Category: Sosial

  • Farid Khan: “Kerana saya memang dari rakyat jelata, saya bukan elit…”

    Farid Khan: “Kerana saya memang dari rakyat jelata, saya bukan elit…”

    Membantu belia-belia bermasalah untuk membaiki kehidupan mereka menjadi fokus Encik Farid Khan, pengerusi syarikat perkhidmatan marin yang mengumumkan hasrat untuk bertanding dalam Pilihan Raya Presiden, bulan depan. Sebagai seseorang yang terpaksa berhenti sekolah semasa berusia 14 tahun, beliau begitu faham erti hidup dalam keadaan “tidak berdaya”. Encik Farid juga menyentuh tentang pertikaian mengenai keturunan dan kemelayuannya. Malah, beliau mengaku agak “terasa” dengan cakap-cakap masyarakat.

    “KENAPA ORANG MELAYU S’PURA TAK BOLEH TERIMA SAYA”

    Sebagai seorang yang tidak biasa menjadi perhatian ramai, kritikan dan persoalan-persoalan yang dilemparkan kepada Encik Farid Khan, pada awalnya membuatkan pengerusi syarikat Bourbon Offshore Asia Pacific ini berkecil hati. “Dari awal saya sudah bilang, itu adalah saya, IC saya Pakistani. Tapi kalau kita lihat balik cara saya cakap, memang saya orang Melayu. Kalau dari telefon mungkin orang tak tahu ini orang Pakistan mungkin, orang Peranakan yang cakap. Jadi saya mula-mula terasa juga sedikit, kenapa orang Melayu Singapura macam tak boleh terima saya, tapi akhirnya saya rasa, setelah kita tunggu satu dua hari, yang positif mulai memberi reaksi.”

    Malah, Encik Farid berkata pengalaman membesar dalam kalangan orang Melayu dan liku-liku kehidupan yang diharunginya sendiri membuatkan beliau begitu faham dengan isu-isu yang menjadi keprihatinan masyarakat Melayu. “Kerana saya memang dari rakyat jelata, saya bukan elit, tidak. Dari rakyat, jadi saya tahu benar masalah kita, satu seperti perjuangan yang dilakukan sebagai rakyat biasa, banyak itu, saya tahu, saya tahu benar. Seperti belia-belia bermasalah, di situ saya banyak menaja mereka, ada yang kalau tak salah, dua yang agak bagus itu, memang the pelajar cemerlang, kata mereka, pelajar terbaik, kita hantar pergi Umrah,” ujar Encik Farid.

    HAMPIR 14 TAHUN BERHENTI SEKOLAH, IBU MENANGIS

    Encik Farid turut berkongsi pengalaman paling pahit semasa membesar, apabila terpaksa berhenti sekolah demi membantu menyara keluarga dan keputusannya itu membuatkan ibunya menitiskan air mata. Susulan itu, Encik Farid menanam azam untuk kembali ke sekolah dan meskipun sukar, tekadnya yang kuat membuahkan hasil. “Masa saya berhenti sekolah itu saya berjanji dengan ibu. Saya berhenti, umur saya 14 tahun. Ibu saya tidak kasi, bilang jangan, menangis tidak kasi, itu susah. Tapi saya janji, saya akan simpan wang dan balik ke sekolah. Jadi makan masa lebih daripada 12 tahun, hampir 14 tahun untuk saya kembali ke sekolah. Itu janji saya kepada ibu saya. Itu pertama kali saya masuk sekolah itu, itu sangat berkesan pada saya,” kongsi Encik Farid.

    Meskipun sukar, istilah putus asa jelas tidak wujud dalam kamus kehidupan Encik Farid. Setelah hampir 14 tahun meninggalkan bangku sekolah, beliau boleh berbangga dengan kejayaan yang dikecapi. “Susah, memang susah. Tapi kerana tekad itu agak kuat, jadi azam untuk berjaya agak kuat. Jadi saya belajar bersungguh-sungguh, jadi kita tak tahu tanya orang sana, tanya orang sini, telefon sana, telefon sini sampai saya faham. Waktu nak ambil peperiksaan itu, saya panik sebentar, sudah lama tak balik sekolah. Tapi Alhamdulillah, pertama kali saya masuk, saya lulus! Itu adalah satu-satu, boleh kita katakan, kenangan yang sangat- sangat berkesan, pertama kali pegang sijil,” kata Encik Farid dengan nada ceria.

    BUKAN MUDAH, PERLU FOKUS

    Walaupun Encik Farid sudah boleh disifatkan sebagai orang yang berjaya dan dapat hidup senang, hatinya masih mahu menyumbang lebih banyak kepada negara yang begitu dicintainya. Oleh sebab itu, pada 11 Julai lalu, beliau mencetuskan tanda tanya dalam kalangan masyarakat mengenai siapakah gerangan pengerusi eksekutif sebuah syarikat perkhidmatan marin yang melahirkan hasrat untuk bertanding dalam Pilihan Raya Presiden pada bulan depan. Apakah yang menjadi motivasi kepada bapa dua orang anak itu untuk berani menggalas tanggungjawab baru dan besar, sedangkan beliau tiada pengalaman dalam bidang politik sebelum ini?

    “Waktu pertama kali yang kita mulai fikirkan untuk bertanding, itu bulan Mei. Perjalanan ini memang bukan semudah yang kita fikirkan, tak semudah itu. Banyak cabaran. Tapi kalau kita sudah mulai fokus, tumpuan kita itu agak jelas. Jadi banyak yang boleh kita atasi. Jadi ada, terutama sekali sokongan daripada teman-teman dan kita lihat juga dari catatan Facebook yang kita terima daripada rakyat, orang yang kita tak kenal, jadi sangat terharu saya. Jadi saya rasa dari situ motivasinya makin kuat,” ujar Encik Farid. Dengan Pilihan Raya Presiden yang semakin hampir, Encik Farid berharap masyarakat dapat melihat dirinya sebagai seorang yang berkorban demi Singapura. “Lihat saya sebagai seorang yang benar-benar maju ke hadapan untuk negara, bukan untuk sanak-saudara, bukan untuk saya, bukan untuk keluarga saya. Saya akan berkorban untuk rakyat Singapura, seluruhnya, bukan rakyat Melayu sahaja. Seluruh rakyat Singapura,” ujar beliau.

     

    Source: Berita Mediacorp

  • Texas Muslims Are Turning Mosques Into Shelters To Help Harvey Victims

    Texas Muslims Are Turning Mosques Into Shelters To Help Harvey Victims

    As devastating flooding from Harvey continues around the Houston area on Tuesday, the city’s Muslim community is stepping up: turning mosques into 24-hour shelters and bringing in diapers, water and food from their own homes.

    M.J. Khan, president of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston — an organization that represents 21 Islamic centers in the area — said in a phone call on Tuesday that four of ISGH’s member mosques are now open as round-the-clock shelters.

    “This is an obligation, a religious obligation to help others,” Khan said. “When you give, you don’t give only to your own family. … You give to anybody who needs help.”

    Residents evacuating their homes near the Addicks Reservoir as floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey rose Tuesday, Aug. 29, in Houston.

    Source: David J. Phillip/AP

     

    Khan explained that with Harvey bearing down on Friday, the ISGH had the idea to offer mosques as shelters to anyone who needed refuge. The problem, he explained, was that many of the roads weren’t passable.

    Luckily, Khan said, “we have a pretty good networking and communication system.” With just a few phone calls, volunteers showing up to local mosques with bottled water, sleeping bags and supplies.

    As of Tuesday, Khan said, four mosques were operating as fully equipped shelters, staffed and stocked by local volunteers. In fact, there were so many volunteers from Houston’s Muslim community that Khan began sending them to help in city shelters and at Houston’s convention center.

    Houstonians of all stripes have come to stay in the mosques, Khan said: “mostly families,” some with young children or elderly relatives. In one of the mosques, classrooms that are normally part of a school were turned into private rooms for families.

    People walk to a Harris County Sheriff air boat while escaping a flooded neighborhood during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey on Aug. 29 in Houston.

    Source: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

     

    In addition to the immediate relief that the shelters are providing, Khan said aid in the form of money and supplies has been coming in from Islamic organizations all over the U.S.

    “We have truckloads of supplies coming,” Khan said. He added that the ISGH had put together a list of 50 doctors from the Muslim community who were willing to be on call and offered it to the city of Houston.

    With even more Harvey-related flooding expected in the Houston area over the coming hours and days, Khan had a message for the rest of the country: “We appreciate your sentiment and goodwill, and especially your prayers.”

    And for anyone in Houston who might be in need of help? “We have mosques all over the greater Houston area,” he said. “If you have no place to go, go to your neighborhood mosque.”

     

    Source: https://mic.com

  • Halimah Yacob Revealed Her Campaign Team For Presidential Election 2017

    Halimah Yacob Revealed Her Campaign Team For Presidential Election 2017

    People have always come before party colours for presidential hopeful Halimah Yacob, who said at a press conference on Tuesday (Aug 29) to unveil her campaign slogan that her close ties to the ruling party will not affect her ability to act independently as president. The long-time People’s Action Party MP, who left her political and party posts earlier this month to run in the presidential election, said: “Whatever I do, it must always be the people first, and the people first, and the people first. And if, as a candidate, at any time I feel that I am not able to be independent, I would not offer myself.”

    Madam Halimah,63, was speaking a day after the Writ of Elections was issued, at at press conference where she unveiled her slogan, “Do Good Do Together”. Describing it as a call to action for all Singaporeans, she said she hoped they would join her in building a community of excellence that is inclusive and progressive. At the press conference, she also fielded questions ranging from whether she could truly be independent, to whether she hoped for a walkover or a contest. Since the former Speaker of Parliament announced her presidential bid, she has sought to convince Singaporeans that her past political affiliations will not compromise her independence.

    Pointing to her long years in public service, Madam Halimah – who spent more than three decades in the labour movement before joining politics in 2001 – said she has always placed the interests of people first. Those who do not put the people first are doing “a gross disservice”, she added. “Every day we get up, we have to look at ourselves and ask ourselves, who are we serving? I have asked myself that question and I know where my loyalty lies. My loyalty lies with Singapore and Singaporeans.”

    Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had issued the Writ of Election on Monday, which means that Singaporeans will vote for their eighth president on Sept 23, if more than one person qualifies to run for the position. The winning candidate will be the second Malay president in Singapore’s history, and the first to be chosen in a presidential election reserved for candidates of a specific community. Madam Halimah, 63, is one of three people who have stepped forward to potentially join the contest. The others are marine services firm chairman Farid Khan, 61, and property company chief executive Salleh Marican, 67.

    Asked at the press conference if she would prefer to contest in an election open to candidates of all races, Madam Halimah said “the requirements are the same” for both reserved and open elections, and the principle of meritocracy “is not undermined in any way”. This is because all candidates who take part must still meet various qualification criteria, she said. She added that she would still contest in an open election, but stressed that being elected in a reserved election would not impact her ability to perform in any way. She also said she hopes a president elected through reserved elections would be seen as someone who represents all Singaporeans.

    While Singapore has been successful at promoting harmony among the different race, she said, there was still a way to go before race becomes a non-issue at elections. “At some point, I do hope that in future we may not need a reserved election… but this is still a work-in-progress,” said Madam Halimah. Singapore has not had a Malay president in 47 years, since the country’s first president, Mr Yusof Ishak, died in office in 1970. Whether the nation’s 2.5 million eligible voters get to cast their vote at the coming election all hinges on the Presidential Elections Committee, which screens all presidential hopefuls to see whether they meet the required criteria and will inform them of its decision by Sept 12.

    If only one candidate qualifies, he or she will be declared the president on Nomination Day, Sept 13. Among the three who have indicated their desire to run, only Madam Halimah automatically qualifies as she has served as Speaker of Parliament for more than three years. Asked if she would be disappointed by a walkover or worry about her legitimacy as president if she won without contest, she said she would “leave it up to the Presidential Elections Committee to decide”. “This is a democratic process, eligibility criteria is transparent,” she said. She added that she would be prepared whether the election turns out to be a two- or three-cornered fight.

    Elaborating on her campaign, she said she had chosen the slogan as “a president should unify the nation”. “I really believe there is a lot of good that we can do… we can do so much good for everyone if we do it together,” she said, adding that her goal, if she becomes president, is to look at the shared goals and common values of Singaporeans. In her 40 years in the public service, she said, she has approached each task “passionately and from the bottom of my heart” and has always advocated multiracialism, meritocracy and social cohesion. “If I succeed and become elected president, these are values I will continue to promote,” she said at the press conference which her husband, retired businessman Mohammed Abdullah Alhabshee, 63, also attended.

    She also spoke about how her own experience, coming from a disadvantaged background, impressed upon her the importance of a progressive society that provides access to opportunities for all. Madam Halimah’s father died of a heart attack when she was eight years old, leaving her mother as the sole breadwinner. As a student, she helped out at her mother’s hawker stall daily, juggling work and school. “My story and that of many Singaporeans mirrors that of Singapore,” she added. “We started with nothing… but we built something out of nothing.” Madam Halimah also introduced her campaign team made up of volunteers, friends and former colleagues from different segments of society. She said she was happy for their support.

    Many are from the trade union, such as Mr G. Muthukumarasamy, veteran trade unionist and general secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Public Daily Rated Workers, and Ms Mary Liew, president of National Trades Union Congress (NTUC). Madam Halimah’s first job, fresh out of law school at the then University of Singapore, was as a legal officer at the NTUC, where she worked for three decades. Others in her campaign team represent “different segments of the community”, she said, and include Nominated MP Chia Yong Yong, chief executive officer of Sheng Siong supermarket chain Lim Hock Chee, and chief executive officer of Ain Society Haji Yusof Ismail. Haji Yusof, speaking in Malay about why he decided to help in the campaign, said Madam Halimah “is very down to earth, and she always puts others before self”. Ms Liew, meanwhile, pledged her support, saying: “We’ll never forget what she has done for the labour movement and we will be there for her.

     

    Source: The Straits Times

  • Fund Raising For Ahmad Fahrin’s Medical Treatment In Taiwan

    Fund Raising For Ahmad Fahrin’s Medical Treatment In Taiwan

    If any of you would like to help, please go to https://give.asia/story/help_fund_for_fahrins_treatment_in_taiwan.

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    I am Dalilah Hani, wife of Ahmad Fahrin. We are raising funds for Fahrin to receive medical treatment in Taiwan for a spinal cord regeneration treatment at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital. 3 years ago, on the 11th of August, my husband Fahrin, met with a road traffic accident while on his way home from work. The motorcycle he was riding was part of a chain collision on the Pan-Island Expressway. He collided with a car and was flung from his bike, landing on the hood of the car. As a result, he sustained a traumatic brain injury and spinal injury that left him paralysed from neck down.

    At the point of the accident, we had just received the keys to our own home and I had just given birth to a 3-month old baby girl. We were just building our lives. We had loads of plans and dreams that got shattered in a blink of an eye. He wasn’t able to hold our daughter and missed out on alot of her milestones due to his long stay in the hospital. And due to the injuries, he has been certified permanently incapacitated to work leaving me as the sole breadwinner.

    When Fahrin was brought to the Accident & Emergency department at National University Hospital, doctors had to perform an emergency operation and had prepared us for the worst. They predicted only a 15% chance of survival. But we took any chance we had and by God’s will he made it through. And for that, we are utterly thankful. But his road to recovery was a long and rocky one with multiple surgeries that followed to help him to stabilise. Since the accident, he depends fully on the motorized wheelchair for mobility and needs help to perform activities of daily living such as dressing, bathing, transferring and toileting.

    He spent approximately 12 months away from home comprising of about 2 weeks in Intensive Care Unit, 2 months in High Dependency ward and 4 months in a regular ward before being transferred out to a rehabilitation hospital where he was for about 6 months. But even then he was not spared from hospital stays as he still needed to be warded for subsequent seizures, urine infection as well as for pain management.

    His main Consultant who has been giving us advice has high hopes in his recovery. However, he feels that Fahrin has not benefited much from the treatment here. We were informed that he might benefit from a spinal cord regeneration procedure (currently a study) in Taiwan. The estimated amount needed for his treatment in Taiwan is around SGD45,000 which is not covered under our insurance. Your kind donations will go towards Fahrin’s cost of treatment as well as for daily expenses and accommodation in Taiwan. We seek your kind donations and prayers to help ease our journey to recovery, God-willing. And may God bless all of you for your kind help and donations.

     

    Source: Give.Asia

  • Senarai 11 Pekerjaan Yang Diharamkan Dalam Islam

    Senarai 11 Pekerjaan Yang Diharamkan Dalam Islam

    Senarai 11 pekerjaan yang diharamkan dalam Islam:

    1. Pekerjaan yang berupa kesyirikan dan sihir, seperti perdukunan, paranormal, ‘orang pintar’, peramal nasib, dan hal-hal yang sejenis dengannya. Pekerjaan ini haram kerana ianya jelas telah mempersekutukan serta syirik kepada Allah.

    2. Pekerjaan yang menuju kesyirikan, seperti  membuat patung, melukis gambar makhluk yang bernyawa, dan hal-hal yang sejenis dan semakna dengannya.

    3. Memperjual belikan hal-hal yang diharamkan oleh syariat, seperti bangkai, babi, darah, anjing, patung, lukisan makhluk yang bernyawa, minuman keras, dadah, dan lain sebagainya.

    4. Memakan harta riba.

    5. Menimbun bahan-bahan perdagangan di saat harganya murah dan dibutuhkan oleh masyarakat dengan tujuan meraih keuntungan yang berlipat ganda pada saat harganya melambung tinggi.

    6. Perjudian.

    7. Memakan harta anak yatim secara dzalim.

    8. Mencuri, mencopet, menjambret, dan merampok.

    9. Mengurangi timbangan dan takaran.

    10. Korupsi dan penipuan terhadap rakyat.

    11. Menunda-nunda pembayaran gaji buruh dan karyawan atau mengurangi hak-hak mereka.

     

    Source: Keluarga Sakinah

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