SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia
Ahmad Najib Burhani
The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta, Indonesia
Abstract
This article aims to provide some understanding about conversion to the Qadiani Ahmadiyya in Indonesia by answering the following questions: How did the Qadiani Ahmadiyya propagate their beliefs and teachings to Indonesian Muslims? What factors that attracted and made people convert to this movement? What is the social impact for those who convert to this movement? Different from commonly held perception that people’s reception to the Ahmadiyya was mainly because of its modernist characters, this article intends to show that the Qadiani’s most attracting points to Indonesian people is not in its modernist stance, but in its belief in the coming of the Messiah, its close knit organization, and the soberness and passionate missionaries. Different from the Lahore, which has been known for its rational tendency, in their propagation the Qadiani emphasized their distinctive beliefs such as the natural death of Jesus and their system of caliphate. The Qadiani Ahmadiyya has also tended to be a mystical movement that has strong belief in supernatural experiences and dreams and used them to show God’s preference to them and His interference in human relationships by siding to them.
Keywords: conversion, propagation, messianic belief, supernatural experience, Indonesia.
Ahmad Najib Burhani
The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Jakarta, Indonesia
Abstract
This article aims to provide some understanding about conversion to the Qadiani Ahmadiyya in Indonesia by answering the following questions: How did the Qadiani Ahmadiyya propagate their beliefs and teachings to Indonesian Muslims? What factors that attracted and made people convert to this movement? What is the social impact for those who convert to this movement? Different from commonly held perception that people’s reception to the Ahmadiyya was mainly because of its modernist characters, this article intends to show that the Qadiani’s most attracting points to Indonesian people is not in its modernist stance, but in its belief in the coming of the Messiah, its close knit organization, and the soberness and passionate missionaries. Different from the Lahore, which has been known for its rational tendency, in their propagation the Qadiani emphasized their distinctive beliefs such as the natural death of Jesus and their system of caliphate. The Qadiani Ahmadiyya has also tended to be a mystical movement that has strong belief in supernatural experiences and dreams and used them to show God’s preference to them and His interference in human relationships by siding to them.
Keywords: conversion, propagation, messianic belief, supernatural experience, Indonesia.
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