PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang declared today
that disloyalty to the party is a sin in Islam, likening deserters to those who
abandon their faith.
He added that former members who quit PAS and formed an
offshoot Parti Amanah Negara were cowards who were more keen to please others
than their own party.
“In the fight to uphold Islam through an Islamic party like
ours, loyalty is pivotal. It is our faith. And disloyalty to the party is akin
to abandoning our faith,” Hadi said in his winding up speech closing PAS’s 62nd
muktamar here.
Referring to the Pakatan Rakyat political pact PAS had with
PKR and previously the DAP, Abdul Hadi said some of its former leaders were
more keen on preserving the relationship with other parties, that they forsake
their own.
“Because they want to keep the tahaluf [co-operation], they
forget the wala' [loyalty]. This is wrong,” he said.
Wala' means absolute loyalty to leaders. It can only be
broken if members deemed their leaders have deviated from the party's struggle
to uphold its brand of Islam.
The concept is indoctrinated to all PAS members during their
training as cadres.
Abdul Hadi said there Allah had decreed in a revelation
“that humans shall not make the enemies of His enemies their friends”.
He said the revelation was given to demand absolute loyalty
from Muslims, and that they must not compromise their integrity and loyalty to
placate others.
PAS has had a turbulent year after virtually all of the
party's moderates quit last year to form Amanah, taking with them a significant
number of supporters.
The bitter rivalry between the two groups has since worsened
and PAS is set to go toe-to-toe with its former members in the run-up to the
Kuala Kangsar and Sungai Besar by-elections on June 18.
Malay Mail Online
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