06 April 2009
Day-8 : Makkah Al Mukkaramah.
After breakfast rented a van to go to Tannaim to miqat.
Completed our 5th Umrah around 10:45 am.
After zuhur, we waited half an hour for our bus. Today we're going to the camel farm on the way to Hudaibiyah. Hubby, kids and I shared a bottle of fresh camel milk which tasted OK but I don't fancy drinking another bottle. Our guide also said it's good to slather the froth of the camel milk onto our face so all the ladies are quick to do so. Hubby n kids commented if Ustaz say camel dung is good for our face we would also put it on our face :)).
Visiting this camel farm made me wonder how such a nice and gentle creature is brought up in a surrounding, which is rough and environmentally unfriendly. Here they are in the middle of a desert under the punishing heat of the hot afternoon sun without any shelter. Yet, they greeted us amicably when we approached them. No wonder, it is said that the camel is one of the animals guaranteed a place in Heaven.
Our next stop is the Ka'abah museum.
There were many pictures and artifacts related to the Ka'abah on display :)).
And our last stop at the Hudaibiyah mosque.The new mosque actually. The old mosque where the Hudaibiyah agreement was said to take place was just next to it. Can you imagine there's something left of it after hundreds of years?. More than 10 centuries actually.
I'm awed.
At Ka'abah museum.
The tour guide walked us through the museum so fast that I was unable to read the many descriptions set for the items on display. The reason was to avoid overcrowding the relatively small venue to make way for the next influx of pilgrims who were coming in. The next group never came. I was disappointed that I couldn't spend more quality time learning
about each artifact.
Thats all for now, ...to be continued.
wassalam
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