In the Qur'an there are so many stories. One of them is the story of the Prophet Moses and Khidlir. Ofcourse many lessons can be taken from the story. But will the story be so well applied to our lives today? Where the Prophet Khidlir's teaching could not be easily understood. So it takes contextualise to the story.
As mentioned in Qs. Al-Kahf, vv. 60-82. In that verse tells the reason why the Prophet Moses was given command by God to seek the Prophet Khidlir and participate in the journey of the Prophet Khidlir. It is mentioned that when anyone asks, "Who is the most knowledgeable?" The Prophet Moses answered "me." In the course of the trip is not easy. Full of obstacles and question marks.
Hermeneutic is a tradition of oriented text thinking. Hermeneutic looked at the text not as transcendent reality regardless of the dimensions of the world, on the contrary, instead hermeneutic looked at the text as a direct contact with the realities of the world social progress so that the process of dialectic between text and context. Therefore, hermeneutics has the potential to change the trend of Islamic sciences epistemology towards the idealistic realistic.
Fazlur Rahman is one of the interpretor of qur’an.he has his own method to understand Al-Qur’an by using Double Movement. Firstly, the interpreter should understand the meaning of the statement with studying the situation or the historical problem which Al-qur’an statement is the answer. The next second step is generalizing the specific answers and stating as the statements which has moral-general social goals.
This research is qualitative research. The collecting data is documentary research it means support by books, journals that suitable with this research. The source of data is from some books Tafsir such as Tafsir Al-Misbah, Tafsir Al-Maraghi, Tafsir Al-Munir, Major Theme of Qur’an and Hermeneutic books such as Hermeneutika Al-Qur’an Fazlur Rahman, Hermeneutika Al-Qur’an. The research question, What is the wisdom behind the story of the Prophet Moses and Prophet Khidlir in Qs. Al Kahf verse 60-82 and What is the contextualization of Qs. Al-Kahf verse 60-82.
In this research we can fiund that there are several wisdom that can be taken from story of Prophet Moses and Khidlir. And from the wisdom we can take the contextualization in order can be applied in our daily activity.