POVERTY : RELIGION ILLUSION OR SOLUTION

Religion is for man, not God.

So religion must be based, for now and here,

not soaring, for the next day and there.

(As Though Wise) (Ahmad Taufik)

In recent months we made wonder with a lot of news that presents various kinds of disasters. Not only natural disasters such as floods which annually has become a tradition. Or landslides due to the opening, logging arbitrary. But, I mean the catastrophic humanitarian disaster. The disaster that every day, even every moment stop by on around us, even perhaps in our own family.

Poverty, malnutrition and hunger, malnutrition, or eat nasi aking really not worth eating, and so forth. Humanitarian disaster that always get attacked this country. There’snt water¹, inadequate health care, or even the unemployment rate increases with the poverty that continues to crawl. Retrieved myriad of problems that this country should not be used for our thorough review. But, really ironic when disaster I mean the above occurs in the middle of the country, who allegedly said the agrarian. Is not ironic when in this country as a producer of a few people actually consume rice aking (rest of the rice is dried and then processed again to eat).

Myriad problems mentioned above show when every day we see the news criminals always find the same root problem. A thief, jambret, thieves are caught because it takes money to feed his wife and children. I think this is related, between poverty and criminality. Not one to give such a warning light that Muhammad faqru kaadal yakuuna kufran, less poverty-any more that someone would make him disbelieve (act notwithstanding the provisions of religion). Text that appears to have enough verified as postulates of religion. 

But if religion is just going to stop just at the point of giving legitimacy, it is true, that's wrong? Or religion can provide a kind of solution rather than the illusion of a humanitarian disaster?

People like thieves, pick, carpenters penis is a group that often get punished twice. Just imagine, they are economically not rich, and must be willing (forced) to receive the curse of God. So, no more pagan-but-poor poor poor. And on the other hand, not a few are also the people who live from hand to mouth, construction workers, farmers who lose money every year, fishermen who promised to get the subsidy, but only an empty promise, every month the factory workers who still have shortcomings, and always thought that when his employment contract or porters carrying end² who put his fate to the people who send him, and other icons.

In the group that at the end of it, when they are uncomfortable with the oppressive rituals of life, force, they seek protection gripped by a kind of religion. Unlike the first group, which is always threatened by religion. When the last group to go worship, and every time as well as preachers, clerics or others give him a kind of shade in the hot sun when facing life. Easily the ulama ulama, or any other itu3 taushiyyah give, advice that we should always be patient, trust, and surrender to God. The difficulty of making a living is a trial from God, and if we face it with full surrender, then God will replace it with Heaven?!

With taushiyyah all, suggestions that the drug, the public is being herded to live in another world, to borrow language Mulkhan Munir, other worldly. Living for Heaven there, who will we get later in the afterlife, maybe something like that. If religion is only termaknai limited to sin-reward, Heaven, Hell, the true religion has lost its original spirit. The spirit of liberation, is not the Apostles are always in the midst of the poor, the oppressed rather than vice versa. Or if religion remains understood only in terms of 'who ubudiyyah an sich, the religion has become an illusion, uprooted from the roots of humanity, then throw religion!

Then, how religion emerged as a solution grounded even in the midst of his people? In the Christian tradition we may recognize how humans must establish our Heavenly Father on this earth, by going to the address of God on earth. Address the poor, poor, street singers, beggars, the urban poor and so forth. By visiting the addresses of the Lord God, man will find true Father of Heaven. Or in the Islamic tradition there are saga, how does a prostitute get into heaven because God feed the dog, and 'right abbid⁴ put him into hell because he did not obey the neighbor next door hungry.

The spirit who want to be shown from this saga, that all-time religion is not only a problem keakhiratan, or sin-reward alone. But religion is also the question of how someone can be a protector, my guidance to the oppressed, and seterusnya⁵ terdzalimi. Because it is that the actual duties of religion, revealed to be  rahmatan lil alamiin, meaning that religion is intended for humans, the universe for life and living in his world becomes more prosperous. If religion has not become rahmatan alaamin lil 'then we need to ask what was not true?

The story above is strengthened by God directly via Text Quran, in surah Al-Maun we find the essence more or less, "they're lying just to enjoy the prayer, but forget the fate of people who are socially excluded and suffer". Then from what point do we start 'dragging' of religion that is currently too inflated?

If used to describe our religion, rituals conceived only an sich, saatnyalah religious paradigm shift from theology that bounced into the ground theology. That the verification of our worship to God is through the road of humanity. We not only for the above worship, because once again God does not need our worship. And sometimes he would lose if all the people to rebel from it. That is, good worship ubudiyyah 'more social dimension must mu'amalah. In the social dimension of worship we find his feet on earth. And the earth is footing most obvious problem for our users, finished. Is there no other holy books contain the questions to be answered, you're done!

Paradigm shift will lead us in a prophetic religious attitude. This means that the religious attitude like that of living prophets, the religious in the midst of the people who need solutions to real life problems, not the illusion of reward-sin, Hell-Heaven. Prophet's religion is often hindered by the attitude of religion-forma forma and binds us to discover the essence or spirit of true religion. We must see what is delivered by Munir Mulkhan, which may be painful to see religious practices that contribute to impoverishment (proletarianization) .... when people fall into poverty and die of hunger, the leader is busy with its own strengths and heaven.

Glimmer of hope, may depart from this point that we will correct ourselves about how our religious attitude so far, there we are selfish just befikir about the reward for us to put in His Heaven, or we can come out of selfishness yourself by looking rahmatan lil alaamin 'is when we want to provide care, protection, assistance and forth to our brothers and sisters in need. Wallahualam bishshawaab

Fotenote :

[1]Exacerbated by state policies regarding the privatization of water resources, so the water as the lives of many people today have been approved for sale, remember that Article 33 of the 1945 Constitution.

[2] Because the policy of the IMF labor market flexibility through the dictation of his LOI to the Indonesian government.

[3] More fine again we find the emergence of media-preacher preacher who is always just the same, talking about the reward, sin, hell-heaven. But the real problems of society are poverty, unemployment and so forth.

[4] People love to worship, ritual an sich.

[5] In this case Moeslim Andurrahman give a new term, new mustadl'afuun.