THE PATH OF TRUTH
Roadmap to Global Peace and Prosperity
Written By:
Shepherd
Abstract
This article aims to provide an overview and reflection on the phenomena and dynamics of human civilization in the 21st Century as well as provide alternative analysis and solutions to these phenomena. The dynamics of internal conflicts of the Indonesian nation in particular and the global phenomenon between nations in general show constellation turmoil that worries about the sustainability of human civilization. This study seeks to unravel the description of contextual situations, root causes, and alternative solutions based on tradition or Sunnatullah contained in the Books of God as taught by His Apostles throughout the ages of human civilization in realizing a system of life and a peaceful life.
The writing of this study uses a qualitative descriptive method, which provides a comprehensive picture of a problem that develops with a fundamental idea that will be used as a comprehensive solution based on the values and universal truth system taught by Allah's Apostles. The data used in writing are concrete human social phenomena and historical narratives in Scripture. The method of collecting data by means of observation and literature study is carried out to read and study literature related to the object of the problem being stated.
The results of this paper show that human civilization in the third millennium is experiencing a multidimensional crisis on a personal, national, and transcontinental scale. The basic factor causing the moral and structural crisis is the loss of sipiritual value in every person who puts forward the intellectual and hegemonic hegemony of lust over his fellow human beings.
An alternative solution to resolving global conflicts is to return to the Roadmap of Truth, which is the protocol of the Sunnah of the Apostles in fulfilling Sunnatullah. The methodology used is to model or exemplify the way of life of Allah's Apostles starting from Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Isa, and Muhammad. The Method of the Sunnah of the Apostle became the key to success in living the transition of civilization between the laws of Allah and the laws of nations, divine and non-divine civilizations, the civilization of medina and jahiliyah. That is the Way of Truth or the mission of Allah's Apostles (prophetic voice and action) in realizing peace and well-being on the face of the earth on a personal, family, community, community, nation-state, regional, and global scale.
Keywords: Multidimensional Crisis, The Way of Truth, Circumcision, and the Sunnah of the Apostle
A. Multidimensional And Transcontinental Crisis
Today the world is being stricken with catastrophic natural and social damage.
America and Western Europe are grappling
with macroeconomic recessions, Africa and Eastern Europe are grappling with conflicts of divisions and civil wars, Australia is being hit by disasters, and most Asian countries are not getting out of the typical problems of the third world.
Wars between nations, the suppression of strong states against weak states, colonization and enslavement under the guise of economy, the struggle for hegemony and superiority between the West and the East have ravaged the social system of mankind and created the hell of the world. That portrait of hellish life is a manifestation of ideological, political, economic, social, legal, and transcontinental security defense conflicts and debates. A political scientist, Samuel P.
Huntington (1996), stated his theory of clash of civilizations that a person's cultural and religious identity would be a major source of conflict in the post-Cold War world.
The global downturn also has an impact on the compound life of the Indonesian people. The Nusantara nation as a strategic and cross-world trajectory has a significant impact on the damage in the name of globalization and the darkness of world civilization. The Indonesian nation experienced great moral-spiritual decadence and made the lives of its people full of tyranny so that this nation was in a slump and experienced a multidimensional crisis. As a result, the Republic experienced unrest or nation anxiety which resulted in the decline of civilization and fell further behind other nations in the world.
Another indicator of the nation's decline is shown by the increasing cases of criminality in Indonesia. The high number of cases of corruption in high institutions of the state, rapes, murders, student and student brawls, and other immoral acts makes it clear how low the quality of human life is. This crisis is a crisis that in the intellectual and moral spiritual dimensions has reached the lowest level.
B. The Underlying Problem
All the events that befell this nation in particular and the world in general, should be addressed wisely and wisely. The Indonesian nation and mankind must immediately make improvements without blaming a group of people, the regime of the present or the past.
All elements of this nation's society should sit together to evaluate themselves to see all problems and solutions for change for the better in the future.
Analysis of the nation's problems can be seen from internal and external factors.
Internal factors are influenced by the quality of Indonesian people's abilities and intelligence in managing themselves. External factors are influenced by the lifestyle of individualism, pragmatism, secularism, socialism, capitalism, imperialism, and other understandings.
The root of the problem of the decline in national life is the imbalance of spiritual, emotional, and intellectual intelligence in every nation's children. Instead of balancing these three intelligences, most people of this nation prioritize intellectual and emotional intelligence, causing the decline of civilization. Penyakit siber, misalnya, yang hanya mengedepankan kemampuan rasional sehingga menjadikan pikiran manusia modern berubah menjadi pikiran mekanis dan digital.
Hal ini sering disebut Human Intelligence Virus (HIV) yang menimbulkan Acquired Intelligence Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).
Inteligensi manusia bisa lenyap karena virus itu, Human Intelligence-nya mati dan digantikan Artificial Intelligence, Rational Intelligence, atau Digital Intelligence (Nataatmadja, 2003).
Globally, this is influenced by the low spiritual intelligence of modern humans who are infected with spiritual diseases with all their variations, such as spiritual crisis according to Fritjof Capra, soul pain according to Michael Kearney, existential diseases according to Carl Gustav Jung, spiritual emergency according to Cristina and Stanislav Grof, spiritual pathology, spiritual alienation and spiritual diseases (Sukidi, 2002). This nation is being infected with
"spiritual drugs" which results in the loss of
its identity or character as a nation that puts forward the value of the One True Godhead.
Reflecting on these complex problems, then mankind must re-awaken the spiritual intelligence in itself. Intelligence is closely related to the character of humanity and nationality. The character of man and the Indonesian nation must be revived through the true truth values contained in the scriptures.
The Torah, the Gospels, and the Quran contain the values of universal truth as a source of true spiritual intelligence for all mankind who in fact are servants of the True Master, God Almighty.
From here, humanity in general and the Indonesian nation in particular must return to the only Lord of the Universe, God Almighty.
Only He is the Center of spiritual intelligence for man to underlie his emotional and intellectual intelligence in order to solve all the problems of the social life of mankind.
Globally, the root cause of this series of multidimensional crises is human beliefs, creeds, or ideologies that do not know the Creator of the universe correctly. All human beings who live "religiously" and "nationly"
do not yet know the only true Lord, namely the Lord of the Universe, God Almighty (God, God, YHWH, or other designations of various languages in all corners of the earth).
He is the Lord of the One and unifys all life on earth. As a result of not knowing Him correctly, man as His representative on earth cannot live in harmony and synergize with the will and plan of the Lord of Hosts.
Therefore, man tends to do deeds that are deeply hated by Him, namely living divided in law, ethnicity, religion, race, and each group feels proud of what is in him.
Meanwhile, god's main command that should be done by man, which is to establish a system of life and life based on God's law on earth, is not done by him.
Man prefers to make laws of reflection of his passions to rule over other human beings. In fact, only the law of Almighty God has the right to govern man. Look at how the Apostles of Allah who were commanded by
Him to uphold God's law for the sake of creating peace and well-being of mankind's life.
C. Devoted Only to God
God, lord of hosts, it is He who has created all beings in the universe. Every creature He created is bound by the nature of his life. There is not a single creation of God in the universe that has no function and role in the cycle of life and life. Life between the universes is interdependent and connected in a universal order. This series of intregations between the universes proceeds collectively and synergistically on the right trajectory towards one goal of life, namely the peace and well-being of the universe.
Man, as one of the many beings of the universe, is in fact also bound and intertwined in the harmony of the orchestra of life to achieve the purpose and purpose of his creation. Human beings cannot live freely without being bound by the right rules. For if so, mankind will undoubtedly never be able to achieve peace and well-being in life. Instead, it will only lead to the abyss of perdition, which is an order of life full of slavery, hostility, and war that only leads to oppression, injustice, and poverty. That is the antithesis of God's purpose in creating man which is often referred to in Scripture with the life of hell.
Each creature in nature moves according to its own orbit, task, and function. They walk according to the commandments and rules that God has outlined. Not a single animal, plant, or celestial body has deviated from the Way of Truth that He has invited over His creatures. The creatures have submitted and obeyed the right path of devotion so as to create harmony, equilibrium, harmony, and order to the natural order, on earth and in the sky.
Man, who lives between the two, is supposed to behave the same as any other being in nature, that is, submit obediently to God's law. It's just that a human being is given reason so that he is given freedom by the Creator to choose his way of life. Whatever
his choice, he was bound by the consequences of his choice.
There are only two life paths that humans can choose from. First, the Path of Truth to a life of peace. And second, it is the Way of Misguidance that pushes man to perdition. Both are biorhythmic, their existence taking turns with each other according to the space, time, and time that God has set.
D. The Roadmap of Truth Path
Like a person who is going to take a journey, the basic thing that needs to be realized is that he must first understand correctly the address of the destination and the route of the trip he will travel. A person departing from City A towards City B, for example, he must correctly understand the location and description of City B, the travel route, and the means of travel. If he does not know the direction of his journey, it is certain that he will get lost and deviate from his original destination. Of course, he will not be able to enjoy what he has aspired to in the destination city. For this reason, an itinerary should be accompanied by directions or a travel map that can be used to guide him on the way until he reaches his destination.
Such is the case with the life of the congregation of mankind. Every self or group of human beings must know the final terminal of the purpose of their creation. Man must be earnest in seeking the way of truth so that he can fulfill his fitrah and purpose in life and will not get lost and vain in living life.
Mankind needs an "imaginary map" from God Almighty that will point to it to the path of truth (shirāthal mustaqīm) to peace and well- being of living together. Without the map or guidance of the Creator, man will undoubtedly go astray and will not come to the essence of his creation. From this, man is required to understand and understand correctly the purpose for which God created him, the concept of the Way of Truth, the map and the paths to the ultimate goal.
According to the Great Dictionary of Indonesian, a map is a picture or painting on paper and so on that shows the location of land, sea, river, mountain, and so on;
representation through images of an area expressing properties, such as regional boundaries, surface properties; plan. The definition of a road is (1) a place for the traffic of people; (2) crossing (from one place to another); (3) those traversed or used to go in and out; (4) orbital trajectory. Meanwhile, the definition of truth is (1) a state (thing and so on) that corresponds to the actual state (thing);
(2) something that truly (really) exists; (3) straightness of the heart; honesty; (4) permits;
consent; favors; (5) coincidence.
From the above definition, it can be concluded that the "truth roadmap" is an image or writing in various forms to represent the actual and truly appropriate path or trajectory according to the circumstances to achieve a certain goal. There are two kinds of truth roadmaps, namely physical maps and nonphysical maps. A physical map is a visual form that can be accessed and processed by the eye to give it directions to the destination of a trip. A nonphysical map is a conception or design that exists in the human mind that is theoretical in nature as a guide and guide in achieving a certain goal. Physical or nonphysical maps have clues and signs that must be followed correctly in order to reach the destination location.
The map serves as a travel guide for knowing and measuring theories on paper with the actual conditions in the field. This picture of reality can lead a person to keep walking on his trajectory, turning, or even turning away from the destination. The existence of this map can ensure that a person remains (consistent) in the correct path according to the choice of the travel route he will travel. Without a map, man would not know where he is and how far he still has to travel to reach his final destination. However, if a person reads the wrong travel map, he will still get lost and not reach the final destination.
E. The Path of Truth to Global Peace and Prosperity
This conceptionary Map of the Way of Truth is found in the Scriptures of each religion or system of faith in God Almighty.
The Creator must have given instructions and guidelines for man so that he could achieve the purpose of his creation. Nevertheless, many of these people do not have the ability to read the "Truth Roadmap" correctly so that they are unable to digest and interpret the essence of the Way of Truth that He has laid out for mankind. Most human beings are unable to optimize their listener's senses, sense of sight, and thinking intelligence so they are trapped in the Path of Misguidance that leads to ignorance and destruction.
The Roadmap of Truth that has always been requested by most human beings is manifested in the value and essence of the scriptures. The Way of Truth (shirāthal mustaqīm) is the path of life once taken by people who have received favors and graces from the Creator, not the path of those who get wrath or the path of the lost. [ The Quranic surah Al-Fātihah [1] verses 6–7.] Those who have obtained the favor of Allah are the Prophets, shiddīqīn, syuhadā, and shālihīn.
[ Quranic surah. An-Nisā' [4] verses 68–69.]
The Way of Truth is the concept and practice of the struggle of the Prophets and Apostles of Allah in carrying out their duty to build a bright civilization full of peace and well-being for mankind.
The antithesis of the Way of Truth is the Way of Misguidance once passed by the enemies of Allah's Apostles, namely those who invite people to the darkness and impoverishment of the nations of the world.
These two paths will always be a "map" for generations of people who will continue to struggle throughout the civilization of mankind.
Human beings are faced with a choice, using the "Truth Roadmap" or the "Falsehood Roadmap". Both will give the right direction to go towards their respective final destinations. The Way of Truth guarantees man to attain the essence of his creation and end in a life of blessing, while the Way of
Misguidance ensures that man obtains anathema from the Creator and ends in a life of curse.
Man can freely choose but he is not free from the consequences of choice. If you want to lead to a life of peace and well-being, use the Map of the Way of Truth of those who have succeeded in awakening the civilization he has inherited. But if you want a model of colonial life and destruction, use the road of Misguidance as well as the life path of Satan, Pharaoh, Herod, Abu Jahal, and other damned humans throughout the history of human civilization.
Peace and well-being are two vital components that are the central issue of the purpose of sending Allah's Apostles to the face of the earth. The background to the raising of His Prophet and Apostle was to create a universal leadership system in organizing the civilization of mankind. This story is often told in the Scriptures, torah, Gospels, and the Quran. The final estuary or terminal of the journey of all the Messengers of God is the realization of a system of life and life that equalizes the welfare of mankind.
Man as a two-dimensional being, namely physical-material and mental-spiritual, is in dire need of bathin food in order to live a peaceful life and a zhahir intake in order to live a prosperous life. [ Quranic surah Luqmān [31] verse 20.] The essence of the realization of this peaceful life is symbolized in the greetings of various religious groups, such as Damai Sejahtera, Shalom, Om Swastyastu, Namo Buddhaya, Wei De Dong Tian, and Assalamualaikum.
Departing from these ideals of the common ideal, the irony in the practice of living and living mankind today is precisely the opposite model of life. Religious, national, and state life is moving away from the values of peace and well-being of mankind. Today, interfaith, inter-tribal, and interstate conflicts are more dominant in adorning the dynamics of civilization. Of course, this multidimensional crisis condition must be sought for the root cause in order to be unraveled and solved as an exit to heavenly life, a better form of life.
Most human beings are mistaken in perceiving or interpreting the meaning of religion. They interpret religion as a ritual system of worship alone, even though God created man to serve Him. The meaning of serving to be limited to worshipping the Creator also gave birth to a secular model of life that was far from the truth. This secularity between religious life and state life is very dangerous because it considers God to be worshipped only in places of worship, while His commandments and prohibitions (laws) are not obeyed in human daily life.1 Their attitude was as if to affirm that there were two masters in his life, namely the master who was in the sky and the master who was on earth. In fact, all the Prophets and Apostles of Allah teach that only one lord is worthy of service, He is the Lord of the Universe. Man must not be devoted to two masters, God and Mammon.2
All Prophets and Messengers of Allah carry the same din. None of them carried different religions, except Dinul Haq (the true system of life of Allah).3 There is no change in the Din of God by which He created man based on that fitrah. All of Allah's Apostles have submitted obediently (Arabic: aslama) to the system of life and life He created, which is the Din (law) of Allah.
Thus it can be said, din is not a religion.
Din is a system of life and life for mankind.
The living system is the system that regulates human life personally, while the living system is the system that regulates communal life.
Some of the words of Allah in the Quran provide correspondence regarding the similarity of the living system and the estafeta of Allah's Apostles in carrying out the mission of the way of truth in their respective time and space.4
From the confirmation and coherence of the word of God it is very clear that the system of life and life brought by Allah's
1 Al-Quran surat An-Nisā` [4] ayat 60.
2 PB Matius 6 ayat 24; Lukas 16 ayat 13.
3 Al-Quran surat At-Taubah [9] ayat 33; Al-Fath [48]
ayat 28; Ash-Shāff [61] ayat 9.
4 Al-Quran surat Asy-Syūrā [42] ayat 13; Āli ‘Imrān [3] ayat 84; Ar-Rūm [30] ayat 30–32.
Apostles is the same, identical, and amicable.
There is no difference between the living system and the life brought by the Apostles in realizing the peace and well-being of mankind on earth. The Apostles of Allah are like actors who perform the big screenplays of the Director, the Lord of the Universe, in different units of space and timelines.
The system of life and life that God created is not as evolutive as the religious sense according to its adherents. The truth claim or unilateral truth claim of religious people stating that one religion is more perfect than another actually creates a gap or division of mankind.
The appearance and character of man is actually the same since the default age and therefore he needs a universal, equal and never-changing living system. It is that system that the Prophets and Apostles of Allah fought for through the Way of Truth (shirāthal mustaqīm) to realize a peaceful and prosperous life, mercy for the universe, the life of the caliphate on the face of the earth.
It is this universal concept that Abraham/Abraham used as a guide in treading the path of true truth. The path of Abraham (2100 BC) was also passed by generations after him, both the House of Israel in the time of Moses (1400 BC), Isa or Jesus (1 AD), and the House of Ismail in the time of the Prophet Muhammad (609 AD).
The way of truth, according to Abraham, is a concept for creating a balance of life in birth and mind. That is why the Abraham/Abrahamic way of life is enshrined in the Holy Quran as the Way of Truth (shirāthal mustaqīm) that Allah showed to His servants. [ The Quran surah Al-An'ām [6]
verse 161; An-Nahl [16] verse 123; Āli 'Imrān [3] verse 95; Al-Baqarah [2] verse 130; An- Nisā' [4] verse 125. ]
The Abraham/Abrahamic way of life as the concept of the Universal Way of Truth is manifested in the enforcement of God's law for the civilization of mankind. Abraham's teachings valued human aqidah so much, he never imposed aqidah personally on other human beings.
One's faith is the prerogative of the Creator. Abraham—and the Apostles of God, only invited man to repent and re-establish the one system of life and life, which is the establishment of God's law on earth for the realization of heavenly life, peace and well- being of mankind. This condition of blessing was once realized through the mission of the Prophet Moses and the House of Israel–with his The Ten Commandments, in building Jerusalem (the Land of Peace).
In harmony with the sunnatullah of life, the transition between night and day civilizations, the House of Israel unraveled the cord of covenant with God that he had once tied before Moses. As a result of his betrayal, the House of Israel returned to life under the conditions of condemnation and colonization of the kingdom of the nations. In order to re- bind or renew the old covenant between God and the House of Israel, the Lord of Hosts sent Jesus Christ to have him fulfill the law in Jerusalem 14 centuries later. That is the essence of the Old and New Testaments.
Similarly, when God's law no longer exists on earth after the death of the Kingdom of God built by Jesus, the world re-enters the dark age (jahiliyah) marked by the destruction of social and natural order. To organize civilization and recreate world peace, the Prophet Muhammad was sent to the midst of the Arabs to build Darussalam (Land of Peace). [ Quranic surah Yūnus [10] verse 25.]
With the establishment of the Kingdom or Caliphate of Allah built by the Prophet Muhammad, the Light of Allah enveloped the world, human civilization at that time was filled with advances in science and technology in all aspects of its life.
The wheels of civilization are constantly rolling. When mankind forsakes God by disregarding His laws, the world is again plunged into a dark civilization full of chaos and chaos. The multidimensional crisis in every corner of the world has again occurred due to the absence of an equitable distribution of justice, peace, and well-being for the nations of the world.
To get out of it and return to live in the shade of Allah's love, mankind must take the
only way to Darussalam, which is to carry out the sunnah protocol of Allah's Apostles in fulfilling sunnatullah. The protocol contains a methodology to restore the life of the world to peace and prosperity by exemplifying the way of life of Allah's Apostle as a solution to global problems.
Thus is the flow of civilization between the law of God and the laws of nations, divine and non-divine civilizations, the civilization of medina and jahiliyah, which the Creator has always been rotated throughout the ages as the alternation of day and night. Thus it has become a decree and certainty of God that never changes and changes. Each civilization has its own age or time, one time it was born and another time it was turned off.5
This is the scientific foundation in building the confidence of Millah Abraham's generation to strive to uphold the system of life and life brought by every Apostle of Allah. To serve the right is to carry out all things based on the instructions of the Creator.
The guidelines and guidelines for undergoing the sunnatullah and sunnah of the apostles are recorded in the acts of the Apostles enshrined in the holy Scriptures of both the Torah, the Gospels, and the Quran. It is the truth of these words that will be the lamps and commanders in treading the protocol of building up a plenary man and becoming servants whom He desires. True faith and pious charity will lead people and the nation of the Archipelago to become a world pilot nation, a nation that submits obediently to His laws, and becomes a judge in an effort to realize world peace.
Those are the true truth values contained in the Scriptures that boil down to the conception of Millah Abraham as the Way of Truth and the mission of Allah's Apostles to realize a life of peace and prosperity on earth.
As human beings, we must be well aware that the purpose of the Creator sending the "divine message" in the scriptures is in order to build a civilization full of peace, compassion, and well-being for mankind. The script of
5 Al-Quran surat Al-A‘rāf [7] ayat 34; Āli ‘Imrān [3]
ayat 26–27; Al-Fath [48] ayat 23.
Scripture is evidence or fact of the victory of the struggle of Allah's Apostles in establishing the right system of life and life on earth.
Challenges and obstacles in providing
"glad tidings" and "warnings" to other human beings have become commonplace in the journey of upholding God's treatises. It is not easy for man to enter into the Kingdom of God full of peace and well-being. It takes consistency from a group of human beings who have chosen the "Truth Roadmap" as the concept of the journey to be taken in achieving their life goals. This conceptual map will be a pointer, guide, and justifier for people walking to keep them on the right track.
Patience, tenacity, persistence, and sincerity in optimizing all the resources of the group to undergo every stage and test became the key to victory for these pins of the Way of Truth. With it, the independent community or congregation will come to a common goal and ideal in building a new civilization full of peace and prosperity. The Creator Who created himself must have been aware of the path of life taken according to the imaginary- map that He had taught through the Messenger Man. That is the prophetic voice and action, the way or mission of Allah's Apostles in realizing peace and well-being on earth.
F. Final words
The commitment and consistency of faith in thought, word, and deed (pious charity) will be the touchstone in giving birth to new human beings of noble character, characters that correspond to the portrait or image of the Creator so that he is worthy and worthy of being His representative on the face of the earth.
Sunnatullah (tradition of Allah) and Sunnah of the Apostle (tradition of the Apostle) are a certainty and guarantee of success to realize a peaceful and balanced living system both on a personal, family, community, community, nation-state, regional, and global scale. Those are the
essential values inherent in the messenger of Allah in his duty to perfect human morals, establish His legal system, and become mercy lil 'ālamīn, mercy for his fellow man and the universe.6
May the readers, servants of God Almighty, be able to understand and interpret this Roadmap of Truth of life and life. As servants of the Lord Creator of Nature, we should always seek the path of truth to achieve the right purpose of life. Beliefs cannot be forced, but that does not mean that they cannot be communicated in search of the bright spots of civilization. Interfaith dialogue with the foundation of common sense (rational), postulate (normative), historical (historical) and wise arguments is needed to find common ground, not intersectional points, so as to be able to forge a cord of brotherhood between human beings in creating peace and global prosperity.
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