Kalau tengok faktor kejatuhan Ottoman era, banyak persamaan dengan negara kita sekarang.
Poor policy, yep - notably the Ahdname yang makan tuan. Dipaksa ikut telunjuk other powers, yep. Sultan lemah, yep. Valide sultan or other women close to sultan yang influence the system, oh yes. Corruption, economic imbalance, stagnation of knowledge and researches as well as brain drain, rigid ulama, sultan-fearing ulama, ah terlalu banyak yang sama, kena hurai 12 perenggan kot.
While all these things were happening, the rulers lived in their own bubble; comfortable with the status quo. As long as the ones in power could live wealthily, they didn't care for other stuff. Still thinking that they had the best and most powerful empire when in fact macam telur hujung tanduk enemy kiri kanan. They forgot what it's like to be Amirul Mu'minin, they thought they were "Caliphs of God" while having hundreds of concubines, absorbed in their harem, in astrology and in meaningless pursuits, killing their own brothers to preserve their throne (your beloved Sultan Al-Fatih started this law btw), so on and so forth. Sama la dengan rakyat. Corrupt ada, miskin ada, Muslims just by name, getting worse as the sultans themselves got worse.
Lots of similarities with now; in varied modern skins but same in essence. I fear for this country and its impending doom.
