Satu artikel dibawah ini yang boleh
mengundang banyak kontorversi dan menambahkan kekalutan umat Islam di
negara ini. Golongan ulama yang berani memperkatakan kebenaran harus
diberi lebih banyak ruang memberi kefahaman Islam kepada masyarakat
Islam bukan hanya di TV Al Hijrah tetapi juga di TV1, TV3 pada waktu
perdana. Jika tidak berlakulah seperti apa dibawah ini, bekas tahanan
ISA tidak lagi menunaikan solat Jumaat setelah dibebaskan kerana atas
alasan mufti kata solat Fardu Jumaat untuk mereka dalam tahanan tidak
wajib, tetapi solat Sunat Idil Fitri boleh pula dilakukan semasa
dalam tahanan. Tak ke pening orang umum bila baca artikel ini kalau
diterjemahkan ke Bahasa Melayu yang fardu tak boleh, yang sunat
boleh.
Friday prayers are NOT compulsory, said
the Mufti
Friday, 11 January 2013
Let us contemplate one example. When I
was in Kamunting back in 2008, we were told by the detention camp
authorities that we are not allowed to do our Friday congregational
prayers. (In fact, after I was released, I made a police report at
the Sentul Police Station regarding this matter).
It is not that the 50 or 60 of us
detainees wanted permission to walk to the mosque down the road to do
these Friday prayers -- even if they handcuffed us and chained us in
a chain gang (which means there would be no way we could escape). We
wanted to do these Friday prayers within our own cellblock.
But we were told we are not allowed to
do our Friday prayers because they are not compulsory and that this
was a ruling or decree by the famous Perak Mufti himself. So why are
we so stubborn in insisting that we be allowed to do our Friday
prayers? The Mufti is the highest religious authority in Perak and
Kamunting is in Perak. So don’t be stubborn and listen to what you
have been told, they said.
Then came Hari Raya (I was in Kamunting
for Hari Raya 2008) and the other detainees got together to do their
Hari Raya congregational prayers. I, however, was not allowed to join
them because I was in solitary confinement so I was not allowed to
mix with the other detainees. Nevertheless, I could hear them do the
Hari Raya prayers next door to my cellblock.
Now, as far as I know, the Friday
congregational prayers are compulsory while the Hari Raya
congregational prayers are not. But the government denied the
detainees permission to do the compulsory Friday congregational
prayers but allowed them to do the optional Hari Raya congregational
prayers. And this was based on the ruling or decree by the highest
religious authority in the State of Perak, the Mufti.
I do not have any certificate, diploma
or degree from any of the Islamic universities but my common sense
tells me that when something is compulsory then you must do it and
when something is optional you are not obligated to do it. And even a
ten-year-old Malay-Muslim can tell you that the Friday congregational
prayers are compulsory while the Hari Raya congregational prayers are
not.
Nevertheless, since the ‘big man’
himself, the Perak Mufti, has issued a ruling or decree that the
Friday congregational prayers are NOT compulsory, and since
Malaysians are obligated to comply with these rulings and decrees
issued by these authorities, I have since stopped doing my Friday
congregational prayers. I no longer go to the mosque on Fridays.
I am still waiting for the Perak Mufti
to issue a new ruling or decree saying that the Friday congregational
prayers are, in fact, compulsory. And since he has not and until he
does then I would regard this ruling or decree as binding and
something that I am obligated to comply with.
So, yes, the Mufti is the highest
religious authority in the land. He tells us what we must and must
not do. And we must follow what he tells us to do, or not to do. And
the Perak Mufti has told us that we cannot do the Friday prayers
because they are not compulsory. So who am I to argue with the
highest religious authority in the land? I do what he tells us to do
and not do what he tells us not to do. And he said: DO NOT do your
Friday congregational prayers. So be it. I stopped doing them. After
all, I am a good Malaysian and an obedient Muslim
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