Just A Thought (Part 4)
On the contradictory, attending RS wasn't all that bad. When there's bad, there must be good. We wouldn't know the meaning of hungry, if we were full all the time. Thin or fat so on and so forth. RS taught i the basics of becoming a muslim. They would teach i how to perform solah, how to read the Qur'an with proper tajweed, how to transact with buying and selling and how to divide wealth amongst the living of one's death according to Islam and how important it is to write a will.
i remembered during RS where each and every one of us would be given a book progress which had tiny cells. The top row of the book would be The five daily prayer including Juma'at prayer and the right column would be the days for that particular month. The task was simple. All we need to do is fill in each cells with the prescribed tickmarks as above.
Like everyting else, tickmarks had its meaning and these ticks were no exception. The first tick indicated that you have performed solat on time. Tick X is an indication of performing solah OUTSIDE its allocated time and tick O would mean not performing solat at all. So, at the end of a week, this book was supposedly checked and signed by a teacher. And by the end of the month, all must filled in each boxes by hook or by crook. Like everyone else, somehow, i wasn't able to achieve this and had to find other means to resolve this issue. Therefore, i would just fill in every single space according to his "instincts" whether its correct or false.
It really didn't matter to him or i's friends if the data they submitted to the teacher was correct or not because the teachers weren't that rigorous themselves and they never actually given us any feedback..any feedback at all...
