KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today took advantage of the season's festivity to reiterate his populist economic philosophy that national wealth must be shared among the rakyat.The opposition leader said that "Malaysia is not mono-cultural"; as such, its economic growth and wealth must be understood and underscored by a wider meaning than is currently in practice.
"Wealth cannot revolve around the few, it should become the motivator to liberate society from oppression and tyranny. This is what we emphasise to be a human economy.
"An economy built on human principles of man as a moral being and not merely homo economicus who only prioritises one's self," he said in his Aidilfitri message today.
Drawing parallels to the story in the Quran which related how Prophet Muhammad engineered the opening of Mecca to Muslims through the Treaty of Hudaibiyyah, he pointed out that change did not happen overnight.
Anwar bid the rakyat to be patient for Pakatan Rakyat's manifesto for change to be realised.
"The success that was achieved certainly did not happen in the blink of an eye. Two years before the Opening of Mecca, a treaty known as Hudaibiyyah was sealed between Rasulullah S.A.W. and the Quraisy clan.
"None doubted the treatise. Yet clearly there were advantages behind the readiness and patience of Rasulullah S.A.W. in accepting the contract...As soon as the Treaty of Hudaibiyyah was sealed, Allah issued a commandment:
'Truly, for your struggle (O Muhammad) We have opened a path to victory that is clearly to be seen,'" Anwar highlighted.
"The change that we desire to implement is based on solid blocks of stones, a distant cry from the empty rhetoric based on hate and dispute," he said.
He added: "We must ensure that this country is not swallowed up by the fires of partisanship and sunk with reckless dogmatism. Remember 'who sows the wind will reap a hurricane’.
- TMI
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