Marriage is the union of two persons and since the beginning of time it has always been the union between men and women. In order to continue men lineage on this earth, Allah has ordered men to be married with women and not to be married with men. Allah has made men and women to be biologically compatible to reproduce. Allah ordered men to be married with women so that human being can reproduce and the human population can grow in numbers. It is impossible for the human population to grow in numbers without being able to reproduce. Human beings are able to reproduce only when men are ordered to be married with woman and not with men and women are ordered to be married with men and not with women. Allowing men to be married with men and allowing women to be married with women is the same as trying to stop the human race from reproduce and from growing in numbers. Allah is the One who has created men and women and it is the order of Allah for men to be married with women and not for men to be married with another men and also it is the order of Allah for women to be married with another men and not to be married with another women. When men are married with men and women are married with women, it means we have disobeyed the order of Allah and certainly Allah will not be pleased with those men and women who have disobeyed the orders of Allah. (more…)
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Houses are indeed a need to everyone and not a luxury. Men need houses or shelters in order to protect themselves from the rain and the sun. All newly married couples wishes to have a new house of their own. The demand of houses is always high because everyone wants to have houses of their own. As our population grows, accordingly the demand of houses also grows. The demand of houses increases as our population increases. As our population grows, the area of land to built houses decreases and the price of land increases. As the price of lands increases, accordingly the price of houses also increases. In some cities such as Hong Kong and Singapore, the prices of the houses are very expensive. In those cities, people are forced to live in high rise apartments or flats, instead of houses. High rise flats or apartments are built in those cities in order to compensate for the increase in population and the decreases in land areas. In those cities, prices of the houses are very expensive and only the super rich can afford to live in houses. In Malaysia, particularly in Kuala Lumpur, the prices of houses are soaring high. An average income earner will not be able to buy a house in Kuala Lumpur. (more…)
My first visit to Bengkulu was in 1998 and I was there for nearly one month. My last visit to Bengkulu was just recently that was during the Labour Day holiday. Bengkulu is a province in Indonesia that located in the west-south of Sumatra. The province is surrounded by hilly mountains and the access to the province is mainly through roads along the coastal areas and crossing the hilly mountainous areas. The roads along the mountainous areas are narrow and winding but all the drivers that drive along the narrow winding roads seems to be so proficient and careful. Bengkulu is the place of my ancestors. Both of my grandmothers on my father and mother sides came from Bengkulu. My grandmothers left Bengkulu in the early twentieth century with the hope of finding a new greener pastures in Malaysia. In those days, Malaysia was known as Klang, because Klang was the first seaport in Peninsular Malaya. In those days my grandmothers and all others who want to migrate to Malaysia would say that they wanted to live in Klang. My father used to tell me that the reasons why my grandfathers want to come to live in Klang were that the life in Bengkulu was very hard and difficult. Bengkulu was once under the control of British and with the signing of the treaty of Bangkok between the British and the Dutch, Bengkulu was given to the Dutch in exchanged with Malacca. My grandmother used to tell my father that life under the control of British was much better than under the Dutch. Under the control of the Dutch, my grandparents had to pay taxes for their head and they were forced to do hard labour in the plantations with very meagre pay. My grandparents decided to leave Bengkulu and migrate to Klang because they want to live under the control of the British and not under the control of the Dutch. Sir Stamford Raffles was in Bengkulu and when he wanted to open up Singapore, he took peoples from Bengkulu to help him. Some of these Bengkulu peoples crossed over to the Peninsula Malaya and some settled in Gemas, Negeri Sembilan while others moved upwards and settled in Sungai Choh, Rawang, Selangor. The migration of Bengkulu peoples over to Peninsula Malaya probably took place during the late of nineteen century. (more…)
Yayasan Pembangunan Keluarga Terengganu (YPKT), Twintech dan Sanadi sekali lagi menganjurkan program khidmat masyarakat di negeri Terengganu bertempat di Pulau Perhentian, Besut dan Chukai, Kemaman.
Program ini telah dirasmikan oleh menteri besar Terengganu, Dato’ Seri Ahmad bin Said. Program ini menawarkan khidmat ‘vision screening’ oleh Universiti Kolej Twintech dan kaca mata diberi secara percuma oleh syarikat Sanadi Optomeri kepada penduduk kampung.
Professor Dr Nasoha Saabin was at the LCCT on 30 May 2011 to send his students to the Sankara Nethralaya in India for a 4-months clinical training. The Optometry students of Twintech University College will be trained at the famous eye hospital in Asia.
Love is blind. What does it mean? It means we love someone without any valid reasons. We fall in love with someone and we do not know the reason why we have fallen in love with him or her. Most people forget that the one that put the love towards him or her in our heart is none other than the Creator of men. There is no one that can grant love other than Allah. Allah is the one who places love towards someone in our heart beyond our control. We can neither increase nor decrease the amount of love towards someone in our heart except with the permission of Allah. Allah places love into the heart of all mothers towards their children. Allah uses love as a means to protect and to nourish the young helpless children. A mother can endure many nights without sleep, to feed and to tend to her crying child because Allah has instilled love towards that child inside her heart. No one can instil that love except Allah. When Allah plants love inside our heart towards someone we will not be able to find the reasons, why we have loved that person. We can neither love nor not to love someone with our own choice. We simply do not have the choice. When Allah has planted love towards someone in our heart, we have no choice but to love that person. Allah instils in our heart love towards someone as a test for us. We are also tested in the same manner when Allah gives us wealth and power. Allah is testing us so that we can gauge our level of faith (iman). We will know that our ‘iman’ is weak when we transgress the Allah’s orders. (more…)
In Labuan there are about 40 karaoke premises with each karaoke premise there are about 30 young Filipino girls working as GRO. How true it is I do not know but this is the stories told to me by taxis drivers and those whom I have met while I was in Labuan last weekend. Labuan is a free port and alcoholic drink is cheaper than the carbonated drink. One man that I met in Labuan told me that Labuan used to have 70 karaoke premises but now the number has decreases to 40. A small island like Labuan, a distance of about 30 kilometres from the north to the south and with only 80 thousand population but has 40 karaoke premises is indeed a record worth to note. I do not know anywhere else in this world that has so many karaoke premises in such a small area as Labuan. In Labuan for every two thousand population there is one karaoke premise. The presence of karaoke premise far exceeds the presence of hospital, clinics, schools and mosques in Labuan. Only looking at the statistics of karaoke premise and the number of population in Labuan, we may lead to a wrong conclusion that the peoples of Labuan are peoples who loves to dance, to sing and to enjoy illicit sexual relationship with girls. It seems the needs to dance and to sing far outweigh the needs for good education, health and religion. Why so many licences are given to open karaoke premise in Labuan? Do the peoples of Labuan really needs that many karaoke premises or the demand of karaoke comes from the peoples who had comes to Labuan without their wives or the demand comes from the workers of the oil company who have to be away from their wives because they have to work offshore for some weeks and when they come on-shore they become sexually excited like the hungry animals looking for their foods. The rules of demand and supply also apply in Labuan. The Filipino girls fulfil the demand and the demands are created by the men who live in Labuan but without their wives and the frequent visitors of Labuan whose sole purpose are to enjoy sex with many types of girls. I am sure there is an agency that deals with this business. Which is the agency that supplies the girls to the 40 karaoke premises in Labuan? What do the Islam religious department in Labuan is doing? Is the Islamic religious department in Labuan aware of the presence of 40 karaoke premises in Labuan? Or they know but they pretend as if they do not know and they are not willing to do anything about it. Once peoples are addicted to certain bad habits, it is difficult to stop it. The presence of 40 karaoke premises in Labuan is helping to nature the bad habits among the island population especially the youths. I am sure there are among the local young men of Labuan who are infected with the bad habits. (more…)
Lahirmu ditakdirkan menjadi
Negarawan kurniaan tuhan
Dikau melalui liku dugaan
Dengan tabah penuh kesabaran
Matimu pasti ditangisi
Setelah kau pergi nilaimu diingati
Wawasanmu diperjuang hingga mati
Wawasan suci penuh beerti
Allah memilihmu meneraju negara
Usaha gigihmu memartabatkan bangsa
Negara dijulang bagaikan wira
Di seluruh dunia Malaysia ternama
Usaha gigihmu diteruskan
Harapan murnimu dinobatkan
Pendukung wawasanmu maju ke hadapan
Membawa Malaysia ke mercu kejayaan
Dihari ini kukirim gurindam
Sebagai tanda kasih yang mendalam
Mina maaf perkataan disulam
Semoga Tun Dr Mahathir
Ceria siang dan malam
Komposer: Man Ferow
Penulis Lirik: Prof Dr Nasoha Saabin
I have been to India more than thirty times before and during those many trips, I have been visiting and meeting only Muslims. I have had very exciting experiences with the Muslims of India. During my past trips to India, I only visited Muslim houses and talked only to Muslims. I used to have the impression that Hindus are the enemies of Muslims. During those thirty times or so I was in India, I never had a single chance to visit the Hindus. I was not encouraged to talk to the Hindus. Although I did not understand the reason why, I simply followed as I was their guest. This time I went to India not for visiting the Muslims of India but for recruiting lecturers of optometry for my university.
The experience that I am going to share now is about my exposure to a Hindu family in India. With the grace of Allah, I have had the first opportunity to visit an Indian house whose owner is a Hindu. Although I am a Malaysian and Malaysia is known to be a multiracial country whereby Indian ethnic accounted for more than 10% of the population, yet I have had little exposure to the Hindus in Malaysia. In Malaysia, I have never visited a Hindu house and what more to eat food served by a Hindu family. This is rather strange, as I was born and have lived in Malaysia for 55 years, but no Hindu has ever invited me to have a meal in their house and neither do I have ever invited a Hindu to have a meal in my house. Well, I think in Malaysia, I am not the only Malay Muslims who has never entered a Hindu house and eat meals prepared by them. During this recent trip to India however, I visited a Hindu house and was served lunch by a Hindu who happened to be a friend of my travelling companion from Malaysia, who is also a Hindu. Initially I was rather awkward to eat lunch served in a Hindu house but after sometime, I was relieved when I came to know that the meat was bought from a Muslim butcher in Madras.
Those experiences gave me a great lesson on how to achieve racial unity in Malaysia whereby the keys are interactions and communications. I always wonder whether Malaysia is truly a multiracial society or only a country with many isolated races. How to achieve racial unity, I believe is one of the main concerns of those who love peace and harmony in the country. The slogan of One Malaysia is only a slogan and it will not lead to real racial unity. Unity has to start with friendliness. We have to be friend first and then we may develop love, respect and trust between each other. When we have love, respect and trust, then we may have unity. However, without interacting and communicating between one another, how can people be friends? Sadly, it seems to me that Malaysians of various races are not interacting and communicating with each other. Everyone is kept to their own race and the existing culture does not seem to encourage and promote interactions between people from different races.
Although Malaysia has been a multiracial country for decades, yet it seems the society has not inter-racially become united. One race is not interacting with the other races. One person from a different race may know the other person from a different race only by his or her name through contact at work place or at school but they are not mingling with each other. Each race maintains its own culture and religion and mingles only among them. Everybody seems to live happily within his or her own community and everyone is holding strongly to his or her own cultures and religion. Surprisingly enough, we have not become One Malaysia even after 53 years of independence. Does One Malaysia means we are the same, having the same cultures and religion or does One Malaysia means in diversities we maintain our unity? How we can have a strong unity in diversities? In my opinion, we will achieve a true unity when all Malaysians finally have the same religion and culture. In the context of Malaysian society today, I do not feel we have true unity and I also do not think the government knows exactly how to achieve a unity among the citizens.
In order to have a true unity one must have true love towards each other. When everybody has true love between each other then everybody will have trust towards each other. When there is love and trust, there will be unity. For love to build, there must be a lot of positive interactions between the citizens. Malaysians in general however, have little social contacts and interactions between each other even while they are young.
It is easier to integrate and unite Malaysians of all races at young age. The most suitable period to encourage integration among Malaysians is when they are still young which is when they are still at the kindergarten or primary school levels. Many Malaysians from different races however, obtain their primary education in their own ethnic schools and some continue to do so in the secondary school. One important step the government must do is to have only a single schooling system. There should be only one type of school for all Malaysians which is Sekolah Kebangsaan whereby young citizens from all races can be together and interacting with each other. The current educational system whereby we have primary schools based on various ethnic groups should not be allowed to continue and to exist if we really want to develop national unity and to achieve the concept of One Malaysia.
One important tool to positive communications is the language. To be able to communicate and interact harmoniously between different races, Malaysians should be encouraged to learn and to speak the languages of other races in the country from young age. The more languages one knows the better he will become and the better his interactions with other people will be. In my opinion, Malaysia is so fortunate to have various races speaking different languages as her citizens. Unfortunately, learning the National language as well as other ethnic languages has not been properly programmed into our educational system. As a result, many non-Malay Malaysians still unable to speak Bahasa Malaysia fluently even though they were born in Malaysia. Many non-Malay Malaysians were born in Malaysia and many have lived in Malaysia for decades, but they still cannot communicate fluently with each other in Bahasa Malaysia.
Without communicating and interacting with each other, we may not be able to know each other well and become friends. Without becoming friend to each other, we cannot love each other and without love we cannot have unity. In such circumstances, we tend to harbor ill feeling towards each other and as a result, one race will lose trust towards other races, and this will finally lead to hatred and enmities between the various races in Malaysia.
At school, all students must learn Bahasa Kebangsaan and English and the other main ethnic languages. Malaysian students should learn Bahasa Malaysia, English, Chinese and Tamil. Learning Bahasa Malaysia, English, Chinese and Tamil languages should be made compulsory to every student. When everyone in Malaysia knows everyone else languages then there will be communication between the various races in Malaysia. When they are communicating between each other then they become friends. When they become friends then they may start to know and love and respect each other. When there are love and respect then there will be unity among Malaysians.
Dr. Nasoha Saabin
Dean of Faculty of Optometry
International University College of Technology Twintech
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia