A Saudi Hajj Transportation Survey

The Ministry of Hajj has a questionnaire for Muslims who have made hajj posted on its website. The questions have to do primarily with transportation and levels of service. Click here to participate.

How Ramadan Helps Us Prepare for Hajj

This post comes from Footsteps to Hajj:

 

Some of the qualities of a good Muslim character are patience, restraint, humility, gratitude and trust in Allah.  Muslims need to develop these and other good qualities in order to try to please Allah during Ramadan and at hajj.  Ramadan offers Muslims the opportunity to develop these aspects of good character even as we fast and pray for forgiveness during this sacred month. The benefit is that we are then able to draw upon these qualities as we need them during hajj.

An Opening

 

Another woman told me this:
I did not see it.  It was a small space.  The smallest of spaces.  No more than a quarter of an inch between my knee and that of the woman sitting next to me on the floor in the upper level of the Haram.  And so far in the back we could not even see the railing that overlooked the Kaaba below us in the center.