Medina, City of Light
at the Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Medina is the distortion of your sense of night and day. It’s 5.30am and already broad daylight, with the sun high up, shinning bright. How does that happen? You wonder– more especially if you are not a wide traveler and has never witnessed such irregularity.
Muslims on hajj are expected to spend at least seven days in Medina, during which time, they devotedly observe their five daily prayers, including voluntary nawafils, at the expansive Masjid an Nabawi. Those who could, also seize the opportunity to catch a glimpse of the burial site of the prophet in the mosque and say a prayer or two. Because of the strong belief in the efficacy of praying at this site, stampede can sometimes occur, which is why it is heavily policed and crowd control, strict.
The Nation’s findings was later to reveal that the City of Medina, which is just about 589KM2 in area and 1.2million in population, boasts of 40,000megawatts of electricity, while the Prophet’s Mosque alone has 10,000megawatts of energy at its disposal. This clearly explains why the mosque is always radiantly lit and permanently air-conditioned, creating a cool, welcoming ambience for worshippers coming from the hot streets.
It must also be noted that both cities are extremely well-planned, beautiful and well-organised. Street sweepers could also be seen, sweeping and making sure, the streets are clean and devoid of litters. That’s in spite of the millions of pilgrims. Along with Jeddah , Saudi Arabian cities are comparable to any in top American and European cities.
Umar Bala, Head, Civic Operations was to attest to this in a separate interview, when he said, “Nigeria is one of the five nations in the world with all her pilgrims occupying the vicinity of the Haram.” Besides, she said, “The type I fixed is the removable type because as an educationist, there are places I may not want to parade it. So on such occasions, I simply remove it. And where it is suitable, I put it on.”
Salaw however has a complaint. The internet at her hotel in Mecca is not as strong as that of Medina, making it difficult for her to connect with home. Of her gold tooth, she said she did it more to satisfy her children who had impressed it on her to fix it.” Mount Arafat, reputed to be the centre of the universe is the mountain where the prophet gave his last sermon. It is reputed to be the seal of the hajj process and pilgrims are expected to spend time on it and around its plains to supplicate on the 9th of Thul-hijjah. It is for this reason that the authorities in Saudi Arabia ensure that even the sick and bed-ridden are brought there on this day.
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