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28/09/2018

Schools will cut down on examinations across different levels, in an effort to move away from an over-emphasis on academic results.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

27/08/2018

Terdapat dua tujuan utama pendidikan menurut Imam Abu Hanifah. Pertama, untuk memperoleh ilmu dan kefahaman; dan kedua, untuk mempertingkatkan kualiti amalan seseorang. Kedua-dua tujuan ini difahami berdasarkan kias, jawapan dan petikan kenyataan Imam Abu Hanifah daripada kitab al-'Alim wa al-Muta'a...

25/07/2018

Inside Einstein's Mind; The Enigma of Space and Time [English Subtitles] adlı Belgesel Günlüğü videosunu Dailymotion'da izleyin.

04/07/2018

On Islamic Brotherhood (Ukhuwwah):

“That which unites one Muslim individual to another in a wondrous and unique bond of brotherhood which transcends the restricting limitations of race and nation and space and time and is much stronger than even the familial bond of kinship is none other than this Covenant (made by every individual soul to collectively acknowledge God as their Lord), for those souls that here as man abide by that Covenant recognize each other as their brothers, as kindred souls. They were akin to one another in yonder place and here they are brethren who love one another for God’s sake. Though one be in the East and the other in the West, yet they feel joy and comfort in each other’s talk, and one who lives in a later generation than the other is instructed and consoled by the words of his brother. They were brothers involved in the same destiny long before they appeared as earthly brothers, and they were true kith and kin before they were born in earthly kinship. So here we see that the same Covenant is the very basis of Islamic brotherhood (ukhuwwah). It is this real feeling of brotherhood among Muslims based upon such firm spiritual foundations which no earthly power can rend asunder that unite the individual to the society in Islām without the individual having to suffer loss of individuality and personality, nor the society its polity and authority.”

- Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas, Islam and Secularism (Kuala Lumpur: IBFIM, 2014), 74.

22/05/2018

30/04/2018

15 days left to the holy month of Ramaḍān! Time to review our resolutions so as to benefit fully from the annual exercise of self-discipline, a key competency for academic excellence.

23/04/2018

"...the belief in meritocracy/meritocrazy deserves a more profound treatment and cannot be taken for granted. Mr K Shanmugam said: “We need to believe that meritocracy actually works… It is not just a concept.” Meritocracy is not just a concept. It is a myth; a social darwinist narrative that is artificially constructed to distract people from making fundamental changes to the problems in Singapore education, part of which is the false belief that the sole purpose of education is to achieve material and worldly success. Going upstream with pre-school education will only reinforce the false and crazy belief in the rat race of life. It would make human rats run the rat race better, but would not make them more human."

Meritocracy is not just a concept. It is a myth; a social darwinist narrative that is artificially constructed to distract people from making fundamental changes to the problems in Singapore education, part of which is the false belief that the sole purpose of education is to achieve material and wo...

10/03/2018