Harmonisation of Religion and State
As Islam does not involve itself in the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane, it simply cannot set in contrast the theocratic state with the secular state. Such dichotomy between the sacred and the…
Mengangkat Martabat Syariat
Amatlah memalukan apabila masyarakat memiliki persepsi golongan berpelajaran agama hanya pandai dalam…
The Case Against State Terrorism
Extremism refers to an attitude of exceeding the limits of golden mean. As to how to determine the right and golden mean in any situation, the answer is that the mean must be ascertained through religion and sound reason. Without the aid of religion and reason as two inseparable civilising forces, one tends to be…
Model Kepimpinan Gemilang
Prinsip-prinsip pembinaan negara yang diasaskan pemimpin terdahulu hendaklah senantiasa dijadikan rujukan dan pedoman, titah Sultan Perak Sultan Nazrin Shah (Sinar Harian, 27 November 2015). Baginda bertitah bangsa yang berjaya membina tamadun agung harus memberi pengiktirafan kepada tokoh-tokoh silam perintis perjuangan pembinaan negara bangsa. Sesungguhnya, kita harus berani menempuh saujana lautan ilmu. Pemikiran universal yang terkandung…
Be A Leader Of And For The People
Written by Dr. Mohd Sani Bin Badron. Posted in A 13th-century sufi, Jalal al-Din Rumi, has been described as the “most popular poet” and the “best selling poet” in the United States with legion global fans. His epitaph reads: “when we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the…
Honesty is Better than All Policy
Ditulis oleh Dr. Mohd Sani Badron. Posted in The Prophet Muhammad cautioned: “O people, if any of you is put in an administrative post on our behalf and conceals from us a needle or more, it would be misappropriation (of public funds) and he will have to produce it on the Day of Judgment” (recorded…
Waste Not, Want Not
FOMCA’s survey of 1,000 respondents in 2013 finds that 37% of young Malaysians are living beyond their means, while 47% used more than one-third of their monthly incomes to settle debts. No wonder that almost 25,000 Malaysians below the age of 35 have become bankrupts from 2010 to 2014 (The Star, 22 June 2015). The…
The Onslaught of Internet Pornography
Our country boasts a national philosophy of “good behaviour and morality (kesopanan dan kesusilaan)”, which necessarily promotes virtuous life in motive and thought, in word and deed. But recent news should be a wakeup call to us: a Malaysian scholar at a prestigious college was guilty of possessing and distributing tens of thousands of videos…
Agama Bukan untuk Dipersenda
Satanic Verses oleh Salman Rushdie. Lukisan kartun Rasulullah di akhbar Jyllands-Posten. Penampilan gambar olok-olok Nabi di majalah Charlie Hebdo. Pembakaran al-Qur’an oleh Christian Dove World Outreach Centre. Filem Innocence of Muslim. Orang bukan Islam tentulah tidak percaya kepada Nabi Muhammad; namun individu dan institusi tadi bukan sekadar berang kepada Baginda, tetapi lebih jauh dari itu…
Intolerance and Religious Mockery
In summarising Major Themes of the Qur’an, Fazlur Rahman says that religious truths which the secular societies of our own day find very difficult to accept are the doctrines of tawhid, scriptural revelation, the day of divine judgment, moral responsibility, and “ends” of life. Some of these skeptics believe in some parts of religious truths, and deny…