Bimbingan Fardu Kifayah bagi Santri Rumah Tahfiz Sahabat Qur’an Kepulauan RiauContinue using AI Cursor?Keep it onTurn Off

Abstract

Fardu kifayah guidance is a community service program that links Islamic legal knowledge, social responsibility, and practical worship skills. This article discusses the implementation of fardu kifayah guidance for 17 elementary and junior secondary level santri at Rumah Tahfiz Sahabat Qur’an Kepulauan Riau. The program was conducted by the Islamic Religious Education Study Program, Institut Agama Islam Miftahul Ulum Tanjungpinang, in six meetings on 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 July 2026. The method used was service learning through needs identification, program design, guided learning, funeral prayer practice, qualitative pre-post observation, oral questioning, and reflective evaluation. Initial coordination showed that fardu kifayah had not yet become a structured learning theme in the tahfiz program, while the santri still needed guidance in death etiquette, funeral prayer sequence, basic readings, and practical confidence. The results show an initial change in five indicators: understanding death as a certainty, recognizing etiquette when hearing death news, explaining the basic structure of funeral prayer, participating in guided funeral prayer practice, and relating prayer for the deceased to the character of a pious child. The novelty of this program lies in a child-friendly, staged service-learning model that introduces fardu kifayah in a tahfiz setting without fear-based narration and with direct practice. The main limitations were the absence of written test scores, age differences, limited meeting duration, and varying levels of memorization ability. The program implies the need for follow-up mentoring through repeated practice, simple evaluation sheets, and integration of practical fiqh enrichment in nonformal Islamic education institutions.