I was a part of an entourage as
a private member each spending an amount
of three lakhs fifty thousands and plus paying to the travels and tours for an easy convenient stay for thirty nine days and
performance of one of the five pillars of Islam i.e. HAJJ including food , lodging, laundering, and transportation
etc. We left on 24th of
August 2017 by Sadi Arabia Airlines and were back on 4th of October
2017. We stayed in two five hotels of
Holy city of Makkah for about thirty days and last tendays were spent in Madina 450 km away from Makkah .We were given occupation in two five star
hotels nearest of the limits of Kaabah
to pray inside the campus of the Holy city to perform our Umrah ,Haj and Tawafe
Ziyrat and Tawafe Alvidah besides performing
as many as Nawafils and NAFIL Tawafs one
could do. The sea of lofty rows of most advanced and latest hotels which no
other city on the globe can claim to be having ; luxurious looked after by Indians,
Bangladeshis ,Pakistanis ,Nepalis ,Srilankans,the main labour force under their
Arab masters,Pakistanis as the chief and leading country. One lakh 71 thousand Indian pilgrims from
India alone are said to have paid their visits
in this connections.
Without exceptions, the majority
of them will spend their precious time for purchases every day and return to
place of their stay and will sleep till late morning missing their Fajar (Morning
)Salat every day without fail .Only 10/ 20% %will maintain their presence in this prayer. On
return they will abnormally indulge in absurd talking and sending hundreds of photographs
through their smart phones to their relatives in their native countries. It was
the grandest show ever seen in the grand
Mosque at Makkah. This exercise will continue till 1130 in the night. One
member will finish and other member of the group mostly the females of the family will take up the further chats .
About 20% the of the pilgrims
will watch the you tube till two to
three a.m. The verification of materials purchased and accounting of items bought and remaining list will begin .Packing will begin simultaneously .Additional bags
considered but in case they gave in replacement is the next option to meet
their further Riyal demands, sons in Kuwait or sponsoring agency will make the arrangement .The loan continued till their
departure.
Dates of all qualities weighing not less than five ten to twelve kg will be bought. The modernized
western toilets of two categories presented ridiculous scenes. Some bulky
ladies will clear their bowels and conclude their cleansing on the flour. The
other was meant cleansing but equipped
with typical type taps spoiling the whole show of their personality.
The packing and weighing were their affairs affair spread on every night at times till two
p.m. but unfinished .Weighing machines
were sought on daily daily basis .The chaos ended only shortly before departure
from the hotel. Their scheme collapsed on Madina /Jedda airdromes when penalized
for overweight and asked for extra payment .One percent succeed and the rest
further began transfer and mutual exchanges of extra weights .Many of them
presented very gloomy face till their journey as they found their exercise and
dreams dashing to the ground. And final nail in their coffins was the search of
their AB-E-ZAM ZAM .The bloody revolving
track in the transit circle made the situation worst and then began loot of other
tagged and packed similar in print and color
.
I was not one of the fools
to be reprimanded by authorizes. I was very care full .I did not indulge in bargain or greed .My
health ,comfort at the cast of third party pleasure and appeasement had no place
in my life. Many approached for taking five seven KG weight which in spite of
duress flatly refused and my comfortable journey envied all of them later. No
use of smart phone ,no tuning to BBC Hindi Namaskar Bharat and Dinbher through
out my stay .No face book ,no twitter ,no blogger, no useless conversation on
phone with my dearest kids and grand children. I used to give miss calls to two
persons;,my friend A.A.Siddiqui and Mrs.Khan .It can be counted on fingers -five
to six times and from their side confined to well being sentences two or three.
Their show off was worth watching.
I find that those bad or good remain bad and good even after their Hajj tours. Transformation
if any must be known to their Lord only .
Other dilchaps(fascinating and
high value based ) events will keep on communicated gradually .
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