Buat julung-julung kalinya Kuliah Perdana disampaikan Mufti Dr Fatris dan ditayangkan secara langsung menerusi ‘webcast’

UMAT Islam di Singapura malam tadi meraikan 12 Rabiulawal, tarikh kelahiran Nabi Muhammad saw.

Masjid-masjid di serata negara bergema dengan bacaan selawat, qasidah, berzanji dan marhaban serta pelbagai sambutan Maulidur Rasul untuk memuji dan meraikan cahaya pelita umat jitu.

Buat julung-julung kalinya, satu Kuliah Perdana yang disampaikan Mufti, Dr Mohd Fatris Bakaram, telah ditayangkan secara langsung melalui live webcast di Internet, dari majlis Sambutan Maulidur Rasul 1433 Hijrah di Masjid Al-Muttaqin.

Sambutan di masjid yang terletak di Ang Mo Kio Avenue 6 dekat Hab Ang Mo Kio itu, turut dihadiri Menteri Bertanggungjawab bagi Ehwal Masyarakat Islam, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, yang juga Menteri Penerangan, Perhubungan dan Kesenian.

Tahun ini, sambutan Maulid anjuran bersama Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis) dan Masjid Al-Muttaqin berpandukan tema Mendalami Tradisi Islam, Memperkukuh Iman dan Menyebar Ihsan.

Menyampaikan kuliah sempena sambutan Maulidur Rasul pertamanya sebagai Mufti, Dr Fatris mengajak masyarakat Islam menghayati perwatakan Rasulullah untuk memahami ajaran dalam Al-Quran agar tidak terpesong.

‘Apabila manusia memisahkan pembacaannya terhadap Al-Quran daripada pemahamannya terhadap peribadi, perilaku dan susuk Rasulullah saw, maka di situlah mulanya terbit pemahaman yang tersasar dan silap,’ ujar Dr Fatris.

Dari situ, akan timbul kumpulan-kumpulan dan individu yang terpesong, dan mengaku perbuatannya berdasarkan Al-Quran sedangkan ia bertentangan dengan Al-Quran dan sunnah Rasulullah.

Beliau memberi dua ayat Al-Quran yang boleh disalah erti jika tidak dirujuk kepada budi pekerti Rasulullah.

Contoh pertama, ada ayat Al-Quran yang menjelaskan bahawa orang-orang kafir harus dibunuh di mana sahaja mereka dijumpai.

Jika ayat ini dibaca tanpa meninjau ayat-ayat Al-Quran lain serta akhlak Rasulullah, ia mungkin ditafsir secara harfiah atau literal.

Acara-acara Maulidur Rasul yang diadakan diharap dapat membantu warga Muslim memahami keperibadian dan perjuangan Nabi Muhammad.

Ini sekali gus membolehkan masyarakat Islam mencontohi sikap-sikap Baginda yang universal dan kekal relevan, meskipun umat Islam kini hidup dalam era yang cukup berbeza.

Masjid Sultan misalnya mengadakan program tiga hari berturut-turut untuk membolehkan masyarakat mengenali Rasulullah dengan lebih dekat.

Masjid Al-Ansar pula turut mengadakan bacaan selawat selepas solat maghrib dan ceramah agama selepas isyak semalam.

Hari ini, ia turut mengadakan majlis tahnik dan cukur rambut untuk bayi.

Namun tidak semua masjid meraikan Maulidir Rasul semalam seperti Masjid Alkaff Upper Serangoon, yang meraikan sambutannya minggu depan.

We will like to inform you that there will be a delay in delivering the SOLAT SUNAT 3D. It was supposed to be in our hands by 1st week of January and delivered to you by the end of last week or this week.

However there are some hiccups in the production line. Firstly we would like to apologize for the delay and we would like to assure you that the DVD will be in your hands soon.

One of the reasons that its delayed is because that the Producers found a small mistake and had to re-redo certain aspects of the Animations.

At this moment, we are doing our best to push for it to be ready as soon as possible.. When its ready we will make another announcement here.

Pray for us so that Allah swt makes it easy for us.

Assalammualaikum wr wb,

Alhamdulillah. Its been a long journey and we have since completed the 10th Majlis Selawat. Yesterday, the Majlis Selawat Committee had a post event meeting. A lot of negative feedback for the last session yet many constructive suggestions were given to improve future Majlis.

One of which is to balance the amount of Tazkirahs and Qasidahs. We have also realise that as we go along there’s more talks than qasidahs. To reach out to the hearts of the Jemaah, Qasidahs are an important element. Furthermore what’s a Majlis Selawat with very few Qasidahs right? Insyallah this will be work on for the next Selawat Session.

A review of external activities should be considered if it will fit the environment of Majlis. From yesterdays feedback, the (wedding ceremony) should not be inserted into the program as it did not fit the flow of the program or if that would be done, it could be planned better to make flow nicer. A more artistic direction would be considered to enhance the Majlis.

Whatever the feedbacks were, the committee understands the problems now and wish to keep improving the Majlis from siri to siri. We also would like to apologize on behalf of the committee if we lack in any matters during the session.

Let’s move on. Its confirm the next Majlis will be on the 5th of February 2012 in line with 12 Rabiulawal 1433H. This time Majlis Selawat is part of a 3 day Maulid programme by Sultan Mosque. Majlis will be on the 3rd day while the first two days there will be Forums, Competitions and more. Do look out for the details soon.

Jazakallah Khayran,

Yes the founders of Islamicevents.sg had a short trip to KL  & Putrajaya (Where the event was) during the Christmas break to check out this grand event.

It was a full line up of International Speakers & Entertainers from Malaysia, Australia, UK and Canada.

The topics shared varied from Stories of the Prophets to Culture vs Religion and many more. During the some parts of the seminar, there were also workshops going on concurrently. Interestingly there was a match making session from what we heard.

In between the lectures, the guests were also entertained by Muslim Performers such as Bro Mu’adz from Malaysia and poets from UK like Bro Muslim Belal.

Watch this video..

Apart from that, there were also booths set up for the event goers to benefit from. What’s a 4,000 pax audience going to do during the breaks right?

Here are a few stalls that we patronised.

ISLAMIC BOOKS BLOGSHOP >> 

You can visit their website @ www.ranahbukuislam,blogspot.com. This was the only booth that accepts Dinar & Dirham as payment during this event.

OWH SO MUSLIM >> 

Owh so Muslim designs their own badges and does their own illustration. Above is owner, Bro Faiz and his family.

You can visit them at www.owhsomuslim.com to check out their products.

FIRE ESCAPE CLOTHING >> 

I had also bought a JUBA from this booth. There are a small start up selling T-shirts and Juba. You can visit them at www.fireescapeclothing.com

Need your feedback though. Do you like the new design?

Visit www.assyakirin.sg

PS: Start 2011 with a new look for your mosque / organisation website! To hire us to develop your sites, please contact us at info@islamicsg.net

As of yesterday, in total we have 19 participants sending in their photographs. We appreciate the efforts that all of you have taken.

So what’s going to happen to open now?

We are in the process of assembling all your photos according to each participant and add your description into the different blogs posts. Insyallah this will be done by tomorrow evening, so that VOTING will commence on Wednesday 1 Dec to 8 Dec 2010.

Note that VOTING will only take 10% of your score. 90% is still in the Judges hands.

Results will be announce by the 10/11 Dec.

Please watch out for updated news soon.

“I AM A LEADER!”
“I AM THE BEST!”
“I AM FINANCIALLY INDEPENDENT!!”

Feisty. Fiery. If you were somewhere in Grand Mercure Roxy Hotel (Singapore) on Saturday 27th November 2010 between 2pm to 7 pm, you would feel a lot of heat being emitted from a seminar venue on the third floor.

If Mt Merapi in Jogjakarta had spewed hot lava, then that roomful of passionate, highly ambitious, highly-assertive women was also ready to explode with energy created by the three speakers that afternoon. Ustaz Tarmizi Wahid, Ustazah Maimunah Alhabshi and Sister Suria Mohd had managed to bring out the fire in the hearts and minds of participants of the Islam, Women and Wealth Seminar.

Around 90-odd knowledge-hungry ladies and a handful of the male species turned up with hopes of being motivated and enlightened of the relationship that exists between Islam, Women and Wealth.

• Who said that whoever who embraced Islam cannot embrace wealth at the same time?
• Who said that wealth is a bad thing?
• Who said that wealth and Islam need to be segregated?
• Why must I conform to societal norms that women cannot be wealthy?
• How do I combine wealth and Islam together?

Notice that yours truly here use “I” instead of “we”. “I”, “Me”, “Mine”. That afternoon was all about ME, the confident, and the financially independent ME!! Sis Suria had managed to drill all that into our brains all this time.

The ice breaker that afternoon was to go around the room and find people who share the same interest as ME. Coincidentally, I was sitting beside someone who loves to write, like ME. Madam Tina Jessamiene Goh, a success coach and consultant, does blogging and has two up her sleeves. The last row of chairs in the room was fully occupied by bakery chefs who turned up with their mentor, Kak Ros, who was once mentored by Sis Suria about her baking business. There were others from different lines of work, e.g. trainee teachers. Albeit the diversity of business backgrounds, all had the same objective in mind: How to improve my business in the way of Allah S.A. W.? Just as the networking chatters peaked to a crescendo, Sis Suria settled everyone down again and shared her story of how her illiterate mother has inspired her to be what she is today. After a walk through of her ups and down in the business arena, she handed the stage over to Ustaz Mizi.

The Al-Azhar University and Madrasah Aljunied Al-Islamiah graduate warmed up the participants with a joke before reiterating the well-known fact that “behind every great man is a very great woman”. Citing examples of Nabi Ibrahim a.s. and Siti Hajar , and Mariam, the mother of Nabi Isa a.s., he stated that faith without work is nothing and vice-versa. The founder of Safinah Institute wants to dedicate his life to help others to see their true potential.

What if one day, you see an asatizah, *a person who seeks and shares religious knowledge*, come to class driving a red hot Lamborghini, carrying an LV bag, wearing shoes from Gucci, and a fat ring on the finger from Bucellati?

Ustazah Muna Alhabshi posted up this scenario on her Facebook page and received a myriad of responses, some batting their eyelids, while some stated their reasonable doubts. The founder of the Quranabics Course, Semantics Online and Soul Makeover then proceeded to give a beautiful explanation for “her personal research” on why there shouldn’t be a stereotype that religion and wealth shouldn’t go side by side.

The seminar closed with Sis Suria emphasizing the need for whoever that wants a successful business to “delete the virus that’s in your head”, i.e, remove all negative thoughts about yourself and think that you are the best.

Some follow-up initiatives to this Islam, Women and Wealth seminar are courses and programmes that are to be conducted by Ustaz Mizi, Ustazah Muna and Sis Suria. Ustaz Mizi will be conducting The Spiritual Confidence Programme, Ustazah Muna will be conducting Project Spirituality (ProjectSpirituality.com) and Learning Discoveries, under the helm of Sis Suria will be organizing 2 coaching sessions, The Money Breakthrough Method Coaching and Women Millionaire Mind Intensive.

All in all, everyone went home feeling more empowered after the impactful seminar. As long as they “spend in the way of Allah”, their wealth and business will be truly blessed. Insya Allah.

“So remember Me; I will remember you. And be grateful to Me and do not deny Me”. Quran (2: 152)

Written by: Sister Normayah Md Rahim

This was announced yesterday in Berita ( Suria ) and this morning Berita Harian.

Source: Cyberita ( Articles & Image)

Pelantikan dapat sokongan Muis dan dilulus Presiden Nathan

SINGAPURA akan mempunyai mufti baru mulai tahun depan.

Ustaz Mohamed Fatris Bakaram, 40 tahun, akan menyandang jawatan itu mulai 1 Januari ini, menggantikan Mufti Syed Isa Semait – mufti Singapura selama hampir 40 tahun – yang bersara hujung tahun ini.

Menyusuli persaraannya, Syed Isa, 72 tahun, akan berkhidmat sebagai penasihat kepada Pejabat Mufti.

Pelantikan itu diumumkan Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (Muis) menerusi satu kenyataannya semalam.

Menteri Bertanggungjawab bagi Ehwal Masyarakat Islam, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, semalam mendedahkan bahawa Muis menyokong pelantikan Ustaz Mohamed Fatris.

Presiden S R Nathan juga telah meluluskan pelantikan itu seperti yang diperlukan di bawah Akta Pentadbiran Hukum Islam (Amla).

Ustaz Mohamed Fatris, yang mendapat pendidikan di Sekolah Rendah Inggeris Pasir Panjang dan kemudian ke Madrasah Aljunied, adalah lulusan Universiti Al-Azhar dalam bidang Usuluddin.

Beliau juga memiliki sarjana dalam pentadbiran dan pengurusan pendidikan daripada Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia dan Kedoktoran Falsafah Pengajian Islam (menanti penganugerahan) daripada Universiti Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Beliau memulakan kerjayanya di Madrasah Aljunied sebagai guru dalam 1993 sebelum menyertai Muis pada 1994 sebagai pegawai eksekutif.

‘Saya ingin membawa masyarakat bersama menonjolkan diri kita sebagai sebuah masyarakat yang kukuh pegangan akidah dan pengamalan agama, tapi pada masa yang sama menjadi satu masyarakat yang menyumbang kepada kemakmuran dan kemajuan masyarakat, negara dan malah seluruh umat manusia.

‘Peranan mufti akan datang ialah meletakkan dirinya dan masyarakatnya ke tahap yang lebih tinggi, bukan setakat dalam pengamalan agama, malah membuat sumbangan kepada kehidupan manusia dan dunia,’ ujarnya.

Menurut Dr Yaacob, yang juga Menteri Sekitaran dan Sumber Air, Ustaz Mohamed Fatris sesuai dan berkelayakan mengambil alih jawatan Mufti. Beliau dapat menyambung dan menguatkan lagi sumbangan-sumbangan Syed Isa.

Presiden Muis, Haji Mohd Alami Musa, berkata Ustaz Mohamed Fatris secara bertahap-tahap menyelia lebih banyak tugas Pejabat Mufti sejak dilantik Timbalan Mufti pada April 2004.

Dr Yaacob dan Haji Mohd Alami memberi sanjungan tinggi kepada Syed Isa atas sumbangannya.

Dr Yaacob merakamkan terima kasih kepada Syed Isa atas kepimpinan keagamaan cemerlang beliau kepada masyarakat Muslim Singapura.

Beliau, yang dilantik menjadi Mufti pada 1972, disanjung secara meluas atas kepimpinan berprinsip dan progresif berhubung pelbagai isu selama menjadi mufti.

Syed Isa, lulusan Universiti AlAzhar, dianugerahkan Pingat Pentadbiran Awam (Emas) tahun lalu.

Beliau pernah melahirkan hasrat mengundurkan diri ketika berusia 65 tahun, tetapi perlu menyambung tugas kerana pengganti yang sesuai belum ditemui.

‘Saya sambung dengan minta bantuan daripada Allah swt, dan saya syukuri khidmat-khidmat saya… jika saya hadapi masalah yang susah ditempuh, saya doa sahaja kepada Allah, dan saya bersyukur kerana boleh dikatakan kesemuanya itu terhurai dengan bantuan Allah swt.

‘Jadi apabila sampai tahun bersara tetapi belum ditemui penggantinya, maka saya tidak dapat izin syarii untuk tinggalkan kerja ini kerana keperluan sehingga ada penggantinya, barulah saya boleh berhenti,’ kata Syed Isa.

Haji Mohd Alami berkata persetujuan Syed Isa untuk menjadi penasihat kepada Pejabat Mufti dan Jawatankuasa Fatwa akan memastikan peralihan jawatan itu berjalan licin.

Menurut beliau, Muis akan mencari waktu sesuai bagi membolehkan para pemimpin masyarakat menunjukkan penghargaan secukupnya kepada Syed Isa atas sumbangan, nasihat dan kepimpinan keagamaan yang beliau curahkan kepada masyarakat sejak 38 tahun lalu.