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Of course, that would raise the rebuttals and criticism from the previous and other

religious leaders. Indeed Dahlan toughly defended the purity and authencity of Islamic

teachings at all cost besed solely on the Quran and the sunna of the prophet

Muhammad and refused any innovative form in the ibada (Islamic ritual services) like

holding the feast of the dead after seven, forty, or after one hundred days, as commonly

practiced by most Muslims of his time.

y Religious ContextThe most shocking movement that KH. Ahmad Dahlan had made was his finding about

the incorrect qibla (direction of prayer to Mecca) he found in the Sultans mosque of

Yogyakarta which straightly pointed to the west. As an expert in astronomy (ilm al-

hisab), Dahlan was soon aware of the problem. Though there were many who sharply

opposed him, Dahlan was firm and finally successful in his correction to change the qibla

direction to an accurate and fixed point.

yPolitical contextFrom the beginning Muhammadiyah has,indeed, prefered the term Islamic society instead of

Islamic state. This does not mean that Muhammadiyah is anti-political, but rather, it

participates in politics indirectly. In the beginning of the foundation of Muhammadiyah, KH.

Ahmad Dahlan joined the first political organization organized by the youth. He actually just

wanted to know how to build an organization. He always taught that we could take the

goodness of everything that gave us benefits. K.H.Ahmad Dahlan was joined the Budi Utomo

with expectation that his contacts with the Budi Utomo members, who predominantly teachers

at the governmental school or were government officials, would enable him to give religious

instruction on his reformist ideas in the schools and was teaching in the KweekSchool which

was the Nederland school. In the school, he projected that the Islam education should be

taught there. He also joined the national organization Budi Utomo that had the same visions in

education and health.