back from my blessed journey,Alhumdulillah!

[lubna]

s3
Alhumdulillah we have achieved our obligation of hajj. i am so thankful to Allah for helping me to do this. he indeed had made it so easy for us Alhumdulillah.

so i am back safe and sound, and Allah has given me another chance to do good in His way inshaAllah, by not taking my life in jamarat. though it would have been an ideal death, right after Allah has washed your sins and your salatul janazah is said in masjidul haram by millions of hajis and you get burried in makkah where the fitnah of dajjal will not enter, you get to resurrect in ehram saying talbiyah on the day of judgement.... but seems like you people need me here and Allah spare me for you all... :) .

one of the lady whose parents and husband got shaheed was from my group and was from birmingham too. she was also my neighbour in the tent in mina. i talked to her mother as well.we had very mixed emotions that day. never felt death that closer b4 in my life.
we stayed in tent after our group leader's advice that day and did our rummi late at isha time, but her family's time was finished so they opt for zawal time i.e the most busy and dangerous time.that lady and her brother survived the crush . she is 5 months pregnant too. miracles do happen still!

rest later inshaALlah.

wassalam wr wb
your sister in islam
lubna

[Tayeb]

w3s sr,

Wecome back sr. We were quite worried as we know the deaths were of Hajjis from South Asia.

Nevertheless Allah spared you so that you may insha-Allah continue to do the good work you have been doing here in myiwc.com among others :)

May Allah accept your Hajj.

Ma'a-salaama,

[tbahrain]

w3s , sis

Welcome back dear sister. Alhamdulillah, you have returned safely and have completed your obligation.

tbahrain

[lubna]

s3
i feel doubly blessed by receiving a warm wlecome by you brothers Alhumdulillah. may Allah reward you in the best form Ameen.

brother tbahrain i was talking about you while sitting in the haram in makkah... :) it was a very nice malaysian lady from your city kulalumpur.when i find out she was from malaysia , you came straight to my mind and then to my tongue... :) .

the feeling of love ,sincerity and muslim sisterhood was every where i went. i can never forget it. at each salat time i met new sisters from around the world, we said salam and hugged eachother when we departed. and made some conversation in broken arabic or in english. that malaysian lady was good in english though.
the longer conversation i had was with a yemni lady and i was using all my arabic vocabulary that day...:)
one daaghistan lady was impressed of my quraan tafseer in urdu language.she said she was unfortunate not having the translation in her language.

every moment i spent of my hajj days i will cherish it for all my life inshaALlah.

may Allah guide us all to the truth Ameen.

your sister in islam
lubna

[tbahrain]

w3s

thank you, sis. Looking forward to perhaps reading your haj experiences in the near future? :)

tbahrain

[Om_Mohammed]

s3

Ah, dear sis. Alhamdulillah a thousand times over and then more!! For your successful completion of the haj, and your safe return to your family and loved ones (including us here).

I have been truly worried, wondering from the first time I heard of the jamarat tragedy, if you or any of your company was among those shaheeds.

True, it would be a most wonderful end of this life to be among shaheed in performing haj or umrah. But also, it is so tragic that the death should happen in the violent method that happens in these stampedes.

Every year, when I hear of such tragedies, I imagine the utter horror it must be to be under the trampling feet of so many.

May Allah shed his mercy on those souls, and grant them paradise. Ameen.

And may Allah strengthen and guide the muslims to better conduct amongst themselves and with others across the world, in order to do His will and spread the message of His religion.

I will make a separate post to share with you one of my past experiences at the jamrat, an example of how miracles of course do happen, and the importance of dua.

Don't want to take away from this thread with the details...just wanted to warmly welcome you back, sis.

Get rested up, and get ready for the work to be done now at these forums as well.

Glad to have u back, sis.

;)

Om Mohammed.

[lubna]

w3s

thank you, sis. Looking forward to perhaps reading your haj experiences in the near future? :)

tbahrain

s3

now that you are looking forward to it, how can i stay quite ...though i dont have much to realte to you as i am an average muslim with ordinary recounts, unfortunately nothing like spiritually uplifting experiences that i was hoping to get are in my store ...

plus i am too shy ( really :))to expose my personal journey. or may be too secrative is the right word, cos big mouth people like me can be anything but shy...:)

ok i will relate to you my very 1st jolt/eye opener ....... please dont get tensed nothing negative or bad at all Alhumdulillah. all of my blessed journey of hajj is like walk on the roses Alhumdulillah. i have no bad experience at all! 3 weeks of my hajj days will always stay with me like a pleasant memory for my entire life inshaALlah. and we all know ease of a journey is a blessing in itself Alhumdulillah...( i am sure you wanna know which group i went with...:) ,let us leave the advertisment for the end...:))

so my 1st shock was when i left my kids with my family and came back to birmingham WITHOUT them for the 1st time in my life! i could not stop crying....No i was not missing them , but was feeling very exposed infront of Allah, it was like someone has taken the camoflauge away from me. and the ayah that was echoing in my mind was, ''Lo! you have come infront of us all alone , just like you were the day i created you''
i was trying to hold on to the love and mercy of Allah as i had left the shores of love of my kids. it was an amazing feeling. almost like the day of judgement when you will have no friends family and wealth to help you but only Allah.

you prove your love for Allah by cutting all your worldy ties and humble yourself for all of your hajj time by living the way Allah has destined for you with ease or difficulty without any complain, how can you complain, when you are the guest. and a good guest never complains at all! but is always thankful for the hospitality of its host. and you can never have enough gratitude when the host is Allah himself!

so this is how my hajj journey started with an awe for Allah, it was sinking into to me that i do love and care for someone MORE than my kids, and not only that i was also getting the taste of how it will be for them when i am not around . yet another amzing feeling of a life time.

i was feeling like a child myself who wants to submerge in the affection and love of Allah , i had no care for anybody else but myself .i was one to one with Allah...

may Allah have mercy on us all and make us among the people whom he loves Ameen.

wassalam
your sister in islam
lubna

[macmuslim]

:)
SubhanAllah!

[tbahrain]

thanks you, sis. how beautiful your words are.