Gifts of Barakah
This is inspired by a blog entry titled P*lgrims Progress and I hope the author doesn't mind my picking his mind a little:
You know how people at home expect (whether they admit it or not) a little souvenir from Mecca when they come and visit after you come back from your Hajj? And because of this, many p*lgrims set aside some money to bring home dried fruits, water from the Zamzam fountain, toys, tasbih, skull caps, etc. as gifts for visitors, well-wishers and relatives.
A friend of mine found a way not to burden his father with this souvenir hunting and even saved a few Saudi Riyals in fines for excess baggage. He went to a pasar malam and bought a few boxes of skull caps from one of those Thai traders who were selling them from their pick-ups. The next time his father called from Mecca, he just told the old Haji not to bother buying those caps as souvenirs.
I got one from him, too. I accepted it with a knowing smile, for barakah.
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p.s. I had to edit a few words out because of the influence they had on the content of the green panel on the right ;)
13.12.04 : edited again... hope it works this time, sigh!
You know how people at home expect (whether they admit it or not) a little souvenir from Mecca when they come and visit after you come back from your Hajj? And because of this, many p*lgrims set aside some money to bring home dried fruits, water from the Zamzam fountain, toys, tasbih, skull caps, etc. as gifts for visitors, well-wishers and relatives.
A friend of mine found a way not to burden his father with this souvenir hunting and even saved a few Saudi Riyals in fines for excess baggage. He went to a pasar malam and bought a few boxes of skull caps from one of those Thai traders who were selling them from their pick-ups. The next time his father called from Mecca, he just told the old Haji not to bother buying those caps as souvenirs.
I got one from him, too. I accepted it with a knowing smile, for barakah.
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p.s. I had to edit a few words out because of the influence they had on the content of the green panel on the right ;)
13.12.04 : edited again... hope it works this time, sigh!
posted by Kri at
10:54 PM
3 Comments:
Souvenirs, doesn't matter whether they are bought in Mekah, London, Paris, New York, Indonesia, Beijing, Japan (in fact the whole wide world), they are ALL made in China!
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Honeytar, at 11:25 PM
Heheh! There was something sold in Mekkah that wasn't made in China which I didnt buy in time. It will be in another post.
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Bustaman, at 11:21 AM
Aha! You must've bought a 'dhob' -- that dried desert lizard :)
By
Kri, at 9:45 PM
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