AHMAD WAHIB DAN IDEA-IDEA KONSEPSUALNYA TENTANG ISLAM DAN KEBUDAYAAN MODENNYA (Ahmad Wahib and his Conceptual Ideas on Islam and its Modern Culture)

Abstract

ABSTRAK

Makalah ini meninjau pemikiran Ahmad Wahib (1942-1973) tentang aspirasi moden Islam, dan kebudayaannya dalam konteks dan pengalaman kontemporari di Indonesia. Beliau dikenang sebagai tokoh muda Islam dan salah seorang pelopor HMI (Himpunan Mahasiswa Islam) dan penganjur faham Islam yang rasional, eksistensial, bebas, belas kasihan dan bersimpati. Masalah utama kajian ialah tentang kritik sosialnya terhadap pemikiran dan kebudayaan moden Islam. Objektif kajian ialah untuk menganalisis pergulatan ideanya terkait masalah-masalah hukum dan praktik keagamaan dan pengalamannya dalam masyarakat majmuk di Indonesia. Ini ditelusuri dari catatan harian Ahmad Wahib yang membentangkan pandangan-pandangan etika, hukum, sastera, politik dan sosialnya yang kompleks dan peranannya dalam menggerakkan pembaharuan Islam yang moden. Metodologi kajian ini bersifat kualitatif dari jenis penelitian kepustakaan dan dokumentari. Ia menganalisis secara deskriptif, komparatif, historis dan analitis catatan-catatan harian Ahmad Wahib, selain penulisan dan karya-karya lain yang terkait berhubung dengan pemikiran dan kritik sosialnya.Kajian merumuskan bahawa Ahmad Wahib adalah pengkritik dan penafsir budaya yang kental dengan akar sejarahnya yang moderat dan bergaris sederhana. Tulisannya menekankan pemahaman kontekstual tentang Islam dan kebudayaan dan penjurusan modennya yang menawarkan pandangan-pandangan falsafah yang ideal terhadap kondisi-kondisi moral dan sosio-politik yang memprihatinkan di Indonesia.

ABSTRACT

The paper highlights Ahmad Wahib’s (1942-1973) underlying ideas on Islamic religious aspiration and culture and its present experience in contemporary Indonesia. A young proponent of rational understanding of Islam and society, he stands out as leading advocate of humanistic approach as enshrined in his activism in HMI that projected rational, holistic, existential and sympathetic understanding of Islam. The research question is on his social critics of religious thought and modern Islamic culture. The objective is to highlight his contending ideas and work on religious issues of pluralistic nature, in defining the contours of Indonesian society. The method of study is based on qualitative approaches in the form of library and documentative survey. It traces the historical work and narrative pertinent to the idealism and overview of Ahmad Wahib and the corresponding literature in the field. The material was analyzed using descriptive, analytical and historical method to interpret and conclude his basic ideas and struggle. The study found that Ahmad Wahib had developed indepth philosophical viewpoint of Islam based on contextual understanding of its sources, outlining his response and insight on issues pertaining to moral, spiritual and intellectual implication of religious postulate in society, which emphasize on its role to drive renewed ethical and cultural vibrancy and powered by its balance theoretical principle which offers ideal interpretation of the socio-political condition and its future direction in Indonesia.