Awareness of knowledge
Tazkirah (Surau ME: 6 May 2008, Ust. Riduan)
The Ustaz started off with some remarks on how progress of Da’wah in the rural areas could be more disappointing. He was from Besut himself, a place once famous for Sky Kingdom Ayoh Ping (Kerajaan Langit Ayoh Ping) - admitting that that actually smeared some coal on the face (” conteng arang di muka”)
2 observations:
1) He asked an old kampung man what Hajj type was he performing (type of pilgrimage, i.e. Qiran, Tamattuk, and Ifrad) and the man replied, “Haji Mabrur.” With a straight face.
2) One middle-aged lady from rural Perak somewhere called up PerakFM during its session with Mufti Dato’ Harussani and asked - what is the ruling for plucking out his husband’s armpit hair?
In another observation, religious classes are just twice every month. The class covers something like type of water - mutlak, musta’mal, for Fiqh, etcetera, and there is no growth in the syllabus. Perhaps recitation of Surah Yasin every Friday night (literally Thursday night before the Friday since days in Lunar begin after sun down.) And that’s pretty much it.
Then the Ustaz reminded us of the time during Rasulullah’s time, the history of amazing Sahabah. They just love Rasulullah so much and everybody would crave for knowledge for it is the key to better practice and therefore better servants to Allah.
Wallahua’lam. It’s the short version of the tazkirah. Please refer to the more knowledgeable ones for clarifications.
heheheh..funny about the two questions asked.
many Melayu claim that they are muslim. However, I bet more than half of Melayu who claim that they are Muslim do not know anything about their own religion, except for what being taught in school. Their learning about the religion stops at the classroom door.
And now they are going mad for Muslim who converts to another religion. Not to mention about Christian missionary’s mission to convert muslims here. I believe the dakwah to Muslim is the first priority. Dakwah to Non muslim is the 2nd priority. Get our own line straight first before trying to straighten other people’s line.