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  • Abu Sumaiyah Al-Jawi: A Response To Haji Mohammad Alami Musa

    Abu Sumaiyah Al-Jawi: A Response To Haji Mohammad Alami Musa

    The attached article is symptomatic of the confusion and inferiority complex that has infected the Muslims, which has been succinctly described by the eminent Muslim thinker Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas in his 1970 work entitled Islam and Secularism.

    In the article, the major premise is “doctrinal basis” upon which ideas are rendered acceptable or rejected. The writer, a bureaucrat, stated that with regards to enmity towards non-Muslims, there is no doctrinal basis and therefore such an idea is rejected. Of course, to an unsuspecting mind, there are no problems in that statement; any sane and matured Muslim can accept that. But when he rambles on about all religions sharing the same roots like the “roots of a Banyan tree”, without evaluating that idea to the same premise he had established for himself which is “doctrinal basis”, he contradicted himself. This kind of thinking, known as the transcendental unity of religions, is already effectively refuted by Al-Attas in his Prolegomena to the Metaphysics of Islam.

    Furthermore, to limit the meaning of the term “fansurna” used in the Imam’s prayer to connote the act of vanquishing and enmity is already against doctrinal basis. Fansurna is derived from “nasara”, which the authoritative linguist Ibn Manzur in his Lisān al-‘Arab already explains as “rendering assistance to the oppressed”. In other words, the condition for asking God who is the Lord (Mawla) and Helper (Nāsir) is that oppression exists. So we can ask the question, is there oppression coming from those who claim to be Christians and Jews?

    In 2005, George Bush claimed that his Christian god told him in his dream to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. The current administration of the United States are filled with people like this too. The Zionists of Israel still justify their atrocities using their Jewish scripture. In other words, extremists who are Christians and Jews, just like how there are extremists who are Muslims, exist. And the prayer is specifically directed at these extremists and not all Christians and Jews, some of which are our friends and family.

    In our bid to preserve and enhance racial and religious harmony, we don’t have to sweep these facts under the carpet or make sweeping statements about religion and Banyan trees that have absolutely no doctrinal basis. Just as how we can talk openly about Muslim extremists without thinking that such discussions are based on enmity against Islam, there is no reason to be offended when we talk about Christian and Jewish extremists.

     

    Source: Abu Sumaiyah Al-Jawi

  • Mohammad Alami Musa Ditabal Sebagai Jauhari Masyarakat Melayu Islam

    Mohammad Alami Musa Ditabal Sebagai Jauhari Masyarakat Melayu Islam

    KEPIMPINANNYA menyerlah sedang masyarakat Melayu/Islam berdepan dengan masa-masa mencabar.

    Beliau mempelopori konsep Identiti Muslim Singapura (SMI) bagi menegakkan hakikat bahawa seorang Muslim itu boleh mengamalkan agamanya dengan taat sambil menjadi rakyat yang setia.

    Usaha beliau itu menegaskan, tiada konflik antara kehidupan yang dipenuhi nilai-nilai keislaman dengan kehidupan dalam negara sekular lagi moden.

    Hasil kepimpinannya itu, dan dedikasinya berbakti kepada masyarakat sejak di bangku sekolah lagi, Encik Mohammad Alami Musa ditabal Jauhari masyarakat Melayu/Islam tahun ini.

    Anugerah yang disampaikan Berita Harian kepada individu atau pertubuhan Melayu/Islam itu juga mengiktiraf pencapaian cemerlang penerima dalam bidang masing-masing.

    Encik Mohammad Alami menerima anugerah berprestij itu daripada Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Encik Tharman Shanmugaratnam, dalam satu majlis penuh gah di Pusat Konvensyen Raffles City malam tadi.

    Mengulas mengenai pemilihan penerima Anugerah Jauhari itu, Editor Berita Harian/Minggu, Encik Saat Abdul Rahman, berkata:

    “Jauhari tahun ini istimewa kerana kejayaan yang dicapai Encik Mohammad Alami juga mencerminkan sumbangan dan usaha masyarakat Islam bersepadu dalam negara yang serba moden dan sekular ini.”

    Selain SMI, antara legasi Encik Mohammad Alami termasuk sumbangannya menggalak perpaduan silang agama, semasa menerajui Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis) selaku Presiden eksekutif selama sedekad dari 2003 hingga 2013.

    Sebagai Ketua Pengajian Program Hubungan Antara Agama Dalam Masyarakat Majmuk (SRP) di Sekolah Pengajian Antarabangsa S. Rajaratnam (RSIS), Universiti Teknologi Nanyang (NTU), kini, beliau berharap dapat meneruskan usahanya memperkukuh keharmonian silang agama.

    Majlis malam tadi dihadiri lebih 300 tokoh politik dan perniagaan serta pemimpin masyarakat.

    Turut disampaikan semalam ialah Anugerah Jauhari Harapan yang mengiktiraf pencapaian dan potensi individu Melayu/Islam berusia 30 tahun ke bawah.

    Penerimanya ialah Cik Amalina Ridzuan, 22 tahun, dan Encik Ahmad Abdurrahman Hanifah Marican, 20 tahun, yang menempa sejarah menjadi bekas pelajar madrasah pertama ditawarkan tempat di Sekolah Perubatan Yong Loo Lin, Universiti Nasional Singapura (NUS), baru-baru ini.

    Mereka menerima trofi dan wang tunai $5,000 sumbangan Institut Pembangunan Pengurusan Singapura (MDIS).

    Berita Harian turut menyampaikan satu anugerah khas sempena ulang tahun Singapura yang ke-50 (SG50) tahun ini, Anugerah Jauhari Perintis, bagi mengiktiraf sumbangan tiga warga perintis dalam bidang bahasa, seni dan agama – tiga bidang penting bagi pembangunan masyarakat Melayu/Islam setempat.

    Penerimanya ialah budayawan dan sasterawan Melayu, Dr Muhammad Ariff Ahmad; mantan Mufti, Sheikh Syed Isa Semait; dan pelukis batik tersohor, Encik Sarkasi Said.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

  • MUIS Has ‘Grand Strategy’ To Move Society Towards Liberal Islam

    MUIS Has ‘Grand Strategy’ To Move Society Towards Liberal Islam

    Alami musa

    If I’m not mistaken, Last Sabtu morning, I saw Ambassador Alami Musa.

    We were both jogging. In opposite directions. Me towards East Coast. He was probably on his way back.

    I don’t know whether that’s a metaphor. For the way we envision the direction of the Muslim Ummah…

    Bro Alami is my Muslim brother. So I need to be careful what I say. As Muslims, we judge by what is apparent.

    And what is apparent to me was that during his tenure as MUIS head, the organisation went decidedly on a Liberal bent.

    It was a bold social experiment, probably done as a bulwark against terrorism against the backdrop of the JI arrests. There was clearly a movement to present a ‘version’ of Islam that is palatable to Liberal ideas. So a plan was established to use MUIS to push the Liberal agenda. No effort and money were spared. They got top Liberal ‘scholars’ to our shores – even Ali Asghar Engineer, the chap who coined the term Liberal Islam. Then scholars from Jaringan Liberal Islam from Indonesia was roped in, and MUIS even published a booklet filled with writings of Liberal scholars. Then Asatizahs doing their PhD were sent to a hub of Liberal Islam in Indonesia. Then MUIS came up with the 10 points for an ideal Muslim community, with ideas of secularism and pluralism being pushed. Then there was the tie-up with Hartford Seminary and sending MUIS officials there, presumably so that there can be ‘bridges of understanding’ with the seminary. Isn’t the primary function of a seminary to train Christians to do proselytization? Is there no other place to send MUIS officials?

    Then there was the watering down of the syllabus of Youth and Kids Alive. There is ittle emphasis on absolutely critical issues like classical Tawheed. Kids are taught subjects like How to be Muslim in SG. So an intelligent Muslim child goes to these part-time classes in our mosques. He is not given a strong grounding in classical Islam. He goes to university.

    And he is ripe for the picking of the Liberals that flood academia.

    We now hear that Ambassador Alami has joined the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS). And he heads a team that includes a former MUIS officical active in the Reading Group.

    It is a bold social experiment. Because it has as it’s goal to move the Muslim community towards a more Liberal stance. And this is done probably at the behest of Minister-in-charge of Muslim affairs. It is an ambitious undertaking. Because the Muslim community, no matter how much faults we have, are still ideologically very much conservative.

    Alhamdulillah. Allah azzawajal is Protecting the Aqeedah of the Muslim community here. After more than a decade of trying, the bold social experiment has failed. And failed miserably. Even the self-identified liberal Farish Noor has concluded that there is very little traction of Liberal Islam in the masses. All over SEA. Including SG.

    I write this as a sincere attempt for Ambassador Alami and others to think long and hard before carrying on with this obstinate obsession of trying to push a Liberal Islam agenda.

    Because it is causing friction within the Muslim community here. Already some MPs are voicing out their discomfort.

    And subhanallah. The recent ‪#‎wearwhite‬ episode makes it really clear that the Muslim community here is conservative. And they are crying out for true leadership in the Malay-Muslim community.

    So when a few like-minded brothers – led by a courageous young Ustaz – decided to do something because they were uncomfortable with the way SG society is heading, the response was overwhelming.

    Many are uncomfortable wuth, for eg, the movement to mainstream homosexuality in SG. That’s why there was strong support to wear white for the first day of Ramadhan.

    To be sure, the Minister and MUIS did what they could to foil the movement. Wearwhite was denied the open venue of a stadium. No matter. Muslims could use the mosque to voice their support of a return to fitrah, and a rejection of the mainstreaming of homosexuality.

    Even that was denied wear white. The Minister-in-charge of Muslim affairs made that statement that mosques must be neutral and not take a stand. Huh? The mosque should not take a stand against something that is clearly against Islam? Something that is heinous in the eyes of Allah azzawajal?

    But Alhamdulillah. Allah azzawajal is the Best of Planners. If wear white is restricted any physical space, they went into the virtual space. Subhanallah. So many sent pictures of support by uploading their pictures in white. Entire families wore white. There was a family who celebrated a new-born, and they all wore white. Mosques became seas of white. SG Muslims from as far as Alaska sent in pictures to lend their support to the movement. Then the Christians also lent their support, with entire congregations wearing white in the thousands.

    We ask Mr Alami and his new team in RSIS to please consider that the Msulim community is still very much conservative. And we are no longer content on being the silent majority. The sleeping giant has awakened, insha Allah.

    If we see more Liberal islam ideology being shoved down our throats, we will react. And we will make sure our voices are heard loud and clear.

    So let’s be clear. If there is any friction in the community, it is because the minority, led by an elite bent on altering the status quo, is pushing on with theis obstinate obsession of changing the very fabric of the Malay Muslim community.

    It is ill-advised. It is foolhardy.

    Ultimately, it is very unpopular with the masses.

    And would be the ultimate vote-loser.

    Wallahualam. Barakallahufeek.

    Authored by Syed Danial

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