Raja Muda Perlis urges Muslims to practise moderation
DHAKA: Raja Muda Perlis Tuanku Syed Faizuddin Putra Jamalullail wants Muslims to apply the principle of moderation in tackling Islamophobia.
Tuanku Syed Faizuddin, who is the president of the Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council (MAIPs), said Muslims should be moderate in their religious dealings.
Speaking at the Liqa Mawaddah programme organised by MAIPs at the Kurmitolla Golf Club here on Tuesday, he said Muslims should emphasise moderation in their lives.
“Islamophobia must be tackled through wasatiyyah, which stresses moderation,” Tuanku Syed Faizuddin said to about 150 Malaysians living in Bangladesh.
The programme included a talk by Perlis Mufti Datuk Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin titled “Wasaatiyyah: How Islam disciplines its followers through regulations”.
Tuanku Syed Faizuddin presented MAIPs’s contribution of RM5,000 to the first secretary of the Malaysian high commission in Dhaka, Idham Zuhri Mohd Yunus, for the Ibnu Sabil Fund.
The fund is to help Malaysians who encounter emergencies in Bangladesh.
Present were Malaysian Consultative Council for Islamic Organisations president Azmi Abdul Hamid and Daffodil International University Bangladesh chairman Sabur Khan.
Tuanku Syed Faizuddin arrived in Bangladesh on Sunday to lead a humanitarian mission comprising non-governmental organisations to check on the situation of Rohingya refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar. Bernama