The administration and management in economics development of waqf land

Waqf is an Islamic concept of trust when an owner donates a land or property for a specific or general welfare of Muslim community. Basically waqf land is capable to contribute in economy and social benefits for the Muslims society. Currently Malaysia posses about 9,907 hectares of waqf land but the majority use of these assets are limited for mosque, cemetery, surau and orphanage. This has hindered waqf property from generating income that can benefit the Muslim society in this country. Although economic activities are not the main purpose of waqf but undoubtedly the profits gain will generate more charitable activities for the ummah. Waqf land is still subjected to several problems, among others are the abandonment and unutilised of land due to physical factors, legal aspects, inefficient databases and the most important issue is the management and administration of the State Islamic Religious Councils (SIRCs) as the sole trustee of waqf assets. Land as scarce resources should not be abandoned or unutilised. This will be a waste to economic of the area. As urban planners land is treated as prominent assets which need to be well managed and develop. Hence, land matter related to waqf needs to be understand, so constructive suggestion could be offered to improve the land management. Supposedly, to improve the economic development of waqf should commence from the administration strategy. Scenario in Malaysia shows that there is no uniformity of jurisdiction between SIRCs and certain SIRCs is adapting more contemporary ijtihadi (rule base on fatwa) in waqf administration and management. Thus this paper will explore and examine related aspects to understand the role of the trustees. Finally, this paper is hope to disclose methods adapted by SIRCs in their administrations and to what extent that the SIRCs struggle to establish the waqf up to its best use economically and socially without compromising its philanthropic duty

The hybrid of waqf land and zakat fund development: a case study for protecting asnaf fisabilillah well-being / Siti Nadiah Mohd Ali, Salbiah Mokhtar and Abdul Halim Mohd Noor

This research purpose is to explore the hybrid of Waqf land and zakat fund in the development of asnaf fisabilillah needs. Due to the current situation, asnaf fisabilillah in the context of zakat division in modern time interpretation can be used to design socioeconomic development and to uphold the symbolism of Islam. The significant value of understanding this issue will undergo qualitative research based on a paradigm of strategic management theories to suit the internal and the external needs of Pahang SIRC. Using purposive sampling, Pahang SIRC has been chosen to be part of the study where rich data got from the semi-structured interview with three officers. The data were taped, transcribed and analyzed using coding analysis for multiple interviews. Our results inform that, from Pahang SIRC officer’s perspective, there is a need in the hybrid between Waqf land and zakat fund to the well-being of asnaf fisabilillah. The officers are more worried about the benefits of interest they give to the asnaf fisabilillah are insufficient, so that the collection of zakat fund needs to be in the "house." The finding shows that Pahang SIRC has two projects that involved asnaf fisabilillah in the combination of Waqf land and zakat fund. In summary, this study provides some discussion of the single case study which represents a hybrid of Waqf land, and zakat is a comprehensive collaboration within SIRC unit in their operation. The awareness of the knowledge of Waqf land and zakat from the shariah and management principles give a broader perspective to the professionals in Pahang SIRC to contribute to the target group

Reduction of data size for transmission in localization of mobile robots

In the SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) technology, an environmental map is generated by a mobile robot. When it results in failure, it is necessary to inspect the scene. This localization and browsing require transmission of video signal to a remote place. In the system in this paper, an indoor mobile robot has two cameras. One is the "upward" which captures scenery of ceiling. The other is "forward" for scenery in front of the robot. Video signals from the cameras are encoded and transmitted from the robot to a remote server. It causes a problem that data size is too huge to be transmitted. To cope with this problem, the Functionally Layered Coding (FLC) was reported. In the existing FLC, visual motions are estimated by using the rotation invariant phase only correlation (RI-POC) technique. It can estimate two kinds of motions -translation and rotation. However, it requires doubled computational complexity and many components to be transmitted. In this paper, we analyze relation between kinetic movements of a robot and visual motions observed in videos, and propose to replace RI-POC by a simple POC. It was confirmed that the proposed method reduced data size for transmission to 61.6%

Issues, problems and strategies of waqf land development in Malaysia literature review

Waqf is an Islamic concept of trust when an owner donates a land or property for a specific or general welfare of Muslim community. The prominent issues to confront is the abandonment and undeveloped of waqf land. The development of wagf land in Malaysia is limited to the provision of mosque, cemetery, surau and religious school. This has hindered waqf property from generating income that can benefit the Muslim society in this country. Therefore, there is a need to establish a new approach and strategy in creating an administrative system that is innovative, efficient and reflective to the current situation of economic development in Malaysia. This change is essential to guarantee the successful management of wagf land that will contribute to the enhancement of ummah's socia-economy. This achievement will alter the perception of the society about the traditional waqf practices. This paper will highlight the issues, challenges and strategies related to the waqf land especially the trustee in administering, managing and developing the waqf land. This paper also underlines the potential embrace by the waqf land if it is developed to its best and highest use according to the waqf law

Visual compensation in localization of a robot on a ceiling map

In a visual odometry system, location of a mobile robot is automatically estimated (localized) from video. When the video is captured by an "upward" camera fixed to an indoor mobile robot, a panorama image of the ceiling (ceiling map) is generated by using a visual motion between two adjacent frames in the video. Similarly, location of another robot can be estimated on the ceiling map by using a visual motion between the current frame and the previously generated ceiling map. Under the assumption that the robot goes straight or rotates around a fixed point, there is no problem on the localization as far as the floor is flat. However, when there is debris on the floor, the estimated location contains error. In this paper, we reduce this error by utilizing visual motions in video from the "forward" camera fixed to the robot. This is a visual compensation of motions in the "upward" camera's video with those in the "forward" camera's video. It was experimentally confirmed that the maximum absolute value of the error was reduced to approximately 11