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THE MOSQUE-ITS ACTIVITIES

Posted in Mosque on March 30, 2010 | 6 Comments »

Mosque is the center of activities of Muslims and all Muslims must have connection with the mosque. As a Muslim, we should try to follow the ways of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w and similarly our Mosque activities should be like the activities of the Mosque of the Prophet at the time of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. The heart of our communities is the Mosque and what the Mosque’s activities are will determine the condition of our communities. Any government that wants to establish Islam as a way of life among its citizens must concentrate in making the Mosques’ activities similar to the activities at the times of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.

All Muslim leaders should follow what the Prophet s.a.w did and how he did it, when he reached Medinah. When the Prophet s.a.w reached Medinah, he immediately built the Mosque, he lived beside the Mosque, he started the amals of the Mosque and he asked all the Sahabah to do the amals of the Mosque like him. The Prophet Mosque became the center of activities and the Sahabah took turn to come to the Mosque and participated in all the amals of the Mosque. Because of participating in the amals of the Mosque the iman and the amals of the Sahabah became stronger and stronger day by day. Initially the Sahabah is like the candles but later on, they became like the stars and when the Sahabah moved around the world they moved with their lights and they became the source of guidance of other people.

The most important amal in the Mosque of the Prophet s.a.w is the amal of dakwah and the amal of reminding the Muslims about Allah and the orders of Allah. Dakwah is the amal of inviting the non-Muslims to accept and to recite the Great Kalimah, there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah.

The second important amal in the Mosques of the Prophet is the amals of ibadah such as to perform solat with Jemaah, to perform non-obligatory solat, to read the Quran and to do zikir. The third most important amal in the Mosques of Prophet is the amal of learning and teaching about the orders of Allah.

The fourth important amal in the Mosque of the Prophet is the amal of entertaining guests that come to the Prophet s.a.w Mosque and that includes, providing the guest with food, place to sleep and to give them present when they return.

In comparison with our present day Mosques, we are not doing what the Prophet s.a.w and the Sahabah used to do in the Prophet’s Mosque. Only few of our Mosques have the amal of five times congregational prayers while most of our Mosques have only three or two solat with congregation while the rest of the times the Mosques are without any activities. Only recently, many Mosques have lectures conducted by some religious scholars between solat Maghrib and Isyak. It is actually a lecture but regarded as majlis of learning and teaching. Other than these amals, our Mosques usually remain empty from amals. Nearly all of our Mosques are devoid of the daily amal of dakwah and the amal of reminding Muslims about Allah and the orders of Allah.

Every Muslims are responsible to establish the amals of the Mosques. We do not have to wait for the imam or the ustaz to start the amals of the Mosques then only we will do the amals of the Mosques. Every Muslim is capable of doing all the amals of the Mosques. When we do the work of dakwah and the work of reminding the Muslims, Allah’s help is with us. When Allah’s help is with us, we can do the work of dakwah and all the amals of the Mosques. The most important amal of the Mosques to be established is the amal of dakwah and the amal of reminding the Muslims about Allah and the orders of Allah.

Our Mosques are not active with twenty-four hours amals in a day because we have not established the amal of dakwah to non-Muslims and the amals of reminding Muslims about Allah and the orders of Allah. Amal of dakwah and the amals of reminding the Muslims are very great amals. When these great amals established in our Mosques, all other amals of the Mosques are also established. In order to establish the amals of the Mosques, first, we have to decide to give times to the Mosques. Every Muslims should decide to give times to the Mosques, minimum two hours and thirty minutes every day. One hour, allocated to performing five times solat with congregation, forty-five minutes to one hour allocated to dakwah and reminding the Muslims and the balance thirty minutes to the amal of teaching and learning about the orders of Allah.

When we want to do the work of dakwah and the work of reminding the Muslims we must go to the Mosque. In the Mosque, before we go out to do the work of dakwah and reminding the Muslims, we must do the amals of reminding each other about the meaning of the Great Kalimah.

We form groups and each group consists of two or three persons and in case there is no other person to do it except you, you can do the work alone. Each one must remind the others about the meaning of the Kalimah. Each person will speak something like this, because it is an order of Allah and to please Allah I would like to remind my brothers and myself that there is no God except Allah. There is no one that can do harm or give benefit except Allah. There is no one that can give honor or disgrace except Allah. There is no one that can give food and satisfy my hunger except Allah. Oh Allah, put these great Kalimah into our heart. When everyone in the group has done the work of reminding each other about the meaning of the Kalimah, then one person from among the group will make prayer, asking Allah to give guidance to non-Muslim to enter Islam and the Muslims to do the work of the Prophet s.a.w.

After making prayer, the group may proceed to any lane or road in the locality and visit Muslims as well as non-Muslims’ houses. The group must visit every house and talk only to the male members of the house. They must not miss any house even empty one. In case the house is empty, you should make prayer in front of the house.

What you should speak when you meet Muslims and what you should speak when you meet non-Muslims are already explained in my last articles on dakwah on non-Muslims and the work of reminding Muslims. After you have completed about forty-five minutes, visiting times you may decide to go back to the Mosque. After you have reached the Mosque, all of you must sit in a group and again do the work of reminding each other about the meaning of the Kalimah and at the end of the session, one person from among you, must make prayer, asking Allah for forgiveness and acceptance.

In case we established the amal of dakwah to non-Muslims and the amals of reminding the Muslims about Allah and the orders of Allah in our Mosques, a time will come when many Muslims will give times to the Mosque at least two hours and thirty minutes every day and many non- Muslims convert to Muslims. When many Muslims in our locality decide to give times every day to the Mosque then our Mosque will be alive with activities twenty-four hours in a day like the Prophet’s Mosque during the time of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.

Dr. Nasoha Saabin
March 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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THE MOSQUE-ITS UNDERESTIMATE USE

Posted in Mosque on March 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »

When the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w reached Quba on his historic journey to Medina, he stopped for some days in Quba. During the few days he was in Quba the Prophet s.a.w built a Mosque and when he reached Medina, among the things that he did, he first built a Mosque which was later named as the Prophet’s Mosque. Prophet s.a.w bought the lands from two orphans and together with the Sahabah, the Prophet s.a.w built the Mosque. The Mosque was a simple Mosque with the pillars of the Mosque was made from the trunks of the date trees and the roofs were made from date leaves. Although the Mosque was simple but it was full of activities, twenty four hours daily. We have to make the activities in our Mosques as similar to the activities of the Prophet’s Mosque at the time of the Prophet s.a.w. The activities that were carried out in the Prophet’s Mosque have to be followed by Muslims until doomsday. The actions of the Prophet s.a.w have clearly indicated to us that the activities that are carried out in the Mosque are more important than the building of the Mosque. The building is like the body but the activities of the Mosque are like the soul and the mind of the body. Without the correct activities carried out in the Mosque, the Mosque will be just like a body without soul and mind. In other words the Mosque is like a dead body. What is important is the soul of the Mosque, which is the activities that are carried out in the Mosque, such as the activities carried out at the time of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w.

Are our Mosques similar to the Mosque of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w in term of its activities or otherwise? Nowadays Muslims build very beautiful Mosques and some Mosques are built like a palace and its maintenance can reach up to hundreds of thousands of dollars in a month. Muslims as well as non-Muslims visit the Mosques to look at its splendour and grandeur. The Mosques have become a centre of attractions for tourists. Even the Muslims who visit the Mosque may not even remember to perform prayer in respect of the Mosque, because they are so attracted to the beauty of the Mosques. Nowadays Mosques are lacking the soul and mind and the Mosque are like the dead body. When anyone visits a person who is alive, he or she may gain benefit from his visit to that person, but in case the person is dead, the visit is only to pay respect to the dead person. Similarly the visits of Muslims nowadays to the Mosque are like visiting a dead person. At the time of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w the Mosque was full with activities. The Mosque was like a man with body, mind and soul. The Mosque was full of activities even during the early hours of the day. The sahabah took turn to come to the Mosque and participated in the activities of the Mosque. Each one of the sahabah regarded themselves as the worker of the Mosque and each one was willing to spare some times in the day and in the night in making the Mosque full of activities twenty four hours daily.

When the Mosques are full of activities, the Mosques are like a person having mind, body and soul. Anyone who comes to the mosques with a dead soul and mind will find their soul and mind to be rejuvenated. When a person with a dead soul and mind comes to the Mosques and participates with the activities of the Mosques, his soul and mind will become alive. His soul and mind will start to become fresh and shining. Now we have many Mosques but all of our Mosques are like a dead person. Anyone who goes to the Mosque with soul and mind being not rejuvenated, he or she will also come out of the Mosque having the same soul and mind as he or she has before entering the Mosque. We have not making use of the Mosques to harness human potentials. We have not making use of the Mosques to correct our beliefs and minds. We have not making use of the Mosques to produce the best Muslims. We only built beautiful Mosques that cost us millions of dollars and we didn’t utilize the Mosques to its utmost potential as a means to produce the best Muslims. The Prophet’s Mosque at the time of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. was a very simple Mosque and cost them little money to be built but the Mosque was full of activities twenty four hours daily and they produced out of that Mosque such personalities like Hazrat Abu Bakar, Hazrat Umar and many others that the world has never produced before and probably will never produce in the future.

We are Muslims and we have the Prophet s.a.w. as our example. When we want to build a community that is obedience to commandments of Allah, we have to start with the Mosques. We have to make our Mosques full with activities as similar to the Prophet’s Mosque at the time of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. The Mosque of the Prophet s.a.w was full with activities twenty four hours daily, because the amal of dakwah was alive while our Mosques are not full with activities because the amal of dakwah like the way the Prophet s.a.w are not alive in our Mosques. We think by just having lectures in the Mosques we are already doing the work of dakwah. We organized daily lectures in the Mosques between Maghrib and Isyak and we expect the Muslims in the locality will come to hear the lectures. Only some of those who come to the Mosque for Maghrib prayer will listen to the lecture. We really do not know how to promote our religion. By only organizing daily lectures in the Mosques is not good enough to promote it. We do not do any marketing on Islam and we expect the non-Muslims to come to Islam. No matter how good the product is, without marketing the sales of the product will be down. Dakwah is the way on how to market Islam to the non-Muslims. We have to visit Muslims in our locality, and remind them about Allah and the orders of Allah and ask them to do the work of dakwah and to perform prayer with congregation in the Mosques. We have to visit the non-Muslims in our locality and invite them to embrace Islam. We have to ask all the Muslims in our locality to do marketing on Islam in the locality. When the number of Muslims doing the work of dakwah increases the number of Muslims that comes to the Mosques for prayer also increases. We can organize the Muslims in the locality to spend time in the Mosque turn by turn and in this way the Mosque will be full of activities twenty four hours daily.

When our Mosques are full with amal or activities twenty four hours daily, then our Mosques will become similar to the Mosques of the Prophet s.a.w at the time of the Prophet s.a.w. Our Mosques will have the radiance of light that will penetrate the heart of those who come to our Mosques. Muslims or non-Muslims who enter our Mosques will be affected by the radiance of light that comes from the various amal in the Mosques and Muslims will come out of the Mosques with increased iman and understanding of Islam and the non-Muslims will come out of the Mosques as Muslims. In this way we are making use of our Mosques correctly and we will have good and quality citizen.

Dr. Nasoha Saabin
March 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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WE ARE MUSLIMS

Posted in True Fact on March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »

When someone who are not Muslims recited the Great Kalimah he or she has entered Islam but the Great Kalimah have not entered into his or her heart. When the Great Kalimah have entered our heart and the ways of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w are in our actions then we have become true Muslims. When a person has recited, the Great Kalimah all his previous sins forgiven and all the bad deeds written in his or her book of records converted into good deeds. Anyone who recited the Kalimah, there is no God except Allah, whether in the day or in the night times with sincerity, all his sins are forgiven and all the bad deeds written in his or her book of records are converted into good deeds. It is a great blessing to be able to recite the Great Kalimah, as it is indeed a great amals.

Prophet s.a.w once said with approximate meaning, when anyone of you does any bad deeds, he or she must do good deeds, as good deeds will annul bad deeds. One of the companions asked the Prophet s.a.w whether saying Kalimah is a good deed. On hearing this Prophet s.a.w remarked, it is the best of all good deeds. A person who has recited the Great Kalimah even once in his life times will get the syafa’at of Prophet s.a.w. Prophet Muhammad s.a.w was continuously inviting Abu Talib, his uncle to recite the Great Kalimah and he did not stop doing it even until the time when Abu Talib was about to pass his last breath. The work of inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah is such a great work as shown by the eagerness and seriousness of our Prophet Muhammad s.a.w in doing the work.

When a person who is not Muslims recited the Great Kalimah, he or she has entered Islam. He or she is a convert and when the Kalimah has entered his or her heart and he or she has started to practice the orders of Allah, he or she is slowly on the way of becoming a Muslims. In order for the Great Kalimah to enter his or her heart, the first order that he or she has to do is to convey the Great Kalimah to those who has not accepted the Great Kalimah and to remind those who have accepted the Great Kalimah about the meaning of the Kalimah. In doing so, Allah will slowly install the Kalimah in his or her heart. Speaking frequently about the Kalimah will make the Kalimah finally enter our heart. When the Kalimah start to enter our heart then we will start to have the ability to obey the other orders of Allah. The second order of Allah is to perform the five times daily solat. As iman increases, the ability to do all other orders of Allah increases and the quality of the amals of the person also increases.

Prophet Muhammad s.a.w once said in the approximate meaning that a man would not become correct until his heart is correct. His heart will not become correct until his iman is correct and his iman will not become correct until his speeches are correct. What is correct speeches. The correct speeches are the speeches that call people to Allah. Allah said in the Quran with approximate meaning, whose speeches are better than those who call people to Allah and do good amals and he says he is a Muslim. The correct speeches are the speeches that call people to Allah. To call people to Allah means to call people to recite that there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. In other words, when a person does the work of calling people to recite the Great Kalimah, Allah will make his speeches to be correct and when his speeches is correct his iman will also become strong. When his iman has becomes strong, his amals will also become correct. When a person has a strong iman and correct amals, he becomes a real true Muslims.

Nowadays, the common practice that we generally do to a new convert that has just converted to Islam is to ask him or her to perform five times solat. We do not ask the new convert to do the work of dakwah and the work of reminding Muslims about the meaning of the Great Kalimah CLICK. This is because we believe that only those who has knowledge and have good amals can do the work of dakwah. To the new converts who have no knowledge, we believe that they are not able to do dakwah and should not do the work of dakwah. As they are new Muslims, we think the first order he or she must do is not to do dakwah but to perform five times daily solat. As a result, their iman remain weak and whenever they have problems, they remain dependent on Muslims and not dependent on Allah.

The first order that, Sahabah did upon reciting the Great kalimah is the work of dakwah CLICK. As a result, the iman of all Sahabah were strong. When Allah gave the second amal, that is solat; the Sahabah were able to perform the solat with punctuality and quality. With solat that has quality, the Sahabah tend to solve all their problems by performing solat. When they do not have food at home they will asked Allah by performing solat and Allah gave them food. When they have debt to pay, they will ask Allah by performing solat and Allah pay their debt. The Sahabah has correct solat and with the correct solat, they solved all their problems. Sahabah have correct solat because they have the correct iman and they have correct iman because all Sahabah do the work of dakwah from the day they have recited the Great Kalimah CLICK.

We will become true Muslims when we have correct iman and correct amals. We will not have the correct iman and amals if we do not do the work of calling people to Allah, which means to call the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah, and this is the work of dakwah. The main work of Muslims is dakwah. Anyone who wants to become a true Muslims must do the work of dakwah, which is the work of calling people to Allah.

We should be proud to be Muslims and we should want people to know us as Muslims. We should do the work of dakwah as our main work so that we become true Muslims. The main works of all Muslims are dakwah and we cannot become true Muslims unless we do the work of dakwah. The work of dakwah and Muslims are unanimous. When a person is Muslims, his or her main work is dakwah. Dakwah and Muslims are inseparable. At the times of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w, they cannot imagine that a Muslims will ever leave the work of dakwah. Now the so calls Muslims have forgotten the work of dakwah that is the work of inviting the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah. Because we have left our work that is the work of dakwah, we also lose our name Muslims. Nowadays Muslims are not proud to be call Muslims but they are rather proud to be call by the name of their race or country. The Malays are proud to be call as Malay rather than to be call as Muslims. The Kelantan peoples are proud to be call as Kelantanese. The Muslims that live in Malaysia are proud to be call as Malaysians rather than to be call as Muslims. Let us be proud to be call as Muslims and let us be thankful to Allah, as He has given us the work of dakwah as He has given to all the Prophets of Allah.

Dr.Nasoha Saabin
March 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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PAS AND UMNO

Posted in Politic on March 25, 2010 | 7 Comments »

In my opinion, these two parties are the same. The members of both parties are the Malays and all Malays are Muslims. They are like two groups of the same type of peoples that wear cloth of different colours. They are like two football teams that wear different jersey. One team is wearing blue and the other one is wearing green jersey. Both teams want to win the game and both want to be the champions. Umno and Pas are brothers and sisters in Islam, they are all Malays.Gerakan, and MCA are another teams consists of non-Muslims and all of them are Chinese.MIC and Makhal Sakti are two other teams consist of non-Muslims and all of them are Indians. PKR is another team consists of Malays, Chinese and Indians.

All the teams are contesting with one another and all of the teams want to become the champion. In democratic system, the team that is most popular will win the contest and become the champion. In order to become the most popular team in Malaysia, they cannot be alone. Pas will never become the most popular team because only Muslims like Pas and among the Muslims, some will like Umno. In Democratic system, Pas will never rule Malaysia as Pas will never becomes the most popular team if Pas remain alone. Similarly DAP will not becomes the most popular teams in case DAP stands on its own. In order to become the champion and to become the most popular group Pas must decide to join DAP, PKR to form Pakatan Rakyat and Pas must leave the image of Islam, and Pas should not use the name Islam.

In democratic system, the one that wins is not necessarily the best team that can discharge the best services. The one that is the most popular will win and Thaksin and his party although dislike by the business communities of Thailand because he has monopolized businesses in Thailand still wins because he and his party is the most popular in Thailand CLICK. In case Pas want to win and becomes popular in democratic system and rule Malaysia, Pas has to leave his Islamic image and becomes the party like Umno. Umno members are Muslims but they do not carry the Islamic image like Pas and their aim in joining Umno is not to elevate Islam but to elevate the Malays and also Islam. To those Malay Muslims who join Pas because they want to elevate Islam, they had better think twice. By joining, an Islamic party in democratic system does not elevate Islam. When Muslims do the pure and sincere work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w then Islam will be elevated. Islam is pure and it needs pure and sincere work. Islam not elevated by having an Islamic party within a democratic system. The sincere Pas members who want to elevate Islam they should do the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w the way the Prophet s.a.w did instead of joining any political parties.

In order to win and rule Pas that has an Islamic image in a democratic system must be popular. An Islamic party in a democratic system wills never wins as many people dislike Islam and do not like to practice Islam even though they are Muslims. Many Muslims are only by names and they do not really like to practice Islam. Pas will only be popular among Muslims that like Islam and the number is less. Pas can become the most popular only in the states that have many Muslims that like Islam. Pas should not dream that they will ever-ruled Malaysia in democratic system. The only hope Pas has is to continue to rule Kelantan and Kedah but not Malaysia.

That is how a democratic system works; the most popular even they are evils and stupid will wins and rule. The leader of the most popular groups even though he or she is evil and stupid will becomes the Prime Minister or the President of the country. When Pas can never rule Malaysia how Pas will ever dream to establish an Islamic Laws in Malaysia. Only able to rule one or two states will not make Pas able to change the Federal Constitutions of Malaysia. The slogan that Pas used to have, that is to establish Malaysia as an Islamic state is only a dream. We can talk about many good dreams but dream will remain a dream and it can never become a reality.

Many Malays who join Pas because they want to elevate Islam, to established the orders of Allah in Malaysia, to established Hudud Laws in Malaysia and to establish all those related to Islam. I want these people to sit and think whether the nobles aims will ever be achieve by joining Pas. In case you truly believed that it would, you may continue to be in Pas and I wish you good luck.

However, in case you think the noble aims cannot be achieve by joining Pas then you had better use your times and energy to do the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w like the Prophet s.a.w did in your locality, making your mosque as your base. Using your local mosque as your base, you should visits the Muslims in your locality reminding them about Allah and the orders of Allah. To the Muslims you should ask them to do the work of dakwah and to perform five times daily solat with congregation in the mosque. You should also visit the non-Muslims in your locality, inviting them to enter Islam and to recite the Great Kalimah, there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. Detailed on how to do the work I have written in my other articles in this blog CLICK.

Dr.Nasoha Saabin
March 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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THAILAND IN PROBLEMS- FAILURE OF DEMOCRACY

Posted in Politic on March 24, 2010 | 7 Comments »

Thailand is our neighbor and Malaysians, should be concerned with the problem face by our neighboring countries like Thailand. We always have a good relation with Thailand and Thailand has always been our good neighbor. All of us should be concerned about the situation that Thailand is facing now. Since Thaksin Sinawatra ousted as the Prime Minister of Thailand, the problems in Thailand seem to continue without end. Thaksin ousted as Prime Minister of Thailand by military coup d’état and since that day Thaksin has never stop in his attempt to gain back the power. Although Thaksin was out of Thailand, but the peoples who support Thaksin continue the struggle to bring back Thaksin into power.

Thaksin is a billionaires and he is generous to the poor people of Thailand especially the poor peoples in the north and the east west of Thailand. These poor people become the strong supporter of Thaksin. As a businessperson, Thaksin has use his position as the Prime Minister of Thailand to amass wealth through the various business activities that Thaksin use to have even before he becomes the Prime Minister of Thailand. Business communities in major cities of Thailand especially Bangkok are not happy with Thaksin total monopoly of business and they make demonstrations in the city of Bangkok asking Thaksin to step down. Military forces with the blessing of the royal palace ousted Thaksin as Prime Minister and an army General by the named Sonthi ruled Thailand temporarily.

After the short rule by the army, Thailand conducted another general election, and although Thaksin was not in the country, the party, once the party of Thaksin wins the election with overwhelming majority. Thaksin and his wife at the same time were charge with various charges of bribery and the left Thailand for Great Britain as political refugees. When Thaksin party wins the election, Thaksin came back to Thailand as a hero. Thaksin supporters are mainly the poor peoples of Thailand while the urban and the business communities of Thailand support his opponents’ parties. Thaksin supporters wear the red cloth while Thaksin opponents wear the yellow cloth. When Thaksin and his allies are in power, the yellow groups were in the roads doing demonstrations. When the opponents of Thaksin are in power, the red groups are in the roads doing demonstrations. The roads demonstration in Thailand seems to be endless as it was in Indonesia towards the end of Suharto’s regime that finally led to Suharto to step down as the President of Indonesia.

Now, Abhisit Vejjajiva is the Prime Minister of Thailand. He was the leader of the Democratic Party and is elected as Prime Minister not because Democratic Party wins the general election but through elections conducted among the Lawmakers of Thailand. Since Thaksin was popular among the poor people of Thailand and the poor are more than the rich are, Thaksin are sure to wins if there is any general election done in Thailand now. However, the urban and the business communities of Thailand do not like Thaksin or his allies to rise to power and they do not prefer Thailand to go to another general election. Now Thaksin or the red cloth group makes road demonstration demanding Abhisit to step down, to dissolve Parliament and to make another general election. Abhisit had refused the demands of the red group. The tussles of power between the two groups plunged Thailand into crisis that has lasted for so many years.

The incident in Thailand shows the weakness of democratic system. In term of democracy, Thaksin who wins the general election should become the Prime Minister of Thailand. He wins twice the general elections with great majority. He was denied to become the Prime Minister of Thailand after winning the second time general elections when the army with the blessing of the royal palace performed the coup d’état. However, the urban business communities dislike him because Thaksin will control almost all the major business ventures in Thailand in case he becomes the Prime Minister. As Prime Minister, Thaksin has the power to monopolize all the business ventures in Thailand while others are not having the same chance as Thaksin has.

Thaksin is clever as a businessperson and as politicians. Thaksin knows that in order to remain in power in democratic system you must have the support of the majority of the people. In order to gain support of the people Thaksin knows that he must do good services to the people. Thaksin also knows that the best way to have the support of the people is to help them by giving them money. The poor people of Thailand support Thaksin because when he was the Prime Minister of Thailand, he helps many poor people in Thailand. Thaksin pour the money that he has to help the poor people that constitute the majority of Thai people. Because of the support of the poor, in any general elections, Thaksin is sure to win with great majority. The urban and business communities of Thailand cannot denied the popularity that Thaksin has and they knows that Thaksin will come back to power if general election is being held in Thailand now.

Thailand is in great dilemma. The system of democracy that Thailand has does not seem to solve their problems. Democracy is not the system develops by Almighty Allah that can solve all the political problems that man has. Democracy is a system develops by human beings, which are far from perfect to develop a perfect system of governance. Muslims should not believe in the system develop by men but they should believe in the system given by Allah. All Muslims politicians who want to become the champion of democratic system should take lessons from the incident in Thailand. Democracy is not an Islamic system of governance. The way Muslims chose their leaders should be like the times of the four great Caliphs of Islam CLICK.

Thailand will solve her problem when they use the King as the decision maker to decides who should becomes the Prime Minister of Thailand and not the members of laws makers which are not respected and honored by Thai people. All Thais respect and accept the decision of their Kings and none will dare to go against the decision of the King. In order to decide who should become the Prime Minister of Thailand, the King must make consultations with various important personalities in Thailand. After consultations the King make the decision and the King, decision is final. In order for the two groups to unite the person that the King should choose as the Prime Minister of Thailand should be the person acceptable by both parties. The King can choose any person and not necessarily from among the politicians to become, the Prime Minister of Thailand as long as the person can becomes a means to unite the Thai people.

Dr.Nasoha Saabin
March 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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RECTIFYING THE MUSLIMS

Posted in True Fact on March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

None can rectify the Muslims except Allah and only Allah can rectify the Muslims. Allah has created the entire human being and it is the desire of Allah to see the entire human being to be rectified. None loves human beings more than Allah. Allah created the human beings and Allah wants the human beings to be best creations. In order human beings to be the best creations, Allah has given to the human beings the complete orders of Allah or complete religion. In order human beings to obey all the orders of Allah and to be rectified and successful, human beings must first accept and believe in their heart that there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah.

Allah has chosen from among the human beings Muhammad s.a.w to be the last Prophet of Allah. Allah has ordered the Prophet s.a.w to call people to accept and recite the Great Kalimah, there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. Allah has also given to Prophet Muhammad s.a.w His orders and Allah has ordered Prophet Muhammad s.a.w first to practice the orders himself and to invite those that have accepted the Great Kalimah to practice the orders and to teach them practically on how to practice the orders of Allah. Once the human beings practice all the orders of Allah, they will become rectified and successful in this world and hereafter. Prophet Muhammad s.a.w is the last Prophet of Allah and Allah has decided not to send any more Prophets after him. In other words after the death of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w, revelations or wahyu will never come. Although revelations will not come but the work of Prophet, s.a.w has to be continued and Allah has given the work of Prophet to all who has accepted Prophet Muhammad s.a.w as the last Prophet of Allah.

In the Quran, Allah says in approximate meaning, tell your followers that this is my path; the path of calling people to Allah with true yakin and this is my path and the path of those who follow me. Allah has given the work of calling people to Allah to the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w and to all his followers, either men or women. This verse clearly indicates that the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w is also the work of his followers. Although the followers of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w are not Prophets but Allah has given to them the work of Prophets. Allah has blessed the followers of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w with the work of Prophet although they are not Prophet. When the followers of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w do the work of Prophet Allah will elevate their position to be the best Umat. Allah says in the Quran with approximate meaning, you are the best Umat, you call people to good, you stop people from evils, and you have belief in Allah. Allah has honored the followers of Prophet Muhammad with the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w and has given them the position as the Waris of Prophet or Naib of Prophet. When the followers of Muhammad s.a.w do the work of Prophet as the Prophet s.a.w did and sacrificed as the Prophet s.a.w until Allah is pleased, then Allah will make the decision to make Islam alive, all the evils acts in this world will vanished and Allah will award the followers Muhammad s.a.w with honor and dignity.

The rectification of Muslims starts when they do the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w CLICK as their work and they remain istiqamah or steadfast doing the work of the Prophet s.a.w until they die. Rectification of Muslims achieve only when Muslims start doing the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w as the Prophet s.a.w did. When they do the work of Prophet then Allah will rectified them. Although, Allah promised to rectify us when we do the work of Prophet but our intention in doing the work of Prophet is only to please Allah and not to rectify ourselves CLICK . It is wrong to believe that rectification of Muslims have to be done first, before they can do the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. It is wrong to tell to the Muslims that they cannot do the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w because they are not rectified. It is wrong to tell to the Muslims, in order to be rectified they have to go out in the ‘path of Allah’ for forty days and four months with the intention to rectify oneself CLICK.

It is wrong to tell to the Muslims that they cannot do the work of Prophet because they do not have the ability to do the work of Prophet. It is wrong to tell to the Muslims that they cannot do the work of Prophet because they do not have knowledge, because the basic requirement to do the work of Prophet only knows the Great Kalimah. The work of Prophet includes the work to call and to invite the non-Muslims to accept and to recite the Great Kalimah, there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. When our talks are wrong then our belief and understanding are wrong. When our belief and understanding are wrong, then our actions are wrong. When Muslims do the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w the way Prophet did, Allah will rectify the Muslims and not the other way round. Iblis who is our real enemies install the wrong understanding into the heart and minds of Muslims that rectified ourselves first before we can do dakwah to others CLICK.

Allah says in the Quran with approximate meaning, whose words are better than those who call people to Allah and do-good amals, and they say they are Muslim. This verse shows that the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w precede the ability to do good amals. This verse shows that the work of dakwah precede the ability to do good amals. This verse shows that Muslims have to do the work of Prophet or dakwah first before they are rectified. The work of dakwah means to call the non-Muslims to accept and to recite the Great Kalimah there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. The work of dakwah CLICK is not to call the Muslims to Allah as Muslims has already accepted Allah as their God and Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. We have to remind Muslims about Allah and the orders of Allah and not to give dakwah to Muslims CLICK. The work to call people to Allah is to call people to recites the Great Kalimah and this is the work to call the non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah CLICK and not the work to remind the Muslims about Allah and the orders of Allah. When Muslims do the work of calling people to Allah, their iman will becomes strong. When their iman becomes strong, their amals will become good and they become truly Muslims.

Dr.Nasoha Saabin
March 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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MUSLIMS MINDSET AND BELIEVE

Posted in True Fact on March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »

During the early twentieth century, nearly all Muslim countries colonized by the non-Muslim countries. Since non-Muslims have colonized Muslims, generally in the minds of Muslims, non-Muslims are better than Muslims. Muslims tend to believe that non-Muslims are superior to Muslims. Muslims students go to study in non-Muslim countries and when they saw the higher living standard of non-Muslims when compare with the lower living standard of Muslims in their own countries, the superiority of the non-Muslims over Muslims becomes more vividly clear to them. Muslims feel inferior over the non-Muslims and as a result, Muslims tend to follow whatever the non-Muslims do. Muslims all over the world start to follow the way non-Muslims eat drink and live.

It has becomes an understanding among Muslims that those who follows the way the non-Muslims eat, drink and live are regarded by Muslims as modern while those who still follow the way the Muslims eat, drink and live are regarded as traditional and backward. As a result, Muslims who follow traditional ways also tend to follow the non-Muslim ways of life. Because of colonization, Muslims have become highly subservient to the non-Muslims way of life particularly to the Westerners who had been colonizing them for centuries. As long as in the minds of the Muslims they feel they are inferior to the non-Muslims, Muslims will never be able to progress more than the non-Muslims. As an example, the Malays being Muslims will never progress more than the non-Muslims will, as long as the Malays feel themselves to be inferior to the non-Muslims.

I think the Palestinian Muslims as well as the other Arab Muslims also feel themselves to be inferior to the non-Muslims. Generally, Muslims all over the world feels themselves to be inferior to the non- Muslims and this has resulted in Muslims not progressing as the non-Muslims do. Muslims leaders all over the world should embark on the therapy to eradicate the feeling of inferiority that had prevailed among Muslims. In one of my journey to Aligarh in India, one of the Indian Muslims Professor that was with me remarked, except Malaysia, other colonized countries are undeveloped. He makes that statement to me since to him India remain undeveloped in spite of gaining independence in 1947. He admired the progress that Malaysia has made in all fields since her independence and he admitted that among the colonized nations of the world Malaysia is the most develop.

In my opinion when we want to developed our country we must eradicate from the mind of the Muslims that they are inferior to the non-Muslims. Having the feeling of inferiority will not make the Muslims to be innovative and inventive. The feeling of inferiority will make them to be contented and complacent only to follow and to copy the non-Muslims. As a result, Muslims follows almost anything that the non-Muslims do because they think whatever comes from the non-Muslims are good. Whatever the non-Muslims had not done, Muslims become skeptical to do. Since Muslims has accepted the west to be better and superior, Muslims tend to follow the west blindly. This wrong mindset and believe make the Muslims to become backward and inferior to the west in all fields. As an example, the British had colonized Malaya and the Malays particularly look up to the British as their Tuan Guru. The Malays regard their Tuan Guru as always correct and better than them and they follow and copy whatever the British do in almost all fields. Some Malays follow the British even if it goes against the orders of Allah and in religious term, this known as taksub.

We sent our students to Britain to study, we follow the British systems of education, we develop our constitution following British Constitution, we take our holiday in Britain, we support British football teams and we admire their players more than our own. All our actions clearly show that our mind and believe are still being colonized by the British. We have not achieved independence of mind and soul from the British although Malaysia has gained independence from the British 53 years ago. This happen to us because we have not made any effort since independence to free our mind and soul from British colonization. We still regard the British as our master or Tok Guru in all our undertakings.

I admire Tun Dr Mahathir, our fourth Prime Minister because he did try to free the mind and soul of Malaysians from British colonization. Tun Dr Mahathir has come out with the slogan Malaysia Boleh and instead of sending students to only Great Britain students also sent to Japan and Korea. It was during Tun Dr Mahathir time, Malaysia developed to greater height. Unfortunately, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi the Prime Minister that follows him does not follow the footsteps of Tun Dr Mahathir. During Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s time, the slogan, Malaysia Boleh not used often and during this present Prime Minister, Dato’Seri Najib the slogan changes to One Malaysia.

The slogan One Malaysia does not eliminate the feeling of inferiority that Malaysians have in general and the Malays in particular. The slogan One Malaysia is for the unity of Malaysians and it is more of a political slogan of Dato’ Seri Najib to counter the slogan Malaysia Malaysian proposed by Lim Kit Siang of DAP. Now DAP comes with another slogan, Middle Malaysia to counter the slogan of One Malaysia. These slogans are political tools to shows that the present Government is a caring government and it takes care of the needs of every one. It is not the same as the slogan developed by Tun Dr Mahathir, which is to develop positive mindset and correct believe among Malaysians, particularly among the Malays. I have mentioned my criticism about the slogan in my articles Tun Dr Mahathir, the Great Statement of Malaysia CLICK.

Some of the slogans that can be used to develop positive mental outlook and correct believe of Muslims are, Allah with me everything I can do. Allah with me I am the best. I obey Allah I am successful. I work hard I obey Allah. I love to do the work of Nabi. The work of Nabi is my work. I do the work of Nabi Allah is with me. Whatever I want, I ask Allah. None can give harm except Allah. I love Allah, I obey Allah. Allah loves me I got everything. None I fear except Allah. I dare to fail, I do not fear failure. I fear other than Allah, Allah is not pleased with me. I fear Allah, Allah love me. I work hard, Allah loves me. I work because it is the order of Allah. I work to please Allah. I work hard I am successful. I am lazy, I am a failure. Allah with me, I can do all types of work. Some of these slogans can be repeatedly spoken prior and after any meetings or in the beginning or in the end of any assembly in any offices or schools.

These are some of the positive words that we can be used to installed positive mindset and correct believe among Muslims. The work to installed positive mental outlook and correct believe should be the first step taken by all Muslims leaders in all Muslim countries in order to make the Muslims to advance and progress. When the mindset and believe of the Muslims are correct, other developments will certainly follows. The slogan, Allah with me everything I can do, Allah with me I am the best, should be the slogans of Muslims all over the world. I hope all the Muslims leaders in all Muslim countries should ponder and think about my suggestions seriously. I am ready to talk on these very important topics to all of you in all Muslim countries.

Dr.Nasoha Saabin
March 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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ISLAMIC LEADERSHIP

Posted in True Fact on March 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

In Islam the best should becomes the leader of the Muslims. Similarly like in solat the best Muslim should becomes the imam. In the whole world, Muslims should behave like one body and there should be one leader for the Muslims in the whole world. The best Muslim among the Muslims in the whole world should become the leader of the Muslims. The Muslims in the whole world does not act like one body, as they are mainly Muslims by name. Even the Muslims of the same race and culture in one country are not united. As many Muslims countries practice democracy, those that can harness popularity among Muslims will become the leader of that country while they are not necessary the best Muslims in the country.

We cannot have the leader like the companions of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w such as Hazrat Abu Bakar and Hazrat Umar may Allah be pleased with them since the work that produce such personalities are not done by the current Muslims. During the times of the Prophet s.a.w all Muslims including the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w were doing the work of inviting the people towards Allah and reminding the Muslims about Allah and the orders of Allah. Since the Muslims at those times are doing the work of the Prophet, Allah gives them the qualities like Prophets. Although there are not Prophets but the companions of the Prophets, have the qualities as if they were Prophets and they got the help of Allah like Prophets.

The best among the Muslims are the best in taqwa. The best in taqwa means the person that has the most fear of Allah. The person who is having the most fear of Allah is the person who is the most obedience to the commandments of Allah. In the obedience of Allah lies the contentment of their hearts. When the name of Allah is mention, their heart tremble with fear and they often shed their tears as a sign of their love and fear towards Allah. The best among Muslims are the best in taqwa and they should become the leader of the Muslims. Since their love and fear towards Allah, more than their love towards wealth and power Allah made power and wealth run behind him. Allah makes power and wealth to submit before the person who love and fear Allah more than he love and fear anything else.

When Muslims are not doing the work of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w, we cannot produce Muslims with taqwa. Muslims with taqwa will come out in the society that do the work of our Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. When we do not plant durian in the correct way, we will not get good durian. When Muslims do the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w then we will have leaders like the companions of the Prophet s.a.w. The work of the Prophet s.a.w is to invite non-Muslims to accept and recite the Great Kalimah and to remind the Muslims about the Great Kalimah and the orders of Allah.

We have to make the work of dakwah and the work of reminding the Muslims about Allah as the main work of all Muslims. We have to do the work of dakwah daily with istiqamah, with correct intention, with ihtisab and the ways of the Prophet s.a.w until we died. When Muslims are doing the work of the Prophet s.a.w as the Prophet s.a.w did, then the qualities of Prophet will come in the life of the Muslims. The best in taqwa among the Muslims at any time should become the leader of the Muslims at that time. Since Hazrat Abu Bakar was the best Muslim at the time the Prophet s.a.w passed away, the Muslims unanimously selected him to become the leader of the Muslims. Nowadays even in the Jemaah that suppose to practice sunnah and call themselves as people who do dakwah select the successor to the leaders of the Jemaah from among their sons and family members only.

Definitely, the leaders that we have now are not like the leaders during the early years of Islam. The qualities of Muslims leaders deteriorated when Muslims are no longer doing the work of the Prophet s.a.w. Some Muslims leaders seem to be practicing Islam as they wear Islamic attires, perform solat and can make speeches quoting Quran and Hadis but their practice of Islam remain only shapes and devoid of the true spirit of Islam. As I can see, these leaders are only using Islam as a cover to gain wealth, power and position and they are not very interested in reviving the orders of Allah neither in their lifes nor in the life of others. All other Muslims leaders are also interested to gain power, wealth and position but they are not using Islam as the cover. In my opinion, all of them are the same except some are slightly better in terms of their love to gain power, wealth and position when compared to others. Tun Dr Mahathir steps down as the Prime Minister of Malaysia when he can choose to continue. Many people shed their tears when he wanted to leave office and in my opinion his love towards power and wealth is much less when compare with other Malaysian leaders including those that look to be very pious.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim may appear Islamic, and his speeches are full of quotation of Quran and Hadis but in his heart I think is full with love of wealth and power and I think he has no true desire to revive any orders of Allah in his life and the life of others. He is probably the same as any other Muslims leaders who use Islam as the cover and he probably could even be worse than they could, since he was willing even to tell lies in order to achieve his dream to become the Prime Minister of Malaysia. One incident that I still remember was Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim once told us to support Pas since the constitutions of Pas is clearly following Quran but in just a few months later, I heard he has entered Umno. Since that day, I knew that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is a great liar and since then until today, I will never believe whatever he said even in the court.

When Datuk Seri Zahrain discloses the lying that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had done to the Parliamentary members of Parti Keadilan Rakyat I am not surprised. Datuk Seri Anwar will remain a liar, no matter what party he belongs. When take therapy and also do the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w, the way the Prophet did with the intention only to please Allah his lying and other bad habits Insha’Allah will be cured.

I am calling not only Datuk Seri Anwar but also all the Muslims leaders in the whole world to do the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w CLICK , the way the Prophet did and they should call all their followers to do the same. When they do the work of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w, Allah will give them the qualities of the Prophets, Muslims will have the leaders like the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w, and the help of Allah will be with the Muslims.

Dr.Nasoha Saabin
March 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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SINCERITY OR IKHLAS

Posted in Religion, True Fact on March 18, 2010 | 11 Comments »

Many people think that their actions are sincere as long as they do not expect anything in return from the one that they have done some good actions. Sincere actions are actions done only to please Allah. Whenever we want to do any action, we should do it because it is the order of Allah and our intention in doing the action should be to please Allah. Allah ordered us to do certain actions and there are actions that Allah prohibits us from doing. When we do certain actions because Allah order us to do and we do not do certain action because Allah do not allowed us to do, that actions are good amals or good actions. When we do any actions because we like to do it or we do not do any actions because we do not like doing it then the actions are not good amals or good actions. In order for any actions to be regarded as good amals or good actions, it has to be done because Allah orders it and the intention must only to please Allah. Similarly, when we are not doing certain actions because Allah do not allows us to do and the intention is only to please Allah, then the action are also good amals or good actions.

Many of us are not examining our reasons and our intention in doing certain actions. We simply do the actions because we want to do it or because we saw many people are doing it. Why we want to do it and what is our intention in doing it is not clear to us. Every action must have the reasons why we want to do the action and every action must have intention or niat. Every action must have the correct intention or niat for it to become a good action. Without correct intention or niat, the actions are not good amals or good action. Good actions or good amals must have correct reasons and correct intention .The correct reasons for doing any action is because it is an order of Allah. The correct intention of doing any action is to please Allah. We have to examine our intentions and our reason for doing the amals, in the beginning, in the middle of the actions and at the end of the actions. The reasons and the intention in doing the amals must be consistence throughout the amals or actions. In case the reason and the intention change to wrong reason and wrong intention in the middle or at the end of the action, the actions or amals will not become a good actions or good amals.

We take as an example our daily action of going to work. Are we going to work because it is an order of Allah and to please Allah or are we going to work because we want to earn our living and to please our families and ourselves. Allah is our provider and none can fulfill our needs except Allah. Even though Allah provides all our needs but Allah is testing us by asking us to work in order to earn our needs. The work does not provide our needs but Allah orders us to work in order to test us. Allah wants to know, who among us is good in actions.

Allah orders us to work in order to test us, whether we believe that Allah is the provider or the work is our provider. We should go to work because we want to obey the order of Allah and our intention for going to work is to please Allah. While working, we should observe all the orders of Allah in the way shown by Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. When we are working because it is an order of Allah, our intention is to please Allah, and we observe all the orders of Allah while working, then our working will becomes an act of worship.

When we works because it is an order of Allah and our intention is to please Allah then we are sincere and our working is regarded as an act of worship. When we works because we like to work and our intention of working is to provides the needs of our family then our working is not regarded as an acts of worship. When our works, not regarded as acts of worship then we are not getting any rewards for the action. Instead of reward, we may be getting sins since our intention of working is not sincere. Our intention is sincere when we work only to please Allah. Although Allah promise to give us rewards when we do any good actions but our intention in doing any good action is not to obtain rewards. When we do any good action with the intention of obtaining rewards then we are not sincere.

When we do the work of dakwah to obtain iman, we are not sincere. When we do the work of dakwah because we want to correct ourselves or to have islah, we are not sincere. We are only sincere in doing any amals or actions when we do the amals or the actions only to please Allah.

Dr.Nasoha Saabin
March 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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GREAT DETERMINATION

Posted in Politic on March 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »

In this century peoples like Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi, represent personalities that have great courage and determination to fight oppression. With full determination and courage, Nelson Mandela remained in Jail nearly twenty-seven years. He comes out of the jail to become the first black President of South Africa. The struggle of Nelson Mandela pays when apartheid system died in South Africa. After becoming the President of South Africa for some years, he resigned to let other peoples to lead South Africa .He struggled to end apartheid system and he did not struggled to gain power. When apartheid system ends in South Africa, Nelson Mandela decides to end his political career and becomes a commoner.

He did not struggle to gain power and to remain in power as long as he could clang to power but he struggled to end apartheid system. Nelson Mandela can choose to remain in power for more years as he is still healthy and strong but he decides not to do so and he gave the power to his subordinates. Now the world regards him as a great leader. Allah has given him the reward of his doing in this world. I hope the Muslims in South African will invite him to enter Islam.

Hazrat Abu Bakar may Allah be pleased with him accept power and becomes the first Caliph of Islam because he wanted the Muslims to unite as one body. When Muslims united, Hazrat Abu Bakar told Hazrat Umar that he wanted to step down from becoming the Caliph and he wanted to give the position to Hazrat Umar may Allah be pleased with him. Hazrat Umar told Hazrat Abu Bakar that you do not want the position but the whole Muslims want you to hold to the position. Hazrat Abu Bakar accepted the position of the Caliph because he wanted all the Muslims at that time united under one Amir. At that time, the Ansars of Medinah also want to choose their own Amir. Hazrat Abu Bakar told the Ansars that I have brought with me two persons that you could choose either one to become the Amir of the Muslims, Hazrat Umar or Hazrat Abu Ubaidah. On hearing this, the Ansars remain silent but when Hazrat Umar hold the hand of Hazrat Abu Bakar and make bai’ah, all the Ansars also make bai’ah to Hazrat Abu Bakar and Hazrat Abu Bakar becomes the first Caliph of Islam.

Later on all the other Muslims in Medinah, make bai’ah to Hazrat Abu Bakar to become the Caliph except one companion by the name Hazrat Khalid. Hazrat Abu Bakar paid many visits to Hazrat Khalid and one day Hazrat Khalid told Hazrat Abu Bakar whether the reason for his visit was for him to make bai’ah to him. Hazrat Abu Bakar answered, since all the Muslims are with me, I want you to be with all the Muslims. Hazrat Abu Bakar did not want power or position but he wanted all the Muslims united. Hazrat Abu Bakar accepted the position as a Caliph, in order to unite the Muslims. He did it because at that time, it was the order of Allah for him to accept the position of Caliph and his intention was only to please Allah.

Hazrat Abu Bakar did not want to become Caliph or Amir. He did not want power as he wants only the love of Allah. He used to give advice to another Sahabah that, do not become Amir even for two persons. When Hazrat Abu Bakar became Caliph that Sahabah came back to him and asked why you become Caliph when you had advised me not to become Amir even for two persons. Hazrat Abu Bakar answered; they forced me to accept the position. Hazrat Abu Bakar did not want power and position but power and position been forced upon him. Hazrat Abu Bakar accepted power because he wanted the Muslims united and this to him was more important than to fulfill his wishes and desires.

When we want power, we will become corrupt when we get power. When our intention is to gain power we are more interested in maintaining power when we have power rather than to rule the country with justice. Ones who love power will not become a good leader when he got power. He will use the power to gain more power and to maintain power. He will used all means to maintain power and he will make sure all his opponents jailed or put to death.

He will use his power to suppress his opponent. When a person loves power, he fears that he may lose the power and the fear to lose power make him corrupt. As Aung San Suu Kyi had said, it is not power that corrupt but fear. She also said, fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it. Many world leaders due to fear of losing power lose sight of their purpose. Military Junta of Burma is an example of the many world leaders that have the fear of losing power.

In order to remain in power the Military Junta of Burma put Madam Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest for nearly 14 years. Although she wins the general election in 1990, but the Military Junta of Burma nullified the result of the election and put her under house arrest. Recently the Military Junta decided to hold general election in 2010 but Madam Aung San Suu Kyi and her party not allowed participating in the election. Those who are corrupt take such actions and they become corrupt because they love power and they want to clang to power as long as they could.

Madam Aung San Suu Kyi is an example of a very determined woman for the cause that she believed to be the truth. Although she is only a woman but she has the determination that most men do not have. None of the man in Burma has such strong determination as her and the world should salute her. She was ready even to separate from her husband and son for the cause that she believed to be the truth.

As Muslim who has believed in Allah and the hereafter, we should have stronger determination to do the work of the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w than Madam Aung San Suu Kyi for her country and Nelson Mandela for his people. We should be more determined than those non-Muslims like Madam Aung San Suu Kyi who are determined to established democracy government in Burma. We should be determined to establish the orders of Allah in the whole world and we should be determined to do the work of our Prophet Muhammad s.a.w that pleases Allah, our creator and the creator of the whole humankind. I am calling all the Muslims in the whole world to do the work of Prophet Muhammad s.a.w with great determination and sacrifices like Prophet Muhammad s.a.w. CLICK.

Dr.Nasoha Saabin
March 2010
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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