A television interview on Islamic economics and finance

This is something quite special...

Last Thursday I went to a lawyer friend's office to honour an invitation.

Me and the friend, Taufiq Khalid Sahan were to be interviewed for a cable television program.

The program is called Islamic Finance Today, the host is lawyer-turned-financial consultant Amirul Haji Mohamad. That's me wearing a traditional Malay nobleman custome. Guess which one is Taufiq, which one is Amirul.

We were interviewed as members of a body called HIKMAH which I've founded on 12th October 2012. The body aims to empower Malay Muslim rights and sovereignity through increased awareness of pertinent matters like real history according to our people, not those written by the colonialists and orientalists. For the program our views on world economics were sought. This we did under the name HIKMAH's Islamic Economics Study Circle. 

Before recording we had rehearsals which also served as sound-checks.There were plenty of jabs and such. Everybody had fun.

After a while the actual recorded interview was completed.

Next, we have to give out one-liners to promote the program...

That was not all. Later we were joined by another friend, journalist Shamsul Yunos who was also a law graduate. Shamsul has been specialising in motoring for many years and was just returning from conducting a high-profile interview of an industry captain.

You see there were two sessions of interviews meant for two episodes of the program.

For this session Shamsul did plenty of talking while Taufiq looked on.

By the way, I was the only one who was not a law-grad. By training, I was meant to be a mathematician but turned out very much different...

There, second session done.

Then we did a promo posing with silver dirhams.

By the way Islamic Finance is shown on Unifi's channel 127 after Sunday 10 pm. The first session is due to be aired next week 3rd March, the second 17th March. Do tune in if you have the chance...