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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

KH. Noer Alie: Ulama and development economist

He is KH. Noer Alie, the founder and chairman of Attaqwa (Islamic) Foundation, very famous Islamic scholar in the region (Bekasi), former top member of Masyumi- popular Muslim political party in 1955-1960 and former chairman of Bekasi Regency Government Board (Ind: Dewan Pemerintahan Bekasi) in 1956, who move Bekasi regency capital from Jatinegara to now-Bekasi city.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Dan hari-hari itu kami gilirkan diantara manusia...

Menjelang hujan sore tadi, dua anak muda pengamen berdiri di depan pagar rumah. Keduanya lalu menyanyikan sebuah lagu yang tengah populer, dengan suara yang cukup keras. Saya tidak ingat baik judul maupun penyanyinya, tapi saya hafal melodinya karena anak saya yang duduk di kelas dua SD pun sering menyanyikannya.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Street Vendor and Fiqh Muamalah

A participant in pengajian (religious learning circle) asked a simple, but important, question. What is the relationship between religion and street? God is worshipped in mosque, while people work for their life in the street, market etc. I did not answer the question immediately and ask for one-week postponement. The following week I changed the topic from fiqh ibadah (knowledge related with rites to God) with fiqh muamalah (religous knowledge related with relationship rules among the poople), in which all right and duty of people arise due to their mutual interconnection or transaction. When it came to discussion about right of common people on street (haqqul irtiqaq, haqqul murur, etc), the participant, who asked me the question, said that he never heard any religious teaching such what I told him. (What a pity!)