From: as5h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Azleena Salleh)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.asean
Subject: Re: To create a better Malaysia III
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:27:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Adt71x_00UhBE1ru8D
	<53812@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: Sophomore, Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


In article <1992Apr6.205150.8616@athena.mit.edu>, zam@athena.mit.edu (Nor Aaziz
am Mohd Aasif) writes:
> In article <53695@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt6737b@prism.gatech.EDU (JAAFAR,EMERIZAL
 AHMAD) writes:
> 
> >Even our sultan(whom supposedly to represent us, malays) display an act of
> >sheer arrogant and not to mention extravagance.  Think about all the money
> >($2.3 mill. M'sian ringgit I was told) he could used to help out those
> >malays under his nose out of poverty(that just one case from only one Sultan
> >...some people say the dumbmest and the more unwealthy ones).  Is this a 
> >symbol that the Malays been bragging about? 
> 
> 
> 	I think you owe some Malays on this network an apology for
> calling the Sultan of Kelantan "the dumbest of all Sultans".  You have
> no facts to back up the allegation.  It is an insult to Kelantanese in
> general and all Malays.  I don't mind the statement if it is a fact,
> but your making this remark based on a rumor is uncalled for.  You
> claim yourself to be an intelligent person: how could an intelligent
> person branded a Sultan as "dumb" without basing his comments on any
> factoids?
> 
> 	As a Kelantanese, I believe you owe me an apology for calling
> my Sultan the above.
> 
> ===------ 
> NorAazizam MohdAAsif	 
> The white man made many promises to us but they never kept but one; they
> promised to take our land and they took it.
>                                                         Red Cloud
 

assalamualaikum Zam,

No, I don't think that an apology is due to the Kelantanese people from
the critics of the Sultan.  On the other hand, the Sultan should be
apologizing to the rakyat for his un-Islamic (Sultan kan ketua Agama
juga!) and irresponsible behavior.  Dari segi Islam, seseorang
pemerintah itu mempunyai tanggungjawab memerintah dengan adil. Adil-ke
tu kalau dia membawa lari harta yang patut dibayar sebahagiannya sebagai
cukai?  Cukai yang dihutang tu sendiri adalah duit dan hak rakyat,
sebagai pendapatan untuk digunakan kpd. keperluan kita semua.  Adil-ke
kalau pemerintah diberi kelebihan yang tidak dirasa dan tidak diberi
juga kepada rakyat?  Islam tidak memberi 'keistimewaan' kepada
pemerintah-pemerintah, biarpun gelarannya seorang perdana menteri,
presiden, Sultan ataupun Agung.  Kelebihan rasulullah s.a.w. yang diberi
kepadanya daripada rakyat adalah dalam bentuk hormat yang
setinggi-tingginya dan sayang yang sedalam-dalamnya.  Adakah kesultanan
Malaysia layak untuk diberi hormat dan sayang yang begitu? 


Below, I've included an excerpt from an article on Islam Vs. Nationalism
as posted by Sr. Farizah Shaheedah in Dec 1990 on MISG-net.  The article
in its totality is available upon request:

      "Related to the notion of sovereignty is the notion of
accountability.  In the Islamic state the behavior of everyone, both the
masses and the ruler is equally accountable to one source - God, through
His Words, the Quran.  Therefore, the decisions on laws and state
policies should also be accountable to the principles in the Quran.
The Quran will be the ultimate regulator and restraint on the authority
of the rulers over the masses and the authority of the masses over the
ruler.   The accountability of one's behavior in nationalism, is to the
nation-state.  Who or what is really a nation state?  Nation state in
this context may mean majority , oligarchy , military or monarchical
rule.  To the Muslim the question becomes, why and what right any kind
of rule other than God's rule be regulating human behavior and the
direction of his life?   Indeed this question is not easy to answer and
as a matter of fact, in recent history, so far no rulers of Muslim
nation-states have been accountable to anybody but themselves  and the
interests of the superpowers."


Akhirkata, sebarang pembetulan sekiranya ada yang silap/salah dialu-alukan.

-azleena salleh
as5h@andrew.cmu.edu
aurora@cmu.edu

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Hadis Rasulullah saw berbunyi:
" 3 perkara yang dapat menyelamatkan: 
(1)Takutkan Allah baik dgn.rahsia mahupun dgn.terang2
(2)Beriktisad(berekonomi)dalam masa kaya mahupun miskin
(3)Berlaku adil dalam masa  redha mahupun marah.

Semoga kita sama2 dpt.manfaat darinya. 

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