wow sis.....you are Masha'Allah very lucky. I went last year, and my only desire is to go back again and again and again
mashAllah sis....share ur experience? has it changed much ukhtee??? how long did u stay for??
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My experience, well i had university so my whole trip was 2 weeks long since that was the time of the christmas holidays. so i stayed in Makka 3 days, then in hajj for 5 days then in Makka for 1 day then in Madina for 3 days.
as for advice to give to you
1) try to avoid all kinds of sins, shaytaan will be there and he will try his hardest to make you commit sins
2) when you get to Muzdalifa, try to do some duas, etc. for me i stood in line in Arafat for 6 hours to get to Muzdalifa. and i literally was standing for 6 hours, there was not enuff space for me to take a step. so by the time i got to Muzdalifa i was sooooo tired that i immeidately went to sleep and so i did not get much time to do dua, etc in Muzdalifah. Alhamdulillah i did something
3) another great problem with me was the bathrooms. the bathrooms were not the cleanest, and i was okay with that but it was the lines that bothered me, espeically since they were uncivilized. Allah says in Surat Al-Baqarah not to argue/fight etc when in Hajj but when you stand in line for the bathrooms at Mina, Arafat and Muzdalifa, the women push and shove and argue and fight and its terrible. and if you stand quietly, sometimes people keep going ahead of you in the line and you never get a chance to go to the bathroom. so just be prepared for the terrible bathroon lines
4) be prapred for walking a lot witha lack of sleep. In Mina i hope your tent is close to the Jamaraat. for me it was about a 45min walk to the Jamaraat and then like another 1hour and a half walk to Makkah so it would pretty tiring. So be prapred for lots and lots of walking and a lack of sleep. The tawaaf would probably take a long time as well. the best time for tawaaf that i found was right after fajr cuz thats when people will leave to eat. otherwise i did tawaaf on the roof (whcih takes about 3 hours) becuase on the ground its too crowded.
5) always be with your mehram, espeically when doing tawaaf on the ground; its soo crowded and during this crowded period there are some men who do WRONG things while you are trying to do your tawaaf and worship. this also causes you to fight and cuss them. hence always be with your mehram to avoid all such hassles. even on the streets of Makka, stay with your mehram
other than that, i loved it, i wish i was there for a longer time and i wish i could go again and again. i would kindly ask you to ask Allah to accept my hajj.
or Mishty Bai will be upset:raging:
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