KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28: Kelantan Menteri Besar has derided a statement by prime minister Najib Razak criticising the PAS-led state government for having built only two mosques in Kelantan during its twenty years in power.
Nik Aziz (left) says Najib has only exposed his ignorance
In a posting on his popular Facebook page, Tuan Guru Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat said by tying the number of mosques to a government's Islamicity, Najib had only exposed his deep ignorance about Islam.
Najib, speaking at a school in Kuala Krau, was reported by right wing Malay daily Utusan Malaysia as questioning PAS's Islamic credentials because the latter had only constructed two mosques in the whole of Kelantan in the two decades it has been in power.
In his response, Nik Aziz wondered if Najib would have given a similar view if he were living in Madinah during the time of Prophet Muhammad.
"If he were living during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him), would he have said such a thing upon discovering that the Prophet had only built one mosque during the ten years he administered Madinah?" asked Nik Aziz.
Nik Aziz added that Najib's thinking had been 'poisoned' by a secular frame of mind, not unlike the ultra-secularist Turkish leader Mustafa Kamal Attaturk, who founded modern Turkey on the ruins of the Ottoman empire which he helped to end.
Nik Aziz also went on to clarify that it was not only PAS which strove in the name of Islam, simply because it adapted such slogans as "Progress with Islam", and stressed that a person's Islamicity should not be measured by the length of one's beard, or his turban or dress.
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