Munafik

Damn great word 'munafik'. I have been told it means 'hypocrite'. The Bahasa word was derived from the Arabic language.

Cerita lama okay? One day, when working in KL some years back, I was with my department boss, a humorous Malay gentleman, when he rang up one of his subordinates, a section leader (let's just call him X), at around 12.30 pm during the month of Ramadan.

Now, everyone on the department knew X, though generally harmless, was an unmitigated hypocrite, saying one thing to his Muslim subordinates while doing exactly what he warned them against doing, eg. preaching about the sin of gambling while he visited Gentings almost every weekend, wakakaka, and not only that, would on Monday mornings be moaning about his inevitable loss at the cards (but only to his non-Muslim staff members) wakakaka again.

Anyway, while waiting for X to pick up the ringing phone, my boss winked at me and said (words to the effect): "If X doesn't pick up the phone, I'll love to hear what excuse he has for not being present in his office as he doesn't need lunch during Ramadan".

Wakakaka, such was the quirky humour of my old boss.

As would have it, X indeed wasn't around and my boss subsequently had a real gala time teasing him. My boss wasn't punitive, oppressive nor vindictive, seeing only the funny side of sins committed by X and many others, including himself. He was really a humble self-critical bloke and loved to joke. The old gentleman had since left us for better place - al Fatihah - I do miss the kindly man, his humorous views of the world and indeed his jokes, not forgetting his missus' lovely nasi lemak and various kueh-mueh.

Anyway, fast forward to the present, on to the subject of another set of Arabic words, to wit, 'kafir harbi' with which our dear and most remarkable Pahang Mufti had recently labeled those who oppose PAS' proposed amendment bill to increase the quantum of punishments the syariah courts can hukum offenders of Islamic laws.

Yalah, punish punish punish kau kau kau - syioknya!

Kafir harbi are murderous words or words with a murderous intent as they signal to the devout Muslims that those so labelled are belligerent infidels and could be legitimately killed or as stated, halal to spill their blood.

By the way, don't depend on the IGP to arrest him for seditious utterances as his statement had been made with a political objective (someone's objective) in mind, namely, to deter any would be Muslim supporter of DAP from continuing their support for the kafir harbi. That's why he has so pompously and recalcitrantly refused to withdraw those murderous words

Look mateys, he is nothing more than just another BN macai but one wearing a serban and yelling from the pulpit rather than one carrying a stick or parang.

But let's see what sort of mufti he is. Farouk Peru, a MM Online journalist wrote of him:

Firstly, on the obviously political bias being employed by Abdul Rahman. It must be remembered that the largest political party most unfortunately for the nation is the Malay-Muslim Umno. Despite PAS’s pressure to implement Shariah law, Umno has resisted all this while.

If Umno was truly committed to its implementation, they would have cast aside their coalition partners for the sake of “Islam.” No, they chose to remain in power (back then MCA and MIC actually mattered) and put Shariah in second place. Are they kafir harbi or at least munafik (hypocrites)?

Not a peep from Abdul Rahman. Secondly, is Abdul Rahman himself implementing Shariah? Ok, I admit he cannot ratify the barbaric hudud laws but where is his denouncement of Malaysia’s Las Vegas in his home state? I don’t recall any condemnation from him because his Dar al-Islam (abode of Islam) is being compromised?

If he was a staunch believer in Shariah, he would have resigned and have no part in this policy. He is no better than those who served YAPEIM and enjoyed golfing holidays at their expense.

And this has been the part that shows Mufti Abdul Rahman Osman to be a munafik, a hypocrite:

... but where is his denouncement of Malaysia’s Las Vegas in his home state? I don’t recall any condemnation from him because his Dar al-Islam (abode of Islam) is being compromised? If he was a staunch believer in Shariah, he would have resigned and have no part in this policy ...


Amin.