Hajj is an ibadah
vacation - you do not have to cook, clean, drive or worry about family and
work. Sleep has to be sacrificed and reprogrammed, as reminded by my dad.
Alhamdulillah, I had no problems with the food served or the distance between
hotel and mosque.
Allah willed me the health and strength to carry out my main objectives: hajj, umrah, solat sunat, quran reading, sadaqah and i'tikaf at the holy mosques. I aimed to do as much as possible, as best I could. He also opened doors for other forms of ibadah which weren't so obvious such as helping the elderly.
This particular doa helped.
Allah willed me the health and strength to carry out my main objectives: hajj, umrah, solat sunat, quran reading, sadaqah and i'tikaf at the holy mosques. I aimed to do as much as possible, as best I could. He also opened doors for other forms of ibadah which weren't so obvious such as helping the elderly.
This particular doa helped.
And say: O my Lord, let my entry be by the Gate of Truth and Honour, and likewise my exit by the Gate of Truth and Honour: and grant me from Thy Presence an authority to aid (me).
(Al-Isra': 80)
Carpe diem, sieze the day! Hajj does not come by every day and I reminded myself repeatedly that in the holy lands, everything else was secondary.
May Allah accept our ibadah and make us better Muslims.
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