Sprituality In Dakwah & Management By Wan Sulaiman Wan Siddik: A 19th Sufi And Shaykh Islam Kedah

The unveiling of the important of spirituality in da’wah and management is less studied. The aspects of spiritual in both aspects are seen to be not highlighted as an effective mechanism to enhance the wordily affairs and state among the local Malays. The spirituality aspect is identified to Sufism is misunderstood as a teaching inclines purely to asceticism, immaterial dimension and hereafter affairs. This reflexes negative image of spirituality where it seem as a fundamental source to the backward and passive to society. However, this misconception of spirituality by Malays is rectified by a late 19th Malay Sufi as well as shyakh Islam, Wan Sulaiman Wan Siddik. This paper studies his approaches and contributions in da’wah and in management that centered from good state administration. His efforts has resulted a betterment life to Malay society in Kedah. The study aims to discover the important of spirituality and its contributions in da’wah as well as management. This study applies historical and textual studies. The finding shows that spirituality plays an inevitable role in exerting great impact and successful life in this word and hereafter