ISLAMIC

• National service


  A citizen's commitment to bear his responsibilities towards his country after being qualitatively trained to be capable of participating in building and defending the homeland as well as contributing to the comprehensive development of the country and disseminating good and peace in the world
• Specific meaning of national service

  A relatively short period specified by the ruler, which a youngster spends in the ranks of the national army receiving special training, learning the general principles relating to love of country, defending the unity of its land and its independence, inculcating in him the spirit of citizenship and respect for the country's constitution, religious and sacred symbols and the principle: and foundations on which society is founded
• Importance of national service


  • Deeply ingraining and firmly establishing the values of homeland, leadership, belonging and sacrifice, in the hearts and minds of the youth
• Sheikha Fatima


  The wife of the founder of the United Arab Emirates, the Late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
• Facets of Sheikha Fatima's character

  • Her keenness on religion and morals: She has instructed different media channels, cultural organizations and educational departments to disseminate awareness, studied the Qur'an and its exegesis, hadith and the principles of jurisprudence
• fornication and prostitution = both are unlawful and forbidden
• fornication = individual crime
• prostitution = for material interests
• preventative measures against fornication: marrying solitary women: meaning of solitary women = plural of who doesnt have a spouse
• preventative measures against fornication: preserving chastity = seeking chastity and preventing adultery
• preventative measures against fornication: prohibiting prostitution = paid adultery
• Man's responsibility


  He bears responsibility for his actions only
• Responsibility


  The way man is committed to the consequences of his willful actions in religion and worldly affairs
• Responsibility and choice


  The mercy of Allah on his worshippers linked responsibility to man's choice and will
• A man is not responsible for something towards which he has no choice</b>
• Color, sex and other things are matters that man has no power over. He will not be held accountable in case of necessity
• Types of responsibility


  • Individual responsibility
  • Religious responsibility
  • Moral responsibility
  • Responsibility before the government and public opinion
• Individual responsibility


  Every individual is responsible for himself
• Stages of individual responsibility

  1. Pre-action: Making decisions, studying options, estimating consequences

  2. Post-action: Responsible for choices, weight of executing choice, bearing effects and consequences
• Religious responsibility


  Everyone will be held accountable before Allah on the Day of Judgment
• Moral responsibility


  A Muslim subjects himself to a system of self-accountability
• Responsibility before the government and public opinion

  A Muslim is accountable before his community, which watches over his actions and judges him according to these actions
• Limits of individual responsibility

  the responsiblity of a man is not limited to his actions alone but he is responsible for the effects of his actions:

  A man will be held accountable for the actions of others in the following three cases:

  1. if the action is taken under his order or his inspiration

  2. if others follow the example of what he's done

  3. if he keeps silent as regards an action he is authorized to change
• Forms of globalization


  • Economic globalization
  • Cultural globalization
• Economic globalization


  Free international trade whereby good services and capitals move between states without obstacles or barriers
• Cultural globalization


  Customs and values between societies through the internet social media and international travel to reinforce social relations
• Positive aspects of globalization

  • Encouraging economic competition will lead to improved production in the fields of industry, agriculture and services and to making life healthy and convenient
• Negative aspects of globalization

  • Dissolving national and personal identity and reforming it in the framework of a global personality
• summary of positive aspects of globalization:

  Positive aspects of globalization:

  Encourages economic competition

  Unifies efforts to solve humanitarian problems

  Promotes human values

  Increases access to science, culture, and arts
• summary of negative aspects of globalization:

  Dissolves national and personal identity 

  Suspends national interests 

  Controls domestic markets 

  Exerts repression on weak states 

  Increases social maladies 

  Widens economic gap 

  Exploits resource value differences 
• summary of Importance of National Service: 

  1. Instills homeland values, leadership, sacrifice in youth. 

  2. Promotes citizenship, connects to country's ideals. 

  3. Strengthens state security, resilience, global standing. 

  4. Raises security awareness against threats. 

  5. Enhances youth competence, creativity, job opportunities. 

  6. Builds leadership traits: strength, responsibility, discipline. 

  7. Protects country's resources, assets, achievements. 
• summary of national service meaning:

  1. General meaning: Citizen's commitment to homeland, defense, development, peace.

  2. Specific meaning: Youth serve in army, learn patriotism, unity, respect.
• riba (usury) 

  Riba (usury) is increment in the exchange of special amounts of money or delaying payment thereof; it is forbidden by Sharia. Scholars agreed on dividing riba (usury) into two types: debt riba and sales riba. 
• debt riba 

  This is riba (usury) in debt contracts such as loans and future sales; debts are more common than loans. Debt riba is two types 

  1. Loan riba: this a conditional increment in the original loan;  
  2. DEBT RIBA: this is an increment in the debt at the time its due  
• Second: sales riba  

   

  First: Riba al-Fadl (increase): this is selling of riba commodities in their kind with an increase. Example: exchanging one hundred grams of new gold for a hundred and fifty grams of old gold with the exchange occuring at the place of the contract itself. 
• Second: sales riba  

  riba an-Nasee'a (postponement): 'nisa' in Arabic means delay; it is selling one riba commodity for another and postponing receiving one of the two. Example: exchanging AED 5210 for one thousand Dinars; the first receives the Dirhams immediately and the second receives the Dinars after one month. 
• Two riba commodities of the same kind

  Buying a gold bracelet for an ounce of gold

  Lawful on two conditions: immediate payment (receiving and paying) and equity in quantity (weight)
• Two riba commodities different in kind but of the same operative cause

  Buying $100 for AED 367

  Lawful on condition of immediate payment and equity is not conditional
• Two riba commodities different in kind and cause

  Buying a kilogram of dates for AED 20

  Lawful and neither equity nor immediate payment is conditional
• A riba commodity for a non- riba commodity

  Buying a car for AED 100,000

  Lawful and neither equity nor immediate payment is conditional