REMEMBER once, as I was about to enter a mosque in Penang, I saw the imam smoking hurriedly before he walked in to lead the Zohor prayer. At a masjid in Kuala Lumpur, as I stood in a saf (prayer row) to perform the solat, a smoker stood beside me. I suspected that, like the imam in Penang, this man also had a few puffs before entering the masjid as

Even though Julian is not widely discussed, her influence on literary successors is remarkable. Two lines in T. S. Eliot’s “Burnt Norton” (1936) – “Except for the point, the still point, / There would be no dance and there is only the dance” (ll.20-21) – are a clear allusion to Julian’s statement: “I saw God in a point by which vi

The consumption of energy has significantly increased in theworld during the preceding decade. Two-third of energy requirements are produced by oil and gas. Estimation of oil consumption can give clues on the future energy consumption. In this study, the effectiveness of three hybrid metaheuristic algorithms, namely, Cuckoo Search Neural Network (C

Maasid al-shari’ah or the objectives of the Islamic law and medicine share inherent intersections, and sometimes work as integral subjects, the ultimate aim of which is “harm reduction” and “promotion of wellbeing” in life. The maqasid al-shari’ah does this by providing values and principles of good conducts, while medicine achieves thi

Previous studies proposed several bio-inspired algorithms for the optimization of Neural Network (NN) to avoid local minima and to improve accuracy and convergence speed. To advance the performance of NN, a new bio-inspired algorithm called Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) is used to optimize the weights and bias of NN due to its ability to explo

Rokeya creatively demonstrates in Padmarag (1924) the socially embedded association of women with evil. She brings together a group of women on the premises of Tarini Bhaban in order to explore their psychological terrain, as they share with each other previously untold memories and document their experiences of patriarchal oppression and domestic

تسعى هذه الدراسة إلى معرفة مدى أهمية العالم الرقمي والتجارة الإلكترونية والمعلوماتية في تحقيق أهداف الاقتصاد الإسلامي، سواء من حيث كسر الحواجز، وتوحيد السوق، وسرعة وسهولة تبادل المعلومات بي

تسعى هذه الدراسة إلى معرفة مدى أهمية العالم الرقمي والتجارة الإلكترونية والمعلوماتية في تحقيق أهداف الاقتصاد الإسلامي، سواء من حيث كسر الحواجز، وتوحيد السوق، وسرعة وسهولة تبادل المعلومات بي

Background: Job satisfaction influences staff retention, motivation, and performance in providing services. A considerable amount of published studies has reported on the job satisfaction level of healthcare workers, but to date, very few studies focused on Community-Based Rehabilitation (CBR) workers. This study aimed to explore the job satisfacti

Purpose The purpose of this study is to propose a contemporary human resource management (HRM) framework by zakat institutions, which collect and manage religious alms, both obligatory (zakat) and voluntary (ṣadaqah), in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach In doing so, discussions pertaining to the key elements of zakat institutions’ HRM incl