We had finally reached a land I always wanted to visit with my family. We were so excited to spend Ramadan in a Muslim country in one of the safest cities in the world. Then it happened. We woke up at night to the sound of an intense alarm on our phones. I looked at…
In December 2025, my travels took me to a unique destination, Lombok Island in Indonesia. This land was very different from anywhere I had traveled before. I had not even heard about Lombok until a few weeks before I arrived there. I was in Kuala Lumpur with my family, planning a family trip to a…
During my adventures, I have traveled twice to Istanbul. Both trips were a year apart and served very different purposes. When we decided that we need to leave in 2021, we were deep in a pandemic/lockdown, and travel was not possible. During this period, however, many people I knew had moved to Istanbul as Türkiye…
In December 2024, I decided to travel to Doha to check it out as a potential Hijrah location. There were many reasons I chose Doha, it is a Muslim country with a strong economy, it is safe peaceful land without any crime or political instability, there are direct flights to Doha from my home country,…
Four years ago, I made intention to leave South Africa with my family and migrate to a Muslim land. At the time, my family were unable to travel due to paperwork issues, so I decided to scout ahead and travel to various Muslim lands seeking out a potential hijrah destination. Alhamdulillah, now we are living…