In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Loving. Peace and Prayers be upon our Most Beloved Prophet Muhammad, his family and fellow companions. 

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Assalammualaikum wr wb!

As you know, we are already at end of 2010. We hope you have already plan and start this new year with renewed faith that your life will get better insyallah. Regardless in the circumstances, let's pray for the world that we live in to be a better place and insyallah with the daily things that we do, there will be a place in Jannah for us.

Hence let's leave 2010 with a peaceful heart and let's welcome 2011 with Syukur. 

In this newsletter, we would like to feature Ustaz Tarmizi's article title "Believing for an Extraordinary Year". It has definitely touched our lives and we hope it will touch yours too. Also we have a guest writer that recently wrote for us, Bro Hasanul Arifin with his article titled - "Jingle Bells Anyone?"

So find out what's happening this week.

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Believing for an Extraordinary Year

By Ustaz Tarmizi ( CEO of Safinah Institute)

Here are 5 key factors I would like to share with you, which I believe are extremely important for us to have in order to make the permanent changes we desire in this new year.

 

1. Extreme Clarity

Clarity stands hand-in-hand with intention. The more precise and specific you are with your intentions, the clearer it will be for you to see the you need to take. The dark road in front of you will be litted up with the guidance from Allah. He will show you by heart, what needs to be done in order for you to attain your goals, and He will even make you realise exactly how it is to be done. Trust Him. Realign your intentions. 

2. Focus

Anyone may easily get excited thinking about their new goals and planning for their new resolutions. However, a large percentage of that same group of people usually end up never achieving the things which they have set for themselves. And the number one reason for that based on some surveys, is the person's lack of focus.

With so many things going on in our lives throughout the year, most of us will tend to stray away from our main objectives, distracted by the small little upsets and turmoils and seduced by the pressure of settling for average, even though we already know that God created us with the potential to be more than who we are today. Focus is trained during our prayers. Choose to be more focused.

There are two more points not covered here. Hence please refer to his Facebook Note to read the rest of the entry.  Read here.

Drop us a note if you cannot access it.

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Jingle Bells Anyone?

As we approach the end of the year, television and all other media channels simply burst into colour and action, bombarding us with advertisements and shopping discounts geared towards satisfying our capitalist cravings, as radio stations and loudspeakers in shopping malls blare out empty promises of happiness in merry-making and in the holidays and Orchard Road lights up in such brilliance never seen before in any other month of the year. It's the holiday season they say; Jingle Bells and White Christmas become the anthem of the people, as if snow would fall onto this tropical country and reindeers would survive the heat and rain of the unpredictable North-East Monsoon. Amidst all these summons for celebration, do we as Muslims understand the origins and implications of such festivities?

Firstly, if we desire to step up to the national aspiration of developing critical thinkers in thinking schools, we should question, why should this month be considered as end of the year? If you can sense that this notion of end-of-the-year is rather arbitrary, you are one step closer to graduating from the real school of critical thinking. Well done!

Read further here.

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Featured Events

ISLAM and adaptation to a WESTERN SECULAR SOCIETY

Synopsis:

"French secularism is the most constraining form of secularism in the West because it is not only defined as a strict legal system of separation of religion and state but also because it is more than ever constructed as an ideological system of norms and values that should be applied to all citizens. This secularism is a product of the struggle between the Catholic Church and the French Republic, but recently most of the traditional Christian right has joined the secularist left to oppose Islam, although they disagree on what is the basis of the French identity (Christian or secularist?): this left-right allaince is by the way at the basis of the wave of "populism" that has recently engulfed Western Europe making Islam its main target.

Confronted with that, a very diverse but growing Muslim population adapts a vast array of different ways to express its faith: adopting a very secular way of life, constructing a "French Islam", taking refuge in various forms of non-political fundamentalisms (salafism, Tabligh), or, for a fringe of young people, becoming politically radicalized. Although the debate is very tense, the slow rise of an educated Muslim middle class is changing the social and political landscape."

Get more details here.

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Featured Workshops & Courses

Workshop on the Islamic Gift Economy Macro Model

"Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately, and it gives you a lift. The hangover comes the day after."

- Dr Joyce Brothers, psychologist and advice columnist.

The 2007 Financial Crisis that struck the world was seen as the worse economical calamity since the Great Depression. Various causes were identified, including unethical enactments in the financial system and individual greed.

Unlike the modern financial system, the Islamic system highlights the moral, ethical and social dimensions, advocating fairness and equity amongst local communities and the society at large.

Islamic finance can particularly make a difference to the poor, who are often viewed by conventional banks as high-risk borrowers with their inability to provide collateral. Islamic finance might be the key to remove such unjust barriers that disqualifies the poor from attaining loans.

However, finance is only a portion of a fully functional, holistic Islamic economy, known as the Islamic Gift Economy (IGE) or al-Iqtisad al-Infaqi. IGE is understood as "the provisioning and sharing, by mutual giving and receiving, of natural and cultural abundance for realizing material and spiritual well-being in the community."

The principal aim of the IGE Workshop is to raise the community's awareness about true Islamic Economy (Mu'amalah), specifically amongst the tertiary students of SIM and UNISIM and other tertiary institutes.


The IGE is a two-day interactive workshop, where the audience will be engaging in Q&A sessions and discussing case studies after the insightful discourses from our guest speakers.

Get the details here.

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Projects that we recently completed!

Alhamdulilah. Just in time to start the year fresh and new. Our team has recently helped Masjid Assyakirin build their new site.

Check it out. Click image below.

To engage us to build your website or reconstruct them, please email us at info@islamicevents.sg

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This Week's Events / Courses Highlights.

Event		When	Where	Organiser
	Weekend Tahfiz @ Darul Huffaz ( 14 Views )	1 Jan 2011	287A Changi Road	Darul Huffaz Learning Centre
	Weekend Tahfiz @ al-Mukminin Mosque ( 19 Views )	1 Jan 2011	Al-Mukminin Mosque	Darul Huffaz Learning Centre
	Siri Kuliah Subuh: Resolusi Tahun Baru: Keilmuan ( 28 Views )	2 Jan 2011	Assyakirin Mosque	Assyakirin Mosque
	Kursus Imam & Muazzin ( 174 Views )	3 Jan 2011	Alkaff Kampung Melayu Mosque	Alkaff Kampung Melayu Mosque
	ISLAM and adaptation to a WESTERN SECULAR SOCIETY ( 159 Views )	3 Jan 2011	MUIS Auditorium	Association of Muslim Professionals (AMP), MUIS ACADEMY
	Kursus Asas Solat Untuk Orang Dewasa ( 212 Views )	4 Jan 2011	Alkaff Kampung Melayu Mosque	Alkaff Kampung Melayu Mosque
	Program Tajwid Al-Qur'an ( 199 Views )	4 Jan 2011	Alkaff Kampung Melayu Mosque	Alkaff Kampung Melayu Mosque
	Ratib al-Hadad & Forum ( 242 Views )	8 Jan 2011	Surau Kampung Melayu, Geylang Serai	Ustaz Muhammad Mazdiuky Md Ishak, Surau Kampung Melayu
	Workshop on the Islamic Gift Economy Macro-Model ( 96 Views )	8 Jan 2011	MUIS Academy	Suffah Study Circle, Singapore Institute of Management (SIM), SIM Malay Cultural & Muslim Society
	Forum Perdana & Majlis Watikah JPM Punggol ( 50 Views )	8 Jan 2011	Beside Punggol MRT	North East Mosque Cluster
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