Terapi Sufistik dalam Pengobatan di Pekanbaru Riau

Abstrak

Based on the social phenomena of the society, specifically in the city of Pekanbaru, rapid social changes occur with unlimited communication, tend to be materialistic, secularistic and rationalistic. Thus, they arouse various psychological and physical problems. One of psychological problem is a disease that comes from the loss of a divine vision. The vision is blunts to see the reality of life and life itself. Treatment with sophisticated tools and chemicals develops in such a way, but in reality is unable to fully solve the many problems of disease, then switch to alternative-spiritualistic treatment. This study used a qualitative approach by conducting in-depth interviews with subject who practices sufistic therapy. In Pekanbaru, the tendency of people to seek treatment through sufistic therapy can be seen from the amount of sufistic medicine houses. The results of this study show that sufistic therapy or sufi healing is a new trend among modern society which seems to have experienced a saturation point with various patterns of material orientation, thus,  the spiritual world becomes an alternative