My story with the travel ban list

The flight to Jeddah was scheduled to take off on Wednesday, January 28, at a quarter to nine. I arrived at the airport at six in the evening and handed in my bag. I waited in line for passport control. My passport was stamped and I headed to the waiting lounge to wait for my flight. There were about two hours left until takeoff. I was heading to the bathrooms to put on the Ihram clothes and then pray two rak’ahs. However, I was surprised by a police officer calling my name in the lounge. At first, I didn’t realize that I was the one meant until he approached me. I told him I was Tamer. He said, “Where are you, Pasha? You’ve made me dizzy.” I knew that there was a problem and that he knew I was an officer. He asked me about my passport, so I gave him the passport and he told me that the passport officer wanted me in his office.
I went with him to the officer and he told me that I was on the travel ban list and that he was not to blame for that matter and that the intelligence was the one who put me on the list and he asked me to make my calls to solve this problem
I told him that I had obtained my passport from the intelligence service three weeks ago and they knew that I was traveling today on an Umrah trip, so how could they prevent me now? He told me that he had nothing to do with all of this, as my name was on his list of people banned from traveling, and that he was doing his duty. He advised me to make my own calls to resolve the situation.
I did not know anyone who had the authority to resolve this situation, and I had no solution at the time to communicate what I was going through except through my Facebook page, so that my voice might reach the one in charge. I wrote at the time that I was at the airport and was banned from traveling.
A little while later, intelligence officers came and met with the passport officers. They asked me to wait outside the office and began to consult about me. When I asked the intelligence officers, they told me that they were waiting for a fax to approve my travel. I waited, and the plane’s time was approaching.
Half an hour before the plane took off, the police officer told me that he had to take my bag off the plane, so there was no hope of me boarding the plane.
I had lost hope at that time of traveling for Umrah and I was planning to go to the intelligence service the next day to resolve this issue.
A quarter of an hour before the plane took off, a police officer came to me and said, “Come with me quickly, your travel has been approved by the intelligence.” He took me to the baggage claim area to return my bag to the plane. Then he took me to the waiting lounge to take the bus to the plane. I asked him to let me go to the bathroom to put on the ihram clothes, but he told me that we don’t have time and that I am in ihram in Jeddah. Of course, it was not appropriate to put on ihram in Jeddah.
I took the bus and boarded the plane and asked the flight attendant to wear the Ihram clothes. She told me to go to the bathroom and it was small. She said to me, “You and your elegance are in this bathroom.”
I put on the Ihram clothes and I don’t know how I put them on in this small bathroom. The plane was moving at the time and I performed ablution with difficulty and prayed in my seat before the plane took off. I thanked God for what I was in.
When I returned from the Umrah trip, I had the same problem. My name was on the travel ban list and I had to be detained until the intelligence was informed of my situation.
Indeed, I waited until the intelligence officer came to me and expressed his displeasure with what I had done by cursing the intelligence on Facebook and that I had said “God is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs.” So I told him that “God is sufficient for us, and He is the best Disposer of affairs” is not cursing. He told me that the intelligence had done the impossible and delayed the plane for me to travel on, and that I must appreciate that situation.
I thank the intelligence services for allowing me to travel, and we hope that you will continue your many favors upon me and remove my name from the list of those banned from travel.