Terorisme Bukan Islam ( Jihad ≠ Teror )

Setelah tragedi 11 september 2001 (9/11), banyak pihak yang mengaitkan antara Islam dan terorisme. Sentimen negatif terhadap Islam menjadi semakin besar, Islam selalu diidentikkan dengan kekerasan dan konsep jihad dalam Islam sering diterjemahkan menjadi tindakan terorisme seperti pemboman dan pembajakan pesawat pada tragedi 9/11, yang menghancurkan gedung World Trade Center (WTC) dan juga gedung pertahanan Amerika Serikat Pentagon. Mereka beranggapan bahwa konsep jihad dalam Islam adalah sumber dari terorisme.

‘Jihad berasal dari bahasa arab “jahada” yaitu suatu perjuangan keras untuk mencapai suatu cita-cita. Menurut pengertian asalnya, jihad itu berarti berjuang dan berperang melawan kemiskinan, kedzaliman, kebodohan, dan kekerdilan akidah, demi mencapai kejayaan hidup yang wajar. Nabi Muhammad SAW. Pernah bersabda : “jihad yang paling besar ialah perang melawan hawa nafsu” (HR. Muslim).’[1]

‘Dalam al-Quran, jihad yang berarti pertempuran,dinamakan dengan “qital” (berbunuhan) terhadap orang kafir yang telah memaklumkan perang terhadap muslim. Salah satu ayat-Nya berbunyi : “Telah diizinkan (berperang) bagi orang-orang yang diperangi, karena sesungguhnya mereka telah dianiaya. Dan sesungguhnya Allah, benar-benar Maha Kuasa menolong mereka itu, (yaitu) orang-orang yang telah diusir dari kampung halaman mereka tanpa alasan yang benar, kecuali karena mereka berkata: "Tuhan kami hanyalah Allah." Dan sekiranya Allah tiada menolak (keganasan) sebagian manusia dengan sebagian yang lain, tentulah telah dirobohkan biara-biara Nasrani, gereja-gereja, rumah-rumah ibadat orang Yahudi dan masjid- masjid, yang di dalamnya banyak disebut nama Allah. Sesungguhnya Allah pasti menolong orang yang menolong (agama)-Nya. Sesungguhnya Allah benar-benar Maha Kuat lagi Maha Perkasa” (QS. Al-Hajj : 39-40)’

Blusukan and Servant Leader

The term ‘blusukan’ has become popular since Joko Widodo known as ‘Jokowi’ was being inaugurated as Jakarta Governor. Jokowi used blusukan as his leadership style. According to what jokowi has done, blusukan is directly comes to the people’s place especially the grassroot ( wong cilik), in slums area, rivers side, garbage dumps, and others to know what are their problems and have a dialogue with the people in order to make the right policy. More or lees this style of leadership has sent Jokowi to Win the race of Presidential election in 2014. Regardless that jokowi used blusukan as an image or not, but this leadership style is very effective and loved by the people. This is an effective style because the leader can know the problem faced by the people exactly, not just from the report from the bureaucreacy because we know that sometimes the bureaucreacy just reports the good thing as ‘ABS’ (asal bapak senang) in indonesian term. This essay will try to look the similiarity of blusukan and servant leader as a concept of Islamic leadhersip style.

            Blusukan is a Javanese word, blusukan comes from the main word ‘blusuk’ which means “mlebu ing’ in Javanese or entry (come in), and then plus suffix –an becoming blusukan, this means an activity done by someone to enter some places in order to get something. As leadhersip style Blusukan means a style of leadership that comes to the people place directly in order to know, to hear, to talk, with the people to make a good policy to inspire development programs that will be implemented, and to know the effect of the programs that being implemented or as an evaluation of program  that is applied. So the blusukan needs the leader to come to the people place, not the opposite. The leaders in blusukan point of view are becoming a servant of the people. So the leaders serve the people not the people serve the leader.

            Leader and Leadership are very important in Islam. In most circumstances in life, Muslims are urged to appoint a leader and to follow him. According to the Prophet Muhammad SAW, Muslims must appoint a leader during a trip, select a leader to lead the prayer, and choose a leader for other group activities. One of the concepts of leadership in Islam is servant leader, a leader who serves for his follower. Servant leader is an Islamic leadership style, as what Prophet Muhammad once said “The servant of the people is their leader”. According to this, the whole purposes of leadership are to serve the people. One of the leaders in Islamic history that implemented the concept of servant leader is umar ibn Al-khattab. Umar is the figure of a leader who understood the interest and the needs of his people, although he lived in poor condition. Umar often got around and investigated the condition of his people in the night, this what we know as ‘blusukan’. So, Blusukan has sameness with the servant leader. Both of them are oriented to the people’s need and interest.

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aku terdiam sebelum sempat mengutarakan

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M.A

05-08-2015