Umrah Package

A Brief guide to Umrah Packages

Umrah is a great opportunity for traveling to the holy lands of Mecca and Medina. It is carried out by Muslims and a pilgrimage that can be done by Muslims at any time of the year. Umrah brings more rewards when it is performed in the month of Ramadan, as it is a very sacred month which multiplies the reward of any good deed.

It is now possible for anyone around the world to travel to the Mecca to perform Umrah. All you have to do is to visit a travel agency and choose the best package for you and your family. In preparation for the Umrah there are many things that must be clarified.

Muslims who wish to perform the Umrah, are usually in search of suitable Umrah packages. Mainly, there are two types of Umrah packages offered to pilgrims: one is budget package and other is tailor-made package.

Budget package: when you choose this package, you got to travel in a large group of pilgrims. This one is especially designed for those who prefer to travel in large group or those who have a strict budget but want to visit the holy places. Traveling in a group is a budget option as traveling with large number of people lessen the financial; burden as per person becomes significantly less. 

Additionally, travel agencies try to provide you

Tailor-made Package: This kind of package is for those who want more facilitative journey and stay. As the name shows, you can choose the mode of traveling, hotel accommodation and transportation between two holy cities according to your needs and budget.

Before you choose an Umrah package, you need to do your home word. Choosing a travel agent for your journey is a critical decision and demands a cautious attitude. There are various factors you need to consider before hiring an agent. Following are some important tips you must keep in view before visiting a travel agency:

1.      First of all, make sure that the travel agency you are going to visit is authorized and certified by the concerned authorities. Hiring an unauthorized agency can be a total disaster as there is a high risk of getting trapped by a scam.

2.      Secondly, you need to know that it is not necessary that an authorized agency is going to provide you adequate services. Reputation is another main factor. Always go for well-reputed agency which holds a good record for providing best facilitates and making all necessary arrangements.

3.      Thirdly, it is a great idea to get the reviews from those who have traveled before. To get the reviews, you can go to online blogs where people share their experiences. You can also ask your friends and family members about their experience of traveling to holy cities with a travel agency.

4.      Always remember that a well-reputed and authorize agency gives you a clear schedule of departure and arrival. They also provide you information about your stay in Mecca and Medina including your accommodation place and mode of transportation between Mecca and Medina. A travel agency which does not give a clear schedule, can be problematic.

5.      Before choosing a travel agency, it is highly recommended to visit websites of different travel agencies to know about the packages and facilities they offer and then choose the once which meets your needs and budget.

If you carefully choose your travel agency and consider these points before finalizing an Umrah package, we hope that you are going to have convenient journey and you are surely going to enjoy your spiritual stay in holy cities.

References 

• Jannah Flights
• Wikipedia
• Islam Umrah

Hajj Packages 2016

Select the valuable pilgrimage packages

Hajj is the most probable Muslim pilgrimage in the world and in the hajj is occurred every last month of the Islamic calendar.  Every Muslim wants to visit the hajj pilgrimage at least once in their life time and in the hajj is the strong significance of the Islam.

Hajj Packages 2016

World class service offered during your spiritual journey: 

Millions of Muslim people travel to Makah at the holy month to perform hajj through that many of the agencies offer large number of packages for your spiritual journey. Many of the pilgrimage travelling agencies offered the hajj packages to the people and they believe that such kind of service is to be serving the guest of Allah. The goal of the travelling agency is to provide the world class customer service to their client’s through that you can easily enjoy the spiritual journey. In this experience are the sweet memoires in your life time if you want to know the hajj packages 2016 here you may get the information about the packages efficiently on HP. The booking and submission for visa applications of the hajj is always starts before the three to four months. So that you have to get the information about the application process but updating the information is not easy for every one so that they prefer the agency to support for their travel.

How to select  the best packages for the pilgrimage visit?

In the hajj packages can be classified in to seven forms and such variations are depends on the days only. It means number of days you may spend in the pilgrimages is decides your packages and it’s cost. In the hajj packages includes your service tax, visa services and some other things. Spiritual journey is the important for every human life so that you have to make your journey without any disturbance or hurdles. For such reason you have to select the best travelling agency then only you can do your pilgrimage visit finely. In your selection process you have to compare the schemes of the agency it may helps you to choose the right one. 

In the comparative analysis you may compare the fees structure and the facilities offered in the packages. One more pilgrimage for the Islam is the umrah and it is considered to be the minor pilgrimage. In the umrah is located in the place of the Saudi Arabia and the hajj is considered to be the major pilgrimage for the Muslims. So that you may also consider that, in the package offer to visit umrah or not because you never visit the pilgrimage regularly so that additionally visit the minor pilgrimage is the good decision in your pilgrimage process. If you want to select the Hajj Packages 2016 then it is very simple you just enter your name phone number and the number of people is interest to visit the hajj in the pre registration from in the website. Based on your information you may entered in the website, it can provide the packages details

Are Hijab and Niqab part of Islam?

I think lot of Muslims struggles these days with question whether hijab is traditional or not. In fact lot of Muslims around the World are convinced that Niqab and Beard are not part of Islam! Astagfiruallah.

I read mashaAllah a very informative article on whether Hijab is really integral part of Islam or not. Here is the link to that article http://www.salahtimes.com/announcements/view/are-niqab-and-other-forms-of-hijab-simply-traditions-and-cultural-practices

Here are a few important lectures that explain in detail why Niqab is an integral of Islam.

JazkaAllah khair for reading my post and hope it benefits you all inshaAllah :)

Zakir Naik and Questions from a Christian

Hope you all find this beneficial inshaAllah :)

Till the next post, Assalamu alaikum

How a White English girl became an outcast due to Hijab!?

After I took my shahada, by the grace of Allah I started wearing hijab straight away. It wasn’t a difficult choice for me since I had been studying Islam for a long time and was clear on it. However what was surprising to me was the reaction of others around me.

 Reaction of my Family to Islam & Hijab

 My family was mostly fine with my conversion. My dad was a bit annoyed in the beginning, however soon afterwards he accepted it as well. My family are in fact of the view that Islam has brought a lot of positive changes in me. I dress modestly now. I have stopped smoking and for some reason I have also started eating healthy!  Since Islam places a lot of importance on respecting and caring for your parents, I have upped my efforts to make time for my parents, listening to their advice and just generally treating them the way they deserve to be treated. This is not that I was rude or obnoxious to them before my conversion to Islam however I was just like a normal Western teenager who is actually shouting back at their parents and not listening to them.

My family also accepted my decision to wear hijab too. I have been really blessed since I know that many non-muslim families give them the toughest time.

Reaction of my friends to Islam & Hijab

My close friends were fine with me after conversion. They understand that I don’t drink, smoke and won’t go clubbing either. This has certainly led to less mixing with few of my friends; however we still meet up for brunch and tea. I never had any boyfriends Alhamdulillah so this is not an issue, although I do plan to marry a good Muslim man soon inshaAllah. My not so close friends however distanced themselves from me especially when I was wearing a hijab.

Reaction of General Public to Islam & Hijab

Now this is what surprised me the most. I always thought or was always trained to thought that we Brits are one of the most tolerant and civilised nation in the World. We have freedom of speech, freedom to wear & freedom to express ourselves the way we like. In fact the mantra of Mr Bush & Blair during all the Mideast occupations was that the Free World was going to ‘liberate’ Iraq. Anyway, what I experienced after just wearing a piece of cloth on the top of my head which is called hijab/headscarf, was that the World just suddenly changed their opinion of me.

I am no super-model however I have Alhamdulillah been blessed with good looks. I come from a white English background and having blonde hair definitely helped me to appear ‘correct version of British’. It was really common for men and women alike to open the doors for me, smile to me on the tube and just simply be polite during any interactions. However it just all changed when I started wearing hijab. The conversation I could have most white English women was minimal! I felt being shouted down in simple conversations. It was as if what I had to say wasn’t important anymore since I was oppressed and backwards in their heads. Funny it was my own race doing that to me, mostly white English women. Men were slightly better behaved and the blacks/Asians much better than the others. The norms of opening the doors for each other just wouldn’t apply to me anymore. Most people would avoid making eye-contacts me with me. Someone even said to me while explaining something that “this is how we do this in this country of ours” and the woman was clearly Eastern European from her looks. So I was suddenly less British than an immigrant from Eastern Europe since I was wearing a Hijab. For the first time in my life, I could actually see how Muslims and Blacks feel all their lives. It is so easy to ignore all of this if it has never happened to you. I would love to say otherwise but this sudden rude behaviour did unsettle me for some time.

The plus side of all this was that I made a lot of new friends. Lot of Asians and Blacks I could have never connected to suddenly became very close to me. Making friends from other cultures, I also realized that how other cultures still valued things like modesty, honestly/loyalty in relationships, and caring for their old parents. These are the things that we have lost in majority of the white families today unfortunately.

Although the experience was tough and an eye-opening one, would I ever go back? NO. I did it for my creator Allah SWT and only He would give the reward to me for becoming an outcast amongst my own race & people in order to follow Islam. One thing I would do though is to campaign for Black rights #BlackLivesMatter and also against Islamophobia which is rampant in the West. May Allah give me the strength to do this iA.

How to wear a Hijab?

Ok so lot of you emailed me to ask which type of hijab I did. Well honestly I wanted to do a Turkish hijab because I love those beautiful Turkish girls in such cute colourful hijabs. However I simply couldn’t tie it properly for the first few months J If you don’t know what a Turkish hijab looks like and how it is done, then you must visit this website and this.

As for where I buy my hijabs from, it depends. Most of the times I just pop into any Asian high-street Hijab shop and just buy one from there. However with experience, I have learnt that online Hijab shops are actually much better in terms of variety and cost too! I recently bought my last two Hijabs from this Hijab shop or Hijab online UK. These guys have got some really good hijabs at very affordable cost. If you like a few friends of mine, travel to any Muslim majority countries like Pakistan or Turkey, just buy them from there. The variety you would get from those countries would never match anything that you would get here. Hope this helps inshaAllah. 

My 1st post!

Assalamu alaikum all :)

I am just going to test the waters here and see how this actually looks like :) But I guess one way I could this is to write a bit about myself.

Well I alhamdulillah belong to a well off family. My father is a lawyer and my mother is one of the most renowned fashion consultant in England. By the way, I have always loved fashion as well!

More to follow later today iA. Stay tuned!