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Now this practice of matam is only exclusive to the heterodox Shi’ites and has no basis in Islam, whether in the Qur’an and the hadith:
In marking the holiest day of Ashura, some Shiites believe children should learn at an early age about Hussein’s suffering, which is at the heart of their faith.
Lebanon’s top Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, has banned bloodletting during Ashura, even for adults.
Clerics in mainly Shiite Iran forbid it as well, saying the practice is un-Islamic because it harms the body.
But traditions die hard, especially in a rite as fervent and emotional as Ashura, marked Tuesday by Shiites across the Islamic world.
Why do they do that? In order to commemorate the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali (R), the grandson of the Prophet (P). While the vast majority of the Muslim world (Ahl Sunnah wal Jamaah or what is known as Sunni Islam, the saved sect) commemorate the 10th of Muharram with fasting and prayer, the Shia decides to beat themselves black and blue and indulge in flagellation and bloodletting. Of course the Sunnis do not deny that the martyrdom of Husayn (R) was unjust, but certainly no one has the intention of indulging in pagan practices while all the time crying out “Ya Ali! Ya Husayn!”. Such actions are only for retards and diminutive minds.
Yet a silly pagan practice which reminds me of this one.
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Via The Malaysian, I just found out that my favorite novelist and author, Sidney Sheldon, has passed away. I am a fan of his novels and to date, I have either bought or read a great majority of his books, minus a few titles which I am planning to get. As a matter of fact, I have been reading and rereading Tell Me Your Dreams all day yesterday and the day before. What is most intriguing about Sheldon is the way he tells the story in such a masterful way and full of suspense, that when you initially believed (or being misled to believe) that a culprit was someone, it turns out that it was someone else, usually a person very close to the main character. I love the way that he writes too…I do not claim to have been influenced by the way he writes but I do get some inspiration from his works.
In any case, the world has lost a great novelist. It will be strange to not looking forward to his works.
Of course I am all for it. Its about time that there is one anyway. Heck, not just one, but several. The Chinese Muslim population in Malaysia is a growing community and the last figures that I know of indicate that they are close to half a million. Of course that was two years’ ago figures.
I think it is ironic that we have mosques in Malaysia which give the khutbah in Tamil, but those people in the religious departments still refuse to allow for mosques to give the khutbah in Mandarin or Hokkien or Cantonese. That is why there is an increased sense of Islamophobia in the country, we have non-Muslim Chinese (ironically, a pseudo-monotheist) spreading lies like these (*snort* you really didn’t think that I was going to buy that story, do you?). But going back to the issue, the problem faced by MACMA is a case in point:
The Malaysian Chinese Muslim Association (MCMA) is facing difficulties in getting approval from state governments to build mosques for their community.
MCMA vice-president Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah said it was unfair for Perak mufti Datuk Seri Harussani Idris to say that state religious departments did not prevent the Chinese community from applying to build their own mosques.
He said MCMA had been trying to build a Chinese mosque in Selangor for about a decade but claimed that the religious authorities were not even interested in hearing their proposal.
“In our last meeting with the former director of the Selangor religious department a couple of years ago, he told us there was no way he would approve a Chinese mosque.
Now you know that why, after all that talk of “Islam” this, and “Islam” that, and the so-called “Islamization project” in contemporary times by that keris-waving party, we still have not been able to impart the proper knowledge about Islam to the masses.