Jurnal Syariah, Jil. 19, Bil. 1 (2011) 85-118 Shariah Journal, Vol. 19, No. 1 (2011) 85-118 85 PERTENTANGAN DI ANTARA NASS DENGAN MASLAHAH DAN HUBUNGANNYA DENGAN BID‘AH 1 Contradiction Between Nass and Maslahah and Its Relation to Bid‘ah Ridzwan Ahmad 2 ABSTRACT The issues of nass, maslahah and bid‘ah are always being among the most debatable issues among scholars at any point of time. Even though it has been frequently made a signiicant agenda in a scholarly discussion since long time ago, these issues seem to be dificult to resolve especially when a fanatic group involved in it to the extent that they rejected any argument against their views aggressively. In Malaysia, these issues are more critical and crucial as the general public who are mostly ignorant of Islam have been exploited to spread their doctrine which aims to gain inluence. In consequence, the general public who anticipate the actual religious guidance from the scholars have been more puzzled and confused because this groups considered themselves 1 Artikel ini asalnya merupakan kertas kerja yang dibentangkan dalam Seminar Hukum Islam Semasa IV peringkat kebangsaan pada 28-29 September 2005 bertempat di Akademi Pengajian Islam Universiti Malaya. Namun beberapa penambahbaikan telah dilakukan untuk memantapkan lagi isi kandungannya. 2 Senior Lecturer, Department of Fiqh & Usul, Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, ridzwan@um.edu.my.