12-29-2021, 07:10 PM
We don’t clean up non-Muslims’ houses of worship: celebrity preacher’s lecture garners flak from netizens
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KUALA LUMPUR – Netizens have lambasted celebrity preacher Azhar Idrus for his lecture on why Muslims should refrain from cleaning up non-Muslims’ houses of worship that were affected by the floods.
In a video posted on his official TikTok account, Azhar referenced the story of Prophet Ibrahim, who went into a temple in his town to demolish their idols.
“Look at Prophet Ibrahim’s story. Did he clean up (the temple) or did he ‘katok’ (northern Malay for ‘hit’)?
“We can’t ‘hit’, because we live in a multi-racial country. (If we said that) it’d be defamatory, do you understand?
“So, don’t interfere. It’s your own matter and your own religion. To idol worshippers, we don’t want (to interfere).”
In the video, which is over a minute long, Azhar said that those professing the Muslim faith can only clean up mosques and surau, but not houses of worship of other religions.
“Can Muslims clean up Hindu temples that have been affected by the floods? There is nothing to be cleaned.
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