Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

The Islamic faith involves beliefs, emotions, practices and behavior. The Islamic creed is more than emotions because it involves certain confidence of reward and punishment in the hereafter. It is also becoming the backbone of Islam. Clinging to the Islamic faith means to maintain the belief system about the concept of God, which is very virtuous and straight. Talking about the divinity that is pure and lawful in order to understand Islam from the sectarian context cannot run away from discussing the Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jama'ah. This approach is prevalent in the Muslim world since the early days of Islam. The two approaches which are dominant now within the group of Ahlus Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah in Malaysia are the Traditionalist and the Pro-Tajdid groups. Both groups are representing the Asyairah and the Pro-Tajdid. Yet, both of these sects sometimes are at disagreement when it comes to strengthening and extending their influence in Malaysia. Based on that, this paper seeks to analyze the method of argument from both groups. The paper highlighted its findings based on the methodology and arguments and based on deductive and inductive argument in the ahlus Sunnah Wal-Jama'ah school of thought in Malaysia. The methodology used in the study is qualitative with emphasis on content analysis. The data were also collected through interviews. The findings show that the difference in the methods of the two groups is small. The argument methods of both groups are based on deductive and inductive methodology of logic. Traditionalists used a deductive method, while Pro-Tajdid utilized an inductive method. This study presents a way of understanding the methods of both parties in an effort to avoid the blaming of both parties against each other.