assalamualaikum
in the name of Allah the Most Gracious the Most Merciful
Medicine, Engineering and Religion are 3 of many interesting fields, regardless if they are interrelated to one another or not.
Many times I have emphasised the necessity to think critically and creatively.
For example in medicine, hypertension(or high blood pressure) is a disease that has become an endemic in Malaysia. To manage this issue both critically and creatively, we tackle hypertension through modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors. The decision to use Beta Blockers and not thiazide is based on evidence, through a precise study.
In engineering, though I am not an expert, the construction of Petronas KLCC was based through knowledge, and one can't simply build an 88 level towers by placing a brick on top of another.
Let's take it to the yoga's fatwa issue, too many minds have become so slow to analyse criticially and creatively. You have to question why yoga is wrong, what evidence do they have, can we modify so that it can become practicable, what alternatives we can provide if it's truly forbidden and ask more and more questions.
This is the mistake that the passive minded Fatwa Council has failed to realise. They expect everyone to follow them blindly, when this is the last thing we want them to do. They should educate, and the practice of suddenly throwing fatwa to everyone's face is wrong.
Dr Asri, the soon to resign from Perlis's Mufti position, spoke to The Star re this issue.
Come to think of it again, only a few Mufti's are recognised to the eyes of Malaysian public, thus how we can place our trust in the Fatwa Council 100% when we hardly know them?
We the Malays do not need these passive Mufti's anymore!!
till next time,
assalamualaikum
2 comments:
I definitely agree with your statements Azry. Actually I was waiting for these Muftis to go public and broadcast their findings from studies that they did, to justify their reasonings about particularly yoga. Even Datuk Shabeery Chik dah kasik green light to use RTM to present their findings, not sure this has happened. I found an article in the NST online, about pengkid one day, who one of the Muftis was interviewed. Also there was another article in Utusan Malaysia where one Mufti (I think the Head) gives reasoning about yoga. I found the yoga explanation fed my curiosity to some extent. Basically they say that yoga links to concept of unity with God, and the use of mantras are among the main reasons banning it. Not sure if it came out in the tangible version of Utusan Malaysia, though. But I think it is probably the case. My personal level view was that yes, I was disappointed and kind of ashamed with the fatwa at first, but after reading the reasonings, I thought that they are well justifying the banning of yoga and pengkid. However, they did not publish any studies that they said they did. Now, I am not particularly sure what do they mean by "studies" because my first impression was "academic study", that was why I was expecting a presentation about the datas, and everything what not. The Mufti Council, however, did not present these data they found, if there is any. I think, personally the bottom line is, that the Badan Mufti was not doing enough homework about this matter, such that it created a significant outrage among not only Muslims, but non-Muslims too. I thought that it could be done better, considering that we as society, have many races and religions in Malaysia. I blamed Majlis Fatwa for not being politically and democratically competent. Malaysia is not like Arab Saudi. Everything is delicate, and therefore announcing one thing, though it just matters to Muslims, will be asked by our non-Muslim friends. If we did not start from recognizing that "Hey we Muslims are better off explaining to everyone about this issue because of the responses and outrage" then I think that is probably not the best way to do. Remember that the further apart we want to label ourselves in a society such as what we have in Malaysia, racial harmony will erode in time, believe me. Yes there will be some borderlines we implement, but I guess it will not hurt to explain? Some of us Muslims duk busy cakap dakwah ni penting, tapi bila time nak explain benda kat non-Muslims after they asked, terus cakap senyapla itu la ini la. I strongly disagree with this particular line of thought. Agreed with you Azri, if we do not allow controlled questionings, we just allow corruption to happen. Yes as Muslims we are required to obey Muftis and stuffs, but if we follow blindly without reasonings, what makes us different from lembu then? After all Islam is not a religion that does not promote thinking, and secondly there must definitely be some reasonings behind every rules, right? Such as kenapa tak boleh makan khinzir, because of the germs for example. Must be reasonings somewhere and since these Muftis are so called the thinking machines of Muslims laws, takkan nak explain betul-betul pun tak boleh? Unless diorg tak boleh explain then that would create another long discussion from me someday!
anon: dus,panjangnye nak baca.dh la satu perenggan je sume..hehe..
diorg kene berubah,tanggungjawab diorg sebagai pemimpin tu.kalau xnak,kita akan ubah org kat atas tu..
banyak sgt corruption kot.......
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