num_pages: 402
description: SYED Shaykh al-Hady militant reformer of Islm and Muslims has yet to be fully recognised nationally in Malaya for his contribution to the liberation of Muslim consciousness.SYED Shaykh has yet to be recognised internationally for the part he played in this Malay extremity of the reformist movement started by the modernising theoreticians of the Islamic world Jaml al-Dn al-Afghn Egypts Muhammad Abduh Rashd Rida and others.SYED Shaykh was one of the founders of al-Imm (The Leader) in 1906 a Jawi-Malay journal published in Singapore and dedicated to islah and tajdid reform and renewal. In 1926-8 now based in Penang he created al-Ikhwn (Brethren) the newspaper Saudara (Brother) as well as the Jelutong Press. In these Syed Shaykh Shaykh Abd Allh Maghrib Shaykh Mohd. Tahir Jalaluddin Imam Abu Bakar Ashari and others courageously attacked abuses wrongly sanctioned by a misinterpretation of what was the intrinsic direction and nature Islm which they contended was at all times progressive and life-giving. They adamantly stood against taqld the blind following of tradition which Prophet Muhammad had warned would lead us to crawl into the lizards hole if our forefathers had done so.READING the criticisms of the Modernists vanguard of more than a hundred years ago one is struck by the realisation that many are still valid today that Malay society in its religious culture and religious-structure still stands in need of courageous islah thinkers if the life force of the Malay Muslim mass is to be allowed to come out from under the remaining coconut shell where no sun can shine in.THIS compendium is dedicated to that vision.- See more at: http://irfront.net/synopsis-of-the-re...
language: English
title: The Real Cry of Syed Shaykh Al-Hady: With Selections of His Writings by His Son Syed Alwi Al-Hady
publisher: Malaysian Sociological Research Institute