PARLIAMENT | The Home Ministry will draft a new administrative directive pertaining to the issue of regulating publications containing the word “Allah” after it presents the results of engagement sessions to the Conference of Rulers.
Its minister Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said there were five engagement sessions that were held before this and the results have been presented to the National Council of Islamic Religious Affairs, which was chaired by Selangor ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah.
“I was made to understand that the agenda of the outcome of the engagement session is a suggestion towards building a new administrative order that will be scheduled to be presented at the Conference of Rulers which will convene from Oct 25 to 27.
"Therefore, we will have a new administrative order,” he said in the Dewan Rakyat today.
He was responding to a question from Muhyiddin Yassin (Perikatan Nasional – Pagoh) on the status of the issue and how the government plans to solve the matter.
Saifuddin added that the engagement sessions were held following the High Court’s decision on March 10, 2021, which allowed a judicial review application by a Christian woman, Jill Ireland, who sought a declaration of her constitutional right regarding the use of the word Allah in publications related to her religion.
On June 5, Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah expressed deep concern over the issue of the use of the word Allah which he feared would become a prolonged polemic and could affect national unity and the well-being of the country if not resolved immediately.
He decreed that the government should harmonise the situation and at the same time, place the use of the word Allah in the right context by taking into account national security, the benefit of the Muslim community, as well as the position of His Majesty and other Malay rulers as heads of the Islam in the country. - Mkini
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