By Mansor Puteh
It was good for Husam to bring out the issue of Hudud Laws at a time like this when the public had been distracted by other issues for a while. But it could only happen at the prodding of Khairy.
Did the two of them plan before-hand to bring out the issue when they were having their debate in Kota Bharu yesterday?
Were the two Malays ‘fighting’ with each other, as what some others want to see?
No, they were not; they were trying to make fools of those who disagree with Hudud Laws, especially those from amongst the non-Muslim community in Malaysia.
They have thrown the line and some people have got hooked without realizing it. Even the media, too, have been hooked by it.
The issue was front page news in many of the newspapers, so the two got what they wanted.
But who has been strangled by the line so far? I say Kit Siang and Karpal Singh. Do they realize this?
And the non-Malay papers which have been trying to insinuate that such laws are not relevant to a country which they say is multiracial, are correct. But only up to a certain degree.
Hudud Laws may not be applicable to the country today. It can only happen when the Malay-Muslim population reaches 70% and their equity risen to more than 50%.
This can only happen in twenty to thirty years' time. It is not such a long time.
Many ancient countries and kingdoms were hundreds of years old before they became Muslim kingdoms. So what is twenty to thirty years in the Islamic Civilization?
But it may be too long for Nik Aziz who fully endorsed it, and Kit Siang and Karpal who vehemently oppose it.
In twenty years' time these three personalities, especially, will be well into their nineties. May God bless them if they are healthy then.
And the younger generation of opposition leaders is too tame to be able to roar like their two mentors.
Besides, by then Malaysia will not be like what it is today. It will be more Malay and Islamic without anyone forcing it to be such.
In fact, the whole, too, will be more Islamic than it is now.
And in such a time, Hudud Laws will just come in without being forced on anyone.
So before Husam and Khairy and Nik Aziz want to talk about these laws, why don’t they sit and find ways on how to develop the economy of the Malays and see how they can do it.
So far the three have not done anything on it; they only want to talk about the laws without realizing that they can only come in when the economy of the Malay-Muslims in this country is stronger and dominant.
They and those well-meaning Muslims must first lay the foundation for the Hudud Laws to be implemented so that there is no need for any force be used to get them accepted by all, including the non-Muslims, who also stand to benefit from them.
If they cannot do this, then the development of the economy of the Malay-Muslims in this country will have to expand following natural processes, which will take a much longer time than if it can be hastened.
And how ironic it is when we say that the Muslims who are going to see the implementation of the Hudud Laws, therefore, may not be the ulamaks, but the brilliant Muslim economists and tough political leaders.
But do we have such persons now?
Nik Aziz and Husam may not be able to do it. But the least that they can do for now is to talk about it, so when it finally happens, none of the non-Muslims in Malaysia will be shocked by it.
Remember, early Muslim preachers did not preach the religion. They did it indirectly and by showing everybody how well-behaved and well-mannered and also how civilized they were.
No wonder rulers who had governed their countries for centuries could fall for them and duly convert to Islam.
They came all the way from the Middle East to trade and with it they brought along Islam, too, which convinced the locals where they were trading at to convert.
And this is also the way the Muslims in Malaysia must do, go into trading and conduct business by using the Islamic way.
We must have Muslim leaders in the country and the Muslim World who can encourage economic development in all the Muslim countries and trade with all the non-Muslim ones.
This is the best way of spreading Islam all over the world.
Talking about the virtues of the religion is not effective; it will not work.
The real preachers of Islam are those who do not talk much about the religion but who show how good it is.
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