Lajnah bahtsul masail constitutes a strategic bureau in a religious organization such as Nahdhatul Ulama because from this bureau it has resulted the product of islamic law whic is admitted by not only its million members but also other moslems.
For Shi'ah Ithna Asyariyah, ijtihad [intellectual exercise to extrapolate rules from their sources] is an imperative logical practice. Like Sunnism, this school of thought requires that a mujahid [the one who exercises ijtihad] has high intellectual qualifications and that tight conditions should be applied to him. To this branch of Shi'ism, a mujtahid has a special place and respected status …
Islam and social change are two different sides of two different coins. They seem forever separable. But Muslims soon realize that they live within particular social context. This certainly has compelled them to consider how they should deal with Islam vis-a-vis the changing reality of human life which is both fast in its quality and massive in its quantity. This paper tries to explore this iss…
Ijtihad is the third legal source of Islam whose object is all things about which tha Qur'an and the Sunnah are silent [mala nass fih]. From the perspective of the usul al fiqh, there have been metods of ijtihad put forward by the Ulama, which include qiyas, istislah, istishab and urf. These methods in the final analysis, should be based on what is commonly known as maqasid al shari'ah [human i…
Sabil al Muhtadin is a fiqh book written by Muhammadd Arsyad al Banjari [d.1812] in year 1193-1995 H/1779-1781 A.D. Backgrounds of its written are, for example, desires to improve currently available Malay fiqh book entitled ash Shirath al Mustaqim written by Syekh Nuruddin ar Raniri. There are three significant thoughts on almsgiving/ zakat described in sabil al muhtadin, which are not explain…
There are many different interpretations of ijtihad, part af them are narrower and other are more free. Example is al Syatibi, he is the fundamental reformer of ushul fiqh. He tries to reduce the ijtihad meaning. He emphasizes in maximal strive of mujtahid with out any physics burden to their weakness, in other to give the wide move and dynamic of ijtihad. Principally, part of ulama are have eq…
Selama ini komoditas pertanian yang dikenal pungutan zakat dipahami dengan pengertian yang beragam. Sebagian berpendapat bahwa komoditas yang wajib dizakati hanyalah terbatas pada hasil pertanian yang dapat digunakan sebagai makanan pokok. Sedangkan komoditas semacam sayuran, buah-buahan dan rempah-rempah tidak wajib dikenal pungutan. Hal ini disebabkan oleh perbedaan pemaknaan tentang apa alas…
Lajnah Bahtsul masail constitutes a strategic bureau in an religious organization such as Nahdhatul Ulama because from this bureau it has been resulted the product of Islamic law which is admitted by not only its million members but also other Moslems. As the result, this bureau has a strong legimate and existence in the Moslems' society. Consequently, the process of istinbath must be conducted…
Artikel ini mengkaji suatu konsep usul al fiqh yang di kalangan teoritisi hukum Hanafi dikenal dengan istilah dalalah al khafiy dan hubungannya dengan mekanisme ijtihad dengan rujukan khusus kepada kasus euthanasia. Dari kajian tersebut penulis menyimpulkan bahwa proses penalaran hukum dalam upaya penemuan suatu ketentuan hukum untuk suatu kasus, melibatkan tiga kutub yang satu sama lain memili…