September 2, 2012
Comment: The article below appeared in a Star upon Aug 21. A small dated, though it was a subject of final Friday's khutbah, which a dear friend as well as ex-Sime Darby colleague, Taib Wahab as well as you listened during Majid Al-Taqwa in a abundant Taman Tun Dr. Ismail. If there is such a thing as a domestic khutbah, a a single you listened during final Friday's prayers is certainly one.
What struck me final Friday during Majid Al-Taqwa was which a words Kerajaan (meaning UMNO) as well as Negara were used interchangeably. The implication is which if a single is vicious of, or viewed to be opposing, Kerajaan, a single is unpatriotic. Nothing can be serve than a truth.
Kerajaan is made of individual Members of Parliament from a celebration which wins a many seats in an election, as well as institutions of governance. The Leader of which celebration is afterwards invited by DYMM Yang DiPertuan Agong to form a Kerajaan. Kerajaan can shift if you as a people select to do so.
Negara is different. Malaysia is Malaysia. It is you as well as you united as a people who urge a constitution as well as oath a faithfulness to a Malay Rulers as represented by DYMM Yang Di-Pertuan Agong. As a concept, Malaysia is unchanging, nonetheless a landscape changes with socio-economic development.
If you can see a distinction, you know which you can be nationalistic yet disagree with a supervision over process as well as approach. We have been all patriots because you adore a republic as well as will put a lives upon a line to urge! a super vision as well as territorial integrity. But you might have different domestic beliefs as well as can disagree with Kerajaan of a day .
It is a fallacy to consider which Government equals UMNO-BN equals Country. We contingency mangle this habit of thoughts as well as usually afterwards you can pierce forward.Din Merican
True Malaysians as well as Patriotism
IKIM VIEWS
by Enizahura Abdul Aziz,
Senior Research Officer,
Centre for Shariah, Law as well as Politics, IKIM
IN a midst of a excitement in celebrating Aidilfitri, a single contingency not dont think about another stirring celebration Merdeka Day.
While a former rejoices a spiritual journey as well as essay in a approach of God during a month of Ramadan, a latter calls for each adult to commemorate a feeling of adore towards a republic as well as be thankful over a nation's autonomy enjoyed over a past 55 years.
Why does a country's autonomy matter? When you demeanour around us currently as well as see a physical as well as social growth which has fast taken place, you need to conclude a leisure which you have been enjoying in determining a own path as well as future.
Compare this to a incident where you could not have decisions upon what was most appropriate for us as a republic though had to succumb to a will of a colonial master. With this realisation, a clarity of appreciation contingency be demonstrated in assorted ways during a Merdeka Day celebration.
It is to illustrate needed to have in us a clever suggestion of patriotism.Patriotism is generally tangible as a feeling of adore or devotion to one's country. When you claim to be patriotic, what do you essentially me! an?
One contingency realize which being nationalistic should not be singular to usually putting up a flag or merely station up for a inhabitant anthem. The suggestion of nationalism entails a deeper reason for these actions.
Being nationalistic additionally requires a feeling of wanting what is most appropriate for a nation
as well as doing things which would have a republic proud.So, when you goal for a gold medal in a Olympics, a win in an general football contest or feel generous when a initial Malaysian wanderer boarded a International Space Station, you have been essentially taking honour in a country's success.
This honour as well as goal have been a form of patriotism, as is supporting a great qualities as well as ideals of a republic as well as essay to mitigate a disastrous ones.
Patriotism additionally implies feelings of oneness as well as mutual shortcoming in between people of different ethnicities as well as eremite backgrounds. A multi-racial as well as multi-religious republic similar to Malaysia needs to find commonalities due to a differences which exist in between a assorted groups.
Therefore, by a suggestion of nationalism as well as adore for a nation, these differences can be transcended, to illustrate allowing a clever basement for consensus in between a citizens. For Malaysia, this form of oneness is central.
In Islam, being nationalistic or having a adore of one's republic is rarely encouraged.A renowned Muslim thinker as well as activist who might have been suspicion to say small about nationalism as well as nationalism was Hassan al-Banna. He coined terms similar to wataniyyat al-hanin (love for a country) as well as wataniyyat al-hurriyyah wa al 'izzah (nationalism of leisure as well as glory) to explain a ! need for nationalism as well as leisure for one's country. In Risalat al-Mu'tamar al-Khamis, he said:
"Islam enjoins upon each chairman to strive for a great of his republic as well as remove himself in a service, render utmost use to a republic (ummah) in which he lives, as well as to give dominance to reciprocity as well as neighbourliness (in acts of benevolence)."
Malaysia currently is during a connection where globalisation seems to poise an imminent hazard to a suggestion of nationalism in between a citizens. It is not a problem usually for Malaysia though additionally for many countries in a world.
As you celebrate some-more years of autonomy gained from Western colonialists, a some-more formidable it becomes to educate as well as instil a feeling of nationalism in a younger generation. This is a challenge you face today.
Compared to progressing generations in post-independent Malaysia, a later generations might not conclude a onslaught as well as hardship which took place to acquit a republic from a colonisers.
Little do they know which a country's fight for autonomy did not begin upon a discussion table in London in 1956, though was essentially a continuous onslaught of many inhabitant heroes which had begun decades before which poignant event. This is because you have been told many times to conclude what you have today.
A nationalistic suggestion contingency be instilled in a hearts as well as minds of all citizens. Serious efforts need to be taken to maintain a suggestion of nationalism generally in between youths today.
Although nationalism is an innate feeling, it is a shortcoming of assorted parties to assistance coax a adore for a country. The preparation complem! ent cont ingency be tailored to inculcate a clarity of honour as well as belonging to a nation.
It is insufficient to focus usually upon elements of nationalism in subjects similar to History as well as Nationhood Studies. Teachers additionally fool around an important purpose in educating students about a significance of a suggestion of patriotism.
NGOs too contingency fool around their roles in educating a open upon a significance of patriotism. They serve as a most appropriate bridge in between a supervision as well as a open in a polite multitude framework.
NGOs can carry out activities which have been non-partisan as well as less political. The love
of republic should be above governing body as well as politicians contingency additionally accept this.
Citizens should not be dragged in to a incident where efforts to maintain nationalism in between a open have been politicised. Ultimately, true Malaysians would regularly wish a republic to sojourn peaceful as well as harmonious. Real Malaysians would ensure which a down payment in between associate adults remains clever as well as intact.
It is adore for a republic which binds a people together. As Malaysians, you should be unapproachable of what a republic has completed in 55 years.
Nonetheless, for Malaysia to turn a clever as well as developed nation, most some-more needs to be done. Malaysians from all walks of hold up should understand which nurturing nationalism is not only a shortcoming of a supervision of a day, though additionally a collective endeavour of all who do it for a adore of a country.
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