Tomorrow, 30/04/2011 I will be leaving for Mekah where umrah will begin. Even though my stay here in Madinah is just hotel - Masjid Nabawi and of course the shopping haven in between.. (so help me God)... I am just in love with the place. Just sitting at the walk-way of the mosque is enough to give you the serenity, the calmness you don't find elsewhere amidst the thousands of people of all sizes and nationalilty. Mind you, we are the smaller version of 'human beings'... praying is not at all like how we do it back home! They step, they cross over you, don't even talk about being pushed and you loose that two by four feet of space even, BUT you will NEVER fret, never complain! You can be praying at your supposedly space, and someone will simply park themself smack in front of you... hahaha.. you'd wonder, "how do I continue?" but you simply do! Simply amazing.
Then there is the inside of the mosque... where RasulAllah lies, his tomb, his 'garden of eden'... one may be queing for nothing less than 5 hours but you'd still wait patiently because what awaits you inside... no words can describe.
Of course, the shopping haven... business is non stop.. so to speak. However, as the Azan goes and prayer begins, that's when everything is 'abandoned' and everyone gives themselves to the Almighty simultaneously... I probably can sit and watch all this for ages and still be in awe...
So, tomorrow I shall move on... I will be back, if God grants my wishes. In time... I shall miss my tiny space and short time in Madinah... tremendously.
It is now 12.41pm... (5.41pm Malaysian) Friday prayers going on in a while. The ambulance's siren triggered again... someone died. Practically every prayer, someone goes through the burial process. How lucky that soul is.... 
photo of Masjid Nabawi taken just after fajr this morning (29/04/11)
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