{"id":87342,"date":"2015-08-07T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-07T01:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=87342"},"modified":"2015-08-21T16:59:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T08:59:01","slug":"celebrating-hari-raya-with-his-royal-highness-tuanku-sultan-pahang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/?p=87342","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Hari Raya with His Royal Highness Tuanku Sultan Pahang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Hamka Rosli<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>GOMBAK, 5 August 2015: The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) held\u00c2\u00a0a special <em>Hari Raya<\/em> celebration 2015 with the IIUM community and special guests.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering which took place\u00c2\u00a0at the Culture Activity Centre (CAC)\u00c2\u00a0was attended by IIUMs constitutional head, His Royal Highness Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah and his consort, Her Royal Highness Sultanah Kalsom.<\/p>\n<p>Those who attended the celebration included Tan Sri Dr. Rais Yatim accompanied by his wife, Puan Sri Masnah Rais, and officials from diplomatic missions in Kuala Lumpur and senior management officials of IIUM.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00c2\u00a0his welcoming speech, Tan Sri Rais said that the celebration was a reminder of the close friendship\u00c2\u00a0among members of IIUM and guests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope this university will continue with its success and enjoy good fortune,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 2,000 guests and the university community comprising lecturers, staffs and students attended the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>His Royal Highness Tuanku Sultan Pahang also gave\u00c2\u00a0<em>\u02dcduit raya<\/em> to 14\u00c2\u00a0children of Educare IIUM and to several representatives of the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Orang Asli<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0residing around Gombak.<\/p>\n<p>At the function,\u00c2\u00a0the CEO\u00c2\u00a0of Etiqa Takaful Berhad,\u00c2\u00a0Ahmad Rizlan Ahmad presented the company&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0corporate <em>zakat<\/em> to IIUM Endowment Fund (IEF) amounting\u00c2\u00a0RM480,000. The z<em>akat <\/em>will be distributed\u00c2\u00a0to needy students.<\/p>\n<p>There was a performance by the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Orang Asli <\/em>and also a special performance from Centre for International Islamic Culture (CiTRA-IIUM) held during the celebration.***<\/p>\n<pre>Photo credited to Shazni Ong<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hamka Rosli GOMBAK, 5 August 2015: The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) held\u00c2\u00a0a special Hari Raya celebration 2015 with the IIUM community and special&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"nelio_content":{"isAutoShareEnabled":true,"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"followers":[],"suggestedReferences":[],"efiUrl":"","efiAlt":"","highlights":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87342"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89827,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87342\/revisions\/89827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.iium.edu.my\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}