The teaching of Islam has warned and reminded Muslim society regarding the threat of superstitious practices after the period of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Various distorted beliefs, such as shamanism and fortune-telling, have simultaneously spread all over the Muslim world including Malaysia. Among several causal of heretical innovation of distorted belief is ignorance and lack of religious knowledge. This article higlights contributing factors of Malays' involvement in superstitious practices which stresses on their perception, beliefs and practices. The writing of this article is based on the study conducted through qualitative methods using observation and interview. Selected key informants from religious affairs departments and political leadership are selected as respondents of the study. The result found that lack of religious education, ignorance, the influence of shamanism and strong belief in mystic and magic are accepted to contribute to the occurence of superstitious practices. These causal factors need to be addressed in the very best possible manner by the Islamic affairs authorities in order to prevent futher society involvement.
This article aims to measure the level of career self-efficacy among secondary school students. It determines whether the variable of career self-efficacy could be correlated to the variable of study streams. A total of 1060 respondents had been selected by systematic cluster random samplings from 106 national secondary schools in Terengganu. This survey used a set of questionnaires that consists of two parts: (i) Demographic information (ii) Career Self-efficacy that had been tested and has high levels of validity and reliability with alpha cronbach value was 0.95. The data obtained had been analyzed using descriptive analysis that included t-Test, mean, and standard deviation to meet the research objectives. The result showed that the level of students' career self-efficacy is significantly different in accordance with their study streams. It could be concluded that the level of career self-efficacy among the students has been influenced by their study stream. Hence, any career guidance and counseling activities should consider the factor of study streams.
Anxiety represents as a psychological problem and exists inside every soul. This is a normal feeling. Nevertheless, extreme anxiety will increase problems. Such situation requires a solution to prevent it from spreading among the communities today. Therefore, the article attempts to highlight anxiety therapy by practising al-Fatiha as an alternative spiritual remedy. This sura is selected because it has a lot of privileges. In the meantime, the article tries to answer a question on how to overcome anxiety trouble through an alternative way?. Data are collected through qualitative method by exploring documents, books, articles, past studies and interviews. The tool to analyse the data is content analysis and is described descriptively.The findings show that al-Fatiha has positive impact on those who practice it. Hence, al-Fatiha persists a beneficial remedy as an alternative to cure anxiety.
Sufism is a knowledge discipline which derives from three basic Islamic components along with tauhid and fiqh knowledge. It is a principle of knowledge discussing regarding the cleaning method and purification of soul of an individual Muslim from a mazmumah trait (al-takhalli) and self-prepared method with mahmudah trait (al-tahalli) in order to get the blessing of Allah. It requires a guidance and support from a qualified individual because in order to succeed, there must be many internal and external obstacles will arise that is not easy to be overcomed without guidance. Therefore, sufi order is an institution which consists of the practise and the true appreciation of sufism according with the syaikh mursyid’s leadership. Meanwhile, this study is purposing in explaining the concept of sufi order to the society with the main focus is to analyse the tarekat approach which is focused to its role in human spiritual empowerment. This is a qualitative approach study. The data collecting method used is a documentation method which refer to the secondary sources. The finding of the study summarised that the sufi order institution is an effective approach in empowering an individual spiritual through the syaikh mursyid’s approach in guiding the students (salik). Tasawuf merupakan salah satu disiplin ilmu daripada tiga komponen asas ilmu Islam di samping ilmu tauhid dan fikah. Ia adalah bidang ilmu yang membicarakan berkenaan kaedah pembersihan dan penyucian rohani seseorang individu Muslim daripada sifat mazmumah (al-takhalli) dan kaedah menghiasi diri dengan sifat mahmudah (al-tahalli) dalam usaha untuk sampai kepada keredaan Allah. Ia memerlukan kepada tunjuk ajar dan sokongan daripada individu yang berkelayakan lantaran dalam proses untuk mencapai kejayaan, sudah pasti akan terbentang pelbagai halangan dan rintangan dalaman mahupun luaran yang tidak mudah untuk diharungi tanpa bimbingan. Dengan demikian, tarekat tasawuf merupakan sebuah institusi yang mengandungi pengamalan dan penghayatan tasawuf yang sebenar melalui pimpinan syaikh mursyid. Oleh itu, kajian ini bertujuan menjelaskan konsep tarekat tasawuf kepada masyarakat dengan tumpuan utamanya untuk menganalisis pendekatan tarekat yang difokuskan kepada peranannya dalam pemantapan spiritual insan. Kajian ini adalah berbentuk kajian kualitatif. Metode pengumpulan data yang digunakan ialah metode dokumentasi dengan merujuk kepada sumber-sumber sekunder. Dapatan kajian ini menyimpulkan bahawa institusi tarekat tasawuf merupakan satu pendekatan yang efektif dalam memantapkan spiritual individu melalui pendekatan syaikh mursyid dalam membimbing para salik.
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