Dear ladies and gentlemen,
Do you still remember Bali bombing in
2002 and 2005? Or bombimg in Marriot Hotel in 2003 and Australian embassy in
2004? Those bombings have caused hundreds people died, hundreds others were
injured and thousands of their family were badly in grave. Those bombings are
horrible and have curved great pain to the heart of people all over the world. And
those bombings have caused our country labelled as a home of terrorists, a
country of bombers. What a shame!
As we all know, the bombers, which are
so-called terrorists, are considered as Islam fundamentalists or Islam
extrimists. And the most bitter fact is some of them are graduates of Pondok
Pesantren. Therefore, many people have put Pondok Pesantren under suspicion
because Pesantren is a place where they study about Islam. People were
suspicious that Pesantren teaches their santri about Islam extrimist, so that
terrorists might come from Pesantren. The question is “is it true”? Or is it
even the other way around?
To begin with, let us have a little
discussion about the history and the cause of recent terrorism done by Islam
fundamentalists in the world. Do you think those Islam terrorists do terrors
because of their Islam ideology? It is not their main reason. Their main reason
is anger. George Walker Bush, the former president of America,has
diseminated the idea that Islam fundamentalists are the next America and world
threat after Cold War era. This idea has been strengthened after 9-11
bombing After the bombing of WTC, all
Americans were put in anger and totally supported Bush to erase terrorism. Bush
after that spent $US 40.000 to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. The American
soldiers killed thousands of unsin people in those countries. Kids, Old people,
babies, women. The reason was because they wanted to sweep over the Islam
fundamentalists. This is so ridiculous because they also killed unsin people.
The American brutal invasion made moslems there angry because their rights to
live and do their religion as they want were taken. So, they started to take
their revenge. They trained some people to get involved in Anti-Western organization and do terrors,
such as bombings and others, and they called it jihad. As time goes by, they trained more
people from other countries including Indonesia. So, terrorists from Indonesia
are not products of any Islamic institution in Indonesia. So, it is clear
that Pesantren has nothing to do with terrorism. Ladies and gentlemen, on the
other way around, Pesantren teaches their students or santri to be a good,
sociable, pluralist human, or we can say non-terrorist religious moslem. What
is the evidence then?
First, Pondok Pesantren teaches all complete knowledge about Islam,
such as: Fiqh, History of Islam, Hadits, Tafsir, Arabic, etc. Therefore there
are lots of things that teach them to be a good human. For example, they learn
how kind Rasululloh treats his enemy. When Rasululloh was thrown with camel
feces, He just kept being patient. The next example is santri will not get
wrong definition of jihad. They will see one ayat in Alqur’an from many points
of view; from point of view of history, hadist, etc People
who never study in Pondok Pesantren will get a wrong definition of jihad
easily when there is a terrorist agent recruits them. The recruiter will
explain that Jihad is a matter of killing and war, but actually jihad means so
many things, not only that. Studying is a jihad. Delivering a baby is also a
jihad. Those people can be influenced
and easily recruited as the next Umar Patek.
Second, students in Pondok Pesantren will
learn how to be pluralist and tolerant in Pondok Pesantren. We all know that
santri in one Pesantren must come from various cities and background of
culture. For example, we have Arif and Andi. Arif comes from Jombang and Andi
from Papua. There must be some different cultures between them. But when they
meet and become friends in Pesantren, they learn how to tolerate and understand
each other’s culture, although they both learn and hold Islam for their way
of life.
Third, Pondok Pesantren emphasizes to
develop the students’ knowledge, as well as their personality. As the data
says, Indonesia is a home of more than 14.000 Pesantren, most of which adhere
Aswaja values. Values of Aswaja , according to Imam Ghozali, is faqih
filmashalih al-kholqi fiddunya, which means making people live in peace,
harmony, keep maslahah al-ummah, not mafsadah. So, Pesantren in Indonesia
teaches their students to have good, humanist, and tolerant personality. It
avoids any violance because iot breaks Islamic law.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Terrorism
basically exists not because of Islamic ideology, but because of people’s
reaction toward the brutal violance toward Islamic people in Islamic countries.
Pondok Pesantren, which notabene teaches Islamic knowledge, surely has nothing
to do with terrorism. It even gives good contribution to develop humanist,
tolerant, good Moslem in Indonesia because, first, Pondok Pesantren teaches all
complete knowledge about Islam, so the students will have no wrong
intrepretation of “jihad”; second, students in Pondok pesantren learns how to be
pluralist because of the heterogeneous students there, and ; thirdly, because
most of Pondok Pesantren in Indonesia adhere ASWAJA values which avoids
violance and creates maslahah al-ummah.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
That
is all my speech about terrorism and Pesantren. I hope those who blackmail
Pesantren will see the real fact what Pesantren is and hopefully Pesantren can always contribute to
diminish terrorism in the world. Allahu Akbar!
Very Good.. I like it. ...You should be continu..... God bless you.
BalasHapusThnxxx