Religious endowment [wakaf] is one of the means introduced by syari'ah to distribute wealth for good social cause. Wakaf has been practiced in Indonesia for ages, mostly in the form of giving land for educational or religious purposes. As an instrument for enhancing social life, mauquf could also be in the form of money. This new form of wakaf, is intruduced in Indonesia as a respont to the eco…
In this research, it was found four kinds of zakah fund raisers, namely the bureaucracy model, the business model, the non-government organization model. And the traditional model. For the time being, while the traditional zakah fund raisers show a relatively low growth. A number of modern, national zakah fund raisers have been able to mobilize the fund in a huge account, They are able to do so…
Some years ago, the then minister of religious affairs arrested for the case of hajj fund corruption. He is not a man who does not know religious norm at all but is a religious figure who has a wide religious views. Recently, one of official bureaucrats of East Java was arrested because of the case of societal empowerment aids. He is also not a common people who is taqlid, but he knows and unde…
Makalah ini berusaha mengkaji sosok pemikir politik Islam kontemporer, Abu A'la al Mawdudi, yang acapkali dinilai secara pejorative dan sering diidentifikasi sebagai ideolog gerakan fundamentalisme Islam. Bagi Mawdudi, politik Islam terangkum dalam tiga trilogi, pertama, Islam adalah agama paripurna termasuk kehidupan politik, kedua, kekuasaan tertinggi hanya pada Allah, sehingga tidak seorangp…
Tulisan ini akan memfokuskan kajian pada sistem pembelajaran fullday school yang selama ini disinyalir sebagai sistem yang efektif karena pembelajaran berlangsung secara aktif, Kreatif, dan transformatif selama sehari seharipebuh bahkan selama kurang lebih 24 jam. Melalui tulisan ini akan dieksplorasi lebih jauh berkenaan dengan sistem pembelajaran fullday school, seperti asal usulsistem fullda…
Meski terkesan tidak terlalu besar dan bernuansa lokal, al Jam'iyatul Washliyah memiliki satu keunikan peran historis yang secara alamiah diberikan oleh konteks ruang dan waktu berdirinya organisasi ini. Masa menjelang kemerdekaan dan keragaman demografis Sumatera Timur jelas memberi satu iklim perjuangan yang sangat potensial menjadi ladang persemaian idealisme sebuah organisasi semacam al was…
For the real intellectuals, truth is a search, a journey, a couse, an endeavor. They believe that truth can only be attained through series of painstaking process. The autobiographies of al Ghazali and Sardar are separated by ten centuries, one can find clear parallels in antomy and procedures of their journeys in seeking truth. The present author attempts to analyse these autobiographies and s…
Nasikh mansukh in al Qur'an is an interesting topic in the study of Ulumul Qur'an. Some religion teachers acknowledge its existence while some others do not. Nasakh may emerge because time and needs are constantly changing among societes. Nasikh becomes something impossible when seen from God's comprehensiveness quality. It is undebetable that God must not create any contradiction in al Qur'an,…