Fuqaha's blog

Salam bros,

After following the Nyonya Tahir case, one cannot help but wonder and speculate how such thing could have happened. As a Muslim, it brings me to shudders everytime I read it and God forbid that anything remotely close to that should ever happen to myself, my family and future generation or just about anyone for that matter.

I'll give you a gist of the story.

The lady was raised by her Malay grandmother who married a Chinese mualaf of a Hailam descendant. Bred as a Buddhist, she went on to marry a Chinese who never converted to Islam. She later gave birth to 13(some papers stated 8) offsprings who were given Chinese names and lived on and practiced Buddhism. Nyonya Tahir had also declarared that she wanted to be buried according to Buddhist rites indicating that she never intended to practice Islam. Her declaration was certified by a Chinese Commissioner of Oaths.