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  • Zulfikar Shariff: Jangan Bandingkan Lee kuan Yew Dengan Nabi Muhammad

    Zulfikar Shariff: Jangan Bandingkan Lee kuan Yew Dengan Nabi Muhammad

    I received a message from a Tipah who is trying hard to promote LKY. According to this Tipah (who claims to study at UIA)

    “i done my homework…and sy dapati beberapa perkataan LKY yg sama dgn cara Nabi awak….yg paling ketara ketika Nabi masuki Madinah Baginda menukarkan sistem ekonomi Madinah dari pertanian dan penternakkan kpd perniagaan…tidakkah itu ucapan LKY di city hall tahun 1965??”

    Dah kena tipu gila.

    LKY pun tukar sistem ekonomi Singapura dari pertanian/ penternakan ke perniagaan juga?

    Wahai Tipah. Singapura sejak zaman nenek moyang memang pusat perniagaan.

    Singapura’s location and harbour made it an ideal centre for sea trade.

    And when the British came, they did not develop an agriculture based economy. They focused on trade.

    There were gambier and pepper plantations prior to British colonization and there were attempts to promote a rubber industry but none of these industries stood close to the entrepôt trade that Singapore conducted.

    The British developed the trade system that is still applied in Singapura today. Not LKY.

    Will you now claim the British colonization of Singapura is based on Islam?

    These Tipah keep insulting Rasulullah by saying a man who is known for his zalim model his governance after Rasulullah.

    Sayang LKY sangat sampai boleh hina Rasulullah?

     

    Source: Zulfikar Shariff

  • Zulfikar Shariff: Lee Kuan Yew Racist Islamophobe, Don’t Compare Him To Prophet Muhammad

    Zulfikar Shariff: Lee Kuan Yew Racist Islamophobe, Don’t Compare Him To Prophet Muhammad

    Ada segilintir orang Melayu yang cuma pertahankan claim bahawa Lee Kuan Yew mentadbir Singapura berlandaskan Islam.

    Tak perlulah cuba nak tegakkan benang yang basah. Benang ni bukan kena air sikit…dah kena celup dan berpintal-pintal.

    Rasulullah tidak zalim. Bahkan, Rasulullah rahmatul alamin.

    Baca sejarah LKY dan lihat betapa zalim orang ini. Dia robohkan masjid, menuntut agar orang Islam jangan amalkan Islam, kutuk Islam, kutuk Melayu..

    He imprisoned and made fitnah on anyone who posed a threat to his power.

    He promotes the demand for Muslims to relinquish Islam from our daily lives. Not only was it the views of a racist, Islamophobe, it became an institutional conduct.

    Ini pentadbiran Rasulullah ke?

    Sejak bila Rasulullah zalim?

    Jangan burukkan nama Rasulullah dengan mengaitkan makhluk yang termulia dengan seorang yang benci Islam dan yang zalim.

     

    Source: Zulfikar Shariff

  • Zulfikar Shariff: What is a Malay?

    Zulfikar Shariff: What is a Malay?

    Seperkara yang selalu dibahaskan ialah concept Melayu/ Islam.

    Ada yang menyatukan keduany (Melayu itu Islam), ada yang beranggapan keduanya tidak sama (Melayu itu bangsa dan Islam agama), ada yang merasakan menyatukan kedua perkara tidak wajar dan wajib dipisahkan.

    Insha Allah post ini akan memberi sedikit pencerahan tentang bangsa Melayu. Ada yang lebih ariff dan insha Allah I hope they can expand on the issue further.

    Bangsa Melayu tidak boleh difahamkan seperti suku. Suku ialah identiti melalui genetic. It is based on ancestry.

    Bangsa Melayu is not simply genetic but characteristic. Orang Melayu ialah seseorang yang diterima masyarakat Melayu sebagai Melayu.

    Penerimaan ini berdasarkan penggunaan bahasa Melayu, mengikut adat resam Melayu dan beragama Islam.

    That is how the Malays have identified themselves the last several hundred years.

    Not by ancestry, but through Islam, culture and language.

    The problem arose when the British arrived in the region. They could not understand how a race is based on characteristics that are seen to be dynamic. It also went against their understanding of race and ethnicity to accept the possibility that someone can “Masuk Melayu”. Since their understanding of themselves is based on ancestry, the British could not accept the nature of the Malay bangsa.

    For example, Abdullah Munsyi was ethnically an Indian. But he spoke for the Malays and was accepted by the Malays as a Malay.

    Such identification was normal for the Malays. But the British rejected it. It was only late in the 19th century that Malayness began to be taken as ethnicity with Islam being held as distinct.

    As Diana Carroll argued, “while it may be correct to say that Abdullah would not have appeared to be Malay by mid-twentieth century standards, this cannot be assumed to be the case when Abdullah was growing up.”

    Rather than accept simply how the British and the west defined Malayness, we should return to our own definition.

    Not every Muslim is a Malay. But every Malay is a Muslim.

    Diana Carroll. Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
    Vol. 72, No. 2 (277), JOHN M. GULLICK FESTSCHRIFT (1999), pp. 91-129

     

    Source: Zulfikar Shariff

  • Zulfikar Shariff: Lee Kuan Yew’s Legacy On Islam And Discrimination Of Malays Should Not Be allowed To Perpetuate

    Zulfikar Shariff: Lee Kuan Yew’s Legacy On Islam And Discrimination Of Malays Should Not Be allowed To Perpetuate

    Alhamdulillah, most of my friends are those who have not been indoctrinated.

    There are Muslims who have good intentions but lack political understanding. They assume that with his death, LKY does not have any further effect on Muslims. We should then move forward and not discuss him anymore.

    But that is the problem when someone lack appreciation of political narratives and try to make a claim on political effects. Let me make this simple to understand. An institution is made up of 3 primary components: routines, expected behaviour and shared goals. The government is an institution through the existence of the 3 characteristics.

    The shared goals (or shared reality) is a set of ideas, values, philosophies that are developed through the institution. In the PAP and government, how Muslims are engaged and treated owes a lot to Lee Kuan Yew’s views of reducing Islam to its bare minimum

    His demands for rejection of various aspects of Islam were not adopted through any objective measure. Rather, they were granted legitimacy simply through the force of his demands.

    Ideas do not die with the death of its advocates. They live on. The way Lee Kuan Yew discriminates the Muslims, lives beyond his natural life.

    Thus, the only way to challenge the ideas and halt its promotion is to challenge the narrative surrounding Lee Kuan Yew. Delegitimise his interaction and management of the community and his ideas of how the Muslims should be discriminated (while pretending to support) loses currency.

    So for those who want to keep quiet and accept his legacy, that is your right. Do that. Those who want to promote him as the spirit of Singapore’s development, you can do that too.

    The rest of us will tear down the fiction of Lee Kuan Yew’s history. Not because we want to discuss the man.

    But because his ideas on how the community should be discriminated and how Islam should be rejected cannot be allowed to live on.

     

    Source: Zulfikar Shariff

  • Muslims Should Do Duty For Allah And Seek Approval Only From Him

    Muslims Should Do Duty For Allah And Seek Approval Only From Him

    Dear brothers and sisters

    When we speak about what has been going on the last few days, do not do so because we hate a man.

    Or because we are angry with members of the community.

    Those who have made mistakes (and some who keep doing so) are our brothers and sisters. We do not speak out of anger or hatred. We speak to remind each other and ourselves.

    We speak to strengthen the ummah.

    LKY is irrelevant. We need to reject his ideology especially as it pertains to Islam.

    There are too many Muslims who have followed his way.

    They give up Allah’s commands to please him.

    They compromise Islam.

    They sought his approval rather than Allah.

    These are the ideologies and behaviour that we need to reject. We need to make sure it is removed from the community.

    The only one we seek approval from is Allah. Not any man.

    We do not make excuses for compromises. What is wajib is wajib.

    When someone stops us from our obligations to Allah, we strive to remove the hindrance. Not to simply keep quiet and accept.

    We remind each other not out of anger or hatred.

    But because we love our brothers and sisters.

    We are Muslims.

    And that is all that matters.

     

    Source: Zulfikar Shariff