What is so ‘artificial’ in the technology of artificial intelligence (AI)? Originally from ‘artifice’ and synonymous with ‘trickery,’ ‘deception,’ and ‘craftiness,’ the Latin origin artificium of this adjective implies …
Allah ‘azza wa jalla mengingatkan manusia dalam al-Qur’an bahawa Dialah yang menurunkan air kehidupan yang darinya bertumbuh segala macam jenis tanaman sebagai tanda bagi orang-orang yang beriman (Surah al-An‘am, ayat 99). …
As the Speech of God who is Omniscient and Powerful over all things, the Holy Qur’an contains stories whence many a lesson can be learned. This is because human behaviour exists in recurring patterns discernible to those who contemplate mankind’s history, whose spiritual faculties of the intellect and the heart are granted to know the…
Dalam kitab Jami‘ al-Tirmidhi ada dirakamkan sepotong hadith (no. 2269) yang menyebut: “Panji-panji Hitam akan keluar dari Khurasan; tiada yang dapat menghalangnya sehinggalah mereka memasuki kota suci Bayt al-Maqdis (takhruju min Khurasan rayat sud la yarudduha shay’un hatta tunsaba bi-Iliya’).” Kawasan geografi yang pernah …
Recorded in the Jami‘ al-Tirmidhi collection of the Prophetic Traditionsis a hadith wherein the Prophet Muhammad foretold the future emergence of “Black Standards (rayat al-sud)” from the region of Khurasan, presumably a Muslim contingent so superior in many ways that nothing would be able to stop them “until they are planted in Jerusalem (hatta tunsaba…
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi (d. 925), or commonly Muhammad al-Razi, was a renowned 9th century Muslim physician in the so-called Golden Age of Islam. Regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of medicine, al-Razi mastered several fields of knowledge including alchemy, logic, astronomy, grammar, …
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi (m. 925), atau lebih dikenali Muhammad al-Razi, merupakan seorang ahli perubatan Muslim abad ke-9 yang tersohor di zaman digelar sebagai zaman kegemilangan Islam. Beliau dianggap sebagai sosok terpenting dalam sejarah perubatan dan menguasai beberapa bidang ilmu …
Apakah terdapat pada umat Islam suatu semangat berdaya maju dalam mendepani teknologi penggugat (disruptive technology) yang menjadi cabaran semasa dunia masa kini? Hakikatnya, teknologi penggugat yang ditakrifkan sebagai teknologi baru yang menggantikan proses, pelaksanaan, produk, prosedur, atau tabiat lama, bukanlah sesuatu yang asing dalam peradaban Islam. Menurut sejarawan teknologi, Donald …
According to historians of technology, Donald Routledge Hill and Ahmad Yousef al-Hassan, when Muslims spread to the African and European continents in the first 200 years of Hijrah they introduced “diffusion of new crops” into agricultural lands, displacing the system previously used by the Romans and the Byzantines whose technique involved sowing lands with a…
In the Holy Qur’an, God reminds us that it is He who sends down life-sustaining water as signs for the believers (Surah al-An‘am, verse 99).Kitab al-Musaqah (Book on Distributing Water) in Imam al-Bukhari’s authentic collection of Prophetic sayings Sahih Bukhari indicated a religiously prescribed collective responsibility (fard kifayah) to ensure the protection of water sources and the sharing of surpluses with neighbours and …
