I have
made a decision at the beginning of 2013 that this year will be the year of
dreams. I will do whatever it takes to fulfill my dreams and improve myself.
I
started looking in my dreams list to pick a dream to start with. And there is
no better start than the start with Allah. I decided to go to the holy lands in
Saudi Arabia to do Omra.
This trip
had a great effect on me and on my way of thinking that I have never imagined.
1-Arabic:
Different cultures, different tongues
During the
stay in either Makka or Al-Madina, you get to meet a huge number of people from
all around the world.
Different
countries, different features and looks. Variety of customs and traditions, and
above all, different languages. The impressive thing about all these non-Arab
people is that they know their religion very well. Some of them even read Holy Qur’an
and Do’aa in Arabic. Most of people from Malaysia and Indonesia read Qur’an in Arabic.
Now you
know about the bright side of the story.
The other
side is what made my heart really aches. All Arab Muslims speaks Arabic natively
and we don’t have difficulties in reading Qur’an and understand it like the
non-Arab people.
Although
we have this great blessing, we abandon Qur’an and don’t read it much.
Most of
Arabs were born Muslims, speak, read and write Arabic. Some of us learnt how to
read Qur’an at school. But with all these blessings we choose to ignore it.
On the
other hand, when you look to the non-Arab Muslims who don’t have the ability to
read Qur’an in its lovely original Arabic language, you see them struggle to
learn it and some of them keep the habit of reading it in their own languages.
Even some of them go to special schools just to learn how to read it in Arabic.
Those
people are really making an effort to learn their religion and practice it. But
we who can do all this so easily aren’t that keen on doing so.
