Bismillah-hir-Rahman-nir-Raheem.


My Amazing Umrah,
ma sha Allah!

Alhamdolillah. All praise is for Allah, Who permitted His slave to travel across the earth, Who provided for him who had no means and no power of his own. May He Forgive the mistakes of His slave and reduce the harm of them. And may He be pleased with His slave, and increase the good of his good deeds. Ameen.


The Holy Masjid in Makkah, no place holier! Picture from Hajj 1426 (January, 2006)

like a fish on the hot sand

sunday 1:20 pm Jeddah

QadrAllahi wa maa shaa'a fa'ala. alhamdolillah, i woke up to pray witr before fajr without the aid of my alarm. but my nap after fajr became a deep sleep which no one disturbed.

trying to get to a medical college by taxi became a circus of confused directions and miscues. and now i sit here, still at the home of my hosts...

alhamdolillah, it was easy to go pray dhuhr.

until i learn arabic, i would have to seriously limit my activities if i lived here.

that could be very good, forcing me to study, and forcing me to learn arabic, inshaAllah. but it would work only so long as i faced no emergencies and no exigencies.

because today has demonstrated the consequences of my limited grasp of arabic and my very limited sense of local geography.

(Makkah Time)

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Masjid an-Nabi in Madinah, the second holiest masjid! Also from Hajj 1426 (January, 2006)