D-G nabbed by ACA: this is what the institution was created for ... the fight against impunity at the highest level

ACA nabs another top immigration officer
By DHARMENDER SINGH

KLANG: Immigration Department deputy director-general Yusof Abu Bakar and a close relative were on Saturday remanded for five days at the Klang magistrate’s court here to help investigations by the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA).
Yusof, 54, clad in a grey long-sleeved shirt and dark grey pants, and his relative, in a blue T-shirt and jeans, were brought to court at about 11.20am.
The two were handcuffed as they were led to the magistrate’s court here by four ACA officers.
Magistrate Zarifah Zainal Abidin issued the remand starting Saturday at about 11.45am under Section 117 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
It is learnt that the two were brought to the Klang Magistrate’s Court for the remand because the cases they are being investigated for are said to have been committed in Selangor.
Yusof was arrested at his office in Putrajaya at about 3pm Friday while a close relative of his was picked up from his house in Negri Sembilan at around the same time.
The two are being investigated under Section 11(a) of the Anti-Corruption Act 1997.
Yusof is among 10 people, including lower ranking immigration officers and runners, nabbed by the ACA this week.
On Thursday night, the ACA arrested Immigration Department director-general Datuk Wahid Md Don shortly after he was alleged to have received some RM60,000 from a runner purportedly for a deal involving the issuance of work permits and extensions.

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Shari'ah: the 4th dimension - its vision of the good life

Besides beliefs, virtues and rules, there is a 4th aspect of the Shari'ah: its vision of the good life. The Qur'an refers along with beliefs, virtues and rules, to these matters; tells

• what is the ideal life?
• what are its constituents?
• how they compare with each other? and
• who are the embodiments of that good life?

The Sunnah of the Prophet further elaborates Islamic values and priorities. But Islamic thought has done little to carry the task further.

Fiqh has been more concerned with particular aspects of life, with various forms of worship, with social, political, economic activities separately, and has defined what is right or wrong, obligatory or commended in each and every field. There are various schools of fiqh, and in each there are hundreds of books that discuss rules down to the minutest details; there are also many books that deal with the principles of these schools. But there are not half a dozen works which address some of the questions raised.

Philosophical works on ethics in Arabic and Persian which should have discussed these questions, unfortunately rehearse Greek ethics, and hardly attempt to explicate the Shari'ah. They do introduce changes and modifications into the inherited system, but that does not affect its basic character. They hardly attempt to give Islamic answers to fundamental questions of ethics in the light of the Qur'an and Sunnah and explain the Islamic Shari'ah.

Sufi had, therefore, nothing to check their understanding and interpretation of Islamic values and priorities in the light of their kashf & experience, demands of the tariqah or philosophical beliefs. TO BE CONTINUED...