Photo taken on 2 May 2014 during Friday prayer at local mosque
Dear R1C,
Yesterday I noticed a man with a fancy looking head gear at a local mosque. I was seated behind him and realized he had inserted two photos of his ‘Maha Gurus’ or ‘religious teachers’ on the right side of his head gear. While it is important to dress clean, neat and proper when you want to perform your prayers, I find that such act of idolization of his religious teachers or ‘Maha Gurus’ is inappropriate especially when you are praying to Allah SWT, There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the last Prophet.
Islam takes a firm stand against idolatry in any form. Islam takes the position that such objects have often been used to glorify or idolize people or creatures, in violation of God’s law against idolatry. Thus, anything that can be construed as an idol is forbidden. Allah is the Only One Who has the power of giving shape to His creation and creating them in the best image. The matter also has to do with aqeedah when these images are taken as idols which are worshipped instead of Allah.
If you see fraud, and you do not call fraud, you are a fraud.
Recently I have noticed a large number of ‘get-rich-quick’ (GRQ) schemes that seem to target the Malay community such as Galaxy Trio. Galaxy Trio claims that (directly taken from a promoter’s post):
● Not a business, Investment or MLM
● No monthly maintenance
● Low risk
● Highest return
● Safest concept
● Achievable by all
● NO SELLING REQUIRED
● Not a Ponzhi or pyramid Scheme
● A proven platform
● Training and full guidance provided
And that by signing up for this program you can turn your initial investment of $2k into $11k.
These above claims are FALSE. These schemes are merely referral schemes which involve a new member (coughing up S300-$2000) being required to find NEW referrals in order to recoup the initial investment and gain something out of this scheme.
Organisers of such schemes claim it is ‘low risk, high return’. How is it low risk when there is no possible way of refunding the initial investment? How can it be the ‘safest concept’ to making money?
If the deal seems too good, it probably isn’t. Such GRQ schemes show our fellow Malays with ‘fans’ of money in order to attract new members. No advertising on the actual product being sold or even a product list, just flamboyant displays of money fans.
This is perhaps the worst and most unethical form of marketing available: selling hope. These schemes sell the hope of making quick fast money with no downside and that manyfold returns are ‘achievable by all’. Worst of all, these schemes target the Malay community for their scams, with the knowledge that they might be more susceptible to the BS of GRQ schemes.
Credit: Berita Harian SG
MUIS has recently released an irsyad on MLM and the like. I think that the irsyad underplays the nature of such schemes.
I hope this has shed some light on what these schemes actually do and their inequitable nature and pray that members of our community do not get scammed any further.
More and more readers are writing to Rilek1Corner to share information about the Get-Rich-Quick scams. We thank you for the contribution and we assure you that identities will be kept secret. We were also informed that readers who had openly share their grievances/concerns were harassed and threatened. We urged those affected parties to contact the authorities immediately. If you are uncertain on how to go about doing it, please do contact Rilek1Corner and we will gladly be of assistance to you. Otherwise you can do so by:
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I am a muallaf. Chinese guy who embraced Christianity when I was in Sec Two. Met the love of my life who is a beautiful Malay woman when I was 28. Embraced Islam wholeheartedly when I was 30 and married my lovely wife. Proud to be a Muslim and appreciate the beauty of Malay culture.
I often come across many Singaporeans who now calls me a Malay. In reality I am still a Chinese. I speak fluent Mandarin. Before I take up Islam, I used to eat pork, I drank alcohol. I gambled like crazy during CNY. Now, I stopped all that already. Islam has brought new meaning to my life and I am much happier now.
BUT…
Oh boy, calling me a Malay, that pisses me off big time. Haven’t they noticed that race and religion are two separate issues? I don’t understand why would people ask me questions like:
“Why do you want to be a Malay?”
“Your family members are still Chinese?”
“You are now a Malaylah, is it?”
“Do you miss pork? Let’s eat bak chor mee now?”
“Must have been terrible for you to fast for a month, right?”
“Really Malay pray 5 times one ah?”
“Do your Islam God accept only Arabic language or you can say prayer in English or Mandarin?”
“Is your boss okay about you going to prayer in many times in a day time?”
“Amazing you can keep a beard when you are Chinese!”
“What happen to your Chinese family line? You have any other siblings to carry on the family name?”
“Do you have to cut kukujiao?”
“So now you have join the rilek clan?”
“How can you eat Malay food high in cholesterol!”
“As long no pork, mean you can eat already lor, right”
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In Singapore, Malay and Muslims don’t always come in a package. Not all Malays are Muslims. Muslims can be Indian, Chinese, Caucasian, Eurasian, and the list goes on. I noticed many times the local media and even the Malay community themselves often confused the two terms together.
Perhaps it is the lack of education and awareness about race and religion that made them form such distasteful mental picture of Islam and Malays?
Time to clear these misconceptions- starting from the media. Stop using the term ‘Malay-Muslims’.
1.”Duit lum cukup lagi”.
Pompuan mana tau susahnya seorang lelaki yang nak kena kumpul duit nak bayar mas kawin le? hantaran le. Dah tu mas kawin dan hantaran mak bapak dia orang letak harga tinggi2 mengalahkan anak raja. Camnak jual anak jer. Kita nak kumpulkan duit tu makan megi jer bukannya pompuan tau. Megi pun dah naik harga tau!
2.“Nak beli kereta dulu baru nak kahwin”.
Takde keta pompuan pun pandang kita sebelah mata jer. Pompuan karang ni mana yang tahan turun naik bas, mrt dan lrt? Jatuh standard kalau naik tu semua..
3.”Susah la nak cari yang berkenan dihati”.
Memang susah pun. Pompuan sekarang ini? Bila lelaki ade duit abangku sayang, takde duit sayangpun melayang!
4.”Tak datang seru lagi kot”.
Awek pun takde lagi? Camne nak kahwin.
5.”Banyak sangat halangan dan rintangan”.
Banyak sangatla procedure karang ni. Nak kena masuk kursus le. Ujian AIDS dan HIV le. Pastu ada keluarga si dia tak sukakan kita le. Nak ajak kawin lari dia tak nak!
6.”Belum bersedia la”.
Nak pikul tanggungjawab sebagai ketua keluarga ini amat berat macam besi keluli. Pompuan apa tau! Karang ni tanggungjawab terhadap diri sendiri lagi pun belum terlaksana.
7.“Ilmu tak cukup la”.
Ilmu batin tu memang la dah cukup sejak dilahirkan. Tetapi ilmu rumahtangga ni? Soal-soal pompuan belum khatam lagi. Kang rumahtangga huru-hara..porak peranda nanti orang salahkan kita gakkan!
8.”Kahwin nanti tentu susah nak kena tanggung keluarga lagi, Kalau dapat isteri yang 2×5 je. Kena bimbing pulak lepas tu nak kena tanggung semua dosa isteri dan anak, dosa sendiri tak tertanggung nie pulak nak tanggung dosa isteri dan anak” Berat tanggungjawab ni. Bukan senang pikul dosa orang. Dosa sendiri pun tak terpikul. Kalau dapat isteri yang memahami tu ok gakkan.
9.”Dah mencuba tetapi telah dikecewakan”.
Pompuan memang suka mengecewakan lelaki. Pantang nampak laki kaya, hensem dan dot dot dot jer? tak kira ler laki orang ker?, duda orang ker? terus tinggalkan kita yang masih bujang ni…apelah nasib..
10.”Banyak perkara nak kena fikirkan terlebih dahulu la”.
Memang banyak..tanggungjawab lelaki ni lebih besar. Pompuan semua laki yang nak kena tanggung. Belum kawin bapa dan saudara lelaki yang tanggung. Dah kawin, suami lak tanggung…kesiankan..
11.”Jodoh tak sampai lagi kot”.
Dah berusaha tetapi asyik kena reject jer cam barang rosak. Ntah apa yang pompuan dok cari tu mane lelaki tau!!
12.”Perempuan nie peliklah kalau dia suka kat kita tapi tak habis2 nak merajuk dan marah2 macam kita nie suka sangat”. Pompuan ini sikit-sikit nak majuk. Anak kucing dia ilang sehari pun dia majuk. Macam la kita yang curik anak kucing dia tu. Dah tu nak pujuk kena beli hadiah, bawak jalan2, makan-makan?. Abis tu bila duit kita nak cukup untuk kawin adoi!
13.“Dah bagitau dah, yang nie kita suka dan yang nie kita tak suka, tetapi masih dia buat juga yang kita tak suka”.
Pompuan selalu suka buat apa yang kita tak suka. Camne kita boleh tahan kalau kawin nanti!!
14.”Saya takut la nak bercinta nanti terluka susah lagi”.
Sebenarnya dah memang terluka pun. Cuma pompuan jer buat tak tau!!
15.”Dia nie suka pasang ramai orang sangat”.
Haah? Dia ni banyak secret admirers. Kita ni duk la dalam waiting list dia jer…sampai ke tua…
16.“Dia memang banyak helah kejap suka kejap tidak”.
Pompuan memang camtu..cam biskut oreo jugak…jap ade jap takde…kita pening jap.
17.“Nak carik yang solehah lah”.
Yang ni dah jumpa tetapi masalahnya dah berpunya?. Takkan nak rampas orang punya kot.
18.“Masalah la”.
Pompuan suka menjadikan masalah yang kecil menjadi kepada yang besar lainlah masalah yang besar tu nak menjadikan kepada yang kecil memang susah.
19.“Nak sambung belajarlah awek saya tu ader diploma, degree, mba atau phd malu la”. Takkan kita yang ada kelulusan yang rendah ni nak terhengeh dengan awek tu. Siang-siang lagi mak dia dah reject kita macam dalam filem ibu mertuaku.
20.“Saya suka sangat kat dia, tetapi dia tak suka kat saya”
Pompuan suka bermain-main ngan hati lelaki yang suka kat dia. hehehe..betul kan??
Recently I caught my husband cheating on me. He has several contacts with women with weird names like ‘Heart’, ‘Wind’, ‘Cherry Love’, ‘Rain’. I dunno what is his fascination with Filipina women but I heard they they are very persuasive and always give men the girlfriend experience. There were several mushy text conversations between him and these women. The most heart broken ones come from a woman who claimed her name is ‘Ice’. Mind you they are still exchanging SMS. You see he is working in shipping line. He always say he travels a lot and will be back several days later. Whenever he comes back he will bring back a lot of money. But he never bring me out shopping. He will only pay for household expenses and very calculative. Now I know why he is so stingy. All these while he has so many mistresses and I am sure this woman named Ice is someone he has feelings for. We have a son and he is already in upper primary.
The government are bringing too many of them to Singapore and these women are taking away our husbands. Those who are married would know the challenges to keep a family together, have a decent saving, educate our children and also take care of our spouses so that they will not run away with foreigners. Everytime i see a filipino I get very angry. Because there are too many of them creating a mess out of our lives. Eversince my husband get to know Ice eveything change. He treats me like an invincible wife.
To Ice who stole my husband please use your brain and touch your heart. Don’t take away other people’s property or belonging. He is my husband. We are married. Please go back to your rotten country. To the Singapore government please stop bringing them in. They are the worst race in this whole wide world. If you have worked with them you will know what I mean.
