Iftar and Tarawikh

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Last Sunday, has somewhat left me a smile in my heart. The Malaysian Muslim Organization here had organized an iftar feast (breaking of fast) and also tarawikh prayers at the Engineering Center here. And its about time that the new freshman and newly arrived sophomores come and meet their seniors. The MSD officials were there also. As usual, Khrl did all the cooking with the help of the ever willing and helpful new sophomores and freshmen (wink). Hehe

I arrived just in time for Iftar. Khrl cooked 'ayam masak merah', acar, and dalca. It was alright. But the real purpose of the gathering is to bring forth the ukhuwah and silaturrahim. Its so nice to see such crowd of people wearing the traditional Baju Melayu and Baju Kurung. Well, its been a while.

After iftar, we were entertained with the slideshows of the current MSA students. Next came the tarawikh. I might say that, it was so touching that the tarawikh was conducted by our community. It is so much different from the ones being done at the Islamic Center , cause we had the selawat to fill in the gaps between the prayers. Makes you feel really, warm and so much at home. It was enlightening.

We had only 8 rakaats and then the imam, Ustad Wan, lead the witir prayers. How convenient. Ustad Wan then gave us some, tazkirah. Whoa, its really been a while since I heard any lectures in Malay. And it makes you kinda, to be immensely driven into it. Well I was actually, I was kinda amazed but also touched by the talk. Every part of it was, important and highly interesting.

I left the Engineering Center feeling really enlightened, contented inside and out. I really enjoyed that Sunday night. Alhamdulillah.