The threat of Syiah teachings that deviates from the Sunnah Wal Jamaah or Sunni, which are the teachings and practices followed by the majority of Muslims in the country, is beginning to spread to Sabah.
Sabah Mufti Ustaz Bungsu Aziz Jaafar said the State has about 400 known active Syiah followers which include foreigners from Pakistan, India, Iran and other countries.
He said 17 applications for "Nikah Mut'ah" (contract marriage that is against the Sunni), that is part of the teaching and practice of Syiah followers, have been received in the district alone since 2010. One of the applicants was a SPM school leaver.
"All the 17 'Nikah Mut'ah' applications were not submitted to the Sabah Islamic Religious Affairs Department (Jheains) office in Papar because they knew their applications would be rejected.
"Instead, they sent the applications to the District Office to get statutory declarations.
However, I was informed that all the applications have been rejected and no such declaration was issued," he said.
Bungsu said this after presenting a talk on a paper entitled "The Teachings and Threats by Syiah in Malaysia" at the multipurpose hall, Wednesday. Pantai Manis assemblyman-cum-Papar Umno Divisional Chief Datuk Abdul Rahim Ismail officiated at the closing attended by over 100 participants.
Papar is the first district in Sabah to organise such seminar that was aimed at disseminating information and educating Muslims on the deviant teachings and threats of Syiah.
To curb the spread of Syiah teachings, Bungsu said he proposed that the current State "Sirah Fatwa" (wordings of the Fatwa) on Syiah be updated and gazetted so that a law could be formulated and enforcement can be carried out against them.
"The present State fatwa decree prohibits Muslims to practise any teachings that violate the teachings and practices of the Sunnal Wal Jamaah, including Syiah, and this needs to be updated with focus on Syiah.
"We are in the midst of preparing information on the Syiah teachings and Syiah deviant practices that are against our Sunnah Wal Jamaah teachings and practicesÉ and to get this gazetted in order to have a provision under the law that could address the spread of the deviant teachings (Syiah)," he said.
Bungsu said he would also propose that a task force be set up to tackle the Syiah followers so that their influence could be curbed. He said the current situation in Sabah has not reached a worrying level unlike in peninsula.
He said statistics showed that about 200,000 to 300,000 Syiah followers have been detected in Malaysia with tens of thousands being Malays and the Syiah followers have branches in each State.
Earlier in his talk, he said the most popular deviant teaching of Syiah is the "Nikah Mut'ah" where couples can stay married for a certain period of time as agreed and the dowry of the women can be anything, even RM2 or Syiah literature.
He said it is also not compulsory for husbands to provide sustenance to wives.
It is not compulsory for Syiah men to perform Friday prayers, which is compulsory for Sunni Muslims.
Meanwhile Rahim said there is a need to organise seminars on the deviant teachings of Syiah for all Muslims in community halls, schools, mosques, suraus, and parents in Sabah so that they would be aware of the threats and wrongful influences especially to their children.
"Parents need to be extra alert and take precautionary measures by monitoring the movements and friends of their children.
"If the Syiah influence is not curbed, I fear the existing target group which is our youths and children who may not fully understand yet our Sunnah Wal Jamaah teachings and practices may be easily influenced by the Syiah followers," he said.
Rahim believed that apart from outside militant threats, the Syiah influences must also be curbed as extremist groups among them can be created because they perceive the Sunnah Wal Jamaah followers as their main enemy.
"I believe the Syiah threats have been elaborated by our speakers in the seminar on the political influence of Syiah in Iran, Iraq and now SyriaÉhence, we must be on alert from now on in the aspect of our national security.
"Wiping out Sunni followers is compulsory for Syiah followers as they have been promised life in paradise hereafter," he said.
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