Name: A Seed of Inspiration | #MyHajjStory
Uploaded: 2020-08-05T22:27:43.000Z
Channel: Ustadha Lobna Mulla
Description: Ustadha Lobna Mulla looks back on life-changing moments during her Hajj experience.

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My Hajj Story

 Bismillah, wassalamu ala rasulullah, assalamu alaikum and welcome to these beautiful days of Dhul Hijjah.  I want to share my Hajj story. I had many memorable moments during Hajj, but I wanted to share three specific moments that I had.  One that affected me in the moment, really broadened my horizon.  One that affected me shortly after Hajj and one that kind of put a seed of inspiration for a little bit later after Hajj.  Hajj is so beautiful and it's very transformational and I remember one moment that I had was when we were leaving Arafah.  And as you know, during Arafah, you spend a hot part of the day making du'a.  We were in tents. This was 20 years ago. So in our tents, we didn't have AC.  So I remember it was very hot. And as the day ended, you know, Maghrib happened and we were getting ready to leave, board the buses so that we can go to Muzdalifah.  And I remember that my husband and a couple of other people, they came up with this idea to walk.  They wanted to experience Hajj in a different way. We had been taking buses from here to there and he wanted to get a more personal feel to Hajj.  So he suggested that we walk to Muzdalifah and then walk from Muzdalifah to Mina eventually.  I remember he let our group leader know that we were going to do that. He gave us permission.  And we had some family members in the group and they were very apprehensive about us going.  We didn't have cell phones. This was before cell phones were very common.  And of course, it's getting dark. But we went, alhamdulillah.  And I remember being a little bit nervous. Maghrib had well passed. The last light of Maghrib was definitely leaving.  It was very dark. And I remember we were just kind of walking on the bridge and just starting to walk down into the shrubs.  And I remember asking my husband, like, how do we know where we're going to go? It's dark. How are we going to be able to see?  And I think after just about a minute of him consoling me, saying, don't worry, don't worry,  all of a sudden, like this massive lit up walkway just kind of appeared out of nowhere.  I mean, it was there, but I was just so focused on the ground and how dark it was.  And just when we walked, maybe for a few minutes, all of a sudden, this massive walkway, it looked like,  in my mind at the time, I, you know, if those of you familiar with Southern California, the 405,  it's like, wow, it's like both sides of the 405, like you could say a 10 lane highway,  you know, five lanes going each way, all filled with only people. It was mind blowing.  I had never seen anything like that in my life. And I had never seen anything like that during Hajj up until that moment.  No bicycles, no automobiles, no buses, nothing, just masses and masses of people walking.  It was such a beautiful sight. It was so inspirational to see how much Hajj meant to everybody,  that they had their children on their shoulders, they were carrying their cooking equipment with them.  People had their flags, different ways of kind of, you know, letting the rest of the group know where the leader of the group was.  Some people just carrying sticks with a bag on it or a bottle. And it was beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful.  Saw people from all different countries. And it reminded me of my grandmother telling me about my grandfather,  how he made Hajj by riding camel, leaving Egypt and making it to Mecca via camel.  And it just reminded me that, you know, all this modern transportation of planes and buses,  and sometimes you feel a little bit removed from the process. And so that was absolutely very, very touching  to be able to walk with the masses of people and to experience that moment of Hajj.  And what was beautiful that I remember, we had a very humbling experience, you know,  with Muzdalifah just sleeping on one little mat. I remember, I think, I don't know what type of dinner we had,  but I remember just having an orange before going to bed and our hands were sticky.  You know, bathrooms are crowded far away. And it was interesting, alhamdulillah,  we made it to Mina the next day and it was a beautiful journey.  We were very happy that we had chosen to take this path.  And it was interesting that we heard from our group that they had some crazy, you know, dinner buffet  and a tent with all kinds of food. And we missed out on that.  But really that journey that we had experienced in person,  walking from Arafat to Muzdalifah and Muzdalifah to Mina was absolutely amazing.  And I wouldn't trade it for any dinner buffet or any comfort that we might have missed out on.  Another experience that was very touching to me was when we were waiting in the Haram in Mecca,  waiting from Masr to Maghrib. We decided to stay there.  We were on the roof, on the top floor of the Haram.  And I remember meeting a Malaysian sister and she was reading Quran very, very beautifully.  And she noticed that I was paying attention to her.  And so she put her finger in the Quran and was follo…

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