{"id":171121,"date":"2022-12-07T14:43:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=171121"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:55:16","slug":"strive-to-be-the-best-says-siti-sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=171121","title":{"rendered":"\u0153Strive to be the best\u009d, says Siti Sarah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Nurul Arifah Hameed<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GOMBAK, 7 December 2022: The Royal Education Award winner from the Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences (KENMS), Siti Sarah Binti Ahmad Lutpi, emphasised in her valedictorian speech the importance of doing one&#8217;s best in everything no matter how insignificant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u0153In making the world a better place, one should always strive to be the best person possible, because everything we do has a huge impact on ourselves and everyone around us, and that is how we lead the way\u009d, she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah reminded the alumni that they have a larger role to play as graduates, <em>Khalifah<\/em>, and agents of change to leave positive impacts on the society, nation, and <em>ummah<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She went on to say that the graduates as an <em>ummah <\/em>need to realize the concept of <em>rahmatan lil-alamin<\/em>.&nbsp;\u0153Although we are leaving IIUM, we bring along the necessary skills we need to make the world a better place,\u009d she added.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah believed that making the world a better place presents challenges that can only be overcome by having complete faith in Allah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She expressed profound gratitude to her parents, lecturers, and close friends for all of their help and support throughout her journey at IIUM.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah ended her speech, by quoting a hadith which says, &#8220;The best of people are those who benefit many others&#8221;.***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nurul Arifah Hameed GOMBAK, 7 December 2022: The Royal Education Award winner from the Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences (KENMS), Siti Sarah Binti&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20823,"featured_media":171122,"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":[9233,11248,91,469,20823],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221206_204757-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171121"}],"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\/20823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171121"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171306,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171121\/revisions\/171306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/171122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}