Knowledge of Ladunni in the Story of Moses and Khidhir in the Review of Isyari Shufi's Interpretation

Abstract

. The story is one of the ways in the Qur'an to convey its teachings so that it is easy to understand and touches the heart. Among these stories is the story of Prophet Moses studying to Khidhir, a pious man. This story is explained in Surah Al Kahf verses 60-82. And the scholars of Sufism and scholar of interpretation with the style of isyari shufi state that the knowledge possessed by Khidhir is different from the knowledge possessed by Moses so that Moses was ordered by Allah to study it. This knowledge is known as ladunni knowledge, which is usually studied from the point of view of Sufism. So this paper is an attempt to reveal the journey of the prophet Moses to learn ladunni knowledge from Khidhir in the view of the scholarly interpretation of the isyari shufi style. There were 3 incidents where Moses learned ladunni knowledge from Khidhir. Namely when on the ship Khidhir perforated the ship, then the incident of the killing of a small child they met and the last one was enforcing a wall that almost collapsed in a village whose inhabitants were stingy. These events confirmed that Khidhir indeed possessed ladunni knowledge from Allah which Moses did not. Where the prophet Moses always denied what was done by Khidhir because according to the science of the Shari'a that Moses had, everything was contrary to what Khidhir did. Khidhir's ladunni knowledge was revealed when Moses and Khidhir separated because Moses could not be patient to wait for an explanation from Khidhir. And it was only when Khidhir explained that Moses realized that what Khidhir was doing was all right.