Day 4&5

Day 4- friday in medinah, we spent the morning on the city tour visiting the qubaa, qiblatain mosques and the war sites of khandak and uhud. Before we adjourned for the Friday prayers, it was the usual stop at the dates market. I bought 6 kg if anbar, ajwa, pistachios and chocolates! I hope I am not going to burst my baggage limits.

After the prayers we did some shopping for the kids and I bought myself a sejadah; also kind of like a ritual buying everytime I visited this land.

I spent the time after isyak with a Saudi from Riyadh and we spent an hour or so - he queried about some properties that he hopes to buy in KL.

Day5- it's the day we bid good bye (for this time insyaallah) to rasulallah and get ourselves ready for the umrah. The bus ride took about 5 hours.

We reached mekah around 2.30 and what a change! All the places that I've known was not there anymore, just barren hills. They really want to modenise mekah. We stayed at hotel firdaus tower which is believe it or not about 1.2 km from the mosque.

After checking in we perform our umrah and finished the rituals befor maghrib prayers and the skies! It poured like it was monsoon in Malaysia! It rained for almost thee hours and I got the privelige to experience this torrential downpour at the two holy cities ( in medinah when I performed my hajj)



Rainy Mecca night!

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