Before you jump to the pictures, please read this:

I want to apologise for the earlier post I wrote about preparing for Hajj. I haven’t deleted or edited the post, mainly as a reminder to myself, but the tone of the post was totally wrong. Worrying about the state of the toilets or getting conned is not what Hajj is about. Honestly such issues are so insignificant. I can only feel a deep shame for even making it a part of my thoughts. True, there are many hardships and tests when you embark for Hajj, but all faithful servants of Allah, Most Merciful, will only rejoice in praise and thanks at accepting the most privileged of invitations. You are coming as a guest of Allah, Most High, so what type of guest are you if you are one that complains?

Medina

The way the tour operator I used organised the trip was to go directly by flight to Medina. Spend 5 days there, then head to Makkah 5 days before the actual Hajj began.

Visiting Medina, isn’t a part of Hajj, but it is a great sunnah to visit Medina after completing Hajj.

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Makkah

I have no pictures from inside the Masjid. After I completed my ‘Umrah (I was doing Hajj Tammattu’), I thought if I should take some pictures. I was a little unsure though. I could see many visitors inside with their cameraphones, but I didn’t want to spoil my intentions in thinking that I was a tourist, so I made a du’a to Allah to send a sign. As soon as I had finished the du’a, my camera just overheated and went dead. That was sign enough!

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