Anak - Anak Amanah ALLAH...

Salam 'alaikum wrt wbrt... Bersua kali pertama di Gerbang Tok Canang.Jika sebelum ini rusukkiri sekadar peneman, penyuntik semangat dan penyumbang idea buat tokcanang, tergerak pula hari ini jari - jari untuk menaip sesuatu buat tatapan semua...

Pasti ada yang terdetik dan tersentuh tatkala menghayati nasyid dendangan anak - anak 'AEMAN 'ini...sesungguhnya anak - anak merupakan amanah ALLAH yang amat berharga dan bernilai buat ibu dan ayah.Dalam masa yang sama kurniaan anak yang soleh dan mendoakan kesejahteraan ibu bapa menjadi dambaan setiap ibu dan bapa..

Sebagai ibu bapa, sering bermain dalam minda kita mampukah kita melahirkan anak - anak sedemikain rupa dalam keadaan cabaran semasa dan kekangan waktu yang ada..bila di ulang- ulang soalan ini buat diri sendiri, sebenarnya kita semua MAMPU!! Semuanya apabila kita berpegang kepada amanat RASULULLAH S.A.W,anak - anak ibarat kain putih yang suci bersih, kitalah yang diberikan amanah untk menentukan coraknya..

Kitalah yang mencanting, kitalah yang mencorak dan kitalah juga yang mewarnai mereka dengan acuan kita.Subahanallah!!Betapa berat dan maha hebat tanggungjawab yang harus kita galas untuk melahirkan generasi rabbani buat penyambung warisan di masa akan datang..

Wahai anak - anakku...jasa dan pengorbanan ibu dan ayah tidak terhitung nilainya.Betapa kita membalas dengan seisi dunia sekalipun, masih tidak mampu untuk membayar segala perit jerih pengorbanan mereka..apa yang mampu,jadilah anak yang soleh dan mendoakan kesejahteran mereka dunia dan akhirat..sekadar renungan buat kita semua...

Masalah Adalah Satu Peluang!

Bertemu lagi pada petang sabtu, 24 Jan 2009 ini... Harapan saya, semua dalam keadaan baik - baik saja. Bagi rakan - rakan berbangsa Cina, saya dan keluarga ucapkan Selamat Menyambut Tahun Baru Cina, Gong Xi Fa Chai... agar keharmonian dan keamanan terus dapat dipertahankan di Bumi Malaysia yang tercinta ini. Tiada guna kita bergeseran sesama sendiri, hanya akan menghancurkan keutuhan dan kekuatan yang sudah terbina. Apa yang lebih penting, setiap kelemahan dan kesilapan yang berlaku bukannya untuk 'finger out' mencari salah siapa, tetapi bersama - sama, seia sekata, sehati sejiwa mencari jalan keluar terbaik, agar kesulitan yang dihadapi dapat diselesaikan, dan bukannya mengusutkan lagi keadaan.

Bukankah setiap kesulitan itu merupakan satu 'peluang' untuk menjadi lebih terbaik daripada apa yang kita miliki pada hari ini? Bukankah setiap masalah itu, dalam apa jua keadaan sekalipun merupakan satu amanah? Amanah yang wajib dipikul oleh setiap hamba, iaitu untuk mencari jalan keluar terbaik, bukan menjadikannya 'stumbling block' kepada usaha yang mendatang. Banyak orang mudah 'futur' di tengah - tengah pergelutan dek tidak tertahan dengan masalah yang bertimpa - timpa.Percayalah, semuanya datang daripada Allah S.W.T berserta dengan hikmah dan kebaikan... yang kadang - kadang tidak terus dizahirkan di hadapan mata kasar kita bahkan memerlukan sedikit daya fikir dan muhasabah diri.

Allah S.W.T juga tidak akan sesekali membebani hamba-Nya dengan pelbagai ujian yang di luar batas kemampuan diri seseorang. Allahuakbar... betapa adilnya Tuhan terhadap manusia... sedangkan manusia sendiri amat sukar untuk berlaku adil terhadap-Nya dengan mengingkari pelbagai suruhan dan larangan.

Untuk menggondol kejayaan dalam apa jua perkara yang dilakukan, semangat tidak putus asa mesti disemai dan disuburkan dalam diri. Kejayaan tidak akan datang bergolek tanpa sebarang usaha yang bersungguh - sungguh dan menepati cara. Teringat saya kepada kata - kata hikmah yang termuat dalam laman sesawang syarikat motivasi terkenal milik Dato' Dr. Fazilah Kamsah (Excel Training & Consultancy) beberapa minggu yang lalu. Katanya;

"Ramai orang bermati - matian mendaki gunung, tetapi pada penghujungnya menyedari telah mendaki gunung yang salah"

Dalam kehidupan, kadangkala kita tidak dapat lari daripada situasi yang termaktub dalam kata - kata hikmah di atas. Sifat 'ingin cepat' mendapatkan sesuatu dalam diri terkadang mendorong kita melakukan sesuatu dalam keadaan tidak penuh persediaan dan matlamat yang jelas. Sesuatu perkara yang dilakukan tanpa jelasnya matlamat, akan menimbulkan kekalutan di kemudian hari. Bak kata; "Orang lain menuai padi, kita menuai hampa"! Habis begitu sahaja penat jerih dan susah payah! Kalau diikutkan pakar - pakar motivasi, mereka mengesyorkan agar kita 'bekerja bersungguh - sungguh dengan penuh bijaksana'!
Justeru, berusahalah untuk berjaya, berusahalah untuk beramal, dan berusahalah untuk terus mendekatkan diri kepada Allah S.W.T agar kehidupan kita yang bergalaskan 'amanah kekhalifahan-Nya' akan terlaksana sebaik mungkin berbekalkan kekuatan diri yang ada! Wassalam...

Kenapa Yahudi Mahukan Palestin?

Apa yang terjadi di Palestin sebenarnya sudah terlakar dan termaktub... Hayatilah paparan nasyid hadeeth di bawah ini... Semoga ketundukan kita, ketakwaan kita, dan keinsafan kita terhadap Allah S.W.T akan makin utuh tanpa wujud sedikitpun rasa syak dan wasangka terhadap-Nya lagi. Dialah yang mempunyai dan berhak ke atas segala - galanya... Kita hanya mampu merancang, tetapi kesudahannya, bukan di tangan kita. Kuasa 'kun fayakun' adalah hak mutlak Allah S.W.T! Moga - moga, kita sentiasa mengambil iktibar dan pengajaran daripada apa yang telah berlaku... Wassalam

OIC New Partnership Invitation to OBAMA

I executed from OIC official website.... Tok Canang

Dear President OBAMA, With great respect, the Organization of the Islamic Conference would like to congratulate you on behalf of the Muslim world on your groundbreaking election as President of the United States. The Muslim world has cheered your election and holds high hopes for your historic presidency. The eyes of the world now eagerly await your leadership and the fulfilment of your vision, promises, and pledges beyond America’s shores. The desire for peace is universal. Yet as the conflicts of the last decade have shown, the quest for peace is easily frustrated. We warmly welcome your expressed desire to give a major address in a Muslim nation soon after you assume the presidency and hope that it will mark the beginning of a more fruitful and better-informed dialogue between the West and the Muslim world. Above all, what is needed is the restoration of mutual confidence. Throughout the globe, Muslims hunger for a new era of peace, concordance, and tranquillity. We firmly believe that America, with your guidance, can help foster that peace, though real peace can only be shared – never imposed. A nation can either be great or feared, but rarely both at the same time. Myths Many myths about Islam, fostered by extremists in both the West and East, have proliferated in the last decade, and a new word –“Islamophobia”– has even entered the world’s lexicon to describe anti-Muslim acts of prejudice and violence. Despite these pernicious myths, you will find that Islam is a religion of peace. Tolerance is its benchmark and borne of the very nature of Islam. Nor is Islam an exclusive religion. It is an integral part of the history of world religions. It continues and confirms the previous scriptures. Along with Christianity and Judaism, Islam emanates from the same part of the world, comes from the same God, and holds to the same Prophets, mainly Abraham. It has been tested over fourteen hundred years, and shown itself to be a religion of compassion, mercy, justice, and equality. Extremists in any faith or tradition are rare, though they often command disproportionate attention. But the often overlooked truth is Islam is also the religion of moderation. It celebrates diversity and acknowledges and venerates a wide array of religions. Islam, in fact, abhors extremism and fanaticism and calls for treading the path of the “middle way” in favor of tolerance and reconciliation. It exhorts Muslims to be morally responsive to the truth and to goodness, and to be alert to all that is false, evil or destructive. The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which I have the honor to represent, is not a religious organization. After the United Nations, it is the largest official, inter-governmental organization in the world. It is composed of 57 sovereign states, almost all of whom are secular. The population of these states collectively amounts to 1.5 billion – or one fourth of humanity. Moderation and Modernization One of the OIC’s guiding principles is to practice “moderation and modernization.” To cite one example, it was at our demand that the UN General Assembly organized a host of events and activities around the world to disseminate the idea of “Dialogue among civilizations” as an alternative to those who predict a coming “clash of civilizations.” We have been alarmed by this tendency to divide the world into rival civilizations – civilized and uncivilized, good and evil, friend and enemy. As a youth who spent part of his childhood abroad, you are well aware of the dangers of stereotyping. We believe you will have a unique opportunity to promote tolerance and nurture vibrant multi-cultural societies. It is for these reasons that the OIC has been in the forefront of the Muslim battle against terrorism. Terrorism is a global phenomenon. It has no specific culture, race, or region. The root causes of terrorism are surely complicated but they include deprivation, poverty, despair and, most importantly, political injustice. Children do not emerge from the womb to announce they will become terrorists. They learn to be terrorists when injustice and tragedy are twinned with powerlessness. The decades-long suffering of the Palestinian people provides only the most recent and potent illustration of the link between oppression, injustice, and violence. The violence in the Mideast and the Palestinian people deserve an urgent and just remedy. Change and Partnership The most powerful word in your election campaign was “change.” Change must make the world a better place, correct wrongs and right the twisted. As an organization, we too have undergone substantial reform in charting an enlightened future for the Muslim world. As Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, I wish to assure you that we will be at your side to see that justice prevails and that the forces which are out to undo peace are defeated. At the OIC we are firmly committed to cooperating with you and your new administration to foster constructive dialogue and facilitate solutions to the intractable predicaments plaguing the Muslim world and beyond. In this regard, we are keen to build on the commendable initiative taken recently regarding the appointment of a U.S. Special Envoy to the OIC, and opening an office for him in the U.S. State Department. We are confident that this useful post will be endorsed and perhaps expanded under your leadership. We also look forward to working with the new Secretary of State Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is no stranger to the Muslim world. In the coming months, we hope to build on the existing channel of communication between the United States and the OIC and open new ones. Muslims today, around the world, believe that they have compelling strategic and moral reasons to cooperate and peacefully co-exist with the United States in particular, and with the West in general. Past episodes of short-lived misunderstandings should give way to a long future of peaceful cohabitation, making use of our shared civilizations and values to build a better future for all mankind. As you eloquently stated in your election-night acceptance speech in November, “our stories are singular but our destiny is shared.”

Dagangan Dalam Pelbagai Matawang

Assalamualaikum wrt wbrt.

Semenjak awal 2008 lagi, dagangan saham di Bursa Malaysia agak lembab dan tidak memberangsangkan. Tampaknya makin jelas selepas Pilihanraya Umum Ke-11 yang mengundang "Tsunami Politik" kepada susur galur dan gerak laku politik tanahair kita. Kehilangan majoriti 2/3 parti pemerintah (Barisan Nasional) di Parlimen memberikan satu kejutan psikologi seketika kepada pelabur individu dan institusi, luar dan dalam negeri, terutama 2,3 hari selepas tsunami tersebut.

Sesudah itu, seluruh dunia digelodak dengan krisis sub-prima di Amerika Syarikat yang seterusnya meledakkan kesan ekonominya ke serata pelusok dunia, termasuklah negara kita. Krisis ini telah menumbangkan beberapa bank terbesar Amerika, yang selama ini cukup gah mengaut keuntungan. Tidak kurang juga yang terpaksa berdepan dengan kerugian yang cukup besar dan sekaligus menidakkan peluang untuk terus maju ke depan.

Memandangkan Amerika adalah 'pembeli utama' produk dan perkhidmatan negara - negara di dunia, sesuatu yang terjadi di sana sudah tentu akan memberikan kesan langsung kepada nilai dagangan negara - negara terbabit. Kemerosotan nilai dagangan sesebuah negara akan memberikan kesan kepada ekonomi tempatan. Ini adalah gambaran tahap kebergantungan negara - negara dunia terhadap Amerika. Sekiranya, banyak negara dunia, terutamanya negara Islam meminimakan kebergantungan seperti ini, saya optimis impak yang ekonomi seperti ini dapat dielakkan dan ekonomi kita akan mempunyai daya tahan terhadap sebarang perubahan peringkat global.

Pasaran modal negara, iaitu Bursa Malaysia (dulunya dikenali Bursa Saham Kuala Lumpur) dianggap antara ukuran pencapaian ekonomi negara. Realitinya, ia turut mempunyai kebergantungan terhadap pelabur - pelabur institusi daripada luar negara terutamanya daripada Amerika.

Justeru, samada suka atau tidak, Bursa Malaysia perlu menampilkan produk dan perkhidmatan yang kompetitif sifatnya bagi mengekalkan dan menarik lebih ramai pelabur - pelabur daripada luar untuk terus komited dengan pasaran modal kita. Antara perubahan terbaru yang akan diperkenalkan ialah 'dagangan dalam pelbagai matawang'. Sekiranya mengikut praktis sekarang, semua dagangan yang berlaku di Bursa Malaysia adalah dalam Ringgit Malaysia (RM), pelabur tiada pilihan lain. Namun selepas ini, mereka bebas untuk memilih matawang tertentu ketika membuat dagangan di Bursa Malaysia. Pada saya, usaha ini akan sedikit sebanyak memberikan kesan positif kepada minat pelabur, terutamanya daripada luar negara yang seterusnya merancakkan prestasi pasaran kita. Walaubagaimanapun, situasi ini akan mendedahkan pasaran kita kepada manipulasi matawang peringkat antarabangsa, 'unless' dagangan dalam pelbagai matawang ini didominasikan oleh dinar emas. Untuk itu, peranan dan kesepakatan OIC mestilah terlebih dahulu ditonjolkan agar praktis dinar emas dapat direalisasikan. setidak - tidaknya sesama anggota OIC sendiri!

US unemployment hits 16-year high - AlJazeera Net

The US unemployment rate has surged to its highest level in almost 16 years, according to a US government report.
A total of 2.6 million jobs were lost from the economy in 2008, the largest decline since 1945, the US Labour Department said on Friday.
The unemployment rate climbed to 7.2 per cent from 6.8 per cent in November, with 1.9 million jobs being lost in the last four months of last year.
The collapse of the US housing market and the resulting financial crisis have triggered what some say is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
"This is a very dismal report. This paints a much worse picture in 2008 than we had thought," said Lindsey Piegza, a market analyst at FTN Financial in New York.
"This is one of most significant downward quarters for jobs in post World War history."
The number of unemployed rose to 11.1 million in December, the data showed.
The Labour Department also revised the number of job losses for the prior two months, with the October figure being changed to show a loss of 423,000 jobs from 320,000 and November a loss of 584,000 from 533,000.
The report, seen as perhaps the best indicator of economic momentum, "suggests that both the US economy and job market fell off a cliff" at the end of 2008, said Nariman Behravesh, the chief economist at IHS Global Insight, a financial research firm.
Behravesh said he expected "the jobs hemorrhage to continue through much of 2009" at a heavy pace and to ease if a large economic stimulus package can be enacted quickly.
Barack Obama, the US president-elect, warned on Thursday that the struggling US economy could be in recession for years unless politicians agree a massive economic stimulus plan.
Obama, who takes office on January 20, has pledged to change US economic policy, and is set to introduce a new stimulus plan containing tax cuts and public spending that could total almost $800bn.

OPEC's Profile - BBC News

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) is an association of oil-producing nations set up in 1960 with the express purpose of influencing oil prices by controlling supply.
Things have changed a great deal for the cartel in recent years. In 2000, it adopted a price band of between $22 and $28 a barrel, levels a world away from current prices.
If the price went below $22 a barrel, production quotas would be cut. If it went above $28 a barrel, production would be raised.
Opec abandoned the price band in 2005 and now has no official price target.
When its members meet, they try to co-ordinate future production with their predictions for demand.
While there have been increases in production recently, the price of oil has continued to soar.
Opec's official position is that there is plenty of supply in the market. It says rising prices are the fault of investors in the financial sector, who are buying oil contracts in order to sell them on without ever planning to take delivery.
Clearly there are limits to the amount production can be raised, and Opec also sees dangers in increasing supply further.
OPEC MEMBERS
Iran
Iraq
Kuwait
Saudi Arabia
Venezuela
Qatar
Indonesia
Libya
United Arab Emirates
Algeria
Nigeria
Ecuador
Angola
"Producers fear that the financial sector will decide that there is over-supply in the market and move into other investments," says Manouchehr Takin from the Centre for Global Energy Studies.
"If there is a sudden change in sentiment like that, then the price could collapse."
That problem is exacerbated by the time delays in the system.
If producers in the Gulf, for example, decide to increase production, it will be about three months before any extra oil reaches the market.
If the announcement of extra production caused a big fall in prices, then the extra oil actually hitting the market three months later would exacerbate the problem.
And the members of Opec have a great deal at stake.
Uniquely vulnerable
Many of the oil-rich states are rich in very little else.
Crude oil is their only export, making them uniquely vulnerable to world oil prices.
When prices fell to $10 a barrel in 1998, their economies were hit hard.
"In the US, Opec is viewed as a cartel and therefore something to be smashed, which is not a helpful way of thinking about it," says Tony Scanlan of the British Institute of Energy Economics. "The one thing the Opec countries all have in common is their absolute reliance on one product - oil."
OPEC HISTORY
1960 - founded by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela
1965 - Moves from Switzerland to new headquarters in Vienna, Austria
1973 - Opec embargo causes oil price shock
1990 - Iraq's anger at Kuwaiti over-production sparks Gulf War
1998 - World oil price drops to $10 a barrel
2000 -Opec introduces $22-$28 a barrel price band
2005- Price band abandoned
2008- Indonesia decides to leave Opec
According to Mr Scanlan, the Opec countries cannot afford to treat oil "as just another commodity".
"When the price falls, it creates real pain. They have to feed and give welfare to their people, the same as Western countries," he says.
On the other hand, of course, when Opec members decided to stop supplying oil to countries they said were supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur War of 1973, a great deal of damage was done to the economies of the targeted countries.
More recently, Opec has improved its reputation, with attempts made to provide some stability to the oil market.
But since the 1970s, Opec's power has waned, with its control over oil prices being questioned.
There have been continuing disputes about whether member countries are actually sticking to their agreed quotas.
Also, strategies favoured by countries such as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, which have enormous oil reserves and relatively small populations, are often at odds with those of countries such as Iran and Nigeria, that have bigger populations and few other exports.
Indonesia has announced that it will leave Opec when its membership expires later this year.
The official reason is that it is no longer a net exporter of oil. But the cartel's only South East Asian member is also understood to have been upset that there have not been greater increases of production to try to bring prices down from their record levels.
Another factor weakening the cartel is that as oil prices have risen, reserves that were not previously worth tapping in non-Opec countries have now become viable and Russia has become a particularly significant supplier.

Oil demand to fall again in 2009 - BBC News

Global oil demand is due to fall for the second year in succession in 2009, the first consecutive annual declines in 26 years, a report has predicted.
Demand will decline this year by an average 940,000 barrels per day to 85.3 million, a 0.6% fall from 2008, said the International Energy Agency (IEA).
The IEA, which represents the main oil consuming nations, said the expected fall was due to the global slowdown.
It said the world economy will now grow 1.2% in 2009, half its past estimate.
The IEA had previously predicted that global oil consumption would recover slightly this year, after 2008's 0.3% fall, led by demand in the developing world.
It now warns that demand will also cool, particularly in China, where the rate of Chinese economic growth will slow to 6.5%, its weakest level in eight years.
The IEA report comes a month after oil producers' cartel Opec announced a record cut in output, as it aimed to shore up prices that have fallen sharply since record highs last summer.
"Global oil demand is reducing at an alarming rate," said Rob Laughlin, senior oil analyst at MF Global in London.
"This latest report from the IEA is another warning shot across the bows to OPEC that supply is still outpacing demand and the situation is getting worse seemingly day by day."
US light crude was trading down 30 cents to $35.10 a barrel on Friday morning. Last July it hit a record $147.
Brent crude was up seven cents to $47.75.

Citigroup to split as losses grow - BBC News

Struggling US banking giant Citigroup has announced plans to split the firm in two, as it reported a quarterly loss of $8.29bn (£5.6bn).
It said it would realign into two new firms, Citicorp and Citi Holdings.
Citicorp will handle the company's traditional banking work, while Citi Holdings will take on the firm's riskiest investment assets.
Last autumn, Citigroup had to be rescued by the US government in a bail-out deal totalling $45bn.
The government also agreed to guarantee up to $306bn (£205bn) of risky loans and securities on Citigroup's books.
'Ongoing efforts'
"Given the economic and market environment, we have decided to accelerate the implementation of our strategy to focus on our core businesses," said Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit. "This will help in our ongoing efforts to reduce our balance sheet and simplify our organisation. "We are setting out a clear roadmap to restore profitability." Citigroup's net loss for the last three months of 2008 works out at $1.72 per share, worse than analyst expectations of $1.31.
Its quarterly revenues were down 13% to $5.6bn, which Citigroup said reflected "the impact of a difficult economic environment and weak capital markets".
"I think people knew it was going to be bad, but I'm surprised it's this bad," said Matt McCormick, portfolio manager at Bahl & Gaynor Investment Counsel in Cincinnati.
Analysts say the split essentially puts Citigroup's solid and profitable consumer banking interests in the hands of the new Citicorp, while the bad investment debts that forced it to seek government help go into Citi Holdings.
This will enable Citicorp to return to profitability much quicker than would have been possible for Citigroup as a single firm.
Citicorp - to have responsibility for universal banking operations
Citi Holdings - to take on the firm's brokerage and investment interests, and a special pool of loss-making assets
Meanwhile, the bosses at Citi Holdings will have the arduous task of sorting through the mass of bad debt, picking out what can be salvaged.
Citigroup said it was now looking for a "strong manager" to head Citi Holdings.
Redundancies
For 2008 as a whole, the bank made a net loss of $18.72bn.
It blamed the losses on having to write-off bad debt and the cost of making redundancies.

Siapa Yahudi?

Assalamualaikum wrt wbrt...saya tertarik kepada satu artikel yang dipaparkan dalam Harian Metro berhubung pengkisahan susur galur sejarah Yahudi. Barangkali ianya bermanafaat sebagai rujukan dan iktibar buat kita semua. Untuk itu, saya 'post'kan di Gerbang Tok Canang.

Semoga segala usaha kita akan terus dipermudahkan oleh Allah S.W.T dalam apa jua keadaan.

"KISAH mengenai Bani Israel jelas dinyatakan di dalam al-Quran melalui pelbagai ayat dan surah. Banyak teks yang menerangkan perihal mereka, terutama membabitkan ajaran diperjuangkan nabi dan rasul di kalangan mereka. "Wahai Bani Israel! Kenangkanlah nikmat-nikmat-Ku yang Aku telah kurniakan kepada kamu, dan (ingatlah) bahawasanya Aku telah melebihkan (nenek moyang) kamu (yang taat dahulu) atas orang (yang ada pada zamannya). (al-Baqarah:47)
Dalam kamus Inggeris orang Yahudi atau Israel dikenali sebagai Jew, dari istilah Perancis giu. Jew asalnya istilah Hebrew, merujuk kepada orang Yahudi, etnik dari Israel atau Hebrew (ahli kaum Semit Arab dan Yahudi). Bahasa Latin ringkasya bermaksud Judaean, dari perkataan Judah, iaitu nama kerajaan Judah dan satu suku kaum Israel.Jerman memanggilnya Jude, Juif (Perancis), Jode (Denmark) dan Judio (Sepanyol). Mengikut sejarah, Yahudi yang difahami merujuk dari zaman dahulu kala, malah mengikut adat mengembalikan kepada zaman millennium kedua Sebelum Masihi, dari Nabi Ibrahim, Nabi Ishak dan Yaakub a.s. Nabi Yaakub, putera kepada Nabi Ishak, yang dilahirkan di Kan'an (bahasa Hebrew, nama lama bagi Palestin), dinasabkan dengan keturunan Bani Israel dan baginda dinamakan juga Israel.Isra' membawa erti hamba, kesucian, manusia, manakala 'el' bererti Allah. Perkataan Israel merujuk kepada hamba kesucian Allah.

"Segala jenis makanan dulu halal bagi Bani Israel, kecuali makanan yang diharamkan oleh Israel (Nabi Yaakub) kepada dirinya sendiri sebelum diturunkan Kitab Taurat..." (Ali Imran: 93)Begitupun, dalam pemahaman moden, Yahudi merujuk kepada tiga kumpulan; orang yang dilahirkan dalam keluarga Yahudi sama ada mengikuti atau tidak agama itu; mereka yang mempunyai keturunan; dan tiada keturunan Yahudi tetapi memeluk agama itu.

Fakta penyelidikan seorang sarjana Yahudi, Arthur Koestler, menunjukkan lebih daripada 80 peratus Yahudi hari ini langsung tidak mempunyai kaitan sejarah dengan bumi Palestin.Majoriti Yahudi sekarang berketurunan Yahudi Khazar iaitu puak Tartar-Turki kuno, di utara Kaukaz (kawasan bekas Soviet) yang asalnya mengamalkan kepercayaan Shamanisme. Cuma sekitar abad kesembilan menjadikan Judai (Yahudi) sebagai agama.Kemudian Khazar dianggap sebagai satu daripada empayar kegemilangan Yahudi manakala penduduk Khazar dipercayai menjadi antara moyang bangsa Yahudi moden ketika ini.Pendeta Benedictine, Christian dari Stavelot dalam bukunya yang ditulis pada abad kesembilan, "Expositio in Matthaeum Evangelistam' merujuk Khazar sebagai bangsa nomad yang berasal daripada keturunan Yakjuj dan Makjuj.

Seorang pengembara Arab, Ibnu Fadlan dalam catatan perjalanannya ketika mengadakan misi diplomatik untuk menghadap orang suruhan Raja Khazar menyatakan beliau percaya Yakjuj dan Makjuj adalah moyang kepada Khazar.Berbanding bangsa Palestin, dikenali juga sebagai bangsa Kan'an yang diperakui mendiami tanah itu dari awal sejak sekian lama sebelum orang Israel mendatangi lokasi terbabit.

Orang Yahudi moden berusaha menubuhkan Tanah Israel (Land of Israel), khususnya mereka berhaluan utama untuk dikongsi semua golongan terbabit.Istilah Tanah Israel bukannya negara Israel, iaitu sebuah negara geopolitik moden yang lebih kecil, tetapi ia dikatakan wilayah menurut Injil Hebrew dijanjikan Tuhan kepada pengikut Ibrahim melalui puteranya Isa dan orang Israel, pengikut Yaakub.Negara moden Israel hari ini terbentuk pada 14 Mei 1948. Peringkat awal pembentukannya menyaksikan perpindahan besar-besaran, termasuk saki baki Holocaust (pemusnahan oleh Nazi Jerman, 1941-1945 membabitkan korban enam juta Yahudi).Kerajaan Israel dikenali juga sebagai rejim Zionis, iaitu pergerakan politik antarabangsa yang menyokong tanah air orang Yahudi di Land of Israel.

Pergerakan rasminya diasaskan seorang wartawan Austria, Theodor Herzl pada akhir kurun ke-19. Menurut Agensi Yahudi, pada 2007 ada 13.2 juta Yahudi seluruh dunia, dengan 5.3 juta tinggal di Israel, 5.3 juta di Amerika Syarikat dan bakinya bertaburan di pelbagai negara, mewakili 0.2 peratus populasi semasa dunia. Yahudi terkenal sebagai suatu bangsa yang mengingkari perintah Tuhan, golongan yang melampau dalam banyak aspek, keras kepala dan taksub. Teks al-Quran dan lipatan sejarah membuktikan kenyataan itu.Sebagai contoh, ketika pemergian Nabi Musa a.s selama 40 hari ke Thur Sina, sesetengah mereka menyembah patung anak lembu. Walaupun dinasihati, mereka tidak mempedulikannya.

Kehidupan orang Yahudi terbahagi kepada beberapa zaman, dengan yang pertama berakhir apabila rumah ibadat pertama dimusnahkan orang Babylon. Rumah ibadat itu dibangunkan Nabi Sulaiman.Mereka ditakluki pelbagai kuasa besar, seperti orang Assyrians (dari bahagian atas Sungai Tigris di Iraq), Babylon, Parsi, Empayar Roman dan Islam. Cuma di bawah kekuasaan Islam mereka dilayan dengan adil.Di wilayah Iberia misalnya, pemerintahan Muslim memberi kebebasan kepada Yahudi memajukan diri dalam matematik, astronomi, falsafah, kimia dan filologi, sehingga zaman itu sering dirujuk sebagai zaman emas Yahudi.

Pada masa awal Islam, Leon Poliakov menulis, orang Yahudi mendapat banyak keistimewaan dan masyarakat mereka bertambah maju. Dalam tempoh penaklukan pelbagai kuasa besar, mereka acap kali diusir, malah dijual dalam pengabdian pada masa Empayar Roman. Pada kurun kedua Maharaja Roman Hadrian membina semula Jerusalem yang hancur sebagai kota orang jahiliah dan dijadikan tempat upacara agama orang Yahudi. Marah dengan penghinaan itu, mereka memberontak. Hadrian bertindak balas, memadamkan pemberontakan dengan membunuh lebih setengah juta Yahudi. Kemudian pada zaman Roman Legions, orang Yahudi tidak dibenarkan memasuki kota Jerusalem (dikenali Muslim sebagai al-Quds atau Baitulmaqdis) dan kebanyakan ibadat mereka dilarang.

Pada tahun 212, semua orang Yahudi dijadikan rakyat Roman. Pada akhir kurun empayar Rom, orang Yahudi dan Kristian mengamalkan tolak ansur, tetapi arah tuju yang bertentangan.Orang Yahudi pernah bersekutu dengan orang Parsi yang menceroboh Palestin pada 614, tetapi apabila perintah Kristian diasaskan semula akhirnya mereka disembelih dan dilupuskan dari Jerusalem.Ternyata mereka tidak pernah belajar daripada penaklukan, penghinaan dan pemusnahan dialami sepanjang sejarah, akibat suka membuat onar dan bersengketa.Hari ini mereka bersengketa pula dengan orang Islam, terutama rakyat Palestin"