{"id":99672,"date":"2015-10-19T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T02:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=99672"},"modified":"2015-10-19T07:54:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:54:40","slug":"lets-unite-for-the-sake-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=99672","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let&#8217;s unite for the sake of Islam&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Siti Afiqah Amalina<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR,\u00c2\u00a0 16 October 2015: The\u00c2\u00a0<em>Maal Hijrah<\/em> celebration this year was a record when it successfully gathered some 50,000 people from different agencies and background, including 45 students from International Islamic University Malaysia. The National Mosque was selected as a the venue for this event.<\/p>\n<p>This celebration on the first day of <em>Muharam<\/em> 1437H (14 October) began with a procession of contingents from five different locations in the city of Kuala Lumpur. The procession began simultaneously at 7.45 a.m from\u00c2\u00a0<em>Dataran Merdeka, Padang Merbok, Muzium Kesenian, Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman<\/em>, and <em>Masjid Wilayah <\/em>and ended at the National Mosque.<\/p>\n<p>This is also the first time this ceremony started with a procession. Previous to this, the parade was held during the <em>Maulidul Rasul\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The opening ceremony at the National Mosque was officiated by Prime Minister, Dato&#8217; Sri Mohd Najib Tun Razak. Present at the ceremony were the Prime Minister&#8217;s wife Datin Sri Rosmah Mansor, Cabinet Ministers, dignitaries and ambassadors from Muslim countries.<\/p>\n<p>The theme chosen for this year&#8217;s Maal Hijrah celebration was the same as last year&#8217;s which was \u0153<em>Perpaduan Nadi Transfromasi Negara<\/em>\u009d. Former Chief Justice of Malaysia, Tun Abdul Hamid Mohamad, was awarded the <em>Tokoh Maal Hijrah<\/em>\u00c2\u00a01437H (the figure for\u00c2\u00a0<em>Maal Hijrah<\/em>)\u00c2\u00a0for his significant contribution in promoting Islam at both national and global levels.<\/p>\n<p>Tun Abdul Hamid in his remarks at the ceremony said: \u0153I call on leaders of Muslim groups, the largest in Malaysia, irrespective of whether they are in government, opposition or NGOs, to follow the example set by the Messenger of Allah, Muhammad, 1,437 years ago to do &#8216;migration&#8217; to reunite the Muslims in this country to avoid any catastrophe that could happen to Islam and Muslims in the country.\u009d ***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Siti Afiqah Amalina KUALA LUMPUR,\u00c2\u00a0 16 October 2015: The\u00c2\u00a0Maal Hijrah celebration this year was a record when it successfully gathered some 50,000 people from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":99678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG-20151014-WA0023-e1445182013871.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99672"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99973,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99672\/revisions\/99973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}