BACKGROUND Malaysia is a multicultural state comprising three main races: Malays, Chinese and Indians. The three main religions are Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism. Other religions such as Sikhism and Christianity are also practised. Muslims are the majority comprising 67 % of the population. METHODS This paper is qualitative in nature. It applies historical comparative method in presenting its ...

Many periodicals and books today systematically present a highly biased and misleading picture of IslamD Amongst other things, it is often alleged that Islam is intolerant towards people of other faithsD The truth is that, amongst the religions of the world, Islam is unique as regards the high degree of tolerance which, throughout history, it has shown towards non-Muslim religions, in particula...

Psycho-spiritual therapy (PST) is an approach that incorporates religion and spirituality into psychotherapy. For centuries, this has been done in many settings, and across different religions. BhagavadGita’s concept of a mentally healthy person focuses itself on certain special characteristics in the personality development of an average Indian which is the key to its psychotherapeutic context...

Almost every traditional personality theorist had something to say about religion, but the topic of how religious beliefs might affect individuals’ views of human nature remains largely unstudied. All religions, however, contain certain implicit ideas regarding personality that are likely to impact individual behavior. This article draws on Islamic sources to consider what a practicing Muslim m...

The purpose of the present paper is a sociological analysis on the attitude of the Islamic religions approximation. It is an attempt to answer the question what the attitude of students is to the Islamic religions approximation. According to the theory which tends to Tzyshh and Krvmka, three conceptual elements, evaluative and action elements have been analyzed, and in terms of population, the ...

Two different types of chattel slavery, those permitted by the Christian and Islamic religions, were introduced into Africa but only the Christian slave trade to the Americas has been studied by archaeologists. The much longer duration (over 1000 years) of the Islamic slave trade to Asia and of the Dar el Islam in North and East Africa is at present known only from literary and eyewitness accou...

Spiritual care is a vital part of holistic patient care. Awareness of common patient beliefs will facilitate discussions about spirituality. Such conversations are inherently good for the patient, deepen the caring staff-patient-family relationship, and enhance understanding of how beliefs influence care decisions. All healthcare providers are likely to encounter Muslim patients, yet many lack ...

Context: The pilgrimage occurs from the 8th to 12th or 13th of Dhu al-Hijjah, the last month of the Islamic calendar, with a population of more than 2 million pilgrims in Mecca. Muslims have a series of verdicts in an appealing scenario such as Abraham the prophet. The Hajj pilgrimage is one of the most important verdicts in not only Islam but also all of the Abrahamian religions. Hajj is the 2...

a genitourinary medicine clinic with symptomatic first episode genital herpes (FEGH). Design: Retrospective study. Subjects: A total of 606 females and 333 males presenting with culture positive FEGH between 1990-94. Setting: Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK. Methods: Group comparison of referral patterns, demographic data, prior and concurrent epi...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain factors associated with HSV-1 and HSV-2 isolates in patients attending a genitourinary medicine clinic with symptomatic first episode genital herpes (FEGH). DESIGN Retrospective study. SUBJECTS A total of 606 females and 333 males presenting with culture positive FEGH between 1990-94. SETTING Department of Genitourinary Medicine, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffiel...