Abdurrahman Wahid - Abdal Hakim Murad: Paradigms of Leadership 

Thank for your explanation about Gus Dur ( he is good President ) for my country Indonesia, Bravo for you Sir Murad, Allah blessing you always, Amin Ya Robb

As an NU Activist, I am so thankful to Syaikh Murad for discussing about history of Islam in Indonesia, Colonialism, Nahdhatul Ulama, and our most respected Kyai, the late Gus Dur (lahul fatihah) in such beautiful and insighful lecture!! I am so addicted to your lectures since the time of Covid 19, alhamdulillah!

"Gitu aja ko repot?" ;) Gus Dur was so often lambasted for his very un-presidential countenance, but he was exactly what Indonesia (and I argue the world) needed in a leader.

Jazakum Allah, Syaikh. I had never imagined Syaikh would give a talk about Gusdur Rahimahu Allah. The first time I watched Syaikh Abdul Hakim Murad was about 8 years ago. I was happy to know that there are many traditional Islamic scholaes in the west. Salam from Sunda, Indonesia.

I am Indonesian and I grew up in east Java not far from Pesantren Tebu Ireng Jombang where Gus Dusr was born. What the the speaker said about Gus Dur Leadership was generally true based on fact and was written in our History. If I can add about three most important figures discussed by the speaker were Ahmad Dahlan (The founder of Muhammadiyah organization), Hasyim Asyari (The founder of Nahdatul Ulama Organization), and Gus Dur (The The Fourth President of Indonesia also the Grandson of Hasyim Asyari). They all brought tolerance and right pathway of Islam based on Prophet Muhammad teaching through 4 Islamic teaching Mazab (Hanafi, hambali, maliki, and safii). Here we fight or abolish radicalism in Islam principles. Islam flourishes side by side with 4 other religions. 90% population hold islam. Like his Grandfather, Gus Dur has many miracles which difficult to understand or observed for it's beyond our understanding. Later, all of his prophetic come true such as Prabowo will be the next president today

As a Muslim who belongs to the lower middle class, growing up in the freshly liberated Portuguese colony. Today Sir when I look at your stature as a Muslim intellectual, I feel redeemed of the subjugation that we Muslims went through. You are our reward🎉, and what a reward! May Allah keep you on this road till your last breath.

Salaam from Indonesia Syaikh.... I'm Javanese, there are two Wali (Songo) tombs in the city where I live... it's beautiful how this ummah can know and learn from each other.... I'm interested in British Islam and really love your books, been to Cambridge once, brought a collection poems of A. Quilliam.... I'm so happy that people in Cambridge also appreciate our culture, it's like two different worlds yet united by Islam.... I hope one day I can attend your lecture in person

I love the way you contextualize Gus Dur in post-colonnial Indonesia, making him the representation of Indonesian Islam (Muslim) and their struggle to maintain their indentity as fully Indonesia, fully Muslim.

i just found out of Mevlana Syeikh Yusuf Al Makassari was the great comentator of Ibn Araby. JazakaAllah Khair Ya Syaikh. Masha Allah ❤

Really hope shaykh can also tell his overview of BJ Habibie. Indonesia's third president, albeit unelected democratically, is one of the most beloved figure in Indonesia's history. Very devout muslim, deeply in love with his wife, very intelligent and has many IP in Germany. His story should be told and offers perspective of a great muslim leader of our time.

Gus Dur taught how to "humanize humans", meaning being a true human being... hopefully we can practice his role models

On one interview, Gus Dur explained that his supporters were ready to storm Jakarta to oppose his demotion as a president. So he came out of the presidential palace in t-shirt, shorts and sandals to "demystify" himself as a leader of the largest Islamic organization in Indonesia, to calm down his supporters, avoiding the expected blood bath and chaos that might have happened.

So much love from Indonesia ❤🇲🇨

May Allah grant health to our sheikh,Listening to him adds to my knowledge and gives new perspective to thinking

Gus Dur is a 21st century figure who has a visionary mind and remains truly grounded in matters of marginalized communities in defending the truth of their rights

I stumbled on this lecture and it is honestly an extraordinary outline of a contemporary Muslim leader. Jzk khair

I really hope that Malaysia and our PM Anwar Ibrahim could invite Sheikh Dr Hakim as our guest and give talk

So gland to find Muslim western scholars talk about Muslim thinker from SE asia, not many western and middle east scholars want to talk about our Islamic tradition.

Abdurrahman Wahid as known as Gus Dur is a former president of Indonesia, also known as the father of pluralism because he really appreciates diversity, especially ethnic, religious and racial diversity and also the importance of respecting each other's differences as a diverse nation. Thank you Sir, for discussing the topic of Gus Dur. Assalamualaikum Warrahmatullahi Wabarakatuh, greetings from Indonesia 😊

Semoga Syeh Abdal Hakim Murad dan Gus Dur selalu diberi keberkahan dari Allah SWT...Amin

Thanks a lot from Nahdlatul Ulama - Indonesia ❤

Fascinating account of, not only Gus Dur's life, but also of modern Indonesian history. I have traveled through Java several times and am well acquainted with the culture. It is a beautiful country with beautiful people. They are an asset to the ummah. May Allah bless them with success on this journey. Thank you, Shaykh.

MashaAllah, learning about Gus Dur's leadership and his dedication to Islamic values in governing Indonesia is truly inspiring.

Terima Kasih Kyai Abdal Hakim Murad atas sesi ini yang mengangkat tentang sosok Gus Dur dan kepemimpinannya. Saya menyukai penjelasan Kyai Murad pada sejumlah sesi sebelumnya, terutama tentang Walisongo, juga sosok tokoh spiritual seperti Syekh Ahmadou Bamba Senegal. Peradaban Islam berlimpah sosok pemimpin spiritual dan formal yang mengabdi dan membawa perubahan pada komunitasnya. Dan saya memandang Kyai Abdal Hakim Murad ini adalah walisongo-nya tanah Eropa - Amerika, bersama Umar Faruq Abdalla, Yahya Rhodus, Hamza Yusuf, dan lain-lain.

My deep respect and reverence to Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad 💚

Very well interpretion of Indonesia...not many foreigners can do as excellent as this Syech

Indonesia had so many great leader, but gusdur is the most talk leader, he is a hero for chinese-indonesian, he is a friend of any religious leader, he is polyglot, he is legend of indonesian comedy, and as politician, islamic scholar and leader it endless to talk, what a great human god ever created

Thank you Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, salam from Java. ☺

From the reference to Hajj in older days in this discussion, It came to my mind that the purpose of Hajj for those Muslims who could afford it by health and money is to keep the uniformity of Deen across the globe and Pan-Isalmsium. Maybe Allah wants Muslims from every corner of the world should meet each other at Macca and Madina and learn from each other worldly knowledge and religious knowledge and take it back to their people and area for the betterment of entire humanity. What is a big way for Allah Pak to promote deen and worldly education through Hajj. The reference to classes in Macca before and after Hajj is a testimonial to this. I am sure Hajj was another tool to keep uniformity of deen across the globe. Maybe learned Ulema would shed more light on this topic

I wish the recitation was included which started the session. It was absolutely beautiful. Literally felt every word. Was hoping to hear it again. Please upload separately if possible.

Remarkable presentation Sheikh. Jazakallah khairan

Thx u for your class lecture regarding the late Gus Dur, one of our former leader

Thank you for describing Gus Dur. It's mean a lot for us in Indonesia

I live in Lombok island (the east of Bali island in Indonesia) where the indigenous people are 100% muslim (the population is around 3 million), our tribe is called Sasak which means "The One". To qualify as a Sasak person one should be a Muslim and must be born to a Sasak family. Our island is also known as the island of a thousands mosques but we actually have many more than 1.000 mosques.

Lots of ❤ from Malabar south India

Thanks Syaikh for bringing up this session on Islam in Indonesia & Abdurrahman Wahid

Alhamdulillah sheikh Hakim Murad would told about Gus Dur (Abdurrahman Wahid)! May Allah preserve you and your work Sheikh!

Thanks for presenting such a detailed life sketch of this great Muslim of the contemporary times. The lessons drawn from it are valuable.

May Allah bless syeikh murad and gusdur❤

Alhamdulillah. May Allah bless Syaikh Abdul Hakim Murad.

جزاك الله خيرا سيدي..

As an Indonesian, and proud Gusdur-ian, thanks for acknowledging his role/significance in our modern Muslim world!

May Allah bless Syaikh Abdal good health & blessing 🤲🏼

Alhamdoulilah for Mr Murad.May allah have mercy upon you, family and the oummah, allahumma ameen!

Wow sheikh is talking about our alm excellency former president Gusdur. Syukron.🙏🏽

جزاک اللہ خیرا. یا! شیخ

Really appreciate this talk, thank you Shaykh Abdal Hakim Murad, and amen to your prayers. We’ll see how it goes with the new president (son in law of Soeharto), may Allah protect Indonesia and all of us always, through our alim ulama, among others.

Masya allah .. thanks a lot syekh.. Salam from indonesia

Thank you for this interesting talk. Much to learn of this part of the Muslim world.

Assalaimualaikum Enjoying listening to you 👍

Alhamdulillah May Allah bless Sh Abdal Hakim

thanks for bringing this

Masya ALLAH. thanks syeikh

Really hope sheik abdal hakim Murad does a lot MORE leadership videos. So addictive. Also wish sheik writes more books - maybe another book on the contentions?

incredible explanation, thanks sir murad

Smoga jdi tambahan wawasan umat manusia didunia

MashAllah, as always, jam packed with so much great info.

Salam greetings ❤ to Abdal Hakim Murad n you all from Jkrta terima kasih-sukraan-thx for share this video dalog-opinion to us

Me and my big family all NU ❤

May Alloh bless You, syekh 🙏

Any followers from nahdatul ulama here?

An then, after gus dur leave me and Indonesian people. We have a Aaliim person in the figure "Gus Baha". Again, "Gus Baha" always study in Indonesia, he don't go to Arabia country to learn about islamic knowledge. He's a Hafidz, Aalim Fiqh, and product of pesantren. He from Nahdlatul Ulama too. I hope islam moderate can be applied in the world. if the muslim ask about islam moderate, guys you can visit indonesia, visit pesantren and visit Nahdlatul ulama. love from santri online Gus Baha

May Allah have Mercy for him...❤

fascinating history

Ahlan wa Sahlan , Welcome to Cairo, Hatnawwar il Dinya 🎉✨🧿

جزاك الله خيرا

Gus Dur isn't good in term of defending the power. But, He is a great leader in term of bringing change on youth santri generations. Under his influence, thousands of introvert young santri became important figures in political movements, NGO's activists, and Muslim intellectuals.

Thanks for this video

Father or pluralism, and liberalism, Gus Dur or Abdurrahman Wahid doesn't follow his great grand father path... proud of PBNU...

Salam from indonesia

awesome 👍

good to decipher this subject, i suddenly recall to the work of Mr Greg Barton in his book ; authorized biography of Abdurahman Wahid.

PANCASILA is absorp from "Jakarta Charter" wich inspired by "Medina charter". so it still dont brake islamic tradition for indonesian as a new country.. basicly everybody happy..

Thank you for

love it❤

Thank you for the lecture on our ulama

63 without white hairs subhanAllah

i didnt not expect this..., how would foreigners see our beloved former president gus dur

As-salamu aleykum, thank you sheikh for this wonderful talk. Could you please educate us about the turbulent experiences faced by Muslims in Cyprus since the British took over in the late 1800s when they leased Cyprus from the Ottomans for a century. Unfortunately, this led to the curtailing of Islam amongst Turkish Cypriots, which has led to them becoming probably one of the most secular Muslims in the world. However, despite this there has been a revival of Turkish Cypriots who are now observant of Islam especially among the younger generations and it seems especially the case in the UK diaspora. Could you also please educate us about the most prominent Turkish Cypriot Muslim sheikh of recent times Sheikh Nazim and his life and how he influenced the spread of Islam in Cyprus and how he resisted secular Turkey’s turkification of islam with its ‘Turkish ezan’. He has also been influential globally as well. If you could do this it would be amazing and inshaAllah eye opening for Turkish Cypriots worldwide. JazakumAllahu khair, thank you for your efforts Sheikh Abdal Hakim Murad and team

Models of how many people or teachers are needed to get a lasting movement only hold up in face of ignoring exceptions. Those who know and practice religion will have a better result than those who just have the material resources. It is important to realize cultural origins of problems; rather than define them in terms of blood, soil, and religion. It is important to have an idea of the different affect of the different groups that can evangelize. Islam is the best unifying force for a constitution, if we look at how Islamic fundamentalism bans forcing religion and doesn't make it unfair against minorities-like so-called State Religion. It would not only be tolerant of all actual material and psychological culture, but use it. That doesn't mean they will favor what can be done with these mindsets and technology.

Indonesian here

The story is cool. Has the book been made & published yet?

Salam fron Indonesia🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

Thanks,.. from indonesia,.. It would be even better if there was an Indonesian translation...🙏🏻

'The Japanese kicked the Dutch out of Indonesia and tried to encourage the Muslims worship to the emporer. That didn't go down too well.....' 😂 Love it

Believe it or not, President Gus Dur is a very kind person. he is kind to everyone, including his enemies .. And what Gusdur is most famous for is his visionary ability, which can predict the future even with joking narratives .. For example, when he met Jokowi when he was still very young and said that Jokowi would become president .. In fact, Gusdur's biggest enemy was a political party called PDI, whose leadership was ousted by that party .. However, after he died many years, Jokowi, who initially had no chance of becoming president, succeeded in becoming president after being invited to join the PDI party ..

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wow

Abdurrahman Wahid he is my favorite president

can you also do this for Kalimantan or Borneo island? im Muslim live in Samarinda City and the only history i told/remember when its about the whole Kalimantan or Borneo island is that Kalimantan or Borneo people independency is later and not in 17 august.

Organic of before -1 Arab Spring 00s. Baghdad 60s.

Assalamualaikum

Nggak nyangka bahas Gus Dur

Please make the lecture of Tuanku Imam Bonjol...He is a salafi....!

sy kurang paham... entah knp subtitelnya ga muncul padahal udh on... tolong yg punya link subtitle dong... 🙏🙏🙏

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Islam prohibits its adherents from being excessively proud of their ethnicity, race and class, on that basis Indonesia was born which has thousands of regional languages, islands, tribes and also races, Islam is the majority but Islam teaches to respect each other. This is Islam😄

Thank for your explanation about Gus Dur. and if i may give you advice, collaborate with islamic educational institutions in Indonesia, such as Gontor, etc. I think that's good idea.

The sultanate of Jogjakarta was Ottoman representative. The Dutch could never deformed the sultanate of Jogjakarta. My opinion, the Hamengkubuwono IX was the most influencing person to the birth of republic of Indonesia. Some Javanese considered HB IX as a Kiai. Kiai is ulama, minority of them has a very extremely good relationship with Allah and i believe the HB IX was one of the minority. The HB IX acted as a king, on the other hand he's also acted as religious leader. A quality which the present sultan has lost it.

As an Individual, Abdurrahman Wahid has no achievement at all, except doing controversial things which became his theme in his Presidential term. He loved making mess and benefit from the mess. He loved gratification. He even pocketed foreign aid money. Other than that, no one will ever talk about or remember him. At all. Nothing. At all. Liberals love him. But he actually didn't really care about "pluralism". He only cared about the money he will get from, let's say, the Chinese. He even almost normalized diplomacy with Israhell. He pocketed money from everyone while doing controversy. His personal masseur was more influential than Ministers and pocketed money from left and right. How is it possible if A Wahid didn't give permission or actually tell him to be his "money collector". Nope. Other than that. Nothing to talk about Abdurrahman Wahid. Ofc, the West and liberals love a crazy man like him and will always praise him. But not the most of Indonesians. The NU santri still respect him, but only as an obligatory respect to Elder. Ofc, there are still NU higher up who exaggerate everything about him. That's because he is the one who open the flood gate of liberals into NU. Those are munafiqs. And he also open the flood gate of corruption. When he became the President, there was corruption euforia amongst his circle, which piggyback by the liberals. Hence, NU today is in the worst mess ever. I was an NU but not anymore long time ago, when he started his crazy controversy. Almost all non-Javanese NU do not agree with the liberal NU today. Javanese NU are different breed. Fanatics and curiously a bit braindead. Easy to be manipulated. So easy, one example: Islam prohibit politic, say the Liberal NU who themselves in the politics. Or, do not backbiting other Muslims, so no criticism, no nothing. Got scammed by a Muslim? Just be silent and endure. That's the environment which allow someone like A Wahid able to do what he did. Do you really believe the blatant exaggeration and fiction about him? That he during night contemplate in certain place and watch cinema during daylight? Photographic memory, while he is obviously a forgetful person. LMAO. If you really hear all the "stories" about him, you might think he is some medieval Saint with unbelievable miracles. It has to be in medieval time because that way no one can verify the miracles. LMAO! If you still don't get it, they all are exaggerated bullshit.