Assalaamu'alaikum Warahmatullaahi Wabarakaatuh
MUSLIM UNITY IN THE 21st CENTURY
Below is a speech delivered 10 years ago which is still relevant today. Muslim politicians in Malaysia today are compromising their aqidah in their attempt to be elected by a multi-racial, multilingual dan multi-religious voters. Pluralisme, liberalisme, the replacement of the 'syariah' with a 'welfare' state, the acceptance of LGBTs and the drive to allow the use of 'Allah' for all the gods of other religions including the Trinity of the Nicene Creed and the pagan gods, are really signs of desperation in the crave of power, which has driven such leaders into moral decadence.
In desperate craze for power Muslim Malay leaders are used by those who intend to split the Muslims to the extent of having the courage of declaring that (a) the Syariah will only be introduced over my dead body and (b) I will spend all my remaining life to see that a non Malay will be the Prime Minister of Malaysia.
While the National Front ruling party has never denied the right of any citizen to be elected to become a Prime Minister, the above statements are certainly uttered based on the legal expertise of the arrogant politician as he knows that the Malay leadership in the opposition is dependent on him for winning the legal battles in the courts of law.
Thank you.
Keynote Address by Tan
Sri Dato’ Seri Sanusi bin Junid in The International Conference on Muslim Unity
in the 21st Century: Opportunities and Challenges, Nikko Hotel,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 1st October 2003
MUSLIM UNITY IN THE 21st CENTURY
Assalaamu’alaikum Warahmatullaahi Wabarakaatuh
Mr. Chairman,
Rector of International Islamic University
Malaysia,
Honoured guests,
Fellow participants of the seminar,
Ladies and gentlemen
INTRODUCTION
As Chairman of the International Institute for
Muslim Unity (IIMU) at the International Islamic University Malaysia, I take
this opportunity to welcome all of you to this conference.
UNITY
The subjects for our deliberations at this
conference are centred upon the word ‘unity’.
USURY
The day before yesterday, there was another
conference on finding solutions to our economic problems via the use of gold as
currency. The most important word for that conference was ‘usury’. Usury is, at
different rates of tolerability and with different names, at the centre of the
current world banking and financial system.
DISUNITY
While we are about to implement the usage of
gold in international trade, our biggest obstacle is unity or disunity among
us.
Before we adopt or harbour negative views on
Muslim unity, let us admit that we are better off today than we were before the
fall of the Berlin Wall, the eviction of communism from Russia and the
improvisation of communism in China.
In the second half of the twentieth century,
we have been united enough to enable us to establish the following
institutions:
1. The Organisation of
Islamic Conference (OIC)
2. The Islamic Development
Bank (IDB)
3. The International Islamic
University Malaysia (IIUM)
4. The International Institute for Muslim Unity (IIMU)
4. The International Institute for Muslim Unity (IIMU)
5. The Islamic Gold Dinar
for International Trade (GIT)
The second last is a growing institution while
the last is ready for launching.
FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL
In the past i.e. before the fall of the Berlin
Wall, we used to cooperate with the Western Commission, a name we give to those
who are against Islam, to fight against the ungodly communism. Let us look at
some of those reports that show the situation before the collapse of communism.
WHAT ENEMIES SAY?
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) AND ISRAEL
A former CIA official, Cord Meyer, put it in
early 1979 as follows:
“The disintegration of the Iranian army is
seen as an accomplished fact that has already caused a seismic shift in the
power balance throughout the entire region. For many years, Iran’s army served
to keep in check Iraqi ambitions against Israel and Kuwait, protected the
Sultan of Oman against the Dhofar guerrillas, armed by South Yemen and
reaasured Sadat in Egypt and the Saudi princes. A tempting vacuum now yawns
where once the Shah’s army stood.”
INSTABILITY
At the end of 1979, former Israeli ambassador
to the United States, Chaim Herzog summed up part of the record for political
instability:
“In the past 18 months alone, four Arab
Presidents were removed, one assassinated in Yemen, one executed by assassins
in Southern Yemen, one removed by a coup in Mauritania and one recently by a
coup in Iraq. Thirteen of the current heads of Arab states, over 50 percent of
them, have succeeded immediate predecessors who were violently removed from
office, in most cases from this life. In the past 15 years, there have been 12
fierce and bitter wars in which Arabs were pitted against Arabs in bloody
internecine strife.”
THE PERSIAN GULF
All these happened because of the following
prevailing views:
“No arm of the sea has been or is of greater
interest alike to the geologist and archaeologist, the historian and
geographer, the merchant, and the student of strategy than the inland water known
as the Persian Gulf” Sir Arnold Wilson (Richard Nixon – The Real War-Warner
Books-1980)
In other words, because of the importance of
the land surrounding the Persian Gulf, with oil resources, it is important for
the enemies of Islam to ensure that all leaders and governments in the
neighbouring countries around the Persian Gulf are friendly to, or installed by
the Western Commission or those who are against Islam.
THE WESTERN COMMISSION
I am using the term ‘Western Commission’
instead of the West because not all western governments are against Islam and
not all thinking citizens of countries whose governments are against Islam
share the same sentiments towards Islam, just as not all citizens in Islamic
nations are not against Islam.
There are ambassadors and high commissioners
of nations whose governments are against Islam who cannot reveal their true
feeling towards Islam even if they do not share their governments’ sentiment,
as some of them know better about Islam than their leaders.
Sometimes even in nation where the governments
appear to be anti-Islam, only one or two in the leadership of those nations are
really against Islam. The rest do not speak out in case they jeopardise their
profitable positions.
FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE LEADERSHIP IN THE WESTERN COMMISSION
Whether Christians or Jews, members of the
Western Commission put reason above all religions and those who stand only for
reasons are regarded as being mentally with, and supportive of, them.
Three western thinkers have classified adventurous
leaders in history into three categories. And that all their adventures are
driven by three main factors: sex, wealth and power.
Sigmund Freud attributed sex to be the
influential factor determining the aggressive behaviour of man in any venture. Men
with strong sexual drive tend to be aggressively driven while in war and in
politics. Julius Caesar was driven into battles by Cleopatra in his effort to
impress and win her, while Napoleon was penning off many short love letters to
Josephine during battles in the intervals when the artillery were firing with
their canons.
Karl Marx, on the other hand, attributed the
aggressive attitude to the madness for wealth. When the rich becomes richer and
the poor becomes poorer, the glaring disparity between the two could result in
revolutions, in battles and in wars that would cause bloodshed resulting in
everybody being poorer. Malaysia had very little experience, the famous 13th
May 1969, although it was not to the level of Bolshevik revolution.
Bertrand Russell attributed the aggressive
driving force in war and politics to the craze for power. Political conflicts
in our own country are not only happening nationally but also down to the
village level. This is also happening in many Muslim nations worldwide. We are
obsessed in the democratic practices of competing for positions everywhere
although no Muslim thinker, since Aristotle defined democracy, has contributed
in any way to the improvement or adjustments in the original Greek idea of
democracy.
Islam on the other hand is not opposed to sex,
wealth and power provided they are experienced, earned and acquired legitimately
in a way which allowed by Islam and not opposed to Islamic teachings.
In the case of the Persian Gulf, the Western
Commission’s interest is definitely in wealth, in the form of oil, which leads
to power. But the leaders involved directly and distantly in battle could be
sexually driven.
At this juncture, we should not just look into
the nations or the companies who are causing all the problems either in any
geographical area or battles. We should look for the man behind the action, for
nations, as organisations and companies can change their policies with changes
in their leadership.
This does not mean that in many cases, battles
are stopped just by a change in leadership. But if the leadership in any
nation, whatever the leader’s motivation may be, is driven by other forces with
their own agendas, then a change in leadership will not bring about changes in
policies.
As such, terrorism against Islam will not
change with the leadership changes in Israel or the United States. These leaders
do not set their national agendas. They are puppets on the political stage. Muslims
must therefore prepare for a long struggle.
WHAT WE AGREE UPON
Many suggestions have been made and many ideas
have been promoted for the Muslims in their preparation for the long struggle.
Everyone agrees that the struggle will be
long.
Every Muslim is also agreeable that to succeed
we need to be strong economically.
We also agree that to defend ourselves from
the onslaught of western technology we should educate ourselves and acquire
those technologies.
But the Russians have the technologies and are
capable of facing the Western Commission. Are we educating ourselves, then, in
the hope of becoming Russians or Americans, godless and immoral respectively?
Certainly the answer is ‘no’.
We wish to be a courageous and wealthy Muslims
with the unsurpassable knowledge and practical ability in the various field of
science and technology. But we must remain Muslims.
We do have courage without discipline.
We do have wealth without moral.
We do have a limited amount of knowledge and
technology.
It is due to indiscipline and immorality,
coupled with the limited of knowledge and possibly because of the lack of it,
that the Muslims are not united.
We therefore need to keep on pounding on the
subject of unity by as many means and methods as we could think of. We should
not allow any leaf unturned in our search for unity. There is no one formula,
one champion for its achievement. We need all the brains of the Muslims of the
world to drive the idea of unity to a level of obsession that no army on earth,
however big, can stop Muslim unity when the time comes.
I noted that this is the first conference ever
held in the world which covers so many subjects which are needed to be
discussed in our journey towards unity.
I will only focus on what Islam calls for, as I
have for 30 years been in active politics, as elected representatives, in and
out of the government, and observed how Muslims forget being good Muslims as
they acquire more wealth and power and how they return to Islam when they lose
those wealth and power, while others keep on praying.
Let us therefore acquire more knowledge, wealth
and power but we must not forget what the Quran says.
WHAT ISLAM CALLS FOR
Among others:
“This, your religion (nation), is one religion
(nation) and I am your Lord, so worship Me” (Quran 21:92 and 23:52)
You will see that the faithful, in their having
mercy for one another and in their love for one another and in their kindness
towards one another are like the body, when one member of it ails, the entire
body ails, as one part calls out to the other with sleeplessness and fever.
(Hadith)
The difference between Islam and most other
religions is that it does not content itself with merely establishing acts of
worship and abandoning the needs of society to a Caesar or any form of temporal
governing body.
Islam established ways of conduct,
relationships, rights and obligations for the individual vis-à-vis members of
his family, the nation and for the nation vis-à-vis other nations.
The reform
of society is the main target of Islam. Even acts of worship contribute to this
reform.
Within the
framework of human society, the Islamic nation is a compact union having
recourse to it, possessing an inner sense of responsibility for its own members
and resisting decay, both individually and collectively.
The social
solidarity (takaful) is apparent in
all aspects of our Prophet Muhammad s.a.w .’s message.
“The
believers are naught else than brothers. Therefore make peace between your brethren.
“ Quran 49:10)
The Prophet
Muhammad s.a.w. said, “The blood of the Muslims shall be answered for; for the
least worthy among them is entitled to their protection and their hands are
lifted against those who are against them. Help your brother whether he is the
doer of the wrong or the wrong is done to him.”
The Prophet’s
companions enquired, “Oh messenger of all! We can help a man to whom wrong is
done but how could we help him when he is the doer of wrong?”
The Prophet
replied, “Hold him back from doing wrong.”
A parable
was told by Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. to demonstrate this stand:
A party
of men went into a boat and each occupies a position in the boat. One man began
to chop a hole in his spot with an axe. They said to him, “What are you doing?”
He replied, “This is my position and I will do with it as I please.”
Now, if
they should hold back his hand, he and they would be saved but if they should
leave him alone, he and they would be doomed.
FOR SOLIDARITY
Focus
not only on acts of worship but also on relations between individuals.
Demand for
individual’s responsibility for the community and the community’s responsibility
to the individual.
Respect for
common interest between individual and society.
Awaken the
conscience of the individual towards the community and the conscience of the
community towards the individual.
Make righteous
public opinion, which is right in the eyes of God, the guardian against the
individual’s deviations and the community’s excesses, enjoin the right and
forbid the wrong.
Preach with
wisdom and fair exhortation in order to reach the depth of man’s soul, to sow
the seeds of the goodness and love the truth in him and to extirpate the roots
of evil and the causes of ill.
Build social
education by persuasion to achieve social righteousness.
Abandon haste
in favour of a gradual process of legislation in order to prepare the
atmosphere and make society ready to receive orders and accepts commitments.
Make faith
and right doing the principal goal of every facet of life.
Preach truth
and cooperation in order to achieve beneficence and piety.
Make every
individual in the Islamic community responsible for the rectitude of the entire
community.
Put emphasis
on individual and collective responsibility as part and parcel of the teaching
of right doing, which is the second fundamental of Islam after the belief in
the one God.
Promote interdependence
and solidarity among the newly converted.
Promote mercy
and love for one another.
Lieutenant
General Sir John Bagot Glubb, in his book “The Great Arab Conquest” wrote:
In Muslim society, the family will always care
for its old people, its orphans, its idiot, its ne’er-do-wells and even its delinquents.
In this, it offers a marked contrast to the modern west where relatives are all
too often looked upon as disagreeable acquaintances and where the misfits are
frequently left to their fate or thrust into public institutions. If Islam is
not a welfare state, it at least produces whole welfare families where everyone
is cared for whether they deserve it or not.
This is
what the Western Commission fears and what they intended to break up, the brotherhood
and the family. This therefore, should be the basis for Muslim unity.
May Allah
s.w.t. shower on us His many blessings on our long journey in the fulfilment of
His commandments.
Wabillaahi Taufik Wassalaamu'alaikum
Thank
you.
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Dahsyat sungguh kesan tulisan Tan Sri ini, walhal Tan Sri bagi ucapan ni dah lama dah. Ketika baca ucapan ini lagi saya terus ingat pengalaman ikut conference ini di mana participant begitu kagum dengan ucapan Tan Sri sehingga semangat untuk bersatu telah tertanam dalam jiwa mereka. Sayang sungguh sayang di negara kita ini ada puak-puak yang tak senang bila Muslim ni bersatu, bila Melayu bersatu. Puak-puak ni tak sedar yang dalam memperjuangkan nafsu orang yang nak sangat jadi Perdana Menteri. Semua tak kena kalau tak sokong dia.
Untuk anon 22/04/13, 5:32, kalau dia layak wat pa nak buat bayaran? Tak logik langsung. Benda ni tak berlaku sebenarnya. Kawan saya kat IIUM kata, masa tu ramai geng-geng Pak Shaikh yang dok guna pelbagai cara nak jatuhkan Tan Sri Sanusi. Dulu saya fikir cam mana depa nak buat kerja tu? Sekarang saya fahamlah, isu duit ni salah satu cara depalah. Banyak lagi kerja depa nak jatuhkan Tan Sri Sanusi masa tu. Nak tahu cerita dia, tanyalah sama pengikut setia Pak Shaikh kat UIA.
Anon 5:36, Anwar tak payah pigi ke sarang pelacur di Brickfields kerana barua Anwar dah bawa dia mana-mana tempat lain untuk balun China Doll kekek. Tanya Datuk Eskay lah kalau nak tahu cerita lebih. Atau tengok lah video Pak Shaikh jadi hero balun betina, video yang sungguh hebat kerana kat Jepun pun disiarkan dalam majalah porno di sana.
Anwar balun China Doll yang salah orang lain jugak. Adoiii, mana boleh macam tu tuan-tuan.....
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