The next morning I
woke up, I saw through the hotel’s window the smear of orange colored sky
blurring my vision reflecting on the pastel colored building. Here at Madinah the buildings’ color were
mostly pastel, such as white, maroon,
creme, or light brown.
At eight in the
morning, we decided to stroll around Al masjed- Al Nabawi , I realized that the
masjed was very big and gorgeous. The architecture inside was beautiful, the
domes were able to be opened and showed the sky, this often happened at night, so beautiful. The
art wasn’t just over, inside the rhaudah, the Rasulullah’s cemetery, there were more beautiful design. There is something
special about this masjed, From Abu Hurairah ra
from the Prophet said "Prayer in my
masjed is better than a thousand
prayers in other
mosques except the Masjid-Haram" (Bukhari). So yeah the
reward is a thousand times the usual reward from the usual shalat.
One more thing for female, to enter the masjed you are not allowed to
bring cell phone or camera so the staff will check you. But, I successfully hid
my cell so I made to get in with it :p
Inside rhaudah there
were the cemetery of Abu bakar, umar, and rasulullah himself. Rhaudah it self is the home
of rasulullah when he was still alive. He was buried in aisyah’s room, one of
his wives, the one he loved the most.
You can see outside
there was green dome, its the sign of rhaudah. How to enter rhaudah? I’m a girl so I could only tell you the story
from the female entry, Rhaudah is located in the male section of the Masjed so
female has to wait for the staff to clear the way to rhaudah from the male so
we can enter it. Female must enter gate 25 to enter rhaudah so if you enter
from a different gate you have to look for the gate 25. The time to enter
rhaudah from the info I know is after shalat fajr, after shalat dzuhur, and
after shalat isya.
The staff will gather you based on the country you are from, Indonesia
sign for the melayu people. It is basically consisting of Asian people, Africa,
Iran, etc. They only have sign for country which have big moslem population so
people who are from country like China, Korea, United states, they don’t
usually gather you, so you can enter individually. The staffs will hold the
signs which said your country on it, for melayu people you can look for the
group of people who wear rukuh, cause most people who wear it basically melayu people, most of them are Indonesian
or Malaysian. Here you’ll feel the brotherhood of people who have the same race
as yours :)
After that you just need to follow the staff order. Getting there and do
shalat there is not practically easy, you have to wait and look for a space to
do that and the space of rhaudah is so small so we have to fight to get some space
to do the shalat.
Asallamualaika ya Rasulullah, that was said over and over when I was
walking to the rhaudah. The feeling is like waiting for your long lost lover in
the train station, I don’t know why but everytime I go there, the tears in my
eyes are always force its way to fall down. Sentimental, isn’t it? I miss him,
I miss Rasulullah.
Ps: English is not my language, so for the engrish above bear with it.
cheers!
