MELAKA, Nov. 13 -- With Melaka voters heading to the polls tomorrow, PAS president Tan Sri Abdul Hadi Awang has urged Muslims to turn out and vote, warning that staying away could allow non-Muslims to take power.

According to Malaysiakini, Hadi said Muslims who failed to vote could allow others to govern according to their own interests, potentially neglecting responsibilities prescribed by Allah.

"That is why Muslims must fulfil this obligation (to vote) so that they can lead all of humanity.

"However bad or corrupt a Muslim government may be, it is not as unjust as a non-Muslim government," he told more than 1,000 supporters at the Barisan Nasional (BN)-Perikatan Nasional (PN) grand finale rally in Bukit Katil yesterday.

Hadi's poli...