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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Lets perform the Haj

The 2008 Haj season is coming. Lots of preparation for the jemaah since few yrs back (i'm sure). May their Haj will be blessed and mabrul. And may Allah S.W.T give them a safe journey back and forth.

My bonda once wished that she could perform her Haj with me. But I wasn't ready to go anytime sooner. She said lets go Umrah together, but I reasoned that I would not want to perform umrah until my obligation for the HAJ is fulfilled. Fortunately she conceded.Justify Full
Considering her "bionic" right-leg now, she resolve to perform umrah with all her grand-daughters - all sponsored, (like 3 grand daugters and 14 grandsons) once she had her left leg get bioniked too. So probably in Jan-feb 2009 she will go through another bionic operation on her left leg. Pray for her please. Amin. Insyaallah.

Going back to the HAJ. My best friend is so lucky to have been selected and given the VISA to perform his HAJ this year - Alhamdullillah. When he made the registration only early this yr. Abt 820 jemaah SG could not perform the HAJ due to the limited VISA. Always the same problem in SG - demand is more than the available VISAs.

I'm registering now for myself and my ratu for the Haj - insyaallah for the yr 2010. It is said that the cycle is minimum 3 yrs to 5 yrs.

So how lucky can my best friend be? We pray and hope that it will be fulfilled and our health is still intact. I heard that the pkg for the Haj now is very high...like mininum of SGD9 - 10k. hemm.. very high indeed. Baru angan2 nak bawa the kids too. Ok..Pray for me and my ratu to have the opp to perform the Haj soon - insyaallah. amin.

My kids had been asking for holiday trips to the middle east, to disneyland, to china to all the interesting places. My take...hemm..right now till our HAJ obligation is fulfilled - all vacation s are only to nearby locations - malaysia or indonesia. Once our obligation for the Haj is fulfilled I may consider bringing them on yearly trips to further away holiday.

But considering the economic crisis, must be prudent and be thrifty. But i agree on the notion that to combat the bad economy is to spend. hemm...conflicting info ha?

but for now - NO SUGAR IN OUR DISHES....NO KICHAP IN OUR DISHES TOO...just plain a pinch-of-salt. ha ha

waallahualam.

/dzan

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Salam, at least u register now for yr 2010, I registed a few mths back for yr 2018.waa byk lama, hidup lagi ke tidak.

Anyway, I'll prayed for both of u so u could perform haj soon

8:37 PM

 
Blogger dzan said...

salam,

thks for the doa. i pray that you'll be able to perform yr HAJ on 2018 or anytime sooner. insyaallah. amin

9:35 PM

 

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