TERLEPAS daripada perasaan sebarang prasangka, dan mempersoalkan niat seseorang, maka kita harus bersyukur kepada Allah s.w.t yang telah memberikan ”ilham” kepada Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad mengumumkan tarikh pilihan raya negara yang kesepuluh. Dengan terjawabnya tanda tanya yang selama ini bersarang di kepala kebanyakan orang, terutamanya orang-orang yang berkepentingan, maka yang tinggal ialah…
BELANJAWAN yang dibentang oleh kerajaan dua minggu lalu merupakan belanjawan penyayang dengan ganjaran dan imbuhan yang perlu dan sesuai dengan individu, masyarakat dan institusi-institusi yang tertentu. Banyak pihak merasa lega dan menghargai belanjawan itu yang memberikan kadar perbelanjaan yang lebih selesa untuk menghadapi tekanan hidup yang lebih mendesak. Pada saya dua sektor yang diberikan perhatian…
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.…
