WAHHABI SALAFISM’S VIEW ON MAQASID AL-SYARI’AH
Abstrak: This paper
deals with the
view of Wahhabis salafism’s on maqasid
syariah (the objectives
of Islamic law) and its impact on the legal structure of their maz\hab. By tracing the
literature of Islamic
legal theories (us}u>l
a-fiqh) written by
Salafists Muslim scholars, it is argued that Salafists ignorethe role of reason in
interpreting religious
texts. The truth is
one and is located in revelation. Revelation
is the first source
of human knowledge
and the indisputable
complete final source
in which human beings are torn
between two extremes, commandand prohibition. From this view, rationality
and the development
of human social
sciences are deemed
as bid‛ah, irreconcilable and
alien to pure
Islamic thought, since they
do not have
an epistemic root in
pre-modern Islamic tradition.
Furthermore, Wahha>bi> salafists recognised the significance of
syari>’ahobjectives in accordance with the principle of mas}lah}ah. This
view enables them to be regarded as promoting legal pragmatism in Islamic law.
Keywords: Wahhabi salafism’s, mas}lah}ah,
syari‘ah objectives, school
of Islamic law, legal pragmatism
Author: Rusli
Journal Code: jpperadabanislamgg140001
