Nadiyah Hashim’s research while affiliated with MARA University of Technology and other places

Online game addiction has been categorized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a mental health problem. This article identified an Islamic psychospiritual approach as an alternative to holistic therapy to solve this problem. The study uses qualitative methods through interviews with seven experts consisting of psychiatrists, counselors, and lecturers from several universities in Malaysia. Thematic analysis is used to identify the symptoms, effects, and factors of addiction as well as Islamic psychospiritual solutions. The findings show various effects and contributing factors to the problems and identified solutions by experts using the Islamic psychospiritual approach to reduce the problem.

Tolerance between non-Muslims living with a Muslim majority has created a social interaction within the framework of humanity, harmony, and stability of a country. Islamic tolerance towards diverse religious, ethnic, and cultural communities, such as in Malaysia, is manifested through the provision of charity (sadaqah) and alms (zakat) to the eligible recipients known as asnaf. The asnaf category includes two groups; the first consists of non-Muslims who are inclined towards Islam but have not yet embraced the religion, and the second group comprises non-Muslims who have recently converted to Islam. Hence, this study examines the issues and challenges faced by the Zakat Unit of the Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council of Perlis (MAIPs) in administering zakat for non-Muslims. The objectives of this study include assessing the need for non-Muslim outreach through the distribution of zakat funds allocated for this purpose. Additionally, the research will identify the method of implementing zakat for non-Muslims as recipients of zakat according to their specific needs and current challenges. The study also analyzes the implementation of zakat distribution for non-Muslims carried out by MAIPs. To explore further, this study adopts an inductive qualitative approach, wherein the researcher derives meanings or understanding from data collected through semi-structured interview transcriptions. The findings of the study reveal several issues and challenges, such as the perception of the Muslim community towards non-Muslims, insufficient funds, lack of expertise in the field of outreach, and political and mass media influences that shape the challenges of providing zakat to non-Muslims. The implementation of zakat for non-Muslims by MAIPs is expected to enhance zakat collection and create opportunities for outreach to non-Muslims who are interested in Islam.

Novel is one of the creative writings that hold a special place in the heart of readers. A novel, in most cases, brings the story of society and gives a picture of their real-life circumstances. The common issues that are regularly highlighted in the novel are love, trust, and common practices of society. Nowadays, applications like 'Watpadd' provides a free platform for writers to showcase their talents, whereas 'Goodreads' allows readers to give reviews on the books they read. Most novel writers utilize their writing as a medium for spreading Islamic teaching so that society can learn the lessons and return to the real Islamic teaching. Some novels were even adapted into dramas or films. This research sought to review the novel analysis that contributes to a better understanding of religion in society. This study looked at various local novels from notable writers that were chosen randomly in order to evaluate the contents from the aspects of aqidah, shariah, and akhlak. This is a qualitative study that used content analysis as the main instrument. The method used is descriptive research. The result listed some Shariah compliant's novels that help to shape a prosperous society, harmony, and blessed by Allah.

The establishment of waqf funds in institutions of higher learning is increasingly being developed by many public and private institutions of higher learning throughout the country. The phenomenon of the establishment of waqf funds has triggered great innovations in the development of waqf in the country. It is in line with the launch of the UniTP Purple Book Guidelines that has been enforced for use in October 2016 by the Ministry of Higher Education to develop their respective endowment management centers to generate income. In this regard, UiTM Perlis Branch took the initiative to establish the UiTM Perlis Knowledge Endowment Fund (DWIPs). Thus, this study examined the issues and challenges faced by DWIPs in helping the income generation of higher learnings institutions. This study used a qualitative method with a case study at UiTM Perlis Branch. The experience of the authors and fellow authors who led DWIPs from the beginning of the establishment to the present were analyzed and described descriptively and comparatively. The findings of the study found that there are four issues and challenges, which are lack of understanding and public awareness of waqf, management bureaucracy problems, lack of energy resources in the management of DWIPs as well as legal and financial barriers. The results of this study are intended to help spread awareness of DWIPs among the staff and gain attention from the university management. In relation to that, it can also increase the amount of knowledge endowment fund collection and benefit all UiTM Perlis Branch staff.

Involvement in sports is a part of a healthy lifestyle that is highly recommended to improve quality of life and well-being. Activities carried out individually or in groups significantly provide both physical and spiritual benefits. Alternatively, traditional archery is one of the considerable sports which are beneficial physically and spiritually, and therefore participation in this particular sport is open to individuals or groups regardless of age or gender. The observations made during traditional archery training sessions and tournaments in 2019-2021 led to a significant increase in community participation and involvement in this sport. Due to the pandemic outbreak recently, the lifestyle of people is remarkably affected especially in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, the focus of the study is to provide an alternative way in enhancing a healthy family lifestyle through archery activity. Previous studies have shown the number of family involvements in archery activity is impactful in increasing health quality tremendously. Furthermore, archery is also specifically recommended by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and thus provides intrinsic values triggering the Muslim enthusiast to participate in this sport. This study applies a qualitative method and depends much on textual research, interviews, and observation. The finding indicates that community participation in traditional group archery activities through family institutions is very encouraging. The finding also has proven that archery alternatively, is impactful in integrating the well-being of family institutions in terms of physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual. Hence, this study potentially provides opportunities for the community to acknowledge archery activity in theory and practice, as well as encouragement to lead a healthy lifestyle as a family.

Many researchers agree that the level of religious personality influences an individual attitude. In Islam, nurturing a good religious personality can be done through Islamic Sufism practices. Therefore, this study has identified the relationship between Islamic Sufism practices and the religious personality among Muslim students in the university. It used a survey design that covered three scales of religious personality. A total of 296 questionnaires were collected in four universities in Malaysia. It was found that Islamic Sufism practices have a significant positive correlation with student's religious personalities. These results provide new insight into Sufism practices and religious personality among university students.

Al-takhalli and at-tahalli are among the most important practices in Sufism to develop Muslim spiritual and attitude. Al-takhalli means to fight or remove from the character and spiritual the abominable things, while al-tahalli means to adorn the Muslim character and spiritual with good things. Studies show that al-takhalli and at-tahalli practices can form a good religious personality and avoid immoral behavior, while weakness is seen as one of the causes of various social problems among Muslim. In universities, statistics of social problems show that a few of Muslim students involved in the problems and have low levels of religious personality. Thus, the main objective of this study is to examine the level of al-takhalli and and at-tahalli practices among university students. A survey was conducted at Universiti Teknologi MARA Perlis Branch. A total of 112 students were selected at simple random as respondents. Data were collected through survey techniques using 6 likert scale instruments that had gone through validity and reliability procedures. Descriptive analysis using SPSS 26.0 software was conducted to see the mean and percentage of findings. Overall, the findings of the study indicate that university students perform the at-takhalli and at-tahalli practices in their lives. However, the findings show that the practice of al-tahalli (mean=4.78) is given less attention than the practice of at-takhalli (mean=5.16). It needs to be improved in order to ensure the Muslim not only abandons munkar or bad things but continues to do good deeds and in turn can produce excellent ummah.