Silat

epistemology in its understanding of silat as a science, PGB members describe it as founded on natural rather than supernatural principles that can be empirically tested through the universal human body (Samudra 2006: 202). According to Wilson Lee, Martial Arts is a means of cultivating body, a vehicle for spiritual development, a performance art and an international sport. Pencak Silat an indigenous and national martial arts [repetitive], developed conspicuously in Indonesian society and political culture,* as a fighting art and a system of physical and spiritual cultivation. The study and practice of Pencak Silat transforms the body leading to ‘inner knowledge’, or ilmu batin, a spiritual cultivation (Samudra 2006: 217). Many of the practices that come under the rubric of ilmu batin are associated with the Sufi orders, which are closely connected with the spread of Islam in Indonesia (Lee 12). Science, as understood in PGB, is universal and is treated as something nearly tangible. Silat skill can be exchanged, given or taken, kept to oneself or shared, even stolen or destroyed (Samudra 2006: 209). Anyone can in theory achieve this knowledge, so no one is barred from membership in PGB because of his or her ethnic or national heritage (Samudra 2006: 210-212). In an interview with her, Suhu Gunawan talks about his transformation after his own father Suhu Subur died and he became the head of PGB organization. It was not sufficient that he was an experienced Silat teacher or an…

This word is also used in the context of close relations (šilat ar-raħim) whose connections with an individual are due to blood ties and are therefore imperishable in the eyes of the Divine. In this sense, prayer is seen as the unseverable bond between the individual and his or her Lord. Commenting on this, another renowned Qur’ānic exegete, Al-Qurtubī said: The word šalāt derives from the word šilat, one of the names of fire as when it is said, “The wood is burned by fire.” Al-Qurtubī…

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