Cabaran masa
depan Islam
John L.
Esposito dalam bab penutup buku “The Future Of Islam”, Oxford University Press,
2010: 195 berpendapat:
“Reform-minded
Muslims, religious and lay, men and women, are working to articulate a
progressive, constructive Islamic framework.
Informed by a deep knowledge of their religious tradition and modern
educations in law, history, politics, medicine, economics, and the sciences,
they are equipped to reinterpret Islamic sources and traditions to meet the
challenges of modernization and development, leadership and ideology,
democratization, pluralism, and foreign policy. However, reformers are still a
minority facing formidable obstacles.
Repressive authoritarian regimes see all reform, any real power-sharing
and rule of law, as threatening to their power and privilege. Religious extremists believe they have a
mandate from God to impose “their Islam” and destroy anyone who disagrees with
them. Intransigent religious
conservatives, well meaning but welded to medieval paradigms, are often
co-opted by governments and use their authority to delegitimate reforms as a
“heresy.” Thus reformers in many
countries struggle in weak civil societies that do not support creative or
independent thought or action.”
Ada beberapa
perkara menarik yang boleh kita teliti dalam pemerhatian Esposito di atas. Salah satu persoalan asas ialah apakah takrif,
contoh serta huraian terminologi-terminologi yang telah digunakan itu? Senarainya mungkin saja ialah seperti berikut:
a) reform-minded
Muslims,
b) constructive
Islamic framework,
c) to
reintrepret Islamic sources,
d) repressive
authoritarian regimes,
e) rule of law
f) religious
extremists
g) mandate
from God
h) to impose
“their Islam”
i) intransigent
religious conservatives (intransigent bermakna, unwilling to change one’s views
or to be persuaded to agree about something, stubborn)
j) welded to
medieval paradigms
k) co-opted by
governments and use their authority to delegitimate reforms as a “heresy.”
l) creative or
independent thought or action.
Jika kita
halakan segala ungkapan serta terminologi-terminologi di atas kepada mereka ―
para pejuang Islam ― yang mahu menegakkan Islam yang syumul lagi kaffah itu
(misalnya yang berada dalam PAS, UMNO et al), agaknya apakah rupa bentuk huraian
mereka? Apakah akan ada kesepakatan atau
pun masih wujud ketidaksepakatan yang tidak begitu mudah diatasi? Sebagai contoh, apakah huraian para pakar agama PAS akan
diterima baik oleh para pakar agama Islam UMNO walaupun masing-masing mendakwa bahawa
mereka semua adalah dari kelompok yang sama, iaitu ahli sunnah wal jamaah?
Akhir sekali,
kita yakin segala huraian para pakar Islam ini dapat dimanfaatkan juga oleh
sekalian penduduk Malaysia yang majmuk. Sesungguhnya dengan adanya gabungan dan
kesepaduan bangsa Melayu-Islam dengan kesepaduan slogan-slogan “wasatiyyah” dan
“ a party for all” dalam politik tanah air kita, maka sudah pasti Malaysia bakal
muncul sebagai sebuah negara Islam contoh.
Boleh dan betulkah begitu?
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