Preparation for Umrah

Suhail —

Saw feefs thread on preparation for ramadan and reminded me that i need to start in my preparation for Umrah.

Any tips would be most appreciated 🙂 and if anyone wishes to share their own experiences and what special duas do i need to remember.

i know i have to read up on how to perform Umrah and i'm sure there are some good books i can find in regards to duas.

Also is there anything special that i need to recite when i see the kaba for the first time...?

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You — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 - 15:41

Umrah is easy.

1. Make sure you have the two cloths for ihram.
2. Read two nawaafil after tying the ihram outside the limits of the "umra-zone".
3. Do tawaf - going around the ka'bah 7 times (men should do the first 3/4 faster than the rest)
4. Read 2 nafl.
5. Go to Safa and from there to marwah. and then back. You need to do a total of 7 of these (each way is counted as 1).
6. Cut your hair.
7. Get out of ihram.

Suhail (not verified) — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 - 18:33

yup it sounds easy enough, fulfilling the conditions of ihram tho may not be so easy tho

Ya'qub — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 - 12:47

Try a trial run in the park marking out a square to go around, to practice reciting qur'an/du'aas while counting at the same time - it is harder than u might imagine, especially with loads of people around pushing and stuff.

memorise as much as you can, because you'll wish you'd learned more once you get there.

you can never really prepare too much, or enough, so just try ur best and may Allah (swt) accept ur Umrah. Ameen!

MuslimBro — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 - 04:43

I would recommend learning through a practical demonstration/video to learn the rituals rather than books, although books will help to a certain degree.

You — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 - 20:07

If you climb all the way to cave of hira, make sure you take a picture of the monkeys. and dont let them nick your camera.

LookingToSee — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 - 23:15

[quote=MuslimBro][quote=bilan]Aww, this all makes me wanna go too![/quote]
You want to go umrah because of the monkeys?[/quote]

if admin hadnt replied. this would have been Bilan's answer:

"why ELSE would i go?!?" *genuinely surprised*

Bilan — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 - 00:07

[quote=Lilly][quote=MuslimBro][quote=bilan]Aww, this all makes me wanna go too![/quote]
You want to go umrah because of the monkeys?[/quote]

if admin hadnt replied. this would have been Bilan's answer:

"why ELSE would i go?!?" *genuinely surprised*[/quote]

But we will never know for sure, so my answer to this is:

:neutral: :/