Islam Mardova

What is the way to go by the Muslims of this age?Okay, Muslims have such a glorious ancient times. But the glittering paradise in the middle ages it was gone. Muslims also have copies of the history of the yag is often envisioned as the best model to emulate in this era, namely the experience of history at the time of the Prophet in Medina. But the example was already so far, so many Muslims in this era began to wonder again: what makes a practical example of life in a small town in the seventh century AD as a "social matrix" to nurture the lives of Muslims in the 21st century?If such a model that would emulate the Prophet, whether it should be exact, according to the message of the Prophet, "kama shallu ra'aitumuni ushalli", The prayer as I pray? Do we want to "exactly" like the Prophet in prayer alone, or in the whole of social life, politics, economics, culture, etc.? Could it be? How do I?Or we need to "exactly" in the spirit of ethics course? Had the Prophet the model will be modified, how? The extent to which modifications had not fallen to the heresy that is prohibited by the Prophet himself? Or heresy actually need?
These are the questions that haunt the Muslims today. There's no single answer to such questions. Each group within Islam have their own thoughts. Even one class can snap the other groups because of different answers to that question.
Weeks ago, I read a short column of Thomas L Friedman's writings that was published in the New York Times edition of May 5, 2002, titled "Listening to the Future". Tom who wrote the best-selling book titled Lexus and the Olive Tree tells of a "moment" small, for me, and both conclude with a summary of the main problems faced by Muslims today.At boarding school Darun Najah, Ulujami, South Jakarta, Tom met a well students who criticize the policies of U.S. foreign, particularly regarding the Palestinian issue.
American students said, imitating the rhetoric that has been 'cliche' everywhere, is controlled by Jews, and blah-blah-blah. At the end of the students commented that naughty Tom asked, "You kepengin go to and study in America?" I quoted the words students were as narrated by Tom, "Of course I would! Because if I go there, That I can Understand how the world really thinks. Because until now I only read about it in newspapers and only see it in TV . "
There are not revealed in the answers the students, but implicit can be read there, namely the desire to sample modern life in his native country alone. All the children of Islam, with the exception of some very limited cases, want to go to the West, to the advanced countries, studying there, watch for yourself how modernity works, and mencontohnya - kalu can - when I go home later. No Muslim child who likes to shell mired in underdevelopment throughout the ages. And that was the situation: millions of Muslim children traveled to the West, learn how to mengkriya system of modern life there, and try to modify it for their respective countries. They can come from Egypt, Palestine, Iraq, Syriac, Algeria, Tunisia, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia as well.
However, they also remain a Muslim who realize that they live in and live out the "world view" is very different from what they encountered in the countries where they studied. They still want to maintain - just say - "authenticity" based on their own traditions. Like a good sentence from Samuel Huntington in "The Clash of Civilization" when describing the Japanese people who drink Coca Cola, but their hearts remain linked to Shintoism, the children of Islam was also exactly the same: they learn "skills" in the West , but the hearts and minds they are still linked to Islam, they can skillfully master the latest techniques in the country side of it, but their hearts are still not subject to the Faustian spirit and prometean the basic spirit of the scientific life of there.
In short, the way to go by the Muslims of this age, it seems, is the subject matter of this: how to become a modern, by sticking to Islamic values. In the popular formulation in Arabic: how to achieve al-hadatsah or kemoderenan, while maintaining al-ashalah or authenticity.
City of Medina is a symbol of authenticity for Muslims: it was there, for the first time, socio-political goals of Islam are beautiful-beautiful from "heaven" is translated in concrete by the Prophet. However, after the death of the Prophet of Islam continues to grow and expand, and to absorb new elements from outside himself, so as to achieve peak "creative power" in a town called Cordova in Spain. The city could become a symbol of Islamic komederenan in the classics, and could serve as "guides" for Muslims in this day and age to achieve their goals in order to be "modern and authentic" as well.
Thus, we can say that kemoderenan is the universal ideals of every human being. Only, they do not want a komederenan mencerabutkan them from their own traditions.Kemoderenan that is too "aggressive" attack the different traditions that, in the end, as noted by Karen Armstrong in the "Battle for God", instead will lead to "backlash", a counterattack, in the form of fundamentalism.
The problem now is: most Muslims would rather look to the example unilaterally in Medina, but forget the examples that developed after the history of Medina was completed. There is a kind of notion that Islam as it developed in regions outside the Medina it is less "original", a little (or even many) mixed with cultures outside of Islam.
Cordova examples seem less enthused by the Muslims of this age. Diuarkan motto always was "back to the Quran and Hadith". Will be placed where the history of Muslims fourteen centuries it? Or history is useless junk? In the end after all the Koran and the Hadith that a text must be translated into the real world. Earth where it is translated the Koran and Hadith, yes, none other than Medina and (do not forget) Cordova.
If I may introduce a neologism, I will use the term "Islamic Mardova", namely Islam, as interpreted in two mutually memprasyarati historical context, namely the history of Medina and Cordova; Islam is authentic and modern at once, as desired by the children of Isla
m today.