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Looking around, I saw faces from every corner of the globe.

Ask anyone who’s gone to Hajj what lessons he or she learned, and you’ll receive a multitude of answers.

My own Hajj taught me a number of lessons, but perhaps one of the things I most remember about it was how humbling an experience it was.

I remember noticing almost immediately upon arriving in Makkah the sheer number of people and thinking, “all these people here to worship Allah?”

Right away I felt humbled, realizing that there were so many like me. I remembered the verse from chapter Al-Hadeed:

{Compete with one another to achieve forgiveness from your Lord and to reach Paradise, which is as vast as the heavens and the earth, and is prepared for those who believe in God and His Messenger. This is the blessing of God and He grants it to whomever He wants. The blessings of God are great.} (57:21)

Looking around, I saw faces from every corner of the globe. Some of them looked comfortable in their surroundings; others seemed very out of place.

I remember watching two older men, speaking a language unfamiliar to me, attempting to get on the escalator to go to the second floor of Al-Masjid Al-Haram. They seemed surprised; like it was something they were unaccustomed to using.Read Also: