The Hudud Laws are clearly and brightly enshrined in the Holy Quran. In essence the Hudud Laws are collectively a code of fundamental laws providing for the parameters of and the legitimate punishments for every Muslim who commits offences in breach of Allah’s Commandments. The Hudud Laws are made in Heaven. They are willed by Allah. They are Divine justice from Allah, the Ultimate Law Giver.
The Hudud Laws are immutable and eternal laws, they ceremoniously bind all Muslims, prophets and followers, without any exception. They could not be fashioned and wilfully amended to accommodate the human changing psyche, material desires, social development and economic dominance more so to legitimise odd behaviours and inhuman excesses. The Hudud Laws are regal and supremely and divinely tailored by the Creator of the Universe to ensure that man would not loose his intellectual superiority, spiritual essence and dignity as a respectable human being.
Without the Hudud Laws, there are always the imminent danger that man would steer away and deviate from religious norms and good respectable humane moral conduct and hence to fall unwittingly into the bottomless pit of disgrace and inhumane misconducts and loose his spiritual enlightenment and superiority as Allah’s viceroy (Khalifah) on this blessed earth.
Let us look at ancient example of man unfortunate fall into unmitigated disgrace. The Holy Quran vividly tells the story of Prophet Lot’s community who arrogantly transgressed Allah’s moral parameters. They committed the highest sin of the flesh by indulging in homosexual intimacy between men and lesbianism between women beyond the walls of saintliness and Divine obedience. They immediately sparked the Wrath of Allah the Magnificient as even animals do not commit such outrageous excesses. Allah did wait long. Divine justice was swiftly meted out – they (the sinners) were violently rained with fiery blazing brimstones and they perished miserably and their entire cities were turned upside-down. A tremendous catastrophy indeed. No one survived except Lot’s family but his wife. Let it be known that this punishment is for later generations to ponder to not to repeat such act of wicked lewdness in the like footsteps of Lot’s community.
Now in the present century we have in our beloved country a Federal Government with a strong Muslim representations both in the Senate and the Dewan Rakyat. For almost sixty years after independence, the Federal Government had done virtually nothing of significance to resurrect the Hudud Laws in the Holy Quran to be the laws of the land for Muslims. Until today the Government continues to apply the English Laws (both criminal and civil) to every Muslim instead of the Hudud Laws from the Holy Quran. What is brazenly blasphemous is – not only that the Government had abandoned its duty and responsibility (to the Muslim community) by not implementing the Hudud Laws after wielding executive powers and ruling the country for more than half a century but they unashamedly resisted and blocked the “blessed journey” of the Hudud Laws into Parliament. This would tantamount to shaking the celestial Arasy (The Throne of Allah), that is, a phenomenon indicating a spectacular facet of the Divine Wrath to those who reject and block the implementation of Allah’s Commandments.
Let it be known that as citizens we love this country, we love the Government and above all we love Islam most. It is lamentable that the Government we put into power to rule us had never earnestly looked up to Heaven for guidance and spiritual strength in moulding the Muslim community in this beloved country. Had they done so, the Hudud laws would have been the laws of the land for the Muslims years ago. They had conveniently forsaken and renounced their intrinsic duty and the trust they hold for the spiritual salvation and grace of the Muslim community.
Until to-date, besides making some inroads into Islamic banking and finance practices, the Government limits the practice of Islamic Laws only to solemnisation of marriages, divorce and distribution of “harta pusaka” and such other trifling matters of life. Generally the Syariah Courts’ judicial powers are much to be desired – far from what Allah had ordained and enshrined in the Holy Quran. The Government is bereft of the political will to see that the entire Laws in the Holy Quran be planted as the thriving laws for the Muslims. This laikadaisical attitude is most regrettable and all the Muslim Federal Ministers and those voters who supported and put them into power would be answerable to Allah for their long inordinate delay and dismal failure to find ways and the paths that would usher the Hudud Laws see the light of day.
The Holy Quran in many brilliant and sparkling verses stirringly urge “the Muslims to trek on with Jihad by way of their wealth and lives in the cause of Allah”. In our beloved country the imminence of Jihad now is to apply the entire Allah Laws in the Holy Quran to the Muslims. I believe the huge majority of Muslims in this country are now impatiently waiting for Allah Laws to be applied to their lives. But alas the bulwark is the Muslim Cabinet ministers who nonchalantly and conveniently consider the Hudud Laws as an insignificant facet of life. For about sixty years they steered the country’s administration eversince independence they did not lift a finger to assist in making the Hudud Laws the laws of the Muslims. In Akhirat Allah would definitely ask them “why did they reject Allah’s Laws? And be mindful…Allah the Magnificient requires an answer.
In reflection this is precisely what Jihad is all about now in this beloved country. Don’t they (the Muslim Federal Ministers) see it that it is their duty to Allah and the Muslims that with the power they wield, they are in a position to apply the Hudud Laws on the Muslims. But they coveniently do not. Their priority of life has been awkwardly inverted. Their secular ways tops the pyramid, Allah is placed on the second tier and the Sunnah of the Beloved Prophet Muhammad Bpuh lies on the third tier. It appears that the Government may fall under the category of the doomed creature as stated in the Holy Quran as “having eyes but they do not see, having ears but they do not hear and having heart but they could not feel the Divine presence”. And in dramatic eloquence…the Holy Quran concludes “they are worse than animals”.
This is indeed true as wee see in our own eyes that the Muslims are herded like domesticated cows by the Government to live under the unblessed man-made laws (the English Laws) instead of the Hudud Laws. Unfortunately too, the Muftis, the majority of ulama’ both in the Government sector and in the higher learning institutions have not made a consistent formidable campaign to urge the Government to implement the Hudud Laws among Muslims. The Muslim masses continue to meekly slumber in submitting to the chaotic man-made laws. The apathy continues….until Hudud Laws replace the present man-made laws, there would be no peace of mind (sakinah), blessing (barakah) and true and complete Divine love (rahmah) for the Muslim community.
When in Akhirat those who are condemned to Hellfires see the punishing fury and terror of Hellfires, they revolted tumultuously accusing their leaders thus – “It is you who caused us to be condemned to Hell” and they make a frantic call to the Almighty “Oh Allah because they (our leaders) have vilely misled our lives, increase two-fold the punishment of Hellfires upon them” and “if not for them, O Allah, we would have become the blessed dwellers of Jannah (Paradise)”. The leaders promptly reply “ O Allah, it is not us who misled them, it is they who have wronged themselves”. Allah in His glory replied “Do not argue in My presence, both of you would get the fiery punishments for what you have done, that is, leading your lives not in accordance with the Holy Quran and the Sunnah”. The message here is crystal clear – follow not and support not anyone in life blindly, just lead you own entire life strictly in accordance with the Holy Quran and Sunnah of the Beloved Prophet Muhammad SAW.
The Holy Quran eloquently warns the Muslims in Surah An Nisa verse 60 thus “Have you not seen those who claimed to have believed in what was revealed to you (Muhammad), and what was revealed before you. They wish to refer legislation (laws and regulations) to Thagut, while, in fact, they are commanded to reject it; and Satan wishes to lead them far astray”. This verse is truly a reflection of our wicked miserable position now, that is, while we categorically claim ourselves to be true Muslims (beriman) but oddly we do not submit to the criminal laws as enshrined in the Holy Quran instead we meekly bow our souls to the man-made English (Thagut) criminal laws. Ponder a moment in the silent ambience of our soul. Are we not sinners deserving the fury of the Hellfires for casting away the Hudud Laws in our lives?”.
