Siapa sangka, kucing pun tahu apabila waktu solat sudah masuk!
Baru-baru ini, menerusi sebuah rakaman video seekor kucing dilihat seolah-olah mengejutkan seorang jemaah yang sedang lena di pekarangan Masjidil Haram.
Aksi kucing itu dimuat naik ke laman YouTube oleh akhbar ‘Ajel’.
Kucing tersebut sedang bermain-main dengan seekor lagi kucing sebelum ia tiba-tiba berlari ke arah jemaah berkenaan dan mencuit bahagian kepala lelaki itu yang ditutup dengan sehelai kain.
Source: Berita MediaCorp
Para pegawai China dikatakan melarang kakitangan awam, para pelajar dan kanak-kanak di wilayah Xinjiang yang ramai penganut Islam daripada berpuasa semasa bulan Ramadan.
Demikian menurut lelaman web pemerintah sempena permulaan Ramadan di sana hari ini (6 Jun).
Parti Komunis yang juga parti memerintah negara itu sudah bertahun-tahun melarang kakitangan pemerintah dan anak-anak kecil daripada berpuasa di Xinjiang, tempat tinggal kepada lebih 10 juta penduduk yang kebanyakannya adalah muslim.
Mereka merupakan kaum minoriti Islam daripada kaum Uighur.
Ia juga memerintahkan beberapa restoran untuk kekal dibuka.
Pertempuran sering berlaku di wilayah tersebut, antara puak Uighur dengan pasukan keselamatan negara itu.
Beijing sering menyalahkan pihak militan Uighur di atas kejadian-kejadian serangan di Xinjiang dan di wilayah-wilayah lain di China.
Pihak pemberontak muslim dikatakan mahu wilayah yang kaya dengan sumber itu berpecah dari pemerintah pusat.
“Anggota parti, anggota kader, kakitangan awam, para pelajar dan anak-anak kecil tidak boleh berpuasa semasa Ramadan dan tidak terlibat dalam aktiviti agama,” demikian menurut sebuah notis yang dimuatnaikkan Khamis lalu (2 Jun) di laman web rasmi kota Korla di tengah Xinjiang.
“Semasa bulan Ramadan, perniagaan makanan dan minuman tidak boleh ditutup,” tambah notis tersebut.
Satu laman web yang dikendalikan biro pendidikan kawasan Shuimogou di wilayah Urumqi memuatnaik satu notis Isnin lalu (30 Mei) yang menyatakan “para pelajar dan guru dari semua sekolah dilarang memasuki masjid bagi aktiviti keagamaan” semasa Ramadan.
Di bandar Altay yang terletak di utara China, para pegawai juga setuju untuk “lebih berhubungan dengan para ibu bapa” demi melarang berpuasa semasa bulan Ramadan, menurut satu laman web Agama Etnik China.
China sering mengawal ketat kumpulan-kumpulan agama, tetapi sering juga mendakwa ia memberi para penduduknya kebebasan untuk mengamalkan kepercayaan masing-masing.
Source: Berita MediaCorp
The deaf and mute cleaner who was berated by a woman at the Jem foodcourt is planning to quit his job this month.
The cleaner, Mr Png Lye Heng, 64, indicated to The Straits Times on Monday (June 6) that he wanted to leave because of the incident.
To communicate with reporters who interviewed him, he gestured “yes” or “no” to questions written in Chinese on a piece of paper.
When reporters asked him in writing if he intended to leave his job, he pointed to the response “yes”.
The incident at the Jurong shopping mall caught the public eye over the weekend. A video, posted by Facebook user Euphemia Lee showed a woman lashing out at a manager of the company providing cleaning services to the Jurong shopping mall foodcourt.
She can be heard berating the manager, who wanted to be known only as Steven: “If he’s (the cleaner) deaf, ask him don’t work, go home and sleep.
“Just ask the Government to feed him, go and be a beggar! I don’t care, he took my food!”
Mr Png said he has been “slightly hurt” by the scolding but had forgiven the woman, who was identified as by The New Paper as Ms Fong. He also said he had enjoyed working at the food court and did not find it difficult to work there.
Steven, the 51-year-old manager, told The Straits Times that Mr Png had not informed him of his intention to leave later this month, but that he had heard about it from the man’s colleagues. He added that Mr Png had been working at the foodcourt for about a year, and that in the past few days, customers had recognised Mr Png and gestured at him.
The manager said Mr Png was patient with foodcourt customers. He added that he had asked him if he wanted to wear a badge indicating his disability but he turned down the suggestion.
Source: The Straits Times
As people mourn the death of Muhammad Ali, i can’t help but feel amused. For some of these people, what exactly is being mourned? Which aspect(s) of his life truly ‘inspired’ them?
Was it the fact that he would not take racism lying down, and would always respond in no uncertain terms? Or was it the fact that he refused to be part of his country’s army, an act that would make him a disloyal citizen to many of these people? Or was it the fact that he was a proud, proud Muslim, and spoke about God whenever he was given a platform?
Some of these people who are ‘mourning’ are the same ones who are outright or latent racists. Some of them find a lot of comfort in making racist jokes (‘it’s just a joke guys, you should learn to lighten up’ – to which, a part of me always feels like responding ‘it’s just a slap man, doesn’t hurt that much’.) Some of them deny the existence of majority privilege. Some of them think members of other races are biologically inferior. And yet they are ‘admirers’ of Muhammad Ali?
Some of these people abide by the mantra ‘my country, right or wrong.’ Anything with regard to the military, cannot be questioned: otherwise, you’re being disloyal. Yet they praise Muhammad Ali for refusing to participate in his country’s?
Some of these people have absolutely zero regard for Muslims. They think Muslims are sub-humans, whose voices should not be heard too much (except when they advocating the ‘reformation of Islam’), and that Muslims ‘demand’ too much.
And these people are mourning Muhammad Ali?
But i understand. There is a need to portray one’s self as a ‘global citizen’, however twisted one’s beliefs actually are. When the world mourns for Muhammad Ali, you should mourn for him. When the world criticizes Donald Trump, you should tag along and express outrage.
Expressing ‘admiration’ for Muhammad Ali, or ‘disdain’ for Trump doesn’t make you an egalitarian, or a non-racist. Ultimately, your own actions and words do.
Source: Walid J. Abdullah
Umat Islam yang menetap di Eropah, di mana waktu siangnya terlalu panjang, bebas menentukan tempoh mereka berpuasa, atau dalam lain perkataan, berapa jam mereka mahu berpuasa.
Demikian menurut kenyataan yang dikeluarkan oleh Majlis Fatwa dan Kajian Eropah (ECFR) semasa membuat pengumuman bermulanya bulan Ramadan di benua itu.
Di beberapa negara, terutamanya kawasan nordik, tempoh berpuasa boleh mencecah hampir 22 jam sehari.
Oleh itu, ECFR berharap para penduduk yang berpuasa di kawasan-kawasan sedemikian dapat mengubah suai tempoh berpuasa dengan merujuk kepada hari yang mana waktu siang dan malamnya sama panjang.
Fatwa lain yang dikeluarkan ECFR termasuk waktu bersahur dan bersolat, dengan merujuk kepada beberapa wilayah Eropah yang sepanjang bulan April hingga Jun, waktu untuk bersolat Maghrib, Isyak dan Subuh amat singkat memandangkan matahari muncul terlalu lama.
ISYAK DAN TERAWIH BOLEH DIJAMAK…
Maka, dalam keadaan sedemikian, tempoh bersahur boleh dilambatkan sehingga tempoh sejam sebelum matahari benar-benar terbit.
“Solat maghrib, isyak dan terawih boleh dijamak dalam satu waktu apabila penanda waktunya tidak jelas,” menurut kenyataan ECFR lagi.
Solat zuhur dan asar pula tidak boleh dijamak memandangkan batasan waktunya amat jelas.
Isu tempoh berpuasa ini adalah penting kerana kebanyakan umat Islam di dunia menahan lapar dan dahaga rata-rata 12 jam sehari.
BAYANGKAN JIKA BERPUASA 24 JAM
Manakala umat Islam yang menetap di Kota Tromso, Norway harus terpaksa berpuasa hampir 24 jam. Di negara itu, matahari tetap menerangi bumi meskipun sudah tengah malam.
Tahun lalu, waktu Imsak di Britain bermula pada pukul 2.18 pagi sedangkan waktu maghrib baru masuk pada pukul 9.22 malam.
Ulama yang juga merupakan anggota ECFR, Usama Hasan, sudah lama mengusulkan agar tempoh berpuasa bagi umat Islam di utara Eropah diberi fatwa khusus.
Ia bertujuan memudahkan kanak-kanak yang baru berjinak-jinak hendak berpuasa supaya tidak terasa terbeban untuk menjalankan perintah agama.
“Saya fikir sudah tiba masanya para ulama berhimpun bagi menentukan tempoh puasa yang lebih sederhana bagi umat Islam di bahagian utara dunia,” tegas Encik Usama.
ECFR adalah sebuah pertubuhan cendekiawan Islam yang berpangkalan di Irlandia, Dublin dan yang diterajui oleh Setiausaha Jeneral Syeikh Halawa.
Source: Berita MediaCorp