Subscribe in a reader | Subscribe by Email These comedians based their points on the fact that:
Based on Syariah laws, there is no nas (quotations from the Quran to prove or settle a point) compelling a person wishing to convert to Islam to inform the family before doing so
Now, since the person haven’t convert yet, since when did Syariah laws need to be refered to? This is the problem when these guys meddle in something which is not in their territory yet. This kind of forum should be held by alls the non-Muslim legals experts so that can represent the true parties – the PROSPECTIVE converts (while awake or in comatose).
Please don’t infringe on others’ rights. Oh, did I mention that they are also snubbing the PM’s idea by rejecting the need for informing family.
Converts need not inform family, say senior Jakim leaders
PETALING JAYA: Senior Islamic leaders have rejected a proposal to require non-Muslims wishing to convert to Islam to inform their family before doing so.
Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) director-general Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz said this was decided at a recent conference in Seremban to streamline Syariah and civil laws. The conference was attended by state legal advisors, muftis, syarie judges and Islamic department directors.
“Based on Syariah laws, there is no nas (quotations from the Quran to prove or settle a point) compelling a person wishing to convert to Islam to inform the family before doing so,” Wan Mohamad said in a press statement yesterday.
The conference also decided that the need to inform loved ones should be left to the discretion of the person wishing to convert. Wan Mohamad said present Syariah laws on conversion and related matters were sufficient and the present practices should be continued.
“Nevertheless, provisions for registration, custody and the education of converts need to be formulated in a more effective manner,” he said.
Wan Mohamad added under the Syariah laws, the duties and responsibility of the convert towards his non-Muslim parents did not stop after the conversion. “It is the unanimous conclusion of the conference members that the implementation of the proposal was unnecessary,” said Wan Mohamad.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had said the Government would introduce a regulation requiring non-Muslims wishing to convert to Islam to inform their family before doing so. He said this would prevent problems of families disputing the conversion of their loved ones when they die.
