some time ago I had the opportunity to make a holy journey for all Muslims around the world, the journey is to the land of ALLAH SWT in saudi arab country & precisely in madinah city & mecca. the journey from indonesia to saudi arabia takes about 9 hours 30 minutes crossing the country of india & srilanka, the plane itself performs the flight in average speed 950 km/h with altitude flying over 11 thousand meters.
for those who are not accustomed to traveling long distances by plane may be very tiring, but in the plane we are also treated to a variety of entertainment provided through the entertainment screen that is in each seat.
from Indonesia plane landed in the city of madina, where when the plane landed the day was late at around 21:00 pm local time (time in saudi arabia more than 4 hours from Indonesia), it turns out the weather is also entering the winter for the city of madina with the weather range 18 degrees celcius, I have to adapt to the temperature in the city of madina which I think is very cold because I myself live in a country with a tropical climate that rarely has a cold weather climate & tend to heat.
after doing the screening process from the airport immigration we continue the journey to the hotel which is right in the middle of the city of madina & precisely located to the west entrance of mosque nabawi, in this city we are given opportunity for 3 days to stay.
Nabawi Mosque itself is a very historic mosque for all Muslims around the earth, where in this mosque there is a tomb of Prophet Mohammed and his 2 companions umar bin khattab & abu bakar sidiq. in this mosque there is a location called 'Raudhah' which is believed to be a special place for Muslims who used to pray & prayer will be granted, every day thousands of Muslims from all over the world crowded the mosque nabawi area to do the worship together & praying in the tomb area of the Prophet Muhammad rasullullah SAW.
to the north of the exit of the mosque we will be treated to a view of a very large burial area, the cemetery is very famous with the name of the tomb baqi, in this burial many families, friends, children, grandchildren and the wife of Rasulullah SAW, the tomb baqi only in the open when the afternoon after the ashar prayer & closed before the maghrib prayer, thousands of people who come to see this tomb every day, pray for those who are buried in the tomb baqi.
while in the city of madinah I also visited a museum which also became the pride of the townspeople of the madinah, the museum of al quran, in this museum there are hundreds of al quran which is more than 400 years old, even most still written by hand, there is also an al qurans that are very large and also written by hand, the literature on the history of the al quran is recorded very complete in this museum & I personally very amazed when stepped into part by part in this museum.
My next trip follows a city tour to a qurma plantation as well as the biggest qurma market in the city of madina, but when I go there the qurma season has just ended & just just look around while shopping at the qurma market.
on the next day I visited a mosque which is also very historic for the development of the Islamic ummah, the name of the mosque is quba mosque, quba mosque is mosque which was first built by prophet muhammad in madinah city, same as other location, around quba mosque also filled with traders who peddle merchandise, had an unpleasant experience when visiting this quba mosque, some traders forced me to buy his wares with great force.
from my quba mosque shifted to a mountain called jabal tsur, in this mountains there is a cave that is at the top of the mountain is cave tsur, according to the story explained by the guide is in ancient times when the prophet muhammad and abu bakar RA pursued by the kafir quraisy they both take refuge in the cave above this mountain, they take cover for three days and three nights while setting the strategy, so cs tsur is witness history of struggle propagation of Islam from Prophet Muhammad along with abu bakar RA.
