Islam ialah agama yang sangat indah jika seluruh ajarannya diamal dan dijadikan cara hidup. Malangya, sebahagian besar masyarakat kita menganggap Islam itu hanyalah dalam urusan yang melibatkan perkahwinan, kematian, dan seumpamanya manakala tempat-tempatnya …
The year 2021 will be welcomed in a few days’, and most will be greeting others with “Happy New Year!” just as at the start of 2020. The word “happy” is perhaps one of the most uttered words on earth. Unfortunately, many have neither really understood its true meaning nor its essence. From time immemorial,…
“No regrets over Prophet Muhammad Cartoons” – that’s how arrogant and presumptuous a statement made by Charlie Hebdo’s director Laurent Sourisseau at the “Tribunal de Paris” courthouse in Paris on 9 September 2020 recently. What he regretted, on the contrary, was “to see how little people fight to defend freedom. If we don’t fight for…
Negara kita sejak beberapa bulan ini dilanda pelbagai perkara yang menuntut perubahan kepada semua rakyat Malaysia. Kemunculan virus baharu coronavirus Covid-19 menjadi pandemik ke seluruh dunia sehingga memaksa Kerajaan Persekutuan mengambil tindakan pencegahan …
When this article is being written, the news on the resignation of the Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab just broke, nearly a week after a devastating explosion in Beirut that stirred public outrage and spurred a string of ministers to step down. It was quoted in most major newspapers that “Diab announced the resignation of…
Islam merupakan sebuah agama sempurna, yang memiliki mekanisma semak dan imbang dalaman (check and balance) yang tersendiri. Diriwayatkan daripada Sayyidina Abu Ruqayyah Tamim Al-Dari RA, bahawasanya Nabi SAW bersabda, mafhumnya: “Agama itu adalah nasihat.” Kami pun bertanya, “Untuk siapa (nasihat itu)?” Baginda menjawab, …
Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr. Dzulkefly Ahmad was recently reported to have said that we were not only facing the (Novel 2019 Coronavirus) “virus”, but also the “viral” of fake news and information. The statement was issued following a viral message …
In today’s world, we are bombarded with news and information at the speed of electrons. Some of the news nowadays, if not most, are known as “fake news” – a term popularised by President Donald Trumps during his presidential campaign which refers to news that are false – while others are news that need further verification on its authenticity and truth. During those days prior to the invention of the internet technology and …
As we are still flushed from both the National Day and Malaysia Day celebrations, it is not too late to reflect and ponder for a while on the position of Islam in regard to the love of the homeland or country where one is born and brought up based on the practices shown by the Prophet SAW and his companions. The word “love” in Arabic is mentioned in several other synonymous words in the Qur’an or al-Hadith such as: “hub”, “mahabbah”, …
Perkataan cinta atau kasih sayang dalam bahasa Arab disebut dengan beberapa kalimah seperti mana yang sering ditemui dalam al-Quran atau hadis seperti kalimah: hub, mahabbah, wudd (atau mawaddah), dan juga rahmah. Kalimah-kalimah ini walaupun jika diterjemahkan, ia membawa makna yang hampir sama iaitu cinta atau kasih sayang, namun ia digunakan biasanya dalam konteks yang berbeza-beza…
