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Among all the good qualities hardworking is the most important quality to be acquired by all Malaysians particularly the Malays and the Indians. Malays are known to be lazy when compared to the Chinese and the Indians. In order to become an advanced and progressive nation, Malaysian government must treat the bad qualities of the Malays and the Indians, particularly the laziness. What makes a person to become lazy or hardworking, neither race nor food. The wrong belief and mindset are the reasons that make them lazy. What is the wrong belief that the Malays have that make them lazy when compared to the Indians and the Chinese? Most Malays believe that to earn money or to earn material need is an action known to the Malays as worldly action. When Malays go to work, they believe they are going for worldly action. Malays are Muslims and as a Muslim the Malays believes that they can do worldly actions or earning for their worldly needs but they are not encouraged to do it wholeheartedly. As a Muslim the Malays believes, they should do worldly actions or earning for their living sparingly and not wholeheartedly. Many Malays think and believes that we should not work very hard for our worldly needs, as none of us is going to live long in this world. Many Malays think that Allah prohibits us to work very hard for our worldly needs and we are ordered to work very hard only for earning the rewards of the life hereafter. Many Muslims look at those Muslims who work hard for their worldly need as worldly people and are not pious. The pious and good Muslims to most Muslims especially those that has followed the teaching of Tabligh Jamat are those that devoted their whole life in the learning of Islam in religious schools or madrasah. Then after completion of their studies, they devote their life’s wholeheartedly in the teaching of Islam in madrasah and in the work of Tabligh Jamat. Many professionals in Tabligh Jamat are not sending their children to normal schools and to become professionals like them but they send all their children, both girls and boys to madrasah to become hafiz and hafizah of Quran or to become religious scholars who will devote their entire life to the teaching of Islam and the work of Jamat Tabligh. Malays are lazy and when they join the movement of Tabligh Jamat, they become even lazier than before. They work only to earn money and to spend the money to do the work of Tabligh Jamat. When they spend times in Tabligh Jamat, they believe they are doing religious work. When they go for their worldly needs they believe that they are doing worldly works. (more…)

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Malaysia as a progressive and advanced country needs to become a clean, well planned and beautiful country. Malaysia with beautiful peoples and good qualities must have beautiful scenery. Roads in Malaysia must be wide and good qualities, having at least double lanes on both ways. Along all the main roads in Malaysia, all the lands in between roads or on the sides of the roads are cultivated with flowers of various kinds. When anyone is driving along the main roads of Malaysia, they will be welcomed by beautiful flowers. These flowers are cultivated and taken care by the government and sold in their supermarkets and petrol stations all over the country. Peoples who come back from their offices can stop at any petrol stations to buy flowers as present to their wives or loved ones. It is a part of efforts made by the government to beautify our roads and at the same time increase the loves between members of families and to increase government income.  (more…)

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Malaysians are generous and loving citizens. The qualities of loving and generous are already with the Malaysians .These qualities need to be enhanced or increased to high level. Since hundreds of years ago Malaysians used to live with other peoples of different races and religions. Chinese, Indians and Arabs came to Malaysia since hundreds of years ago to live among the Malays. They have assimilated very well with the local Malays, who are by nature loving, respectful and generous people. They welcome the Chinese, Indians and Arabs to live and do business with them and in certain occasion to marry with their children. These foreigners assimilated well with the Malays and when they become Muslims, they become like the Malays. When the Chinese and Indians embrace Islam and they marry the Malays, as times goes on they also become Malays. They become Malays because they speak Malay language, practice the Malay customs and culture, and they are Muslims. Even though the Baba Nyonya (the term used popularly for descendants of early Chinese immigrants to the Nusantara region) in all aspects are like the Malays but they are classified as Chinese because they are not Muslims. Malays become non-receptive to foreigners only when the Portuguese came to Malacca with the intention of taking over the Port of Malacca by force. Malays encountered the first ever war with the Portuguese, when the Portuguese want to take over the Port of Malacca by force. The Malays were taken by surprised and not prepared for the war. They had never encountered such warmongers in the past. The Indians, Chinese and Arabs that came to Malacca were friendly, cooperative and good peoples. The Europeans was the only nations came to Malaysia with the intention of conquering and attacking the local peoples. It was the bad habits of the Europeans (and Americans) until today, trying to conquer the world. Only after the coming of the Europeans to Malaysia with their bad intention and attitudes, the Malays start to become less friendly to foreigners. (more…)

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Laws are made to be followed. There is no point making so many rules and laws yet no one really follows. Laws and rules are made in order to bring justice to the society. Justice will bring peace and tranquility to the society. In order for Malaysia to become a country with peace and tranquility it needs to have a law abiding and disciplined society. How to produce a law abiding society is a question needs to be answered by all leaders of the world. Every leader wants a law abiding and disciplined society as it is easy to manage the society. Laws are obeyed because of many reasons. Many people obey the laws because of fear the punishments and believe that it is good to obey the laws. However there are peoples who obey the laws because they believe God has ordered them to obey the laws. Malaysia will have a law abiding and disciplined society when all Malaysians believe that it is the order of Allah or God to obey the laws. God has created us and He wants us to live in peace and tranquility. In order to live in peace and tranquility men must be obedient to the laws and God ordered men to obey the laws, even though the laws are made by men. Many people do not follow the traffic laws because they believe that it is man-made laws and are not supposed to be followed. Many do not follow rules and become undisciplined because they believe they are supposed only to follows God’s laws and no other laws. Many do not follow laws made by men and as a result they become undisciplined. In certain areas, the law is written clearly that says “No Littering” but there are peoples who still throwing rubbish in that area. Peoples who throw rubbish everywhere believe that it is not wrong to throw rubbish everywhere as they like, as long as it does not hurt other peoples. In certain countries we saw many people who urinate even in the streets of the city. They do because they believe that there is nothing wrong to urinate at the street as long as they do not disturb other peoples. They are many people who come to work late and do not keep their promises because they believe it is not wrong to come to work late and it is not wrong not to keep promises. These are bad habits that many people have and as a result of these bad habits people become undisciplined. (more…)

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Foods and basic necessities are affordable to everyone. This means everyone in Malaysia can afford to buy foods and other basic necessities and it is a dream of everyone in Malaysia. What has been witness all this while, the price of goods and basic needs has never decreased. The prices of all goods including basic necessities keep on increasing particularly when the government increases the salary of the government workers. When there is, increase in salary there will follow by an increase in the price of goods. When the government increases the price of petrol, there will be an increase of goods. When there is a reduction in the price of petrol there is no reduction in the prices of goods. The price of goods and basic needs is not in the hand of the government but in the hands of the traders particularly the wholesalers. Whenever the wholesaler wants to increase the price of goods, the government has very limited power to stop it. Government may have rules, but the rules and enforcement cannot stop them from increasing the prices of goods. How many enforcement officers the government can employ to stop traders from increasing the price of goods? During festival seasons, the government warns the traders that a severe punishment will be taken on them if they increase the price of goods. Only warning does not stop the traders from increasing the price of goods? Goods price depend on the demand and supply. When there are plenty of goods but there is no demand then the prices of goods will be lower. When the goods are limited and the demands of the goods are high then the prices of those goods will be higher. Wholesalers and traders only want more money and they want the prices of goods to be increased. When the goods are plenty, they will make the goods become limited by storing the goods or destroying them and in doing so the price of those goods are maintained. Whenever the government raises the salary of government workers or raises the price of oil, the wholesaler will increase the prices of goods and automatically, the traders will also increases the price of goods. (more…)

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Malaysians must be healthy and excellent in sports. How Malaysians can become healthy and excellent in sports? Health is related to lifestyles or behaviors. We cannot get good health with wrong lifestyles. We cannot get good health by only taking medications and leaving behind correct lifestyles. Doctors, drugs, hospitals and nurses cannot give us health. Only Allah can gives us health and Allah has decided to give health only to those who follows correct lifestyles. When we follow wrong lifestyles even we make abundant prayers to Allah to obtain good health, Allah will not give us good health. Allah looks at our heart and our actions. When we have good heart we will have good actions. When we have bad heart we will have wrong actions. When we have wrong actions, we will have diseases and when we have correct actions we will have good health. Health is related to actions or behaviors and action and behaviors are related to the way we believe and think and the way we believe and think is related to our heart and mind. It is commonly said that you are what you believe and think. What you believe and think is related to what you often speak and hear from the day you were born. Words are either medicines or poison to mind and soul. Good and correct words are medicines while wrong and bad words are poisons. Good and correct words repeatedly heard and spoken since childhood will give a good soul and mind. A good soul and mind will lead to good and correct behaviors and correct behaviors will lead to good and healthy body. Malaysians will only have healthy body when they have healthy soul and mind. Malaysians will have healthy soul and mind if since childhood they are hearing and speaking repeatedly good and correct words. With the grace of Almighty Allah I have developed a self-talk therapy which I named it “Anak Bestari “to be used to develop good children. With this therapy the children will lead to good and correct lifestyles in later life. A self-talk therapy for children is known as Anak Bestari and it is to be used from the first day the child is born to the time when the child is at the age of seventeen. (more…)

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Making Malaysians having high income and high basic salary has been the dream of our present Prime Minister and all Malaysian. Our Prime Minister calls it as economic transformation. In my opinion Malaysia will be able to achieve high income and high basic salary when all Malaysians become productive. In order to become productive, Malaysians must have skills, good attitudes towards work and hardworking. We must be productive and become a country that does business with many countries around the world. We should not only buy from other countries but also sell our products to other countries. We can make our products marketable when our products have the quality and price that they want. When we become trading nations that sell products of high quality at competitive prices to other countries, we will become a rich country. When we become a rich country, we can afford to pay high salary to all Malaysians and all Malaysians will enjoy high basic salary. Currently we spend so much money buying goods including foods from foreign countries. When we buy instead of sell, we will spend money instead of getting money. When our country spends more instead of having huge earning, our peoples will not be able to have high income and high basic salary. Our government must produce, manufacture and do business and trading with other countries and earns huge income before the government can pay the workers with high salary. Malaysian government must own farms, supermarkets, manufacturing industries that produce high quality products at competitive price that are marketable to the world. (more…)

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Languages are means of communication and if we know more languages, the more we can communicate. When we know many languages, we can communicate with so many peoples in this world. Many countries have national languages and their leaders believe by having one national language the peoples of the country will be united. This is not true because unity is not achieved when all peoples know only one language but unity is only achieved when the peoples have the same mindsets and beliefs. Only the national language is compulsory to be studied at school. In most cases, the language of the native peoples is the national language of the country. The natives will learn the national language at school and they ended knowing only one language. The other races will know two languages, because they study the national language at school and they learn their own languages at homes. The natives will only understand what the other races are talking only when they talk in national language but when they start talking in their own languages the natives are totally lost. As a result what the natives know is limited when compared to what other races know as the natives only know one languages while the other races know two languages. The basic law is always right, the more languages a person knows the more he or she can communicate and get acquainted with. (more…)

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In order for Malaysia to become an advanced nation, its population must highly educated and technologically literate. A certain formal education is compulsory for all citizens and it becomes an offense for not adhering to the rules. All children are compulsory to attend schools from the age of six to the age of seventeen. Parents who are not sending their children to schools are breaching the laws of the country and will be penalized. Government will provide all facilities needed to enable all citizens between the ages of six to seventeen to go to schools. It becomes a responsibility on the government to provide free education to all citizens especially education between the ages of six to seventeen. Primary education between the age of six to twelve focuses on reading, writing, talking, calculating, typing and sports. All main languages; Malay, English, Chinese and Tamil are thought in Primary Schools. Muslims students are compulsory to study and practice the five pillars of Islam and the six pillars of Iman. (more…)

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A religious society means a society that moves forward in adopting the way of life commanded by Allah. Allah wants the entire humankind to be successful in their life in this World and Hereafter. In order to ensure the success of humankind, Allah has given the entire humankind a way of life. The Prophet Muhammad SAW has shown this way of life and whoever follows that way of life will be successful. The way of life of Prophet Muhammad SAW begins with the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil and performing five times daily prayers. The males are obligated to perform five times daily prayers with congregation in the mosque and the females are obligated to perform the daily prayers in their houses with the children. A religious society is a society that enjoins people to good and forbids them from evil and steadfast in observing prayers to Allah. With these two main orders of Allah, the way of life of the Prophet Saw will gradually become the way of life of the Muslims. The society will move gradually and steadily to become a religious society. When the Muslims begin to practice these two main orders of Allah, the other orders of Allah will begin to establish in the community. These two main orders of Allah were commanded to the Muslims when they were in Mecca. The other three main orders of Allah (Fasting, Zakat, and Hajj) were commanded to the Muslims when they were in Medina. That society in Medina was a religious and tolerant society and that society came into existence when the Muslims persistently observed the two main orders of Allah while they were in Mecca; the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil and performing five times daily prayers with congregation.

The government must continuously encourage the Muslims to enjoin good and forbid evil and perform five times daily prayers, the males with congregation at the mosques and the females in their houses. Every mosque must have a timetable showing the azan times and the times of the congregational prayers start. By this way, everybody in Malaysia will be able to plan their time properly and will be able to perform their prayers with congregation. The current practice of making lengthy zikir after prayer must be avoided. The encouragements to perform five times daily prayers with congregation and to do the work of enjoining good and forbidding evil can be done through the Internet, electronic media, newspapers and billboards. The promises of Allah upon the observance of these commandments must continuously be conveyed to the Muslims. The importance of these two orders must continuously be reminded to the Muslims through the sermons during the Friday prayers. The Muslims must be made aware that these two orders of Allah are the most fundamental orders of Allah that all Muslims, either males or females, new Muslims or born Muslims, must do. These two orders are the two main pillars in Islam and efforts must be made to make them stand firm and strong in life of all Muslims. (more…)

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