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Malaisie. Mohammed-Yamalal-Alam, Sultan de Soulou (La Nature, 3 avril 1880, n°357, p.273).

A black and white photograph of Sultan Mohammed Jamalul of Sulu published in La Nature on 3 April 1880. Photographed or reproduced by Joseph Montano.

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Why Oil-Rich State Sparked $14 Billion Battle Between Malaysia and Philippine ‘Royal Heirs’

By Andreo Calonzo, Ravil Shirodkar and Kok Leong Chan

14 April 2023 at 7:00 am MYT

Surrounded by three seas, the Malaysian state of Sabah, at the northern end of Borneo island, boasts picturesque beaches, stunning mountains — and a rich supply of palm oil and crude reserves. This idyllic place, however, has long been a source of friction with the neighboring Philippines — home to claimants to the throne of the defunct Sulu Sultanate — over the question of ownership. While the Malaysian government has rejected the would-be heirs’ claims, and even branded one of them a terrorist, a European court has ordered Malaysia to pay some $14 billion as compensation. While the legal battle continues, new governments in both countries are figuring out how to possibly resolve the pesky issue.

1. How did this start?

The dispute originates from a commercial contract signed in 1878 by the Sulu Sultanate — an archipelago stretching across the Sulu Sea in Southeast Asia — with two European merchants who later formed the British North Borneo Company. There’s still debate on whether the sultan leased or ceded the area of Sabah under the agreement. The state fell under British control after World War II, and residents voted to join Malaysia when the country gained independence in 1963 — shortly after the sultanate ceded its sovereignty to the Philippines. The Malaysian government agreed to continue annual payments of 5,300 ringgit ($1,200) to the sultan’s descendants. In early 2013, Malaysian planes bombarded Sabah and sent ground troops after an armed clan from the Philippines invaded to try to reclaim territory. They were followers of a self-proclaimed sultan, Jamalul Kiram III. Dozens of people were killed, and the payments stopped after that. Kiram III, who died later that year, was an indirect descendant of the last uncontested sultan, Jamalul Kiram II, who died in 1936 with no heirs. 

2. Why is the Philippines involved? 

Malaysia’s neighbor has retained a dormant claim on Sabah derived from the Sulu Sultanate, most of which is now Philippine territory. (The sultanate’s royal capital of Maimbung is located in what’s now the province of Sulu in the southwest.) Over the years, Philippine presidents have vacillated between reviving the claim to letting sleeping dogs lie so as to smooth ties with Malaysia. Sultan Mahakuta Kiram was the last to be officially recognized by the Philippine government, under the dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The sultan’s reign ended with his death in 1986, around the same time Marcos was deposed. The Philippines hasn’t recognized anyone since. But the issue of Sabah’s ownership lingered. In 2020, the issue again sparked another diplomatic spat, with top officials sparring on Twitter. 

3. Why is Sabah important?

Besides being a popular tourist destination with beaches and diving sites, the rain-forested former sultanate — more than 1,400 kilometers (870 miles) across the South China Sea from peninsular Malaysia — accounts for more than a quarter of the country’s crude oil reserves and has lured oil and gas investments from the likes of Shell and ConocoPhillips. Sabah is also Malaysia’s biggest palm-oil producing state, while the country’s is the world’s second-biggest palm oil grower. 

4. How did the dispute end up in Europe?

Years after Malaysia stopped its payments, the Sulu heirs hired lawyers to pursue legal action based on the original commercial deal. The claimants are bankrolled by a global litigation fund, Therium Capital Management Ltd. After being blocked in the UK and then Spain, another former colonial power, they ended up in an arbitration court in Paris. The arbitrator last year ordered Malaysia to pay 62.59 billion ringgit ($14 billion) to the sultan’s descendants as restitution and compensation. (The issue of sovereignty was not addressed.) Malaysia obtained an order from the Paris Court of Appeals staying enforcement of the ruling. The Sulu heirs challenged it but the stay was upheld in March 2023. Shortly before that, bailiffs appeared at the Malaysian embassy and staff residence in Paris, seeking details about the property. The bailiffs, who appeared to have acted on instruction from the Sulu claimants, were turned away. Malaysia’s Special Sulu Secretariat said it plans to bring the Sulu heirs to court over the maneuver. Meanwhile, Malaysia’s state-owned oil and gas company Petroliam Nasional Bhd., known as Petronas, confirmed in February that it had been served seizure orders on two units in Luxembourg, as part of the Sulu claimants’ efforts to enforce the arbitration award. Petronas said the action was “baseless” and vowed to defend its legal position.

5. What’s the strategy now?

Malaysia’s new government under Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, elected in November, plans “to go on the offensive” against the Sulu group, a change from the previous strategy of “firefighting,” Khairul Dzaimee Daud, director-general in the law ministry, said in April. In a first step, Malaysia classified one of the Sulu claimants — Muhammad Fuad Abdullah Kiram — as a terrorist under the country’s anti-money laundering and terrorism laws. The person is one of the Sulu group’s eight members claiming to be heirs of the Sulu sultan, according to the government. A lawyer for the Sulu claimants described Malaysia’s move as an attempt “to pressure foreign courts,” adding that his client is “no terrorist.” Malaysia also approved the hiring of a UK-based public relations firm and sending the home minister to the four countries — France, Spain, Luxembourg and the Netherlands — involved in the arbitration. Back home, Anwar and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. — the former president’s son, who was elected last year — agreed in March to hold in-depth talks. 

The Reference Shelf

Malaysia’s virtual repository for information related to the Sabah case, and another website maintained by lawyers for the claimants.

A succession flowchart of the Sulu sultanate provided by the Philippine government.

The website of the Sabah state government.

A former Philippine chief justice opines on the Sabah legal claims.

A 1908 book, History of Sulu, from the Philippines.

(click on main link for photos and graphics)

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🍃🕊🍃 Reciting Salawat And Salutations Upon Imam (as)

🍃 One of the duties during the period of Ghaibat is to recite Salawat and Salutations upon Imam (as). Its merit and emphasis is evident from the following:

1. Salawat is a kind of prayer. Therefore whatever applies to Dua or praying for Imam (as) is applicable here as well. The traditions exhorting us to pray for Imam (as) also support the importance of this duty. Actually the aim of reciting Salawat is to pray to Allah to bestow Mercy upon Imam (as). And as we all know, all the affairs of the world and the hereafter are accomplished with the help of Divine Mercy. Therefore whenever we recite Salawat for Imam (as) and say, “Allahumma Salle a’laa Maulana wa Sayyidina Saheb az-zamaan,” etc. (Translation: O Allah! Bless our Master and our Chief, the Master of the Age.). We mean to invocate Divine mercy for all the affairs connected with Imam (as).

Thus in this request to the Almighty Allah we pray that He protect the Imam and remove every kind of sorrow and grief from him and from the hearts of his Shias and friends and also hasten his reappearance. From this we actually intend to please the Imam due to his victory over the enemies of faith, establishment of justice on the earth, success of his followers and believers in obtaining Paradise…from the different types of wide mercy of Allah that He has specialized his Awliya with it and its count is known by none except Him, and is concealed in this Salawat of ours. We beseech the Almighty to include us among the companions of the Imam and his friends in the world and the hereafter who have been specially chosen for his blessings; and Allah is the acceptor of supplications.

2. The arguments in favor of reciting the Salawat upon the Messenger of Allah (S) and his holy progeny (Ahle Bayt (as)) apply here as well.

3. In quite a few supplications of the Purified Imams (as) we find the mention of Salawat upon Imam az-Zaman (as).

4. In a supplication narrated through Amari that we have quoted in the previous section, there is special emphasis on asking the Almighty Allah to give us Taufeeq to recite Salawat on the Holy Imam (as).

5. All the traditions generally highlight the importance of reciting Salawat on the Imam of the Time (as), especially the traditional report quoted by Sayyid Ibne Tawoos in Jamalul Usboo narrating from Imam Hasan Askari (as) in which he has advised reciting Salawat on all Imams, each with a special Salawat; in that the following special Salawat is mentioned for the Imam of the Time (as):

O Allah! Send blessings upon Your Wali and the son of Your Wali. One whose obedience You made incumbent and rights obligatory. You removed all impurities from him and purified him a thorough purification. O Allah! Help him and by it help Your religion and thereby help Your Awliya (friends) and his friends and by it help his Shias and his helpers and include us among them.

O Allah! Take them in Your refuge from the mischief of every oppressor and transgressor, and from mischief of all Your creatures. And protect him from the front, the back, from right and left and protect him and grant security to him from every calamity that comes to him from every direction. And through him protect (the religion of) Your Messenger and the Progeny of Your Messenger.

And make evident through it justice through his hands and bestow him with special help. And help those who help him and degrade his opponents. And through him destroy the oppressor and infidels and annihilate the disbelievers, the hypocrites and all the apostates whether they are from the east or the west from the dry land or from the seas, from the plains or from hilly areas.

And by him fill up the earth with justice and make apparent the religion of Your Messenger (Peace be upon him and his progeny). O Allah! Include us among his helpers and assistants and followers and Shias. And make apparent in my life all that the Aale Muhammad are eager for and fulfill their hopes as regards their enemies (degrade their enemies). O the rightful God, the Lord of the worlds! (accept my supplication).1

🍃🕊🍃 Reminder 🍃🕊🍃

At the end of Part Seven we have presented a Salawat based on a Dua for His Eminence (as), quoting from Misbahuz Zaer, which may referred to.

🍃🕊🍃 al-Islam.org 🍃🕊🍃

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March 22, 1915, the Sultan of Sulu relinquished his sovereignty over Sulu

March 22, 1915, the Sultan of Sulu relinquished his sovereignty over Sulu

On March 22, 1915, the Sultan of Sulu, Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram, in behalf of his adherents and people of the Sulu Archipelago, signed in Zamboanga, a mutual agreement with the Governor General, represented by the governor of the Department of Mindano and Sulu, Frank W. Carpenter, renouncing his sovereignty over the Sulu archipelago. The Sultan agreed “without any reservation and limitation…

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Sultan Moh. Jamalul Kiram II of Sulu with an Islamic scholar and a court official.

G R Lambert and co. (Photographer)

Sulu Archipelago 1894-1936

National Museum van Wereldculturen

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Calon Ketua Umum APJII | Muhammad Arif Angga

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Why Malaysia Owes A Sultan's Heirs $15 Billion

The descendants of the last sultan of the isolated Philippine territory of Sulu are attempting to enforce a $15 billion arbitration verdict in a dispute over a colonial-era property sale, and Malaysia is trying to protect its investments. Two European colonists agreed to utilise the sultan's territory in what is now Malaysia in 1878; independent Malaysia upheld this agreement until 2013, paying the monarch's heirs around $1,000 year. 144 years after the original agreement, Malaysia is now liable for the second-largest arbitration judgement ever for discontinuing the payments following a deadly incursion by followers of Sultan Mohammed Jamalul Alam's descendants that resulted in the deaths of over 50 persons. Paul Cohen, a principal co-counsel for the sultan's heirs at the British legal firm 4-5 Gray's Inn Square, described the case as "fascinating and peculiar." Despite serving two Petronas subsidiaries in Luxembourg with a seizure order in July to implement the award the heirs had won in February, Malaysia had for years mostly rejected the claims. According to Reuters' conversations with key players in the case and legal documents that it has access to, the arbitration decision in France came after an eight-year legal battle by the heirs and $20 million in money that were generated for them from unnamed third-party investors. Read the full article

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Paris court grants Malaysia’s application to suspend claims by purported heirs of Sultan Jamalul Kiram II http://dlvr.it/STrvzH

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Jamalul Insan: Dewan Pers Tidak Pernah Keluarkan Aturan Kerja Sama Media Harus Terdaftar

Jamalul Insan: Dewan Pers Tidak Pernah Keluarkan Aturan Kerja Sama Media Harus Terdaftar #HimpunID

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Dewan Pers Minta Perusahaan Media Beri Gaji Wartawan

Dewan Pers Minta Perusahaan Media Beri Gaji Wartawan

SUMENEP, MaduraPost – Dewan Pers tekankan perusahaan media memberikan gaji bagi karyawannya sesuai Upah Minimum Kabupaten (UMK). “Media itu jangan hanya minta wartawannya cari uang dan berita, tapi harus digaji,” kata Jamalul Insan, Ketua Komisi Pendidikan, Pelatihan & Pengembangan Profesi Pers Dewan Pers, saat mengisi materi di Uji Kompetensi Wartawan (UKW) angkatan muda di Kabupaten Sumenep,…

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(I copied this from the Financial Times so you don't hit the paywall) The sultan, his family and a $15bn dispute over oil in Malaysia

The heirs to the last ruler of Sulu have seized state-owned energy assets in a lawsuit that dates back to colonial Britain

Oliver Telling in Singapore and Leo Lewis in Tokyo

It is an unlikely setting for a legal fight over a British colonial holdover. But at lunchtime last Monday, a bailiff walked into a serviced office building in the Avenue John F Kennedy in central Luxembourg to serve an asset seizure notice on two subsidiaries of one of the biggest energy companies in the world, Petronas.

It was a stunning salvo in a $15bn legal battle that centres on a Malaysian state about 11,000km away, and involves descendants of a former sultan, a land deal with British colonialists, a publicity-shy London-based litigation fund and a dispute 144 years in the making.

That same afternoon, the bailiff, appointed by claimants in the Philippines, visited the headquarters of nine banks dotted around Luxembourg, handing financiers across the European tax haven the same demand to freeze the accounts of the two Luxembourg-based subsidiaries — Petronas Azerbaijan (Shah Deniz) and Petronas South Caucasus.

Unless Malaysia acknowledges the legitimacy of their claims, say the claimant’s lawyers, there will be more seizures of state-owned assets like Petronas in the coming weeks. Other units from the company’s vast global business network or even insolvent state investment fund 1MDB could be a target.

When word of what was happening in Europe reached the Petronas headquarters in Malaysia — the twin 452m-high glass towers that dominate the Kuala Lumpur skyline — a terse statement from the company confirmed the delivery of the saisie-arret and vowed to fight for its assets.

The case, which until now has attracted little international attention, centres on competing claims over the oil-rich Malaysian state of Sabah. The eight claimants say they are the heirs of Jamalul Kiram II, the last formally recognised sultan of Sulu, a small archipelago in the nearby Philippines. For several years they have been seeking compensation for the land that their ancestor leased to a British trading company before the discovery of vast natural resources in Sabah. The heirs, backed by a London law firm, have been bankrolled by a UK investment fund, Therium, in a litigation process that has now cost in excess of $10mn.

Petronas, whose business generates 11 per cent of Malaysian government revenues, was only dragged into the case with the seizures on Monday. The proceedings have been described by legal experts as one of the most unusual international arbitration disputes in history.

It does not seem to have a precedent, says Colin Ong QC, a prominent arbitration lawyer not involved in the case. “No one could have predicted 144 years ago that an agreement signed in Borneo during British colonial times would give rise to such a dispute today.”

In March, an arbitrator in France, Gonzalo Stampa, ruled in favour of the sultan’s heirs and found that Malaysia, which inherited the obligations of the 1878 lease agreement upon securing independence from the UK in 1963, must pay them $14.9bn in compensation. An earlier hearing in Spain had stalled after Malaysia complained that communications were not properly handled.

Malaysia is appealing against Stampa’s ruling and has condemned the case as an attack on its sovereignty. Some Malaysians have even questioned whether the claimants are the genuine heirs of the Sulu sultan.

A day after the seizures, a Paris judge suspended the enforcement of the $14.9bn award until the appeal is concluded. This prompted Kuala Lumpur to declare that the award could no longer be enforced anywhere in the world. But independent legal experts and a Spanish PR company, Estudio de Comunicación, which is representing Malaysia in Europe confirmed that the suspension only applies in France.

Although the arbitrator made his decision in February, the Malaysian government was caught off guard by the asset seizures in Luxembourg and by the prospect that they could now continue elsewhere. The move sparked panic in Kuala Lumpur, with two Malaysian MPs seeking an emergency debate in parliament and the government announcing plans to launch a Sulu “task force”.

The Sulu heirs’ representatives argue they were pushed to take these measures after Malaysia refused to engage. Paul Cohen, lead counsel for the claimants and a lawyer at London-based 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square, says litigation was the “final resort”.

“More than one Malaysian government refused to respond to our clients’ direct approaches in the past few years,” Cohen says. “Given that the Malaysian government knew who they were, and knew every aspect of a 140-year-old contract, this was clearly a tactic to freeze off confrontation and resolution.”

Bankrolling the sultan’s heirs

The award could also deliver a windfall for London-based investor Therium, which according to multiple people close to the case is backing the Sulu heirs financially. The cost of pursuing arbitration cases over a number of years represents a substantial financial gamble on the outcome of each case, and would typically run into tens of millions of dollars. The eight descendants, who live in the Philippines, are not wealthy and include several retirees according to their representatives.

The litigation fund, which says it has raised $1.1bn to finance various cases since it was founded in 2009, declined to comment. In the past, it has publicly backed less geopolitically sensitive cases, such as last year’s high-profile appeal against the wrongful conviction of UK Post Office workers.

The case has come at a critical time for Malaysia, which has had three prime ministers in as many years. The south-east Asian country has been embroiled in a political crisis since 2015, amid subsequent revelations that billions of dollars had been embezzled from 1MDB. Petronas, one senior Malaysian minister recently suggested, will be central to the government’s efforts to rebuild the post-pandemic economy.

The state-owned enterprise has this year cashed in on soaring oil prices sparked by the war in Ukraine. In the first quarter, its pre-tax profits surged 114 per cent to $7.1bn compared to the same period in 2021. Zafrul Aziz, Malaysia’s finance minister, told the Financial Times in April that the boom in commodity prices could help Malaysia reduce its debt.

But additional seizures by the Sulu heirs could set back Malaysia’s recovery.

The present value of the Luxembourg holding companies seized by the Sulu heirs is unclear. In February, they liquidated a 15.5 per cent stake in Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz offshore gasfield, previously valued at almost $2.3bn. Petronas said the proceeds from this sale were “repatriated”, but declined to comment on how much the subsidiaries are worth now.

As long as Malaysia refuses to accept the award, its debt to the claimants is likely to increase. For every year it goes unpaid, the money owed will increase by 10 per cent, it was decided in Paris.

Zafrul dismissed the significance of the French ruling in April. “The Malaysian economy size is RM1.5tn. The $15bn is about RM40bn . . . Our country, [will] we crash after [losing] that 3 per cent?” he asked sarcastically. He dismissed the claim as “a frivolous, no-basis case”.

Legal fight goes global

The case has touched a nerve in Malaysia, which has fended off claims to Sabah, a region measuring roughly 74,000 sq km with a population of almost 4mn, for decades. The Philippines, which lies to the north east, has a historical claim to the state that some politicians have continued to revive.

Jamalul Kiram II died in 1936 without leaving a direct heir, but since then a procession of Filipino citizens have made claims to the throne that for centuries ruled a region spanning modern day Malaysia and the Philippines. One man, Muedzul Lail Tan Kiram, reportedly still claims to be the living sultan of Sulu.

In 2013, the followers of one self-proclaimed heir arrived in Sabah to lead an invasion that plunged the normally peaceful corner of Malaysia into violent chaos. During the ensuing fight with security forces, at least 60 people were reported killed before the invaders — who numbered no more than 180 — retreated.

Up to that time, the claimants said Malaysia had paid them an annual stipend of $5,300, in recognition that they were relatives of the late sultan and successors of the 1878 agreement. After the attack, Kuala Lumpur halted the payments, despite a former Malaysian attorney-general later acknowledging there appeared to be no evidence linking the armed invaders with the heirs who had been receiving the yearly fees.

In 2017, the descendants declared their intention to take legal action, a move that has reignited anxiety over Sabah in Malaysia and exposed Britain’s messy colonial legacy in the country.

“This case is the history of colonialism, with a twist,” says Elisabeth Mason, a lawyer at 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square.

“Imagine that, instead of buying Manhattan for 60 guilders, Peter Minuit signed a perpetual lease,” says Mason, referring to the Dutch colonialist who acquired Manhattan Island from the Lenape Native Americans. “Surely by now, the Lenape tribe would have looked from Wall Street up Broadway to Lincoln Center and Central Park and concluded: ‘60 guilders isn’t anywhere near enough. It’s high time to renegotiate this deal.’

“That’s exactly what’s happened here,” she adds.

Malaysia has on several occasions attempted to shoot down the proceedings. It now says it has opened a criminal investigation into Stampa, who began the proceedings in Spain but moved the case to France after it was suspended in Madrid. Stampa declined to comment. According to Ong, international law allows arbitration hearings to be relocated when they become “unduly difficult”.

Following the arbitrator’s ruling in February, independent lawyers were bemused by Kuala Lumpur’s decision to send “diplomatic notes” to every signatory of the New York Convention on enforcing arbitration awards, of which Malaysia is a member. Such a move, they said, suggested that Malaysia hoped it could influence foreign courts.

“How can that even be done?” asks Roger Chin, partner at Chin Lau Wong & Foo and president of the Sabah Law Society. Malaysia is “in a way [undermining] judiciaries’ independence by saying: ‘don’t look at it’. That is obviously quite wrong”.

A representative for Malaysia said the country is taking “every action it deems necessary to make known its position regarding the conflict”. They added that the arbitration was not valid after Stampa’s appointment was overturned in Spain, and the award’s suspension in Paris is grounds for other countries to refuse its enforcement.

The right heir?

Stuck in the middle of the legal wranglings are the people of Sabah, Malaysia’s poorest state, where according to government data almost a fifth of the population lived below the poverty line in 2019. While those the FT spoke to were strongly opposed to the Sulu descendants’ claims, they also felt let down by the national government.

A revolving door that has delivered three governments in three years has impeded efforts to challenge the case, according to Chin. “With different attorneys-general and each one coming in without having served for a very long time, that really has an effect.”

The national government needs to bring the people of Sabah into the discussion, says Shari Jeffri, a banker who has been researching the region’s history for 20 years. He says he has historical records showing the land was never the Sulu sultan’s to lease in the first place, as it belonged to the sultan of Brunei.

“Why are [the Sulu heirs] bringing up the historical claim? I would rather the Malaysian government give the money to Sabah,” he adds. “We need the infrastructure.”

The claimants say they intend to dedicate a “sizeable percentage” of the proceeds to addressing issues in the region spanning the former sultanate of Sulu, including education, healthcare and housing.

The case has also reignited fears about the Philippines reopening its claim to Sabah. Its new president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, is the son of the late dictator who once argued Sabah belonged to the Philippines.

“The arbitration ruling has given ordinary Filipinos [the idea that] they have a chance of success,” says Yong Teck Lee, former chief minister of Sabah. “Among ordinary Malaysians in Sabah, at the back of our mind is this anxiety.”

The most pressing issue for the government in Kuala Lumpur is how to prevent the Sulu heirs from hoovering up more of the state assets that form the backbone of the national economy.

The claimants’ lawyers warn that more state assets will be pursued unless a resolution is reached.

“International law doesn’t let you pick and choose,” says Cohen. “Either Malaysia honours its international obligations, or it goes ‘full Russia’.”

“The seizure process is a rolling programme that is designed to meet our clients’ financial demands,” he adds. “But we hope Malaysia will see the cost of being a legal pariah state and come to terms.”

Additional reporting by Eleanor Olcott in Taipei

Anyways, guess who lives in Sabah and is seeing the consequences of colonialism and their stupid ass poorly worded contract legalese?

Also I'm cranky, the supposed heirs are a bunch of impoverished people living in a backwater village in Southern Philippines where the villagers have been generationally brainwashed into serving them hand and foot; the news broadcasts featuring these heirs making statements from their nicest sofa in decrepit wooden homes are somewhere online but they were going around especially during the incursion where I was praying the reporters I know, who went down to the area to cover it, won't get MURDERED by the followers of this so-called heirs of a long dead sultanate ruling over nothing but demanding money endlessly like a extortionate loan shark. And yes, there's cellphone footage of the gun fights between the heavily armed invaders (they brought bazookas?!) and the armed forces. (One of the reporters was my classmate who sat next to me for all of Form 5 in high school)

My unproven and personal theory that the Philippines government have done nothing to deny the claims of a contemporarily non-existent sultanate kicking around in the part of the country that they've usually scorned is because they want to hold a card to some day have all the shiny shiny gloopy petroleum deep sea reserve off the coasts of Sabah, and strip bare all our already declining virgin forests.

Anyways, it is extremely telling that these people (scammers) are going after the oil and money, and not the right to govern over the land and its people.

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DEFENDING THE COUNTRY IS A NOBLE DUTY

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“And [remember] when your Lord proclaimed, ‘if you are grateful, I will surely increase you [in favor]; but if you deny, indeed, My punishment is severe.”

-Surah Ibrahim: Verse 7

As Brunei Darussalam is currently facing the second wave of Covid-19 and with all the difficulties that we’re facing at the moment, we need to be grateful to Allah SWT; blessed us with a peaceful, wealthy and harmonious country. As such, it is also our responsibility as citizens and residents to take care of the well-being and prosperity that we enjoy in the best possible way. From my perspective, it is not a simple task to bring wealth and peace to a nation or region; in reality, it necessitates the cooperation and understanding of all parties, as well as the presence of a powerful security force.

Royal Brunei Armed Forces are the security forces charged with defending the king’s, nation’s and country’s domination. Indeed, the military’s duty of guarding and defending the country is honorable, however, it comes with numerous dangers and obligations. As a result, every member of the military who performs their responsibilities with complete commitment is acknowledged and respected especially during this pandemic and we owe them gratitude. As stated in Hadith Rasulullah SAW:

Narrated ‘Umar bin Al-Khattab: I heard Allah’s Messenger SAW saying: “The reward of deeds depends upon the intentions and every person will get the reward according to what he has intended.” [Imam Mulsim]

It also stated during the Friday preaches, 4th June 2021, the spirit of fight and defense should not only be present in the military but also should be present in every member of the society and as a muslim, we need to prioritize a wise leadership based on faith and piety to Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala. We can take example from Surah Ali Imran: Verse 123 where although the number of Muslim soldiers is fewer than the number of hostile forces but with faith, piety and a strong fighting spirit as well as with the permission of Allah SWT, the enemy army defeated.

“And already has Allah given you victory at (the battle of) Badr while you were weak (i.e., few in. number). Then fear Allah; perhaps you will be grateful.”

-Surah Ali ‘Imran: Verse 123

Remember that, it is everyone's responsibility to protect our country and everyone needs to play their role in order to protect us from any harm especially during the current situation of Covid-19. As Muslims, let us pray that our country will always be calm and free from hostile threats as well as free of diseases, natural catastrophes and other hazards and may Allah SWT protect our frontliners and only Allah SWT has the power to reward their sacrifices.

Reference: Friday preaches 4th June 2021 http://www.kheu.gov.bn/Lists/Khutbah/NewDisplayItem.aspx?ID=904&Source=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ekheu%2Egov%2Ebn%2Flists%2Fkhutbah%2Fviewall%2Easpx&ContentTypeId=0x0100EE34442FD552CC4FAECE608C6A2C143B

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