Renewal of Islamic thought could not be done, if the hesitant and stiff attitude of thinking still exist on the scholars and Muslims. In contrast, progressive and dynamic attitude is very important, but caution remains a necessity. Moreover, reformation efforts demanded the authorities to be open minded in creating new law and freely performing istinbath and istidlāl in representing the substantive meaning of syara'. Studies on the progressive dimension of Islam is now starting to promoted flarely with two basic consciousness: 1) as a positive response to the world pressures that seen Islam as a religion that always slow respond to the pace of the times so that there are very strong boundary between the Islamic world and the western world. ...