Unsur-unsur tradisi dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan merangkumi peruntukan-peruntukan berkaitan institusi beraja, agama Islam, bahasa Melayu, dan hak istimewa orang Melayu. Namun, kini masih timbul isu pertikaian, penghinaan dan provokasi ke atas unsur-unsur tradisi ini oleh sebilangan rakyat Malaysia. Maka kajian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan tahap pengetahuan, sikap dan amalan belia terhadap unsur-unsur tradisi dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan. Kajian ini dijalankan secara keratan rentas dengan pengedaran borang soal selidik ke atas 416 respoden dalam kalangan belia pelbagai etnik secara pensampelan mudah (convenience). Data dianalisis secara deskriptif dan inferensi menggunakan perisian SPSS. Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa tahap pengetahuan, sikap dan amalan belia terhadap unsurunsur tradisi secara keseluruhannya adalah tinggi. Justeru, setiap etnik di Malaysia perlu mengetahui, memahami, menerima dan menghayati sejarah penggubalan Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan unsur-unsur tradisi yang menjadi peruntukan-peruntukan asas dalam perlembagaan tersebut bagi mengukuhkan sifat keluhuran terhadap perlembagaan dan meningkatkan persefahaman antara kaum yang melibatkan isu berkaitan unsur-unsur tradisi ini.

Abstrak: Isu-isu melibatkan unsur tradisi dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan seperti agama, institusi beraja, bahasa Melayu dan kedudukan istimewa orang Melayu sering diperdebatkan dan kadangkala boleh menjadi punca perbalahan antara kaum di media sosial. Media sosial terdiri daripada pelbagai golongan masyarakat. Pelajar universiti menjadi tumpuan kajian kerana mereka merupakan kategori golongan terpelajar yang akan menjadi pemimpin generasi akan datang. Maka kajian ini dijalankan bagi mengenalpasti tahap pengetahuan, sikap dan penghayatan pelajar universiti terhadap unsur tradisi Perlembagaan Persekutuan, menentukan perbezaannya mengikut faktor latar belakang demografi pelajar serta menganalisis hubungan antara tahap pengetahuan, sikap dan penghayatan pelajar terhadap unsur tradisi dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 572 responden dalam kalangan pelajar universiti yang dipilih secara rawak berkelompok di negeri-negeri Semenanjung Malaysia. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah soal selidik yang dibina berdasarkan peruntukan-peruntukan unsur tradisi dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan serta model KAP yang diedarkan secara atas talian. Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa tahap pengetahuan, sikap dan penghayatan pelajar universiti terhadap unsur tradisi adalah tinggi secara keseluruhannya. Namun, terdapat perbezaan yang ketara terhadap tahap pengetahuan, sikap dan penghayatan pelajar universiti mengikut latar belakang demografi. Hasil kajian juga menunjukkan terdapat hubungan yang signifikan antara tahap pengetahuan, sikap dan penghayatan pelajar terhadap peruntukan unsur-unsur tradisi dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan walaupun berbeza tahap kekuatan antara ketiga-tiga hubungan tersebut.   Abstract: Issues involving traditional elements in the Federal Constitution, such as religion, monarchical institutions, the Malay language, and the special position of the Malays are often debated and sometimes can be a source of inter-racial conflicts on social media. The study focuses on university students, as they are educated people who will be the leaders of the generations to come. Therefore, this study was conducted 1) to identify the level of knowledge, attitude, and appreciation of university students towards the traditional elements of the Federal Constitution, 2) to determine the differences according to students’ demographic background and 3) to analyse the relationship between students' level of knowledge and attitude, as well as their appreciation of traditional elements in the Federal Constitution. The study sample consisted of 572 respondents among university students who were randomly selected in groups in the states of Peninsular Malaysia. The questionnaire was used based on the provisions of the traditional elements in the Federal Constitution, as well as the KAP model, which was distributed online. Overall, the results of the study found that the level of knowledge, attitude, and appreciation of university students towards the traditional elements is high. However, there are significant differences in the level of knowledge, attitude, and appreciation of university students according to demographic background. The results also show that there is a significant relationship between the level of knowledge, attitude, and appreciation of students towards the provisions of traditional elements in the Federal Constitution despite the different levels of strength between the three relationships.

In the religion studies, al-Asmā’ al-Ḥusnā refers to the beautiful names of God, which such phrase is never ascribed to His creations, but only unto Him alone, as prescribed in the notion of tawhīd. In Hinduism, the theological concept is addressed as eka aneka. Eka means one, while aneka means not one or many. Therefore, eka aneka means God in Hinduism is one but also aneka, which has many manifestations, incarnations, and different from the concept of tawḥīd in Islam. In 2015, Uthaya Sankar, a famous Hindu writer, claims that the Hindu concept of eka aneka is similar to the concept of al-Asmā’ al-Ḥusnā in Islam in his Malay language book titled Malaiur Manikam. Therefore, this research aims to study the intellectual background of Uthaya Sankar and his book Malaiur Manikam. Then this research intends to describe the concept of eka aneka as prescribed by Uthaya Sankar in his Malaiur Manikam and also to investigate Uthaya Sankar’s view of equalizing the concept of eka aneka with the concept of al-Asmā’ al-Husnā in Islam. This research applies the qualitative approach, namely content analysis method on the Malaiur Manikam text. As a result, this research found that the Hindu concept of eka aneka cannot be equalised with the concept of al-Asmā’ al-Ḥusnā in Islam. This is due to the fact that although Allah has 99 names, but Allah is one (tawḥīd) in His essence (dhāt), actions (afcāl) and names (asmā’), as well as does not incarnate into any forms or manifestations. On the contrary, even though the Hindu God is one, but it incarnates into various forms and manifestations. Thus, this finding can enlighten the Muslims and the non-Muslims on the concept of tawḥīd al-Asmā’ al-Husnā vis-a-vis eka aneka, and also evaluate Uthaya Sankar’s notion of equalizing the Hindu concept of eka aneka with the concept al-Asmā’ al-Husnā in Islam.