Amirulhafiz

As everyone else predict, (and I would agree) 9 months from now the baby-dumping phenomenon will becoming a hit, again.

Although most of us can already figured it out, and JAKIM, JAIS etc are doing their best to become UNFAITHFUL to the VERSE 12 from surah AL-HUJURAAT, still we are going with the same old same old way. We critics the couples, and we condemn their ignorance. We showed to them our holier than thou attitude, and we hope that this symptom will be stopped.

But does it really solve the problem? No.

Have we ever asked ourselves, what can we do as a community to stop this problem? Yes, the problem occurs because of our youth's ignorance of their religion. But that doesn't means that we are innocence. In fact, we as a community are guilty too. Why? Because, indirectly we are also the one effect them to do the sin.

Let's put aside about their sex's desire, iman, religion's education and so on. And put us inside the problem. What is wrong with our community?

Here is the list :

1) Sex education
-The unsolved problem for a very long time.
-It is taboo to talk about sex in front of our children. So parents say, they will learned about this in school.
-Yet it is not in our school syllabus, so what the heck, why would teacher teach their students?

2) Marriage & Future
-We scared our youth about their future more than anything else.
-And most of the time, we scare them about marriage. It is like marriage is a time bomb. When you married, you die. Too much responsibility, too much money needed, and boom. You have no time to enjoy anymore.

3) Superbly difficult to married
- 'Wang hantaran'
- Salary, kursus kahwin.
- HIV test
- Majlis kenduri

4) Any person who have a baby born out of wedlock will be thrown out of family.
- So, better dump the baby
- Shouldn't family and we as a community guided and help them?
- There is no easy way to get rid of the baby, so better dump him/her somewhere.

So, this is a list of mindset that we need to change. You might say that it is irrelevance to the topic, but believe me, this is the one that leads to the baby-dumping phenomenon.

Stop accusing the teenagers and start doing your responsibility.

Yesterday, I read an article by Nurul Izzah at Sinar Harian. She said that she is concerned with our student's achievement. This is according to our student's score at TIMSS.

Halfway reading her article, I was ready to give my vote to PR. Based from her previous talks & articles, I know that she is influenced by Tariq Ramadan's work. And this is a very good thing to me; that is to have someone inside the PR who understand Islam in the "natural and beauty way", not Islam that is based on Pas's definition.

Apa yang saya cari adalah perkataan "PPSMI" dalam artikel tu. I know, there are lots of reasons why our student's did so bad during TIMSS examination, but PPSMI are also a part of the solution.

Tapi itulah, dah nama pun politician. Bergerak dengan parti. Idea tak boleh sama. Biarlah sebijak mana pun idea lawan, idea buruk dari parti sendiri juga yang perlu diperjuangkan.

This might be slowpoke, but what the heck. I would like to refer to the news where a wife was beaten up to death because of jealousy.

Untuk perempuan yang masih mencari pasangan, one little advice. Jangan cari lelaki yang baran.

I've always seen that you girl will admire a guy, yang nampak jantan kononnya. Auww, dia cool.

Mostly the guy is in the category jantan yang bukan dekat otak, tapi dekat fizikal. You dream to marry a guy with a great mind and have a great body? You wished. A guy either will work on their brain, or on their body. That is the only choices we man have. Heh. (Mesti ramai marah. kakaka).

Nevermind that. But most of this type of guy adalah jenis yang cepat marah. Sepertimana Syanaz panggil Shila sakai, begitulah perangai lelaki-lelaki yang cepat marah. I've seen enough woman get treated like shit whenever their husband/bf gets angry. You have your pride, and it worth more than anything else. So, make you choice.

Worst case scenario? Not a big deal. You just got to prepare to get beaten up to death.

There are two kind of ustaz. The first one is a teller. With his qualification and knowledge, he can tell the others everything that he knows. He can cite any Surah, he can refer to any hadith. He remember all of them. And of course, he can tell the previous religious scholar's legal opinion (fatwa). But, that is how far he can go.

The second one is a thinker. He basically have everything that the first ustaz have. But, he is a thinker. He is able to differentiate between the TEXT and CONTEXT. He also able to relate between the hadith and surah in order to come up with a new legal opinion, relevance to the current community.

But yes, there is another parameter that we should consider before deciding whether he is a good ustaz or not. His political view. Simple, if he is biased, then he is not a good ustaz. Unless, he is willing to critics his own party if his party did something wrong.

I like to quote Tariq Ramadan in Islamic Reform forum before :

"If you come and you work for government, and if you come with a specific question, ask your intention. Who do you want to please? Because some governments...as it was said, I haven't seen a government giving money - not only in the West, but in Muslim majority countries - when they give money, they *[37] have a specific intention.

So it's a very important point here. So this is why we should never have scholars today working for specific governments. Here, or there. Never. "

Why people still object PPSMI? PPSMI bukan bertujuan untuk mempertingkatkan kemahiran Bahasa Inggeris pelajar semata. Well, you may see it that way. But, you are actually missing the whole point. Why the hell would we study math and science in English in order to increase student's English efficiency? Duh.

The main point is: technology, science and engineering. To fully understand objective behind this idea, we need to go back to the history; Dulu, ketika kegemilangan empayar Islam, benda yang orang barat buat adalah tak lain tak bukan pergi ke Tanah Arab untuk menuntut ilmu. Remember this story?

Menuntut ilmu tu satu perkara. But bear in mind that they speak different language. And of course the Muslims (who is the creator/founder of the knowledge) write notes and books in Arabic. So, the european had no choice but to study Arabic as well.

Yes, this is the basic idea behind PPSMI.

The problem occurs when the PHD & Masters students in this country starts to do research. Since the world had turned upside down (the european currently are the creator & founder of the knowledge), our researchers had to refer to the journal or technical paper written in English. So, dari sekolah rendah, universiti, sampai master belajar term Melayu, tiba-tiba kena refer journal dengan term English. Tak ke gila? Ini term sains dan teknologi, bukan term sastera.

Jadi, purpose yang paling utama adalah untuk mengatasi masalah bahasa yang dihadapi oleh kita punya cerdik pandai. Untuk faham satu konsep tu dah satu masalah, tak faham term dan bahasa tu lagi satu masalah. Kita perlu belajar dari sejarah bukan?

Untuk keluar dari status dunia ketiga, PPSMI bagi aku adalah kewajipan. Jangan bermimpi untuk mencipta kalau kita sibuk dengan ego dan semangat nasionalisma yang tak bertempat. And again, akhirnya sebab bacul pada undi, kerajaan kita mansuhkan PPSMI. Undi lebih penting dari matlamat.

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