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  • Nine Publications By Rasul Dahri Banned, ARS Application Rejected

    Nine Publications By Rasul Dahri Banned, ARS Application Rejected

    Nine books promoting extremist religious views by an unregistered religious teacher, have been banned under the Undesirable Publications Act.

    This means it is an offence to distribute and own the books, and people who have copies must hand them over to the police. Those found guilty can be fined, imprisoned or both.

    The publications by Singaporean Rasul Dahri contain “extremist religious views which include denigrating remarks of other religious groups,” the Ministry of Communications and Information (MCI) said on Tuesday (June 20).

    In some of them, Mr Rasul “rejects the idea of a secular state and calls on Muslims to establish an Islamic State”, added the MCI in its statement.

    The ministry reiterated Singapore’s stance of “zero tolerance for individuals or publications which aim to promote hostility or violence among different religious groups”, adding this is why the books have been banned.

    “Rasul Dahri is a Singaporean who has, through his radical teachings, betrayed the values that Singapore has held so close to us as a mutli-cultural and multi-racial society,” said Minister for Information and Communications Yaacob Ibrahim in the statement.

    Dr Yaacob, who is also Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs added: “We will not allow his radical teachings and his extremist ideology to take root in Singapore. We will do whatever we can, with security agencies as well as community organisations such as the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore to safeguard our community against extremism.”

    In a separate statement, the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (Muis) said Mr Rasul’s application to the Asatizah Recognition Scheme to be endorsed as a qualified Islamic teacher in Singapore was rejected.

    Since the start of this year, all Islamic teachers who want to each in Singapore must be endorsed by the scheme.

    Muis said Mr Rasul has been known to “maintain exclusivist, hardline and extreme positions in Islam”.

    For example, he opposes democracy claiming it is not part of Islam, said Muis noting that democracy is one of Singapore’s fundamental governing principles.

    He also denigrates Jews by “labelling them as people who accept terrorism as part of their culture”.

    Muis said Mr Rasul “also persistently denounced established religious rituals practised by Muslim scholars worldwide and declared those who practise it as deviating from his own mistaken view of what is ‘the real Islam’”.

    The Singapore leader of terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah, Mas Selamat Kastari, was reported to have attended Mr Rasul’s classes in Johor between 1987 and 1989.

    Malay-language daily Berita Harian reported that Mr Rasul was arrested last year -for the third time – in Malaysia.

    He was said to be active in the Klang Valley and Johor for several years, although Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council and the Pahang Islamic Religious Department banned seven of his books.

    Muis said such ” problematic teachings” do not in any way represent the views of Muslims in Singapore.

    It urged Muslims to avoid the teachings, which are “totally unsuited for Singapore’s multi-cultural society and may lead to extremism in religious thought and practice”.

    It also reminded Muslims to seek religious education from accredited teachers.

    Those who encounter individuals teaching and preaching ideas like Mr Rasul’s should report them to Muis at 6359 1199 or the Asatizah Recognition Board at 6604 8568.

    The list of banned books by Mr Rasul are:

    1. Setiap Bid’ah Menyesatkan

    Publisher: Perniagaan Jahabersa, Taman Kempas, Johor Bahru, 1997

    2. Hukum Mengenai Rokok & Mencukur Janggut

    Publisher: Perniagaan Jahabersa, Taman Kempas, Johor Bahru, 1997

    3. Salah Faham Dr. Harun Din Dalam Persoalan: Bid’ah & Percanggahannya (Edisi

    Baru)

    Publisher: Perniagaan Jahabersa, Taman Kempas, Johor Bahru, 1998

    4. Siri 1: Bahaya Tariqat Sufi / Tasawuf Terhadap Masyarakat

    Publisher: Perniagaan Jahabersa, Taman Kempas, Johor Bahru, 1998

    5. Siri 2: Imam Syafie (Rahimahullah) Mengharamkan Kenduri Arwah, Tahlilan,

    Yasinan dan Selamatan

    Publisher: Perniagaan Jahabersa, Taman Kempas, Johor Bahru, 2001

    6. Siri 5: Kebatilan dan Kemungkaran Berzanji & Perayaan Maulid Nabi (Sallallahu

    ‘Alaihi Wa-Sallam)

    Publisher: Perniagaan Jahabersa, Taman Kempas, Johor Bahru, 2001

    7. Siri 7: Amalan-amalan Bid’ah Pada Bulan Sya’ban

    Publisher: Perniagaan Jahabersa, Taman Kempas, Johor Bahru, 2002

    8. Tauhid Hakimiyah & Khawarij: Punca Demonstrasi, Pemberontakan, Pecah-belah

    dan Pengkafiran

    Publisher: Syarikat Ummul Qura Enterprise, Majidi Baru, Johor Bahru, 2012

    9. Demokrasi, Pilihanraya & Mengundi: Satu Kajian Menurut Al-Quran & AsSunnah

    Publisher: Syarikat Ummul Qura Enterprise, Majidi Baru, Johor Bahru, 2013

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Silk Batik is Haram/Prohibited in Islam

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    The Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia (PPIM) said many Muslims here are unaware of this fact, which it said is enshrined in several hadiths, also known as the collection of words and deeds of the Prophet Muhammad.

    “Rasulullah SAW has said that Muslim men cannot wear silk and gold.

    “Hadiths also state that one of the tanda kiamat (signs of the apocalypse) is when pure silk is being worn, and that there is no awareness about this,” PPIM activist Sheikh Abd Kareem S Khadaied told reporters at a press conference here.

    Batik is a form of textile art often marketed as a national heritage in Muslim-majority Malaysia and Indonesia.

    Government leaders and religious figures here commonly use batik, which comes in a variety of materials, including pure silk, rayon and cotton, for official functions.

    But Sheikh Abd Kareem said pure silk cannot be the way to go for Muslim men and suggested that alternatives to the material be used instead.

    He took aim at the Malaysian Handicraft Development Corporation, saying that it had not done anything to research on alternative materials besides pure silk to make batik, despite having enough funds to do so.

    “In the current industry most of the silk batik worn by Muslim men is pure  silk. Only about ten per cent is silk mixture,” he said.

    When asked to explain how PPIM might make non-Muslims understand the reasoning behind the banning of pure silk for Muslim men, Sheikh Abd Kareem said it was unnecessary.

    “When the Prophet says it is forbidden, that means it is forbidden, we listen and abide by it.

    “Logic is a (part of human) desire,” he added, saying that when it came to Islam one should not demand a reasoning or explanation on a matter.

    But Sheikh pointed out that PPIM had no problems with batik cloths which used silk mixed with other materials such as linen and cotton as there was no hadith which forbade this.

    He said he had brought the matter up with the National Fatwa Council and the Malaysian Islamic Department (Jakim) but they have yet to provide a solution on the matter.

    “There has to be labelling done on each batik cloth for that people will know it is pure silk and therefore haram,” Sheikh said.

    Source: The Malay Mail