We need to have faith

In the face of threat, we place our trust in Allah SWT

The decision of the High Court few days ago allowing Herald to use Allah in place of God in their Malay weekly bulletin has causes uneasiness and uproar among the Muslims for obvious as well as intricate logic. In Malaysia, it has been long practised and somehow an acknowledged practise by the Muslims to use Allah to refer to the Supreme Being and other faiths especially Christianity acquiesce the word Allah exclusively used by the Muslims in this country.

Suddenly the Herald bulletin decides to 'share' the privilege or is it the right and hence resulted in the decision by the High Court. In his response to the issue the former Perlis Mufti has stated that what is important is to safeguard the Muslims' faith since we only believe in one God and there is no other figures who can represent God as clearly mentioned in Surah Al - Ikhlas:

Say: ‘He is God, One

Such is a clear unequivocal declaration unparalleled of other teachings that say He encapsulates more then one entities. In the above Surah, He declares in no ambiguous term that He is ONE and none can be or should be at par with Him in His Grandeur and Authority. In view of such strong declaration,Muslims should have solid rock conviction that their Supreme Being is one and there is no other figures who shared His place and Being as the Supreme Being. Any Muslims should be at peace with such declaration and therefore need not worry about others trying to 'usurp' the word Allah.

Nonetheless, such declaration by the court indeed has strong implication towards the Muslims since the bulletin can easily be smuggled out of the church and used against the Muslims especially the young and the shaky ones to turn them against Islam. It is undeniable that missionaries have been known as one of the best recruiters throughout the religion kingdom. Their uncanny tactics are second to none. Their excellent ways to convert others to their faiths are legendary and such has been admitted by their Muslims counterparts.

Now that the court has decided that the Home Ministry has erred in issuing such 'blanket' order, the Muslims have none to turn to except to Allah Himself. In the face of such difficult time, the Muslims young and old have no choice other than strengthening their faith by following the teachings of Islam wholeheartedly and in wholesome and not in pieces what is rampant today. We are face with what the Prophet SAW has decreed thousand years ago that ' Islam comes in at strange and difficult time and towards the end it will be the same'. That end is our time, time of difficulty and hardship. We need to look inward and fortify our faith as it remains the only way out of this predicament we are facing.

Islam is the only religion sanctioned by Allah, hence our unequivocal trust