The speech, known as “Amanat Hadi”, was made in Kuala Terengganu in 1981 and declared haram in 2002.
A Twitter user had questioned whether the fatwa had been deleted from Jakim’s Sumber Maklumat Al-ahkam al-Fiqhiyyah (E-Smaf) website, which contains a record of fatwas from all states in the country.
The Twitter user said the authorities should not play politics in such matters.
FMT’s own checks on E-Smaf, the website which records fatwas from all states in the country, found no records of the fatwa.
When contacted, an officer from Jakim’s communication’s unit said, “I will check”.
FMT has also reached out to religious affairs minister Zulkifli Mohamad and Jakim director-general Abdul Aziz Jusoh for comment.
Hadi’s speech has been linked by Perlis mufti Asri Zainul Abidin to the bloody Memali incident in Kedah in 1981, a claim rejected by PAS supporters.
The Memali incident was a confrontation between police and supporters of religious teacher Ibrahim Libya, who resisted attempts to arrest him under the Internal Security Act.
Eighteen people, including four policemen, were killed when police stormed the village of Memali, near Baling, where Ibrahim and 400 supporters were holed up.
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