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The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said:

"The most beloved speech according to Allah (s.w.t) is when the servant says,

'Subhanallahi wa bihamdihi'

(How Transcendent is Allah and we praise him)" - Muslim

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Arina's POV

Today is our flight!

It was a really hectic day yesterday with all the preparations in process aka the last minute shopping for the trip.

Right now it's nearly Fajr time, I woke up a while ago for tahhajud prayers so I just got done with that and Adam is still in the bed as there are about 15 minutes to Fajr Adhan.

Masha Allah! Adam changed a lot in these past few months. Better then I expected at least. It's been 4 months since our Nikkah and 3 months since the Rukhsati and Alhumdulilah he made a tremendous improvement in such a short span of time. 

I've tried to convince him to start going to Masjid too for prayers as much as he can. He went twice or thrice till now.

He still needs help in some areas like he doesn't recite Quran much which is something he needs to practice more and he also needs to make his language and speech more halal if you know what I mean.  I really wanted to see his Ramadan and fasting schedule but the deal time period ends way before Ramadan as Ramadan is after spring and the deal ends when it will be still winter time so unfortunately I wont be able to see that in case...

Anyways! I put a pause on my thinking there and get up to grab the Quran from the shelf to recite Surah Rahman for sometime. Surah Rahman is my favourite surahs. Reciting and listening to it just brings tears to my eyes. It makes me want to say Alhumdulilah millions times for all the countless blessings and happiness that Allah have blessed me and my family with. This Surah is really dear to my heart.

Whether it is a made situation or a good situation we should always praise Allah as there is always a helpful and good reason behind all the bad happenings that occur in our life.

I finish my recitation after a short while and it's already time for Fajr so I go to wake Adam up. It takes time thought. Of course.

"Adam!"

"Hmm"

"Wake up!!"

"Hmm"

"What Hmm?! WAKE UP!"

"Stop shouting woman!"

"I'm not shouting! I'm just telling you to wake up its fajr time!"

"You go and I'll join you in a bit"

"As if you actually will"

I try to wake him up and succeeds Alhumdullilah. He goes to make wudu while I make my way to the prayer room. Adam joins me after five minutes and we start our prayer together. Once done with that, I pick up the Quran from its previous position and sit next to Adam, I start reciting Surah Yaseen and Adam listens quietly. 

After the recitation, Adam goes back to bed for a while whereas I proceed towards the bathroom to take a long relaxing shower.

I take my time in the shower and let my hair breath for a while without hijab as I still wear it in front of Adam. As I have already picked my outfit for the day so I quickly change into it.

My outfit is:

Once I am satisfied with my outfit, I walk outside and dry my hair and wrap my black hijab around. As I hate make up while travelling so I don't apply anything but my moisturizer and Maybelline Baby Lips to moisturize my lips.

Happy with my look, I wear my footwear and carry my bag downstairs next to the Door. I then wake Adam up when its 8:30 so that he can get ready. It takes him 20 minutes to take a quick shower and get dressed. 

By 9:00 we are on the road off to my in laws house where we are going to meet up with my family and them to have a breakfast together.

Our flight to Barcelona, Spain is at 2:00 in the afternoon and we need to be at the airport by 12:00 so we will only  a little while to spend there. We are going by a normal airline instead of Adam's private jet this time.  

We reach by 9:15 as its only a 15 minutes drive and Alhumdullilah there was no traffic that just made it better.

We greet the family and sit together for a while. As Zaid is not here so we face time him for a while and then have our breakfast once Alex arrives. We have the breakfast in peace all of us having small chitchats every now and then. Later then the mum's are talking among themselves while Adam, Alex and Dad are talking about business and me and Alina are discussing what we will do in the cruise and basically planning out our short holiday.

At 10:45 am we leave for the airport after saying our Goodbyes to the family. The ride is quite fun as Alex is trying his best to come up with some good jokes and puns making us all laugh. His cheerful nature is amazing. Masha Allah

We reach the airport at 11:55 as the airport is a bit far from our residence. The driver unload all our bags from the trunk whereas Adam calls home to inform we have reached the airport. Ya know Desi Mums.

We each grab our respective trolley bag and proceed towards the airport entrance. Adam being the still the arrogant  self was just walking straight, Alina was busy snapchatting and Alex was busy on the phone with his cat.

Don't ask me how! Okay fine! He called his maid and told her to somehow make his cat talk with him on the phone as she will miss her "dad" for the week. Weirdo.

Once all the visa and passport procedures were done, we then went to our designated terminal but before reaching there Alex eyes obviously saw the McDonalds sign. How is he still fit even though he eats like a baboon. But he is really kind and is like a big brother to me.

He persuades  Adam to go there using the we can pass out time like this excuse. We stroll towards Mcdonalds, Alex orders himself a Grand Chicken Classic while I order a McCafe Vanilla shake and Aline order Mcflurry. Adam just sits there using his phone, it feels like he is married to his phone and not me because he's always on the phone or his laptop unless I force him to put it away.

After devouring over our food and drinks, we finally proceed towards the VIP Business Class terminal and wait till the flight. Adam takes out his laptop as there is still an hour, Alina starts chatting with some friends on the phone and Alex as usual goes to the food section to eat.              

I unlock my phone and go on my favourite app, Wattpad. It is such an amazing app and i love all the Islamic stories on that app. I see an update from one of my favourite author  Star_That_Shines . She writes amazing books and I love all her books, Its really hard to choose a favourite when it comes to her books. I am currently reading "New girl in the House" and am loving it so far. I read the recent update of "New girl in the house" and as usual love it and i can't wait for the next update as Zeeshan who is my favourite male character says Qubool Hai and gets married to my favourite female character Noor when the groom was supposed to be someone else which surprises the whole family including the bride and the real groom. 

After reading that I read update of her other book "Allah's Stranger" which is also a great book. As I get done with commenting on that I hear Adam calling my name.

"Arina"

"Yeah?"

"C'mon its time to go"  I look around to see the people boarding the plane.

"Yeah okay"

We soon board the plane and get settled in our respective seats. Soon after all the announcements are done the plane finally depart. As we chose Air Canada to travel in so it is going to be a 11 hr and 25 mins flight with a stop at Toronto Pearson Airport for transit.

I spend some time talking about anything and everything with Alina and then we both plug in our earphones to listen to some nasheeds. My current favourite Nasheed artist is  Siedd and everyone needs to check out his nasheeds on YouTube. They are vocals only and are amazing! He have only uploaded six nasheeds till now though.

Two are Islamic versions of "Mercy" by Shawn Mendes and Gnash "I hate you, I love you" which Siedd named as "I need you". 

Soon its time to land as it takes 1 hr and 35 mins from NYC to Toronto. We land safely alhumdullilah at Toronto Pearson Airport at 3:35 pm for a layover of 2 hrs and 05 mins and proceed towards our transit terminal.

Alina and Alex starts complaining for food. These two! Wallahi it feels  like they are little kids and me and Adam are their parents.

Adam takes us to Paramount Fine Foods, a good restaurant serving Middle Eastern cuisine in Terminal 1 of the airport. He knew where it is as his family lives here in Toronto so their family use this airport a lot and I also remember mama telling me that they used to live here for few years after Uncle Zeewad passed away.

We proceed there in no time and entered the beautiful restaurant. The aroma of the mouth watering Middle Eastern food hit my nostrils as I inhaled inside the Restaurant.

We sit at a table of four with Adam in front of me and Alina to my right. Alex takes a seat next to Adam.

A waiter comes to our table who looks Arab.

"Hello Sir! Welcome to Paramount Fine Foods. Here's the menu and give me a call after you've decided."

"Thank You" Adam replies

"So what do you guys want to eat?" Adam asks

I grab a menu from the table to have a look.

"And we are not here for a feast and we also don't have much time so choose a quick meal. I know you both are crazy for Arab food but please" he says pointing at us

Me and Alina look at each other and grin before giving Adam an innocent look.

"Okay fine but not too much" He says and sigh

"Umm...I guess for appetizer we will have hummus if that's okay with others" I look up to see Alina and Alex nodding making me laugh

"Wait let me call the waiter and just tell him the order directly" Alex says and Adam agrees with him

"Yes? May I have your order please?" The waiter asks

"Umm..Yea so for the appetizer we will have have Hummus, for salad we would like to have Fattoush Salad and for main course I would love to have a Shish Tawouk! What do you guys want for main course?"

"I want a Chicken Shawarma and Beef burger!" Alex yells earning looks from all of us

"What? I'm hungry okay!"

"Dude You just had food like 2 hours ago!" Alina says

"And don't forget the chocolates on board" I remind Alina with a laugh

"2 Hours! That's 120 minutes, 7200 seconds and 72000-"

"We get it, Alex!" Adam interrupts 

Alex slumps back on his chair.

"I would love a Chicken and Beef Shawarma please"

"And what about you, Sir?"

The waiter asks Adam who is as usual busy with his 2nd wife aka his phone. He looks up and sees me glaring at him so puts his phone away. finally

"I'll have Shrimp BBQ"

"Your order will be here soon" The waiter smiles and leaves after we order our drinks.

Soon our appetizer arrives and  then the main course. We all have our food in silence. Can I just say I loved the food!

Once we are done Alina suggests we have some dessert which of course is our favourite Turkish sweet, Baklava.

We have our dessert and check the time seeing we have 45 mins. Wow we spent 1 hour and 15 mins of our time eating.

We realise that soon it'll be time for Asr and we have missed Zuhr too due to the flight so we proceed to the interfaith room in the same terminal, Terminal 1 which have some prayer mats and the Qiblah direction. Alex wait outside while we pray our missed prayers of Zuhr and also pray Asr  before walking to our terminal. Our flight is at 5:40 pm (Ontario time)

Soon its time for boarding, so like before we board the plane, recite the Dua for travelling and start our journey to our new Destination.

As it is a 7 hrs and 45 mins flight so we all decide to sleep  till we reach. We have a nice flight as the seats in the Business class are really comfortable and can be converted into sleeping position easily. We wake up to pray Fajr and our missed prayers on the plane in our seats and sleep back again. My eyelids peer open 15 mins before the trip and wake everyone up too.

We all get ready for landing and soon land at Barcelona-El prat Airport. In no time we are standing at the baggage section of the airport done with the visa procedures.

We get our bags and walk outside where an uber is waiting for us to take us to the Hotel for the night as our real journey starts tomorrow morning. We reached somewhere around 7:30 am (Spain time) which is 1:30 am in Toronto and New York City. Knowing that our mothers would still be awake for our call so we call to inform them about our arrival.

The uber arrives and the tired boys load their luggage along with ours in the trunk. While driving to our hotel, Mandarin Oriental we get to see a glimpse of the morning life of Barcelona and the beautiful architecture.

Masha Allah! Barcelona is a beautiful city.

I know for a fact that this will be a very memorable  trip of ours.

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HEYYYYY!!!

How are y'all?

Alhumdullilah I'm good.

Sorry for the late update but my exams are near so I am really busy with that. But I managed to write a long chapter! YAYY!!

Anyways! Hope you like the Chapter!

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Love y'all

-Iiman