This one more email that I wish to share with you. I'm a member
at this Yahoo emailing group at http://asia.groups.yahoo.com/group/singapore_muslims/
Thanks.
With Love,
Joe
MUSLIM ORGANIZATION CELEBRATES VESAK
DAY!
Muslim <[email protected]>
wrote:
Assalamu Alaikum,
Muslim Organization support and join hand to celebrate a Kafir
festival in Singapore. Pls see the news attached below. Is this
what Muslim organization do in order to show that Islam tolerate
other religion?
Wassalam
Unite-Muslims
Little India prepares for Vesak Day celebrations
By Pearl Forss, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 27 May 2007 2230
hrs
SINGAPORE : Several of Singapore 's religious organisations and
temples in Little India will be involved in this year's Vesak Day
celebrations.
They include the Singapore Buddhist Lodge, Hindu Endowment Board,
Little India Shopkeepers and Heritage Association, Taoist
Federation, Jamiyah
Singapore, as well as 16 Buddhist organisations and
various temples.
At an event on Sunday, it was announced that $630,000 had been
raised for the S. Rajaratnam - School of International Studies
Endowment Fund. It will be matched dollar for dollar by the
government.
And for the first time this year, a golden statue of Buddha was
also brought from the Singapore Buddhist Lodge premises at River
Valley Road on a wooden chariot.
Celebrations will continue at the Serangoon Road site till Thursday
when the event will culminate with the presentation of scholarships
for needy students followed by a candle light procession. -
CNA/de
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--------- --------- --------- --------- ------Vesak Celebrations
2551
Saturday, 26 May 2007 31 May 2007
Venue: Serangoon Road (Open Field opposite Serangoon Plaza )
26.5.2007, Sat 7.30 pm Vesak Opening Ceremony Celebrations
27.5.2007, Sun 10.00 am Blood Donation Drive at Singapore Buddhist
Lodge 7.30 pm Cultural Show 28.5.2007, Mon 8.00 pm Dharma Talk in
English 29.5.2007, Tues 8.00 pm Dharma Talk in English 30.5.2007,
Wed 3.00 pm Pre University Debate (Finals) 8.00 pm Dharma Talk in
Tamil 31.5.2006, Thurs 11.00 am Hindu Temple Offerings 6.30 pm
Bursary Awards Ceremony 7.30 pm Candle Lights Procession
Devotees can offer lotus candle lights and perform
ceremonial bathing of Prince Siddartha
Free Vegetarian Meals Served Daily
Zulkifli Mahmood <[email protected]>
wrote:
Assalamu Alaikum. Mualaikumsalam.
Brother, I find nothing wrong in showing support for ot! her
religions in Singapore during their festival celebration. Yes, it
is a good and great sign that Islam in Singapore is more open to
accomodate other religion belief peacefully in order to achieve
better understanding amongs mankind regardless of their ethnic or
religion.
I fully support that change, concept and idea.
Wassalam.
Joe
Muslim <[email protected]>
wrote:
Wa Alaikum Salam,
Islam is pure and it can't accept Kufr.
If we are Muslims we can tolerate the kuffar but not support
them.
So tomorrow, if they build a temple, will Muslims support them to
build one fiinancially?
Where are our limits?
Yes, we are living multi- religious community, there are many ways
to live peacfully with Non-Muslims, it is not be done by supporting
them this way.
Wassalam
Unite-Muslims
----- Original Message -----
From: Zulkifli Mahmood
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [singapore_muslims] Muslim Organization
celebrates Vesak Day!
Assalamualaikum.
You wrote:
"Islam is pure and it can't accept Kufr."
Every religion is Pure my brother. It is the human being that makes
it unpure. About Kufr...this is an Arabic word that described a
non-Moslem or a Moslem who does not believe in Allah. I can also
regard you as Kufr should I am a Moslem who believes in Allah, that
is not BIAS. He has no forms or shapes or name or human behaviour.
He has only pure Light or An Nur and He is the essence of Life in
everything in this world and the next. Can you see that my
brother.
You wrote:
"If we are Muslims we can tolerate the kuffar but not
support them."
I think you should not see their faith or religion but help them by
seeing them as a mankind that have a good intention to promote
harmony with other religions and ethnics.
You wrote:
"So tomorrow, if they build a temple, will Muslims support
them to build one fiinancially?"
If you live in a society of multi-racial with multi-religion, I
would say this to you, "WHY NOT?" This would only promote better
co-operation and it makes a strong statement here that every
religion teaches Good Principles or Moral and Good God. If they
wish to help Moslems build a Mosque, would you reject their help
then?
You wrote:
"Where are our limits?"
There are no limits my brother, because you have chosen that only a
Moslem should help a Moslem. That is your limitation my brother but
not mine or others who are like myself or those who are from other
faiths beside Islam.
You wrote:
"Yes, we are living multi-religious community, there are
many ways to live peacfully with Non-Muslims, it is not be done by
supporting them this way."
I feel that Jamiyah Singapore has shown Moslems in Singapore and
outside Singapore that Moslems of Singapore are functioning as a
member of a family and as a Nation. If I have a sibling who is a
Christian and Hindu, should they asked for my help, financially or
in matters of promoting good relationship within a family, should I
ignore them.
As a Father or Mother of children with different faith, would you
like to see your children asunder just because each of them has a
different principles of philosophy or religion.
Wassalam.
Zulkifli Mahmood (Joe)
Anwar Pillay <[email protected]>
wrote:
Well said Bro Zul
I totally agree with you.
I am a Muslim convert and my siblings are either Hindu, Catholic or
Protestant. I get along very well with my natural family. This is
because of my knowledge that I learnt from my Ustadz.
It is our duty as a Muslim to show the non-Muslim that Islam is a
beautiful and peaceful religion.
We, as Muslim, must show the non-Muslim that Islam is a religion of
tolerance, harmony and co-operation.
We must do this especially in a multi-racial and murk-religious
country.
The key to doing all this while still being a good Muslim is
INTENTION.
Best regards
Anwar Pillay
Zulkifli Mahmood <[email protected]>
wrote:
To: [email protected]
From: Zulkifli Mahmood
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 10:33:02 +0800 (CST)
Subject: Re: [singapore_muslims] Muslim Organization celebrates
Vesak Day!
Assalamualaikum.
Good Morning Brother Anwar.
All credit goes to Almighty Allah or God.
My late parents were both Moslems and they went to pilgrimage at
Mecca twice. My late mother was from Chinese origin but she was
given away to a childless Javanese Moslem couple for her own safety
during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore in WW2. She was raised
by this couple and converted to Islam and became their adopted
daughter. My late father was a Malay.
I have six siblings. My eldest brother is married to a Chinese
Christian and he converted to Christianity. My second elder brother
is married to a Thai national and she was formerly a Buddhist and
converted to Islam. My eldest sister is married to an Algerian and
both of them are Moslems. My second elder sister is married to a
Chinese Christian and he converted to Islam. My third elder sister
is married to an Indian and she converted to Hinduism. I am married
to a Malay. My youngest brother is still a bachelor and what I know
was that he had a Japanese girlfriend. So...I just like to wonder
sometimes whether inter-marriages for Moslems or other religion
believers in this world with other ethnics and faiths would
actually promotes better understanding, harmony and peace among
mankind. I reckon it will.
Thanks for your understanding Brother Anwar.
Wassalam and best regards.
With Love,
Zulkifli Mahmood (Joe)
