“It’s strange. The Chinese don’t go for Friday prayers or know about the hadith, yet are more concerned about corruption,” he was quoted as saying by the Malay daily.
Hadiths are the sayings of Prophet Muhammad (s a w).
Mat Sabu also said that Islamic lectures had often touched on corruption, yet the Muslim community, he alleged, largely ignored it, including the controversy surrounding the RM2.6 billion banked into Prime Minister Najib Razak’s personal accounts.
“We are not worried as to how the people will perceive Najib Razak, but how outsiders view Islam,” Sinar Harian reported the former PAS man as saying.
He also praised DAP-led Penang for having reduced its debts to the Federal government, compared to other states like Kelantan under PAS’s leadership and added, “There are no leakages in DAP.”