Dato Hj Ishak Baharom dalam kenangan

Pada tanggal 16 Mac 1998 Harakah melalui “English Section” nya telah menerbitkan artikel saya yang berikut di muka depannya:

The Selangor Mufti – The Changing of the guards

Saya menulis berkenaan pengumuman Mufti baru oleh kerajaan negeri Selangor berikutan pemecatan ke atas Mufti sebelumnya iaitu Dato Ishak Baharom. Saya menulis:

The former soft spoken and friendly Mufti Dato Ishak Baharom is a legend that could not be easily forgotten nor replaced. He shall go down in the annals of Selangor and Malaysian history as the first and only Mufti who was terminated for upholding the true teachings of Islam.

Dalam artikel tersebut juga saya menonjolkan beberapa contoh keberanian Dato Ishak dalam menegakkan kebenaran walaupun terpaksa menanggung risiko yang tinggi. Salah satunya adalah semasa keluar dalam program popular ketika itu Forum Perdana Ehwal Islam. Saya menulis:

Once during a forum in Bangi the moderator, Dr Hasan Ali, posed a question to all the panelists on their views regarding those who belittle and make fun of the Hudud Laws. Dato Hj Ishak being one of the panelists without any hesitation applying the Quran and Sunnah, labelled these groups as murtad in the first instance. Another panelist, Dr Harun Din later remarked that never in his personal experience has he heard a daring and straight forward remark ever been given by any Mufti in Malaysia.

Dato Ishak ketika itu telah dipecat walaupun kerajaan negeri sebenarnya baru sahaja memperbaharui kontraknya untuk satu penggal yang baru. Alasan yang diberikan kononnya faktor usia. Saya menulis:

In one ceramah in Subang Airport Mosque he revealed that his contract did expire but it was renewed earlier on for another term and if age factor was the reason, then there are a few more Muftis who should also be asked to leave. A Mufti in one state is almost 80.

Dan dipenghujung artikel itu saya menulis:

Right now Selangor has lost the services of a noble and distinguished aleem. Though Dato Hj Ishak might no longer be the Mufti officially, in the eyes of the rakyat in Selangor and dep in the hearts of many he shall always remain one.

Siang tadi kira-kira jam 3.00 petang Dato Hj Ishak Baharom telah pulang ke rahmatullah pada usia 80 tahun akibat komplikasi tekanan darah. Semoga Allah swt mencucuri rahmat ke atas roh ulamak besar ini, Alfatihah.
(PETIKAN DARI blog Roslan SMS)

sementara itu, sdr.loloq juga telah kembali ke rahmatullah pada hari yang sama kerana pendarahan otak. Loloq, 50 tahun, adalah seorang penulis lirik yg popular dan byk tulisan liriknya didalam lagu2 artis yg terkenal spt M.Nasir, Search,Mawi etc...al-fatihah utk arwah.

SATU LAGI KES KANAK-KANAK HILANG

DO NOT VISIT CAMERON HIGHLANDS TANAH RATA!

i got this email from a friend.. dunno whether its true or not..i've been there several times already.But nothing happened.May be aku tak lepak kat kedai berkenaan kot.After reading his email,judge it urself

Subject: DO NOT VISIT CAMERON HIGHLANDS TANAH RATA!
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:41:17 +0800

Dear friends, i'm writing this based on my recent visit to Cameron Highlands with my sister, sister in law , brother and my families. There were 4 group of us. We have stayed at cameron TANAH RATA for 2 days already but haven't walk around tanah rata town ( we usually go to Brinchang ) But on the third day ( our last stay ) i decided to walk around and have breakfast there. We walk along the shops and finally decided to settle down at an indian restaurant called D' CHENNAI CURRY HOUSE'.

There were 20 of us. 10 adults ( 4 males, 4 females and 2 maids ) and 9 children and a baby. We started ordering and things are ok at first but while eating i was wondering besides us there was only one occupied table ( why so little?? ) And surely, because the food was not so good!

Then my 3 year old son wanted to go to toilet, and so my brother took him in the restaurant to look for toilet ( we were sitting outside in front of the restaurant because there were so many of us the worker place tables for us to sit outside ) Then when my brother came out from the toilet with my son , i heard the owner of the restaurant nagging my brother. We asked whats wrong and my brother said the owner was unhappy because my son didn't close the toilet door. And i heard my brother answer him ' just a small kid what! theres no need to close the toilet door ma' . But the owner ( indian or singh ) keep on nagging and macam wanted to fight. So my brother said ' aiya u stupid la, a 3 year old go toilet close door!'. And during the time my hubby keep on saying ' ok enough la, diam, bring the bill we want to go off '. But the man was already very angry. He ran to his counter and bring out a PARANG. Everyone was shouting and i quickly shoved the kids away. The owner started saying ' im gonna put you down ' to my hubby and brother. I was calling out for help to the people there who was looking but they all said ' PANGGIL POLIS SENDIRI LA ' ( THE PENDUDUK THERE REALLY SOOOO SELFISH ) THEN THE OWNER HELD MY HUBBY AND BROTHER CAPTIVE AND WON'T LET THEM GO. My sister in law seeing that no one came to help, ran to the nearest police station! I was there helpless and the restaurant worker ( the one who make the tasteless roti canai ) whip out a chopper. Oh my god, i was soooo afraid! And the restaurant owner punya friends also join in. They were throwing things at us ( bottles, glasses of drinks and chairs ) I saw a fat indian men threw a bottle at my brother and hit his chest and the indian worker threw the chair at me! Luckily my brother try to block it with another chair and the chair that the indian worker threw broke in to pieces and the plastic hit my lips. My lips were bleeding and my brother finger were bleeding too cause by the parang when my hubby and brother try to calm the owner down as he was waving the parang and it kena my brother finger. Luckily it was just a small cut. We quickly take the kids back to the car and drove to the police station. By the time we arrived my sister in law already there.

The cops was of no use. We asked them to go there immediately as my hubby and brother still help captive but they were slow to respond. When finally the police able to brought them back to the police station, i was relieved but angry at the same time. How could this happened at CAMERON HIGHLANDS? i've been there last time but this time i make a mistake to eat at the indian restaurant! When the indian owner arrived at the police station he just keep saying ' he called me stupid, why? i'm not stupid ' Hes really STUPID. Hey how many 3 years old were teach to go to the toilet and close door?? and because of these the owner can whip out his parang and threatened people??

Statements were taken but the indian owner, indian worker and their friends were NOT arrested! I was dissapointed and the owner was even allowed to go back to his restaurant! I asked the police and they said its ok they will SIASAT but how come the weapons - PARANG AND CHOPPER were not confiscated?? They still have the weapons! How can the police allow this??

So i'm telling you guys, DON'T GO TO CAMERON HIGHLANDS cause this place is really very dangerous and the people - UNCIVILISED, UNEDUCATED , UNCARING AND CRAZY! If you really wannna go, go to brinchang, its safer and the people are very helpful ). NEVER EVER GO TO THIS INDIAN RESTAURANT CALLED ' D' CHENNAI CURRY HOUSE ' AT TANAH RATA . Better still never go to TANAH RATA!.

Happy New Year 2008

WELCOME 2008: The crowd ushering in the new year at the Sinaran Kuala Lumpur concert at Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur-NST 1 Jan.2008

masa mmg cepat berlalu.Dah tahun 2008 pun. Pejam celik kita semakin berumur. Apa azam baru? Tiap2 tahun ada azam baru...aku rasa tiap2 tahun juga la azamnya tetap sama...nak berubah jadi lebih baik..tapi tak buat pun...kot??

Insyaallah tahun 2008 ni kita berhijrah kepada perkara2 yg lebih berfaedah...dan menjadi insan yg lebih bertaqwa kepada Allah s.w.t....amin...

Malam tadi sah dah ada perhimpunan kat padang2 atau tpt2 awam...yg kononnya utk meraikan tahun baru 2008...yang nyata ia adalah perhimpunan anak2 muda( aku rasa yg tua pun ada) untuk bersuka ria. Setakat berkumpul n then lepas countdown tu terus balik kira ok lagi la..tapi tak semuanya terus balik..lepas tu ada la plak pesta2 hiburan, mabuk2...zina2...etc...Satu fenomena jelas di kalangan mereka ialah kegilaan kepada hiburan dan gaya hidup bebas....budaya kita ke ni??

RTM kena kempen kuat sket...INI BUKAN BUDAYA KITA!...jgn duk asyik bantai perhimpunan 'haram' (secara aman) atas kepentingan politik...aku rasa budaya/gejala social lebih bahaya dari perhimpunan 'haram' dulu tu...its only my personal opinion la....dunno la org lain...