Perubahan kecil...sejak berkampus d Mina!

Salah satu daripada perubahan yang telah aku lalui sewaktu di Mina ialah 'jadual' diri. Pada mulanya, perubahan jadual di desak oleh keperluan menggunakan 'toilet'. Oleh kerana kesesakan jemaah beratur di depan 'toilet' di waktu-waktu 'peak hours', aku telah melatih diri untuk bangun tengah malam untuk urusan mandi manda dan menunaikan apa saja hajat. Lalu alarm di pasang jam 3 pagi. Ada kalanya, diri sendiri terjaga di jam begitu sebelum alarm berbunyi.

Kesempatan bangun di waktu itu di guna sepenuhnya untuk solat Tahajud, dan apa saja amalan yang afdal di lakukan di ketika malam masih sunyi sepi, kecuali sesekali kedengaran dengkur dari kawan2 seperjuangan. Actually happy juga aku mendengar berbagai irama dengkur...mengingatkan aku, yang 'I am not alone!' lah kan...

Sekembali ke rumah, aku masih terbawa2 dengan terjaga waktu tengah malam. Satu nikmat pula rasanya dapat bangun malam2 begitu...!

InshaAllah, semoga berkekalan perubahan ini. Kepada para sahabat yang sudah pun mengamalkan berjaga di waktu tengah malam, alhamdullillah~!

It was a personal journey...

  

Alumni Mina 2011 - Muasasah Ustaz Hassan (Riyadh)



Our very special guests after Hajj !

  My Haj journey started on Thursday 3rd November at 12.00 midnight when my wife and I were driven to the airport to join other Malaysians from Jeddah and those who were arriving from Jubail. At 12.30am, we boarded a bus and started our journey towards Mecca for our Tawaf Qudum.

The journey ended at 2am on Thursday 10th November when my wife and I arrived home and reunited with Luqman and Haziq who have been staying home for the period we were away. They have done very well - living independently. They even went through an ordeal of an accidental locked-out, and came out wiser and closer to each other. 

Two hours after being home, we received the arrival of sixteen very special guests  who have accepted our invitation for a sleep over at our home. They were pilgrimage friends whom we have met during Hajj and who were returning to Jubail the next day. It was our honour and pleasure to turn our living room and spare bedroom into 'Mina-like' camp for a fifteen hour rest before their long journey home continued the next day.

What went on during Hajj was a personal and private experience and I have decided not to write about them, at least for now. Suffice to say, it was a very humbling experience. May God accept my Haj and do'a, and the Haj of my dear wife, and those of our friends and relatives and all Muslims who surrendered themselves to God unconditionally.

Thank you for your do'a!

"Selamat Hari Raya Haji, Maaf Zahir Batin!"

At 2 am tomorrow morning my wife and I will be joining other Malaysian Jemaah boarding a bus which will take us to Mekah. This will be my second time doing Haj, and I am doing this Haj for my late father who died when I was ten. My late mother, alhamdullillah, had the opportunity and did perform her Haj many years before she died in 2002.

I performed my own Haj together with my wife in 2003. It was indeed the start of my love affairs with Saudi Arabia.

In 2003 I was based in Singapore working with Unilever Asia. During my last conversation with my mother in August 2002, one day before she died, I promised her that I would do my Haj. That promise brought a smile which unfolded slowly and glowed eternally on her face. She squeezed my hand with approval.
My father died in 1969 before he could perform his Haj.

While doing Haj in 2003, my wife and I thought that it would be so nice if I were to get a job  opportunity in Saudi so that we could visit Mekah as often. We prayed to Allah to grant us that wish. Alhamdullillah, in July of the same year I was offered a job by Unilever Middle East, and to be based in Jeddah. In September of the same year, I relocated and started my new job.

Tomorrow morning, we will be taken to Mekah to do our Tawaf Qudum and then to Minna where we will camp until Wukuf in Arafah.

InshaAllah, may God accept the Haj of Muslims from all over the world. May all our sins and those of our beloved ones whether dead or alive be forgiven.

"Selamat Hari Raya Eidul Adha...Mohon Maaf Zahir Batin... Di minta halalkan makan dan minum...dan doakan supaya di permudahkan urusan kami di Mekah nanti!"