Tag: Muslims in Singapore

  • Maarof Salleh: Apakah MP Melayu PAP Kurang Keprihatinan Tentang Isu-Isu Penting Bagi Orang Melayu/Islam Singapura

    Maarof Salleh: Apakah MP Melayu PAP Kurang Keprihatinan Tentang Isu-Isu Penting Bagi Orang Melayu/Islam Singapura

    Satu keperihatinan sebhgn masyarakat Melayu spt yg sering mereka lahirkan ialah ketiadaan di kalangan MMP parti pemerintah, menurut mereka, yg dilihat berani membawa ke atas isu-isu besar yg menyentuh kepentingan utama orang Melayu/Muslim tetapi dilihat peka dlm kontek kehidupan masyarakat majmuk Singapura.

    Benarkah masalahnya bersebab kepekaan?

    Apakah tidak mungkin bersebab kualiti dan kredibiliti pemegang tugas itu sendiri?

    Mungkinkah latarbelakang pekerjaan asal MMP dan/atau calon-calon parti pemerintah itu sendiri yg kebanyakannya datang dari sektor pemerintah/makan gaji mempengaruhi sikap mereka dalam berpolitik?

    Atau ada sebab lain?

    Bagaimanakah keperihatinan ini dirungkai dalam berdepan PRU tidak lama lagi?

     

    Source: Maarof Salleh

  • Mufti on “Selfies” During the Hajj

    Mufti on “Selfies” During the Hajj

    AMALAN memetik gambar secara sendiri atau ‘selfie’ semasa menunaikan ibadah haji tidak banyak berbeza daripada amalan terdahulu apabila jemaah meminta orang lain mengambil gambar dengan kamera semasa mereka di Masjidil Haram atau Masjid Nabawi, kata Mufti Dr Mohamed Fatris Bakaram.

    Namun amalan itu boleh berubah menjadi tidak baik sekiranya niat jemaah itu hanya untuk menunjuk-menunjuk atau tindakan jemaah mengambil ‘selfie’ mengganggu kekhusyukan ibadah orang lain.

    “Saya rasa ‘selfie’ seperti apa sahaja perbuatan yang dilakukan seorang insan adalah bergantung kepada tujuan, cara dan kesan.

    “Sesuatu benda yang baik asalnya boleh berubah menjadi tidak baik. Mungkin kerana tujuannya tidak betul, atau pun tujuannya betul, caranya tidak betul. Ataupun tujuan betul, cara tidak kena. Ataupun tujuan betul tetapi caranya tidak mengambil kira kesannya yang akan berlaku selepas itu.

    “Begitu juga dengan ‘selfie’. Bagi saya sebagai seorang manusia, dari segi teknikalnya ia tiada beza dengan kita ambil gambar (dengan kamera), kita minta orang lain petikan. Pada waktu itu belum ada selfie stick. Belum ada monopad.

    “Malah di Masjidil Haram selama ini, kita biasa lihat orang lain ambil gambar, sahaja tidak boleh ambil gambar sendiri,” kata Dr Fatris sewaktu dialog sempena Peraduan Esei Cabaran Mufti 2014, kelmarin.

    Demam ‘selfie’ yang “menjangkiti” jemaah dan pengunjung Masjidil Haram dan Masjid Nabawi sebelum ini mengundang kontroversi.

    Ulama terkenal dari Jeddah, Sheikh Abdul Razzaq Al-Badr, menasihatkan jemaah haji agar tidak melakukan ‘selfie’ semasa sedang beribadah, sebaliknya menunaikan segala manasik haji dengan sempurna.

    Katanya, Allah memerintahkan jemaah haji supaya menunaikan ibadah tanpa riak dan tidak menghebahkan kepada orang ramai.

    Menjelaskan lebih lanjut, Dr Fatris berkata:

    “Terpulang kepada niatnya. Jika niatnya untuk menunjuk-menunjuk… Wah! Orang kampung tengok, orang Choa Chu Kang tengok kita pergi haji buat ibadah. Boleh rosak amalan itu. Dan jika kita buat amalan itu hingga mengganggu kekhusyukkkan ibadah orang lain, berlebihan, ia tidak wajar.

    “Jika niat tak ada masalah, kita buat cara yang betul, tetapi kita tidak memikirkan kesannya kepada orang lain. Perbuatan itu menjadi percakapan. Orang boleh timbulkan isu itu daripada gambar yang diambil jika kita tidak hati-hati.

    “Bagi saya, dari segi hukum, bergantung tiga faktor dalam apa-apa juga isu – Tujuan. Cara. Kesan.

    “Benda yang baik insya-Allah tidak akan berubah menjadi benda yang tidak baik tetapi kita perlu berhati-hati,” jelas Dr Fatris lagi.

    Source: beritaharian.sg/setempat

  • The Hijab Movement: Of hijackers, detractors and the Guidedness of the Jemaah

    AsSalaam’alaikum!

    Some of you may recall that I mentioned in a previous posting on my FB wall some time ago that the issues that the ummah is facing serves to reveal to us the hypocrisy of some Muslims. Well I hate to say I told you so, but this is happening as we speak! If you read and hear the conversations happening in so many places online and off-line, you will find the hypocrites, the foolish, the downright stupid and even the ones who feel sidelined because their agenda is eclipsed by the tudung issue and so are envious of any progress made by the hijab movement.

    The downright stupid would argue that the tudung issue does not make sense as we are in a “secular country”.

    The foolish would argue that there are more pressing issues like education and juvenile delinquency and anyway the government will never accede to our request because we are a minority anyway.

    The hypocrites will cast doubts and even give the anti-tudung elements in the government and those against the tudung among Singaporeans ammunition to undermine the Just cause of going against discrimination against the Muslimah. They are the more sophisticated ones indulging in sophistry and fallacies such as casting red herrings like emphasising etiquette in social media and so making that an issue thereby diverting our attention away from the tudung issue at hand. Others among them will indulge in the slippery slope fallacy of saying things like the Muslims will demand more and more after the tudung and indulge in fear mongering that Muslims in Singapore actually want hudud laws implemented here and are politicising the issue.

    The envious are not happy that due to the attention given to the tudung issue their agenda (which is ill conceived in the first place) takes a back-seat. An example of the envious is the Singapore’s own Murabitun cheerleaders who are peddling their coins for profits and giving spurious fatwas about zakat and paper money. Because their project has not gathered much traction in Singapore and (especially in Malaysia) has all but failed, they will say that the tudung cause is not as important as the fight against the bankers and the so-called war against riba’.

    Please be on guard against the obfuscation of the hypocrite, the foolish, the stupid and the envious ones . They are fueling dissent and divisions among us whether they actually intended to or not.

    As many have already pointed out, we must not let this issue be hijacked. How do you know if is already hijacked? Well there are signs. One, is that a particular group or organisation controls and lead the discourse. Their voice will drown out the others and then suddenly they will determine the parameters and thereby determine what would “satisfy” the Muslims in order to defuse the issue. This will always fall short of what we actually aim for. Another is when some one or some organisation uses the tudung issue by riding on the mass support for the tudung issue to, in fact, forward his/their own agenda.

    The hijab movement may not have any clear leaders but if you think that there are no leaders whatsoever you are wrong. Pay attention to those who express their ideas with Truth and how such ideas actually resonates with the jemaah. InsyaAllah Allah swt will not let the whole of the jemaah to be led astray.

    Wasalaam

    Abdul Halim

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    Hadith narrated by Abdullah ibn Umar:

    Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said: Verily my Ummah, will not agree upon an error and the hand of Allah is upon the community; he who sets himself apart from it will be set apart in Hell Fire.
    – Transmitted by Tirmidhi.

    Source: http://on.fb.me/1eRMww6