Last week or so ago there was a small family gathering here. It was to meet a visitor to Brunei – Professor Madya Dr Sharifah Hayati, the Deputy Director of the Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya. She was amongst the invited guest to give special talks during the Majlis Ilmu held at the ICC in Berakas. She gave a talk entitled, “Towards Making Families of Zikir a Reality”.I missed the Majlis Ilmu week. From the web I found this article about what ‘Negara Zikir’ is about. It was a paper presented by the State Mufti, Pehin Dato Paduka Seri Setia Doctor Ustaz Haji Abdul Aziz. Among other things, he said that zikir is a great word, a paramount word and a word of purity. This is because it comes from Allah the Al-Mighty and portrayed very clearly in the Holy Al-Quran. The State Mufti pointed that those who practise the zikir are regarded by Allah as people of common sense or intellectuals. When such people do exist in a country, then there’s no doubt that such a country is a country of zikir where the masses always and lively practise the zikir. It is a country rich with zikir, administered through zikir, protected and maintained with zikir, and its knowledge, economy and social affairs are also of zikir.
The effort is good and should be applauded. Lets hope there are no exception to the rule when we start to embrace the concept.
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