Ishak Suliaman

Prophetic Best Practices in Business for Human Capital Development

Human capital has been the most crucial current topic of this modern life. Competition in business and industry requires human resource that spells excellence, knowledgeable, discipline and visionary. With the rise of conscious market-driven community, many have concluded that to achieve the highest stake in business is to simultaneously reconstruct the moral consciousness. Henceforth, learning from past leaders, their legacy has been left with much to be desired by shortcomings, conflicts of interest and at times, destructions. In promoting the virtuous awareness, education has to take the lead through human capital development. In the attempt to apply the landmark practices of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), and his management principles, this discursive overview intends to provide the application of the prophetic tradition in the management field as the foundation for application in aspects of discipline which include business, law, education, just to state a few. Therefore, this paper intends to study the Islamic management elements of Prophet

SORCERY TREATMENT ON IBN QAYYIM AL-JAW ZIYYA’S (691H/1292M-751H/1350M) PERSP ECTIVE AND THE REALITY IN IS LAMIC MEDICAL CENTRE IN MA LAYSIA: A COMPA RATIVE STUDIES

Nowadays, there is a trend and rapid growth mainly be observed in Malaysia concerning Islamic Treatment Centers, which provides the services and treatments for the diseases. Several methods and approaches were offered for the treatment of various diseases. Sorcery was one of the diseases which it needs serious concern in Islamic Treatment Centers. The fieldwork in Malaysia was conducted in 23 Islamic Treatment Centers in order to investigate and identify the methods and approaches practiced in the treatment of sorcery and those related to it. Through a comparative analysis method, this article seeks to examine Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya thought on this issue by his several works such as al-Tibb al-Nabawi, Zad al-Ma’ad fi Hadyi Kahyr al-‘Ibad and Tafsir al- Mu‘awwidhtain. The study found out there are twenty methods being practiced to treat the sorcery in Islamic Treatment Centers in Malaysia. However, Ibn Qayyim only provided three major approaches and methods for the sorcery treatment: (1) search, discharge and omit the sorcery; (2) purify the body suffered from the sorcery; (3) use ruqyah al-shar’iyyah to treat the patient. From all of twenty treatment approaches and methods practiced in Islamic Treatment Centers, there are only four methods based on Ibn Qayyim’s view.

HADITH-HADITH MENGENAI SIHIR DAN RAWATANNYA DALAM AL-KUTUB AL-SITTAH

There are numbers of Prophetic texts or Hadith regarding the topic of sorcery and its treatment. Based on textual analysis, there are 36 texts of hadith in al- Kutub al-Sittah (The Six Books of Hadith), pertaining the topic of sorcery and it treatments. There are 24 texts of Hadith focusing on the concept of sorcery, its types and the explanation of witchcraft cases on the time of the Prophet and regarding the sorcerer. In addition, there are 12 texts of Hadith explain the Prophetic methods in dealing with the treatment of curing the sorcery and its preventive approaches. The study reveals that the topic of sorcery and its treatment derives from 48 texts of Hadith in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, 29 texts of Hadith in Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 20 texts of Hadith in Sunan Abī Dāwūd, 17 texts of Hadith in Jāmi‘ al- Tirmīdhī, 9 texts of Hadith in Sunan al-Nasā’ī and 12 texts of Hadith in Sunan Ibn Mājah. In terms of quality of Prophetic texts of sorcery and its treatment, it is found that out of 36 texts of Hadith, there are 31 texts of Hadith Ṣaḥīḥ, 2 texts of Ḥadith Hasan and 3 texts of Hadith Ḍa‘īf.