KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 18 – Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah and Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Hajah Haminah was attended at the National Mosque here, Friday for the Aidilfitri prayers. Their Majesties has performed the prayers along with more than 10,000 worshippers.
Their Majesties were accompanied by Prime Minister Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor and Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin with his wife Noorainee Abd Rahman for the prayers. Besides that, there were also present were Najib’s brother Datuk Seri Nazir Razak and former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
In the additional, the congregation are also included several Cabinet ministers, namely Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, Datuk Seri Khairy Jamaluddin, Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim, Datuk Seri Shafie Apdal, Datuk Seri Mustapha Mohamed, Datuk Seri Zahid Hamidi, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom and Datuk Seri Wahid Omar.
The prayers were led by the Grand Imam of the National Mosque, Tan Sri Syaikh Ismail Muhammad, and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom delivered a sermon. After prayers, Tuanku Abdul Halim engaged in conversation with the worshippers, many of whom took the opportunity to exchange greetings with His Majesty.
Besides that, Jamil Khir in his sermon at the National Mosque would like to remind all the worshippers that Muslims were forbidden to cause enmity among themselves that could weaken relationship in the community. Let’s not allow self interest to overpower us to the extent of dismantling the solidarity we have nurtured for so long and gamble away our power and dignity.
“In the same time, I also would like to called on all Muslims to foster this love through friendship by visiting one another and also called all Muslims in Malaysia to do more good in this world and discard ignorance that contradicts the teachings of Islam,” Jamil Khir added.
