“No hugging please, we are Muslims” – this was Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s message in hitting out at such actions being promoted by certain TV reality shows and programmes.
“This is not a question of young or old people hugging. This is about religion. It is forbidden in the religion,” he stressed.
With such reality shows attracting large audiences, Najib said the programmes should instead be helping spread moral values.
“Hugging scenes are not suitable. They must sing decent songs, and must act decently,” he said.
HYPOTHESIS: “No hugging please, we are Muslims”
In interpreting the Quran, everyone should try not to interpret the divine words in the way we want it to be, in our own perspective; rather, it should be what is the divine intend and His teaching.
I've been reading the Quran for a long time, but I'm not able to find the exact phase that says Muslim should not hug each other. In fact, as Muslims, they hug each other as a semblance of love and care for each other, as a community and as a children of God.
Unless we are making presumptions of sexually-induced explicit hug, expressing love in the form of "EROS" (as described by Paulo Coelho in The Pilgrimage).
Hugging can be "Philos", that is, love in the form of friendship. It is what we feel towards others; without the sexually-induced desires.
Maybe, Najib is speaking in an angle of thoughts, intending to imply something that connotes the use of "biological weapon of mass destruction" or that which would lead to the creation of human species without a legitimate platform.
But, I am of the opinion that the hypothesis is negative and the statement is misleading. In the Muslim Ummah, Philos is encouraged; that hugging is legitimate and encouraged.
1 comment:
I think these politicians are running out of things to say, and so they start being funny with their words.
They should retire.
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