Port Ngabans

1. We human have 3 different layer of thoughts. The first level is the auto-suggestion level which the brain executes partly in our consciousness and partly in the state of our sub-consciousness. The second level is the belief level which occurs when thoughts derived from the suggestion level is added to it an emotional attachment. The third level is the conviction level, when our belief is intergrated to the whole of our life, which is reflected in our understanding of life and the external level in the form of our endeavours. And Some people are willing to die, to protect their conviction.

2. Philosophy is derived from our logical argument based on understading of facts and circumstances. Philosophy can be timeless, though however some cannot endure the passage of time. But one thing is certain, through centuries philosophy is what makes our societies are now. Two of the major philosophy that affects our state of well being is the understanding of democracy and the concept of fundamental liberty.

3. As said above, we human evaluate things based on our circumstances. But it should be noted as well, that us human evaluate things in the continuum of our brain; which is absorbed from our instincts and senses.

4. We human are weak. Because we think in our brain continuum, we operate like a camera in an auto-focus function. We WANT to believe what our instincts and senses filter from circumstances given. Take for example a jornalist, who decides to go to palestin to gain understanding about war. If he is unlucky enough, that so suddenly he’s in the middle of a fierce battle, with constant slaughtery and masaccres - he might probably understands that war in Palestin is so killing and prevalent and such that there is no hope anymore. But the same journalist, if he go to Palestin to attend a treaty agreement between the warring parties, he might probably say that, people in Palestin can expect good things to happen, that peace is currently imminent, and the state of war is not as bad as people think.

5. Philosophy, perception and understadings occurs - IN - our brain continuum, not a general understanding, and neither a one-fit-all rule for every circumstances nor time. Otherwise we modern society today, would value an ‘agogo’ hair style as our parent were in the sixties.

6. Some islamic scholars, believe that our great fiqh guru himself, Imam Al-Ghazali, opposed the idea of philosophic thinking. Though it is arguable, but what Al-Ghazali fears is that, pemikiran logik sebenarnya menimbulkan banyak persoalan metafizik yang tak dapat difikirkan dengan fikiran kita yang tidak syumul. Persoalan metafizik seperti yang kita ketahui contohnya alam roh, tidak akan dapat diungkapkan dalam bentuk inferens dan hipotesis oleh seseorang saintis. Mengambil contoh yang lain pula, seseorang saintis mungkin cuba membuat hipotesis tentang wujudnya Tuhan, tetapi siapa pula pencipta Tuhan?Sedangkan resam pencipta, setiap yang terjadi tu smestinya mempunyai khaliq. Tidak syumul di sini pula penulis fahami, mungkin bermaksud seperti di atas, di mana manusia memikirkan sesuatu berdasarkan a given circumstances or facts; not ALL circumstances or facts.

7. What i want to try to direct our attention now is about the issue of democracy and fundamental liberty, or spesifically about fatwa on anti-tomboy issue. When the fatwa issue arised, so suddenly we heard a warcy among the NGO criticizing the fatwa, believing that the government want to exercise a brand-new version of ISA to control and put fears in the people’s mind.

8. I really dont have any personal grudge with SOME of the Chinese  who provoked the muslims on this issue (im not judging the whole group of chinese here because many Chinese are good people as well, even more than most or some muslim); because of their lack of understanding, that the issue doesnt affect them at all. If you’re a tomboy-wannabe my dear fellow chinese, then so be it. But if u understand that this issue doesnt affect u at all, but u still hold your feet firm to fight against it, then u have to understand as well that you just savagely fucked our Muslim conviction about life and religion, and one day it might give birth to a second child of racial tension named the ‘16th may’. We Muslim, can forgive you if u did the rally and the ‘tomboy show’ out of your lack of understanding, because us - we understand mannerism. Have once we ridiculed you being a living-legend-pig-eater? No. Well at least, not in public.

9. To muslim who willingly joined this rally, crying a warsong of fundamental liberty, arguing that why women body should be the morality issue of society, then believe me you have no understanding at all about fundamental liberty in the scope of a Muslim. Fundamental liberty in our scope, is not the law of the jungle, because being in the state of ultimate freedom - it is the law of the jungle; of Tarzan and gorillas. This is what al-ghazali concerned to happen, when we are too confined to our brain continuum, which is always a subject of our desires and animal instincts, we have the tendency of not being able to answer the metaphysic issue arised from our circumstances. Because the answer is not in our brain function. It’s from kalamullahilazim and the sunnah.

10. We human are weak (again). We dont have the key to unlock the book of fate. Of what gonna happened in future. But juz open our heart and see, pengharaman zina contohnya. Human dont like it, they fight, they refused, they allow concubination as part of their culture. Then what happened now we already see it. The collapse of society. Juz take America and Britain - the so called modern countries. They are very modernized in term of buildings and technologies, but they have no soul. How many child left with no parent. Many. And then what happened, because they dont value responsibility and love, they tend to indulge in anti-social behaviour. And what happened next? The cycles continues, again and again spreading so fast like cancers. Until the collapse of nation. Yes, it doesnt collapsed yet. But if we take knowledge and power from them, they have nothing at all except the law of survival and fittest. The law of the jungle. And it will of course lead to a total destruction. Bkan stakat pengharaman zina sahaja, we see as well dalam hukum haramnya berhibur berlebihan, haramnya muzik yang melalaikan and out of instruments yang dipetik (walaupon dari hadis yang da’if  tanpa sanad dan terdapat khilaf untuk dijadikan dalil hujah; and walaupon penulis seniri denga muzik2 ceni and correct me if im wrong). Then we see now how our culture is. Culture yang suka berhibur, and dont want to fight for himself and help his brother. Then timbul masalah lain lagi, isu black metal bla bla bla. And on the issue of gay marriage which clearly opposed to the human nature itself. Yes it is fundamental liberty, we have right and entitled to love and we should not have fear to express our love it’s true. But even a cow prefer to make love with the opposite sex, not with the same gender. Even a cow have a sense of taste. It’s true, where’s our sense of taste? We are not born into this world without it. But actually we learn to lose it through our learned helplesness. When we do something, not only our religion phohibits but even our nature cursed it, we will see the wrath of our sins. God may not give punishment directly, but indirectly sedar tak sedar sometimes the problem of our society is a manifestation of god’s punishment. Hilangnya potential khalifah di bumi Allah as a result of gayism, lesbianism, is a very serious sin to commit. What worst, even some of muslim support this gayism and lesbianism movement. I attended (not join!) one of their parade in london out of curiousity before, and it saddens me even muslims join this parade with the word ‘Islam means peace and love. Dont have fear in love’ on their banner (though you might argue that what for i attend the parade because i talk like a saint which in case im not). Then we see a brand-new uncurable sickness such as AIDS, Gonorrhea, Syphilis pervasively spreading in our societies. But have we ever think that sebenarnya jenis penyakit ini bukan hanyalah penyakit, tetapi sebenarnya bala? Then how about then excess population of woman in this world. Sublimate their passion out of proper marriage or with the same gender as well? If men want to marry men, we actually juz make a worse problem worst. Because the natural leader of women in a family and some other matters, is men (though some might argue in this matter, but it’s on a different subject).

11. It’s proven we dont have the key to the book of fate except god. Only God knew akan jatuhnya kerajaan Romawi sebelum kejatuhannya dan juga kejatuhan kerajaan-kerajaan lain di masa akan datang. If we have the key, then we can turn the pages to the chapter concerning the issue of fundamental liberty, and see what gonna happened in future and correct ourself now. Or even, if fight against the fatwa now means a good thing in the future, then we can decide together now to fight against it. Im fully supportive of that as every muslim else will do. But Only God knows what gonna happened in the future. God already set a system in this world. He’s the programmer of everything. He knows when we do this will create that. He knows when we input bad things will give a bad output. And our prone-to-subjective-thiking brain dont! And in His prgram, there’s no bug or error at all. Because he’s the ultimate just. Then after knowing all this, should we fight against hukum Allah? Sdangkan semua kalamullahilzim punya hikmah yang tersendiri? We’re nothing but the damned human race.

12. Back to the topic, we heard as well people put pressure on the ulama’ council to set a standard of differentiating between a normal woman and a tomboy one. But actually this is not a new issue, because in Islam it is clear that this is haram. It is haram to imitate our opposite sex in the way of how we dress. It is therefore, not a new fatwa, the council just make it clearer to the public for their understanding. And what for we pressurised the ulama council so that they set a standard? Because on individual level, a good muslim woman should already know the code of how to dress and behave. In the end, it all depends on one faith based on iltizam dan keazaman. The council can set a standard, but then, it depends on individual whether to follow it or not. One can understand, but understading and following the fatwa is two different subjects.

13. We muslim have ethics to be adhered to in our undertakings and endeavours. And even in our thinkings. That we can do everthing we want in this world, we’re free. We can even follow the law of the jungle if we want to. It’s not bad at all. But one thing must clear. What we do as a muslim, we’re ought to have a boundaries. That is the boundaries of religion. Do what we want, dress the way we like, eat what we desire, but in the scope of the boundaries. Rukun iman dan rukun islam tu sebenarnya bukan hanya setakat menjadi ‘din’ atau tiang, tapi juga bermaksud untuk menjadi batas, and a code of ethics. Democracy or fundamental liberty is within the scope of our religion. Democracy and fundamental liberty is actually a subset of Islamic teachings. Dengan syarat terdapat batas antara dua continuum; continuum pemikiran kita, dan juga continuum kalamullahilazim.

14. ‘[Prophet], when your Lord told the angels, ‘Im putting a successor on earth,’ they said, ‘How can You put someone there who will cause damage and bloodshed, when we celebrate Your praise and proclaim Your Holiness?’ But He said, ‘I know things you do not’.

15. When it is said to them, ‘Do not cause corruption in the land,’ They say, ‘We are only putting things right,’ but really they are causing corruption, though they do not realize it’.

16. Our thoughts can be a medicine, but too much medicine can only create sickness.

17. Wallahua’lam. Sekadar untuk berkongsi dan meninta fikiran, sedangkan penulis sendiri tidak ma’sum, bukanlah dari golongan yang tinggi akhlaknya, not even one in a billion percent of a saint, dan tidak dapat lari dari noda dan dosa. Im not trying to judge people here, but i juz want to make it clear what God already stated in the scriptures given to us.