Eid al-Fitr 2006
Hari Raya (Eid al-Fitr) 2006.
Hari Raya 2006 fell on Tuesday 24th Oct. 2006.What does one do at Hari Raya?. Routine, that is what I can say. But the Malays make this season a very sentimental season, a season of balik kampung. (http://kiss-met.blogspot.com/2005/05/trappings-of-ruralkampong-life-balek.html).
For me, as usual I got up early, preparing myself to go the the masjid, in my case for my Estate it was the surau (a small non-Friday prayer masjid), for the Eid al-Fitr morning 2 rakaah prayers, which normally happens at 8.30 am, followed by a sermon by the Imam. The prayers is a traditional prayers really, except that some Ulamak says that its a near 'wajib' (a religious must) prayers.
The Sermon.
Leaving after the prayers.
If you are in the kampong, it will be followed by asking forgiveness from your elders (no harm if one asks forgiveness from the young ones as well), on returning home after the prayers.
Then it was either receiving visitors or going on visits. In my case I did not have the Hari Raya in the kampung, so my wife , children and I went to visit a close friend who lives a few km away,
where we were served with a good Hari Raya feast, the usual specially cooked spiced rice and curry and rendang and cakes and good non-alcoholic drinks.
There we also met some friends who happened to visit that close friends family.
After that we went to visit an old working colleague who have retired earlier than I, and whose wife had passed a few years ago, and most of the children have now been grown up and got married off .
They live in the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur, the area once wac quite undeveloped but has now developed so fast that that they may soon have to sell their land and properties if they do not want to be drowned by the neighbouring development. So far he still can stand the pressure of those neighbouring development. It will not be long I figure..
After those few visits we came home for a rest. And in the afternoon we began to receive visitors, mostly friends, ours and my son’s and daughter’s friends, followed by the neighbours, the Muslims who we also visited earlier and the non-Muslim came to celebrate the occasion with us.
It lasted the whole afternoon and until late evening. And we served food and non-alcoholic drinks (and cookies) like as good Hari Raya host.
On the morrow
another day of receiving visitors, those who did not come on the first day, and this lasted the whole day, until even the children got very sleepy.
And on the third day we went back to the kampong to greet our friends and relatives in the kampong for the Hari Raya occasion.
It had been a good Hari Raya holidays.
Hari Raya 2006 fell on Tuesday 24th Oct. 2006.What does one do at Hari Raya?. Routine, that is what I can say. But the Malays make this season a very sentimental season, a season of balik kampung. (http://kiss-met.blogspot.com/2005/05/trappings-of-ruralkampong-life-balek.html).
For me, as usual I got up early, preparing myself to go the the masjid, in my case for my Estate it was the surau (a small non-Friday prayer masjid), for the Eid al-Fitr morning 2 rakaah prayers, which normally happens at 8.30 am, followed by a sermon by the Imam. The prayers is a traditional prayers really, except that some Ulamak says that its a near 'wajib' (a religious must) prayers.
The Sermon.
Leaving after the prayers.
If you are in the kampong, it will be followed by asking forgiveness from your elders (no harm if one asks forgiveness from the young ones as well), on returning home after the prayers.
Then it was either receiving visitors or going on visits. In my case I did not have the Hari Raya in the kampung, so my wife , children and I went to visit a close friend who lives a few km away,
where we were served with a good Hari Raya feast, the usual specially cooked spiced rice and curry and rendang and cakes and good non-alcoholic drinks.
There we also met some friends who happened to visit that close friends family.
After that we went to visit an old working colleague who have retired earlier than I, and whose wife had passed a few years ago, and most of the children have now been grown up and got married off .
They live in the outskirt of Kuala Lumpur, the area once wac quite undeveloped but has now developed so fast that that they may soon have to sell their land and properties if they do not want to be drowned by the neighbouring development. So far he still can stand the pressure of those neighbouring development. It will not be long I figure..
After those few visits we came home for a rest. And in the afternoon we began to receive visitors, mostly friends, ours and my son’s and daughter’s friends, followed by the neighbours, the Muslims who we also visited earlier and the non-Muslim came to celebrate the occasion with us.
It lasted the whole afternoon and until late evening. And we served food and non-alcoholic drinks (and cookies) like as good Hari Raya host.
On the morrow
another day of receiving visitors, those who did not come on the first day, and this lasted the whole day, until even the children got very sleepy.
And on the third day we went back to the kampong to greet our friends and relatives in the kampong for the Hari Raya occasion.
It had been a good Hari Raya holidays.
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