Saturday, December 27, 2008

Ucapan yang berbunyi “Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”.....

So what big deal about it? Pada saya, yes, serious matter about it, if you care! Kita yang almost majority orang Melayu di Malaysia ni ialah orang Islam / Muslim tak sepatutnya diucapkan dengan ucapan Merry Christmas sebab kita bukan menganut Christianity dan kita Muslim tak sambut Christmas day. Masalahnya kenapa our non-Muslim friends and clients selamba bedal ucapan sedemikian? Jawapannya ialah, saya bold dan straight to the point, depa tak peka, not sensitive dan “have no regards” kepada rakan Muslim mereka. Atau they simply couldn’t care less, send out cards or email, all settled and done, I’ve sent out my greetings to all my friends for this year. Atau kalau saya celupar they are blind or stupid, bunyi macam menghina pulak, tak kenal ke kita ni celebrate Christmas ke tidak.


Depa kalau nak buat ucapan kepada kita rakan Muslim depa, ucap sajalah “Wishing you Happy New Year” …..period. Buat apa tambah Merry Christmas tu, membazir ayat dan buang tenaga aje. Depa tak tau ke yang kita ni Muslim dan kita sambut Aidil Fitri bukannya Christmas. Don’t tell me tak tahu – tengok lah nama, pernah jumpa atau cakap di telefon, dinner or lunch sama, etc. Selamba aje, takkan depa tak sensitive! Kena lah sensitive, kalau you’re a true friend. Show your respect, be sensitive, address and greet us correctly and the right way, betol tak! Don’t address us the wrong way, jangan main hentam saja. Kasi contoh mai, you address Datuk Seri Samy Vellu “Datuk Seri, Wishing you Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri” atau “Wishing you Happy Chinese New Year” atau you ucap pada Dato’ Sri Ong Tee Kiat “Wishing you Happy Deepavali”…nampak pelik tak, sebab you kenal siapa mereka dan apa pegangan ugama serta bangsa mereka, right! Agaknya Datuk Seri Samy dan Dato’ Sri Ong will either lashing you back or renung you semacam atau kata “Are you out of your mind”…


Lainlah kalau ucapan bukan keagamaan, that is OK. Macam Selamat Pagi (Good Morning), Selamat Belayar (Bon Voyage), Selamat Tinggal / Berpisah (Farewell), Selamat Menjamu Selera (Bon Apetite), Semoga Cepat Sembuh (Get Well Soon), Selamat Berjaya / Maju Jaya (Good Luck), etc are all OK, but not ucapan yang memang berteraskan aqidah / keagamaan like Happy Deepavali, Merry Christmas, etc..


Sesetengah tu, kita sendiri orang Melayu Muslim pulak yang hantar seasons greeting cards atau out-of-office auto reply email yang berbunyi “Wishing you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year”. Ni kes lagi terok! Abang Kakak oii, janganlah kasi excuse takde greeting cards yang sesuai atau IT technicians di office dah set email auto reply sedemikian, pleaselah. Kononnya foreign-owned company in Malaysia, tapi I bet your email respondents still majority or largely are Muslim. Bayangkan your Muslim friends sent to you emails, then your auto reply kata “Wishing you Merry Christmas….” I cannot accept this! En. Abdullah greeted En. Muhammad Merry Christmass – this is ridiculous, un-acceptable. You re-set lah sesuaikan, bukan susah sangat. Its all in your hands what. Kalau you sendiri buat, orang lain lagi lah, seolah kita mengizinkan dan give way. But to me you fooled yourself, you don’t have principle. So you please don’t do this mistake.


Kita di Malaysia ni sikit-sikit dah kena semacam gelombang dakyah atau kefahaman budaya asing yang cuba menyerap menyelinap masuk secara langsung atau tidak langsung dalam pegangan dan amalan dan fikiran kita orang Muslim. Sikit-sikit, esok-esok kita anggap tak ape dan takde apa salah atau cacatnya. This is like cultural invasion, dulu tak dibuat orang sekarang jadi lumrah dan kita tak-ape dengannya. In fact, to me this kind of thing is a cultural insult. Kalau you fikirkan dalam-dalam sebab melibatkan pegangan aqidah kita. Bab aqidah tolong jangan main-main! Walau pun nampak simple, tapi tidak, so jangan pandang ringan. Nanti anak cucu kita esok pun terima pakai dan jadi amalan dan perkara biasa. Contoh lah, pemakaian tudung bagi wanita Muslim. Pakai tudung adalah tuntutan syarak tapi entah mana silapnya hari ni dah jadi serabut sesetengah amalan pemakaian tudung wanita Muslim kita di Malaysia ni [Dulu-dulu tahun 80an elok je pakai tudung laboh dan baju kurung longgar laboh. Tapi sikit-sikit ianya transformed...(tak payah celoteh sini nanti panjang sangat)...at last now ada orang pakai tudong singkat nipis (kadang nampak tengkok) dan pakai kemeja-T lengan pendek ketat singkat dedah dada nampak lurah dan sendat buah dada serta tersingkap belly button, serta pakai jeans ketat nampak elok shape punggong boleh kenal anak dara lagi ke atau dah jadi isteri orang, hah tu dia!].


Even in America nowadays people are even more sensitive and play safe by saying "Happy Holidays", knowing the great cultural diversity and believes of the people. Oghang Amarika yang kapiak (loghat Kedah) tu pun lagi berjaga-jaga walau pun depa majority Christian di negara sendiri. Few days ago saya juga ada terima satu greeting cards daripada one African country, it just says “Seasons Greetings” – lagi canggih: simple, mudah, selamat. You compare tengok mentality depa, ada peka dan considerate pada orang lain!


Next time kalau you dapat ucapan yang sedemikian, you tell them back, fight back in a sincere and polite manner, you jangan diam saja. Show them you care and you’re sensitive. Diam makna you tak kesah dan tak peduli, they will keep doing it again next year and years to come. You can reply back such like this “Dear Kevin Lim, thank you for your greeting card. However as you know, I don’t celebrate Christmas, but anyway thank you for your thoughts and remembrance. Also wishing you a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2009”. Simple, but put across your message so that they know how you should be greeted correctly / accordingly.


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