Bergesernya Behavior Of Ramadan

Ali Mustafa Yaqub

One of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's behavior was very prominent during the month of Ramadan is a kedermaannya attitude is very high. Companions of the Prophet, Abdullah bin Abbas, speak, "If come the month of Ramadan, the Prophet's very generous like a breeze that blew."

Prophet Muhammad the benefactor on moons in addition to Ramadhan and very generous in Ramadan. Very generous this gesture, although it was already a Muslim community of past behavior, it seems that there has been a shift to the Muslims of today. Promotion of consumerism and fierce konsumtivisme which conducted vigorous long before Ramadan coming, while and after Ramadan, has changed the behavior of Muslims during Ramadan so the consumerist. This phenomenon has attracted a sociologist from the University of Oxford, Walter, who in 2004 Armburst doing research about it.

He concludes, Ramadan has become an event that can be used for the purpose of a multipurpose. Ramadan into something which, Furthermore, can be used for a different agenda: from selling products, stimulate production, to promote political stance. The world class marketers long ago marked the arrival of Ramadan as the most important business period.

In this month's Muslims cannot eat and drink all day, but incredibly significant increases food consumption (Indonesia Consumers, 2004; Zainal A Hidayat, Compass, 3/10/2006). Places such as shopping malls and supermarkets but also very crowded visitors during Ramadan. Consumptive behavior of Muslims also triggered the promotion of products and services that are packaged with the Pack of worship. Refer to, for example, packages of Ramadan so that Muslims ' umrah jorjoran berumrah Ramadan.

Consumerist-egotistical

In 2009 it was reported that Muslims perform umrah Ramadan reached 3.6 million people. If this news is true, the number of Muslims who perform ' umrah in Ramadaan is more than the number of those who perform the Hajj. If everyone is spending money on average 2,000 US dollars (approximately USD 18 million), will be accumulated 7.2 billion US dollars issued by Muslims to act is not mandatory and never exemplified by the Prophet Muhammad. If that amount is added to the results of a Research Institute in Damascus, Syria, which States each year Muslims issued 5 billion u.s. dollar funds to make Hajj, then that amount be 12.2 billion u.s. dollars. Whereas, in the same State of Muslims in General were derailed.

Note, for example, Muslims in Palestine, Somalia, Burma/Myanmar, even in Indonesia alone. If the following indicators of the World Bank stated that poor people are the ones that his earnings a day fewer than 2 US dollars, the number of poor people in Indonesia's Muslim majority it reaches 117 million people.

Behavior of Ramadan Muslims Indonesia seems to have shifted from benefactors and berinfak behavior, such as those exemplified the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and consumer behavior becomes the egotistical precisely prohibited by Islam and contrary to the teachings of Ramadhan itself. In the past year, the first night of Ramadan, Istiqlal mosque obtain funds from infak (charity box) tromol Tarawih Rp 23 million, while this year the first night of Ramadan Istiqlal mosque obtain funds infak Tarawih Rp 4 million. While in the great mosque of Sunda Kelapa, if last year the first night of Ramadan Tarawih tromol accumulated USD $ 19 million this year, $ 16 million.

Although the two mosques in the capital of this has yet to be made barometer decreased infak behavior of Muslims, those symptoms should Indonesia become an afterthought. So, our behavior turns out to be more and more away from the guidance that exemplified the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Indonesia Muslims seems to require an actual example from the leaders in all layers so that it is able to play back tapes infak Prophet Muhammad's behavior, not the leader that only clever tongue bersilat.

Ali Mustafa Yaqub Priest Istiqlal Mosque