Oujda, Morocco 2011

Assalamu'alaykum,

Ever since I was born into this world, people could easily see how I was so audacious to 'travel' around the world. I crawled here and there, hid inside cupboard, ran frantically. Soon after I have reached another stage in my life where I could barely walk, I turned out to be so active, as expected. I climbed up the closet, jumped onto the bed ferociously, wrestled with my brother, exploring the world outside and just could not stop travelling even if there was a coercive power attempted to obtrude upon me, it would not work, I presume.

The process of growth accentuated, pretty much intensifying where I went from one level to another, be it academical or religiousity. Alhamdulillah, I have parents who are really taking care of everything about me, every single dot is noticed and not even one is left ignored. Passion in travelling got heighten up when I flicked through pages of books contain amazing nature pictures across the border. From Malaysia my own country to Makkah, New Zealand and so many other places. In spite of my smouldering spirit in journalism burned like the hot water boils inside the kettle, the sense of uplifting Islam to its highest level thrived as well as travelling which had aggrandized my vision and mission .

Day by day, I saw pictures of people travel happily with their excitableness sensation obviously seen and it made me apparently, smile.

" Insha Allah, one day I will bring my family to go to the holy place, Makkah al-Mukarramah and we are going to perform the Hajj together, passionately. " I whispered, in solitary.

Verily, Allah is the Most Powerful God, and He indeed has set up the best plan for His servants to be consistent with or else, the enemies will definitely take them away from the light. Soon after my exams ended, I was inspired to join a group of my friends' trip to the land of the Prophets as to learn the Arabic language, which known for its complex grammatical structure yet denotes beautiful indescribable words in any other languages. So, I got into the team and worked unwaveringly with them. Masha Allah, I was having a bit room of doubtfulness where I was hesitant on my own self whether I could make it or not with big amount of money needed. I prayed to Allah to guide me, and continued to work no matter what.

" This is it. This is what I wanted to do when I was only teenager and people laughed at me. I want to learn this language, master it and be proud of it. I could finally read the Qur'an and understand the meaning of what my Lord is speaking to me without reading the translation and who knows, Allah's will, I will be able to visit Makkah and proceed with the unperformed optional final pillar of Islam. "

The plan was kind of fluctuating where we changed the destination over and over again. The condition in Middle East now is, sadly to say vulnerable. Revolution sparks all of a sudden and safety is inherently important. After going through several discussions with the members and my parents, we finally changed the destination to, Morocco. Alhamdulillah.

The living cost over there is approximately 6,000 Ringgit Malaysia which equals to 15,581.39 Moroccan Dirham for 4 months. The flight ticket, 2ways is going to cause you 3,800 Ringgit Malaysia and education in Morocco is as what I have been informed, totally free. Masha Allah. How could I neglect this?

Akhi Shahrul, one of my good friends planned for us and contacted our Malaysian friends in Morocco. They suggested us to go to Oujda, Morocco, located near to the frontier between Morocco and Algeria as well as Spain. Oujda is a coastal area where it is notable as the 8th largest city in Morocco. It has 4seasons and now it is sunny over there.

Depicting the snows in Oujda

Insha Allah, we are planning to depart from Malaysia to Morocco at somewhere around May. Tomorrow it will be finalized and after that, everything is settled. All praise be to Allah.

*Might be visiting Spain and France, Insha Allah.

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