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(dhikr). One aspect of Sufism that mystical orders lead to a deep spiritual face to face with each other (tawajjuh), various illnesses, who usually have
has become the modernists’ easiest experience capable of fulfilling their converse intimately (munajat), drawing already visited a medical doctor but to no
target is bai’at (allegiance), which is yearning to become closer to God. The closer to God and entreating forgiveness avail, assemble to recite the invocations
the unreserved oath of allegiance to a modernists’ appreciation of mystical to gain salvation in this world and in and prayers led by Ustadz Haji Haryono.
Sufi teacher and obediently to carry out orders and Sufism in general has the hereafter. This is an annual event In addition to his life in Bekasi where
certain recitations. They are also against increased substantially. Many mystical in addition to the weekly rituals held by he treats patients with his assistants
the excessive respect Sufis have for their congregation semerged in urban regions, members who reside in Jakarta and with the invocation method, Ustadz Haji
teachers, either a mursyid (leader of a where intellectuals, executives, and surroundings and are usually held every Haryonois also the leader of a pesantren
Sufi order) or the founder of certain Sufi bureaucrats join these groups. Saturday, rotating between various in East Java.
mystical order (tarekat), and sheikhs, People who used to be critical of places like mosques or members’ K.H. Abdullah Gymnastiar founded and
to and the tradition of the heretation of Sufism gradually appreciated these houses. The Mosque of LIPI is one of the for a long time led Pesantren Darut
fatihah that was mediated by a sheikh religious practices and some even places used for this weekly congregation. Tauhid, a pesantren which is identical to
(tawasul) to the founder of the tarekat joined a mystical brotherhood. In the This kind of tawajjuh is not only attended spiritual training activities. Broadcasted
who had been passed away. According last fifteen years, in the courtyard of the by ordinary Muslims but also by by a radio station on the campus of
to the reformists, these practices are LIPI building on Jalan Gatot Subroto prominent society figures, bureaucrats, Pesantren Darut Tauhid in Bandung his
not rooted in the Qur’an or the hadith, in Jakarta, every year a grand ritual is ministers, intellectuals, scientists,
heretical, and invalid innovations. This held. It is an annual commemoration merchants, employees, entrepreneurs, preaching attracted tens of thousands
of people. Aa Gym (as Abdullah
stereotyping had social implications, (haul), organized by the Qadiriyah and so on. Thus, the membership of the Gymnastiar was popularly called) also
in which the modernists considered wa Naqsyabandiyah mystical order. mystical congregations spans a wide
themselves puritan and pristine Muslims, In the month of Sha’ban, the field range of social classes. delivered his spiritually enlightening
where as the followers of Sufi orders usually uses for the ceremony is A grand invocation ritual as the one counsels in a heartrending way and by
as heterodox. According to some covered with giant tents that cover the held in the courtyard of the LIPI office using of simple and touching language.
Because of his popular style of spiritual
observations, this condition started to entire field, while there is also a stage is similar to other rituals held by other
change in the 1980s. According to Julia within the fully carpeted tents. On a Muslim communities in Jakarta and education, Aa Gym is also called the
D. Howell, the tendency to change had certain Sunday, when the offices are other major cities in Indonesia. Some “Manager of Qalbu”.
already begun in the 1970s (Howell, vacant, the annual commemoration is television shows often broadcast similar Not only ordinary people perform
2008: 375). Muslim scholars started performed. The followers of Qadiriyah rituals conducted by organized groups, congregated invocations and
to view Sufism and mystical orders in wa Naqsyabandiyah mystical order from such as the Majlis Adz-Dzikra led by supplications led by a cleric or
general as an alternate way and as a various regions in Indonesia, dressed Ustadz M. Arifin Ilham, Ustadz Abdullah a religious scholar, but also the
modern style of worship, which is said in white uniforms, congregate together Gymnastiar, and also Ustadz Haji number one figure of the Republic of
to had ‘dried’ spiritually and had become with the mursyid and the ‘ulama of the Haryono. The invocation ritual performed Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang
disconnected from the Muslim’s deepest order to perform invocations (dhikr) by the latter is usually coupled with a Yudhoyono (SBY). He is not a cleric
innermost self. The invocations of the and to make supplications (doa), being healing ritual. People suffering from or a religious scholar, but he set up

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