{"id":68990,"date":"2022-07-08T16:54:52","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=68990"},"modified":"2022-07-08T16:54:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T14:54:52","slug":"a-beautiful-hajj-take-your-mother-on-hajj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/a-beautiful-hajj-take-your-mother-on-hajj\/","title":{"rendered":"A beautiful Hajj: Take your mother on Hajj"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Neelam Rahim<\/em><\/p>\n

With the Hajj season underway,\u00a0Radio Islam<\/span><\/em>\u00a0speaks to Ameen Laher from Johannesburg. Having performed Hajj five times, his most memorable one being with his mother.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brother Ameen shares his experiences with\u00a0Radio Islam<\/em>. He advises younger generations to \u201ctry and take their parents \u2013 especially their mother \u2013 for hajj.<\/span><\/p>\n

A promise was fulfilled as brother Ameen journeyed to the Holy Land with his mother to perform hajj.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cbeen very depressed upon my father\u2019s passing, I promised my mother that I would take her for hajj. In 1974 my mother, niece and I undertook our journey where I spent hajj with mother my making it a memorable one,\u201d says brother Ameen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brother Ameen says that seeing Makkah in 1960, 1971 and again in 1974 displayed a lot of difference, indicating how Makkah changes yearly.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taken back in memory by his six-week hajj trip with his mother, \u201chose six weeks were wonderful for me as my mother, and I spent time in Makkah and Madinah. I would take her for walks, and we would sit together in the Haram admiring how beautiful the Kabah is,\u201d says brother Ameen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brother Ameen also shares with\u00a0Radio Islam\u00a0<\/em>how fond his mother was of reading the Holy Quran.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cQuran was her love as I often walked into her room and found her reading the Quran. My mother\u2019s dua for me was that my family and I never go hungry, and Alhamdulillah, the power of my mother\u2019s dua seeing me perform umrah through a very tough time. During our spend together, my mother made dua with a lot of emotion that showed from her heart when she spoke to and asked Allah [SWT] for everything. Witnessing this has become a beautiful memory from Makkah, which I saw in my mother, says,\u201d brother Ameen.<\/span><\/p>\n