A New Light for a Boarding School Community
Monday, July 27, 2020
THE call to prayer seemingly operated as a school bell on the grounds of the Nurul Jadid Al-Islami pesantren (Islamic boarding school) in Sumberwringin village, Jember, East Java. That day, Wednesday, July 15, just as the azan (call to prayer) had completed, dozens of female students dressed in green uniforms spilled out of the classrooms. They quickly prepared what they needed to pray the early afternoon prayer in congregation. “Mbak,
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