The purpose of this study is to describe analytically pesantren religious paradigm in North Sumatera, by tracing their teaching of Aqeedah, plurality, and jihad. The study focuses on two pesantren which are considered as the largest pesantren, they are MusthafawiyahPurbabaruMandailing Natal and RaudhahHasanah Medan. Quantitatively, both pesantren have more than 1000 entries, which come from various regions of Sumatera, and even outside it. The former was the oldest traditional (salafiyah) pesantren in North Sumatera while the latter was one of the earliest pesantren in which the system refers to the modernity of Pondok Modern Darussalam Gontor. The method is qualitative research. Interview, observation, and document analysis were used to collect data. This study has found that two pesantren educated their students with moderate values. It can be seen from: First, their Aqeedah teaching mostly refers to the theological school of Asy’ari and Maturity. These two schools of theology are considered as a moderate school by contemporary moslem scholars, and as majority school of ummah in Indonesia. Second, plurality according to them is a necessity. Moslem has to seek for peaceful co-existence and mutual tolerance between the people of different religions and cultures. Third, the term jihad to them is not only in a physical war but also in intellectual, against lust and doing creative work in society.

This study attempts to critically explore Transpersonal Psychology views on the nature of spiritual experience. The exponents of this kind of psychology claimed their concept as an integration between science and religion as well as it was can be universally accepted by all religions. Since this study reveals religious issues especially religious experience that in Islam is often said to be a sufi experience, then the approach of this study is sufism. From this study we found that the Transpersonal Psychology view is really problematic both epistemologically and theologically. Epistemologically, their assumptions are a priory i.e. they are not purely and intensely resulted by scientific research, but based on the premise of perennial philosophy which recognizes the transcendent unity of religions. Theologically, their assumptions lead to the refutation of religious doctrine. It yields a contemplative spiritual practice that ignores religious teaching. As a result, the spiritual knowledge is more subjective i.e. based on human ego, which finally leads to spiritual narcissism. It is really different from the sufis, which base their spirituality on religion, and subjectively affirm their experience to syariah. Psychologically, the sufi who has reached a spiritual state, his soul was in an existential consciousness on the level of faqr, that is a feeling of indebtedness to Allah. It causes the totality of servitude to Allah, not narcissism.

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<p>ABSTRACT. The goal of this community service is to produce Imla textbok for<br />integrated Islamic elementary school, Pesantren Baitussalam, Simalungun. There are six teachers of Imla’ mentored in this program. The program was held at pesantren Baitussalam for 3 days. To achieve the goal, we conducted a workshop (intensive dialogue and direct practice). After doing this, we found that first, the teacher’s ability is very qualified to teach the subject i.e imla. It is because most of them were graduated from pesantren, second, the teachers have succeeded in producing syllabus and textbooks of Imla from grade 1 to 6— which is structured according to the level of students. It is hoped further activities that the syllabus and textbooks are taught by IT-based learning model. <br />Keywords: Imla’, textbook, pesantren</p>