Information Age

Bismillahirrohmanirrohim

Today is the 13th day of Ramadhan, and with a blink of an eye we have all moved through 13 nights of this holy month and another 17 more left! :(( I pray for consistence and sincerity in performing amal and learning knowledge.

I bought a new book by Robert Kiyosaki titled "Unfair Advantage", this book talks about how our education system lacks one of the most important knowledge which is 'Financial Education'. I was reading and reading it, and it really answered all my questions before this about how I myself am lacking knowledge in handling my own finances and not to mention about all that money earned and gone even before the end of the month! So he defined the age now as the Information age, contrary to the age before this which was the Industrial Age. Now people are wireless! We need not big shops, stores, etc... everything is online. Entrepreneurs are also growing like 'cendawan selepas hujan' nowadays, so what would these group of people require? A sufficient and safe financial education. A point that this author always emphasizes on is also, "its not about what you invest in, but how good you are as an investor". So double whammy! Poor financial education leads to bad investment and empty bank account? Well at least that's how I see it. So now, I tell myself to actively learn this important portion which is to study on how to manage money and also learn about bigger things! Hehehe.... (Ssshhh this is totally a different part of me talking)

Relevant to the Information Age, I was browsing through Apple's website and as usual this company has never failed to amaze me. Just how do they do it. They seem to come up with brilliant ideas and definitely out of the box! Their products are also really cool and look really good. Imagine the world before this, now almost everyone owns either an iphone, iPod, iPad, macbook, iMac a couple of them or perhaps all of them! Yes, they are pricey but seriously their price has really gone down compared to before and its all worth every penny. This also reminds me of Sheikh Yusuf AlQaradawi's talk a few years ago about how the Muslim world especially the Arab world, are consumers! Yes, some muslims might be blessed with a loooottt of money but the fact is that we're just buying the products made in the West. He was saying how we can afford a Mercedes, but not even a single screw is made by a muslim. So he really called upon Muslims to get up and be makers or producers or manufacturers rather than a plain consumer.

On the bright side, alhamdulillah now in a smaller scope Malaysia has grown tremendously, There are so many new blooming companies owned by local Muslim people, who create many-many new products and services. I feel so driven to do the same when seeing the success of fellow brothers and sisters in manufacturing their own products. This has definitely grown in the markets in the middle east, UK, Europe, US etc. Just try googling muslim clothing online store! It just contributes to that penniless bank account again Hehe.

The picture below kinda summarizes Apple's products though they're not the latest. :)




In a nutshell: "Its a different era now, things have changed, people have changed and so have mentality. Live in the now and educate yourself with the some of the most important knowledge.