Posted in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Al-Masjid An-Nabawi As-Sharif on Jul 13th, 2010
…would love to stay and chat but the brain has melted after days of going out in temperatures nudging 50 degrees…so promenade around the courtyard, and convey your Salams as you comfortably sit looking at your screen…
SHA’BAN MUBARAK!
All good is from Allah Ta’ala whereas mistakes are from this humble speck. May Allah Ta’ala Bless all [...]
Posted in Al-Masjid An-Nabawi As-Sharif, Phenomena on Jun 6th, 2010
…or rather melted…Alhumdulillah this City of Light and Radiance is not quite as severe as the Eastern Province.
…and life goes on regardless…workers, cleaners, vendors, groups distributing tea and bread, pigeons courting…pilgrims seeking shade, with Du’a, salutations and greetings being a constant stream despite the unrelenting heat…SubhanAllah for the blessing of being of the Ummah of [...]
Posted in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Al-Masjid An-Nabawi As-Sharif on May 25th, 2010
sun blares through haze
Madinah Rose intoxicates
granny whizzed in wheelchair
All good is from Allah Ta’ala whereas mistakes are from this humble speck. May Allah Ta’ala Bless all readers, bringing you all closer to Him and His Rasul SallAllahu alaihi wasallam. May He accept our humble efforts and grant us the capacity to be good and do [...]
Posted in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Al-Masjid An-Nabawi As-Sharif, construction on May 23rd, 2010
…a pictorial capture of the art, and engineering brilliance, of the umbrella installation project…every night, to avoid the heat, dozens of teams emerge to work on the dozens of umbrellas nearing completion across the courtyard…
…this is one of the four projects where stairs have been made from the basement to ground level and then extending [...]
Posted in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Al-Masjid An-Nabawi As-Sharif on Apr 25th, 2010
…three of the closest umbrellas to Babus Salam were being ‘operated’ on last night around midnight. The highly organized procedure fascinating those who were present.
…three of the inner ’spine sections’, one each from three different umbrellas were unbolted by a team of three lifted to be inside the open umbrella by a cherry picker. A [...]
Posted in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Al-Masjid An-Nabawi As-Sharif, Makkah al-Mukarramah, construction on Apr 19th, 2010
The latest ground shots of the construction site on the eastern side of Masjid Nabawi…
…prior to the magnificent view from the 15th floor of the Green Palace…SubhanAllah!
…and back to the courtyard prior to Maghrib…
The building in the far left corner is the Green Palace where images were taken from…apologies…no time for explanations at this moment…if [...]
Posted in Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Al-Masjid An-Nabawi As-Sharif on Apr 17th, 2010
These guns are pointing to Masjid Nabawi as we enter the fourth day of Jumada al-Awwal! The minaret of Masjid Bilal is in the background. I had to look again and again to see that my vision was actually recording such an image! Two adjoining compounds seem to be the barracks of commandos and their [...]