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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 Place That Remembers You Before You Speak

A Ten-Day Stay at Dar Al Iman InterContinental Madinah (November 29, 2025 - December 8, 2025) Where Care Arrives Before Procedure and Memory Shapes Hospitality Where the city pauses, and care begins Some cities greet you.Madinah does something quieter. It waits. There is a belief, old and persistent, that one does not arrive in Madinah merely by intention. You are allowed in. Summoned, even. Plans dissolve here. Certainties soften. Time itself seems to answer to another authority, one that is patient and unhurried. It is within this atmosphere that Dar Al

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The Hotel and the Fig

Hotel Dar Al Iman Intercontinental I have been visiting the Holy Mosque in Madinah, Saudi Arabia since 2007. This year, 2018, I made the trip to Madinah with my father and sister. In this blog, I will be discussing my hospitality experience in Madinah. The Very Cordial and Polite Front Desk Staff We arrived in the city as scheduled in October 2018. My father, sister and I checked into the Intercontinental Madinah Dar Al Hijra Hotel. Sadly, we did not have a pleasant experience at this hotel and had to relocate. The next option we decided to try was the Intercon

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