Teaching aqidah: Islamic studies in Malaysia

It is widely agreed that Malaysia will achieve sustainable prosperity when its citizen live together in harmony. Moreover, a good society derives from good families and good families derive from righteous individuals who transmit insight that builds good character. In Islam, the transmission of this insight is called aqidah (belief system), which continually plays an active role in the enhancement of personal accountability. This study took a qualitative approach using personal interviews to determine methods used to teach aqidah in Malaysia. Findings revealed four methods including multimedia, slide presentations, group discussions and teacher didactics

Pendidikan akhlak dalam sistem pendidikan di Malaysia sebagai asas kecemerlangan pencapaian sains dan teknologi

Pendidikan akhlak menjadi tunjang dalam pendidikan Islam. Kemajuan sesebuah negara akan terarah dan dirahmati jika ia dibangunkan oleh para saintis dan ilmuan yang memiliki ilmu dan penghayatan akhlak. Kertaskerja ini cuba melihat sejauhmana sistem pendidikan di Malaysia memberi keutamaan kepada pembinaan akhlak di samping melahirkan insan yang berilmu dan berpengetahuan. Dibincangkan juga kurikulum pendidikan akhlak yang disediakan oleh Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia sejak sekolah rendah sehingga ke sekolah menengah. Turut dibincangkan berkaitan isu pendidikan akhlak dan sains yang berlaku dalam sistem pendidikan di Malaysia

Gugatan akidah: benci kepada Islam

Artikel ini membincangkan tentang perkara membatalkan syahadah dalam sifat benci kepada Islam. Aspek benci kepada Islam merangkumi definisi benci kepada Islam, pengenalan murtad, definisi murtad, syarat murtad, murtadnya umat Islam (kata-kata), mempersendakan hukum Allah (perbuatan) serta sifat pentadbiran-Nya dan ketuhanan-Nya. Secara keseluruhannya, Islam banyak memberikan garis panduan pada umat-Nya dalam menjalani kehidupan seharian. Namun kadang kala, jika seseorang Muslim itu tidak berpegang kepada Iktikad yang sebenarnya maka akan goyah serta batalkan syahadah seseorang itu sehingga mendorong kepada sifat bencinya kepada Islam. Justeru, Iktikad yang sebenarnya amat penting untuk memandu ke jalan yang betul mengikut syariat Islam

Media Sosial dan Facebook Menurut Islam

Media sosial tidak lagi merupakan perkara yang aneh dan luar biasa malah menjadi suatu platform kepada setiap insan di dunia ini untuk meluahkan perasaan mereka dengan bebas. Pelbagai jenis media sosial boleh didapati namun Facebook merupakan antara media sosial yang terkenal dan mempunyai ramai pengguna dari pelbagai negara di seluruh dunia. Setiap teknologi baru yang diperkenalkan mestilah mempunyai kebaikan dan keburukannya yang tersendiri dan Facebook juga tidak terkecuali. Dalam teks ini, jenis dan perkembangan media sosial diterangkan dengan terperinci. Asal usul Facebook, kebaikan dan keburukan dan peranannya sebagai medium untuk menyampaikan dakwah Islam juga dijelaskan. Pengaruh Facebook terhadap remaja Islam merupakan antara isi yang diterangkan dana mat ditekankan dalam teks ini

KONTRAK SWAP KOMODITI: SATU ANALISIS DARI PERSPEKTIF SYARIAH

AbstractSwap contract is an agreement between two parties which aimed at exchanging periodic cash flows. Commodity swap contract is one of the derivative instruments which the value depends on the value of the underlying assets, namely commodities. Swap contract emerged as a result of the advancement of financial engineering that is based on conventional economics. Therefore, further studies should be conducted to identify the extent of conventional commodity swap contracts meet the  principles outlined in Islamic economics. This study analyzed the syariah issues in commodity swap crude palm oil and proposed potential syariah principles  in the contract.  In order to achieve this objective, the methods of interview and document analysis  are used by reviewing the authoritative classical books of Fiqh. The result has shown that there are syariah issues such as  gharar, usury and speculation in the contract. Thus, this study suggested the application of wa'd principle and bay‘ al-murabahah/musawamah in syariah compliant commodity swap contracts

Higher education selection using simple additive weighting

The process of selecting a college should be based on the capabilities and needs of the community. When society is faced with a large selection of college criteria and most societies are confused about choosing the appropriate college for themselves and the job demands. From this it was made a decision support system aimed at helping the community to choose a college that suits the ability and demands of the work. Decision support system plays a role in helping people get the right recommendations in the selection of universities. This decision support system is also designed to help the community to choose a college that suits their needs so that the public is not confused because of the many criteria of universities faced by the community because the admin already has recommendations according to the needs of the community by using Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method

The family hope program using AHP method

The Government program in tackling the economic crisis that has occurred so far is by providing direct assistance to very poor families (KSM) in every village throughout Indonesia. The Family Hope Program (FHP) is one of the government's conditional aid programs as a form of compensation from the fuel price increase, which certainly affects the lives of the wider community, including the poor. In order for the expected results to be more accurate and the system designed is arranged systematically, the authors decided to use Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). This decision support model will describe the problem of multi-factor or multi-criteria into a form of hierarchy, From the results of the test the shrill and weight of FHP assistance is the type of work of the head of the family is not fixed in the first rank with 4.9 shrill. With the results of the output is feasible or not prospective recipient in FHP, obtained from the comparison of the lamda weight of the rating category with the weight value of the predetermined ratio

Poverty level grouping using SAW method

Poverty is social gap problem for some people with below average income level but in Pringsewu district the poverty rate is significantly decreased so it is expected to increase the potential of Pringsewu region to be better, in increasing the potential of the region it needs a system that is expected to assist in determination of poverty level in sub district in Pringsewu by data clustering and ranking from every subdistrict in Pringsewu Regency using SAW method. Therefore, we are interested to build an application of Poverty Grouping in Pringsewu region in the form of Poverty Index of the last few years, existing data is expected to be a reference to increase the potential of the area by reducing the poverty rate every year. It is expected that the data obtained can be a reference of the government in reducing poverty level in subdistrics in Pringsewu District

Determination of the best quail eggs using simple additive weighting

Eggs are livestock products contributed greatly to the achievement of the nutritional adequacy of the public; the egg is a food that is very good for children who are growing because it contains nutrients such as a complete protein, fat, vitamins and minerals that are easy to digest. One of the eggs are much in demand by children are quail eggs. The nutritional value of quail eggs is not less than the nutritional value of eggs containing 12.8% protein and 11.5% fat. Quail eggs are good quality will have good nutritional value anyway. To determine the quality of a good quail eggs will require an expert system. The method used in determining the quality of a good quail eggs using Simple Additive weighting method. The criteria in this research that egg size, style/color of the shell, the shell thickness, shell texture, shape and cleanliness of quail eggs. With the expert system is expected to assist farmers in determining the quail eggs quail egg quality so that the people can consume quail eggs that have good nutritional value. The results of this study showed an alternative ranking first in C with a value of 0.95, ranking second D with a value of 0.7208, ranking third E with a value of 0675, ranking the fourth A with a value of 0.4542 and ranking last in the B with a value of 0.4541

Implementation of fuzzy analytical hierarchy process on notebook selection

Notebooks are technological devices widely adopted to assist in human daily life including learning, business, communication and other tasks. Equipped with the distinctive features, notebook was facilitated more simply for one touch screen basis to enable freely in exploring the users’ creativity. This study attempts to examine the process of selecting notebook brand among the consumers. Using AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process) to help decision support system in the selection of Notebook from decision support systems designed to enhance all decision-process through identifying problems, selecting relevant data and defining the approaches was used to evaluate the selection of alternatives in the decision-making process. The finding reveals that the visibility of decision making into the ranking of priority with alternative choice of notebook can be viewed as follows Zyrex 16%, HP 15%, Asus 14%, Apple 13%, Samsung and Axioo 11%, Acer and Toshiba with priority 10%