MY TRIP TO ARAB
05 MAY ,2017 WE TOOK AN EMIRATES FLIGHT FROM PATNA TO JEDDAH ;TURNED OFF THE PHONES AND TRIED TO RELAX AND FORGET EVERYTHING EVEN THE UPCOMING EXAMS NEXT MONTH .
IT WAS MAY AND JEDDAH WAS VERY HOT BUT TOLERABLE .IT WAS ABOUT 2PM WHEN WE REACHED JEDDAH .WHEN I CAME OUT OF THE PLANE I FELT ROASTING IN FEW MINUTES.,SOON WE TRANSFERED INSIDE THE AIRPORT HALL .
WE SAID OUR AFTERNOON PRAYER AND SOON WE GOT INSIDE A TOURISTY COOL BUS .
HEADING TO MEDINA; THE BEAUTIFUL DESERT WHICH COVERS APPROXIMATELY TO WHOLE WAY FROM JEDDAH TO MEDINA SAW US TAKING MANY PICTURES OUT OF THE WINDOW . WE ARRIVED AND THE FIRST THING WHICH MADE OUR HEART BEAT FAST WAS THE '' Masjid-al-nabawi '' mosque.
THERE WERE LOTS OF PILGRIMS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES IN THE PRAYER .THEY WERE FROM EGYPT, LEBANON,INDONESIA MALASIYA ,EVEN FROM U.S I REMEMBERED THE MOMENT WHEN I SAW ONE OF FAVOURITE TURKISH YOUNG ACTOR BURAK DENIZ .
CALL OF PRAYERS CAN BE HEARD IN ALL PARTS OF THE CITY,AND WHO EVER HEARS IT LEAVES THEIR JOB (EVEN OPEN SHOPS) WITH NO FEAR OF THAT THINGS WILL BE STOLLEN .WELL THER EIS NO THEFT IN THE CITY .
IT WAS VERY CALMING INSIDE THE MOSQUE .THE BEAUTIFUL ARCHITECTURE OF THE HUGE MOSQUE .EVERY
ONE WERE THE QURAN ,I ALSO SAT NEAR ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL COLUMNS AND STARTED READING MY QURAN SILENTLY , AFTER A WHILE A SAUDI WOMEN CAME TO ME WITH HER DAUGHTER .AND SAT BESIDE ME ,THEN THAT HAPPEND FOR WHICH I WAS VERY NERVOUS ''' SPEAKING ARABIC ''' . I WAS JUST LISTENIN HER LOOKING IN MY QURAN JUST SHAKING MY HEAD LIGHTLY IN REPLY . THEN SHE TALKED IN ENGLISH AFTER REALISING THAT I AM NOT A SINGLE WORD IN ARABIC. IT WAS LIKE BOON FOR ME.
SHOPPING IN MEDINA :FREE TAXIS ', ALL AROUND THE CITY OF MEDINA, THERE ARE BIG SHOPS AND MALLS. ONE OF THE INTERESTING THING IN MEDINA IS FREE TAXIS THAT HEAD TO BIG MALLS . IN MALLS PRICES ARE SURPRISINGLY DIFFERENT FROM INDIA , I BOUGHT A WATCH FOR 65 dinar ,(2700 rupees ) and the same watch costs 5999 RUPPES IN INDIA .I WAS VERY RELAXED LEAVING MY HOTEL ROOM AT 3:AM TO TAKE PART IN MORNING PRAYER .THE CROWD DURING THE MORNING PRAYER WAS ABOUT A THOUSAND IN A COLUMN .
WEARING WHITE CLOTHES SINCE TONIGHT AND TOMORROW MORNING .
IN ''Sahjare Mosque'' IT WAS VERY BUSY AND VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND FRINEDS AND FAMILY IF YOU LOST THEM BEACAUSE EVERYONE LOOKS THE SAME IN WHITE .
NOW WE WERE READY TO VISIT ''KA'BA'' . ON THE WAY THERE WAS A SIGN THAT SAID ''ENTRANCE TO NON - MUSLIMS IS FORBIDDEN ,SINCE ONLY MUSLIMS ARE ALLOWED TO ENTER IN THE CITY OF MECCA..WE WERE SITTING IN CORNER ,SUDDENLY WE HEARD PEOPLE CRY OF HAPPINES ,EVERYONE WAS RUNNING IN ROW .WE ALSO THOUGHT TO BECOME A PART OF IT ., I SA THE KING OF SAUDII ARABIA ''Salman Abdulaziz Al Saud''.
THE KING WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A NUMBER OF WOMEN .
