MadinaY kaa Safar hai ... Rewind to the best days of Life...

[My Old Travelogue about the days of the golden period of my life. I will be updating my blog with these old entries time to time
These entries were written on-the-fly on day to day basis after recollecting the memories of that time...]

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Somewhere in mid 80's when I was hardly in class 1, Abbu got a job in Madinah Munawwarah in some company name Al Mohandis which in Arabic means "The Engineer" .. Abbu is a civil engineer. He was on the proeject for two years... We went to Saudia for three months... I remember visiting Makkah for Umrah several times during that time and The Hajj of 1983 when the total Hujajj were 3.5 millions - highest numbers of Pilgrims to this year.

So he was on the project of Al-Hijraah Road or as named in Arabic Al Tareeqat ul Hijraah,which is now is the main Highway between Makkah and Madinah through which Pilgrims travel between the two beautiful cities. This road is unique. It is bulit on the path of "Hijrah" - The migration of Prophet along with Syedena Abu Bakr... A very research was done through the history to find out where the holy footmarks of the beloved of Allah left their impression on his journey to Yathrib- soon to be Al Madinatun Nabi

There are some hilarious moments of those three months which I will try to share in my journal entries. They are just random and may not necessarilly be in any chronological order but I will try them to be.

One thing I remember is the Flight number that we took to Jeddah PK 786

My uncle (Abbu's younger brother) a Geologist was on the same project as well and his family was to travel during the same time and stayed a little far from Madinah but occassinally visited us many times in a week.

I remember those were the days of Ramadhaan and the extremely HOT month of May. My whole nanhiyaal had come from Meer Pur Khaas. Maamoo had arranged the mini bus so that EVERYONE would go with us to airport to see us off ...

We had Sahoor and after Faj'r each one of us were sitting in the mini buss to catch the flight leaving at 7:30 AM..

(To be Cont'd)