Technological development has been exponential and its growth is at par with current modernisation. Increasingly sophisticated technological systems are steering societies into a new era that makes technology a very important tool. Children's minds are highly susceptible to technology enabling them to become skilful in using gadgets and in surfing the internet. However, the teaching and learning in classrooms still adopt traditional or conventional methods. This paper aims to critically examine the development of the portable application named Global Zakat Game (GZG) as one of the initiatives to help increase the level of education in Malaysia so that it will be in line with the development of information technology and communication today. The use of this application will also help teachers to disseminate universal values such as charity and raise awareness of issues such as the quest for peace both within the nation and globally, among people of different nations. A qualitative methodology was employed to analyse data using the inductive and deductive approach. The findings show that the GZG application could help students to understand the values of charity in zakat well, although it is only played online. This is because GZG encompasses almost the whole zakat syllabus including types of zakat, the rate of zakat, the calculation of zakat, and questions related to zakat. The education system should not lag behind in the use of technology and should upgrade its teaching-learning methodologies in line with the increasing sophistication of technology today. Through modern education awareness of global peace and values such as charity can be instilled and inculcated in the young. This paper suggests that through the teaching and learning of zakat using the portable applications GZG, global peace awareness and other relevant values could be successfully inculcated among students.

Temporary waqf is a restricted endowment for a specific duration. This paper examines Kuwait Law of Waqf and the contemporary implementation of temporary waqf in Kuwait. The research shows that Kuwait law of waqf allowed the application of all types of waqf as temporary, the duration of waqf should not exceed sixty years and no more than two layers of generations. This paper proposes to encourage other Islamic countries to implement this concept of temporary waqf as an alternative benefit.

Muslim jurists differed in the declaration (sighah) of waqf, specifically on whether a waqf can be made temporary or it is limited to perpetuity. The objectives of this paper are: to critically examine the concept of temporary waqf, to assess the different opinions of the scholars on the issue of temporary waqf and to discuss the evidences relied upon every doctrine, to explore the public interest (maslahah) of contemporary application. A qualitative methodology was employed to analyse the data through inductive and deductive methods. The inductive and deductive methods were used to research the main sources of literatures and to analyse the issues related to the temporary waqf. The findings have shown that an essential features of waqf is not limited only to perpetuity, hence some jurists such as Maliki school of Islami law approves the application of temporary and perpetual waqf. Thus, there is a need for temporary waqf to be enacted and applied as it provides the best interests of donors, beneficiaries and community at large. Impliedly, Islamic legal pronouncements (fatwa's) which were issued by the State Fatwa Committee in Malaysia should not be limited to the view of a single school of Islamic law, especially in the field of waqf.

The Global Peace Index (GPI) aims at identifying potential mechanisms to sustain and quantify the level of peacefulness among countries. The recent GPI results indicate that many Muslim majority countries score low on the level of peacefulness. Coincidently, according to UNDP's Human Development Index these countries also suffer from severe multi-dimensional poverty. Alleviating poverty and increasing the socio-economic well-being are believed to be among the key factors to increase the level of peacefulness. Hence, the study argues that good governance of zakat funds would be among one of the solutions. This could be done by enhancing the role of mosques as a platform to manage zakat funds. Proper management of zakat funds could help contribute to the satisfactory achievement of the peacefulness level. However, a clear and effective system in managing zakat funds through mosques is yet to be established. Therefore, the present study aims to develop a model of good governance for mosques to manage zakat funds. In developing a model the study has identified three fundamental units namely: Governance Unit, Recipients Information and Multimedia Unit and Collection and Distribution Unit. It is hoped that the proposed model could contribute to better zakat management, enhance the role of mosques and achieve peace.

Tawarruq personal financing is one of the most profitable Islamic finance products to Islamic financial institutions. However, it has been pointed out that its implementation triggered some controversial issues which related to the prohibition of gharar (ambiguity). This problem is getting bigger because there is no specific guideline prepared by the Central Bank of Malaysia (BNM) for the sake of proper tawarruq implementation. Hence, the objective of this research is to evaluate the existence of gharar in the tawarruq personal financing. This qualitative research adopts library method and observation method. The primary data is gained through the method of interviews with three selected respondents from Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad (BIMB). This research discovered that the gharar is existed in the implementation of tawarruq personal financing. This research concluded that its existence is permissible based on gharar yasir principles. The clarification in this research will retrieve the skeptical towards Islamic banking products and boost its productions. Nevertheless, it is recommended that this kind of research could be extended to explore on the other Islamic financing concepts such as musharakah, ijarah and al-rahnu to be implemented as personal financing instruments.