Ebit Lew

Ebit Lew (born 21 December 1984) is a Malaysian preacher and entrepreneur of Chinese descent, born Lew Yun Pau and known in full as Ebit Irawan bin Ibrahim Lew. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-en} He embraced Islam at the age of twelve and built one of Malaysia's largest social-media followings — 6,503,185 Instagram followers on a live counter read in November 2026. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-en} {cite:source/instastatistics-ebit-lew} He is known for his Keluarga Sunnah (Family of the Sunnah) motivational seminars and for large-scale relief missions during the COVID-19 pandemic. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms}

Lew was born in Muadzam Shah, Pahang, the third of eleven children, with the Chinese birth name Lew Yun Pau (劉潤保). {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-en} {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms} He embraced Islam at twelve, attended schools in Pahang and Kelantan, and graduated from Universiti Putra Malaysia. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-en} {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms}

Lew founded Transform Training & Consultancy and presented motivational seminars through it, most famously the family programme Keluarga Sunnah. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms} He held motivational slots on Malaysia's IKIM and Sinar radio stations, and with the rise of social media became one of the country's most-followed preachers. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms}

In 2020 Lew launched the Elewsmart supermarket chain, whose first outlet opened in Bandar Baru Bangi on 18 July 2020 promising low prices on essentials. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms} The chain expanded across Malaysia before all outlets were permanently closed from January 2024, the Malay article attributing the closure to unprofitability and mismanagement. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-en} His other ventures include the Elew's Design clothing line and the Paramount Coffee House cafés. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms}

Lew came to national prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic, chartering a Raya Airlines aircraft in October 2020 to fly medical equipment to Sabah together with some ten tonnes of food aid. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-en} In November 2020 he delivered about 200 kg of beef and 500 kg of fruit and vegetables to the National Zoo to help it through the pandemic closures. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-en} He also joined relief efforts in Türkiye after the February 2023 earthquake alongside Malaysian rescue teams. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-en}

What follows are positions and events attributed to their sources, not verdicts of the museum. In May 2021 Lew led a humanitarian mission to Gaza with the Palestinian and Egyptian Red Crescent societies and Malaysia's foreign ministry; the rapper Caprice criticised him, accusing him of profiting from aid funds, and later apologised, while the activist Nadir Al-Nuri questioned the mission's entry route, its purchases in Egypt and its three-day duration. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms} Lew denied wrongdoing in a live broadcast and lodged a police report. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms}

In August 2021 police investigated Lew over an allegation of sexual harassment, which he denied as "a cruel and excessive slander" (fitnah yang sangat kejam dan melampau). {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms} On 18 February 2022 he pleaded not guilty at the Tenom magistrate's court in Sabah to 11 charges of sending obscene words and images by WhatsApp between March and June 2021, and was released on bail of RM11,000. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-en} {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms} The Star reported in February 2023 that the trial was continuing with a new witness; this record verified no final outcome and states none. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-en}

Lew's books include Tangisan Umat (2012), Perjalanan Hidayah Umat (2014, with Rahman Lew), Menelusuri Cinta (2015), Saya Cuma Posmen (2016), Isteriku Bidadari (2016) and 11 Amalan Memiliki Kekayaan (2018). {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms}

Lew received the National Maulidur Rasul Award for 1437H/2015, placed second in the 2019 POPULAR–Berita Harian readers' choice award for non-fiction, and received a MeleTOP Era special award in 2020. {cite:source/wikipedia-ebit-lew-ms} His largest audience is on Instagram, where the instastatistics live counter showed 6,503,185 followers for @ebitlew when read on 4 November 2026 — a dated platform figure, not a museum-verified fact. {cite:source/instastatistics-ebit-lew}

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