Cairo, NU Online
The Committee of Islamic Religious Problems Solving of the Nahdlatul Ulama International Special Board (PCI NU) of Egypt held a meeting to discuss contemporary religious issues (diniyyah waqi'iyyah) at its headquarters in Cairo on Friday.
The NU Online Contributor in Cairo Aang Asyari reported that the problems deliberation meeting was participated by a number of student organizations.<>
The issues discussed by the forum were dealing with the religious legal status to adopt certain school of thought (madzhab) or follow two schools of thought for an act and also dealing with whether the "konun asasi NU" adopting only one of the four Islamic schools of thought remained relevant or not.
In the four-hour-discussion it was decided that adopting certain school of thought was inevitably obliged especially for those whose no capacity to interpret the law both independently and individually (ijtihad).
Respecting the legal status of the talfik, the forum decided that the talfik was permissible as long as it remains within the frame of single act.
While in respect to the relevance of the NU basic canon, the forum asserted that it was still relevant though there were such prerequisites that in the practice of problems "bahtsul masail" deliberation, the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) should open possibilities of accepting and adopting views out of its four schools of thought and the need of practicing methodical Islamic jurisprudence (fikih manhaji) seriously.
The prerequisites are taken for considering that in some cases, in dealing with the more complicated and problematic recent situation, it is very possible to adopt religious views instead of the four founding fathers.
It was also said that there were many NU cadres studying abroad throughout the world such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Sudan, Egypt and so on. Following their return from studying abroad, they would of course bring and introduce Islamic jurisprudential thoughts. (ang)
The Committee of Islamic Religious Problems Solving of the Nahdlatul Ulama International Special Board (PCI NU) of Egypt held a meeting to discuss contemporary religious issues (diniyyah waqi'iyyah) at its headquarters in Cairo on Friday.
The NU Online Contributor in Cairo Aang Asyari reported that the problems deliberation meeting was participated by a number of student organizations.<>
The issues discussed by the forum were dealing with the religious legal status to adopt certain school of thought (madzhab) or follow two schools of thought for an act and also dealing with whether the "konun asasi NU" adopting only one of the four Islamic schools of thought remained relevant or not.
In the four-hour-discussion it was decided that adopting certain school of thought was inevitably obliged especially for those whose no capacity to interpret the law both independently and individually (ijtihad).
Respecting the legal status of the talfik, the forum decided that the talfik was permissible as long as it remains within the frame of single act.
While in respect to the relevance of the NU basic canon, the forum asserted that it was still relevant though there were such prerequisites that in the practice of problems "bahtsul masail" deliberation, the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) should open possibilities of accepting and adopting views out of its four schools of thought and the need of practicing methodical Islamic jurisprudence (fikih manhaji) seriously.
The prerequisites are taken for considering that in some cases, in dealing with the more complicated and problematic recent situation, it is very possible to adopt religious views instead of the four founding fathers.
It was also said that there were many NU cadres studying abroad throughout the world such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Sudan, Egypt and so on. Following their return from studying abroad, they would of course bring and introduce Islamic jurisprudential thoughts. (ang)
