The memory of last Ramadhan: Khatam Al-Quran ceremony

Assalamualaikum,

This year Ramadhan is going to end soon and Syawal is coming. And myself feel very bad as this Ramadhan I not done enough to grab the opportunity given by Allah to do amal. May this is not my last Ramadhan perhaps. As the memory of my last Ramadhan, which is missing this time is the Al-Quran Khatam ceremony at my hostel in Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Uniten. Each year we organize the event to appreciate those who do Tadarrus Al-Quran along the Ramadhan. It was a wonderful feeling as we manage to finish the 30 juzuk of Al-Quran in less then one month time.

Tadarrus is done by forming a group of 2 to 3 people as one person recite the Quran and the others check. This can improve the reading of Quran and tajwid besides act as a way to help those not good at all in reading Quran but have spirit to learn. As we students sometime have no time to read Quran during Ramadhan due to classes, this Tadarrus helps us to allocate time to read Quran.

The Khatam Quran ceremony is an annual ceremony at our hostel. Unfortunately this year we cannot organize the ceremony due to most of the junior students was on holiday. And we the senior students are having our final examination until last week of Ramadhan make the thing not possible to be organized. I was pretty sad about that. I really hope next year Insyaallah we will manage to organize it by make some early planning.

Usually for the ceremony, me and other hostel committee member with the guide of our former advisor Mr Nizam will cook ourselves for the Iftar on that day. It was not an ordinary experience for student especially engineering students. So it was a great pleasure and fun when we cook with all friends. For the last year ceremony, one of our committee member Azfar has sponsored one goat for the ceremony. So it offered us chance to see directly how to slaughter animals according to Islam as before this we just seen meats on the dining table. So this time it give us a great experience to work on the goat from the raw till the end. We really enjoyed the event. 

Along with this post, I have inserted a few pictures of our Khatam Al-Quran ceremony during last year's Ramadhan. Hope it will be a boost for the committee of members (include me)  in charge can work harder next year to make this event happen. Ameen.

The Khatam Al-Quran Ceremony (2010)
Venue: Surau An-Nur, Kelompok Amanah Uniten

We started our activity as early at 8.30 a.m. All of us should gather there at 8.30 a.m. sharp behind the A6 block of our hostel. But that morning I wake up late and reach there around 9 am. So I missed the event of slaughter of the goat. So unlucky I was.

The time I reach there, they start to peel of the skin of goat and cutting of the meat has started. Although I am allergic to the blood, I still manage to chop some of the meats. I feel great of myself that time when manage to do it.

Slicing the meat into smaller piece

Chopping process. All brave guys

Once we finished with the raw meat of the goat. We moved to the next location which is  the house of Mr. Nizam to  prepare for the cooking process. There we divide our work into several. Some of us was stir the meat in the big pot (kawah) as the meet need to be stir along the cooking process to prevent it from overcooked or burnt. And some of us cut  the onions and other vegetables. And the rest was preparing the Surau An-Nur, our ceremony venue. 

                                                          Tired!!!!!!!!

Here our event start. At around 6.30, the Khatam Al-Quran ceremony started.

 

It was a wonderful feeling when the event finished although have to do a lot of sacrifice before the event. It is always a satisfaction when we saw the good result after did a very hard work. Hope the next time we do, we can do much much better.