HULUL, ITTIHAD, DAN WAHDAT AL-WUJUD DALAM PERBINCANGAN ULAMA ZAHIR DAN BATIN
Abstract: When prophet Musa,
prayed to Allah , he requested to be able to see Him directly. But when he was
shown to a mountain , he saw the mountain blasted and crushed and he was thrown
away and fainted. Allah is not to be seen physically (Sufi metaphysics and
gnosis (al-ma’rifah, ‘irfan), because physical appearance we can see,
sometimes, can make a bias to our perception and make our decision wrong.. To
be close to Allah forever in such a way can not be easily reached not only
because of limited abilities of our senses but also because all decision we
have made are as the product of empirical, and descriptive rationality, while
Allah is the most absolute existence of the Supreme Being. Thus, to be close to
Allah through senses means to restrict His absolute Almighty God as the Supreme
Being, to narrow His traits of God and to reduce His soul of absoluteness.
However, it does not mean that to communicate with Allah (the experience of
mystical union or direct communion with ultimate reality), is like to communicate
in an empty tube, “.. In fact, there are many scholars of mysticism (Sufism)
who can tell their spiritual experiences about the greatness and dignity of God
through meditation and spiritual insight (Mujahadah, muqarabah, and muraqabah)
where Islamic mysticism seeks to evaluate, contemplate and purify the human
soul. Their spiritual experience in peace and harmony with God the Al-mighty is
called hulul, ittihad and wahdat al-wujud. The differences of experience
between both rational and intuitive reasoning causes human tragedy to the
scholars of mysticism like al Hallaj, al-Suhrawardi, and Shekh Siti Jenar..
Actually, this conflict should not happen if each side could keep their emotion
academically, and respect their differences each other. Why? Because this
conflict, eventually, causes the development of Islamic science become
stagnancy like today.
Penulis: M. Hasyim Syamhudi
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd130280
