In the name of God most Gracious, Most Merciful. as-salamu ‘alaykum one and all, Today is the day we embark on this holy and sacred journey. We depart from our home town after Salat al-Dhuhr on our way to Heathrow airport and then on our way to Jeddah. We will spend the first 8 days in Medinatul-Munawwara to visit the Prophet of God (Allah bless him and grant him peace), I am filled with a yearning, apprehension and anticipation. There…
Now that most of my work colleagues know that I am making the trip for Hajj and am starting to get curious questions and an opportunity to talk about the trip. Even the atheists are curiously interested in what it is all about, which reminds me of what Shaykh Hamza Yusuf once said in one of his lectures that he had never met an atheist who didn’t take God seriously. I have told everybody that when I come back that…
DISCLAIMER: DO NOT use any of these notes for your own Hajj preparations, consult more appropriately trained and qualified people. The notes here are for my benefit and for informational purposes. SunniPath.com are running an online Hajj course. Our local Imam, Hafiz Abdal-Dayan, with whom we are going on Hajj with, runs Hajj classes at our local mosque. Due to work commitments attending the classes has been very difficult and so managed to attend a class yesterday. He started from…