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The Kaaba Does Not Move

A personal reflection on my second and third Hajjs, in 2016 and 2023, and the people who quietly walked beside me Me at Masjid al-Haram during my first Hajj, 2010 There are journeys we plan for months, checking documents, comparing prices, marking calendars. And there are journeys that seem to have been planned for us long before we knew it, quietly, somewhere behind the scenes, by someone with better handwriting than ours. Hajj, I have come to believe, belongs to the second kind. I have performed Hajj three times now. The first in 2010, with the late Junaid Jamsh

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A Day out at the Hajji Camp

Alhamdulillah, next month along with my family I intend to travel to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform the fifth pillar of Islam Hajj Inshallah. In lieu to it we all have been busy preparing for the grand journey and one of the steps to be taken before getting on this journey is to visit the Hajji Camp and get vaccinated for meningitis, flu, H1 N1, and Polio. In addition to it, Anti Narcotics department situated at the Camp assist the travelers to pack and seal their medicines if prescribed by the Doctor. On October 10th 2010 while relaxing after the daily chores I hit