Khatam Quran

Alhamdulillah 26 Feb lepas kami sekeluarga akhirnya khatam alQuran bersama2 buat pertama kali. MasyaAllah

few more pages to go

Kami mula baca masa mco 2020 antara maghrib isya’. Kadang ada masa lepas sahur sementara tunggu nak subuh time bulan puasa. ‘Aaqil, husband & I would take turn to read one page each. Lepas habis, baca terjemahan. Ada je hari kami tak baca #notgood.

Fun facts just for our safekeeping and memories;

  • Ada beberapa masa hiatus lama sangat masa tempoh pindah rumah, pantang ‘Atiyyah & husband already moved to Cairo
  • Our first khatam after almost 13yrs of marriage
  • I know this sound wrong but if not bcoz of covid (hence lockdown) we might not do this. Allah knows best
  • We learnt a lot by just reading Holy Quran translations. MasyaAllah the love for qur’an grows day by day
  • We target to improve our kpi for next cycle insyaAllah at least khatam in a year perhaps?
  • In a way it became an activity with them kids. ‘Arfaan & ‘Atiyyah pun tau qur’an mana sape punya he he
  • Mak sempat join juga baca masa di P14 & Afdhal masa dia dtg Cairo last year
  • Made pulut kuning and rendang ayam the next day to celebrate but had to throw all rendang because the pot’s glass lid cracked into pieces #tefaliscancelled

Jika ada pahala dari amalan ini, kami hadiahkan buat guru2 qur’an kami baik secara langsung mahupun tak langsung (socmed etc). Rasa macam nak berguru this year alang2 dah ada di bumi anbiya’ ramai syeikh syeikhah…moga dipermudahkan

Breakfast Like Locals

Locals start their day late. Thats something that I learn here. Hehe. Its a norm to have lunch at 3pm. Especially during weekends, the mall is quiet until after 2pm. Its getting busier after 9pm hehe

So the other day friends ajak for kopi2 at a mall nearby. We met up at about 10.30am. Thinking of having brunch instead of breakfast. Settled at a cafe called Olives. After looking at the menu for a good 10mins, we wanted to place order but unfortunately only menu under breakfast section are available. Full menu is available at 1pm onwards. Although its an international cafe but 90% of breakfast are egyptian lol ie foul, molasses, tameya yadayada. Since its quite rude to just leave so we think oklah kita order drinks pastu kita gi lunch kedai lain. So we ordered drinks (and fries for ‘Atiyyah) then we leave at 11.30am.

We went to another resto, Eatery – it has a menu like a book tebal gila so takkanla breakfast je kan. Sekaliiiii lunch only served on 1.30pm onwards. Kahkah. Such a bummer. Maka kami beleklah menu takat 2-3 helai. So I settled for salmon egg benedict and K Ammal & Izyan shared a shared meal – as pic.

Left-CLW : foul, fried boil eggs, tameya, tahinj, molasses, (tak sure) and roca at center

Tapi quite nice la the shared platter cuma kita kan tekak melayu mesti nak proper meal pagi2 he he. So 6moral of the story, nak makan pagi heavy sikit kena survey dulu la which cafe yang betul2 serve full menu since morning. Especially during weekdays.

Anak Soleh

Hello 2022! Hehe. Rindunya la nak post kat sini. Just realized so many things happen but I kept on delaying the updates in ig nor blog then in the end no post at all. Boo

Lets start of with what happen yesterday. Otw back from school ‘Aaqil casually told me that he performed his zuhr prayer with Raef. That was the first time I heard this name. So nak dijadikan cerita, Raef ni mmg satu kelas dan kawan football ‘Aaqil. Cuma baru minggu lepas ‘Aaqil berborak dan rapat dengan Raef.

Apparently this boy tanya ‘Aaqil solat zohor tak. And bila dia tau ‘Aaqil solat, dia kata dia nak ikut. So ‘Aaqil ajak la dia sekali ke library masa lunch break and they solat together. My heart just melts. Feels like all the reminders (or was it nags?) to find time to solat, dont forget your sejadah, ask teacher where can you solat etc membuahkan hasil… masyaAllah. I can see that he no longer feel like performing zuhr at school alone, is a hassle. Alhamdulillah we are in a muslim country. Only that this is an international hence performing prayer is uncommon. Moga Allah tetapkan hati anak ummi utk solat anywhere, any condition. A lesson to us as adults too.

Now that Zuhr is longer (winter almost over) so he can pray at home once back from school. But I encouraged him to zuhr at school during break so that he doesnt have to rush once arrive home (only 20mins to shower and solat until ‘Zuhr time is over)..

Thank you ‘Aaqil for teaching us the meaning being a good muslim. I know it is hard to have the courage to ask your teacher, and everyday to take wudhu and bring your sejadah to library alone – and then perform zuhr alone. Haza min fadhli rabbi..