00:00This came from a parliamentary question, a parliamentary question asked to Senator Dato' Dr. Muhammad Naim Mokhtar,
00:09who is a minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Halehwal Agama group, Islam Agama,
00:14answering the Lisan question at the People's Council, and he said,
00:18JAKIM is terminating a special guidance line.
00:23So when he answered like that, of course, people who don't know about the existing guidance line
00:32will be upset, and I'm sad because this issue exploded with, as usual,
00:40lack of empathy from all parties.
00:43If I was nominated by the minister on that day and asked this Lisan question,
00:49I would refer to a decision by the Speaker of the National Assembly Fatwa
00:55on the issue of Islam Agama on the 12th of April 2005,
01:01that is, the guidance line for Muslims to celebrate the anniversary of the expansion of non-Muslim religion.
01:07It's already there.
01:09So I feel that he should just refer to the existing guidance line,
01:15but he is also a victim in this matter.
01:18That's my view anyway.
01:19But there are also those who say that there is no need for a guidance line.
01:22That Muslims know what to do.
01:24I think I'm not comfortable with that view because,
01:28yes, maybe a large part of us know,
01:31if you go to, for example, a wedding,
01:34friends of other religions, what we can do, what we can't do,
01:38in the church, if they're singing hymns and stuff like that, don't join and all that.
01:42But is it wrong to have guidelines so that people, so it's clear?
01:47I don't know.
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