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Wise Muslim Rationalist, Culturally Grounded Cosmopolitan

Kessler, Clive S., (2008) Wise Muslim Rationalist, Culturally Grounded Cosmopolitan. Akademika, 73 (Mei) . pp. 127-138. ISSN 01265008

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Abstract

ABSTRACT: The late Prof. Syed Hussein Alatas, this tribute originally offered at a memorial event held shortly after his death suggests, was an exemplar of Islamic rationalism and a pioneer of the project of “cultural enlightenment” (keserlahan) in modern Nusantara (Southeast Asia). He was a Malay-world champion of “the party of humanity”, human inclusiveness and mutual cultural accommodation based upon the universal human, if ultimately divinely bestowed, attribute of reason. He was a committed upholder of the principle of tauhid (unity): the unity of faith and reason, of thinking and doing, of ethics and critical thought, and on that basis of all humankind under the one universal God and, in its varying cultural and historic forms, the one divine moral law. He was an implacable opponent of bebalisma (= “doltishness”): not a natural but a studied and assiduously cultivated stupidity, and an entire culture of “thick-headedness”, that is particularly prevalent among mindless politicians and the recognition-hungry would-be intellectuals and “academicians” who are happily drawn into their orbit of mundane power-seeking.

ABSTRAK: Renungan ini adalah satu penghormatan kepada Allahyarham Profesor Syed Hussein Alatas yang disampaikan di majlis belasungkawa sejurus selepas beliau meninggal dunia. Alatas ialah suri teladan rasionalisme Islam dan seorang pengasas projek “keserlahan budaya” dalam dunia Nusantara moden. Beliau ialah pejuang dunia Melayu yang menganjurkan “himpunan golongan kemanusiaan”, keinklusifan kemanusiaan dan kesalingan akomodasi budaya yang berlandaskan ciri akal sejagat yang manusiawi, sungguhpun pada akhirnya akal itu merupakan anugerah Ilahi. Beliau ialah penjunjung yang teguh akan prinsip tauhid, iaitu kesatuan iman dan akal, pemikiran dan tindakan, etika dan pemikiran kritis, dan berasaskannya, ke semua umat manusia di bawah Tuhan sarwa sekalian alam yang satu, yang hidup di bawah suatu undang-undang moral Ilahi yang tunggal sungguhpun kemunculannya mengambil bentuk sejarah dan budaya yang berbeza-beza. Beliau dengan gigih menentang bebalisma, iaitu suatu bentuk kejumudan yang bukan semulajadi, sebaliknya sesuatu yang terbentuk dan dipupuk; beliau juga menentang keseluruhan budaya “kebodohan” yang secara khusus wujud di kalangan orang politik yang sembrono, serta bakal intelektual dan “akademik” yang gilakan pujian dan justeru, begitu mudah terpojok ke dalam lingkaran mengejar kuasa.

Item Type:Journal
Keywords:Bebalisma; budaya Melayu; reformasi Islam; intelektual; pemikiran “Bebalisma”; Malay culture; Islamic Reform; intellectuals; thinking
Subjects:H Social Sciences, Economics, Sociology
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
ID Code:9664

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