Journey to the Holy lands (1)

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.