PRAKTEK PENDIDIKAN KEAGAMAAN POPULAR DAN ARABISASI UNGKAPAN

Abstract

In responding to popular religious practices, some Muslims are accepting and some others reject them. The tendency to reject popular religious practices gave rise to religious purification movements and their followers are referred to as puritan Islam. The argument that is used as an excuse in an effort to reject popular religious practices is bid'ah. Among the figures who used the concept of bid'ah to highlight popular religious practice were Ibn Taymiyah (d. 1328) and Muhammad bin 'Abd al-Wahhab (d. 1791). This study seeks to present the views of the two figures above. By using the literature study approach, the results of this study indicate that according to them both, popular religious practice is included in the category of heresy because it never existed in the early days of Islam and was not found in the Koran and Hadith, but is a legacy of religious teachings before Islam.