Towards a Malay-Islam Leadership: Use of the term ‘Allah’ — Tawfik Tun Dr Ismail | Malay Mail

Sunday, 14 Mar 2021 07:09 AM MYTMARCH 14 — Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world today. However, if we were to base on the acts, behaviours and rhetorics of those so called Malay leaders claiming to be defenders of Islam, we would think that Islam is about to perish from this God’s earth; that the usage of words such as “Allah” and other religiously-linked words by non-Muslims are so dangerous that the world is about to face Armageddon because of it.

It is beyond doubt that Allah never made His name an exclusive domain of where or which religion should God’s name is to only be invoked. But this is not so it seems in our community. It is this peculiarity of the Malay-Muslim world that is even bizarre to other Muslims around the world. Such controversies does not exist elsewhere but in the Malay-Muslim domain.

This is not a new phenomenon in the history of human civilization. During the Golden Age of Islam, all knowledge, secular and religious, exchanges and debates centred in the glorious city of Baghdad. There was no such concept of an in-betweener between Allah and the individual. But in the same period, Europe was in the Dark Ages. It’s religious leaders held the key of thought in their communities through the restrictions to religious knowledge by the limited capability of the populace in Latin.

What irony when Islam is a religion that practices moderation and the middle road as its central precept. Why then do the teachings of differentiating, to be cynical and worrisome of others and what is out there seemed to trump the principles of accepting and having faith in the all knowing God is not the road taken by Malay-Muslims in their daily lives?

The recent High Court decision in affirming the usage of terms such as Allah, Baitullah, solat and others in Christian books in Bahasa Melayu-Indonesia has been made a racial issue by extremists in our midst. Allah as a term in the Bahasa Melayu Bible has been around for almost 400 years, especially in Sabah and Sarawak.

We are pawns in their game

Bila media Zionist Evangelist dan RSS BJP Hindutva kamu akan menggunakan kelompok2 liberal utk berhujah bg mencapai tujuan kalian. Bukan ke majoriti bukan Melayu negara lebih selesa berbahasa Inggeris? Tidakkah masyarakat Kristian bangga dgn nama Jesus? pakatanharapan_

These fellows are stupid. Their God Allah never told these stupid fellows that non-muslims cannot use his name.

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