SEDITION is a crime of creating a revolt, disturbance, or violence against lawful civil authority with the intent to cause its overthrow or destruction. Because it is limited to organising and encouraging opposition to government rather than directly participating in its overthrow, sedition is regarded as falling one step short of the more serious crime of treason. (Britannica Concise Encyclopaedia)
Sedition is a law that makes it an offence to criticise leaders considered SUPERIOR BEINGS who are exercising a DIVINE (God-given) mandate, who are, in short, BEYOND CRITICISM. Criticising what these leaders do implies either that they are equal to other men/women or that they are accountable for their acts, both equally offensive, and therefore considered a crime under the Sedition law.
For more definition or evolution of SEDITION law, please refer http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/7242/84/ .
Interestingly, as the 'world of the infidels' (puok-puok kapir, as Melayu likes to say it) has long left this archaic law which originally came from their so-called 'tamadun' due to its tendency to be misused (among them) and led to injustices etc, etc by the ruling powers. The so-called Islamic countries in the world today (Malaysia included) seems to be having their hey-day suppressing what they term as 'dissent' using this act against people who are non-agreeable to their way of doing things.
On the other hand, as per according to authentic hadiths (Bukhari & Muslim); The biggest jihad for any muslim is fighting against cruelty and oppression.
Sedition is a law that makes it an offence to criticise leaders considered SUPERIOR BEINGS who are exercising a DIVINE (God-given) mandate, who are, in short, BEYOND CRITICISM. Criticising what these leaders do implies either that they are equal to other men/women or that they are accountable for their acts, both equally offensive, and therefore considered a crime under the Sedition law.
For more definition or evolution of SEDITION law, please refer http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/7242/84/ .
Interestingly, as the 'world of the infidels' (puok-puok kapir, as Melayu likes to say it) has long left this archaic law which originally came from their so-called 'tamadun' due to its tendency to be misused (among them) and led to injustices etc, etc by the ruling powers. The so-called Islamic countries in the world today (Malaysia included) seems to be having their hey-day suppressing what they term as 'dissent' using this act against people who are non-agreeable to their way of doing things.
On the other hand, as per according to authentic hadiths (Bukhari & Muslim); The biggest jihad for any muslim is fighting against cruelty and oppression.
Would it be now fair to say that the biggest jihad in Islam has become a crime in this beloved country of mine? While in the days of Khalifah Umar ibni Al-Khattab, he thanked a sahabah who held his sword high and said directly to him in front of all to see that should Umar deviated from the what has been commanded by God, then he himself will correct it with that sword? Or during the Umar Abdul Aziz'z Khilafah, he publicly encouraged the people to elect someone else if they were not satisfied with him (an offer no one ever took him up on).
Now, the question is: Have we come to the stage of menghalalkan yang haram, dan mengharamkan yang halal as per prophesised by our beloved Nabi Muhammad saw?
A couple of quotations from Imran Hosein Book 'Surah A-Kahfi and The Modern Age', for other prophesies of the Prophet coming true today, in our time:
The predicament of Muslims today is that most leaders do not comprehend reality, and are hence themselves profoundly misguided. The true servants of Allah Most High, on the other hand, who are blessed with knowledge of reality, are either banned from teaching, or are demonized, marginalized and persecuted to such an extent that they are unable to function as guides. Therefore their guidance hardly ever reaches the masses of Muslims. The scholar of Islam who now attempts with spiritual insight to interpret the blessed Qur'an and the Ahadeeth of Prophet Muhammad (saw) to explain today's mysterious world is confronted with another serious problem. His internally-blind peers shun him, and the seriousness and integrity of his scholarship is questioned.
The consequence of spiritual vacuum in the Last Age would be moral collapse to such an extent that:
". . people would make business agreements with one another and scarcely anyone would fulfill his trust".
The spiritual vacuum and moral collapse would so incapacitate judgment as to render people incapable of distinguishing men of integrity from charlatans:
". . it would be said that among such and such a tribe there is a trustworthy man. People would remark how intelligent, excellent and resolute a man he is while (in fact) he would not have as much faith (in Allah) in his heart as a grain of a mustard seed."
(Both quotes above taken from a Hadith narrated by Hudhaifa and transmitted in the Sahih of Bukhari as well as Muslim.)
The blessed Prophet also warned that such would be a time of great betrayals in which:
"Temptations would be presented to men's hearts as a reed mat is woven stick by stick, and any heart which is impregnated by them would have a black mark put in it . The result would be that hearts would be of two kinds: one, white like a white stone, which would not be harmed by temptation as long as the heavens and earth endure, and the other, black and dust-colored like a vessel which is upset, incapable of recognizing what is reputable, or rejecting what is disreputable, but being enveloped by its passion."(Narrated by Hudhaifa and transmitted in the Sahih of Muslim.)
