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Muslim Researchers Opened An Islamic Exhibition in JAIST Festival

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Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), is a graduate school located in Hokuriku area, northwest of Japan. Every year in the early autumn season, this graduate school organize a big open campus day to promote interactions between JAIST and surrounding community. Jointly sponsored by local city government, alumni association and several industry parties, this event always attract many visitors every year.

The main contents of this event are robot exhibition, introduction of each research area, panel displays of laboratory, gallery exhibition, public open lectures, workshops and cultural exchange exhibitions. There were also many food booths and stands as well as puzzle play and mini game areas. Through this event, the university encourage all faculty, staff and students to deepen relationships respectively as well as for families to enjoy spending time together.

JAIST Muslim Circle (JMC) also participated in this year festival. The main exhibition displays several posters about Islamic teaching, the beautiful names of Allah (The Asmaul Husna), Muslim Inventions (based on the 1001 Invention, National Geography). The booth also have kids’s area where the children can play puzzle, drawing, or playing some toys. A big photo backdrop also has been featured and became one of the most attractive to the visitors.

As a part of JMC, all team of muslimahjapan.com would like to express the gratitude to all brands who had supporting us during the event, including Kiciks Muslimah, Dewi Permata, Gdas by Ghaida Tsurayya, Momohime Japan, and all of supporting team members. May Allah reward all of you eternally. InshaAllah we will continue again to spread the Islamic teaching in various event.

Report about this event has been featured in a national media Republika online, link is here. Thank you everyone.

 

Be Inspired : Islamic Museum of Australia

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First time we visited this museum was because we registered to a workshop creating Eid banner to celebrate the last Eid ul Adha. Located in Anderson Road, Thornbury, Victoria, about half hour driving from the city. If you are not driving, this museum can be reached using tram number 1 or 6 from Flinders Street Station to Moreland Road, and continue walking about 20 minutes.

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[The main entrance of Islamic Museum Australia]

The Islamic Museum of Australia provides at least five main exhibition, including Islamic Faith, Islamic Contributions to Civilisation, Islamic Art, Islamic Architecture, and Australian Muslim History. Islam, which means submission, is a word derived from the Arabic word Salam, or peace, implying contentment with God and all His creations. It is an Abrahamic religion that stresses absolute surrender to the one true God, known in Arabic as Allah.

It is interesting to find the fact that the Muslim fishermen from Makassar in Southern Sulawesi, Indonesia, made annual visit to Australia and they influenced people of Northern Australia.

My favorite gallery is the Islamic Contributions to Civilisation, as the scientist from the Islamic Golden Age always impress me in every ways. They also have a set of giant chess board game and it really attract the children to know more about it. Chess came to Europe from the Persian game, Shatranj. The original pieces include Shah (King), Firz (Persian) or Wazir (Arabic and Turkish) means the King’s adviser, Rukh (Rook), Persian for chariot, and Pil (Persian) or Alfil (Arabic) means Elephant, renamed ‘bishop’ in English. The term ‘checkmate’ (shah maat) means the King is dead, came from the original language. Not only from the past, they also display Muslim contribution in the recent years, especially Australian Muslim.

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[Display of Australian Muslim Contribution to Society]

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[Poster exhibition about the Islamic Golden Age]

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[Chess board game (giant size)]

 

In the Islamic Architecture section, they display many beautiful pictures of  mosques, tombs, palaces, forts, schools and urban buildings. There is also a miniature (scale 1:100) of Dome of the Rock (Qubbath As-Sakhrah), Jerussalem. It is an octagonal shrine that has a central dome covered in gold leaf. It is one of the oldest and most significant examples of Islamic architecture.

 

This museum also provides a quite big prayer room (mushalla) inside the building. Separated with hijab to differs the male and female area, this place is really comfortable and peaceful. We took some pictures of the museum, we hope it will inspire us to learn more about our religion and spread its beautiful teachings by all means, with the will of Allah.

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[Prayer Room inside the building of Islamic Museum Australia]