{"id":210,"date":"2007-05-14T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/born-in-malaysia\/2007\/05\/14\/preachers-must-not-impose-on-others\/"},"modified":"2007-05-14T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T01:00:05","slug":"preachers-must-not-impose-on-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2007\/05\/14\/preachers-must-not-impose-on-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Preachers must not impose on others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nik Aziz: Preachers must not impose on others<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/5\/14\/nation\/17718434&#038;sec=nation<br \/>\nKOTA BARU: Islamic missionaries and those propagating its teachings must not impose their religious beliefs on others, said Mentri Besar and PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat.<br \/>\n&#8220;Islam must be embraced voluntarily and sincerely, especially among converts who come to the religion because of sheer belief or those who adopt the faith because of marriage,&#8221; Nik Aziz said when launching the state&#8217;s month-long dakwah (missionary activities) campaign at Balai Islam here.<br \/>\n&#8220;We cannot force people to enter Heaven. They must do it on their own will.<br \/>\n&#8220;We can guide them but we cannot force.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said that, similarly, all political parties could not impose their ideologies on the people.<br \/>\nNik Aziz who is the Chempaka assemblyman, said politicians must be ashamed if they impose their will and ideologies on the weak.<br \/>\n&#8220;It is not intellectual or rational to impose a value system of politics. Islam does not do it, so why must they?<br \/>\n&#8220;There is no capital to gain when Judgment Day befalls them in their spiritual life.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe also said that missionaries were being overwhelmed by the rise of social ills from incest, rape, corruption, snatch thefts and murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nik Aziz: Preachers must not impose on others http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/5\/14\/nation\/17718434&#038;sec=nation KOTA BARU: Islamic missionaries and those propagating its teachings must not impose their religious beliefs on others, said Mentri Besar and PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat. &#8220;Islam must be embraced voluntarily and sincerely, especially among converts who come to the religion because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24,302],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-mic","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}