Walk the talk SK!
Senyum Kambing should be changed to Kambing Menangis since it never fail to create dissension and animosity among Malaysians. This is especially true when it comes to politics as it never try to give the two sides of the coin instead they prefer one and only side whether they believe it to be the truth does not matter at all. The most important thing is they manage to paint a terrible image of the other side. It is their hope that readers particularly those 'oldies' will remain steadfast with their bosses. They have been doing that forever but lately people are no longer gullible.
Politics, indeed is a job for those with thick skin or rather bomb proofed kind of skin. Nothing will affect them, they become shameless creatures without any sign of decency. Fortunately there still a few whom everyone can emulate since they portray admirable image in public as well in private. For them being in public or private has no difference since their Creator is All Seeing, nothing is able to hide from His limitless view.
Senyum Kambing today brings us the issue of degrading the scholar, the Mufti of Perak in particular. They either consciously or otherwise admit that they are indeed shallow or dangkal since they themselves for so long as memory can remember have been doing the same particularly if the scholars have different views as that of theirs and their bosses at PWTC or Putrajaya. Renowned scholars like the late Ibrahim Libya, the late Ishak Baharum, Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man, Harun Din Al- Hafiz, Badrul Amin Bahron, Ismail Kamus, Taib Azzamuddin and many others have been openly criticised in their paper only because they have different political affiliation and thus qualify them to be degraded, criticised and all sorts of negative connotations. Yet they label others as 'dangkal' for criticising Harussani Zakaria!
Criticising leaders is never wrong since they too are humans, humans make mistakes. Since they are dealing with the well-being and welfare of the people who entrusted them to do just that therefore the People have the right to criticise them whenever they fail to deliver. Even the scholars for all their knowledge , are not immune from mistakes. Prophet Muhammad SAW himself a person declared by Allah SWT to be immune from mistakes and sin, spend his time asking for forgiveness though he knows that he is the chosen one.
For their knowledge, scholars deserve to be respected and indeed they have earn the right and privilege to be respected and look upon in times of troubles. I truly believe what the Mufti of Perak does or says is qualified. Every rule has its own special exception and loyalty to a mere mortal has its limit, everyone must obey and loyal only to those who possess impeccable morality and lead an exemplary life. We are no longer bound to be loyal when they stray from the truth. In fact it is incumbent upon everyone to rectify such deviation.
Being a Constitutional Ruler admittedly HRH Sultan Azlan Shah has the right to appoint one whom he deems to control the support of majority of the elected representatives. Nonetheless, it must be done with care and precision to avoid any untoward circumstances. Being the Ruler he is analogous to a court of law therefore HRH in all his wisdom should look into the circumstances leading towards the sway of support from PR to BN. To simply emplace BN as the new state government without appreciating the preceding events is an irresponsible act. Courts have been known to 'make' laws through its interpretation as to what the legislative means or intend to.
Perak Constitution just like any other laws are opened to interpretation in order to safeguard the interest of the People and just simply making a harsh but disguised as an informed decision. The ungentlemanly snatching away a democratically elected government is just like what happened to Aung San Suu Kyi and her party who has been unjustly denied the right to rule though the People have decided to put the trust on her and her party.
Sahibus Samahah Hj. Harussani Zakaria is well known for his vast knowledge and therefore what he says is certainly qualified and he has done such with wisdom and full knowledge of the current situation. Therefore, he risks himself being criticised or as Senyum Kambing says 'mencerca' since he fails to categorically qualifies his statement.
Blind loyalty and obedience have never been in the teachings of Islam as the only entity deserving such privilege is Him alone. Yet, He never asks the faithful to blindly follow Him. He provides us with five senses and a functional mind to look and learn of His abundant blessings and of course His Ever Present Authority. We are free to wander and stray if we choose not to believe Him. Him being the Supreme Being has all the right to impose obedience be it with full conscience or otherwise but as He is Master of all Wisdom, He never done such thing.
Therefore, for us mere mortals to impose total and unqualified loyalty is an act of disrespect to the Supreme Being. We need to allow criticism and doubts so that we will become better persons.
"But make allowance for their doubting too" - Stanza 1 ,Line 4 of IF
Joseph Rudyard Kipling
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