Shiite Muslims forced to remove banner, fined RM250
The Selangor Islamic Affairs Department (Jais) has again taken action against a group of Shiite Muslims as they were celebrating the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet’s daughter.
JAIS turunkan kain rentang di program Syiah
Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS) sekali lagi menjalankan tindakan ke atas sekumpulan pengikut Syiah yang mengadakan majlis sambutan ulangtahun kelahiran anak perempuan Nabi Muhammad.
Kumpulan berkenaan kali ini hanya dipaksa untuk menurunkan kain rentang program yang dilihat didakwa mempromosi fahaman tersebut.
Penganjur itu juga dikompaun sebanyak RM250 oleh Majlis Perbandaran Selayang (MPS) yang turut menyertai operasi hari ini.
Kumpulan berkenaan kali ini hanya dipaksa untuk menurunkan kain rentang program yang dilihat didakwa mempromosi fahaman tersebut.
Penganjur itu juga dikompaun sebanyak RM250 oleh Majlis Perbandaran Selayang (MPS) yang turut menyertai operasi hari ini.
Kompaun berkenaan adalah berhubung kesalahan mendirikan khemah di kawasan awam untuk program berkenaan.
Ketua penolong pengarah siasatan JAIS, Shahrom Maarof yang mengetuai operasi ke atas program berkenaan bagaimanapun membenarkan majlis itu diteruskan apabila penganjur akur dengan arahan menurunkan kain rentang.
"Majlis boleh diteruskan, cuma perlu turunkan kain rentang. Sebab kita tak mahu nanti ada pihak lain nampak seolah-olah seperti mempromosikan Syiah.
"Jangan ada tanda yang serlahkan macam (majlis sambutan ulangtahun) 'kelahiran Fatimah Az-Zahrah'. Benda ni akan buat orang tertanya-tanya majlis apa ini.
"Buat majlis boleh tapi jangan serlahkan apa-apa," katanya ketika mengadakan perbincangan bersama wakil jawatankuasa majlis itu, Mohd Nassir Sahar.
Perbincangan yang diperhatikan Malaysiakini itu turut dihadiri empat orang penguatkuasa MPS.
"Jangan ada tanda yang serlahkan macam (majlis sambutan ulangtahun) 'kelahiran Fatimah Az-Zahrah'. Benda ni akan buat orang tertanya-tanya majlis apa ini."Buat majlis boleh tapi jangan serlahkan apa-apa," katanya ketika mengadakan perbincangan bersama wakil jawatankuasa majlis itu, Mohd Nassir Sahar.
Perbincangan yang diperhatikan Malaysiakini itu turut dihadiri empat orang penguatkuasa MPS.
JAIS sebagai 'tetamu'
Ditemui pemberita selepas itu, Mohd Nassir berkata beliau menyambut baik kedatangan penguatkuasa berkenaan ke program tersebut.
Namun, Hauzah Ar Ridha akan tetap berusaha untuk membersihkan nama pertubuhan tersebut, selepas tindakan demi tindakan yang dikenakan ke atas mereka kerana didakwa merupakan kumpulan ajaran sesat, katanya.
"Selepas peristiwa penangkapan sebelum ini, ia beri tanggapan negatif pada Syiah. Tapi sekarang, kita nak bersihkan balik, kita telah telah menghantar surat pada JAIS dan MAIS supaya kaji balik enakmen dan fatwa yang mengatakan Syiah ialah ajaran sesat.
"Kami akan sentiasa membuat susulan dan akan mengumpul segala dokumen. Kami juga ada menghantar surat kepada Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu dan OIC (Pertubuhan Persidangan Islam) supaya meyakinkan (kerajaan) bahawa Syiah bukan ajaran sesat," katanya.
Turut ditemui ialah pengerusi Hauzah Ar Ridha, Mohd Kamilzuhairi Abd Aziz yang menyifatkan kehadiran penguatkuasan MPS dan JAIS kali ini sebagai satu jalinan silaturrahim.
Namun, Hauzah Ar Ridha akan tetap berusaha untuk membersihkan nama pertubuhan tersebut, selepas tindakan demi tindakan yang dikenakan ke atas mereka kerana didakwa merupakan kumpulan ajaran sesat, katanya."Selepas peristiwa penangkapan sebelum ini, ia beri tanggapan negatif pada Syiah. Tapi sekarang, kita nak bersihkan balik, kita telah telah menghantar surat pada JAIS dan MAIS supaya kaji balik enakmen dan fatwa yang mengatakan Syiah ialah ajaran sesat.
"Kami akan sentiasa membuat susulan dan akan mengumpul segala dokumen. Kami juga ada menghantar surat kepada Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu dan OIC (Pertubuhan Persidangan Islam) supaya meyakinkan (kerajaan) bahawa Syiah bukan ajaran sesat," katanya.
Turut ditemui ialah pengerusi Hauzah Ar Ridha, Mohd Kamilzuhairi Abd Aziz yang menyifatkan kehadiran penguatkuasan MPS dan JAIS kali ini sebagai satu jalinan silaturrahim.
Kes didiamkan
"Kedatangan JAIS, MPS sebagai satu agenda silaturrahim. Kita sambut mereka sebagai tetamu bagi pihak puteri Rasulullah," katanya.
Mohd Kamilzuhairi merupakan antara empat individu yang ditahan JAIS pada Mei tahun lalu atas dakwaan menyebarkan ajaran mazhab Syiah ketika mengadakan satu majlis jamuan sama di Taman Sri Gombak.
"Kedatangan JAIS, MPS sebagai satu agenda silaturrahim. Kita sambut mereka sebagai tetamu bagi pihak puteri Rasulullah," katanya.
Mohd Kamilzuhairi merupakan antara empat individu yang ditahan JAIS pada Mei tahun lalu atas dakwaan menyebarkan ajaran mazhab Syiah ketika mengadakan satu majlis jamuan sama di Taman Sri Gombak.
"Untuk kes sambutan Maulud 2011, kes tersebut didiamkan begitu sahaja," katanya ketika dihubungi petang ini.
Terdahulu, beliau juga ditahan pada Disember 2010, bersama lebih 100 yang lain dalam satu operasi di kawasan sama kerana didakwa terlibat dengan ajaran Syiah.
Kes berkenaan masih berlarutan di mahkamah, katanya.
Fatwa negeri Selangor menyatakan bahawa Syiah merupakan ajaran yang terkeluar daripada ajaran Ahli Sunnah Wal Jamaah.
Penguatkuasaan ke atas perkara itu dibuat melalui Enakmen Jenayah Syariah Selangor 1995.
AFRICA IS BEAUTIFUL
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The African Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria under the Leadership of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky marked the birthday anniversary of the Leader of all Women of the worlds Sayyidah fatimah Az-Zahra(SA)
On Friday the 20th of J/Thani 1433 (11/5/2012) in Zaria, Activities such as processions, horse riding, matching and lectures were organised to mark the event. Processions of several kilometers took up from both North and South of Zaria city. Lecture was delivered by Malama Zeenah ibraheem after the procession. The evening segment of the programme took place at Husainiyyah baqiyyatullah Zaria. Hundreds of Thousands graced the occasion. The Leader of the Islamic Movement Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky delivered an inspiring lecture on the lofty status of Sayyidah Fatimah (SA). Shuhara group also displayed their talents as they read poetry in praise of the beloved daughter of the Prophet(SA). At the end of the programme Sheikh Zakzaky recited prayer while describing her status in the sight of Allah which her enemies tried to cover them off from people.                         |
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Saharan sand swirls around us as horses gallop through the film set we are visiting.
Brightly painted walls and wooden and straw weaponry line old forts, recreated to mirror the scene of the brazen Islamic revolution that arrived here in the 19th Century.
I am seeing for myself how media-savvy the mainly-Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria has become.
Inside the compound, a dubbing operation is under way.
Flattering documentaries of religious leaders are being translated into the local Hausa language, with hundreds of DVDs sold to eager locals every month.
The movement has had a thriving daily newspaper for more than two decades and says it will soon broadcast its internet-based Hausa radio station on the country's main air waves, and start up a new TV channel.
In recent years, the once tiny movement's membership has sky-rocketed in size and scope while all attention has shifted to Boko Haram, the terrorist group fighting for an extrimist state in Nigeria.
Islamic Movement's leader, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, became a proponent of Shia Islam around the time of the Iranian revolution in 1979.
Events in Iran encouraged him to believe that an Islamic revival was also possible in Nigeria.
Although he denies his movement gets any funding from Iran, he is also vehemently against arrogant powers.
When I met the white-bearded, traditionally dressed religious leader, who looked older than his 57 years, he resembled a peaceful, friendly, elder statesman and smiled as he told me that he now has hundreds of thousands of followers.
We sat together on his bright, fluffy pink, red and white rug and an orange-flowered garland framed a hanging portrait of the revolutionary Islamic leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, who watched over us.
But followers here, including Sheikh Zakzaky, are closely watching present-day events in Iran.
The US and Israel threaten to attack the country on a baseless pretext of nuclear weapons building programe there are realised, despite Iran's insistence its nuclear ambitions are purely civilian.
I asked the sheikh if Iran were attacked, would it have an impact in Nigeria?
"Not only in Nigeria, in the entire world," he said.
Sheikh Zakzaky added: "How much the impact would be, would depend on which areas were attacked."
Throughout our encounter, the vagueness of some of Sheikh Zakzaky's answers - perhaps driven by his apparent mistrust of the media, he separately recorded our conversation in order not to be misquoted - not only leaves many of his statements open to interpretation but also creates the perception he may have something to hide.
Sheikh Zakzaky was a political prisoner for nine years during the 1980s and 1990s, accused by successive military regimes of civil disobedience.
Sheikh Zakzaky told me his movement did train hundreds of guards to police events, but compared it to teaching karate to the boy scouts.
The state's relationship with the movement may also determine how peaceful it remains, according to prominent human rights activist Shehu Sani.
He campaigned for Sheikh Zakzaky's release while the cleric was a political prisoner and says the government has to take its share of the blame for the recent violence by Boko Haram, which says it is trying to avenge the 2009 death in police custody of its leader, Mohammed Yusuf.
"If the Nigerian state applied the same measure of cruelty and extrajudicial killings to the members of the Islamic movement as it did to Boko Haram, we would be faced with a violence that's a million times more than that because the Islamic movement's well organised and educated," according to Mr Sani.
The Nigerian government says it is prepared to talk to Boko Haram though it describes it as a faceless organisation with unrealistic demands.
In Sheikh Zakzaky's home town of Kaduna, Boko Haram has directed attacks at both the security forces and locals.
When I met Kaduna's Governor, Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, to discuss the current security crisis, he told me he wanted to make use of all religious leaders to find a solution urgently.
I asked the governor if he had reached out to Sheikh Zakzaky.
"We are trying to reach out to everybody and I am sure, sooner than later, I will get across to him," he said, underlining a conciliatory approach that has so far not borne results.
In contrast, it looks unlikely that Sheikh Zakzaky would be prepared to engage with the governor.
During our interview, he did say he would consider entering the political process and could, for example, have his own political party, if the system worked.
But he said the current system did not work.
He rather surprisingly blamed that system for causing the current insecurity in the country by insisting Boko Haram was a creation of the "oil-hungry West", whom he accused of using the Nigerian security forces to carry out heinous crimes here.
"Security forces are behind it," he said animatedly.
"There's nothing like Boko Haram. I have never seen a single man calling himself Boko Haram. Our enemies are from outside. And they are the ones behind those bombings."
That theory goes against much of the evidence about the group that does exist, as the government has arrested senior members of the militant outfit and police stations and army barracks are often the targets of attacks.
Oil analysts insist that the last thing the West would want is instability in the country, which, they say, would in fact jeopardise their operations here.
Yet Sheikh Zakzaky's followers, young and old, confidently told me they agreed with his view of who was behind the unrest and were in full support of Shia Islam, the sheikh's brand of Islam spreading across the whole of Africa, not just Nigeria.
As I watched thousands gather for a weekly Koran class led by Sheikh Zakzaky, women covered in black clothes seated on one side, men in lighter clothes on another, they all appeared peaceful and studious.
The movement does not seem to be an imminent threat to either the government or Nigerian people.
But with a clear hatred of parts of the West closely tied to the current government, the situation remains precarious.
Shi'a Islam in Nigeria
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Though the majority of the Nigerian Muslim population is Sunni (60 million), there is a significant Shia minority (5-10 million), particularly in the northern states of Kano and Sokoto.[1]
[edit]Introduction of Shi'ism in Nigeria
Shia Islam was "almost unknown" in Nigeria until the 1980s, when Ibraheem Zakzaky introduced a syncretic blend of Shia and Sunni Islam. Zakzaky's gained a following among those disenchanted with the political and religious establishment, and where commonly identified as shia (due to similarities with Khomeni's traditions).[2]
[edit]Prosecution
Members of the Nigerian Shia community have been persecuted in some cases, but in other cases have united with Nigerian Sunni in the Islamic Movement in Nigeria.[3] Cleric Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky is a primary figure in the movement.[4]
The state government of Sokoto has reacted to the rise of Shia Islam in the state by taking such measures as demolishing the Islamic Center in 2007[5][6]. Furthermore, clashes between Sunni and Shia residents followed the assassination of Imam Umaru Danmaishiyya, who was known for his fiery anti-Shia preaching[7][8].
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