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Mutah Beale (napoleon) Jan.12, 2009
Mod Edit: Please note that brother truth4real isn't Mutah, he has just pasted his story for our benefit.
Bismillah arahman araheem
My trip to Saudi Arabia December 28 until January 8 2009.
I landed in Riyadh, and was amazed at the Muslims I saw in thobes and fully covered, as i walked out of the airport and got into my ride I started to notice the beauty of Riyadh and the modern city in the desert, I was amazed how there is a masjid on basicaly every corner it was as if it was my first time hearing the adhan being called through out the streets of Saudi, Coming from America it makes you appreciate a country like Saudi Arabia, I stayed in Riyadh for a few days and met up with some of the brothers before I headed to Jeddah to do a motivational speech for the youth of Jeddah, I was amazed to see the young Saudi kids dressing like hip hop artist or so called gangsters from america, I was sad to see how some of the Muslim youth even in saudi its obsessed with the way of life of the west, as if they don’t know the country that there are living in, how they are surrounded with masjids, ulema and the two holiest sites of Islam the kaba and masjid nabawi, and how the only way we will have success and honer in this life and the next is through Islam and not imitating the west, but its clearly sad to see that some of them are taking it for granted, after doing the talk in jeddah I headed back to riyahd the next morning. I stayed in Riyadh for a two days before I headed to Madinah, I was given a vip tour inside the prophet masjid and was allowed downstairs where they showed me a video of how the masjid been extended by King Fahad (rahimuallah) and his efforts and hard work to expand the prophet masjid and not only that the technology it takes to run the masjid it was like nothing I ever seen before. They showed me the original letters that the prophet(peace and prayer of Allah be upon him) sent to different rulers such as Herculie, the Amir of Bahrain,the ruler of Persia and Najashi the Ethiopian king. the brothers translated the letters to me and it was amazing in the words the prophet used to call world leaders to Islam. Later that day I got invited for dinner at the house of Sheik Abdurrazaq ibn AbdulMuhsin Al abbad, He gave me naseeha (advice) and showed me extremely warm hospitality may Allah reward the sheik. He told me how its important to learn the religion of Islam and to start with Tawheed, He gave me the book of 40 hadiths by imam nawawi in Arabic and said to have someone go over the book with me and with in a few months he will check to see if I went through the book, The next morning I returned to Riyadh where I had a few meetings with some individuals before heading back to the states, After returning home it makes me realize how a place like Saudi Arabia is a blessed country, and I wish to one day return with my family with the permission of Allah.
Your brother in Islam
Mutah Beale (napoleon)
Mod Edit: Please note that brother truth4real isn't Mutah, he has just pasted his story for our benefit.
Bismillah arahman araheem
My trip to Saudi Arabia December 28 until January 8 2009.
I landed in Riyadh, and was amazed at the Muslims I saw in thobes and fully covered, as i walked out of the airport and got into my ride I started to notice the beauty of Riyadh and the modern city in the desert, I was amazed how there is a masjid on basicaly every corner it was as if it was my first time hearing the adhan being called through out the streets of Saudi, Coming from America it makes you appreciate a country like Saudi Arabia, I stayed in Riyadh for a few days and met up with some of the brothers before I headed to Jeddah to do a motivational speech for the youth of Jeddah, I was amazed to see the young Saudi kids dressing like hip hop artist or so called gangsters from america, I was sad to see how some of the Muslim youth even in saudi its obsessed with the way of life of the west, as if they don’t know the country that there are living in, how they are surrounded with masjids, ulema and the two holiest sites of Islam the kaba and masjid nabawi, and how the only way we will have success and honer in this life and the next is through Islam and not imitating the west, but its clearly sad to see that some of them are taking it for granted, after doing the talk in jeddah I headed back to riyahd the next morning. I stayed in Riyadh for a two days before I headed to Madinah, I was given a vip tour inside the prophet masjid and was allowed downstairs where they showed me a video of how the masjid been extended by King Fahad (rahimuallah) and his efforts and hard work to expand the prophet masjid and not only that the technology it takes to run the masjid it was like nothing I ever seen before. They showed me the original letters that the prophet(peace and prayer of Allah be upon him) sent to different rulers such as Herculie, the Amir of Bahrain,the ruler of Persia and Najashi the Ethiopian king. the brothers translated the letters to me and it was amazing in the words the prophet used to call world leaders to Islam. Later that day I got invited for dinner at the house of Sheik Abdurrazaq ibn AbdulMuhsin Al abbad, He gave me naseeha (advice) and showed me extremely warm hospitality may Allah reward the sheik. He told me how its important to learn the religion of Islam and to start with Tawheed, He gave me the book of 40 hadiths by imam nawawi in Arabic and said to have someone go over the book with me and with in a few months he will check to see if I went through the book, The next morning I returned to Riyadh where I had a few meetings with some individuals before heading back to the states, After returning home it makes me realize how a place like Saudi Arabia is a blessed country, and I wish to one day return with my family with the permission of Allah.
Your brother in Islam
Mutah Beale (napoleon)
,and thank you dear brother for sharing your feelings with us,
