Hajj Post- Part 2

Loved by some.....HATED by others

Mina-The Tent City:

On the way back home from Hajj, we flew from Jeddah to Amman, Jordan and we stayed over for a couple of days. In our Hajj group, there was a brother from Toronto who was originally from Jordan. So we hooked up with him for a day and went down to the Dead Sea and also to check out the Cave which is mentioned in Surah Kahf. And the amazing thing about this guy is like he took us around to all these different places throughout the entire day, and then in the evening we stopped over at a house. There were about ten people there. Next thing you know, the guy is getting married!....like...wow....that was soo amazing......like the judge came and did all the I accept stuff and whatnot.....the walima and the big party was gonna be a week later or whatever...but still....like that is what I call hospitality.......

-When we were flying out from the airport, this counter guy gave us soo much trouble....cause since our journey commenced from Toronto to Jeddah...we were allowed 60Kilos per person. From England to Jeddah is 20Kilos ...so when the guy weighed our luggage, he said we have extra luggage and we will have to pay for the extra kilos which was like 70kilos! I go to myself....hellll noooooo....I ain't paying for all that....so politely I told him that since our final destination is not London, the London rule does not apply to us. The guy just didn't wanna hear us out. I tried explaining to the guy.....and he rudely ignored us....Then I told him that I wanna talk to the manager....he refused initially...but when we didn't take off our luggage from the scale, he picked up the phone and called the manager. Little did he know that I could understand everything what he was saying. And since he didn't phrase the question properly, the manager said we had to pay for the extra luggage. But I still didn't budge. So we had to stand there for like over ten minutes. Then this junior manager came and asked what was going on. I explained to him the problem and said that since my final destination was Toronto, we were allowed 120 kilos. Then the manager went about doing his business.

But being the bad guy that I am.......I didn't let it end there. Cause I was at a minimum expecting a sorry from the guy....but the guy carried on with his work. So I go to the guy that aren't you at least gonna say sorry.......then the guy started saying stuff like...since we are arabs and we speak the arabic language which is the language of the ppl of jannat...therefore we are gonna go to jannat...so i don't need to apologize to you!!!!!!I was like did you really say that!!! Did I really hear that!....He then repeated it again...I told him that....I speak arabic as well fluently.....but he didn't wanna hear me out...and he kept going on about how arabs are kind of like 'god's chosen people'....i was like...hey...wait a second....isn't that the same complaint you have with the jewish people that they think they are god's chosen ppl?......and now I'm hearing it from you as well.....he kept on going...I stayed quiet ...the guy didn't even know that each haji is allowed a drum of zamzam water for free and it's not counted as extra luggage......so....yeah....the guy was downright arrogant.....from the beginning.......so I met two contrasting ppl in jordan.....one amazingly hospitable...and the other...amazingly arrogant and rude.....

-One of the hardest things in Hajj is to control the gaze. Seriously....especially in the Harum of Makkah and the five days of Hajj. And even the first gaze sometimes is soooo detrimental....Whereas Madianh was total bliss....cause the genders are totally segregated in the HUGE masjid which can accomodate over 1 million people!....so it's much easier to worship and recite the Quran in Madinah than in Makkah. Alhamdulillah, I was able to finish two Qurans....I have never recited so much in soo little time in soo many years....