Healthy-minded religious phenomenon in shalawatan : a study on the three majelis shalawat in Java

As a movement, majelis shalawat becomes religious phenomenon that recently flourish in Indonesia, particularly Java. It emerges as urban spirituality like majelis dzikir that previously popular among people. However majelis shalawat is dissimilar with majelis dzikir due to its characters are not sadness, sorrow, and crying; it prefer to express happiness, cheerful, and enjoying religion. These characters indicate a Healthy-minded religious phenomenon, a term which is came originally from William James and popularized by W.H.Clark. Among many majelis shalawat groups ini Indonesia, the three most famous and biggest are Majelis Shalawat Habib Syech (Surakarta), Habib Luthfi (Pekalongan), and Maiyah Cak Nun (Yogyakarta). This research explores characteristics of majelis shalawat that indicate healthy-mindedness. Furthermore, it also discovers various motivations that lead people (jamaah) to follow the majelis shalawat. Conducting qualitative method and Psychology of Religion approach, and employing interview and observation as method for data gathering, it results several findings. First, as a religious activity, shalawatan really depends on the role of its charismatic leader. The charisma of Habib Luthfi, Habib Syech, and Cak Nun is the main attractive factor for jamaah to come. It Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies Vol. 7, no.1 (2017), pp. 1-30, doi : 10.18326/ijims.v7i1.1-30 IJIMS, Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, Volume 7, Number 1, June 2017: 1-30 2 is because the charismatic leaders have deep understanding of religious knowledge and they also are blessed with certain talent such as beautiful voice and having good skill on music. Besides that, the leaders are often giving smart joke. Second, through shalawatan, people feel happiness and optimistic to face their life, preferring extrovert attitudes, have more free theology, and feels conducive atmosphere for their religious growth. Those are evidences that majelis shalawat has healthy-mindedness characters. Third, people motivation also in in attending majlis shalawat consist of religious escapism, strengthening solidarity and ukhuwah islamiyah, to learn more religious knowledge (thalabul ‘ilmi), and to gain religious transformation. Majelis shalawat sebagai sebuah gerakan merupakan fenomena keagamaan yang marak di Indonesia khususnya Jawa. Kehadirannya lebih sebagai spiritualitas urban namun tampil berbeda jika dibandingkan majelis dzikir yang terlebih dahulu populer. Majelis shalawat tidak menunjukkan cirri sendu, muram, dan tangisan seperti majelis dzikir, namun justru memperlihatkan cirri bahagia, senang, dan menikmati agama. Karakteristik beragama yang demikian oleh Clark dan William James disebut healthy mindedness. Dari beberapa majelis shalawat di Indonesia, tiga yang terbesar adalah Majelis Shalawat Habib Syech (Surakarta), Habib Luthfi (Pekalongan), Maiyah Cak Nun (Yogyakarta). Penelitian ini menelusuri apa saja karakteristik majelis shalawat yang merupakan indikasi healthymindedness, kemudian mengungkap pula ragam motivasi yang mendorong jamaah mengikuti majelis shalawat. Dengan menerapkan metode kualitatif dan pendekatan Psikologi Agama, dan dengan interview serta observasi sebagai alat utama pengumpulan data, penelitian ini menghasilkan beberapa temuan. Pertama, sebagai sebuah aktifitas keagamaan, majelis shalawat cukup bergantung dari peran sang tokoh utama pemimpin majelis shalawat. Karisma Habib Luthfi, Habib Syech, dan Cak Nun merupakan daya tarik terbesar bagi jamaah. Hal ini karena selain memiliki kedalaman ilmu agama, para pemimpin karismatik tersebut juga diberkahi dengan kemerduan suara dan kemampuan bermusik, bahkan humor cerdas juga sering muncul sehingga menjadi daya tarik tersendiri bagi jamaah. Kedua, dengan mengikuti majeliss halawat, jamaah merasakan kebahagiaan dan optimism dalam menatap kehidupan, mereka bersikap lebih ekstrovet, berteologi secara lebih bebas, dan merasakan situasi yang mendukung untuk perkembangan keberagamaan mereka. Hal-hal tersebut menandakan bahwa majelis shalawat memiliki karakter healthy-mindedness. Ketiga, motivasi jamaah dalam mengikuti


Introduction
The emergence of majelisdzikir in the last two decades was important phenomenon in Indonesian muslim society.Majelisdzikir with purification of soul (tazkiyatunnafs) was the earliest wave.In majelisdizikir, people are usually asked to remember their sins while consider the mighty power of God.The goal is to notice people so they realize their abjection and anxious for atonement.To indicate their atonement, people used to cry during the closing prayer.Closing prayer is usually known as the core of the dzikir activity.This kind of majelisdzikir is very popular.To mention some of them are majelis dzikir Ustad Arifin Ilham, Abdullah Gymnastiar, and so on.
Recently, however, a new and different preference occurs; groups of majelisdzikirare overcast whilemajelisshalawat emerges as a new wave in severalregions.There are obvious differences between majelis dzikir and majelis shalawat.Majelis dzikir is mass religious activity that seems unhappy, sad, pessimistic, and self-judging.In contrary, majelisshalawat is joyful, fun, optimistic, and expressing the love to God and His Messenger through songs with happy and energetic music, simple and popular lyrics, and used to use local language.Some of majelisshalawat are identical with "laugh at himself" method as reverse to "judging himself", though they have the similar goal.The goal is confessing sin and begging the mercy of God, however they use different way, one is tend to cheerless and the other is happy and full of joke.It is interesting to know the relation between fun-method with the emergence of majelis shalawat.
Modernization and transformation of religious life also occur in majelis shalawat.The process of rationalizing in modernization strengthens modern religious expression, giving new arrangement and values. 1 Majelisshalawat, in its common appearance, is categorized in spiritual movement in global and modern era.It emerges even in the days when secularized world distrusts religion.Majelis shalawat, with its psychological influence to the followers, is hard to be said as typical or simple phenomenon.Because it obviously different with other popular entertainment.
There are many majelisshalawat; the very well known groups are Majelis ShalawatHabibSyech (Surakarta, Central Java), Majelis Shalawat Habib Lutfi (Pekalongan, Central Java) and Majelis Shalawat Maiyah Cak Nun (Yogyakarta).This three famous groups becomethe subject of this study.Majelis Shalawat led by Habib Muhammad Lutfi bin Ali bin Yahya, a charismatic ulama in Pekalongan, has beenattended by 25.000 people in Februari 5 th , 2014.Majelis shalawat of Habib Luthfi that is also known as Majelis Maulid Kanzus has 60 places of gathering in Pekalongan and surrounding cities.In Surakarta, other famous ulama, Habib Syech bin Abdul Qodir bin Abdurrahman Assegaf has also many followers and fans who call themselves "Syekher Mania".The other famous group is Majelis Shalawat Maiyahin Yogyakarta that led by Emha Ainun Nadjib or Cak Nun.
The three majelisshalawat have similarity on their fun way during shalawat gathering.The joyful and fun way in religious activity or "enjoy religion" is, according to James and Clark, a healthy mindedness.William James dan W.H.Clark characterize healthy mindedness with optimistic and happy in practicing religion.This is opposite of sick soul that practicing religion by feeling burdened and suffered.In this study, shalawatan at glance is categorized in healthy mindedness type.After fur-ther research it found that some indicators of healthy mindedness present in majelisshalawat.In order to serve more evidences, this study captures the followers' perspective especially on their motivation and their religious transformation after following the shalawatan activity.Therefore, this paper explores elements of healthy mindedness in shalawatan, people motivations to join majelis shalawat, and psychological transformation aspects among people after following shalawatan activity.
According to W.H. Clark, the two most quoted chapters in work of William, The Varieties of Religious Experiences, are The Religion of Healthy-Mindedness and The Sick-Soul.These chapters portray two types of religious expression.Clark acknowledges, this theory is not out of date, although it formulated by James some decades ago.It is because James proposes a descriptive dichotomy that copes with various religious lives along history, and gives implication to both figure and religious people who want to understand the expression of religious life.
The theory was formulated by William James and developed by experts on religious psychology field, including Walter Houston Clark.Categorizing religious expressions into healthy mindedness and sick soul is their main thesis.2Sick soul is a term to determine attitude that place religion and life as burden and suffering, while healthy mindedness means attitude that optimistic and happy in undergoing religion.Clark proposes some characteristics of healthy mindedness: a) optimistic and happy, b) extrovert and unreflective, c) usually associate to the more free theology, and d) conducive to the phases of religious growth. 3These characteristics are theoretical framework to identify whether jamaah shalawatan is classified in healthy mindedness religious phenomenon.
For better understanding of that problem, I perceive that psychological constructionconcerning religious attitude of jamaah (majelisshalawat members and participants) since early engagement to the group until present day is quiet important.Therefore, I need to observe more about people's religious motivation and the changing or transformation that they feel.Definition of religious motivation in Islamic Psychology is continuation from Psychology.In general, motivation means all drive, desire, need, and a sort of energy that direct behavior. 4esides considering motivation, this research also observes the changing or religious transformation among jamaah.Religious transformation is changing in three ranges: a) the changing on religious affiliation from one religion to another, b) the increase of concern from less attention on religion to be more religious, c) the changing of commitment in one religion, for example from abangan to santri. 5In this research, religious transformation is mainly focused to the third range, i.e. the shifting of commitment in Islam among jamaah of majelisshalawat.
Finally, this study compares religious transformation among three majelisshalawat.The differences may happen consider to fact that majelisshalawat is not monolithic.It compares: a) method that is used by each majelisshalawat, b)knowledge and values conducted during shalawatan, and c) the effect to religious transformation among jamaah.
Although the main focus of this research is religious-psychological aspect among jamaahmajelisshalawat, it does not detach the aspect activism (movement).It will tie to sociological and anthropological aspects of majelis shalawat.And even for some extent, normative aspects such as fiqh is more or less will be discussed, particularly to see the basic principle of majelis shalawat leaders in prioritizing certain religious practice.

Majelis Shalawat Ahbabul Musthofa Habib Syech, Surakarta
MajelisShalawat Ahbabul Musthofa (The Prophet Lover) was established by Habib Syech bin Abdul Qadir Assegaf around 1990 in Mertodranan village, Surakarta, Central Java.This majelis initially start with "Majelis Rotibul Haddad dan Burdah"andMaulid Simtud Duror Habib Syech bin Abdul Qadir Assegaf that asks muslim to love the Prophet Muhammad Pbuh.MajelisShalawat Ahbabul Musthofa was conducting routine gathering in pesantrens and mosques. 6HabibSyech and his AhbabulMusthafa are often invited by many institutions both domestic and abroad.He has been invited by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to perform shalawatinNational Palace.He was also invited to some other countries such as Hongkong, Singapura, and Malaysia. 7abibSyech is very well known for his golden voice and his beautiful lyrics.Actually, most the shalawat lyrics are taken from three fundamental shalawat books, i.e. al-Barzanji, al-Diba'i, and al-Burdah.Some songs taken from "Cinta Rasul"album,and some lyrics are from other ulama such as Gus Dur and Habib Luthfi.8Even, some shalawat lyrics were created by his pupil and colleagues.For example, 'shalawat NU' was made by his close pupil, Joko Purwanto. 9he great name of Ahbabul Musthofa is never detached from its founder, Habib Syech.He is one of 16 siblings, the son of the late Habib Abdul Qadir bin Abdurrahman Assegaf, an imam (priest) of Masjid Jami' Assegaf in Pasar Kliwon Surakarta.10Habib Syech does not study at pesantren.However, he has deep religious knowledge and very fluent in Arabic.He learns religious knowledge from his father and his uncle, Habib Ahmad bin Abdurrahaman Assegaf from Hadramaut.Habib Syech also learns much from Habib Muhammad Anis bin Alwi Al-Habsyi.By his guidance, Habib Syech grows to be very persistent person in teaching shalawat.

Majelis Kanzus Shalawat Habib Luthfi, Pekalongan
Kanzus Shalawatis a central building at the home base of Habib Muhammad Luthfi Ali bin Yahya, or familiar with Habib Luthfi.This building is usually used to hold religious as well as social activities.Built ini 1997, this building is big enough to be center of teaching and chanting shalawat.11However, in every Friday (Jumat Kliwon)morning, this building is unable to load jamaah, because thousands jamaah from many regions gather in that building and its surrounding to join the shalawat.The thousands people in this place makes the authority close part of the road so the traffic is interrupted.Many people stay for hours in front of Kanzus building, although the sun burns their skin or sometimes rain drops showering them.They keep stay on their place to wait the charismatic HabibLuthfi, while their lips chant tahlil and shalawat.When Habib Luthfi came to give sermon people were listening enthusiastically.Besides giving sermon in Pekalongan, HabibLuthfi is also frequently invited to many other cities.In one occasion, he was also singing shalawat together with Habib Syekh.
As Habib Syekh with his Ahbabul Musthofa, Majelis Kanzus Shalawat also really depends on the figure of its founder, Habib Luthfi.His fullname is Habib Muhammad Luthfi Ali bin Yahya.He was born, November 10 th , 1946.His mother is a syarifah.It is title for a woman who is descendent of the Prophet Muhammad Pbuh. 12When HabibLuthfi was young, he was nomadic student who learn from many teachers. 13owadays as a mursyid (great priest of tasawuf), Habib Luthfi is well known as the leader of Tarekat Syadziliah.In the same time, he is also mursyidto many other tarekat such as Naqsabandiyah al-Khalidiyah, al-'Alawiya, al-Idrusyiah, al-'Atha'iyah, al-Hadadiah, Yahyawiyah, Qadiriyah wa Naqsabandiyah, and Tijaniyah.Therefore, he has privilege to approve talqin dzikr (bai'at lisan) from new member of those tarekats.Considering his integrity and leadership, later he was nominated to be rais idaroh (chief in national level) forJam'iyyah Ahlith Thariqoh al-Muktabaran an-Nahdliyyah (Association of Tarekat Muktabarah Nahdhlatul Ulama) that is usuallyshorthanded as JATMAN. 14lthough HabibLuthfi is so eventful, he is still able to give routine lecture to his pupil in tarekat and to public.The course (jamaah pengajian) Jami 'al-Ushul al-Tariq al-Aulia is usually held every Friday(Jumat Kliwon) morning in Kanzus Shalawat building, Pekalongan.Besides this tarekat lecturing, he also gives kitab kuning lecturing.HabibLuthfi used to use two famous books among many KitabKuning literatures: Ihya 'Ulumuddin (held every Thursday evening) and Fathul Qarib (every Wednesday morning).Habib Luthfi also leads a special lecture for women every Sunday morning.In many other occasions, he is frequently invited to give speech (tausiyah) in many cities in Indonesia.Even, to give public lecture in aca-12 http://www.habiblutfi.net/profil.html.November 12, 2014. 13Achmad Zaenal Arifin, "Transformasi Tarekat Konvensional di Indonesia: Bertasawuf Ala Habib Muhammad Luthfi Bin Yahya", Sosiologi Reflektif,volume 7, No. 2, April 2013,13-14.
demic meeting is not something new for him.He often invited to be speaker at seminar, workshop, symposium, and so on. 15ot only a charismatic leader in tarekat, HabibLuthfi also known as nationalist figure.He often reflects his nationalist view when giving speech in many different places in Indonesia.He also composes a patriotic song entitled "Cinta Indonesia" (Love for Indonesia).When President SBY visited the Maulid event in KanzusShalawat, HabibLuthfi give welcome speech and reaffirms his loyalty to the country by saying "for the sake of Allah, I will defend and stand for NKRI."HabibLuthfi gives resuscitation to the people so they can understand the nation-state ideology and love their own country. 16abibLuthfi is also known as pluralist figure.HabibLuthfi has ever give speech in "Sarasehan Polres Kota Pekalongan dengan Forum Komunikasi Umat beragama dan Lintas Agama".In front of inter-faith leaders from Christian, Hinduism, and Confucianism community, HabibLuthfi emphasized the significance of unity among religious people of all religions in Indonesia.He also accentuated to all religious communities to be tolerant and not force their own ideology to the other. 17Habib Luthfi has close relationship to many other communities, including interfaith communities.Kyai Adib Zein, close friend of Habib Luthfi, said that many people including non-muslim give high respect to Habib Luthfi. 18
in Jakarta was going unbearable, Emha Ainun Nadjib and his KyaiKanjeng (a music group), held a special event "Sholawatan Maulid" that took place in his own home. 19ctually, this kind of event is often held, however the name 'maiyah' is something new.In it development, maiyah does not refer to a group, stream, or school of thought, but essentially means togetherness to have spirit that God is always along with people. 20The word maiyah is an Arabic term that means "together; unbreakable togetherness."EmhaAinun Nadjib or familiarly called Cak Nun, explaining maiyah through conceptual 'triangle of love"; God, the Prophet and mankind. 21Although it was declared formally in 2001, the embryonic phase of maiyah can be traced back to 1993 when established Kyai Kanjeng.Together with his Kyai Kanjeng Cak Nun goes around the country, intensively after Reformation Era in 1998.
In maiyah, the musicians and singersdo not perform on the stage like common music concert, they circling in the middle of space whether indoor or outdoor.Everyone who comes actually is the part of the performance, they can contribute as musician and singer as well, and they are not merely audiences.Everyone including musician and even the ensembles bonds together toward God. 22y this kind of togetherness, Cak Nun and Kyai Kanjeng cultivate maiyah in broader contexts.First of all, they ask people to do everything together with God, and second, to be together with everyone who love togetherness.Therefore, maiyah can also mean commitment of nationalism, maturity on multiculturalism, wisdom on pluralism, and vanishing economic inequality.Because when some are very rich and some other too poor, it does not mean togetherness, it is notmaiyah. 23aiyah does not move into certain exclusive paradigm.Maiyah is probably look like a pengajian, however it different with common pengajian that teach people literally base on classic readings.In maiyah, people are asked to be tolerant, live together, having spirit of life, and compete in goodness.Therefore, jamaahmaiyah is not only muslim, some of them nonmuslim and even some multi-faith figureshave ever come to maiyah.With his unique accent Cak Nun said: "this event is not only for muslim, but for all mankind whether muslim or not, the normal ones and the insane, and even for jin, setan, dhemit, gendruwo (names of ghost and evil in Javanese) if they want to be good guy, so they are welcome, our hands are open. 24ak Nun and KyaiKanjeng has schedule for maiyahan in some regions.Every region may have different name of event for maiyah.The names and schedule are as follow:  Berlin, Germany (1985), and visited some European countries for more than one and a half year.He was also editor of Indonesian side that published in Bangkok, Thailand. 27

The Characteristics of majelis shalawat
In general, the three majelis shalawat have characteristic in conducting shalawat:

Central role of the charismatic leader
Habib Syech, Habib Luthfi, and Cak Nun are founder and leader of each majelis shalawat.They have the most significant role in their own majelis.In shalawat performance, they are very attractive to jamaah.Without them it is almost impossiblefor the majelis to succeed as today.The forum will not full of people if the charismatic leaders never exist.They are super star who are always waited for their coming.Succeed to attract enormous amount of people reflects their personal enchantment.Habib Syech, Habib Luthfi, and Cak Nun have special qualities on: charisma, depth Islamic knowledge, golden voice, and rhetoric as well as communication skill.
Charisma is special thing in a person that stem from emotional trait or irrational, and over the power and ability of common people. 28Max Weber uses the term charisma to explain a sort of personal influence in society.A leader is called charismatic when he/she is known as gracefully person, a state of being attractive and able to drive people to conjoin. 29n Weber analysis, charisma consists of personal characteristics that inspire people who going to be a follower. 30According to Martin van Bruinessen, charisma based on spiritual power and ability to give blessing due to the relation with the other world and even the grave yard is also able to give blessing. 31Therefore, charismatic leadership often drive into the cult worship to the leader. 32he three leader of Majelis Shalawat, Habib Syech, Habib Luthfi and Cak Nun are charismatic, thus it is easy for them to attract many followers.Comparing them sociologically, Habib Luthfi and Habib Syech probably more charismatic than Cak Nun.Moreover, most of Habib Luthfi and Habib Syech followers are from traditional Islam (nahdhliyin), while Cak Nun followers are rational muslim.In fact, charismatic leader usually grows among traditional muslim like NU community.
The power of Habib Luthfi and Habib Syech charisma can be seen at attitude jamaahto them.Many people see them as waliyullah.Some jamaah of Habib Luthfi and Habib Syech come tongalap berkah(try to get blessing) from the Habib.As the evident, many jamaah bring mineral water in an opened bottle while listen topengajian.They hope the berkah influences the water.Even, some people bring the bottle close to the Habib to have prayer from Habib.Many of them stand for long time in a line just to have opportunity to kiss the Habib hands.The charisma power of the two habib is also because they are descendants of Rasulullah SAW.

Joyful method of dakwah
Attractive power of majelis shalawatan Habib Syech, Habib Luthfi, and Cak Nun is the method that enjoyable.The followers acknowledge that important factor.They conduct dakwah with simple and fluent language with smart joke that make the audience laugh out loud.It is going to exaggerate when music group perform shalawat and other songs with various genre of music. 33

Deep understanding on religion
Jamaah majelis shalawat think that Habib Syech, Habib Luthfi, and Cak Nun are ulama who have deep and broad religious knowledge.It is reflected from jamaah statement that their motivation to come to the majelisshalawat is for learning or study to enrich their religious knowledge.It is said to be right that Habib Syech, habib Luthfi, and Cak Nun have deep religious knowledge.As ulama, religious knowledge is the ab-solute requirement.They will never be a great ulama if do not master religious knowledge.
Religious knowledge of Habib Syech, habib Luthfi, and Cak Nun is the result of their educational background.Habib Syech for example, while was doing his business, he learned from prominent ulama in Saudi Arabia.Similar with him, HabibLuthfi also learned from religious teachers in haramain (Mecca and Madina).He also studied in many pesantrens.Does not much different with the two ulama, Cak Nun also got his religious knowledge from pesantrens and religious based schools.Cak Nun is also cultural figure who very active in writing.He has done many works.HabibLuthfi, although not as productive as Cak Nun, also writes some influential works.

Beautiful voice and music skill
None deny that the three majelis shalawat leaders are blessed with golden voice.Habib Syekh has very beautiful voice and able to astonishing thousands people.Some TV and radio stations play shalawatan songs from their albums.ADI TV, a local station in Yogyakarta regularly broadcasts Shalawat Maiyah Cak Nun.CDsand DVDsare also sold out in public market.Those are the evidences that their way on dakwah is acceptable for people.

Rhetoric and communication skill
Habib Syech, Habib Luthfi and Cak Nun have excellent rhetoric and communication skill.Although they never conduct special course on it, such as public speaking course and so forth, they master it very well.Their speech astonished people so the audience will not move from their seats.Cak Nun, for example, has fluent rhetoric.He is a good orator.His speech is very strong and expressive.He also has goodsense of humor, so the atmosphere is quiet good.Sometime he looks like comedian, but sometimes charismatic.Smart jokes often adorn his speech.Many audiences laugh out loud when listen to his speech.Therefore, almost none who fall asleep when listening his speech.At the late of night to very early morning, number of audience is not lessening but summing up.
Meanwhile, Habib Luthfi and Habib Syech with his poise speech make people's heart feels peaceful.Although their rhetoric is not as strong as Cak Nun, they are also able to astonish people.Habib Luthfi usually calm while speaking, but touch people heart impulsively.It is probably because his sufism approach.He is a mursyid, a great teacher in tarekat.Different with Habib Luthfi, Habib Syech gives less speech but spent much time to sing shalawat.Although only spends limited speech, he looks powerful when gives speech.

Audience enthusiasm
Audiences of shalawatan are not coming from a region where it takes place, many of them are from other cities.They voluntary spend a lot of money for transportation and accommodation.Some audiences stay in a luxury hotel a night before the shalawatan event be hold.Their enthusiasm is also expressed with their early attendance to the spot where the event takes place.They try to go as earliest as they can just to have a front seat.They ungrudgingly sit on the floor just to get closer while listen to the tausiyah (sermon) and chant shalawat.Sometime they neglect sun burn and rain.Besides that, their enthusiasm is also expressed in their seriousness to chant shalawat.They sing together while raise their both hands up as expression of begging to God.In a great performance, many audiences hoist flag of majelis shalawat.The atmosphere is not quite different with a mega concert of big music band.Audiences seem to be happy, joyful, and satisfied.

Healthy-mindedness religious phenomenon
Considering William James'theory of sick soul and healthy-mindedness,34 it can be explained that Majelis shalawat led by Habib Luthfi bin Yahya, Habib Syech As-Segaf, and Emha Ainun Najib (Cak Nun) have method of dakwah with healthy-mindedness characteristic.This research findings about the three majelis shalawat based on healthy-mindedness characteristics are mentioned as follow:

Optimistic and happy
Body gesture for piousness is often identical with calm, lack of moving, and casting the head down.It seems socially constructed that the high level of religiosity should be expressed in that way.In other words, cheerful, joyful, and happy are not expression of mature religiosity.It is different with healthy-mindedness point of view, in which happy and optimistic are the main features of healthy-mindedness religiosity.
Flourishing majelis dzikir with tazkiyatun nafs characteristic in 1990s to 2000s, escalates the method of dakwah that is characterized by sadness, cries, and moan of prayer.Feeling abject,be nothing in front of God, dread of afterlife and hell tortures, feeling impolitic, far from god, and so on, are the main themes of dakwahwith tazkiyatunnafs inclination.This method was very popular and won people attention, especially those who are urban and educated residences.However, people who dislike that method were not a little.Therefore the emergence of majelis shalawat fulfills some people needs for another kind of dakwah that different with tazkiyatun nafs trend.
Majelis shalawat is more identical with atmosphere of happiness with songs and shalawat.It is also closer to optimistic way in religiosity rather than self-judging, fear, and pessimistic.During observation, phenomena of healthy-mindedness are obviously uttered by jamaah when they sing, moving they shoulders and head, along with the sound of music hadrah and Kyai Kanjeng.Happiness and free from burden are expressed on the faces of jamaah.This happiness is one of important reason that reattracts them to come over and over again to majelis shalawat.Some of them proclaim that they love the happy atmosphere.
The same phenomena happen among Jamaah of Habib Syekh, especially for his fanatic fans namely Syekher Mania.Happiness are on their faces, indeed, flags of Syekher Mania, Red and White National flag, and NU's flag, hoist during the shalawatan event held.According Habib Syekh, this method of dakwah is a strategy to promote Islam in a sweet way.He hold a principle that Islamis a sweetreligion because it is religion of blessing for universe (rahmatan lil 'alamin), therefore it has to be offered with a sweet way, not by vicious face and violent, nor judging other as infidels. 35Besides happiness religiosity that is expressed by music, lyrics, and songs, healthy mindedness also appears on optimistic view when they do self-introspection and look forward their future of religiosity.

Extrovert
Extrovert personality usually characterized with openness, happy, easy to interact with others, honest, and brave to confess own fault.Majelisshalawat and its teaching has this pattern.Extrovert character also appears in their openness to accept others.It is obviously happen in majelis shalawat Habib Syech and Cak Nun when they ask jamaah to go on the stage, to sit with him during the event.Inside the jamaah community, extrovert character is also constructed through borderless interaction since all jamaah, no matter who they are, are positioned equally.

Free theology
In theological discourse, majelis shalawat is not rigid as puritanical muslim group.Majelis shalawat recognizes the grey area; it does not see every problem only in black and white dichotomy option.Ability to accommodate the weakness of other is a characteristic in majelis shalawat theology.The leader used to understand that many people in society are lay and non-expert in religious knowledge.While, the way to lead them into brighter and enlightened people will not succeed if practicing hard and coercive method.Therefore, the leader of majelis shalawat usually prior sympathy, humanize, and respectful ways, even to the other different perspectives.Through this way, the first part to be attracted is the heart.When the heart already felt glad, comfort, and interested, it continues with injection of the content or religious knowledge.This process is impossible to be conducted when the theology is rigid.Therefore every majelisshalawat prefer to use more free type of theology.
The free theology is usually respect local culture and tradition.It does not against the culture frontally, but tries to color it smoothly.It does not reject influences from other cultures but screen and respond to it positively.With a free theology, people usually more inclusive and tolerant to the others.These characters already exist in majelis shalawat.No wonder if majelis shalawat seems easy to attract lay people.People do not worry and feel comfort because they believe that no blaming and judging in this majelis.They optimistic to be knowledgeable and will be guided in improving faith and goodness in their life.

Conducive for the phases of religious growth
Majelis shalawat becomes a very conducive garden for religious growth.The three former characteristics-optimistic and happy, extrovert, and free theology-creates special atmosphere inside majelis shalawat.Jamaah always feel welcome, no worry of blaming and judging, feel always in brotherhood and sisterhood, enjoy openness milieu, cheerful, and fun with music, poetry, shalawat, and teaching that enlightening and entertaining.This kind of situation is very conducive for every person's religious growth in majelis shalawat.

Motivation of jamaah shalawatan
Description above discusses external aspects of jamaahshalawatan.Following is explanation about internal aspects for jamaahshalawatan, particularly their motivation.Motivation in this discussion includes motivation among jamaah of majelisshalawatHabibSyech, HabibLuthfi, as well asCak Nun.

Religious escapism
One of motivation that was found among jamaah is motivation to move depressed psychological condition into composed and happy condition.This new psychological condition may temporary occur and probably persists for long period.Temporary calm down is usually achieved when someone wanders in dzikir and shalawat.However after the activity is ended, then he/she backs to the daily condition, so the sorrow that they suffer come back into mind.Therefore, shalawatan is merely temporary solution, just escapism.
Realizing these facts, the leader of shalawat and his team want to make sure that shalawatan is not merely temporary solution.They add the event with more contents.They combine exciting part and tausiah (sermon).In tausiah, jamaah are usually asked to realize certain problem that probably being faced by jamaah at that time.Practically, tausiah runs as psychotherapy with Gestalt method.In Gestalt, therapeutic is conducted through recall emotive and traumatic memory of the past to the present day, then help someone to take his/her own responsibility.According to Gestalt perspective, traumatic past events are unfinished problem, therefore it must be brought to the present to be solved.Tausiah utilizes to recall problems that disturbing psychic, after that, the best solutions are offered.The solution offering, according to Gestalt approach is by "play projection". 36Religious preachers often use this method, including in majelis shalawatan.Play projection is a method implemented to jamaah by displaying traumatic experience that probably has been pulled to other side by jamaah.The way to display this experience is by telling other's story that similar with jamaah experience.The preacher usually tells story of apostles (shahabat nabi), the saints (waliyullah), and other good persons (shalihin, habaib, asatid).Through this method, traumatic experience can be drawn to present time, without feeling judged.By lesson learnt in the story, jamaah listen offered solution for their problems.After solution are given, the preacher also givehope.The heart that full of hopesis covered by happiness through chanting shalawat.This method is obviously practiced by majelis shalawat, particularly by Habib Luthfi.
In majelis shalawat led by Cak Nun, the same method actually is also implemented.Never forgot, Cak Nun also prays for everyone.Cak Nun prayer sounds so straightforward and based on real needs of jamaah.Habib Syech also does the same way in closing prayer after performance.The prayer that represents the heart voices of lay people make everyone who listen it feeling much love to Habib Syech, therfore they become loyal follower for Habib Syech.

Tholabul ilmi
Ulama are heir of prophet (al 'ulama warasatu al anbiya).The slogan derived from hadith is lifetime.Ulama always seen as clean source of water where many people take some for drink the knowledge.Therefore, wherever ulama makes majelis, there many thulab (students) come to get the knowledge or to understand deeper the knowledge that they already got.
Habib Luthfi, Habib Syech, and Cak Nun are ulama who has deep religious knowledge.Even, Habib Luthfi and Cak Nun are known as active writers who religious and nationalist.No wonder if many people including government officer, middle class persons, and university students respect habaib and Cak Nun as great teacher.Intellectuals also often take part in their religious forum.
Opinion that ulama is the light of knowledge is also expressed by one oh Habib Syech friend, K.H. Abdullah Sa'ad.The young kyai in a gathering Wednesday Night in Habib Syech home base tells about the significance of the ligh in human life.He tells about his recent experience when almost get motorbike accident because there was a biker who has not lamp on his bike.He put this experience as ibrah (lesson learnt) that everyone who walks in the dark without lamp will hurt himself and hurt the others.Therefore everyone has to walk with light, the light is knowledge, and the source of knowledge is ulama. 37otivation to have learning (thalabul 'ilmi) expressed by some jamaah when being asked about the goal of following majelis shalawatan.Start from that motivation, many of them enlightened intellectually and spiritually. 38aving knowledge, experience, and enlightening is motivation for jamaah so they come routinely to majelis shalawat.They always come as long as there is nothing avoid.Whenever they unable to attend majelis shalawat, they feel lose out because they does not accept new knowledge.
The same disappointment is felt by one of Habib Luthfi student.The loss is like a student who does not go to school so he is left behind.39

Religious transformation
As has been mention above, Religious transformation is changing in three ranges: a) the changing on religious affiliation from one religion to another, b) the increase of concern from less attention on religion to be more religious, c) the changing of commitment in one religion, for example from abangan to santri. 40In this research, religious transformation is mainly focused to the third range, i.e. the shifting of commitment in Islam among jamaah of majelis shalawat.The transformations are changing in attitude, behavior and commitment to religious values.In this context, transformation is observed through subjective acknowledgement of jamaah, not by quantitative research.
Jamaah majelis shalawat acknowledge the change in medium level, significance, and even drastic change.One of them said that following majelis shalawat makes her closer to god.In attitude aspect she is willing to be a good person while in behavior level she only does a good act toward other people. 41Transformation also appears on shifting of religious life principle to the clear and fixed goal.A jamaah feels that he has clearer view on religion know better how to do religious life of conducts in daily activities.He does not longer percept religion as a burden and realize that to be religious is simple. 42It is obvious that jamaah more relax and enjoying religion.His view that religion is easy and not a burden does not mean that he underestimates religion, but merely an attitude to see a religion positively.His calm in practicing religion does not mean he gets laziness but to be more realistic and be better in community (shalih sosial).It is a positive transformation.
Transformations among jamaah are not always the result of brief process, but accumulation of the gradual processes.It can be accumulation of intensive religious experiences.Although their intensity to follow shalawatanis quiet fax and seldom, the most often is once in a week, the impressive religious experience traces longtime persistence influence.

Strengthening ukhuwah islamiyah
Motivation that has been acknowledged by all jamaah is going to strengthen brotherhood and sisterhood as muslim community.Togetherness is usually constructed when a number of people have certain similarity such as similar in hobby, goal, physical mark, origins, idealism, and ideology.When a number of persons who have similarity gather, the possibility to create certain togetherness or brotherhood is bigger.It is that actually happen in jamaah shalawatan.Some findings indicate how the togetherness and brotherhood become a motivation.Some of jamaah acknowledge that their motivation is to bind brotherhood with many other muslims who also present in the same religious activity.Some said they should create brotherhood because they are pupils of the same guru and love the same ulama.At least, they are similar since they love the same prophet and obeying the same god that was already enough reason to bind brotherhood and togetherness.
As participant observer, there was no trouble to have friendship with jamaah of majelis shalawat.Some jamaah who become friends love to share their experience.It went so easy because there was trust since we meet in the same religious activity.This conditional similarity is obviously great factor for having trust and relationship.Jamaah easy to know and to in-43 Barakah in Arabic means God's grace.According to the Qur'an, God can confer grace to people, place and time.For instance, God have mercy people from among the prophets and saints.While the Kaaba, Jerusalem is an example of a place endowed.There are also certain blessed times.Arif Zamhari, Rituals of Islamic Spirituality: A Study of Majlis Dhikr Groups in Esat Java,Canberra: Australian National University 2010, 86-87.
troduce each other because the prejudice is disappear since they conditionally appear in the same activity they love.In this context, ukhuwah islamiyah is easily built.
Although as a motivation ukhuwah islamiyah is possibly occur personally, majelis shalawat and the leaders also play significant role in building motivation of ukhuwahislamiyah.For example, habaib who lead shalawat often said: people who love rasulullah deserve syafaat from the Prophet in the Day of Judgment.They all will be gathered in mahsyar under one umbrella so they save from the heat of super solar that so close to us.It means that all prophet lovers are brother and sister.This understanding that cultivate by ulama motivates jamaah to strengthen ukhuwah Islamiyah.
Explaining deeper the motivation, it employs phenomenological approach to put the data from the subject as phenomenon ansich, those are what the subject feel and experience.However, phenomenology suggests that a phenomenon is not the final truth since the deeper meaning unveiled yet.Researcher has to find the meaning behind the phenomena.By more intensive participative observation, in found that there was a "super motivation" behind those various motivations.The super motivation is to get "barokah" (blessing). 43Phenomena of seeking barokah is clearly expressed when jamaah try hard to sake hand and kiss the hand of charismatic leader, the habib who leads shalawatan.Jamaah spent much time to line up, and even leave their job or duty just to have chance to touch, sake, and kiss the habib hand.

Concluding remark
Based on discussion above, this research draws conclusions as follow: first, as a deep rooted tradition in Indonesia, shalawat has important role today.Reemergence of many majelis shalawat is going along with the decrease of majelis dzikir that characterized by monotone, pessimistic, and sadness nuance.In contrary, majelis shalawat as the method of dakwah with healthy mindedness characteristics interests many people.Among many majelis shalawat in Indonesia, there are three the most famous majelis shalawat: Majelis Shalawat Habib Syech As-Segaf (Surakarta), Majelis Shawalat Maiyah Cak Nun (Yogyakarta), and Majelis Kanzus Shalawat Habib Luthfi (Pekalongan).
Second, as a religious event, shalawatan in each majelis shalawat depends to role of the leader.Charisma of the leader is the main attractive factor for the followers.Moreover, every leader as special talent especially in music skill and blessed with golden voice.Besides that, the charismatic leader also has broader religious knowledge, intellectuality, and often gives smart jokes.
Third, important phenomena of this research are activities and expression as the evidence of healthy mindedness in religiosity.Jamaah majelis shalawat have happiness and optimistic view, extrovert character, more free theology, and good atmosphere for their religious growth.
Fourth, the most significant finding in this research is various internal motivations in jamaah.At least there are four internal motivations: religious escapism, strengthening relationship and ukhuwah islamiyah, to get knowledge (thalabul 'ilmi), and religious transformation.
Maiyah is also conducted abroad.Some countries that have invite Cak Nun and Kyai Kanjeng areMalaysia, Korea, and Egypt.In 2005, CakNun and Kiai Kanjeng performed in Australia, United States, Italy, UK, Germany, and some other European countries.25InYogyakarta,Maiyahanor"MocopatSyafaat"held every 17 in each month.It starts about 08.00 PM and finish by 03.00 AM (after Isya until almost shubuh).Maiyahan tries to deconstruct understanding of values, communication patterns, cultural interaction method, education for the way of thinking, but interrupted with performing art such as music and poetry declamation.It also tries to find solution of social problems.26MajelisShalawatMaiyahCakNun is always full with audiences.Cak Nun is the biggest magnet who attracts people to come.His speech is enlightening, actual, enjoyable, andgaul (with youth sense of humour).Cak Nun has ever been contribute to some activities abroad, such as Teater Workshop in Philippine(1980), International Writing Program in Iowa City, United States (1981), Teater Workshop in PETA Philipine, International Poetry Reading in Rotterdam (1984), Festival Horizonte III in West BibliographyArifin, Achmad Zaenal, "Transformasi Tarekat Konvensional di Indonesia:Bertasawuf Ala Habib Muhammad Luthfi Bin Yahya, Sosiologi Reflektif, volume 7, No. 2 (April 2013): 1-28.