Ruginya Azzazil dan pengikutnya...

Sebelum kewujudan manusia di muka bumi, jin telah pun menghuni bumi dalam keadaan berjisim iaitu yang ada pancaindera dan berjasad kasar seperti kita. Azzazil adalah satu jin yang sangat soleh dan telah diangkat darjatnya oleh Allah swt berada di kalangan para malaikat. Akibat kemusnahan yang dilakukan oleh bangsa jin di muka bumi, Allah 'menghabisi' mereka dan mencipta nabi Adam as. Azzazil yang dengki dan sombong telah menghasut para malaikat supaya tidak membiarkan Allah swt mencipta manusia. Para malaikat juga bertanya kepada Allah, mengapa mencipta makhluk yang hanya akan melakukan kerosakan? Allah menjawab bahawa Dia Maha Mengetahui. Setelah nabi Adam as dicipta, para malaikat tunduk mengikut suruhan Allah, tetapi tidak bagi Azzazil. Kerana keangkuhannya, dia diusir dari syurga.

Bagaimana Azzazil yang soleh dan istimewa pada mulanya, boleh berpaling daripada Allah swt ? Hanya kerana perasaan dengki dan sombong, Azzazil sanggup menerima azab dan neraka pada hari akhirat nanti. Alangkah ruginya dia dan bangsanya yang kafir kepada Allah. Begitu juga golongan manusia yang mengikut telunjuk dan hasutan mereka.

Selepas kewujudan nabi Adam as, golongan jin dijadikan sebagai mahkluk ghaib. Makhluk ghaib selain daripada malaikat, hanya jin sahaja. Azzazil ini adalah iblis dan tiga doanya yang diperkenankan Allah swt adalah:

1. Bangsanya dipanjangkan usia sehingga Hari Kiamat
2. Mereka boleh melihat manusia tetapi manusia tidak boleh melihat mereka
3. Mereka ingin menambah bilangan manusia yangmasuk neraka bersama-sama mereka seramai yang boleh

Mengetahui hakikat ini, marilah kita sama-sama menginsafi tindakan kita dan segeralah bertaubat. Semoga kita sentiasa mendapat 'inayah dan hidayah daripada Allah swt. Ameen...

Rujukan:
Ust. Zulkifli Muhammad Ali, "Mengenal Alam Ghaib JIN," 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.facebook.com/ZulkifliMuhammadAliLc/videos/424527198182737

Ditulis oleh:

Siti Sara binti Rais

Mengenali Jin dan Syaitan

Makhluk Allah swt yang berakal ada tiga, iaitu malaikat, manusia dan jin. Di dalam al-Quran banyak menyebut tentang jin, syaitan dan iblis. Iblis adalah satu bahagian daripada bangsa-bangsa jin di mana penempatan utama mereka adalah di tengah lautan, manakala syaitan adalah semua bangsa jin yang kafir kepada agama Allah swt. Mereka bergabung dengan kerajaan dan bala tentera iblis dan mereka ini adalah syaitan. [1]

Di atas tanah dan daratan, penempatan jin dan syaitan adalah di kawasan yang sunyi dan jauh dari penempatan manusia seperti gunung-ganang dan hutan. Di penempatan manusia pula, tempat tinggal mereka adalah di dalam kandang unta, kawasan perkuburan, tandas dan bilik-bilik mandi. Jika masjid dikatakan sebagai rumah Allah, tandas pula adalah rumah syaitan. Stigma 'rumah syaitan' ini kadangkala disalahtafsir oleh sesetengah pihak dengan tidak mahu menjaga kebersihannya. "Kenapa nak jaga rumah syaitan? Saya hanya mahu menjaga rumah Allah sahaja," itulah ungkapan segelintir mereka. Kebersihan di tandas itu sangat penting yang mana langkahnya akan membawa ke rumah Allah atau tempat-tempat dan ruang-ruang ibadah. Dipetik daripada [2], tandas adalah punca segala kesucian. [2]

Bertitik tolak daripada itu, kita seharusnya menjaga kebersihan tandas dan bilik-bilik mandi serta mencontohi dan mengikuti sunnah Rasulullah saw seperti membaca doa sebelum masuk dan keluar tandas, serta memasuki tandas dengan melangkah menggunakan kaki kiri dan keluar dengan kaki kanan [3]. Bagi muslimah terutamanya, aurat kita pasti akan dilihat 'penghuni tandas'. Justeru itu, amalkanlah membaca bismillah bagi setiap perbuatan kita di dalam tandas. Bacaan bismillah ini bisa membutakan mata syaitan. Pembinaan tandas yang berasingan dengan ruang wudu' itu juga sangat dituntut kerana percikan air ketika berwudu' itu dikhuatiri bercampur dengan air kotor di atas lantai. Jadi untuk memastikan lantai tandas sentiasa bersih, tandas perlulah dicuci dan bagi mereka yang tidak mengasingkan bilik wudu' dengan tandas, bilas lantai dengan air bersih setiap kali sebelum berwudu'. [2]

Image source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/tazkirah/7445034098

References:

	[1] Ust. Zulkifli Muhammad Ali, "Mengenal Alam Ghaib JIN," 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.facebook.com/ZulkifliMuhammadAliLc/videos/424527198182737/. [2] Ustaz Badlishah Alauddin, "Bacaan Ini Membutakan Mata Syaitan," 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.facebook.com/UstazBadliShahFansClub/videos/2697055130339929/?v=2697055130339929. [3] Zulkarnain Dollah, Amalan 24 Jam Dalam Kehidupan Rasulullah SAW, 9 ed., PTS Islamika Sdn Bhd, 2012, p. 3.

Ditulis oleh:
Siti Sara Rais

Laporan Pertandingan Student Innovation, Invention and Design Exhibition (SIIDE) 2018

Tajuk Program/Projek:  Student Innovation, Invention and Design Exhibition (SIIDE) 2018

Tarikh Perlaksanaan:    23 November 2018                         

Tempat:       Dewan Tamingsari, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Melaka Kampus Alor Gajah

Penganjur:   Faculty of Bussiness and Management UiTM Cawangan Melaka and MPC

Nama Ketua Kumpulan:       Muhammad Hafiz bin Kamaruzaman

Nama Penasihat:                  Puan Siti Sara Binti Rais

Pensyarah Pengiring:           Cik Suziana binti Omar  

Sebanyak empat (4) projek yang telah dibimbing oleh empat orang penyelia telah dipertandingkan di SIIDE 2018. Jadual 2 adalah senarai peserta beserta tajuk projek dan projek yang dimenangi. Penyertaan pertandingan ini disertai daripada pelbagai institusi termasuk politeknik, kolej komuniti dan UiTM pelbagai kampus. Terdapat dua (2) kategori yang dipertandingkan iaitu Kategori A  Mobile Apps dan Kategori B Open Category.

Jadual 2: Senarai peserta dari FKE UiTMCTKD

Nama pelajar (pasukan)	Tajuk projek	SUPERVISOR	Pingat
Muhammad Hafiz bin Kamaruzaman Muhammad Asyraf bin Shaari Nursyazwani binti Zulkifli	Innovative Dustbin	Mrs Siti Sara Rais	Bronze
Muhammad Syakir Aiman Bin Khairul Azman Muhammad Syafiq Syazwan Bin Nordin Mohammad Nasrul Faiz Bin Ismail	Vehicles Solar Powered Ventilation System At Open Car Park	Mrs Rina Abdullah	Penyertaan
Aqil Faisal Bin Abdul Malek Arif Bin Mohd Nazril Siti Nur Syafira Binti Sahifuldin	Smart Attendance System Using RFID	Mrs Nik Nur Shaadah Nik Dzulkefli	Penyertaan
(Tidak mendapat penajaan AAP)		Ms Suziana Omar	Silver

Disediakan oleh:
Siti Sara binti Rais

Engineers are Potential Terrorists?

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After 9-11 tragedy, Muslims have always been associated with terrorism especially in the western media. Their Islamic faith has been put to blame even though there are also cases involving terrorists from other religions. But another pattern also emerged instead of religion factor: most of them have science and engineering educational background.

According to research by Gambetta, a renowned sociologist at the European University Institute in Italy, and Steffen Hertog, an associate professor at the London School of Economics, more than twice as many members of violent Islamist organisations have engineering degrees as have degrees in Islamic studies. Another possible factor especially for those who hail from Middle Eastern and North African countries as well as from migrant communities, people with engineering backgrounds encounter tougher experience in getting stable jobs due to economic and political situations [1].

Based on studies conducted on more than 4,000 political radicals operating across the Muslim world and in the West in reference [2], engineers have been found to be dominating every jihadist group worldwide. Sharing the same observation as [1], the surplus of graduates in countries compared to small demands of labour could lead to frustration.

Some of the examples of terrorists with engineering background such as in February 2010, Joseph Andrew Stack, a software engineer, crashed his plane into I.R.S. offices in Austin, Tex. The following month, John Patrick Bedell, an engineering grad student, opened fire at an entrance to the Pentagon. In early May 2010, Faisal Shahzad (bachelor of science in computer science and engineering) was arrested at Kennedy Airport for a failed attempt to set off a bomb in Times Square. In the same month, Faiz Mohammad, a civil engineer, was caught at Karachi’s airport with batteries and an electrical circuit hidden in his shoes. And list goes on for the coming years, not confined to Middle Easterners and Muslims. Ganbetta and Hertog pointed out the possible reason is that: engineers tend to have combined emotional conservatism and intellectual habits [3].

On the other hand, Martin Rose, the British Council’s senior consultant on the Middle East and North Africa, concluded that science education fails to inculcate critical thinking the way arts teaching do. Typically their minds only search for right and wrong namely in binary. Therefore the engineering students are more susceptible to be recruited by the terrorists [4].

However, most works mentioned above were done by non-Muslims. We believe that the Muslims themselves should play the role to revise the methods of teaching Islamic knowledge to curb the problem of terrorism. Though the contents are adequate, the problem lies in internalizing the true Islamic teachings. Rather than blindly memorising and totally accepting without intellectual discourse, the Muslim students should be allowed to question and discuss so that logical reasoning could take place in their life decision makings. Incorporating Islamic values in the engineering curriculum could also be beneficial for them to balance between the worldly and religious knowledge, thus reducing the inclination towards radicalism.

References

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/17/this-is-the-group-thats-surprisingly-prone-to-violent-extremism/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d11e685a9b08

[2] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-03-10/uncivil-engineers

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/magazine/12FOB-IdeaLab-t.html

[4] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/03/scientists-easy-prey-jihadis-terrorists-engineering-mindset

Written by Nur Idawati Md Enzai

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You cannot make a comparison between nurse and engineer, but as for Whatsapp and Pushbullet, the comparison can get really interesting. No line needs to be drawn. Both are free apps. Just download it and enjoy those awesome features! Experience it yourself!

Reference:

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