{"id":1013,"date":"2006-12-18T23:16:30","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T15:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2010-12-04T09:10:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T23:10:51","slug":"1009-of-perlis-from-indera-kayangan-to-darul-sunnah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"[1009] Of Perlis: from Indera Kayangan to Darul Sunnah"},"content":{"rendered":"

I patrol Wikipedia rather religiously. I used to make countless edits on it but lately, I haven’t had much time to spend on it. Nevertheless, because of the frequency of my visits, it’s relatively easy for me to spot vandalism on pages that I maintain watch on. While most acts of vandalism are easy to catch, some aren’t. Sometimes, legitimate edits could be mistaken as vandalism. One of such edition concerns the page Perlis<\/a>. On that page, it’s easy to find anonymous editors changing the noun Perlis Indera Kayangan to Perlis Darul Sunnah.<\/p>\n

At first, I thought the switch was purely vandalism or some newbies were having fun on Wikipedia. Later however, the changes were becoming above average in frequency and more importantly, consistent. Given that, I toyed with the possibility of me being wrong and the anonymous editors being right. To ascertain it, I ran a little research on the net and surprisingly, I found countless hits containing “Perlis Darul Sunnah”. One of those hits is an article from Harakah<\/a>:<\/p>\n

KANGAR, 26 Sep (Hrkh) – Pesuruhjaya PAS Perlis, Ustaz Hashim Jasin menyeru agar gelaran Indera Kayangan bagi negeri Perlis ditukar kepada Darul Sunnah secara rasminya.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That roughly translates into:<\/p>\n

KANGAR, 26 Sept (Hrkh) – Perlis PAS commissioner Ustaz Hashim Jasin urged to officially change Perlis’ title from Indera Kayangan to Darul Sunnah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Department of Environment<\/a>, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment also used Perlis Darul Sunnah instead of Perlis Indera Kayangan. The Department however isn’t consistent<\/a> in its usage.<\/p>\n

Indera Kayangan, by the way could be rendered to English as “land of dreams”. Dream as in when a person sleeps, the person dreams. As a person in the comment section has commeted and after consulting a dictionary<\/a>, “land of gods” is the accurate intepretation.<\/p>\n

Further search brought me to a forum which it’s stated that the Chief Minister of Perlis declared the name switch on July 2 2006<\/a>. The forum might not be credible and so, handle this information with a healthy dose of skepticism.<\/p>\n

What is wrong with Indera Kayangan anyway? Is it too unislamic?<\/p>\n

If it is so, then I hope people of whom are making effort to change the state title realize that being a Muslim isn’t about being an Arab<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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