EXCLUSIVE: Posts from Makkah/Hajj

[eTeacher]

Ok folks, to tell you the truth, I've remembered you, the SF crew, infront of the Kabah and at the Multazam as well. But, dang....I'm soo tired. I guess not doing excersise since whenver is coming back to haunt me. Alhamdulillah I got to touch and kiss the Hajr Al-Aswad (The Black Stone) the other day. Insha Allah I'll share some tips when I come back. But let me tell you. It took me over an hour to reach it. It was like being in a grinding stone. Every muscle of my body is killing me! I can't remember the last time I was on our treadmill :) Folks, if you wanna come for Hajj, jump on the treadmill at least a month before, cause even the tawaf is quite a distance.

astaghfirullah...i'm at Hajj and on the internet....:)
k...gtg...salam

[eTeacher]

Alhamdulillah I got to touch/kiss the black stone for the second time. This time it only took me ten minutes Alhamdulillah. A group member picked up on the tips and reached it very quickly as well.

I don't know for whatever reason, the cantthinkofausername name, keeps on popping up in my head when I am making dua. Oh well.....about being unfit....yeah...I admit it :(....I usually go for tawaf and stuff early morning like one or two and there are not as many people as in the day time....but the tawaf (7 circuits) on the first floor takes about 50 minutes altogether if a person walks briskly.....I can't remember the last time I walked for 50 mintues....plus trying to touch the black stone for the first time really took it's toll on me...it's like playing footie (soccer/football) after a long time....the body aches for the next couple of days....but alhamdulillah.....the ache has gone now....it's worth it though.....

Alhamdulillah, the king of qurra(recitors), Shaikh Sudais, has been leading Fajar prayers for the past two days. Two days ago, after fajar prayers, I see some guards escorting someone out of the Masjid, so I'm like wondering who could that be? And I see the person walking right past me, and omg...omg....it's Sudais! Then he disappears ahead of me in the crowd. A minute later, I see a car pulling out of the king's parking lot....and my sixth sense starts tingling...I go....that's sudais in there man.....and then his car moves ahead slowly in the same street where I am walking. Cause it's immediately after fajar, so the streets are packed with ppl. Then his car passes ever soo slowly on my right hand side. There was a kid sitting in the back, so I asked him, is that Sudais, and he goes yeah. So I quickly sprint forward two meters and I'm out of breath(lol). Then, I peer from the windshield towards my man Sudias, and with the motion of my hand, I say Salam, and to my surprise, he raises his right hand and says salam!.... And then his car disappears in the darkness of the early morning.

But it doesn't end there........That was yesterday morning.....today morning....I feel like a stalker....lol.....He leads prayer again. So I'm like waiting for him in the same place and I make sure I reach there before his car reaches there. When his car comes up, like yesterday, I did Salam to him gesturing with my right hand. But today (being the cheeky (british slang) guy that I am, I also did a major bidah....and made him do it as well...lol......after saying salam by gesture, I brought all my five fingers together, took them to my lips, and kissed them, and kind of like motioned them towards my man Sudais...lol.....

The arab people, when they wanna say you are soo sweet, that is the same thing they do and they say, "Anta Hulw", which means you are sweet. I'm sure I caught him by surprise....so a second later, sudais, does the same thing, and then he gestures with his hand and throws it back at me with a smile on his face.....lol.....then I look towards the driver and he has a big smile on his face as well....I gotta pull another stunt tomorrow morning....any ideas anyone?.....

I guess one of the hardest things for me in Hajj is to constantly hear my wife calling me (jokingly) a talko (baldie)...lol......that's really cold to us zulafa loving ppl...oh well....it's life....

Junaid: I'm staying at the Dallah Barakah Hotel. The phone number is: 570-2395/570-2460. Room #822. I will be changing rooms Saturday morning.

You are all in my duas. Please remember me as well.
Salam,
The Stalker in Makkah

[maaz]

wow mashallah, ya shaykh keep posting!!!

[GenN]

Assalmu alaykum Shaikh - MashAllah.

Please remeber me in your duas. Make sure next its the name *GenN* i repeat *GenN* that keeps popping into your head :cheesygri

(sorry about being so selfish ;) )

As for a stunt, well you could try blowing another kiss and then fall flat on your face, and act as if you are in extreme pain or somet and shaikh Sudais will surely come out to help the guy thats been blowing him kisses for 2 days in a row.

but then theres the deception issue....especially on haj. But i guess if you fall flat on your face and really do hurt yourself........but then i guess your not really supposed to injure your body. ah what the heck, just make sure you have an argument with your missus (easy, i know) the night before so next morning the shaikh sees you with a few bruises when your blowing him the kisses and comes to inquire. ;)

[abdushakur]

I don't know for whatever reason, the cantthinkofausername name, keeps on popping up in my head when I am making dua.

subhanallah

jazakallah khayr ya shaykh for the duas

humble request for more of the same....if ur duas in the haramayn for me are accepted u will have changed the life around of one of Allah's slaves inshallah.

if u have a chance, duas in mina, arafat, muzdalifah, and makkah again....plus my salams to Nabi paak (sallallahu alayhi wasallam).

i made 2 duas in arafat that came to pass as soon as i returned home....the power of duas, subhanallah.


if u cant remember any usernames to make dua for then u cantthinkofausername which is me.

i pray that everything shines for u in both worlds. ameen.

[GenN]

P.S. repeat after me shaikh :

"I will remember GenN in my duas, I will remember GenN in my Duas, I will Remember GenN in My duas, I will remeber GenN in my Duas, I will remember GenN in my duas"

was salaam.

[eTeacher]

Yesterday after Fajar Jumuah prayer, Shaikh Sudais led it, but I guess he was occupied with stuff so he didn't come out straight away :( Or is he 'trying to play hard to get'.... :)....just kidding folks....
So this morning, he comes out in a car like usual, and I was thinking of passing off a note or letting him know that Ohibbuka Fillah, but I decided against it. I just did salam to him and he replied back. Then another person motioned and he didn't raise his hands....I'm feeling important here....Insha Allah after Hajj, we will be proceeding to Madinah and then we will return to Makkah for about ten days. That is when I plan to Insha Allah pass off a note to him. It would be awesome if grants me permission to visit him at his house.

The Saudi government just changed the date of Arafat. It was supposed to be on Thursday, but last night they announced that Wuqoof Arafat will fall on Wednesday.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=57563&d=15&m=1&y=2005

The grueling five days of Hajj are coming up. I've waited many years for these days. Alhamdulillah the weather has been awesome here since the last week. I hope it remains like this.

Fi Amanillah

[Goldi]

I love you and miss you. Come back. (I miss makkah too :( )

(and dont forget your buddy Goldi molana, he really needs duas :$ )

[Idrees]

salaam maulana
dont forget me in ur duas
Plz do a dua for me

p.s. i didnt kno they had internet cafes in makkah, how did u get online?

[mujahideenryder]

SUBHANALLAH!
this is amazing!

Shaykh make dua that I do good in School.

oh man this is soo cool....mashaAllah...alhamdulillah!

[maaz]

The sun rises over tents set up for Haj pilgrims in Mena, outside of Mecca, early January 20, 2005. Some of the two million pilgrims went to Mena to perform the casting of seven stones at the pillars symbolizing Satan and to celebrate Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, in the last stage of their Haj pilgrimage. REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim

[maaz]

The sun rises over pilgrim's tents city of Mina, outside of Mecca early Thursday Jan 20, 2005. More than two million pilgrims are in Mina to throw stones at its pillars on the second day of the annual hajj pilgrimage which is one of the most sacred duties of the Muslim faith, required at least once for every able bodied Muslim who can afford it . (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

[maaz]

Pilgrims pray around the holy Kaaba at Mecca's Grand Mosque. Nearly two million Muslim faithful from across the globe were preparing to spend the night in a city of tents in a valley close to Mecca on the first leg of the annual hajj journey.(AFP/Karim Sahib)

[maaz]

Pigeons, fly as pilgrims prepare to leave Tuesday, Jan.18, 2005 the great mosque, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on their way to Mina where some two millions pilgrims will spend tonight before heading to Arafat Wednesday morning for the main day of the annual pilgrimage ' Hajj'. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

[maaz]

Muslim pilgrims pray outside the Grand Mosque in Mecca, January 17, 2005. About two million Muslim pilgrims gathered for their Haj pilgrimage this year. The Haj is one of a Muslim's duties, as described in the five pillars of Islam, to go on a Haj at least once during his or her lifetime, if affordable. Prophet Muhammad had said that a person who performs Haj properly will return as a newly born baby, free of all sins. REUTERS/Zainal Abd Halim

[Goldi]

That's beautiful maaz. awesome.

[maaz]

hey guys, check this out, much to see and watch here:

http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/H/hajj/index.html

[eTeacher]

Man....after looking at these pictures....I miss the place soo much...especially after looking at the picture in post#16 cause our hotel was up that road and that is the same road that Sheikh Sudais drives through.....

-After listening to the various Imams in Makkah as well as in Madinah, I say without any doubt that Shaykh Sudais is the best of them all IMHO. Sadly to say, some of the Makkan imams were making minor tajweed mistakes. That's totally unacceptable coming from an Imam of the Kabah.

-One of the hardest things in Hajj is to control the gaze. Seriously....especially in the Harum of Makkah and the five days of Hajj. And even the first gaze sometimes is soooo detrimental....Whereas Madianh was total bliss....cause the genders are totally segregated in the HUGE masjid which can accomodate over 1 million people!....so it's much easier to worship and recite the Quran in Madinah than in Makkah. Alhamdulillah, I was able to finish two Qurans....I have never recited so much in soo little time in soo many years....

-From Jeddah we flew to Amman, Jordan and we stayed over for a couple of days. In our Hajj group, there was a brother from Toronto who was originally from Jordan. So we hooked up with him for a day and went down to the Dead Sea and also to check out the Cave which is mentioned in Surah Kahf. And the amazing thing about this guy is like he took us around to all these different places throughout the entire day, and then in the evening we stopped over at a house. There were about ten people there. Next thing you know, the guy is getting married!....like...wow....that was soo amazing......like the judge came and did all the I accept stuff and whatnot.....the walima and the big party was gonna be a week later or whatever...but still....like that is what I call hospitality.......

-When we were flying out from the airport, this counter guy gave us soo much trouble....cause since our journey commenced from Toronto to Jeddah...we were allowed 60Kilos per person. From England to Jeddah is 20Kilos I think...so when the guy weighed our luggage, he said we have extra luggage and we will have to pay for the extra kilos which was like 70kilos! I go to myself....hellll noooooo....I ain't paying for all that....so politely I told him that since our final destination is not London, the London rule does not apply to us. The guy just didn't wanna hear us out. I tried explaining to the guy.....and he rudely ignored us....Then I told him that I wanna talk to the manager....he refused initially...but when we didn't take off our luggage from the scale, he picked up the phone and called the manager. Little did he know that I could understand everything what he was saying. And since he didn't phrase the question properly, the manager said we had to pay for the extra luggage. But I still didn't budge. So we had to stand there for like over ten minutes. Then this junior manager came and asked what was going on. I explained to him the problem and said that since my final destination was Toronto, we were allowed 120 kilos. Then the manager went about doing his business. But being the bad guy that I am.......I didn't let it end there. Cause I was at a minimum expecting a sorry from the guy....but the guy carried on with his work. So I go to the guy that aren't you at least gonna say sorry.......then the guy started saying stuff like...since we are arabs and we speak the arabic language which is the language of the ppl of jannat...therefore we are gonna go to jannat...so i don't need to apologize to you!!!!!!I was like did you really say that!!!did I really hear that!....he then repeated it again...i told him that....I speak arabic as well fluently.....but he didn't wanna hear me out...and he kept going on about how arabs are kind of like 'god's chosen people'....i was like...hey...wait a second....isn't that the same complaint you have with the jewish people that they think they are god's chosen ppl?......and now I'm hearing it from you as well.....he kept on going...I stayed quiet cause I didn't want him to hurt me in any other way....the guy didn't even know that each haji is allowed a drum of zamzam water for free and it's not counted as extra luggage......so....yeah....the guy was downright arrogant.....from the beginning.......so I met two contrasting ppl in jordan.....one amazingly hospitable...and the other...amazingly arrogant and rude.....

-once when i was by the door of the kabah....i heard a person saying Ya Ali (O Ali!)...so i was like gonna say to the person that....i really don't wanna hurt your feelings...and don't take it too personally...but sorry to brake it to you that....you got the wrong door..... :) ....but I said forget it....don't wanna pick a fight infront of the house of allah....person was lucky the salafi guards didn't hear it......

and much more.......Insha Allah......

[Alhumdulillah]

-once when i was by the door of the kabah....i heard a person saying Ya Ali (O Ali!)...so i was like gonna say to the person that....i really don't wanna hurt your feelings...and don't take it too personally...but sorry to brake it to you that....you got the wrong door.....

Assalamoalaykum!

Maulana, maybe he meant Ali as in Most High, i.e. since it is one of Allah Ta'ala's names! It's like saying, Ya Rahim, or Ya Azeez, etc. Maybe he did really mean Allah Ta'ala, and you just misunderstood him!

Anyway, let's hear more about what happened between you when you were stalking Sheikh Sudais!

Wasalaam.

[maaz]

hey maulana nazim we wanna hear more stories. please post more often...

[majhul]

Assalam alaikum. Did you get to meet Shaykh Nuh and Sidi Faraz in Amman?

[eTeacher]

Assalamoalaykum!

Maulana, maybe he meant Ali as in Most High, i.e. since it is one of Allah Ta'ala's names! It's like saying, Ya Rahim, or Ya Azeez, etc. Maybe he did really mean Allah Ta'ala, and you just misunderstood him!

Anyway, let's hear more about what happened between you when you were stalking Sheikh Sudais!

Wasalaam.

Masha Allah, it's nice that you have a good thought about a Muslim. But when the person adds the urdu word madad after it, then it's quite obvious. Also, I never stated that the person was a 'he'. :)

Assalam alaikum. Did you get to meet Shaykh Nuh and Sidi Faraz in Amman?

When I was in Saudi, I phoned Shaykh Faraz that I was gonna come and visit him and everything was all planned out. But Allah is the best of planners......I was in Amman for only two days and I had planned to meet Shaykh Faraz a.k.a. The Hanafi Warlord, on the second day and we had planned to go visit some places together as well.....but.....sadly to say....I was not the amir of the group and by the time we finished with the brother's Nikah khutbah and finished eating some amazing Jordanian food, it was too late into the evening.....:(......and the next morning we flew out.....so.....no....sadly to say....I never got to meet the two shayks......

[junaid]

Assalamualaikum nazim brother,
well bro that jordanian was real rude y din u teach him a lesson. well tell some about ur journey from mina to haram on the last day(the day on which it rained).