Mekanisme Pertahanan diri Kaum Tarekat
Abstract: Sufi orders have
been instrumental in the life of the Sufis as centers for spiritual training
and education. In these centers the Sufis can elaborate their ideas, and apply
them in real life. In the passages of time however, these orders were no longer
considered simply as religious centers but also as social groupings consisting
of people committed not only to practice the teaching of their religion but
also to get involved in social problems. There are indeed many Sufi orders with
different character and upbringing. But as a whole, a Sufi order is mechanism
for the spiritual survival of its fellows. This paper tries to look at the
other side of the matter and argues that a Sufi order is not only spiritual in
its nature but is also social. It treats Sufi orders as a social body that
functions socially to help the murids to survive socially and not spiritually.
We believe that the extinction of some Sufi orders is due mainly to their
inability to curb with social issues and not because of the nature of their spiritual
teaching. The survival of any Sufi order in other words depends very much on
its social mechanism and not on the strength of its spiritual dictum.
Keywords: Sufi order, spiritual
body, social body
Penulis: Abd. Syakur
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd100026
