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The purpose of the series is not to make people feel worse for missing out.

It's to connect us, inshallah, to some of the experiences that we have over there. And then also, you know, help us... in Hage, may Allah supanta accept it from you fully, and may Allah supahanoitana facilitate

hedge for everyone who intends it in the near future, Allahh Amin, and accepted Hodge,

Allahh Allahh Amin. So I'm going to come with a Tala, Barakato.

I'm going to Mahat al-Aver Kato. I'm going to meet with him.

I'm going to Allah al-amine.

What's so what I'm saying,

I'm going to be al-Aimine. I'm gonna'nah. So I had to think long and hard about what my head story would be.

Because of Hamdala, I've had the opportunity to go so many times and I've had the blessing of having so many things happen

every year that make Hajj so special

Last year I had actually just gotten off the plane went went straight to the Muslim, I gave the scutba called

becoming a friend of Allah, which was about the Shohada and their families from Christchurch

who were at Hadj this particular past year and how powerful that was.

But I want to go back to my first hudge where, you know, it's 2006.

It was the year after you had fires breakout in Minna,

so you had some serious casualties that year in 2005.

2006, as I went to Hedge, I was going with just the sense of everything

being so perfect. So let me just explain it to you. I am at that time about to get married.

You know, and this is my first hedge. I feel a great, like I'm at a good place in life, you know, this was after Hurricane

Katrina had passed about a year after Katrina, so I'm kind of finding myself there, you know, in New Orleans and, you know,

trajectory is being defined. So things just seem sub-hana so settled.

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