I explained to Tok Guru which for twenty years given Merdeka, PAS has been carrying an picture of a kampong party. In fact, not most people outside Terengganu know Tok Guru as well as even in Terengganu not everyone knows who he is. Hence PAS indispensable to be 'marketed' to a civic areas, a large towns as well as a cities, as well as places similar to Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Damansara, Bangsar, etc., are where a crme de le crme live. So Tok Guru needs to have his participation felt in these areas.
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Raja Petra Kamarudin
you initial met Tok Guru Dato' Seri Haji Abdul Hadi Awang in 1977, soon after he returned to Malaysia after completing his studies in Madinah as well as Cairo. At which time, Tok Guru was not nonetheless well well known as well as even you had never listened of him. A part of of a Terengganu royal family, a present Sultan's aunty, introduced me to him.
you soon began to attend Tok Guru's lectures/sermons during a Masjid Rhusila. That was around a time, as you had written earlier, when you became a 'Born Again' Muslim. you hungered for believe as well as you would visit quite a number of mosques or suraus all over Terengganu to listen to renouned ustaz or tok guru harangue upon Islam.
Ustaz Haji Awang 'Tukul Besi' of Batu Enam was another favourites of mine, as was Ustaz Kassim of Marang. And, of course, my 'resident' tok guru was Pak Abas of Masjid Kolam as well as Tok Guru Abdul Rahman Pattani of Taman Purnama.
Invariably, any tok guru had opposite approaches as well as opposite interpretations upon what 'true' Islam is. Hence it was necessary to get a 'balanced' opinion by learning from as most tok guru as possible. Then you had to separate through a most opposite opinions as well as come to your own co! nclusion .
There was this a single guy who would tape-record Tok Guru Hadi's lectures as well as sell a cassette tapes during a Friday 'bazaar' in Rhusila. you paid for a whole box of these cassette tapes as well as sent them down to my brother, Raja Idris, who was during which time a cabinet part of of Masjid Mujahidin in Damansara Utama.
Raja Idris would fool around these tapes after a Maghrib prayers as well as whilst waiting for a Isyak prayers to start. The members of his assemblage were fascinated by Tok Guru Hadi's lectures cum sermons. "Who is this guy?" they asked Raja Idris, "he is good."
Raja Idris replied which he does not know. He usually knows which a guy is a PAS member. The assemblage afterwards asked Raja Idris either he could invite this Tok Guru to come down to Kuala Lumpur to give a speak during Masjid Mujahidin.
Raja Idris contacted me as well as you betrothed to try to prepare it. you afterwards spoke to Tok Guru Hadi as well as he told me which he has a full calendar. Anyhow, he will try to cancel a single of his programmes as well as go down to Kuala Lumpur to speak during Damansara Utama.
The date was finally fixed as well as you paid for Tok Guru his craft ticket. you also organised for someone to fetch him from a airfield as well as to 'look after' Tok Guru Hadi. Raja Idris afterwards organised to implement a brand new PA complement so which they could do probity to Tok Guru's lecture. ABIM placed banners all over Selangor to surprise people about a impending speak by Tok Guru Hadi.
On a day of a event, which was a Saturday night, Masjid Mujahidin was packed. Busloads of people from all over Selangor came. The mosque, which normally would not even be half full, was overflowing as well as a car park had to be incited in to a prayer area. People were praying upon a grass as well as in a dirt.
The mosque cabinet was surprised. Never before had they seen such a crowd. And upon which day a peopl! e of Sel angor got to know, as well as fell in love with, Tok Guru Haji Abdul Hadi Awang (then not nonetheless a Dato' Seri).
The 45-minute harangue became a two-hour harangue as well as a mosque cabinet requested Tok Guru to come again, if probable upon a regular as well as scheduled basis. Tok Guru replied which he usually agreed to a one-off thing as well as he was not certain either he could persevere any time to do this upon a regular basis.
you explained to Tok Guru which for twenty years given Merdeka, PAS has been carrying an picture of a kampong party. In fact, not most people outside Terengganu know Tok Guru as well as even in Terengganu not everyone knows who he is. Hence PAS indispensable to be 'marketed' to a civic areas, a large towns as well as a cities, as well as places similar to Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Damansara, Bangsar, etc., are where a crme de le crme live. So Tok Guru needs to have his participation felt in these areas.
Finally, Tok Guru agreed to come down to Kuala Lumpur once a month, upon a initial Saturday of each month. And Masjid Mujahidin would be his bottom to reach out to a urbanites.
That was thirty years ago.
Soon, a assemblage of Masjid Mujahidin, which was practically a wooden shed squatting upon a square of land owned by a Fire Department, grew in leaps as well as bounds. People from all over went to which mosque. And in time which wooden shed became a multi-million Ringgit make up with air-conditioning built entirely with non-government money.
Umno, of course, was not too happy with a success of PAS in perspicacious a civic areas. And they were even unhappier about a actuality which Masjid Mujahidin was being used as a bottom for this. And Masjid Mujahidin was squatting upon a square of land owned by a Fire Department. It was ostensible to be a temporary structure, definition wooden building. Now it was a intemperate as well as multi-million Ringgit petrify office office building -- which equat! es to it has right away turn a permanent structure.
The Political Secretary to Anwar Ibrahim, Ibrahim Saad, got in touch with a Religious Department to ask them to explode a mosque. It was, after all, 'illegal'. This put a authorities in a dilemma. They knew which to do such a thing was going to invite bloodshed.
Instead of demolishing a mosque, as what Ibrahim Saad wanted, a authorities gave a Fire Department an pick square of land during Taman Tun Dr Ismail (where a Fire Brigade right away sits) as well as a land which Masjid Mujahidin was squatting upon was 'legalised'.
That was about thirty years ago as well as it took roughly thirty years until 2008 before PAS managed to benefit acceptance in a civic areas when it won seats such as Shah Alam, etc., which in a past would never have been possible.
There are no short cuts. Change takes a single era or more to happen. The prior era in 1980 brought PAS in to a towns as well as cities from a 'home' in a kampongs. The present era gave PAS a support in a towns as well as a cities.
And it all proposed because a few boxes of cassette tapes from Rhusila, Terengganu, found a way to Damansara Jaya, Selangor. That proposed a round rolling. But was which not also how a Islamic Revolution of Iran started, when a few boxes of cassette tapes from Paris found a way to a bazaars of Teheran in Iran?
And right away do you know why you am a student of history? Because story has taught us which most times story can as well as will repeat itself. And those who ignore a lessons of story are cursed to repeat a mistakes.
So, no, 2008 was not an overnight wake-up call, as most believe. 2008 took roughly thirty years to happen. And 2008 proposed in 1980 when you decided which PAS should no longer be a kampong party as well as a informal player. And when you 'exported' Tok Guru Hadi Awang to a large towns as well as cities, which began PAS's progression to inhabitant politics as well as laun! ched a L ong March to Putrajaya.
TO BE CONTINUED
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