Month: April 2023

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Last Ten Nights (#6)

4:40 pm The afternoon sun is still burning the floor at the rooftop. Which has become my refuge since a few days ago. Not a popular spot...

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Ramadhan in Mecca(Last Ten Nights(#5))

7:28 pm at the rooftop. Just finished Iftar. Very modest with tamar, a slice of bread, coffee and zamzam water. Alhamdulillah ala kulihal....

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Ramadhan in Mecca(Last Ten Nights (#4)

11:00 am. I was late(not late you must be at the gate before 10 am). So I walked as the time for Friday’s prayers still aplenty. Followed...

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Ramadhan in Mecca (Last Ten Nights #3)

12:00 am .The crowds were aggressive as well as intimidating. Time and again I was elbowed, hogged through, bumped away and ass-held....

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Ramadhan in Mecca (Last Ten Nights #2)

11:30 am. As solat tahajjud began this morning ,my routine went haywire.there are gaps of 2-3 hours only between the prayers from Zuhr...

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Ramadhan in Mecca (Last Ten Nights #1)

3:38 am. The alarm went off from inside my pocket. I was already out and about. There is no particular reason why my alarm was set at that...

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Ramadhan in Mecca(Day 19)

3:40 am. As we stepped out,the street was wet. The hailstones had been hitting our window since early morning. But people were seen coming...

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Ramadhan in Mecca (Day 18)

3:08 am. I was up and looking at the time I’ve got plenty of it to recover myself. Taking time stretching and thinking about home and my...

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Ramadhan in Mecca (Day 17)

2:40 am. One of the phones just rang like crazy. Definitely not mine.hmmm…..To get up or not to get up,that’s the question.It’s okay...

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Ramadhan in Mecca (Day 16)

3:45 am. We were already out and about. Improved from yesterday, alhamdulillah. Friday’s crowd is usually bigger and nastier;by now, we...

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