Cambridge Malaysian Muslims

Assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh,

When I first came here, the Malaysian muslims in Cambridge were so little in number that we seldom met and didn't have much activities except gatherings on Eid days (not every eid though), a BBQ picnic and occasionally meet-up for a cup of tea, especially among the brothers cause there quite many of them compares to the sisters. For us who want spiritual inputs, we end up in ISOC, not CUMaS (Cambridge University Malaysian Society) simply because there is no event for islamic development and many of the events are aiming at socialising. While many of the Malaysian muslims in Cambridge are postgraduates, many of the events by CUMaS (many good events though) are catered for undergraduates. There is a serious lack of meeting between the Malaysian muslims in Cambridge. This year, there is a group of new postgraduates from Malaysia. Many of them are cheerful sisters. We started to form a little group and they always meet each other.

One day, one of the sisters told me that the Malaysian Student Department, London (MSD) has sent all the Cambridge Malaysian muslims an email regarding the request of the religious affair personnel to meet the students here. In order to facilitate this meeting, I organised a Hijrah New Year talk to give the opportunity for the representative of MSD to meet the muslim students here. Alhamdulillah, it was a successful evening, click here for more detail.

After the talk, many of us were inspired to form an organisation consisting of Malaysian muslims students and their families (if they are here) in Cambridge. This group is essential to gather many of us here and work towards organising more formal activities that will be supported by MSD. We can always have informal gathering, especially with food, but there has never been such an opportunity to meet and benefit from formal sharing of religious knowledge among us when we are all muslims. Hopefully this will bring us towards better socialising & learning, perhaps a way of sharing that is relevant to the context of Malaysian muslims in Cambridge, inshaALLAH.

Wassalam.