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This paper aims at highlighting the life of the poet of the Ummah Mu˙ammad ʿĀkif Arṣawi, his relations with friends and people and his works in general that had the influence on the realm of thought and literature. It will also shed lights on his career as a writer, poet, veterinar, memorizer, preacher, translator, teacher and other that. We observed that his frequent references were always the Quran and the Prophetic tradition. He was steadfast all along his life in putting on his best efforts to correctly understand Islam and convey it to the people. The paper follows the descriptive and analytical methods to arrive at the intended conclusions, of which are: he suffered difficult and shameful during the period when the Ottoman empire was on its last leg and the verge of establishing new nation. He was a fighter that sacrificed for the nation. His thoughts are found in his works in literature, exegesis, advices, aticles, treaties and all these are the keys to his world of thoughts. It can be said that the source of his main ideas is the Quran and the Prophetic tradition. His poetic works are the expressions of his belief that literature should contain the benefits for ethics and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article attempts to discuss on the influence of the Arabic and English in Malay. The initial influence was from Arabic evidently from the numerous loan words it took from it in addition to the Arabic scripts known as Jawi due to influx of Malay scholars who learned Arabic and religious studies in the Arab world that enable them to write the Quran in Arabic that would subsequently Islamic terms and other loan words to enter the Malay word stock. The paper follows descriptive and comparative methods to explain the extent of influence of both traditions. Among the conclusions of the paper are: Islam played a very significant role in constructing the Malay culture and this is apparent in the strong presence of its influence in Malay that is was once written in the Arabic scripts. The Western influence was seen negatively by some Islamic scholars as many considered it to be in contradiction to the Islamic teachings. This had initiated the efforts to clean up the society from this negative influence and revert to the Arabic Islamic culture that once had its strong foothold in the Malay culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]