Wan Fahmin Faiz W.A (wan_fahmin[at]utm.my)
“Those who make accusations & then say “but don’t mention MY name!” have something to hide. They are either liars, troublemakers, deceivers, hypocrites or plain cowards. Such people destroy homes, cause conflict & create disunity whilst trying to be in the good books of all sides. Matters cannot be resolved when those making the claims are unknown. True believers should be genuine & never hide their identity.” (Mufti Ismail Menk. June 14, 2011)
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In Ghana, a reporter for a Turkish newspaper was taking some video footage with a drone when it mistakenly landed in front of a poor man’s house.
The man was delighted. He picked the drone* up and as he was returning it to the journalist, he asked,”Do you have one large enough to take me for Hajj*?”
The reporter laughed. He took a photo of the man and posted the following image and the man’s question onto his Twitter page.
SubhanAllah*!
The tweet* went viral* and many people got to know about the man’s wish. All the readers saw was the sincere man’s photo and the story. The story touched many hearts indeed. In one short question, the man was able to express a thought and desire that must have been growing inside of him for many decades.
Lo and behold, Allah* soon answered the needy man’s du’aa*! Allah enabled Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, some charities and sponsors to come forward. They donated money to the man whose name we now know. He is called Al-Hassan Abdullah. And, guess what? Al-Hassan Abdullah will perform the Hajj this year. Alhamdulillah*!
Moral:
Just imagine the dream that Al-Hassan Abdullah had. Can you picture how often and how sincerely he would have requested Allah to make this journey possible. He must have made many, many du’aa to Allah, asking Allah to make him go to Hajj. It must have seemed impossible for Al-Hassan Abdullah, but he did not give up making du’aa. He had no money, no passport, no means to get out of his village. And yet, out of nowhere, a small aerial* messenger came and landed in front of his house, a harbinger* of bigger news.
This story reminds us of a quote from the Quran,
“…And whoever fears Allah – He will make for him a way out.
And will provide for him from where he does not expect. And whoever relies upon Allah – then He is sufficient for him…”
(Quran; 65:2 and 65:3)
Whoever puts his trust in Allah, Allah will provide for him from where he never suspected. Du’aa is the weapon of the believer. The believer uses it to fight each and every battle, even those that seemed unwinnable. For when Allah wishes victory for you, no one can possibly defeat you. Allah will create armies for you. Allah will bring the world’s people and money to your doorstep to answer your call.
“Oleh itu, apabila engkau membaca al-Quran, maka hendaklah engkau (terlebih dahulu) memohon perlindungan kepada Allah dari hasutan syaitan yang direjam.”Surah an-Nahl 16:98
Melafazkan isti’azah sebelum membaca al-Quran ialah sunat menurut pendapat kebanyakan ulama’. Sesetengah ulama’ mengatakan hukumnya wajib.
Terdapat dua lafaz isti’azah yang boleh dibaca sebagaimana berikut:-
“Apabila kamu membaca al-Quran, maka hendaklah kamu membaca isti’azah, secara terang agar mendapat perlindungan daripada Allah, seperti yang terdapat dalam surah an-Nahl yang mudah.
Jika sekiranya ditambahi lafaz tersebut, ia sebagai menyucikan nama Tuhanmu agar kamu tidak menjadi jahil.”
Selain daripada keadaan-keadaan yang dinyatakan di atas, maka disunatkan kita membaca lafaz isti’azah ini dengan nyaring.
Selain itu, terdapat tiga pendapat yang berkaitan dengan cara membaca basmalah antara surah sebagaimana dibincangkan oleh ulama’ qiraat.
Walau bagaimanapun, ada satu lagi cara yang mungkin dilakukan iaitu membaca ayat terakhir surah dan basmalah sekaligus dengan satu nafas. Kemudian membaca ayat pertama surah berikutnya.
Namun, cara ini ditegah kerana boleh membawa kekeliruan.
sumber : Raudhah Jiwa
Her Majesty Duli Yang Maha Mulia Tuanku Raja Zarith Sofiah Binti Almarhum Sultan Idris Shah, Permaisuri Johor and the Chancellor of UTM has kindly grace Saturday Night Lecture series organised by CASIS, Centre for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilisation, a centre of excellence in UTM, in collaboration with Yayasan Raja Zarith Sofiah, Yayasan Ta’dib and HAKIM which was organised on 10 February 2018 at UTM Kuala Lumpur.
Saturday Night Lecture series started almost 30 years ago at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), founded and directed by YM Tan Sri Prof. Dr. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, a world renowned Malay thinker and reformer. The Lecture was his deliberation of the great ideas contained in many of his books which were read by contemporary Muslim scholars all over the world. The lecture series at ISTAC was abruptly suspended in 2002 due to certain unfortunate circumstances and it was only resumed in 2012 when Tan Sri al-Attas was appointed as distinguished visiting professor of CASIS UTM. He then delivered the lecture series for a period of 3 years.
Saturday Night Lecture series is about honouring a great scholar of Islam. It is a celebration of knowledge and scholarship. Saturday Night Lecture series reflects the culture of knowledge that is lacking in many parts of the Muslim World. It brings people together, from all walks of life, not only for the sake of personal quest for beneficial knowledge but also to find answers and solutions to the contemporary problems facing the ummah.
Saturday Night Lecture series will be recorded in history, perhaps, as the longest lecture series ever held in the Malay World, which has received tremendous support from various interested and learned parties; its audience includes academics, diplomats, politicians, administrators, public servants, professionals, educators activists and students alike regardless of age.
The lectures discuss fundamental elements constituting the worldview of Islam, epistemic frameworks, the civilisational challenges confronting the ummah internally and externally, and provide intellectual means and solutions on how to address them.
The purposes of this programme were to consolidate the global friendship bond between youth in Malaysia and Maldives, to foster the value of volunteerism in youth, to explore the knowledge and culture about Maldives, and to develop the potential of participants towards excellence.
The activities included of an educational visit to The Maldives National University to exchange ideas about education systems in particpants’ own countries and an activity related to corporate social responsibility such as beach clean-up activity to make an impact on the society.
Besides that, another significant activity is the sharing session with local NGOs such as the Regional Alliance for Fostering Youth to introduce Malaysia and NGOs in Malaysia and cultural performances where the participants performed traditional dances.
Moreover, they were also arranged to join a city tour led by local students in Male to understand the development of the capital, and also to join the beach activities such as island hopping and a sand bank tour to see the natural beauty surrounding Maldives.
Throughout the whole programme, they had exchanged cultural knowledge and ideas as well as built a global friendship that had enriched their learning journey.
Dear All,
Materials Lecture Competition (UTM-MLC 2018) at university level will be held to find a suitable candidate to represent UTM to national level. The details of the competition are as follow:
Date: 11 March 2018
Venue: FKM
Time: 8 AM– 5 PM
The Materials Lecture Competition 2018 (UTM-MLC2018) is open to all UTM students under 28 years old and participants must deliver a 15-minute presentation on a topic related to Materials or Minerals Science and Engineering
To take part in the UTM- MLC2018, please provide an abstract of maximum 150 words and submit the registration before 25 February 2018 at https://goo.gl/72ykAn
For details of the competition, please download the e-poster attached or visit https://people.utm.my/mlc
If you have any enquiries, feel free to email us at utmmlc@mail.fkm.utm.my
Best regards and thank you very much.
“Hack for Good” is the first of its kind, end-to-end cellular Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) hackathon covering the complete ecosystem from device, connectivity, IoT platform to apps, to provide a unique opportunity to university students and professionals to build IoT based solutions relevant for Malaysia.
“Hack for Good” is open to all university students and professionals. Register for free at https://t4gc.com/ by 26th February 2018.
There is always more to university life than mere academic achievements. On 25th Jan 2018, Derek Chung Zhong Kang, a petroleum engineering student from Society of Petroleum Engineers UTM Student emerged as first runner up in the Oil and Gas Intellectual Parade (OGIP) Paper Competition, which took place in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
As a fourth year student having to juggle between studies and final year project, the overwhelming pressure, however, did not stop him from participating in international competitions and bringing glory to SPE-UTM SC.
Alongside Derek were another 8 second year students who participated in the Smart Competition and Oil Rig Design Competition of the same prestigious event. They are the perfect portrayal of passionate young talents and we are truly proud of them.
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Kuala Lumpur, 10th February – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), through the UTM-Low Carbon Asia Research Centre (UTM-LCARC) that is based in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning (JPBW), Faculty of Built Environment, and the Institut Sultan Iskandar (ISI) organise an exhibition and a side event at the 9th Session of the World Urban Forum (WUF9) at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre on 7-13 February 2018.
Organised every two years by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the WUF is the largest United Nations conference on urban development and cities. Held for the second time in an Asian city, the forum features over 500 events, including assemblies, high-level roundtable talks, dialogues, side events and exhibitions. WUF9, themed “Cities 2030, Cities for All: Implementing the New Urban Agenda”, focuses among others on advancing sustainable urban development and low carbon communities and is expected to be attract over 25,000 people from 193 countries.
Through WUF9, JPBW showcases UTM-LCARC’s latest work and achievements in advancing city-level sustainability and climate change action plan-making through the “Science to Action” (S2A) approach, which involves scientific evidence-based policy-making through multiple stakeholder engagements and real policy implementation in Iskandar Malaysia, Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur and Pengerang. Also featured are research and consultancy works by the Centre for Innovative Planning and Development (CIPD) that straddle multiple disciplines of transportation and logistics, tourism, urban design and rural development.
Institut Sultan Iskandar (ISI), UTM’s gazetted, independent not-for-profit research and development company specialising in planning and development, showcases its high-profile flagship MIT-UTM Malaysia Sustainable Cities Program that started in 2014. The MIT-UTM MSCP mission is to study and document sustainable city development efforts in Malaysia. Visiting scholars from around the world spend September-December each year conducting research in Malaysia. They then spend February-May at MIT developing research findings into instructional materials to enhance and extend the teaching of sustainable city development across universities in the global South. The MSCP is housed in the Science Impact Collaborative in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, and ISI at UTM.
“Knowledge is that which benefits not that which is memorized.”
