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Among the twelve missions CLICK for Malaysia to become an advanced and progressive nation, the first and foremost is that all Muslims in Malaysia should have the quality of enjoining people to do good and forbidding them from evil. Muslims in Malaysia must be fond to do the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil. Good actions are the essence of success while evil actions are the essence of failure. Allah will grant success or failure to human based on their actions. None can grant success or failure except Allah. Allah does not grant success to those who have wealth but Allah grant success to those who have good actions. Malaysia will become an advanced and progressive nation when the Malaysians become successful citizens. Allah will make all Malaysians successful citizens when they have good actions. A country may have plenty of natural resources such as petroleum and precious metals but when the citizens of that country are evil, the country will never be a modern and advanced nation. Evil actions such as bribery and dishonesty will plunge the whole administration of a country into chaos. The evil actions of people are the real causes of backwardness, poverty and miseries. The abundant natural resources of a country could not become means of changing the destiny of the country. The actions of the people are the means of changing the destiny of a country and her citizens.

A country that wants to change its destiny must change the actions of its people. When the actions of people are good, the destiny of the country will be good. Malaysia will become a modern, advanced and progressive nation when the actions and the behavior of her people are good. The behavior of the Malaysians will be good if their beliefs and mindsets are correct and good. The beliefs and mindsets of Malaysians will be corrected and good when they do the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil. The one who invites to good will become good. The one who invites to evil will become evil. What you speak is what you are. The one who invites people to good will always speak good and correct words. The one who invite people to do evil will always speak evil and wrong words. Therefore, we have to make effort to instill the quality of enjoining good and forbidding evil among the Malaysians if we want Malaysia to become an advanced and progressive nation. What is good and what is evil has to be defined correctly, and the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil needs to be defined and done correctly. Wrong definition and understanding of good and evil will lead to incorrect work of enjoining good and forbidding evil and will lead to incorrect results and wrong destiny.

Good actions should start with acknowledged the existence of only one Creator and Sustainer, who is Allah; and to acknowledge that Allah has sent a messenger, whose name was Muhammad SAW. The Prophet Muhammad has to be obeyed and followed and whoever does that will be successful in this World and in the Hereafter. The good actions that is required after pronouncing the acknowledgement is to do the work that will turn the acknowledgement into belief and thought of the person. Once it has become the person’s belief and thought, the behavior and actions of that person will become good. Good actions of any man or woman begin when he or she has recited the Great Kalimah, the meaning of which is; I bear witness that there is no God except Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is a messenger of Allah. The reciting of this Great Kalimah is the utmost and most outstanding good action that a person can ever do in his or her whole life. When a person recites this Great Kalimah, even once, all the sins that he or she has ever committed in his or her whole lifetime will be forgiven by Allah and will be changed to good deeds. Reciting this Great Kalimah is the excellent action. Enjoining people to good actions means inviting people to recite the Great Kalimah and to prevent people from evil means to prevent people from refusing to acknowledge that there is no God except Allah and that Prophet Muhammad is a Messenger of Allah.

Inviting people to recite the Great Kalimah is known as the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil. Allah has made this work compulsory to all that have recited the Great Kalimah, there is no God except Allah and Muhammad is a Messenger of Allah. This is the work that has to be revived starting in Malaysia initially and later on in the whole world. Whoever has recited the Great Kalimah in Malaysia has to do the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil. The centre of this noble work is every mosque and surau (small mosque) in Malaysia. The training on how to do the work among those who have recited the Great Kalimah will initially be at Masjid Taman Greenwood, Taman Batu, Gombak, Selangor, and later on at all mosques and surau in Malaysia. All male Muslims in Malaysia will made compulsory to undergo training on the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil for a period of at least one week. The trainers who are Government servants will conduct the training. By the Grace of Allah, the manual on how to do the work for both men and women already been written and will be published. Every adult, men and women, among those who have recited the great Kalimah in Malaysia will receive a copy of the manual. Every adult, men and women who has recited the Great Kalimah in Malaysia, are ordered by the Government of Malaysia to do the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil. Women can do the work among women whenever they can. Men have to attend mosques or surau daily and from there, men will go either alone or in a group of two or three to visit every house in the locality. When meet those who have not recited the Great Kalimah, invite them to recite the Great Kalimah. To those who have recited the Great Kalimah, remind them about the meaning of the Great Kalimah and invite them to obey the orders of Allah starting from the first order that is to do the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil. Then invite them to the second order that is to perform the five compulsory daily prayers with congregation at the mosques for men and for women at home.

The work of enjoining good and forbidding evil has to be done initially within their own locality for a minimum of 45 minutes daily and later on in the whole world. Those who have recited the Great Kalimah and have undergone the training on the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil yet refuse to do the work will be regarded as disobeying the order of the Government and actions will be taken against them. They will be disqualified from government awards and scholarships and will have to pay income tax like the non-Muslims. Those who have recited the Great Kalimah and do the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil for a minimum of 45 minutes daily for a period of four months in their locality will be given merits. Among the merits that will be given to them are; they are eligible to receive government contracts, scholarships and awards and will be exempted from paying income tax. In every mosque and surau there will be government officers who will be working as the Mosque Director, Imam, Bilal, Secretary and clerks who will monitor and control the activities of the mosques or surau and the activities of every person in the locality. Articles on the functions and the activities of a mosque already been written in my previous articles in this blog. CLICK CLICK

The work of enjoining good and forbidding evil is very important work that all Muslims males and females in Malaysia must do in order to obtain the true beliefs and the correct mindsets. Upon this true beliefs and correct mindsets comes the correct actions and behavior. This is the most important quality that all Muslims in Malaysia must have in order for Malaysia to become an advanced progressive nation. Upon this quality comes all the other good actions and upon the good actions, Malaysia as an advanced and progressive nation will be realized. A way to encourage Muslims in Malaysia to do the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil is by using films and dramas depicting and imparting the importance of this order of Allah. Good and correct words related to these work must continuously conveyed to the Muslims in Malaysia via the internet, the electronic media, the newspapers and the billboards along the highways. Examples of the words that should be use are; “I invite to good I become good”, “I invite to evils  I will becomes evils”, “I invite to good Allah pleased with me”, “I invite to good to please Allah”, “I invite to good to obey Allah”, “I invite non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah, I`ll invite them to good. I invite non-Muslims to recite the Great Kalimah, Allah pleased with me.” The Self-talk therapy treatments on “the Work of the Prophet” shall be play on television channels and radios three times daily and the Muslims will be required to take the treatment. The Self-talk therapy on “the Work of the Prophet” consists of six tracks and each track is 10 minutes long that will be played three times a day; once in the morning, once during lunch break and once in the evening. Every Muslim will be able to take the therapy at specific times daily via the television or radio when the self-talk therapy program is broadcasted.

Prof. Dr. Nasoha Saabin
May 2011
Dean of Faculty of Optometry
International University College of Technology Twintech
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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Malaysia shall become an advanced progressive nation by the year 2020.This is our vision. In order to achieve our vision by the year 2020, we must organize a systematic strategy towards achieving our vision. We should lists down the steps that we should take in order to make Malaysia become an advanced progressive nation by the year 2020.

STEP 1.Define our vision. Our Vision is to make Malaysia as an advanced progressive nation by the year 2020.

STEP 2.In order to achieve our vision we must have missions to achieve. We must define the missions that we want to achieve. An advanced progressive nation must have certain missions to achieve. In my opinion, there are twelve missions that Malaysia must achieve in order to become an advanced progressive nation. These twelve missions must be made known to each and every citizen of Malaysia. The whole nation must have the same vision and missions. These twelve missions are:

1. Enjoining Good and Forbidding Evil.
2. A United and Cohesive Society.
3. An Educated and Highly Technological Community.
4. A Religious and Highly Tolerant Society.
5. A Multilingual Community.
6. High Income and High Basic Salary.
7. Healthy and Excellence in Sports.
8. Food and Basic Necessities Affordable to Everyone.
9. A Law Abiding and Well Disciplined Society.
10. A Generous and Loving Community.
11. A Clean, Well Planned and Beautiful Country
12. Hardworking and Good Quality Workers.

STEP 3 In orders to achieve each of these missions; we must have the action plans. The action plan must be followed strictly by the nation. The leaders as well as the people must know exactly what to do in order to achieve our missions. The action plans must be practical and achievable.

STEP4. The results of the action plans must be analyzed and monitored periodically and corrective actions must be taken to rectify the outcomes in case the desired results were not achieved within the prescribed period.

STEP 5 Continuous monitoring and improving the achievement levels of the missions. The achievement levels can be measured objectively using a sample of the population.

When all the twelve missions have been achieved to a level of more than 50%, then Malaysia can be regarded as an advanced progressive nation. When all the twelve missions have been achieved to a level of more than 80%, then Malaysia has become a truly advanced progressive nation.

A country cannot be regarded as an advanced progressive nation based only on the high per capita income of the country. There are situations, the country may have high per capita income but the majority of the population lives in poverty. Although the income of the population could be high but if the cost of living is also high, the population will still be living in poverty. When the cost of basic needs are high, many people will find it difficult to pay the bills for their houses, foods, education, health and cars. Due to high cost of living, many people will have a lot of debts to pay every month. After paying all the debts they will have little or no money left to spend. In order to survive they again resort to borrow from bank that charges with high interests. End up paying every month to the bank with high interests and without realizing it they have becomes slaves to the bank. As a result, everyone in the country needs to work almost twelve hours every day with little or no time to enjoy with their family.

The cost of basic needs increase whenever the government increases the salary of government servants. Indeed it causes great distress to the others who are not government servants. What is the aim of making Malaysia a high income nation, when the cost of goods are always increase? Is having high income will ensure Malaysians to become prosperous. There is no benefit at all to have high income when the cost of basic necessities are also high. Can our government able to control the increasing prices of basic needs or not? As we have observed so far, the government is not able to control the increasing prices of basic needs. Mere advices and words of warning will not help to reduce the prices. Government is not able to control the increasing prices of the basic needs because the setting of the prices lies in the hands of traders and consumers. Traders are not worried whether the poor families (generally are Malays and Indians) can buy the products or not because the rich families (generally are Chinese consumers) at anytime can buy the products. Traders are only worried when their products cannot be sold in the market when they increase the prices. As long as their products can be sold in the market, the traders will continue to increase the prices. I still can remember when the prices of fish such as “Tenggiri” (Spanish Mackerel), “Jenahak” (Golden Snapper) and “Ikan Merah” (Red Snapper) used to be very cheap, but now it has become very expensive because there are peoples who can buy these fishes at high prices. The mushrooming of the Chinese and Tom Yam restaurants have created buyers to these fishes and has caused the prices to increase beyond the ability of an average income earner in this country to buy these fishes. Generally in Malaysia, the Chinese are the traders and wholesalers. As long as they are buyers, the Chinese traders will increase the prices as they are only interested in money and not the welfare of the consumers.

Everyone wants to have high income provided the prices of goods remain the same. A country with high income may not necessarily be that each and everyone in the country would have high income. It could be a situation where only a few individuals in the country have a very high income while the rest of the peoples still have low income. An average income is the total amount of income divide by the total number of population. On the basis of an average income, Malaysia may be regarded as advanced progressive country but in reality the majority of her population may still live in poverty. The buying power of the peoples does not depend only on the amount of salary that they get but also on the prices of goods. When the prices of goods are high, the buying power would still be low although the salary could be high. It is the buying power of the average population that determine whether the country is prosperous or not and not only the salary. In my opinion, although Malaysia may have high income or high per capita income but if the buying power is low, Malaysia is not an advanced progressive country.

We may build high rise buildings, modern highways system, and superb sport centers but the general population is not going to benefit directly on these development. Generally everyone in the country only wants a house of their own, a car to drive their family around and sufficient good food to eat. What is the use of Malaysia having high income, high rise buildings like PETRONAS Twin Tower and motorsport race track like Sepang International Circuit but her population on average is still cannot afford to own a house, an average standard car and to eat sufficiently good food. We have the name as an advanced progressive country but in reality we are not. Malays and the Malays leaders in general are very fond in having only name; shape and appearance of anything but are not really serious in achieving the reality. The Malays have a proverb that has shape their mentality and beliefs and become the main reason why the Malays are backward compared to other races. The proverb in Malay language is “biar papa asal bergaya”. In general, this proverb has shaped the beliefs and mentality of the Malays. Malays and the Malays leaders are only satisfied if they can achieved only the shapes, names and appearance of anything and they are not so motivated to achieve the reality. Many Malays wear religious attires as if they are very religious and pious but in reality they are not. What I think we are trying to achieve is only the cosmetics of an advanced progressive country and not the reality of an advanced progressive nation.

Prof. Dr. Nasoha Saabin
May 2011
Dean of Faculty of Optometry
International University College of Technology Twintech
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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