In recent years, the phenomenon of cross-border marriage has provoked an increase of international disputes in family relationship. In Malaysia, due to growing cross-border marriage, the Shariah Court in Malaysia cannot avoid and they have been forced to react to this situation. Patterns and characteristics of cross-border marriage have varied wide

Waqf is described as an act of dedicating a corpus of property or financial assets in perpetuity for the cause of Allah SWT. The ownership of the property or assets are transferred to Allah SWT but the benefits are dedicated to the poor, sick, marginalized segment of the society, or any other virtuous causes. Waqf institutions are among several ins

Marriage is a sacred bond, a tie between a man and a woman. Such relationship is blessed by Allah as it is mentioned in the Quran and the tradition (Sunnah) of the Prophet (pbuh). The laws created by man are meant to streamline the conduct of marriage, apart from the already provided hukm laid down in Islam. However, there are people who tend to vi

Marriage is a sacred bond, a tie between a man and a woman. Such relationship is blessed by Allah as it is mentioned in the Quran and the tradition (Sunnah) of the Prophet (pbuh). The laws created by man are meant to streamline the conduct of marriage, apart from the already provided hukm laid down in Islam. However, there are people who tend to vi

Artikel ini membincangkan tentang kecelaruan obsesif-kompulsif yang bertemakan agama (religious obsessive-compulsive disorder) – atau juga dikenal sebagai waswas – menerusi kaca mata psikiatri kontemporari dan sarjana Muslim silam. Tulisan ini meninjau punca dan rawatan psikiatri moden berserta kekangan yang dihadapi bagi merawat pesakit yang m

Disability studies has created much interest from the various academic field to explore including medicine, and in most social sciences specialisation. These areas have become major threshold in understanding the needs of this minority groups where there is debated between two models; medical and social which best-represented disability. With the e

Religious obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is relatively underreported among adolescent and carries poorer outcome. We report a 20-year-old Muslim man who was diagnosed with religious OCD when he was 14 years old. He had recurrent blasphemous intrusive thoughts upon performing religious rituals which had hindered him from practising his religion

Providing feedback for students in writing courses has been the subject of much scholarly discussion. While many researches have demonstrated that feedback can be an effective way to improve students’ writing skills, questions remain as to how the feedback should be delivered. Inspired by the works of Hyland and Hyland (2001), Goodrich (1997) and

Arborine, a quinazoline and graveoline, a 4-quinolone are the antimicrobial active Rutaceous alkaloids isolated from Glycosmis pentaphylla and Ruta angustifolia, respectively. Both alkaloids possess chromophore with a few structural similarities with the pharmacophore of 4-quinolone antimicrobial agent. Their bacterial DNA-binding activity was asse

Aim: Sepsis is the leading cause of ICU admission. Plasma NGAL is a promising biomarker for AKI detection, however it is also increased with inflammation and few studies have been conducted in non-caucasion populations and/or in developing economies. Therefore, we evaluated plasma NGAL’s diagnostic performance in the presence of sepsis and system