PENGALAMAN RELIGIUS DALAM TAFSIR IBN ‘ARABI

Abstract

This paper discovered that religious experience was based on individual recognition of his Lord, called fitrah (QS. al-A’rāf [7]: 172). The intensity of recognition of Lord, however, is different for anyone depending on their capacity. Religious experience of the believer is finding the guidance (QS. at Taghābun [64]: 11), while for the muttaqī is receiving the Furqān (QS. al-Anfāl [18]: 29). Religious experience of the mujāhid is achieving the guidance to go through the paths (QS. al-‘Ankabūt [29]: 69). The author researched the interpretation of the verses of religious experience particularly in Ibn Arabī’s commentaries, Raḥmah min al-Raḥmān fī Tafsīr wa Isyārāt al-Qur`ān: Min Kalām asy-Syaikh al-Akbar Muḥy ad-Dīn Ibn al-‘Arabī and al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyyah. This article analysis 4 verses of Qur’an which has correlation with the discussion of religious experience. Through this work, it is clear that the religious experience is consequence of the primordial covenant between human and the Lord.