{"id":134788,"date":"2019-11-22T10:14:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T10:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=134788"},"modified":"2019-11-23T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T09:00:33","slug":"her-majesty-the-queen-proclaimed-2nd-iium-constitutional-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=134788","title":{"rendered":"Her Majesty the Queen proclaimed 2nd IIUM Constitutional Head"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Ariani Mohd Nor and Iylia Marsya Iskandar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 22 November 2019: Her Majesty Seri Paduka Baginda The Raja Permaisuri Agong, Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah binti Almarhum Al-Mutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj, was officially proclaimed as the 2nd IIUM Constitutional Head today at the Proclamation Ceremony, held here at the IIUM Cultural Centre (ICC), Gombak campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adhering to Article 23 of the IIUM Constitution, the conferment of the title was given by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri&#8217;ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah ibni Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Musta&#8217;in Billah, following the demise of the late Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muazzam Shah earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almarhum Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah of Pahang had been the constitutional head of IIUM for the last 35 years since IIUM&#8217;s opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191122_163116_807-min-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-134793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191122_163116_807-min-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191122_163116_807-min-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191122_163116_807-min-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The Yang di-Pertuan Agong and the Raja Permaisuri Agong during <br>the Proclamation Ceremony<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In her emotional conferment speech, Her Majesty said that she was honoured with this title, as IIUM is known to produce great leaders all around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added, &#8220;The University must live to its proclamation of<em> &#8216;Leading The Way&#8217;<\/em> to progress and live to the mission of <em>rahmatan lil alamin.<\/em> As mentioned in Surah Ali-Imran verse 79, we should be the <em>rabbani<\/em> generation that teach the scripture to others.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She also reminisced how deeply touched she was during the opening of IIUM in 1992, being a unique university that manifests the epicentre of <em>tawhidic<\/em> paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She hoped to defend and protect the sacred philosophy, vision and mission of IIUM with this proclamation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event ended with a video of her biography, and also highlighted her involvement with Majlis Kraf Negara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her Majesty was crowned with the 2019 Craft Icon by the World Craft Council (WCC) in her efforts to preserve the craft heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The robe used by Her Majesty Raja Permaisuri Agong was of kain tenun diRaja Pahang, woven by the inmates of Penor Prison.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ariani Mohd Nor and Iylia Marsya Iskandar GOMBAK, 22 November 2019: Her Majesty Seri Paduka Baginda The Raja Permaisuri Agong, Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":134790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[12,111,134],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/IMG_20191122_163120_338-min.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134788"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134959,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134788\/revisions\/134959"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}