Re: Travelogues
**cont'd from the previous entry]**
Time for the GOLDEN MEMOIRS of Hajj
It's all scattered.
I remember almost everything of Hajj but can not recollect them in a chronological order.
I can perhaps come close to the actual chain of events by splitting "Manaasik-e-hajj" but then again I might be mixing up one event to another..
In my next few entries, I will try my best to list those days and not to forget the spiritual nights....
I remember we were altogether 19 people including Chacha's family. Abbu had chartered a 25-seat coaster van and our driver and coductor were Arabs and knew few urdu words:D like Shukriya.....
I remember we put on Ahraam in Madinah...
If my memory serves me right, we went for Tawaaf-e-ziyaarat - the first Tawaaf of Ka'baa and when our van entered Makkah early at Tahajjud time, we came across with a resident Arab in a street who warned us about the dangerous crowdy situation in the Mosque. About 70 people had died in a stempead in the wee hours.
The decision was made that only elders will go for tawaaf and will do the tawaaf of youngers too and they left us with van in one of residential streets in Makkah.
There, we all stayed in van with windows and doors closed...
After praying Faj'r, all of us got into deep sleep and woke up near sunrise upon screams of one of our cousins. Elders had still not arrived yet.
We all quickly rushed towards the door of the van and what we saw there, was enough to make our blood evaporate..... :-/
(To be Cont'd)