Selamat Hari Raya Haji. I feel amazed and eager to know what will happen today. I wake up as early at 530 to pray solat Subuh. Then, queue in front of the bathroom and wait for my turn as Sarah house sharing the bathroom with the other house.
It is very wonderful morning to hear ‘takbir’ raya here; at Praksantai Village. I can see clearly everyone out from their home walk to one destination; to the field which is near Sarah house; to pray together. Each people need to bring mat there; including us. While people were rushing to go there, I was busing with my camera catch a snap here and there. It is good experience to being together with Cham people and pray together. Although we do not understand their language, but that’s not a barrier; as Quran is universal. Only during ‘khutbah’ which is talked in cham language…hehhehe..we translated ourselves what it means.
It is very wonderful morning to hear ‘takbir’ raya here; at Praksantai Village. I can see clearly everyone out from their home walk to one destination; to the field which is near Sarah house; to pray together. Each people need to bring mat there; including us. While people were rushing to go there, I was busing with my camera catch a snap here and there. It is good experience to being together with Cham people and pray together. Although we do not understand their language, but that’s not a barrier; as Quran is universal. Only during ‘khutbah’ which is talked in cham language…hehhehe..we translated ourselves what it means.
After pray, we went to Hakim house. Surprisingly, Hakim’s father; Pakcik Tolos was a ‘ketua kampung’ there. He very keeps an eye on us because wherever we go, we realize he also there. Maybe he wants us to be safe and make sure everything is perfect.
We were given kuih-muih; sort like kuih sepit in Malaysia; for our breakfast in the morning of hari raya. That time I was thinking how lucky we are. We eat a lot! We have a table with full of food like lemang, nasi impit,ketupat,rendang,lontong and a few kuih muih. Huh, pagi2 dah dapat kolesterol tinggi. But later, we were served with another food. Ayam salai and kuah kacang which had the sweet taste. Simple food but yet so special and delicious.
About 930 am, the major function begin. I am not sure but I believe there are about 15 cows to be slaughtered. Those cows donate by concerned Malaysian people who willing to make korban here. If I not mistake, the process begin by collecting funds-one part is rm200. The amounts collected were given to the mufti there. So 15 cows had been slaughtered and distributed to each house at the village.
From what have been told to me, people there hardly ever eat fresh meat. Basically they eat once a day; based on what they produce also like rice and vegetables. And go fishing if they want to eat fish. Cows and buffalo to help them working in paddy fields. That’s why we were here; to be together with other Muslim and cheer up their hari raya haj with the korban. Surprisingly, there are not just us here in Cambodia. There a lot of Malaysian; from Yayasan Amal and other people who volunteered themselves to find funding to make korban in Cambodia. Feel proud to be Malaysian when I found out that there are too many good people here.
As usual, men were slaughtered the cows and women cook. We have our lunch at round 1pm. Just simple lunch, nasi putih with daging rebus.
At the evening, Kareema, local people, invited us to go to the next island by boat. The price is about 1500 riel per person. Nothing much we do there. Just walk through and looking around. Here, we were introduced by Faezah; ‘baby sengkuang’. The taste so sweat and it also so cute. I think we all look like a rabbit at that time.
Dinner with Hakim family.This time nasi putih with daging masak kicap. After having our lunch, we chat with Pakcik Tolos. Actually he don’t know English or Bahasa Melayu and we don’t know khmer/cham. Hakim help us by translate those words. He told us about Pol Pot regime and show us his book.
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