MysticRiver
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Assalam alaikoum wa rahmatouhou wa ta'ala,
It's been a year that I've been dreaming of performing a Umrah. It was so dear to my heart that, to the very last moment, I couldn"t believe I was really going to the holy land. Al Hamdoullah, Allah made it possible for me.
I keep some amazing memories in my mind. I'll never forget the first time I saw the Haram Ennabawi and the Ka'ba. I cried each time. Listening to the Muezzin calling for the prayer gave me goose bumps.
However, there are a few negative aspects I noticed in Makkah. People (not all, fortunately) were eating everywhere and throwing dirt on the ground when they leave. I was shocked at seeing so much dirt. The poor persons in charge of cleaning were overwhelmed. I saw families sitting on the ground eating a complete meal and when they were done, they just got up and left. Come on! It's not even about religion, it's about education. Even in the holy Haram, women threw used handkerchiefs, plastic bags and soda cans. And when it came to praying, ladies in wheelchairs cut their ways in the tightest places (in front of me) and when doing the sujood, I was bumping my head to the wheel. When the prayer was finished, the lady leaves the chair there and when I told her to take it back to its place, she says things I prefer not to understand. Of course, there are the mothers who bring their toddlers who spend all the time crying and shouting. The same mothers who sleep in the Haram and snore and wake up to pray without wudu.
There's something else, there were so many buses but none was showing the destination. People were wandering everywhere asking for information and the people there were not helpful at all. We found no one to give us instructions. My mom fainted on our way back to the hotel. She was so weak. I called a cab to bring us to the hotel which was at about 200 meters and the cab driver looked at how desperate we were and he said 50 Ryals!
I loved being in the Haramains (the places), but the people who work there or the ones who do the Umrah need to revise lots of things. The authorities tend to focus on the Haram (in Makkah) but what surrounds it looks like a third world country scenery.
If I look like exaggerating, please forgive me. What do you think?
Nahla
It's been a year that I've been dreaming of performing a Umrah. It was so dear to my heart that, to the very last moment, I couldn"t believe I was really going to the holy land. Al Hamdoullah, Allah made it possible for me.
I keep some amazing memories in my mind. I'll never forget the first time I saw the Haram Ennabawi and the Ka'ba. I cried each time. Listening to the Muezzin calling for the prayer gave me goose bumps.
However, there are a few negative aspects I noticed in Makkah. People (not all, fortunately) were eating everywhere and throwing dirt on the ground when they leave. I was shocked at seeing so much dirt. The poor persons in charge of cleaning were overwhelmed. I saw families sitting on the ground eating a complete meal and when they were done, they just got up and left. Come on! It's not even about religion, it's about education. Even in the holy Haram, women threw used handkerchiefs, plastic bags and soda cans. And when it came to praying, ladies in wheelchairs cut their ways in the tightest places (in front of me) and when doing the sujood, I was bumping my head to the wheel. When the prayer was finished, the lady leaves the chair there and when I told her to take it back to its place, she says things I prefer not to understand. Of course, there are the mothers who bring their toddlers who spend all the time crying and shouting. The same mothers who sleep in the Haram and snore and wake up to pray without wudu.
There's something else, there were so many buses but none was showing the destination. People were wandering everywhere asking for information and the people there were not helpful at all. We found no one to give us instructions. My mom fainted on our way back to the hotel. She was so weak. I called a cab to bring us to the hotel which was at about 200 meters and the cab driver looked at how desperate we were and he said 50 Ryals!
I loved being in the Haramains (the places), but the people who work there or the ones who do the Umrah need to revise lots of things. The authorities tend to focus on the Haram (in Makkah) but what surrounds it looks like a third world country scenery.
If I look like exaggerating, please forgive me. What do you think?
Nahla
