Revenge politics, power struggle threaten stability - Jakim D-G
KUALA LUMPUR, March 29 (Bernama) - Political struggles based on revenge and power rivalry will create a phenomena of mutual animosity as well as threaten the country's political stability.
Malaysia Islamic Development Department (Jakim) director-general Tan Sri Othman Mustapha quoted Imam Al-Ghazali as saying that such a struggle was unethical and would cause the country and the people to be in an anxious, unsettled and harmful state and would threaten the well-being of the ummah.
"In fact, the politics of power struggle can easily push the people into strife.
"The well-known scholar Sayyid Muhammad Rashid Ridho in his book 'al-Kassyaf' also acknowledged this phenomenon as one of the four factors that led to disunity of the ummah and give birth to power-wresting groups," he said.
Othman said this in his speech when launching the Siyasah Syar'iyyah Symposium in the Context of Current Political Civilisation organised by the Islamic Dakwah Foundation Malaysia in collaboration with the Prime Minister's Department and Federal Territory Islamic Religious Council.
-- BERNAMA
