Many of us are not too happy with the ruckus and pandemonium at Masjid Amr al As last Friday. However it is unfortunately the direct result of our own apathy and callousness in upholding our own religion and places of worship. We knowingly allowed it to happen.
How could an obviously malicious swearing ceremony be held on such a slanderous issue just to run Anwar Ibrahim down in the eyes of fellow Malay Muslims. Mind you, only Malay Muslims because the rest of Malaysia finds this fanfare of oath taking by self confessed irreligious people quite perplexing and very intriguing. Non-Muslims are much bewildered by the frivolous use of our holy book and holy places as well as sacred words, time and time over again just to get Anwar.
If some may expect blazing lightning to strike, they would be disappointed to see only bedlam and uproar in the masjid. Evil begets evil. What started as false accusations and slander has transformed into blasphemy in the name of Allah swt. May Allah protect us!
Swearing has made qazaf - slander - develop into an acceptable religious form by three dubious characters vowing to subject themselves to eternal damnation in the event that they lied.
How come some Muslims still condone such blasphemy in a revered masjid - the swearing is the culmination of falsehood, the open declaration of qazaf - slander, supported, publicised and protected, just to desecrate the name of Allah? This is worse than a blast of thunder which some may wish to expect to hit them. This orchestrated event can only happen in a corrupted environment and a wicked system.
Is it not a calamity when JAWI, the religious department officials and security forces are accomplices and collaborating in such a shameful event? How can such rogues be accorded status, protection and publicity? This is disastrous and tragic morally.
It is a sorry and sad state to see religious scholars, knowledgeable persons and people of moral authority probably regarding themselves too highly to deserve such honour. Whatever has been said about preventing evil - nahy mungkar - has never been about upholding principles of justice and fighting corruption recently. It may have been a popular slogan but fails miserably in the face of authority, power and day to day realities of realpolitik. Corruption and abuse of power at the very top has never recently been challenged or rather it has been quite accommodating.
The question to ask is that is it true that combating corruption (more encompassing than bribery) is not a priority in Islamic governance and that Malay-Muslims are more tolerant and accommodating in issues of corruption.
Of course, not!
That is why we have to fight it and fight it hard.
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