ABSTRACT
This study discusses the ‘political thought contextualisation of Hamka, on the state, religion and morality’. It specifically examines the phenomenon in society that politics tends to be legalising all means to achieve their political goals, it tends to be conflicting interests. The purpose of this study is to prove that Hamka’s political thoughts are not the case, but that the opposite is true. This means that politics is sacred and beneficial when used as a means to achieve benefits and for the sake of the society/community. This study applies a qualitative approach and is reinforced with a literature review, including interviews with close family and a very familiar Hamka figure in the field of sociopolitical activism, namely: Masjumi, Muhammadiyah, YPI Al Azhar and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI). The interviews were intended to help strengthen, map, explain and analyse the political thoughts of Hamka. Subsequently, the data were analysed using a qualitative approach to the interpretation in order to derive conclusions that address existing problems. This study proves that, in the context of Indonesia, there is no separation between religion and state affairs. According to Hamka, Islam is the doctrine of revelation containing syari’at, worship, muamalat and state, rooted in tawhid (the supremacy of Allah). Islamic religion in this case is not narrowly conceived and executed partially as prayer alone (secular), but comprehensive in terms of society and state.
