How to Make the Best of Your Umrah Pilgrimage?

Tips for a Productive or Rewarding Umrah

Here is a list of good things to do during Umrah to increase/ maximize your rewards.

These are some of the hugely rewarded deeds for Umrah which you should do during your pilgrimage to Makkah and always expect the rewards from none but the Almighty Allah (SWT).

Say Salaam to strangers you meet on your way.
Smile is a kind of Sadqa. Always Smile at your fellow Muslims .
Read Qur’an with translation and Tafseer.
Recite the following authentic Dhikr of the morning and evening:

Bismillah illazi la yadurru ma’a ismihi shay’un fi’l-ard wa la fi’l-sama’ wa huwa al-samee’ ul-‘aleem

(In the name of Allah with Whose name nothing can harm on earth or in heaven, and He is the All-Hearing, All-Knowing)’

Always make dua during Sujood.
Offer refreshing drinks to people leaving the mosque.
Give attention to introverts in your group.
Purify your intention and actions for the sake of Allah.
Make dua for your family and friends.

“The supplication of a Muslim for his brother in his absence will certainly be answered. Every time he makes a supplication for good for his brother, the angel appointed for this particular task says: Ameen! May it be for you too” [Muslim]

Give charity to poor people who try hard to earn their provisions by doing things such as selling meager things at roadside.
Forgive those people who wronged you and ask for forgiveness from the people you have wronged intentionally or unintentionally.
Talk to people from different backgrounds and countries in order to know more about them and share Islamic knowledge.
Visit Madinah to see places like Mount Uhud, Mosque Quba, Masjid-e-Nabawi and Jannat-ul-Baqi. Do pray 2 raka’t nafl in Mosque Quba to earn rewards equivalent to Umrah.
Help people to find a place for sleeping and look for other opportunities to do good deeds.
Give sincere compliments to your fellows.
Remember and thank Allah for the blessings that He has bestowed upon you by saying Alhamdulillah.
Pray to Allah using his 99 most beautiful names.
Use a Miswak instead of a toothbrush. It is Sunnah to use miswak.
Fill your pockets with candies and give it to the children that you meet during your journey.
Always intend and expect reward from Allah for every good deed you do.
Donate a Qur’an to Haram and Masjid-e-Nabawi for people to read on your visit to Makkah and Madinah.
Donate wheelchairs or prayer stools to Masjid for elderly or disabled people who cannot pray while standing.