The thought of Syaikh Nawawi al Bantani's sufism was based on three aspects: Shari'ah, Tariqah, and Ma'rifat. In the teaching of sufism, these three aspects are in terrelated to each other and are of importance in that they may lead to sincerity for Allah and concentration on Alah. syur.
This article attempts at elaborating the contemporary trends of the development of Islamic thought in Indonesia. The author assums that the development of intellectualism and mode of though in Islam seems to accelerate more rapidly in the dynamics of this decade. This appearts to be more obvious, among others, with special reference to the increase of human resources and the awareness of develo…
The Iran's revulution has a great influence to the world. In the west countries, this revolution is viewed as an initial Islamic revivalism which is presumed to influence the Islamic countries under their colonies. As a matter of fact, The United States tried to pursue Iran to cooperate with them by supplying modern armed technology. Yet, they come to failure because the Iranian has a great spi…
This paper explores the problems and challanges of current Indonesian youth. It is especially concerned with personal and social problems facing by Indonesian youth that effect to the performance of whole Indonesian generation in the future. It is argued that the contemporary Indonesian youth trapped by problem that exist in society, such as poverty, high crime rates, limited access to educatio…
The death of Jesus Christ and his raise have been sensitive and debatable themes of discussion among followers of Christianity and Islam. This is because both Bible and al Qur'an do provide several verses mentioning the disputed affairs. al Qur'an considers Jesus as a respactable prophet and is endowed special quality. This special view of Islam, however, does not transfer him from his humanity…
The problem of conventional bank is one the issues that have been discussed for a long time. The Main problem is whether or not the interest of money is permissible. according to majority of middle east ulama', the interest is prohibited, because it is not the result of the productive effrot, and money functions as a tool in transaction, not as acause of interest. While, in the modern world, pa…