Tag: ramadan

  • Malaysian Bar Council Chief: Non-Muslims Do Not Have To Hide When They Eat During Ramadan

    Malaysian Bar Council Chief: Non-Muslims Do Not Have To Hide When They Eat During Ramadan

    The Malaysian Bar Council has called on the education authorities to uphold and put in practice the principles of harmony and unity in schools when it came to issues like the rights of non-Muslim students during the fasting month.

    Malaysian Bar Council president Steven Thiru said the recent statement by deputy Education Minister Datuk Mary Yap Kain Ching to avoid avoid eating or drinking in front of Muslim students does not inspire mutual respect and understanding among Malaysians.

    He said it instead emboldens those who are misguided in their belief that only their rights matter and further result in resentment among those whose rights are ignored or marginalised. ​

    “​This is a recipe for disharmony and disunity that we can ill afford. The purpose of fasting is not to inconvenience others who are not fasting.​ ​

    “Indeed, to impose any such inconvenience would appear to be contrary to the spirit of the fasting month and devalue the qualities that it seeks to honour,” he said in a press statement.

    He said Yap’s statement was disturbing as it casts the everyday eating and drinking of those who are not fasting as acts of disrespect, and it encourages the curtailment of the rights of those who are not fasting. ​ ​

    “This is inimical to the principles of mutual respect and understanding that underline our constitution.”

    He said there were often attempts to compel or impose respect and understanding in schools in a divisive manner.

    “This serves to poison the minds of our children, and sows in them the seeds of prejudice, distrust and suspicion.

    “Our future as a nation will be in jeopardy if this worrying trend is not arrested and reversed.”

     

    Source: www.therakyatpost.com

  • Muslim Women In Pahang Dressed Indecently During Ramadan Face Possible 1 Year Jail Term

    Muslim Women In Pahang Dressed Indecently During Ramadan Face Possible 1 Year Jail Term

    KUANTAN – Muslim women in the state who fail to adhere to a “decent” dress code during the month of Ramadan can end up in jail for a year or fined up to RM2,000, a local English daily reports.

    Pahang Islamic Religious Department (JAIP) head of investigation Mohd Anis Azmi said that checks done at a few local Ramadan bazaars have shown that many Muslim women were clad in dresses that were “too short or tight”, something he considers as “inappropriately dressed”.

    “They should refrain from wearing revealing dresses in respect of the holy month,” Anis was quoted saying.

    “This is a warning for the public before we start our operations against the offenders soon. JAIP cannot set a benchmark on what is decent attire, as what is decent to me may not be considered so to others,” he added.

    “We also cannot be telling them what they should wear, but a rule of thumb is to dress decently even if you are only out to buy food in a Ramadan bazaar,” Anis explained further.

    He revealed that once caught and deemed improperly dressed by the religious authority, the women will be counselled, and repeat offenders could face imprisonment or a fine.

     

    Source: http://malaysiandigest.com

  • Zam Zam Water Customers Left High & Dry

    Zam Zam Water Customers Left High & Dry

    All she wanted was to collect the bottle of holy water from Mecca for her 61-year-old father.

    But Miss Norhidah Ahmad Dan felt cheated when she arrived at the designated office on Victoria Street last Wednesday only to find an empty shop.

    “When I found the shop at Golden Landmark, I saw a sign that said that the business was no longer operating from the premises,” the 24-year-old lab assistant told The New Paper.

    “I was very angry. It could have been my elderly father going to collect and he would have left empty-handed.”

    She said that someone selling charity tickets had approached her father, a 61-year-old retiree,”some months” ago at the Geylang Serai Market.

    Her father had bought one ticket costing $10.

    The ticket said he could exchange it for a 500ml bottle of Zam Zam water.

    Zam Zam water is drawn from a well in Mecca. It has special religious significance for Muslims.

    Some of the local distributors selling the water via Facebook list their price in the range of $85 to $95 per 10-litre bottle.

    Miss Norhidah made several calls to the company, which is called Riyaadhul Huffadz, RH Services and Management, but got an engaged tone.

    At least 500 other people are believed to have been affected.

    On Saturday, the company finally explained in Malay on its Facebook page that it was having trouble importing large quantities of Zam Zam water.

    The post said the company was still waiting for approval from the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) and the Health Science Authority of Singapore (HSA).

    It also asked for those who had bought tickets to send a text message with their full name and address to a mobile number. It promised that the bottles would be delivered by Nov 1 or the money would be refunded.

    AWAY

    A man who identified himself Mr Muhammad Maliki replied to queries TNP posted through Facebook.

    Riyaadhul Huffadz

    He claimed that he was in Jakarta and had been there for the last eight months. He said he would return only in the middle of October.

    He acknowledged the issues over the water and added that over 500 people had given him their names and addresses via text messages.

    When asked why he had vacated his office in Golden Landmark, he replied that he was forced to move out by the owner of the shop space.

    He claimed that he found out only recently that he was kicked out.

    He added that the coupons had already been distributed when he was forced out of his shop.

    When we informed Mr Maliki that AVA had not received any requests to import Zam Zam water in the last six months, he replied that he had applied “last year”.

    He reiterated that he would fulfil the orders for the water or refund the monies.

    Miss Norhidah said: “I’m just disappointed that they had cut off all contact when it was time to collect. They should at least have stayed around to explain themselves.”

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • Malaysian Muslim Man: Non-Muslims Should Not Have To Adjust To Accomodate Muslims’ Fast

    Malaysian Muslim Man: Non-Muslims Should Not Have To Adjust To Accomodate Muslims’ Fast

    This is exactly the spot where my daughter’s tutor sits when he comes to tutor her.

    He is a pious Christian. His free times are spent on missionary works. And when he is at my house, he has to sit under those frames.

    Did he complain that I was trying to convert him? Or that those Arabic names for Allah and Muhammad would lead him astray from his faith? Or that they would “rosakkan aQidah saya?”

    Did he ever request that his sitting be changed? Or that those frames be moved away or at least be covered by a batik sarong?

    Did he ask me to “respect” his faith? Or not to “insult” him or his faith?

    Well, he never did. Not even a word about those.

    That raises a question. Why is it that many Muslims in Mesia nowadays demand to be “respected” just because they are fasting? Why the need to close school canteens during Ramadhan? Why must non-Malay pupils be asked to drink behind closed doors and even in the toilet? Just because our kids are learning how to fast? Well, aren’t the non-Malay kids as well?

    I don’t care whether the minum-air-kencing statement was a joke. That misses the point.

    The point is why must non-Malay adjust their life to facilitate us, Muslims Melayoos, to fast?

    If that was necessary, why don’t we ask our non-Malay brothers and sisters not to study too hard so that we the Melayoos could at least get respectable marks during exams compared to them? Ask them to “respect” our inability to get good exams results? (I am not saying ALL of us are unable lah…so please don’t get emo with me here).

    Or ask them not to work too hard so that they don’t make too much more money than us.

    I call it self-pity.

    Which is, a pity, really.

     

    Source: Azhar Harun

  • Tambah Rezeki, Serikan Ramadan

    Tambah Rezeki, Serikan Ramadan

    Dari sejak sewanya hanya ratusan dolar hingga ia berjumlah ribuan dolar sekarang, keluarga Cik Sabariah A. Razak menyewa gerai Ramadan di tempat sama – berdektan perhentian bas bertentangan pusat beli-belah Tanjong Katong Complex.

    Ini kerana sebagai peniaga musiman, Cik Sabariah, 60 tahun, tidak mahu kehilangan pelanggan tetap yang beliau ada setelah saban tahun berniaga di bazar itu, menjaja pisang goreng, keropok lekor, wade dan burger Ramly.

    Lokasi gerai mereka juga strategik kerana pelanggan selalunya membeli juadah itu untuk dibawa pulang sebelum bas tiba.

    “Walaupun sewa semakin lama semakin naik – dulu paling rendah $800, sekarang paling kurang $13,000 – saya tetap membuka gerai kerana saya suka keriuhan menjual makanan di bazar Ramadan,” ujar beliau.

    Anaknya, Hyrul Amirul Hyril Annuar, 18 tahun, yang membantunya dalam perniagaan musiman itu, menambah: “Walaupun harga burger kami naik, bilangan pelanggan lebih kurang masih sama. Saya rasa mereka juga memahami mengapa kami menaikkan harga makanan kami.

    “Waktu saya masih kecil, saya masih ingat burger Ramly berharga $2.50. Kini, harganya sudah meningkat kepada $3.50. Tetapi, pelanggan tahu kadar sewa gerai bazar Ramadan sudah meningkat.

    “Perniagaan ini bermula ketika ayah saya muda dan saya rasa saya akan mengambil alih perniagaan ini suatu masa nanti,” katanya.

    Keuntungan daripada perniagaan itu dapat menokok wang yang diberi anak-anak Cik Sabariah, seorang suri rumah, kepadanya setiap bulan.

    Setiap tahun beliau menyimpan sebahagian daripada keuntungan itu bagi membiayai perbelanjaan perniagaan tahun depan.

    “Keuntungan yang saya dapat setiap hari dan setiap tahun tidak tetap. Kami hanya tahu jumlah keuntungan pada akhir bazar ini tapi alhamdulillah sepanjang tahuntahun lepas, ada keuntungan yang kami dapat,” kata Cik Sabariah.


    Jual kuih dari kampung ke bazar

    DAHULU, ibu bapa Encik Muhd Hanafi Mohd Ali menjual kuih Raya di Kampung Melayu Geylang Serai.

    Memandangk Kampung Melayu telah dirobohkan, mereka kini menyewa gerai bazar Ramadan berdekatan Stesen MRT Paya Lebar dan menamakan gerai mereka ‘Kuih Orang Kampung’.

    Encik Hanafi, 25 tahun, menolong menguruskan perniagaan musiman ibu bapanya di Kampung Melayu Geylang Serai itu sejak 15 tahun lalu.

    “Kami menjual kuih Raya di bazar di Geylang Serai setiap tahun dan kami gembira kerana jumlah pelanggan kami semakin lama semakin meningkat,” ujarnya.

    Menurut beliau, walaupun sewa gerai meningkat, jumlah pelanggan juga semakin bertambah.

    “Tahun lepas, gerai kami terletak di bazar di daerah Kampung Melayu Geylang Serai, sebelum ia dirobohkan.

    “Kami memang sudah ada pelanggan tetap dari Kampung Melayu dan apabila kami berpindah ke bazar Ramadan ini, kami berjaya menarik pelanggan baru, oleh itu menambahkan keuntungan gerai kami,” katanya.

    Namun, ia adalah perniagaan musiman keluarganya. Bapa Encik Hanafi bekerja sepenuh masa di sebuah syarikat pengimport ubat-ubatan tradisional Melayu, sementara beliau sendiri seorang paramedik di Hospital Besar Singapura (SGH).

    “Jualan gerai kuih-muih ini hanya pada bulan Ramadan sahaja,” jelas Encik Hanafi.

    Menurutnya, mereka mengamati apa yang dibeli pelanggan setiap tahun untuk melihat trend dan bagi persiapan tahun seterusnya.

    “Pada tahun-tahun lepas, kuih tradisional seperti tart nanas dan makmur tidak selaris kuih kukis dan pelbagai jenis kerepek.

    “Jadi tahun ini kami menambah bekalan kuih yang popular tahun lalu.” kata Encik Hanafi.


    Ghairah cuba nasib di tapak baru

    WALAUPUN sudah berniaga baju kurung Melayu di bazar Ramadan di Geylang Serai sejak 2003, pasangan suami isteri Encik Muhammad Hamid Mohammed Omar dan Cik Fatin Amirah Khaled lebih ghairah tahun ini.

    Ia kerana kali ini mereka menyewa gerai di bazar berdekatan Stesen MRT Paya Lebar dan tidak dekat Kampung Melayu Geylang Serai yang telah dirobohkan.

    Mereka mula berniaga di situ seminggu sebelum Ramadan.

    “Ini kali pertama kami menyewa gerai di bazar dekat Stesen MRT Paya Lebar jadi kami ghairah mahu melihat begaimanakah perniagaan kami di sini,” kata Encik Hamid, 32 tahun.

    Menurut Cik Fatin, 29 tahun, sewa di gerai itu tidak berbeza daripada di tempat biasa, iaitu kira-kira $6,000.

    “Namun, saya rasa tahun ini kami akan mendapat keuntungan yang lebih baik daripada tahun-tahun lalu kerana memandangkan tiada bazar di sekitar Kampung Melayu Geylang Serai, pelanggan tetap kami dan pengunjung lain akan membeli-belah di bazar lain, termasuk di tempat kami sekarang,” ujarnya.

    Menurut Encik Hamid, urusan membawa masuk baju kurung pelbagai corak untuk dijual di gerai mereka dijalankan bapanya.

    “Ini sebuah perniagaan musiman sahaja. Setiap tahun kami menyewa sebuah gerai di bazar Ramadan. Pekerjaan harian saya ialah sebagai guru tuisyen Matematik bagi pelajar yang akan menduduki peperiksaan GCE peringkat ‘O’,” jelasnya.

    “Alhamdulillah pekerjaan saya dan isteri saya sebagai seorang pustakawan serta perniagaan ini cukup untuk kami membiayai perbelanjaan keluarga kami,” tambah Encik Hamid.


    “Walaupun sewa semakin lama semakin naik – dulu paling rendah $800, sekarang paling kurang $13,000 – saya tetap membuka gerai kerana saya suka keriuhan menjual makanan di bazar Ramadan.”

    – Cik Sabariah A. Razak

    “Kami menjual kuih Raya di bazar di Geylang Serai setiap tahun dan kami gembira kerana jumlah pelanggan kami semakin lama semakin meningkat.”

    – Encik Muhd Hanafi Mohd Ali

    “… Saya rasa tahun ini kami akan mendapat keuntungan yang lebih baik daripada tahun-tahun lalu kerana memandangkan tiada bazar di sekitar Kampung Melayu Geylang Serai, pelanggan tetap kami dan pengunjung lain akan membeli-belah di bazar-bazar lain, termasuk di tempat kami sekarang.”

    – Cik Fatin Amirah Khaled

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

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