ABSTRACT

Spiritual tourism in the context of Islamic worship and other religions is in the inner realm of the form of a journey which brings satisfaction and pleasure to the human soul. It is because the comfort of life is not merely based on physical pleasure and happiness. The first and the extraordinary experience of worship and fasting on Ramadan during the lockdown time during the COVID-19 pandemic in securing themselves with the solitude of worship in their respective homes. The methodology is carried out with a case study of the sincerity of individual Islamic worship known only to him/her and his/her Lord alone, without imaging and socializing in the crowd. Seven volunteer participants were recruited for doing the Kurma fasting/date palm fasting on Ramadan (fasting by having pre-dawn meal and breaking the fast only by drinking and having dates for a month). Included were six males, ages of 30, 43, 50, 57, 63 years, and one female aged 61. The findings revealed that they reach the real inner satisfaction as religious spiritual tourism in the God-Human relationship. The higher reduction of someone in his/her relationship to the material shows his/her immaterial qualities and his/her spiritual qualities occur. An absolute in-depth further research supplementation about immaterial and inner worship is recommended.