Dear Non-Muslim business owners and corporations,
Thank you for providing surau facilities in your business premises and making it easy for my fellow Muslims to perform our daily prayers. It may seem like a small gesture, but it reflects something much bigger about who we are as a nation. We Muslims have hundreds of thousands of surau all over the country, including within business and corporate organisations, regardless of ownership.
We live in a country built on giving and taking. Malaysia is a Muslim-majority nation with Islam as the religion of the Federation. Yet we also have thousands of churches, Hindu temples, Buddhist temples, Chinese temples and gurdwaras combined. We celebrate some of the world’s most vibrant Thaipusam processions, joyous Chinese New Year celebrations with lion dances, and beautiful Christmas services and carols across the country. Our diversity is not tolerated. It is lived.
In the same spirit, within organisations where Muslims may not be the majority, space is still given for a surau. That is the Malaysian way. We make room for one another.
This is why Malaysia is great.
Malaysia is a wonderful embodiment of the Quranic verse:
“We have revealed to you ˹O Prophet˺ this Book with the truth, as a confirmation of previous Scriptures and a supreme authority over them. So judge between them by what Allah has revealed, and do not follow their desires over the truth that has come to you. To each of you We have ordained a code of law and a clear way.,,˹ ˺.. To Allah you will all return, then He will inform you regarding your differences.”
Qur’an 5:48
We give. We take. We respect. We say thank you to each other. And we move forward, together as one.
Peace,
Anas
Source and photo
https://letusaddvalue.blogspot.com/2026/02/give-and-take-thank-you-for-surau.html
