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May Allah (swt) accept the Hajj of those who went. Ameen And may We also go to Hajj one day, to seek the pleasure of Allah, In His noble House, ... That Channel 4 was nice 
... Oh heres a story about a Saint. called Rabi'a (May Allah be pleased with her)
....Among other stories related of this period of her life is one telling how she purposed performing the pilgrimage to Mekkah and set her face towards the desert; she had an ass with her to carry her baggage', and in the heart of the desert the ass died. Some people (in the caravan) said to her, 'Let us carry thy baggage'. She said,' Go on your way, for I am not dependent upon you for (for help)', i.e. she placed her trust in God and not in His creatures.
So the people went on and Rabi'a remained alone, and bowing her had, she said, 'O my God, do kings deal thus with a woman, a stranger and weak? Thou art calling me to Thine own house (the Ka'ba), but in the midst of the way Thou hast suffered mine ass to die and Thou hast left me alone in the desert'.
She had hardly completed her prayer, when the ass stirred got up. Rabi'a put her baggage on it and went on her way. The narrator of this story said that some time afterwards he saw that same little ass being sold in the bazaar.
Another story tells us how she want into the desert for a few days and prayed, 'O my Lord, my heart is perpelexed, whither shall I go? I am not but a clod or earth and that house (the Ka'ba) in only a stone to me. Shew Thyself (to me) in this very place'. So she prayed until God Most High, without any medium, spoke directly within her heart, saying 'O Rabi'a… when Moses desired to see My Face, I cast a few particles of My Glory upon the mountain (Sinai) and it was rent into forty pieces. Be content here with My Name'.
It is told how another time she was on her way to Makkah, and when half-way there she saw the Ka'ba coming to meet her and she said, 'It is the Lord of the house whom I need, what have I to do with the house? I need to meet with Him Who said, 'Whose approaches Me by a span's length I will approach him by the length of a cubit.' The Ka'ba which I see has no power over me; what joy does the beauty of the Ka'ba bring to me?'
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