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Diary of an Umrah Story

Under the green dome of Masjid an-Nabawi lies the grave of Rasulullah (saw), Abu Bakr and Umar (ra). To be so close to Rasulullah and such great sahabas is such a powerful (scary) feeling. Rasulullah saw said, 'Whoever visits me after I am dead it is like they visited me while I was alive'.

A Garden from the Gardens of Paradise

The prophet saw said from his mimbar to his house is a rawdah or garden from the gardens of paradise. Today you can tell where the rawdah is by the change in carpet from the usual red oriental ones to this white flowered carpeted area that goes from his grave to the mimbar. It is only open at certain times for women and extremely crowded and blocked off. Still praying there, for a few seconds now and then I have the rare feeling there is sunlight overhead and birds chirping around. (could be my imagination :))

Inside the mosque, the closer you get to the Dome and inside the Rawdah area the more you feel how the ground you walk on and pray on was once the mosque in the prophet's time and how people used to be there. Again there was the frustration that the prophet's mosque has been rebuilt to such an extent that it is hard to see/feel the history of the place.
Front Entrance of Masjid an-Nabawi

Doors to the Graves of Muhammad
(s), Abu Bakr & Umar Another hadith says that whoever says salams to the prophet, Allah sends Muhammad saw's soul back to his body to return the salam and that anyone can send peace on him from anywhere, so a person here in this place or a person in Andalucia is no different.
Allahumma Salli Ala Muhammad