Getting there

Salaam

I'm back to post my next post.

I went on the trip with a group, but also with my mom, dad, brother, sister and grandma.

First I took a flight from Toronto to Dubai. 14 hours but I spent the entire time watching movies :). I stayed in Dubai for a night then flew to Jiddah then drove to Madina then Makkah.

When I first saw the Kabah my first thought was 'I thought it'd be bigger'. Masjid al Haram is impressive. It's so big, but it's tiled with white tiles. So when it's very sunny the entire place gets so bright that you can barely see and it's so warm there, when i put my hand on a railing once it got burnt, it was that hot.

We stayed at a hotel 5 minutes away from the Masjid. Right across from us there was this Arabic dollar store. I remember my brother getting a couple of souvenirs for his friends from there. Our hotel had like so kind of mall attached to it which was cool and there was a store that had the best ma'moul (pastries with dates inside).

As I did Hajj at-Tamattu, I first had to do Umrah at-Tamattu.

Which started with getting to miqat  and putting on Ihram. Then we did the talbiyya. Then we did the Niyat and Tawaaf around the Kabah which was 7x. Then we prayed a 2 rakaat Namaz and then did saee and taqsir.

In the masjid there was an area on the 2nd floor for people to do tawaf who had wheel chairs and in saee there were two side and in the middle there was a section for wheelchairs.

Afterwords on the 9th of Dhul Hijjah we did Hajj at-Tamattu which I'll explain in the next post.

Ruqayyah