Kedah-state Press Secretary, Muhamad Mat Yakim, has recently sought the intervention of god to settle his displeasure with DAP vice-chairman Nga Kor Ming.
Last week, he took to his Facebook page to pray for disaster to befall Nga Kor Ming, likely because he was upset that Nga Kor Ming has waded into the much talked about KK Mart "Halal Ham" storm.
He wrote, “Ya Allah, send down great punishment upon Nga Kor Ming on earth and in an immediate manner because he has been too barbaric in insulting us and our religion. Send down a plague upon him as a consequence for humans who have become so arrogant and forgetful of their place.”
Upon viewing the edit history of his post, World of Buzz also reported that it appears that the press secretary had also brought Donald Trump into the picture, but then later chose to remove the mention from his post.
“Send down calamity upon him as You have done upon Donald Trump with a great fire in his country as a punishment for mankind who has become so arrogant and self-forgetful,” he had initially written, probably in reference to the wildfire that is currently rampaging through Los Angeles, United States (US).
It is hard to say what umbrage has Mat Yakim taken upon the recently inaugurated President of the United States of America. The latest accomplishment of Donald Trump is that he has brought peace to Gaza, something that the world has been struggling to do since the war started 15 months ago. It beggars belief that Mat Yakim has taken offense to Donald Trump bringing peace to Gaza, when everybody in the world, Muslims especially, has been celebrating the event, that has brought relief and respite to be beleaguered Gazans, who have seen nearly 50,000 of their population killed and their entire country flattened in a span of little over a year.
But coming back to Nga Kor Ming, in case Nga Kor Ming is upset by Mat Yakim’s desire to befall him, I would like to give him the Indian interpretation of such things as a curse, as elucidated by Rajnikanth, in a speech.
According to Rajnikanth, there are only two things that he is afraid of. One is god, and the other one is a good person.
The reason that he says that he is afraid of a good person, is because he believes that if you did something to hurt a good person, and they curse you out of their pain, their curse will come true.
In other words, from the Indian point of view, Nga Kor Ming only needs to be afraid of any ill wishes upon him, if it comes from a good person.
A good person is someone who goes out of their way to not use the hurt that they have suffered, as a licence to hurt others and also are very keen on seeing that the good that they have enjoyed, is also enjoyed by others.
When you hurt a person who is going out of their way to not hurt anyone, and who are doing their best to give their best to others, even if you don’t believe in God, to hear them curse you will likely cause you to question your existence to the point that it will cause you grief.
But if you are cursed by a run-of-the-mill person, or a bad person, then what you heard is just words. It might be “full of sound and fury, but it signifies nothing.”
Nga can only probably take consolation that those who take God’s name in vain, in the Semitic tradition, are also considered to be committing blasphemy.
In the book of Exodus, it is explicitly stated that “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain”.
In other words, if one takes god’s name in vain, or if one takes god’s name in a manner that is wicked, worthless, or for wrong purposes, one cannot expect them to be seen as guiltless in the eyes of their god.
Also, at its very foundation, a curse is also something that is delivered by wagering the goodness of the one that offers the curse against the evil intentions of the intended recipient.
In other words, if you were to evoke God to punish someone, you are essentially saying that you are as confident of the evil intentions of the recipient of your curse as you are of your own goodness, and thus you are certain that you are not taking god’s name in vain, when you evoke God to punish that person for their evil intentions.
If perchance you are not as good as you think you are, then you might not be not taking god’s name in vain when you evoke god’s name to rain calamity upon the other party.
This being the case, then you will not be held guiltless by the God that you have evoked, which will then put you yourself in danger of suffering the calamity that you wish upon another.
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