what's right with Malaysia

Continued from before:

11.    Understanding the weaknesses allows us to pinpoint the areas of our contribution, the priority points if you like.

12.    Education, first and foremost. Academic as well as inculcating characters. Academically, middle eastern universities are flourishing eg KAUST, Jordan U, even IIUM etc. Character building will have to be supplemented by usrah based on ukhuwwah and ilm. Hafazan schools with emphasis on sciences would be excellent.

13.    To be on the lookout and prepare for meta-trends of permaculture as a sub-genre of sustainability and earth stewardship, Islamic finance as a viable alternative to shenanigans in the prevailing economics of financial ecosystems, to be foremost in self-promotion and relationship building in an age of narcissistic primadonnas utilising the latest disruptive technologies of the internet, and to be ready to participate in the growth of these sub-genres as a possibility of commercial enterprise and livelihood.

14.    To supplement these actvities with promoting, leading and thinking about societal needs in education and offering the products necessary to stem the flow of gradual but inevitable decline of the existing societal worldview in Malaysia, whose alternative and successor at this moment is still unclear. The void needs to be filled by an Islamic principle based solution especially in the fields of education and funding. It is within these two realms that applied dakwah and offerings must be focused on.

15.    To think of ways and means to participate in shaping the political thinking that can help to expedite the changes to push it to an environment, a paradigm that could help the country to flourish and society to co-exist peacefully.