MEMBELANJAKAN REZEKI KURNIAAN ALLAH

TM @ 23 November 2007

Ust Mohd Zakuan Tak 

“Bertaqwalah kamu kepada Allah menurut kesanggupan kamu, dan dengarlah oleh mu serta taat, dan belanjakan harta untuk kebahagiaan diri kamu, kerana barangsiapa terpelihara dari kebakhilan diri nya, maka mereka itulah orang yang beruntung.  Jika kamu meminjamkan kepada Allah pinjaman yang baik, niscaya Allah akan melipatkan gandakan pembalasannya kepada mu dan mengampuni kamu.  Dan Allah Maha Pembalas Jasa lagi Maha Penyatun.”…….At-Taghaabun a.16-17.

Saudara kaum muslimin yang dihormati sekalian.

Dihari jumaat yang mulia ini, marilah bersama kita mendengar dan menghayati khutbah pendek yang bertajuk “ Membelanjakan rezeki kurniaan Allah kejalan yang diredhainya.”

Perubahan Sebagai Konstruk Nilai Masyarakat

Paradigma perubahan merupakan titik tolak kepada suatu anjakan yang akan membawa masyarakat kepada suatu alternatif baru sistem kehidupan. Peralihan corak yang mendalangi titik tolak perubahan membentuk orientasi baru untuk mendefinasikan sebarang subjek atau menjustifikasikan sebarang bentuk persoalan.

Jika selama ini masyarakat berupaya mengimbangi keperluan terhadap isu anjakan paradigma, maka aliran pemikiran sedemikian juga akan turut memberi kebaikan kepada paradigma perubahan dalam masyarakat. Anjakan paradigma adalah dogma yang membentuk paradigma perubahan.

Menjana Kemenangan Di Ambang Syawal

“Wahai orang-orang yang beriman! Kamu diwajibkan berpuasa sebagaimana yang diwajibkan atas orang-orang yang terdahulu daripada kamu, supaya kamu bertakwa”. (Surah Al-Baqarah, ayat 183).

Frasa “…supaya kamu bertakwa…” daripada ekstrak ayat diatas memberi maksud yang jelas berkenaan hasil kemenangan yang bakal diraih setelah sebulan menjalani tarbiah Ramadhan. Walaupun subjektif maksud dan pengamalan ketakwaan kepada Allah, manusia yang beriman memahami betapa tingkat ketakwaan yang dijana selama menghadapi tarbiah Ramadhan merupakan nikmat yang tidak terucap dek kata-kata.

Selesai Ramadhan, Syawal menjelma. Bulan yang penuh dengan keraian yang diberikan oleh Allah SWT kepada para hambaNya yang tekun beribadat dan disiplin menjaga adab sepanjang Ramadhan.

Weighing state of the judiciary

By SHAILA KOSHY

Three illustrious former members of the Bench share their views about the current state of the judiciary amid calls for an independent Judicial Commission for the appointment and promotion of judges.

SINCE the 1988 judicial crisis, the judiciary has been beset with allegations of impropriety. Now calls for an independent Judicial Commission for the appointment and promotion of judges have been renewed with the emergence of a video clip showing the apparent brokering of appointments between a lawyer and a senior judge.

Ahmedinejad: Menangani ‘Kebebasan’ Perspektif Barat

Insiden-insiden yang melibatkan Iran kebelakangan ini memperlihatkan betapa prinsip dan asas keberanian Iran berdepan dengan rentetatan isu global sangat utuh. Prinsip yang didokongi oleh Ahmedinejad dalam mengemudi Iran membawa suatu harapan baru kepada kelompok islamis dunia yang selama ini hanya mampu bertenggek atas ‘kasihan’ Pertubuhan Islam Seduni (OIC).

Terbaru, insiden Ahmedinejad dikecam di New York memberi inspirasi baru buat pendokong kebebasan sejagat. Peristiwa sebegini sebenarnya mengajar umat, betapa perspektif kebebasan yang dilaung-laungkan selama ini punya cacat cela yang banyak. Ketika barat mengangkat kebebasan sebagai tonggak demokrasi, Amerika Syarikat secara khusus melemparkan pelbagai tuduhan palsu kepada Ahmedinejad. Malah lebih memualkan lagi, menafikan kebebasan yang dijulang oleh massa negara itu.

Global Economic Integration: What’s New and What’s Not?

Remarks by Chairman Ben S. Bernanke

At the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Thirtieth Annual Economic Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

August 25, 2006

When geographers study the earth and its features, distance is one of the basic measures they use to describe the patterns they observe. Distance is an elastic concept, however. The physical distance along a great circle from Wausau, Wisconsin to Wuhan, China is fixed at 7,020 miles. But to an economist, the distance from Wausau to Wuhan can also be expressed in other metrics, such as the cost of shipping goods between the two cities, the time it takes for a message to travel those 7,020 miles, and the cost of sending and receiving the message. Economically relevant distances between Wausau and Wuhan may also depend on what trade economists refer to as the “width of the border,” which reflects the extra costs of economic exchange imposed by factors such as tariff and nontariff barriers, as well as costs arising from differences in language, culture, legal traditions, and political systems.

Tall buildings, narrow minds

The Economist

THE government of Malaysia has laid on all sorts of grand pageantry this weekend, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Malay peninsula’s independence from Britain. There is much to celebrate. Living standards and access to education, health services, sanitation and electricity have soared during those five decades of sovereignty. The country’s remarkable modernisation drive was symbolised, nine years ago, by the completion of the Petronas twin towers, in Kuala Lumpur, then the world’s tallest buildings.

Yet there will be a hollow ring to the festivities. Malaysia’s 50th birthday comes at a time of rising resentment by ethnic Chinese and Indians, together over one-third of the population, at the continuing, systematic discrimination they suffer in favour of the majority bumiputra, or sons of the soil, as Malays and other indigenous groups are called. There are also worries about creeping “Islamisation” among the Malay Muslim majority of what has been a largely secular country, and about the increasingly separate lives that Malay, Chinese and Indian Malaysians are leading. More so than at independence, it is lamented, the different races learn in separate schools, eat separately, work separately and socialise separately. Some are asking: is there really such a thing as a Malaysian?

An Appeal To The Malay Rulers

By IBNU HAKEEM

Ke Bawah Duli Duli Yang Maha Mulia Raja Raja Melayu,

All temporal power in the land is derived through the will of the people.

After 50 years of being sidelined, and with the country now being hijacked by the corrupt, the mentally inept, the sleepy, and the cowards, the Malay Rulers are at last being recognised as that other necessary arm of power sharing in our Constitutional Monarchy. We have always called ourselves a Constitutional Monarchy based on the Westminster model of Parliamentary Democracy. Only now are we beginning to appreciate the value of the Malay Rulers.

The power to rule the country is divided between the Executive, the Parliament, the Judiciary and, last but not the least, the Malay Rulers. Due to the skewed nature of our election results (caused by our skewed voting behaviour) the Parliament has become completely subservient to the Executive. These two combined have totally overwhelmed the Judiciary. The end result is that the Executive is supreme.