ARS Newsletter May 21 | Issue 33

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ISSUE 33 IN THIS ISSUE ARB issued a statement on offensive online poll

~ Lebih $4 juta dikumpulkan dalam masa 9 hari untuk Gaza

~ Gradual reopening of mosques under Phase 3 (Heightened Alert)

~ Safe management measures for IECP in Phase 3 (Heightened Alert)

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The Asatizah Recognition Board (ARB) has issued a statement in response to the recent offensive online poll on female asatizah.

CONTENT ARS Office

ARB strongly condemns the act as it violates the norms of decency and morals in Islam.

ARS Secretariat Office of Mufti

GRAPHIC Redhaee Azman

EDITOR Ustaz Dr Muhammad Haniff Hassan Ustazah Dr Sukarti Asmoin

ARB also urges the community not to further speculate on the matter as a police report has been lodged and investigations are underway.

The full statement may be read via https://www.facebook.com/MUIS.SG/photos/ pcb.10158865881716329/10158865881146329/

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Dalam perenggan ini, Mufti mengingatkan diri kita tentang sikap rendah diri kesungguhan dalam berkhidmat kepada masyarakat Mufti turut berkongsi berkenaan salah laku terhadap wanita. Menurutnya asatizah perlu menangani isu ini dan mengambil endah ketika kehormatan wanita diperlekehkan pastikan agama yang kita sampaikan kepada masyarakat memelihara kehormatan dan maruah setiap orang mendidik masyarakat apakah kelakuan yang tidak boleh diterima serta bersikap tegas Pejabat ARS akan terus diperkuat lagi

2. KEBERANIAN

Cabaran yang kita hadapi dewasa ini amat rumit dan kompleks, dan seringkali jalan penyelesaiannya bukanlah sesuatu yang mudah.

Kerana itu, kita akan dapati kepelbagaian pandangan yang disuarakan masyarakat, yang menzahirkan harapan mereka yang pelbagai.

Dalam hal ini, Mufti mengajak asatizah untuk mendengar dengan teliti, mencari penyelesaian dan bekerjasama dengan pakar dalam isu yang ingin kita tangani tidak membataskan penyelesaian hanya pada apa yang kita pelajari dalam bidang pengkhususan kita Menurutnya lagi, dalam situasi krisis, kita harus cari panduan dan jalan keluar dari segenap penjuru tidak menyempitkan ruang penyelesaian dengan membataskan pencarian kita hanya kepada pandangan yang tertentu atau yang selesa dan selamat mendapatkan diagnosis yang tepat sebagai sebahagian daripada penyelesaian fahami Maqasid Syar'iah dengan cara yang betul dan tepat Mufti amat berbesar hati melihat sebahagian asatizah mapan yang telah tampil ke hadapan untuk mengambil suntikan vaksin di peringkat awal ketika ia dilancarkan.

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RLA Foundation Singapore (RLAF) dalam catatan di Facebook berkongsi bahawa sejumlah S$4,241,350 telah dikumpulkan dan akan dihulurkan kepada United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) untuk bantuan kemanusiaan di Gaza.

RLAF mengucapkan terima kasih kepada semua individu dan kumpulan yang tampil untuk memberi sumbangan dengan murah hati dalam pengumpulan dana untuk bantuan kemanusiaan di Gaza.

Dana tersebut akan diserahkan kepada UNRWA setelah kutipan disatukan dan persetujuan telah diperolehi dari Pesuruhjaya Badan Kebajikan (Commissioner of Charities/ COC). Ia juga akan melalui perakuan audit dan laporan akan diserahkan kepada COC. UNRWA yang aktif beroperasi untuk memberikan bantuan kemanusiaan kepada mangsa dan keluarga, akan menggunakan dana tersebut untuk memberi perkhidmatan kesihatan dan bantuan sosial secara langsung kepada masyarakat yang terjejas oleh perkembangan baru-baru ini di Gaza seperti penyediaan bekalan makanan kecemasan dan kemasukan ke hospital.

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In line with the new guidelines for worship services under Phase 3 (Heightened Alert), mosques made preparations to offer more spaces for Friday congregational prayer in a safe manner, for congregants who have been fully vaccinated or successfully undergone Pre-Event Testing.

Muis ran a pilot on Friday, 25 June 2021 for 4 mosques to test these capabilities, as they open an additional zone per session for Friday prayers. Over the subsequent weeks, more spaces will be opened up at more mosques if the situation remains stable.

As more congregants in the community complete their vaccination or get used to Pre-Event Testing procedures, Muis eventually hopes to be able to safely accommodate the maximum allowed number of places under Phase 3(HA). This is in line with the national strategy of Test, Trace and Vaccinate.

Do stand by for more information on this. You may also refer to https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/pet or details on Pre-Event Testing. We will also provide more information on the resumption of other activities in the mosque, such as aLIVE classes, in due course.

In the meantime, mosques will continue to offer 50 places for congregational prayer every day, with bookings through the mosque online booking system.

We thank the community for its patience and cooperation in this journey with us to resume more activities in our mosque safely.

The full media release is also available here: https://bit.ly/2SuCjFd

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ARS Office issued a circular on the Safe Management Measure (SMMs) for IECP in Phase 3 (Heightened Alert).

IECP can resume in-person lessons from 21 June 2021 and also be reminded to regularly check and adhere strictly to MOE's requirements for tuition and enrichment centres.

The circular has also reminded the SMMs for centres with on-premise instruction such as safe distancing, health declarations, disinfection of surfaces, wearing of masks as a default at all times, class timings and ventilation .

Home-based IECP which are allowed to run in-person lessons will be subject to the prevailing national group size limit (ie. 5 visitors per day from 14 June 2021) and number of unique household visitors allowed per day.

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The Continuing Professional Education (CPE) is a training programme started in 2012 by the Asatizah Recognition Board (ARB) to enhance the professionalism and to inculcate a culture of continuous learning and development of asatizah under the Asatizah Recognition Scheme (ARS).

An ustaz or ustazah is required to undergo courses under the CPE programme as a pre-requisite for renewal of ARS accreditation.

Muis works closely with partners such as Pergas to offer a wide range of courses covering topics such as religious sciences and other disciplines including courses on contemporary issues as well as skills courses to enable asatizah to confidently play their role in building an inclusive nation.

Arising from the Committee of Future Asatizah (COFA) recommendations in February 2020, Muis in partnership with the Asatizah Recognition Board initiated a review of the ARS-CPE programme in August 2020 to strengthen asatizah development with a greater emphasis on skills development aligned to the vision of the future asatizah.

The review also incorporates the Skills Upgrading Plan as part of the second phase of the Asatizah Workforce Development Plan (AWDP).

Hence, the guidebook is published. It features full course directory, course Details (with registration links) an info on CPE Review and ATC Visit http://go.gov.sg/cpe-gb1 to read Continue more on it.

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By Ustazah Nurhannah Irwan

The Muslim woman has always been situated in the centre of politicised, ideological debates. To many in the West, she is the visual symbol of an inherently misogynistic religion that deprives her of autonomy and selfrealisation – she is always “constituted as a figure of subjugation, embedded and controlled by a community” (Crabtree and Husain, 2012:148).

On the other hand, it is not uncommon to hear the essentialising of the ‘West’ as the immoral ‘Other’ that seeks to ‘modernise’ the Muslim woman and causes her to abandon her religious values and ‘natural’ responsibilities, in pursuit of ‘liberal’ and ‘feminist’ values of gender equality.

In positioning men and women as individuals and as servants of God, the Quran explicitly denies any inherent supremacy of one gender over the other. In Quranic chapter al-Nisaa’, verse 1, God has said which means: “O people! Fear your Lord who created you from a single soul, and created from it is mate, and dispersed from both of them many men and women”.

Islam hence enforces gender equality by describing both men and women “as equal human beings in their origin, created from ‘the same soul’ (nafs waahidah) both making up the human race together, as equal partners” (Omar, 2014: 102).

Both genders are also equally accountable for their every action, speech and thought before God, and will be rewarded or punished accordingly on equal grounds.

There are people who argue that men and women are not equal because it has been divinely revealed that men are superior to women. The verse in which they refer to for justification is found in an-Nisaa’, verse 34 which means: “Men are qawwaamuun of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah would have them guard….”

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https://blog.pergas.org.sg/wasat/

Oleh Ustazah Zahratur Rofiqah Mochamad Sandisi

Umat Islam hari ini ibarat sedang melalui fasa awal dakwah Rasulullah s.a.w di Mekah; Rasulullah s.a.w dihina, dicaci, diberi nama yang buruk dan umat Islam terkesan

dengan

pandangan

sinis

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negatif

masyarakat dunia terhadap mereka.

Timbul

dalam

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seorang

Muslim,

bagaimanakah reaksi yang sepatutnya kita berikan?

Tidak dapat dinafikan, perasaan marah dan kecewa bermain di ruang hati namun marilah sama-sama kita mencontohi Baginda S.A.W. dalam menangani situasi seperti ini.

Nabi S.A.W. mendoakan orang-orang yang membenci atau mempunyai salah tanggapan mengenai Islam.

Beliau S.A.W. pernah mendoakan musuh Islam supaya mereka diberi hidayah dan meminta keampunan Allah untuk mereka. Dalam Perang Uhud, dua gigi Baginda S.A.W. patah dan bibir bawah serta dahinya pula terluka hingga berdarah. Baginda S.A.W. mengusapnya dengan kain agar tidak terjatuh ke tanah, lalu bersabda: “Seandainya ada sedikit saja darinya (darah) yang jatuh ke tanah nescaya azab akan turun kepada mereka.”

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