This was forwarded to my email by a friend.
THE UNTOLD STORY
17 tahun bukan waktu yang pendek17 tahun juga bukan waktu yang panjang
Tetapi 17 tahun cukup untuk mencipta 100 fakta
Bukti kewibawaan Islam agama memerintah
Mentadbir dan membangun negara.
17 tahun rekod mentadbir negeri tanpa rasuah, tuan-tuan
Di zaman manusia sanggup apa saja untuk hidup senang
Menipu mencuri merasuah membunuh memurtad sekalipun
Zaman materialisme hiburan gila-gila di kemuncak ini
Di Kelantan kerajaannya bersih rasuah dan kroni
Di Kelantan tiada judi untuk mempersia-sia ikhtiar manusia
Di Kelantan tiada nite-club untuk menghina wanita
Di Kelantan kadar jenayah paling rendah
Di Kelantan aktiviti ekonominya di tangan Islam
100 fakta Kelantan100 bakal mengubah Malaysia
Kerja lima hari seminggu di Kelantanlah bermula
Cuti bersalin 60 hari di Kelantanlah bermula
Insurans kematian untuk seluruh rakyat warga emas juga
Di Kelantan bermulanya -Takaful Kifalah
100 fakta Kelantan100 bakal mengubah Malaysia
Di Kota Bharu pasar basah paling besar dan cantik
3000 wanita berniaga semuanya santun menutup aurat
Dinamakan nama isteri Rasulullah, Siti Khadijah
Di Kelantan ekonomi riba tidak diiktiraf
Biar kita rugi, kata Tok Guru, asalkan tidak dimarah Tuhan
Tetapi mereka tak rugi, kerana mengumpul wang dan harta
Nak senang sementara di dunia bukan tujuan.
Tujuan ialah mengumpul pahala untuk bahagia abadi di syurga
Bagi mereka akhirat adalah nyata
100 fakta Kelantan
100 bakal mengubah Malaysia
Di Kelantan tuan-tuan, menteri besarnya seorang Tok Guru
Tiap-tiap pagi menjadi imam subuh dan memberi tazkirah
Tiap-tiap pagi sebelum ke pejabat
18 tahun masih tinggal di rumah kampung berkembar masjidTak ada pagar tak ada pengawal tak ada orang gaji pun
Siapa-siapa boleh masuk dan berjumpa
Dia seorang yang warak dan zuhud
Gaji tiap bulan dipotong 45 peratus untuk parti dan kerajaan
Sejak dulu, elaun rumah tak pernah ambil, elaun keraian tak pernah ambil
Elaun buka puasa tak pernah ambil, elaun hari raya pun tak pernah ambil
Dan tangannya sentiasa ringan memberi sedekah
Itulah Menteri Besar Kelantan
Baru-baru ini BPR datang ke pejabatnya
Bukan kerana dia rasuah, tetapi kerana dia
Tak buat report ada orang cuba beri dia rasuah
100 fakta Kelantan
100 bakal mengubah Malaysia
Waktu mula-mula dulu mereka kata tiga bulan saja
Kerajaan PAS akan bangkrap tak ada duit nak perintah negeri
Kemudian tambah sedikit 6 bulan, kemudian jadi setahun
Sekarang 18 tahun dan ekonomi Kelantan semakin segar
Walau diskriminasi kerajaan pusat bermacam helah
Ditakut-takutkan dan dihalang pelaburan
Namun 17 tahun tanpa riba tanpa rasuah tanpa maksiat
Ekonomi Kelantan meningkat mengatasi lima negeri lain
Dulu nombor dua termiskin sekarang nombor enam di Malaysia
Dan di Kelantan tuan-tuan, tak ada tol,
nampak maupun tidak harga barangan dan makanan pun kekal murah
dan harga nikah pun masih murah
100 fakta Kelantan100 bakal mengubah Malaysia
Belajarlah daripada Kelantan tuan-tuan
Belajarlah daripada Tok Guru
Belajarlah berfikir sebagai insan merdeka
Bebaskan minda, bebaskan minda!
Nota:
Kita tunjukkan kita sebagai orang Kelantan yang terkenal dengan buminya dikenali sebagai Serambi Mekah dan Tadahan Wahyu. Malu datuk nenek kita, malu tok lebai kita. Mereka sebelum ini sengaja didik kita menjadi orang baik, tinggal di negeri Serambi Mekah, tiba-tiba kita pula tergelincir, keluar daripada landasan itu dan asyik hendak tiru orang-orang yang tidak berguna di atas dunia ini.
(Tuan Guru Nik Aziz)
The Orphan and the Fortress
http://sakmongkol.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-to-other-things-then.html
Once upon a time, amidst the bleating of sheep and goats in a dilapidated city, a child was born to a mother who had just lost her husband. Custom of the land had it that every new-born child of that society were to be taken up by foster mothers to be nursed and breast-milked until the real mother was well enough to take her child up again. All this was done, of course, for a fee. But being poor and of no societal stature and absolutely wealth-less, no one would want to take up the rosy-cheeked baby to be breast-fed: his was of no consequence. No material benefit. No immediate economic advantage. The single mother was poor. It was deemed to be such a non-smart move to breast feed this child, at least financially. But the boy survived and when the mother died too a few years later, he remained a full orphan true and true.
I am pitched in a mixture of perplexity, forlorn and spleen at the current state of things regarding my religion in this country of mine at this present moment. Just like the child, I feel as though it has been orphaned big time: no one would want to take care of it when it needed one, defend it at its time of need, speak for it when it needed a voice. When rude voices speak against it, against its “stupid fatwas”, the intellects, the writers and bloggers with the gab, the personalities that matter, all join in the foray of mutually condemning them too. It is as though to be associated with Islam is no longer a cool state of things. Fire a sling shot at it, and the muslims scurry to disown their own religion faster than it takes time to say “I have faith”. In the now state of things Islam has, invariably, become an orphan religion.
It is now hip to demonize the ulamas, muftis and scholars together with the pak lebais and the moulvis as people who only know how to concoct sensitive issues not within the spirit of 21st century progress. And when people of other faiths join in the foray in its condemnation, the religion finds two-pronged attacks: one from the side of those who are NOT within the faith, and from another WITHIN, the ones we find too dear to disown but at the same time singing in the same chorus with people who are not of the same faith. The religion is left defenseless under an immortal zugzwang.
Gentlemen. Those fatwas are not stupid. The ulamas are not imbeciles. Every single fatwa that has been written has to undergo rigorous processes of research, scrutiny and studies before they come up with their findings. You can disagree with it only if you take an equivalent scrutinous path to achieve what you conclude as a different ruling but the question is, have we done so? What honor is there in nodding together with Lesbian-Lieuw (pengkid case) or Pandit Puthusamy (yoga) to disown or condemn your own ulamas and calling your religion stupid?
Now every body can give two cents views. But in the case of this orphan religion, this license to give 2 cents views include those who make pre-emptive declarations like “Well, I am not a good muslim myself but I think ..” or “even though I have little knowledge about this, I think the ulamas are not fair …” or “I have done a fair share of sins in this world too but I need to speak out …”. Hello! Its religion we are talking about here. How about we open up the viewpoints of inmates of drug detection centers on the legalities of legalizing marijuana? Or getting Botak Chin to voice out his opinion on the fallacies of the death sentence, if only he were above room temperature now? Am I saying we all have to be saints to voice out something about religion? No I am not saying that, but when it comes to fatwas, all of which have been done after a series of strict methodological research and studies, I would expect that those who have differing views to arrive at them through some similar if not more rigorous analysis. Note I said differing views. Not condemnations.
In scientific circles, there are hundreds or thousands of theories that are written every year and published in refereed journals. Out of these, barely 1 or 2 percent have any resemblance to truths and realities while the rest of them are disregarded in the wastepaper basket of uncertainty based on them either not having sound scientific foundations or the inability to verify their truths experimentally. But far from condemning the writers of those theories, nobody throws them away: they remain to be stepping stones for other theories that were to later emerge or improved.
But fatwas and dogmas are inter-related. If they go for one now, who can guarantee that they don’t go for the next? Then to make your life and work simple, my dear muslim defenders of modern Islam, why don’t we all start questioning the sophomoric existence of the hereafter, the asinity of believing in hell fire (believing in heaven I am sure you wouldn’t have much of a problem, do you? Nudge nudge, wink wink), the absurdity of the prophet’s night journey and numerous other inept things that make up the teachings of Islam?
Nobody dares to do today what Halimah did to that orphan of 1400 years ago. Halimah was a lady whose possessions in this world would probably be accurately termed as absolutely meager. Her sheep were sick, her camels weak, and her grazing ground plot was barren. With other flocks, her sheep and camel were always the last to be left behind because of their physical disadvantages.
But Halimah took up the child Mohammad. And suddenly, a few days later she found that her grazing plot was full of grass, her sheep had become fat and her camels now look like racing breeds. If there is so much honour and barakah in raising up an orphan child, gentlemen, think about what it would do to us to defend an orphan religion brought about by this orphan child which is, at the present moment, facing untold amount of multi-prong condemnations from all quarters. Just like that orphan, he could survive even if Halimah hadn’t taken him up. But can we survive if we join in the voices of its condemnations? It’s our chance, that’s how I see it.
I know this letter will find, amongst other things, apologetic replies with “Well actually you got it wrong, I didn’t say that ….” or “we didn’t mean it that way ..” or perhaps equivalent stronger reinforcements of the “the ulamas ARE imbeciles and the fatwas ARE stupid” kind of arguments, but let’s not lose sight of the forest because of the trees here. More importantly, let’s not win battles but lose wars. I am just making a sincere calling here. Enough of using this intellect and gab that God has given us to condemn the ruling that fortifies the teachings of that man 1400 years ago from all other impurities, mantric shastras included and start to use it FOR it instead.
Allama Iqbal once said,
There was once a time
when this fortress sought to reflect
The Wheeling of the Heavens
How many Princes fell on their knees
before its gates
And now, on the bastions,
a wild dove is poised
Do we want to keep the fortress that way, gentlemen?
Your bereaved brother, Apocryphalist