Prof. Dr. Nasoha Saabin

Although I was once a member of worldwide tarikat group CLICK or popularly known as Jamat Tabligh but now I am no longer the member of the group. I do not think I will ever join the group again, although many members of the group are having a very high hope that one day I will return back to the group. Many members of the group particularly in Malaysia are having profound love towards me and they are hoping that one day I will be joining back the group. Once I was one of their leaders in Malaysia and I was regarded by many in the group as the gem of Malaysian’s Tabligh Jamat. Continue reading →

Allah is so merciful, compassionate and most forgiving. He loves those who are making sins yet are willing to make repentance or taubah. Allah orders those who are transgressing His orders, to repent and He loves those who are fond of making repentance. It is commonly said that to error is human. In other words when you are a human, you must make mistakes and there is no human who does not make mistakes. When we make mistakes, we must think that we are human.

In my opinion the problem of present day Muslims will be solved when Muslims have a leader that has the qualities of the Prophet Muhammad saw CLICK. Muslims all over the world need to be united and in order to be united, Muslims need a leader. What is the factor that will unite the Muslims? Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw are the factors that will unite the Muslims. All Muslims either they are Sunni or Syiah accept Muhammad saw as their Prophet and no Muslims will ever argue on the fact that Muhammad saw is the Prophet of Allah. What is the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad saw? Sunnah means the practices of Prophet Muhammad saw that can be followed by all Muslims. In order Muslims to be united, they have to come to the practices of Prophet Muhammad saw. When Muslims practices the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw, Allah will love the Muslims and when Allah loves the Muslims, Allah will give them the good qualities. With good qualities, Muslims will be united as a body as told by Prophet Muhammad saw. Muslims need a leader that will bring the Muslims to the practices of the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad saw. Why Allah sent a Prophet to mankind? Allah sent Prophets to mankind in order to call or to invite mankind to accept Him as their only God and there is no God except Him. The work of calling mankind to accept Allah as the only God is the Sunnah of all Prophets .This is what it means as the Sunnah of our Prophet Muhammad saw and this is the Sunnah of the Prophet saw to be practiced by all Muslims if they want qualities similar to the Prophet Muhammad saw and they want leaders with qualities similar to Prophet Muhammad saw. Nowadays, neither Muslims nor their leader with qualities similar to Prophet Muhammad saw as there is no one in the world that does the work of Prophet Muhammad saw. Nowadays Muslims do have leaders but not with the qualities similar to Prophet Muhammad saw. Because of this Muslims are not united as one Ummah.

During the early twentieth century, nearly all Muslim countries colonized by the non-Muslim countries. Since non-Muslims have colonized Muslims, generally in the minds of Muslims, non-Muslims are better than Muslims. Muslims tend to believe that non-Muslims are superior to Muslims. Muslims students go to study in non-Muslim countries and when they saw the higher living standard of non-Muslims when compare with the lower living standard of Muslims in their own countries, the superiority of the non-Muslims over Muslims becomes more vividly clear to them. Muslims feel inferior over the non-Muslims and as a result, Muslims tend to follow whatever the non-Muslims do. Muslims all over the world start to follow the way non-Muslims eat drink and live.

What has happened to the mighty nation of Mesir? Mesir is the nation which is mentioned in the Quran. Prophet Musa was born in Mesir and once upon a time Mesir was ruled by the mighty Pharaohs. University of Al-Azhar is located in Mesir. Since more than one thousand years ago University Al-Azhar is already existed in Mesir when there were no other universities existed in this world. There are thousands of Muslims scholars and philosophers who have graduated from Al-Azhar University. University Al-Azhar has been the centre of Islamic teaching in the world for more than one thousand years. Now, Mesir is in a tragedy. What is the tragedy which has inflicted the nation of Mesir? The Muslims are killing other Muslims. How such a tragedy could ever take place in the country where there are many Muslims scholars and philosophers. What are the wrong actions of the peoples of Mesir which make such calamities to descend in Mesir? The political problem which is currently faced by the peoples of Mesir is a very serious political problem. Allah gives us problems because of our wrong actions. How could our problems be solved? Our problem could be solved when we do good actions. International communities and the President of the United States of America are not able to solve the political problem of Mesir. The political problems of Mesir can be solved only by the peoples of Mesir?

Baru-baru ini saya pergi ke Tanjong Balai di Sumatera. Laluan paling mudah dan cepat untuk ke Tanjong Balai dari Malaysia ialah menggunakan perkhidmatan feri di Pelabuhan Klang. Ia merupakan pengalaman pertama saya ke Indonesia menggunakan jalan laut melalui Pelabuhan Klang. Apabila saya tiba di jeti Pelabuhan Klang, saya terus dihampiri oleh beberapa orang yang bekerja menjual tiket dan mereka menawarkan tiket kepada saya dan yang bersama dengan saya. Kelihatan di jeti ini ramai orang Indonesia yang ingin pulang ke negara mereka dan saya merasakan kebanyakan mereka ialah pekerja di negara ini. Kebanyakan warga Indonesia datang ke Malaysia untuk bekerja dan menyara keluarga mereka di Indonesia. Mereka terpaksa datang ke sini kerana kekurangan peluang pekerjaan di negara mereka. Di Indonesia peluang pekerjaan sangat rendah berbanding jumlah populasi yang tinggi. Oleh kerana itu, kebanyakan warga Indonesia terpaksa terpalit dengan amalan rasuah untuk memastikan peluang pekerjaan yang ditawarkan menjadi milik mereka. Di sana, orang yang mendapat pekerjaan tidak semestinya mereka yang berkelayakan untuk satu-satu jawatan tetapi kemungkinan orang berduit yang boleh menawarkan rasuah. Di sana juga diketahui umum untuk memastikan satu-satu jawatan dalam pemerintahan negara ditawarkan kepadanya, seseorang perlu memberi rasuah kepada pegawai yang bertanggungjawab menguruskan jawatan yang ditawarkan dan ini berlaku walaupun untuk menyertai pasukan polis dan tentera. Pemberian rasuah untuk mendapat pekerjaan menjadi satu amalan biasa di Indonesia kerana peluang pekerjaan yang sangat sukar diperolehi dan negara tersebut tidak dapat mewujudkan peluang pekerjaan yang cukup kepada rakyat mereka. Kebanyakan warga Indonesia dan juga pekerja asing dari negara lain datang ke Malaysia kerana kemakmuran dan kekayaan negara ini dan peluang pekerjaan yang begitu banyak disini.

Recently I went to Tanjong Balai in Sumatra. The easiest and fastest way to Tanjong Balai from Malaysia is by ferry from Port Klang. It was my first experience to go to Indonesia using the sea route via Port Klang.When I arrived at the jetty in Port Klang, I was immediately approached by several men who attempted to sell ferry tickets to me and to my travelling companions. I saw there were so many Indonesians at the port who were going back to their homeland and I presumed most of them are migrant workers. These Indonesians pretended to be a tourist but in reality, they were migrant workers. Many Indonesians come to Malaysia to work so that they can provide for their families back in Indonesia. They come to work in Malaysia since there are not enough jobs in Indonesia. In Indonesia there are fewer jobs available compared to the huge population. As a result, it is known that many Indonesians give bribe in order to secure a job that becomes available. In Indonesia the one who managed to get a job might not be the one who is the most qualified for the position but could be the one who bribes the most money. In Indonesia it is known that to secure a post in the government office, one has to bribe the recruitment officer in-charged, even when someone wants to join the police or arm forces. Bribing to be employed has become a common practice in Indonesia as employment opportunities are scarce and the country cannot provide sufficient employment to all citizens. Many Indonesians as well as other immigrants come to Malaysia because Malaysia is a prosperous and peaceful country with abundant opportunities to make a decent living.

Malays have their own identity and some of the most important identities of the Malays are Islam, the Malay Kings, the language and the costumes. When Malays are no longer taking pride of their own languages and costumes, Islam and their Kings, Malays have lost their own identity. Malaya or Persekutuan Tanah Melayu was once colonized by the British and many others Colonial Masters, but the British has left a very significant effect on the Malays. Malays seem to look up at the British Colonial Master more than other colonial masters and Malays seem to love the British more than other Colonial Masters. When I was a young kid, I was told by my brother that they are some Malays who had studied in England and married with the British women and when they went back to then Malaya, they were no longer able to speak the Malay language with the correct Malay pronunciation. Many Malays and more often the upper class Malays who studied in England during those days will come back, marrying English women. They not only marry British women, but wear British costumes and speak English with British accent. Malays are among the few races in the whole world that seems to be easily influenced by other cultures of those whom they admired in their mind and heart. Some Malays like to adopt the way of the Indians, like those Malays who join the movement of Tabligh Jamat. They wear like the Indians and speak English with Indians accent. There are also some Malays, particularly those who studied in Islamic schools or madrasah in the Arabs world are often seen to adopt the ways of the Arabs.

Allah has sent Prophets to mankind in order to remind them about the existence of Allah that, there is no God other than Allah and to obey Allah the way shown by the Prophet. Many Prophets may Allah’s blessing be upon them have been deputed by Allah to mankind and each Prophet was suited to the time and the peoples upon whom the Prophets had been send. There are occasion when at one times there were many Prophets send to so many tribes or localities. All the Prophets were given by Allah the Great Kalimah, which is ‘no God except Allah and the Prophet was only the slave and the messenger of Allah’. Prophets were not God but they were normal human being who had been chosen by Allah to be His messenger to mankind. When men started to admire and to love the Prophet more than Allah, they started to associate to the Prophets attributes suited only to Allah and when the Prophet had died they started to make statues of the Prophet as sign of their love toward the Prophet and they started to adore the statue . Originally they adore the statue but as times goes on they started to worship the statues of the Prophet. Originally they do not regard the statues as God or idols but only as symbols or means for them to have concentration in their worship of God as they cannot see God but later on they became deviated and they started to regard the statues as God. When men had became idols worshiper, Allah the Almighty will send another Prophet to mankind for reminding purpose. Allah will chose from among mankind persons to become His messenger and the message given to His messenger was the same as given to all other messengers, which is ‘no God other than Allah and the Prophet is the messenger of Allah’. Prophet Muhammad saw said, we the Prophets were given by Allah the Kalimah, and the Kalimah is ‘no God other than Allah and towards this Kalimah, we are inviting the entire mankind’. All mankind belongs to one family and have descended from one forefather and created by one God. The God of all the entire mankind is Allah and there is no God other than Allah. The process of sending the Prophets continue until Allah has finally decided to complete the revelations of guidance to mankind by sending Prophet Muhammad saw as the last and the final Prophet for the entire mankind and with him the final and the last revelation to mankind which is the Quran.

We have six pillars of Iman and five pillars of Islam. The six pillars of Iman are the orders of Allah to our heart and the five pillars of Islam are the orders of Allah to our body. Heart is the king of the body and whatever the heart direct the body will do. On the other hand, our heart are influenced by what the body does particularly what has been spoken repeatedly by our tongue. Prophet Muhammad saw said in the approximate meaning, “A man will not become right until his heart is right and a man’s heart will not be right until his Iman is right and his Iman will not be right until his speeches are right”. What a man spokes repeatedly will becomes his beliefs and Allah has given us the best of all words to be spoken repeatedly by all men so that his beliefs are correct and that word is “I bear witness that there is no God except Allah and I bear witness that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah”. The first pillar of Islam is to bear witness there is no God except Allah and I bear witness Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. In order this Great Kalimah become embedded into the heart of every men and women, this Great Kalimah has to be spoken repeatedly by men and women. The first pillar of Islam is to bear witness that, there is no God except Allah and I bear witness Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. In order for this Great Kalimah to go into our heart we have to fulfil the right of the Great Kalimah. What is the right of this Great Kalimah? The right of this Great Kalimah is when we see disobedience to the orders of Allah or evils; we must forbid the evils by inviting peoples to good. We must start forbidding the worst of all evils. The worst of all evils committed by men is there do not want to bear witness that there is no God except Allah and to testify Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. The best of good deed is to bear witness that there is no God except Allah and to testify that Muhammad is the Prophet of Allah. When a person recite the Great Kalimah, all his or her sins are washed away and converted to good deeds. A person who does not want to recite the Great Kalimah is known as non-Muslims and a person who has recited the Great Kalimah is known as Muslim. The second most evils committed by men is, even though they had recited the Great Kalimah yet they do not convey the Great Kalimah to those who have not recited the Great Kalimah and the third most evils committed by men is, they do not perform five times prayers.