Nazri Defines What's Hatred of Islam"

Minister in the Prime Minister Department Nazri Aziz called DAP MP for Seputeh, Teresa Kok a "Hater of Islam" when she made comments in Parliament that the directive imposed for compulsory wearing of Tudung by all policewomen in parade will go against human rights.

Is that a "Hatred of Islam?"

As a Muslim Leader, and someone who loves his own religion, it saddens me that he doesn't understand what is Islam.

The beloved Prophet Muhammad had enunciated clearly that it is the duty of muslims to guide and assist those who may be ignorant of Islamic values and teaching and to guide and direct those who may have followed certain wrong teachings, so that they be brought to understand the Islamic faith within the realms of the teaching in the Quran.

A good muslim do not accuse another person and called the other as "Hater of Islam". The hater of Islam is those who knowing the teaching of the beloved prophet, yet chose to deviate from his teaching. A hater of Islam is one who blespheme against Allah and his beloved prophet and one who despise the Quran. A hater of Islam is not one who question the dressing code of muslims or imposed the dressing code on others, for the Quran does not impose the strictures of dressing and the wearing of head scarf. Codes of dress behavior was formulated and adopted as a form of social behaviors for muslims to present themselves in a decent manner as to reflect the good values and virtues of the Islamic faith.

Wearing a tudung would not make you a good muslim. Wearing a songkok will not make you a good muslim. Believing in Allah and the teaching of the prophet deliberated in the Quran will make you a good muslim.

So Allah revealed "Move not your tongue concerning the Qur'an to make haste therewith". It is for us to collect it and to give you the ability to recite it (the Qur'an) (75.16-17). The Statement of Allah: And 'When we have recited it to you (O Muhammad through Gabriel) then you follow its (Qur'an) recital' (75.18) [means 'listen to it and be silent].' Then it is for Allah to make you recite it.

The prophet tells us to worship Allah and Allah alone and not to worship anything along with Him, and to renounce all that our ancestors had said. He orders us to 'pray, to speak the truth, to be chaste and to keep good relations with our Kith and kin.'

The Prophet said: "A Muslim is the one who avoids harming others with his tongue and hands. And a Muhajir is the one who abandons all what Allah has forbidden."

A GOOD MUSLIM IS ONE THAT WILL AVOID HARMING OTHERS WITH HIS TONGUE AND HANDS. This is what the prophet said. What did Nazri said?

UPDATE:

Thanks Harry for drawing me to Surah Al Nur, ayat 31.

I like to quote the full verse of the Qu'ran of ayat 31, Surah Al Nur below from an English Translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali:

"And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty and ornaments expect that (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, fathers, sons, women, slaves ... or children who have no sense of the shame of sex ..."

The Ayat should be read as a whole and no attempt be made to extract out a word or half a sentence to construe the meaning.

The wisdom as enunciated is to tell women that they should not lower their dignity and to guard their modesty and in order to do so, the preventive measure is for women not to display their beauty and ornaments which are not ordinarily appeared to be and that it is to draw their veil over their bosoms which could have displayed any part of their beauty which could cause the shame of sex ...

The whole teaching emphasis is that, anything which are construed to cause sexual shame or which can motivate physical sexual desires/needs, women must protect their own dignity and guard their modesty by ensuring that the part of the body is covered. If showing the feet can ordinarily motivate sexual desires, then the feet should be covered. If showing the face would ordinarily suggest sexual desires, then it should be covered. For police women, they wear their police caps during parade; do they still need to wear tudung with a cap? I don't think that's what the Quran had enunciated.

Would you comment, Harry?