A screenshot from Sinar Harian showing the cremation ritual of the man allegedly believed to be Muslim. – The Malaysian Insider pic, February 16, 2015.The Negri Sembilan Islamic Religious Department tried in vain to prevent the body of a man, claimed to be a Muslim, from being cremated according to the Hindu rites, Sinar Harian reported today.The Malay daily said that A Razak Abdullah @ M Machap was believed to have converted to Islam when he married an Indian Muslim woman, Kosnibatu Ibrahim around the 1970s.However, he did not change his religious status at the National Registration Department (NRD)."This is why the NRD failed to detect his latest religious status whereas in our record, he is clearly an Indian Muslim," the department's prosecution division officer Mohd Zulkarnain Abdullah was quoted as saying.Razak, 74, died at an old folks home of old age at Taman Bunga Blossom in Negri Sembilan at 7.30pm on Sunday and his five children brought his body back home before the department could claim it.According to the Malay daily, the department went to Razak's home in Taman Seremban Jaya in Senawang yesterday but failed to obtain the deceased's family consent to take the body.Instead, the family went to a crematorium in Jalan Templer to conduct the final Hindu rites.The body was then taken for cremation and the department's officers as well as the relevant authorities were unable to stop the ceremony."We did what we could, by trying to prevent the body from being cremated, but in the end, it is all Allah's will," Mohd Zulkarnain was quoted as saying.He said he verified Razak's religious status based on the deceased's children birth certificates."It is clearly stated in their birth certificates that their father is an Indian Muslim. This was also stated in other documents like the identity cards of the children where the Muslim name of the father was used," he said.He also said previously, one of Razak's children had requested to renounce Islam and change his name with the NRD by using a statutory declaration from an oaths commission."The statutory declaration allowed the children to change the names stated in the identity cards but not their religious." he added. – February 17, 2015.
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