The Mecca Diaries by Rayda Jacobs(used)

"Writing this now, on a borrowed laptop, in my hotel room four minutes from the haram, my eyes are filled with tears. How have I been so fortunate as to come here?"

What is it really like to go on hajj? 

What is the truth about this high point in a Muslim's religious experience - in a far-away Middle-Eastern country, at the holiest sites of the Islamic region - and in the presence of nearly three million other pilgrims?

Part diary, part guidebook, part spiritual memoir, this absorbing book records Rayda Jacob's preparation and departure for hajj; her stay in Medina and journey to the city of Mecca; her experience of the five days of hajj; and, finally, her return to South Africa. Illustrated throughout with her own photographs, Jacob's candid diary lifts the veil from the life-changing experience of hajj - for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. 

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