Bomoh

I remembered reading in the news not far back about histeria in one of the schools on the east coast. The paper published in good elaboration articles relating to hiring bomohs to solve the problem. The hantu was driven away using a bus. However, the histeria did occur again.

I wanted to write something that day. I wanted to comment how vast the beliefs over bomohs there is in our community. But I decided not to, but to listen more. Islamic beliefs are not fond of the idea of bomoh but nonetheless there are many of us who would go see bomoh to settle our things or to get help.

When the news was published in our local newspaper, it reflects the actual trend of the public. The public is fond of bomoh-ships, at least they like to read about it. Not to mention there are many bomoh-related story books and tv documentaries.

Are you a believer in bomohs? Are you sure you are not? The fear is for muslims," Are we heading back to the dark ages (jahiliyyah)? By the way, we have invented a new way of making use of the Qur'aan.