Murtada Mutahhari

Translated from the Persian by Dr. Wahid Akhtar

Vol. V No.3 and 4

This article is an introduction (pishguftar) that Martyr Murtada Mutahhari wrote for his book Khadamat-e mutaqabil-e Islam wa Iran (The Mutual Services of Islam and Iran) first published in 1349 H.Sh./1960. The translation of this book is under way and will soon be published by the Sazman-e Tablighat-e Islami, and we hope to publish some parts of it in the future in al-Tawhid.

In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful

The relations, conflicts and clashes between various nations have in the present age become a daily issue which has acquired much greater significance than in any other epoch of human history. One of the problems related to it, or perhaps one of the most fundamental of them, is the problem of nationalism, its constructive elements, its scope and limits.

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Di bulan Mei-Juni setiap tahunnya di Iran digelar seminar untuk mengenang seorang pemikir dan filsuf besar yang sangat berjasa dalam mengembangkan filsafat Islam. Tak sedikit yang meyakini bahwa tanpa beliau filsafat Islam tak mungkin dikenal seperti saat ini. Pemikir besar ini adalah sang hakeem dan faqeeh, Mulla Sadra.

Mulla Sadra adalah seorang pemikir yang jeli dan teliti. Ilmunya yang dalam nampak pada kepribadiannya yang penyabar dan kesalehannya. Ia adalah figur ulama yang bertaqwa yang hanya melangkah demi keridhaan Allah. Kehidupannya dipenuhi dengan zuhud, qanaah dan ibadah. Filsuf besar ini melaksanakan ibadah haji sebanyak tujuh kali dengan berjalan kaki. Dalam perjalanan pulang dari hajinya yang terakhir tahun 1050 Hijriyah, Mulla Sadra menutup mata untuk selamanya di sekitar kota Basra Irak.

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Merayakan Keseluruhan:

Menjajaki Paradigma Holistik dalam Kehidupan Sosial^[1]

Hardiansyah Suteja^[2]

Abstraksi

Pandangan-dunia modern adalah logika keterpilahan dan keterpisahan serta subjektivisme-antroposentrisme. Secara filosofis, peradaban modern disinari paradigma Cartesian-Newtonian^[3]. Suatu pandangan dunia mekanistik-deterministik-reduksionistik-atomistik- instrumentalistik-linearistik, yang menempatkan manusia sebagai bagian (parsial), sebagai pusat sesuatu secara keseluruhan. Manusia modern adalah nonpartisipan dalam menjalani kehidupan. Manusia modern adalah manusia yang teralienasi dan manusia ter-reifikasi. Manusia modern adalah manusia yang tanpa dunia-organis. Peradaban modern mewariskan, salah satunya, persoalan dualitas.

Rene Descartes (1596-1650), Bapak Filsafat Modern, dianggap orang yang kali pertama sukses membangun sistem filsafat secara sistematis dalam keterpilahan antara jiwa dan tubuh atau res cogitans dan res extensa. Pandangan Descartes diikuti maupun dikukuhkan oleh Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Dalam perkembangannya, pandangan dualisme bersifat linear-deterministik-reduksionistik-atomistik- instrumentalistik. Pandangan ini melihat segala sesuatu secara serba terpilah dan dikotomis. Realitas yang kompleks, kesalinghubungan dipandang hanya sebagai kumpulan balok atom. Layaknya puzzle realitas dicopot satu per satu, kemudian dari pengamatan terpilah tersebut digabungkan, dan kemudian dikuantifikasikan.

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by

Shahid Ayatullah Murtadha Mutahhari

Translated by: Sayyid Sulayman Ali Hasan

First Edition (2004) Published by:
Islamic Publishing House (Canada)
in co-operation with

Islam and Religious Pluralism

Title

Foreword

Introduction

-Social Pluralism

-Religious Pluralism

-The Qur’ān and Religious Pluralism

-Prophet Muhammad (S) and Religious Pluralism

-Important Caution

Biography of the late Ayatullah Murtadha Mutahhari

Part 1
Good Deeds of Non-Muslims

-Outline of the Discussion

1. The General Aspect of the Discussion

2. No Religion except Al-Islam is Accepted

-What will be discussed here is the second issue

Part 2
Good Deeds Without Faith

-Two Ways of Thinking

-The Third Logic

-The So-Called Intellectuals

-The Rigid Group

Part 3
Value of Belief

-Being Held Accountable for Unbelief

-Levels of Submission

-True Islam and Regional Islam

-Sincerity, the Condition for the Acceptance of Actions

-Quality or Quantity

-The Masjid of Bahlul

-Belief in God and the Hereafter

-Belief in the Prophecy and Imamate

-Affliction

Part 4
Below the Zero Point

-The Incapable and the Powerless

-From the View of the Islamic Sages

Part 5
The Sins of Muslims

-Creational Conditions and Conventional Conditions

Part 6
Summary and Conclusion

Foreword

by Hasnain Walji

From the frying pan of the ‘Narrow-Minded, Dry, Holy Ones’ “tang nazari khoshk muqaddasan” into the fire of Hick’s Religious Pluralism

Some years ago, in Brampton Canada, my Muharram majālis provoked the question: Where will Mother Teresa go – Heaven or Hell? This was in reaction to my submission challenging the notion of religious pluralism, which seemed to have found favour amongst members of the congregation, who as a result of their intellectual discussions within academia, appeared to have concluded that ‘all roads lead to Rome’.

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Murtada Mutahhari

Translated from the Persian by Dr. Wahid Akhtar

Vol. V No.3 and 4

This article is an introduction (pishguftar) that Martyr Murtada Mutahhari wrote for his book Khadamat-e mutaqabil-e Islam wa Iran (The Mutual Services of Islam and Iran) first published in 1349 H.Sh./1960. The translation of this book is under way and will soon be published by the Sazman-e Tablighat-e Islami, and we hope to publish some parts of it in the future in al-Tawhid.

In the Name of God, the Beneficent, the Merciful

The relations, conflicts and clashes between various nations have in the present age become a daily issue which has acquired much greater significance than in any other epoch of human history. One of the problems related to it, or perhaps one of the most fundamental of them, is the problem of nationalism, its constructive elements, its scope and limits.

Continue reading Western Nationalism and Islamic Nationhood…