After that we went to Muna, the tent city & it was hard to find a place to put our tents but finally we were able to find the spot. All men put the tents up while all the women were waiting. We all were settled in a few minutes & then we had to perform Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, Isha & next day fajr prayers over there & then we had to start moving to Arafat, we shortened all the prayers & then just after Fajr we start towards Arafat, it was the Arafa day & we had to be there before dhuhr & then we have to listen to the Arafa Khutba, we have to combine the 2 prayers dhuhr & Asr, that was the day when I feel like if I have hundreds of years to do ibadat is not enough, I just want to spend every single moment to be sajda raiz in front of my Allah asking forgiveness for all my sins, but the time flies so quickly & it was time to go to Muzdalfa, as soon as we reach to Muzdalfa we combine the prayers of Maghrib & Isha & after that we just have to rest & collect pebbles from there to hit to all "Shayateens" but it was the night to relax only, we all ate our dinner & after that it was bare desert floor & us, people were lying happily on that sand like it was plush mattress, the moon light was so nice & it was not very hot, then we collected the pebbles 21 for each person/day for 3 days. Next morning after fajr prayers we all have to rush towards muna again as we have to get there before sunrise, it was looking like an ocean of men, women & children all dressed in ahram with one thing on their mind, after reaching muna I stayed at the tent & my husband went to stone the Shayateens & after that Qurbani & then he shaved his head, he came back & then I clip my hair (fingertip length) & then we remove our ahram's after taking a shower, after that we walked to Makkah for Tawaf Al-lfadha and Sa'yi , after doing these rituals we had to return to Muna to stay 2 more nights & days as we have to perform the stoneing to Shayateens again on 11th & 12th of ZulHijja, after completing the stoning on 12th we have to leave the muna before sunset for Tawaf ul wida, it was the last Tawaf before leaving the Makka & with this Tawaf our Hajj was completed & we start off towards Madina.
Madina is the most beautiful place I have ever seen on this earth, itna sukoon kaheen aur nahi hay jitna meray Nabi (SAW) k shehar main hay, we stayed in Madina for 2 days & after that we came back to Riyadh.
I just want to share my experience with all of you because this time of the year always bring back the memories, everybody who went for Hajj that year get sick in some way even my husband had fever & flu but I didn't even had a mild headache, came back healthy because my Allah send me that invitation to visit his home & perform Hajj.
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