Tag: Muslim

  • Nasi Arab Unik Di Melaka – Nasi Kambing Kat Kubur

    Nasi Arab Unik Di Melaka – Nasi Kambing Kat Kubur

    MELAKA: Hidangan di sebuah kedai makan yang menjual nasi Arab mungkin kedengaran agak pelik namun pasti melekat dalam ingatan.

    Nasi Kambing Kat Kubur adalah salah satu menu menarik yang dijual di Kedai Sawit Corner, sebuah kedai makan yang terletak di bawah rimbunan pokok kelapa sawit di Solok Duku, Alor Gajah, Melaka.

    Lokasi kedai yang bersebelahan Tanah Perkuburan Islam Mualim di Solok Duku itu mencetuskan idea kepada para pemiliknya untuk menjadikan nama hidangan unik itu sebagai satu jenama.

    Kedai itu diusahakan sejak enam tahun lalu oleh Nabila Asyyiqin Marzuki, 25 tahun, dan suami, Mohamad Khairul Azwan Md Ramli, 28 tahun, selain dibantu saudara mereka, Muhammad Hayad Norazman, 25 tahun, lapor laman Berita Harian Malaysia.

    Menurut mereka, keputusan untuk menjenamakan hidangan Nasi Kambing Kat Kubur itu dibuat setelah menerima banyak pertanyaan tentang lokasi kedai.

    “Kami mengusahakan kedai makan ini sejak 2006 dengan menjual cucur udang, bakso, mi kari, laksa dan cendol sebelum menambah gulai kawah itik, daging dan kambing pada tahun 2009, diikuti nasi Arab pada 2011.

    “Penambahan juadah dibuat supaya pelanggan mempunyai pilihan kerana bukan semua mahukan hidangan alas perut, sebaliknya yang mengenyangkan untuk perjalanan jauh,” Cik Nabilah Asyyikin memberitahu Berita Harian Malaysia.

    Menurut catatan di laman Facebook Sawit Corner, Nasi Kambing Kat Kubur adalah nasi Arab yang dihidangkan dengan daging kambing berempah.

    Ia turut menjadi hidangan pilihan ramai pelanggan, dengan salah seorang daripadanya menyatakan: “Kalau akak mati hari ini pun akak reda dan puas sebab akak dapat makan nasi Arab. Sedap sangat.”

    Cik Nabilah Asyyikin berkata kedainya turut menyediakan Nasi Kambing Kat Kubur dengan ayam atau kambing, set dimakan seorang ataupun keluarga.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Netanyahu Tosses Hamas Policy Paper On Israel Into Waste Bin

    Netanyahu Tosses Hamas Policy Paper On Israel Into Waste Bin

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday symbolically tossed into a bin a Hamas policy paper published last week that set out an apparent softening of the Palestinian Islamist group’s stance toward Israel.

    In a document issued last Monday, Hamas said it was dropping its longstanding call for Israel’s destruction, but said it still rejected the Jewish state’s right to exist and continued to back “armed struggle” against it.

    The Israeli government has said the document aimed to deceive the world that Hamas was becoming more moderate.

    Netanyahu, in a 97-second video clip aired on social media on Sunday, said that news outlets had been taken in by “fake news”. Sitting behind his desk with tense music playing in the background, he said that in its “hateful document”, Hamas “lies to the world”. He then pulled up a waste paper bin, crumpled the document into a ball and tossed it away.

    “The new Hamas document says that Israel has no right to exist, it says every inch of our land belongs to the Palestinians, it says there is no acceptable solution other than to remove Israel… they want to use their state to destroy our state,” Netanyahu said.

    Founded in 1987 as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, the banned Egyptian Islamist movement, Hamas has fought three wars with Israel since 2007 and has carried out hundreds of armed attacks in Israel and in Israeli-occupied territories.

    Many Western countries classify Hamas as a terrorist group over its failure to renounce violence, recognize Israel’s right to exist and accept existing interim Israeli-Palestinian peace agreements.

    Outgoing Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said Hamas’s fight was not against Judaism as a religion but against what he called “aggressor Zionists”. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s leader in the Gaza Strip, was named on Saturday to succeed Meshaal.

    Netanyahu concluded his clip by saying that “Hamas murders women and children, it’s launched tens of thousands of missiles at our homes, it brainwashes Palestinian kids in suicide kindergarten camps,” before binning the document.

     

    Source: www.reuters.com

  • Seeing His Way Blocked,Frustrated Man Persistently Honked Outside Surau During Friday Prayers, Attacked By Mob

    Seeing His Way Blocked,Frustrated Man Persistently Honked Outside Surau During Friday Prayers, Attacked By Mob

    A 28-year-old man was injured and the car he that was driving, damaged, when he was attacked by several men outside a surau just after Friday prayers concluded at Taman Austin Perdana here today.

    Johor Criminal Investigation Department chief Datuk Kamarul Zaman Mamat said the 1.30pm incident occurred when the man found another car blocking his path and he started honking.

    “After that, a man appeared to move the car and the disgruntled driver honked the other man again as he was driving off.

    “Suddenly a group of men approached the first driver and started hitting him with their hands and helmet. The complainant’s vehicle was also damaged,” said Kamarul in a statement.

     

    Kamarul said a face-to-face meeting was conducted between the driver and members of the surau’s committee at the Setia Indah police station after incident

    “All parties involved have agreed to leave the matter for the police to investigate,” he said, adding the case was being investigated under Section 147 of the Penal Code for rioting.

    He said police are now tracing the people who attacked the man.

     

    Source: www.nst.com.my

  • Oxford Study In Malaysia: For Malays, Being Malaysian Equals Being Malay

    Oxford Study In Malaysia: For Malays, Being Malaysian Equals Being Malay

    KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 — National identity and what it means to be Malaysian hold different meanings to Malays and non-Malays, according to a research paper sponsored by the CIMB Foundation.

    The study by Oxford University found that while respondents from the three major ethnic groups (Malay, Chinese, Indian) identified more strongly with their ethnic identities rather than a national one, Malay respondents believed that there was little difference between “being Malaysian” and being Malay.

    It added that integration efforts by the government, such the 1Malaysia concept, may not be successful in its intention as different ethnic communities had varying ideas as to what being Malaysian was.

    “Speaking in terms of being Malaysian to a Malay audience may not promote integration, and could potentially hinder it. More research is necessary to replicate and further investigate the relationships between these variables,” it added.

    By associating the Malaysian identity with being “Malay”, the researchers said that this could in the long run create “negative consequences”, as non-Malays may then view their contributions to the national identity as being disregarded.

    The study added that by assuming the Malaysian identity as being Malay, there was also a risk of it being perceived as an exercise in assimilation rather than integration.

     

    In its recommendation, the study said that the government should rethink its 1Malaysia policy.

     

    Source: www.themalaymailonline.com

  • 5 Soalan Bersama Ustaz Zahid Zin@Kisah Tok Kadi

    5 Soalan Bersama Ustaz Zahid Zin@Kisah Tok Kadi

    Namanya sudah tidak asing lagi dalam kalangan masyarakat Melayu/Muslim Singapura. Malah, nama Ustaz Muhammad Zahid Mohd Zin, 33 tahun, semakin melonjak naik sejak drama tempatan, Kisah Tok Kadi, disiarkan di saluran Suria pada bulan Februari lalu.

    Drama yang memaparkan kisah hidup dan kerjaya seorang kadi di Singapura dan diinspirasikan oleh pengalaman sebenar Ustaz Zahid itu mendapat sambutan hangat sehingga dinobatkan sebagai Program Paling Popular pada malam Anugerah Pesta perdana 2017 (1 Apr).

    Ustaz Zahid juga tidak ketinggalan memanfaatkan media sosial bagi mendampingi generasi muda dengan cara yang relevan dan santai. Keinginan beliau untuk berkongsi panduan dan pengalaman dengan pasangan muda mencetuskan idea untuk mewujudkan hashtag #diaritokkadi.

    Dalam segmen ‘5 Soalan Bersama…’ kali ini, wartawan Nurulkhasanah Agost mengajak anda mengenali pemikiran Ustaz Zahid, yang juga CEO Muslim Youth Forum Singapore, tentang soal munakahat ini.

    SOALAN 1

    Khasanah: Sudah berapa lama ustaz menjadi kadi dan berapa ramai pasangan mempelai ustaz nikahkan sejauh ini?

    Ustaz Zahid: Sayalah naib kadi bujang terakhir yang dilantik pada April 2011 (Saya berkahwin pada bulan Disember 2012). Ini adalah kali ke tiga saya dilantik (Setiap penggal adalah selama tiga tahun). Alhamdulillah.

    Sejak dilantik, jumlah pasangan yang saya nikahkan baru mencecah 1,000 lebih, nampak macam banyak tapi kecil sangat kalau nak dibandingkan dengan jumlah pengantin yang dinikahkan para kadi dan naib kadi yang mapan.

    SOALAN 2

    Khasanah: Mengapa Ustaz memilih untuk menjadi kadi dan apa kepuasannya bagi diri Ustaz?

    Ustaz Zahid: Datuk ayah saya ialah seorang kadi. Namanya Kiayi Haji Abdul Halim Karto, dan anak serta menantunya juga seorang Kadi; Kiayi Haji Ahmad bin Hj Abdul Halim dan Kiayi Hj Ahmad Zohri Mutammim.

    Kepuasannya bagi diri saya apabila saya dapat menjadi penyambung tugas mulia ini.

    SOALAN 3

    Khasanah: Apakah pengalaman paling manis yang pernah Ustaz lalui sepanjang menjadi Tok Kadi?

    Ustaz Zahid: Pasangan pertama yang saya nikahkan merupakan salah seorang teman baik sendiri. Rasa terharu apabila diberikan tanggungjawab tersebut dan berterima kasih kerana mereka mempercayai saya.

    SOALAN 4

    Khasanah: Ustaz semakin dikenali selepas drama Kisah Tok Kadi yang mendapat inspirasi dari perjalanan kerjaya ustaz sebagai kadi. Apakah mesej yang Ustaz harap masyarakat dapat perolehi dari drama itu?

    Ustaz Zahid: Mesej utama adalah supaya pasangan menjadi matang lebih-lebih lagi dalam isu pra-perkahwinan. Kebanyakkan huraian yang diketengahkan dalam drama tersebut menerapkan jalan keluar menerusi nilai murni dan akhlaq mulia.

    SOALAN 5

    Khasanah: Apakah nasihat penting yang sering Ustaz berikan kepada pasangan yang bakal berumahtangga dan mengapa?

    Ustaz Zahid: Bersabar dan belajar. Bersabar kerana banyak perkara yang mencabar akan muncul dalam kehidupan rumahtangga. Belajar kerana dengan ilmu kita akan berjumpa dengan huraian masalah tersebut.

     

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    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg