Letter to YB Nik Mohamad Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz

MM Online - Number of flood victims in Kelantan increases to 7,036 people (extracts):

KOTA BARU, Jan 21 ― The number of flood victims in Kelantan increased to 7,036 people (2,030 families) as at 5pm today, from 4,345 people (1,182 families) at noon.

According to the Social Welfare Department, through its Infobanjir application, all the victims are provided temporary shelter at 53 evacuation centres in seven districts in the state.

Kota Baru district recorded the highest number of flood victims, totalling 2,362 people (728 families) at 18 evacuation centres, followed by Pasir Mas, involving 1,602 victims (455 families) at 19 centres and Pasir Puteh, 1,588 people (436 families) at nine centres.

A total of 803 people (226 families) have also been evacuated in Tumpat and they are being accommodated at two evacuation centres in the district, while in Bachok, 425 people (111 families) have been evacuated to a relief centre.

In Machang, 167 people (49 families) have been evacuated to two relief centres and in Tanah Merah, two centres have been opened to accommodate 89 flood victims (25 families).

aisehman, velly hensom lah 

My dear Yang Berhormat Nik Mohamad Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz,

Assalamualaikum. Semoga Yang Berhormat dan keluarga berada dalam keadaan yang sihat, aman dan makmur, walaupun pada sekarang adalah basah sedikit - Alhamdulillah.

Ingatkah Yang Berhormat, apa Yong Berhormat sebut 3 tahun dulu?

Baiklah, sampai titik sini saya menamat tulisan Bahasa saya buat tidak menakutkan (horrify) Yang Berhormat, wakakaka.

In 2014, you wrote in your Facebook page (and which was duly reported in a couple of Malaysian news portals) that the floods in Kelantan then were intended to remind Muslims to return to Allah’s path, and of the necessity in implementing the Islamic penal code in the state.

You remarked: “The flood is a reminder to all Muslims to return to Allah’s ways and stay away from His wrath.

“It necessitates the perseverance of the Kelantan government to implement hudud laws.”

Then tens of thousands of the suffering rakyat in Kelantan, Terengganu, Perlis and Pahang had had to be evacuated from their homes due to floods in various districts.

In other words, my dear Yang Berhormat, you had at that distressful moment provided us with your most halal opinion that Allah swt was very angry (wrathful) with Malaysians, which I took it as mainly Muslims in Kelantan and Terengganu.

I had thought the Muslims in Kelantan and Terengganu have been the most pious Muslims, thus I was a wee bemused by your warning to them that “the flood is a reminder to all Muslims to return to Allah’s ways and stay away from His wrath."

To recapitulate, based on you blessed advice, Allah swt wrecked His Divine punishment on 'wayward' Muslims in Kelantan and Terengganu by sending the devastating floods.

Sadly several Muslims in Kelantan and Terengganu perished in the 2014 flood, while more than two hundred thousands in your East Coast were forced to evacuate from their flooded homes.

But Yang Berhormat, one question please - why was it, as per your warning statements above (in your Facebook page), that Allah swt targeted mainly Muslim supporters of your PAS' avowed intention to implement hudud.

Though I was and am still a non-believer (my atheistic and probably non-halal apologies) I would have thought that logically (according to your blessed wisdom) those bloody DAP people who did not support hudud should have been the ones to be punished!

Was I wrong? Please correct me as I was/still am less, very much less, knowledgeable than Yang Berhormat.

But nonetheless, after serious reflections on the above puzzling paradox, I believed (then) I might have the answer, admittedly through sweet secular speculations (wakakaka), and based in part on what Perkid president Masridi Sat had then reminded the news portal Malaysiakini, that of Aceh being hit by earthquakes.

Now what exactly did Masridi Sat say about Aceh?

Give me a few secs and I'll come to it, but let me say something about Selena Gomez first as it's connected to what the Perkid president said.

In June 2016 as gorgeous (ooops ... sorry) Selena Gomez, an American singer thrilled thousands of fans in Stadium Malawati, Shah Alam.

I hope you know who she was/is, but in case you don't I have attached a few of her photographs here for your ease of identifying who I am referring to.

please excuse her dressing as she was born in Texas, USA, which is a very very hot state 

Some 20 members of an Islamic group called Pertubuhan Kebajikan Darul Islah Malaysia (Perkid) performed solat hajat (special prayers but aiyah, Yang Berhormat knows this lah) and recited Yasin just outside her concert premises. 

By the by, a Selangor PAS exco member at that time also directed mosques within the state to hold solat hajat to pray for sweetie's ... err ... I mean .... her concert to be cancelled. Alas, the concert was not cancelled. Perhaps that PAS exco member's prayers needed a bit more oomph?

Anyway, back to Perkid - its president Masridi Sat told Malaysiakini that they did that (solat hajat) to prevent the concert from triggering any disasters. He said:

"Kelantan has been flooded, Aceh was hit with earthquakes. Any time, something could happen to us."

"If disaster strikes, it doesn't matter whether someone is religious or not, it will affect everyone."


As you would be aware, Aceh has already fully implemented full syariah laws inclusive of hudud punishment, a legislative status quo which your PAS Kelantan state government wishes for.

But my dear Yang Berhormat, based on the common denominators of natural disasters suffered by both Kelantan and Aceh, floodings in the former and earthquakes in the latter, at that time (last year) I was inclined to believe you might have been wrong in misreading Allah swt.

HE might actually be NOT pleased at all by some Muslim clerics taking the law (excuse my pun) into their own hands and misusing His Divine Name.

It's possible that your god might have wanted syariah laws to be fully implemented ONLY when a truly pious Muslim is in control, and certainly not the current crop of Muslim clerics like those in an agency called JAWI, who wasted god's given time to harass a young Malay woman who worked at Borders, all because Borders sold some books PRIOR to those books being banned by the government.

Apart from the FACT that the books were not yet banned when they were sold, hence their sales were very legal, I reckon it might be that those JAWI officers could not prosecute a non-Muslim Borders Book Store which could have persuaded them to redirecting their super geram-fury at another target, a Muslim lady, oh yes, someone of the weaker gender, which alas for her, JAWI prosecuted and persecuted kau kau for more than two years.

Chinese Penangites have a term for the JAWI anger directed at an alternative and convenient female Muslim substitute or replacement target, to wit, "ch'oot k'ee" (translated: vent the anger).

Yes, my dear Yang Berhormat Nik Mohamad Abduh, would you agree with me that some of your ulama are yet to meet the exacting standards of Allah swt, so perhaps the implementation of hudud is not yet appropriate when the code of punishments may well be misused by bullying clerics like JAWI who lack the compassion, humanity and mercy of Allah swt?

And as a final friendly reminder (kaytee being a friendly sort of bloke), the current flooding in Kelantan and Terengganu, which has once again affected so many Muslims in those states into becoming evacuees, must be considered very very seriously, as per your blessed wisdom provided to us in 2014, as a possible Divine omen to cease and desist from your mortal desire for increasing punishments (or even hudud) allowed for the syariah courts.

I wonder why your party president wants to flog offenders of Islamic moral laws 100 times instead of just 6?

Implementation of syariah laws including hudud or increased punishments for the syariah courts to mete out shall only be for Allah swt to tell us when to implement them.

Bertaubatlah if you realize you might have been too arrogant, hubristic and incorrect in 2014 in your pompous and politicized presumptions to daringly, arbitrarily and blasphemously speak on behalf of Allah swt.

Allah swt is all merciful, forgiving and compassionate.

Salam mesra,

Yang Ikhlas,

kaytee

p/s I used to date Sabaxxxxx from your constituency, Pasir Mas, but I now realize we can't ride on a Honda Cub bike as without her holding onto my waist as she used to do, she might fall down from the bike.