The Failed Takeover.

(Further to article posted 12 February 2010).

Muslim Graveyard.

The Kampong JKKK wanted to take over management of the kampong graveyard. The kampong residents can smell why. With the takeover, JKKK would pass over to the Mosque Committee and in turn create the portfolio of Development Committee Bureau and the Chairman would automatically be the Chairman of the New Mosque. Very smart indeed but the cat can smell the rat.

To agitate the present harmonious environment, Kampong PAS Leader launched the first notorious salvo. He commented that the present Caretaker of the graveyard had benefitted in kind when Outsiders were being buried at the graveyard. It upset Imam 4 who is responsible of all matters pertaining deaths and burials in the kampong. The PAS Leader unsuspectingly did not know or pretending ignorant that Pejabat Agama Islam Daerah Klang had issued a letter dated 6 January 2010 addressed to the Mosque Nazir attaching JAIS Instruction of Bil 1/2007 that any Muslim can be buried at any graveyard in Selangor. I gave the PAS Leader the benefit of doubt that he did not know the existence of the letter and Circular.

Imam 4 and his two (2) Assistants confronted the Ketua Kampong on the graveyard issue. Imam 4 is ever willing to pass over the management of the graveyard provided the new management shoulders all responsibilities including the cleaning and washing of the dead. The Imams would absolve all responsibilities. In simple terminology the new management would supervise everything from A to Z the moment someone dies in the kampong. Imam 4 had been doing it since late 70s. On the responsibilities aspect the Ketua Kampong declined acceptance to the term & conditions tabled by Imam 4 and the Graveyard status remain status quo.

Where we are to be buried when Allah summons us to return had been destined by Allah right from “alam mahfuz”. No Muslim should dispute this. This is aqidah. If we are to be destined to be buried at sea, so be it, we may die fishing and never found. No Muslim should question where the deceased to be buried in any registered Muslim Graveyard available. The Earth belongs to Allah not to any members of any political parties.

Not the Graveyard of this article.

JKKK and Mosque Committee strategy had failed miserably on the attempted coup de tat. PAID letter and JAIS Circular is now laminated and posted at the Mosque Notice Board so that everybody knows especially PAS followers that the Kampong Graveyard is meant for all Muslims and no bad mouths can simply spread “fitnah”. In the first instance the Nazir or the Ketua Kampong should have done it moment they received PAID letter and JAIS Circular. The Ketua Kampong filing system is “rojak” and it took him several days to retrieve. It is important to keep documents at the prospective files and that is basic management. Does he know that?

May Allah bless Kampong Raja Uda.