The late Donald Routledge Hill (d. 1994), mechanical engineer turned historian of science and technology in the Muslim world, wrote in his book Islamic Science and Engineering (1993)that the expansion of Islam in the first two centuries made Muslims the inheritors of 3,000 year-long traditions of dam building. Not only did the dams they constructed…
Kesiapsiagaan ialah amanah, tanggungjawab kepada pemimpin negara dan panglima tentera. Allah ʿazza wa jalla berfirman dalam al-Quran: “Dan sediakanlah untuk menentang mereka (musuh yang menceroboh) segala jenis kekuatan yang dapat kamu sediakan dan daripada pasukan-pasukan berkuda yang lengkap sedia, untuk menggerunkan dengan persediaan itu musuh Allah dan musuh kamu serta musuh-musuh yang lain daripada mereka…
Readiness is the sacred charge of rulers and military commanders. God states in the Holy Qur’an: “Prepare against them (i.e. invaders) what you can of [military] power and cavalry to deter God’s enemies and your enemies as well as …
Apakah yang “terbuat (artificial)” dalam teknologi kecerdasan buatan (Bahasa Inggeris: artificial intelligence) dipendekkan sebagai AI? Berasal daripada artifice dan sinonim dengan “muslihat,” “helah,” dan …
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, …
