{"id":170708,"date":"2022-12-06T09:54:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T09:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=170708"},"modified":"2022-12-06T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T09:54:09","slug":"iium-rector-relates-knowledge-and-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=170708","title":{"rendered":"IIUM Rector relates knowledge and action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Syiqa Suhaimy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 6 December 2022: \u0153Knowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity,\u009d said IIUM Rector, Professor Emeritus Tan Sri Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, as he quoted Imam Al-Ghazali in his speech at the 2nd session of the 38th Convocation Ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rector emphasised on the benefit of knowledge that only becomes apparent when it is put into action as he said, &#8220;What is the point of knowledge and values if we would not internalize it and we are not able to put it into practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He continued by saying that the difficulty starts as soon as the graduands leave the university since the community looks on them to apply what they have learned to make a difference in people&#8217;s lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Graduating from a university is only an achievement when followed by many other tasks in the future as you are equipped with knowledge and wisdom,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Education and learning are therefore a lifelong process, thus earning a degree is not the endgame but the endgame is to make it real,&#8221; he explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the advances technology has made for humanity, the Rector stated that technology can never replace knowledge because individuals are still capable of carrying out their daily activities without technology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He continued and highlighted that the graduates&#8217; accomplishments in their respective fields would demonstrate their tolerance for others and further exemplify their courage and civic values in removing injustice from society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rector thanked all of the graduates&#8217; parents for instilling values in their children because they are the future of the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his concluding remark, the IIUM Rector said, &#8220;All parents deserved an acknowledgement from the institution because parents had a significant impact on the graduates&#8217; accomplishments.&#8221; ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Syiqa Suhaimy GOMBAK, 6 December 2022: \u0153Knowledge without action is vanity, and action without knowledge is insanity,\u009d said IIUM Rector, Professor Emeritus Tan Sri&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20844,"featured_media":170729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,6,114,11,8,3,24],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[9233,11247,91,469,20844],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/photo1670157415.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170708"}],"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\/20844"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170708"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171093,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170708\/revisions\/171093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}