The Trip

The trip was very nice elhamdAllah, the omrah was great , It was not the first time for me , I went before, but first time in the last 13 days in Ramadan. I must of say it was crowded, but if you just don't let the feelings of too much crowdedness and tiredness overcome you , you will enjoy the great sense of spirituality. You will even feel better that you went during this time, because you are automatically occupied with prayers all the time , either the night prayers (Taraweeh) or Tahajed prayers ( the prayers that start at 1 Am) so you are totally occupying your time in worshiping God.

The first say in "Madina" City , where prophet Mohammed (PBUH) is buirred, during the first day while I was walking to his mosque during the maghrab (dawn) prayer, and every one is distributing on me , bottles of mineral water, dates, other sorts of food, almost every one was distributing while I was walking there to the mosque... a nice feeling right?

Wonder if we can distribute food and drink after Ramadan to the needy people at least , so that it won't be only a one moth shot where every one donates by his / her means and then takes a rest till the next Ramadan.

Then the second and the third days, I managed ElhamdAllah to visit the prophet's (PBUH) tomb where he is buirred.

There is a hadith that who visits him while he is dead as if he visited him while he was alife and that when some one goes there and says to him " salamo Alaykom" , he returns the salam back to us.
This feeling I got while I was doing that could be undescrible. I hear about him , I believe of him , but the feeling that he was that close , was something else.

Going to Mecca, it was more crowded than Madina much more, where the Holy house is located , I liked the Tawaf (moving around the house 7 times ) , I liked doing it the most thing over there. When I went before, during uncrowded times, I managed to see the feet prints of Prophet's Ibrahim and Ismail (Peace Be upon them ) on one of the rocks that they were standing above during building the house.

In the last night prayers , 29th Ramadan night , it was more crowded , like 3 millions praying at the same time, must of say that even when it was croded but I liked watching all these people together praying at the same time. Hope that it would remain and won't be just for one day.

I liked to introduce to people over there, I liked to get introduced to different nationalities , maybe the blogging helped me in that:)