Jakim Stays Mum On Missing Fatwa Against Hadi S 1981 Speech

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PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s speech in 1981 was reportedly declared haram in 2002 but the declaration is now missing from the Jakim website.PETALING JAYA: There has yet to be an update from the Islamic development department (Jakim) over claims that it had deleted from its website a religious edict (fatwa) against a speech made in 1981 by PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang.
After more than two months since questions were first raised by netizens over the removal of the fatwa, a Jakim spokesman said there were no developments yet on FMT’s query on June 21.
On June 21, an officer from Jakim’s communication’s unit said he would look into the matter after a Twitter user questioned whether the fatwa had been deleted from Jakim’s Sumber Maklumat Al-ahkam al-Fiqhiyyah (E-Smaf) website.
The E-smaf website contains a record of fatwas from all states in the country. FMT’s own checks on the website found no records of the fatwa.
Attempts to contact the then religious affairs minister Zulkifli Mohamad and Jakim director-general Abdul Aziz Jusoh for comment at the time were unsuccessful.
Besides Jakim, FMT is also waiting for a response from the new religious affairs minister, Idris Ahmad, a PAS senator.
The speech, known as “Amanat Hadi”, was a statement declaring Umno as an enemy that had to be opposed. It was made in Kuala Terengganu in 1981 and declared haram in 2002, according to reports.
Hadi’s speech had been linked by Perlis mufti Asri Zainul Abidin to the bloody Memali incident in Kedah in 1981, a claim rejected by PAS supporters.
When contacted by FMT, PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man said, to his knowledge, there had never been any fatwa on the PAS president’s speech.
The Memali incident was a confrontation between police and supporters of religious teacher Ibrahim Libya, who resisted attempts to arrest him under the Internal Security Act.
Eighteen people, including four policemen, were killed when police stormed the village of Memali, near Baling, where Ibrahim and 400 supporters were holed up. -FMT

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