Part 4

Assalamualaikum. Lama dah ni tak update blog, agak busy ke hulu ke hilir bersama mak. Haritu pagi2 dah kena pegi pasar beli barang untuk memasak. Walaupun diri ini tak berapa gemar pergi ke pasar yang berlecak tuh, hehe kutempuhi juga. Alhamdulillah pengalaman yang berharga sebenarnya (ni bukan first time pegi pasar ok?  hehe) sebab kat pasar ni kita boleh nampak susah jerih kehidupan orang yang ingin mencari rezeki. Betapa orang lain bersusah payah bangun pagi2 untuk mengisi periuk nasi mereka, manakala aku pulak dengan mudahnya menyuapkan makanan ke dalam mulut, tanpa perlu mengeluarkan peluh untuk mencari sesuap nasi. 

Seharusnya aku lebih bersyukur dengan apa yang Allah dah kasi :(

By the way, this will be a quick post for me. Nak kena research pulak topik untuk pengisian malam ni (usrah kelas). Okayh, shall we continue on our journey?


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When we were heading to Madinah, we stopped by at Wadi Kudit to have lunch. Here, food was served dalam dulang. Satu dulang 5 orang. Teringat plak moments kat KMB, makan pakai dulang :) 

The food here sangat simple, nasi dengan ikan goreng dan ayam goreng (takde kuah). And one more thing, they didn't use alas meja, they put this plastic on the table and when we're done, they'll just throw the plastic. It might sounds simple, but it sounds good enough for me :)

Then we continued our journey and reached Madinah. As we entered Madinah, I could feel that I was closer than Rasulullah, more than ever before.  Madinah was the place where Rasulullah (peace be upon him) dimakamkan. Di sini, jika kita memberi salam kepada Rasulullah, beliau akan menjawabnya dengan mulutnya sendiri (as in directly, tidak ada perantaraan seperti malaikat untuk menyampaikannya). According to our mutawwif, the place memuliakan jasad Rasulullah, sehinggakan segala-galanya di Madinah boleh dijadikan sebagai ubat. Contohnya, tanah dan angin di Madinah  adalah ubat yang boleh mengubati penyakit2 penduduk yang berada di dalamnya. Oleh kerana itu, Ustad bilang hukumnya makruh jika seseorang itu memakai face mask di Madinah. 

As we reached here, it was already night time. Therefore, we prayed at the hotel room since me and my sis did not know where is the location of Masjid Nabawi. Alhamdulillah, the accommodation here is much better than the ones in Mekah, and everything is within walking distance especially Masjid Nabawi.

Overwhelmed with our first meal, bersyukur tak terkata. Hee.

The next day, we lost in the battle of waking up for Subuh prayer at the mosque since the hotel room was a bit too comfortable. Hehe. Thus, we only prayed at the hotel room since the mosque would be full at the time we woke up. Kami bertekad untuk bangun lebih awal lagi pada hari2 yang berikutnya. 

The next day, we went to visit Makam Rasulullah peace be upon him. In the Masjid Nabawi, we were not allowed to speak loudly, we were only allowed to whisper with each other. I feel very grateful to be able to visit Makam Rasulullah, a once in a life time experience :) . Our mutawwif told us that Rasulullah tidak pernah mati, malah beliau selalu hidup. In fact, beliau melihat wajah umat-umat yang mengunjungi makamnya satu persatu :') Beliau pernah bersabda bahawa sesiapa yang mengunjungi makam beliau setelah beliau wafat, ibarat seperti orang tersebut mengunjunginya ketika beliau masih hidup :)

Kemudian, kami diberi kesempatan untuk mengunjungi Raudah, iaitu taman syurga. Raudah merupakan tempat di antara mimbar Rasulullah dan makamnya. Setelah kiamat, Allah akan memindahkan semula Raudah ke syurga. I was informed by our Ustad that sekiranya kita berdoa di Raudah, Allah akan merasa malu jika tidak memakbulkannya. The place was quite crowded with people, and we had to go through a long waiting but all the waiting is all worth it. We were only allowed to pray solat sunat dua rakaat here, after that we had to leave since there were  many people waiting to pray here. 

On the way to raudah (inside Masjid Nabawi)

On the next day, we went to Masjid Kubah, Ladang Kurma, Quran's factory. Before that, something happened early in the morning. After I headed to Masjid Nabawi for Subuh prayer (alone), ada kebakaran terjadi di hotel kami. 

TO BE CONTINUED.