I’M TEMPTED (MALAYS….WHAT HAPPENED?)
Sunday, January 28th, 2007I am tempted to say this outloud coz it tears me to see and hear all that is happening to all malay people in this earth. No matter what the outcome is…….
as I walk alone a few nights ago……having no particular destiny in mind, I look around and see many things that put shame to me.
teens especially, walking together in couples not in public places. A malay girl in a tube top and skanky short jeans with extremely over dose of makeup on her face. One look and I wonder where they are headed. Its just one of those nights that put me down, sat in a corner…. thinking……who am I
this is a question and dilemma I believe many a teenagers have been questioning themselves lately. A malay girl which I believe has had her share of basic religious education in her past…either provided by her school, parents and private tutors…. given the understanding what a muslim is all about…….(at least basically)
girl, what makes you think being like that physically helps in any way? a first impression is all it is. for it is laid out in the open for everyone to see. wearing skimpy clothes brings the wrong signal to you. would you like to be known as a tart? a cheap one? would you like to be known as someone easy to get? a simple catch? why? a freedom to be as you want to be? do you realize that it effects your life not only today….but forever? were you planning to have a memory that you were once a sexy approachable easy girl later in your life? when you turn 60? or is it becoz you were planning not to live up to that age?
I know many of us has got this question…………..all around us. sooo many malays converting to other religion. do they really know what they are thinking about. what decision that they have done to themselves. do they realize that it is permenantly for ever in their live and even after that?
why in the first place do they make this decision? being a muslim is something of a priviledge. its a sensitive issue to voice out having lived in this country all my life. but it is something I wonder should be pushed to the centre of attention for all to ponder. I am writing in a dodgy sentences as I am not sure how to approached this issue. but voice it out i must.
it really saddened me to read all this happpenings around me. malay in Malaysia who are basically known to be born, lived and die as a muslim in general………..a thorn would come out here and there to differ the nature of it.
don’t they know what they had just done? this has been going on for a very long time. soo many malays are converting into non-muslim. having the encouragement from NGO’s doesn’t help either. having a secular law in our country is also a sad case. you can actually petition to change religion at civil court and actually being granted one!!! its not the government i am upset about……..no… not them… although i know for a fact its an ongoing battle in the govt itself to make their stand. its the people…….that thinks changing religion is like changing bedsheets…..or hair colour…….or doing breast implant……..(although expensive and painfull at first….the changes are possible!!!!!)
I know rebellious are all around trying to make a stand to make them known to the world. some decide to appear rebel physically…some emotionally…and some mentally.
it saddened me when i see a person who dresses in practically nothing even though they are muslims. it saddened me when i see people ignored by their own kind and left to die even though they are muslims. it breaks my heart when a persons denies his beliefs in Islam after years of upbringing in it. my heart felt torn to pieces when a beliefs of their own religion are left to the gutters for a mere excuse that should not be.
how trivial do you think a belief is to you?
how insignificant do you think Islam is to you?
How belittled muslim can you be?
to all malays out there no matter where you might be at this moment.
ponder this…………….
from the day we were born and brought to this world………fortunate or not…we were taught with the basic element of being a malay and muslim. mayhaps some of us were raised with the wrong impression of what being a muslim is all about… but in the end we should have been given the knowledge and access available to us to persue further and understand Islam better. why, are we being ignorant to understand our own religion?generally all of us, stop pursuing the quest for more knowledge the minute college ends….. some of us don’t even go through college…hence.. high school is the end of your knowledge. what’s worse, more than half of us only accept islam as part of our school life education and actually left it there, when it fact it should be taken as a lifes guide.
the forbidden fruit is like a big lesson that should be taken and taken as a reminder how and what we are. now i am wondering how many of us still remember the story of Adam and Hawa in Heaven…and what got them to be sent to earth in the first place…….
when one thing is forbidden by religion…there is always a reason to it. has anyone EVER wonder about it?
why is alcohol forbidden except on medical term?
why free sex is a big no-no and polygamy is encourage instead?
why gambling, gossiping, etc totally forbidden?
some of us have the answers….some don’t……the irony is……those who knew are the ones big on doing it!!!!
those who are offended by this………I am sorry to make it so… but this is something I believe should be thought through and pondered with great length and discussed and voiced and stand.
A LIFE IS NOT JUST A PIECE OF PAPER
A LIFE IS NOT JUST A BREEZE IN THE WIND
A LIFE IS NOT JUST A THOUGHT OR MEMORY
A LIFE IS A BELIEF
A LIFE IS A CONVICTION
A LIFE IS A DECISION
A LIFE IS A ETERNITY
A LIFE IS A WAY
A LIFE IS A GUIDE TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY