Tajweed today

Once a week we have Tajweed class in the office.  After office of course, just for an hour.  This is actually the 4th of such classes that I can remember, in the last many many years.  The first class was arranged privately by a group of ppl.  I didn't join, so I don't know how long it lasted.  Then there was a class several years back, I didn't join either because I was at that time going for Quran reading classes at UIA PJ. (UIA have classes for adults, open to public. I guess its also a way for their lecturers to earn extra money and for the uni to offer community service to the public. Billable courses though.)  Anyway, that lasted for may be a year, may be less.  A few years ago, the company started its own Islamic Club that organizes a number of activities regularly. One activity is basic quranic classes, taught by one of our own colleague voluntarily... but then, he resigned !  Hahaha, there goes our classes again. 

Today is our 3rd Tajweed class since it was introduced early December 2009.  Supposed to start it November but then it rain heavily every evening and the Ustaz who rides a motorcycle had to cancel! Such a rocky and challenging start. Good thing doesn't come easy.... Anyway, God willing, 1st class finally got started on Dec 10 and is being taught by a very capable Ustaz, the same who is teaching us the Arabic class. In the beginning there were more that a dozen of us, today only 6 turned up. I'm hoping that this is because of the holidays, long weekends, year end and all. But small numbers means we get more attention from Ustaz, which we definitely got from him today.  Individual attention received, got to recite extra surah, Ustaz answered a quite a number of questions and its satisfaction all around. It was a very good class.