...off pirates, highway men, glc chairmen and al qawiy yun amin....

" One of the two women said: O my father! Hire him! For the best (man) that thou canst hire is the strong, the trustworthy." (al qasas,26) 

.....al qawiy yun amin...


Mosses after flooring and accidentally killing the coptic man [ belonging to the same tribe as pharaoh, ' the qifti' tribe ] while trying to settle between the man and an israeli man , escaped to the hills beyond pharaoh's reach. Pharoah's men searched every nook and corner of Egypt for him.

Homicide was a  crime punishable with long imprisonment in old Egypt.
Am Israeli killing a Qifti was high treason....a most heinous crime, unthinkable and must be an example off !!

There amongst the hills,he met two ladies, both daughters of nabi Shuaib, tending to their flock of sheep., queing at the waterhole. Nabi Shuiab, impressed by his daughters encounter with that strange young man , send his people to search high and low for Mosses.

Al qawiy yun amin, in any culture, transending time, are two qualities not just ideal for any employee, in those mearge difficult hills bordering Egypt, were hard to come by in such tough environment, that nabi Shuiab considered ideal as a potential son in law. Age was catching up very fast with the elderly frail gentleman.

Shuaib's men finally met Mosses in some 'warong' somewhere, and as they say , the rest is biblical history!







"  And the king said: Bring him unto me that I may attach him to my person. And when he had talked with him he said: Lo! thou art to-day in our presence established and trusted. (54) He said: Set me over the storehouses of the land. Lo! I am a skilled custodian." ( surah yusuf :55 ) 

.. al hafiz un alim...

Yusuf  not only was not only able to interpret dreams, he was , apart from being 'al qawiy yun amin '   , also possessed two additional prequalications:..al hafiz un alim..
He had all the skills, knowledge and wisdom to navigate very difficult circumstances.
He openly offered himself to the al aziz of that  time to circumvent the seven year long expected super tough time for Egypt. This period predates Mossess time and Egypt in that era was still runned by al aziz, who were all god fearing, and had not reached the arrogance and the intransigence of the pharoah yet.

al aziz readily accepted Yusuf's offer, and as history had it, Yusuf became the chancellor of the ex chequer, and despite seven long lean years, Yusuf's  wisdom, strategy and skill ful statecraft, ensured old Egypt had a soft landing at the end of the very trying time.

Fast forward ourselves to this current millenium, and zoming in on the current year 2020, in this very trying era of COVID 19 and potentially global collapse of economies, large and small, one cant help but be touched by a sense of panic, however supreme optimist one tries to be!

In the centre of the storm we have POTUS whose only claim to fame, if one has the benefit of history to look back to in the decades and years to come, is that just ' baik sikit pada' Lord Sutch of the Monster Roving Loony Party of the UK of the roaring 80's.
I say if we are lucky because if this chap got re elected in the coming election, we may even see a third world war. A military  accident in the now crowded South China Sea, or if China  become successful in dislodging the US dollars as the central currency in the global oil market may send this mad lunatic in Washinton to war.

I do not think this chap can comprehend the gravity of MAD [ mutually assured distraction].
He has neither the al amin, nor al hafiz or al alim.
As to al qawiy, just may be he has, with the likes of Stormy Daniels ' dan ladies ladies  yang sewaktu dengan nya '.

Coming back home, I am also very worried.
Our current political numero uno, to be ' very very polite and generous ', and I am going to be at my most polite best this early morning, he may have the al amin, the al hafiz and the al alim bits; but regretably, he don't have an iota of the al qawiy. His ailment is very serious.
Of course Dr Jemilah, who was my student 4 deades ago would vehemently disagree with me.
In this a free country, she is free to do that.
If I am his scientific adviser I would not even asked him to even think of his current post.

Across the other side of the equation, we have a very  untiring old man who has gone well passed his expiry date, and at present quite toothless and has lost most of his 'marbles'. 
Along side him is a chap who thought he has to be pm even long time ago when he was in sixth form and whom , the untiring old man thought is not ' morally fit ' to be one!

Across the board, back to the numero uno's side we have highway men and ex pirates heading the glc's
Go down a wee bit further we have the lembu people, the tabung haji peole , the wilayah and etc  and etc all wishing the pirates and the ustaz will have pru 15 soon and their cases exonerated and declared or decreed ' all clean' by a future fumbling AG

And finally way back behind the scene, ' tanpa malu dan segan ', we still have bossku still weaving his wizardry playing the ' wayang kulit '...

What ails our nation?
Sampai begini rupa kita tak ada rasa malu dan segan ' stabuk' , to add my favourite teganu   expression, [ i am kelantanese but i love teganu kite ], kat Allah dan makluk2 Beliau seantero dunia !!!!!!

So much for al amin, al qawiy, al hafiz and al alim this morning.......



Dr Nik Isahak Wan Abdullah
Subang Jaya