Tawāsuṭ, ʿAdālah, dan Tawāzun dalam Penafsiran Kementerian Agama

Telaah Konsep Moderasi Beragama Negara

Abstract

Various kinds of religious problems in the context of the state such as intolerance between religious communities made the state through the Ministry of Religious Affairs in 2019 formulate a religious moderation program. The importance of this program can be seen from the inclusion of religious moderation in Konsep Rencana Pembangunan Jangka Menengah Nasional 2020-2024 by Bappenas. On the other hand, the Ministry of Religious Affairs has since the 60s produced Qur'anic literature, especially translation and interpretation of the Qur'an. Thus, seeing the continuity of the concept of religious moderation in the Ministry's interpretive products is important. This article tries to discuss this through the following questions: how do the interpretation products of the Ministry of Religious Affairs discuss religious moderation? This study focuses on three main keywords of religious moderation, namely tawāsuṭ, tawāzun, and ʿadālah. The interpretation of these three words will be traced from Al-Qur’an dan Tafsirnya Edisi yang Disempurnakan (2011) dan Tafsir Tematik: Moderasi Islam (2022). To see the continuity of the idea of religious moderation, the interpretations in the two commentaries will be compared with the latest literature products from the Ministry of Religious Affairs, namely Moderasi Beragama and Implementasi Moderasi Beragama dalam Pendidikan Islam. The results obtained are: First, when viewed from the discourse on religious moderation, both the interpretation of the Ministry of Religion and its two latest works show a continuous discourse. The definitions and meanings of key terms that have been explained such as tawāsuṭ, ʿadālah, and tawāzun do not show much difference between these works. Second, when viewed from the discourse on religious moderation in terms of the state, between the interpretation of the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the two books in question there are a number of differences. This can be seen from the Ministry's own tafsir, which interprets religious moderation in general in the Qur'an, more than the two recent works of the Ministry.