Journey day 1 8/9 feb

We left home at 10, with adzeem usual tantrum... He's been like this for the last few days. As if he knew that his ayah and ibu are going away for quite sometimes... He even chose the orange coloured tshirt for me to wear.

Arriving at the airport. I was surprise that there area few familiar faces.. Farehana and her family, Kak pah of pdb and azuwar sending off his mum

Nothing much happened in the Boeing 777( I fancy this machine more than the 747, let see how the new airbus purchase compares) watched the ...snow with meatballs or something... And the national treasure pt 2.. Again... There is a good tip about jet lag which I want to try... Be awake as much as you can when travelling west and try to get as much sleep when travelling east. Pah is suffering air sick as the tail is really wagging!

It was CAT all over India with head wind more than 200kmh. Consequently we are 2 hours late in arriving Jeddah. The usual chaos at the airport... In my observation, this people rather pull rank rather than doing jobs. We departed around 1/2 past 10 and to my surprise there was an Arab from the tourism ministry by the name of Sallah becoming our tour guide... As expected, he just give a'key note' address welcoming us and then he sat down all the way.

The journey to medinah took 4 hours. I manage to sleep in between the speed limiter alarm blaring once every couple of minutes and the engine humm; We stop at place call alfariq which is about 200 km into the journey. I agreed with the muttawif, it was a decent stop with a mosque, proper toilets and taza chicken outlet, the best I had experienced so far...The weather was freezing though... And I wish I didn't wear my jeans! We move on in the dark and 17 km before arriving at the prophet's city I was awaken by a call from an unknown number..

Medinah has change since I last visited. The giant umbrellas are all around the masjid! We arrived at 3.30 and after a quick refresher, we went to the mosque. It is really cold... In the early teens.
The morning hue is really gorgeous!



I didn't get raudhah in the morning... But I mange to see rasulallah... I am overwhelmed emotionally by it all once again, I felt that I had sins so much since the last visit that I just hope that I will still be considered as his umah in the hereafter
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It's 3 pm local time. Believe it or not I m stuck here at masjid nabawi due to the fact that my slippers were locked by the barricade they made for the women( for them to access raudhah! ) Plus point? I managed 1/2 hr myself in the raudhah. Alhamdulillah

I miss my kids though. I m praying to Allah for enough money for me to bring them all to perform umrah and haj. Ameen


One more thing I like about madinah is the bookstore. I will always find books that would address my needs. This time around is the following book:-



I m eyeing another 2 actually... Those and a sejadah would be my shopping for this trip, god willing!

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