Our Islamic faith is constructed through the hegemony of an ideology of political economy conception, in which it shifts the attention of Islam from material issues to ideational issues, from the attention toward the material-concrete conditions to the theology and truth-claiming discourses. It is first and foremost a material issue. One that perpetuates selfishness and personal desire, diminishes solidarity, increases the pride of material luxury over social inequality. Let us point it directly, as a critique and auto-critique: our Islamic faith is a bourgeois faith. the problem of our Islamic faith is classic: our act of Islam is yet to actually exist as a saviour to those of the oppressed. Did their act of Islam – and the act of Islam by people around them – able to save them? No. Their death would only bear witness to the need of the proletariat Muslim peasant couple for money to pay their debts and save their lives from the hunt of loan shark. Their death need no certification from Indonesian Cleric Council (MUI), or a cheek-in-tongue discourse by the Islamic Liberal Network (JIL), or mourning youths who often claim themselves as ‘Muslim progressives’. Both were devoted Muslims, but the snare of the loan shark did not demand their faith. They both committed suicide by drinking poison due to the unbearable amounted debts. 11 August 2016, a couple of poor peasants named Suhartono and Sulistiorini were found dead in a paddy field of Butuh Village, Keras Subdistrict, Kediri, Indonesia.
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