Raja
adil Raja disembah. Raja zalim Raja disanggah. For the state I grew up
in, and for the state I am dwelling in now, they were ruled by Raja
adil.
My King, Tuanku Halim is a Raja adil and I have witnessed with my own eye how his majesty would endured hardships, stand under hot sun for prolonged period, visit flooded area, spend his majesty's holiday and weekends to do charity duty including standing for hours and hours giving out aid, attending school functions, etc. He didn't show any sign of complaint, displeasure whatsoever while carrying his duty that many among the commoners like me cannot even imagine especially the boredom and repetitive role.
My King, Tuanku Halim is a Raja adil and I have witnessed with my own eye how his majesty would endured hardships, stand under hot sun for prolonged period, visit flooded area, spend his majesty's holiday and weekends to do charity duty including standing for hours and hours giving out aid, attending school functions, etc. He didn't show any sign of complaint, displeasure whatsoever while carrying his duty that many among the commoners like me cannot even imagine especially the boredom and repetitive role.
His wife my Queen, when presented the best student award to me in 2004,
made it a point to clap her majesty's hand at all students, hundreds of
them who receives awards. The claps from the crowd stops at the
20th-30th reciepiens but Her majesty went on to clap and smile to all
reciepiens for hours. Try imagine clapping your hands, handing awards to
hundreds of people, and putting up a graceful smile, for hours and
hours, and for many events.
In one of the event this year where I had the chance to perform to her royal audience, she made it a point to come to me at the end to tell me "you are a good pianist! You played well!". Such humility from our head of state!
It is very disheartening when I read people who commented rudely against our King and Queen. They must understand in a country that practices constitutional monarchy, the monarchy is itself a legal and symbolic "Institution". They are not just two human being. They represent an ancient institution that were given and entrusted with reserved prerogative to stabilize the country when there are grave instability. The institution had served the country very well for hundreds of years and one might not know the implications of the abolishment of such institution. The Australians, as much as they would like to behave like republicans, did not abolish the monarchy institution (Governor General, the Queen's representative). They respected the institution, even if the Governor General had in the past invoked his royal prerogative to involve in politics (the Governor General used to "sack" an Australian Prime Minister who failed to ensure smooth passage of supply bill in the Australian senate, and he then invited the Opposition leader to become an interim Prime Minister before proceed to call go another general election).
I sympatizes our King and Queen, who were being disrespected by ignorant people despite performing their duties diligently. Their duties are not something you and me would like to do : boring and prolonged ceremony where they have to do repeatitive movement for hours and hours, no holiday, no freedom on anything.
The least we could do is to honour the century long institution and practice the culture that we inherited and preserved. It's part of our identity and legal system. The King's symbolic role will become inevitably important when situations warrant it to be, IE in times of insecurity and instability. He will stand out as the uniting symbol and he would be able to invoke his "RESERVED POWER" to restore securities and peace to the nation in certain grave circumstances. We are lucky because they did not need to Invoke those now.
In the Selangor case, please be mindful that the Sultan has no power to appoint Wan Azizah as MB just because Anwar endorsed her. The state support for her was very split and there wasn't a legally binding vote of confidence or no confidence being tabled (to do so requires 2/3 of the DUN requesting a special sitting, something that Pakatan is incapable to fulfill because they were doubtful that they can convince PaS to join them to convene the special seating to remove Khalid.)
As such I must say the monarchy in these cases were very adil and harus disembah.
Daulat Tuanku.
In one of the event this year where I had the chance to perform to her royal audience, she made it a point to come to me at the end to tell me "you are a good pianist! You played well!". Such humility from our head of state!
It is very disheartening when I read people who commented rudely against our King and Queen. They must understand in a country that practices constitutional monarchy, the monarchy is itself a legal and symbolic "Institution". They are not just two human being. They represent an ancient institution that were given and entrusted with reserved prerogative to stabilize the country when there are grave instability. The institution had served the country very well for hundreds of years and one might not know the implications of the abolishment of such institution. The Australians, as much as they would like to behave like republicans, did not abolish the monarchy institution (Governor General, the Queen's representative). They respected the institution, even if the Governor General had in the past invoked his royal prerogative to involve in politics (the Governor General used to "sack" an Australian Prime Minister who failed to ensure smooth passage of supply bill in the Australian senate, and he then invited the Opposition leader to become an interim Prime Minister before proceed to call go another general election).
I sympatizes our King and Queen, who were being disrespected by ignorant people despite performing their duties diligently. Their duties are not something you and me would like to do : boring and prolonged ceremony where they have to do repeatitive movement for hours and hours, no holiday, no freedom on anything.
The least we could do is to honour the century long institution and practice the culture that we inherited and preserved. It's part of our identity and legal system. The King's symbolic role will become inevitably important when situations warrant it to be, IE in times of insecurity and instability. He will stand out as the uniting symbol and he would be able to invoke his "RESERVED POWER" to restore securities and peace to the nation in certain grave circumstances. We are lucky because they did not need to Invoke those now.
In the Selangor case, please be mindful that the Sultan has no power to appoint Wan Azizah as MB just because Anwar endorsed her. The state support for her was very split and there wasn't a legally binding vote of confidence or no confidence being tabled (to do so requires 2/3 of the DUN requesting a special sitting, something that Pakatan is incapable to fulfill because they were doubtful that they can convince PaS to join them to convene the special seating to remove Khalid.)
As such I must say the monarchy in these cases were very adil and harus disembah.
Daulat Tuanku.
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