Today, Prof leaves it to the students to take charge of the class. Five out
of eleven of us presented on fatwa and shared their views and academic critics.
The other six, including myself will be presenting tomorrow before the two
weeks of class ends.
For someone who has difficulties expressing myself, even worse in
English, I had all the reason to be nervous and panic. But Alhamdulillah, God
gave me strength and I did what I could to prepare the best presentation within
my capabilities. While preparing the slides and figuring how best to organize
the presentation, I came to know a lot about our fatwa and Singapore.
For example, I recalled how privileged we are to be given AMLA, and with
the three institutions, Muis, Syariah Court and Romm while the rest of the
other faith groups do not, as shared by our beloved Mufti. How wonderful that
we are able to practice our worship without much of a hassle, having at least
70 mosques in such a small island. As compared to the states which are hundredfold
times larger, probably they have about 200 mosques that usually based on
various understanding of Islam.
Nevertheless, I will have to also agree with those who view that having
all these is not enough. We will still have to strive for more, establishing
God’s command for Muslims. More rights to practice the religion, not only in worship,
but economically and others as well. But this is supposed to be done in a
manner that would not hurt the harmony of our current diverse community, and
that is not easy.
We will have to just keep striving for His cause, and make prayers for
one another. By His will, we will get there insyaAllah.
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