Khutbah Jumat Bahasa Jawa: Kunci Kamulyan, Sugih Tanpa Bandha, Digdaya Tanpa Aji
True perfection, wealth, and power without material means are achieved exclusively through the consistent observance of divine commandments and perseverance in faith.
To attain all these things, the key is in fact the same as that of the character traits of the God-fearing, namely through the fulfilment of the commandments of Allah, the Exalted, and the avoidance of His prohibitions.
The text presents a Javanese wisdom that describes wealth, power, and victory without material possessions, magical powers, or armies. These qualities are defined as characteristics of the God-fearing. The key to this perfection lies in the fulfilment of the commandments of Allah and the avoidance of His prohibitions. The text emphasises that this path appears simple but is open only to the persevering. It is an introduction to a Friday sermon (khutbah) in Javanese. The sermon begins with the traditional praise of Allah and the testimony of the oneness of God and the messengership of Muhammad. The text combines local cultural expressions with Islamic theology. It calls for inner discipline and religious practice in order to attain true strength.
Worldview
what this means- What, according to this text, is the root of the evil?
- Clinging, desire, the inability to let go
- Where does the evil reside?
- in the heart, the will, or the soul of the individual
- What helps against it?
- keeping the commandments, maintaining order, fulfiling one's duties; contentment, fasting, voluntary sacrifice, letting go
- What is human being according to this text?
- willed by God, with a task and a responsibility
- What does the text base its claim on?
- on the founder or prophet of the tradition; on tradition, the fathers, an established practice
- To whom does the text's call for devotion apply?
- to one's own fellow believers
- Where is the text's criticism directed?
- at one's own community and at oneself
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What the text calls for
- Die Gebote Allahs erfüllen (inward)
- Die Verbote Allahs meiden (inward)
- Ausdauer im Glauben bewahren (inward)
Measured
- Basic stance
- 1 from -2 to 2
- Insistence
- 2 of 3
- Reach
- 1 of 5
- Concreteness
- 1 of 3
- Boundary
- 0 of 3
- Time
- past 0, present 1, future 1