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Saya tidak akan muncul lagi dalam program televisyen – Ustaz Kazim

LARUT 19 Mac – Pendakwah terkenal, Datuk Mohd. Kazim Elias hari ini mengumumkan bahawa beliau menarik diri daripada menyertai sebarang program ceramah yang bersiaran di televisyen.

Bagaimanapun katanya, beliau akan tetap muncul mengadakan ceramah seperti biasa di luar te­levisyen termasuk bagi rancangan Kalau Dah Jodoh kerana masih terikat kontrak bersama Astro.

Pengumuman itu dibuat melalui Forum Perdana Hal Ehwal Islam di Padang Astaka, Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Datuk Kamaruddin Batu Kurau di sini yang juga disiarkan secara langsung di saluran TV1, Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM)

Menurut Mohd. Kazim, punca beliau menarik diri adalah kerana berasa kecewa apabila ada pihak mengatakannya berdakwah untuk mencari duit sedangkan beliau melakukan tugas tersebut untuk membiayai Pusat Pengajian Al-Barakah di Manjoi.

Beliau juga kecewa kerana dituduh meletakkan bayaran untuk setiap ceramah sedangkan bayaran itu terpulang kepada penganjur.

“Saya kecewa apabila ada yang mengatakan saya penglipur lara sedangkan saya berceramah meninggalkan keluarga, isteri dan anak-anak untuk berdakwah tiba-tiba dituduh sebagai penglipur lara. Jadi saya kecewa.

“Saya juga mungkin terlalu over berceramah di televisyen. Setiap saluran ada saya. Jadi saya rasa saya kena bagi peluang kepada penceramah dan ustaz lain untuk mengambil tempat saya.

“Saya akan berceramah di luar televisyen dan tidak mahu menonjol seperti dulu,” ujarnya.

Turut diundang sebagai panel dalam program yang dipengerusikan Prof. Dr. Redhuan Tee Abdullah itu ialah Mufti Perlis, Prof. Madya Datuk Dr. Mohd. Asri Zainul Abidin dan Datuk Mohd. Naj­muddin Elias.

Minggu lalu, Mufti Perak, Tan Sri Harussani Zakaria menegur Mohd. Kazim atau lebih dikenali sebagai Ustaz Kazim kerana menggunakan pendekatan jenaka dalam ceramah yang disifatkan sebagai ‘penglipur lara’.

Sebelum itu, Mohd. Kazim juga diselubungi isu penyebaran surat dari Jabatan Mufti Perlis yang tidak bersetuju dengan pemilihan pendakwah terkenal itu untuk menjadi panel satu forum dengan alasan beliau membacakan riwa­yat-riwayat palsu.

Terdahulu, Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Dr. Zambry Abd. Kadir secara peribadi meminta Mohd. Kazim agar tidak berhenti daripada berceramah.

Zambry dalam sidang akhbar selepas mempengerusikan mesyuarat mingguan exco kerajaan ne­geri berkata, sumbangan Mohd. Kazim masih diperlukan kerana kaedah dakwah yang disampaikannya menarik minat pelbagai lapisan usia dan kaum.

“Saya berharap isu melibatkan Mohd. Kazim tidak dijadikan polemik, jangan diperbesar-besarkan lagi tetapi diselesaikan dengan cara baik.

“Mohd. Kazim tidak perlu bersara. Jangan ambil keputusan berhenti (berceramah), saya yakin beliau sebagai orang yang ikhlas dalam kerjanya akan terus memberikan khidmat ini kepada masyarakat,” katanya.

Sumber : Utusan Malaysia Online

Fares increased for taxi, train and express bus services

KUALA LUMPUR: Be prepared to pay more for your public transport. The increase in taxi fares takes immediate effect while train and express bus charges will be raised on May 1 and May 15 respectively.

Budget taxis in the Klang Valley and Johor Baru will charge 25 sen per 200m and 25 sen per 36 seconds although the flagfall will remain at RM3 for the first kilometre.

This is a sizable increase as each budget taxi will get RM1.25 per km (from RM0.87 per km, up by 44%) and 42.67 sen per minute (from 28 sen per minute, up by 49%).

For example, a budget taxi that is stuck in traffic for an hour will take in RM25 (RM30 for those in Penang) from time-based charges alone, up from RM16.80 previously. This is likely to make taxi drivers more willing to face congestions.

Express buses will charge 2.1 sen more (or 22.5%) per km, setting the new fare at 11.4 sen per km.

Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) chairman Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar said taxi and express bus operators were facing rising costs, adding that the last fare review for both was in 2009.

“We took into account the needs of the operators and the public (in coming up with these new fares),” he told reporters at SPAD headquarters here.

Teksi 1Malaysia (TEKS1M) cabs – consisting exclusively of the brown Proton Exora – are the only taxis to have the flagfall rate raised from RM3 to RM4.

The hike in taxi fares does not cover airport limos and executive taxis (typically blue in colour), and is limited to Peninsular Malaysia.

According to SPAD, taxi fares would be reviewed each year based on operating cost changes.

Although the increase in fares took immediate effect, taxis could only charge the new rates after the meter had been recalibrated.

SPAD chief executive Mohd Nur Ismal Mohd Kamal said it would take one to two months for all taxis to use this new setting.

“There’s a panel of service providers they can go to. We have asked them to increase (operating) capacitym,” he said.

SPAD said that senior citizens, the disabled and children below 12 years old would continue to enjoy the 25% discount on express bus fares.

On train fares, Syed Hamid said SPAD had given its approval to KTM Bhd and Prasarana Malaysia Bhd to set new rates covering LRT, KTM Komuter, KTM Intercity and KL Monorail.

According to SPAD, the Ampang and Kelana Jaya LRT Line fares have not been reviewed for the past 19 and 17 years respectively. Monorail, KTM Komuter and KTM Intercity fares have remained the same for 12, 12 and 25 years respectively.

Mohd Nur said the fares of stage buses would not be increased now or in the near future.

“This is because low-income earners rely on stage buses for transport, and they cannot afford to pay more,” he said.

He added that the Government would cover stage bus costs.

Source : The Star Online