MOVIE critics are usually people who have never made movies. This may be a crude generalisation, but as far as generalisation goes, this impression is generally true. Critics are everywhere. In fact, someone even said that everyone is a critic. And again, this rings true to a certain extent. It is quite prevalent that we easily…
DURING the four-year course in pharmacy in Egypt years ago, my colleagues and I were required to take a paper entitled Pharmacognosy. The subject actually deals with the science of natural resources especially plants and herbs, and their application in medicine. I remember spending long hours in the laboratory analysing and documenting the morphology of…
ONE of the pertinent areas that Islam highlights in its economic organisation is in the aspect of the rights of an individual and his social responsibility. Islam believes that one of the means to realise economic justice is to harmonise individual rights and social responsibility. The proper approach to this issue is very fundamental in…
THE recent disturbances at the National Mosque saw the re-emergence of the stone as a form of missile to attack law enforcement officers. This, in its own crude way, is a manifestation of the adage “you can take man out of the Stone Age but you cannot take the Stone Age out of man”. According…
Kongres Ekonomi Bumiputera Keempat yang diadakan di ibu kota baru-baru ini telah mendengar perbincangan secara berterus terang dan agak teliti tentang banyak isu yang menyentuh daya pemikiran, budaya dan ciri-ciri lain yang membentuk mind-set kaum bumiputera, khususnya orang Melayu. Malahan bengkel tujuh yang membicarakan isu agama dan budaya sebagai asas membina insan bumiputera yang berdaya…
IT is clear that “globalisation” has become a buzz word–quite often use but seldom in the same context. It is, in fact, one of those far-reaching concepts which are being used by different people to explain facts which are completely different in nature. Even when qualified as “economic”, globalisation can still be associated with a variety…
The word ‘technology’ is no longer an alien term to the majority of people. Today, we see that when people speak of ‘new technology’, people would often refer to Information Technology or I.T. Of course, this is not generally true, because I.T. is not the only new technology around. Technological breakthroughs have been made in…
Dalam menghadapi cabaran alaf baru, umat Islam haruslah merancangkan agendanya yang lebih bercorak futuristic, iaitu berdasarkan kepada perkembangan dan pembangunan yang bakal berlaku pada alaf baru itu. Menjelang akhir-akhir abad ini pun, kita dapat melihat bahawa cabaran baru yang dihadapi oleh umat Islam ialah dalam bentuk cabaran ilmu pengetahuan, sains dan teknologi serta persaingan ekonomi.…
Salah satu belenggu yang dihadapi oleh negara-negara yang telah terlepas dari genggaman penjajahan ialah belenggu penjajahan pemikiran yang tetap masih mencengkam tengkok rakyat. Walaupun negara telah mencapai kemerdekaan sepenuhnya dalam bidang politik, tetapi seringkali terdapat rakyat yang tidak sama sekali dapat melepaskan dirinya dari penjajahan pemikiran dan mental yang masih diwarisinya dari penjajahan. Negara kita…
Ketika membicarakan isu pemartabatan wanita di dalam Seminar yang membawakan tema yang sama anjuran IKIM pada 18 Ogos yang lalu, perkara pertama yang saya sentuh ialah pemartabatan wanita dari pandangan umum world-view Islam yang meletakkan wanita dalam status kemanusiaan yang sama dengan lelaki. Wanita pada zaman sebelum Islam diperlakukan sebagai barang dagangan dan hamba, yang…
