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Chapter 24: Leaving Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. Only a few chapters remain in the series. Stay tuned… Abdullah and I had no idea that the Jeddah airport was going to become home to us for the next several hours. We made it through the glass door behind our Asian friends who looked like they were in a rat race form the way they wanted to practically trample over one... Read More →
Chapter 23: Leaving Jeddah… Almost. Not Really… (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. Only a few chapters remain in the series. Stay tuned… We were pretty cozy in our spot on the cool airport tiles. That’s where we parked ourselves after checking in our bags at the Jeddah airport and now we were waiting to board our flight… except we weren’t at our gate yet. We were still in the baggage checking-in... Read More →
Chapter 22: There and Back Again (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. Only a few chapters remain in the series. Stay tuned… I woke up as the rocking bus came to a stop. I tried pushing out my sleep and absorbing my surroundings simultaneously. The sun’s light was breaking over the horizon and there were crowds of people hustling all around pushing carts or pulling suitcases. We were... Read More →
Chapter 21: Good-Bye to Saudi Arabia… Well, Almost (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. Only a few chapters remain in the series. Stay tuned… I stood in the chilly air of Masjid an-Nabawi’s courtyard and seemed to be frozen there. The breeze picked up the end of my abaya now and then, tugging me to move forward. After a brief mental freak out I got my wits together and thought about this logically. Where... Read More →
Chapter 20: Visiting the Grave of Prophet Muhammed (sal Allahu ‘alayhi wasallam) (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. After much waiting in the hotel’s lobby Abdullah finally showed up and asked if I was ready for the mission we were about to embark on. I was all like, “Yeah, yeah, of course. Let’s just get going.” I didn’t understand what the big deal was – we’re just going to a gravesite. But it wasn’t any grave,... Read More →
Chapter 19: The Mountain of Uhud (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. More than a decade ago I remember standing at a wired fence in some desert in Saudi Arabia as a little kid. My parents must have made Umrah (the Lesser Pilgrimage) and this was one of the tour spots we stopped at but I was very confused. I was surrounded by weeping adults holding their hands up in prayer. I was standing... Read More →
Chapter 18: The City of the Prophet (sal Allahu ‘alayhi wasallam) (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. In the cold, I barely wanted to move, but someone was tapping me and gently tugging the covers off of me. In a calm voice someone helped lift me up and slowly walk me to another bed, then tuck me into it. I was coughing, my nose was stuffy, my eyelids were heavy. Why was it so cold? What was happening? Was it fajr... Read More →
Chapter 17: Bus Ride #9235 (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. Since completing Hajj – packing a few bags, a couple of days, and one more trip to Bin Dawood later – we were boarding a nice big air conditioned bus to take us to Madinah – the second part of our Hajj package. We had spent two weeks in Makkah and now we were going to spend about two and a half days in Madinah. Surprisingly,... Read More →
Chapter 16: Salaam to the Kabah (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. A day or so after Hajj, it was time for us to leave Makkah. It had only been two weeks since we had been here but it still felt like I was leaving a place I had lived in for months. When one leaves Makkah, there’s a rite they have to perform called Tawaaf al-Widaa. I call it the ‘Good-bye Tawaaf.’ For this you... Read More →
Chapter 15: Day V – The Ongoing Pilgrimage (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. Hajj Day 1 – Completed Purpose: Enter into the state of ihram, make your intention for Hajj, and spend the day in preparation for the journey of Hajj. Location: Mina camps Hajj Day 2 – Completed Purpose: To spend the afternoon from dhuhr to maghrib prayer times making du’aa and repenting to leave Arafat with all of... Read More →
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