The True Way of Life

If I ask to Muslim people (including me, myself and I), what is the true way of life?
I am more than sure that we would say ; "Islam is the true way of life". Period. No question about it. Same goes to all folks of other religion. "Christianity, and only Christianity is the true way of life", "Judaism, and only Judaism is the true way of life"..bla bla bla...
And until currently, I am content with that, that me, as a believer of a religion called "Islam", would believe that my religion is the true way of life, and I am pretty sure that my friends of other religion have the same opinion as I do, not that they believe Islam is the true way of life, but they would also believe that their only religion is the true way of life. Simple English ; the believer of one religion would believe that the believer of other religion would not get to the heaven. American English ; they would all be burned in hell. Yes, i was content with that.

But until one sunny day, I went to our good ol' library (the Library), where somehow I suddenly picked up an Encyclopaedia (really hope that I get it spelled correctly, sigh...) about my beloved religion, and I flipped it open, and I came acrossed this article which stated an excerpt of a Firman, which says:(lebih kurang lah!!!)

"The believer of Christianity and Judaism claimed that to enter heaven, one has to be a Christian, or a Jew, which they were wrong. Anyone who submit himself to the God (One God) and do good deeds, will eventually go to heaven."

I was like, strucked by a lightning!NO!

It suddenly occured to me that, we are the same. Muslims, Christians and Jews, the Believer of the Book(s) are all going to heaven!

Well, not literally so, but I think (of course, my personal opinion!) regardless of what religion we believe in, I mean, whether Islam, Christianity or Judaism, as long as we believe in one God that is God Himself, we are eventually getting into the heaven. Because, we share the same faith, that is, as the Muslims called it the "Syahadah", which is the statement of witness that "There is NO GOD except GOD". Laillaha illa Allah. (FYI: I strongly believe that the word Allah means the GOD in Arabic, which does not only belongs to the God that Muslims believe. It is the GOD, which includes the God of the Christians, and also the Jews)

Of course, we don't know through the standard of proof or even standard of beyond any reasonable doubt that the religion we believe in is the true religion. That takes faith.

Alright, there might be only one religion that is truthfully sent down by God Himself through His messengers. I strongly believe that the religion of Moses, Jesus and Muhammad is the same religion. Maybe through out time, the original, one religion is gradually forgotten. Thus, making the religion kinda "split into three". And of course, legend and history has it that the Emperors, Shahs, Amirs might eventually "adapt" the original version of the religion for their own political prowess. For example, (just example, doesn't mean it true) the Roman Emperor had deliberately choose which Apostle to be included into the Holy Bible after the resurrection of Jesus Christ. (correct me if I'm wrong).

My point is, if the whole world except this idea, I'm pretty sure that the world would be a better place to live in for all people of all religion. The Muslims won't be harrassed just because they wear head scarf, the Christians won't be bombed in some pristine island, and the Jews will eventually reconciled with the Arabs.

Let us pray for world peace.

My Father Said...

Yes, he is my father. I guess majority (if not all) young Malaysians of these days, regard him, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad as Our Father. He is the one who provides us with a sense of belonging, identity, spirit to come out tall and proud as being a Malaysian, though all of his efforts didn't get to the extent of creating Bangsa Malaysia.Not yet.



Last Saturday, he wrote again at his famous blog http://www.chedet.com/ an article entitled, The Racist Card. He was explaining about the accusations that he is playing the racist card when he urged the Malays to buck up and perform through acquiring knowledge and skills, so that they deserve to be called "Tuan". A thousand applause for my father!



In a way, I agree with him about the creating of Bangsa Malaysia.One should not call for a common identity as bangsa Malaysia to be created if he or she still does not master the essence of creating a bangsa, which is the language and the culture.There are still many of us, the people of Malaysia, who doesn't really master Bahasa Malaysia.They speak with dialects, which somehow tarnish the beauty of the language.And they do not picture as a Bangsa Malaysia when speaking like that!



They keep on calling for vernacular schools to be set up, while the government are spending millions of ringgit to build Sekolah Kebangsaan, which in a way is to foster the sense of being a Bangsa Malaysia since primary school days.Yet they keep on accusing the government of being racist in favour of the indigenious people.



They should be proud and grateful of being born and live in Malaysia because the government had never so far implimented any policies which adversely affect their culture and heritage, though still pushing of a common identity of Bangsa Malaysia.Sign boards are multi language, TV programmes are multi language, multi cultural and even to the extent of importing dramas from the respective countries of their ancestors, just to fulfill them "cultural needs".



If we look back in history, the struggle of the French , Italiano, German and even the American in creating their own bangsa, they are using "real politics", which include the systematic eradication of foreign race in order to make the indigenous the "Master of the Land".



(I will continue this post later)