BUYA HUSEIN MUHAMMAD'S THOUGHT ANALYSIS ON CHILDFREE LIFESTYLE IN INDONESIAN SOCIETY CONTRUCTION

Abstract This paper discusses how the contruction of Indonesian society in the process of forming a child-free lifestyle choie in the millennial generation to become a practice in everyday live and how the analysis sharia maqhasid Buya Husein Muhammad’s lifestyle. This paper uses a qualitative research type with a phenomenological approach with the nature of field research, this research is more focused on the result of interviews with informants related to the object of research. The resulta onf the research are childfree lifestyle formed in the contruction of Indonesian society starting from the common perception of the background experience of childfree lifestyle, namely childhood trauma, economic problems to having children are considered career barriers. This habit/understanding was built, dominated by social media to form the Indonesian childfree group. According buya Husein Muhammad, the choise of childfree lifestyle is a person’s effort to maintain principles and self-respect as a form of ifdz al-irdl (maintaining honor, namely being someone’s honor for his choice not to have children on the basis of reasons. Not having is a form of human right and Islam respects it.