Islam in Malaysia He converted to Islam after marrying a princess from Pasai, of present-day Indonesia. The religion was adopted peacefully by the coastal trading ports people of Malaysia and Indonesia, absorbing rather than conquering existing beliefs. By the 15th and 16th centuries it was the majority faith of the Malay people. Currently, Islam is the state religion, specifically Shafi'ite school Sunnism. Some Islamic terms, such as the word Allah, are forbidden to non-Muslims both orally and in writing, which has created a controversy . In October 2013, the Malaysian Court of Appeal upheld the government's ban on the use of the word
A Hymn to God the Father Sin, Where I Begun"; without always crediting him as composer, or Donne as the author of the words. The poem starts out with a question that Donne asks from God that will He forgive his sins which he did even before his birth? Actually, Donne refers to the original sin which his ancestors Adam and Eve committed by eating the forbidden fruit, according to Christian theology. He then adds that if God has forgiven those sins he has not yet done, Donne has more sins to be forgiven. Then he seeks forgiveness for those sins wherein he tempted others to