Essay Religion In Malaysia

Religion is basic set of beliefs or attitude and practices that usually agreed upon by a group of people. These set of beliefs concern the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, and involve devotional and ritual observances. They also often contain a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs. A man indicates a natural tendency towards faith and adores everything that he or she considered as superior or hard to understand. According to Paul Connelly (1996), he define that religion is well-born in a effort to depute and order beliefs, imaginings, feeling and actions that arise in response to direct experience of the divine and the spiritual. Furthermore, religion is also is a process which creates meaning for itself on a sustaining

674 after forty years the death of Prophet Muhammad, Islam becomes recognition in this world when the Umayyad ruler Muawiyah was in power at Damascus and had spread out in ASIA since 13th century. In C.e 878 after two hundred years later Islam was follow by the Peninsular Malaysia resident including the port of Kelang which known as the famous trading centre. The native Malays believed the ancient religion and some of the population believe and follow the Hindu and Buddha religion and Malaysia does not recognise as an Islamic country before the coming of Islam. Furthermore, at the political level, head of state in most communities , and the royal rules in the Malay world embraced the Islamic religion. The completeness in the Qur 'an and the Hadith regarding the mankind which should be ranked on a basis of interpersonal equality were attracted and impress people and it make them to embrace Islam . This is because, some people had mentally and physically disturb with low caste system which mostly was followed by Hindu religion until today. Basically in Islam, there was no discrimination or devision on the basis of race, colour, homeland and birthplace, class tribal affiliation and other which gave rise to problems. ( Hj. Ahmad