Practitioner Contribution Toward applied Islamic business ethics: Responsible Halal Business.

The purpose of this study  is to explore the opportunities of using halal regulation and certification as a mechanism for applying Islamic business ethics in contemporary world. The main challenge facing any ethical system is the application of Islamic Business Ethics. In the past, Muslims were successful in applying their ethical system through effective mechanisms of applying Islamic business ethics find it difficult to meet the new contemporary challenges. As for methodology, the current practices of halal regulation and certification and literature on Islamic ethics were reviewed, to identify a practical approach for Islamic business ethics. 

Finding shows that Islam allows and accepts different levels of ethical commitment. A multi-level Islamic ethics framework and a multi-level halal certification approach are proposed to facilitate the implementation of Islamic business ethics in a relative context. Two major developments can enrich halal business practices: harmonization of global standards and governance structure, and integrating responsibility and ethical issues in halal standards. For practical implication, the proposed framework and developments can enrich halal regulation and certification practice. To make the proposed steps for a better and faster development of the Halal market possible, collaboration between key stakeholders is required. Till now, the Halal market barely discovered the potential of integrating the concept of CSR and corporate citizenship. 

At the moment, companies and certifying bodies mainly focus on fulfilling the product requirements of a Halal (food/finance) product, such as “not containing pig.” The value shows that this paper emphasizes the importance of flexibility and adaptability in Islamic business ethics implementation, and proposes a new framework and approach to apply Islamic business ethics. The conclusion of the study stressed that Halal regulation and certification forms a good mechanism in order to help Muslims in meeting their religious commitments while living in a globalized and diversified society. Halal business practices vary from one country and industry to another, this variation is due to the differences in the reliability and functionality of institutions and governance structure in those countries and industries. Halal regulation and certification can be developed by integrating some proven tools from the domain of CSR and by including ethics and responsibility criteria with Halal standards. This can be achieved through a multi-level approach that provides Muslims with information on products and businesses covering ethical and responsibility criteria, in addition to the basic Halal standards.

(Summarize based from main reading articles) 

A Deteriorated 2014

‘…dan berserta kesusahan itu, ada bersamanya kemudahan…’

Bismillah.. This phrase which always in my mind been extracted from surah Al-Insyiirah. Yes, after kesukaran besertanya kemudahan. As today, in Malaysia will be the last Friday for  Ramadhan, 1435H. I just heard from afar however, too much problematic in my poor country, too much speculation, perception and the untold story itself. However, I just pray the best for you My Malaysia, ‘tanah air tumpah darahku’.

MH17 tragedy was spreading like wildfire and once again, it has become world attention. From my deepest heart, I send my condolence over there and terlalu sukar rasanya untuk ahli keluarga penumpang menerima kenyataan. Namun ianya kenyataan yang harus diterima. Everyday once I click on my facebook icon, there will be unstoppable speculation from too much ‘aviation expert’ which try to speculate about every single thing until the day the black box has been hand over, many people continuing on their speculation regarding theorists conspiration, continue on blaming the pilot, about mysteriously 17 thumbprint on the box or maybe writing facts about people with special interest has conspired to change the black box, because BLACK box supposed to be BLACK… Well, the last phrase is actually been extracted from ‘aviation expert’ darlas, not me.. (funny ;) )

I am not one of them, just stay silent and watch what going to happen next. I just afford to pray them the best especially for air crash tragedy, for Palestinians, and binasa Israelis forever. ~Janji Allah itu pasti~

Salam Aidilfitri and shafakallah from far..

Best regard,

Pengalaman Interview Program Master Degree

Bismillah..

Hai semua. Hari ni tetiba terasa ingin berkongsi pengalaman semasa interview master dulu. Mungkin boleh menjadi panduan kepada yang akan menempuh saat interview nanti. Ok, we start from here, saya dulunya apply master program dengan UiTM. So, interview diadakan dekat kampus induk which is Shah Alam lah. Sebelum interview tu ade la perasaan berdebar sikit kan. Dalam kepala ni terbayang ramai orang menunggu untuk interview tu nanti. So semasa saya dapat sms dari Institute of Postgraduate Study (IPSIS), terus saya buat preparation termasuk booking nearest hotel and servis kereta sebagai persiapan untuk perjalanan jauh. That time I was in Terengganu. So, I was quite not familiar dengan Shah Alam mase tu. Cuma ade la sesekali pergi tapi tak expert sangat la dengan jalan dekat area sana. Semasa dekat sana, I was staying dekat Carlton Holiday Hotel&Suite which took me around 10 minit untuk ke kampus UiTM Shah Alam.


This is the crucial moment which is semasa interview. Saya sampai around pukul 9 pagi since the invitation letter stated that interview will be start at 9. What happen then? saya ingatkan ramai la kan. Rupanya, name list cuma  around 20 orang sahaja. So, tak perlu la tunggu lama-lama kan. Semasa interview session, setiap session masuk sekaligus 4 orang. Ade 2 orang panel sebagai interviewer. So, antara soalan penting yang dia akan tanya :-

1. Introduce yourself?
2. Your education background?
3. Why you want to further master?
4. Which aspect will you emphasize/focus in your field of study?
5. What is your preparation to do master?
6. What is your Independence Study topic?
7. What is your knowledge in research?
8. What is your ambition?

Ini antara soalan yang akan ditanya la. Mostly, panel akan tanya benda yang basic sahaja. Unless you seems to have much experience, dia mungkin akan asked you further about your related experience. Tak perlu risau sangat tentang soalan yang dia akan tanya. Yang paling penting, your confidence level tinggi and cuba jawab soalan dengan sebaik mungkin with FLUENT ENGLISH. Please maintain your eye contact and poition duduk. Anyhow, jangan risau. Interview sambung belajar ni takde la mengerikan melainkan you sendiri tiada keyakinan diri. Panel cuma nak tengok credibility you sahaja sama ada you mampu carry for the next level of study or not. So, wish everyone goodluck.


Best regard,

How to do an online proofreading?

Salam.

PROOFREADS? TRY TO DO IT BY YOUR OWN..

Proofreading was the main topic for today’s entry. What is actually a proofreading? Proofreading means examining your text carefully to find and correct typographical errors and mistakes in grammar, style, and spelling.

You may face critical time and there are no qualified people going to proofread your assignment. Here is my suggestion on how you can proofread by yourself.

Just jump to http://www.gingersoftware.com/proofreading and hit get started button. Follow the instruction and finish the installation. Go to your Word Document and there are ‘G’ button which automatically appears on the top of the screen. To me, using Ginger to makes proofread is just very simple and quick. But please bear in mind that you must also carefully read the suggestion for correction before approved it.

Before You Proofread

• Be sure you've revised the larger aspects of your text. Don't make corrections at the sentence and word level if you still need to work on the focus, organization, and development of the whole paper, of sections, or of paragraphs.
• Set your text aside for a while (15 minutes, a day, a week) between writing and proofing. Some distance from the text will help you see mistakes more easily.
• Eliminate unnecessary words before looking for mistakes. See the writing center handout how to write clear, concise, direct sentences.
• Know what to look for. From the comments of your professors or a writing center instructor on past papers, make a list of mistakes you need to watch for.

When You Proofread

• Work from a printout, not the computer screen. (But see below for computer functions that can help you find some kinds of mistakes.)
• Read out loud. This is especially helpful for spotting run-on sentences, but you'll also hear other problems that you may not see when reading silently.
• Use a blank sheet of paper to cover up the lines below the one you're reading. This technique keeps you from skipping ahead of possible mistakes.
• Use the search function of the computer to find mistakes you're likely to make. Search for "it," for instance, if you confuse "its" and "it's;" for "-ing" if dangling modifiers are a problem; for opening parentheses or quote marks if you tend to leave out the closing ones.
• If you tend to make many mistakes, check separately for each kind of error, moving from the most to the least important, and following whatever technique works best for you to identify that kind of mistake.
  For instance, read through once (backwards, sentence by sentence) to check for fragments; read through again (forward) to be sure subjects and verbs agree, and again (perhaps using a computer search for "this," "it," and "they") to trace pronouns to antecedents.
• End with a spelling check, using a computer spelling checker or reading backwards word by word.
  But remember that a spelling checker won't catch mistakes with homonyms (e.g., "they're," "their," "there") or certain typos (like "he" for "the").

Sources : How to Proofread. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/Proofreading.html

 Goodluck! Best regard,

Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (rbST)

Typically abbreviated as rbST or bST, recombinant bovine somatotropin was approved for injection in dairy cattle to increased milk production in 1994. It can be define as genetically engineered hormone that stimulates milk production in cattle.

The process to produce begins when the gene for bovine somatotropin ( a natural bovine hormone ) is inserted into special bacterium and the result is harvested and processed into recombinant bST that is ready to used.

#estimates that use of bST increases milk production averages per cow about 1800 lbs.

A Truly Wishes To My Husband-to-be..

#:♥ Kita BERKENALAN secara
tak sengaja, adalah
PERANCANGAN ALLAH..
:♥ Kita BERKAWAN begitu
lama bertahan pun, ALLAH
yang RANCANG..
:♥ Kita dikurniakan RASA SUKA
antara satu sama lain juga,
ALLAH yang BERI..
:♥ Kita masih BERSAMA walau
banyak dugaan menimpa,
ALLAH yang ATURKAN..
:♥ Kita dikurniakan
KESEDARAN dan KEINSAFAN
juga kerana, ALLAH SAYANG
PADA KITA..
:♥ Kita BERJAUHAN untuk
mencapai REDHA-NYA juga,
DIA yang RANCANG...
:♥ Kita BERDOA untuk
KEBAHAGIAAN masing2 juga,
ALLAH yang DETIKKAN dalam
hati kita..
dan ketahuilah, sama ada
hubungan kita akan
BERKEKALAN
sehingga ke SYURGA atau
TERPUTUS di TENGAH JALAN
juga
ALLAH yang akan tentukan...
jadi, usah risau..
andai kamulah jodoh yang
ditetapkan ALLAH di Luh
Mahfuz untuk saya...
InsyaAllah kita akan BERSATU
juga walau dipisahkan dengan
jarak dan masa...♥♥♥

 

Best regard,

Tok Guru Nik Aziz Has Retired :'(

Ikon perpaduan kaum... Jasamu tetap dikenang selamanya....

 You are a wonderful example of a God-fearing man. You will be respected and loved by all Malaysian - Malaysians that are not defined by race or religion.

  

I was too busy LIKING the non Muslims posts in here. I was shared by my mom about this true story of a man who slept at Tuan Guru's home for shelter. One night, he went to the nearby surau for washroom. Suddenly he was so shocked to see,TGNA was inside cleaning. He asked why. Why would an MB do as such. The reply was "it is the only way I could avoid from being ego".

This story was long time ago. I believe one of us have heard of this before. TGNA is good example to me and how I really want to be like him. He has proven it. Masya Allah.

 

Bersaranya Tok Guru Nik Aziz amat menyentap hati-hati manusia yang mempunyai iman. Hujan sejak pagi renyai umpama menangis. Terima kasih Tok Guru Nik Abdul Aziz. Perjuangan mu menjadi benchmark bidang Ilmu dan ketamadunan Islam.

1. Fakta, TGNA adalah insan pertama sebagai pemimpin yang mengadakan urustadbir kewangan Islamik.

2. Fakta, pemimpin pertama bebas segala aktiviti salah laku dan urustadbir paling walaupun dana disekat.

3. Fakta, pemimpin yang pertama tidak duduk di rumah Menteri Besar sebaliknya tinggal di rumah sendiri yang tiangnya bersambung dengan Masjid Nikmatilah Pulau Melaka.

 

 kediaman rasmi Tok Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat

4. Sanggup tidak ambil elauan gaji utk bayar hutang rakyat Kelantan yang dibuat oleh pemimpin parti Timbang Kilo.

5. Dialah Ulamak, pemimpin, murrabi, guru, pentadbir, pemikir mantik paling halus dalam dunia, sahabat dan pendoa di tengah malam di kala bumi Malaysia panas dengan maksiat dan rejaman fitnah media. Halalkan ilmu yang pernah saya dengar, terima samada sengaja atau tidak sengaja.

4. Sifat daya juang anak Kelantan terdidik dengan ilmu dan tawaduknya.

5. Sepanjang memimpin Kelantan kami tidak pernah kebulur tapi ilmu dan semangat beliau menyebabkan anak cukup unik dan pandai berniaga.

6. Sistem pentadbiran kerajaan Kelantan patut dicontohi.

7. Sistem wang sunnah pertama di dunia dengan Kelantan Trade Gold dengan wujudnya dinar dan dirham.

8. Wibawa yang sentiasa mendapat rating tinggi dalam urus kewangan. Boleh rujuk Audit Negara(tidak pernah disiarkan).

9. Satu-satunyq pemimpin paling banyak keluarkan buku dan mutiara kata antara yang terbaik dalam dunia. Seni mantik, timbang tara lengkap semua ijtihad kesufian Islam dengan kiasan penuh moral yang bertauhid Allah Taala.

Kami merindui perjuangan Ulamak ini yang disayangi dan disegani semua pihak. Bintang ini tiada tolok gantinya. Semoga Allah swt merahmati beliau dan sentiasa dalam rahmat kasih sayangNya. Dialah Tok Guru kami. ~Sifu Siddiq.

MENGENAI TOK GURU :-

 

Beliau Berumur 81 Tahun...

Dilahirkan pada tahun 1931 di Kampung Pulau Melaka, Kota Bharu. Beliau merupakan anak kedua daripada sembilan orang adik-beradik. Hasil perkongsian hidup dengan isterinya, iaitu Tuan Sabariah Binti Tuan Ishak, beliau dikurniakan 10 orang cahaya mata (5 lelaki dan 5 perempuan).

Sebelum menjadi Menteri Besar, beliau adalah seorang guru agama yang aktif. Beliau pernah mengajar di Sekolah Menengah Agama Tarbiyyah Mardiah, Sekolah Menengah Agama Darul Anwar dan Sekolah Menengah Maahad Muhammadi yang kesemuanya terletak di Kelantan. Maka tidak hairanlah beliau lebih mesra dengan gelaran 'Tuan Guru' di kalangan rakyat Malaysia. Malah sehingga kini, beliau masih lagi aktif menyebarkan ilmu-ilmu Islam kepada masyarakat. Pada hampir setiap pagi, beliau akan menjadi imam kepada Solat Subuh dan kemudiannya memberikan kuliah ringkas di sebuah masjid yang terletak hanya beberapa langkah sahaja dari rumahnya.

Beliau sentiasa dikenali sebagai seorang Menteri Besar yang paling zuhud dan warak. Pada hampir setiap masa, beliau sentiasa dilihat dalam keadaan berjubah dan berserban. Beliau mengaku bersolat dalam keadaan gelap apabila berada di dalam pejabatnya kerana tidak mahu menggunakan duit kerajaan untuk kepentingan dirinya. Rumahnya pula hanyalah sebuah rumah kampung biasa seperti yang dimiliki oleh rakyat kebanyakan. Rumahnya tidak berpagar sama sekali dan tiada pengawal keselamatan yang diupah untuk menjaganya.

Pada tahun 2008, Gerakan Rakyat Anti Korupsi (GERAK) telah menganugerahkan beliau sebagai Menteri Besar yang memiliki rekod paling bersih di Malaysia. Anugerah itu diberikan sebagai menghargai usaha beliau menentang gejala rasuah sepanjang mentadbir Kelantan selama hampir 18 tahun.

Pada tahun 2009, beliau diletakan diantara 50 tokoh Islam berpengaruh didunia dan disenaraikan dalam buku berjudul "The 500 Most Influential Muslims".

Politik Beliau Yang Menarik yang Perlu Anda Semua Mengetauinya:

Pada pilihan raya umum Malaysia kali ke-12, beliau bersemuka dengan Datuk Dr Nik Mohd Zain Omar yang bertanding di atas tiket Barisan Nasional (BN) di kawasan DUN yang sama. Secara peraturannya, Beliau (PAS) sudah boleh menang tanpa bertanding pada hari penamaan calon apabila lawannya itu terlupa untuk menurunkan tandatangannya pada borang penamaan calon. Namun beliau tidak mahu menang dengan cara begitu lalu meminta calon BN itu menandatangani semula borang pencalonan tersebut. Keputusan pilihan raya kali ini menyaksikan Nik Aziz menang dengan majoriti undi yang lebih besar, iaitu 4,249.

Beliaulah Menteri Besar Kelantan Darul Naim iaitu Tuan Guru Dato' Bentara Setia Haji Nik Abdul Aziz Bin Nik Mat .

- Dipetik dari MyNetworks

 kepada TGNA terima kasih sbb menegakkan islam dibumi kelantan dan mentadbir kelantan dgn baik sebelum ni.. AKU SAYANG TOKGURU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Tahniah kepada MB, TMB serta barisan exco yang baru dilantik di Negeri Kelantan, sesungguhnya perlantikan ini merupakan satu amanah yang besar, jadikan lah amanah ini untuk mencari redha Allah. Terima kasih juga kepada Tuan Guru Dato Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat yang telah menerajui Kelantan selama 22 tahun. Semoga tugasan beliau tersebut diterima sebagai amalan yang soleh

Selamat beristirahat Tok Guru..Jasamu dikenang oleh seluruh rakyat Kelantan..Semoga beliau dikurniakan kesihatan yang baik dan dilimpahi rahmat oleh Allah hingga ke akhir hayatnya. Amin!

Terima kasih Tok Guru kerana memimpin Kelantan selama lebih 2 dekad. Moga Allah merahmati insan kecil yang berjiwa besar ini (di saat ini, saya sedang mengesat air mata mengenangkan kesederhanaan hidup dan ilmu yang beliau tampilkan).