Muslims need not shun Islam’s enemies before gaining power, says Hadi

PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang says Muslims may ally with major powers and enemies of Islam when they are not yet in a position of power, in a commentary on the United States’ midterm elections.

In his latest “Minda Presiden PAS” piece, Hadi said that although the two major parties, the Republicans and Democrats, compete fiercely in the US elections, they are in fact two sides of the same coin.

He said both parties operate under the umbrella of Zionist Jews, whose common objective is to conquer the world under a Greater Israel as the sole superpower.

“Muslims are instructed (by God) not to take the major powers and enemies of Islam as allies, except when they are not yet in a position of power.

“In such circumstances, Muslims are permitted to practise ‘taqiyyah’ (concealing one’s true beliefs to protect oneself), without giving their approval to what is being done,” Hadi said.

The Marang MP also said there is a concession (rukhsah) allowing Muslims to take sides when they are weak and lack power, provided they do not endorse the position they adopt.

“However, abandoning Islamic principles that must be upheld through firm resolve and sacrifice (azimah) is forbidden,” he said.

The US midterms saw several minority candidates make history, including Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, who became the first Muslim elected to the Senate after defeating former Republican lawmaker Mike Rogers in Michigan.

Hadi also quoted the 16th US president, Abraham Lincoln, who said: “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

He said the truth of Islam would ultimately prevail, “while liars and deceivers would eventually be exposed”.

Hadi previously courted controversy by likening the confidence and supply agreement (CSA) signed between the government and opposition MPs to Dajjal’s deception.

The Dajjal is a great deceiver whose emergence is regarded in Islam as one of the major signs that Judgement Day was approaching.

More recently, the PAS president faced backlash by reportedly saying that “even the most wicked Muslim who governs the country is not as tyrannical as a non-Muslim”, remarks he later claimed were taken out of context.

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