Can anyone see anything wrong in this picture?

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(I found it via Hotter than a pile of curry, if anyone can find similar night time pictures that are correctly sourced and maybe available with an open licence, post below.)

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alz-007 — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 - 00:32

[quote=You]Just, it seems "wrong" to have that huge clock tower overpowering the views there.

(that is not a small mosque... so that building behind it is simply huge)[/quote]

What?! The huge area and size of the entire mosque is what I call 'overpowering', not some clock tower 😉

Nasheedgirl — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 - 15:11

i no...it makes the kaabah and the masjid look inferior....i saw it this year wen i went for umrah....it looked nice anyhow! it was real cool, like year after year, i saw it gettin built and then Tadaaa! it nice mahsa'Allah but shud've been made smaller...:)

Bilan — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 - 18:38

[quote=Nasheedgirl]i no...it makes the kaabah and the masjid look inferior....i saw it this year wen i went for umrah....it looked nice anyhow! it was real cool, like year after year, i saw it gettin built and then Tadaaa! it nice mahsa'Allah but shud've been made smaller...:)[/quote]

wht do u go to umrah every year???!

Nasheedgirl — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 - 19:23

[quote=bilan][quote=Nasheedgirl]i no...it makes the kaabah and the masjid look inferior....i saw it this year wen i went for umrah....it looked nice anyhow! it was real cool, like year after year, i saw it gettin built and then Tadaaa! it nice mahsa'Allah but shud've been made smaller...:)[/quote]

wht do u go to umrah every year???![/quote]

Yh Allhumdulillah! 🙂 *blush*

Bilan — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 - 20:57

[quote=Nasheedgirl][quote=bilan]cool! tell us more!! another thing i dnt knw too much about :([/quote]

ok! what dya want to know?? im more than happy! :)[/quote]

yay! i dnt even knw where to start...can pull the anytime card again??? haha, nah im foolin...uh...how is it different to hajj???

Nasheedgirl — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 - 16:18

[quote=bilan][quote=Nasheedgirl][quote=bilan]cool! tell us more!! another thing i dnt knw too much about :([/quote]

ok! what dya want to know?? im more than happy! :)[/quote]

yay! i dnt even knw where to start...can pull the anytime card again??? haha, nah im foolin...uh...how is it different to hajj???[/quote]

lol! 🙂 ummm, i went 4 hajj wen i was 4, so from wat i remember and wat my family remmeber, hajj is waaaaaay different 2 umrah! firstly, at hajj tym there is lyk double (or triple?) amount of ppl there than that of umrah. secondly, during umrah, u have the taraweeh at nyt and the qiyaam-ul-layl (the nyt prayer or otherwise nown as sabina)but its not tuhajjud btw.....whereas in hajj (well more lyk wen i went), we styd in madinah first i thnk and then we wnt and atyed in makkah, and then did the whole hajj, as in going form muzdalifa,minna,arafat etc....

i dunno, i have little memories of hajj coz i was v.small then but the few that i do have is of the tents and the jamaraat area and hmmm wat else and......OH YH! well, wen we did hajj, alot of ppl take the taxis and busses but we did the hole thing wlaking....so it was really funn! i remeber, havn water fyts wiv my bro on teh way (we wer still yng then btw...jus thought id mention that! dnt want any1 gettin the rong idea now do i!!!??? :P)

so yh, thats bout it, hajj is a lot more hussle bussle whereas umrah is ALOT more calmer.

anymore Q's???? (im luvin this! :lol:)

Bilan — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 - 19:26

lool! im glad u are... ur water story reminded me if my my friend who went on hajj/umrah (cant remember but also when she was a kiddie) and she was telling us how she was playing in this fountain thing, tht wasnt full of water no, but WEE!!! 😂
oh my god, tht musta been traumatizing haha! ur probably thinking, 'what happened to all the toilets???' i honestly dnt knw lol

yh, i heard about the tents as well...how many people fit into one of them???

walking???! are the places close to each other then???

ps: this is all remindin me of Native Deen's song Labayk

YouShutup — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 - 14:43

PS When your on holiday you want to get rid of the lamppost, neon lights, or as many technical gadgetry, etc. in pictures- to get a feel for the authenticity of the place. These things add an element of artificialness.

To do this to the holiest site on earth to Muslims, it’s desecration.

Best I can explain it.

Lioness of Allah — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 - 07:54

According to Dr Irfan al-Alawi, the chairman of the Islamic Heritage Research Foundation, which was set up to protect the holy sites, authorities are now discussing removing the symbolic green dome on the prophet Muhammad's mosque in Medina, which lies directly above the graves of the three caliphs who led Islam after the prophet Muhammad died

(Taken from the Guardian article ^^^^^)

You are kidding me. Islam has a rich,beautiful history, which should be PRESERVED.Not destroyed. I am seriously annoyed now.