HERMENEUTIK SUFI

Sebuah Kajian atas Pandangan Ibn Arabi tentang Takwil al-Qur'an

Abstract

This article is an attempt to analyze Ibn 'Arabi's view of ta'wīl (esoteric commentary) of the Qur'an. This Sufi Master of Andalusia refuses the ta'wīl controlled by reasoning, reflection, thinking, and desire because such ta'wīl deviates from what God meant by His words contained by His Book. But he accepts the ta'wīl guided by God through intuitive unveiling (kashf), that is, the ta'wīl bestowed by God to those whom He gave success in understanding what God meant by His words contained by His Book. This ta'wīl, which is advocated by Ibn 'Arabi, maintains the coformity between the outward meaning and inward meaning