A Song..
Do you still remember a song, starting with..”Allah, peliharakan Sultan….”. (It is more or less “Allah, I beg your blessing to our Sultan…”. )
You may not, if you are not from Johore. That song that I mention is the state song of Johore. We sang this song often enough, almost every week during school assemblies.
Well, if you did ever sang this song, what was Allah meant to you?
For me, I had never thought about it during school time. What I felt was, no matter what Allah (God) to be referred to, as long as our Sultan was blessed, we as people of the state were blessed.
However, maybe my understanding was wrong in totality. The ‘Allah’ can only be referring to one, not any others. So I prayed to the wrong target for all this while. What was in my mind while singing the song, was some other rather than the one. What about you? The answer is up to your own believe.
Take the discussion back to the track, not burning buildings. After all, we will be all loser, what for?
Oh Lord… Allah…
Try read this: “Oh Lord!”
And this: “Allah!”
Aren’t they just similar in sound? What’s makes it so debatable?
Come on.. Malaysia is already 52 years old, don’t make the people look like just born 3 years back.
What’s So Wrong with the Word?
People are organizing demonstration for the usage of one word? Isn’t that something not so right? Are we a country that still respect to court ruling or we think that we can do anything to against it? Well, if the logic is we can demonstrate if we don’t agree with the outcome, then why a lot more public demonstration against un-reasonable court decision got categorized as illegal?
Just for a word, people burning other peoples’ holy place. If religion still make it’s sense, we should love each other no matter what believe we have. When it went so wrong, what’s the rational behind which the police never take harsh action against the people?
Are we still a country that is rational and relevant in this world which people are more and more open minded, willing to accept different? What’s wrong with the people?
End up Malaysia has been eyed as “.. still struggling to uphold basic freedoms.”. Do still have a hope so far? 1Malaysia? 1-Funny-Malaysia?
Introduction to Kiva
It must be dragged for too long due to procrastination. Learn how to overcome it here…
However, this is to introduce to friends about this online community where target to help overcome poverty in many third world countries. The community partners with various microfinance institutions in order to reach the outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities worldwide. The microfinance partners professionally choose and upload their entrepreneur profiles directly to the site, and you as a community member can review and decide to lend some fund to them to start their entrepreneur adventure. Your are in control of where your money goes to. Normally it only requires you to come out with a relatively small amount of money for helping them, and due to the power of community, multiple small amount can be accumulate to become a big pool of fund to help more people in need.
The system do keep track the loans and repayments. When you get your loan money back, you can relend to other person in need. What we see here is a group setup fro Malaysians. Join the group and show to the world that we are people that concern. We have been too selfish and ignorance, it’s time to change. Despite of concerning what is in the country, we need to tell the world that we Malaysian are global thinking. We love human beings as a whole, regardless of race, country of origin, religion and skin color, what ever… Yes, you start to ask, where to go? Here it is: http://www.kiva.org/.
