Mutabaah Tracking System

Mutabaah Tracking System is a mobile based application, proposed to build on Android platform. Mutabaah is always being referred to Mutabaah ‘amal. A well known scholar states that a lot of people who become Muslims are due to hobby or born by their parents who already subscribes to Islam. Due to this, they do not understand the meaning of the submission. The main objective of this application is to assist Muslims in monitoring their ‘ibadah and for self evaluation to take place. The author hopes that by proposing this project, awareness on the importance of ‘ibadah among Muslims will be improved indirectly. The author is also trying to improve they conventional way of handling mutabaah, which is jotting on paper, as it has 3 major drawbacks such as the tedious effort of jotting, inconsistent manner of jotting due to forgetfulness and loss of records. The scope of this study are to understand and analyze the current way of handling mutabaah, analyze the best user interface design for the system and analyze the current available apps serving the same purpose. This application is anticipated to be relevant to all Muslims due to the reason of human creation itself where stated by God in Surah Az-Zariyat, verse 56; “"And I have created Jinn and men only to worship Me”(cont.). Another scholar gives examples that that there is no meal, drinks, sleep, awake, sit, stand, walk, talk, or silence unless they are regards as ‘ibadah in this life if it is being performed only for Allah’s blessings. The Prophet (P.B.U.H) once said that “prayer is the core of ‘ibadah”. Iman is not static, as what The Prophet (P.B.U.H) mentions; “it increases and decreases with deeds”. By having this application, ‘ibadah performed can be monitored for muhasabah to be in place. The author closely refers this project to Rapid Application Development model, specifically under Prototyping due to RAD ability to adjust system SDLC phases to get some part of system been develop quickly. The author applies observation, interview and questionnaire survey activities during project data gathering. User’s feedback obtained also shows that this kind of application is very helpful for them. At the end of this project, the author has finish developing the application with few features. It also hoped that this project would initiate more interests in the area of ‘ibadah evaluation application among other developer due to lack of application availability on this.