Abby Abadi



Arbaiyah Abdul Manan (born December 1, 1977) or better known as Abby Abadi is a Malaysian actress who stars on the popular police drama, Gerak Khas. She won the Berita Harian's Anugerah Bintang Popular Award for Most Popular TV Actress in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003.[1]



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[hide]  *1 Career  ==Career[edit] == Abby Abadi was a member of the girl-group Elite, before leaving it in 1998.[2] She joined the Wheel of Fortune-based game show Roda Impian during its second season, as co-host.She later left the show.
 * 2 Early life
 * 2.1 Personal life
 * 3 Involvement In Politics
 * 4 Controversial Comments About Islam
 * 4.1 Feud With Religious Scholar
 * 5 List of films
 * 6 List of Drama
 * 7 External links
 * 8 References

Abadi was also filming for the TV series Gerak Khas, playing one of the leads, Inspektor Aleeza. Its popularity led in 2001 to a hit feature film [3] based on the series. Two sequels followed, with more modest success. In 2005, she had a part as Atikah on Kamasutra. ==Early life[edit] == Abby Abdi was born in 1 December 1977 and comes from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ===Personal life[edit] === Abadi married her co-star, Norman Hakim (Inspektor Haris), in 2002. Norman and Abby was confirmed divorced (talak satu) at the Gombak Timur Shariah Court in 2008 after they divorced for the first time on May 5, 2006. Result of their life partnership, they have three children namely Mohamed Danish Hakim, Marissa Dania, and Maria Danisha.[1]

After 4 years become widow, Abby Abadi legally married with a man from Kampung Kok Pasir, Tumpat, Kelantan in 9 July 2013. Her husband name is Muhammad Noor Farhan Bin Che Bakar and 12 year old younger than her.[2] ==Involvement In Politics[edit] == Abby's decision to join PAS caused quite a stir in the entertainment industry. This is because of her flamboyant lifestyles as an actress contradicts all that is considered Haram or sinful.Another colleague of Abby, Hairi Othman is also a member of the coalition and they hope to be able to fend off political attacks towards the party.[3]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Abby now is actively involved in politics through her membership<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]  in the Opposition party Islamic Party of Malaysia (PAS) and has been making her rounds in ceramahs or political sermons around the country, mainly to encourage the people to vote for the opposition in the next General Election.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Even in an Islamic party, Abby cannot seems to avoid controversy. She was said to have married a PAS assembly member Mohd Zaki Ibrahim (41). However, she denied the claims and the issue was not being taken seriously in the Malaysian political arena.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5] ==Controversial Comments About Islam<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Abby Abadi is quite vocal in voicing her opinion on Islamic teaching. Ever since she became a member of PAS, she began giving notorious sermons and teachings based solely on her personal views.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[6]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Because most of her views contradicts the true teachings of Islam, Abby Abadi was condemned in the Malaysian blogosphere. In a Malay language portal, it shows that Abby Abadi stated that, the reason for all the things that she has done in PAS is for the benefits of her friends, family and the society. She firmly believes that her work in PAS can guarantee her salvation in the here after.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-7" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[7] ===Feud With Religious Scholar<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] === <p style="line-height:19.1875px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Because of her controversial comments on Islam, Abby Abadi was criticized by one of Malaysia's prominent Islamic scholar Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin. Abby Abadi and Dr Mohd Asri lashes out in the social media such as FacebookAnd Twitter. Other than Mohd Asri, Abby Abadi also have been questioned by her fellow PAS member and also a religious teacher Ustaz Azhar Idrus simply because of her views that contradicts the real Islamic teachings. Ustaz Azhar Idrus even suggested that Abby Abadi must further her studies and conduct extensive research on subjects that she wanted to comment.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[8] ==List of films<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] == ==List of Drama<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[edit] ==
 * Gerak Khas the Movie (2001)
 * Gerak Khas the Movie 2 (2002)
 * Gerak Khas the Movie 3 (2005)
 * Gerak Khas
 * Maria Mariana
 * Manjalara