Apa yang anda patut tahu tentang emas

Emas adalah bahan komiditi. Ia merupakan simbol kekayaan didunia dan akhirat

Ketahuilah bahawa wang yang kita miliki dalam dompet bukanlah harta kekayaan yang sebenar. Dipanggil sebagai fiat money, wang kertas merupakan pada asalnya bertindak sebagai 'medium of transaction' kepada urusan jual beli yang dilakukan. Ekonomi berlandaskan wang kertas adalah asas sistem kapitalis yang merupakan tunjang ekonomi riba yang menyaksikan kemiskinan dan kemusnahan tamadun manusia moden.

Emas adalah sejenis matawang yang tidak pernah susut nilai dan ia tidak digunakan oleh mana-mana negara dalam transaksi perdagangan.

Persidangan Bretton Woods pada tahun 1944 telah melahirkan IMF dan World Bank turut sama memperjelaskan sistem mata wang dunia yang bersandarkan nilai emas (backed by gold). Sistem ini hancur pada tahun 1971 kerana Amerika berhenti melakukan convertibility dari dolar
kepada emas.Sejak itu, US Dollar hanyalah matawang simpanan (reserve currency) yang tidak disandarkan kepada apa-apa barang berharga.

Emas dikira secara tradisinya dalam unit Troy Ounces iaitu bersamaan 31.1035 gram. Ia mempunyai nilai graviti 19.3 bermaksud 19.3 lebih berat daripada air. Oleh itu dengan berketumpatan 19.32g/cm3, 1 troy ounce emas mempunyai isipadu 1.64cm3. Satu tan emas mempunyai isipada 51,760cm3 bersamaan sebuah kubus dengan ukur sisi 37.23cm. Pada tahun
2003, Gold Field Mineral Services (GFMS) menganggarkan simpanan atas tanah iaitu kira-kira 150,500 tan iaitu dianggarkan 61% telah dilombong sejak 1950.Sekiranya semua emas dalam bumi dilombong, ia boleh membentuk sebuah kubus berukuran sisi 19m

Ketulenan emas diukur dalam piawai karat (carat). Emas tulen adalah 24 karat. Sebarang nilai carat kurang daripada 24 menunjukkan berapa banyak kandungan emas. Sebagai contoh, 18 carat bermaksud 18/24 daripada 100% emas - 75.0% atau disebut emas 750.Rujuk kepada jadual di bawah

Carats Ketulenan %Kandungan emas
24 999 99.9
24 990 99.0
22 916 91.6
21 875 87.5
(19.2) 800 80.0
18 750 75.0
14 585 58.5

How U.S. Gold Reserves Were Stolen

"When the President signs this bill, the invisible government of the monetary power will be legalized....the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill." ~ Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr. 1913

The Coinage Act of 1792 established a dollar consisting of 371.25 grains of pure silver, but was later replaced with a gold dollar consisting of 25.8 grains of gold. In 1873, the Coinage Act was passed, prohibiting the use of Silver as a form of currency, because the quantity being discovered was driving the value down. In 1875, after temporarily suspending gold convertibility during the Civil War "greenback" period, the U.S. was put more firmly on the gold standard by the Gold Standard Act of 1900. From 1900 to 1933, gold was coined by the U.S. Mint, and our paper currency was tied into the amount of gold held in the U.S. Treasury reserves

In July, 1927, the directors of the Bank of England [Montagu Norman], the New York Federal Reserve Bank [Benjamin Strong], and the German Reichsbank [Hjalmar Schacht], met to plan a way to get the gold moved out of the United States, and it was this movement of gold which helped trigger the depression. By 1928, nearly $500 million in gold was transferred to Europe.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the advice of England 's leading economist, John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), a member of the Illuminati [also a socialist and a homosexual --ed], who said that deficit spending would be a shot in the arm to the economy. Most of the New Deal spending programs to fight economic depression, were based on Keynes theories on deficit spending, and financed by borrowing against future taxes. In 1910, Lenin said: "The surest way to overthrow an established social order is to debauch its currency." Nine years later, Keynes wrote:

"Lenin was certainly right, there is no more positive, or subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency ... The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million is able to diagnose."

A Presidential Executive Order by Roosevelt on April 5, 1933, required all the people to exchange their gold coins, gold bullion, and gold-backed currency for money that was not redeemable in precious metals. The Gold Reserve Act of 1934, known as the Thomas Amendment which amended the Act of May 12, 1933, made it illegal to possess any gold currency (which was [finally] rescinded December 31, 1974). Gold coinage was withdrawn from circulation and kept in the form of bullion. Just as the public was to return all their gold to the U.S. Government, so was the Federal Reserve. However, while the people received $20.67 per ounce in paper money issued by the Federal Reserve, the Reserve was paid in Gold Certificates. Now the Federal Reserve and the Illuminati had control of all the gold in the country.

In 1934, the value of gold [was increased by FDR] to $35 an ounce, which produced a $3 billion profit for the Government. But when the price of gold increases, the value of the dollar decreases. Our dollar has not been worth 100 cents since 1933, when we were taken off of the Gold Standard. In 1974, our dollar was worth 38 cents, and in 1983 it was only worth 22 cents. In 2002, it took $13.88 to buy what cost $1.00 in 1933. Since our money supply had been limited to the amount of gold in Treasury reserves, when the value of the dollar decreased, more money was printed.

The Bretton Woods Monetary Conference (1944)

The first United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, from July 1 to July 22, 1944, which was under the direction of Harry Dexter White (CFR member, and undercover Russian spy), established the policies of the International Monetary Fund. Its goals were to strip the United States of its gold reserves by giving it to other nations, and to merge with their industrial capabilities as well as their economic, social, educational and religious policies to facilitate a one-world government.

Because of paying off foreign obligations and strengthening foreign economies, between 1958 and 1968, the amount of gold bullion in the possession of the U.S. Treasury dropped by 52%. Of the amount remaining, $12 billion was reserved by law for backing the paper money in circulation. Our money had been backed by a 25% gold reserve in accordance to a law that was passed in 1945, but it was rescinded in 1968. The amount of gold slipped from 653.1 million troy ounces in 1957, to 311.2 million ounces in 1968, which according to the Treasury Department, was due to sales to foreign banking institutions, sales to domestic producers, and the buying and selling of gold on the world market to stabilize prices. This was a loss of 341.9 million troy ounces. In August, 1971, gold was used only for world trade, because foreign countries wouldn't accept U.S. dollars. As of November, 1981, sources had indicated that the gold reserve had dropped to 264.1 million troy ounces.

Title 31 of the U.S. Code, requires an annual physical inventory of our gold supply, but a complete audit was never done, so officially, nobody knows what has occurred. After World War II, America had 70% of the World's supply of loose gold, but today, we may have less than 7%. Sen. Jesse Helms seemed to think that the OPEC nations have our gold, while others believe that 70% of the world's gold supply is being held by the World Bank, which is dominated by the financial grip of the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers.

Some years ago, I had been contacted by a gentleman in Michigan whose research indicated that counterfeit $5,000 and $10,000 Federal Reserve Notes had been used to steal U.S. gold reserves. Illegal to own, these notes are actually checks which are used to transfer ownership of large amounts of gold without actually moving the gold itself. Using public records, he found the serial numbers of the bills which were originally printed and discovered that there are now more in existence.

It has been reported that 40% (13,000 tons) of the world's gold is five levels below street level in a sub-basement of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, behind a 90-ton revolving door. Some of it is American-owned, but most is owned by the central banks of other countries. It is stored in separate cubicles, and from time to time, is moved from one cubicle to another to satisfy international transactions.

The Destructive Effects of Fiat Money Inflation

The 1929 series of Federal Reserve notes said:

"Redeemable in gold on demand at the United States Treasury, or in gold or lawful money at any Federal Reserve Bank." This was just like the Silver Certificate, which was guaranteed by a dollar in silver that was on deposit.

The 1934 series of notes said:

"This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private, and is redeemable in lawful money at the United States Treasury, or at any Federal Reserve Bank."

The 1950 series:

Kept the same wording, but reduced it to three lines, and reduced the size of the type.

The 1953 series:

The wording was totally removed, although the bottom portion contained a promise to "pay the bearer on demand."

The 1963 series:

Even this wording was removed, and our dollars became nothing more than worthless pieces of paper because they no longer met the legal requirements of a note, which must list an issuing bank, and amount payable, a payee or "bearer," and a time for payment or "on demand."

After March, 1964, silver certificates were no longer convertible to silver dollars; and in March, 1968, near the conclusion of the Johnson Administration, silver backing of the dollar was removed.

Since 1933, the Federal Reserve has been printing too much money, compared to the declining Gross National Product (GNP). The GNP is the accumulated values of services and goods produced in the country. If the GNP is 4%, then the money produced should only be about 5-6%, thus insuring enough money to keep the goods produced by the GNP in circulation. Additional social services, which are promised during election year rhetoric to gain votes, increase the Federal Budget, so more money is printed. Then the Government will cut the Budget, establish wage and price controls. The extra money in circulation decreases the value of the dollar, and prices go up. Simply put, too much money in circulation causes inflation, and that is what the Reserve is doing, purposely printing too much money in order to destroy the economy. On the other hand, if they would stop printing money, our economy would collapse.

The Federal Reserve is responsible for setting the interest rate that member banks can borrow from the Reserve, thus controlling the interest rates of the entire country. So, what it boils down to is that the Federal Reserve determines the amount of money needed, which is created by the International Bankers out of nothing. Besides the face value, they charge the government 3¢ to produce each bill. The Federal government pays the Reserve in bonds (which are also printed by the Reserve), and then pay the bonds off at a high rate of interest. That interest will very soon become the largest item in the Federal Budget.

William McChesney Martin, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Chairman of the Federal Reserve during the "New Frontier" years of the Kennedy Administration, testified to the Federal Banking Committee that the value of the dollar was being scientifically brought down each year by 3% to 3.5% in order to allow wages to "go up". The reasoning behind this was that the people were being made to think that they were getting more when in fact they were actually getting less.

The Congress has also contributed to this process by approving Federal Budgets year after year which requires the printing of more money to finance the debt, which by the end of 2003 was over $6,900,000,000,000 ($6.9 trillion). When Wilson was President, the debt was about $1 billion and in 1974, the debt was about $1 trillion [a thousand-fold increase in only 60 years --ed].

Congressional Attempts to Control the Fed

In 1937, Rep. Charles G. Binderup of Nebraska, realizing the consequences of the Federal Reserve System, called for the Government to buy all the stock, and to create a new Board controlled by Congress to regulate the value of the currency and the volume of bank deposits, thus eliminating the Fed's independence. He was defeated for re-election. Others have also tried to introduce various Bills to control the Federal Reserve: Rep. Goldborough (1935), Rep. Jerry Voorhis of California (1940, 1943), Sen. M. M. Logan of Kentucky, and Rep. Usher L. Burdick of North Dakota .

Rep. Wright Patman of Texas (who was the House Banking Chairman until 1975), said in 1952:

"In fact there has never been an independent audit of either the twelve banks of the Federal Reserve Board that has been filed with the Congress ... For 40 years the system, while freely using the money of the government, has not made a proper accounting."

Patman said that the Federal Open Market Committee (who, in addition to the Board of Governors, decides the country's monetary policy) is "one of the most secret societies. These twelve men decide what happens in the economy ... In making decisions they check with no one -- not the President, not the Congress, not the people."

Patman also said:

"In the United States we have, in effect, two governments ... We have the duly constituted Government ... Then we have an independent, uncontrolled and uncoordinated government in the Federal Reserve System, operating the money powers which are reserved to Congress by the Constitution."

During his career, Patman sought to force the Fed to allow an independent audit, lessen the influence of the large banks, shorten the terms of the Fed Governors, expose it to regular Congressional review just like any other Federal agency, and to have only officials nominated by the President and confirmed by Congress to be on the Federal Open Market Committee. In 1967, Patman tried to have them audited, and on January 22, 1971, introduced H.R. 11, which would have altered its organization, diminishing much of its power. He was later removed from the Chairmanship of the House Banking and Currency Committee, which he held for years.

On January 22, 1971, Rep. John R. Rarick of Louisiana introduced H.R. 351: "To vest in the Government of the United States the full, absolute, complete, and unconditional ownership of the twelve Federal Reserve Banks." He said: "The Federal Reserve is not an agency of government. It is a private banking monopoly." He was later defeated for re-election.

During the 1980's, Rep. Phil Crane of Illinois introduced House Resolution H.R. 70 that called for an annual audit of the Fed (which never came to a full vote), and Rep. Henry Gonzales of Texas introduced H.R. 1470, that called for the repeal of the Federal Reserve Act.

The Federal Reserve System has never been audited, and their meetings, and minutes of those meetings, are not open to the public. They have repelled all attempts to be audited. In 1967, Arthur Burns, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, said that an audit would threaten the "independence" of the Reserve.

The Fed in the 1970s and 1980s

In 1979, after dismissing Secretary of Treasury Michael Blumenthal, President Jimmy Carter offered the position to American Illuminati chief David Rockefeller, the CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank, but he turned it down [as he had previously turned down the offer from Nixon]. He also turned down the nomination for the Chairmanship of the Federal Reserve Board.

Carter then appointed Paul Volcker as Chairman. Volcker graduated from Princeton with a degree in Economics, and from Harvard with a degree in Public Administration. He was an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1952-57), worked at the Chase Manhattan Bank (1957-61), was with the U.S. Treasury Department (1961-65), Deputy Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs (1963-65), Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs (1969-74), and President of the New York Federal Reserve Bank (1975-79).

When Volcker was in the Nixon Administration as the Under Secretary for Monetary Policy and International Affairs, the executive branch official who works most closely with the Federal Reserve, he and Treasury Secretary John Connally helped formulate the policy that took us off the gold standard in 1971, because of the dwindling gold reserves at Fort Knox. Volcker was chosen because he was the "candidate of Wall Street." He was a member of the Trilateral Commission, and a major Rockefeller supporter.

Bert Lance, the Georgia banker and political advisor to Carter who became his Budget Director and was later forced to resign...said that if Volcker was appointed he would be "mortgaging his re-election to the Federal Reserve." Lance predicted that he would bring high interest rates and high unemployment. He was confirmed by the Senate Banking Committee in August, 1979, replacing Arthur Burns, an Austrian-born economist who was a CFR member with close ties to the Rockefellers. Volcker was against a gold-backed dollar or gold being used as a form of currency. He attempted to tighten the money situation in order to curb the 10% annual growth in the money supply, and to ease the pressure of loan demand. The result [of his policy] was a dramatic increase in interest rates, which climbed to 13.5% by September, 1979, and then soared to 21.5% by December, 1980.

[We may speculate] that this economic decline was purposely engineered to cause the political decline of Carter. In response to the rising interest rates, Carter said:

"As you well know, I don't have control over the Fed, none at all. It's carefully isolated from any influence by the President or the Congress. This has been done for many generations and I think it's a wise thing to do."

During the 1970's, many banks had left the Federal Reserve, and in December, 1979, Volcker told the House Banking Committee that "300 banks with deposits of $18.4 billion have quit the Fed within the past 4-1/2 years," and that another 575 of the remaining 5,480 member banks, with deposits of $70 billion, had indicated that they intended to withdraw. He said that this would curtail their control over the money supply, and that led Congress, in 1980, to pass the Monetary Control Act, which gave the Federal Reserve control of all banking institutions, regardless if they are members or not.

Even though inflation had skyrocketed to all-time highs, Reagan kept Volcker on. It was Volcker who started the collapse of the U.S. economy.

Alan Greenspan, who became the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in 1987, is [also] a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has a bachelor's and master's degree, and a doctorate in Economics from New York University. He met Ayn Rand, the author of Atlas Shrugged, in 1952 and they became friends. It is from her that he learned that capitalism "is not only efficient and practical, but also moral." In February, 1995, the seventh increase in the interest rate, within the period of a year, took place. This put Greenspan in the limelight, as well as the Federal Reserve. It was very interesting how the media spin doctors churned out information that totally skirted the issue concerning the Fed's actual role in controlling our economy.

Predictions of Monetary Disaster

In the mid-1970's, Paper 447, Article 3, from the World Bank said that the world economy would be fairly stable until 1980 when it would begin falling, in domino fashion. On October 29, 1975, the Wall Street Journal printed a comment by H. Johannes Witteveen, Managing Director of the United Nation's International Monetary Fund, that the IMF "ought to evolve into a World Central Bank ... to prevent inflation." Dr. H. A. Murkline, Director of the International Institute University in Irving, Texas, wrote in World Oil: 1976 that he projected that the Federal Government could only hold out till the end of 1981. Dow Theory Letters, Inc. reported that by 1982, the cost of dealing with the national debt "would eat up all the government tax money available."

The Robbins Report of January 15, 1978, said: "If Carter introduces Bancor, which will be the yielding of our dollar to the ECU (European Currency Unit), this is what will happen: look for hyperinflation and collapse of all the world's paper money before 1985." Julian Snyder said in the International Money Line of February, 1978: "The United States is trying to solve its problem through currency depreciation (debasement) ... it will not work. If the crash does not occur this year, it could be postponed until 1982."

On March 13, 1979, while meeting at Strasbourg, France, the Parliament of Europe, which governs the European Economic Community (Common Market), oversaw the establishment of a new European money system. Known as the ECU, it was backed by 20% of the participating countries" gold reserves (about 3,150 tons). What little strength our dollar had, came from the fact that all nations buying oil from OPEC, had to use U.S. dollars. Then came the word in March, 1980, from Arab diplomatic sources at the United Nations that the Chase Manhattan Bank was making plans to drop the dollar in [favor] of the ECU.

Dr. Franz Pick, a well known authority on world currency, said in December, 1979, in the Silver and Gold Report:

"The most serious problem we face today is the debasement of our currency by the government. The government will continue to debase the dollar until ... within 12-24, months it will shrink to 1 cent ... at which time Washington will be forced to create the new hard currency ... A currency reform is nothing but a fancy name for state bankruptcy ... A currency reform completes the expropriation of all kinds of savings ... it will wipe out all public and private bonds, most pensions; all annuities, and all endowments."

Against all odds, our economy has continued to hang on even though financial analysts have continued to forecast disastrous conditions.

In 1993, Sen. Bob Kerrey (Democrat, NE) promised to support President Bill Clinton's Budget Plan, if Clinton would appoint a Committee to study the condition of the American economy. The President established a 32-member bipartisan committee and in August, 1994, they issued their report. According to the committee's findings, by the year 2012, unless drastic changes are made, we won't even be able to pay the interest on the national debt. Knowing this, the federal government has allowed the trend to continue, almost as if they're trying to run our economy into the ground. It seems obvious that the destruction of the American economy has been part of a deliberate plot to financially enslave our nation.

The New U.S. Currency

In the late 1970's, it was [rumored that replacement currency had] already been printed and stored at the Federal Emergency Relocation Facility in Culpepper, Virginia, which is built into the side of a mountain, and would be able to continue functioning during the aftermath of a nuclear or natural disaster; and at the 200,000 sq. ft. Federal underground facility in Mt. Weather, Virginia (near Berryville), which is the primary relocation area for the President, Cabinet Secretaries, Supreme Court Justices, and several thousand federal employees (Congress would be relocated to an underground facility in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia). It is believed that when our monetary system is finally destroyed, a reorganization will occur within the confines of a world government, and new money will be issued.

Rep. Ron Paul, Republican from Texas, who was on the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, wrote about the new money in a [1983] letter to Charles T. Roberts, Executive Vice-President of the Hull State Bank in Texas:

"In a closed briefing for the members of the House Banking Committee on November 2nd, representatives of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Federal Reserve, and the Secret Service described plans for making changes in Federal Reserve Notes beginning in 1985 (although the long range target is 1988) ... These changes, which will probably include taggents, security threads, and colors, and may include holograms, diffraction gratings, or watermarks, will be made in coordination with six other nations: Canada, Britain, Japan, Australia, West Germany and Switzerland. Japan, for example, will begin recalling its present currency in November, 1984, and have it nearly completed within six months ... According to the government, the only reason for the currency changes is to deter counterfeiting. Although it was admitted by one spokesman in the group that there would have to be a call-in of our present currency for new currency to work, the spokesmen for the government were adamant in saying that there was no other motive for a currency change..."

According to law, only the Treasury Secretary has the authority to change the currency. Over $3 million was spent under "counterfeit prevention" authority for the development of the new money, which according to the Currency Design Act (H.R. 6005) hearings, would be issued by the Federal Reserve Board. In a July, 1983 market survey in Buena Park, California, people were shown proposed designs for "new U.S. dollar bills." The variations shown, consisted of each denomination being a different color; Federal Reserve seals replaced with a design utilizing reflective ink; and other optical devices like holograms (a process which produces a three-dimensional image which can change color depending on the angle it is viewed), and multilayer diffraction gratings (similar to a hologram); as well as bills containing metal security threads, and planchettes (red and blue colored discs incorporated into the paper, similar to threads) to trigger scanning equipment which would detect its presence, and to sort cash faster.

By the end of 1983, [the Fed] had received 110 new machines which could count up to 72,000 bills per minute each. Jane Kettleson, an economic consultant to the U.S. Paper Exchange, said that "the Fed will have the capability to physically replace the entire U.S. currency in circulation in just four days time."

It was shown that a drastic change would not be accepted, so a process of incrementalism was adopted. It was decided that the Bureau of Printing and Engraving would have a fine metallic strip running through the currency, leaving the basic design intact; however, they later decided to use a clear imprinted polyester strip, woven into the paper, running vertically on the left side of the Federal Reserve Seal. The length of the translucent polyester filament reads "USA100" for $100 bills, "USA50" for $50 bills, and so on; and can only be read if held up to direct light. It was reported that a company called Checkmate Electronics, Inc., which manufactures the equipment needed to scan checks, scanned the new money, and found the strip to contain "machine detectable" aluminum. Their scan produced an indecipherable bar code.

Though the basic design did not change, there was microscopic type printed around the picture which reads, "The United States of America," but appeared to only be a line. This currency with oversized, off-center portraits, was introduced in 1996 with the $100 bills, then $50 bills and $20 bills (1998), and culminated with $10's and $5's in 2000. The Government discontinued printing any of the old money, and began emptying their vaults to get rid of the old bills. The old money was never recalled, and continued to be circulated.

Then in June, 2002, only a few years after the last makeover, the rumors of colored money became a fact, as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing announced that further changes were being made to our money for security reasons. In October, 2003, the new, colored $20 bill (the most counterfeited note), was introduced. The new bill retained the security thread, color-shifting ink, and watermark; but also had the colors of green and peach added to its background, as well as small yellow "20's" printed on the back. The new $50 and $100 bills will be coming in 2004 and 2005.

Some financial experts have theorized that when every denomination is changed over, that the business sector may not want to accept old bills which would then become worthless and could create a financial emergency. But Federal officials have said that the old money would be accepted, but scrutinized. It has been suggested that the government could really take advantage of the situation, that in order for people to exchange their old money for new, an exchange rate may be determined which would benefit the economy. For example, it may take two old dollars to exchange for a new one. It is possible that we may be experiencing the final transition to the "new money."

Worldwide Currency Changes

International cooperation has been intense to coordinate currency changes among its member governments. In 1985, officials from the Morgan Bank in New York met with the Credit Lyonnais Bank in France. They established the European Currency Unit Banking Association (ECUBA), to get world cooperation for a unified currency, and had support from bankers in Europe, Japan, and the United States. It was an offshoot of the Banking Federation of the European Community (BFEC), which has been engaged in shutting down small banks in order to develop a conglomerate of a few huge banks. In October, 1987, the Association for the Monetary Union of Europe (AMUE) secretly met and recommended that the ECU (European Currency Unit) replace existing national currencies and that all European Central Banks be combined into one and issue the ECU [Euro] as the official unified currency (which occured on schedule in the year 2000).

It is believed that the plan is to [ultimately] have only three central banks in the world: The [U.S.] Federal Reserve Bank, the European Central Bank, and the Central Bank of Japan. In a June, 1989 hearing of the Senate Banking Securities Subcommittee, Alan Greenspan, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, said that exchange rates could be fixed in order to solve the problem of uniformity between the currencies of various nations.

Many countries have issued new money, such as Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Australia, and Brazil. Of the countries that already had, most currencies had a common 1" square, usually on the left side of the bill. Held over a light, a hologram appears on the spot, barely visible to the naked eye, which cannot be reproduced on a copier. It is believed that this spot is being reserved for a central World Bank overprint. They also contain metallic strips that can be detected when they pass through scanners at airports and international borders.

The institution of a common world-wide currency may be delayed because of the possibility of moving right to a cashless system, making paper money obsolete. The Visa MagiCard was the first step towards a national debit card. With this card, you could make purchases at any of the 10 million merchants who accepted Visa, and have the amount electronically deducted from your checking account. Financial experts said at the time, that within only a few years, there would be more debit cards than credit cards. Since then, there has been a massive campaign to promote debit cards, and a move to accommodate their use in all areas of life.

More and more banks have decided not to return people's cancelled checks, because of the expense to do so; and it seems likely that there is a plan underway to gradually move away from the use of paper checks. With the existence of debit cards, and the fact that credit cards are so easily attainable, there's no doubt that we"re being pushed into an electronic economy of Direct Deposit and Automatic Withdrawal. When total saturation has been achieved, then the stage will be set. Sure, it's really convenient to whip out a piece of plastic to buy things, and to have all your financial affairs handled through the bank's computer system. But do you realize, that when their plan is complete, you will be nothing more than a number in a computer. Everything you do can be tracked; and with a click of a mouse, or the press of a button, you could be denied access to your own money.

Conclusion

In a letter to Edward M. House (President Wilson's closest aide), dated November 23, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt said:

"The real truth of the matter is, and you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson."

Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, said:

"It is well enough that the people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."

In 1957, Sen. George W. Malone of Nevada said before Congress about the Federal Reserve:

"I believe that if the people of this nation fully understood what Congress has done to them over the past 49 years, they would move on Washington: they would not wait for an election ... It adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States."

The real owners of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve System are:

a) Rothschild Banks of London and Berlin;

b) Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris;

c) Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy;

d) Warburg Bank of Hamburg and Amsterdam;

e) Lehman Brothers Bank of New York;

f) Kuhn, Loeb Bank of New York;

g) Chase Manhattan Bank of New York;

h) Goldman Sachs Bank of New York; and

i) Approximately three hundred people, known to each other and/or relations of the "owners," who hold stock in the Federal Reserve System. They comprise an interlocking, International Banking Cartel of wealth beyond comprehension.

The Federal Reserve meet behind closed doors and has more power than the Congress and President of the United States; and to top that off, these men who control America through their financial manipulation are not even responsible to the public nor to Congress and has repeatedly shown that it is under the control of the International Jewish Bankers, by raising the discount rate (a deliberate act to destroy small business) they have been able to bring about the depressions which have devastated the American Farmer and Ranchers since the time this Evil Satanic Act was passed.

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Era USD akan berakhir

Entah mengapa sejak harga emas meningkat, saya memperbanyakkan bacaan terhadap keadaan US dollar kerana harga emas adalah berkadar songsang dengan USD atau dengan kata lain, sekiranya harga emas meningkat, ini bermakna USD akan menurun.

Beberapa negara arab timur tengah bersama negara besar seperti China, Russia, Japan dan Perancis telah mengambil keputusan untuk memutuskan hubungkait minyak dengan US Dollar. Mereka ingin cuba memperdagangkan minyak tanpa USD dan menggunakan matawang lain seperti Yen Jepun, Yuan China, Euro dan emas bersama matawang lain yang akan diperkenalkan di negara-negara teluk. Ini berikutan pasaran matawang yang menunjukkan keadaan tahap ketidakpercayaan terhadap US Dollar.

Ekonomi US telah lama menghadapi defisit yang tinggi dalam perdagangan dan akan bertambah dari tahun ke tahun di mana US lebih banyak mengimport daripada mengeksport ke luar. Sejak tahun 1980, US telah membeli barangan dalam kualiti yang banyak dari Asia berbanding negara lain dan membayara bon-bon sebagai pulangan. Bon-bon ini mewakili hutang-hutang di atas kertas kepada negara-negara ini. Lebihan bon-bon ini menyebabkan US mengalami kekurangan dollar dan mengakibatkan US kehilangan imbangan dalam perdagangan dan menambahkan defisit. Bayaran terhadap hutang-hutang bon ini tadi tidak pula disusuli dengan komoditi yang berharga dengan keyakinan bahawa dollar US akan sentiasa kuat dalam ekonomi dunia.

Ketika ini, keyakinan ini semakin berkurang dan negara-negara ini mula meragui hubungan perdagangan dengan US. Alasannya ialah didapati tidak pengiraan dalam bajet US untuk menguruskan defisit yang semakin bertambah ini. Oleh itu negara-negara ini mula mempersoalkan adakah barangan mereka boleh ditukarganti dengan matawang yang tidak lagi mereka percayai?

Jika negara-negara ini tidak lagi menerima US dollar sebagai pengantara perdagangan minyak dan gas,ia akan jatuh dan menjadi tidak berharga. Ini bermakna ketika itu US terpaksa berbelanja banyak untuk mendapatkan minyak dan dalam keadaan terdesak US terpaksa mencari alternatif tenaga untuk industri, penempatan dan pengangkutan.

Sekarang Dollar sedang berada pada tahap terburuk berbanding Pound sejak 28 tahun. Emas pula meningkat ke tahap tertinggi dalam sejarah melebihi 1050 per ounce. Apa pula akan jadi kepada Ringgit Malaysia yang juga bersandar kepada USD ?

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Dinar emas alternatif krisis ekonomi

Oleh: Rausyanfikir ( tersiar dalam Siasah edisi 26/10/2008-1/11/2008)
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Emas merupakan perkataan yang cukup “mahal” dari segi makna fizikal dan abstraknya pada ketika krisis ekonomi dunia semakin meruncing kini. Untuk memahami persoalan ini, ada wajarnya kita merujuk situasi semasa berkenaan aliran perdagangan yang melibatkan emas.

Mengikut World Gold Council, hanya 357 ton metrik emas yang didagangkan oleh bank-bank pusat Eropah pada tahun lepas.

Di bawah perjanjian emas Bank Pusat, had kepada penjualan emas adalah 500 ton. Ini jelas bahawa Bank Pusat sebenarnya boleh menjual lebih daripada kuantiti yang didagangkan tersebut. Jerman, pemegang rizab emas kedua terbesar dunia selepas Amerika Syarikat, telah menjelaskan pendirian mereka untuk tidak akan melakukan sebarang aktiviti perdanganan emas dalam tempoh 12 bulan.

Begitu juga dengan Switzerland yang mempunyai rizab simpanan emas yang besar telah mengambil pendekatan yang sama seperti Jerman.

Para pengurus bank Eropah ini sedar bahawa dalam keadaan nilai aset wang kertas mereka semakin susut, tindakan paling strategik adalah untuk menyimpan emas daripada disalurkan ke pasaran.

Ini tidak berlaku pada China dan Jepun kerana mereka kurang menyimpan emas sebagai rizab luar. Ini bakal berubah dalam jangka masa terdekat.

Bank pusat China telah membuat pengumuman pada 15 Oktober yang lalu bahawa rizab pertukaran mata wang asing (foreign exchange reserves) telah mencecah nilai AS $ 1.05 trilion.

Berbanding dengan Washington yang mempunyai hutang tertunggak berjumlah AS $ 11.4 trilion (belum lagi termasuk liabiliti lain seperti sekuriti sosial, insurans perkhidmatan kesihatan, hartanah) China telah bersedia untuk menjadi peneraju ekonomi kapitalis.

Larry Eldson seorang pakar dalam pelaburan telah bertemu dengan beberapa pegawai bank, dan pedagang emas, di China dan Asia bagi membincangkan hubung kait antara ekonomi mata wang yuan dan emas:

“ Beijing mengetahui bahawa status US Dolar sebagai mata wang rizab (reserve currency) akan menjadi sejarah tidak lama lagi, sama seperti mata wang pound sterling (Britain) yang telah hilang statusnya sebagai mata wang rizab dunia pada awal abad ke-20. Para pemimpin di Beijing percaya dalam proses China menjadi kuasa besar ekonomi dunia, yuan akan turut sama menjadi mata wang utama yang stabil untuk transaksi perniagaan. Visi untuk menjadikan yuan sebagai mata wang antarabangsa yang utama pada satu hari nanti memberi petunjuk awal bahawa Beijing akan menyandarkan yuan dengan emas…dengan banyak sekali”

Ada sebab lain kenapa Beijing begitu beria-ria untuk membeli emas. China mempunyai pelaburan yang berteraskan US Dolar sejumlah AS $ 1.3 trilion. Mereka tidak boleh menarik keluar daripada penggunaan dolar dengan drastik. Jikalau Beijing melakukan sedimikian, ekonomi Amerika Syarikat akan jatuh dengan teruk seterusnya memberi dampak yang besar kepada China.

Pada waktu ini, China hanya mempunyai rizab emas sebanyak 0.9% daripada keseluruhan simpanannya. Peratusan ini sangat rendah berbanding negara-negara yang lain seperti Amerika Syarikat ( 77.3%), Kesatuan Eropah ( 23%) malah Negara-negara kecil seperti Lithuania, Mozambique dan Nepal pun mempunyai peratusan rizab harta berbentuk emas yang lebih banyak daripada China.

Untuk meningkatkan peratusan simpanan mereka kepada 5% sahaja, Beijing akan terpaksa membeli ketulan emas berjumlah US $ 93 bilion. Kegiatan jual beli sebegini akan meningkatkan harga emas kepada AS $ 2000 setiap satu auns.

Bayangkan kuasa membeli China yang ada untuk mengaut emas. Menurut kajian Larry Eldson, kenaikkan harga emas di pasaran dunia turut dipacu oleh pembelian emas oleh China yang berlaku secara sedikit demi sedikit akhir-akhir ini.

Begitu juga dengan golongan kapitalis. Mereka tahu sistem yang mereka diami ini korup lagi jijik. Maka mereka sudah siap sedia dengan pek keselamatan jikalau sistem ini berada di ambang kejatuhan. Pek itu tidak lain tidak bukan ialah emas.

Bagaimana dengan kita? Masih tidak percaya akan emas sebagai pek keselamatan ekonomi? Jangan kerana kita miskin sejarah , kita jatuh dalam lubang yang sama.

Rakyat biasa yang tidak mempunyai kefahaman yang jelas dari sudut sejarah dan realiti kepincangan duit kertas akan terbuai dengan ilusi kekayaan yang ada dalam masyarakat kita pada hari ini. Segala wang yang ada dalam bank, pada indeks papan kenyataan elektronik di bursa saham semua itu bukanlah kekayaan sebenar.

Jangan hairan kalau di Amerika Syarikat sendiri pun telah wujud komuniti yang anti penggunaan mata wang US Dolar. Melalui produk Liberty Dollar, mereka telah berjaya membentuk satu rangkaian perdagangan sesama sendiri tanpa bersangkut-paut dengan kemelut ekonomi dolar. Mereka mencipta mata wang tempatan yang bebas daripada ancaman inflasi.

Tidak perlu kita renung jauh. Kita buka balik lembaran sejarah Tamadun Islam dan pasti akan kita jumpa pek keselamatan yang bernama ‘dinar emas’.

Profesor Umar Ibrahim Vadillo, yang merupakan antara pejuang dinar emas era ini berkata bahawa kesatuan umat Islam pada masa kini tidak boleh dicapai melainkan melalui kesatuan di peringkat ekonomi antara negara-negara Islam tersebut. Menurut beliau lagi, idea penggunaan dinar emas mensasarkan untuk melunturkan kuasa hegemoni US Dolar dan menjadikan emas sebagai mata wang antarabangsa kerana nilai wang kertas senantiasa berubah-ubah mengikut prestasi pasaran berbanding kestabilan mata wang emas yang dipelihara nilainya melalui keadaan fizikal emas itu sendiri. Ini telah terbukti zaman berzaman di mana mata wang dinar emas diguna pakai dengan meluas dalam transaksi perdangangan setiap tamadun Islam.

Antara langkah awal yang perlu dilakukan oleh kita adalah dengan mengetengahkan dinar emas secara berperingkat-peringkat ke dalam pasaran. Strategi ini biasa dilakukan pada peringkat awal pengenalan kad kredit kepada masyarakat.

Antara strategi awal untuk khidmat kad kredit ini menembusi pasaran adalah dengan membentuk jalinan kerjasama antara kedai-kedai yang sanggup melakukan urus niaga menggunakan kad kredit. Kedai-kedai yang menerima gagasan kad kredit ini akan menayangkan logo syarikat kad kredit seperti ‘Visa’ dan ‘Mastercard’ pada pintu masuk kedai mereka.

Lama-kelamaan ianya telah diterima ramai dan menjadi salah satu norma buat transaksi ekonomi tempatan. Sama juga dengan pengenalan kad ‘Touch and Go’ yang menjadi begitu popular buat pengguna jalan raya pada mulanya dan kini telah diguna pakai secara meluas sebagai tiket transit aliran ringan (LRT) di sekitar Kuala Lumpur.

Dalam keadaan krisis ekonomi sebegini, dinar emas bukan lagi menjadi satu alternatif tetapi sebagai satu kemestian buat melindungi aset yang kita miliki dalam bentuk wang kertas.

Lihat saja di Amerika Syarikat dan Britain. Kejatuhan bank-bank besar telah turut sama menyedut simpanan wang pencen rakyat Amerika dan Britain. Betapa ramainya rakyat Amerika yang telah jatuh bankrap akibat masalah ini.

Kesimpulannya, dalam keadaan sangat runcing yang hampir menyamai The Great Depression pada tahun 1930 (tetapi banyak ahli ekonomi kata mungkin lebih teruk), dengan memiliki emas secara fizikal, walaupun sedikit sudah mampu menjamin simpanan kekayaan yang kita usahakan selama ini. Belajarlah dari sejarah silam dan kesilapan lalu.

Sejarah pengenalan dinar emas dan dirham perak

Kesohoran dinar sebagai satu matawang rasmi dalam sektor ekonomi sudah lama tersemat dalam lembaran sejarah Tamadun Islam. Dewasa ini komoditi ini seringkali dicanangkan sebagai instrumen alternatif dalam aktiviti ekonomi dunia semasa. Fakta ini adalah berasaskan kepada nilai intrinsik atau tersendiri yang diyakini boleh digunapakai secara lebih meluas serta konsisten. Namun demikian, masih ramai belum mengetahui dari mana dan bagaimana ia boleh berkembang sehingga menjadi satu matawang utama dalam kronologi ketamadunan Islam.

Sekiranya dinar emas mampu dinobatkan sebagai matawang utama pada ketika itu adalah tidak mustahil seandainya penggunaan komoditi ini boleh diperkenalkan semula sebagai matawang alternatif pada alaf baru ini. Barangkali slogan “Nothing Beats Gold, Zero Inflation in 1400 years“ adalah amat berketepatan dan bersesuaian dalam menyatakan hakikat tersebut. Terfikirkah anda semenjak zaman Nabi Muhammad S.A.W lagi kita tidak pernah mendengar serta mengalami keadaan inflasi. Tetapi pada hari ini ungkapan tersebut seringkali “menjelma“ sambil disulami atau lebih sinonim dengan kelesuan ekonomi sejagat. Kenapa semua ini boleh berlaku…jawapannya ialah matawang konvensional yang tersedia ada tidak lagi berlandaskan pada sandaran emas secara mutlak. Justeru marilah kita mengimbas kembali keunggulan serta kegemilangan dinar emas semenjak bermulanya era ketamadunan Islam.

Masyarakat Arab Jahiliyyah pada ketika itu menggunakan dinar emas Heraclius Byzantine yang berasal daripada negeri Syam manakala dirham perak Sasaniyah pula dari Iraq. Tatkala itu mereka tidak mempunyai matawang tersendiri untuk melaksanakan urusniaga perniagaan dalam mahupun luar negara. Penggunaan kedua-dua matawang ini adalah bagi memudahkan urusniaga terutamanya pada masa yang melibatkan perdagangan utama di Syam pada musim panas manakala di Yaman pada musim sejuk. Namun demikian, keadaan mulai berubah apabila Nabi Muhammad S.A.W dipilih sebagai Rasul, dinar dan dirham telah dinaiktarafkan sebagai matawang rasmi urusniaga sektor ekonomi kerana terdapat keseragaman bagi tujuan memudahkan urusniaga. Ketika ini jugalah reka bentuk berunsur Islam mula menyusup dalam penempaan dinar serta dirham. Pada tahun 18 H atau 20 H, Saidina Omar r.a telah menambah pada dirham Sasaniyah beberapa elemen dengan tulisan khat Kufi seperti Bismillah, Bismillah Rabbi dan Alhamdullillah serta sesetengahnya Muhammad Rasulullah yang ditempa pada keliling gambar Kisra. Beliau turut menetapkan piawaian bahawa 10 dirham bersamaan 7 dinar dan ini kekal digunapakai sehingga kini. Satu dinar mempunyai 91.6% atau 22 karat seberat 4.25 gram manakala dirham ialah syiling perak seberat 2.975 gram.

Dalam rekaan ini ukiran pada permukaan matawang adalah rekabentuk Islam yang khusus tanpa wujudnya elemen-elemen Byzantine dan Parsi muncul pada tahun 76 H hasil cetusan idea Khalifah Abd al-Malik bin Marwan pada zaman Bani Umaiyyah. Senario ini turut dimangkinkan oleh perselisihan faham yang berlaku di antara baginda dengan Raja Rom. Pada ketika itu khalifah Abd Al-Malik bin Marwan telah diktiraf oleh Ibn Jarir al-Tabari dan Ibn al-Athir sebagai perintis menempa dinar dan dirham dalam unsur-unsur Islam.

Aplikasi dinar tidak hanya berlegar di bumi Arab tetapi melangkaui kepada ketamadunan Andalusia. Kegiatan perdagangan berkembang pesat selama 700 tahun di Andalusia telah memangkin penggunaan dinar emas serta perak sebagai matawang utama. Pada tahun 716 M, umat Islam Andalusia telah mula menempa dinar emas dengan ukiran bahasa Arab serta ditulis “Muhammad Rasulluah” disamping mencatatkan nama Andalusia iaitu tempat tempahan dinar berserta tahun diperbuat. Di belakang dinar emas ini turut diukir dengan tulisan Latin yang bersesuaian dengan kehidupan masyarakat Islam Andalusia pada ketika itu. Bukti sejarah juga menunjukkan bahawa setelah tamatnya pemerintahan Andalusia, masyarakat semasa pemerintahan Kristian masih meneruskan penggunaan dinar emas selama lebih 400 tahun. Dalam era moden ini, pada tahun 1992 dinar emas pertama Eropah kembali ditempah di Granada, Sepanyol yang sekaligus merupakan sesuatu peristiwa yang sungguh menarik.

Menurut analisa yang dibuat sepanjang kecemerlangannya dinar emas turut mengalami ketidaktentuan terhadap cabaran serta krisis semasa. Pada suatu ketika stok emas tidak mencukupi memandangkan siri peperangan semakin meruncing. Justeru perak dicampurkan tembaga menjadi matawang rasmi dan digunakan di Mesir serta Syam di bawah pentadbiran Bani Ayyub. Penggunaan dinar serta dirham terus bertahan aplikasinya pada masa keagungan kerajaan Othmaniah Turki (1299M-1924M). Pada hari ini, nama dinar serta dirham masih digunakan sebagai matawang rasmi di beberapa buah negara di Timur Tengah seperti dinar di Tunisia, Kuwait, Libya, Bahrain, Algeria, Jordan manakala dirham Di Emiriah Arab Bersatu, Qatar dan Maghribi.
Di Malaysia berkat pengalaman kelesuan ekonomi global pada 1997 dinar emas yang diperbuat daripada emas 916 telah mula dikembalikan kegemilangan sebagai medium penyimpan nilai yang tinggi, stabil, sentiasa berpotensi untuk meningkat nilai serta komoditi yang paling selamat. Dalam konteks yang lebih luas dinar emas turut mampu dijadikan perantaraan urusniaga , gaji dan bonus pekerja, mahar dan hantaran perkahwinan, urusan haji dan umrah, zakat dan serta semua pembayaran perniagaan dalam dan luar negara bagi negara yang berminat. Ini memandangkan dinar emas mempunyai nilai intrinsik atau tersendiri yang diterimapakai oleh masyarakat dunia. Nilai emas adalah stabil dan meningkat dari semasa ke semasa berbanding matawang konvesional yang seringkali menjadi mangsa “serang hendap” para penyangak matawang antarabangsa bagi mengaut keuntungan mudah dan besar.

Ayat-ayat quran yang menyebut tentang emas

Ali ‘Imran, ayat 14

Dan dijadikan indah pada pandangan manusia kecintaan kepada apa-apa yang diingini, yaitu; wanita-wanita, anak harta yang banyak dari EMAS, perak, kuda pilihan, binatang-binatang ternak dan sawah ladang. Itulah kesenangan hidup di dunia; dan di sisi Allah-lah tempat kembali yang baik (syurga)

Ali ‘Imran(3), ayat 91

Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang kafir dan mati sedang mereka tetap dalam kekafirannya, maka tidaklah akan diterima dari seseorang di antara mereka EMAS sepenuh bumi, walaupun dia menebus diri dengan EMAS (yang sebanyak itu). Bagi mereka itulah siksa yang pedih dan sekali-kali mereka tidak memperoleh penolong.

Al-A’raaf(7), ayat 148

Dan kaum Musa, setelah kepergian Musa ke gunung Thur membuat dari perhiasan-perhiasan (EMAS) mereka anak lembu yang bertubuh dan bersuara. Apakah mereka tidak mengetahui bahwa anak lembu itu tidak dapat berbicara dengan mereka dan tidak dapat (pula) menunjukkan jalan kepada mereka? Mereka menjadikannya (sebagai sembahan) dan mereka adalah orang-orang yang zalim.

At-Taubah(9), ayat 34

Hai orang-orang yang beriman, sesungguhnya sebagian besar dari orang-orang alim yahudi dan rahib-rahib Nasrani benar-benar memakan harta orang dengan jalan yang batil dan mereka menghalang-halangi (manusia) dari jalan Allah. Dan orang-orang yang menyimpan EMAS dan perak dan tidak menafkahkannya pada jalan Allah, maka beritahukanlah kepada mereka, (bahwa mereka akan mendapat) siksa yang pedih

At-Taubah(9), ayat 35

pada hari dipanaskan EMAS perak itu di dalam neraka Jahannam, lalu dibakarnya dahi mereka, lambung dan punggung mereka (lalu dikatakan) kepada mereka: Inilah harta bendamu yang kamu simpan untuk dirimu sendiri,maka rasakanlah sekarang (akibat dari) apa yang kamu simpan.

Al-Israa’(17), ayat 93

Atau kamu mempunyai sebuah rumah dari EMAS, atau kamu naik ke langit. Dan kami sekali-kali tidak akan mempercayai kenaikanmu itu hingga kamu turunkan atas kami sebuah kitab yang kami baca. Katakanlah: Maha suci Rabbku, bukankah aku ini hanya seorang manusia yang menjadi rasul

Al-Hajj(22), ayat 23

Sesungguhnya Allah mamasukkan orang-orang beriman dan mengerjakan amal yang saleh ke dalam surga-surga yang di bawahnya mengalir sungai-sungai. Di surga itu mereka diberi perhiasan dengan gelang-gelang dari EMAS dan mutiara, dan pakaian mereka adalah sutera. (QS. 22:23)

Faathir(35), ayat 33

(Bagi mereka) surga Adn, mereka masuk ke dalamnya, di dalamnya mereka diberi perhiasan dengan gelang-gelang dari EMAS, dan dengan mutiara, dan pakaian mereka di dalamnya adalah sutera.

Az-Zukhruf(43), ayat 35

Dan (Kami buatkan pula) perhiasan-perhiasan (dari EMAS untuk mereka). Dan semuanya itu tidak lain hanyalah kesenangan kehidupan dunia, dan kehidupan akhirat itu di sisi Rabbmu adalah bagi orang-orang yang bertaqwa. (QS. 43:35)

Az-Zukhruf(43), ayat 53

Mengapa tidak dipakaikan kepadanya gelang dari EMAS atau malaikat datang bersama-sama dia untuk mengiringkannya. (QS. 43:53)

Az-Zukhruf(43), ayat 71

Diedarkan kepada mereka piring-piring dari EMAS, dan piala-piala dan di dalam surga itu terdapat segala apa yang diingini oleh hati dan sedap (dipandang) mata dan kamu kekal di dalamnya. (QS. 43:71)

Al-Waaqi’ah(56), ayat 15

Mereka berada di atas dipan yang bertahtahkan EMAS dan permata

Kejatuhan ekonomi Amerika: Kembali kuasa dinar emas

Ekonomi Amerika Syarikat (AS) yang menjadi tonggak kepada ekonomi kapitalis kini berada pada tahap terburuk dan lembap. Kelembapan itu turut menjangkiti negara-negara lain di dunia. Tiga per empat daripada dolarnya berada diluar negara dengan nilai yang terus menyusut. Kegemilangannya dilihat terus merudum.

Tidak seperti detik bersejarah Perjanjian Bretton Woods pada tahun 1944 yang telah menipu dan memperdaya 44 buah negara supaya bersetuju menyandarkan mata wang kertas negara mereka kepada dolar AS. Tipu daya itu berlangsung menerusi jaminan adikuasa itu bahawa dolarnya adalah bersandarkan kepada emas iaitu sebanyak US$35 bagi setiap auns. Penipuan terbesar adalah semasa pemerintahan Presiden Nixon yang mana pada tanggal 15 Ogos 1971 secara unileteral telah memungkiri perjanjian Bretton Woods dengan tidak lagi menyandarkan dolarnya kepada emas akibat kemelesetan ekonomi yang disebabkan oleh keperluan pembiayaan Perang Vietnam serta defisit imbangan pembayaran yang berterusan. Semenjak runtuhnya Perjanjian Bretton Woods, sistem kewangan dunia telah digantikan dengan sistem mata wang apungan di mana nilai mata wang sesebuah negara, dinilaikan pada mata wang negara lain. Kaedah ini mengakibatkan ketidaktentuan turun naik nilai mata wang sekaligus memberi peluang kepada spekulator mata wang mengaut keuntungan atas kerugian negara lain.

Richard Duncan, dalam bukunya “The Dollar Crisis,” meramalkan kemungkinan satu krisis
ekonomi yang mungkin lebih buruk daripada ‘Great Depression’ seandainya sistem kewangan sekarang diteruskan. Melihat kepada kekurangan yang ada pada sistem mata wang apungan ini, ramai pakar ekonomi berpendapat bahawa penggunaan dinar emas adalah sangat disyorkan agar digunapakai kembali sebagai alat menyimpan nilai dan perantara pertukaran terutama dalam perdagangan antarabangsa. Langkah ini disyorkan kerana dinar emas terkenal dengan sifat stabil terhadap aktiviti spekulasi dan manipulasi.

Dari segi tabungan, emas lebih stabil berbanding wang kertas kerana nilainya tidak mengalami turun naik yang ekstrem dan tidak merosot akibat inflasi. Dari segi zakat, hukum Islam menetapkan bahawa zakat hanya boleh dibayar dalam bentuk barangan nyata. Dinar emas sangat sesuai berbanding wang kertas kerana wang kertas hanya laku atas jaminan kerajaan yang mengeluarkannya. Sedangkan emas tidak memerlukan mana-mana pihak untuk mengesahkan nilainya kerana ia dengan sendirinya mempunyai nilai.

Umar Ibrahim Vadillo merupakan individu yang melihat penggunaan dinar emas sebagai jalan penyelesaian kepada krisis ekonomi dunia. Beliau telah berusaha keras untuk mencipta iklim ekonomi yang bersandarkan dinar emas yang sepatutnya menjadi mata wang umat Islam. Malah, beliau juga yang telah melobi Tun Mahathir selepas negara di landa krisis mata wang pada tahun 1997 untuk bertukar kepada penggunaan dinar emas. Hujahnya, mata wang dinar emas bukan sahaja mampu dijadikan sebagai kaedah utama pembayaran berikutan terdapat lebih daripada satu bilion umat Islam di dunia ini malah kedudukan ekonomi sesebuah negara akan lebih terjamin kerana dinar emas merupakan komoditi yang mempunyai harga yang stabil. Pada tanggal 18 Ogos 1991, beliau dengan lantang telah mengeluarkan fatwa bahawa wang kertas adalah haram.

Fatwa berkenaan merumuskan bahawa wang kertas adalah satu bentuk hutang (janji yang dibayar oleh pihak yang mengeluarkannya) dan oleh itu tidak boleh digunakan sebagai alat pembayaran. Ini bertepatan dengan takrifan daripada Imam Malik r.a. yang mentakrifkan wang sebagai “sebarang komodititi yang diterima umum digunakan sebagai alat pertukaran”. Oleh yang demikian, manusia mempunyai kebebasan untuk memilih sebarang komoditi yang bernilai sebagai mata wang dan bukan mata wang yang dipaksa nilai ke atasnya. Menyelusuri sejarah, dinar emas telah menjadi piawai bagi mata wang dunia, selama beribu-ribu tahun, sehinggalah ia diganti kepada wang kertas dolar hanya pada awal tahun 1970-an. Dinar berasal dari perkataan bahasa Latin Denarius iaitu matawang yang digunakan oleh Kerajaan Rom yang diperbuat dari logam perak. Ianya digunakan pada tahun 211 sebelum masihi di mana 1 denarius perak beratnya kira – kira 4.5 gram. Dari perkataan Denarius ini, wujudlah pelbagai matawang yang lain seperti Denier (mata wang perak Perancis), Denaro (mata wang perak Itali), Dinar (mata wang emas Islam), Dinero (mata wang perak Sepanyol) dan Dinheiro (mata wang perak Portugis).

Pada penghujung zaman Republik Roman, mata wang Denarius dari logam emas mula digunakan dengan dikenali sebagai Denarius Aureus yang bermaksud Denarius Emas. Semenjak dari itu, perkembangan mata wang emas telah berubah mengikut peredaran zaman di mana semasa pemerintahan Constantine The Great (306 – 377 Tahun Masihi) mata wang emas lama telah ditukar dengan mata wang yang lebih ringan yang dikenali sebagai Solidus yang beratnya 4.5 gram. Mata wang emas Solidus ini telah digunakan sehingga berakhirnya zaman Empayar Byzantium dan telah tersebar penggunaannya ke seluruh Semenanjung Tanah Arab sehinggalah ke zaman awal Islam.

Dari zaman bermula berkembangnya agama Islam, penggunaan mata wang dinar emas dan dirham perak dari Parsi telah digunakan menjadi mata wang bagi setiap ummah ketika itu dalam urusan jual beli. Hanya pada zaman pemerintahan Khalifah yang ke-3 iaitu Khalifah Saiyidina Ummar al-Khattab (13 – 23 hijrah / 633 – 644 masihi), penggunaan mata wang dinar dan dirham mula dikawal dari segi corak dan berat. Di bawah pemerintahan Khalifah Ummar, corak mata wang Islam telah diukir dengan nama Allah s.w.t. dan sebahagian dari ayat-ayat suci al-Quran. Berat mata wang Islam ini juga telah ditetapkan iaitu mata wang dinar mestilah mengandungi emas seberat 1 mithqal (iaitu seberat 4.25 gram ukuran pada masa kini). Manakala bagi mata wang dirham pula, beratnya adalah sebanyak 2.975 gram perak (ukuran pada masa kini) di mana jika nilai tukarannya dengan dinar ialah 7 dinar emas bersamaan dengan 10 dirham perak.

Kepentingan dinar emas jelas dicatat dalam buku Ibn Khaldun yang bertajuk “al-Muqaddimah.” Di dalam buku tersebut, mencatatkan akan wahyu Allah s.w.t. memasukkan dinar serta dirham dan ini telah membawa bersamanya banyak kaitan dalam hukum seperti zakat, perkahwinan dan hudud. Sebab itu di dalam wahyu Allah s.w.t. dengan jelas telah menyatakan akan ukuran yang tetap mengenai zakat dan sebagainya dengan menggunakan dinar dan dirham tidak dengan yang lain. Islam mementingkan keredaan Allah s.w.t. dalam setiap pelakuan dan pekerjaan yang dilakukan kerana keredaan Allah s.w.t. akan memberikan kesejahteraan kepada kehidupan dunia dan akhirat. Idea mengembalikan dinar emas bukan suatu perkara kecil kerana ia secara langsung atau tidak, turut melibatkan soal sistem sosial, ekonomi, politik, dan, keberkatan dari-Nya. Malah, kelemahan umat Islam sedunia mula ketara apabila berakhirnya penggunaan dinar emas.

Menurut sejarah, pemerintahan Islam di bawah Khalifah Uthmaniyah di Istanbul, Turki telah dihelah dengan kemajuan dan pembangunan. Pinjaman wang kertas daripada Eropah untuk membangunkan Turki telah menjadikan negara tersebut berhutang dan melalui sistem wang kertas bersama riba telah melemahkan pemerintahan Khalifah. Riba sangat dibenci Allah s.w.t dan Rasulullah s.a.w. Ini diterangkan dalam al-Quran yang bermaksud: “Maka jika kamu tidak mengerjakan (meninggalkan sisa riba) maka ketahuilah bahawa Allah dan Rasul-Nya akan memerangi kamu. Dan jika kamu bertaubat (dari pengambilan riba), maka bagimu pokok hartamu, kamu tidak menganiaya dan tidak (pula) dianiaya,” (al Baqarah:279). Memang tidak dapat dinafikan, sistem wang dunia berasaskan wang kertas dan berlandaskan riba ini telah telah membawa kepada banyak kerosakan seperti kemiskinan, kerosakan alam sekitar, monopoli pengeluaran dan pengedaran. Sistem ini juga menimbulkan berbagai masalah seperti pengangguran, jenayah, maksiat dan kejatuhan moral. Sistem ini yang dikendalikan oleh institusi perbankan, sistem demokrasi dan ahli politik yang tidak bertanggungjawab telah memberi sumbangan kepada kesengsaraan masyarakat dunia. Ibnu Abbas r.a. dari Ishaq Ibn Basheer dan Ibn Asakir di Kanz al-Ummal mendengar Rasulullah s.a.w. bersabda, yang bermaksud: “Orang yang pertama mengikuti Dajjal adalah 70,000 orang Yahudi…dan antara tanda pelepasan Dajjal adalah amalan riba.” Kini, dinar emas telah kembali dan ramai umat Islam dan bukan Islam dari seluruh dunia menyeru supaya dinar emas ini dikembalikan. Ditengah-tengah kekalutan ekonomi yang melanda kini, kilauan dinar emas dilihat dapat mengembalikan sistem kewangan yang lebih munasabah dan mantap. Ramai yang telah sedar akan tipu helah sistem kewangan yang ada dan masyarakat dunia sudah mula meminta supaya mengembalikan kebebasan untuk memilih. Sekiranya demokrasi dilaungkan di seluruh dunia supaya diamalkan dalam semua perkara, mengapa tidak kebebasan diberikan untuk memilih dinar sebagai wang?

Mengapa emas?

Why gold?
Gold has attracted investors throughout the centuries, protecting their wealth and providing a ’safe haven’ in troubled or uncertain times. This appeal remains compelling for modern investors, although there are also a number of other reasons that underpin the widespread renewal of investor interest in gold.

Safe haven
In volatile and uncertain times, there is typically a ‘flight to quality’ as investors seek to protect their capital by moving it into assets considered to be safer stores of value. Gold is among a handful of financial assets that do not rely on an issuer’s promise to pay, offering refuge from default risk. It provides insurance against extreme movements that often occur in the value of traditional asset classes in unsettled times.
Portfolio diversification
Most investment portfolios are invested primarily in traditional financial assets such as stocks and bonds. The reason for holding diverse investments is to protect the portfolio against fluctuations in the value of any single asset or group of assets that react in a common fashion. Portfolios containing gold are generally more robust and less volatile than those that do not.
Inflation hedge
Market cycles may come and go, but – over the long term – gold keeps its purchasing power. Its value, in terms of the real goods and services that it can buy, has remained remarkably stable. In contrast, the purchasing power of many currencies has generally declined due to the impact of rising prices for goods and services. As a result, gold is often bought to counter the effects of inflation and currency fluctuations.
Dollar hedge
Gold is often used as an effective hedge against fluctuations in the US dollar, the world’s main trading currency. If the dollar appreciates, the dollar gold price falls, while a fall in the dollar relative to the other main currencies produces a rise in the gold price. While this may also be true of other assets, gold has consistently proved among the most effective in protecting against dollar weakness.

Risk management
On the whole, gold is significantly less volatile than most commodities and many equity indices. In this respect it tends to behave more like a currency. Including assets with low volatility in a portfolio will help to reduce overall risk, with a beneficial effect on expected returns. Risk factors that may affect the gold price are quite different in nature from those that affect other assets.

Demand and supply
As is true of all asset prices, gold’s price moves in response to the changing balance between supply and demand. Mine production is relatively inelastic due to the long lead times that exist in gold mining, which explains why the rally in the gold price since 2001 has still not engendered an increase in production levels. Meanwhile, demand has shown sustained growth, due at least in part to rising income levels in gold’s key markets. This has created the foundation for the most positive outlook the precious metal has known for a quarter of a century.

What You Must Know to Appreciate Gold Basic Reasons To Invest in Gold Today
• Balance – Gold is the foundation for a balanced portfolio.
• Diversification – Your gold holdings serve to diversify paper investments.
• Insurance – Over time, gold acts as insurance, reducing stock risks and providing high return potential.
• Security – Gold is emergency money, portable and easy to sell in a financial crisis.
• Protection – Gold provides excellent hedge protection against severe stock market crashes or inflation.

Gold Has Real Monetary Value
Remember that investing in gold is not like buying stocks. Corporations go bankrupt, CEO’s and accountants cook the books, and stock prices can fall to zero.

Gold never becomes worthless.
When paper money was backed by gold, the U.S. Dollar had a stable, dependable backing. Sadly through, throughout history every paper currency not backed by gold has become worthless, given enough time. Gold always has an underlying physical and monetary value. Best of all, gold prices usually move opposite to stock prices over the long haul. This negative correlation of stocks to gold has historically meant that gold prices go up in the years when U.S. stock markets go down.

Gold, The Storehouse of Wealth
Over the decades, gold has proven itself as an ideal “storehouse of wealth.” Gold has survived every major U.S. stock market crash throughout history. From a monetary point of view, gold in still the only “true yardstick” against which all wealth is ultimately measured. The recent declines in the U.S. Dollar are more proof of the need to diversify from paper assets into gold. Keep in mind that every paper currency ever printed has declined in value or disappeared completely given enough time.

Gold Is Private, Portable Wealth
In contrast, when you own gold you have a monetary reserve; a private, portable source of wealth in an emergency and an appreciating asset during bad economic times. The very best reason of all for holding gold in your portfolio is so you can sleep better at night. In these times of financial instability with another terrorist attack just a matter of time, we feel it’s important to hold 10% to 20% of your portfolio in gold. If you buy gold low and sell high, gold can be a source of significant profits over the long-term. We feel buying gold today offers you excellent profit potential.In the most recent bull market for gold, the price of gold topped $850 per ounce. Today, gold is a bargain compared only to the past market high.

Growing Demand
In the decade ahead, the price of gold will be driven by growing demand and reduced supplies from Central Bankers. Two key factors on the demand are the legalization of gold ownership in China and elimination of the VAT tax on gold in England. As a result, we feel Gold is an investment whose time will come again— and soon. The future value that gold could attain is not limited except by the demand of dollars flowing out of stocks, bonds, paper money, and alternative investments. Historically, that has happened during times of war, rising inflation, inflated oil and gas prices, and with the devaluation of the U.S. Dollar. If any or all these economic factors have you worried, then gold may be the most logical alternative for your portfolio.

Ucapan YAB Menteri Besar Kelantan di Persidangan Antarabangsa Mengenai Ekonomi Gold 24-25 Julai 2007

“Dihiaskan (dan dijadikan indah) kepada manusia, kesukaan kepada benda-benda yang diingini nafsu, iaitu perempuan-perempuan dan anak-pinak, longgokan harta benda yang banyak berpikul-pikul, dari emas dan perak, kuda peliharaan yang bertanda, lagi terlatih, dan binatang-binatang serta kebun-kebun tanaman. semuanya itu adalah kesenangan hidup di dunia(yang bersifat sementara). dan (ingatlah), pada sisi Allah adalah tempat kembali yang sebaik-baiknya (iaitu syurga yang kekal abadi).
(Surah Ali Imran, ayat 14)

Alhamdulillah, marilah sama-sama kita merafa’kan setinggi-tinggi kesyukuran ke hadrat Allah subhanahu wa taala, kerana hanya dengan limpah izin dan inayah-Nya sahaja, kita dapat menjayakan majlis makan malam, sempena “Persidangan Ekonomi Dinar Emas peringkat Antarabangsa” yang sangat penting lagi amat bersejarah ini.

Dato’-dato’, Datin-datin, tuan-tuan dan puan-puan yang dikasihi sekelian,

Pada tanggal 27 Syaaban 1427 hijriah, bersamaan 20 September 2006 yang lalu, Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan telah mudahkan kepada rakyat Kelantan amnya, dengan penjualan kepingan-kepingan dinar yang diperbuat daripada emas tulen 22 karat, bersamaan seberat 4.25 gram.
Pelancaran emas dinar Kelantan tersebut, bukanlah bermaksud Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan mahu menggantikan penggunaan ringgit Malaysia dengan dinar!

Kerajaan negeri mahupun Kerajaan Pusat sekalipun, tidak mampu, malah tidak ada kuasa untuk berbuat demikian. Bahkan, kerana wujudnya perjanjian di peringkat antarabangsa, yang memutuskan bahawa emas dan perak tidak lagi boleh dijadikan mata wang dalam ekonomi semasa.

Tindakan mewadahkan dinar yang dilakukan oleh kerajaan Kelantan, sama sekali tidak bertentangan dengan peraturan dan amalan bank negara, kerana pada tahun 2003 yang lalu, Bank Negara sendiri pernah memperkenalkan wadah dinar kepada rakyat.
Sehingga hari ini, tuan-tuan dan puan-puan masih boleh membeli dinar, yang ditempah dan dijual oleh The Royal Mint dengan tiada apa-apa masalah.

Sememangnya budaya ekonomi Islam adalah berteraskan dinar dan dirham. Dalam al-Quranul karim, perkataan dinar dan dirham ada termaktub dalam Surah Ali Imran ayat 75 dan juga dalam surah Yusof ayat 20.
Maksudnya:
Dan di antara ahli-ahli kitab, ada orang yang kalau engkau amanahkan dia menyimpan sejumlah besar harta sekalipun, dia akan mengembalikannya (dengan sempurna) kepada kamu dan ada pula di antara mereka, yang kalau engkau amanahkan menyimpan hanya satu dinar sahaja pun, dia tidak akan mengembalikannya kepada kamu, kecuali kalau kamu selalu menuntutnya.

(Surah Ali Imran : 75)
Maksudnya:
Dan (setelah berlaku perundingan), dan adik beradik Nabi Yusuf telah menjual Yusuf dengan harga yang murah, iaitu beberapa dirham sahaja…

Kedua-dua ayat al-Quran ini menceritakan, bahawa penggunaan wang dinar dan dirham, telah pun berlangsung sejak ribuan tahun, sebelum kebangkitan Nabi Muhammad s.a.w lagi.
Selain daripada ayat al-Quran, terdapat banyak hadis-hadis yang menceritakan, tentang penggunaan dinar dan dirham sebagai matawang, sehingga ke zaman Rasulullah s.a.w, sebagaimana sabda baginda : maksudnya:
“Dinar yang engkau belanjakan di jalan Allah, dinar yang engkau belanjakannya dalam membebaskan hamba. Dinar yang engkau sedekahkan kepada orang miskin. dan dinar yang engkau belanjakannya untuk ahli keluarga kamu. Yang paling besar pahalanya (di sisi Allah) ialah dinar yang kamu belanjakannya untuk (memenuhi keperluan dan membangunkan potensi hidup) ahli keluarga kamu.

Dalil-dalil daripada al-Quran dan hadis di atas membuktikan bahawa, asas sistem matawang yang digunakan di sepanjang sejarah ketamadunan manusia, sejak zaman nabi-nabi yang terdahulu, sehinggalah ke zaman Nabi Muhammad s.a.w, adalah dalam bentuk mata wang dinar dan dirham.

Bahkan sistem inilah, yang telah diamalkan di sepanjang pemerintahan Khulafa’ ar-Rasyidin, sehingga berakhirnya zaman pemerintahan kerajaan atau Khilafah Uthmaniyyah pada tahun 1924 Masihi.(Untuk ditukar dengan sistem sekular Ataturk dan telah menimbulkan seribu satu masalah kepada al-insan).

Sejarah juga telah membuktikan bahawa negeri Kelantan berada di bawah jajahan takluk Kerajaan Siam suatu ketika dahulu, pihak Kerajaan Kelantan sentiasa membayar ufti kepada kerajaan Siam pada setiap tahun, dengan menghantarkan sebilangan kepingan-kepingan wang emas, yang digubah dalam bentuk bunga emas.

Ini membuktikan bahawa, penggunaan wang dinar emas bukan hanya digunakan umat Islam di Timur Tengah sahaja, tetapi telah digunakan secara meluas sehingga ke Adia Tenggara, termasuk Negeri Kelantan sejak ratusan tahun yang lalu.

Para Hadirin sekalian,
Saranan supaya kembali kepada penggunaan wang dinar emas, sebagai teras ekonomi pada zaman globalisasi ini, bukanlah dimonopoli oleh penganut agama Islam sahaja.
Bahkan ramai juag ahli-ahali ekonomi dari kalangan bukan, yang inginkan wang komoditi, kahsnya dalam bentuk kepingan emas dan perak kerana kestabilan dan jaminan kebebasan yang dikandungnya.

Mereka berpendapat, alasan utama mengapa sistem wang komoditi seperti dinar emas, tidak dibenarkan oleh pihak-pihak tertentu, bukanlah disebabkan kekurangan kemahiran teknikal tetapi kerana wang komoditi mampu menggantikan sistem monetari konvensional.

Oleh kerana penggantian tersebut boleh menjadi ancaman besar, khasnya kepada kepentingan ekonomi Amerika dan Yahudi sedunia menyebabkan pihak-pihak yang berkepentingan itu gemar membuat alasan bahawa kononnya jika emas dan dinar dijadikan sebagai matawang ia akan mudah tercicir, atau poket akan cepat tembus, kerana berat membawa wang dari emas.

Dato’-dato’, datin-datin, tuan-tuan, dan puan-puan yang dihormati sekalian,

Emas telah menjadi piawai bagi mata wang dunia, selama beribu-ribu tahun, sehinggalah ia diganti kepada wang kertas dollar hanya pada awal tahun 1970-an. Wang dollar tidak lagi disandarkan kepada emas, tetapi nilainya turun naik mengikut gelora permintaan dan penawaran pasaran tukaran wang asing.

Justeru, kita perlu melihat usaha pengembalian dinar dan dirham ini, sebagai usaha menegakkan sistem ekonomi yang lebih adil dan lebih telus.

Bukannya satu agenda untuk meraih populariti. Bahkan sebagai satu tanggungjawab untuk mengembalikan semuala kefahaman umat Islam khasnya, berhubung peradaban dan sejarah penggunaan dinar dan dirham, serta bertujuan untuk memberi kesedaran dan keyakinan, terhadap penggunaan dinar dan dirham sebagai alternatif kepada sistem matawang, terutamanya dengan mempelopori penggunaan dinar sebagai simpanan, mas kahwin, membayar zakat, pemberian hadiah, dan sedekah untuk bekal akhirat sebagai harta cagaran di pusat-pusat gadaian ar-Rahnu, sebagai upah kepada perkhidmatan atau sumabangan yang tertentu dan sebagainya.

Saya telah difahamkan bahawa sehingga ke tarikh ini, sejumlah lebih RM600 ratus ribu nilaian wang emas dinar Kelantan, telah dibeli oleh masyarakat umum. dan yang sangat menariknya, pelancong-pelancong dan pelawat-pelawat dari luar Kelantan juga, berebut-rebut untuk memiliki dinar emas keluaran kerajaan Kelantan.

Sama ada sebagai cenderamata, mahupun untuk lain-lain kegunaan mengikut keperluan masing-masing. Ini semua membuktikan bahawa, usaha ke arah mengembalikan semula penggunaan mata wang dinar, mempunyai masa depan yang amat cerah, dan akan mendapat sokongan daripada pelbagai masyarakat di seluruh dunia, tanpa mengira agama, bangsa, bahasa dan budaya.

Para hadirin sekalian,

Saya selaku Ketua Kerajaan Negeri Kelantan, akan terus memberi sokongan yang sepenuhnya, walaupun dalam bidang yang terhad kepada perjuangan “Gold Dinar Economy” kerana ia merupakan satu perjuangan suci, yang dapat menyatukan dan mendaulatkan kembali umat Islam serta negara-negara kecil sedunia, daripada terus dijajah dan dibuli oleh kuasa besar ekonomi dunia.

Saya juga mengesyorkan supaya kerajaan Malaysia mengambil supaya kerajaan Malaysia mengambil langkah positif, dengan meneruskan cadangan dan landasan yang telah dimulakan oleh Tun Dr Mahathir semasa beliau menjadi Perdana Menteri dahulu, bagi menggunakan emas dalam perdagangan antara negara-negara OIC.

Perkara ini bukan merupakan isu ekonomi semata-mata.
Ia sebaliknya mengandungi kemaslahatan umum yang bersifat sejagat, yang perlu diperjuangkan secara konsisten oleh kita semua. Jika negara-negara Kesatuan Eropah boleh menggunakan matawang mereka sendiri, dengan nama mata wang Euro, mengapa tidak kita negara-negara OIC menggunakan mata wang dinar?

Saya serahkan kepada pakar-pakar ekonomi kita, untuk terus berjuang memberi kefahaman kepada masyarakat Islam, terutamanya pimpinan dan golongan cendikiawan.

Di kesempatan ini, saya mengucapkan tahniah dan syabas kepada pihak penganjur persidangan ini, dan juga semua pembentang kertas kerja, sama ada dari luar negara mahupun dari dalam negara, yang sama-sama telah bersatu tenaga dan idea, dalam menjayakan “Persidangan Ekonomi Dinar Emas peringkat Antarabangsa,” yang sangat penting lagi sangat bersejarah ini.