The Regent of Perak, Raja Dr Nazrin Shah, yesterday advised the country’s leaders to refer to the records of world history to learn from the causes of the fall of many empires and governments, and even monarchs and national leaders.
“This happened because many of those given the opportunity to lead allowed the joy and passion of having power to lead them astray.
“Some among them became complacent, some went astray, some were ill-advised, some adopted wrong decisions and some made miscalculations.
“Such are the historical accounts available on leaders and leadership which the ummah (people) of today should use as the basis of reference so as not to repeat the mistakes,” he said at the state-level Maulidur Rasul celebration and presentation of prizes for memorisation of the Quran at the Banquet Hall of Bangunan Darul Ridzuan, in Ipoh.
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Well, Your Highness, I do hope they're listening!
WHAT I LIKE MOST ABOUT RAJA NAZRIN'S SPEECH IS HIS CALL TO LEADERS TO BE TRUSTWORTHY, HUMBLE, HONEST, SINCERE, DISCIPLINED, COMMITTED, TO BE GOD-FEARING AND TO MAKE SACRIFICES.
ReplyDeleteTO ME THESE ARE FACETS OF INTEGRITY WHICH ARE ENTRENCHED IN ALL RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS AND FOR MUSLIMS IN THE QURAN.
TO ME THESE ARE SIMPLE, EASILY EXPLAINED ASPECTS OF PERSONAL VALUES WHICH THE MAN IN THE STREET CAN UNDERSTAND AND ADOPT IN THEIR WORK AND SOCIAL LIFE.
THERE'S NO POINT TALKING ABOUT "INTEGRITY" A HIGH-FLOWN CONCEPT WHICH VERY FEW PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO EXPLAIN EVEN IF THEY INTUITIVELY KNOW WHAT IT MEANS.
THE INTEGRITY OF MINISTERS, OF THE CABINET, OF THE GOVERNMENT, OF PARLIAMENT, OF THE JUDICIARY, OF THE BENCH, OF PUBLIC SERVANTS ETC!
THESE NEED TO BE EXPLICATED SEPARATELY AND IN DETAIL. IF THE INTEGRITY INSTITUTE HAS THEM ALREADY, THEN THERE MUST BE A CONCERTED CAMPAIGN AND ROAD SHOW TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC!
MY HUMBLE OPINION NURAINA!
...“Some among them became complacent, some went astray, some were ill-advised, some adopted wrong decisions and some made miscalculations"....
ReplyDeleteAnd ONE did ALL of the above - and is still in a state of denial and still thinks he could be a good leader.
BIG SIGH :(
It will be written in History that the fall of the Kerajaan Melayu Moden is because the Prime Minister is sleeping all, if not most of the time!
ReplyDeleteHikayat Abdullah.
I'm a republican; my dream is one day to see a truly democratic, equal and just Malaysia, above race, class and religion. After all, just because someone is born with a gold, or is it silver, whatever, spoon, does not give him/her the right to impose their injustice and inequality on us. For too long the ordinary Malays have been brainwashed like cows with rusty rings around their nose; by their supreme Malay elite class, whether from the royals or Umno! I remembered as a child visiting my grandparents in the kampung, how I used to hate seeing that and thinking how the cows might have suffered being pulled through those rings through their nose! Many ordinary Malays don't think for themselves what's best and what's just. Those Malay leaders are not GOD; let's start with that kind of thinking. Only then the ordinary brainwashed Malays might move forward into a truly modern century! I did; and now feel completely liberated as a human being, inner-self especially. And it's never too late. One last thing, I admired the bravery, resistance spirit and rebelliousness of Hang Jebat! And the long suffering Anwar has shown such spirit; our future PM indeed!
ReplyDeleteNoor Aza Othman.