Our Aqiqah Service Package

We have previously written about the religious ritual of Aqiqah.
 
Ladang Fatima is pleased to offer a package for the performance of the service of Aqiqah for any Muslim who wishes to have it performed on our farm.
 
We hope that you will contact us at ladangfatima@gmail.com with the following particulars:

a)    Name of the child,
 
b)    Name [...]

Ustaz Jaafar bin Ali – Ladang Fatima’s resident Ustaz

Uztaz Jaafar bin Hj Ali, with his trusty motorcycle.

Maybe I should not call Ustaz Jaafar Ali our resident Ustaz, but as the imam of the nearby Surau Kampung Hilir and as my partner Zai’s former Guru Agama, he is as much a Ladang Fatima family member as the rest of us.
 
Ustaz Jaafar bin Ali, 49 is [...]

Marketing of our goats – it may not be as easy as the Jabatan Veterinar or the Kursus Kambing people make it out to be

The basis of the mushrooming number of goat farms seem to be the concerted efforts by the Jabatan Veterinar to create self sufficiency of goat meat and related products in Malaysia. To support this, a table of the gross shortage is often shown and quoted repeatedly.
The summary as it relates to goats is shown here:
                                               2007                  [...]

‘AQEEQAH

1. Definition
The word ‘Aqeeqah’ means the “the hair of the forehead”. It also means the animal that is sacrificed after the birth of a child, on the seventh day after birth. The purpose of ‘Aqeeqah is to give thanks to Allah, to express happiness on the birth of a child, and to announce the birth [...]