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Headbanging aunties

Today I went to our masjid along with my parents in law, sister in law and husband, brother in law and wife, and my younger sister in law.

Whenever I went to our masjid on Thursday night or 'malam Jumaat', they usually recite Surah Yasin and tahlil for the arwahs.

As someone who was not born in a Muslim family, my first time experiencing 'malam Jumaat' at the masjid was after I got married and I always feel reluctant to go because of the thought of reciting Yasin in bulk. As you know, I am not that fluent yet and I tested myself today(usually I just read the tafseer) and I found that I was hyperventilating by the time I reach the second page while everyone is already way ahead of me by a page. In the end I got so breathless so I just stick to reading the tafseer.

Anyway, the masjid's attendance comprises of all the oldies of Taman Bukit Chedang. Very rarely I see youths, except when I'm there of course.

One of the things that I find interesting was during the recitation of 'la ilaha illAllah'. At first the imam will lead with a slow pace but when he starts moving into a faster beat, I find all the makciks would start 'headbanging' to the rhythm.

Yeah. 

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  1. AnonymousOctober 18, 2013 at 6:31 AM

    Not so long time ago i also used to go this knd of thing. Later i stopped. I found that some of them read with all the tajwid or makhraj so and so tunggang terbalik. And soon I found out that Al-Kahfi is the surah that is recommended by the Prophet to be read on malam Jumaat. Furthermore al quran is to be learned by heart and should be taken as a guidance and not read without understanding the meaning....may Allah continue to guide us to His straight path

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  2. Salma OthmanOctober 18, 2013 at 10:58 AM

    headbanging?the makciks do that?haha.usually on the mans does that.

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  3. ShobaOctober 23, 2013 at 5:55 PM

    head banging aunties...lol... it took some time for me to get used to tht fast paced reading as well sis...usually finished approximately 30 minutes after the rest had... Alhamdulillah, it's much better now... it's just that, take your time sis, ... starting out, i'd just sit with the rest and did exactly what you did.. read the tafseer, and gave up trying to keep up with the pack... insyAllah, take your time...

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