Pahang declares GISB followers as deviant for upholding two beliefs


KUANTAN: The Pahang Mufti Department, through the Pahang State Islamic Law Consultative Committee, has declared that the followers of GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISB) as heretical and deviant for continuing to uphold two beliefs.

Pahang Mufti Datuk Dr Asmadi Mohamed Naim said the followers continue to uphold the beliefs and practices of Aurad Muhammadiah propagated by the al-Arqam group, which was declared heretical and deviant in 1994, as well as believing that the al-Arqam founder Ashaari Muhammad who passed away in 2010, did not die but ghaib (vanish into the unseen).

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