By a time a sellers found out whom a genuine buyers were, it was as good late to do anything about it. The income had already been paid as good as a send completed. Masjid Rhusila right away owned all a land surrounding a mosque, which used to be owned by Umno people, as good as zero was starting to mount in a way of a mosque expansion.
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Raja Petra Kamarudin
By a late 1970s -- by afterwards you was past my 27th birthday -- you began starting to a mosque for Friday prayers. Then you started starting to a mosque for my daily/regular prayers, especially Suboh, Maghrib as good as Isyak, as good as during a complete month of Ramadhan for my Tarawih prayers. But you would sit in a rows during a back of as good as keep all to myself. you was, after all, a beginner as good as had much to sense about a religion you was born in to though frequency practiced.
Apparently, my presence in a mosque -- called Masjid Kolam, in Kuala Ibai, Kuala Terengganu, as good as not distant from my residence -- did not go unnoticed. One day, a imam, Haji Abbas Bin Khatib Muhammad a.k.a. Pak Abbas as good as a few members of a mosque cabinet came over to my house.
The Chairman of Masjid Kolam was Kol. Haji Zubir, a chap who lived opposite a highway from where you lived, a housing area called Taman Purnama. And Kol. Zubir had usually set up an Umno branch with himself as Chairman. And this upset a mosque cabinet who were all PAS supporters.
They requested which you take over a Chairmanship of a mosque (they told me which they were intending to oust Kol. Zubir). you was quite taken aback. you was a arrange of 'newcomer' to Islam -- which is since you refer to myself as a 'Born Again' Muslim -- as good as could not even recite a Qur'an. And here you h! ad a gar land ofhafiz(those who have memorised a Qur'an) requesting me to conduct their mosque.
Incidentally, usually to digress a bit, after you became a Chairman of a mosque, Pak Abbas came over to my residence twice a week to teach Marina as good as me to review a Qur'an as good as inside of 6 months you were means recite it fluently, with may be some diction errors. Pak Abbas was surprised. He told us which it routinely takes a few years though you were means to do it in a mere 6 months.
After you took over as a Chairman of Masjid Kolam, you embarked upon an enlargement exercise. The mosque was an aged mosque, 3 generations old, though there was frequency any swell or growth given it was initial built. We paid for up a surrounding land as good as expanded a mosque. We additionally built a school as good as increased a area for a graveyard. Marina's mother, my mother-in-law, is in actuality buried there.
Invariably, though realising it during first, you shortly became really concerned in opposition politics, PAS in particular. Our area was a PAS area though under Umno. Not prolonged after that, PAS won which area as good as has reason it ever since.
One day, officers from a Terengganu Religious Department visited a mosque to announce which they (the Terengganu Religious Department) were starting to conduct an AGM a following week since a mosque had never reason an AGM to elect a military officer bearers.
There were shrill protests from a congregation. Actually, you did reason AGMs each year not usually to elect a cabinet members though to additionally table a audited accounts as good as annual reports. We additionally reason cabinet meetings each 3 months as good as a minutes of these meetings have been additionally made public. We were substantially a single of a many transparently run mosques in a state of Terengganu.
The Terengganu Religious Department, however, pronounced they did not recognise these elections or a! committ ee. The supervision must initial authorize a cabinet as good as ours had not been authorized by a government.
you happened to be in Kuala Lumpur which week as good as was not benefaction when this happened. When Pak Abbas came to my residence to surprise me about what happened it was decided which you should not be benefaction a following week so which you could deny any knowledge of whatever was starting to happen. And what was starting to occur was not starting to be pleasant, may be even bloodshed, so you should stay away.
The following week, officers from a Terengganu Religious Department came to a mosque with a truckload of demonstration police. They were not usually starting to pouch a complete cabinet though a imams as good as bilals as well. The complete mosque assemblage walked out of a mosque in criticism as good as marched to a Rhusila Mosque to pray.
That coup try by a Terengganu State Government unsuccessful miserably. They in a future gave up as good as left us alone. However, from which day on, you was a marked male as good as a target for domestic assassination. And you would shortly sense what happens to a bureau worker who crosses swords with Umno. But which is an additional story for an additional time, though.
you wrote in a prior part how you initial met Tok Guru Abdul Hadi Awang. you shortly began to visit his mosque, Masjid Rhusila, to listen to his lectures as good as sermons. It was afterwards a small wooden mosque usually like Masjid Kolam.
They were trying to enhance a mosque though could not since a mosque was sitting upon a really small square of land. And a land surrounding a mosque were all owned by Umno people who refused to sell it to a mosque or to PAS people for any volume of money.
you spoke to a part of of a Terengganu stately family to seek her benefit in this matter. She afterwards approached a various landowners to offer to buy up their land. The landowners concluded to sell their l! and not knowing which you was essentially a secret customer as good as which this part of of a Terengganu stately family was merely my hopeful or 'front'.
The cost was concluded as good as you arranged to have a payments, though through a lawyers. And a income would be expelled once they pointer a send forms. Only a seller would be signing a send forms. The customer would pointer later, which is authorised as prolonged as it is finished as good as a send purebred inside of thirty days.
Once a buyers had sealed a send as good as a income was paid to them, you collected a send forms as good as handed them to PAS. PAS afterwards allocated 3 nominees to act as trustees to reason a land upon interest of a mosque.
By a time a sellers found out whom a genuine buyers were, it was as good late to do anything about it. The income had already been paid as good as a send completed. Masjid Rhusila right away owned all a land surrounding a mosque, which used to be owned by Umno people, as good as zero was starting to mount in a way of a mosque expansion.
There was a third mosque you was concerned in. And this mosque is located in Cendering, mid in between Masjid Kolam as good as Masjid Rhusila.
There is this 'famous' mosque in Cendering where a Sultan as good as members of his family go to do their Friday prayers. One day, a cabinet invited Tok Guru Hadi to give a talk in this mosque as good as this upset a government. And for this 'crime' a mosque cabinet was sacked. The supervision afterwards allocated an 'Umno' cabinet to take over.
The sacked cabinet came to see me to tell me which they longed for to set up a new mosque. And they had identified an aged decayed surau in Simpang Empat, additionally in Cendering, which could be used for this purpose.
you concluded to help raise a income as good as they proceeded to take over a surau. Extensive renovations were afterwards finished to spin this wooden shack in to a proper mosque. < div> When a supervision realised which a third anti-government mosque was about to arise (sandwiched in between dual alternative anti-government mosques -- Masjid Kolam as good as Masjid Rhusila) they sprang in to action.
Three truckloads of demonstration military were sent to a mosque as good as they used a chain as good as clinch to close up a mosque. The kampong folk pennyless a clinch as good as 'occupied' a mosque. A couple of thousand villagers faced a military conduct upon as good as bared their chests (literally). They afterwards challenged a military to shoot them.
The military usually stood there dumbfounded. The kampong folks had challenged a military as good as had won. The military shortly left though doing anything as good as until currently which mosque still stands as good as is a PAS stronghold.
The Special Branch reported to a Menteri Besar, Wan Mokhtar Ahmad, which you was a a single who was during a back of a Cendering mosque. In fact, you was additionally during a back of Masjid Kolam as good as was instrumental in assisting Masjid Rhusila take a land for expansion.
One day, a decider by a name of Sulaiman invited my commercial operation partner to lunch. The decider pronounced he had something really urgent to tell my partner. And what he told my partner was: a supervision wants to catch me under a Internal Security Act. (Hence a devise to catch me was essentially mooted twenty years prior to they did catch me in 2001).
The decider cautioned a supervision to step really delicately upon this matter. you was, after all, a nephew of Tengku Ampuan Bariah, a Sultan of Terengganu's consort. Hence which made it really dicey. The decider advised them to talk to me instead.
The Head of a Special Branch summoned me to his office. He afterwards showed me my file, a really thick record indeed, as good as told me which you was usually a single step short from detention. He suggested you go meet a Menteri Besar t! o have m y peace with Umno.
The following morning, during 7.00am, you was brought to a Menteri Besar's residence. The Menteri Besar advised me to tone down my anti-government activities as good as not get concerned with a environment up or a enlargement of any anti-government mosques. If not a supervision would be forced to act against me.
And which was when you decided which you had finished enough in Terengganu as good as which it was right away time to 'export' PAS to Selangor as good as Kuala Lumpur. And which would involve a story of Masjid Mujahidin in Damasara Utama which you related in a prior episode.
Masjid Rhusila as it was thirty years ago in 1982
Masjid Rhusila today
TO BE CONTINUED
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