One camp, one theme,
every year since 2010.
Each year the camp sails under a name — a question the week is built to answer. The chart below is every one of them, newest first, back to the first outings in the 1980s.
The Inner Code
The Eternal Era
The Battle Trilogy
2024
Arrival: The Battle Continues
The trilogy closes in Perak — a week built around preparing the youth for the greatest trial to come, cave expedition included.
Ipoh, Perak · 22nd – 27th December 20242023
Valor: The Battle Begins
The Battle trilogy's second chapter, with modules tracing the stories of the Qur'an in Mushaf order.
Perlis · 18th – 25th December 20232022
Fortitude: The Battle Within
The return after the pandemic years, capped at a hundred campers on the Thai border — and the start of the Battle trilogy. The rain, the caves and the paddy fields made the photographs this site still runs on.
Wang Kelian, Perlis
The Island Years
2019
Freedom
An international youth camp on Langkawi — the last voyage before the pandemic kept every ship in port for two years.
Langkawi Island, Kedah2018
Heroes: Best of Men
Back to where the timeline began, on the men the Ummah calls heroes.
Kuala Kubu Bharu, Selangor2017
Servitude: To the King of Kings
The December camp the oldest photographs in this site's archive come from — a week in Perak on what it means to serve the King of Kings.
Sungai Siput, Perak · 17th – 21st December 20172017
Nomad
Travelling light through Hulu Langat — the first of two 2017 expeditions.
Hulu Langat, Selangor2016
Identity
The second camp of 2016 returned to Kalumpang to ask who a Muslim youth actually is.
Kalumpang, Selangor2016
The Revelation
Back to sea — Pangkor Island, and a week on the revelation itself.
Pulau Pangkor, Perak2015
Afterlife: The Final Destination
The second voyage of 2015, south to Johor, on the destination after this one.
Sembrong, Johor2015
Convergence
One of two camps in 2015 — this one deep in the world's oldest rainforest.
Taman Negara, Pahang
The Early Voyages
2014
Homecoming: Return of the Prodigy
Trolak's plantations and hills, and a theme about the long road back.
Trolak, Perak2013
The Great Escape: Refuge from the Accursed
The camp's first island expedition — a week on Langkawi about seeking refuge.
Langkawi Island, Kedah2012
Time Travellers
Kalumpang's rivers and jungle, and a week spent on where time is actually going.
Kalumpang, Selangor2011
The Strangers: Road to Jannah
A week on the Perak river under the banner of the ghurabā' — the strangers who hold fast when the world does not.
Sungai Perak, Perak2010
Here for the Hear After
The first camp on Al Khaadem's own timeline � the year the annual expedition, and its tradition of a themed week, properly set sail.
Kuala Kubu Bharu, Selangor
The Origins
The 1980s–2009 era has no published record beyond the founder's letter; the chart begins where the annual camp does.