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My name is Rabadan Omarov, and I come from Dagestan. For as long as I can remember, Mecca has been somewhere near — not on a map, but in the heart. Like a promise that must one day be kept. I grew up knowing that day would come; the only question was when.

I made my first Umrah in January 2022. I remember it not for its route but for the stillness within. When you see the Kaaba for the first time, everything unnecessary falls away — there is only you and your prayer. I came home a different person.

And on that same trip I saw the other side: how easily that stillness can be blurred. A bus for forty people, someone else's schedule, a hotel "like everyone else's," a prayer squeezed between transfers. I also saw how many people close to me had been putting it off for years: "once I become a little better — then," "what if I do something wrong," "someday later." What they lacked was not money or a visa — what they lacked was a person to say: I'm here, we'll arrange everything, all you have to do is arrive.

So, in that same year of 2022, GO SAUDIA was born. I chose not to sell packages off a conveyor belt, but to build the trip around one person — their pace, their loved ones, their budget. So that the pilgrim would carry only their prayer, while we carried the visa, the hotels, the journey and a hundred small concerns.

Since then more than 5 000 pilgrims have come through us — from Russia and from all over the world, and we still build every trip anew, from scratch. I know how quietly "someday" turns into "I'm going" — when you are not alone. If your heart has long been calling, simply write. With us beside you, it is not frightening to say at last: I'm going.

— Rabadan Omarov, founder of GO SAUDIA