Nilai University College (Nilai UC) Malay Students' Society held a celebration to mark the occasion of Maulidur Rasul. This celebration is in honour of the birth of the Prophet Muhammad and was open to all Muslim students and staff on campus. A good number of international students also joined in the festivities which included sermons by Ustaz Syed Abu Bakar Syed Isa (Nilai UC Senior Lecturer from School of Humanities and Social Sciences), and competitions for Koran -reading, banner design and poetry-reading.
"This event was organised with the objective of renewing and strengthening the kinship of all Moslem students on campus, as well as to foster greater friendship and understanding with our fellow man," says event director Mohd Farish Zainal Abidin, a student from Nilai UC's School of Business.