Understanding of Tabligh Jamaat Islamic Law on Family Responsibility in Medan North Sumatra Indonesia

Tablighi Jamaat in the city of Medan is one of the groups, different from any other group, conducting specific Islamic preaching or dawah by enticing Muslims residing around a mosque for congregational prayers. This activity is one of the implementation of khuruj teachings they refer to. By practicing Khuruj they leave their family for days, weeks and even months, and consequently passing their family unnoticed and abandoned. This study is focused on tracking the real understanding of Tablighi Jamaat on family responsibility. . The purpose of this study was to assess and explain the understanding of Tablighi Jamaat Islamic Law on family responsibility in Medan. The research result shows that the Tablighi Jamaat have an understanding that providing a living is obligatory for a husband. In the understanding of Tablighi Jamaat a living is divided into two the first is Jahir living in the forms of clothing, food and shelter. The second is mental living covering religious values of monotheism, jurisprudence, morality and some other points having the nature of uplifting the family.