Hidayatullah

Hidayatullah is Islamic organization in Indonesia.

Hidayatullah Profile

Preface

Hidayatullah born when Moslems were waiting the coming of XV Hijriah century that believed as the era of Islam resurrection. The main theme at that time is “Back to Qur’an and Sunnah”. Hidayatullah is a thought movement that tries to interpreted “Back to Qur’an and Sunnah” slogan more concrete, so, Al-Qur’an and Sunnah become a blue print for Islam civilization development.

Hidayatullah believes that the setback of Moslems is mostly caused by partial thought in understanding the universality of Islam. Each group takes theme and program focus according to their partial view, and even theme and program focus become a kind of group ideology.

As an Islam mass organization that is being based on cadre, Hidayatullah claim them self as Islamic Struggle Movement (Al-Harakah Al-Jihadiyah Al-Islamiyah) with dakwah (mission) and tarbiyah (education) as main programs.

Hidayatullah founded on 7th January 1973 / 2 Dzulhijjah 1392 Hijriah by Ustadz Abdullah Said (RIP) in Balikpapan in form of pesantren (school of Islamic studies for Moslems, must of whom are boarders). From a pesantren, Hidayatullah was developed with many activities such as social, mission, education and economy program and spread to many regions. In 2003, this institution has already have networks in 200 cities in all of province in Indonesia. By the first national meeting in 9th – 13th July 2000 in Balikpapan, Hidayatullah changed it’s form to a mass organization and declare them self as Islamic Struggle Movement.

Hidayatullah Mass Organization

As a mass organization, membership of Hidayatullah is inclusive, and so it’s mission, vision, and movement basic concept. Hidayatullah make its affiliates and related institutions having characteristic autonomous and have function as educational basic and member recruitment.

Hidayatullah is institution for Moslems component that want to realize their idealism to build Islamic society refer to prophet method (manhaj nubuwwah). Hidayatullah is steadfast in its adherence to the Al Quran and Sunnah. Its obedience toward Allah and Rasulullah is absolute; therefore all matters must be returned to Allah and Rasulullah.

Hidayatullah leadership built based on prophet method that follows priority scale from the most principle (ushul) until the non-principle (furu’iyyah). While main agenda that become focus work is: streamlining of aqidah, leadership and organization matters (tajdid); awareness brighten (tilawatu ayatillah); soul purify (tazkiyatun-nufus); instruction and education (ta’limatul-kitab wal-hikmah) going to the birth of leadership and best ummah.

Objective

Realizing society based on Al-Qur’an that free from thoughts, ism and attitude that allying Allah (syirik).

Vision

· The strengthen of sentence of tauhid “Laa ilaaha illallah” on earth · The executing of Syari’ah Islam by whole Muslims · Realization of the strength of Islam people in many life area · The birth of combatant cadre · Increase of standing, degree and prestige of the weak and oppressed ones

Mission

· Take role effectively in doing reform process (tajdid) in philosophy of Islam thought as basic for development of Islam civilization in the future · Prepare concept and strategy of struggle accurately · Prepare and build organizations of dakwah, education, social, politic, youth, female matters, and others that are strong, solid, modern and professional · Labouring and pushing the efforts on enhancing the quality of human resources.

Organization Structure and Mechanism

Central Official Members consist of the Council of Sharia, the Council of Representatives (Syura) and the Central Executive Board. Sharia Council is the highest institute of organization, led by a chairman that also represents “imam” (leader) of Hidayatullah, called as General Leader. Council of Representatives represents observation institute for executive, this council consist of 25 members that are elected through national deliberation. General Leader ratifies Central Executive Board in national deliberation for 5 years duration.

Structures under Central Executive Board consist of Regional Executive Boards, Area Executive Boards (sub-province), Branch Executive Boards (district), and Subsection Executive Boards (sub-district). The chief of regional Executive Board downwards selected by deliberation in each level and have responsibility upwards and also to constituents.

Hidayatullah networks are supported by existence of 21 Regional Executive Boards and 194 Area Executive Boards. 51 located in Java and 143 in outside of Java.

Structure of Central Official Members

Chairman of Sharia Council : H. Abdurrahman Muhammad Chairman of Syura : H. Abdul Qadir Jailani

Central Executive Board General Chairman : H. Abdul Rahman, SE General Secretary : Bouwie M. Wibowo General Treasurer : Drg. H. Fathul Adhim Head of Education Department : Ir. M. Abu A’la Abdullah Head of Dakwah Department : Drs. Muh. Tasyrif Amin Head of Organization Department : Drs. Nursyamsa Hadis Head of Economy Department : Drs. H. Chusnul Chuluk, MM Head of Social Department : Ir. Muhammad Musafir

Dakwah of Hidayatullah

Hidayatullah main program is dakwah (mission) and tarbiyah (education). Since its first step, Hidayatullah have sent students to do dakwah as part of education process. Existence of Hidayatullah in various places is an effort to build wide dakwah network and can reach and serve all levels of ummah. Hidayatullah tries to put da’i as “missionaries of Islam” so that the profile of da’i is ones who have excellent and militant characteristic and also have potency to build a balance civilization between earthly and eternity.

Since 1978 Hidayatullah have sent da’i to entire Indonesia. Hidayatullah tries to enhance the quality of da’i by founding Religion College of Islam Lukman Al Hakim (STAIL) in Surabaya and Moslem Law Science College of Hidayatullah (STIS) in Balikpapan as education institutes for cadre of da’i. Because of profession of da’i more tend to dedication therefore Hidayatullah give full scholarship (expense of living cost and education) for students of STAIL and STIS with tenure pattern. In this way expected can be yielded da’i with stratum one qualification in education, dakwah and syariah who have militant soul, ready to be assigned entire Indonesia, expected can stay permanently, given subsidy for maximal 3 years or till they able to be economic performer where they are assigned.

Since year 1998 this cadre of da’i education institute have yielded and sent its grads to various area especially east and middle Indonesia. At least every year Hidayatullah send 150 da’i to many regions in Indonesia with 50 among them are stratum one grads from cadre of da’i education institute.

Hidayatullah Education

In second 25 years step of Hidayatullah, education has a central and strategic role, especially when it’s connected with effort to enhance human resources quality. It is caused by the realization for human standing and prestige increase and socialization of Islam values can be done only by high quality human resource.

According to Islam terminology, high quality human resource is human being capable to use all thinking and recitation potency inside himself or herself well balanced so that all domination of science, domination of technology and his/her skill give benefit to himself/herself, his/her environmental and world generally. Therefore, the development of human resource must be focused on the principles of tauhid and good behaviour without ignoring standing of intellectuality.

Starting from idea above, Hidayatullah introduce concept of integral Islam education and implement it in management of Hidayatullah schools from kindergarten until college level. The “integral” term shows a unity of all existing element, either faith and godly and science and technology, school and society, formal and non-formal, etc.

Hidayatullah education institute covers Kindergarten and Play Group, Elementary School or Madrasah Ibtidaiyah in almost all areas, Junior High School/Madrasah Tsanawiyah and Senior High School/Madrasah Aliyah at least in each region and 3 colleges in Surabaya, Balikpapan and Depok.

Beside Religion College of Islam Lukman Al Hakim (STAIL) in Surabaya and Moslem Law Science College of Hidayatullah (STIS) in Balikpapan as education institute for da’i cadre, Hidayatullah is starting Management Science College in Depok that is expected can yield grads that able to manage the Hidayatullah charitable efforts including economic efforts.

Pesantren Hidayatullah

Hidayatullah pesantrens as does pesantrens in other places, have function as place to deepen science of religion. Pesantren with width of campus it had also have function as miniature or sample project to leadership and organized life in Islam. Besides dwelt by students who live in hostel, pesantren is also dwelt by teachers, nursemaid, organizer and jamaah of Hidayatullah that willing to live in pesantren in order to learn how to live in leadership and be organized.

With all limitation but with full seriousness, we try to strengthen syariah. Leadership is obeyed; obligation to do shalat, fast and tithe, charity and alms is intensified.

Hidayatullah and The Weak People

Centre Education of Pious Child (Pusat Pendidikan Anak Shaleh - PPAS) is institution in the form of pesantren for orphans and poor children that place priority on growth of religious values through the reading of the Qur’an (tilawah), sanctifying of soul (tazkiyah), and studying (ta’limah). PPAS with its management have a multi-dimension characteristic for children; as substitute of parents, mini laboratory of life, and place to strengthen faith and enhance knowledge.

Aside from expectation to minimize economic inabilities, PPAS are expected to be able to produce cadres of combatant (mujahid) that will be ahead in the front line to straighten up the pennant of Islam.

The existence of more than 200 PPAS with averagely 150 orphans and poor children per PPAS is prove of the siding of Hidayatullah’s to the weak (dhu’afa) and the oppressed ones (mustadh’afin), the orphans and poor children. This is one of commitments that get primary attention since the beginning of Hidayatullah’s steps.

Baitul Maal Hidayatullah

Baitul Maal Hidayatullah (BMH) is an institute under Hidayatullah that have functions to manage funds of ummah’s zakat, infaq, shadaqah and waqaf. As embodiment from society and government to Hidayatullah, Baitul Maal Hidayatullah (BMH) have achieved confirmation as a national institute organizer of religious obligatory through decree of Republic Indonesia Religion Minister No. 538 year 2001.

BMH organizes fund property of ummah that entrusted to Hidayatullah to be channelled to empowerment of ummah, moving forward education institute and also social, moving forward mission of Islam, lessening the oppressed and weak.

Now BMH have owned 30 representative offices and 144 partner networks.

Voice of Hidayatullah (Suara Hidayatullah) Magazine

Voice of Hidayatulah Magazine is one of business entity in Hidayatullah that is concentration in press. PT. Lentera Jagad Abadi managed this magazine, which also have non-press commercial division.

Initially, this magazine is only in the form of bulletin, masterpiece result of some student in pesantren Hidayatullah in Balikpapan. Considering what a strategic is dakwah through mass media, the bulletin continue to be developed until finally in form of magazine like now.

Voice of Hidayatullah Magazine contains about dakwah dynamics and problems, either in Indonesia and also world. In it there is rubric interview popular figure, study of Al-Qur’an and Hadits, heroic story of struggle of da’i in various area all over the country, till the problem of family.

Monthly rising magazine ravel now reach 60.000 exemplar. Alhamdulillah have spread over Indonesia, from Banda Aceh to Merauke. Voice of Hidayatullah Magazine has office in Surabaya.

Hidayatullah’s Websites

Hidayatullah’s websites are separated in 3 especial group: www.hidayatullah.com, www.hidayatullah.or.id, and www.hidayatullah.net.

Hidayatullah.com representing the beginning of Hidayatullah site, which has organized since year 1997. Besides as site to Voice of Hidayatullah Magazine along with its products, Hidayatullah.com projected as site of Islam world news.

Information about Hidayatullah as mass organization is placed in Hidayatullah.or.id while Hidayatullah.net prepared to place charitable efforts which having character non-profit under Hidayatullah such as schools, pesantren, and charitable efforts which cannot organize its own website.

Muslimat Hidayatullah (Mushida)

Representing Hidayatullah’s autonomous organization that has owned 15 official members of region in all over Indonesia. Mushida move in dakwah area, education and social focus on women, family and children empowerment.

Mushida’s vision is “Developing Qur’ani Families as Especial Bollard for Formed Tauhid Society”. To reach the vision, every program of Mushida flange to the forming of muslimah personal that is rahmatan lil ‘alamin, and build buttonhole of muslimah which have quality in supporting its role as personal, wife, mother and member of society.

Construction of members program in the form of activity of ceremony of ta’lim which executed routinely. More intensive construction executed through halaqah tarbiyah, leaning group that have member’s maximum 10 persons with determined curriculum.

Mushida Da’iyah Corps (Korps Da’iyah Mushida – KDM) is a division of Mushida that has duty to prepare da’iyah that will be baled out straight in the society, and ever enhance quantity and quality of da’iyah through various activities of cadre and routine training.

In education, Mushida carry duty to develop Hidayatullah education institute in the level kindergarten, play group, Al-Qur’an education centre. Hidayatullah kindergarten, which has well management, trusted by society, become excellent, model to the other kindergartens in enhancement of teachers’ quality through routine training, management construction, publication of bulletin till providing teachers.

Main Cooperative of Hidayatullah (Induk Koperasi Hidayatullah – Inkophida)

Inkophida is secondary cooperative that is becoming place of whole Hidayatullah cooperative network spread over Indonesia. Inkophida is founded in Jakarta year 1999, and has achieve authentication from Minister of Cooperation and Empowerment of Small and Medium Industry of Republic of Indonesia no. 013/BH/M.1/1999 dated 9 April 1999. Now Inkophida own 9 co-operation centres in level of province and 142 primary co-operations in level of sub-province. Inkophida’s vision is to build ummah economy network with justice and profiting each other.

With provisions of experience and strength of network, Inkophida build various kinds of efforts both of being based on nature by exploiting local resource and potency, and also base on technology exploiting human resource had. Altogether in order to yielding and developing innovative products and services with high quality and also valuable in order to developing strong and self-supporting ummah economy.

Hidayatullah and Empowerment of the Rural People

Having been born in East Kalimantan, Hidayatullah naturally has a great concern for the development of the remove areas of the province. This concern was behind the sending, since early 1980s, of da’i (religious teachers or preachers) to the hinterland. Most of the da’i have since built their own pesantren in areas where they were posted –this in addition to the continued effort of the Hidayatullah to develop boarding schools in whatever regions where there are none.

The eastern most province of Irian Jaya or West Papua is another focus of attention of the Hidayatullah. Its da’is can be found in almost all cities and towns of Papua, whose main activity is building the Islamic Boarding Schools for local children. The same tenacious drive of the Hidayatullah preachers could be said for those posted in East Timor before the territory’s independence from Indonesia

Alhamdulillah, the social, educational and da’wah activities of the Hidayatullah can now be found across the country.

Membership

Hidayatullah opened its membership on January 2001 for all adult Muslim, Becoming a member of Hidayatullah means taking part in a new wave of campaign to uphold the faith : Laa Ilaaha illallah – Muhammad Rasulullah.

Members are entitled to training and education that will result in the establishment of Hidayatullah cadres. They, in turn, are expected to give back to the society by bringing to it Islamic solutions to various problems.

Participation

To those who care about Islamic solutions to life, come and participate through Bait al-Maal Hidayatullah (BMH) Bank BNI no Rek. 037.000.93265.002 (BNI Cab. Jatinegara) or the BMH units nearest to you.

Those who really care could join Hidayatullah Peduli Programs to help ease the suffering or victims of natural disasters and other social emergencies.

Spread Islam, mercy for the universe!

Office: Jl. Cipinang Cempedak I No. 14 Polonia, Jakarta Timur 13340 Indonesia Tlp. : 021 8190049 fax. : 021 8574406 email : dpp@hidayatullah.com
contact person : Candra Kurnianto

Indonesian language edition: http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidayatullah