The Raja Muda Perlis Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Jamalullail wants Muslims to apply the principle of moderation in tackling the issue of Islamophobia.
Tuanku Syed Faizuddin, who is also the president of the Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council (Maips), said Muslims should be moderate in their religious dealings.
Speaking at the Liqa Mawaddah programme organised by MAIPs at the Kurmitolla Golf Club in Dhaka yesterday, he stressed that Muslims should emphasise moderation in their lives.
“Islamophobia must be effectively tackled through ‘wasatiyyah’ which stresses on moderation,” he said in his speech to about 150 Malaysians who are living in Bangladesh.
The programme included a special talk by the Mufti of Perlis Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin titled ‘Wasaatiyyah: How Islam disciplines its followers through regulations’.
As part of the programme, Tuanku Syed Faizuddin also presented MAIPs’s contribution of RM5,000 to the First Secretary of the Malaysian High Commission in Dhaka, Idham Zuhri Mohd Yunus, for the Ibnu Sabil Fund.
The fund is to help Malaysians who encounter emergencies in Bangladesh, including being stranded.
Other than Bangladesh, MAIPs has also held similar programmes in London, Riyadh, Jeddah, Kuwait, Muscat, Doha and Dubai.
The Raja Muda of Perlis arrived in Bangladesh on Sunday to lead a humanitarian mission comprising various non-governmental organisations to check on the situation of Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar.
Alleged deviationist movement in Langkawi under investigation
Meanwhile, the Islamic Religious Office in Langkawi has been instructed to investigate the existence of a new deviationist teaching on one of the islands there where a video of the movement has gone viral on the social media.
Kedah Islamic Religious Affairs Department (JHEAIK) Datuk Abdul Rahman Ismail advised Muslims not to be deceived by the movement and to lodge a report should they come across quarters disseminating Islamic teachings that deviated from the true teachings of the religion.
He also advised imam to play their role to avoid members of their congregation from being lured by the deviationist teachings.
The video on the alleged deviationist movement on Pulau Tuba showed a man, believed to be the leader, giving a talk on Islam which deviated from the true teachings of the religion and pictures of a house and hut where the movement carried out its activities.
