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Conclusion Hajj is like a fingerprint meaning that each one is unique. People say it but you have to live it to understand it. Tomorrow we will go back to our lives and forget valuable lessons. Maybe that was a big part of why I kept this diary. To live a life of an average person here...

It’s also my last night with my mava. For someone who has not been a part of my life since I was two years old he is now a huge part. We have dinner together and he gives me some golden advice about my future. Everyone fretting over the weight limit and I bet some serious duas are being...

Zinger has broken my Radox shower gel handle. Finally I have a case to take to the elder in our room. Zinger must pay! How on earth do you break that?! I forgot to get the case on trial as Zinger has brought mava a big knife to complete the Crocodile Dundee look. Me, Zinger and Moshy go...

Zinger is back and buzzing. He says that when the rain started everyone instead of running for cover was trying to get onto the third floor to do tawaf in the rain. Everyone shattered so we just rest up. That night Zinger wants to sleep but me and Moshy got other ideas and drag him out...

We make our way to Mina before Fajr. We are just mingling with the people, waiting for the time of Jamarat. It's a lot more peaceful and calmer than the last time I was here. Speaking of last time, we did the jamarat and had arranged a meeting point if any of our group of around ten people...

Mava comes up with a plan. He wants us to go to Mecca tonight for tawaf, sai and come back before Fajr. I think it would make a lot of sense and thankfully mum agrees. After Isha, Mava tell us to get ready as the rain is coming. Huge winds start the proceedings by blowing away at the tents...

Second day Jamarat. We go the long way but it feels like ten minutes. Amazing. Mum is really in her element here. We get to the Jamarat and decide to go up to the third level. We are quickly faced with mum’s biggest fear. Escalators. She hates them but has no choice. She holds my hand...

Mava decides he wants to go right away for stoning. We put a small posse together and we are off. Takes just over an hour to get to the Jamarat and the Talbiyah in the tunnels is deafening. Awesome scenes of people walking towards the Jamarat. You can tell the first timers from the look on...

Muzdalifah is wide awake at 12.30am! Everyone up and about. Our coach did not have a proper sticker on it so we went back to Arafat to pick one up. We finally arrive in Muzdalifah and lay out our sleeping gear. We brought a huge drum with us and fill it full of water to use to make wudu...

We arrive in Mina and get to our tents. So many people trying to take up more space than what they need forgetting that we are expecting the brothers who are coming on foot. This is another reason I am so proud of the brothers who roomed with me in Mecca. We take just enough space that we...

Jummah today was jam packed. Top floor was empty again due to people being unable to sit in the heat for hours on end waiting for the salah. If you want a spot seeing the Ka’bah you got to be in there for at the latest 9am. I been showing everyone the view I found. The room has not been...

My slippers have been missing for a whole day. I have to put up with plenty of ‘told you so’ from Manchester lad. I am going to go later to see if they are where I left them. We are so close to the Haram I go to all the salahs barefoot. I saw my first dog in Mecca today. Looks so out of...

Great news! My mum’s brother made it back into Mecca! If he had got caught he would have been in big trouble as they don’t allow non Hujjaj into the city at this time. InshAllah he is going to be with us every step of the way now. All the lads sleeping out tonight. Everyone making out they...

Me and Manchester lad act as elevator attendants today, taking people up and down the floors. We were so good that I reckon if we had kept it up we could have made some serious tips. Just heard that a Brit from another hotel had lost £2000 during the tawaf. Apparently they took the whole...

We have been watching these guys working on the building next to us. What makes a man hang off the side on the 15th floor of the building without a safety rope and kick away at the very support he is resting on? The government should use this as work encouragement. Get a job or we will be...