oh right thanks.


something totally random that makes me so when i read it now . the haji and mu'tamers gift charity have signs up right. and one of them starts with.

Dear pilgrim, you are a few steps away from Allahs mercy. we ask Allah to reward you....

i LOVE that sign

aww mashallah seems like you had a good time,im dieing to go and will be going inshallah very soon,it will be a dream come true if it works out,do dua for me,anyways what hoteldid ya stay in and whats theone which is right infrontof the kaba shareef in macca and whats a good hotel in medina.?????????let me know inshallah.thanku.

wheres that sign,ur saying sister that makes you cry?

for makkah theres the hilton and darul Tawheed, but in reality hotels like Grand Makkah and along that line are closer to the actual doors. the new one is abraj al bait is that the one you mean?

in madinah it depends which side you want to stay at, the movenpick and ones along that line are close to the womens entrance, the ones along the side of the Dome opposite Jannatul Baqi are new and building but there arent much food outlets there. further up the movenpick area theres the food but not the womens entrace. so it depends what you want closest

the sign is in makkah

I heard that the hilton one was the non muslim - paris hiltons or something, is that true?

1 - The Umrah experience is unexplainable! Best feeling on earth.

2 - Bro Fi: Paris Hilton is from the Hilton family. Hilton's a hotel company.

And if you search "saudi hilton hotel" in Google..you'll see that they've done Hotels in Saudi (Makkah and Madinah). And ALLAAHU A'LAM.

Where's that sis?

makkah

Assalamoalaikum,

During one of my Umrahs, we were going around Makkah for Zeeyrah, to visit the holy places in Makkah.

One of this time, the taxi driver took us to Ghar-e-Hira. We saw a lot of ppl climbing up. The taxi driver told us to try if we want to. As I was doing Umrah with a lot of my family memebers, some of them said they wanted to go up and others refused saying that we shouldn't.

The ones who wanted to go up n visit ghar-e-hira said, we r doing it only for the sake of seeing the cave with our own eyes. Not because we think it is a very sacred place.

So me being young and energetic decided to go. Infact, we were all kids with just one adult. It was a very very hard climb, which got tougher n tougher as we went higher. For me n my cousin, who were anemic, it got difficult to breathe properly. But we decided we would see the cave. For us, it was more like an adventure. We had never climbed a mountain before. And our parents gave us this permission the first time. We girls were the slowest to climb. When we reached the top there was a small canteen there for drinks. When we finished drinking, we thought we had to go down back now. But then our adult cousin told us that we had to go the other side of the mountain to go see ghar-e-hira.

Well, we were really tired but had to accomplish the mission. We got down from the other side of the mountain. Around 10 steps down and we had to pass through two huge rocks to get to the inner side of the mountain. It was a narrow passage. Ppl here said that from this passage u can realise that our Prophet PBUH was quiet slim. I don't know if it the truth.

Anyways, on the other side was ghar-e-hira. It was a small path and the cave was really small. There were ppl praying nawafel in it. So I went in too on my turn to pray. But with three ppl squeezed in a small one person cave, I couldn't do justice to my prayers.

What was an experience though, was the sight of Ka'aba. It was visible b/w the two huge rocks of the ghar-ehira. It was perfectly alligned to face the ka'aba. It was as if it was made for the purpose of praying towards Ka'aba.
I loved this sight and can never forget it. To view ka'aba from ghar-e-hira was an experience.

And to get down from that mountain,,,,was another!!It took us 1 hour to go up and half an hour to get down. But beleive it, I never thought I could make it down safely..I always felt I wanted to jump. It was really high n very steep. Somehow I felt the climb was better than the down walk.

I've gone to umrah three times. Once when I was in the 3rd grade, when I wasn't really aware of anything. And again in the Eid al Fitr holiday of 2005. That same year I went to Hajj and performed hajj for the first time. I also went to umrah again this year.

The feeling of being in the haram is so serene. It's simply calming, I just love sitting on the steps around maghrib time and making tasbeeh, admiring how many people are there, from all different walks of life. And the birds are flying all around. It's beautiful.

Salam.