การยึดมั่้นในหลักการศาสนาของชาวไทยมุสลิมในสามจังหวัดชายแดนภาคใต้

Abstract

The objective of this research was to study ways and factors leading to religious cammitment of Thai Muslims in three south€m border provinces of Thailand : Patani, Yala and Narathiwas. The needed data was collected by means of the distdbution of questionnaires to a sarnple of 896 Thai Muslims in the three southem border provinces. The data then was analyzed by using frequency, percentage, arithmetic means, standard deviation. The research is found that 1) The sources of religious knowledge, advices, practices from which Thai Muslims leamed are mainly gained from religious teacherc or ustadhs. Second to them arc parents, brothers and sisters, imams of mosque, spouses, ftiends, lecturers of Islamic studies and reliance on self study consecutively. 2) As a whole there are two denominations of Thai Muslims in the areas in terms of their religious school ofthought, The first belongs to Ahli al-Sunnah school which literally adheres to apparent meanings of Quranic verses and hophetic sayings without any futher interprctation. They are called Salal The second is called Klalaf which fbllows the way initiated by Abu Hasan al-Ash'ariy in understanding and practicing religious faith and principles. lt sometimes allows inte.pretation of religious texts or simple bllows instructions ofreligious scholars in maintaining religious principles without support of textual evidences- 3) Thai Muslims their religious pmctices in the areas maintained in more ways thrn their faith is. Some follow Sunnah with or without full knowledge of textual evidences, Others cling  al-Shaf iy school of thought blindly. There are also many Muslims who practiced their religion at remdom. They either ignore religious evidences. 4) Most of the Muslim Thais in the southem border areas are still confused with Sunnah and Bid'ah (religious innovations). They can not fully distinguish between the twor resulting in their committing mistakes or being confused while maintaining their religious failh and practices.