Hadi, please tell the truth, however brutal
Farouk A. Peru
www.farouk.name
In the game we call parliamentary democracy, you need people to vote for you in order to be their representative. So the people need to hear what they want to hear, not what you want them to hear or worse, the brutal truth.
This is why the BN government fed us a load of codswallop last year about the impending recession. That’s also why Abdul Hadi, the PAS president needs to speak the way he does. Another possibility is that he actually believes what he’s saying which is even scarier considering he’s the president of the second largest Malay-dominated party in the land
Having read Hadi’s latest statements in this article from Malaysia Today, I simply wonder how we Muslims (read: Malays) can keep supporting PAS. I actually had a ray of hope thanks to my friend highly recommending Husam Musa last year but after his hudud law incident, there was simply no hope left.
Lets have a look at some of Hadi’s statements and see if it belongs to a set of an intellectuals rhetoric or to the repertoire of a snake oil salesman.
Hadi: "Pas has no problem with any party. We believe in Islam which has been successfully practiced for the past 1,300 years," said the Marang MP.
Comment: No problem? Let me introduce you to a lion, not the cowardly one from the Wizard of Oz but one from Jelutong who recently stood up to a bunch of Mat Rempits in Parliament building. Karpal said that he will never accept your implementation of the hudud, so Hadi, you will have a very big problem with him.
Hadi: "The fall of Islamic governments started when Muslim leaders abandoned its teachings and not because Islam has weaknesses," he added.
Comment: As a Muslim, I believe islam is systemically flawless. However, as a human being who is in fact fallible, I will surely end up interjecting my opinion into Islam. It’s the same as for traditional Islam which upholds the apostasy punishment for example. It’s a classic case of denial of Quranic principles yet claiming that what they practice is actually islam. So Hadi, you are just as liable to ‘abandon its teachings’ as anyone else.
Hadi: PAS that has been successful in making the non-Muslims more receptive to the party, which can be seen through the formation of the party's supporters club.
Comment: Don’t you get it yet, Hadi? The very fact that you need a ‘supporters club’ shows what? SEGREGATION! PAS by its very nature is exactly like UMNO. It separates people according to what they profess to believe (not even according to how they act, a Mat Rempit in PAS’s scheme of things will have more rights than a fearless Hindraf leader like Waythamoorthy)
Hadi: (Commenting on the following) the March 8 election also made the ideological divide within Pas became clearer, after it was revealed that some leaders were in favour of political cooperation with Umno while some preferred to remain with PKR and DAP:In Islam there is no conservative and no liberal but there are certain things that cannot be questioned. On non-fundamental matters we can disagree, and that is why there are dozens of school of thoughts in Islam," said Hadi.
Comment: This is an appalling statement. The very fact that PAS, as a party pushing for hudud laws is compromising its position by even sitting down with UMNO already shows political chicanery on their part. Worse still is Hadi’s denial of the truth. In Islam there are no conservative and no liberal and there are certain things which cannot be questioned, he says. I have a strong feeling the people who says which things ‘cannot be questioned’ will include Hadi himself. Quite audacious considering it was he, along with Nasharuddin, who sat with UMNO to discuss Malay unity. So apparently to Hadi, THAT’S not fundamental, that an Islamic party was considering allying itself with a racialist one.
The fact of the matter is, in Islamic Shariah which PAS upholds, there is no agreement on even the use of the Quran. Muslim scholarship have different view on abrogation, that which Quranic verses abrogated which and which therefore is actually applicable. This shows that while the Prophet left us the text, he never left strict rules about its application. That’s where we need to use our brains.
Sadly, for people like Hadi, rhetoric is more valuable than the truth. The truth is too brutal and he’s afraid to lose his fan base, I guess. Of course, the truth will show itself in the end. Lets hope it won’t be too late by then.
