Sunday Surkhi--3 million Hajis this year

Today is 9th of ZdulHijjah (12th month of the Islamic calendar) and just after Fajr prayer "takbeer"started and my heart filled with joy and eyes filled with tears I was instantly transported to Haram Shareef and Mina. My friend who watched on (Arabic) Al-Jazeera the Arafat Khutba and informed me they have finished "combined Zduhr and Ásr prayers" and are in "wuqoof". Wow.
Those of you who have performed Hajj will understand my feelings better and what I am writing about. Islam's ritual teachings of Hajj are impressive. Three million or more are in contact directly with their Creator and seeking out His mercy and Forgiveness crying out loud and repeating standing on a bare ground with the only covering of sky, outside their tents, wearing two unsewn pieces of cloth one around their loins and the other over the upper parts of the body (women wearing simple garments fully covering theirs).
What a feeling of awe-inspiring spiritual uplift for man.
While these rites of Hajj will continue for four more days I am reflecting on the state of Muslim Ummah which is exactly contrary to the unity of ummah, demonstarted so forcefully, at Hajj. All the Muslims divided into different "Nations" defined by geographical lines and within those their separate sects, separate political and other loyalties, mostly on each other's throats and even minor localities like different cities and towns of USA where the Muslims live, unfortuntely, the same divisions exist and I know that majority of Muslims in USA are well-educated. I must quote Iqbal (alihirrahmah)
"Munfaít aik hay iss qaum ki nuqsan bhi aik
Aik he subka nabi deen bhi iman bhi aik
haram-e-pak bhi, Allah bhi, Qurán bhi aik
Kuchh baRi bat thee hotay jo Muslaman bhi aik

(Gains of this Nation are one and the losses are also one
One prophet for all them and their faith is also one
The sacred Mosque, God, the Qurán is also one
Was it too much for all the Muslims that they could also be one?).

Very simple yet so powerful way of teaching unity. Iqbal, what a philosopher, what a teacher, what a leader what a poet!!!