Ahmad Ibrahim dan Pengislaman Sistem Hukum di Malaysia

Ahmad Ibrahim and the Islamization of Law in Malaysia

Abstract

Kertas ini mengkaji sumbangan Prof. Ahmad Ibrahim dalam usahanya merangka dan menjayakan gagasan Islamisasi undang-undang di Malaysia. Beliau telah membangunkan kerangka perundangan Islam yang bernafaskan prinsip hukum dan syariat yang dilakarkannya bagi menggantikan undang-undang sivil yang diwarisi dari penjajah. Menurutnya pindaan terhadap undang-undang sivil harus diusahakan dengan bijaksana dan berperingkat. Beliau berhujah bahawa undang-undang Islam telah diterima dan dilaksanakan dalam Kanun Melaka, Terengganu dan Kedah dan dipertahankan sejak Islam masuk ke rantau ini sebelum dihapuskan oleh penjajah. Undang-undang syariah menurutnya lebih baik dan telah memperlihatkan kecemerlangan dalam penerapannya di negara-negara Islam dalam mengurangkan kadar jenayah. Kertas ini akan mengkaji secara terperinci kaedah yang diusulkannya bagi menerap dan mengaplikasi undang-undang Islam seperti yang dicerakin dan dibincangkan dalam karya-karyanya.

This paper explores the work and contribution of Prof. Ahmad Ibrahim in his effort to Islamize law in Malaysia. He had proposed and constructed comprehensive and unprecedented structure of instructive and highly possible method to Islamize law and to espouse and bring about harmonization of Islamic and civil law of the British colonies. The reform and Islamization of law undertake was brought forth with strategic move and develop in step. This is to replace the draconian law inherited from the colonialist, arguing that Shariah canon law had been implemented in Malacca, Terengganu and Kedah before being abolished by the colonial, and that its application has been proving superior to reducing crime rates. This paper analysed in depth his method to apply Islamic law as set forth in his works and his consistency to espouse instructive ways for the realization of the shariah spirit in contemporary context.