First Study of the Islamic Bioethics Forum in Thailand

Alhamdulillah, thanks to the grace of Allah SWT, the first study conducted by the Center for Islamic Bioethics and Islamic Health Law (BIOHUKI) was successfully held at the Salaya campus of Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. It is planned that discussion activities like this will be held in 16 tertiary institutions throughout Bangkok (Thailand) which will end in 2022 with an agenda of activities every two months. Therefore the activity was named the Islamic Bioethic Forum (IBF) like forums in general which are open to anyone and to adherents of any religion because Islam is rahmatalilalamin. In the first discussion as a speaker was dr. Syaefudin Ali Akhmad, MSc, doctoral student in the Physiology Department of the Faculty of Medicine, Mahidol University. The theme discussed was Boosting the spirituality with worship and preaching. Present at the study were approximately 20 students from Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand from various majors. In his presentation, the speaker conveyed the need for religion by presenting the spirit of religion, namely closeness to the Creator, gaining spiritual experience and finding the most valuable and virtuous meaning of life. The road is through the path of worship in accordance with QS adzariyat verse 56 (the main obligation to worship as Abdullah) and preaching QS An Nahl 125 (the main task as the people of Rosululloh). The way of worship is the way to become a servant of Allah who is always obedient, stays away from immorality and if you commit a sin, repent immediately, even Allah really likes a servant who has sins who repents. If all these life activities are intended to seek the pleasure of Allah and by following the sunnah of the Prophet, then they will be considered worship, especially ethics and morality. Therefore the teachings of Islamic life ethics or Islamic bioethics are very important for any profession. Da'wah is an Islamic teaching for our social responsibility to spread the benefits and spread the benefits throughout nature on Islamic guidance. Islam does not teach its people to sit sweetly at home waiting for death, but Islam encourages its people to explore nature in search of guidance and spiritual practice. Religion or religiosity is different from spirituality. In the Islamic life system there are 3 levels, namely Islam, faith and ihsan. If humans have a body-mind-spirit component, then Islam also consists of a body, namely the Pillars of Islam, Mind, namely the Pillars of Faith, and Spirit, namely the Pillars of Ihsan. It's a shame that only a few Muslims can reach the ihsan or spiritual level so that everywhere they are proud to wear robes and turbans but their spirituality is not formed. While the Dai Lama, a Buddhist spiritual figure who is proud of his robes, no one protests, but Muslims are bullied by radicals, fundamentalists and terrorists. Precisely it is autocritical for the speaker himself. But there is also the danger of feeling that you have reached the level of ihsan or feeling that you have high spirituality even though you are still praying at dawn alone at home without any excuse.

With da'wah it will be easy to realize a spiritual level while with worship a religiosity level will be formed. The way of da'wah is the way of the prophets so that worship (prayer/prayers) and da'wah are two sides of a coin that cannot be separated. As the center or center of the path of da'wah and worship is the mosque with the life of the conscience of the anbiya. Because in that meeting everyone was determined to ask Allah with all earnestness and the best effort to build a mosque around the Mahidol campus location in Salaya because to this day there is not a single mosque around the campus. In the context of this case, a 24-hour mosque practice training will be held after the semester break with a group of mosque practice pioneers for the Mahidol campus for 3 days. May Allah grant it. I do not forget to express my assistance to the parties who have helped this event, especially UII which has provided assistance with the cost of Doctoral Education, UII FK leaders who have visited us in Bangkok, the Tabligh Syuro Alami Congregation which has become a consumption section, the Nizamuddin Tabligh Congregation who have supported the core of the event, and the biohuki admin, mas nano, who is the single committee member. May Allah repay the kindness of all. Amen