REFLECTIVE JOURNAL ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Assalamualaikum and hey!! Welcome back to my blog. So, today I have learnt on a new topic which is the Challenges to Sustainable Development. Based on what I have learned in the class, there are 4 general challenges in applying SDGs. The challenges are inequalities of access to educational resources, inequalities of access to health facilities, inequality of access to food and inequalities of access to clean water. There are so many unsustainability and inequity that exists in this world. The unsustainability is including socio-economic inequity, cultural inequity, societal inequity, familial inequity, programmatic inequity, instructional inequity, linguistic inequality, assessment inequality and etc. Meanwhile, the other specific challenges are climate change and clean energy, sustainable transport system, sustainable consumption and production patterns, global poverty, social inclusion, demography and migration issues, public health system, and conservation and management of natural ...

Assalamualaikum and hey!! Welcome back to my blog. So, today I have learnt on a new topic which is the Roles of Universities & Sustainable Development. As we all know, the university plays a big role in everything other than industry and government (Triple Helix Model). So, in order to spread awareness on sustainable development, the university needs to take its responsibility to spread it among the students. This photo had been taken by me, myself I am actually grateful for joining IIUM as it is the only university that has implemented the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among the students. There is a course subject UNGS 1201 that has newly been created for new undergraduates students since this semester which is semester 1, 2020/2021. It aims to solely introduce the students on what the SDGs all about and teaches the students how to implement it in their life. 'Falsafah Pendidikan Kebangsaan' and 'Pendidikan Abad Ke-21' have played its big role in achieving t...

Assalamualaikum and hey!! Welcome back to my blog. So, today I have learnt on a new topic which is the Framework of Sustainable Development. In this topic, we have learnt a lot about history in making the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) where we applied it since to 2016 till 2030. We also learnt that before SDGs being established, the United Nations (UN) had applied the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) from 2000-2015. There are so many differences between MDGs and SDGs.  One of them is the theme. For MDGs, it more focusses on poverty while SDGs focusses on sustainable development where it includes more aspects. Moreover, MDGs only applied to the developing countries while SDGs apply to universal. In term of the number of goals, MDGs only had 8 goals while SDGs have 17 goals. To get more info on the transition of SDGs from MDGs, you can watch the video below. Besides, today I also learnt about Sejahtera. Sejahtera is a Malay word which means prosperous. So, the definition of ...

Assalamualaikum and hey!! Welcome back to my blog. So, today I have learnt on a new topic which is Maqasid Al-Shariah & Sustainable Development. So first of all, what is Maqasid Al-Shariah? Maqasid Al-Shariah involves realizing the human well-being by enhancing welfare, or benefit (maslahah) of the people on one hand and preventing harm (mafsadah) on the other. Maqasid Al-Shariah also promotes and protects the well-being of people and nature. There are 5 fundamental objectives of Maqasid Shariah (Objectives of Islamic Law) which are; Hifz Al-Din (Religion) Hifz Al-Nafs (Life) Hifz Al-'Aql (Intellect) Hifz Al-Nasb (Lineage) Hifz Al-Mal (Wealth) To gain a better understanding of the Maqasid Al-Shariah, you can watch this video. Actually, the Maqasid Al-Shariah and the 5Ps where we had learnt in the first week, have a quite similar relationship as you can see in the picture below.     Maqasid As-Shar’iah (HIFZ) Equivalent  ‘Ps’ (Themes) in SDG Related SDGs Some Relevant ...

Hye! Welcome back to my blog😆 So, this evening I had learnt a new topic which is 'Islam & Sustainable Development'. So what is the concept of sustainable development in Islam? Based on what I learnt in the class, it is the balanced and simultaneous realization of consumer welfare, economic efficiency, attainment of social justice, and ecological balance in framework of an evolutionary knowledge-based, socially interactive model defining the shuratic process. Yes! Actually, the concept of sustainable development is not a new concept for Muslim. This is because we, as Muslims, already know about it through our 2 ultimate sources which are Al-Quran and Hadith. They both have provided and guided us with the framework for the spiritual and physical welfare of humanity. We always hear that there are only 2 relationships that we have to take care of when being a Muslim. They are the relationship with Allah and the relationship with the fellow human being. We always said them in A...

On this afternoon, right at 2p.m., I joined my first online meeting for my 6 th course for this first semester. I was really impatient before joining it as it was my first time hearing such a course name. The course was namely Sustainable Development: Issues, Principles, and Practices. To be honest, it was such an interesting course name that made me really want to join it really bad. So, what is this course all about? The purpose of this course is to increase the knowledge of students on the concept of sustainability, the importance of sustainable development and Islamic perspective on sustainable development. Throughout my first class of this course, there were many new things that I have learned. For the first one, my lecturer had taught us that there are 2 ways of thinking which are traditional thinking and systems thinking. The difference between both of them is that traditional thinking is linear whereby system thinking is complex. In short, system thinking has various fac...

Assalamualaikum WBT. Hye, readers!👋 My name is Haifaa Binti Ramli and you can call me Haifaa😄 I am 19 years old and currently studying as a first-year student at IIUM Gombak in Kulliyah of Economics and Management Sciences. For your information, this blog is only just for my educational purpose. This is my first time doing a blog so if there is any deficiency, feel free to tell me in the comment section. Thank you!!💖