Venue : Bukit Cherakah, Shah Alam, Selangor
Date : 7th and 8th of August 2009
Alhamdulillah All praise be to Allah, for only with His blessings and guidance, we have managed to organize the 2008 IMAM Pre-departure program on the 7th and 8th of August. The program was attended by around 25 students as participants (they will be flying off to UK , Ireland , and Czech), with 35 facilitators (from UK , Ireland , and Czech), and around 7 doctors with 2 as speakers.
Below is the summary of the events.
Day 1
Talk 1 – Requirements for Medics by Prof. Amal
The introduction and first talk was made by Prof. Amal. He conveyed a message from Prof. Rashid, giving us the best of luck in our pre-departure programme as he didn’t made it to the programme due to being quarantine for H1N1.
However, Prof. Amal did his best in conveying the talk regarding PPIM and IMAM Student Chapter with all the mission statement. The mission statements has long been made and should be practice by all medical students in order to perform as a doctor, and at the same time, to gain mardhatillah.
Some of the mission statements are:
- ·IMAM as a common platform for Muslim doctors to resolve fiqh of Islam regarding medical field.
- ·Networking among doctors and students, nationally and internationally, using student chapter group and IMA, and also FIMA.
- ·Exploiting the special position of being a doctor despite age, gender, race, religion, time and geography in order to perform work as a doctor for the best of ummah and Islam.
- ·Tying Muslim doctors and medical students with a responsibility to perform duty for ummah and also making IMAM as a platform to convey Islam, practicing Islam and preaching Islam to the public by word and action.
- ·With IMAM Student Chapter, the medical students will have direct access to every type of programme and planning that is made by the centre of PPIM an FIMA, other than making their own programme in the local and nationals.
Solah in the Garden
This slot is a practical session for the students to practice solah at anywhere suitable, knowing that Islam is easy, and made not difficult to the Muslim to practice it. The important thing is to find any place as long as the place is clean, and for female students, ‘telekung’ is not compulsory as long as you the aurat are fully covered. Beforehand, Hafiz Che Ismail as the PIC of the slot made clear on all the instructions and tips to pray at any place suitable at overseas. Later the participants and the facilitators succeed in performing solah out in the open space. However, performing solah on a hard surface like the ‘tar’ was found not the best choice to pray on.