A blind beggar's testament: 'He has never scolded me!'

In the corner of the marketplace of Madinah, was a blind Jewish beggar, who would cry out daily to all those who came near him," O my brothers, don't be near Muhammad! He's a lunatic, he's a liar, a sorcerer! If you are to be close to him, you will be influenced by him!"

No matter whoever approached him, the blind Jewish beggar will definitely not waste his chance to incite them to hate the Prophet Muhammad, Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam (peace be upon him)!
All kinds of curses would spew forth from the beggar's lips even though he had never known the Prophet personally!

The news about the blind Jewish beggar's daily cursing and badmouthing him came to the knowledge of the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!

Even then, the Holy Prophet Muhammad did not get angry and he ignored the blind Jewish beggar's insults against himself!

On the contrary, from that day onwards, at each morning, the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam visited the blind beggar and brought food for him!

Without saying a single word, the Blessed Messenger (peace be upon him) would feed the beggar with his own hand!

The blind beggar would chew the food being fed to him and eat contentedly. Once he was full, he'd express his gratitude without knowing that the one who had fed him was the Holy Prophet of Allah, Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!

The Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam continued to feed the blind beggar without fail each day till the day he died! Throughout his service to the blind beggar, he never identified himself to the blind Jewish beggar!

After the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam had passed away, no one brought food to the blind beggar anymore!

The blind Jewish beggar waited daily and was perplexed as to why the kind man did no longer come to feed him and provide for him as he had done all this while.

The blind beggar waited in vain for the kind gentleman who had never missed visiting him each and every morning all these while .
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One day, the closest Companion of the Holy Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, Saiyidina Abu Bakar As Siddiq @ The Truthful One, Radhiallahu Anhu (May Allah be pleased with him) visited the home of his daughter, Saiyidatina Aishah, Radhiallahu Anha (May Allah be pleased with her), the widow of the Blessed Messenger (SAW).

Abu Bakar asked Aishah, " O my child, is there any habit of my beloved (Prophet) that I have yet to carry on?"

Aisyah replied, " Dear Father, you are verily a follower of the Sunnah (Habits) of the Prophet and there is none that you have yet to do except for one deed only!"

" What is that?" asked Abu Bakar.

"Every morning, the Prophet of Allah will go to the end of the marketplace, bringing food to a blind old Jewish beggar who lives there and feed him by his hand," said Aishah.

The next day, Abu Bakar As Siddiq went to the marketplace with food for the blind beggar. Abu Bakar As Siddiq approached the beggar and started to feed him.

At the first handfull of food being fed to him, the blind Jewish beggar became angry and shouted out ," Who are you?"

Abu Bakar answered " I am the one who usually feeds you every morning".

"No! Don't you lie to me!" objected the blind beggar.

Abu Bakar was shocked, thus he asked" Why do you say so?"

Answered the blind Jewish beggar," Because when he comes to me, I always felt it easy to hold his hand and found it easy to chew the food he fed me! The man who used to feed me would make the food fine before feeding it to me!"

Abu Bakar As Siddiq could not hold back his tears anymore and he burst out crying and had to disclose who he actually was to the beggar.

"Verily, I am not the one who used to come and feed you. I am one of his Companions for the noble one is alive no more! He was none other than the Blessed Prophet of Allah, Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!"

"Muhammad?" asked the blind old Jewish beggar, totally shocked with what he had just heard.

"You mean to tell me that the one who came each morning without fail and fed me by his hand was Muhammad?" asked the beggar.

"Yes! It was Muhammad!" answered Abu Bakar.

Immediately, the blind old Jewish beggar wailed out in despair and cried so pitifully coming to realise that it was none other than the Holy Prophet who had been feeding him all this while.

"All these while!...all these while, I had been cursing him, I had been slandering him!

Not once has he ever scolded me ! He kept coming every morning to feed me! He is so noble!.." cried the old blind Jewish beggar as he wiped away his flowing tears on his cheeks.

The blind beggar reached out to Saiyidina Abu Bakar As Siddiq, the first Caliph of the Muslims and testified before him the Kalimah Shahadah :

'Ash har doo Allah ila ha ill lall Lah! Wa ash har doo anna Muhammad darr Rasulullah!' declaring that There is No God but Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah!

From that moment onwards, the blind old Jewish beggar became a Muslim. @};-

Excerpt taken from the Life of the Sahaba of Rasulullah Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam.

My answer to Blogger Billy about the Kg.Berembang tragedy

May Peace be unto you Brother Billy!

We, the people of Malaysia must realise that we are all interconnected as a community of Mankind!

We may differ in our ethnicities and faith but deep down we all feel the same pain, the same joy and the same emotions and passions that shows that we are all the Children of Our Father, the Prophet Adam Alaihis Salam, may peace be upon him!

The Kg Berembang squatters who are mostly Malay Muslims now know that they can depend on their fellow Malaysians from the Chinese and the Indian communities to come to their defence and together face up to the authorities who although mostly made up of Malay Muslims forget their responsibilities to exercise their authority in a manner befitting them as Muslims who must obey Allah the Almighty God and the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam in carrying out their orders!Islam forbids those who are in authority to deal with their subjects in a harsh and cruel manner!

When these authorities do what they have done, they have to face Almighty Allah in the Hereafter and answer for their highhandedness!

As for the Malaysian Malays, now you know that those who crow like bloody cocks in Parliament and in the recent General Assembly of UMNO won't put to practice what they preach!

Where the hell are Pemuda UMNO?

Where the hell are Putera UMNO?

Where are Hishamudin and Khairy with their promises to defend the Malays with their raised 'kris'es' to champion the cause of the poor Malays?

All bloody hogwash!

I am ashamed to see such rhetoric spewers who only are masquarading as the Champions of the Malays when the TV cameras are focused on them but in reality it is none but the 'Keling Hindu' and the 'China Bukit' who have come to defend the Malays who all these while used to insult their fellow Malaysians from the Indian and Chinese communities as such!

To the Malays of Kg Berembang, I ask this:

'Siapa pembela kamu? UMNO? MCA? MIC? GERAKAN?'

Hanya mereka dari komuniti India dan China yang ada keberanian turun membela nasib kamu semua!

Ya, mereka yang selama ini dihina, dicaci dan digelar Keling dan Apek yang ada semangat 'kejantanan' yang sebenarnya untuk bersama kamu mempertahankan rumah rumah kamu!

Mereka sedia meletakkan diri dan nyawa mereka sendiri menahan pukulan dan belasahan dari FRU dan gerombolan sesama bangsa dan agama kamu iaitu Melayu Melayu yang menjadi Pasukan Penguatkuasa rakus dari MPAJ!

Sedarlah diri! Celikkan lah mata hati kamu terhadap siapa sebenarnya rakan senegara kamu dan siapa petualang bangsa kamu yang sebenarnya?

Islam tinggal nama saja! Yang bermaharajalela adalah Wang, Pangkat dan Kedudukan!

Inilah hakikat sebenarnya keadaan dinegara kita ini! Wallahi Wabillahi!

Semoga Allah SWT memberikan pengajaran setimpalnya kepada mereka yang mahazalim!

Mahathir dah tak berkuasa dah! Dah tak boleh nak letak label Mahafir'aun terhadap beliau!

Nah, sekarang zaman Islam Hadhari!

Nak kutuk dan maki siapa lagi wahai rakyat Kg Berembang kalau tidak Al Toyo yang melangkaui kuasa sang mamanda Perdana Menteri?

Fikir lah sewaras warasnya! Kuasa ditangan siapa sebenarnya dinegara ini?

Rakyat cuma anak tangga tempat mereka menginjak ke takhta takhta kerajaan dan bila sang miskin menjerit meminta belas kasihan dan pertimbangan, maka belantan FRU datang memecah kepala kepala mereka!

Adil sungguh ! Entahlah!

Memang hadith Nabi SAW tentang keadaan diakhir zaman ini sudah menjadi kenyataan!'

"Di akhir zaman akan datang satu keadaan dimana wanita wanita akan berpakaian tetapi 'telanjang' dan orang orang yang berkuasa akan memgang cemeti dan memukul rakyat jelata!"

Nah! Apakah tidak benar dizaman kita ini , perempuan perempuan tak kira bangsa dan agama ramai memperagakan pusat, perut, buntut dan dada dada mereka dikhalayak ramai?

Apakah tidak benar FRU memecahkan kepala, mematahkan tulang temulang sang rakyat yang cuba sedaya upaya mempertahankan hak hak mereka?

Sedarilah keadaan sebenarnya dinegara ini yang kununnya telah merdeka!

Merdeka memang merdeka tetapi masih dijajah oleh sesama bangsa dan agama!

La haula wala quwwata illa billah hil aliyyil azhim! Tiada Kuasa selain Allah yng Maha Perkasa!

Manusia akan kembali kepada Allah dan akan disoal tentang kuasa yang dipinjamkan oleh Allah SWT secara sementara kepada mereka!

Malaysians need to rally together to uphold Justice!

Dear fellow Malaysians!
Malays, Chinese, Indians, Sikhs, Orang Asli's, Sabahan's and Sarawakian's! Each and everyone of us who is born here and lays claim to this land as his or her motherland! Take a step back and survey what's taking place in our multi ethnic, multi faithed country called Malaysia!

We need to realise that as long as we keep bickering over our differences in ethnicities and faith till Doomsday, the very parties who are crushing the rights of poor folks like the Kg Berembang villagers will continue to reign supreme in this land!

Yes, whilst the brave people of groups like JERIT and other social activists are willing to face grievous harm to themselves, get arrested by the authorities and have themselves imprisoned just because they dared to put to practice what is actually conforming to the hadith of the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam:
'Whomsoever amongst you sees an injustice take place before you, then you must stop it with your hands (ability, power, strength); failing which you must speak out against the injustice (as we bloggers, writers,etc do) ; and if you can't even do that ; then to hate it (the injustice) in your heart! Surely that (hating in the heart) is the sign of those who are weakest in their faith and close to Kuffur!'

The reality is that if we, the people continue to remain separated into groups of individuals, each not willing to stand up and defend our collective rights to be allowed to live in peace and treated with the respect that we ought to be given by the relevant authorities, then we will see more instances like what is taking place in Kg Berembang, Ampang, Selangor repeat itself and those that are corrupt to run riot as they please in robbing this nation blind!

The authorities can't be expected to exercise proper accountability now after the changing of power from Mahathir to Abdullah Badawi!

Those two are just at the peak of governance of the Federal Government! It is the ones running the State Governments who do as they please for many of the government's agencies like the ACA are muzzled up and can't operate as they should because of the backlash that they face whenever they try and do their duties.

The officers get transferred, demoted, threatened and hassled in their daily activities. Official and invincible redtape permeates each and every government department, office and ministry.

These are all the various cancers that plague the frameworks of this 49 years old government. The ministers , director generals, heads of this and that might change and be replaced by others but the mindset remains ingrained into each and every part of the government machinery!

Even if one wants to do his or her duty as per the book, the senior corrupt ones will do their best to get the officer sacked or transferred elsewhere! They will even resort to black magic and cast spells to torment and terrorise the victim to even an early death! We all know tht such things do happen and take place here in our lands!

As long as the Earth exists, such people will continue to be there in different forms and names, but the evil remains the same. Lately, MPAJ, MPPJ,MPPP,MPK and many other local councils are being exposed to be the champions of injustice!

Local elections might be able to change the situation and stop the rot taking place in all those councils but without ourselves, the citizens, getting together and protect our rights and those of our fellow Malaysians, nothing will change!

Instead of fighting amongst ourselves unnecessarily, we must state our stands against the very corrupt ones ruining our lifes under the pretext of progress!

The rich become more wealthier whereas poor village folks become more destitute! Damn!

Kg Berembang News Update! Khir Toyo Overrules the PM!

KHIR TOYO OVERRULES PAK LAH!
23 ACTIVIST ARRESTED, HOUSES DEMOLISHED!

After almost 8 hours of defending 62 houses in Kampung Berembang, finally the police and local authorities crushed the resistance resulting in 23 arrests including arrest of PSM and JERIT leaders, houses being demolished and burned down and one women in a very critical condition, fighting for her life in the hospital.

After only managing to demolish 2 houses on Friday, the MPAJ(Local authorities) with the developers and the police came again this morning to finish the job which they failed to complete last week.

At the village, all three entrances to the village have been blocked by human shield and other items. There were also a large number of activists mainly from JERIT and PSM, along with several other villagers from other Urban Settlers community aligned to the Coalition of Housing and Urban Settlers present. The situation was tense and the people waited for the showdown.

After more than 3 hours of initial stand-off, the first ambush by MPAJ at around 10.30am saw a massive clash between the local authorities and the villagers.

The fight broke out with every corner, fist fighting, punching and dragging. The local authorities with 3 huge demolition machines failed to penetrate the human shield but it resulted in the local authorities arresting and assaulting 8 people – 2 villagers and 6 activist.

The assault was brutal but the people were equally strong and the first wave of attack by the authorities failed. There were injuries from both sides. Both parties retreated to original positions.

Then came the second round of stand still. The District Police Chief of Ampang, ACP Amer and his high ranking officers were also prevented from entering the area from another location. That resulted in another arrest by the police. Human Rights Commissioner, Dato Siva Subramaniam arrived shortly.

Then in a series of negotiations between the District police Chief, Dato Siva, MPAJ officer- Ismail, the developer and PSM Secretary general S.Arutchelvan created a stand still but a tense situation.

The police Chief told that he prefers to call off the operation as he said the situation is very tense and serious and he wants to avoid a bloodshed.

Siva Subramaniam said that the demolition should be called off and SUHAKAM (Human Rights Commission) will conduct a meeting with the relevant bodies to resolve the issue.

But the Local authorities- MPAJ who were under the Instruction of the Developers was very adamant to bull doze. They told the police that they have enough people to carry out the operation.

The police then told all parties to hold on, as there were attempt to reach certain Government authorities to call off the exercise.

Both parties stood their ground. The developers and the MPAJ said that the people did not have an Injunction while the people said that the case was to be heard in April next year and therefore the authorities have to wait and the land status must remain unchanged.

Then the police Chief, MPAJ and SUHAKAM representative went to the Developers site office with the instruction that there should be no forced eviction until some agreement can be reached.

Just after 1 pm, the whole situation from gloom changed to happiness when 2 villagers shouted victory and carried with them some papers. They managed to get a letter calling for the demolition and forced eviction to be postponed. The letter was released by the Prime Minister's Department and signed by the Prime Minister's private secretary. The villager Pak Lang told the people gathered, that the Government has opened its eyes.

We have a letter now and thanked everyone. The activists were very cautious and told the people not to be fooled but wait for the final confirmation that the forced eviction exercise will be called off.

Pak Lang has already started singing praises for the Prime Minister.

A team of villagers and the PSM Sec Gen, S.Arutchelvan then took the letters to the Developers site office. They were shocked to find that the Developers has catered a lot of food to feed the government servants.

Meanwhile the Human Rights Commission representative , Dato Siva said that the letter is good enough to stop the demolition of houses.

He said this is from the highest authority- The Prime Minister's Office. He later held a Press Conference at the side and left.

An hour later, things became sour again when Riot police started parking their heavy vehicles in two main entrance to the village.

The news then came that the Selangor Chief Minister (MB) Khir Toyo has overruled the PM's letter and has called for the operation to carry on.

Pak Lang was stunned and in tears. The villagers were stunned. The Villagers then made a human chain with the activists and waited for the ultimate assault, which was imminent.

Then a team of police under the order of the Deputy Police Chief came to arrest PSM Secretary General S.Arutchelvan, who was at that time the key negotiator.

He was told to surrender but he remained defiant. Arul was then arrested, dragged and handcuffed by around ten policemen. He was then taken away to a separate police detention center.

The rest of the people continued to hold on. They managed to hold on for another half an hour, then the next series of arrest took place.

Sivarajan, PSM's Treasurer, Chang Lih Kang- SUARAM were arrested, other JERIT leaders as well other activists and villagers were arrested.

13 more people were arrested, a fight broke out, more people got injured and one young lady collapsed and did not regain consciousness. She was taken to the Hospital nearby!

The authorities moved from every angle, one house was razed and the rest went down one by one.

The resistance collapsed under a heavy presence of riot police with authorities outnumbering the people by 3 to 1.

All those arrested were taken to the Hulu Kelang police station except for Arutchelvan who was kept at the Ampang Police Headquaters.

He was later taken to the Hulu Kelang Police Station and after a massive protest by Human Rights Groups, all those arrested were released just before midnight the same day.

They were released on police bail and told to report at the Ampang magistrate on 4 ^th December 2006.

Around ten police reports at different parts of the country was also done by the JERIT network condemning the arrests and the forced evictions..

At the village, the houseless people erected tents.

They were still stunned how the Chief Minister- Khir Toyo can overrule a letter from the Prime Minister's department? They are now more convinced that the Prime Minister has no control over this matter.

The Human Rights Commission @ SUHAKAM is equally stunned and are going to call for a Press Conference the following day.

The arrest of 23 people is perhaps the first time after many years when such a huge resistance was put up.

The last major resistance in an Urban Settlers area was in 1998 in Kampung Sg. Nipah where 55 people were arrested.

Today the resistance in Kampung Berembang has radicalized the community there.

The people are putting up tents and are staying put in the same land. Under the ruins, they are going to attempt to build their homes again.

The resistance this time also saw how the various races can unite under a class solidarity to fight the oppressors. The villagers- all of them Muslim Malays have now realized a few important lesson.

They now see that the issue is simply that the Developer(capitalist) has bought over the local authorities and the State Government and police are standing behind them. The Prime Minister's letter did not stand.

The only people who stood with the poor urban settlers were other settlers from various ethnic and comrades from the socialist party and the JERIT coalition as well as the other activists! They now understand who are their allies and who are their enemy.

List of people arrested:

1. Adli Abdul Rahman

2. Ahmad Tamrin

3. Arutchelvan

4. Awalluddin Sharif

5. Azman Mohd

6. Chang Lih Kang

7. Ebrahim Haris

8. Faezae Ramzi (15 years old)

9. Fiqtriey bin Al Hakimi

10. Kumaravee

11. Lechumy Devi Doraisamy

12. Lee Huat Seng

13. Mohan

14. Mohd. Rajis

15. Parames Elumalai

16. Ramachanthiran Ananthan

17. Ramalingam Thirumalai

18. Sabariah Ayoub

19. Sevan

20. Sivarajan

21. Thevarajan Ramasamy

22. V. Wani

23. Sugumaran

Article taken from Parti Sosialis Malaysia's Report and published here.

MPAJ's Rampage in obliterating the village of Kg.Berembang!

These photos show how members of JERIT, largely comprised of poor Malaysian Indians coming to help save the homes of their fellow Malaysian Malays!

Chinese Malaysians also bravely confront the cruel MPAJ Demolition squad and put themselves in harm's way before the swinging batons and truncheons of the FRU and get walloped, pummelled and beaten to a pulp for daring to try and stop the destruction of the Kg.Berembang poor squatter colony!


Homes of the poor are bulldozed mercilessly by those whom the villagers now know that they are no better than gangsters in uniform!











The Malays of Kg Berembang now have seen how the very people whom many thought were their enemies and will 'rob' them of their rights and 'Ketuanan Melayu' must surely be regretting time held suspicions against the Chinese and the Indians who are their defenders against injustice that has been perpetrated against them by their own kind!






Today, the villagers of Kg Berembang are seeing with their own eyes that the 'Keling Hindu' are the ones who are willing to shed their own blood by lying down on the grounds to stop the MPAJ demolition crews from bulldozing the Malay villagers homes!

Look at this Malaysian Indian brave fellow citizen who has laid down himself to stop the MPAJ Destroyers from harming the squatters homes!

This is the 'Keling Hindu' who is despised by some of the racist idiots all these while thinking so badly of the Indians of Malaysia and now who ought to be ashamed of themselves for failing to realise that evil exists even in their own races and fellow 'Muslims'!

I put the ' marks here because a true Muslim will never commit these injustices as those being done by the MPAJ!

Look at the faces of these poor people whose kids are now traumatised by seeing their homes, the places they grew up in, be there no more!

Verily, those responsible for causing these children to cry in fear and despair will not have a good end!

The Kg Berembang villagers will surely curse the animals in uniform who did not spare them a thought and have bulldozed their homes! They will now see their fellow 'Malays' in the MPAJ to be what they truly are ! Devils in uniform!

No amount of pleading will change the minds of those whose hearts are closed!

Asking these corrupted ones to spare a thought about where the villagers will sleep tonight is as asking a stonewall for compassion!

They are blind to all these ! They are deaf, dumb and heartless towards the poor!

To the rich and infamous, they'll kiss the hands of those who have the ringgits! Such are those who are not bothered as to the rights of the poor!

All these people have gathered to show support to the villagers yet found out that they are dealing with those whose hearts have been blackened with arrogance and contempt for the poor!

These social activists put to practice what many in UMNO just preach!

These folks from JERIT are not kith or kin to the Kg Berembang villagers yet here they are ; ready to face the dangers from the FRU and MPAJ Demolition crews who are ready to beat them up without mercy!

These youths who have been arrested are not the 'Mat Rempits' being spoonfed by Putera UMNO!

These are university students and activists from JERIT who are only trying to help the Kg Berembang villagers!








These are people who do not have nothing but compassion for their fellow Malaysians. See the various ethnicities gathered here to defend the villagers homes!










See the rage in the eyes of this Malay MPAJ officer!

Is this the fellow Malay whom the Malays of Kg Berembang expecting to get any mercy from?

Where is the 'semangat Melayu' from this tough guy? He'd smash you before you can even say 'Hidup Melayu!' and beat you to a pulp for daring to stand up for the rights of the common citizen!

From all those buttons on his shoulder, he's a first class merciless uniformed thug!

These are the Indians who dare to stand up to the Police and state their rights to defend the poor folks of Kg Berembang!

Malays out there! Look at who is defending your fellow Malays?

Is it Pemuda UMNO? Pemuda MCA? Gerakan?

Nahh.. they have bigger things to do. Like taking care of themselves and their pockets!

It's only activists like JERIT who dare defend the villagers!

Here are the MPAJ goon squads!

Here are those who don't give a hoot as to where the poor villagers are gonna sleep tonight and tomorrow and will only say ' We are just following orders!'

Where is the love? None to give!





Look at who is getting arrested because he tried to help the Kg Berembang Malays?

It is none but an Indian Malaysian who has the heart to defend his fellow citizens regardless of race or religious differences!

Syabas Mr Arutchelvam of JERIT!

Malays reading this report, take a good hard look at those whom some of the dimwits amongst the population call derogatory terms and insults against the Malaysian Indians as 'keling' and the Malaysian Chinese as 'China Bukit', etc!
These are the ones who have come forward as fellow Malaysians and have the 'balls' to defend the largely Malay squatter village of Kg.Berembang!

"Orang berbudi ; kita berbahasa!" Kawan ketika duka dan lara adalah kawan sejati!

Bukan macam pagar yang sebangsa dan seagama tetapi makan padi dengan begitu kejam dan lahap sekali!"

Meaning ' When people do us favors ; we reciprocate in return' and ' Not as trusting the fence that is of the same race and faith but in turn devour the padi @ rice in such cruelty and unabridled gluttony!
I feel so angry and sad at the same time reading and viewing the destruction and cruel eviction methods being deployed by the MPAJ @ Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya and the use of the FRU @ Federal Reserve Units at the squatter colony at Kg.Berembang, Ampang, Selangor!

Kg.Berembang is located behind the Gleneagles Hospital, Jalan Ampang, Selangor. All these while, the squatter colony has been hidden from the public eyes by the grand private hospital building, a 5 star medical centre , usually the treatment centre for the nation's Sultan's, VVIP's and the cream of the crop, so to speak!

I understand that yes, the land does not belong to the villagers and that development is due to take place there.

But what I am not happy about is the manner in which the eviction has been carried out so far where the MPAJ has gone ahead and bulldozed the homes of those people who have been living there since twenty thirty years ago! Activists protesting the highhandedness of the cruel MPAJ have been arrested and thrown into the lockups!

TVPAS shows the villagers expressing their hurt, their feelings and their grievances of being treated like trash by the MPAJ here!

The photos are sourced from JERIT and Malaysiakini.
May God bless them and also TvPAS.com for the brave work they are doing for the people of Malaysia!
News is information and Knowledge is Power! Remember all these pictures and the pain of the people!


These people who have come and destroyed their homes are not 'Keling Hindu' or 'China Bukit' @ derogatory names that those Malays who are racist chauvinistic dimwits who at times will shout 'Hidup Melayu' whilst threatening to bathe their 'kris'es with Chinese or Indian blood are today perplexed to see none but these two ethnicities come forward to defend their Malay kampongs from the heartless demolition team of their fellow Malay majority MPAJ @ Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya!
A Malaysian Indian woman gets arrested for wanting to protest against the demolition of Malay homes!
It is a gross act of injustice when local authorities spare the illegally built homes of the rich and infamous such as the 'Dream Palace' of Datuk Zakaria Mat Deros in the village of Pandamaran, a humongous structure jutting high above the village homes all around it ; yet are so hardhanded when it comes to homes of the poor villagers of Kg.Berembang!

What kind of a government do we have here in Malaysia? We go help others when disaster strikes our neighbouring countries and even go as far as Bam in Iran and to the quake hit mountain villages in Pakistan, yet we have corrupt and screwed up , recalcitrant local authorities like the MPAJ and MPK, cruelly destroy and crush the homes and belongings of the squatter villagers without giving them the alternative housings and allow them to move their belongings as they need to according to normal, decent, human to human courtesy!

Are they vicious, hardcore criminals, out to create mayhem and civil disorder that the FRU hve to be deployed to beat up women and children in their iron fist policies against poor villagers caught in a situation where they can't spit nor swallow?

Is this the example of how a caring government under the rhetoric of 'Islam Hadhari' of the ruling BN government?

Where is the spirit of human compassion that is being touted by these bloody politicians who do not practice what they preach?

I for one can only ask Almighty Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to give those culprits their dues for victimising the poor people and treat them worse than criminals, by destroying the lifes and homes of such poor people living a hard life behind the facade of Selangor being one of the most developed states in Malaysia!

In their haste to demolish the squatter colonies, the authorities in the MPAJ and Selangor State Government have failed to exercise proper understanding and compassion towards the citizens of this state!

Where is the kindness they portray in the tv news sections and propaganda through the multimedia?

Where is the spirit of 'Islam Hadhari' that these hypocrites almost always showcase in all the clearly self glorifying shows and concerts that they hold every other day trying to fool the people that they are the ones who are advocating the empty slogan of 'Cemerlang, Gemilang and Terbilang' of the one's who are the top guns of this gone crazy local authorities?

It is clearly an injustice when a local authority fails to rule and go about it in a manner befitting those who are carrying the trust and responsibility placed upon them by a government that is voted into power by all the citizens, both the filthy rich, the middle class and the very poor citizens of this country and from those living in abject poverty as those squatters in Kg.Berembang!

Never forget that those of you who are now in power will one day return to the earth!

Yes, those of you, who live in palatial mansions, clothe yourselves in rich , expensive materials, dine in 5 star comforts and splurge as you please whilst still alive will one day be dead and cold, lying stiff, awaiting burial by those whom you will surely leave behind!
Those of you who go and wallop the poor! The women and the children! The poor villager trying to defend his home, his wife, his children, his family from your batons and shields, is going to raise his hands to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and ask God to teach you who are cruel! He is going to cry to Allah and ask that Allah teaches you all a lesson!

Are you that great that you can go on and commit such gross injustice to your fellow citizens?


The people will know what to do come the fateful day when we shall decide where our votes go to in the next General Election!
If you all still remain in power, then the Malaysian people surely deserve you! Really!

People of Malaysia, wake up now to the harsh reality behind all the lovey dovey propaganda that is being pushed to us by 'Cemerlang, Gemilang, Terbilang' spewing hard hearted ones in the MPAJ and State Government of Selangor!


They say that if you want to know whether justice prevails in the land, see whether only the poor get punished for being poor and the rich get away with everything?

To me, it surely looks like , justice in this land has been gang raped, sodomised and murdered! To top it all up, the perpetrators claim that they are innocent and the victims are the ones who violated them in the first place!No wonder the scales are lopsided all these while! Apathy Rules!

They have never been calibrated all these 49 years of ruling as they pleased! Tome to get new ones!May Justice be upheld in this country by punishing all the tyrants in power today! Ameen!

Alhamdulillah! The Islamic Centre is Approved!

Bismillahirrahhmannirrahim!

In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful!

Wassalatu Wassalamu 'ala Rasulullahi Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!

Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Ta'ala Wabarakatuh.

Dear Volunteers of the proposed Islamic Centre of the Masjid Jamek Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur!

With the Taufeek and Hidayah of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala , the Administration Committee of the Masjid Jamek Bandaraya KL have given me the green light to go ahead with my plans to form the Islamic Centre which I have proposed! Syukur Alhamdulillah! Allahu Akbar!

Subhanallah! Alhamdulillah! La ila ha ill lall lah! Allahu Akbar!

I have been asked to submit a working paper to the Administration Committee to facilitate the setting up of centre proper and how I am going to run the centre.

All 16 names of those of you who have volunteered have been submitted to the Administration Committee and Insya Allah, I will be following up with emails to each of you as to the next steps we need to take.

The atmosphere was very cordial and they were pretty supportive of my initiative and listened attentively as I introduced myself, my background, experiences and credentials.

I showed them my work back in Penang and explained that we will be working with the existing framework of the existing Dakwah Bureau of the mosque and improve and add value to the functions of the mosque as a focus centre for our Non Muslim visitors and anyone else who wants to learn about Islam and general info about us , Muslims .

The Committee shared with me that there were earlier applications from a few Islamic NGO's to do the same as what I am proposing but they had not been able to follow up with the actions.

Hence , my coming in to start this centre and complete with the list of all of you, the 16 pioneer volunteers and future Da'ee's and Da'eeyah's of this Islamic Centre is exactly what the Admin Committee have been waiting for! Alhamdulillah!

Each of you will be established as the pioneer Dakwah Team of the Islamic Centre of Masjid Jamek Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur!

Through Teamwork We Shall Strive ; With Proper Dakwah Ethics and Co-operation from each and everyone of us, this Islamic Centre will thrive!

The Islamic Outreach of ABIM have graciously offered to help prepare our Dakwah Team with all the necessary skills, knowledge and the proper methods of conducting Dakwah to Non Muslims and fellow Muslims who want to improve and add to their 'Ilm of Islam. Alhamdulillah!

Those of you who have shared with me that your level of English is not up to mark ; have no fear! I will conduct English classes for you , free of charge!

Insya Allah, I will also arrange for Fardhu Ain classes to be held at the centre for all. Quran classes, Arabic classes, Mandarin, and other language classes will also be in the pipeline!

Insya Allah, we will do our best to bring in the relevant masters of all such 'Ilm to help the Da'ee's and Da'eeyah's to add value to yourselves whereby you in turn will be able to share those newfound skills and knowledge with all others!

After attending the meeting, I got to meet a Japanese family and two Korean ladies who were visiting the mosque.

Spent some time sharing info with them and after they had left, spoke to Brother Jasper from England, who spent 20 over minutes with me just before Zohor.

All in, it was a pleasant and most promising day for me and for all of you, the pioneer team of Dakwah Volunteers of the coming Islamic Centre of KL's most historic masjid, the 108 years old, Masjid Jamek Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur.

Watch out for my email coming soon to your inbox'es! Time to get cracking on our plans!

All others who wish to join us , please email me at mahaguru58@gmail.com

Please include your full biodata complete with a passport size scanned photo of yourselves for registration purposes. Tell us about your background and include current addresses and contact numbers!

That's it for now and May Allah SWT bless us all with His Taufeek and Hidayah!

Wassalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Ta'ala Wabarakatuh! Have a pleasant weekend!

Principles of Da'wah Al Islamiah Part One

Bismillahirrahmannirrahim.
In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.
Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi ta'ala wabarakatuh.

Pending the start up of the proposed Islamic Centre of Masjid Jamek Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur, I wish to share with you some information about this noble efforts of improving oneself and sharing with others in the Islamic propagation work that is known as Da'wah Al Islamiah.

This article is meant for those 15 Muslimins and Mukminats who have emailed me, volunteering their services for the Islamic Centre which is under process of discussions with the Mosque Administration and the relevant authorities.

You who have volunteered to contribute your time and energy in running this centre are among those who are going to carry on the most important work in your lifes ; that is to carry on the Efforts of the Blessed Messenger Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam. May the Taufeek and Hidayah of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala be upon us all! Ameen Ya Rabbal Alameen.

To be an efficient Da'ee or Da'eeyah, one must possess four basic criteria's. These are :

1. Sincerity towards doing this effort for Allah SWT
   
2. Clear Intention as to why you are involved in Da'wah
   
3. Ability to withstand tensions that will sure come to you in line of this work
   
4. Good manners as a benchmark of being a Caller to Islam.

1. Sincerity

Each person who is committed to doing their part for the Islamic Da'wah Services must be sincere towards this noble efforts. We seek nothing but the Redha of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and the success of Islam to be understood by our fellow mankind as to what it really is and to dispel the misinformation about our Deen ul Haqq!

In Surah Al-An'am Chapter 6 Verse 162, Allah SWT commands :

'Say (O Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam) " Verily, my Salat (prayers), my Sacrifice, my Living and my Dying are for Allah, the Lord of the 'Alameen (mankind,djinn, and all that exists).

By being sincere and joining other Mukmins and Mukminats in doing this noble effort, the Da'ee and Da'eeyah will be blessed by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to be constantly in remembrance of Rabbul Jaleel and reaffirm our Knowledge of Islam , Ad Deen ul Haqq , everytime we share any of the information regarding Islam and in return attain the peace of mind and sakinah that comes with the knowledge that we are sharing with others the Truth of Islam, Insya Allah.

All of our actions must be acts of worship towards Allah Ar Rahman Ar Raheem. Sincerity ensures that our deeds are carried out solely for the sake of Allah SWT and not expecting any worldly returns. Our heart must be sincere in coming in to do this noble work that is a continuation of the Efforts of the Prophets of Allahu Ta'ala.

If we were to ever go astray and start thinking that we are better than others and allow pride to seep in and corrupt our ikhlas fisabilillahi ta'ala, we must immediately repent and seek Allah's Forgiveness and try our best not to be anything but sincere and humble in our hearts.

It is human nature to like being praised. Those who like being cursed are either weird in the truest sense of the word or plain psycho! It's abnormal ! May Allah SWT save us from such folks! Ameen.

Doesn't mean that I ask that we be praised, be appreciated all the time! No way! Just asking that we be left to do what we want to without any hindrance for we do not go disturb anyone out there. We just do what we are asked to by our Lord Almighty! That's all!

Then there are the faultfinders. Yes, there are more faultfinders on Earth than there are those who appreciate us for whatever good we do. We see these kind each day online and offline! They think they know best and forget to realise that they aren't perfect in the first place, themselves!

I have come to meet so many of these Critics par Excellence in my life that I can easily sense them out and stay away from them for there's nothing good coming out from them except to complain, complain and complain till the sun arises from the West, Insya Allah!

A reminder now and then to us as to our going wrong's would be beneficial but to get it daily is just gonna drive us to an early grave, if we let them harangue us !

People who have yet to know us in depth almost always try and label us as such. They will accuse us of being 'narcissistic', 'syok sendiri' , 'angkat bakul', 'naik lif', and so on! Does that do us any good in the long run? Best, stay clear of such kind for the sake of our Peace of mind!

We who at first are so excited about helping others and ourselves in improving our knowledge and being in good spirits with the faith in Allah SWT and to follow the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW will soon get depressed, disillusioned and lose our spirit as a result of listening to all these 'bad news' folks!

Yup! No two ways about it! If you want to succeed in life and retain that aspect of being sincere towards this Da'wah effort, please.....please do not keep company with the likes of those who are blinkered in their views and who harbour bad vibes in their miserable souls! No good comes from associating with these kind.

Birds of a feather flock together, so the saying goes. Go mix with the good folks who fear Allah SWT and love the Sunnah of the Prophet SAW!

Remember his hadith about being friends with the perfume seller and staying away from the blacksmith! I am sure you know the meanings of the hadith!

I will share more about the principles of being a good Da'ee and Da'eeyah later. Got an important appointment with a friend coming from Penang who is a jeweller. Who knows? Maybe Allah SWT wants to give me some Razq from doing business with him. Please do'a for me! Insya Allah!

I pray that this Juma'at will see us being blessed by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and our sins be forgiven and baraqah given to us in return! Ameen Ya Rabbul Alameen.

Take care and have a nice day. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh!

Tired of Mainstream TV Media? Watch tvPAS.com

We who are sort of sick and tired of listening to the edited, whitewashed, lame duck presentation of news and views all these while can now tune in or rather click on to an alternative media that showcases the views of the people of Malaysia especially from those in the Opposition!

I hereby invite you to check out TV PAS.com which gives us an insight of what the leaders of the Islamic Party of Malaysia @ PAS have to say and share with us about the various issues and political happenings that have taken place and are still happening with regards to our lifes.

It doesn't matter if you are an UMNO, MCA, MIC, GERAKAN, PPP, IPF, DAP, PAS or PKR member. As long as you want to know all that is happening today in our nation, it is important for you to be well read, well exposed and alert to all media reportings.

TV PAS.com comes as a valuable source of alternative news and reports for us to contemplate and to evaluate as to what is really the truth and what is mere propaganda being dished out to us, the citizens of this country.

I still recall how the mainstream media and mouthpiece of the ruling government, RTM through it's 'Debat Perdana' programme almost always had the UMNO backbenchers specially invited to take part in the socalled debate to viciously attack the guests from the Opposition parties on the programme and the 'moderator' Datuk Johan Jaafar allow such assaults from the BN members with abandon!

Hence, this online alternative news media from Parti Islam se Malaysia is most welcome and a good source for news that will never make it past the edit button of the government controlled multimedia.

I am not endorsing this source a 100% or totally agree with whatever or whoever shares their views through this TV PAS.com but just sharing with you who might be interested in getting news from the other side of the ruling government !

I might agree with some and disregard those which are mere rhetoric from dubious characters appearing hence with on this medium.

I leave it to you to decide for your own. Use your commonsense and rationality. Happy viewing!

Malaysians-We all need to cool down! Reflect on this.

The recent discussions about Apostasy and the fiery speeches made by some delegates at the recent UMNO General Assembly sort of has raised the temperature amongst those of us who do give a damn about what has and is taking place in this nation!

Malaysians in general are a very passive lot and are known for our 'tidak apa' attitude @ apathy!

We, the people of this country have weathered all kinds of instigative actions by those who love nothing more than to rent this country asunder with civil riots, bloodshed, destruction and mayhem!

Most of those who curse, rant and rave as well as spew hatred through the many online forums, chatrooms and blogs fail to reflect on how far we have all come to gain and attain a much more better stage of living a lifestyle that our forefathers could only have fantasised of!

When I look at the way our country was a few centuries back, I am amazed and grateful to God for all that we have now with us. Life back then must surely have been sort of a living hell and nightmare if we were to ever get transported back in time to the 1400's!

There were no proper roads, no facilities that we now take for granted with all our modern lifestyles and amenities.

The picture here shows KL as it was in 1884! All just attap huts with no proper drainage and sewage facilities! No airconditioned premises as we have today!

No electricity to speak of and if not for the 'Colonialists', progress would have not made it to our shores as we now have it.

Let's be a bit realistic here. Sure, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British have invaded our country and spirited away most of our country's gold and riches and sort of left us as a sucked up orange but look at us now.

Through the teamwork of the various nationalities and ethnicities, both native and immigrants, we have together built up this nation with our forefather's blood, sweat and tears.

Looking at the weather beaten, darkened, craggy faces of those Malays, Chinese and Indians of old in the grainy black and white photos and the imagery of the 'Orang Putih' @ the 'Tuan's', with their handlebar moustaches and 'keep up the stiff upper lip Old Chap' poses of our former Colonial masters, I can't help but smile reflecting as to how times have changed!

Click on the photos to see them in a larger view, Insya Allah!

From simple atap huts, held together with rattan strips and hand hewed timber from our jungles and erected on marshy lands, the nation's capital @ Kuala Lumpur has grown to be one of the world's thriving metropolis complete with the world's tallest twin towers, arising into the clouds and showcasing our nation to be one that is to be reckoned with with our 'never say die' attitudes!

Take a look at how things were back then at the Padang @ Now Dataran Merdeka!
Indians with bullock carts were the transport providers back then. No Mercedes, No Proton!
If you had clothes to wear, you were already considered as 'Orang Kaya' @ Wealthy Folks!

Today, the great great grandsons and granddaughters of those poor folks argue so viciously as to who owns these lands? They forget the Story of Qarun and all his riches! Gone! Swallowed up by this Earth! All as a result of being too bloody greedy! Go search for the story!

Today, people who never had to go hungry for want of food talk about freedom of this, freedom of that, the Constitution and all legal mumbo jumbo as if they have built this country all by themselves and know better than all the others!

We forget that in those hard times, our forefathers were all united as one people!
They each did their own thing and never encroached into the others religious matters or bothered to differentiate between their skin colors! Our forefathers observed respect and were courteous to each other!People simply lived as one large happy family and cared for each other.

When World War 2 broke out, all Malayan citizens suffered and all helped out each other in order to survive from the Japanese Armies atrocities.

Malaya gained independence through the joint efforts of our forefathers. The Malays being the larger majority did all they could to fund Tunku and all the other Chinese and Indian leaders trip to London!

I am sure that some of you have read about how kampong folks took off whatever little pieces of gold and silver jewelleries they possessed and threw them into a sarong held by the activists of UMNO,MCA and the MIC to pool their resources to help the Malayan delegation pay for their airfares back then! The Makciks, Ah So's and Achees did their part for the country!

The spirit of unity back then is the foundation of this land! Never, ever , forget that! We must remain united as a country in order to succeed and progress!

We can't afford to see this country be destroyed because some bastards are so itchy to stab any other out there just to fulfill and satisfy their bloodlust and egoistic tendencies out of sheer hatred and being blinded by ethnocentric fallacies fuelled by jealousy and rage!

I mean all parties and groups concerned! It's not just UMNO,MCA,MIC,GERAKAN, DAP,PAS or PKR or whatever other names they want to label themselves with!

Don't sacrifice the fragile peace and harmony we now have and are enjoying!

If you want to eat, go ahead and eat till your tummy's bloated like hell! You want to do business? Go ahead, do so as best as you can! You want to build your homes high up into the skies? Shoot! Go build your own paradise!

No one's gonna stop you if you do it the right way! Earn your keep and your riches by following God's Laws! No one will be able to disturb you. Not a nose hair of yours will be plucked by anyone IF you are as clean as a whistle, so to speak!

The problem is that corruption still reigns supreme in our Malaysia Boleh! Honest dealings get stonewalled by those in the higher upper positions who whilst being still alive here on Earth have been entrusted with the Office to say 'Yes!' or 'No!'.

Usually , their 'Yes' comes with strings attached and the usual ' You scratch my back ; I'll scratch your's!' condition. This is the very cancer that is eating out our country from within!

I should know! One of my programs is stuck in limbo because the Chairman of one government body has done so. I leave him to Allah! He is the Chairman above all other Chairmans!

Insya Allah, this particular bloody Chairman will face Him, the Supreme Judge above all Judges in the Yaum al Mahsyar! Insya Allah!

Till then, it's back to square one for me. Got to keep on trying to seek my honest living! God Willing! I will.

Going back to the topic, I ask all those who are so fired up with the latest happenings and engaging in race based , ethnocentric hatred and inciting social unrest, to stop and think for a second : ' What if my country goes up in flames? What if I am the one responsible to spark off that vicious, volatile, bloodshedding of a riot that can destroy this land, this only place we can all call our motherland?'

Think and reflect on that! May peace and rational commonsense reign in our hearts and souls!

May Allah the Almighty show us all the way to peace and harmony for all in this nation we call 'Malaysia'!

God bless us all. Ameen, Ya Rabbal Alameen.

UMNO's Fear that Live Telecasts Exposes Their Weaknesses!

When Astro's Channel 94 broadcasted live the telecasts of the recent UMNO General Assembly to our homes, I felt happy that at last, we, the citizens get to see and hear exactly what was taking place in the Merdeka Hall of the Putra World Trade Centre without censorship and editing of any kind!

In a sense, I was thinking that after all, Abdullah Badawi's UMNO led BN Government had more integrity of not hiding anymore under its phalanx of 'toe the line' press and media!

I was impressed and felt happy that at last our country is getting out of the 'political haze' that has gripped this nation for so long!

I didn't have to go trouble myself , travelling to the PWTC and seeing the delegates deliver their speeches and having to suffer being caught in the jostling crowds of people in the PWTC for Astro's Channel 94 was doing a splendid job of delivering the gist of the UMNO General Assembly beamed through satellite tv straight into the comfort of our living rooms and homes!

Now, I hear Najib Tun Razak, saying that there are more negative repercussions from broadcasting live the going on's of the UMNO General Assembly and that there should not be anymore such live telecasts in the future!

Whom did he ask ? If it is the UMNO Supreme Council members who feared that their performances weren't up to mark and that the way some delegates from UMNO itself took to task the Ministers concerned and the way a Wanita UMNO Johor lambasted the wife of Datuk Effendi Nawawi, Datin Tiara Jacquelina for the obscene manner of dressing that the latter goes about in, not suitable for a Cabinet Minister's way of appearance and embarrassing the Wanita UMNO folks, then it simply goes to show that UMNO wants all its weaknesses to be covered up and hidden from the public view!

If because the way some of the delegates showed that they have it in them to castigate the leaders of UMNO live on satellite television, then UMNO decides not to have its leaders grilled so, then it simply goes on to show that UMNO has many loopholes to cover and has lots of damage control to be done!

Najib Tun Razak is in line to lead this nation if and when Abdullah Badawi resigns from the Prime Minister's post or dies in office!

If this is what we can expect from him when he runs this country, then the carpets of Putrajaya are going to swell with many more scandals and corruption cases being swept under them when he takes over!

Why do I say so? Well, the answer is so obvious isn't it?

Even a simple thing as the recent UMNO General Assembly being telecast live seems to be poking the UMNO leadership in their backsides now ; whatmore when he leads the team after Abdullah Badawi?

All these while, UMNO has been having it easy when the media has been playing along to their whims and fancies and only showcasing the plus side of things to the nation's view.

Media editing can twist and turn anything to portray a certain image to let the people think and view any given party as their saviours and those who are righteous.

I still remember how PAS was demonised by the BN controlled RTM and TV3 stations.

The Memali incident remains fresh in my mind when RTM through selective editing and kept being broadcasted over and over again and again, portraying PAS and its members as suicidal maniacs , hellbent in killing themselves and others.

The Police were caught in between these vile manipulations of the government controlled media and till this day and forever will remain as such until and unless the press and media are liberated from the shackles and clamping down on their management by the powers that be!

UMNO experimented with the live telecast by Astro's Channel 94 in their General Assembly last week and found out that it is not to their advantage!

Najib and Abdullah Badawi found out that their delegates can be as religiously passionate as their number 1 enemies in PAS!

It must have given both of them a severe case of the shrinking of their manly attributes seeing how some delegates recited the Quranic verses and seemed to morph into PAS like 'Ustaz's and 'Ustazah's taking to task some of their ministers and associates such as Sisters in Islam through Abdullah Badawi's daughter Nori who is a member of the SIS, and the way Effendi Nawawi's wife was skewered and roasted live before the entire nation over her dressing styles and behaviour, plus one delegate's call for UMNO and PAS to merge!

That was the ultimate scariest moment for them I think! They would definitely rather die than to go hug Datuk Hj Hadi and have him sit besides them in the UMNO Supreme Council, wouldn't they?

Imagine Nik Aziz being there besides Rafidah Aziz and Sharizat Jalil with their mop heads sticking out in contrast with his 'serban' and goatee! Hahahahahaha! That would be the day!

So, ladies and gentlemen, dear fellow citizens! Looks like, it's back to square one!

Live telecasts will no more be the thing for UMNO! You will from now on be fed selective 'made for TV' excerpts that will portray our glorified leaders in all their pomp and pageantry!

You will be spared the agony of having to experience live the straight talks, the salvo from the delegates to the Council de Supremo, the Creme de la Creme, the Elite above all the elites of our majestic society and the buffoonery that has all this while escaped us but allowed to slip through last General Assembly, tch tch tch!!!

Those of you who have had the opportunity to buy the VCD's of the delegates speeches ,sold at the PWTC, hold on to them strongly for they are now priceless!

No more will Malaysians get to experience a similar 'live from the PWTC' the United Malays National Organisation's General Assembly!

So, just keep those memories alive in your hearts for the UMNO Chifusans have had an aversion to the freedom of the press and prefer to stick their heads back into the sand ..or in this case ..the coconut shell ...and feed you titbits as they please !!!

Live telecasts!...Rest in peace! In Loving Memory...Astro's Channel 94...Hmmmm......

Alhamdulillah! Malaysia's Skies are Clear Again!

All praises be to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for returning to us clear , cloud filled blue skies once again!

Subhanallah for the wonderful rays of the sun giving us warmth and the energy of Vitamin D refreshing us and our souls once again with the tropical splendour our nation is known for!

Masya Allah! Ya Rahman for giving us back our clear blue skies that had been hazy due to the irresponsible acts of our neighbouring countries slashing and burning their hills and forests causing us to choke and suffer
all these months! Thank you Allah!

Now, the kids can enjoy themselves in the pool with the sunny skies brightening up our lifes once again!

Thank you Allah! We are so grateful! Ameen ya Rabbal Alameen.

It's so good to feel the warmth of the sun and to see the skies once again so clear!

As the lyrics of a popular song goes with a bit of editing :

' I can see clearly now the 'haze' has gone! I can see all obstacles in my way.....sun shiny day! :D Gonna be a bright..bright..bright sun shiny day!...

Forgot some of the lines but you get my point! Alhamdulillah! Syukur Alhamdulillah!

S.O.S of the Malay Youths Today ! Help Save Them!

When we look at the pictures below, don't we feel sad to see these poor dead babies fate?

Mastika, a Malay version of the Readers Digest in it's coming December edition, exposes the dilemna of this nation's Malay youth who have lost their bearings and after engaging in sin brought about by a couldn't care less lifestyle, find theirselves all screwed up and burdened by fruits of their sinful labor!

The record books and statistics of the authorities show a staggering figure of more than 68,000 bastards born to the youths of the Malay community in the year 2005!

The Malaysian Muslim Women Consultative Council @ Majlis Perunding Wanita Islam Malaysia compiled the statistics and published the staggering statistics on 19th April 2006 to the nation!

68,000 illegitimate @ bastards born to Malays in 2005! This is quite a shocker to us all!

At 6.00am, 10th March, 2006, a baby girl about a week old, was found abandoned at the Masjid Tangga Batu Pekan, Tanjong Kling, Melaka. The infant was clad in a blanket and placed in a basket together with some disposable baby diapers, a milk bottle and placed on a baby mattress!

At 11.30am, 25th April, 2006, residents at an apartment block in Taman Bukit Jambul were shocked to discover a newborn baby boy covered in blood with his navelcord still attached, dumped still alive in a garbage bin! The baby was lucky to not have been devoured by stray dogs or entombed alive by the garbage collection workers who might not have realised his presence!

At 10.00 pm, on the 15th of July, 2006, another newborn baby was dumped alive into the toilet bowl of a grocery shop at Masjid Tanah, Melaka! The poor baby was dumped and abandoned for nine hours sniffing the stench of human faeces for that long and miraculously was found gasping for breath and still alive!

Excerpt from : Mastika December 2006 issue.

Conceived in a bout of carnal lust and pleasure but after being carried for several months in it's mother's womb, gets delivered and dumped in of all places, the toilet bowl of a public lavatory!

Imagine the trauma of that baby when it grow up, as an illegitimate person and gets to learn of the disgusting, repulsive manner that he or she was abandoned by his or her natural mother! What emotional tempests and storms would rage in that person if he or she learns of their origin? Will anyone forgive such ruthless, foul adulterous parents for their sins?

When their young unmarried mothers surrended their purity to their irresponsible 'father's, sin and blessings were furthest in their minds when they let themselves be violated and they themselves enjoyed carnal pleasure out of wedlock and resulted in such unwanted pregnancies and the end result of such illegitimate offspring being thrown into our nation's dumpsters or just abandoned after birth!

Malaysia's Muslims are going through the worst times of their lifes. Social problems, sex related crimes, incest, rapes, molestations, drug abuses, liberal thinkings, free thinkers, apostasy, crime is all on the way up!

People dressed up as holy moly tend to be caught now and then committing the most foul crimes that usually centre on lust and sexually related transgressions! What more, those who don't even give a damn about the principles of faith and the guidelines of social traditions and Eastern values?

The more 'learned' the people are, the more 'weird' they become and they are recalcitrant to the stage that they dare challenge the Mufti's , challenge anyone who tries to advice them or bring them back to the teachings of the Holy Qur'an and the Sunnah of the Rasul Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!

There are also those who go get involved in all kinds of false teachings out of their ignorance and become weirdos in the truest sense and get taken for a ride by their Tariqat 'Master's' and their 'fly by night' Shaikhs!

All these is the fruit of apathy! Malaysians simply have forgotten our time honoured traditions of looking out for one another, irrespective of creed or ethnicity!

Back in the 50s and 60s, neighbours looked out after one another regardless of their race or religion!

Anyone who wanted to do anything bad was very conscious of prying eyes, 'nosey parker's, and the village network of eyes and ears and anyone can reprimand any other person's child without fear of the parents coming around to wage a quarrel as to why so and so admonished their wayward offsprings?

The result is stinking at us in our nation's dumpsters and garbage bins! The Malays of Malaysia need your help!

The youth and the young people of this nation needs your stopping them from destroying themselves and this nation from going to the dogs!

Islam is a faith that when properly practiced has never failed to nip such social rot in the bud! How do we do it?

By following exactly as Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala commands us in the Qur'an and follow the example of the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!

Be moderate in practicing Islam and be wise in administering the rules and regulations of our faith. Do not be harsh upon those who are misled. Invite them back to the fold by using hikmah @ wisdom and refrain from going overboard in anything!

If possible, join a volunteer corps mission such as ABIM, JIM , PERKIM, MACMA and others.
Learn how to do dakwah to them and be approachable and do approach the lost youth of Malaysia. They need you as much as you need them.

Just remember that Allah SWT loves those who do help others especially when they are at their most vulnerable age @ teens and early adulthood. Never abuse the trust that the young people place on us and always seek to improve and add to your knowledge! It helps! A lot!

May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala always guide us in our mission to save and help our youths!

Ameen ya Rabbal Alameen!

The Palace and the Demolished Kampong Houses Story

So goes the story! The King needs a new super duper top of the hill palace whilst poor folks get their kampong houses bulldozed by the Majlis Perbandaran Ampang Jaya!

Talk about Malaysia Boleh! Malaysians can really root for the ruling party can't they?

It's so bloody preposterous that I can't believe what's taking place in this country where families have to watch their homes and belongings get destroyed and they have to watch it all go to waste in the pouring rain whilst their Majesties await their brand new palace get constructed on a majestic sprawling hilltop area by a two bit company with more cable connections than the infamous Klang ex councillor Datuk 'Gucci Sunglasses' Zakaria Mat Deros! It sure pays to be close to the 'pemimpin', doesn't it?

Maya Maju Sdn Bhd is the company's name and getting fat contracts like these seems to be its game! Does the name Maya come to mind? Alam ..maya..:P

Fellow Blogger The Malaysian tells it all in his post here as to how the MPAJ demolished 51 poor villagers homes last Friday!

Well folks, as those poor villagers hve been left homeless and their lifes destroyed, our Cemerlang, Gemilang, Terbilang flying high rulers and 'pemimpin' live such a luxurious life in all comfort and opulence whilst the 'rakyat miskin' in Selangor , are worse off than the refugees in Darfur!

Lest we forget, don't forget to cross on the scales in your ballot come 2008! We'll get to hear more stories like these till Kingdom come! Yayyy! Malaysia Boleh!..Lingkop kalau terus begini!

The Unhealthy Trend In Today's BN Government!

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.": Aldous Huxley, Brave New World.

Those of you who watched the proceedings of last
week's UMNO General Assembly telecast live over
Astro's Channel 94 must have felt the same way I
did when I nearly threw up over the  way some of the delegates went overboard
with praising the UMNO President with their unabashed accolades which is
contrary to the Sunnah of the Prophet (SAW)

In Sahih Al Bukhari, Book of Al-Adab (Good Manners), Chapter 21.
Hadith 2033,  Page 959: Narrated Abu Bakra (Radhiallahu Anhu):
A man was mentioned before the Prophet Muhammad (SAW) and another man
present, praised him (the one being mentioned) greatly!

The Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam said,
"May Allah's Mercy be upon you! You have cut the neck of your friend!"

The Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam repeated this sentence many
times and then said,"If it is indispensable for anyone of you to praise someone,
then he should say ' I think that he is so and so, ' if he really thinks that he
( the person being praised) is such. Allah is The One Who will take into his
accounts (as He Knows the Reality- regarding the one being praised) and
none can sanctify anybody before Allah SWT!"
                                                             Sadaqa Rasulullah (SAW)

The lessons from the hadith above teaches us not to go overboard in praising
someone ,especially so when that someone is present.

He or she will get bigheaded and swell with pride, thus endangering him or
herself to the sin of 'Ri'ya' @ Self Adulation! Narcissistic as someone labelled me
the other day! Na'uzubillah!

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala knows me best. I am nothing but a speck of dust
before all the others who are so much more exalted in their iman and amals.
So,please, spare me your curses, praises and your labels! I don't need them.
Wallahi!

Back to the subject at hand.
It is an unhealthy trend for the ones trying to impress Prime Minister Abdullah
Haji Ahmad Badawi in sucking up to the man by going overboard in adulating
him and bending over backwards in kissing his hands, to show the PM that he
is so great, so magnificient, so special, so extraordinary and super this and that,
that they unknowingly (or knowingly) have caused great harm to Abdullah Badawi
that he is in danger of forgetting his roots.

Abdullah Badawi is in danger of becoming someone whom he himself would not
want to be that is a man who would be arrogant, dictatorial, and someone who
would think that he can do anything and get away with it.

I myself get criticised by those who see me getting too comfortable with my
'narcissistic tendencies' hence they sort of give me the 'wake up call' before I
lose sight of my objectives. I welcome such reprimands but I don't have to share
such comments with all. I keep them to myself. They are meant to be as a form
of personal guidelines. Alhamdulillah.

Abdullah Badawi on the other hand needs to be alert and aware of turning into
the very person whom he doesn't want to be in the first place.
A dictator worth the label.

For someone who is seen to be a softie and compassionate in heart, these
'ball carriers' in UMNO and in the ruling government are a potential virus that
can and will corrupt his heart and his soul to be so enamoured with praise and
self adulation, that he can end up being worse than his predecessor!

A leader of this multi racial, multi religious, country that is Malaysia, must
always shy away from such over adulation and keep it in his heart that he is
just a simple humanbeing!

Abdullah Badawi needs to constantly reflect on all the great leaders of mankind
who lived before him and who ruled over greater empires of civilisation, so much
more greater than this small nation that we have.

What happened to them? Where is Caesar ? Where is Alexander the Great?
Where is Genghiz Khan? Where is the Shah of Iran? Mao Tse Tung, etcetera?
What happened to all the Emperors and Kings of old? Where are they now today?

Gone. Dead and buried. Earth to earth. Dust to dust! Returned to the Creator as
we all will be!

The only thing remaining is their history. Their deeds and their accomplishments.
Their conquests and their mistakes. Their legacy for mankind. To learn from their
successes and also their losses.

Pride and vanity will only bring about the downfall of any leader. Too much
adulation from those who have vested interests will only lead to an early doom.
A downfall that will obliterate any good that he or she has done. This unhealthy
culture of 'fanning' one's pride and ego has to be nipped in the bud!

When Mukhriz the son of the former premier Mahathir expressed his viewpoints
that Abdullah Badawi spoke of nothing new in his address, the man was being
honest.

He, being, the seed of his father, Mahathir Mohamad, was just being himself, in
stating the facts that to him, Abdullah Badawi has not spoken of anything new,
anything out of the norm, that can make him get all excited and abuzz with
expectations of achieving a new frontier, a new vision and mission, as his father
has done for this nation.

He is today, being hounded, by all the PM's adulaters and being pushed into a
corner, being threatened with dismissal from his post as an Executive Member of
UMNO Youth for he so dared to speak his mind!

This is what our nation's ruling government has become!

It has become like the UN, nothing but a rubberstamp to the dictates of the
superpowers such as the USA and the UK plus their European Union.

Malaysia is in grave danger of being led to anarchy if we, the citizens just keep
our mouth shut and do not remind these corrupt souls up there in the government
to return to the basics.

Observe and practice governance over us according to the Qur'an and Sunnah of
the Rasul SAW.

Mere rhetoric of Islam Hadhari this and that which is an innovative form of saying
that they know better than the Prophet of Allah Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam and
that Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is a latter day Muslim saint is only going to destroy
his sincerity if he ever was when he took office to turn into a vicious self
adulating person who holds power over us, the citizens of this nation.

The UMNO politicians also need to refrain from being swept into the pitfalls of
racial bigotry by threatening to destroy other ethnicities just because a few
rotten heads and hearts amongst the latter day Chinese and Indians fail to
realise that all of us have the rights to co-exist in peace, harmony and mutual
respect with one another.

The DAP and other Opposition parties would do well to exercise restraint and
proper usage of words to highlight to the ruling government as to where they are
going wrong.

Name calling and shouting like uncivilised people in Parliament has not advanced
their causes so far! When one sheds any inhibition of behaving appropriately as
members of a hallowed institution such as the House of Parliament, the highest
legal assembly of this nation's leaders, then what is the point of all those
honorifics being put before one's names...such as the 'Yang Amat Berhormat' @
'The Most Respected', ; 'Yang Berhormat' @ 'Respected' and so on and so forth?

We, the citizens are grateful to be able to see the live telecast of the UMNO
General  Assembly this year! We have been able to see and hear how the UMNO
delegates really were. We also got to see the way our nation's ruling ministers
spoke and behaved.

UMNO needs to expose itself as to what it really is by having more such live
telecasts. By doing so, the citizens will be able to gauge the calibre of the
persons who have been elected by them in the first place and whether we should
vote for them again or vote in fresh, more rational, more sincere personalities
who do what they are supposed to do than to go overly praise the PM and kiss
his hands so that they get to impress him and to go get into the PM's good books!

We also need to be given the opportunity to watch live telecasts of the
Opposition parties General Assemblies, so that we can evaluate how those folks
are in the real sense.

Too much censorship will only mislead the voting citizen to cast their votes for
the 'made for TV, edited versions that do not show us the real deal with the
ruling government or the Opposition.

Lastly, we are no longer restricted to one source of information as the days of
yore! With the advent of the internet and telecommunications, we have before us
alternative sources of info from non government radio and television services.

Sooner or later, whatever truth that has been withheld from us will surface in the
most unexpected,most unthought of places, so, please be truthful before God
and rule over us with wisdom.

Speak sincerely as befitting your roles as representatives of the people of
Malaysia, failing which, you can kiss that seat of power 'goodbye' in the next
General Elections.

To the Prime Minister of Malaysia, I ask that you just remember that the trust of
the people is upon you!

You need to rule over us as what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and the Rasul
Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam have entrusted you with.

Be kind to us and show us your understanding and compassion.

Remember, we have nowhere else to go but live and die here as rightful citizens
of Malaysia.

Malays, Chinese, Indians, Sikhs, Orang Asli's, Sabahans, Sarawakians and all
other ethnicities who are at the mercy of those of you who call the shots here
today!

In the Yaum al Akhirat, even you and all the ruling folks in government will be at
the Mercy of Allah!

So, remember, do not listen to all those 'budaya ampu mengampu' that will lead
to your and our ruin!

May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala guide those of you in government and us the
citizens! Ameen!

Apostasy of Malaysia's Muslims - A Study Shared

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

Greetings to all.

I wish that Allah SWT will bless us with His Guidance and shower upon us His Mercy and accept our prayers and hopes for Peace!

Ya Allah ! Please strengthen our Iman and accept our amals! Ameen Ya Rabbal Alameen.
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Apostasy @ Murtad is the hottest word in Malaysia nowadays!

I ask that those of us who are concerned about this subject to go through the facts and figures before us first and not to fall victim to gossips and rumour mongers especially about Murtad!

Malaysians speak about it day in, day out from the kampong warongs to the halls of Parliament!

People get so stressed out, tempers flare, itchy fingers just are raring to go lynch somebody because some idiot goes ahead and spreads a rumour that so and so has turned 'Murtad' and the Muslims get so pissed off because another 'murtad' makes the news and that there are the Christians who are so obsessed with getting as many Malays as they can into their fold as we hear!

Azhar Mansor and Lina Joy. Two names that come up whenever we hear anyone speaking of apostasy amongst the Malay Muslims here.

The former tries to pull a fast one by his evasive answers to the press whilst the latter has more 'balls' to state her intention and her position as a Murtad officially by applying to change her status on her identity card!

The thing I want to ask is about those who are Muslims in name only. MINO's.

What about them? Who gives a damn? What has anyone in authority done for those people who do not pray, do not practice Islam as they must, lead a life that is more devoid of any sense of worship to Allah and yet society thinks that they are true blue Muslims and leaves them be.

Well, that, my dear friends is a matter between Allah SWT and them.

Someone wrote to me asking why we need to be so bloody obsessed with apostates?

Why does Malaysia's Muslim Ummah make so much noise about Azhar Mansor and Lina Joy but do not give a damn about so many others who aren't celebrities or people in the news?

My answer here to him is that people just have no idea as to who the hell the apostates are!

If they knew, naturally, someone will blow the whistle on him or her and you'd have another Azhar Mansor or Lina Joy to go worry about!

No one knows for sure as to what some chap in some obscure area does or doesn't do, right?

We don't see a sign stating that so and so is a Murtad written on his or her forehead, right?

So, please..just let the people do what they want to and let them shoulder the consequences themselves!

For all the 'idealists' speaking as if you know it all, just spare us your drivel and go do something positive like trying to talk some sense with whomever you know is confused about Islam. That's so much more better than to have you speak through a blinkered view about it!

The New Straits Times has an article about the state of affairs regarding the number of apostasies that have taken place here in our lands.

I am sharing the report here with you.

Sunday Interview: Very few have abandoned the faith

19 Nov 2006
P. Selvarani

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Recent claims that Muslims are converting to Christianity by the hundreds of thousands have caused much unrest among some Muslim groups. Dr Mohamed Azam Mohamed Adil, lecturer at UiTM’s Centre for Islamic Thought and Understanding, has spent nine years studying the problem of apostasy among Malaysian Muslims. He tells P. SELVARANI that the claims are false.

Q: Is it true that Muslims in the country are renouncing the religion by the hundreds of thousands, even as much as 250,000, as recently claimed by some quarters, including the Mufti of Perak?

A: I disagree with these figures given because there is no concrete data to support these claims.

Official data that I have obtained from the Syariah courts, State Religious Departments and the National Registration Department (NRD) show that the number of apostates among the Muslims is less than 300.

My research shows that 750 Muslims applied to the NRD to change their names to non-Muslim names between 1999 and July 2003, and of the number only 220 were successful. Most of them were converts to Islam.

But the number of Muslims who actually applied to the Syariah courts to renounce Islam is much lower — there were only 100 between 1994 and 2003.

Q: How did the talk about conversions of some 100,000 Muslims gain currency?

A: I really don’t know. It could have been based on rumours circulating on the Net or in other forms such as the SMS.

Apostasy is a serious matter in Malaysia. If there are those who claim that the figure runs into the hundreds of thousands, then they must show some concrete data to support their statements. You cannot rely on hearsay.

Such sensitive statements, which are unsubstantiated by facts, are dangerous as they can lead to chaos, more so when they come from community or religious leaders.

You must have concrete data otherwise how do you justify your statement? You can say so and so has changed his religion. How do you know? In a court of law, you have to prove it.

Legally, there must be a declaration from the Syariah court before a person can be deemed an apostate.

Q: What percentage of those who applied to renounce Islam are born Muslims?

A: The number of born Muslims who renounce Islam is very small. Most of the applicants are Muslim converts who decide to leave Islam upon dissolution of the marriage, or the death of their spouse.

The born Muslims who apply to renounce Islam are usually women who do it because of love — when they decide to marry someone of another faith.

In some isolated cases, children from mixed marriages (where one parent is a Muslim), or those who were born illegitimate, applied to renounce the religion.

Q: Your research shows that Negri Sembilan has the highest record of applications to renounce Islam (84 applications between 1994 and 2003) as well as the highest number of recorded renunciations (16 approvals). Why is this so?

A: Negri Sembilan is the only state which "allows" a Muslim to leave Islam subject to certain procedural conditions.

Under its Administration of Islamic Law Enactment 2003 (the new law), a Muslim cannot renounce or be deemed to have renounced Islam unless he has a declaration to the effect from the Syariah High Court of the state.

Other states do not have such a provision in their Syariah laws and that is why they do not receive any applications to renounce and even if they do, the number is very small because of their punitive laws.

Q: On what grounds are these applications in Negri Sembilan approved?

A: The applicant must specify the grounds for his application with a supporting affidavit. The Syariah court judge then adjourns the application for 90 days and refers the person to the Mufti for counselling.

If after 90 days the judge feels that such a person will not repent, he will then adjourn the hearing of the application for a period of up to a year, during which time the applicant is required to undergo a counselling session to reconsider his decision.

After this period, the judge can make a conclusion whether to declare the applicant an apostate or otherwise.

What I learnt from my research when I interviewed the NGOs was that they did not object to this counselling.

Q: How do the other states deal with this problem of apostasy among Muslims?

A: Perak, Malacca, Sabah and Terengganu have criminalised apostasy with fines not exceeding RM3,000 and/or imprisonment of not more than two years.

Pahang has the most deterrent law, where upon conviction, an apostate can be fined up to RM5,000 and/or imprisoned up to three years and could even get six strokes of the rotan.

In Sarawak, for example, applicants can go directly to the state’s Islamic Affairs Department, which will then certify their conversions from Islam upon determining that the person "irreconcilably seeks to renounce the religion".

These documents certifying that such a person is no longer a Muslim are considered valid by the NRD, which under the National Registration Regulations 1990 (amended 2001) could accept such declarations only from either the state Syariah courts or the Islamic Affairs Departments.

In some states, such as Kedah, applications to renounce Islam are rejected on the grounds that there is no provision under their Syariah laws for such applications to be heard.

The 12 applications received by the Federal Territories between 2001 and August 2003 were dismissed by the Syariah courts on the grounds that there were no provisions for its judges to decide for or against such cases.

Q: How should states handle these cases?

A: We should have a standard law on apostasy. Other states should follow Negri Sembilan because it has the counselling process to persuade those who have renounced to go back to Islam.

I give this recommendation based on what happens in Singapore. In Singapore, Muslims who want to renounce Islam must go to the Mufti’s office for counselling. Ninety per cent of the people referred to the Mufti repented and went back to Islam.

Why not we follow this method of counselling through persuasion instead of making it punitive to the point of creating resentment?

Q: What prompted you to undertake this research on the problem of apostasy in Malaysia?

A: I found that under the classical Islamic law, apostasy is a serious punishable offence but it contradicted the notion of freedom of religion as enshrined in the Federal Constitution.

And the court cases filed by Muslims seeking to renounce Islam also sparked my interest.

I then decided to do a comparative analysis of Malaysia’s civil and Syariah laws on apostasy for my PhD thesis with the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies.

I submitted my thesis to the university last year.

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So, now that you have read the report by Dr.Azam, you should think about doing what you can for Dakwah to those concerned and to all others to avoid this problem getting any worse!

Any of you receiving an SMS or email saying this and that about someone becoming an apostate or murtad , please check with the authorities first and do not simply forward that sms or email for if some irrational fellow were to get so enraged and run amok, chopping up people because of that sms or email you forwarded to him, it is you who is held responsible for the bloodshed!

Exercise caution and verify the sources first. Even, if it is true, then the best thing for you to do is to inform your local Imam about it, then after verifying the matter, report to your local Balai Polis with proof.

The PDRM will then notify the Religious Department and they have their teams to handle the matter. Gathering a crowd and go lynching somebody is the last thing you must do.

Use your commonsense and realise that if you screw up by framing an innocent person, it is you who will feel the repercussions of false accusations and you can be sued by the victim and jailed by the authorities for committing slander and libel here on Earth!

In the Akhirat, you will be punished by Allah SWT for committing fitnah! Na'uzubillahi minzalik!

Wabillahi taufeek wal hidayah. Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

'Nine Emperor Gods' Taoist Temple Demolition Issue

When it comes to a matter of religious sensitivities, it is most important for all parties to take into consideration the consequences of their actions!

People who go build religious structures without the proper permits and approvals from the authorities are only putting innocent lifes in mortal danger in the resulting damage to both the structures and the worshippers in the future when action is taken against them!

The nation witnessed this tragedy take place recently when the 'Nine Emperor Gods' Taoist temple built illegally by the Chinese Taoists at Jalan Maju, Seberang Perai, Penang get demolished by 50 of the Majlis Perbandaran Seberang Perai Enforcement team backed by 30 officers of the Royal Malaysian Police last Friday, the 17th of November,2006!

The Sun2Surf reports about this latest sad episode in our nation's history and highlights the double standards being openly practiced by the local governments of Malaysia!

This Taoist temple is just one of many other illegally built religious structures that have been pulled down and destroyed by the authorities in recent times.

Mosques, Surau's, Hindu temples, Taoists temples , etcetera have bit the dust because their builders forgot to go get the relevant approvals from the Land and Building Departments of the area in the first place.

Some fail to even get ownership of the land and simply built such places as they please thinking they can get away with it!

Irresponsible and criminal indeed because it is just a matter of time before the authorities will come with their bulldozers and enforcement team to obliterate the building and reclaim the government land.

We have seen how such buildings get razed by the local authorities and the resulting clash between the particular faith's followers and the local council enforcement squad and the FRU or the PDRM break out and the unnecessary bloodshed take place!

Kg Rawa Hindu temple-Masjid incident saw Hindus and Muslims clash because some smart alecs failed to get approvals of the land owner and went ahead to build a Hindu temple that was only 20 to 30 metres away from a legitimate masjid @ The Masjid Jamek Kampong Rawa in Jalan Patani, Penang.

Indian Hindu Drug peddlars used the illegal temple as a front for their activities and started enlarging a small Hindu family shrine of one of the squatter villagers to become a fully fledged Hindu temple and even brought in Hindu priests from Chennai, India to consecrate the structure. Their intention being nothing but to camouflage their drug trade from the authorities.

The Muslims living in the area got incensed for the Hindu priests started to ring their bells and coincided with every time of prayer of the Muslims frequenting the masjid nearby.

Villagers started to be inconvenienced by the drug pushers who started to cause problems for them by riding their noisy motorcycles to and fro from the illegal Hindu temple in odd hours, further adding fuel to the fire raging in the villagers hearts.

People started losing their properties as a result of drug addicts converging to the drug pusher's haunt behind the facade of the temple and many started to go lodge police reports about their loss.

The growing tensions finally erupted into an all out clash between the Muslims and the Hindus who were fanned by the spreading of malicious incitive news spread through the internet and phone sms's.

I was one of the Muslims who defended the masjid and eventually, to ease the growing tensions of all the people, the authorities had no choice but to demolish the illegal temple. As a Muslim, naturally I rallied to the cause of defending my faith's centre of worship. I believe that everyone will feel the same when it concerns their own places of worship.

The legality of raising the buildings however take precedence over all other aspects of the rights to own and have our individual places of worships and we need to respect that.

We saw mosques being demolished in Kg.Bujal, Terengganu because the Muslims who raised it failed to get the building permits in the first place. I still have a VCD about the whole tragedy which I bought at the day market outside of Masjid Subang, PJ.

We now see the latest incident at the Taoist temple, Jalan Maju, Seberang Perai as a vicious reminder to all those who want to raise whatever religious buildings to never forget the most basic of rules in the land-official approval and permit to build from the local authorities!

Unfortunately, we also see the glaring double standards being practiced by them in 'closing both eyes' to Istana Impian built illegally by the infamous ex Councillor of the Klang Municipal Council, the Klang UMNO Chief, the 'Gucci Sunglasses' sporting Dato Zakaria Mat Deros!

Why the hell is his illegal palace still left standing?

Is his illegal palace so holy and untouchable that no one dares touch it ? What kind of justice system do we have in this Bolehland?

The Selangor Menteri Besar Khir Toyo is so obviously practicing double standards and giving all kinds of 'cock and bull' excuses in not wanting to order the demolition of that glaring palace rising up above all the other village houses that it makes us want to puke in disgust at such corruption and abuse of power remaining there in Klang as a sign of how in our nation, there lives and breathes an ever growing dragon of 'Do as I say ; Don't Do as I Do' evil so manifest in such likes of being the YAB Menteri Besar this and that!

May Almighty Allah give them their dues! Ameen.

As for the persons responsible in raising any of the religious places of worship here in Malaysia, regardless whether you are a Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Taoist, Hindu, Sikh or whatever else, please remember that what you do illegally today, will see a harvest of loss of life and severe harm to limbs of your fellow worshippers in the very near future in Bolehland because here, corrupt politicians and those with super duper connections can and have got away with all kinds of criminal activities but we, the ordinary citizens will be arrested, handcuffed and beaten to a pulp if we ever try to challenge the !#$^*#! calling the shots!

To the people of Penang, I ask that you remain rational and try to work out things the legal way first before taking up those sticks and bash each other senseless!

Do we want to kill and murder anyone just because some smart alec hiding in his airconditioned plush office in MPSP gave the order to start demolition of your 'illegal' place of worship?

Use your commonsense and do not do anything today that will come bite your ass tomorrow!

O Allah! Spare us from the foolishness of those who are in power today in this Bolehland! Amin!

Sisters in Islam get skewered by UMNO Penang!

Sisters in Islam got skewered in the UMNO General Assembly recently in the PWTC!

The UMNO delegate from Tasek Gelugor, Seberang Perai, Pulau Pinang , Tuan Haji Shahbudin Yahya lambasted the group openly on Astro's Channel 94 live coverage from the Putra World Trade Centre and took them to task for 'undermining' the position of the Shariah Courts of this land!

Excerpt of his speech taken from The Sun Online :

"SIS concentrates on how to weaken the Syariah court judiciary system. They created issues, not to improve it (the Syariah court), but to create doubts so that people will reject the court. They focus on one or two cases to try to belittle the Syariah court.

"If they are really sincere to help us, why don't they look into other problems of the Muslims such as drugs? (Because) they do not have interest in that. That is not their focus. I challenge them, if they are really sincere to bring development to Islam, let us all work towards solving the issues on economy and social ills of the Muslims. "On the other hand, the IFC discusses the position and privileges of Islam in the constitution. It questioned the articles 11(4), 12(2), 74(2), 121(A) and others. These are its focus.

"The IFC is a combination of different religious bodies, demanding the same right as Islam in Malaysia.

At the same time, they want Islam to be treated the same as other religions, including Bahai.

"Bahai is a philosophical religion which combines a collection of several principles taken from other religions including Islam.

Are they trying to treat it (Bahai) the same with other religions? This is definitely a no no!

"But they are working towards weakening the position of Islam in the constitution.

SIS wants to weaken the Syariah court institution. "

And the Penang Global Ethics. I brought this especially to you because it has yet to spread to other states. But this is the threat. This project tries to get society to treat all religions the same.

But in the end, when they feel they cannot work together, they will say, we must drop religion and hold on to this so-called global ethics.

"The Konrad Adenauer Foundation has been in Malaysia for more than 30 years.

It is the political foundation of the German Christian Democratic Party and promotes "peace, freedom and justice".

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As a Muslim, I object to the Penang Global Ethics movement to equate Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala with manmade and man imagined values and status of God being given to all the other deities that have no rights to be worshipped save for Allahu Akbar!

I call upon my brothers in Penang to go report against this movement to the Majlis Agama Islam Pulau Pinang!

Doesn't anyone in MAIPP keep tabs on what's taking place there in my home island?

A wake up call to MAIPP Penang in local dialect:

'Dok tidoq kah apa Ustaz? Cuba pi tengok apa depa dok buat raplah jingga tu kat sana?

Awat tak berani nak tegoq kah? Kata ada kuasa 'Amal Ma'aruf Nahi Mungkar!'

Guna lah apa kuasa yang ada dari dok biaq cacing naik ke mata!

Ramai dok ada kat sana tu ; boleh minta tolong kat Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO dan PAS turun sama!

Pi habaq kat Haji Yassin kat Masjid Kapitan Keling. Dia gerenti boleh panggei puak puak yang patut pi banteras jendalu ni!'

Haji Kamarudin Santana bin Abdullah , Pengerusi IPSI kat Kompleks Masyarakat Penyayang boleh bantu sama. Tu semua Da'ee yang boleh diharap!

End of wake up call to MAIPP!

Those in Penang can ask the authorities about this. Anyone in Penang reading this, please update me as to this 'development'. Jazakallah!

PAS and UMNO. Will they quarrel till Doomsday?

In the name of Allah , Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.

If one had closed their eyes and just listened to the UMNO delegates speaking at the party's General Assembly at the PWTC, the past few days save for the UMNO Kelantan's Wanita Rep's tirade against the Islamic Party of Malaysia, one would have mistaken the speeches to be those coming from PAS delegates at Taman Melewar for the contents and style of delivery!

Many of the UMNO delegates recited verses from the Quran and quoted Hadith's so fluently and spoke championing the cause of Islam and launched verbal assaults against the IFC, Article 11's and 121's, took on the Sisters in Islam, harangued Datin Tiara Jacquelina, the wife of Minister in the PM's Department, for exposing half her bosom and the way she carries herself in public, 'embarrassing' Wanita UMNO in the land of 'Islam Hadhari' @ Malaysia Boleh!!!

Really! I doubt PAS delegates could rise up to the heights of almost going 'berserk' that some of the UMNO delegates reached whilst delivering their speeches taking to task so many people from the ministers to the luminaries of this Bolehland!

Quite astonishing despite the noticably dramatic absense of the man many were awaiting with much anticipation to 'liven' up this year's UMNO General Assembly, the 81 years old firebrand , Tun Dato Seri Dr.Mahathir bin Mohamad!

Tun must be roaring with laughter at home in the Mines Resort watching the UMNO delegates 'morph' into 'PAS diehards' whilst engaging in what HARAKAH labelled as 'Pesta Puja Presiden' UMNO in the ruling party's General Assembly at the PWTC!

Plans to boo Dr.Mahathir as voiced out by his son and proxy , Dato Mukhriz Mahathir died away and were replaced by fiery speeches from delegates of Kelantan, Kedah, Penang, Johor, Selangor and Pahang!

I enjoyed the live telecast from Astro's Channel 94 throughout the week as the assembly was very lively and many of the delegates were so passionate in delivering their speeches!

PAS delegates must surely be taking notes of this year's UMNO GE that will surely be remembered for quite a long time!

The only lame speech at this year's UMNO General Assembly turned out to be that of Prime Minister and UMNO President, Dato Seri Abdullah Badawi!

What to do? The man's not an orator and we can't expect him to change overnight! No way!

Tun Dato Seri Dr.Mahathir Mohamad is a legend in his own right and we can't expect Abdullah Badawi to have the same oratory skills, wit and drive as exists in our former PM!

We can only hope to see some spark in the PEMUDA UMNO's leadership! They are younger!

UMNO Youth's Chief Dato Seri Hishamudin Tun Hussein Onn didn't fail to raise his keris up high and roared his battlecry till the jugular vein in his neck was bulging to near exploding stage!

Khairy Jamaludin also took Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim to task and castigated the man as a hypocrite and other names in his tirade! KJ's becoming quite adept at following his UMNO Youth Head's 'Jejak Pahlawan'! Keep your eye on this Oxford grad from the PM's Level Four office! He will keep you entertained, for sure!

Seeing how Hishamudin loves to wield his keris so much at the annual 'Malaysian Chinese bashing' assembly, I would love to see the entire UMNO Supreme Council top leaders go one step further!

How about having the entire male members of the UMNO Supreme Council dress up as ancient Malay warriors and come to the next UMNO General Assembly in all their finery, each completely fitted out with the 'Tengkolok', baju sulam, authentic keris, tucked in their sampin's, and wearing the 'Chapal Melayu'?

Now, wouldn't that be a sight to see? As the UMNO top guns always roar up on stage that they are the descendants of Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat plus the other legendary warriors of the ancient Sultanate of Melaka, they surely can afford to bring back the arts and culture of the ancient Malaccan courts by dressing up in the full regalia of old!

No need to go book the elephants from the National Zoo. Just come in their Mercedes Benz's, Jaguar's and Proton Perdana's.

We could use some 'Nafiri' horns and 'Gendang Kedah' to liven up the PWTC!

So, to any of the top guns of UMNO reading this , please pass on the message to Dato Seri Hishamudin! Can it be done?

Back to my topic, from the way things are happening with the UMNO delegates, PAS can start drafting out the reconciliation plans for this year's UMNO GE saw a lot of 'Ustaz's taking the spotlight at the PWTC!

If only both parties agree to slaughter their own 'ego's coming this Hari Raya Haji, we might see some positive developments towards Malaysia's Malay Unity take place failing which both parties can just quarrel away their lifes till come Doomsday!

Are they man enough to do it?

Azhar Mansor clarifies that he is still a Muslim!

In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.

From The Sun Online

Mariner Azhar: I have not renounced Islam
Husna Yusop

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 17, 2006): Mariner Datuk Azhar Mansor today declared he had not renounced Islam as had been speculated since he achieved his round-the-world solo sailing feat in 1999.

In a press conference held at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) on the last day of the Umno general assembly, Azhar made the declaration in the company of Religious Advisor to the Prime Minister Tan Sri Dr Abdul Hamid Othman and Umno executive secretary Brig Gen Datuk Husainay Hashim.

Later, in his winding-up speech, Umno president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told the assembly that Azhar had taken the opportunity to be there to say that he is a Muslim and that there should now be an end to the speculation.

Azhar was then in the crowd and he stood up to applause.

At the start of his press conference earlier, Azhar gave the salam before explaining he was there as an observer to the assembly and decided to take the opportunity to meet the press and address a situation that could potentially affect public order.

He was referring to the incident on Nov 5 at the Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Jalan Silibin, Ipoh where a large group of Muslims gathered outside the church on being informed via SMS that Azhar was to baptise a group of Muslims there.

They dispersed after police investigated and assured them no such thing was happening and that there were about 100 children of Indian descent who were being baptised.

This is the Q&A of the press conference:

Q: The polemic has arisen because of the status of your religion. Can you make it clear whether you are still a Muslim or not?

A: Sometimes, I wonder... I can make this answer a very long, long one, or I can also make it short. But I sometimes wonder, where is the confusion? Of course, from what I understand, the rumours about me no longer being a Muslim have been there since 1999 when I was still sailing. This issue has been doubted and questioned until today. From being circulated in the Internet to now in an SMS. I have not given it much thought because it was an Internet source. But to go specific to the SMS, whereby my name was involved, on the incident in Ipoh which should not have happened, I was surprised myself because I got the SMS after the incident. I was informed through my family members in Ipoh that many people had gathered to protest since I was supposed to be there to baptise people. This was out of my knowledge. Now it is under police investigation. If only in the Internet, it is okay but when there is an SMS which affected public order, I would also like to know the cause and agenda of such an SMS.

Q: After so many days, people are wondering why you have not declared that you are still a Muslim?

A: I cannot control other people's perception.

Q: Are you a Muslim?

A: My mindset is trained differently. As a sailor, my stand is, I am a person who wants to know what is in front of my eyes and in my hands. What others want to say about me, I cannot control.

Q: But you can use this opportunity to declare that you am still a Muslim! Just say yes or no.

A: Then we can go back? I also want to know what else you want to know from me.

Q: It is just whether you are a Muslim or not?

A: That's it?

Q: Before this we heard from a third party, so now we want to hear it from you.

A: If I say that, you will all leave this room. I would also like to get to know you all too.

Sometimes I wonder, why people want to know which shirt I am wearing, why I am wearing shorts.

Why do you want to know this? In fact, I have certain responsibilities which I have to adhere to and that is what I should concentrate on.

Meaning, if all of you want to know, I was born in Perlis as a Malay Muslim.

My father is a Muslim, my family and siblings are Muslims.

My own family members are also Muslims.

So, I feel the issue of the status of my religion does not arise at all.

That should not be questioned at all.

If you want to ask me that just based on the Internet and SMS, that is why I do not want to entertain this kind of things.

This is a sensitive matter. But my father, my children, my siblings are Muslims.

So there is no need for this question to arise.

And I have never, in this country or in any other parts of the world, that I have applied to renounce Islam.

And I have never thought about doing that. That was what surprised me. But I don't want you to leave now that I have answered you.

Q: The perception still persists because in the recent press statement there was nothing from you to say you are still a Muslim. That is what people want to know.

A: If I say that, if I say I am a Muslim from the very beginning, you mean that's the end of the story?

Q: Yes. That's it. Another thing, can you say the Kalimah Syahadah now? Everyone will keep quiet after this.

A: Did your mother ever ask you to say it? My father has never asked me to say it until now. Because we have said it many times, we say it everytime in our prayers.

Q: Then only this matter will not arise again later.

A: No. Cannot. I am not going to do that. This is not the Judgment Day for me to be questioned like this.

When the day comes, nobody will know where we will end up going. It is not a matter of saying it or trying to please your ears. (Bukan atas ungkapan itu atau bukan atas nak bagi sedap telinga)

Q: Our intention is only to clarify things for the public.

A: I understand. If you see me in Langkawi, we would understand each other even better.

My work is related to many people, including those from overseas. Obviously, I would always be hanging out with the white men. So, when I sit with them, people will say I am not a Muslim.
It's tough on me.

Q: Where are you based now?

A: I am based in Langkawi, as in my responsibilities. My home, as in family, is in KL. And those are the two places that I have been, other than going on short trips on business.

Hamid: I would like to explain, for everyone of us, as long as one does not renounce his religion, he remains in his original religion. There is no need for one to repeat whether he is Muslim or not.

Q (to Azhar): On the SMS incident, are you going to take action against anyone?

A: That is already under police investigation. When the SMS first came out I did not lodge any police report.

But when the matter was prolonged, I felt it was better for me to make a police report to protect myself.

Now we just wait for the police report and any further development. I cannot say anything else as of now.

Q: Are you saying that what is contained in the SMS is a fitnah (accusation/defamation/slander)?

A: I am not used to using that kind of word. I would never say anything if I see someone wearing shorts, or drinking in a coffee shop or in a bar. That is his personal matter.

We should take care of our ownselves.

If we want to question whether one is a Muslim or a Christian, it would be tough.

But all I know, my responsibility, my stand, my faith is in Allah.

So, don't question me now and I am only living my daily life in Malaysia according to the Syariah teaching and country's regulations.

I have never committed any offence. If you want to ask whether one is a Muslim or not, it is better for you to ask the rapists. That is better.

Don't ask me that. I was only doing my job in langkawi. I have never disturbed anybody. It is the others who always disturbed me.

Husainay: The conclusion is, Azhar is still a Muslim. I think we better make it clear. So, let us end this session.

Q: Do you think the SMS has something to do with your business relations?

Azhar: I don't know. I will wait and see the outcome of the police investigation. If I can get hold of the finding, perhaps I can think of what to do next. But now I do not want to think about it. Now I just want to stay to follow the assembly and later go back to Langkawi to continue with my work. But I will be wearing my shorts. Is it okay with you guys if I wear shorts?

Hamid: But we must be clear that in Islam, faith is one aspect, while behaviour is another aspect. They are not inter-connected.

So if a citizen was caught stealing, he is guilty and considered a criminal, but his citizenship remains. It will not be abolished.

Islam is also like that. If a Muslim does not practise the Islamic teaching, that is another story, but his faith in Islam remains. It will not be affected.

Q: After this, would your daily life be affected?

Azhar: "No, it will not affect me. It is just that sometimes, I think, is our country this bad to the extent I have to take action to protect my family?

Should that happen, I would be very much shocked. But for me, I am too engrossed with my responsibilities. I have never worked but I have a lot of responsibilities.

And at this opportunity, I would like to say, being the unofficial ambassador of Langkawi, I would like to invite you all to come to Langkawi if you want to go for a holiday.

Then you can see me in shorts."

End of report.

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All praises be to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for this wonderful end to the questions as to whether Brother Azhar Mansor is an apostate from Islam as was being reported by the Sydney Anglican Church and also be said to be going to 'baptise' a 100 Malay Muslims at the Ipoh Catholic Church of 'Our Lady of the Lourdes'.

With this open declaration from himself, I hope that there will be no more slander against him going on by the propaganda efforts of the demented few!

Alhamdulillah! May Allah SWT bless us all ! Ameen.

To Brother Datuk Azhar Mansor, I wish you all the best in your life and do not shy away from stating that you are a Servant of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala! Insya Allah!

The Truth has prevailed! Allahu Akbar!

UMNO General Assembly Scenes at the PWTC

I was at the PWTC this afternoon around 3pm today , just to witness for myself, what was going on there during the UMNO General Assembly's final day.

As usual, the crowd was very colorful with all kinds of UMNO members dressed in their finest and everyone looking either busy catching up with all the speeches being broadcasted through the indoor giant multimedia projection screen complete with boom stereo speakers and tv sets placed all over the PWTC for the convenience of the UMNO members who came from all parts of the country or just being there to witness it all with their own eyes rather than watch it live on Astro Channel 94!

Being there ourselves is totally different than watching it on tv for we get to experience it all for real! Only thing being that unless you are a delegate, you can't be in the main hall ! :(

The ladies were all sitting on a large carpet watching the giant screen in airconditioned comfort and an air of festivity prevailed!

They were all looking at the delegate who was speaking at at the moment and all looked engrossed in watching and listening to the speaker with full attention!

Male UMNO members were crowding the many VCD stands and also at the Riverside Cafe! There were many small groups of people congregating here and there all over the PWTC.

I guess this is the time to network and renew friendships and get contact numbers! Networking time!

Many a deal and appointments are secured this way.

Well, when politics is involved, it's the same all over the world, right?

Kelantan UMNO's Datuk Alwi's speech was the hottest VCD being bought up by the public!


They say that the top leadership scout for new talents like these who have the gift of the gab during the general assembly!

Looks like Datuk Alwi will be going places after this award winning speech!

I especially loved his theatrical performances in describing how the mothers of today use the electric motored baby swing and 'that's the way ..ah ha ..ah ha.. i like it 'stint'!

Man!..that was really funny! But his speech was not all comedy...there were times when his voice broke and the man was almost about to cry on stage!

He was on an emotional roller coaster and he was being honest! That's why the national audience could relate to him on account of his heartfelt speech! Bravo Datuk Alwi!

"Naik pangkat lah tak lama lagi ye? Apa apa pun saya ucapkan syabas!"

Well, the UMNO General Assembly is the place to make the right moves for those who are Malay politicians out to grab the best opportunities in UMNO and government!

It's the connections that make any project get going and the closer the connection, the easier things will go!

I was approached by a political writer @ Rahim Zain who gave me a copy of his book that touched on the NEP!

He had been glancing at me ever since we both alighted from the Star LRT! I guessed that he recognised my mugshot from my blog! :P

As the PWTC authorities weren't allowing such political books to be sold openly by their authors during this year's UMNO General Assembly, such writers are reduced to either hawk their books like the pirated VCD/DVD hawkers we find at the night markets of the nation or just give them away as a complimentary copy as he did to me!

Well, the climate at this year's UMNO assembly is just listen ; no one is allowed to oppose the current Supreme Council and the PM or his team of 'Ya Tuan Besar! Intan Payong! Yang Mulia, Ya Habibi' chorus singers!

What were these political writers thinking in the first place in bringing their anti-estabishment works for sale to the UMNO crowd this year?

It's not Mahathir's era anymore! It's time for Cemerlang, Gemilang, Terbilang! to muzzle any attempts at making the main man and his team of 'fans' look any bad through their writings!

Even I am accused of being overly 'critical' of dear old Pak Lah! After him, will be 'Pak Najib' !

No one can say nothing and expect to get away with it! Lucky for me to not be a contractor of any class hoping to get any government tender or project at the current moment!

Pak Habib @ Syed Hussain Alattas was reported to complain about such a ruling by the PWTC's admin and was also stopped by the guards from selling his books openly. And they say Dr.M was oppressive? Look at the way, things are this year at the UMNO Assembly!

Tch tch tch! Well, that's what the implications are if political idealists and observers who are into writing political books and publishing their own personal viewpoints against the current leadership of UMNO and the BN are facing that by doing so, they are liable to be taken legal action against by whoever they choose to address their objections !

Anyway, thank you Brother Rahim Zain. Will read your book and let you know what I think about it. Keep on writing bro! Cheers! Power to the writers!

Maybe, we can expect to see political writers here in Malaysia who write advocating justice this and that to set up stalls besides the pirated VCD's, DVD's, fly by night mobile stalls in our nation's pasar malams's next?

Instead of the 'lanun cetak rompak' ; we will be seeing 'lanun penulis politik pulak!' :D

Hmmmm...seems like it is just not me who is a 'narcissistic touch me not' after all! :P

The entire UMNO Supreme Council have proven themselves to be regular 'mimosa pudica's' in the truest sense!

Anyway, as PAS's 'bad news brown' HARAKAH tabloid puts it , it's 'Pesta Puja Presiden' all the way!

Why do I say that HARAKAH is a 'bad news brown' tabloid?

Well, the sheer reason that it's headlines have always consisted of an insult or bad news lambasting UMNO ever since it's been publishing it's 'newspaper'!

I will write about it in another post of it's own. Insya Allah!

UMNO @ United Muslims National Organisation ?

Bismillahirrahmannirrahim.

Assalamualaikum warahmatulillahi ta'ala wabarakatuh!

May Peace and the Blessings of Almighty Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala be upon the Mukmins and Mukminats reading this and the Guidance and Mercy of Ar Rahman be upon my fellow Malaysians of other faiths! Ameen Ya Rabbal Alameen.

Yesterday, the UMNO Kelantan's Representative to the UMNO General Assembly voiced out his desire and those of his state's UMNO members to see the long going political enmity and strife between UMNO and PAS come to an end soon and both Malay based political parties to mend fences and unite as one entity representing the Malaysian Malays as a whole once and for all!

His impassioned pleas and heartfelt rendering of the message from UMNO Kelantan touched each and every Malaysian Malay Muslim heart and I am sure that both UMNO and PAS members nationwide could relate as to what he was asking for in their hearts and souls!

Instead of harping on just race based politics, I for one feel it is high time for the Malays to come together as one under the banner of one party!

I propose naming this party as the ' United Muslims National Organisation' still known as UMNO but no longer just stuck on to the race card!

I mean even today as we speak, the members of UMNO are no longer based purely on the Malay ethnicity alone!

The ethnicities in today's UMNO are so clearly no longer Malays as we know them. There are all kinds of ethnicities all claiming to be a Malay whereas their facial features, skin color, even the shapes of their noses or faces aren't exactly that to which we can define to be real Malays!

Datuk Haji Md Alwi Hj Md Ishak, made his plea to all in the UMNO General Assembly and also to all those watching the proceedings live on Astro's Channel 94 exclusive broadcasting on nationwide satellite television, asking for both UMNO and PAS to unite as one Ummah, one party that will bring all the Malays together as one entity!

UMNO @ United Malays National Organisation and PAS @ Parti Islam SeMalaysia if they come together will become the largest political party in the nation's history!

All the Malays, Indian Muslims, Chinese Muslims, Orang Asli's, Sabahans, Sarawakians, and all others who are now in UMNO and in PAS, KIMMA, etcetera will by virtue of their being fellow Muslims be more stronger united in one faith and develop the 'quwwah' of the Ummah of old, again!

No longer need the Ummah be divided by race based policies such as today but forge a stronger more cohesive union of their hearts and minds!

It's much more better to place into their proper priorities and as to what is more important in this world and in the hereafter!

What are the Malays fighting for? Is it not to preserve their rights and their claim to this land?

Datuk Hj Mohd Alwi stressed in his speech that there are 5 things that the Malays will never allow anyone to touch or disturb !

1. The Malay Sultans and their Sultanates
2. Islam the Faith of the Malays and others
3. Bahasa Melayu @ Malay Language
4. Adat @ Malay Customs
5. Tanahair @ Malay motherland

His speech is being televised over and over again as it is one of the most memorable delivery of speeches ever in this year's UMNO General Assembly!

Will his wish and I am sure the same wish of all of us Malaysian Muslims irrespective of ethnic origins come to be a reality?

Will UMNO mature itself to be as what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and His Messenger, Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam are asking of us to unite as one under one banner?

The banner being none other but 'La ila ha ill lall lahh ; Muhammad darr Rasulullah!'.

United Muslims National Organisation. The dream of all rational minded Muslims. Insya Allah!

Adabs of Dialogue for Bloggers

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
May Peace and Guidance of Almighty Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala be upon us all. Ameen Ya Rabbal Alameen.

As a Malaysian Muslim Blogger, I have been writing here and sharing my thoughts about Islam my faith and also about things that concern myself, my fellow citizens and issues that affect my nation, Malaysia.

Whether I like it or not, I am bound to be judged by those who have yet to know me personally for this blog is published on the worldwideweb, exposing myself to the global assessment by people who at times come across as very opinionated, judgemental, biased, discriminatory, assume this and that about me and what I stand for and against.

This is part and parcel of life and I acknowledge that it is as the Malay parable of old says ' Kalau takut dilambong ombak ; jangan berumah ditepian pantai!' meaning ' If you are scared of being tossed by the waves ; don't build your home by the seashore!'.

As such, a blogger like me has to be willing to take the comments and criticisms as they come according to the topics of the relevant subjects that I write upon.

It does not mean that I as a blogger have to approve and publish each and every comment as they come. To do so , I would be lying if I say that negative comments and accusations against me as a person do not affect my emotions ; do not hurt my feelings and makes a dent in my soul and my ego!

There are those who come in and hurl slander and libel against me as a person even though we do not know each other whatmore have personal differences or even are enemies in the real sense of the word!

I leave such slanderers to be judged and dealt with accordingly by Allah SWT! God Most High!

Why must people who do not know me in person have to resort to such vile actions?

What have I as a blogger ever done to those faultfinders? Who are they to make personal attacks against me as a person when I have never even known them?

Verily, these are those who only know how to criticise without knowing how to appreciate and if even my writings are contrary to their ideals or principles, do not realise that even I have my rights to speak as I feel or as I see fit!

Do I as a free citizen of Malaysia have to seek each and every person's consent and approval before I publish my writings as I see fit?

Do I come across as a person who is a 'narcissist' just because I have the utmost self confidence when I write about how I as a Muslim love my faith so much that to me, I'd rather not exist today upon this Earth if I have not been born as a Muslim? Walillahi Ta'ala!

A reader by the name of Ahmad Kamal Abu Bakar, with whom I have never even had an exchange of comments or even have come to know this person left me a comment accusing me of being a person with traits of a 'narcissist'!

Imagine, the audacity of this person to accuse me of being so without first according to me my rights as a fellow Muslim, that is a Salam and then followed by a spirit of goodwill @ in Malay, it is known as 'berbaik sangka' !

I just don't know what has become of such Malays! Gone are the days where before engaging in a dialogue, discussion or debate with another, at least the Malays of yore used to introduce themselves to the other first, state their identities, their background, their intention to start a discussion or a debate based on whatever topic, subject or grievance against something that we have said or done that has affected them personally or their family, race and nation generally!

Are the people living today no longer interested to preserve our inherited values and our 'adab's in the matter as personal and as sensitive as engaging in a discussion, a dialogue or a debate with a stranger even in this cyberspace?

Do we not have in us, the fitrah of being a humanbeing, whom Allah SWT has created with the goodwill of knowing how to behave, how to live with all other beings, that the very first exchange that we establish with someone whom we have yet to know in person, realise who they really are in depth, is nothing but a slander?

The very first comment that we post to the person is nothing but an accusation!

The very first dialogue with the stranger is nothing but a fitnah, a libellous 'ad homineum' attack so vicious, so offensive, so hurtful against the person that it is just a natural act of self defense for any rational minded, normal 'insan' to react and delete that offensive comment straightaway and refuse the offender room in his or her blog to allow such filthy slander or libel to remain in the blog rightaway!

It will be an act of insanity for any righteous blogger to allow anyone to simply come in and attack them without due rhyme or reason and as per the norms of proper dialogue as per our traditional values since the advent of civilisation!

In the Quran, in Surah Al Hujarat Chapter 49 Verses 7 to 13, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala very eloquently advices us to not commit injustice against one another by uttering slander as we please!
Reflect on all the mentioned verses and realise that we are all the Children of the Prophet Adam Alaihis Salam and are each never free from sins or mistakes in our own individual lifes!

So, my dear brothers and sisters, please understand that if we do not know the person as to who they really are to refrain from jumping to any conclusions and go commit injustice against the other!

When I 'asked' whether Azhar Mansor is an apostate as being gossiped, rumoured and even published openly by the Sydney Anglican Church that he is so in their report online , I as a fellow Muslim naturally felt affected and wanted to know if it was true?

As someone who loves my fellow Muslims with the 'husnul zahn' @ good faith of an insan as asked of me by Allah SWT and His Messenger upon another, naturally I want to know the truth too!

I, who have sworn to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala to dedicate the rest of my life to share whatever I have come to learn and to know about Islam with my fellow Muslims and my fellow humanbeings from all other ethnicities and faiths, naturally want to know as to whether there is any truth to such claims by the Christians against Azhar Mansor?

I, as his brother in Islam, naturally want to know as to why he who is being accused of committing 'murtad' against faith in Allah SWT is still silent about the whole subject and as to why it is so hard for him to openly state his position as a Muslim or as an apostate?

This is not libel! This is not fitnah! This is my way of wanting to know the truth about him and to help him defend his good name and reputation by blogging about it here in my cyberspace!

Wallahu alam as to what my nawaitu really is! Far from wanting to cause him any harm, I am willing to go and defend his honor as a Muslim if he is a victim of vile slander by those seeking to dishonor him if he is true to his Shahadah as a fellow Mukmin Wa Lillahi Ta'ala! Allahu Akbar!

To those who come in without following the 'adab's , the norms and the traditional way of engaging with a stranger whether online or in real life, please do not expect me to be as you wish.

Please do not expect others who don't even know you to open up his or her cyberspace and accept your barbs, your insults, and expressions that reflect your stupidity or your foolhardiness with open arms and allow themselves to be insulted , to be slandered and to be accused of whatever you have built up in your demented minds to publishing straightaway your vile comments!

I do not need your praises. I do not love being polished or being carried for no rhyme or reason for that is totally against my principles as a mureed.

My ego is already so swelled up with my 'narcissistic' tendencies as the reader Ahmad Kamal Abu Bakar, whom I think is from Negri Sembilan has claimed, to have you further adding to my nafs!

As a blogger I have come to meet only a select few of my fellow bloggers in person.

Amongst those who have come to meet me and know me as to who I am and what I stand for are Mohd Elfie Nieshaem Juferi @ MENJ, YM Raja Petra Kamarudin, Jeff Ooi,YB Lim Kit Siang,Lim Guan Eng, YB Teresa Kok, Shin Shin, Elizabeth Wong, Salinan Karbon, Nik Nazmi, Sharizal Shaarani, Ronnie Liu, Meriza Anna, etc.

Only by meeting someone in person will we have an idea as to who they really are! Only by exchanging words face to face and seeing the person's mannerisms and the way they carry themselves in their conduct, speech and mannerisms, can we sort of make up our minds about them and even that is open to interpretations according to our 'ilm and knowledge.

As Allah SWT is my witness, I ask that those who have yet to know me in person, to at least respect my rights as a fellow blogger who needs nothing but your understanding, who needs nothing but your greatness of mind to allow me my own space here and in time to live out my life as I wish and to accord to me nothing but a much needed common courtesy of being allowed to express my thoughts and my views accordingly!

All goodness is from Allah SWT. My writings here are my own and I leave it to Him to judge me accordingly.

To those who understand exactly what I am saying here and can let me be as I wish to, I express my heartfelt gratitude and appreciations. Jazakallah khairan kathiraw and Thank you!

May Almighty Allah SWT bless us and guide us all. Ameen.

Rest in Peace IFC @ Inter Faith Commission !

"The IFC will never be allowed to be set up in this nation!" so vowed Dato Seri Hishamudin Tun Hussein Onn, the UMNO Youth Chief during the General Assembly of UMNO at the Putra World Trade Center here in Kuala Lumpur!

Voicing concerns over how certain groups were taking advantage of the new openness and transparency of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's administration, he believed that some were testing the Government's tolerance.

“Race and religious issues are being discussed without considering rationally the impact they will have on race relations in the country.

“What should have been constructive criticism has turned out to be vindictive, a venting of anger and hatred, malice and envy,” he said.

He warned the Article 11 group to steer clear of Article 11 and Article 121(1A) of the Federal Constitution and not to question the rights of Malays and the position of Islam, as this could stir up Malay and Muslim emotions.

Matters relating to Islam should be decided by the Syariah Court, not the civil court, he said.

Umno Youth, he added, wanted the Government to continue to reject the setting up of the Inter-Faith Commission. Excerpts from The Star Online.

I say 'Syabas' to Dato Seri Hishamudin for being steadfast and straightforward in hitting the last nail in the coffin for the proposed 'King of all Commissions in the whole wide world!' @ the grandiose Inter Faith Commission that is the brainchild of the Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Sikhism!

The agenda of the IFC is nothing but to interfere and dictate to the Malaysian Muslims as to how to practice our God given faith @ Islam and to deny the rights of our children to be raised as Muslims from birth and to deny them their status as Muslims until they reach the age of 18!

I wrote against this IFC several months back here and here. I even have the Draft of the IFC here for you to evaluate and imagine the preposterous grand designs these people behind this attempt to bulletproof their selfs under guise of a 'fully powered and fully armored legal action proof' commission to rule us from within the legitimate Malaysian government!

This time around, my full support goes to UMNO for stating it to the IFC's face that their plans to implode Islam in Malaysia from within is dead and buried effective from this UMNO's General Assembly!

Kudos to PM Dato Seri Abdullah Badawi, Deputy Prime Minister Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak and Dato Seri Hishamudin Tun Hussein Onn for this hammering of the nail into the 'IFC's coffin!

I believe cremation is the best and most fitting end for this MCCBCHS's dreams to build their collective 'bulletproof' religious dialogue pretentious empire from inside the Barisan Nasional Government of Malaysia!

Although I have lambasted the PM and his anointed Deputy all this while for their oppressive price hike measures that have caused us the people of Malaysia to fork out more money for fuel and all other basic necessities as a result of their ordered price increases, this official warning and government policy denying the IFC from ever coming into power is God sent!

Alhamdulillah! Those behind the IFC better count their blessings and appreciate the freedom of professing their respective faiths as they have been blessed to do so all these while!

One does not destroy whatever relative peace and harmony that the nation has been enjoying since Merdeka just because some folks in the MCCBCHS started getting too big for their breaches!

No one's stopping the Malaysian Non Muslims from practicing their individual faiths. You are all free to carry on worshipping whatever you have been praying to all your lifes and those of your forefathers.

I am sure that all rational, clear minded fellow citizens reading this will agree with my points!

The only thing we Malaysian Muslims ask is to allow us to worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as per our rights and that we accord each other our own spaces and freedom to live in peace and harmony!

Thank you. Rest in peace IFC. You won't be missed! I promise.

Babies and tiny tots! Gifts of Allah to mankind!

Subhanallah! Walhamdulillah!

La ila ha ill lall lah! Wallahu akbar!

Masya Allah!

There's no other greater joy in life that is as exclusive as getting to hold a baby in my hands!

Those bright, shining pair of eyes looking at us with such innocence and emitting such rays of hope for the future generations really is something that can't be exchanged for any other joy in life!

I got to meet these new members of the Ummah recently when I went to the Eid gatherings we were invited to.

This is Lutfi Al Hadi , sleeping soundly without a care in the world!

The baby girl in the first photo is Yasmin, the daughter of my wife's alumni friend Nazli.

Children are God's gifts to the parents. It is up to the parent to raise the child up to be either as Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, etc.

Sadly, there are some who don't love their kids and are instead causing harm to them. I hope that those who are blessed to have kids, to love them as best as they can and not to harm them.

This pretty lass giving me a hug is the affable Nur Alia Iman, who was the star of the gathering singing songs and playing around the guests!

She sang 'Twinkle twinkle little stars' in her own special way! :P Kids say the darndest things!

I couldn't make out the lyrics! It was all 'baby talk'! Hehehehehe! What a joyful time I had!

Anyway, I pray to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for them to be blessed and protected from all harm on Earth and they grow up to be the best among the Ummah! Ameen Ya Rabbal Alamin!

What Famous Non Muslims say about the Prophet of Islam

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh to all Muslims.May Peace and Guidance of Allah SWT be upon the Non Muslims reading this. Ameen.

I wish to share with you about some quotes from those who knew about and came to respect and honor the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam.

These are not simpletons speaking as they please. They are and were scholars and noblemen. In the quotations below, Western writers have used the word Muhammadanism for Islam. The word Muhammadanism connotes the 'Worship of Muhammad', an absolutely unworthy statement for any learned man to use.

This is a lie and a misleading terminology. Maybe at that time, there was no access to the 'quoter' as to the correct ways to identify the Muslims and no Muslim authority who might have known of what was being said, to have had access to go correct the person.

Wallahu Alam. Only God knows best as to the actual situation back then!

Prophet Muhammad's mission was to propagate the worship of the One and Only God (in Arabic Allah), the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe.

His mission was essentially the same as that of earlier Prophets of God. The difference is that all the earlier Prophets and Messengers of Allah SWT were sent to their own tribes or ethnicity to which they were raised from by Allah SWT!

Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam was sent by Allah the Almighty to the entire Creation of Allah Azza Wa Jalla.

He, Rasulullah al Mustafa, was sent to all mankind.

He was sent to all people, all the Prophets, all the Messengers, including even to Eesa Alaihis Salam @ Jesus Christ al Masih!

He was sent to all those who are being worshipped wrongly as deities!

He was sent to us to teach us Islam and to help guide us to glorify God Most Mighty, Most High!

Yet there are many out there today as have been in the past who are blind to all these.

There are many, who despite having been created by God, be given their faculties of senses and perceptions of all that is before them, still exhibit their ignorance and choose to remain therein, no matter as to what clear proofs and testimonies are before them, as to the highest station that God Almighty Himself gives to the Prophet Muhammad, the most beloved of God and being ranked above all the rest of Allah's Creation!

In the Surah At Taubah Chapter 9 Verse 61 Al Qur'an Al Karim , Allah SWT warns those who mock and annoy the Prophet Muhammad SAW. Click onto the picture here and read for yourselves what Allah SWT has to say to those who annoy the Prophet SAW!

In the historical context, many such terminologies about Muhammad, Islam, and Muslims were borrowed from earlier European writings of the Eleventh to the Nineteenth century, a time when ignorance and prejudice prevailed.

The quotations below attest to the facts.

Thomas Carlyle in 'Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History,' 1840

"The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only."

"A silent great soul, one of that who cannot but be earnest. He was to kindle the world, the world’s Maker had ordered so."

A. S. Tritton in 'Islam,' 1951

The picture of the Muslim soldier advancing with a sword in one hand and the Qur'an in the other is quite false.

De Lacy O'Leary in 'Islam at the Crossroads,' London, 1923.

History makes it clear, however, that the legend of fanatical Muslims sweeping through the world and forcing Islam at the point of sword upon conquered races is one of the most fantastically absurd myths that historians have ever repeated.

Gibbon in 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' 1823

The good sense of Muhammad despised the pomp of royalty.

The Apostle of God submitted to the menial offices of the family; he kindled the fire; swept the floor; milked the ewes; and mended with his own hands his shoes and garments.

Disdaining the penance and merit of a hermit, he observed without effort of vanity the abstemious diet of an Arab.

Edward Gibbon and Simon Oakley in ‘History of the Saracen Empire,’ London, 1870

"The greatest success of Mohammad’s life was effected by sheer moral force."

“It is not the propagation but the permanency of his religion that deserves our wonder, the same pure and perfect impression which he engraved at Mecca and Medina is preserved after the revolutions of twelve centuries by the Indian, the African and the Turkish proselytes of the Koran....

The Mahometans have uniformly withstood the temptation of reducing the object of their faith and devotion to a level with the senses and imagination of man.

‘I believe in One God and Mahomet the Apostle of God’ is the simple and invariable profession of Islam.

The intellectual image of the Deity has never been degraded by any visible idol; the honors of the prophet have never transgressed the measure of human virtue, and his living precepts have restrained the gratitude of his disciples within the bounds of reason and religion.”

*Mahometans* is also a misnomer! We are Muslims not 'Mahometans' I state my refutations against such wrongful terminology below. Please take note of this slip up!

Reverend Bosworth Smith in 'Muhammad and Muhammadanism,' London, 1874.

"Head of the State as well as the Church, he was Caesar and Pope in one; but he was Pope without the Pope's pretensions, and Caesar without the legions of Caesar, without a standing army, without a bodyguard, without a police force, without a fixed revenue.

If ever a man ruled by a right divine, it was Muhammad, for he had all the powers without their supports.

He cared not for the dressings of power. The simplicity of his private life was in keeping with his public life."

"In Mohammadanism every thing is different here.

Instead of the shadowy and the mysterious, we have history....

We know of the external history of Muhammad....while for his internal history after his mission had been proclaimed, we have a book absolutely unique in its origin, in its preservation....on the Substantial authority of which no one has ever been able to cast a serious doubt."

Disclaimer:-

*Mohammadanism* is a wrong term for Muslims to be identified as such.

We do not worship the Prophet Muhammad! We worship only true God Almighty, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala!

Non Muslims reading this , please remember! "Mohammadanism" is a boo boo by the late Reverend Bosworth Smith.

His eminence might have meant well but it's too late to correct him. He's long gone.

Anyway, Christians today know better . They call us 'fundamentalists'! hehehehehe!

Edward Montet, 'La Propagande Chretienne et ses Adversaries Musulmans,' Paris 1890. (Also in T.W. Arnold in 'The Preaching of Islam,' London 1913.)

"Islam is a religion that is essentially rationalistic in the widest sense of this term considered etymologically and historically....

The teachings of the Prophet, the Qur'an has invariably kept its place as the fundamental starting point, and the dogma of unity of God has always been proclaimed therein with a grandeur a majesty, an invariable purity and with a note of sure conviction, which it is hard to find surpassed outside the pale of Islam....

A creed so precise, so stripped of all theological complexities and consequently so accessible to the ordinary understanding and does indeed possess a marvelous power of winning its way into the consciences of men."

Alphonse de LaMartaine in 'Historie de la Turquie,' Paris, 1854.

"Never has a man set for himself, voluntarily or involuntarily, a more sublime aim, since this aim was superhuman; to subvert superstitions which had been imposed between man and his Creator, to render God unto man and man unto God; to restore the rational and sacred idea of divinity amidst the chaos of the material and disfigured gods of idolatry, then existing.

Never has a man undertaken a work so far beyond human power with so feeble means, for he (Muhammad) had in the conception as well as in the execution of such a great design, no other instrument than himself and no other aid except a handful of men living in a corner of the desert.

Finally, never has a man accomplished such a huge and lasting revolution in the world, because in less than two centuries after its appearance, Islam, in faith and in arms, reigned over the whole of Arabia, and conquered, in God's name, Persia Khorasan, Transoxania, Western India, Syria, Egypt, Abyssinia, all the known continent of Northern Africa, numerous islands of the Mediterranean Sea, Spain, and part of Gaul (and spreading to every part of the world as we speak)!

"If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only.

They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes.

This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but billions of mankind in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

"On the basis of a Book, every letter which has become law, he created a spiritual nationality which blends together peoples of every tongue and every race.

He has left the indelible characteristic of this Muslim nationality : the hatred of False gods and the passion for the One and Immaterial God.

This avenging patriotism against the profanation of Heaven formed the virtue of the followers of Muhammad; the conquest of one-third of the earth to the dogma was his miracle; or rather it was not the miracle of man but that of reason.

"The idea of the unity of God, proclaimed amidst the exhaustion of the fabulous theogonies, was in itself such a miracle that upon it's utterance from his lips it destroyed all the ancient temples of idols and set on fire one-third of the world.

His life, his meditations, his heroic revelings against the superstitions of his country, and his boldness in defying the furies of idolatry, his firmness in enduring them for fifteen years in Mecca, his acceptance of the role of public scorn and almost of being a victim of his fellow countrymen...

This dogma was twofold the unity of God and the immateriality of God: the former telling what God is, the latter telling what God is not; the one overthrowing false gods with the sword, the other starting an idea with words.

"Philosopher, Orator, Apostle, Legislator, Conqueror of Ideas, Restorer of Rational beliefs....

The founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire that is Muhammad.

As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?"

Mahatma Gandhi, statement published in 'Young India,'1924.

I wanted to know the best of the life of one who holds today an undisputed sway over the hearts of millions of mankind....

I became more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days in the scheme of life.

It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of the Prophet the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers, his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission.

These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle.

When I closed the second volume (of the Prophet's biography), I was sorry there was not more for me to read of that great life.

Sir George Bernard Shaw in 'The Genuine Islam,' Vol. 1, No. 8, 1936.

"If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam."

“I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion for from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity."

"I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.”

Michael Hart in 'The 100, A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons In History,' New York, 1978.

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world’s most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the secular and religious level. ...

It is probable that the relative influence of Muhammad on Islam has been larger than the combined influence of Jesus Christ and St. Paul on Christianity. ...

It is this unparalleled combination of secular and religious influence which I feel entitles Muhammad to be considered the most influential single figure in human history.

Dr. William Draper in 'History of Intellectual Development of Europe'

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born in Mecca, in Arabia, the man who, of all men, has exercised the greatest influence upon the human race...

To be the religious head of many empires, to guide the daily life of one-third of the human race, may perhaps justify the title of a Messenger of God.

Arthur Glyn Leonard in 'Islam, Her Moral and Spiritual Values'

It was the genius of Muhammad, the spirit that he breathed into the Arabs through the soul of Islam that exalted them.

That raised them out of the lethargy and low level of tribal stagnation up to the high watermark of national unity and empire.

It was in the sublimity of Muhammad's deism, the simplicity, the sobriety and purity it inculcated the fidelity of its founder to his own tenets, that acted on their moral and intellectual fiber with all the magnetism of true inspiration.

Philip K. Hitti in 'History of the Arabs'

Within a brief span of mortal life, Muhammad called forth of unpromising material, a nation, never welded before; in a country that was hitherto but a geographical expression he established a religion which in vast areas suppressed Christianity and Judaism, and laid the basis of an empire that was soon to embrace within its far flung boundaries the fairest provinces the then civilized world.

Rodwell in the Preface to his translation of the Holy Qur'an

Mohammad's career is a wonderful instance of the force and life that resides in him who possesses an intense faith in God and in the unseen world.

He will always be regarded as one of those who have had that influence over the faith, morals and whole earthly life of their fellow men, which none but a really great man ever did, or can exercise; and whose efforts to propagate a great verity will prosper.

W. Montgomery Watt in 'Muhammad at Mecca,' Oxford, 1953.

His readiness to undergo persecution for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as a leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity.

To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems that it solves.

Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad....

Thus, not merely must we credit Muhammad with essential honesty and integrity of purpose, if we are to understand him at all; if we are to correct the errors we have inherited from the past, we must not forget the conclusive proof is a much stricter requirement than a show of plausibility, and in a matter such as this only to be attained with difficulty.

D. G. Hogarth in 'Arabia'

Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory.

No one regarded by any section of the human race as Perfect Man has ever been imitated so minutely.

The conduct of the founder of Christianity has not governed the ordinary life of his followers.

Moreover, no founder of a religion has left on so solitary an eminence as the Muslim apostle.

Washington Irving 'Mahomet and His Successors'

He was sober and abstemious in his diet and a rigorous observer of fasts.

He indulged in no magnificence of apparel, the ostentation of a petty mind; neither was his simplicity in dress affected but a result of real disregard for distinction from so trivial a source.

In his private dealings he was just.

He treated friends and strangers, the rich and poor, the powerful and weak, with equity, and was beloved by the common people for the affability with which he received them, and listened to their complaints.

His military triumphs awakened no pride nor vain glory, as they would have done had they been effected for selfish purposes.

In the time of his greatest power he maintained the same simplicity of manners and appearance as in the days of his adversity.

So far from affecting a regal state, he was displeased if, on entering a room, any unusual testimonials of respect were shown to him.

If he aimed at a universal dominion, it was the dominion of faith; as to the temporal rule which grew up in his hands, as he used it without ostentation, so he took no step to perpetuate it in his family.

James Michener in ‘Islam: The Misunderstood Religion,’ Reader’s Digest, May 1955, pp. 68-70.

"No other religion in history spread so rapidly as Islam.

The West has widely believed that this surge of religion was made possible by the sword.

But no modern scholar accepts this idea, and the Qur’an is explicit in the support of the freedom of conscience."

“Like almost every major prophet before him, Muhammad fought shy of serving as the transmitter of God’s word sensing his own inadequacy.

But the Angel commanded ‘Read’. So far as we know, Muhammad was unable to read or write, but he began to dictate those inspired words which would soon revolutionize a large segment of the earth: "There is one God"."

“In all things Muhammad was profoundly practical.

When his beloved son Ibrahim died, an eclipse occurred and rumors of God 's personal condolence quickly arose.

Whereupon Muhammad is said to have announced, ‘An eclipse is a phenomenon of nature. It is foolish to attribute such things to the death or birth of a human being'."

“At Muhammad's own death an attempt was made to deify him, but the man who was to become his administrative successor (Saiyidina Abu Bakar As Siddiq ) killed the hysteria with one of the noblest speeches in religious history:

‘If there are any among you who worshipped Muhammad, he is dead. But if it is God you Worship, He lives for ever'.”

Lawrence E. Browne in ‘The Prospects of Islam,’ 1944

Incidentally these well-established facts dispose of the idea so widely fostered in Christian writings that the Muslims, wherever they went, forced people to accept Islam at the point of the sword.

K. S. Ramakrishna Rao in 'Mohammed: The Prophet of Islam,' 1989

My problem to write this monograph is easier, because we are not generally fed now on that (distorted) kind of history and much time need not be spent on pointing out our misrepresentations of Islam.

The theory of Islam and sword, for instance, is not heard now in any quarter worth the name.

The principle of Islam that “there is no compulsion in religion” is well known.

~End of quotes~

Why is it that people today have to be so recalcitrant? What is their problem?

Why do they not try to improve their knowledge and do more self assessments as to improve their self, families, neighbourhoods and work towards better understanding between the masses instead of wasting their lifes screwing up themselves by getting involved with social betterment instead of getting engrossed with hedonistic pursuits!

People still stupidly go and pay money to buy cigarettes and smoke up their lungs!
Pollute the environment and themselves! Do they think it's cool to be infected with bronchial asthma, cancer of the lungs and throat? I am sure that their breath stink!

What more about their health in general? Surely, they do not become any healthier by smoking such cigarettes. If anything taken in the long term brings destruction to oneself, then it is an act of makruh that can lead to haram.

Muslims who smoke must surely take steps to quit altogether for your health's sake!
It's better for you to save yourselves and your families from harm.

Do not join the Kuffars in ridiculing the Prophet for if you do , you will be among the accursed and be held to account in the Yaum al Akhir.

Don't think Allah SWT will just close one eye towards your animosity to the Messenger Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!

This is not Istana Idaman in Klang we are talking about! Wake up and repent!

May Almighty Allah bless those who honor the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!

Ameen Ya Rabbal Alameen. All Guidance is from Allah and Allah Alone!

Allahu Akbar! La haula wala quwwata illa billah hil aliyyil azhim!

Holding Fast to the Qur'an and Sunnah of Rasulullah SAW

Narrated Jabir bin Abdullah Radhiallahu Anhu :
'Some Malaikats @ Angels came to the Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam while he was sleeping.

Some of them said," He is sleeping!". The others said," His eyes are sleeping but his heart is awake!" Then they said,"There is an example for this companion of yours.

His example is that of a man who built a house and then offered therein a banquet and sent an inviter @ messenger to invite the people.

So, whoever accepted the invitation of the inviter, entered the house and ate at the banquet. Whoever did not accept the invitation of the inviter, did not enter the house , nor did he or she eat of the banquet!"

Then the Angels said," Interpret this parable to him so that he may understand it!"

One of them said, " He is sleeping!" The others said," His eyes are sleeping but his heart is awake!"

Then they said," The house stands for Paradise and the caller is Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam and whoever obeys Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam obeys Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and whoever disobeys Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam disobeys Allahu Ta'ala!

Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam separated the people (i.e. through his Message, the Good is distinguished from the Bad, and the Believers (Muslims) from the Disbelievers (Kaffir's)!"

I have been receiving comments from those who do not yet know that without the advent of and the person of Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, the Faith of Islam and the Holy Qur'an of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala which we have with us today, will not come to exist as it has and that the world will still be full of false belief and acts of Kufur by the masses of humankind as it was back in the days of the Jahiliyyah Qureishi Arabs of Makkah!

They were so steeped in their ignorance and practicing all kinds of Kufur after losing their way from following the teachings of the Holy Prophet Ibrahim Alaihis Salam the Haniff @ the Monotheist!

Without paying respect to the Holy Prophet Muhammad ibni Abdullah, Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, these latter day 'know it all's , ridicule and lambast the Blessed Messenger as they please, thinking that they know better than the one who is so glorified by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala as to make it a stipulation that to be a Muslim in the truest sense, one has to testify that 'There is No (other) God but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala alone and that Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam is the (Final and Greatest) Messenger of Allah!

No one can complete his or her Declaration of Faith @ Kalimah Shahadah without attesting to the statement that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah after Declaring that There is No God but Allah!

Anyone who shows disrespect to the person of Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam will be taken to task by Allahu Akbar and he or she will not be spared the consequences of their words, deeds and malice towards the one who is the Mercy of God Himself that has been sent to all of mankind including to even all of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's other 124,000 Prophets and Messengers and encompassing the entire Creation!

In the Qur'an Chapter 40 Verse 56, Surah 'Ghafir, Allah SWT says :

"56. Verily, those who dispute about the Ayât (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) of Allâh, without any authority having come to them, there is nothing else in their breasts except pride [to accept you (Muhammad ) as a Messenger of Allâh and to obey you].

They will never have it (i.e. Prophethood which Allâh has bestowed upon you). So seek refuge in Allâh (O Muhammad from the arrogants). Verily, it is He Who is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer."

Islam is the Way of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala no doubt and the only one who came to teach it to us mankind is none other than the greatest man who ever lived!!!

These latter day smart alec's speak so arrogantly and deny the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, his due respect and recognition as if they are the saviours of mankind themselves and seek to illspeak of him!

Na'uzubillah hi min zalik! May Allah's Retribution be upon them!

I call upon my fellow Muslims and Muslimats to ignore these wayward faultfinders of the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam and hold fast to the Qur'an and the Sunnah of Rasul SAW!

These ignorants will not be answering for us on our behalf but will be held responsible themselves for what they try to mislead the people by their nonsense.

Allah SWT will guide those whom He chooses and grants His Taufeek and Hidayah! Insya Allah!

Many of them preserve their misdeeds by creating websites and insult the person of Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam thinking that they will not be charged of committing blasphemy against Allah SWT and His Prophet SAW.

Well, Time has always proved how their predecessors have always found out that they shall reap what they sow!

When even the whole world acknowledges the excellence of the Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam as proven by their attestment to the position of the Prophet of Islam to be the # 1 Most Influential Person in the History of Mankind as shown in the graphic above taken from Michael Hart's TOP 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PERSONS IN HISTORY, what more do we need to say or prove to these kind?

I leave it to Ar Rahman to give them either guidance or their dues as they have merited it!

Wallahu Alam Bissawab.

When a sodomite seeks to ban religion!

LONDON (AFP) - Religion should be outlawed because it lacks compassion and promotes hatred of homosexuals so says declared sodomite Elton John!

The singer was speaking in a special "gay edition" of The Observer newspaper's Music Monthly Magazine, where he shared his views on subjects ranging from being a music icon to the UK's Prime Minister Tony Blair!

At a time when religion is the subject of fierce debate in Britain over the right to wear the Muslim veil and other faith symbols, John complained there was a general lack of leadership from spiritual leaders.

"I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely," he was quoted as saying.

"Organized religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate. The world is near escalating to World War Three and where are the leaders of each religion?

On homosexuality, the 59-year-old -- who sealed a civil partnership with his long-term partner, the Canadian film director David Furnish in December last year -- said he was happy to be viewed as the "acceptable face of gayness."

He also vowed to continue his fight for gay rights and AIDS charities.

"I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature anymore. I'm nearly 60 years old after all. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it and I won't."Source : http://tinyurl.com/y7mq2m

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So, that's what the self declared sodomite Elton John has stated about 'banning' religion. :P

Sometimes, people who are supposed to be mature and well learned come to such a preposterous and screwed up view about what's right and what's wrong just because they are considered as superstar this and that!

Sodomites who carry on like this are only ending their family's lineage by going against nture and against God's Laws forbidding homosexuality and lesbianism!

If each and every homosexual's father had been one, they will not have come to exist in this Earth.

If each lesbian's mother had been a lesbian herself, she would not have conceived, carried the child and delivered her child who grew up and became a 'lesbian'!

Both the homosexual male and lesbian female would not have come to be born into this world and we will not be seeing them do the disgusting things they do today in the first place!

This is the result that each homosexual and lesbian decides for him or herself when they go against nature and against God's Prohibitions against the practice of the sodomites in Prophet Lut's time!

Sodom and Gomorrah is the proof that sodomites came to an awful end during that time and today, this tragedy rears its ugly head once again.

Elton John,60, ought to know better than to spew such nonsense! Well, what can we say when the man is all screwed up? Pun intended!

Let them reap what they sow....their rewards have been proven to be the HIV scourge! They ask for it, don't they? These kind do not listen to advice or are willing to repent. Once a sodomite, forever a sodomite.

Their end results will just be coming their way..soon.

The Bible has these to say about homosexuality and the punishment prescribed for the sin:

Lev 20:13 — If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood [shall be] upon them.

Undoubtedly the sin of homosexuality is one of the worst sins; indeed, it is one of the major sins (kabaa'ir) that Allah SWT has forbidden.

Allah the Almighty destroyed the people of Nabi Lut (peace be upon him) with the most terrifying kinds of punishment because they persisted in their sin and made this evil action commonplace and acceptable among themselves.

Allah Ta'ala says (interpretation of the meaning):
“So when Our Commandment came, We turned (the towns of Sodom in Palestine) upside down, and rained on them stones of baked clay, in a well-arranged manner one after another; Marked from your Lord” [Hood 11:82-83].

Then Allah SWT says, warning those who come after them of the nations who do the same deed as they did (interpretation of the meaning):
“and they are not ever far from the Thaalimoon (polytheists, evildoers)” [Hood 11:83]

And Allah says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And they indeed sought to shame his guest (by asking to commit sodomy with them). So We blinded their eyes (saying), ‘Then taste you My Torment and My Warnings.'” [al-Qamar 54:37]

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Whoever you find doing the action of the people of Loot, kill them, the one who does it and the one two whom it is done.”

(Narrated by Ahmad, 2727; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh al-Jaami' al-Sagheer wa Ziyaadatihi, no. 6589).

Imaam Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

It was reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Kill the one who does it and the one to whom it is done.”

(Reported by the four authors of Sunan. Its isnaad is saheeh.
At-Tirmidhi said it is a hasan hadeeth).

Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq judged in accordance with this, and he wrote instructions to this effect to Khalid, after consulting with the Sahabah.

‘Ali was the strictest of them with regard to that.

Ibn al-Qasaar and our shaykh said: the Sahabah agreed that [the person who does homosexual acts] should be killed, but they differed as to how he should be killed.

Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq said that he should be thrown down from a cliff.

‘Ali (may Allah be pleased with him) said that a wall should be made to collapse on him.

Ibn ‘Abbas said, they should be killed by stoning.

This shows that there was consensus among them that [the person who does homosexual acts] should be killed, but they differed as to how he should be executed.

This is similar to the ruling of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) concerning the person who has intercourse with a woman who is his mahram [incest], because in both cases intercourse is not permitted under any circumstances.

Hence the connection was made in the hadeeth of Ibn ‘Abbaas (may Allah be pleased with him) who reported that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, “Whoever you find doing the deed of the people of Loot, kill them.”

And it was also reported that he (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Whoever has intercourse with a woman who is his mahram, kill him.”

And according to another hadith with the same isnad, “Whoever has intercourse with an animal, kill him and kill the animal with him.”
(Narrated by Ahmad, 2420; Abu Dawood, 4464; al-Tirmidhi, 1454; al-Haakim, 4/355).

This ruling is in accordance with the ruling of shari'ah, because the worse the haram action is, the more severe the punishment for it.

Having intercourse in a manner that is not permissible under any circumstances is worse than having intercourse in a manner which may be permitted in some circumstances, so its punishment is more severe.

This was stated by Ahmad in one of the two reports narrated from him.
(Zaad al-Ma'aad, part 5, p. 40-41).

The same applies to the sin of lesbianism.

There is no doubt among the fuqahaa' that lesbianism is haraam and is a major sin, as stated by al-Haafiz Ibn Hajar (may Allah have mercy on him). (Al-Mawsoo'ah al-Fiqhiyyah, part 24, p. 251).

With regard to the specific type of punishment mentioned in the question – stoning to death – this kind of punishment is for the adulterer who is married.

The shar'ia punishment for the crime of homosexuality is execution – by the sword, according to the most correct view – as was narrated in the discussion above about the differences among the scholars as to how this execution should be carried out.

As far as lesbianism is concerned, there is no hadd for it, but it is subject to ta'zeer
[unspecified punishment to be determined at the discretion of the qaadi].
(al-Mawsoo'ah al-Fiqhiyyah, part 24, p. 253).

But if the person who does this evil deed, or any other action which is subject to a hadd punishment, repents, gives up that sin, seeks forgiveness, regrets what he has done and intends never to go back to it –

Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (may Allah SWT have mercy on him) was asked about that, and he answered: If he truly repents to Allah SWT , Allah SWT will accept his repentance, and he does not need to confess his sin to anyone so that the hadd punishment would be carried out on him. (Majmoo' al-Fatwaa, part 34, p. 180).

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala says (interpretation of the meaning):
“And those who invoke not any other ilaah (god) along with Allah SWT, nor kill such person as Allah SWT has forbidden, except for just cause, nor commit illegal sexual intercourse and whoever does this shall receive the punishment.

The torment will be doubled to him on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein in disgrace; Except those who repent and believe (in Islamic Monotheism), and do righteous deeds; for those, Allah SWT will change their sins into good deeds, and Allah SWT is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful.

And whosoever repents and does righteous good deeds; then verily, he repents towards Allah SWT with true repentance” [al-Furqaan 25:69-71].

If he repents sincerely towards Allah SWT, there is no reason why he should not get married, and indeed it may be obligatory in his case, as a protection for him and in accordance with what Allah SWT has permitted. And Allah SWT knows best.

May Allah the Almighty bless our Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam.

http://www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/Issues/Sexuality/Homosexuality_Fatwah.htm

Islam teaches that homosexual acts are sinful and punishable by God. This teaching comes not from human beings, but from the Creator of all humans. God tells us in His own words how He punished the people of Lut Alaihis Salam for their homosexual behaviour.

The story of Prophet Lut Alaihi Salam , finds mention in several Qur'anic passages, especially Chapter 26:160-175 which reads:

"The people of Lut rejected the apostles. Behold, their brother Lut said to them: "Will ye not fear (God)? "I am to you an apostle worthy of all trust. "

So fear God and obey me. "No reward do I ask of you for it: my reward is only from the lord of the Worlds. "Of all the creatures in the world, will ye approach males, "And leave those whom God has created for you to be your mates?

Nay, ye are a people transgressing (all limits)!" They said: "If thou desist not, O Lut! thou wilt assuredly be cast out!"

He said: "I do detest your doings." "O my Lord! deliver me and my family from such things as they do!" So We delivered him and his family,- all Except an old woman who lingered behind.

But the rest We destroyed utterly. We rained down on them a shower (of brimstone): and evil was the shower on those who were admonished (but heeded not)!

Verily in this is a Sign: but most of them do not believe. And verily thy Lord is He, the Exalted in Might Most Merciful."

From these passages we learn that God saved Lut AS and the righteous ones of his family, and rained on the rest a shower of brimstone, so they were utterly destroyed.

This is mentioned in the Qur'an not only for the sake of information, but mainly to serve as a warning to anyone who dares to repeat such acts.

Muslim believe that every human action leads to consequences. Good actions entail good results, and evil actions entail evil consequences. Some of these consequences may not become known for many years after a certain action.

The consequences of some actions will become manifest only after death when one enters a new, everlasting life.... A common mistake among humans is that if they don't see any negative consequences for their actions they consider it harmless.

Human experience has taught us that a source of superior knowledge can be of tremendous benefit to humans....

God, the source of all knowledge, warns us of His punishment if people perpetrate homosexual acts. Let us pay attention and learn the easy way.

Some will say that a person may be born with homosexual tendencies. We say that everyone is a free agent.

God lays before us two paths and has given us knowledge of where these paths lead. One is the path to which the devil call us. We must avoid that.

One is the path leading to paradise. We must stick to that one. Everyone experiences evil prompting from time to time. We must resist those with all our might.

If one feels a tendency to do something that God prohibits, he or she should seek help from a community of loving, caring, believers who would understand his or her difficulty and help him or her overcome it.

A common ploy of the devil is to convince people that they cannot avoid sin.
Then they do not even try. But God promises that the devil can have no lasting power over those who sincerely seek God (see Qur'an 15:42)

Finally, our bodies are given to us in trust from God. One should not use his or her body contrary to the user guide provided by its Maker. Consenting adults also need God's consent.

Do not abuse yourself and degrade yourselves by following the destructive ways of those who are sick in their hearts and in their manners.

We are humanbeings, the best of God's Creation. If we do not obey Allah SWT and follow our nafs, we will be the worst of God's Creation! Those who follow the sodomite and the lesbian, will end up in hell!

The living hell will be here on Earth when they contract HIV and die a horrible death whereby their body starts to rot from within whilst still being alive!

Being eaten alive away by the ravages of the rotting self by cause of virus attacks and the body just deteriorating away as a result!

Hasn't anyone looked at how terrible those faggots look when they are being stricken with AIDS?

A sight that will repel anyone who has even an iota of self respect and dignity in not associating with such sodomites and lesbians!

Prevention is always so much better than cure! Don't you agree? Be sensible and stick with Allah! You will be safe!

Insya Allah! As far as this 60 year old sodomite, he's gonna get the repercussions from his disgusting choice to be a sodomite very soon in the near future! Mark my words!

May the Almighty God give them their dues soon! As far as religion goes, it is the only thing that adds value to our lifes! Do not get duped by the faggots and sodomites!

Their's is a life that is so disgusting as even an animal would not do what these scum of the humankind perpetrate and think it's cool to be 'gay'? May they rot in hell! That's their choice!

God Almighty will surely punish those who commit Fahishah on His Earth!

For further reading on this issue :
http://experts.about.com/q/Islam-947/right-4.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ak/BaltoMuslims/hom.html
http://www.soundvision.com/parenting/disney.anti-family.shtml
http://www.soundvision.com/parenting/tv.homo.shtml
http://www.islamic-paths.org/Home/English/Issues/Sexuality/Homosexuality01.htm

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Here is a Christian blogger's views about the subject.

She is Sister Helen, who commented at Brother Pablo Pabla's blog. She has some good points worth reflecting upon. Her opening remarks about hating the sin but not the sinner somehow doesn't sit well with me.

It is the sinner who perpetrates the sin. Sin does not come to be on it's own. Every human is born free from sin.

Sin is an act that goes against the Laws of God and the norms of proper human behaviours and accepted actions. Sin alone does not come into being if not for the one who commits it knowingly!

Sinners can't be absolved of their responsibilites after committing sin save for those wo repent and stick to their vows of not ever repeating it.

If it involves committing sin against another innocent person, can we just accept someone's claim to be insane at the time they committed it under such a pretext? No way!

This comment by Helen however needs to be appreciated in the general context it contains!

It shows that Muslims and Christians do appreciate good values and can work together to combat sin in society ! We need to work in tandem without interfering in each other's faith!

Personally, I have always had a good opinion of such good people in the Christian world whom I have come to know. I know that there are lots of charitable works being done by them. But I also know of some who go astray whilst doing so. I do not want to go into that subject for now.

Allah SWT tells us of those amongst the Jews and the Christians who are among the People of the Book who share these good values with us Muslims. May we understand each other better by these dialogues and learn to co-exist in peace . Ameen.

Helen said...

Hate the sin but not the sinner.

To be frank, before I converted to Christianity, I had no problems with homosexuality. Heck, why should i care about other people's sexual preference?

Then, I became a Christian. Being one meant I believe with all my heart the Holy bible is the Word of God. If the Lord said homosexuality is wrong, yes, it is wrong. I don't question that. I don't condemn the person, I condemn the act which goes against the Word of my Lord.

Yes, there are people who believe homosexuality is an in-born trait. But, so is greed, hatred, jealousy and a million other character flaw that we inherit in our genes. Does that mean it is an OK sign from above I can do what I please just because I'm born with it so it must be part of God's will? The bible clearly said we have to overcome the trials/temptations and tribulations of our daily lives. Paul said, "fight it!" Nobody said taking up the cross is an easy task. Nobody promise you a bed of roses when you embrace the Lord.

That reminded me the age old question why the Lord put the tree of wisdom and truth in the garden of Eden? If the Lord does not want Adam and Eve to eat from the tree, why put it there in the first place?

Excuses, excuses.

Maybe some might say, "I'm not a Christian, so it's OK for me to be a homo!" I agree 100%. For those homosexuals, you don't have to answer to us mortals. But, please don't expect us to say it's OK because you said so. We have an higher authority to answer to.

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May we realise that good values and principles are what differentiates us mankind from animals
and that our actions today, good and bad will decide the future for our generations to come!

Let's stop the rot taking place in society and do what we can to advice ourselves and our friends and fellow humanbeings to uphold the Truth and preserve a better world for all ! God willing!

Azhar Mansor needs to clear the confusion!

The recent Malaysian people's reactions in response to the fraudulent SMS's about a 100 Malays being 'baptised' in an Ipoh Christian Church headed by the 'reportedly' turned apostate Datuk Azhar Mansor is referred!

Malaysia's Muslims are at a very easily swayed situation by any such news for reasons we all know - that being the case of Azalina Jailani @ Lina Joy's application to register her apostasy 'officially' and the resulting hue and cry by the Muslims over this affront by her to dare do so in this 'Islamic Nation'!

Tensions that are currently building up in the hearts and minds of both Christians and Muslims are further fuelled by the reluctance of Datuk Azhar Mansor to come clean and state his true position upfront to the whole wide world!

Nobody would give a hoot to anyone else either believing in God or any rock or tree in the deepest jungles because he or she would be not exposed to the public eye and it would be a matter between that individual and God Almighty!

Datuk Azhar Mansor came into public scrutiny following the report by the Sydney Anglican Church that he has become a Christian and apostated from Islam whilst on his solo round the world sail a few years back!

I am of the opinion that Azhar Mansor has a civic duty to the entire world about his true state of belief or disbelief and come clean with what is his real position?

As a Muslim, I have no reservations in declaring to the whole wide world as to who I believe to be My Creator?

I declare that 'There is No God but Allah!' and that 'Muhammad is His Messenger!'
What's so hard about that?

Azhar Mansor's reluctance to state his true status as to whether he is still a Muslim or now a 'Murtad' as is being rumoured, just adds to the confusion and is not a responsible thing to do!

He has no need to fear if he is still a Mukmin! If he is confused about his true convictions, then the best thing for him to do is to go seek counsel with his religious teacher or anyone whom he trusts.

'As for those who strive hard in Us (Our Cause), We will surely guide them to Our Paths (i.e. Allah's religion - Islamic Monotheism). And verily, Allah is with the Muhsinun (good doers)"

Surah Al-Ankabut Chapter 29 Verse 69

I call upon brother Azhar Mansor to help clear this matter once and for all and hope that those close to him , advice him to do so for the sake of peace and harmony in this land between the multi ethnic, multi faithed Malaysians!

It is ironic that he chose to not seize the moment the other day when he was asked about his true nature as being a Muslim or otherwise and had his brother state vehemently that his brother Azhar Mansor is still a practicing Muslim and none should be spreading rumors that he is now a Murtad from Islam!

Again I have to quote the Malay parable ' Berani kerana benar ; takut jika bersalah!' which means 'Being brave because one is truthful (and innocent) and being scared because of guilt'!

One's good name and reputation is much more important than anything else, isn't it?

Only the Almighty knows for sure as to what Azhar Mansor really is! Wallahu 'alam bissawab!

Guidance for the Muslim husband

In the Name of Allah,
Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.

Verily, the state of the Muslims today merits the sharing of truthful Information and Knowledge of Islam between us and those of us who have the means to do so must not withhold from spreading it.

Among the most important Ilm that a Muslim husband must know is the Adab and Obligations that he must do before having intimate relations with his spouse.

From the Book of Nikah in Sahih Al Bukhari, Chapter 19 Hadith no.1854.

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas Radhiallahu Anhu ( May Allah (SWT) be pleased with him):

The Prophet Muhammad Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam said,

"If anyone of you , upon having sexual intercourse with his wife, says :

'Bismillah, Allahumma jannibni Syaitan, wa jannib-ish Syaitan ma razaqtana'

and it is destined that they should have a child, then Syaitan will never be able to harm him or her!"

The invocation above means : ' In the Name of Allah! O Allah! Protect me from Satan and protect what You bestow upon us ( i.e. an offspring ) from Satan!'

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Practicing the above invocation will protect the couple from disturbances by Syaitan and Insya Allah, their offspring will be not harmed by the Devil.

In today's lifestyle, many young couples live a life that is modern but devoid of religious observances. This in turn is further aggravated by many husbands being negligent in matters concerning the teachings of our faith.

A Muslim husband must learn about matters that concern the proper mannerisms and practices that will safeguard and preserve the sanctity and dignity of a honourably married couple.

Many a husband out there fails to nurture his relationship with his spouse. He takes her for granted and ironically after marrying her, neglects to shower his love and care upon her!

When they were courting, they'd hold hands and be as romantic as they can be but surprisingly after taking her hand in holy marriage, many Muslim husbands seem reluctant to be as they were before nikah with their wife!

It's sheer stupidity for some men who will go all out to woo their beaus into marrying them and will be so fixated with the woman before getting her to be his wife but after nikah and after getting a child or two start neglecting their wife and go start an affair with those not legal for him!

Society today is full of couples who try to fool around when they are already married legally!
If they want to, they can with a little extra effort on both their parts to be able to build a strong healthy union of their hearts and their souls!

What is marriage without an evergrowing bond of sweet love between husband and wife?

We struggle like hell to get married to our spouse yet there are those who after succeeding in doing so, sort of get disillusioned with their legally and religiously married partners!

One major reason is the lack of communications between husband and wife! They allow small differences to creep into their relationships which in turn start festering into major sores as a result of their own egos and refusal to give in and make up with their spouses.

To make a marriage work, it needs both husband and wife to allow the other some space to make mistakes (unintentionally of course) and to slip up once in a while.

Each person have their own individual likes and dislikes. Men tend to think that after marrying, their wife is obligated to do all the household chores and to serve them 24 7!

Well, excuse me but that is so preposterous! A marriage is a partnership between a man and a woman who have rights to be loved and served by each other.

It doesn't lessen a man's status or physical self in any way to help his wife do the dishes, clean their clothes, keep the house clean and livable, dust, vacuum, cook and help with all the things that needs to be done in the home!

I am not saying that a man must be subservient to his wife. Just that a husband must not mistakenly take for granted that his wife is his own personal domestic servant! No sirree!

Our Mother Saiyidatina Hawwa (Radhiallahu Anha) - May Allah be pleased with her was created from the bone taken from the ribcage of Our Father Saiyidina Adam Alaihis Salam - May peace be upon him.

That goes to show that women are to be accorded proper respect and protection by us men and treated as our partners and not abused as so many do today, out of ignorance and as a result of succumbing to the rages of the bloody egos!

A wife is a man's trust from Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala! Without her, the husband ceases to be complete and the man's lineage comes to a full stop if he does not have any children from her.

In cases where the couple are not blessed with child, then if it is the husband's condition that he is infertile and has a problem with his manliness, then it is imperative that the husband goes to seek treatment instead of straightaway accusing his wife to be sterile!

Many a man out there has sexual dysfunctions as a result of his self abuse of his own self of too much masturbation or any other sexual orientations before marriage. The result is damage to his male organ as the delicate veins there will get harmed from his abusive conducts.

God Almighty made us perfect. When a person does not use his God given attributes accordingly, he or she thus does not follow the instructions from the manufacturer @ Creator.
The end result is that the product does not work as it is supposed to because of wrongful usage.

Both men and women today are exposed to all kinds of weird misbehaviour and misusing their selfs. Only by going back to the basics and knowing what to do, how to do and the manner to do whatever we want to with our selfs and the facilities that we have with us, will we be able to attain a satisfactory result with what we have been blessed.

It is a known fact that life is what we make it to be. We are all unique individuals, blessed with our own attributes that are a gift from God and we must appreciate it.

If we have any inadequacies, then we must strive to improve our lot and do what is necessary to change our situation. Nothing will change in our life until and unless we ourselves do the necessary actions to change it!

Just by wishing alone will not alter an iota of our reality. If it was so, then many out there will be able to live out their fantasies and get all that they want from life.

The reality is that if we do not get up off our seats and go do what we need to do, no changes will come into being especially in our own individual life's.

The Muslim husband needs to take charge of his life and that of his wife. If he becomes knowledgable and gets to know things that are worth sharing with his wife, then he must do so with 'hikmah' @ wisdom and guide his wife accordingly.

There are certain things that he must not divulge or disclose to her - his screw ups in the past - if it will be too damaging if she finds out - such things are best left to the Judgement of Allah SWT in the Hereafter.

Things done in the past are best left to History. No point in digging up dirt of each other's misdeeds and mistakes. They are hurtful and not contributive to the marriage's foundation.

Do not look for faults. I guarantee you that you will if you do. A thousand and one faults will turn up and that will be a messy thing to find out. The peace and harmony in our hearts will be destroyed and thus in turn cause us to lose our affection to our partner in life.

Instead, try looking for plus points and areas that we can appreciate in our spouse. If you can wolf whistle your wife when you were courting her before nikah, well, once in a while do that again as she comes into your view ( provided of course that she's looking alright and in the proper condition) hehehehehe!

Every wife loves nothing else but to be appreciated by the most important man in her life!

You as her husband will be the centre of her universe if you become the best that you can be by according your wife, your undying love, your full affections, your respect and appreciation of her, by showing her instead of just thinking about it, of how much she means to you!

We live just once here on Earth. Make sure that you live it to the max by making life for you and your wife be as pleasant and fulfilling according to your own personal finances and affordability to do so whilst still being blessed to be alive!

If your wife has not betrayed you, has not caused you grievious harm both in her actions and her speech, her treatment of you as a husband and as a man, then by all means , do what's right!

Treat her as such that no other man will look as attractive and as superb as you.

An important bastion of a couple's marriage remaining strong and continue to be so is to give her full sexual satisfaction in bed. A good captain makes sure that his ship reaches the port safely with all goods intact! Reach for the finishing line and do not quit halfway! Stamina is important! So is your love for her. Always remember that she is the one made halal for you!

Do not leave your wife unsatisfied. Visit www.zawaj.com to learn about it. There are many kitabs out there that give good guidance and the know how about the subject.

Accord to her, her rights to be granted a satisfactory sexual life and make sure that you maintain your masculinity by eating the right foods, consuming the right supplements and keeping your manliness up to mark.

Be up to date as to all that you need to do and to know in being her partner in life and try your level best to keep improving!

God loves those who do all that they can to keep their love life and marriage strong! Wallahi!

With that, I hereby wish each Muslim husband out there a blessed marriage and May Allah SWT Bless you and your wife a very satisfying life both here on Earth and in the Hereafter.

You my email me your questions about anything that you want to know and Insya Allah, I will help you out if I have the information or help you seek for it.

Go get yourself a copy of the Sahih Bukhari and Muslim and delve into it for the Pearls of the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam. His life and his example of how to behave towards our spouses stands as the standard of how to be the best husband that we can be. Read it today!

In the meantime, I will share with you what I feel is relevant to us as husbands and blog about it here. I will post such hadiths intermittently from now on as a guidance for the Muslim husbands. Insya Allah.

May Allah SWT bless us and guide us all. Ameen Ya Rabbil Alameen!

When 'Alim's become Zalim's!

In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful!

Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.

Hope you are in the best state of Iman, Amal and Aqeedah of a Muslim and in the best of company of those who seek the Mercy, Taufeek and Hidayah of Almighty Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala!

Today is Al Juma'at! The Blessed Day above all days and the day where we will Insya Allah, go to our local masjids and pray in congregation to Allah Azza Wa Jall!

As we live these moments in our life's , we do try our level best to seek the Forgiveness of Allah SWT for our sins and mistakes, that we have done with or without intentions and we seek His Mercy that He has promised us, the Mukmins and the Mukminats, Muslims and Muslimats, al Ahya @ The Living, I Minhum wal Amwat, and those who have Died. May Allah's Rahmat and Baraqah be upon us all, Ameen Ya Rahman!

My title for this post reads ' When 'Alims become Zalim's.

A reality of these times when we see and hear of many vicious crimes be committed upon the naive and the trusting by those whom society looks up to for guidance and leadership.

Through the annals of Time, mankind, in all the various tribes and races, have seen the Learned One's @ the 'Alim's take advantage and abuse the trust, the love and the adulation of the masses who in general are a bit naive, tend to be ignorant and end up getting hoodwinked by those who go about in society as the Righteous and the Piety!

We keep hearing about how the so called Ustaz's, the Priest's, the Sammi's , the Sifu, and the Master's, the Syaikh's, the 'Ulama', the learned Professor, the Datuk Paduka 'Mahaguru' (not me ...May God Forbid! Hehehehe... you know , the one who came out in the paper's duping those victims in KL ) those Devil's in Disguise'!

Be careful in inviting to your homes and into your hearts, those who put up a facade of being so holy moly and a charade of being the one who can help you out of your predicament, your troubles and your dilemna in the Name of the Lord and in their misleading aura of being imbued with the powers of the supernatural, know what's ailing you and what he or she can do to dispel, remove and protect you from the harm and danger posed to you by your mortal enemy or by evil spirits that are all around you as a result of you having failed to 'protect' yourself and your family from the 'Evil' all around you!

No doubt that there are spiritual beings all around us but do remember that if you do not perform your Solat, do what's obligatory on you as a Muslim or Muslimah, then it is true that certain evils may intrude upon your vacant hearts and souls!

In Islam, we know that even the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam suffered from an evil act perpetrated by a Yahud named Labid bin A'sam from the tribe of Bani Zuraiq' who practiced sorcery and 'black magic'! Relevant hadith to this incident.

The Yahud @ Jew had collected strands of the Holy Prophet's hair and beard that had been disposed by the Prophet's wife , Saiyidatina Siti 'Aishah out of their dwelling's window and the Jewish sorcerer had invoked the evil spirits and Syaitan to cause harm to the Prophet SAW by incantations and knots tied onto the strands of hairs and beard onto a likeness of the Prophet SAW in the form of a 'voodoo' like figurine and then hidden the object into a well and held in place by a large rock in the bottom of the well!

The Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam became sick and ran a high fever.

Saiyidina Jibreel @ Archangel Gabriel Alaihis Sallam was sent down by Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala with the two final Surah's of the Qur'an al Kareem to cure the Prophet SAW from the spell put upon him by the Yahud!

These are the Surah's Al Falaq and An Nas!

As Jibreel Alaihis Salam recited those Surah's beginning with seeking protection against Syaitan the Accursed and then in the Name of Allah SWT followed by his reciting those two final Surah's of the Qur'an, the knots tied unto the strands of the Prophet's hair's and beard on the figurine in the bottom of the well untied themselves and the evil spell cast upon the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam was removed as a result and Mercy of Allah SWT!

The figurine was removed from the well and the well was filled in with earth to avoid any further misuse by anyone else.

Thus , to this day, if any of you are inflicted with any 'mysterious' ailments or unexplainable diseases, seek healing with reciting with full conviction the Surah's Ayat ul Kursi Verse 255 in the Surah Al Baqarah , then recite 3 times the Surah Al Ikhlas, 3 times the Surah Al Falaq and 3 times , the Surah An Nas!

You should also recite the Surah Yasin as an added measure ! Insya Allah, I myself have practiced this protective recitations when healing members of my family who suffered as a result of such transgressions and by the Grace of God and His Mercy, I have successfully removed such conditions from them! Alhamdulillah!

It all depends on how strong our belief and our dependance of the Protection of Allah SWT is against such evil in our midst!

So is my advice to you not to be duped by any of those 'Alim's who turn Zalim ' in our society by taking advantage over those who are ignorant about such matters in Islam!

May Allah SWT protect us all from those with a hidden agenda under all that shows of being the righteous ones and 'sin free'! Ameen ya Rabbal Alameen!

Wabillahi taufeek wal Hidayah! Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh!

Met fellow blogger Meriza Anna at KLCC's Al Marjan

Last Wednesday, I met my friend and fellow blogger Meriza Anna at the Al Marjan Lebanese Restaurant in Suria KLCC!

Her husband Azrul was supposed to be with us but he had to send their Honda Accord to the workshop as they had a slight accident a day before!

Her fellow French Class colleague Iranian student Pooyan joined us for some drinks and chit chat.

I met Meriza to handover a copy of the English Translation of the Noble Quran which she had asked me for.

Can't say no to her when I had just received a few copies earlier from the Islamic Councillor.

She needs it for her Study of the Qur'an so let's all pray that she puts it to good use and improves her's and her husband's Knowledge of the Qur'an al Kareem. Ameen Ya Allah!

Insya Allah , if I have the means in the future, I will see to it that hundreds and thousands of such Qur'an Translations are printed to order and be made available for free distribution to each and every person who comes asking for a copy!

Pooyan is studying for a Masters in Business Administration. He seemed very much into himself and sort of had a very quiet demeanor about him. Nevertheless, I sort of gave him a pep talk into being more positive about life and shared some info about Islam in the few minutes we had!

Overall, it was a good meetup and we parted our ways after our drinks! Au revoir madame!

Tun Dr Mahathir's Hospitalised in the IJN

Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, 81, is being treated for a mild heart attack that the octogenarian former Malaysian Prime Minister has suffered!

I join all Malaysians in praying that Allah the Almighty will heal the nation's ex Premier and return him to good health if he still has the gift of a longer life bestowed by Our Creator and Lord Almighty!

'Syifa tu bi iznillah Ya Rahman !
Ameen Ya Rabb!' Ameen Ya Raheem!

To Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, I wish you a speedy recovery and may you be able to be at the coming UMNO General Assembly fully recovered and as fit as you can be for an 81 year old!

The UMNO General Assembly which we all are awaiting to see what's gonna transpire will be a letdown if your presence there will not be a reality due to your condition now!

Get well quick, do lots of Dzikr and be at the assembly as you deserve to be as the former President of UMNO and give the delegates the address of their lifes! Insya Allah!

May the force be with you!

Wal Asr! Verily Mankind is at a loss save for ....

Assalamualaikum Ya Mukminin Wal Mukminat!
May the Peace and Guidance of Allah be upon the Rest! Ameen.

I wish to share with you as to a permanent Reminder of Allah SWT to us in the Surah above.

This Surah Al Asr begins with Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala's Swearing by Time that Mankind is always in a state of loss except those who believe in (Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous deeds, and recommend one another to the Truth.

The example is adjoining those whom we come to know to perform good deeds ( Al-Ma'aruf) which Allah SWT extols us to and try our very best to abstain from committing evil deeds ( Al-Munkar) which Allah SWT has forbidden us!

Allah SWT then tells us to advice one another to be patient (as best as we can) for whatever hardships, sufferings, personal dilemnas, harm and injuries that befalls us which we may encounter when we are trying our best to follow His Way and during our efforts to promote the spreading of Dakwah Fisabilillah and when we set out in Jihad to defend our Faith of Islam!

Things are surely not the same anymore as in the times of Rasul Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam but the main context of the situations and the Prophecies of the Greatest and Final Messenger of God, Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam has surely come into being and to this day we see before us all that is happening showing absolute proof and truth of what he told Mankind, a thousand four hundred over years ago!

Today, in the newspapers, we read of those who portrayed themselves as being the righteous ones all these while be exposed to be totally opposite to the image they camouflaged themselves with!

Today, we see tyrants who caused and still do so much damage, harm, mayhem and destruction to millions and billions of mankind be exposed as to who they really are and eventually they do get dethroned and dismissed from their positions!

Some of them are dealt with in a manner that befits them right here on Earth whilst some of them sort of escape earthly retributions but will face the Judgement of Allah SWT in the Hereafter! No doubts about that.

The thing is we who are still alive need to realise that each and everyone of us are getting older by each passing second and from being a baby to a child then turning into a teenager then young adult eventually being adults and finally be amongst the elderly ready to be returned to the Sender and Our Creator!

This is the reality of Time! Surah Al 'Asr. Chapter 103. Verses 1 to 3. Three short verses that encompass our entire life's reality and that if delved into it's context and contents will show us an Ocean of Hardhitting True Blue Reality of the Existence and Destiny of Mankind in total!

It's not easy to remain good! No sirree! The minute you try to be good, there will come your faultfinders and in chorus they will cut you down as the example of the crabs in a bucket! They will pull down the one that tries to escape from the heap at the bottom! :P

Even though each of us are born free from Sin no matter what some faiths claim to be or delusioning themselves to be reincarnations of this and that, the Hakikat is that each infant is born pure and devoid of anything but imbued with the Fitrah of being good!

Even someone as devilish as Adolf Hitler surely must have looked cute as a baby and would have made his mother so proud to see his chubby cheeks and gooey smile when he was a cute, cuddly infant! Every baby on Earth born normally will sure look cute and so beautiful!

Free from sin except when after puberty and by upbringing or the choice of company we keep , we turn into either saints or vile devils in human form! Na uzu billah! Naturally , each and every baby born here on Earth is free from Sin! Lillahi Ta'ala! This is true throughout the entire human race and various tribes of mankind all over the planet!

It is our parents and our guardians who are instrumental in laying the foundation to our personalities when we are small and we learn and believe in what we are taught and get programmed to be!

It is our parents or guardians who raise us up to be either Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, whatsoever.

As a child, we are not held accountable for our mistakes and free from any legal repercussions until we reach the age of puberty and if we are normal and know good or bad (not mentally retarded and sane) we are then liable to be accorded sins or blessings for each of our actions.

This is the reality in Islam. I will quote an authentic hadith about the matter of sin here :

Narrated Ali ibn Abu Talib (Radhiallah hu anhu) :

The Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam said:

There are three (persons) whose actions are not recorded:

• a sleeper till he awakes,


• a boy or girl till he or she reaches puberty,


• and a lunatic till he comes to reason.

So, in short, Islam teaches us to appreciate Time. We can deduce this to mean we must not take time for granted and we must do what we can within our lifetime to enjoin good and forbid evil!

We are not sinproof thus we are commanded to stick to our Solat and be in the company of those who enjoin good and fight against evil. Just theory and no practical doesn't cut it!

By practicing our faith, we get protection from our lusts and our nafs. Our egos get subdued and our mannerisms will evolve accordingly. When we mix with good mannered people, naturally we too will act as them. We will watch what we say and do so as not to offend anyone.

This is the rationale behind Prophet Muhammad's hadith : "Befriend the one who sells perfumes. Even if you do not buy from him, the fragrance will stick upon you. Stay away from the one with the bellows (meaning an ironsmith) The smoke and grime will come upon you!"

This is a parable. Not to be taken literally! The Prophet was being eloquent in his speech. He is not saying that you should avoid the local blacksmith in actual reality! :)

When we go mix with good people, we in turn will develop good mannerisms. When we go mix with the riff raffs, then we too will turn to being as them. Coarse in manners and language.

I am sure you know what I mean. Do not take your life for granted!

Appreciate and show your care to those who merit it in your life while you are still alive!

No point in showing an act of compassion when you go kiss the forehead of the corpse of your spouse when he or she is no more!

No point in you showing that you cared for someone after their soul has been taken away and they are alive no more!

That's hypocrisy of the highest level! We need to be sincere. Ikhlas wa lillahi ta'ala!

We need to show that so and so is important to us now, while we and them are still alive .

Do not skimp on your feelings! Neither must we be stingy with our finances with them.

Buy them gifts, presents, etc if you can afford to. Treat our spouses to good dinners, luncheons, high teas, etc. to show them how much we love them.

Cursed is he who keeps a tight fisted purse! To what is he holding it back for?

My wife always tell me ! Live as best as we can ; while we can!

I am totally blessed to have her! May Allah SWT bless her with good Iman, best of health and make things work for me so I can give her whatever He Wills for my Rezeki! Ameen!

The thing is , being a Program Consultant involves dealing with human egos and office redtape which unfortunately is very deeply ingrained in the government institutions that I have to approach for the Hanyu Study Programs which I am proposing! Sheesh!

Talk about facing the Ego Firewall! Cronyism exists everywhere and it is deep set!

It's very much alive, well and always rearing it's ugly head wherever we go!

Hmmm...May Allah SWT make them realise that their date of expiry is coming up very soon!

Hehehehe...anyway..life goes on! Back to my topic!

Car pe dium! Seize the day so says that Latin parable!

If you still have parents, show them that you love them (within the confines of decency) !

Incest is an abomination that destroys families and wreaks havoc in society!

I wrote about it before and sadly this disease is still spreading voraciously in the midst of the Malaysian Malay Muslim families!

JAKIM is now sort of toothless, clueless and powerless to do the very thing they are supposed to do in the first place!

They should carry out practical, down to earth, right to the people kind of Dakwah!

As it is , all these fellas with impressive sounding qualifications are just sort of giving 'lip service' to the matter of upholding the very tenets of Islam!

All we see is pure rhetoric!

Empty talks and forums that focus more on the glamour that these socalled Alims and Ulamaks sitting so smugly up there on the various stages and platforms of the uneffective 'Forum Perdana's ' that at times seems like 'Comedy Central' that is held in New York!

At times , the Ustazah's who speak from the Forum seems flirty and enticing with her over femininely mannerisms as if wanting to show that she's the epitome of the image of the Most Perfect Muslimah in the land! I believe you can guess who I am talking about?

The women in Islam are supposed to speak in a firm non enticing tone when speaking to those who are not their mahram!

After all, you are the key to your family's wellbeing and your actions will determine the family's destination!

Cursed be those who have a sickness in their hearts and be an object of fitnah whilst speaking in the name of Allah!

Wallahu alam as to what their objectives are in behaving so?

Then we have the smart alec type who pulls a oneliner every now and then in his speech as if on cue , trying to get the audience crack up with laughter!

I am not saying that humor must not be used in Dakwah but just that all these Forum Perdana's are a bloody waste of time, effort and precious resources!

Dakwah is supposed to be an effort where the Alims and the Ulamaks go into the midst of society and speak to the people directly.

See what's taking place in the people's life's!

It is a matter of sincerely seeing to the needs and the wants of the average people!

There are many Muslims out there today who are ignorant about the faith.

They do not even know how to practice the religion. Go ask any of those fellows hanging out at the malls, here and there?

Chances are that they will just sort of fumble and mumble their answers if you were to ask them about the Principles of Faith and Iman in Islam!

I am not saying that each and everyone of them will be so but the reality is that there are many ignorant ones out there!

Some , do not even know how to perform the Solat! What more of reciting the Qur'an?

Haven't you come across Malay Muslims with pierced tongues, pierced noses, males wearing earrings, females and males amongst them having tattoos on their bodies which is Haram in Islam, the ladies wearing those jeans that expose part of their backside and show their G strings as they go about shamelessly in the shopping malls and public spaces here in Malaysia?

Even the Arabs come here and take off their jilbabs, and sport 'aurat exposing wear' because according to some of them whom I asked why they do so? 'It's okay in Malaysia!'

Sometimes we see our Arab brothers dressed in shorts exposing above their knees (the area of modesty for a male muslim is from the navel to the kneecaps)!

Funny thing is sometimes you see these men carry tasbih's @ prayer beads and sort of flick those beads about as if they are performing the dhikr as they roam the malls and shopping centres in those shorts! :P

Is it a brand new thingy to do when in Malaysia? Must be! Malaysia Boleh!

Go to KLCC, Times Square, Mid Valley, 1 Utama, and you'll see exactly what I mean!

It's okay in Malaysia! I even heard that these people change out of their 'abayas' on the airplane as it nears KLIA!

When they leave Malaysia, those abayas return onto their selfs as the plane reaches the Middle East!

Do they think that Allah SWT can't see what they do? Tch tch tch !

Who the hell are they kidding? Such is the attitudes of Muslims nowadays!

Theatrical performers par excellence! A growing majority of them worldwide! No joke!

But this is another growing phenomenon everywhere from Asia to the Americas!

At times we hear of jokes and funny stories of how those who sport a nice beard or goatee, wears the skull cap and comes across as being very holy and learned being asked to be the Imam at the surau's and the masjids.

After much ,' No, please ..you be the Imam...No, No , you be the Imam, since you look oh so nice and learned, please, please, it's okay, do be the Imam...' and the reluctant bloke has no options but give in to the congregation's request and with a heavy heart takes his place at the very front of the saff's @ rows of the Muslims standing in prayer!

So with a shivering start of the takbir ..'Allahu Akbar!' ..our 'Imam' will begin with the Al Fatihah..then whatever short surah that comes to his mind and after the ruqu' @ bowing then proceeds to rise again with 'Sami Allahu liman hamidah' then another takbir of 'Allahu Akbar' proceeds to prostrate and do the sujud!

This is no joke...actual cases have taken place! You can share with us your stories! :D

The jama'ah wait patiently for the 'Imam' to call out the takbir and proceed with the prayers ...but only silence greets them!

There are many reports of the 'reluctant Imam' vanishing !!!

After a lengthy period of realising, something's gone wrong , only then will someone dare raise their head from sujud and upon seeing that the 'Imam' had bolted out of the surau or masjid , will he go over and take the place of the 'Imam' and continue with the prayers!

Hmmmm... this is not a fib or an attempt to ridicule anyone but I have read about this happening all over the globe!

Thus , JAKIM and all the other State Religious Departments need to come down from their 'high horses' @ plush luxuriously decorated and equipped offices and really do what they have been appointed and entrusted to do that is to teach the people , the Muslims , what they do not know and to go about it in a more compassionate, really caring manner.

Do not put up 'walls' between the Alim and the Ummah!

We often hear the very sad cases of 'Alims' who at times turn into 'Zalims!'

My wife refers to this tragedy in a very practical quip : 'From A to Z!' :P

At times she too comes up with these gems of expressions! May Allah SWT bless her ! :)

This is the reality! If we go do a census as to the number of Islamic religious officers nationwide,
I gather that the number would run into the thousands!

Just imagine, all that manpower being wasted by those officers just warming their plush seats in those 'Jabatan Agama's ' and being relegated to the 'punch in and punch out' crowd!

Have you ever seen any JAKIM officers go to the KLCC areas and approach and advice those young couples from not doing all those nonsense that takes place in that 'hotspot'?

Have you ever witnessed any 'religious officer' approach anyone who is doing wrong and with 'wisdom' and 'commonsense' give guidance to that ignorant one with pure love, compassion and genuine goodwill of Islam?

Last we heard was a religious department 'officer' asking a woman caught for 'khalwat' to perform oral sex on him!

What a bloody abuse of power and position!!!

May that culprit be punished as severely as the local 'watered down' laws of this country has to offer! I just don't know what else is gonna take place in this Bolehland!

Well, that's what I think!

Those officers in all the Religious Departments must practice what they preach and not be hypocrites in office!

Allah SWT will definitely take them to task in the Hereafter for abusing and shirking their duties!

But then again! Remember the 'Zouk Discotheque' fiasco?

The hue and cry of so many who had vested interests of those Malays caught by JAWI?

Jaslina Hashim's case!

JAWI got barbequed and it's officers grilled by the ministers and those in high office whose 'daughters' were caught in that raid!

Yes, talk about do as I say and don't do as I do thingy!

Well, this is our Bolehland!

The land where if you are 'connected' with a very strong 'cable' you can get away with even murder in this nation where connections override everything!

'Bisa di atur!' I leave it to you to expound on it.

Okay....back to the topic of 'incest' here in Bolehland!

An ever growing scourge of 'Forbidden Love'! Love of the wrong kind!

Being fed by an overdose of hedonism and 'tidak apa attitude' by the masses!

Fed daily by all kinds of excesses and copying of the worst from the West! TV and the Cinema is full of it!

Mat Rempit, Bohsia, 'Touch & Go Girls , you name it, Malaysia has it!

The local Malays are excellent in aping all that is bad and disgusting from the latest 'trend's from the Western cultures!

At the same time, there are those amongst us who go overboard in trying to 'out Arab' the Arabs!

Small innocent babies are forcibly dressed with the 'tudung labuh' type of jilbabs by dads who at times have been caught committing the very despicable acts of incests every now and then!

Damn! These are the idiots who give the other righteous Muslims a bad name! Ya Allah ! Spare us from such demons at large ! Ameen!

We also have a growing number of those males who want to be females!

And vice versa we have the females wanting to be males! Pengkids! Ya Rabbi!!!

Yes! It's coming closer to the Big Day! Yaum al Qiyamat!

It's not that hard to practice Islam as it should! Just stick to the basics and be sincere!

Appropriate shows of care, love and compassion will turn our lifes as a family and as a society to be one that is bearable and appreciatable!

Go into the midst of society today and what do you see?

Miserable, unsmiling faces, all rushing away from each other due to the rising levels of violent, horrible crimes that has turned our people into uncaring, ever fearful, members of a population left to fend for themselves by a screwed up government professing one thing and practicing another! The newspapers are full of it.

Get back to the basics. Get back to reclaiming our rights to live as decent human beings and let's practice the faith of Islam as it should and must be.

Appreciate whatever remaining time we have in our timeframe.

God knows that Death could come to us just at any next second ! 'Kullu nafsin iza iqatul maut!'

This is the reality that those 3 short verses expound in that Surah!

Surah Al 'Asr Chapter 103, Al-Qur'an Al Kareem, The Last Testament and Guide for Mankind from our God Almighty, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala!

Allah SWT loves us and cares for us. He has given us our Faculties of Reason to let us choose whether we want to go to Hell or to Heaven!

Do not look for just faults in others when we too are not sinproof! If you are a Muslim, return to our Fitrah and start practicing our Faith if you haven't done so! Do not wait until it's too late!

The Angel of Death, Saiyidina Izrael Alaihis Salam visits us 70 times a day!

This is what I learned from my Tasawwuf Masters. A day comprises of 24 hours.

Figure out how many times he @ The Malaikatul Maut checks us out and observes us as to what we are doing?

Lucky for us that he is 'ghaib' @ unseen to us for if we can see him with our mortal eyes, damn! We would be scared stiff to do anymore nonsense or as we please!

Hence, the 'Hikmah' of Allah SWT shielding our mortal sight from seeing the Spiritual World! Life as we know would not be as we know it to be !

Some people however get a kick or thrill of the search for ghosts and spirits and we have our own 'paranormal' Seekers group! :P To each their own...hehehehe.. Leave them be ! Humans have always been curious! So investigate all you want!

We are spiritual beings. Each of us have a living spirit @ our Ru'uh that keeps us alive and our heart still beating.

Once Izrael Alaihis Salam takes our Ruuh away, we turn into a mayyit! A dead corpse!

All earthly trappings, Gucci apparel, Armani fine clothings ,etcetera will serve the dead no more!

Those of you who remember the group 'Orkes Al Suraya' will surely recall the # 1 hit of all time as far as the Nusantara region is concerned for remembering Death @ Maut in the song @ " Selimut Putih".

That song is a very good reminder of what's in store for us.

The lyrics go like this :

Bila Izrael datang memanggil

Jasad terbujur di pembaringan

Bila Izrael datang memanggil
Jasad terbujur di pembaringan

Seluruh tubuh akan menggigil

Terkujur badan nan kedinginan

Seluruh tubuh akan menggigil

Terkujur badan nan kedinginan

****

Tak ada lagi guna harta

Kawan karib sanak saudara

Tak ada lagi guna harta

Kawan karib sanak saudara

Jikalah ada amal didunia

Itulah hanya pembela kita

Jikalah ada amal didunia

Itulah hanya pembela kita

****

Janganlah mahu disanjung sanjung

Engkau digelar manusia agung

Janganlah mahu disanjung sanjung

Engkau digelar manusia agung

Sadarlah diri tahu di untung

Sebelum masa keranda di usung

Sadarlah diri tahu di untung

Sebelum masa keranda di usung

****

Datang masanya insaf lah diri

Selimut putih pembalut badan

Datang masanya insaflah diri

Selimut putih pembalut badan

Tinggal semua yang dikasihi

Berbakti lah hidup sepanjang zaman

Tinggal semua yang dikasihi

Berbakti lah hidup sepanjang zaman

Chorus :-

Bila Izrael datang memanggil
Jasad terbujur di pembaringan
Bila Izrael datang memanggil

Jasad terbujur di pembaringan

Seluruh tubuh akan menggigil
Terkujur badan nan kedinginan
Seluruh tubuh akan menggigil
Terkujur badan nan kedinginan

End.

So ends the song that never fails to bring me to tears and shiver me cold to my bones in realising my mountains of sins and triggers me to keep asking for Forgiveness from Ar Rahman!

Those of you who understand Malay, listen to it and reflect deeply as to it's meanings!

Insya Allah, you will see the light of its true meanings and what it asks us to do.

Back to my topic :

Decomposition will take place and if not interred into the bowels of the earth, the corpse will emit the foulest stench ever smelt by us and even the most beautiful, the most handsome, the stud or the smashing diva will turn into a horrible looking, foul smelling, rotting mass of putrifying flesh that none will want to come near !

I don't want to scare you any further! Hehehehehe...just know that our time here on Earth is temporary and that if we live our life's here right according to what our Creator has asked of us, we will be alright in the Life Hereafter!

Allah SWT loves those of us who repent and want to start anew! As long as we are sincere and want to correct what we have been doing wrong, be assured that Ar Rahman is for real and He knows who we are, in and out!

Live as best as you can and be among those whom Allah SWT favors! You have no other chance but right now, whilst you are still alive!

May Allah SWT guide us all and keep us in His List of those whom He accepts!

Wabillahi Taufeek Wal Hidayah! Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi ta'ala wabarakatuh!

Rediscovering Ahmad Nazim Abdullah! Alhamdulillah!

All praises be to Allah, God Almighty, Most Merciful, for allowing me to find again a man whom I brought into Islam by His Graces and Taufeek Wal Hidayah!

Syukur Alhamdulillah!

Ahmad Nazim bin Abdullah, an Englishman, embraced Islam, his birthright, by grasping my hands wayback in the marbled main prayer area of the 200 over years old , historical favourite masjid of mine , the blessed Kapitan Keling Mosque in Georgetown, Penang Island and proclaimed the holy Kalimah Shahadah :

"Ash har doo Allah ila ha ill lall lah!Wa ash har doo anna Muhammad dar Rasul lul lah!"
repeating after me the Declaration of Faith that transformed him into being a Muslim, a Believer and a Mukmin!













He has now blossomed into this wonderful, beautiful, honourable Muslim that I am so grateful to Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, to be able to see him again, this time being featured upfront on the inaugural edition frontpage of the Islamic magazine 'FORWARD' published by MMP Communications , here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!

To see him with his long flowing beard and peaceful demeanour nearly brings tears to my eyes with gratitude to Ar Rahman for giving brother Ahmad Nazim, the peace and salvation he had been seeking for when he met me and my brothers at the Masjid Kapitan Keling, Georgetown, Penang where we have established an Islamic Centre under the minaret building in the mosque's compound!












Here is Brother Nazim in the red shirt after embracing Islam with some English visitors and Brother Sirajudeen, my fellow da'ee at the Kapitan Keling Mosque.

Click on the pictures to see them in a larger version!

Masya Allah! What a beautiful transformation of this ever smiling gentle insan whom I got to meet and eventually bring him over into the Way of the Lord, Islam ad Deen ul Haqq!

This is another picture I took of them besides my humble 'Islamic Media Service' stall which I set up to distribute free booklets on Islam and also sold Syeikh Ahmad Deedat's Comparative Religious Studies Videotapes and books to visitors and fellow Muslims. When it rained, I had to pack up my mobile stall in a jiffy lest my books got wet ! Hehehehe! Those were the days!

To see him looking so contented, so peaceful and so happy is something that I will cherish for the rest of my life and to me, my whole life , with all the hardships, the pains, the sufferings I went through from childhood to the present moment is worth each and every second of my life , to be able to see and reflect what Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has blessed me with the opportunity to help those whom I have been instrumental in helping them attain this blessing, this treasure above all treasures, this 'sakinah' in their hearts as in this life of Ahmad Nazim bin Abdullah, blessed may he be!

Ameen Ya Rabbal Alameen!

May Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala grace him with evergrowing Iman, the Best of Health and Wealth that Allah SWT can shower him with, the Peace and Tranquility in his heart and in his mind, the Deliverance from Temptations and a fitting reward for him in Jannatul Firdaus, Paradise Most High!
Ameen Ya Rahman!






Brother Ahmad Nazim,

May Peace Be Upon You!

If ever you get to read this , do contact me at 016-3969881!

Your brother , Zainol Abideen @ Dust of this Earth!

Fee Amanillah Dear Brother !

All the best!

Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh!

Mahathir's Q & A Session with International Herald Tribune 7th Nov 2006

For 22 years Mahathir bin Mohamad dominated Malaysia's ruling party, the United Malays National Organization, and set a course for the country that helped upgrade its infrastructure and diversify its economy.
Mahathir was praised for the modernization of Malaysia but criticized for eroding the independence of many institutions, the courts and the media among them.
When Mahathir retired in 2003 he vowed not to interfere with the government of his hand-picked successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who had replaced Anwar Ibrahim, the former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister dismissed by Mahathir.

Now Mahathir, 81, is battling back into the political spotlight, calling for Abdullah to either change course or step down.








His critique resonates among Malaysians who are frustrated by the slow pace of promised reforms and worried that Abdullah's program of "Islam Hadhari," or civilizational Islam, is blurring the lines between government and religion.

Mahathir says he is being shut out of the press and stymied by the Malaysian Police from holding meetings with supporters.




As we all know Mahathir's personality and his never say die attitude come what may, here in classic Mahathir's 'in your face' salvos are his viewpoints spoken on the 7th of November with an International Herald Tribune journalist!

Source : http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/06/news/mahatirQA.php

He spoke with Thomas Fuller of the International Herald Tribune about the reasons for his return to politics at his 86th floor office in the Petronas Towers. Excerpts:

QUESTION: Eight years ago we met in your old office. It was two days after Anwar had been arrested and a month after he'd been fired. I asked you what you would look for in a successor to Anwar. This is what you said: "An honest man who is capable. Not a genius. I am not expecting a fair copy of myself." In the end we know the outcome: You chose Abdullah. What went wrong?

ANSWER: Before I proceed with this there is of course this label against me that I [ran] a very authoritarian government -- I censored the papers, I undermined the independence of the judiciary. No matter how I explain that this was not so, the press, especially the foreign press, keeps on repeating this... What I did was under the laws of the country. The laws may be draconian like the ISA [Internal Security Act, which calls for detention without trial] but the same laws were used by my predecessors, from the first prime minister to the third prime minister...What is happening now is different. There is no law which provides for the police to call up people and basically threaten them to call off the meetings that they proposed to hold and to invite me.

QUESTION: You feel muzzled?

ANSWER: Muzzled. I can't talk to anybody. If I talk to the mainstream press it is either not published or it is spun in a way that makes me look bad. In the meantime anybody's statement against me gets full publicity. But I cannot reply to them. And if I meet the press, what they report is usually not what I said.

QUESTION: In the Anwar days if I read the newspapers - during 1998 in the days after he was fired - Anwar's statements were not carried. His actions were also spun.

ANSWER: That may be true but papers tend to self-censor. They censor themselves. They think that this might not please the leadership. So they don't publish. But here we have people actually ringing up the papers telling them you print this, you don't print this. That has never been done during my time.

QUESTION: You never did that?

ANSWER: I never did that. At the same time of course Anwar was free to go around the country. He had gatherings of 10,000 and 15,000 people. He was never stopped.

QUESTION: Let's get to the substance of your return to politics. What do you think Abdullah's biggest blunders have been?

ANSWER: I promised not to interfere with the government. For two years I did not interfere with his government. But what I noticed is that from the very beginning his family members became involved in government process. They actually attended government meetings although they had no status whatsoever. There is clear evidence that the son in law [Khairy Jamaluddin] has very big say even in the appointment of ministers, even in the choice of candidates for the election. I have been told by the very people who have experienced this that he rings up chief ministers to give certain projects to certain people, including to his mother. This is something that I believe is absolutely true because the person who lost the project was very unhappy and he told me...

QUESTION: What state was this in and what project was it?

ANSWER: Prawn culture in the state of Perlis and a contract I believe in the state of Negri Sembilan.

QUESTION: But in the larger scheme of things -- you were in power for 2 decades and you set a course for the country -- these types of projects allocated to friends they happen in every country and they might not put Malaysia off of the tracks. Is there a bigger picture?

ANSWER: No. During my time, my children were not given any role at all. You don't hear of my children directing people or influencing people or selling influence or getting paid. They were not supposed to have business with the government unless of course they tender out in the usual way. If their tender is good, I suppose they win but very very little. I kept my children even from becoming candidates. They could become candidates for the elections they could not become candidates for the party also.

QUESTION: One of your children was in UMNO Youth and another one had a large shipping business...

ANSWER: Yeah, but the shipping business was his own. He bought the shipping business in Hong Kong. He bought shares in the local shipping business. He was doing quite well excepting that during the financial crisis he couldn't meet the demands for him to pay. So he had to sell off... Within the country the only people who could buy was Petronas and Petronas bought it cheap. It relieved him somewhat I suppose but he was still having financial trouble.

QUESTION: What's your view on Islam Hadari?

ANSWER: In the first place there is no call to introduce any other kind of Islam, whether it is modern Islam or Islam Hadari. I have always maintained that Islam is a religion for all ages... I believe that the teachings of the religion as found in the Koran [are] very mild, very reasonable and should make for a good Muslim community. There is no need to go to any other branch, just stick to the fundamental teachings of Islam.

QUESTION: What about Abdullah's economic management?

ANSWER: Basically he does not understand how to move the economy. In order to prove that I was wrong in spending government money on what he calls mega projects he cuts back on that. If government does not spend money it doesn't generate wealth in the community...

QUESTION: Some have criticized Abdullah for being, for lack of a better word, sleepy... Do you feel that he lacks the energy that you had?

ANSWER: His attention span is very short and everybody tells me... that he goes to sleep, even while cases are being presented to him... He tends to let his advisors tell him what to do.

QUESTION: When you were prime minister your comments, whether people liked them or not, raised the profile of Malaysia within Asean [the Association of Southeast Asian Nations] and the different organizations of developing countries, within the OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference]. Do you think that Abdullah has lowered Malaysia's profile?

ANSWER: He seems to have caused Malaysia to abdicate its role as a spokesman especially for the Third World, OIC, NAM [Non-Aligned Movement]. He seems to be much more inclined to go along with those powerful countries like America, Britain, Australia. And of course he's extra friendly toward Singapore to the point where three years after his being in the seat there has been no substantial agreements reached on numerous issues. The bridge is one of them. The water problem has not been resolved...

QUESTION: Let's talk political strategy. You have made your move, re- entered the political area. What's the end game?

ANSWER: To get the government to correct itself. Not to do things which are not acceptable, like getting your family involved, like getting your family's companies involved.

QUESTION: Does this mean that Abdullah has to go?

ANSWER: He need not go if he is willing to do what is right, not by me but what is right for the country. Of course if he is not willing then I think he should not stand in the way of the country's continued development. Suddenly the development of the country came to a halt. All these new buildings that you see were actually approved during my time. If you travel by MAS [Malaysia Airlines] they will show you Malaysia with tall towers and all that. At the end of it, it shows his picture as if he was responsible but he was not. All those things were built before his time.

QUESTION: You mentioned as a possible successor to him [former finance minister] Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah?

ANSWER: Whether it is Tengku Razaleigh or Najib [Tun Razak, the current deputy prime minister] or whoever, they are all entitled... When I was asked this question, Tengku Razaleigh's name cropped up. I said, 'Well of course, he is just as eligible as anybody else.' I could not say, 'he cannot be.' It is up to the party to make a choice.

QUESTION: What about Najib?

ANSWER: Najib is just as good... Either one. There are others who are also in the running.

QUESTION: Such as...

ANSWER: Muhyiddin Yasin [industry minister] has been mentioned and he has ambition...

QUESTION: Will you attend the UMNO general assembly [beginning Nov. 13]?

ANSWER: I have not yet decided because I have to see because certain actions are going to be taken. I may even be expelled from the party.

QUESTION: You are hearing this or you are fearing this?

ANSWER: There is talk about it.

QUESTION: If you were to go you would be there in the capacity as a former president but you wouldn't have the right to speak. What good would it do?

ANSWER: Past presidents have always attended so I have just as much right to attend.

QUESTION: In the larger political sense you are up against Abdullah who got a significant mandate the year after he took over.... People like his personality, his style. What do you think it will take for people to come around to your side? Have you not enunciated the argument yet?

ANSWER: His strategy is to stop me from communicating with anybody, that way his popularity will be sustained or retained.

QUESTION: He is unlikely according to the current rules to be removed from UMNO office in large part because during your rule it was made more difficult to remove the top UMNO officers. Is this karma?

ANSWER: No, not quite. During that time we may have made it difficult to remove the leader but we did not stop people from criticizing the leader. I was very strongly criticized by the previous prime ministers and even by the candidates who went against me, Razaleigh, Musa Hitam, Abdullah himself.

QUESTION: Some would say your dispute with Abdullah is personal. They say you have friends who benefited, contractors or other businessmen. They are no longer getting the contracts.

ANSWER: That is the old accusation against me, that I favored my friends. But I did not favor friends - these are people who are capable of doing things so they had opportunities. I can't possibly give the development of a port to a rickshaw puller. It must be somebody who has the capacity.... I am not interested in personal things... It's not because of pet projects either. What projects I carried out was for the national good.

QUESTION: Mahathir versus Abdullah is something that has caught the attention of the region. Do you ever wonder if it is worth it?

ANSWER: I tried my best to say that it is not a personal thing between the two of us. It's a question of how things are done in this country. I pointed out that things are wrong not because of the person but because they are done wrongly.

QUESTION: But is there the risk that the rift damages Malaysia more than Abdullah could damage Malaysia?

ANSWER: No, I think Abdullah could damage Malaysia more...

QUESTION: Do you still rule out [former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim] as a possible prime minister in the future?

ANSWER: I have my opinion about him, about his suitability, but of course others may have other opinions. As far as I am concerned he has lost his opportunity...

QUESTION: And Malaysia would be worse off if he were prime minister?

ANSWER: Probably.

QUESTION: Let's talk about the longer term... What is your biggest fear for Malaysia?

ANSWER: I think Malaysia has good opportunities if it is properly managed, if you understand that opportunities come even with problems. Yes, we have China. We have to compete with China but China can become a big market for Malaysia, China can become a very big investor in Malaysia.

QUESTION: The Sultan of Johor asked why you don't settle down like a pensioner? Are you tempted by that? Reading John Grisham novels on the beach, playing with your grandchildren? The medical community talks about three blockages in your heart. You are getting along. Isn't this a time to slow down?

ANSWER: No! I think I have an obligation to the country and to the people. I don't care much about what happens to me. I have worked hard all this while, even after I had my heart attack, I did not slow down. I think life would not be worthwhile if you are thinking about having a good time after you retire.

QUESTION: Do you regret having stepped down?

ANSWER: No, I would have stepped down. There is no way I can know what is going to happen.

QUESTION: You have the tape of the meeting of the so-called peace talks with Abdullah. Are you going to release that?

ANSWER: Maybe one day.

QUESTION: You have a copy of it in your closet?

ANSWER: Somewhere.

Anwar Ibrahim - Can he make a comeback in 2008?

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. A name that many still remember and because of whom, many still harbour some dark memories of having to face the FRU's batons and still sport some battle scars on their selfs to this date as a permanent reminder of how this man who rose to the pinnacle of power as the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia , next to Dr.Mahathir Mohamad only to be smashed down so ruthlessly and viciously at such an extent that Malaysians can never even have dreamed that such a thing could have taken place here in this tropical paradise called Malaysia!

Some still wonder what the hell happened?

How could this man, so eloquent, so charming, so charismatic and so awaited by many to take over from Dato Seri Dr.Mahathir Mohamad ( now Tun) who was handpicked and groomed by the (former) Premier himself be treated with so much contempt and extreme disgust that it befuddles the mind to even recollect on all that has transpired?

His is the story that speaks of all the trappings of a made for Hollywood criminal conspiracy of the highest order that involved the entire Malaysian cabinet back then and till this day still marks the shadowy twists and turns that can keep a movie going audience rooted to their seats and hushed in silence watching the play after plays open up a whole new leaf in that episode that sort of destroyed a man's life so cruelly just as he was about to be crowned as the next Malaysian Prime Minister and Commander in Chief!

From the way he was sacked from all his governmental posts and disgraced with the vilest of charges of being a sodomite, to the way his home was broken into by balaclava clad Special Action Forces (Unit Tindakan Khas) of the Royal Malaysian Police complete with breaking of his homes windows (whereas the doors were wide open) to the deployment of the hundreds of Police Field Force personnel, to the way he was manhandled and dragged out of his home before his wife and kids, taken away to the Police Headquarters in the misnomer of Bukit Aman (Peace Hill), Anwar Ibrahim's tragic tale is simply something that this world can never forget or even should!

Not one of us can fathom the horror he was put to by the actions of the powers that be who were acting under the orders of the CEO of Malaysia Incorporated!

Even in America, hasn't happened something as dramatic as what took place that fateful night in Bukit Setiamurni 1, Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur except for President JFK's assassination!

As the nation watched in shock and disbelief, the country's Deputy Prime Minister was taken by force and spirited away to the fortress of the nation's Police Headquarters where he was blindfolded and handcuffed and thrown into a police lock up cell!

As we later learned, Anwar Ibrahim was viciously and mercilessly assaulted black and blue till he passed out by none other than the culprit in the form of the then Inspector General of Police, Tan Sri Rahim Noor!!! Talk about the IGP of Police taking the law into his own hands! Damn!!!

I mean, this is the nation's # 2 Supreme Leader we are talking about!

Only in an uncivilised country that is run according to laws of the jungle do we expect to see something like this being allowed to happen!

Damn ! And we all thought our beloved nation, our motherland, Malaysia is the land of peace and tranquility! Malaysia, Truly Asia! So the song goes!

Harrk! Ptuii!!! Would be what Singapore's Phua Chu Kang's reaction to such a buffoonery!

We have seen a very dangerous precedent take place in this nation! One that must never be allowed to repeat itself under any other administration and one that must be held to account and brought to justice ! If there is such a thing as the Rule of Law in this land, at all?

A gross travesty of justice where a man such as Anwar Ibrahim, a man who is one of the founders of ABIM (Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia) @ Malaysian Muslim Youth Organisation, a wonderful Islamic Youth Movement who have been doing so much good for this nation by their charitable works and missionary activities for the spreading of information about Islam, nationwide, has been treated in such a vile, ruthless, cowardly manner!!!

I am very, very sad and angry to see such a thing happen to a man whom I too was waiting to see lead this nation to greater heights and be a role model for us Muslims, here in this part of Asia and throughout the world!

I mean, let's look at the logic! He was accused of sodomy! Of all other accusations that might be credible because of his position and power, his cowardly enemies who had no balls to confront the fellow, man to man, chose to come up with such a disgusting accusation of being a sodomite!

You want to charge the fellow with corruption, fine! There's always a possibility of that because he was in the second next highest position of power in the land!

One can always frame someone up with that! We all know how things can be made to look that way!

With the way things can be set up to show that he squirreled away a billion or two here and there, set up a bogus account anywhere in the world, siphon off some funds here and there in his name or anyone of his family, things can simply be done to screw him up and down!

But to charge a family man of sodomy! Damn! How low can they go?

They did! They crucified the man to such an extent that those who were naive and didn't know Anwar in person, swallowed it all, hook, line and sinker!!!

Hello! We are talking about a man who has risen to the second topmost position in his career!

If he really was a demented, sick, perverted, lustful maniac, why the hell should he have to settle for the likes of an elderly professor when he can easily have arranged to have the sweetest virgins in the land be sent to fulfill his carnal pleasures?...if he was not the Anwar Ibrahim that millions of us knew and respected!

He surely had the finances to go get the best looking, most voluptuous women he ever wanted to lay if he was as they made him out to be!

Allah the Almighty is Most Just and Merciful! Today, Anwar Ibrahim has been proven to be not guilty and so has his adopted brother, Sukma been acquitted of all those cranked up charges!

I have asked Anwar Ibrahim in his blog, as to what he is waiting for? Isn't it time that he goes after all those who screwed him or has he lost his will? Has he lost his fire and zing that we all knew he had?

Zunar, in the cartoon here draws Anwar as he sees him! Is it really true that our firebrand whom we all knew him to be is finally fizzling out and will be relevant no more come 2008?

We shall all wait and see as the caption in the cartoon goes by! Anwar Ibrahim, we await you!

Just to lighten up the moods! Chinese Engrish!

When everything else fails and you have no way out, help yourself to this Terminating Machine!

Gee!...Would they have picked it up from watching too many Arnold Schwarzenegger movies?

Beats me !!! Hahahahahaha!

What will they think of next?










This one's a sure stinker! Talk about forgetting to flush! Hehehehehe!

Hope this signmaker never makes it to our shores!

He'll surely mess up the nation's R & R's!!!

Hahahahahaha!





What a difference a misspelled alphabet can do!

Must have learned it from the Weekend Malay Mail!

Hahahahaha!














Complicated cake!

I know that cooking is a real chore but this sure takes the cake!

Who is the fella screwing up our Chinese cake manufacturers?

Shoot the scribe! :P




Acid food! Yes! Rightly said!

Dumpling stuffed with the Ovary and Digestive Glands of a Crab!

Wow! That's sure an unappetizing menu!

Whack the chef! :P




Enterness!

Hehehehe! Shakespeare must be rolling over in his grave choking with laughter!!!

Who teaches these fellas English?

Hang the man! :D






Preese! Carefully fall into the river!

We do not want you to hurt yourself on the way down!

Hahahahaha!














Half Past 8 Friend Changing Club!

Now, didn't Tun Mahathir say 'Half past six government?'

These fellas must have heard wrong! :P

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Hahahahaha!

Just to lighten you all up after reading those stressful postings about the Bangsa Malaysia thingy and the SMS Caper!

Don't really like to dwell on such issues but then hello! Life is what we make it out to be!

So Cheers! Let's all ease up and learn about the Chinese Engrish!! Aiyaa!

Baptism of 'Muslims' in Ipoh SMS Caper and why Muslims Reacted So!

Assalamualaikum!Greetings brothers & sisters !
May peace be upon each and everyone of you!

I share your worries in seeing certain developments taking place in our nation especially where it involves instigative reports being sent by way of SMS in such a cowardly manner!

Let me share with you my personal thoughts about this phenomenon.

Malaysia's Muslims are a very easily roused lot!

Yup! Never take them for granted that they don't care about what's taking place in this land and that they can be taken for a ride by others!

They are mostly people who do love their religion and will come together when necessary!

The irony is that it's mostly a case where such devotion to the faith is sadly superficial ..let's say for about 60% of the adherents who are trying their best to live up to the tenets of the faith ; the rest just give lip service to being Muslims.


They forget that they need to practice Islam in order to realise its benefits and if they don't , they are no different from the Unbelievers!

This is true in major cities like KL, Georgetown,Ipoh, JB, etc. KL's the worst!

One thing though that Non Muslims here must understand!
Malaysia's Muslims who love Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and Our Last Prophet Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam will never hesitate to sacrifice their lifes and property to defend our Faith, Dignity and Honor of Islam!

This is just a personal viewpoint of mine after having lived here all my life!

I saw this happen in the Kg.Rawa Incident in Penang! Unforgettable!

True Muslims will come together when the sanctity and honor of our faith is at stake or being challenged!




Pictures courtesy of http://powerpresent.blogspot.com

During that incident, all Muslims came together and forged into an awesome force that saw members of UMNO, PAS, ABIM, JIM, Arqam, Tabligh and all other Muslim groups and societies rally together under one banner and one banner alone!

That banner was none other than :
'LA ILA HA ILL LALL LAHH! MUHAMMAD DARR RASULULLAH!'

It was a glorious sight for me to see and be in that sea of Muslims, all forgetting for a moment, our political differences, our ideologies, our egos and our nafs when we all realised that we had to defend our mosque and guard it's sanctity! It made Muslims realise who they really were!

Tears streamed down our faces from our eyes as we all realised that we had no options but to realise that if we didn't protect our holy masjids, none others will!

The atmosphere was simply electric! Salams reverbrated in the air as even political rivals hugged and embraced each other in the spirit of being united as one! One Ummah!!!

At that time and moment in history, all differences between the Muslims disappeared and vanished!

To those who do not know what I am talking about, you might think that this was just another rowdy rabble of troublemakers and goons out to create mayhem and destroy peace!

No sirree! It was just a manifestation of the awesome power of 'Jihad Fisabilillah' that shrunk the balls of Islam's enemies back in the folds of Time and that the Western powers are so afraid of to this date!

Why do you think the USA and its allies created the current syndrome of 'Islamophobia'?

Back in the times of the Prophet Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam, the small group of devoted Muslims comprising of just 313 men defeated the 10,000 over strong band of Quraysh Kaffir Arabs from Makkah in the Battle of Badr!

313 men overpowering 10,000 soldiers of the Quraysh Kaffir Arabs! How strong must their Eeman have been to be able to crush the mighty Quraysh Army! Masya Allah!

That's what True Muslims are capable of once they discard the enmity against each other in their hearts and souls!

That's why even to this day, the call for JIHAD scares the enemies of Muslims and the Western powers today, do all they can to subjugate and break down the Muslims to continue bickering and fighting against each other and the condition of the Muslims today are as prophecied by the Holy Messenger Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam!

As long as Muslims remain disunited, mayhem will reign in their societies and they will be weak!

So, with today's general political atmosphere with the UMNO Malays being at loggerheads with their PAS brethren and trying to outdo the other by championing 'Islamic causes' but which in actual fact are all pure hype and rhetoric, we have this uneasy situation which is more like a tinderbox awaiting explosion here in Malaysia!

Islam is being scapegoated for the political aspirations of the few at the top of each party!

Islam is in actual fact a very tolerant, peaceful, way of life that God Almighty Himself, Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala has revealed to us all by way of His Prophets and Messengers from Our Father, the Holy Prophet Adam (peace be upon him) right down to the 124,000 Prophets and Messengers sent to Mankind over the annals of Time!

If you do a study on Islam, you'll find us believing in all the Prophets and Messengers mentioned also in Christianity and Judaism but completing with the teachings of the Final Messenger and Greatest of all of God's Prophets, the Mercy of God for all Mankind, the Prophet Muhammad bin Abdullah, Sallallahu Alaihi Wassallam!

So, in these challenging times, @ the Last Ages, the Muslims are finding each and every prophecy of the Last Messenger being fulfilled and taking place before their very eyes hence making them be defensive and trying to lookout for their faith and fellow Muslims!

Those who gather at such places out of being instigated or goaded into wanting to go protect their kith and kin from the interference of others like the Christian missionaries for example are just the mix and match rubble of some who are genuinely very concerned about such reports, some who are there just out of curiousity and some who are just itching for a fight!

There are such people in all ethnicities and creeds, won't you agree?

Not that all who gather ready to riot are a 100% true blue champions of each other's faiths.

Some are mere followers who do not really know what's going on in the first place and are either roped in by the masses or just curious in the first place!

The reality is that unlike other faiths ; Islam is a one way ticket!

You do not have an option to reverse from your attesting that there is no God but Allah the Almighty and that Muhammad is the (Last) Messenger of God!

I wrote about this before; that Islam is not like a club membership where one can get out of if one doesn't like it or doesn't understand what the membership entails!

So, for those who want to be a Muslim, we welcome you by all means and will help you learn about your birthrights in Believing that There's No Other God but Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala and accept that Muhammad the Son of Abdullah is the (Final) Messenger of Allah and that he Muhammad is the Messenger of God sent to you and me and all the rest of Mankind!

Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) @ Prophet Eesa Alaihi Salam ,the Son of Maryam the Virgin is sent ONLY to the Lost House of the Children of Israel as their Messenger of Allah!

So, if you are not a descendant of the Bani Israel, you have no standing to be a follower of Jesus the Messiah @ Eesa Al Masih.

There are so many out there today who are beguiled as to taking the Holy Prophet and Word of God, Nabi Eesa Alaihis Salam to be the Son of God, the Lord Himself and one in 3 etcetera.

It is up to the individual to realise who's who and what he or she really are and to know to whom, one actually must submit to!

It is important to be rational and wise in learning about all these and to just shoot off one's mouth as one pleases adds further to the predicament we find our easily instigated society to be these days!

Lastly, I call upon my fellow citizens to exercise restraint and avoid stirring up trouble in this land for we have no other place to go where we belong rightfully!

All ethnicities and creeds can still live in relative peace and harmony here provided we be as the eggs in the eggtrays! Don't you agree?
Each within their own space and areas yet so close to each other!

We can be as 'Muhibbah' as we want and live in peace as true Malaysians worth our name!
The world envies us! Remember that! Don't destroy what we have by spreading rumours!

May the Almighty God guide us all! Ameen Ya Rabbal Alameen.

'Bangsa Malaysia' - It won't happen! Face the facts!

Let us be realistic about certain things!

I suggest that those of you who are fooling yourselves about the romantic idea of a 'Bangsa Malaysia' to go drink a cup of strong coffee or just go and wash your face and wake up!

'Bangsa Malaysia' will never come into being! To those who know the meaning of 'Bangsa' ; they will surely know that it simply means -'Race' or 'Ethnicity'.

To come up with a true blue 'Bangsa Malaysia', one has to be a mixed breed comprising of all the major races here in our motherland!

To put it in a nutshell, anyone who wants to state him or herself to be a 'Bangsa Malaysia' then their parents need to be having Malay, Chinese, Indian, Sikh, Orang Asli, etc genes running in their veins!

That my dear friends is the true blue 'Bangsa Malaysia'! I am sure we already have a few of them, already in our midst!

We can all proudly declare ourselves as Malaysians! No one can deny us that! As long as we are born here on this land we call our home and motherland, we are all Malaysians and have every right to it except where we all know exists the divides between Bumiputera's and Non Bumi's!

By segregating the ethnicities , the incumbents @ Malays - or those claiming to be so, get to keep their hold over the ruling of this land as long as this Earth shall remain. They are just stating the obvious.

There will be those who will say that the Malays themselves were immigrants to this Peninsular many centuries ago and no one can deny history, can they?

The reality is that this Peninsular as well as any other continent or land mass has seen the emigration of humanbeings from all corners of the world and eventually we have the world and its numerous 'countries' as it is today.

All, a matter of the strong overpowering the weak and taking hold of the 'ownership' of the lands. This is the actual truth and you all know it! Look at Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan,etc!

In case there are out there some folks who do not have any idea of History, then please go back to your History books and check out the story of the Red Indians in America, the Aborigines in Australia and even check out mighty old England or 'Great Britain' as it was called before!

All those so called Land of the Free and the Home of the Braves are but stark manifestations of marauding occupiers and invaders who robbed the natives of their homes, lands and rights to live on their own lands and now reduced to being minorities or even as in the case of the Red Indians , come to extinction!

The Orang Asli are the true inhabitants of this peninsular, no one denies them that. But after Parameswara crossed over from Palembang in Sumatra, to settle down in the place he called Melaka, progress came to this peninsular. The Orang Asli's preferred to remain as they were!

Eventually, Melaka became a thriving port and trade fluorished! Traders from all over the world came to do business in Melaka. If not for Parameswara, this peninsular will still remain as Papua New Guinea is today! Progress would not have come to this land!

The Orang Asli's to this date still choose to remain in skimpy huts and hunt and forage in the forests for their livelihood save for some who have started to modernise their lifestyles and integrate into the society at large.

When the Portuguese Europeans came to invade and steal the riches of the Malaccan Sultanate, the Malays had to escape to other states and after the Portuguese, came the Dutch, and after them came the British!

The British however did bring progress to this land! Look at Penang and Singapore! All the infrastructures were built during the British Colonial rule!

If Penang had remained under the Sultanate of Kedah, it will still be overgrown with jungles and remain as a pirate's lair! We can't deny the advantages that the British gave to Penang and Singapore!

For over roughly 6 to 7 hundred years, the Europeans robbed and stole from this land! To this date, they continue doing so throughout the world! As I said, a classic case of the powerful overcoming the weak and meek! You can't wish them away! No sirree!

Americans, British, European Union are all bloody robbers, thieves and invaders who have robbed so many ethnic people of their rights and ownership to those lands! That's the reason why to this day, they monopoly the UN's Security Council! Who's security?

Their's of course! To be able to continue rampage throughout the world as they please! To threaten to nuke any country that dares to defy them! They brought Imperial Japan to it's knees, didn't they?

They atom bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki! They carpet bombeb Vietnam! They devastated Afghanistan! They have and are still destroying Iraq! Baghdad, one of the world's most ancient and prosperous city at one time is not recognisable from the way it was before, even during the tyrant Saddam Hussain's dictatorship! Wake up and wise up O people!

Those who are blind to all the reality of world history can continue to daydream and demand for the status as 'Bangsa Malaysia'! It won't happen unless you have parents who are a mixed breed of all the prevalent ethnic races here!

So, stop this nonsense and get back to earning your living! No one is stopping us from seeking our livelihood are they?

Just do your thing and go build your mansions! Hahahaha! That was a fib! Hehehehe!

The people of Malaysia today are still better off than our neighbours who face natural disasters, ethnic warfare as in South Thailand, Ambon,Indonesia and many other hotspots around us.

Be aware of getting caught in the powerplays of those who are after power and position in this country!

Anwar Ibrahim is a classic case here! His story will remain forever as one who got played out so viciously by our former Premier, Tun Dr.Mahathir! Sheessshh!

DSAI has been exonerated and acquitted by the courts! Sukma , his adopted brother just got acquitted as well! What does that tell us about the Justice system in our beloved country? Think for yourselves!

Do know that in our nation's political arena, there are those who are so corrupt, so devilish, that they might even be prepared to do as George W.Bush Jr did , in sacrificing thousands of innocent civilian life's just to maintain their seat of supreme power in order to continue robbing the nation blind.

Classic example before us all, 'El Dictator' as he is called ->Tun Dr.Mahathir, with all his brilliant achievements, struggles, legacy,etc still gets skewered by those UMNO kingmakers, shadow cabinet, political bigwigs, to now being ostracised and sidelined by his party at the apex of his life! What do you say about that?

We also need to look at the example of the one who built the palace in the midst of the village to realise that if you pull him out, an attachments of strings and ropes connecting to so many 'Who and Who's in our local and state government's will be following up after unearthing him that they want to quickly bury the fella again and put up a 'Do not disturb' sign for him!

"Cable very strong maa"! Not easy to disconnect! :D

DAP might mean well , to see 'integration' take place by emulating Lee Kuan Yew's call for meritocracy and all that BS!

The reality is that, down under in Singapore, we hear the Singapore Malays crying 'foul' for LKY's excesses in denying them their rights etcetera!

So, dear brothers and sisters, please wake up to the reality facing us. We do not need to fool ourselves into branding us as this and that!

I can safely vouch for us by this brand! We are all the Children of Prophet Adam Alaihis Salam!

Yup! You and me, we are no less than any other being here on Earth in humanform!

Whether you are a Malay, a Chinese, an Indian, a Punjabi, an Orang Asli, a Dusun, a Kadazan, or whatever your skin color, your eye color is, you are a descendant of the Prophet Adam Alaihis Salam and we are equal before God Almighty save for our Faith in Him and as to what we have done and are doing here in our lifetime on Earth!

This is the reality! Those who think otherwise, no worries! When it is time for us to return to the Creator, we will find out for ourselves! Instead of harping and narrowing ourselves to just
'Bangsa Malaysia' , let's all be the best that we can be by being 'Bangsa Manusia'!

Now, no one can deny you that, can they?

May Peace and Salvation of Allah be upon us all! Ameen!

'Terlajak taip boleh 'delete' ; terlajak 'Enter' tak boleh 'backspace'

So, the Malay Mail apologises!

The thing is the damage has already been done!

Whatever credibility the tabloid has been establishing for itself over the years goes down the drain, the minute it's editors chose to print such tasteless articles!

In these times, if Malaysians really need to discuss about such things, there is already the worldwideweb, here on this internet!
Anyone who has access to the internet has access to all the info it contains. The good, the bad and the uglies are all available at the click of a button!

Sex is not something that is so ultra secret that a national tabloid such as the Malay Mail has to soil itself with in the first place.

There are already many 'dime a dozen' thrashy magazines littering up the newstands and 'mamak' bookshops!

Only sickos and those looking for cheap thrills will go read such drivel! Mature responsible adults do not have to read up on such stuff which we already do know and enjoy within the confines of holy wedlock as per the generations before us.

Those responsible for the publishing of the offensive articles ought to be punished accordingly!

In these times where honor and a sense of decorum is fast being eroded by the already going decadent lifestyles that many ignorants among the masses are aping without knowing the consequences of doing so, this unwarranted publishing of the Malay Mail just puts me off from buying the tabloid any further!

I used to appreciate it's different mannerisms of journalistic write up and bought it whenever I saw an attractive headline on the tabloid, but yesterday's boo boo is just my reason to say 'bye bye' to it from now on!

My header for this post says it all in typical Malaysian style :

'Terlajak taip boleh 'delete' ; terlajak 'Enter' tak boleh 'Backspace'!

Time to face the music ..or in this case ..the 'repercussions' from your actions! Hammertime!

Malay Mail's Boo Boo! Risking a slap on the hand or the face?

We all know what Malay Mail has tried to do and what the Malaysian government's reaction has been with regard to the blatant attempt by either the tabloid or it's journalist by the supposedly enticing name of "KOKO-LICIOUS KALBANA PERIMBANAYAGAM" -and the title of her post ' Let's Talk about Sex!' has sort of got the Deputy Prime Minister Dato Seri Mohd Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak pissed off by it's attempt to break into a subject considered as a 'taboo' in our land!

Malaysians even without discussing or debating about a matter as sensitive as sex have been proliferating since our forefathers have settled onto this land.

We all have our own religious and cultural guidelines as to deal with this aspect of our humanly needs and natural wants in order to procreate and continue our family's lineage and heritage.

Our forefathers and parents before us needed not to have to engage in such sensitive discussions and open talk about matters that take place on their beds and resulting in our being here today!

Having to ponder on this very subject that has been left to run riot in the Western civilisation and as a result made waste with something as precious and as honourable as a matter of lovemaking between a husband and a wife but now turned into something cheap and tasteless as animal lust and as a 'pastime' for those who have been enamoured with the liberalisms of the decadent lifestyles rampaging in the West!

The Malaysian Government has to deal with this affront to our Eastern values and attempt by the tabloid to sensationalise something that when mishandled can be very offensive and further ruin the already reeling social impact of trying to ape and emulate degrading mannerisms of the sick cultures coming from the West!

I see this attempt as trying to rake in more circulation income from this tabloid based on it's very 'bold' headline to stir the people's imagination into shedding away time honoured inhibitions and turn sex into something to be openly discussed by everyone!

When a tabloid such as this is allowed to get away scot free from any repercussions from their irresponsible actions in printing and publishing matters that ought to be handled in a manner that befits it, the following consequences will be that of widespread couldn't carelessness left to spawn and breed out of control!

The one thing thing that sets us apart from the society in the West is our age old traditions of respect and honour that we have inherited from our forefathers.

We pay respect to our parents and our elders and we do not openly discuss matters such as sex in public.

The writer and editor of this particular tabloid are experimenting and checking the waters to see whether they would be just given a slap on the wrist for daring to go against the norms in our society but actually they ought to be given a bloody slap in the face by the authorities!

I would like to see what steps the relevant authorities are going to take against this tabloid and whether the Malay Mail would be allowed to get away with this post of their's?

It is one thing to progress in opinions and general knowledge but it is another attempt to destroy a cultural norm and tradition of according certain subjects their proper place in our lifes and social guidelines so as not to destroy all that we are held respected and honoured for all this while by the world; that being our respectable Eastern values and traditions.

The individuals can do as they please and get their dues as a result of their actions. Attempts such as these however do have a widespread affect on society and if left to run riot would eventually turn our society into the lawlessness, deprived society that is now wreaking havoc in the Western civilisations of today!

Unlawful sexual acts between unwedded couples and incest is already turning into a major problem in this land and a result of irresponsible behaviour by those fiends and felons masquarading as holy moly individuals in society.

Watered down punishments by the justice system here in Malaysia is seeing this abominable transgressions of these sex offenders being allowed to repeat itself over and over again as a result of not punishing the Sex Predators according to God's Laws!

The result is a steady climb in the number of rapes, incest, sodomy and other crimes against the young womenfolk of Malaysia and the perpetrators left to repeat their crimes over and over again by the justice system failing to teach these animals a very strong lesson and eliminate this scourge once and for all!

This posting by the Malay Mail simply adds fuel to the fire and ought to be reprimanded effectively by the Malaysian authorities! We do not need to ape the socalled liberal values of the West in order to be 'progressive'!

Without being 'liberal' we already have been here , alive and well in our own ways , intact with our inherited values from our forefathers.

We are sought after by many from the West who come seeking values to live their lifes by and make some sense in their hollow souls as a result of the disappearance of values and traditions in the ever evolving and losing its values Western society!

Do not throw away our self-respect and our time honoured values just to look 'cool' according to some dimwits in society!

You wouldn't know a good thing until it is taken away from you and lost forever in the annals of time! Reflect and repent O Malay Mail!

We can still progress as a people without falling prey to such a decadent outlook on something as personal and private as sex!

Permissiveness is just asking for society to do as they please and a backward move to lawlessness in our midst! Even as I type this, the social rot in this nation is getting from bad to worse!

Malay Mail seems eager to lead those who are sick and ignorant about such evils to a far worse condition!

This is my personal observation. Malaysians need to be aware of the direction such publishings can take this nation to.

A chasm of indifference already seems prevailing in the hearts and minds of our very gullible young people due to such trains of thoughts which is a one way ticket to personal failures and misery!

It's better to prevent than to try and cure! It's easy to destroy what we have right now by being so foolhardy! I come across many such victims who lament their personal tragedies and regret having done as they pleased.

The media must be responsible towards what they print and publish. Personal self gratifications can be just that. Do not impose unto the general public what can hurt them in the end!

May we all be alert, aware and a bit more rational as to what we share with all!

Think before you type! This is a personal advice and not just mere hype!

This Duniya - A Moment in Time ...by Syaikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller

A man was walking through the marketplace one afternoon when, just as the muezzin began the call to prayer, his eye fell on a woman’s back.

She was strangely attractive, though dressed in fulsome black, a veil over head and face, and she now turned to him as if somehow conscious of his over-lingering regard, and gave him a slight but meaningful nod before she rounded the corner into the lane of silk sellers.

As if struck by a bolt from heaven, the man was at once drawn, his heart a prisoner of that look, forever. In vain he struggled with his heart, offering it one sound reason after another to go his way—wasn’t it time to pray?—but it was finished: there was nothing but to follow.

He hastened after her, turning into the market of silks, breathing from the exertion of catching up with the woman, who had unexpectedly outpaced him and even now lingered for an instant at the far end of the market, many shops ahead.

She turned toward him, and he thought he could see a flash of a mischievious smile from beneath the black muslin of her veil, as she—was it his imagination?—beckoned to him again.

The poor man was beside himself. Who was she? The daughter of a wealthy family? What did she want? He requickened his steps and turned into the lane where she had disappeared.

And so she led him, always beyond reach, always tantalizingly ahead, now through the weapons market, now the oil merchants’, now the leather sellers’; farther and farther from where they began.

The feeling within him grew rather than decreased. Was she mad? On and on she led, to the very edge of town.

The sun declined and set, and there she was, before him as ever. Now they were come, of all places, to the City of Tombs. Had he been in his normal senses, he would have been afraid, but indeed, he now reflected, stranger places than this had seen a lovers’ tryst.

There were scarcely twenty cubits between them when he saw her look back, and, giving a little start, she skipped down the steps and through the great bronze door of what seemed to be a very old sepulcher.

A soberer moment might have seen the man pause, but in his present state, there was no turning back, and he went down the steps and slid in after her.

Inside, as his eyes saw after a moment, there were two flights of steps that led down to a second door, from whence a light shone, and which he equally passed through.

He found himself in a large room, somehow unsuspected by the outside world, lit with candles upon its walls.

There sat the woman, opposite the door on a pallet of rich stuff in her full black dress, still veiled, reclining on a pillow against the far wall. To the right of the pallet, the man noticed a well set in the floor.

“Lock the door behind you,” she said in a low, husky voice that was almost a whisper, “and bring the key.”

He did as he was told.

She gestured carelessly at the well. “Throw it in.”

A ray of sense seemed to penetrate for a moment the clouds over his understanding, and a bystander, had there been one, might have detected the slightest of pauses.

“Go on,” she said laughingly, “You didn’t hesitate to miss the prayer as you followed me here, did you?”

He said nothing.

“The time for sunset prayer has almost finished as well,” she said with gentle mockery.

“Why worry? Go on, throw it in. You want to please me, don’t you?”

He extended his hand over the mouth of the well, and watched as he let the key drop. An uncanny feeling rose from the pit of his stomach as moments passed but no sound came. He felt wonder, then horror, then comprehension.

“It is time to see me,” she said, and she lifted her veil to reveal not the face of a fresh young girl, but of a hideous old crone, all darkness and vice, not a particle of light anywhere in its eldritch lines.

“See me well,” she said. “My name is Dunya, This World. I am your beloved. You spent your time running after me, and now you have caught up with me. In your grave. Welcome, welcome.”

At this she laughed and laughed, until she shook herself into a small mound of fine dust, whose fitful shadows, as the candles went out, returned to the darkness one by one.

© 2001 Nuh Ha Mim Keller

What does this story tell us? It tells us to not be deceived by all the temptations and attractions of this world and forget our realities of our individual and societal lifes.

We are not to be lovestruck with the socalled pleasures of this Earthly life for in reality it is all just a moment in passing.

Weren't we just kids only yesterday? Playing along in our carefree days without having to worry as to where we are going to get the finances to pay such and such bills that come without fail at the end of every month?

Weren't we just ignorant teenagers wondering about what's happening to us as we evolved into becoming young men and women? Discovering the thrills and pleasures of being whoever we are and relishing in our discoveries?

Now, as we peer into that mirror and realise we aren't as smooth as before..we aren't as nubile and energetic as before..we start to realise.

Hey! It is true as the story says...We are just mere mortals caught in the drift of time as it evolves day by day, in the very annals of History and as God has set for us..our very own chapters of time after time...setting in our Book of Records what we did and are doing to render to us our own stories ..when our time is done..here on Earth.

Fare thee well my friend ..for we never do know when shall come our end. Tread carefully through time and cherish each second, each moment of our being here on Earth and do not..ever take our life's for granted!

May the Almighty bless us with wisdom and the clarity of thought and make this opportunity to live be one of goodness to serve us right in the next! Ameen. Ya Rahman!

Dust of this Earth.

Zainol Abideen

Mahathir Mohamad as he is today! UMNO's sidelined hero!

Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad.

Malaysia's former Prime Minister, and with a 22 year old legacy of being the architect of Malaysia's transformation from being a former colonial outpost of the British, which depended on agricultural produce, rubber, tin and other resources to one of South East Asia's leading developing nation and a dynamic powerhouse producing much of the world's technological based products and industries!

He is today, sidelined by his party, UMNO @ United Malays National Organisation for being openly critical of his successor, Dato Seri Abdullah bin Hj Ahmad Badawi.

Picture courtesy of Times Asia.

A classic battle of two ego's is being waged today !

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is today the Brutus Mahathir never imagined who'd reneged on his promises to Mahathir that he'd made before Mahathir handed over power to him back in 2003.

Today, both men are bitter with each other and Mahathir is seeing himself being made into an 'untouchable' by his party members who are like the chorus group singing praises to whoever rules the roost! 'Melayu Mudah Lupa?' Nahhh...'Melayu Buat Buat Lupa!' That's better !

Looks like the chickens have come home to roost for Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad who called the shots as he liked during his 22 long years of power.

Even though he has turned Malaysia into what it is today and the Malaysian people are living a better quality of lifestyle with all the opportunities available throughout the nation today, he is still hated by many who have suffered unnecessarily through actions taken against them under the Internal Security Act (ISA) and other acts that can be considered as oppressive of the people's rights!

Many still remain in custody under the ISA! The most important case in mind is the former Deputy Prime Minister during Mahathir's rule and the most unfortunate victim of political rivalry and a victim of conspiracy of the highest order, the recently released Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim!

His is a story that will forever remain in most Malaysian's minds and never be forgotten as a victim of Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad!

He was beaten to a pulp by one of the former Inspector General of Police, Tan Sri Rahim Noor, when arrested after being sacked by Tun Dr.Mahathir Mohamad from all his government posts and from being the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia on what most Malaysians know to be trumped up charges of being a sodomite and of abusing his position and other charges!

Anwar Ibrahim's fall from power and his being disgraced by Mahathir and his being imprisoned for six long years and separated from his wife and children will remain as a blot on Mahathir's illustrious career as Malaysia's longest reigned Prime Minister!

Anwar Ibrahim was released from prison after the courts finally accepted his appeal and acquitted him after Mahathir was no more in power! What does that say about the accusations against Anwar Ibrahim in the first place?

How could the justice system have found him guilty back then? What kind of a justice system do we have in this country?

Even though as normal citizens , we do not get affected directly by such travesties of justice which affected Anwar Ibrahim and thousands of others like him, as a parent and a husband, I can imagine how it must have been for Anwar's children and his wife to be deprived of the love and care of the person who is most important in their lifes?

Mahathir must be man enough to own up to his being misled by those who had their own agendas by making him do what he did to Anwar back then.

Even the fellow who libelled Anwar with his '50 Reasons why Anwar must not be the PM' has died of diabetic complications and ironically after the courts found him to being guilty of false reportings! Heavenly retributions? Wallahu alam!

Now, Mahathir finds himself to be an outcast from the good graces of the Supreme Council of UMNO for being critical of Abdullah Badawi!

He is tasting what it feels to be character assassinated by the very ministers and politicians whom he appointed, groomed and allowed to be there in the first place, himself!

This is the harsh reality that Mahathir has to face up. This is his legacy that he has left to continue in UMNO.

UMNO is like the bewitching forest where every ghoul, every djinn, evil spirit is left to haunt the corridors of power, keeping up with the tradition of corruption, abuse of power and position in each and every man and woman's in all stages of UMNO in their quest to reap and accumulate as much as they can while they can!

You all know this is the reality albeit every bloody politician's declaration of being 'Cemerlang, Gemilang and Terbilang' today! You can bet that whoever comes into power will coin his own slogan of the day! Rhetoric par excellence! Bravo! Bravo! Viva ...(fill in the blanks) as you like!

Abdullah Badawi whom many thought to be squeaky clean is today being accused of having a few rough spots and blemishes himself!

His family's involvement in several cases of inappropriate business deals and contracts have made the headlines and are being discussed or cursed lately.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's cancelling of Mahathir's pet projects have enraged the latter to the stage that Mahathir has criticised AAB so very severely and openly accusing the latter to be as corrupt as he never ever thought that AAB could be!

Mahathir is today finding life very unsavoury as a result of being no longer respected or feared by those boys and men in UMNO who used to wait on him, hand and foot!

Welcome to reality, Tun! What goes around, comes around! All the PM's men and women are as the movies show! All they are concerned about is their own personal pockets and bank accounts!

They don't really give a shit as to who's the bloody Prime Minister!

As our infamous Works Minister once said : 'Even if I put up a donkey as my candidate, they will vote for him!'

Samy Vellu always hits it right smack on the dot! Ammaa!!!

Palanivel must surely have been seething inside..didn't he? :P

Looks like the same principle works in the BN! There's nothing you can do about it Tun!

Best thing for you to do is maybe go see 'Brother' Anwar and make up before the curtain comes down on you for real. Sins between us 'insans' best be settled here whilst still alive on Earth!

Practical thing to do now is to focus on what's important and not get distracted anymore with the wheelings and dealings of your party which is notoriously famous for all the outrageous episodes of all the major corruption, abuse of power and position we read being reported in the news and multimedia daily! Read..Datuk Z...etc.

The Malaikats are not gonna ask as to what position one was holding ,etcetera in Yaum al Barzakh! Neither are they gonna be bothered with all this earthly designations and titles one has been bestowed with by the Sultans and Agongs of this Duniya!

First thing we would be asked by them would be our amals and our devotions to Rabbul Alameen. I am sure you know all that ; just sort of reminding you as a gesture of goodwill from one Muslim to another! Whatmore you declaring to be as 'fundamental' as any of us ! :D

Remember the verse ' Kullu nafsin iza iqatul maut!? Well, it's just a reminder from a fellow common citizen to another and as a fellow Muslim.

Eid Mubarak ya Tun. Minal Aidil Wal Fa'izin. May Allah SWT guide us all! Ameen.

Masjid Jamek KL's proposed Islamic Centre needs your help

Bismillahirrahmannirrahim. Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi ta'ala wabarakatuh.

Dear Muslimins and Muslimats.

I am inviting all of you who have the means and can afford to spare some of your Razq to help us who are on our way to set up a fully functional Islamic Centre in Kl's most historical Masjid Jamek Bandaraya, to contribute as many copies of the Holy Al-Quran's and it's Translations that you can spare to us for distribution to the visitors and tourists coming
to the Masjid Jamek Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur.

We also need guidebooks, booklets, risalah's, brochures, audio visual multimedia materials for use in the centre.

Insya Allah, with this initial help, I will be able to get the centre established by December next month earliest and pending the clearance by the Masjid Jamek Bandaraya's Administration Committee within the next one or two weeks.

This help by you will go a long way in establishing this Islamic Centre which will be a fitting addition to our beloved sanctuary of Islam which is a magnet to hundreds of thousands of Non Muslim tourists and visitors who have been and still are visiting our masjid
here!

All these while, these visitors have just been left to visit and walk around the masjid, take photos and then leave without being attended to and given some information or helped to understand our Ad Deen ul Haqq, Islam, the birthright of all Mankind!

I plan to stop such a situation by establishing this much needed Islamic Centre for all.

Insya Allah, with your help and the Masjid Jamek Bandaraya Administration Committee's blessing and the support of Tuan Haji Hishamudin Ubaidulla,
the Chairman of Yayasan Ubaidi Trust and Foundation, I will do my best to see this Islamic Centre come into being!

After I am no longer alive here on Earth, I pray that the many volunteers who have emailed me wanting to be with us in this centre will continue this centre's operations till Yaum al Qiyamat,
Insya Allah.

As of now, those who feel that they can help us by such contributions, please email me at :
mahaguru58@gmail.com.

Those who are emailing me to join as volunteers at the proposed Islamic Centre, please send me a complete biodata for registration purposes.

A photo of yourself is needed too for administrative records. Please send me a current image.

I thank you in advance in the Name of Allah, Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala.

May your efforts be a source of eternal blessings both for you and your loved ones!

Amin Ya Rabbal Alameen. Jazakallah khairan kathiraw.

Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi ta'ala wabarakatuh.

Zainol Abideen @ Mahaguru58

Islamic Councillor's gifts to the Masjid Jamek KL's Islamic Centre

This is myself with the Islamic Councillor of the Royal Saudi Arabian Embassy, Shaikh Hj Abdul Rahman and the Resident Ustaz of the Islamic Councillor's Office, Ustaz Haji Zainol Abidin, my namesake. He's got the goatee ..hehehehehe..

Ustaz Hj Zainol was very helpful in introducing me to Shaikh Hj Abdul Rahman and helped me get a boxful of beautiful, high quality printed Quran translations in Bahasa Melayu, English, French, Mandarin and Tamil!

I also received several copies of the Beginner's Guide to Islam and a brand new set of Kitabs from Madinah Al Munawwarah for my study and research in Islam and as the intial collection for our centre's library! Alhamdulillah! May Allah SWT bless Syaikh Abdul Rahman and Ustaz Zainol for their help! Ameen. I have scanned the covers of the Quran translations here for you!


















































This beautiful cover is of 8 copies of the book about Islam for new Muslims that Sister Aishah of the Islamic Outreach ABIM at Jalan Ampang Hilir has given to me as Waqaf to be given to those who embrace Islam at our centre , Insya Allah!

May Allah SWT reward her for this wonderful gifts!

Insya Allah, as we get our finances stabilised in the future, we will reprint all these books and kitabs to be given for free to those who come seeking knowledge about Islam at our proposed Islamic Centre of Masjid Jamek Bandaraya KL!

Those of you who want to contribute Quran's in Arabic, Translations of the Qur'an in any languages, Guidebooks for New Muslims, Kitabs and Booklets of the Surah Yasin, Muqaddams, etcetera are most welcome to contact me to do so.

Your Infaq and Sadaqah will go towards the running of this centre, Insya Allah!

Verily those who contribute to the Cause of Allah SWT will see their deeds be rewarded accordingly by Ar Rahman in Ways that only you yourselves will know and appreciate!

We seek such contributions solely for the sake of being able to help out those brave new souls who struggle through so much hardships to reclaim their birthrights to be Muslims, who submit themselves to none other than Allahu Akbar, God, Most Merciful, Most Kind! Insya Allah!

Proposed Islamic Centre at Masjid Jamek KL

In the Name of Allah, Most Compassionate, Most Merciful.


Insya Allah, if my plans go well and no hindrances arise, this building which houses the Meeting Hall of the Masjid Jamek Bandaraya K .Lumpur will soon be tranformed into an Islamic Centre to cater for the growing number of visitors to this most historical mosque in the capital!

I am in the midst of finishing the working papers for the setting up of the Islamic Centre and have the tacit approval of the Mosque Committee members and patron in the form of the Chairman of the Ubaidi Trust Foundation.

I have received a substantial number of Quran English, Malay, Mandarin, Spanish and Tamil Translations from the Islamic Counsellor's Office of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plus some Comprehensive Guidebooks , gifts from the Islamic Outreach Department of the Malaysian Muslim Youth Movement @ ABIM, KL.

I invite those of you who are interested to join us as volunteers in our Islamic Centre by emailing me your contact details at mahaguru58@gmail.com

As you can see, the hall is already well equipped with the necessary library facilities, whiteboard, tables, chairs, airconditioned, etc.

Just add in a few easy chairs, counters, audio visual equipment, brochure cabinets, etc and we will have a practical information centre that will cater well to our visitors from all over the world, Insya Allah!

Wasted spaces can be best utilised by putting in the extra effort to fully utilise and maximise usage of available facilities instead of letting it go to waste and the visitors just go around the mosque complex , snap a few photos and just leave without gaining some precious information about Islam during their visit.

Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala commands us to 'Invite All (Mankind) to the Way of Our Lord with Wisdom and Beautiful Preaching and to Reason with them ( the Non Muslims) in Ways that are Best and Most Gracious'.
Surah An Nahl Verse 125 ,
Holy Al Qur'an .

Come join us in this noble efforts!
All are welcome especially those who have good Islamic Knowledge and are fluent in English, Mandarin, Malay, Tamil, Spanish, French, Italiano, etc. Those who are good in sign languages are also needed!

At first we will be operating totally on a voluntary basis. As and when we get our finances stabilised, we will pay an allowance to you. It's all ikhlas fi sabilillah for the sake of Allah SWT!

We will be operating during weekends at first and as we get more volunteers, we will be operating daily in the long run. Please do'a for us. Insya Allah.

Blame it all on the architects! UMNO Exco's New Game!

It must be real tough to be an architect nowadays in Malaysia!

Imagine getting screwed by those rich and infamous and being blamed for not getting things properly settled according to the rules and regulations of this nation for 'forgetting to submit and get approvals for the building plans' of mega dwellings for the wealthy Exco's and Top Guns of UMNO!


Tch! tch! tch! Really stupid maa...how can one be an architect aa for forgetting the cardinal rule of building anything?

One must have the building plans submitted and approved by the local authority right before even a pile is driven into the grounds! What more of all the necessary utilities and supplies to such houses by the various government departments and agencies, right?



We are talking about electricity supplies @ TNB, water supplies @ SYABAS, sewage disposal @ INDAH WATER CONSORTIUM, telecommunication supplies @ TELEKOMS, roadworks, drainage @ JKR, etcetera!

All these departments must either be so stupid as not to ask for the relevant documents and submission of the building plans if they have been approved in the first place before joining in the building works and infrastructure, wouldn't they?

I mean, even the local pakcik, apek or ayya would know to go get approval before building anything in their own backyard wouldn't they ? What more State Assemblymen and Local Municipal Councillors who are in the very first place, examples to be followed by the local public?

So, being an architect today is not really a profession to be proud of , right? It sure must be embarrassing to introduce oneself as being an architect for the 3 classic examples here sure do not elevate this glorious profession to the stage it should be by their being lambasted as being the root cause of all 3 evils!

Better change profession now....hmmm..what shall I be? Engineer, doctor, magistrate?

Brings to mind, the character of Nyonya Mansoor in P.Ramlee's 'Ibu Mertua Ku'.

Same old script! Nang buti nang...kui buti kui!...Architects nationwide are having nightmares!

Pictures courtesy of The Star Online.

Are Malaysians Really Behind the Current PM?

It is one thing to go and claim that the people are totally rallying behind the current PM but being realistic and going the extra step further in gauging the actual situation behind all this wishy washy proclamations of enjoying full support from the Malaysian citizens is another!

People in position and power often go into a delusional state of mind and usually choose to beguile themselves that all is well in the grassroots only to find the truth to be totally opposite to what state of mind that they chose to believe in themselves when put to a referendum!

The overwhelming landslide victory of three years ago for the incumbent would be a thing of the past if a referendum is carried out today.

Believing that one is indispensable and that without one's being in power and position, all things would come to a halt and the world would come to an end is an act of insanity and contrary to the reality of life itself.

When the Greatest Messenger of Allah, God Almighty passed away, the early Muslims were distraught and couldn't accept that Rasulullah Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam was gone and not alive anymore to guide them!

Saiyidina Umar Al Khattab, one of the closest Companions to the Prophet Muhammad SAW couldn't bear to believe that the Final Messenger of Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala had died and he was distraught with grief and threatened all those who dared say that Muhammad Sallalahu Alaihi Wassallam had died and that the Muslims had lost their Prophet!

It was the Prophet's anointed successor and the first Caliph of the Muslims, Saiyidina Abu Bakar As Siddiq, who brought the Muslims together into being rational and accept that the Prophet Muhammad, God's Greatest and Final Messenger had died and his soul returned to the Creator!

His famous words to the Muslims present were :
'If any of you have worshipped Muhammad, then know that Muhammad is dead and alive no more! Those of you who worship Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala, know that Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala lives eternally and He is Forever!'

With that wise announcement, Saiyidina Abu Bakar As Siddiq quelled the confused souls and brought about a sense of acceptance to the masses.

Our present day, rulers and ministers tend to go into a delusional state of mind by claiming that without them, everything will stop working and that the nation will stop functioning!

Our present day 'Ulul 'Amri do forget that life is a series of adjustments and that if Allah SWT so wills that they were to drop dead just like that, there will be others who will step in and take over from their positions and that those persons too when they die in turn, will be replaced by others after them and so will the cycle of life go on till come Doomsday!

I am sure you all do remember a Minister saying ' If I quit, who's gonna take care of the Oil Palm Industry? ' Hehehehehehe... I know that many of you are grinning while reading this!

Well, same scenario here but with a different twist! Rulers do tend to think that they are getting a 100% support from all the people based on self delusions and also false information by those who have a hidden agenda in misleading the Commander in Chief and # 1 Leader of Malaysia Incorporated.

It might as well be that the delusion is so well perforated with all the latest travesties of justice being exposed yet denied and attempts to sweep it all under the official carpet of the ruling party's mismanagement are still being made!

History has a habit of repeating itself. Whether it be here in Malaysia or in any other country on Earth, the reality of natural justice will come home to roost in one way or another!

To the one in question, either keep dreaming or try to wake up to the real deal! Insya Allah!