8/5/09 GETING CRAZY FOR 4, but ignored the trading call!

ONE, is normal (so much), TWO, sometimes, THREE, seldom, FOUR, not much! That is the English translation of one of the famous dialogue of the Nujum Pak Belalang movie. Wanna find out what is it all about, kindly buy the P Ramlee Nujum Pak Belalang Malay movie vcd.

In one of those beautiful evening sometime in 1998, after back from School, I was watching the Denver Christianity Channel. A discussion on Woman Right was hot in the air and I've been following the discussion for couple of days. And, came the turn of a lady speaker from Thailand, and she said, the best man one should think and emulate as the role model in according the highest degree of Woman Right is the Prophet Muhammad, the Muslim messenger. She was not a Muslim, and she admitted that. But she respects Muhammad for his Care and Compassion for the women. At those war and the struggling period, many of his fellow muslim warriors were killed and their women becaming widows and in terrible miseries and hardship due to the lost of their breadwinners.


(2)As the protector to all his followers, Muhammad made a great sacrifice to marry these suffering women, to enable him to take personal care of their families' welfare. Accordingly, since then, they were the wives of the prophet, all of his other followers would treat these women with great respect. Muhammad marrying these widows was not for their sexual services, but merely as a welfare responsibilities that he must shoulder. A responsibility to safeguard their right, welfare, and safety. A sense of great humanity.

(3) But then, I believe, due to his more pressing and greater responsibilities ie to spread the teaching of Islam, then Allah requested him to keep only four of the wives, and relieved (divorced) all the others. Keeping four, when he has more than four, I repeat, when he has more then four, to focus on his true and greater responsibilities (to focus on his true and greater responsibilities!)

(4) But today, we joke and sometimes keep very eager to take at least more than one women to be our wives, but without firstly understanding what is our true responsibilities. I'm wondering, is it correct to take four just because we just have one? Is it just because there is that numeric gap, then we must make it to the maximum? Again my question, did Muhammad take four when he had only one or did he not has to let go numerous, and just to take four?

(5) The immediate answer to why we should take four, because it is a sunnah. I wonder again, Muhammad did also being a great businessman, and he did advised his followers to do trading because that is where the 90 percent of the world wealth come from. But how many of us joke, talk, think, and seriously take that advice. Is it not sunnah Muhhamad as well? Does that not a sunnah that can make us stronger? Why are we taking four but ignoring the other greater one (trading)!

(6) In the late 1980s I visited one of the National Level Peladang Jaya winner, somewhere in Johor, probably by the name of Pak Boryadi (?). He was awarded the Peladang Jaya because he had excelled in four agro-business enterprises(a) Quill Farms (b) Oil Palm Mini-estate (c) Restaurant, and (d)Housing Project. He stayed in one big house, with four wives, and each of the wife is the Manager of his business arms. At that very young age (not married yet) I asked him how did he managed to make all his wives and kids to stay under one roof? His answer was simple, give them business, give them their right to be happy!

(7) Business, assure happiness, get four! He get business first! Then only he take four! And from the short observation, he seem to be a religious person as well.

(Kuching 8 May, 2009)