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 they should expect to see me with a bald head and that I will be wearing a loin cloth for four days whilst performing the rights.

So those of you going on the Hajj, use this opportunity to tell your colleagues about it.