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On the 14th of March, while Malaysia is still engulfed by grief over what had happened to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the Bukit Jalil Stadium in Kuala Lumpur openly hosted a grand musical concert. The Future Music Festival Asia 2014 (FMFA), which was said to be organized clandestinely, has shocked the nation when six youths died of drug overdose during the festival. To add more shame, majority of those who died were young Muslims.

What happened was indeed embarrassing and disappointing especially when the authority only took action to cancel the festival a day after the deaths occurred. It is well known that such party will definitely be accompanied by alcohol, drugs and sex. Where is the dignity of Malaysia whose government claims to be a ‘Nation of Islam'? Is this wild concert in line with the ‘wasatiyyah' (moderate) concept, which is promulgated by the prime minister such that the party is duly authorized by the government? Where are the muftis and government scholars who should be criticizing the government's immoral stand? Or do they prefer to keep their mouths shut for all the lucrative income they earn each month?

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Indeed, the culture of liberalism and hedonism manifested in this tragedy is getting worse in Malaysia. The emergence and spread of this culture is not something that occurs naturally though. It is the result of a cultural liberalization process which occurs in a systematic and organized manner in tandem with Western plans to corrupt and destroy the Muslim Ummah. The Deen of Islam embraced by majority of the people of this country has never taught its Ummah to behave this way.

This wild culture is really western in nature and is brought via physical or mental occupation of the Muslim Ummah. Clearly the development of liberalism in Malaysia cannot be separated from cunning Western plans and conspiracies. Liberalization conspiracies perpetrated by the West against Muslim states run in parallel with colonial motives. Via cultural liberalization, Muslims in Muslim countries, including Malaysia, begin to lose their Islamic identity, begin to see anything Western as progressive and begin to act freely without consideration of what is halal and what is haram. The West wants us to imitate them in every aspect of our lives, even in our thoughts about Islam itself! This has impregnated our society so deeply such that Muslims no longer see Western colonization as a problem, but an advantage and a symbol of progress.

Consciously or not, Malaysia has long fallen into this trap. The culture of hedonism and liberalism have always been sanctioned by the government through electronic and print media through excessive entertainment programs, music, fashion, festivals and others. This is not taking into consideration the huge number of pubs, discos, night clubs and other vice related entertainment outlets which are operating freely and openly in this ‘Nation of Islam'. It is thus not surprising that young Muslims are hypnotized by wild concerts like FMFA because everything has already been 'prepared' systematically since their childhood. What we are facing today is clearly the consequence of Muslims leaving Islam and disregarding Islam as the solution to all life's problems.

Since the collapse of the Khilafah "Caliphate" on March 3, 1924, the rule of life is no longer governed by the revelation from Allah (swt) but is governed by man-made systems, especially democracy which upholds and idolizes freedom. It is this idea of freedom that has severely damaged the body of the Muslim Ummah. It is this idea of freedom that is the cause of all the corruption so evident in our world today.

Allah (swt) said:

((ظَهَرَ الْفَسَادُ فِي الْبَرِّ وَالْبَحْرِ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِي النَّاسِ لِيُذِيقَهُم بَعْضَ الَّذِي عَمِلُوا لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ))

"Corruption has appeared throughout the land and sea by [reason of] what the hands of people have earned so He may let them taste part of [the consequence of] what they have done that perhaps they will return [to righteousness]." [Ar-Rum: 41]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Dr. Muhammad / Malaysia