Pada tahun 1596, seorang pegawai istana Inggeris Sir John Harrington menggambarkan sebagai tamsilan di dalam karyanya berjudul A New Discourse of a Stale Subject suatu tandas curah yang terpasang di kediamannya di Kelston, England. Gambaran …
When the 16th century English courtier Sir John Harrington wrote his political allegory and critique entitled A New Discourse of a Stale Subject in 1596, he described in it a forerunner to the flush toilet installed in his home at Kelston. Yet, had it not …
Pernah suatu ketika ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-Aziz (m. 720 M), yang terkenal sebagai mujaddid dan salah seorang pemimpin terbaik Islam selepas Khulafa’ al-Rashidin, meminta nasihat daripada seorang bijaksana. Baginda lantas menangis …
Kedatangan Rasulullah s.a.w. dan penetapan Sunnah Baginda menandakan perpisahan dari gaya hidup kaum Mushrikin Quraysh yang bukan sahaja ketinggalan zaman namun juga zalim dan merosakkan. Bagi …
In the early establishment of the Medinan state, God’s command to shift the prayer direction (qiblah) from Bayt al-Maqdis to the Ka‘bah indicated the conferment of divine favor upon the Holy Prophet and his nascent community of believers …
Setelah kematian Nicolaus Copernicus pada 1543, idea di dalam karyanya De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (Tentang Peredaran Sfera Cakerawala) mula mengalihkan perhatian ahli-ahli sains di Barat …
In Plato’s Republic, the philosopher-king is a leader who loves and embodies the cardinal virtues of wisdom, temperance, courage, and justice. The community that produced him would dispense with democracy’s …
‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-Aziz (d. 720), celebrated and highly regarded as a mujaddid (renewer) of Islam and one of the finest rulers after the four Rightly-Guided Caliphs, once sought a sage’s counsel. He wept upon being told that: …
Recently, much hype has been generated around Klaus Schwab’s propagation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) as the foremost agenda in the World Economic Forum (WEF) that he founded. After Nicolaus Copernicus’ …
“Wars and different kinds of fighting have always occurred in the world since God created it” writes Muslim historian and thinker Ibn Khaldun in his Muqaddimah. In his view, war is rooted in the self’s desire for vengeance …
