Lawyer responds to criticism made against her by Siti Ashah Ghazali of PAS' women's wing about the ritual of slaughtering thousands of animals in God’s name during Aidiladha.
PETALING JAYA: Lawyer Siti Kasim wants the women’s wing of PAS to check the facts behind what she actually said in regard to the “korban” (sacrifice) ritual during the Muslim Aidiladha celebration before attacking her over the matter.
She said Siti Ashah Ghazali, the Kedah state chief of the wing, was an idiot for having criticised her without apparently looking at the true facts of what she had remarked.
In a report in PAS media organ Harakah Daily today, Siti Ashah called on Siti Kasim not to make heretical statements even if she did not believe in the Al-Quran.
“Typical PAS idiots making comments without checking the true facts,” she said.
“They rely on Menara.my website which is known to twist stories by people who are not in line with their twisted beliefs. My posting is public and they are welcome to read the posting I made.
“Somehow, I am not surprised though because perhaps they could not grasp the true meaning of what (was) being posted as they are too dense in the head,” she added.
In a Facebook post on Sept 1, Siti Kasim spoke about the thousands of animals that were slaughtered in God’s name during the recent annual festival, saying that the ritual was not one of the pillars of Islam.
She said the Quran never said that God told Abraham to kill his son as a sacrifice, and also never said that the dream in which he was instructed to do so, was from God.
Siti Ashah responded to this by accusing Siti Kasim of demonstrating her ignorance and degrading her religious belief system.
She said Siti Kasim was religiously dull and insolent, and had insulted the prophet by depicting him as a liar.
“The account of Prophet Abraham being ordered to slaughter his son Prophet Ismail is not a fictional tale but was recorded by God in the Al-Quran,” Siti Ashah was quoted as saying.
In her post, Siti Kasim also said the Al-Quran did not demand Muslims sacrifice the lives of other living creatures because the true sacrifice was one’s personal willingness to submit one’s ego and individual will to God.
“The notion of ‘vicarious atonement of sin’ (absolving one’s sins through the blood of another) is nowhere to be found in the Quran. Neither is the idea of gaining favour by offering the life of another to God,” she said.
“The underlying implication of Islam’s attitude toward ritual slaughter is not that of blood atonement, or seeking favour with God through another’s death, but rather, the act of thanking God for one’s sustenance and the personal sacrifice of sharing one’s possessions and valuable food with one’s fellow humans,” she added.
“If someone lives in a desert climate, in a small village where meat-eating is an unchangeable reality and a matter of survival, then the issue of animal sacrifice has context and relevance.
“But for those of us living in the modern world, we have to seriously question practices that not only have lost meaning (in our present circumstances), but also are contributing to needless bloodshed and environmental destruction,” she said.
Siti Kasim said those who needed to take a life in order to survive should do so humbly and with respect for the life they were forced to take, showing mercy and compassion as humanely possible in an “otherwise regrettable situation”.
“However, for those of us who no longer need to kill in order to survive, then let us cease to do so merely for the satisfaction of ravenous cravings which are produced by nothing more than our Nafs (or lower self),” she said, referring to one’s base instincts. - FMT
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