روح الله رئیسی سیستانی

Often considered a non-conformist or Malaysia’s maverick writer, Salleh Ben Joned is not afraid of going beyond the parameters. One of the issues he always goes beyond its parameters is religion. In his witty and ironic manner, unapologetically teases many of the nation’s “sacred cows”. He is particularly concerned about the creeping institutionalisation of religion, which is one of the factors have kept Malaysia from its true potential. In his literary stuff, Salleh Ben Joned always considers religion as one of the important issues of Malay society. Adam’s Dream, the last published work of Salleh Ben Joned, depicts fifty poems in five sections. This paper provides a study which concentrates on the religious views of Salleh Ben Joned in his collection of his poems” Adams’ Dream”. It can be said that Salleh Ben Joned‘s attitude towards the challenges of religious faith in his collection of poems Adam’s Dream is the continuation and better to say in verse repetition of his attitudes toward religious faith in his previous works. In Adam’s Dream Again Salleh with his witty and ironic manner and his alleged audacity, plays and probes with religious issues and its impact on Malaysian society, history, politics and women.