Group draws the line for non-Muslims at buka puasa events

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Predeep Nambiar | June 2, 2017.

Jaringan Muslimin Pulau Pinang chairman says non-Muslims are not supposed to join Muslims in breaking fast, but can participate after the religious rites have been completed.

BUTTERWORTH: A Muslim NGO leader who called on Lim Guan Eng to convert to Islam if he wanted to join buka puasa events during Ramadan said he was not barring the Penang chief minister or any other non-Muslim from such occasions.

Jaringan Muslimin Pulau Pinang chairman Mohd Hafiz Nordin today said many people had misunderstood his call during a protest against the state government in George Town last Friday.
He said the group was merely “voicing out”, not “banning” Lim, who is DAP secretary-general, and other non-Muslims from joining Muslims in breaking their daily fast during the holy month.
He claimed that Lim and DAP were against Islam as the official religion in Malaysia, and were fierce critics of PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s private member’s bill to amend the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965 (Act 355) in Parliament to intensify shariah punishments.
He also alleged that DAP had asked for the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) to be closed down or its allocations reduced.

Hafiz said it could be surmised that Lim and DAP were against Islam in general, adding that it would be hypocritical of him to take part in any Muslim event, especially buka puasa.
“If Lim does not like Islam and is against Act 355, then why does he want to break fast?” he told reporters during a protest outside the Abdul Kader Jamek Mosque in Kampung Paya here today.

“He has shown hatred towards Islam. DAP also wanted Jakim to be closed, its allocations reduced.
“Don’t DAP and Lim appear to mock the Muslim ibadat (act of religious devotion) by partaking in buka puasa events then?”

He said breaking fast during Ramadan is exclusive to Muslims, as it is part of their “ibadat”.
“Non-Muslims, please understand that before breaking fast, we pray, we have religious recitations, we worship. Non-Muslims need not do these things (‘tak perlulah’).

“We break fast after the azan prayers are held, and we say ‘Allahumma inni laka sumtu wa bika amantu’ (prayer for breaking of fast) and eat dates.

“So by right, they are not supposed to join us in breaking fast. They can come after we have done the ibadat, and have all the nasi briyani or nasi kandar they want,” he said.

At the protest held outside the Simpang Enam mosque at Macalister Road last Friday, Hafiz had demanded that the Penang government stop interfering in the issuance of fatwas (religious edicts).
This led to Zaidi Ahmad, an information officer with the Penang chief minister’s office who was there, to ask which fatwa had been interfered with.

Zaidi was jostled and slapped by the protesters before he was led away by plainclothes police officers.