Teaching Arabic language and literature in Malaysia is growing rapidly and across all levels of study. However, the problems are not yet fully explored. Weakness of student acquisition is always addressed by researchers. This content occurs because the teaching method still uses the old method, namely translation and teacher-centered learning. The purpose of this study is to present a language teaching strategy described by Ibn Khaldun and to see teachers performing to meet the needs of this strategy. In order to obtain the data, this study used qualitative methods that used interviews as an instruments for data acquisition. Eight excellent teachers were selected for this study. The findings show that Ibn Khaldun’s strategy is divided into three parts, gathering, strengthening and application. The practice of excellent teachers meets the requirements of this strategy. This study proposes to stakeholders to adapt this strategy in teaching Arabic to fit the requirements of PAK-21. Keywords: Arabic language, teaching, strategy, language acquisition, language skills

Pembelajaran bahasa Arab di Malaysia lebih menumpukan sudut kemahiran bahasa yang mempunyai sukatan berhubung dengan komunikasi. Buku teks mengemukakan tajuk-tajuk berhubung dengan komunikasi semasa. Petikan sastera kurang mendapat tempat di dalam sukatan tersebut yang menyebabkan pelajar tidak berminat dengan sastera Arab dan juga menganggapnya subjek yang sukar dipelajari. Dalam pembelajaran bahasa English sebagai bahasa kedua atau asing, bahan sastera dimasukkan ke dalam sukatan bagi menarik minat pelajar dan membantu dalam penguasaan bahasa yang baik. Tujuan kajian ini ia lah melihat persepsi pelajar terhadap kepentingan bahan sastera dalam pembelajaran bahasa Arab sebagai bahasa asing. Kajian ini menggunakan borang soal selidik bagi mendapatkan data. Sampel dipilih daripada Kumpulan pelajar yang telah mengambil beberapa kursus sastera Arab. Dapatan kajian ini menunjukkan sampel kajian menyatakan kepentingan bahan sastera dalam pembelajaran dan pengajaran bahasa Arab untuk menyuntik minat dan motivasi belajar bahasa, serta membantu dalam penguasaan bahasa Arab dari sudut penguasaan kosa kata, frasa, gaya bahasa dan kefahaman dan templat bahasa untuk ungkapan. Kajian ini mencadangkan supaya dimasukkan bahan sastera dalam sukatan bahasa Arab untuk membantu pelajar dalam peningkatan kemahiran.

Interpreter is one of the important individuals in connecting patients and hospital staffs. The role also contributes to the high enrollment of medical tourists to our country. Although there is a great need for language interpreters in medical institutions, there are only a limited number of language interpreters available for employment. Accordingly, a model of language and communication services for marketing medical tourism in Malaysia is required, in keeping with the MHTC's goal of making Malaysia the world's leading global healthcare destination. The purpose of this study is to establish a model of language interpreter for medical tourism, with the intention of boosting medical tourism to Malaysia as the world's leading healthcare destination. This study implemented qualitative method. The approach used to collect the data was using a questionnaire instrument that had been given to 8 experts. The criteria in the determination of experts are these experts consist of four fields: Arabic, English, communication, and tourism Malaysian lecturers who have served more than 10 years in public universities. All the data collected were analyzed using the Fuzzy Delphi method. The findings showed that there are three main components in preparing a competent medical interpreter which are language, communication, and medical tourism. The determination of the items for each component are based on the calculated threshold value (less than 0.2) and the percentage of the expert group (more than 75%). This study showed that there are three components of the interpreter model for medical tourism in Malaysia and only 21 out of 32 items are agreed by the lectures from four fields based on expert agreement.

This article discusses the symbolism of the Malay Sufist poet Ahmad Kamal Abdullah, also known as Kemala. This article aims to reveal the meaning of the symbols used in the selected texts. The article relies on a descriptive and analytical approach, as it begins by selecting texts related to Sufism, as said by Kemala, and then extracting the symbols present in those texts from three anthologies, which are “The Eye,” “The Bridge of Remembrance," and “White Harbor.” The article reached the conclusion that there are several symbols in the texts: women, wine, nature, the universe, animals, colour, the symbol of the religious emblem, and Islamic figures. It was also found that the symbol of Islamic characters is more used than the rest of the symbols, which represents 28%. This indicates that Kemala not only understands the Islamic historical stories but also tries to invite the audience to learn about the famous Islamic figures such as Rabiah al-Adawiyah, Bilal bin Rabah, Balqis, and others who are chosen to showtheir proof of love and pure longing for the Creator Almighty in order to get closer to Him.

Arabic language learning issues are constantly addressed by scholars and researchers. Arabic language learning has touched on various angles such as student, syllabus, learning method, reference material, teaching aids, environment and teacher. There are researchers who study past and present teaching methods. The result showed that Arabic language learning methods are still unchanged in many institutions such as schools and universities. They are still student-centered and still using a one-way translation approach from teachers only. The Arabic book is a book that throws the revolutionary ideas into the current method of learning. It attempts to introduce student-centered methods through activities and interactions by using target languages.

The article discussed aboutMystical Ghazal Poems by studying the selected poetic texts of the most prominent contemporary poets such as Jamaluddin Darus, Nahmar Jamil, Suhaimi Haji Mohammed, Abdul Aziz Deraman, Hassan Basri Budiman, Ahmad Kamal Abdullah or Kemala, Abham T.R. The poets were chosen because their poetic texts which met the characteristics of the Ghazal, including its themes, and the predominance of vocabularyleading to the meanings of love and longing. After the article relied on the analytical descriptive study, it reached several results. The most important of these were the selected poetic texts are presenting several topics. These topics indicate that theideas of Mystical Ghazal Poems and its contents have remained until our present time, although the selected texts do not constitute a Ghazal as an independent art. Keywords:Poetry, Mystical,Ghazal, Malay,Literature.

This study deals with one of the important subjects in the Rhetoric Discipline, i.e., versification issue. It is considered the first issue been raised by Imam Abd al-Qaher al-Jarjani, the founder of rhetoric, during his research and his argument on the issue of miracles in the Holy Quran. This study discusses the versification thought and reveals its features under the rhetoric perspective. The objective of this study is to be a prominent reference and to discuss the versification thought, and his theory of versification from its inception until it established in this discipline. The Arabic literary taste and sense possess the disclosure of the secrets of rhetoric, it relies on the awareness of style and the verbalization theory. The clarity of the significance or its ambiguity can only come through versification thought. In this study, the researchers rely on the inductive and analytical method, by extrapolating evidence from the Qur’anic verses related to the versification thought based on Abdul-Qahir al-Jurjani analysis’ theory. The study concluded that the reason for the emergence of versification theory is the interrelation of the word and the context of what is required by grammar with its validity and that eloquence and rhetoric does not come except from that versification. Finally, the researchers concluded that the versifications are the only verdict in terms of rhetoric because the decoration in poetry when expressing does not mean that the versification of speech deserved eloquence or rhetoric compared to the Qur’an, the great miracle far from decoration.