TAIB SHARE SHOCK ! – EXCLUSIVE

PETIKAN DARI : WWW.SARAWAKREPORT.ORG

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25TH, 2010 GMT

Royal Mulu Hotel - Chief Minister owns shares in this state-funded enterprise

Sarawak Report can reveal that the Chief Minister, Abdul Taib Mahmud, has a major personal shareholding in Sarawak’s highly controversial  Royal Mulu Resort,  a project that has received huge injections of cash from the State.  This means that, as both Chief Minister and Finance Minister, Taib has authorised the diversion of large sums of public money straight into his own pocket.

As State Resources and Planning Minister, Taib was also responsible for the forced acquisition of a large area of Native Customary Lands from the indigenous Berawan tribe to build the resort, for which the tribespeople received virtually no compensation.  Our evidence therefore further exposes him for having authorised this land-snatch for his own direct benefit.

His shareholding is in a company that was incorporated as recently as November 2007, Mesti Bersatu Sdn Bhd.  This in turn has a 50% shareholding of the Taib/Mahmud family company Kenyalang Cergas, one of the main shareholders of Borsamulu Resorts Bhd (BRSB).  BRSB was handed the ownership and lucrative management contract for what was once a state-owned National Park, thanks to a series of decisions by Taib’s own government starting in 1991.  The management contract is paid for by the taxpayer!

In the money! - a decade ago the Geneids had nothing, now they are the toast of Malaysia's Tatler Ball 2010!

The other major beneficiaries and shareholders of the Royal Mulu Resort are members of his family, including his sister Raziah, her third husband Robert Geneid and the family of his late brother Arip Mahmud.  Taib Mahmud has personally  accused the Berawan people of being “greedy” for refusing to hand over their lands for ‘development’.  Their peaceful protests in the 1990s were brutally put down by army and police and their leaders were imprisoned.   Deprived of their territories, these communities are now impoverished and hungry and few people, apart from the Mahmud family, will have difficulty in discerning where the true greed lies.

This time it’s on record

The significance of this official confirmation of the Chief Minister’s own shareholding lies in the fact that Taib has normally sought to disguise his acquisitions and shareholdings in an attempt to avoid widespread allegations of corruption.  He habitually uses members of his own family to hold shares on his behalf.  Thus, the names of his many brothers and sisters, his late wife, his four children, nieces, nephews, cousins and in-laws are prominent as key shareholders in most of Sarawak’s important businesses.

Insiders have also told Sarawak Report that the elderly Chief  Minister has employed a number of other devious methods to keep control of such companies until he is able to extract his wealth and invest it secretly abroad.  These methods include forcing his nominees to sign undated resignation letters and share transfer forms, which he can use at any time to force their removal and employ somebody else as his front man or ‘nominee’!

Likewise, Sarawak Report has copies of US documents showing that shares which were publicly registered as belonging to family members were in fact secretly ‘held in trust’ for the Chief Minister himself.

Chief Minister’s name is in black and white in the Register of Companies

In black and white - Chief Minister Taib Mahmud declares his interest!

Mesti Bersatu Sdn Bhd therefore forms a notable exception, in that Taib declares his financial interest in black and white in Malaysia’s Company Register.  It is likely to have been an oversight on his part and a sign of his growing confidence that he can do what he likes in Sarawak and get away with it.

He is registered both as a Director and a Shareholder of Mesti Bersatu and holds 400,000 shares out of the 2,300,000 total shares issued for the company.  The other shareholders are his late brother Arif’s three wives (condoned under the Muslim faith) and two grown up daughters.  At RM 1.00 per share, Taib’s shareholding represents an outlay of 400,000 ringgit.

Cheesy tourist welcome - the local tribespeople put on embarrassing display at the Royal Mulu Hotel (from the Geneid family facebook album)

The company is registered as having ‘No Operation’ at it’s Kuching address, but in fact owns half the shares in Kenyalang Cergas Bhd, which was set up in 1992 as a direct Shareholder of the Royal Mulu resort.   The other Directors and Shareholders of Kenyalang Cergas are Taib’s sister Raziah and her current husband Robert Geneid, who were behind the original development of the resort and  act as the main directors of the company.  Crony timber tycoons the Yaw family, the owners of Samling, have also put money into the project, along with the architect from Singapore. Crucially the Sarawak State Government has also taken up an interest in the venture and has usefully pumped in large sums of life-saving injections of cash from the taxpayer over the years.  That involvement was of course thanks to Taib Mahmud.

All thanks to Taib!

Raziah and Robert Geneid reportedly came up with the plan to develop Mulu, which is famous for its caves, in the early 90s, when Raziah was still married to her 2nd husband.  In 1991, thanks to Taib Mahmud the Chief Minister, a decision was made by the Sarawak State Government to alienate land acquired in the National Park for a pitiful sum of RM 80 per acre from a local headman to their new family company the Royal Mulu Resort.  The Geneids had no money or hotel experience, but Taib’s brother Arip, who had made money from another family venture  Achipeligo Shipping (which has now developed into a separate major scandal over the allegations of billions made in timber kickbacks) invested in the venture.

Berawan land - who cares?

Given that the Chief Minister had alienated profitable state land into the hands of his unqualified sister and brother, the project was from the start corrupt.  Even more corrupt has been the continuing support by the state of Sarawak, through the Sarawak Economic Development Corporation, of what has turned out to be a lamentably unprofitable venture.  In the name of  ‘developing tourism’ the SEDC has been paying what appear to be astronomical ‘management fees’ to the Geneids and their co-shareholders for running their own hotel investment!

This generosity has turned what would have been a disastrous investment and a failed venture into a major money-spinner for Raziah and Robert (the son of an Australian fruit-vendor) who appear to have turned the resort into something of a family forest playground, judging from family facebook sites.  Indeed few actual tourists go there and most tourist guides warn visitors that the small sized National Park has long since been stripped of its wildlife by the effects of Taib’s logging activities in all the surrounding areas.

It is also, of course, thanks to Taib that awkward complaints by the local population have been so firmly suppressed by the full force of the state and police.  Thus, while the Geneids party in luxury (arriving at their holiday hideaway via a specially-built airstrip that involved blowing off the top of a sacred mountain and taking more of the land that belonged to the natives), the local people have received none of the benefits of the much-trumpeted ’progress and development’.

Forest fun - canopy walk at Mulu. Berawan guides are not permitted

The Berawan tribe have now returned to court to fight the company’s forced acquisition (thanks to Taib’s government) of yet more of the NCR lands for a second extension of the resort as part of a deal to develop it further, in collaboration with the US-owned Marriott Hotel chain.  So far they have received no compensation or recognition of their claims from Taib, despite the fact that previous governments did recognise their ownership of the land.

The Marriott Hotel chain appears to have no shame in participating in this deal, having already collaborated with Raziah Mahmud in developing the Marriott in Miri, again thanks to favours and land alienated by the government of Abdul Taib Mahmud.

However, Unesco which attributed World Heritage status to the site in 2000 has already signalled its own worries about the situation at Mulu.  Its 2008 report into the management of World Heritage Sites raised the management of the park as an issue of concern.  It states that the Chief Minister’s plan to flood great areas of Sarawak with dams could impact on the site and further points out that there have been reports that ”the benefits of tourism and World Heritage designation are  not available to the indigenous groups.  If these reports were confirmed”  UNESCO states “this lack of engagement of local communities could threaten the effectiveness of management and impact the integrity of the property”.  The UNESCO report requires reassurances by 2010, which can hardly have been forthcoming.

Local poor are dependent on tourist tips

Despite the usual bragging about ‘progress’ from AbdulTaib Mahmud, the ‘development’ of Mulu has predictably provided no compensation and little in the way of jobs for the local people. The Berawan are apparently banned from being guides in the park they know so well.  In return these people have lost their lands and livelihoods and no longer have their hunting grounds.  The Geneids and their government partners have therefore provided virtually nothing for the people who they have displaced, many of whom are starving hungry.

Progress and development at Royal Mulu - for the natives that is.

The once nomadic Penan of the area have likewise lost their hunting grounds, due to Taib-sponsored logging all around the actual park (which is on high ground and therefore does not have very interesting trees) and they are now living in shanty settlements on the fringes of the Berawan lands.  Far from enjoying the fruits of modernisation they survive from making baskets for the few tourists who come to look at them from the resort hotel.  So poor was the standard of housing provided by the Geneids in this ‘progress and development’ scheme that one such tourist himself put up the money to pay for the removal of mosquito-breeding swamps from beneath the settlement’s main longhouse, which had been a major discomfort and health hazard.

So how much has the Sarawak State paid to the Taib family to run Mulu?

Nevertheless, the taxpayer is still being forced to pay substantial sums to the Geneids in the name of ‘developing tourism’, for managing their own venture!  The big question is exactly how much has Sarawak invested in this project that is now being taken up by the Marriott?  Sarawak Report has ascertained that in 2007, the same year that Taib Mahmud openly acquired his shares in the company, a new contract was drawn up whereby the State was to pay even larger sums into the Borsamulu Resort Company, of which he was now publicly an owner.

Made from Ratan - bewildered Penan hunters reduced to a tourist attraction at Royal Mulu

Sarawak Report has been informed from reliable sources that the agreement was for Borsamulu’s management subsidiary to be paid RM 50 million a year for 50 years by the state.  This means that the State of Sarawak has agreed to pay the Geneids and indeed the Chief Minister himself, RM 50 million a year to manage their own investment until the day they die!  We therefore ask the Government of Sarawak if they will please confirm this figure and explain on what grounds they think they can condone such corruption?

Clearly these figures should be made public as it is the right of the people of Sarawak to be informed of the total sum of public money that has been poured into the Geneid’s forest playground since its inception in 1993 and they should also know how much more it is committed to spend.

Marriott Hotel

Sarawak Repot would also like to enquire of the Marriott Hotel Chain whether this continuing support by the Sarawak taxpayer forms part of their ’incentive’ for taking up a joint venture with the Geneids at Borsamulu Resort and also whether the company holds any ethical standards regarding human rights and the environmental impact of their activities?  If so, how does their involvement in Borsamulu equate with these standards?

Marriott’s new business partners in their joint venture with Borsamulu Resort include the Chief Minister of Sarawak and his family, the State Government of Sarawak and the logging giant, Samling, recently condemned in an investigation into illegal logging by the Norwegian Government.  Since Marriott are re-launching the resort under the auspices of eco-tourism and the Chief Minister and his family can only be described as one of the worst environmental menaces alive on this planet, we would like to ask Marriott how they are planning to deal with this contradictory arrangement?

'Eco-tourism' - a Geneid pal contributes to the destruction of the Mulu homeland of the Berawan Tribe

We would also like to enquire if Marriott can reveal the true identity of another of the major shareholders of Borsamulu, Widervale Assets Limited?  We assume that in the course of doing their due diligence into the joint venture eco-tourism project they have identified the owner of this company, however in an instance of extreme irregularity it is not registered on the Malaysian Company Register, despite such a significant holding in a prominent state government-backed concern!

Given that Marriott Hotel Group’s promotional material regarding their planned acquisition of Mulu in 2011 claims confidence in the “eco-tourism potential” of the Royal Mulu Resort,   Sarawak Report would finally like to ask on what criteria the Marriott Hotel Group judges ‘eco-tourism’?  Their new business-partner, the Chief Minister of Sarawak, has sponsored the destruction of a huge segment of the Borneo rainforest, destroying the landscape of the whole of Sarawak.  He authorised the logging of thousands of square miles of virgin rainforest surrounding the tiny Mulu National Park, eradicating most of the wild-life of the region, including inside the Park itself.  In the process the local people and native forest tribes have been nearly starved into extinction and left to rot without a shred of compensation.  Their protests have been put down by armed police.

We would therefore like to ask the Marriott Hotel Group how they intend to explain and justify these circumstance to their visiting ‘eco-tourists’ and indeed to concerned onlookers at UNESCO’s World Heritage Commission?

Malaysia perlu berani tegur kuasa besar

Kampung Baru KL nak dipindahkan..Macam mana dengan SIBU ??!!

 Habislah orang Kampung Baru kena pindah Nazri Abdullah    KUALA LUMPUR, 30 Nov: Pindaan terbaru Draf Rancangan Pembangunan Kuala Lumpur  2020 yang menyaksikan Kampung Baru ditandakan sebagai kawasan komersial sepenuhnya,  perlu dipersoal,kata Dr. Lo' Lo' Mohd Ghazali. Beliau yang juga Ahli Parlimen Titiwangsa berkata, pindaan tersebut juga memberi maksud  bahawa penduduk Kampung Baru tidak boleh lagi menetap di Kampung Baru dan perlu berpindah. "Habislah orang Kampung Baru. Pindaan terkini  Deraf KL 2020 menandakan Kampung Baru sebagai  kawasan komersial seratus peratus. "Bermakna tiada Residential Area. Orang Kampung  Baru tak boleh tinggal dah di Kampung Baru, semua  kena pindah terus," katanya yang juga AJK PAS Pusat. Beliau berkata demikian sebagai mengulas pindaan terbaru Draf Rancangan  Pembangunan Kuala Lumpur 2020.Menurut pindaan itu, semua kawasan seluas 250 ekar  tanah di Kampung Baru akan dimasukkan sebagai satu daripada tiga Pusat Komersial  Bandaraya (CCC). CCC, seperti ditakrif dalam draf itu tidak perlu mempunyai unit kediaman dan boleh  mempunyai 100 peratus kawasan komersial. Dua lagi CCC itu adalah kawasan sekitar Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) dan kawasan  sekitar KL Sentral di Brickfields. Perkembangan terbaru itu menimbulkan persoalan sama ada rumah-rumah kediaman di Kampung Baru, termasuk rumah tradisional Melayu terpaksa dirobohkan untuk pembinaan  bagunan komersial. Menurut Lo' Lo' lagi, lebih menghairankan, kenapa kawasan Penjara Pudu boleh dibina  kawasan penempatan, sedangkan ianya juga terletak di kawsan bandar Kuala Lumpur,  malah  bukan kawasan penempatan pun sebelum ini. "Hairannya Penjara Pudu akan dibangunkan dengan 30 peratus residential," katanya lagi. Kira-kira 39,000 penduduk menetap di Kampung Baru dan nasib mereka kini menjadi tanda tanya. SUMBER DARI: HARAKAH DAILY oleh: nur moon

TAKUT ATAU APA?

Akta Siber, Supaya Rakyat Pekak Dan Buta Maklumat.

Ditulis oleh Ustaz Idris Ahmad

MONDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2010 11:56

Tindakan  Kementerian Dalam Negeri yang akan memperkenalkan garis panduan bagi menerangkan definisi kesalahan hasutan secara terperinci satu lagi usaha untuk membuta dan memekakkan rakyat untuk mendapat maklumat sebenar di negara ini. PAS berpandangan tindakan ini lebih kepada usaha  untuk membendung maklumat penyelewengan kerajaan BN dapat diketahui oleh rakyat di negara ini.     Seperti yang kita sedia maklum Umno BN hanya bergantung kepada propaganda media perdana sahaja untuk mengekalkan pengaruh mereka di negara ini. Mereka tidak mampu untuk melawan serangan yang dibuat oleh media baru pada hari ini, walaupun mereka mengupah individu untuk  melemparkan fitnah kepada PAS dan Pakataan Rakyat. Pertarungan dan perbahasan di media baru berakhir dengan individu yang makan upah Umno BN lari lintang pukang kerana tidak tahan dengan asakan yang dibuat oleh penyokong Pakatan Rakyat  Seluruh jentera Umno sudah tidak bermaya, ia hanya bergantung kepada media radio dan televisyen sahaja. Malahan setengah tempat Umno terpaksa swastakan program penerangan melalui NGO yang pro Umno supaya menganjurkan program, jika tidak orang tidak mahu datang jika atas lambang Umno. Sebab itu tidak hairan kepada kita BN sudah membuka peluang kepada NGO untuk bersama BN seperti yang diputuskan dalam mesyuarat majlis tertinggi BN.  PAS berpendapat tidak cukup lagi kah Umno mengongkong rakyat dengan Akta Rahsia Rasmi Kerajaan (OSA), Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA), Akta Mesin Cetak dan  Akta Hasutan. Kerajaan boleh bertindak ,mengikut akta yang sedia ada dengan membawa pesalah ke muka pengadilan. Adakah salah rakyat pada hari ini mendapat maklumat yang benar supaya mereka boleh membuat pilihan yang tepat untuk melantik pemegang amanah khazanah di negara ini. Jika maklumat yang didedahkan ini seperti maklumat ketenteraan negara, penghinaan kepada agama dan bangsa maka kerajaan boleh bertindak. Tetapi jika maklumat yang didedahkan ialah penyelewengan yang merugikan negara dan rakyat, kenapa perlu kerajaan takut untuk menghadapi penghakiman yang akan dibuat oleh rakyat dalam pilihanraya umum akan datang. PETIKAN DARI :Ustaz Idris Ahmad Ketua Penerangan PAS Pusat

Adakah Kita Di Sarawak Sedar Atau Buat-buat Tak Sedar?Mungkinkah Juga Berlaku Di Sarawak?

Tarif air: Jelas Umno BN khianati rakyat

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, 26 Nov: Dewan Pemuda PAS Wilayah Persekutuan (DPPWP) menyokong penuh tindakan Kerajaan Selangor yang membantah tuntutan kenaikan tarif air oleh Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) sebanyak 37 peratus berkuatkuasa 31 Mac tahun hadapan. Pemangku ketuanya, Herman Samsudeen berkata, tuntutan Syabas yang disokong oleh Menteri Kerja Raya, Datuk Shaziman Abu Mansor adalah satu penganiayaan kepada rakyat. DPPWP juga, katanya kesal kerana Shaziman bersekongkol dengan Syabas untuk menaikkan kadar tarif air berkenaan jika  kerajaan Selangor gagal menyerahkan semua aset industri airnya kepada Pengurusan Aset Air Bhd (PAAB) sebelum 31 Mac hadapan. “Apa yang berlaku pada hari ini memperjelaskan bahawa Kerajaan Umno BN yang memerintah Selangor sebelum ini telah melakukan pengkhianatan terbesar pada rakyat kerana menandatangani satu penjanjian konsensi pembekalan air bersama Syabas selama 30 tahun dengan meletakkan terma untuk membolehkan syarikat berkenaan menaikan kadar tarif pada tempoh tertentu tanpa perlu melihat kepada keadaan ekonomi negeri dan rakyat,” ujarnya. Katanya, DPPWP mewakili pengguna air di Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur dan Putrajaya berharap Yang di-Pertuan Agong menghalang hasrat Syabas dan membatalkan perjanjian konsensi yang jelas merugikan rakyat di Lembah Klang. “DPPWP menyeru seluruh pengguna air di Lembah Klang turun beramai-ramai mengiringi Menteri Besar Selangor pada 5 Disember ini untuk menghantar Memorandum Rakyat ke Istana Negara,” ujarnya. Jika pengguna air berdiam diri pada hari ini, katanya maka tiada siapa lagi yang dapat menghalang kenaikan tarif air sebanyak 37 peratus itu. Tambahnya, hatta pihak menteri sendiri hanya mampu memberikan jaminan tidak akan menaikkan tarif air selama setahun kepada Kerajaan Melaka dan Johor walaupun negeri berkenaan sudah berikrar akan menyerahkan aset industri airnya kepada PAAB pada bulan Disember dan Januari nanti. “Selepas setahun, tarif air tetap akan dinaikkan juga di Melaka dan Johor, apa yang Shaziman mampu buat jika PAAB membuat tuntut sama seperti Syabas hari ini?” soalnya. Dalam hal ini, katanya rakyat sebagai pengguna air juga yang akan tertindas. “Cukuplah rakyat melihat Kerajaan Umno BN Selangor telah membuat kesilapan dan mengadaikan sumber air Selangor sebelum ini, jangan tutup mata dan anggap Kerajaan Umno-BN di Melaka dan Johor sudah cukup bijak dalam hal ini,” katanya. Hakikatnya, kata beliau mereka telah melakukan perkara yang lebih buruk lagi kerana seluruh aktiviti pengurusan air di negeri mereka selepas ini akan diswastakan 100 peratus dan kerajaan negeri bakal hilang kawalan terhadap sumber air negeri. “Marilah bersama-sama menyokong Kerajaan Pakatan Selangor yang bertekad mempertahankan aset pengurusan air negeri dan hak pengguna air yang mahu tarif air tidak dinaikkan,” ujarnya lagi.

Rezeki Adalah Dari Allah

Pembuka Kunci-kunci Rezeki Berdasarkan Kitab Al-Quran dan As-Sunnah

Paling kurang terdapat 10 Pembuka Kunci yang perlu di lakukan secara serius oleh setiap individu Mu’min yang berdasarkan panduanAl-Qur’an dan al-hadith sebagaimana yang tersebut dalam buku ‘Pembuka Kunci-kunci Rezeki Berdasarkan kitab Al-Qur’an dan As-Sunnah’ oleh Doktor Fadhl llaahi iaitu sebagai berikut:

1. Istighfar dan Taubat

i. Hendaklah dia menahan dari melakukan maksiat (tidak lagi mengulanginyalagi).

ii. Hendaklah dia menyesal terhadap ketelanjurannya.

iii. Hendaklah dia bercita-cita untuk tidak mengulanginya lagi.

iv. Hendaklah dia melepaskan hak tuannya. Hendaklah memulangkan semulaharta kepada tuannya atau meminta maaf atau meminta kemaafannya.

Tanpa salah satu ciri-ciri ini, menurut para ulama’, maka taubatnya adalah tidaksah.

2. Taqwa.

Memelihara diri dari perkara yang mencetuskan dosa; dan yang demikian diperoleh dengan meninggalkan perkara yang haram. Manakala ketaqwaan itu dapat disempurnakan dengan meninggalkan sebahagian perkara yang harus (mubaah).”

3. Berserah kepada Allah.

Berserah itu tidaklah bermaksud meninggalkan usaha (bekerja keras); dansungguhnya seseorang Islam perlu bekerja keras, bersungguh dan berusahamencari sumber pendapatan. Akan tetapi janganlah pula berpegang kepada kerja keras, kesungguhan dan usaha semata-mata (tanpa memohon kepada Allah); malah hendaklah beri’tiqad (mempercayai) bahawa semua perkara itu adalah kepunyaan Allah; dan sesungguhnya segala rezeki itu adalah daripada Allah, Tuhan Yang Maha Tunggal sahaja (tiada lah tuhan yang lain selain Allah).

4. Bertumpu Ibadah kepada Allah.

Maksudnya bukanlah dengan cara meninggalkan usaha kehidupan dan dudukdalam masjid sewaktu malam dan siang, tetapi apa yang di kehendaki adalahmenghadirkan hati dan tubuh di kala beribadah, terasa kusyu’ dan tunduk kepada Allah Yang Maha Tunggal, merasakan Kebesaran Allah Ta’aala dan merasakan bahawa dirinya sedang bermunajat dengan Tuhan maha Agung lagi Maha Berkuasa.

5. Susul-menyusul antara Haji dan Umrah.

Maksudnya hendaklah menjadikan salah satu antara keduanya ikut-mengikutkan, iaitu apabila kamu telah berhaji, maka hendaklah diikuti dengan umrah; dan apabila kamu telah ber‘umrah, maka hendaklah kamu berhaji; kerana keduanya saling ikut-mengikutkan (jika mampu).”

6. Menghubungi Keluarga

Kata silaturrohim (menghubungi keluarga) adalah menggambarkan berlaku baikkepada keluarga atau kerabat yang mempunyai pertalian keturunan dan sebabhubungan perkahwinan; juga menggambarkan hendaknya bersifat lemah-lembut dan bersimpati kepada mereka dan mengawasi keadaan-keadaan mereka.

7. Berbelanja Di Jalan Allah

Maksud berbelanja (disini) ialah : Berbelanja yang digalakkan dalam Agamaseperti berbelanja kepada orang fakir dan berbelanja di jalan Allah untukmenolong Agama (Islam).

8. Berbelanja Kepada Penuntut Ilmu Islam.

Berbelanja kepada penuntut atau orang-orang yang menumpukan masanya untuk mencari ilmu Agama Islam (Syara’)

9. Membantu Orang Yang Lemah (Miskin).

Mencari keridhaan Allah dan Rasulnya dengan membantu dan menolong orang-orang fakir (iaitu amat miskin atau orang yang memperoleh pendapatan yangserba tidak mencukupi). Allah akan menolong bagi sesiapa yang berbuatdemikian bagi menentang musuh-musuhnya (di kalangan orang-orang Kaafir) dan juga merezekikannya (sehingga mereka menjadi kaya).

10. Berhijrah Dijalan Allah.

Maksud hijrah sebagaimana kata Al-Imaam ar-Raaghib Al-Ashfahaani r.a. ialah“jalan keluar dari Negara kufur (syirik) ke Negara beriman (tauhid), sebagaimana perlakuan penghijrah dari kota Mekah ke kota Madinah.’Hijrah itu wajib – sebagaimana kata as-sayyid Muhammad Rasyiid Ridha: “Dimana kewujudan berhijrah di jalan Allah Ta’aala bagi menegakkan AgamaNya sebagaimana yang diwajib dan dikasihi Allah Ta’aala, di mana orang-orang Mu’min di kehendaki menolong orang-orang yang dizalimi orang-orang Kaafir.”

Salam Aidil Adha daripada PAS Sibu !

Sesungguhnya Allah hanya mahu menguji kesetiaan dan kebenaran cinta Nabi Allah Ibrahim a.s. Keimanan tanpa cinta tiada sempurna, cinta tanpa pengorbanan adalah dusta. Nabi Allah Ibrahim dan Nabi Allah Ismail a.s adalah mereka yang telah membuktikan kebenaran keimanan, kesetiaan, kecintaan dan pengorbanan.. Maka Allah amat mencintai mereka sehingga diberi kemuliaan untuk mendirikan Kaabah (rumah Allah) untuk seluruh manusia yang datang dari segenap penjuru dunia untuk beribadah kepada Allah, dengan penuh kecintaan dan kerinduan di sisi Kaabah.

Kaabah adalah simbol agama, hanya mereka yang benar dalam ketauhidan dan ikhlas dalam kecintaan yang layak untuk membangunkan agama. Di tangan mereka Allah akan memberi kemenangan agama sehingga kebatilan akan jatuh.

Imam Al-Ghazali rahimahullah menyebut dalam kitab Minhajul ‘Abidin bahawa empat halangan yang akan ditempuh oleh mereka yang benar menuju agamanya iaitu makhluk, dunia, nafsu dan syaitan. Mereka perlu bersungguh bermujahadah dalam ‘menyembelih’ empat halangan tersebut dengan memiliki kekentalan jiwa dan sanggup berkorban apa saja.

Apabila mereka berjaya menyembelihnya dengan penuh kesabaran, nescaya rumah Allah akan terbangun dalam jiwanya, cahaya Ihsan atau tirai makrifat secara kasyaf akan terbuka dalam batin qalbinya. Mereka akan mencapai kemanisan dan kelazatan dalam musyahadah dan muraqabahnya. Mereka akan mencapai kelazatan dalam ibadah, mencapai buah-buah yang enak dalam sifat mahmudah, tiada akan mudah tergoncang dengan ujian-ujian dan tiada gentar dalam perjuangan!

Salam Aidil Adha daripada PAS Sibu !