Sukuk dan wakaf bagi majukan Kampong Bharu

Sejak berkurun lamanya, filantrofi telah memainkan peranan penting dalam menyumbang kepada meningkatkan kebajikan seluruh manusia di muka bumi ini. Dalam konteks ini, wakaf merupakan penyelamat yang mampu menyediakan pelbagai kemudahan untuk rakyat yang memerlukan. Wakaf dapat menjadi sebagai benteng yang kukuh menyelamatkan umat daripada hakisan sosial dan juga ekonomi. Apabila dana wakaf dikumpul dan digunakan dengan sebaik-baiknya, berbagai bentuk pembangunan ekonomi boleh dilakukan dengan menggunakan pendanaan melalui wakaf

Faktor-Faktor Yang Berkaitan Dengan Penglibatan Pengusaha-Pengusaha Projek Ekonomi Di Kawasan Ketengah Dalam Membuat Keputusan

The main objective of the study was to investigate factors associated with involvement of respondents in making decisions related to agricultural activities. Specifically, the study was aimed to determine the level of involvement of local entrepreneurs in deciding agriculture-based activities initiated by KETENGAH. Selected demografic, communication, attitudes and personality factors were used as independent variables. Forty-five agriculture-related entrepreneurs from the traditional villages in KETENGAH who have undergone specific motivational courses were selected as respondents. A structured interview was administered with each respondent. Data were than analyzed using the " Statistical Package for Social Science" version 4.0. The study revealed that respondents made about 50 percent of the decisions related to their agricultural activities. The level of attitudes towards renewal and their characteristic toward achievement-orientation were found to be moderate. In addition, there was a significant relationship between family income and level of involvement in decision making. A significant difference was also observed between respondents' involvement in decision making and respondents' educational background and attendence in specific motivational courses organised by KETENGAH. Family income, exposure to relevant knowledge, attitudes towards extension work, attitudes towards KETENGAH extension officers, efficacy in public affairs, optimism, achievement-oriented personalities and orientation towards planning have positiv

The influence of cognitive satisfaction on the relationship between salesperson presentation skills and customer's intention to repurchase

The application of sales presentation skills by the sales force during their interaction with customers in the sales situation can have a significant effect on customer intention to repurchase in the Malaysian Computer retail business. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relations between important sales presentation skills and the relative roles played by cognition in the development of customer satisfaction which will lead to customer’s intention to repurchase in a computer retail setting in Malaysia. This will then lead to increased benefits for the organization in the form of customer loyalty. The cognitive evaluation of customer satisfaction was found to explain customer’s intention to repurchase in a retail setting in the Malaysian market. This finding holds importance to those retailers who have been able to generate high expectations in the eyes of their customers

SYNERGIZING CASH WAQF INTO PROPERTY – THE CASE OF HOUSING INAFFORDABILITY IN ISKANDAR MALAYSIA

At the early 15th Century, the Ottoman Empire used to incorporate cash waqf into property investment and development. Using the cash waqf as an instrument, they have successfully been able to develop property waqf distinguishably. Similar development has been sighted in the Islamic world years later especially in Egypt, Kuwait and Indonesia. In Malaysia, since the inception of the fatwa on the applicability of cash waqf in 2007, many have been promoting and capitalising the availability of cash waqf into property albeit risky investment. This paper sought to examine the way in which cash waqf is utilised in the growing activities of waqf property. By comparing and contrasting between these two instruments of waqf, one needs to fully understand the importance of inalienability, perpetuity and illiquidity as investment qualities of them. Using secondary data in the case of Iskandar Malaysia, the scenario of inaffordability in owning properties is sighted. Interestingly, therefore, cash waqf offers an alternative in contributing to the success of Transformation Agenda of Affordable Residential Property Waqf in the country.Keywords: Cash waqf - Property waqf – Waqf Property Tranformation Agenda – Iskandar Malaysi

THE ROLE OF LAND RIGHTS IN URBAN HERITAGE MANAGEMENT – THE EXPLANATORY POWER OF INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS ANALYSIS IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE OF KOTAGEDE YOGYAKARTA, INDONESIA’S POST EARTHQUAKE

This paper discusses the importance of land rights in providing ways and means for the improvement and preservation of urban heritage cultural values in Yogyakarta. The use of comprehensive institutional approach considers actors’ behavior within their informal institutions in the reconstruction of cultural heritage post earthquake. Discussion focuses on the way landowners may constrains or enabling the reconstruction process. Interviews conducted with selected landowners indicated the way in which land rights impede the urban cultural heritage reconstruction. In the end, it shows how institutional economics analysis explains the role of land rights in the improvement of cultural heritage in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.land rights, cultural heritage, institutional economics analysis

A Cognitive Approach to the Translation of Creative Metaphor in Othello and Macbeth from English into Arabic

ABSTRACT Despite the intriguing nature of metaphor and its acknowledged importance in the discipline of Translation Studies (TS), a relatively small number of studies have explored the translation of metaphor from the perspective of Conceptual Metaphor Theory, and very few of them adopted an experiential approach to the object of analysis. This research aims at exploring the translatability of creative metaphor in six Arabic translations of Shakespeare’s Othello and Macbeth based on a combined methodology that adopts the Conceptual Theory of Metaphor and the descriptive approach to text analysis in TS. The empirical study argues that metaphor translatability is an experiential process that is highly influenced by the diversity and richness of our conceptual system and the background knowledge shared by the metaphor producer and metaphor translator. Discussing metaphor translatability from the perspective of these factors involves dealing with different levels of variation in our metaphoric thinking including the cultural, contextual and pragmatic levels. The analyses and discussions of the empirical study mark a departure from text-linguistic approaches to the topic in that they deal with the Source Text’s and Target Text’s metaphoric content as physically embedded conceptual models rather than linguistic patterns with grammatically delineated features and structures. The arguments of the study answer several questions with regard to researching the translation of metaphor from the perspective of Conceptual Theory, providing a detailed description of what exactly influences the process and product of translation, and underlining the functionality of the variation factor in appreciating the conceptual nature of metaphor. The results of the empirical research reveal that, although our metaphoric thinking has a universally shared metaphoric structure, not all our metaphors are translatable or translated in a single way, which refutes the supremacy of the notion of metaphor universality, putting emphasis on the factors of experientialism, exposure and intentionality

Academic dishonesty: an empirical study of personal beliefs and values of undergraduate students in Malaysia

The relationship between academic dishonesty and personal beliefs and values has been studied in many Western countries. However, the relationship between these variables have not been widely examined among higher education students in Malaysia. The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of personal beliefs and values, which consist of idealism, relativism and religious faith, on undergraduate students' academic dishonesty. A total of 2447 undergraduate students from four research universities in Malaysia participated in this study. The findings revealed that personal beliefs and values are significantly related to academic dishonesty. This study also indicated that idealism and religious faith are negatively related with academic dishonesty. Meanwhile, no significant relationship exists between relativism and academic dishonesty. Furthermore, the study found, after controlling for social desirability, idealism is the highest contributor to academic dishonesty. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that idealism and religious faith are important deterrents to academic dishonesty

Kreativiti dan inovasi urus harta wakaf

Rata-rata rakyat mendepani banyak isu berkaitan hartanah. Isu harga rumah mampu milik belum selesai. Timbul pula isu hartanah tidak laku di pasaran dengan penurunan harga rumah mewah untuk pembeli warga asing. Begitu juga dengan isu kemunduran Tanah Rezab Melayu yang tidak kunjung padam. Ditambah pula isu pembangunan semula tanah di Kampong Bahru yang hangat sekarang. Cadangan tempoh 999 tahun bagi pemilikan tanah juga perlukan perhatian. Manakala akta-akta berkaitan tanah yang sudah lapuk perlu diharmonikan. Sama dengan isu tanah wakaf yang mundur. Sesungguhnya semua isu ini perlu ditangani dengan cara yang profesional dan bijaksana

Bentuk data raya hartanah negara

Baru-baru ini YB Dato’ Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, Timbalan Perdana Menteri Malaysia memberi penekanan betapa pentingnya pegawai-pegawai yang menjaga harta wakaf untuk mengambil daya usaha yang lebih kreatif dan inovatif dalam mengembangkan potensi harta wakaf di seluruh negara. Semasa Konferens Wakaf Global (GWC2019) yang diadakan di Kuala Lumpur pada 11 hingga 13 November lalu, beliau menyatakan hanya kira-kira 12 peratus daripada tanah-tanah wakaf seluas 30,000 hektar di seluruh negara yang telah dimajukan. Selebihnya mundur dan belum dimajukan. Kenapakah keadaan ini berlaku