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December is the ideal time to travel to Saudi Arabia due to the pleasant weather. To provide customers the best opportunity to enjoy their Christmas vacations, many travel agencies provide reasonable December Umrah packages. The opportunity to connect with Allah Almighty and spend their holidays in Ibadah is available to many Muslims who reside in Europe. From 3-star to 5-star December Umrah packages, pilgrims may be eligible for special offers with reductions that also include a range of amenities.

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There is no minimum age limit for performing Umrah, as evidenced by the fact that many Muslims bring their infant children with them. In order to obtain Allah's mercy and gain from the journey, the elderly may also perform Umrah while in a wheelchair. A lot of pilgrims use budget-friendly family packages to travel to Saudi Arabia and perform the Umrah together. Everyone in the family, from young children to grandparents, is welcome to take part in this. You must first comprehend your needs in order to choose the appropriate age. To receive the limitless benefits of Allah Almighty, you must ardently adhere to the principles of Islam. Visit: Muslims Holy Travel December Umrah Packages

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December 3, 2022 - Saturday

December will be a great month inshallah, I believe it! So far I have:

tested negative for covid (after 2 weeks 🦠) alhamdullillah

cleaned + disinfected my entire room - feels like a new start

went thru all my income + expenses for the last half of the year 🤧 (exhausting, productive and revealing 😬)

talked with my friend on the phone (she who is too busy to breathe).

little bro returned from trip

Tomorrow the plan is to add a pompom to a hat I knitted, make parchment envelopes to give out the dates my bro brought back from umrah, and maybe even go outside after 2 weeks -wipes tear- (outside pics are from last winter)

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Queen Rania of Jordan celebrates her 53rd birthday on 31 August 2023

The Royal Court has released two new portraits of Queen Rania for the happy occasion.

The past year featured a number of joyous occasions for the Hashemites: the wedding of Crown Prince Hussein, the wedding of Princess Iman, the university graduation of Princess Salma, and the high school graduation of Prince Hashem.

In the days and weeks preceding their children’s weddings, Their Majesties were eager to share their happiness with their country’s people, involving the Jordanian public in the various celebrations marking the marriages of their first-born son and eldest daughter.

Her Majesty hosted a Henna party for Princess Iman, as well as a dinner party held in honor of the Crown Prince’s wife, Princess Rajwa, where the Queen and members of the royal family were joined by women from across Jordan’s 12 governorates to celebrate the two happy occasions. Both events spotlighted the richness of Jordanian culture and included several folkloric musical and dance performances by local female artists.

Throughout the year, Queen Rania continued to follow up on issues of importance to the Jordanian public by carrying out a number of visits to charitable associations, home-based businesses, startups, and other organizations across the country’s cities, villages, and rural areas.

A celebrated advocate for women and youth, Her Majesty’s local engagements included meetings with women artisans and young entrepreneurs, as well as visits to a number of women-led initiatives and associations supporting women’s financial empowerment.

During the holy month of Ramadan last March, for the second consecutive year, the Queen organized a mission to Umrah – the lesser Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca – for 500 women from across Jordan, a group of whom the Queen joined to perform the sacred pilgrimage herself. Earlier, in December 2022, Her Majesty took part in the lighting of the Fuheis Christmas tree among members of Jordan’s Christian minority.

Alongside her work within Jordan, over the course of the year, Queen Rania participated in several distinguished global gatherings, and accompanied His Majesty on a number of regional and international working visits.

At the invitation of the Her Majesty Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom, Queen Rania attended a reception at Buckingham Palace in London aiming to raise awareness of violence against women and girls. She also met with U.S. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at the White House while joining His Majesty and Crown Prince Al Hussein on a visit to Washington, D.C.

While in D.C., the Queen delivered the keynote speech at the 2023 National Prayer Breakfast (NPB) Gathering’s International Luncheon on Capitol Hill, where she affirmed that religion is not “a shelter for hiding,” but “a launch pad for living.” She also posited that, in the face of widespread polarization, the act of prayer can lead us towards a better, more nuanced path that she described as “the third way.”

“This third way is not the average of extremes, but rises above the binary, elevating us to higher ground that can become common ground as well,” she said. “Our win doesn’t need to be someone else’s loss. And being right doesn’t mean that the other side is wrong — only that we need other points of view to see a multi-dimensional picture.”

The Queen also spoke at the 2023 Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, where she underscored the potential pitfalls of humanity’s increased reliance on technology. “I am concerned that we’re undervaluing the most precious currency of all – our time,” Her Majesty said. “I am concerned that, even as virtual reality improves by the day, we’re neglecting the needs of our actual reality.”

In her capacity as a member of the Earthshot Prize Council, the Queen delivered remarks at the first-ever Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit, hosted in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. In her speech, Her Majesty called for mobilizing collective action and ingenuity to repair the planet, cautioning against claiming that “climate change is somebody else’s problem,” or leaving it for future generations to address.

This year, Queen Rania continued to use her global platform to advocate on behalf of refugees in Jordan and beyond. At the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, Her Majesty explained that a refugee crisis is “not just a short-term humanitarian crisis,” but rather a “crisis of human development” that requires long-term solutions focusing on growth, building resilience, sustainability, and job creation.

Additionally, the Queen repeatedly underscored disparities in the treatment of refugees based on their country of origin. Speaking at the Paris Peace Forum, she noted the difference in reception of refugees from Ukraine to those from countries such as Syria, Myanmar, and South Sudan, who had also been driven from their homes.

“What accounts for the contrast in compassion? Does skin color make all the difference?” she asked.

In May, Queen Rania attended the coronation ceremony of the King Charles III and Queen Camilla in London alongside King Abdullah. Their Majesties also attended the funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II in September.

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New Releases

Five new books coming out this week, including the highly anticipated sequel to the romance we all loved "Love from A to Z." I swear I wasn't going to buy any more books for the rest of the year because my TBR pile is about to topple over, but some of these look to interesting to pass up.

We Are the Scribes by Randi Pink Feiwel Friends

Ruth Fitz is surrounded by activism. Her mother is a senator who frequently appears on CNN as a powerful Black voice fighting for legislative social change within the Black community. Her father, a professor of African American history, is a walking encyclopedia, spouting off random dates and events. And her beloved older sister, Virginia, is a natural activist, steadily gaining notoriety within the community and on social media. Ruth, on the other hand, would rather sit quietly reading or writing in her journal.

When her family is rocked by tragedy, Ruth stops writing. As life goes on, Ruth’s mother is presented with a political opportunity she can’t refuse. Just as Senator Fitz is more absent, Ruth begins receiving parchment letters with a seal reading WE ARE THE SCRIBES, sent by Harriet Jacobs, the author of the autobiography and 1861 American classic, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Is Ruth dreaming? How has she been chosen as a “scribe” when she can barely put a sentence together? In a narrative that blends present with past, Randi Pink explores two extraordinary characters who channel their hopelessness and find their voices to make history.

Love from Mecca to Medina (Love from A to Z #2) by S.K. Ali Salaam Reads

Adam and Zayneb. Perfectly matched. Painfully apart. Adam is in Doha, Qatar, making a map of the hijrah, a historic migration from Mecca to Medina and worried about where his next paycheck will come from. Zayneb is in Chicago, where school and extracurricular stresses are piling on top of a terrible frenemy situation and making her miserable.

Then a marvel occurs: Adam and Zayneb get the chance to spend Thanksgiving week on the Umrah, a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, tracing the hijrah in real life, together. Adam’s thrilled, and Zayneb hopes for a spiritual reset—and they can’t wait to see each other.

But the trip is nothing like what they expect, from the appearance of Adam’s ex in their traveling group to the anxiety gripping Zayneb everywhere they go. And as one wedge after another drives them apart as they make their way from one holy city to another, Adam and Zayneb start to wonder: was their meeting just an oddity after all? Or can their love transcend everything else like the greatest marvels of the world?

Beneath the Wide Silk Sky by Emily Inouye Huey Scholastic

Sam Sakamoto doesn’t have space in her life for dreams. With the recent death of her mother, Sam’s focus is the farm, which her family will lose if they can’t make one last payment. There’s no time for her secret and unrealistic hope of becoming a photographer, no matter how skilled she’s become. But Sam doesn’t know that an even bigger threat looms on the horizon.

On December 7, 1941, Japanese airplanes attack the US naval base at Pearl Harbor. Fury towards Japanese Americans ignites across the country. In Sam’s community in Washington State, the attack gives those who already harbor prejudice an excuse to hate.

As Sam’s family wrestles with intensifying discrimination and even violence, Sam forges a new and unexpected friendship with her neighbor Hiro Tanaka. When he offers Sam a way to resume her photography, she realizes she can document the bigotry around her — if she’s willing to take the risk. When the United States announces that those of Japanese descent will be forced into “relocation camps,” Sam knows she must act or lose her voice forever. She engages in one last battle to leave with her identity — and her family — intact.

Emily Inouye Huey movingly draws inspiration from her own family history to paint an intimate portrait of the lead-up to Japanese incarceration, racism on the World War II homefront, and the relationship between patriotism and protest in this stunningly lyrical debut.

Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove by Rati Mehrota Wednesday Books

Katyani’s role in the kingdom of Chandela has always been clear: becoming an advisor and protector of the crown prince, Ayan, when he ascends to the throne. Bound to the Queen of Chandela through a forbidden soul bond that saved her when she was a child, Katyani has grown up in the royal family and become the best guardswoman the Garuda has ever seen. But when a series of assassination attempts threatens the royals, Katyani is shipped off to the gurukul of the famous Acharya Mahavir as an escort to Ayan and his cousin, Bhairav, to protect them as they hone the skills needed to be the next leaders of the kingdom. Nothing could annoy Katyani more than being stuck in a monastic school in the middle of a forest, except her run-ins with Daksh, the Acharya’s son, who can’t stop going on about the rules and whose gaze makes her feel like he can see into her soul.

But when Katyani and the princes are hurriedly summoned back to Chandela before their training is complete, tragedy strikes and Katyani is torn from the only life she has ever known. Alone and betrayed in a land infested by monsters, Katyani must find answers from her past to save all she loves and forge her own destiny. Bonds can be broken, but debts must be repaid.

Drizzle, Dreams, and Lovestruck Things (Songbird Inn #1) by Maya Prasad Disney-Hyperion

Four sisters, four seasons, four flavors of romance.

The Singh sisters grew up helping their father navigate the bustle of the Songbird Inn. Nestled on dreamy and drizzly Orcas Island in the Pacific Northwest, the inn’s always been warm and cozy and filled with interesting guests—the perfect home. But things are about to heat up now that the Songbird has been named the Most Romantic Inn in America.

Nidhi has everything planned out—until a storm brings a wayward tree crashing into her life one autumn . . . and along with it, an intriguing construction worker and a yearning for her motherland. Suddenly, she’s questioning everything she thought she wanted.

Avani can’t sit still. If she does, her grief for Pop, their dad’s late husband, will overwhelm her. So she keeps moving as much as she can, planning an elaborate Winter Ball in Pop’s memory. Until a blizzard traps her in a barn with the boy she accidentally stood up and has been actively avoiding ever since.

Sirisha loves seeing the world through her camera, but her shyness prevents her from stepping out from behind the lens. Talking to girls is such a struggle! When a pretty actress comes to the Songbird with her theater troupe, spring has sprung for Sirisha—if only she can find the words.

Rani is a hopeless romantic through and through. After gently nudging her sisters to open their hearts, she is convinced it’s finally her turn to find love. When two potential suitors float in on a summer breeze, Rani is swept up in grandeur to match her wildest Bollywood dreams. But which boy is the one she’s meant to be with?

Ultimately, the magic of the Songbird Inn leads the tight-knit Singh sisters to new passions and breathtaking kisses—and to unearth the truest versions of themselves.

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Ramadan Umrah Packages by Hajj Umrah Travels

Ramadan for Umrah

Performing Umrah during Ramadan holds immense significance. The rewards for good deeds are multiplied, making it a spiritually uplifting time to visit the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. Pilgrims experience a unique atmosphere filled with devotion, community, and prayer. Our Ramadan packages ensure you make the most of this sacred opportunity.

Our Exclusive Ramadan Umrah Packages

Hajj Umrah Travels provides a range of Ramadan Umrah packages that cater to different budgets and preferences. Whether you are traveling solo, with family, or in a group, we have something for everyone.

Basic Package: This package includes essential services such as accommodation, transportation, and guidance for performing Umrah. Perfect for budget-conscious travelers.

Standard Package: Enjoy additional comforts with upgraded accommodation, meal plans, and expert guides. Ideal for those seeking a balanced experience.

Premium Package: Experience luxury with top-tier hotels, private transportation, and personalized services. Perfect for those looking to indulge during their spiritual journey.

Key Benefits of Our Packages

Convenience: We take care of all the logistics, allowing you to focus on your spiritual experience.

Expert Guidance: Our knowledgeable staff are available to assist you throughout your journey, ensuring you have a smooth experience.

Flexible Options: Choose from our range of packages that suit your travel dates, whether you’re looking for December Umrah packages or planning your visit in February.

Tips for a Successful Umrah Experience

Plan Ahead: Book your Ramadan Umrah package early to secure your spot and avoid last-minute stress.

Stay Hydrated: With fasting during Ramadan, it’s crucial to stay hydrated. Drink plenty of water during non-fasting hours.

Embrace Community: Engage with fellow pilgrims. Sharing this spiritual journey can enhance your experience.

Focus on Spiritual Growth: Use this time to connect with Allah through prayer, reflection, and good deeds.

Final Touhgts

Performing Umrah during Ramadan is a unique opportunity to deepen your faith and experience spiritual rejuvenation. At Hajj Umrah Travels, we are dedicated to providing you with the best Ramadan Umrah packages that fit your needs. Whether you’re considering December Umrah packages or planning your journey in umrah in February, we’re here to support you every step of the way. Let us help you embark on this blessed journey and create memories that will last a lifetime.

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Embark on a transformative spiritual journey with our Umrah packages at QuestMakkahTours.co.uk. Whether you're seeking a budget-friendly option or a luxurious experience, our tailored packages include comfortable accommodation, hassle-free transportation, and expert visa assistance. Enjoy the serenity of December in Makkah and Madinah with special offers designed to enhance your pilgrimage. Explore our packages and book your Umrah journey today at QuestMakkahTours.co.uk. May your pilgrimage be blessed and fulfilling. 🌟✨ #Umrah #SpiritualJourney #QuestMakkahTours

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What to Pack for Umrah?

Performing Umrah is the wish of every Muslim of any colour, nationality, or language. However, you have to pack wisely according to your pilgrimage. Every traveller should know what things he has to carry with him. Carry all essential things like your medications, travel essentials, documentation, a mat for praying, comfortable clothing, hygiene products, etc. Every traveller must add these items to their checklist before going on his journey.

Essential items for Umrah

Clothing:

If you are travelling in the summer from June to September, carry comfortable and loose clothes with you because the temperature rises to 45°C in these months. If you are travelling in January and December, bring warm clothes with you because the nights in Mecca are cold because the temperature drops.

Ihram Garments:

Ihram garments are essential for both men and women. For men, Ihram consists of two simple white unstitched clothes, which indicates purity and equality. For women, simple and modest clothes can be worn as Ihram clothing.

Choosing the proper footwear:

Wear comfy, lighter, and breathable shoes so you can complete your Umrah rituals comfortably without any distractions. Choose soft-sole shoes or sandals so that while tawaf, your feet won't hurt. Men must wear shoes in which the head of their foot should not covered, which signifies that all poor and wealthy men are equal before ALLAH.

Medications:

You should get a proper checkup before travelling if you have any health issues.

Bring your essential medicines with you and pack some painkillers that might be useful for you during your journey.

Travel Documentations:

Carry your visa and passport documents with you. The authorities take your passport and visa when you arrive in Saudi Arabia and return them to you on departure day. Make sure to have some copies of your visa and passport for emergency purposes. Also, carry your vaccination reports and some local money with you.

Hygiene Products and Toiletries:

Items like soap, shampoo, and towels are already available in hotels, but it is more beneficial for you to pack some essential hygiene and toiletry travel-sized products with you, such as a towel, shampoo, soap, body wash, sun cream, nail clipper, non-alcoholic perfume or Oudh, and hand sanitizer.

Women should carry sanitary pads for their periods so they don't face any problems. 

Religious Items:

You can carry a travelling prayer mat or rug to offer prayer, a tasbih (prayer beads), the Quran or download it on your mobile phone through the app store, and a book of dua helpful for remembering prayers.

Travel Essentials:

Travel Pillow: You can carry a pillow for better and more comfortable travel.

Power bank: Carry a power bank with you to charge your phone.

Travel Guide or app: You can carry a guidebook or download an app with maps and information about the pilgrimage.

Optional Items:

You can carry some optional items like a reusable water bottle because Mecca's temperature is hot and dry, so you can keep it yourself. Hydrated. It is better to bring a bottle of water; you can bring non-perishable food with you for long travelling days.

You can carry a camera to capture memories of your journey, but be careful and check the local regulations about photography.

Money and financial matters:

Pilgrims must carry some local money and cash, or they can have credit or debit cards as backup options. They can keep their money and credit cards in a cash belt or pouch.

Important Reminders to keep in mind:

Respect local customs: Saudia Arabia is a very welcoming country, but they have some rules, so you should familiarize yourself with their culture and dress.

Stay Hydrated: Drink plenty of water to stay hydrated, as the weather in Makkah is very hot and dry.

Conclusion

Knowing these essential items with you is beneficial for your pilgrimage. These items will help you perform your Umrah more easily and comfortably. For example, choosing clothes according to the weather gives you more advantages. You can also change your packing list according to your personal needs and the duration of your stay.

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December Umrah Packages are designed keeping in view the maximum luxury and ease of travel that we can arrange for our clients. Since the month of December brings quite pleasant weather in the kingdom as well as remains a less busy time for umrah travel, Muslim Holy Travel December Umrah Package is in high demand. The value of money that we offer, you won’t find anywhere in the market and that’s a challenge. 

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For Muslims who want to execute the Umrah activity, the Islamic religion has a number of limitations and processes. Travelers need to remember a few important rules and impose a few other important limits. The first thing that needs to be taken into account is the amount of time that Muslims need to conduct Umrah which many like to do in winter, like December Umrah Packages. Many Muslims wish to perform Umrah and seek forgiveness from Allah Almighty for their transgressions. Anyone who gets the chance to visit sacred sites like Masjid Al-Haram is extremely fortunate.