APAKAH CONTOH ORANG LIBERAL YANG SEPERTI INI ???????
Mantan Jubir Parlemen Sudan Hassan Turabi
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_al-Turabi) baru-baru ini
memberikan wawancara dengan stasiun TV Al-Arabiyah. Tokoh politik dan
agama yang kontroversial ini sempat memimpin Sudan dalam penerapan
syariat Islam di tahun 1990-an sebelum didepak oleh Presiden Omar
Basyir.
Di antara komentarnya adalah:
- muslimah boleh menikah dengan laki-laki Ahli Kitab
(perempuan muallaf tidak perlu bercerai dengan suaminya yang belum masuk Islam)
- perempuan diperintahkan menutup dada, bukan wajah
- perempuan dapat menjadi imam salat
- perempuan dapat menjadi pemimpin negara
(ia menganjurkan perempuan bekerja dan menjadi bagian aktif dari masyarakat)
- tidak ada hukuman bagi orang yang minum alkohol di rumahnya
(dilarang memata-matai)
- imannya justru bertambah ketika berada di Eropa (Inggris, Prancis)
- dan juga, orang Islam sekarang kerjaannya cuma berkhayal
mengharapkan datangnya Yesus Al-Masih. Dunia Islam tertinggal,
terbelakang, mengutip al-Quran tanpa membacanya kecuali untuk cari
berkah.
Syekh Turabi menambahkan bahwa "fatwa-fatwa" ini tidak ada yang baru,
sudah puluhan tahun beredar dan ditulis di buku-buku (eh kirain
setelah ikutan WM :-) ). Tapi bagaimana pun juga, cukup mengejutkan
dari seorang ulama yang ikut memperjuangkan penerapan hudud (potong
tangan, rajam, cambuk, dll) di Sudan.
btw, Turabi dikabarkan sempat bergabung dengan Ikhwanul Muslimin
(cabang?) Sudan. Sekalipun demikian, akhir-akhir ini beredar bantahan
soal itu, terutama di kalangan "IM" Indonesia (PKS).
salam,
DWS
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1112Sudanese Scholar Hassan Al-Turabi Elaborates on His Revolutionary
Fatwa on Muslim Women and Christian Men and Adds: Women Should Cover
Chest, Not Face; Women Can Be Imams, Political Leaders; No Punishment
for Drinking Alcohol at Home
Following are excerpts from an interview with Sudanese scholar Hassan
Al-Turabi, which was aired on Al-Arabiya TV on April 10, 2006.
Hassan Al-Turabi: Some of these views were already expressed decades
ago, and have appeared in books. But you still see most of the Islamic
world - in its stagnation, backwardness, and traditions - quoting
[blindly] without reading the Koran, except for blessings.
[...]
Interviewer: Dr. Al-Turabi, you talked about equality between men and
women, and said that women had the right to serve as Imams. You said
that if a woman is more devout and knowledgeable than a man, she can
lead the prayers. You also criticized marriage through a third party
when the woman is present. You [permitted] marriage between a Muslim
woman and a man from among the People of the Book. You also raised
some issues regarding the hijab, and said it was enough to cover the
chest.
[...]
Hassan Al-Turabi: I didn't mean that half of society should leave the
home just in order to double the number of people in the streets. In
any case, the home doesn't require much work anymore, with all the
appliances - unless we keep our wives as ornaments and wait for the
night.
I want women to work and become part of public life, Allah willing.
Allah gave them certain advantages over us, and gave us certain
advantages over them. He gave men and women advantages over one
another. I would like there to be equality between people, because we
were all created from the same soul: "Allah created from a single soul
its mate."
[...]
I have not found a hadith that prohibits women from being Imams.
During the prayer itself - I can understand... When we pray, we get
close and touch one another. If women were to pray with us, in such
proximity, they might divert our thoughts from our prayer to relations
between men and women. That is why they pray behind us or on the side,
depending on the mosque.
But if a woman is more devout, better, or older than us, people will
not stare at her face, but will listen to her words of wisdom.
I have only found one relevant hadith. The Prophet used to visit Umm
Warqa. He used to visit several women. He would visit the wives, not
their husbands, because they were more righteous.
A woman can serves as a muazin, and she can lead the people of her dar
in prayer. Dar does not just mean a home. Dar is a large area like dar
in Darfour or Dar-Hamed... Dar refers to a large area.
[...]
A woman can be the leader of a country, if she is the best of all the
candidates, and the one most capable of meeting the challenges facing
the country. The country may be in social, economic, or military
difficulties... Depending on the difficulties, I vote for this person
or that, according to the current needs.
[...]
People convert to Islam. In Europe, women may convert to Islam before
their husbands. Are we supposed to stop them, or place them on trial?
She is a believing woman – are we supposed to keep her from converting
until she gets divorced, and cause her family to fall apart? Where is
this taken from? There is no verse...
Interviewer: If she wants to convert to Islam, she must be married...
Hassan Al-Turabi: No, there is no verse that tells us... The verse
refers to polytheists. We are forbidden to marry them.
[...]
The Koran tells us we can marry the People of the Book. It doesn't say
otherwise. [Clerics who forbid this] rely on general verses, which can
hardly be relied on in this matter. If this does not cause strife
between the wife [and her husband], and nowadays it doesn't... She
doesn't even vote for the same party as her husband, let alone...
Sometimes he is not even religious. His Christianity is merely his
heritage, and he does not really believe in Jesus. Are we supposed to
make her go back to Christianity?! This does not make sense.
Similarly, we do not force our wives from among the People of the Book
to convert to our religion. I ruled... I didn't rule, but gave people
my opinion about their problems.
Women converted to Islam before their husbands, and the [clerics]
would stop them. I told them not to do so. If you had read your Salafi
books, you would have encountered this ruling.
[...]
The word hijab appears in the Koran. It refers to a curtain in the
Prophet's room. Naturally, it was impossible for the Prophet's wife to
sit there, while people entered the room – Muslims who came to ask for
rulings, converts to Islam who wanted to ask questions, people of the
Jahiliya who wanted to visit – this is impossible, even in modern
homes...
Allah be praised, today's homes are larger, and there are halls and
guest rooms, but back then there was only one room, so they put a
hijab so the woman would feel comfortable, and wear whatever she
liked. And if we want something from her, we request it from behind
the hijab.
The Koran did not refer to this thing as a hijab. This was called a
khimar, and it was worn over the chest only. What they are referring
to is the khimar, not the hijab. You keep hearing hijab, hijab,
hijab... When these words are distorted, they mislead people.
[...]
This is the weakness of the Muslims. They always just sit there and
beg God to solve their problems: "Oh Allah, kill the Jews, kill the
Americans." That's what they do, just sitting there. They want Jesus
to come, they want the Mahdi to come, and fill the world with justice
and light.
[...]
They don't want to do anything by themselves. They don't want to fight
falsehood or wage Jihad. They are waiting for Allah to send them Jesus
from the heavens so he can solve all their problems – the problems
with "those Americans, those Christians." Jesus is not still alive
after 2006 years, but he continues to live in the Muslims' illusions.
These are illusions, my brother, illusions.
[...]
The same goes for the Shiites. I think – of course I cannot be sure -
the caliph found out his name and he took him and his father and
perhaps he killed him in secret. But they are still waiting for the
Imam to come back. For more than a thousand, or hundreds of years,
they wait for the Imam. In fact, most of them have set the Imam aside
and moved on. I whish all Muslims would move on.
On Judgment Day, I will not be able to apologize to Allah, saying: I
was waiting for the Messiah, but for reasons known to You alone, You
delayed his coming. I was waiting for him. I am one of those who are
waiting. Be one of those who act, until you die. Many people have
died.
[...]
We are forbidden to drink alcohol. The punishment for drinking alcohol
is whipping. But I have said that we cannot enter people's homes. We
enter homes only with permission. If we knock and knock and knock, and
nobody opens the door, we should leave, even if we are the police -
even if we are Omar Ibn Al-Khattab. That is what he did. We do not
enter people's homes. If he makes his own alcohol, and drinks it
without taking it outside - let him do it until he falls asleep, and
leaves his house the next day like that. It is not that terrible.
But whoever drinks alcohol in public or sells it should be punished,
unless he is a non-Muslim, of course. If he is very drunk and unsteady
on his feet, and drives a car in a reckless manner – he is held
accountable in all the countries of the world. I don't want people to
use the ban on alcohol to spy on others.
[...]
Brother, our society needs to be reformed, and reform cannot emerge
out of wretchedness, fear, and conservatism. What are we conserving?
This backwardness? The Westerners ride our backs with their armies,
with their economy, their media, and their science, and we just sit
there being conservative? What are we conserving? By Allah, our faith
will become stronger if we go to the countries of the West. Our faith
will only grow. My faith grew stronger in Europe, in France, in
Britain. My faith grew stronger, and so did my knowledge, Allah be
praised.