Malaysia an Islamic State? Thursday‚ 17 November 2005 05:00PM IS MALAYSIA AN ISLAMIC STATE?by ©Tommy ThomasA. INTRODUCTION - On 29th September 2001‚ during his Opening Address to the Gerakan Party’s 30th national delegates conference‚ Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamed announced:“UMNO wishes to state loudly that Malaysia is an Islamic country. This is based on the opinion of ulamaks who had clarified what constituted as Islamic country. If Malaysia is not an Islamic country because
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What Is Islamic Economics? INTRODUCTION In Islam man is khalifatullah fil ardh or the `vicegerent of Allah on earth’. What this means is that man as a representative of Allah is required to utilize the resources bestowed upon him as a trust by Allah in the most effective and efficient manner in accordance with the Islamic laws and regulations. In other words in Islam man’s existence comes with a purpose namely to serve and worship his Creator as depicted in the verse of the Quran ma khalaqtul
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Hajj: Islamic Pilgrimage The Islamic religion requires its members to take a pilgrimage to Mecca to pay tribute to their god Allah‚ ask for forgiveness of sins. The Hajj is the annual pilgrimage to Mecca‚ Saudi Arabia. It is one of the largest annual pilgrimages in the world‚ and is the fifth pillar of Islam‚ a religious duty that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so. The Hajj is a demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim
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LAWS OF MALAYSIA Act 276 Islamic Banking Act 1983 Date of Royal Assent Date of publication in the Gazette 9-Mar-1983 10-Mar-1983 An Act to provide for the licensing and regulation of Islamic banking business. PU(B) 182/1983 [7th April 1983] ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS PART I PRELIMINARY 1. Short title‚ commencement and application. 2. Interpretation. PART II LICENSING OF ISLAMIC BANKS 3. Islamic banking business to be transacted only by a licensed Islamic bank. 4. Minister may vary or revoke
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Assessment of the Six Forces Porter’s forces analysis is a framework for industry analysis and business strategy development that draws upon industrial organization economics to determine the competitive intensity and overall industry profitability. These forces are 1) potential entry of new competitors‚ 2) bargaining power of suppliers‚ 3) bargaining power of buyers‚ 4) substitute products‚ 5) rivalry among competing sellers in an industry‚ and 6) power of stakeholders. A change in any
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CHAPTER 1: SELF-ASSESSMENT TEST The value of information is directly linked to how it helps decision makers achieve the organization’s goals. 1. A(n) _________________ is a set of interrelated components that collect‚ manipulate‚ and disseminate data and information and provide a feedback mechanism to meet an objective. 2. What consists of raw facts‚ such as an employee number? a. bytes b. data c. information d. knowledge Knowing the potential impact of information systems and having
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Question 1 | |Conventional economic |Islamic economic | |Definition |The study of how people make decisions about |Islamic economic studies man not only as an | | |how to spend their resources on needed goods |isolated individual but of a social individual | |
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Deposits are strictly not considered as loans in the Islamic sense. If it is in the form of money‚ then he has an obligation to pay Zakat out of it. If these deposits are indeed loans‚ then it is the banks which should pay zakat on them. In reality‚the banks make the depositors pay the zakat ‚ which is injustice. (Alexandra R‚ Hardie & M. Rabooy‚ 1991) M. Norain‚ Ariffin‚ & M Adnan explained the perceptions and awareness among bankers in Islamic banks is essential to enhance corporate social responsibility
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Most discussions of the competitive success of nations look at aggregate‚ economy-wide measures like the balance of trade. Porter chose a different starting point‚ beginning with individual industries and competitors and building up to the economy as a whole. Nations do not compete in the marketplace—business firms do‚ and the performance of individual companies in particular industries in where competitive advantage is either won or lost. The home nation influences the ability of its firms to succeed
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