AGAMA Islam Pas menjadi semakin
popular. Hukum Hududnya diyakini sebagai hukum agama
yang suci. Ulamanya pula ditaati seperti Allah dan rasul-Nya. Mengikuti satu syariat
yang termaktub dalam Perintah daripada Allah - “Kemudian Kami membuat kamu di
atas satu syariat daripada Perintah; maka ikutlah ia” (45:18) - dan dalam
Perintah itu juga dinyatakan bahawa hanya Allah sahaja yang berhak mensyariatkan
atau menetapkan hukum untuk agama-Nya. Tiada yang lain, selain daripada Dia,
diizinkan berbuat demikian. Mereka yang ingkar dan yang memandai-mandai
menggubal sendiri hukum agama dikategorikan-Nya pula sebagai sekutu Allah
(42:21), dan dosa ini tidak diampun.
Namun manusia, kerana kefasiqan
mereka, terus menggubal peraturan atau hukum agama. Lalu lahirlah pelbagai
peraturan dan hukum yang berlainan daripada apa yang diwahyukan
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Jika Najib dan Muhyiddin berkata hukum hudud
masih belum sesuai untuk
dilaksanakan di Malaysia kerana menurutnya hukum Allah itu akan hanya
dapat dilaksanakan sekiranya keadaan negara ini benar-benar kondusif
dengan memastikan keamanan dan keadilan benar-benar wujud terlebih
dahulu.
Kenyataan yang secara tidak langsung mengakui bahawa memang tidak wujud keadilan dinegara ini..
Berlainan pula dengan pendapat seorang bukan Islam yang Majlis Ketua-Ketua Gereja Katholik Malaysia.
Dr
Paul Tan Chee Ing, Presiden Majlis Ketua-Ketua Gereja Katholik Malaysia
berkata Baginya adalah tidak betul bagi kerajaan menghalang Kelantan
dan juga umat Islam di sana yang mahu melaksanakan suruhan agama mereka.
Biarlah mereka laksanakan hudud jika itu yang mereka mahu kerana hukum
tersebut hanya untuk umat Islam sahaja dan tidak melibatkan penganut
agama lain.
Bishop Paul’s nuanced stance on HududBy Terence Netto
The
reignited debate over the implementation of hudud law in Kelantan has
drawn a nuanced response from what at first glance would be considered
an unexpected quarter.
Catholic Bishop Dr Paul Tan Chee Ing, in
his remarks made to Malaysiakini today, held forth on the subject and
has come up with a stance he thinks is calibrated to meet the challenges
the question of Islam poses to Malaysian society.
“One would
think I should lack the presumption to weigh-in on the discussion, being
non-Muslim and belonging to a religion that subscribes to the
separation of the secular from the religious spheres,” being the titular
head of Catholics in the Melaka-Johor diocese.
“But Islam is,
above all, a political question and support for syariah, of which hudud
is a part, is an obligation for the Muslim. Therefore a non-Muslim
citizen such as me and a religious leader at that ought to have a say on
this matter,” asserted the Jesuit-trained prelate.
“I say it’s
time to allow Muslims in Kelantan, if they so desire, to implement
syariah only for them and with that the hudud enactments provided
non-Muslims are exempt from its implementation,” said the Bishop who is
concurrently President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Malaysia.
“Between
the contention that the Federal Constitution is a colonial imposition
and the obligation of Muslims to support syariah, I say the wiser
non-Muslim stance would be to hold that if syariah is what Kelantan
Muslims want and if we are given a cast-iron guarantee that it will not
be implemented on us, we would not object to Muslims wanting it,” he
argued.
“Bear in mind, this is not a question that is going to go
away but it is not a question that will continue to be framed in the
same terms as it is today in Malaysia,” continued the Bishop. “What do I
mean by this?” asked the cleric who obtained his doctorate from Ecole
’Etude Science Social’ whose degree is from Sorbonne, the ‘Harvard of
Europe’ in medieval times.
“You take the Arab Spring that has
roiled nations in that arc from Tunisia to Syria. Do you see it as an
Islamic uprising or a democratic insurgence? I hesitate to claim that
it’s a democratic rising of peoples. You cannot tell for sure, but it is
not specifically Islamic in character. I take the long view and see it
all as part and parcel of the enduring debate between the Mutazilities
and the Asharites in Islam.
“The former holds that you need
reason to explain the world; the latter that God does not need reason
and that He is all power and will. I pray the Mutazilites win the
debate. I don’t know if that extraordinary man, the Menteri Besar of
Kelantan, is a Mutazilite or an Asharite. Sometimes he sounds like a
Mutazilite, sometimes like an Asharite.
“But that ambiguity is a
good thing. It shows he is not dogmatic. I say let him and all who hold
with him have their way so long as non-Muslims have iron-clad guarantees
of their exemption.”
Bishop Paul Tan concluded his soliloquy
this way: “I take the long view of history which is that the key
question, in our times and in all times, is as the philosopher
Nietzsche, incidentally an anti-Christian thinker, framed it: What is
the fundamental constitution of reality?
“I claim that if your
theological assumptions of reality are incorrect, you are headed for
trouble in this world and that if they are correct, you will have the
peace that surpasses all understanding. I am in favor of Kelantan
Muslims having hudud implemented for them only.”
Malaysiakini