Hadi: Unfair to blame me for dividing Muslims through 'Amanat Hadi'
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said it is unfair to blame him for allegedly causing a split among Muslims, through his "Amanat Hadi" sermon delivered 37 years ago.
According to him, Muslims in the country had become divided as early as the 1960s - decades before his sermon...
PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang said it is unfair to blame him for allegedly causing a split among Muslims, through his "Amanat Hadi" sermon delivered 37 years ago.
According to him, Muslims in the country had become divided as early as the 1960s - decades before his sermon.
"The sermon is often associated with infidels, but such practice started happening in the 60s, after independence, where there was tension among the Malay-Muslims.
"Back then, there were those who wanted to enforce Islam, and then there were those who were ignorant, who wanted to punish Islamic laws, so there was a clash.
"But in Islam, we cannot 'mengkafirkan' (declare as infidels) Muslims who are ignorant," Hadi told a forum organised by Karangkraf in Shah Alam today.
He was responding to a question by the moderator, Johan Jaaffar, who raised the topic of Amanat Hadi.
The sermon in 1981 preceded the clash between armed followers of Kedah PAS leader Ibrahim Mahmud (or Ibrahim Libya) and the police, who were attempting to arrest him in 1985.
The bloody confrontation led to the deaths of Ibrahim along with 14 villagers and four police officers.
Hadi noted that his remark then, dubbing Umno/BN as infidels, had merely lasted two minutes in his hour-long speech.
The Marang MP stressed that the issue of infidels does not only happen in Malaysia but also in other Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
In Malaysia, the situation eased for a while when PAS formed a joint government with BN in 1972, but started recurring after PAS left BN in 1979, he said.
