Pusat Tahfiz Amal? Selling Posters?
photo courtesy of the photographer
“Just give them the money and you will get the reward from God, as long you are ‘ikhlas’ you will get it” a friend.
Pusat Tahfiz Amal, you buy the calendar at RM10 each (the printing course might be 10% of that) or you can just give them the money at any amount as long as you’re ikhlas, the ill manner boy with songkok will surely accept any amount. Innocent today but they will be aggressive if you bombard them with questions in the next 5 days.
This is two weeks ago,
Shahrul Azmi: Adik tak sekolah ke?
The Boy: Sekolah tahfiz kat kedah abang.
Shahrul Azmi: Bila adik sekolah kalau adik ada kat KL
The Boy : Kite orang ada kelas 2 minggu kat PD
Yesterday I saw the same boy, so I asked him why he wasn’t in school; the answer was a carbon copy of the previous… Swear to God I feel like an idiot and I can smell the piss…
Shahrul Azmi: 2 minggu lepas kau cakap dekat aku kau ada camp dekat PD, sekarang kau ada lagi kat sini… bila masa ko belajar.
The Boy: Kita belajar lepas subuhla bang… (And ciow…)
He raised his voice and took the right step by leaving me or else he might be answering more questions, surely, empty handed.
I went thru internet, the issue is nothing new but no real solution to the problem can be found, maybe I should continue digging…
I call up Majlis agama Islam Kedah or MAIK at 04 7333288, a lady answered the phone and she told me that Pusat Tahfiz Amal was asked to stop using kids for collecting donation, when I requested for the official documentation for that she told me to leave my number and Datuk’s Secretary (so wadda??) will call me….nothing till now….
Moment after I made another phone call, this time to JAIS( Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor), 4 extensions later I managed to talk to Zakuan, an officer in JAIS. (03 55243600-ext2096)
This is what he told me;
Pusat Tahfiz Amal, you buy the calendar at RM10 each (the printing course might be 10% of that) or you can just give them the money at any amount as long as you’re ikhlas, the ill manner boy with songkok will surely accept any amount. Innocent today but they will be aggressive if you bombard them with questions in the next 5 days.
This is two weeks ago,
Shahrul Azmi: Adik tak sekolah ke?
The Boy: Sekolah tahfiz kat kedah abang.
Shahrul Azmi: Bila adik sekolah kalau adik ada kat KL
The Boy : Kite orang ada kelas 2 minggu kat PD
Yesterday I saw the same boy, so I asked him why he wasn’t in school; the answer was a carbon copy of the previous… Swear to God I feel like an idiot and I can smell the piss…
Shahrul Azmi: 2 minggu lepas kau cakap dekat aku kau ada camp dekat PD, sekarang kau ada lagi kat sini… bila masa ko belajar.
The Boy: Kita belajar lepas subuhla bang… (And ciow…)
He raised his voice and took the right step by leaving me or else he might be answering more questions, surely, empty handed.
I went thru internet, the issue is nothing new but no real solution to the problem can be found, maybe I should continue digging…
I call up Majlis agama Islam Kedah or MAIK at 04 7333288, a lady answered the phone and she told me that Pusat Tahfiz Amal was asked to stop using kids for collecting donation, when I requested for the official documentation for that she told me to leave my number and Datuk’s Secretary (so wadda??) will call me….nothing till now….
Moment after I made another phone call, this time to JAIS( Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor), 4 extensions later I managed to talk to Zakuan, an officer in JAIS. (03 55243600-ext2096)
This is what he told me;
- JAIS don’t give any permission to Pusat Tahfiz Amal on collecting donation
- They must produce an official letter from JAIS.
- JAIS will never release letter with phrases like ‘Tolong Bantu mereka’ or any other that carry such sentiment.
- Neither Afghan nor Pakistan individual collector received any letter from JAIS
- However, JAIS cannot do anything coz there is no enactment allowing them to take action (weird huh? why do the collectors need to get permission from JAIS?)
He told me to report this matter to police… (Damn! Can’t they do that for me, it is his job anyway)
Come to think of it, Pusat Tahfiz Amal is not collecting donation, they’re doing business by selling the posters, legitimate huh? But the fact that they are using under age workers is sickening!! Where do I go from here?
I will never let this go… not this time
posted by Shahrul Azmi at 12:49 PM
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