Siti Nurhaliza, husband fined RM10k each over tahnik ceremony

Singer Siti Nurhaliza and her husband Khalid Mohamad Jiwa have both been compounded RM10,000 each for failing to comply with standard operating procedures (SOPs) during a tahnik ceremony in Kuala Lumpur.

Tahnik is an Islamic ceremony to celebrate and welcome a newborn.

Selangor police chief Arjunaidi Mohamed said the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of religious affairs Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri, preachers Azhar Idrus, Don Daniyal and Iqbal Zain were all fined...