Category: Agama

Harga Barangan Makanan Diturunkan Hampir 70% Di UAE

ABU DHABI: Harga bagi 5,000 barangan makanan akan dikurangkan sehingga 70 peratus di pasar-pasar raya di serata Amiriah Arab Bersatu (UAE) sepanjang Ramadan ini.

Perkara itu diumumkan oleh Kementerian Ekonomi UAE, menurut laporan akhbar tempatan, The National.

Langkah-langkah lain bagi memastikan harga barangan makanan terus rendah pada bulan puasa termasuk lebih banyak import, perjanjian dengan para pembekal dan ratusan pemeriksaan yang akan dijalankan, kata pengarah jabatan perlindungan pengguna kementerian itu, Dr Hashem Al Nuaimi.

Potongan harga dan subsidi bagi 5,000 barangan makanan itu bernilai Dh250 juta (S$92 juta), kata Dr Al Nuaimi.

Menurut The National, Dr Al Nuaimi berkata, pihaknya mengadakan mesyuarat dengan 55 pembekal barangan makanan asas, seperti beras, tepung, minyak, jus dan susu, serta dengan 540 pasar raya dan cawangan lain untuk menggesa mereka menaikkan jumlah import.

Ini, katanya, agar keperluan yang meningkat semasa Ramadan dapat dipenuhi namun pada masa yang sama, memastikan harga barangan makanan kekal rendah.

Pihaknya juga merancang untuk menjalankan lebih 400 pemeriksaan terhadap pasar-pasar di UAE untuk memastikan para peruncit memberikan diskaun tersebut.

Potongan harga pada barangan makanan pada Ramadan kali ini, adalah lebih tinggi berbanding Ramadan lalu, kata ketua pegawai operasi Almaya Supermarkets, Bejoy Thomas.

Encik Thomas ditukil The National sebagai berkata, pihaknya mengurangkan harga beberapa barangan makanan asas seperti beras, minyak, produk susu dan ayam beku sebanyak 50 hingga 70 peratus menjelang Ramadan.

Ini katanya, hasil harga komoditi yang lebih rendah, pengurangan kos pengedar dan usaha secara bersama oleh para peruncit.

Menurut The National, warga UAE, Mohammed Al Dhaheri, 73 tahun, memuji langkah pemerintah namun katanya, jarang melihat harga makanan dikurangkan semasa bulan Ramadan.

“Setiap tahun kita dengar harga akan dikurangkan, tetapi sebenarnya, harga tidak pernah turun,” katanya.

Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

June 6, 2016
Walid J. Abdullah: Be Honest – Why Are We Selectively Indignant To Racism?

-When people who disagree with the government are harassed-

*silence*

-When politicians one likes spout racist comments-

*silence*

-When fences for foreign workers are mooted-

*silence*

-When Donald Trump suggests a wall to be built on the border, Muslims to be monitored, and that Mexicans are rapists-

‘This is absolutely outrageous. No human being who believes in the values of liberty and democracy, and basic human rights, should tolerate this. This is an attack on all of us. I really hope Americans do not vote for this demagogue. He is a threat to the entire world.’

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Selective outrage sure is not limited to Fox News.

If we are inconsistent in our indignation toward similar events/actions, it is then perhaps timely to touch our hearts and ask ourselves what we are actually disgusted with or angry about. Our selective outrage could reveal more about ourselves than about people like Trump.

Source: Walid J. Abdullah

June 5, 2016
WearWhite: Stand Up Against The LGBT Ideology

I’m wearing white today.

Not because I’m a bigot. This is a secular country. What one does behind closed doors is between him and his Maker.

I’m wearing white today.

Because I’m standing up against an ideology. An insidious ideology that wishes to radically change society at its very core. Do not be deceived. Pinkdot is not there to promote ‘free love’.

It is there to change the structure of society itself. It has stated as its goal the repeal of 377A.

BUt that is not its endgame.

They will push on and on…..

Imagine this scenario:

At City Hall gay couples queue to get married. In attendance are ‘Liberal’ religious priests and imams. At a nearby mosque an openly gay imam is conducting a marriage ceremony of another gay couple.

Down Orchard Road is a gay pride parade. As they moved down Bras Basah road the backdrop of the gay pride parade is the Sultan mosque. Images are beamed worldwide, with the Sultan mosque standing as a very visual symbol of our docility to stand up for our beliefs. Our toilets must now be completely gender free, with full grown men sharing it with six year old girls.

If we do not share this vision of Singapore, then we have to make our stand. Now.

And not stand by the wayside mired in our own docility. And I speak to the young. If you have a young family or thinking of getting married etc, ask yourself what kind of Singapore do you envision for your children when you look into their eyes?

I’m wearing white today. And I urge my Christian friends to wear white to church this weekend.

I too will be wearing white on Sundsy evening to welcome the blessed month of Ramadhan.

I invite all of us to wear white this weekend.

More importantly we should make a stand. Learn about he LGBT ideology. Speak about it to our family friends n neighbors. Start a conversation going.

May God bless our efforts. And may He Protect our country from forces – foreign and local – who wish to fundamentally change the structure of the family itself.

‪#‎wearwhite‬

Source: Syed Danial

June 5, 2016
Kurma Sumbangan Saudi Diagih Kepada Umat Islam Mulai Lusa

Lebih 40,000 kilogram kurma sumbangan Arab Saudi sudah sampai ke Singapura. Jumlah itu lebih banyak berbanding tahun lepas.

Kurma percuma yang diberikan atas dasar hubungan akrab antara Singapura dengan Arab Saudi akan mula diagihkan kepada orang ramai lusa (5 Jun).

Kontena pertama daripada tiga kontena berisi kurma jenis Barni dari Madinah tiba di Masjid Ba’alwie pada 10.00 pagi tadi (3 Jun).

Para sukarelawan segera memunggah keluar kotak-kotak kurma untuk diagihkan dan diisi di dalam bekas-bekas plastik.

Untuk hari ini dan esok, kurma akan diberi kepada masjid-masjid dengan setiap masjid menerima 20 kotak. Hampir 150 persatuan dan kumpulan juga bakal menerima kurma ini.

Menurut Imam Masjid Ba’alwie, Habib Hassan Al Attas, pengagihan kurma kepada pertubuhan dan orang ramai membawa erti mendalam yang harus disemarakkan dalam bulan Ramadan yang bakal menjelang.

“Ini adalah satu perkara yang kita rasa harus hidupkan dalam bulan Ramadan iaitu semangat gotong-royong, bantu-membantu, semangat berkongsi satu sama lain.

“Kita berasa gembira apabila mereka mengambil kurma bukan untuk diri mereka sendiri. Mereka ambil kurma untuk diberikan kepada keluarga, sahabat. Inilah salah satu semangat yang kita harus hidupkan di dalam bulan Ramadan,” ujarnya.

Sebanyak 10,000 mangkuk plastik berisi kurma akan diagihkan kepada orang ramai. Setiap orang akan diberi satu mangkuk berisi kurma seberat kira-kira 2 kilogram.

Orang ramai boleh mula mendapatkan kurma-kurma mulai 9.00 pagi, lusa.

Source: Berita MediaCorp

June 4, 2016
Ustaz Noor Deros: There Is No Progress Without Control Of Basic Human Desire

Have we progressed far enough as humanity so as to again declare that fornication (what more homosexual intercourse) is illegal?

It seems that we are still unable to let go of our primitive inclination towards self-destructive short termed pleasures and short-sighted justifications.

Not declaring your HIV status to your current or to-be wife or husband is a crime in Islam, what more infecting them with it, this goes without saying.

The central issue at hand here is the modern crisis of fornication that is based on the false idea that this body is our sole property and we have all the right to do whatever we want with it.

How can we lay claim to something we did not create ourselves, something we can never buy nor given to us (as our property) by the Creator?

In Islam, this body is a loan from Him, for us to make a good use out of it, and later to be returned back to Him.

Sexual pleasures through heterosexual intercourse can only come with the pledge of commitment to an endless/long term physical, emotional and spiritual relationship.

We can never claim to have progressed if we are still unable to control this basic human desire.

Source: Noor Deros

June 3, 2016