar andai disebut bahawa kehidupan gaya  moden yang menjadi tema dunia pada hari ini telah mewujudkan dunia yang lebih interaktif,membentuk gagasan kosmopolitanisme(1) .Era globalisasi yang memancar-mancar hasil penciptaan teknologi ini menjadikan manusia itu lebih mudah menjelajah dunia maklumat; “Kesemuanya di hujung jari”.Namun tambunan maklumat seakan masih belum cukup untuk menjadikan masyarakat kita golongan yang disebut Al-Quran sebagai golongan al fahmu(2).Mungkin tidak siapa yang mendapat nafikan bahawa disebalik era “The Third Wave” ,era pasca industri,seperti yang dinukilkan oleh Alvin Toffler dalam bukunya(3) kita masih di ambang kekeliruan yang kritikal dan mungkin lebih parah daripada generasi sebelumnya.Generasi muda pada hari ini menyaksikan dalam detik-detik kehidupan mereka sebuah tamadun yang dihujani dengan pelbagai lagaan dan konflik ideology yang pelbagai.Melalui cabang falsafah pelbagai transisi yang mengambil tempat;era rationalism mengambil tempat metodologi intelek,sains menjadi tuhan,laungan Nietzsche mengisytiharkan kematian tuhan,nihilism menjadi asas system nilai,pragmatism William James dan Richard Rorty menjadi kayu ukur kebenaran-dunia seakan menjadi satu sudut relativisme di mana kebebaran mutlak(absolute truth) menjadi hampir mustahil untuk dicapai.

Ilmuan Islam juga berpecah dengan pelbagai aliran-Ahbash,Salafi wahabiyah,modernist,reformis,sufisme-malah aliran-aliran ini juga berpecah menjadi beberapa rangkaian lagi.Dalam kalangan ulama’ juga saling berbalah,jemaah-jemaah bertelagah,menjadikan budaya takfir sebagai mainan mulut.Siapakah yang benar sebenarnya?Siapakah yang betul-betul berpandukan Al-Quran dan Sunnah?Siapakah yang tepat dalam menzahirkan maqasid al Islam?

Andai anda lahir pada zaman seperti ini,tidakkah kita juga semua keliru?

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Islam and Liberal Democracy: The Challenge Of Secularization

Abdou Filali-Ansary, "Islam and Liberal Democracy: The Challenge Of Secularization," Journal of Democracy 7.2 (1996) 76-80

Robin Wright and Bernard Lewis both seem to address the question of whether there is an "Islamic Reformation" going on now, and if there is, what content, direction, and influence it is likely to have. The raising of this question betokens an important shift in the way that Western observers view the Islamic world. Wright and Lewis implicitly acknowledge that behind the confrontations and violence that we witness today in many Muslim societies, there lies a situation marked by some kind of pluralism and opposition of ideas. In other words, there is not merely a fight, but a debate. To recognize this is already to take a giant step away from the familiar Western academic and journalistic stereotypes of Muslim societies as places overwhelmed by religious fanaticism, rejection of "the other," and crises of identity.

The dramatic importance of the question under discussion should need no emphasis: Islam, one of the major world religions, may be living through a turning point in its history, one that will bring it face-to-face with the challenges of the human condition at the end of the twentieth century.

Bernard Lewis proceeds according to his well-known "macrohistorical" approach. He casts his gaze across large spans of history, constitutive elements of Islamic faith, and some features of Middle Eastern languages in order to construct a grand schema that explains what is happening now and illuminates its links with the mainstream of Islamic (and also Middle Eastern) history. He draws on a larger arsenal of disciplines (history, theology, linguistics) than does Wright, and discusses a greater variety of subjects (religious beliefs, historical facts, [End Page 76] linguistic usages and concepts) in order to create a highly seductive synthesis of his own.
While Lewis acknowledges that the term "Islam" can be confusing, he himself is not always sufficiently careful in his use of it. He goes back and forth from Islam as a religion to Islam as a historical civilization, from detailed observations to general remarks. He seems to be guided by the "inner logics" that he sees lurking behind the observed data, molding attitudes, behaviors, and ways of understanding. His conclusions about the present situation point to a clash of such logics, one that pits Muslim communities against their Western counterparts. These inner logics are what he considers to be the true core of observed reality; facts, which appear on the surface, manifest the core imperfectly, much as the shadows that flicker on the wall of Plato's cave provide only a crude representation of the realities that give them shape.

Robin Wright, in contrast, adopts an approach at loggerheads with the one prevailing in specialized academic circles. She prefers to try to understand the debate by "listening" to two of its key participants: Iranian philosopher Abdul Karim Soroush and Tunisian political leader Sheikh Rachid al-Ghannouchi. Wright assumes that ideas, not conscious or unconscious determinisms, rule human societies, which simply cannot be understood through external observation or historical reconstruction alone. This, it would seem, is why she has chosen, among living Muslim thinkers, to discuss two prominent and highly controversial figures, each of whom is thought to exert a large (and in all likelihood growing) influence on thoughtful people in the Muslim world.

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