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Origin of all sin
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By NIK ROSKIMAN ABDUL SAMAD Fellow, IKIM The purpose of our presence in this world is not simply to enjoy its pleasures, but to fashion it f...
Confusion harmful to Muslims
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By DR MOHD SANI BADRON (IKIM) True understanding of the Quran cannot be possessed by the one with neither intellectual nor spiritual prerequ...
Reason and understanding
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By Dr Mohd Zaidi Ismail, Senior Fellow/Director, Centre for Science and Technoloty, IKIM Thinking is the mental act of putting what one has ...
Knowledge is what benefits
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By DR MOHD SANI BADRON IKIM A group of Muslim jurists once got together, and because they could not think of anything better to do, they pro...
Inter-faith understanding a powerful force for change
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By SUZALIE MOHAMAD, Fellow, Centre of Syariah, Law and Political Science, IKIM Globalisation is considered by many to be the way forward, bu...
Silence not the women
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By ZAINAH ANWAR Whenever I give talks on Islam and women’s rights in any part of the world, I am often asked the familiar question from Isla...
The Prophet on ‘tadbir’ and ‘tadabbur’
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By Dr MOHD ZAIDI ISMAIL IKIM Government officers particularly should aspire and strive to reflect on their work or “governance” in respect o...
Muslim whoever stays quiet saves himself
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By SUZALIE MOHAMAD IKIM There is a hadith which states that “part of someone being a good Muslim is his leaving alone that which does not co...
The public voice of Sisters in Islam
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1Some 20 years ago, several Muslim women took offence at the injustice to women being perpetrated in the then-new Islamic Family Law. Togethe...
The delights of knowledge
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By DR MOHD SANI BADRON Senior Fellow/Director, Centre for Economics and Social Studies, IKIM Muslims striving in the divine cause must inclu...
No solution in sight
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) PoliticsBy ZAINAH ANWAR A bold attempt to resolve a protracted problem has yet again revealed the rifts among Malaysians in matters of religion. The...
Governing via outcome-oriented thinking
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By Dr MOHD ZAIDI ISMAIL SENIOR FELLOW/DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, IKIM Governance is not simply about the process of decisi...
Tadbir in the Quran
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By DR MOHD ZAIDI ISMAIL SENIOR FELLOW/DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY God commands, and at His creative behest, things come into...
Human rights shouldn’t impose on religions and cultures
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By Dr WAN AZHAR WAN AHMAD Human rights should neither be made the basis to undermine the Constitution, nor be worshipped as if they represen...
Faith knowledge not static
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By Dr MOHD SANI BADRON, SENIOR FELLOW/DIRECTOR,CENTRE FOR ECONOMICS and SOCIAL STUDIES,IKIM The scope and content of knowledge of one’s reli...
Recognise the sin before one can truly repent
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) Islam1By MD ASHAM AHMAD We are now living in an increasingly secular environment where the word ‘sin’ is losing its meaning. There are so many ver...
Knowing the Prophet and integrity
MOHD ADHA MOHD ZAIN (ADHA ZAIN) PoliticsBy DR MOHD ZAIDI ISMAIL Senior Fellow / Director, Centre for Science and Technology, IKIM To genuinely celebrate Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday...