Peace be upon you all. As all Muslims and those who have studied a bit about the Muslims should know we are still in the festive month of Syawal. Today is the 11th day of the month and it should not be too late to share a story or some pictures on 1st Syawal.
After fasting from dawn till sundown everyday during the month of Ramadhan Muslims get to finally celebrate the festive month of Syawal. The 1st day of Syawal, at least in Malaysia fell on Sunday, 19th September and it is customary for Muslims especially males to do the special recommended (but not obligatory) morning prayer on that day.
The festives days in Malaysia are fondly known as Hari (day of) Raya (festival, celebration), the prayers called Solat or Sembahyang Raya. I did mine at a mosque near my parents home in Kampung Temiang, Muar. Upon returning home I found my baby Muhammad Alauddin Johan already dressed for the celebrations but fast asleep in bed.
Soon he was woken up. Johan has just turned six months old 2 days earlier. His mum is wearing the same colour.
That's my mum and dad, both 70 this year.
This is the first decent family picture taken for Raya. Guess which one is me and my two brothers. We had another brother, the youngest but he passed away 10 years ago.
I must say I looked very tired then. You see on Thursday I've just completed a 6 days solo big bike trip covering 1,400 km in the states of Pahang, Perak and Selangor. On Friday I had to run some errands in Kuala Lumpur taking a whole day. In the darkness of very early Saturday I had to drive my family to Muar for the Raya. Apart from tiredness I got sunburn showing up on my face...
Later my sister, our youngest sibling arrived from Johor Bahru with her husband and kids.
In the middle is the sister, a medical doctor playing with baby Johan.
But she could only stay for a few hours as the following day she and family have to fly to Australia.
Here we took a more complete family picture. Basically everyone in the family were around minus the brother who had passed away. His place in pix was taken by an uncle far right...
Then the kids could have their own time...
Kids nowadays... they just had to have tablet PCs...
Later came and old relative, my mum's uncle, her father's youngest brother. They had like 10 siblings or more but he is the only one left, going 90.
From the complete picture shown earlier I cropped up this section and enhanced the colours. I guess you could say this is our family potrait for this Raya, the very first one which has the latest addition to the family, Johan in it. :]
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