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اَللّٰهُمَّ إِنَّا نَسْأَلُكَ فِيْ سَفَرِنَا هٰذَا الْبِرَّ وَالتَّقْوَى وَمِنَ الْعَمَلِ مَا تَرْضَى اَللّٰهُمَّ هَوِّنْ عَلَيْنَا سَفَرَنَا هٰذَا وَاطْوِ لَنَا بُعْدَهُ اللّٰهُمَّ أَنْتَ الصَّاحِبُ فِي السَّفَرِ وَالْخَلِيْفَةُ فِي الْأَهْلِ..........
.......O Allah, we seek goodness from You and piety from this journey and (the ability to do) good actions by which You are pleased. O Allah, ease this journey for us and make us transverse the road quickly. O Allah, You are our companion in this journey and deputy (guardian) over our household whom we left behind. O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the difficulties of the journey and from seeing bad things and from a bad return at home and household and from the dua of the oppressed.
A dua / prayer of traveler we start again on another aim of exploring the World we live in...
A travel
Plan ambitious we aim to visit a few cities in the shortest reasonable time possible... It started with all the other plans...unplanned!
2weeks off after eid we needed a break The wife and me this time.. Why not drive to Europe, the excuse we can do car camping...
We decided to visit France but than were pretty much ill-planned until I speak to one of my teachers...... Allhamdullilah / thanks is to Allah and I pray for him...
The advice taken onboard... But than changes come to it, the original plan of visiting till Milano now also includes Verona and Venice...
The city built on water...
The Republic of Venice was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades... And is one of the cities I have always dreamt of visiting...
We have to do this from Brussels.... I want to see the houses of Allah the Mosques along the way...
And while we travel... Why not Take the euro star shuttle... I need the CLS to see the tunnel... Well actually the Montblanc tunnel.. 890km away
is worth the drive...
Marseille.... The biggest mosque in Europe after Rome is being built which will exceed it's size.
Milau viaduct .... a feat of engineering... A pleasure of drive
and all this to include Narbonne the last strong hold of 40years of you guess what..... 40 years, from 719, Narbonne was part of the Emirate of Cordoba until conquered by the Franks in 759,
And while we at it... Shall we finish it off with euro Disney?
Now that would be the icing.... We head off Inshallah
I work all day on the 3rd from 12:00pm-12:00am and head off from home at 12:30am... We drive a four hour stretch to Folkestone board the Eurostar shuttle at 4:20am... and I pray Fajr / the morning prayer standing in a corner wondering what might the CCTV be watching a bearded Moslem kneeling down... I bow and say may Thanks to Allah.
We reached Calais and head up the E40/A16 until tiredness catches with us and we pullover at services... Sleep in the car... After all this is the car camping we were thinking off. May Allah protect my wife for coming prepared...
4 hours of rest and we enter Belgium, strangely for me there is no well defined border....a road until we notice the signs changing.. We decide to stay the night in Brussels. So check in to a hotel. Rest and off we go to see the city,a Center of European politics the head quarter of NATO..
The city with its Grand place it statues and monuments its Bozar... the italian restaurants the french food.. The brick tilled lanes .. The trams and the traffic i couldn't make sense of..what do I go
for? It's the waffles....we do have some.
Allhamdullilah until tomorrow I plan to
pray in it's mosque... We than head off to MONT Blanc via Luxembourg via Dijon in France a 10hour drive... Inshallah...
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