19.9.2008.
The holy month of Ramadan is mentioned in the Quran as being specially "barakah"(Malay berkat, but barakah is more than that). This is the month of nuzul Quran, or the deliverence of the Quran to Muhammad s.a.w. so that the word of God can be conveyed to all mankind for their guidence and salvation.
I'm not particularly steeped in religious teachings, beyond the simple Islamic obligations that were imparted to me in my primary school days. I guess I qualify to be called a "practising Muslim" as the term is generally understood. But in this month of Supplication I wish God could convey to me the understanding of the incongruencies of the current Malaysian mess.
The mess of the last General Elections have not fully played out the extreme repurcussions, including the completely wasteful and pointless bye-election in Permatang Pauh. The mess of the mismanagement, or perhaps more accurately, non-management of the economy should strike cold fear to the entire citizenary, but unexplicably is not. The mess with religious-cultural-racial juxtapositioning of contradictions and anomosities, mostly fed by ignorance and fuelled by sentiment and bigotry should make everyone cringe, but everybody seems quite happy to play with fire.
The Constitution is bandied around like a scrap of worthless paper. Certainly the other lesser laws are broken again and again like scraps of worthless paper.
I'd like to shout out - "who the hell is in-charge here !"
The question facing all Malaysians, while there still exist such creatures, is not an UMNO problem anymore. Every single one of us, especially people like me who have no place else to run away to - no Australia or New Zealand or Canada -must gang up and get rid of Dollah . "They" say Najib is no better, nor Muhyiddin, or Anwar Ibrahim or Hadi Awang. But we don't know for sure. What is as sure as the sun still rises from the East is Dollah is disaster. If Malaysians of all creed and colour don't get rid of this fellow, then we all deserve him.
While Ramadan is still here, I'm praying extra hard.
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1 comment:
Zam,
To use your own words, Ramadhan is full of Barakah and it's Blessed because the Al-Quran is delivered in this Holy month. In accord with that spirit, we should be more forgiving and tolerant on the shortcomings of Pak Lah. After all whoever is the PM shall not be spared the barrage of horrible condemnation in one way or another.
Do you think anyone could do better under the circumstances, bearing in mind that the best shy away from standing for elections for the past five decades?
So don't blame Pak Lah for the ills that plague us now, but you should blame yourself because when you were an UMNO State Assemblyman, you too supported his appointment as a grass root leader of UMNO from Kolopilah!
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