NAJIB GRATEFUL FOR KAABAH VISIT
‘I’m moved to see home of Allah’
PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak yesterday expressed his gratitude at being able to enter the Kaabah at the Masjidil Haram in Mecca on Wednesday.
Najib, via a social media post, shared an image of him in ihram exiting the Kaabah.
“Allahuakbar (God is great). I am extremely moved and grateful to be offered a chance to enter the Kaabah and see the ‘home of Allah’. Alhamdulillah (Praise be to God),” he wrote.
He followed up his post with another image, this time of him and his mother, Tun Rahah Mohammad Noah, as well as his wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, at the Masjidil Haram.
“Grateful to Allah for blessing me with health and enabling me to tawaf (go around the Kaabah) with my mother and family. Alhamdulillah,” he wrote.
On Tuesday, Najib kicked off a five-day working visit to Saudi Arabia to discuss bilateral issues the states had agreed on during King Salman Abdulaziz Al-Saud’s visit to Malaysia last year.
The Prime Minister’s Office stated that Najib was accompanied by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom.
As Najib is performing umrah (minor haj) during the official visit, he also invited several family members and some acquaintances to accompany him.
The Prime Minister’s Office, on Wednesday, said Najib’s siblings and acquaintances paid their own expenses to the Holy Land.
It added that all their names were included in the official list of the prime minister’s delegation to ease administrative matters with the Saudi government for the umrah.