A Night at Surau al-Jauhari, St. Joseph Secondary School

On 23 and 24 August, the JOSIPA Club of St. Joseph Secondary School organized a one-night-camp: Qiyamullail Camp. However, to our disappointment, only 5 students who joined the camp (including me). The rest of the invited students are just talking crap, giving some lame excuses yesterday.

Day 1
At 1.25 pm, Lukhman and Mohd Iqmal (5A) were the earliest student who came to Surau al-Jauhari. Then following by Wan Mohd. Fahrurrazi (5A, and the chairman of JOSIPA Club) at 2.30 pm, Mohd. Nadzmi (4D) at 3.00 and Mohd. Qamarul (4A) at 9.00 pm. After performing solat zuhur, Wan went to the Kuching Waterfront to buy kebab for dinner, while the rest stayed at the Surau. They watched a movie entitled Alvin and The Chipmunks.

Do not be surprised when reading the above paragraph.

They paused the moive for a while to perform solat asar. After solat asar, they continued watching the movie. According to Mohd. Iqmal, he said that Theodore is cute.

At 5.30 pm, Wan arrived, and the rest went to the washroom to take bath.

After performing solat Maghrib (led by Lukhman), Wan gave a short talk on Ramadhan month. We also discussed with him on small matters - well not small matters acutally, more to personal matters.

(Video) Tazkirah Maghrib: Fadhilat Ramadhan

Wan Fahrurrazi giving short talk, with Nadzmi and Iqmal paying full attention to it

Giving the talk based on the book borrowed from a Surau

Switching on the LCD, but still discussing with Wan about some matters

At 7.45 pm, Ustaz Manaf arrived. However, the gate are closed, so we have to find the guardian of St. Joe, including asking from Borther Albinus for the key of the main gate. After 30 minutes, he managed to enter the school. Then, we performed solat Isyak (led by Ustaz Manaf). After that, he gave a short talk on the importance of solat (prayer).

Then, we used the rest of the time to watched two videos: bith are the al-Quran recitation of Sheikh Abdul Rahman as-Sudais, the Grand Imam of Masjid al-Haram, Makkah. He recited the verses very emotionally, and obviously, he crying, which made us almost crying.

At 10.30 pm, we slept.

Day 2
Lukhman was woke up by Wan at 3.05 am, and he and Iqmal woken up the others. Then, we went to a place (I dunno how to say it in English) to take ablution.

Then we perfomed a few solat sunat for our Qiyamullail. First we performed solat tahajjud. The first 6 units of prayer was led by Wan Fahrurrazi, and the last 4 units of prayer was led by Lukhman.

Then we performed solat sunat tasbih, still led by Lukhman as the imam. It was very hard, and yet took almost 45 minutes to finish 4 units of prayer.

Then was solat taubat, led by Wan, and after that solat witir led by Lukhman.

At 5.00 am, Ustaz Manaf came again. He was then leading the solat Subuh this morning. He also gave another short talk after the prayer on the time according to Islam.

Ustaz Manaf as the imam for solat Subuh this morning

Then we watched some videos. One of the videos was entitled Siksaan Kubur. It is about a body who have been graved, but after 3 hours the body was taken out for some reason. Surprisingly, the condition of the face of the deceased was look like it was been crashed by something and his mouth bled (the blood still fresh). It is obviously the evidence of the 'seksaan kubur' just like stated in al-Quran.

Ustaz Manaf, Qamarul, Nadzmi and Iqmal enjoying their meals while watching the videos

Wan - dealing with his 'dangerous' laptop :P

Wah, begitu khusyuk Ustaz dan Qamarul ya...

Sponsored by Chipmore *sarcasm intended* (just kidding)

At 8.00 we packed our own things and then went home.

This was the picture of the three participants before we went home. No pictures for me, never mind.