Kiai Dahlan consensus among religious believers to maintain harmony among each other. He also is credited with lifting thousands of religious teachers through Teacher Examination of Religion (UGA) post-1965 events as a consequence of increasingly realized that the development of communism because of lack of teaching of religious instruction in schools. Pasuruan son also wants to initiate the implementation of Musabaqoh Tilawatil Qur'an National level, as well as pioneered the establishment of Higher Studies of the Koran or PTIQ.

However Kiai Dahlan vigorously denied the presence GUPPI organization, known as a ploy to undermine the government when the NU strength from the center to the regions. Firmness of his attitude, which makes him without charges and would be removed as minister of religion.

OriginMuhammad Dahlan was the third son offive children, was born on June 2, 1909, to coincide with the 14th Jumada al-Ula 1327 Hijri Mandaran Rejo village, Pasuruan, East Java. The village is situated on the coast, approximately three kilometers away from the town of Pasuruan. The majority of search-eyed villagers are fishermen fishing off the coast and fish farmers, making the land which lay in the village, mainly the plots of shrimp and milkfish. Management of pond inhabitants traditionally done, simply take advantage of the ebb and flow of the river flow through the village, which empties into the Madura Strait.

On the river's small Dahlan with their peers complain proficiency swim against the current of the river, or racing to find a stone thrown into a river.

Not to mention their teens years, Dahlan has