By RINTOS MAIL
rintos@thestar.com.my
KUCHING: Muslim Welfare Organisation Malaysia (Perkim) Sarawak Branch has brought cheers to some 50 families at Kampung Belimbing, Krokong in Bau near here in conjunction with this year’s Hari Raya Qurban.
Four cows were donated but only three slaughtered after one ran away in the nick of time.
The three were slaughtered early in the morning.
The one which escaped was supposed to be slaughtered during an official ceremony to distribute the sacrificial meat to the needy families from the village and the surrounding areas after the afternoon prayer yesterday.
Housing Assistant Minister Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah officiated at the ceremony.
The function, nevertheless went on to distribute meat from the three slaughtered earlier.
Speaking to reporters later, Abdul Karim said this year’s Perkim religious activity was centred in Bau.
“Hari Raya Haji is a day where cows are slaughtered and their meat distributed to the poor,” he said.
Karim said overall there were about 400 Muslim families in Kampung Belimbing and the surrounding area.
He said Islam first spread to the village in the 1970s.
He added that since then all the Muslim families in the village lived harmoniously with those from the other faiths.
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