Abstract
Wasatiyyah often referred as the proper method to practice in all of human life. Its simplicity and balanced are the best approaches in rejecting extremism holistically. Even so wasatiyyah adopts Islamic teachings but still misunderstood by some people. Moreover there were a handful of people who put wasatiyyah as a platform to justify any means to achieve personal ambitions. Therefore, to reach a better understanding of the idea, this article debates on the perspective of Indonesian Muslim scholars. This study applied the document analysis method to discuss this issue in the composite. Therefore, the study found that wasatiyyah according to Indonesian Muslim scholars means fair, best and balanced. Although different definitions, but consists positive meaning. In addition, wasatiyyah also intends Islam denied the extremist group that symbolizes the lack of knowledge and stiffness in facing various issues. Instead wasatiyyah needs balance or middle attitude to highlight the characteristics of justice. Wasatiyyah according to Muslim Indonesia also gained from the arguments of the Quran and Hadith. However, the fruits have not been comprehensively picked regarding its implementation. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s1p480
Highlights
Wasatiyyah is one of the best initiatives introduced by the Qur’an and Hadith to promote temperance movement and balance and suitable to practice by the Indonesian people to curb extremist in daily life
In politeness to promote this idea among society and to prove its authenticity towards people, what this means? How about the way of implementation? Does wasatiyyah based on Quran and Hadith teachings? to get a clearer picture about it, this article tries to demystify some of the issues according to the eye of Indonesian Muslim scholars
Wasatiyyah according to Indonesian Muslim scholars intends fair, best, selective, simple and balanced
Summary
Wasatiyyah is one of the best initiatives introduced by the Qur’an and Hadith to promote temperance movement and balance and suitable to practice by the Indonesian people to curb extremist in daily life. When the world is in a state of panic with various crises such as the humanities, politics and economics, wasatiyyah is the best way to resolve of these interferences. Human behaviour may not create a fair method, because it is outside the boundaries of their competence and ability. The method is not collected unless the fair comes from Allah and the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). In politeness to promote this idea among society and to prove its authenticity towards people, what this means? Does wasatiyyah based on Quran and Hadith teachings? In politeness to promote this idea among society and to prove its authenticity towards people, what this means? How about the way of implementation? Does wasatiyyah based on Quran and Hadith teachings? to get a clearer picture about it, this article tries to demystify some of the issues according to the eye of Indonesian Muslim scholars
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