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yang kini menjadi asas penetapan tarikh Ramadan lunar visibility criteria (imkanur rukyah), now the
dan Hari Raya di Malaysia. regional standard for determining the beginning of
Ramadan and Eid in Malaysia.
Pada tahun 2001, beliau bersama Pengarah
Akademi Pengajian Islam telah menubuhkan In 2001, the Director of the Academy of
program berkembar Syariah dan Sains bagi Islamic Studies and he established a dual Shariah
melahirkan graduan yang menguasai kedua- and Science programme to produce graduates
dua bidang. Hasilnya, pada semester kedua proficient in both fields. As a result, in the second
tahun 2002, tertubuh Program Ijazah Sarjana semester of 2002, the Bachelor of Shariah (Falak
Muda Syariah (Falak Syari‘i), kini dikenali sebagai Sharii) programme was launched, now known as
Pengkhususan Falak di bawah Jabatan Fiqh-Usul the Falak Specialisation under the Department
dan Sains Gunaan, Akademi Pengajian Islam, of Fiqh-Usul and Applied Sciences, Academy of
UM. Program ini menjadi asas kepada lahirnya Islamic Studies, Universiti Malaya. The programme
generasi ilmuwan falak yang seimbang antara has since become the cornerstone for cultivating
ilmu sains dan syariah. a new generation of Islamic astronomy scholars
well-versed in both science and shariah.
Beliau yang bersara wajib pada 2014 terus
menyumbang bakti sebagai Profesor di Universiti Upon his mandatory retirement in 2014,
Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM) sebelum he continued to serve as a Professor at the
kembali ke Universiti Malaya, khususnya di International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
Akademi Pengajian Islam, sebagai Profesor before returning to Universiti Malaya, particularly
Pelawat sebelum dilantik sebagai Profesor to the Academy of Islamic Studies, as a Visiting
Kehormat di Jabatan Fiqh dan Usul ketika itu. Professor, before being appointed Honorary
Professor at the then Department of Fiqh and Usul.
Atas kecemerlangan dan kepakaran beliau
dalam bidang ilmu falak dan astrofizik, beliau For his excellence and expertise in astronomy
telah dilantik sebagai Felo Institut Fizik Malaysia and astrophysics, he was elected a Fellow of the
(FIPM) di samping terlibat sebagai pakar yang Institute of Physics Malaysia (FIPM) and he served
dilantik oleh Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia as an appointed expert for the Department of
(JAKIM), Agensi Angkasa Malaysia (MySA), Dewan Islamic Development Malaysia (JAKIM), Malaysian
Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP), Jabatan Pengajian Space Agency (MYSA), Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Tinggi (JPT), dan Majlis Peperiksaan Malaysia (DBP), Department of Higher Education (JPT),
(MPM). Di peringkat antarabangsa pula, beliau and the Malaysian Examinations Council (MPM).
telah diiktiraf sebagai Penasihat Asosiasi Ahli Internationally, he has been recognised as the
Falak Asia Tenggara (SAAIA), Felo Persatuan Advisor of the South-East Asia Association of
Astronomi Diraja United Kingdom (FRAS), dan ahli Islamic Astronomy (SAAIA), a Fellow of the Royal
Kesatuan Astronomi Antarabangsa (IAU). Astronomical Society, United Kingdom (FRAS), and
a member of the International Astronomical Union
Di luar dunia akademik, beliau aktif memberi
penerangan kepada masyarakat tentang ilmu falak (IAU).
dan memegang amanah sebagai Yang Dipertua Beyond academia, he actively engages the
Persatuan Ahli Falak Selangor. Atas sumbangan public through lectures and outreach on astronomy
dan keilmuan beliau, beliau dikurniakan Darjah and Islamic astronomy, and has served as President
Kebesaran Dato’ Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah of the Selangor Islamic Astronomy Association. In
(D.S.I.S.) oleh DYMM Sultan Selangor pada tahun recognition of his contributions and scholarship,
2010. he was conferred the Darjah Kebesaran Dato’
Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah (D.S.I.S.) by His Royal
Beliau selamat bernikah dengan Datin
Noorul-Aini Bte Ambak pada 1 September 1979, Highness the Sultan of Selangor in 2010.
dan pasangan dikurniakan lima orang cahaya He is happily married to Datin Noorul-Aini
mata iaitu empat lelaki dan seorang perempuan. Bte Ambak since 1 September 1979, and the
Kini beliau menetap di Shah Alam, Selangor, dan couple are blessed with five children: four sons
terus menyumbangkan ilmu dan kepakarannya ke and one daughter. He currently resides in Shah
arah memajukan bidang ilmu falak di Malaysia. Alam, Selangor, and continues to share his vast
knowledge and expertise in advancing the field of
Islamic astronomy in Malaysia.

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