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  • Mufti Perlis: Umat Islam Dinasihatkan Supaya Hangan Mainkan Bacaan Ayat Suci Al-Quran Dalam Masjid

    Mufti Perlis: Umat Islam Dinasihatkan Supaya Hangan Mainkan Bacaan Ayat Suci Al-Quran Dalam Masjid

    KANGAR: Umat Islam dinasihatkan supaya jangan memainkan bacaan ayat suci al-Quran di dalam masjid atau surau seperti sebelum waktu solat.

    Mufti Perlis Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Zainal Abidin berkata ini kerana Nabi Muhammad SAW sendiri melarang jemaah yang berada di dalam masjid membaca al-Quran dengan suara nyaring, inikan pula jika memainkan bacaan yang bunyinya boleh kedengaran hingga ke luar masjid atau surau.

    Beliau menyatakan demikian pada sesi soal jawab program Semarak Dakwah Ehya’ Masjid di Masjid Behor Empiang di Perlis malam tadi.

    Beliau berkata Nabi Muhammad melarang membaca al-Quran dengan suara nyaring dalam masjid kerana ia boleh mengganggu tumpuan jemaah lain yang datang ke masjid untuk beribadah.

    “Jika memasang kaset bacaan al-Quran sebelum masuk waktu solat seperti solat Subuh, tentu akan menggangu orang lain di persekitaran masjid atau surau, yang mungkin sedang tidur, dan ini dilarang oleh Islam,” ujarnya.

    Kepada soalan lain, Datuk Asri berkata umat Islam tidak dilarang untuk berqasidah kerana ia merupakan syair, namun liriknya perlu tidak menyeleweng daripada ajaran Islam sebenar.

    Mengenai penggunaan alat-alat muzik, beliau berkata terdapat khilaf (perbezaan pendapat) dalam perkara tersebut kerana terdapat ulama yang membolehkan dan ada yang tidak membenarkannnya.

    Namun bagi beliau secara peribadi, beliau berkata ia boleh digunakan jika tidak membawa kepada keruntuhan akhlak.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Future Music Festival Asia 2015 Cancelled

    Future Music Festival Asia 2015 Cancelled

    SINGAPORE – The Future Music Festival Asia 2015 will be officially cancelled and festival-goers will receive refunds, said organisers on Sunday.

    In a post on their Facebook page, the group apologised to festival-goers for the “inconvenience (they) have been put through” and said details on the refund would be made available on Monday.

    Festival organiser Livescape had twice applied for and failed to secure a public entertainment license from the authorities here. Livescape then submitted an appeal to the Minister for Home Affairs on March 3, but that was rejected too.

    About 15,000 tickets have been sold for the event, which was scheduled to be held for the first time in Singapore at the Changi Exhibition Centre on Friday and Saturday, March 13 to 14. Big acts such as Public Enemy and The Prodigy were slated to perform.

    Started in Australia in 2006 and considered one of the biggest dance music festivals in South-east Asia, the event made headlines last year when six of its concert-goers died from drug overdose in Kuala Lumpur.

    Tickets to the festival in Singapore, which cost between $148 and $388, were sold via Sistic, as well as on the festival’s website.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com and www.futuremusicfestival.asia

  • Two Malaysians Identified In A Beheading Video By IS

    Two Malaysians Identified In A Beheading Video By IS

    Bukit Aman has identified two Malaysians who were spotted in a beheading video by Isis, The Star Online reported today.

    Special Branch Counter Terrorism Division principal assistant director Senior Asst Comm Datuk Ayub Khan was reported as saying that the two are 20-year-old Mohd Faris Anuar from Kedah and Muhamad Wanndy Muhamad Jedi, 26, who is from Malacca.

    The report said that the duo are believed to be part of a new group of militants comprising Malaysians and Indonesians – Majmu’ah al Arkhabiliy.

    This group, it was reported, replaced the older wing – Katibah Nusantara Lid Daulah Islamiah – in Syria and Iraq.

    In the 30-second video, Faris was the one gesturing with his index finger towards the camera, while Wanndy was believed to be the one recording the video, it said.

    The beheading video was uploaded to a Facebook account on February 20.

    The report said the recording showed a militant identified as an Arab cattying out the beheading of a Syrian accused of being a spy for the Assad regime.

    According to the Star online report, it also showed another militant identified as an Indonesian holding the head of the Syrian and shouting “Allahuakbar”.

    Ayub told the portal that from intelligence gathered, the video was taken by Muhamad Wanndy based on the voice heard in the clip.

    He said the video also showed Muhamad Wanndy, who is the owner of the Facebook account of Abu Hamzah Al Fateh.

    The Star report said Muhamad Wanndy is in Syria with his wife Nor Mahmudah, while Mohd Faris is believed to have gone to Syria in September last year.

    Muhamad Wanndy and wife went to Syria in January this year.

    Authorities in Muslim-majority Malaysia have expressed increasing alarm as scores of the country’s citizens have either gone abroad to join the Isis jihad or been arrested for supporting the group or seeking to travel to Syria.

    In January, Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said 67 Malaysians are known to have gone to Syria and Iraq and that five had been killed fighting for the cause.

    Malaysia was holding 120 people with suspected Isis links or sympathies, including both men and women, said Zahid, who is in charge of domestic security.

    Malaysia has traditionally observed a moderate brand of Islam and kept a lid on extremists.

    But Isis’ ability to lure Malaysian Muslims, along with thousands of others worldwide, to join its bloody jihad has rattled authorities and brought new attention on increasingly conservative Muslim views in Malaysia as its long-ruling government’s tight grip has eased somewhat over the years.

    Malaysia plans to pass into law a  new anti-terrorism law at the next parliament meeting to counter a potential Isis-related security threat as fears grow that recruits may return home to spread militant Islam.

     

    Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com

  • Civil Servant And Women Recruiter Among Those Arrested In Malaysia

    Civil Servant And Women Recruiter Among Those Arrested In Malaysia

    KUALA LUMPUR: A civil servant said to be one of the most senior Islamic State (IS) members in Malaysia and a 29-year-old housewife who recruited a 14-year-old girl into the militant movement are among three people detained by Bukit Aman.

    The 39-year-old civil servant was arrested in Kuala Lumpur on Monday while the housewife was picked up in Muar on Saturday.

    The third suspect – a 22-year-old trader – was also arrested in Perak on Monday.

    The three were detained by the Bukit Aman Special Branch Counter-Terrorism Division in separate operations.

    “The housewife is believed to have influenced and recruited the girl via Facebook and other media. Police are investigating whether she was also targeting other girls for IS,” a source said.

    “The trader is suspected of funding the girl’s trip to Cairo and may have allocated funds for her expenses,” added the source.

    The civil servant is believed to have used his position to recruit members to ensure the local militant network ran smoothly.

    “He is a senior IS member with direct links to Malaysians in Syria,” said one of the sources.

    Another source said the civil servant was also responsible for creating Facebook pages and other communication means for the local militant network.

    Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said all three suspects had planned to head to Syria “in the near future”.

    Vowing that Bukit Aman would never let Malaysia become a hotbed for militants, he pledged to use all resources to hunt them down.

    Two weeks ago, the 14-year-old girl was detained as she was about to board a plane bound for Cairo.

    The girl had intended to marry a 22-year-old Malaysian student in Cairo before making her way to Syria to join the IS.

    In Britain, The Telegraph reported that Scotland Yard was trying to track down three teenage girls who were suspected of travelling to Syria to join the IS.

    The report stated that the Metropolitan Police were extremely concerned about the girls from east London who were believed to have attempted to travel to Syria via Turkey.

     

    Source: www.thestar.com.my

  • Things Are Not Looking Good For Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak

    Things Are Not Looking Good For Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak

    Criticism against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak appears to be gaining steam outside of the country, with The Myanmar Times now jumping onto the bandwagon.

    In its opinion page dated February 23, the writer Roger Mitton, presented a bleak picture on the issue, describing it as a “gluey black sea of venality the likes of which has not been seen in this region since the days of President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines.”

    He said things are so bad that Umno-owned newspaper, Utusan Malaysia, had to carry an editorial to try to exonerate Najib and shift the blame elsewhere.

    “It failed, of course,” he said, adding it was because the newspaper was arguing against facts that indicate “Najib is steadily sinking into the treacly pit of corruption and maladministration.”

    Mitton said the controversy surrounding debt-ridden 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and Najib’s stepson, Riza Aziz, as reported by the New York Times, recently also were not helping in lifting his image for the better.

    “It is hard to truly comprehend the full magnitude of this gigantic, nepotistic malfeasance, and even the illustrious New York Times took three pages to try to do it,” he wrote.

    The Myanmar Times’ article also alleged that Riza, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor’s son, was responsible for most of the woes brought about by the 1MDB debacle, due to his association with Penang businessmen Jho Low.

    “Why and how? There is no clear answer, except to recall that Najib is under the sway of Rosmah, a shopaholic wrecking ball, who shrugs off ridicule and ignores how her actions thwart her husband’s premiership,” he wrote.

    Mitton went on to say that the personal damage to Najib “is piffling compared to the disastrous effect the huge 1MDB losses are having on the already fragile Malaysian economy.”

    Adding on, the article said that political support for the ruling party in Malaysia was also diminishing, taking note the results in the last general elections that saw the voting pattern swaying towards opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

    He said that since the failure to reverse the drop in votes experienced by his predecessor, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Najib has clung onto the Umno leadership by appeasing his key support base, the Malays, “and marginalising the Chinese and Indian communities.”

    Followed by the move to keep the Sedition Act and Anwar’s jailing, Mittton said “these actions signal a premier running scared.”

    He said that in any case, Najib’s survival may depend more on Umno elders the likes of former PM Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, and former finance ministers Tun Daim Zainuddin and Tunku Razaleigh Hamzah.

    “Since they have all turned against him, though, the omens are not good.” he said.

     

    Source: www.themalaysianinsider.com