Mecca Learning Experience

I want to start out saying that I really didn’t know anything about Islam, Mecca or the Hajj. So this whole video was quite the learning experience. What I found the most interesting is the…hoops that they have to go through to be completely forgive. Having to go on this journey, if female asking for a males permission to go, and how much it costs. I found it silly that you could pay for a better tent to sleep in – considering that they all supposed to be one and the same. The whole concept of the Hajj was extremely interesting too – a religious journey to see Mecca. The people that go through this would need to have a lot of patience – walking to and from each place, getting little to no sleep. They would have to have patience because this is something that we typically don’t take part in in our daily lives so it would be a whole new experience to go on. Religious endeavors rarely seem as ‘tedious’ when they’re for something that you believe in so strongly. Such as for Christians going to church on Sunday isn’t seen as a hassle, it’s a religious experience and important for us to go through. However, it was a little odd that a building and places had such a huge influence on the Hajj, from walking around the Kaaba, to walking in-between two …show more content…
While we got to see a brief bit of what the pilgrims go through – I would like to see more of the fine details and how they come home. I believe at the beginning the narrator mentions how people go and don’t come back the same – I would like to see how they act when they come home. How everything they went through changed them. I know that the day of pray, the people we watched were brought to tears and were emotional – I want to see how this effected them when they went back to their lives. Especially the Asian man and his wife – I know that he was, I believe, a CEO of some company, I’d like to see how this pilgrimage changed his point of view on