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that is constantly reminded of a teaching without
tiring. It can be seen in the verses of the Holy Koran,
namely:
And let them not turn thee away from the Signs
of Allah, after they have been sent down to thee;
and call mankind to thy Lord, and be not of those
who attribute partners to Him. (Q.S. Al-Qashash
[28]: 88)
However, this poses a problem in the current
Digital and Information Era. While Muslims today
need a balance between science and religion, the
da'wah done by Khalid Basalamah is still
monodimensional in the sense that it is still fixed
only on the religious science. Also, Khalid
Basalamah's da'wah is amonodimensional in the
sense that it is still fixed on the textuality of Nas or
still using deductive logic alone; also, Khalid
Basalamah da'wah is still madhhāb-centric.
In a video-da’wah titled “Minhajul Muslim: Bab
Adab, Pasal Ke-6, Adab terhadap Hewan”,
published on YouTube and uploaded on December
29, 2017, Khalid Basalamah explains that God's
compassion, through Islam, is to invite his people
and mankind as a whole to spread the love affection
also to all beings especially to animals. In the early
minutes, precisely at the 2′50″ to 3′40″, Khalid
Basalamah explains that in fact, one of the affections
of God that is about to be taught to man and spread
also to animals is to tell people to study it which of
course that of course only can be learned through a
variety of science, especially biology (Basalamah,
2017). Of course, there is no indication of
monodimensional in the sense of overriding general
science, because Khalid Basalamah invites Muslims
in the Era of Contemporary to contemplate the
power of God contained in animals; in short, inviting
Muslims to demand general science to study animals
that are part of his power. The need to study science
about animals also Khalid Basalamah mention at
4′40″, that is when he talks about animals that must
be released in the wild because it is already
determined by God so, need to learn it on campuses
to preserve the animal and its (Basalamah, 2017).
However, if we look back on the video especially
in the 20′15″ and also in the 21′15″, when Khalid
Basalamah talked about the animals that must be
killed (Basalamah, 2017), what was delivered by
Khalid Basalamah is still a monodimensional that is
still textually fixed on Nas. Suppose that when he
explains the obligatory killing wild and feral dogs
and plain black dogs, Khalid Basalamah judges that
we should carry them out without questioning the
content of the Nas as it has been commanded by
Allah and Muhammad. Indeed, in killing the snake
then Khalid Basalamah, in the 18′03″ mention the
context, that is by quoting one of the hadith
(Basalamah, 2017). However, the context is also still
textually fixed to Nas, in the sense, if it shows the
context of the Nas, then we must follow the context.
This shows that in the da'wah of this video, what is
conveyed by Khalid Basalamah is still textually
limited to Nas and which includes the Nas as the
validity of hadith based on sanad or hadith’s
narrators.
Not much different when Khalid Basalamah
talked about science in general. Whether in the video
or in his article, Khalid Basalamah still emphasizes
religious science more than any other science
because it is considered that religious knowledge is
able to reward directly to Muslims. Indeed, in his
four articles, Khalid Basalamah did not specify what
science is indispensable to prosecute (Admin KH-B,
2017a); especially when we see an article entitled
“Ikatlah ilmu dengan tulisan”, it is very clear that
Khalid Basalamah no longer considers that science
in the form of memorizing is more important than
science in the form of writing (Admin KH-B,
2017b). However, in three other articles, Khalid
Basalamah stresses that religious science is very
essential for the salvation of the world and the
hereafter. Suppose that in an article entitled “
Ilmu
agama ibarat air hujan yang turun ke bumi”, Khalid
Basalamah mentions that the religious science is a
science that can live all the sciences and life (Admin
KH-B, 2017c). So do in the article “Beramal tanpa
ilmu” and “Hilangnya ilmu”. In the first article,
Khalid Basalamah asserts that we should focus on
the obligatory and sunna that it is certainly written in
Nas (Holy Koran and As-Sunna) (Admin KH-B,
2017d); and in the second article, Khalid Basalamah
invites Muslims to be wary of the loss of knowledge
and the death of ṡāleh people who are very strongly
associated with the religious science (Admin KH-B,
2017e). In fact, in one video, Khalid Basalamah
considers the philosophical science is a science to
watch out for because it can damage a person's faith,
that is worshiping the idoltaries (Basalamah). Khalid
Basalamah's remarks related to the philosophy can
be proven through video with the title “Filosof,
Filsafat dan Bahayanya: Tanya Jawab Ustadz Dr.
Khalid Basalamah, MA.”. It also shows that what is
given by Khalid Basalamah is monodimensional
da’wah, that is still assume there are some sciences
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