A PAS ulama leader is under fire - including from the party's own cleric wing - over remarks about the Prophet Muhammad's companions and the first and second caliphs, Abu Bakar and Umar al-Khattab.

In a recent religious talk, PAS syura council secretary Nik Zawawi Salleh had said that before Islam, Abu Bakar was a moneylender who oppressed the poor, and that Umar was a violent person, adulterer, and fornicator.