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Keusahawanan Syariah

30 tahun dahulu, orang kata belajar Syariah dan agama tidak ada peluang melainkan menjadi imam, bilal, ustaz dan penggangur tegar (mungkin juga ahli politik)

20 tahun yang lalu, orang kata belajar Syariah dan agama boleh nenjadi guru agama dan pensyarah dan juga mungkin pegawai di institusi kewangan Islam.

Sekarang, semua sudah berubah. 10 -15 tahun yang lalu, permintaan kepada pengajian dan kursus agama telah meningkat secara mendadak. Akibatnya, peluang pekerjaan kepada graduan Syariah samada dari ijazah pertama atau diploma adalah terhad samada di sektor awam atau swasta.

Maka bermulalah fasa dan era baru. Walaupun kita graduan Syariah dan agama cemerlang, namun peluang pekerjaan sentiasa terhad. Inilah realiti zaman sekarang. Apa jalan keluar?

Graduan agama dan Syariah kena mempersiapkan diri menjadi usahawan iaitu bekerja sendiri dalam pelbagai bidang. Namun, kenapa tidak cuba dengan keusahawanan Syariah itu sendiri iaitu menggunakan ilmu Syariah (ilmu al-Quran, al-Sunnah, ilmu fekah, ilmu bahasa arab dan ilmu agama secara umumnya) untuk menjual perkhidmatan berdasarkan keilmuan (knowledge-based economy). Inilah aspek syarahan saya nanti.

Saya sendiri gunakan ilmu Syariah dalam bidang kepenasihatan Syariah, penulisan modul tertentu dan juga uku-buku saya. Saya gunakan ilmu ini juga dalam bidang big data dan A.I. Saudara boleh lalukan perkara yang sama dalam pelbagai cara dan aplikasi.

Kalau nak tahu apakah tips dan pesanan2 praktikal, datanglah beramai2 di Syarahan Cendiakawan Syariah di UKM nanti.

Alangkah molek dan indah sekiranya graduan agama dan Syariah menjadi usahawan dan kalau boleh menjadi pencipta pekerjaan dan bukan pencari pekerjaan. Kebanyakkan para Nabi dan Rasul adalah usahawan.

MDB

When Dr M initiated multi media super corridor when he was PM in the 90s, he gave guarantee to foreign investors that there will be no censorship of Internet in Malaysia. 18 years later, he changed his stance ..........

#Socialsecurity or ill-fated #Ponzischeme?

When Franklin Roosevelt introduced social security to the United States in 1935, life expectancy at birth was only 58 years for men and 62 for women, while the retirement age was 65. Approximately 46 percent of men and 39 percent of women who lived into adulthood died before retirement.

The US Social Security Administration denies the chosen age of retirement had anything to do with the benchmark set by the Germans, saying it was an attempt "to conform to contemporary practice during the 1930s."

Despite all the advancements in medical technology and the fact that we now live in a knowledge-based economy, the common legal retirement age is still 65.

Why should it be so ?

The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world, and our city is graying rapidly.

Those aged 65 or above represent less than 14 percent now, but that will grow to nearly 20 percent by 2022.

If there must be a social security system, shall we propose a retirement age of 85 instead of 65, just to reflect the reality? I am sure it is going to be politically incorrect but that is the only economically feasible way to have sustainable universal social security for Hong Kong.

With due respect to the advocates for universal social security, good intentions alone cannot defy the laws of gravity. Let's assume the life expectancy of an average person is 80. Under the ideal lifestyle aspired to by many in our younger generation, the first 25 years and the last 15 years will be the non-productive ones, leaving them only 40 years of productive career to make enough money to pay back the expenditure of the first 25 years and support themselves for the last 15.

One can see how difficult life can be if everyone lives this way. If something is not sustainable at an individual level, it can hardly be feasible at a collective level.

Retirement, and work, are personal choices, rather than a birthright to be enjoyed by all.

We should first ask what we can do for our own retirement before asking the government what it can do for us.

Let's not forget that there are no free lunches. Someone has to pay for social security but it will be too late for us to realize that we are paying into a Ponzi scheme destined to collapse in the foreseeable future.

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

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