Wawancara Tun M Mingguan Malaysia 17/2/2013

TUN Dr Mahathir Mohamad masih cergas dan terus bekerja walaupun sudah hampir 10 tahun bersara daripada jawatan Perdana Menteri Malaysia. 

Pada usia hampir menjangkau 88 tahun pada 10 Julai ini, beliau masih ke pejabat pada setiap hari bekerja manakala pada hujung minggu, menyampaikan ucapan apabila menerima jemputan. 

Selain itu, beliau turut menulis di dalam blognya, CheDet, dan menyumbang artikel kepada akhbar The News Straits Times dan Utusan Malaysia. 

Are we Muslims are that gullible and confused?

"Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed" (Modal bukanlah kejahatan, ia baru akan menjadi kejahatan kalau disalahgunakan. Modal dalam bentuk tertentu atau lain-lain akan sentiasa diperlukan)  - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka Mahatma Gandhi

Sadly speak, even some Muslims believed Capital per say leads to capitalism (John Calvin, Max Weber, Adam Smith). Therefore, they resort to socialism. Indirectly, these people shared the same spirit of Karl Marx for that matter. His masterpiece 'Das Capital' aka 'The Capital' spells out the effect of capital that can outrageously leads toward unfairness to the society. To him, the very essence of a capitalist is his desire to gain surplus-value. Socialism and communism are alike. Socialism is primarily an economic system, while communism is both political and economic. The fact that Socialist Party did exist for quite some time was a successor from the lefties like PKMM, API, AWAS and PETA alike. It was not a surprise when some Muslims did involved in communist guerrilla activities even though the highest order in communism is to accept equality in every way, and the existence of God is not in the dictionary. To these Muslims, their fight was to eradicate poverty, equality and justice in the economics system and for the betterment of the Country even if they have to assimilate in un-Islamic movements. Clearly, Machiavelli doctrines was well accepted on this very land.

Capitalism and democracy, are the twin ideological pillars capable of bringing unprecedented prosperity and freedom to the world. Together they come hand in hand, we've long been told. Now, be it capitalism, socialism, democracy and communism, they are all man-made. They are not perfect. They are far from perfect. Consider this, when socialism is perceived as an economics system for communism, China became super power by replacing capitalism without changing its political stand. Now we have combination of capitalism and communism. Whats left was communist countries like Cuba that became brouhaha for being able to provide free education. Have anybody noticed that how many Cubans can even steps into tertiary education system?

Sometimes I wonder of why in Khutbah Jumaat or Friday sermons, we never talk about the Market system. Islam is not against market system per se. Islam does not deny the market forces and market economy. Even the profit motive is acceptable to a reasonable extent. Private ownership is not totally negated. Yet, the basic difference capitalist and Islamic economy is that in secular capitalism, the profit motive or private ownership are given unbridled power to make economic decisions. Their liberty is not controlled by any divine injunctions. If there are some restrictions, they are imposed by human beings and subject to change through democratic legislation.

I have seen people associating KFC barrel price and raw bird as capitalism? but they never questioned their father for running coffee shop as associating with capitalism or freemason or illuminati for that matter (huhuhuhuhu..... probably the shop was set up on the holiest land on earth.....yeahh right). I have seen people obsessed with socialism as way of life.

My question now, are we Muslims are so gullible and confused?

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. These are the sins to avoid..

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. These are the sins to avoid..

1. wealth without working,

2. science without humanity,

3. business without morality,

4. lastly, politics without principles (U-turn, flip-flop aka kluk-klek).