As usual we woke for Fajr but today we were early instead of the normal late drogy arrival to the namaz room, infact we were 20 mins early, during which we were reiterated the importance of preparing for our meeting with the Almghty. After an inspirational namaz we went straight back sleep.
For breakfast we had delicious fried egg and toast, also we had to have the yoghurt due to the saying that we came up with that said: ‘a yoghurt a day will keep the jinns away’, which was needed after the jinn sightings the previous night.
Today we only had 2 lessons due to the lie in of one and a half hours. The first lesson we had by Dr. Mahmood Datoo and we talked about time management and how it can help us to arrange our very tightly scheduled life styles. We also talked about how Islam can be fitted into our lifestyles with the help of a timetable. The second lesson was a mentor lesson taken by Shan-E-Abbas Hassam who is a camp administrator. We talked politics in Islam and how Muslims being involved in politics can help to prepare for the reappearance of our 12th Imam (ATF). The lessons today were excellent and very interesting; overall lessons have been beneficial.
We prayed Zohr namaz as usual after which we had launch in which we had chicken curry with rice and salad. The food in lunch was really good especially for curry. We then had our first Quran Khani session where we were split into our separate classes on 5 different levels according to ability.
We started our sports sessions with cricket with Abisali bha Ebrahim and Mohammed Iqbal bha Kassam. It was a tournament which lasted one hour and twenty minutes. It was between Jupiter and Saturn the 2 senior campers. Jupiter won the toss and decided to field first. Our bowlers were fantastic taking several wickets with 2 in one over including one brilliant catch. Our batsmen performed brilliantly however the final result was very close, but our opposition, Saturn, won by 4 runs. The next session was table tennis with Mohammed Abbas bha Remtulla in which we prepared for the upcoming tournament after playing a few game of ‘around the world’. The final session was beach volleyball with Ali Asgar bha Rajani. We started off with a few stretches and put on our goggles. We then went straightway into a game of 3 a side. We practiced for our tournament and chose our team. It was fun and we had a good experience which will help us in our tournament. Sports overall was very fun and we all enjoyed it very much.
Dinner then followed which was probably the best food have had so far. We had the only ‘badger’ burgers in the whole world (camper only joke). Following dinner we had PDT starting at 9:00pm starting with lateral thinking which was very hard, but we did well by getting 6 out 10. We also had a word quiz called ‘boggle’ in which we got all 10 out of 10 answers correct. Next we had to identify the leaders of many countries in another quiz. The PDT session also included a fire drill and a final quiz of finding the meaning of Arabic words, this was very difficult. We also noticed that the scores had been updated on the board showing that our planet, Jupiter, was in the lead! The PDT session was followed by dessert which was the birthday cakes of the four mentors and campers whose birthdays were during the camp. The cake was chocolate with strawberries and cream.
We finally prayed Maghrib namaz followed by a short talk about Meraj and then two kasidas which were recited beautifully, one of which was done by our mentors.
After a long day, we ‘jupitarians’ are blessed with our glorious mentors who led us to our bedrooms for some much needed sleep. Once in our beds we all recited a surah together and fell asleep having not been disturbed by any jinns.
JUPITER
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