This article specifically discusses the important issues on physical health requirements for presidential candidates in Islamic and Indonesian perspectives. This article presents two important conclusions as follows: first, in the Islamic perspective, the majority of scholars argue that a person whoi s physically less or unhealthy cannot be elected as president. The result of comparison analysi…
The construction of Hamka?s sufistic thought is significant for the world today, not only to reform Islamic thought but also to reconstruct modern spirituality. Modern society is now trapped by rational model and pattern of thought, discarding inner or spiritual dimension, thus resulting in a materialistic and hedonistic lifestyle. As a result, there emerges value crisis of humanity marked by t…