When we reflect on the Malay world recently, it also seems to suffer from acts of aggression wrought upon by a group of Malays who seem to take Islam literally and believe that they could solve the injustices in the world through suicidal attacks like the Japanese hara-kiri, on those associated to the unjust actors. They seemed to have lost their compassion and mercy on other human beings or creatures created by God Therefore, Islamic education needs to balance the figh-orientation and intellectual orientation suggested with tasawwuf orientation. This is the significance Shaykh Abdul Salam al-Palembani. tasawwuf is to puriy the human soul and not to train students to abandon the world like an ascetic. To purify the human soul is one of the missions of Prophet Muhammad besides to teach them servitude to God, the signs of God in the universe and in themselves, and wisdom