Finance Twitter : After royal decrees from the Sultanate of Selangor, Perak and Johor banning politicians from using mosques to deliver religious lectures or “ceramahs” – which are actually political propaganda – Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin becomes the latest monarch to do so. The order was issued in a statement on March 3 by MAIDAM (Terengganu’s Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council).
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Read it all here......Apparently, Sultan Mizan of Terengganu was upset that some politicians have not only misused the holy and honourable religious institutions without the council’s approval, but have also abused “mosques and suraus” to create anxiety, restlessness – even dangerously instigate social unrest among the multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-ethnic community.
The royal order effectively prohibits Abdul Hadi Awang, president of Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS – Parti Islam Se-Malaysia), from delivering his usual Friday sermon in his own Marang parliamentary constituency. Rusila Mosque has been Hadi’s favourite place to deliver his usual dose of religious extremism and racist bigotry lectures to his legions of gullible supporters.
Obviously, the Sultan of Terengganu, following the steps of his royal brothers, was tightening the screws on the Islamist party as power-hungry Hadi appears to be getting out of control. However, the decree might be too little too late as the PAS president has boldly and rudely rejected the sultan’s instruction. Heck, he even publicly announced his decision to ignore the royal decree.
In a clear sign of treason and treachery, Hadi Awang said not only he will continue to give his religious and political speech in mosques, but has even lectured Sultan Mizan that prophets were known to give such sermons in mosques. The defiance was a slap in the face of the sultan. Worse, Hadi seems to consider himself as prophets, and there’s nothing the sultan can do.
In Malaysia, the sultan is the supreme religious leader of his respective state. Meanwhile, a state’s Islamic affairs body like the MAIDAM is entrusted and empowered by the sultan to keep Muslims faithfully in check and to ensure they practice their faith according to Islam. To defy MAIDAM, which was doing its jobs on behalf of Sultan Mizan, is tantamount to opposing the Malay Ruler.
Instead of seeking a consultation with the monarch, the arrogant Hadi chose to belittle and humiliate the sultan openly – the same way his corrupted party previously ridiculed Sultan Sharafuddin of Selangor as someone not qualified and gullible in matters of Islam. In fact, it’s not an exaggeration to suggest that Hadi has announced a declaration of war with Sultan Mizan.
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