Kyai Haji
Posted on August 29, 2007
Filed Under Indonesia, Islam, Muslim
Hajj, as it’s known, is the Pilgrimage to Mecca in Islam. And Hajji is an honorific title given to a Muslim person who has successfully completed the Hajj to Mecca. In Indonesia, we call it Haji. Although all Muslims who have performed hajj deserve the title Hajji or Haji, not many of them use it. Except in Indonesia.
In Indonesia the title of Haji symbolizes more than merely a person who has done hajj. To some people, it means an upliftment of certain social status; a symbol of piousness; of pride, etc. For whatever reasons almost all Indonesian Muslims proudly add the title in front of their names. Regardless wether they’re having a secular leaning thought or pure practicing Muslims.
For Ulama or Muslim scholars, who used to be called Kyai, the title Haji is a must, without which their ulama’s cridential are questionable. Apart from that, we or they themselves, used to write their names as KH, acronym from Kyai Haji.That’s why even a secular Islamic thinker and former Indonesian president like Abdurrahman ‘Gus Dur’ Wahid wrote Kyai Haji before his name when he published his op-ed piece in the Washington Post a few weeks ago.
I hardly find that kind of fondness to Hajji title used by Indian Muslims or any other Muslims from other parts of the world
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