afad:my side..

Aku dari dulu lagi rasa tak berapa senang bila sesetengah golongan semacam terlalu mendewa2kan Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim. Terutamanya sekarang ni bila PKR dah menang banyak dalam PRU-12. Kononnya dia lah bakal PM Malaysia akan dtg. Tak salah untuk membuat andaian, tapi jgn lah terlalu berlebihan mengagungkan seseorang.

Tak dapat dinafikan bahwa DS Anwar adalah seorang yg hebat. Mempunyai pengaruh yg besar serta berkarismatik. Ada yg kata kerana beliau gerakan2 Islam di Malaysia berpecah pd awal 80an dan kerana beliau jugalah gerakan2 Islam ini kembali bersatu pd tahun 1998. Kerana beliau juga buat pertama kalinya semua parti pembangkang bersatu pada tahun 1999 dan sekali lagi pd tahun 2008. Namun hakikatnya, sehebat mana pun DS Anwar, beliau masih tetap seorang manusia biasa yg tidak bisa lari dr membuat kesilapan dan dosa.

Sama juga seperti Tun Dr Mahathir dan TG Dato’ Nik Abd Aziz. Mereka ini org yg hebat2 belaka. Dr.M sebagai contoh seorang yg berani, outspoken, brjiwa kental, degil, berfikiran jauh dan bijak. Tetapi sekali lagi beliau juga seorang manusia biasa yg tak mampu lari dr kesilapan dan dosa.

TG Nik Aziz pula tak prlu diceritakan lg ttg kehebatannya. Aku hampir menitiskan air mata membaca kisah TG Nik Aziz ini. Seorang yg sgt bersederhana, warak, bijak, mempunyai ilmu yg luas, serta kental jiwanya dalam berjuang menegakkan Islam. Namun sekali lagi Tg Nik Aziz juga bukan dewa, dia juga manusia biasa yg melakukan kesilapan dan dosa.

Manusia2 yg hebat ini mmg menjadi perhatian ramai. Nama mereka menjadi sebutan, cara mereka menjadi ikutan, pemikiran mereka menjadi perbincangan dan pengaruh mereka meluas. Mereka menjadi inspirasi kpd ramai orang serta layak mendapat sanjungan dan pengiktirafan. Namun itu semua bukan modal untuk kita terlalu mengagungkan mereka. Mereka tetap manusia yg makan nasi dr beras yg sama dan menghirup oksigen dr udara yg sama dgn kita. Apabila manusia yg hebat2 ini berbuat suatu kebaikan maka kita sokonglah. Tapi bila mereka membuat kesilapan , menjadi tanggungjawab kita untuk menegur dan membetulkan. Jangan lah segala yg dilakukan oleh mereka walaupun perkara tesebut salah, kita masih menyokong dan mengampu.

Mendewa2kan atau terlalu memuja manusia hanya mendatangkan mudarat yg lebih besar bukan menambah hebatnya seseorang manusia itu. Lihat saja apa yg telah terjadi pd kumpulan Al-Arqam. Kerana terlalu mengagungkan pemimpin mereka, kumpulan ini telah jauh menyimpang dr ajaran Islam yg sebenar. Dalam sejarah peradaban manusia juga telah menunjukkan betapa dahsyatnya kesan jika kita terlalu mendewa2kan seseorang. Bagaimana Gautama Buddha dan Nabi Isa/Jesus diangkat sehingga setaraf dgn tuhan, kerana sikap pengikut2nya yg terlalu memuja mereka. Gautama Buddha dan Nabi Isa mmg istimewa, tetapi mereka tidak lah setaraf dgn tuhan, mereka masih manusia.

Kesimpulannya, berpada2 lah dalam menyanjung manusia. Janganlah terlalu menyanjung2 seseorang sehingga kita mendewakan mereka. Sehebat manapun seorang manusia itu, mereka masih lagi seorang manusia. Berilah sokongan bila manusi itu betul, dan betulkan lah jika mereka membuat kesilapan. Kesilapan, kekurangan dan kelemahan yg ada pd seseorang itulah yg memanusiakn manusia. Sesungguhnya manusia bukan dewa.

IT’S been five weeks since the general election. The Barisan Nasional was returned to power, albeit with a smaller majority and the loss of five states.

Despite the shock of the result, it was still a mandate that no one could argue with, not even Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in his wildest allegations of electoral fraud. But what has Umno, the leading partner of the coalition and largest party in parliament, been doing since March 8? Bickering, pointing fingers, baying for vengeance and doing everything imaginable except rolling up its sleeves and getting down to the work of governing.

Enough is enough.

People are getting fed up with Umno’s moaning and groaning, the political wayang and sandiwara its cast of characters is playing up and down the country.

The truth is that the people have long been disgusted with the kind of boorish, loutish behaviour that Umno leaders had exemplified because of their grip on power since independence in 1957.

Brandishing the kris was hurtful to the non-Malays but the party leadership did nothing to take the Umno Youth chief to task for the menacing and insulting gesture. Which was why he was emboldened to repeat it and provide extra impetus for the Chinese and Indians to abandon the BN at the polls.

It also did not go unnoticed that the leadership put up with the racist and inflammatory rhetoric of the delegates at the televised 2006 Umno general assembly.

Then there was the desecration of the temple under the watch of the then Selangor Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo which did so much to outrage the Hindus throughout the country and turn them against the ruling coalition. And Dr Khir had the cheek to award a broom to a local council president, when neither he nor the party president could control the warlords who held the party to ransom over the choice of candidates, and stabbed the party in the back when they did not approve of the candidates.

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is now paying for these and other acts of omission, including the undeliverable promises of change that he made when he first became prime minister in 2003.

Every other day, he has had to deflect attacks by party members and ex-leaders who conveniently have absolved themselves of any fault. But every day that he is sidetracked by party bickering is another day affairs of state are neglected — the nation and the people are the losers.

Abdullah has said that he has got the message; he has accepted responsibility for the unkept pledges; and this time, he vows he will deliver on his promises and set the country in order before he retires.

That is, in fact, the verdict of his mandate, and he should be allowed to get on with it. But all the worms crawling out of the Umno woodwork — especially the retired and those with shelf live past due that have found new breath in their calls for a party coup — won’t let him.

They don’t get it. Abdullah is not solely to be blamed and everything will not suddenly be all well again if he goes. Umno from the roots to the high branches all have to share the blame for their silence, their greed, arrogance and shenanigans that have turned off voters. So stop the navel-gazing and infighting.

If they have to fight among themselves, at least have the decency to keep it civilized and behind closed doors. They don’t have to drag the whole country through their infernal politicking.

There are more important things than private peeves and settling of scores.

Neither the brewing crisis over soaring food prices nor other major issues are going to wait for Umno to put its own house in order. Now is the time for the grand old parties to move on, do the things its leaders have promised and show that it still has what it takes to lead the nation.