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Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part III
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 14 January 2025 Asad’s Qur’ānic Hermeneutics “The Most Gracious has imparted this Qur’an [unto man]. He has created man: He has imparted unto him articulate thought and speech” [Sura ar-Rahmān; 55:1-4] (Asad, 2013, p. 986) […]
Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part II
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 8 January 2025 Asad’s odyssey across the Muslim world In early summer of 1924, Muhammad Asad was on the move again. He travelled to Amman, to Damascus, Tripoli and Aleppo, to Baghdad and to the […]
Remembering Muhammad Asad: The Modernist Reformer of the 20th Century – Part I
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 2 Januari 2025 Abstract This paper focuses on one of the most famous modern Muslim scholars: Muhammad Asad. He was born as a Jew by the name of Leopold Weiss in the year 1900. In […]
Sebatan Di Khalayak Awam kerana Khalwat dan Ruh Sebenar daripada Shariah Islam
Arief Subhan & Ahmad Farouk Musa || 30 Disember 2024 Terjemahan: Ahmad Muziru Idham Kami membaca pelbagai laporan mengenai sebatan di khalayak awam terhadap seorang lelaki terhadap kesalahan khalwat bersama kenalan berlainan jantina dengan penuh kekesalan. Islam yang diketahui […]
Public Caning for Close proximity: A Blight on Islam – Islamic Renaissance Front
Arief Subhan & Ahmad Farouk Musa – 30 December 2024 We read the multiple reports on the public caning of a man over the offence of being in close proximity with a non-family member of the opposite sex with […]
Berzikir dan berdo’a beramai-ramai sesudah solat itu apakah sunnah atau bid’ah?
Ahmad Farouk Musa & Manan Razali || 12 Disember 2024 Sesungguhnya Nabi telah mengingatkan kepada kita bahawa akan datang satu zaman di mana akan terdapat pertelingkahan yang amat dahsyat dan di ketika itu hendaklah kita berpegang kepada as-sunnah. Masalah […]
The fall of the Assad regime – How designated terrorists suddenly became democrats
Osman Softic || 11 December 2024 The Syrian armed rebels led and dominated by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) – Committee for the Liberation of Levant (originally known as Al Qaeda- which had later been transformed into Al-Nusra Front), launched […]
Shifting the Balance of Power in West Asia: Why Arab Countries Failed to Prevent Genocide in Gaza – Part II
By Osman Softić || 8 November 2024 One of the most seasoned American experts on the Middle East, retired US ambassador Ryan Crocker, named by former US President George W. Bush as “American Lawrence of Arabia” was completely honest […]
When JAIS rears its ugly head again!
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 5 November 2024 We read the story of the arrest of Ustaz Dr Abdullah Yasin by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) three days ago with much consternation. It brings back to memory the arrest […]
Shifting the Balance of Power in West Asia: Why Arab Countries Failed to Prevent Genocide in Gaza – Part I
By Osman Softić || 1 November 2024 The Israeli genocide against the Palestinians of Gaza has been going on for more than 12 months. By bombarding Gaza with devastating American-made bombs, Israel, with the blessing of Washington and its […]
Mr Prime Minister! We, the T15, are not your enemies!
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 30 October 2024 Dear Mr Prime Minister, we are writing this piece as your friend. As your friend who struggled for you during the time of Reformasi. As your friend who defended you during all the […]
RUU Mufti (FT) 2024: An unconstitutional and divisive bill – Islamic Renaissance Front
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 25 Oct 2024 The debate on the Mufti (Federal Territories) Bill 2024 continues unabated, raging like wildfire. Surprisingly, the strongest voices against this bill were from the so-called liberal factions―much to the chagrin of some people―especially […]
What is fundamentally wrong with RUU Mufti 2024?
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 14 October 2024 The issue of RUU Mufti 2024 has been much discussed. We even wrote about it in our Malay post “RUU Mufti 2024: Penjurusan ke Arah Autoritarianisme Agama?” which was published on our […]
The Martyrdom of Hassan Nasrallah: Paradigm shift in the Middle East or a temporary setback for the Resistance Axis?
By Osman Softić || 30 Sept 2024 The latest Israeli unrestrained rampage in Lebanon under the diplomatic, political, and military protection and tacit approval of the United States, in confrontation with what is widely accepted as the Axis of Resistance […]
A Refutation of Farid Al-Attas’ slippery slope of JAKIM’s certification
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 24 September 2024 We refer to the piece which appeared on MalaysiaNow citing Prof Farid Alatas’s view. Since the government has already ruled on this issue last Wednesday, the discussion is now mainly academic. Nonetheless, […]
A Rebuttal To Hamid Sultan Abu Backer’s View On The Halal-Haram Dilemma
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 19 September 2024 I read the piece by a retired judge, the learned Justice Datuk Hamid Sultan Abu Backer with much interest. However, he erred in his insistence that while the concept of haram is […]
The Halal Conundrum – Sanity must prevail
Ahmad Farouk Musa || 15 Sept 2024 It all started when Mohd Na’im Mokhtar, the Minister in charge of the Religious Affairs, made an official statement that the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (infamously known as JAKIM) is considering […]
RUU Mufti 2024: Penjurusan ke Arah Autoritarianisme Agama?
Ahmad Farouk Musa & Manan Razali || 5 September 2024 Kami membaca perihal rang undang-undang Mufti (Wilayah Perseketuan 2024 dengan teliti dan mengikuti segala perbahasan berkaitannnya. Kami akan huraikan pendirian kami di sini namun secara kesimpulannya, kami bersetuju dan […]
BlackRock – No Compromise With Evil
Chandra Muzaffar || 24 June 2024 The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) empathizes with the concerns expressed by several NGOs and public figures in Malaysia over the involvement of the fund manager, BlackRock, in Malaysia’s infrastructure development. […]
Public Lecture on: “The Governance of Religious Diversity: A New Analysis” by Prof. Tariq Modood
Date: Sunday, 30th June 2024 Time: 10.00 AM – 12.00PM Venue: University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus – Kuala Lumpur Teaching Centre, Level 2 Chulan Tower, 3 Jalan Conlay, 50450 Kuala Lumpur Welcoming Speech: Professor Zaharom Nain Director of the […]
