Re: Travelogues
Quba - “La Masjidun Ussessa Ala’t TaQwa Min Awwal-e-Youmin a’haqqo an taqooma feeh!!”
cont’d from the previous entry]
Our first travel to Masjid Al Quba turned out to be an eventful day…
In this initial visit, only men of the family travelled to the mosque. All of us were sitting in a Jeep given to Chacha from work. The driver was also a person from Pakistan.
We reached Quba. Offered Nawaafil. Went to nearby place of “khaak-e-shifaa” - considered bidah by many Arabs … Then while returning back, dear driver saaaaab drived into one way:smack: aur sonaY par suhaagaa mo’azziz TullaY A.K.A ShutraY in their car were waiting right infront … One can imagine. Aik tau police aur ooper saY an Arab police, no less than a paThan by dimaagh… goyaa Yuk naa Shud kayee kayee shud:bummer: tau huaa youN kaY car and driver baabooo were driven to nearby Precint and we walked back to the apartment in Madinah. BaRay hee namaaqool police waalaY thaY bha’ee:naraz:… I mean it was just a routine violation. Should have given a summon and/or warning and let us all go .. meaning all 11 of us:halo: but No, they had to take the car and driver too. I dunno what was the law but it still seems ridiculous to say the least.
Anyway, we came back. But in couple of days, we decided to “walk” to Quba again :halo:, and this time it were the women with all us “bachaY kachaY” of the family who decided to visit and Abbu and Chacha were not part of our group… and we decided to walk because Quba was hardly on a walking distance of 30-40 minutes from our apartment…
Guess who was our navigotor??? err… he was none other than my cousin N -same cousin who bought yougurt instead of butter because he mixed up the arabic words and who now lives in canada. Ya’ani hamaaraa sirf Allah hee Maalik reh gayaa thaa:D
Mohataram Bhai jaan Qiblaa ‘N’ Mudda’ Zillahul A’ali wa Afi Anhu took all of us towards North first whereas Quba was in South of Madinah. From there, Huzoor-e-waalaa took a long U turn making a Semi Circle and making his qibla correct but by then we had spent almost 1 and half hour… 
JaisaY taisaY, we reached Quba …
I do not exactly remember if it was while coming back or before but I think it was coming back that we were so thirsty and tired that we all took a break for a while in a passing by “garden” of dates. I mean we just entered that area and we saw some Arabs taking care of their Dates’ trees and stuff… It was after as’r time, and maghrib was about there so it was definitely while coming back… We had prayed Zohur in Quba… As’r in between somewhere too.. and now when we entered that oasis kindda place, we were treated with pure cold water and the delicious dates I’d ever ate. I mean they were just so 
.. they even gave us crates of dates.. some of those were kachi khajooraiN.. they were yellow and half brown.. man! those were really tasteful:D some of us got their throat “caught up” by those too later on:hehe: but it was worth a treat…
Then, God knows how many times we went to Quba on foot but thank God our navigator was no more Hazrat-e-N … 
(To be Cont’d)