The Coming Of The Sunnah Movement In The 19th Century

1.	A call to Islam as taught by the Prophet (SAW) was inevitable. This came in 1911 with the founding of the Muhammadiyah Movement by Haji Ahmad Dahlan. The movement sought to rid Islam (as practiced then) of all the elements that run contrary to the teachings of the Quraan and the Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad (SAW). It targeted to remove taqlid (blind following), khurafat (uninitiated practices) and bidaah (new additions to the religion) that came with the Islam that arrived in the manner described above.
2.	The Malaysian counterpart was named Islah. It was founded by Syeikh Muhammad Tahir Jalaluddin, who studied the Islamic religion in Mecca and who was, later in 1911 , made the religious adviser to the Sultan of Perak. He was subsequently appointed as a judge in the Ipoh and Taiping courts.
3.	The movement quickly spread to the other Malay states with the opening of the Madrasah al-Masyoor in Penang, Idrisiyah and al-Diniyah in Perak and al-Ubudiyah in Selangor.
4.	It later spread to the un-Federated Malay States of Kelantan and Perlis.
5.	However (sadly) today, only Perlis officially support this movement by incorporating what the movement stand for in the State Constitution.