Perlis mufti Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin has declined to clarify the meaning behind his controversial poem 'Cari Ganti (Looking for Successor)', a political satire on the state of the country's leadership that has sparked a nationwide guessing game.
"If I wrote who I had in mind for the poem, the poem would be much shorter," Mohd Asri said. "If people were to reveal the names of the subjects of their poems, there would be less room for literary interpretation."
The religious leader's four-stanza Malay poem was uploaded onto his blog just two days after opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim scored a landslide win against his Barisan Nasional rival Arif Shah Omar Shah in the Aug 26 Permatang Pauh by-election.
Mohd Asri chose the image of the Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's office in Putrajaya as the webpage background for the poem, fuelling speculation that he was joining the increasing number of calls for Abdullah to step down.
"If I wrote who I had in mind for the poem, the poem would be much shorter," Mohd Asri said. "If people were to reveal the names of the subjects of their poems, there would be less room for literary interpretation."
The religious leader's four-stanza Malay poem was uploaded onto his blog just two days after opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim scored a landslide win against his Barisan Nasional rival Arif Shah Omar Shah in the Aug 26 Permatang Pauh by-election.
Mohd Asri chose the image of the Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's office in Putrajaya as the webpage background for the poem, fuelling speculation that he was joining the increasing number of calls for Abdullah to step down.
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