Medina (Arabic: المدينة المنورة, al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, "the brilliant city"; or المدينة, al-Madīnah, "the city"),
additionally transliterated as Madīnah, is a city in the Hejaz, and the capital of the Al Madinah Region of Saudi Arabia. The city contains al-Masjid a Nabawi ("the Prophet's Mosque"), which is the entombment spot of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and is the second-holiest city in Islam after Mecca.
Medina was Muhammad's destination after his Hijrah from Mecca, and turned into the capital of a quickly expanding Muslim Empire, first under Muhammad's administration, and afterward under the initial four Rashidun caliphs, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali. It served as the force base of Islam in its first century where the early Muslim people group created. Medina is home to the three most seasoned mosques, specifically the Quba Mosque, al-Masjid a Nabawi, and Masjid al-Qiblatayn ("the mosque of the two qiblas"). Muslims trust that the sequentially last surahs of the Quran were uncovered to Muhammad in Medina, and are called Medinan surahs as opposed to the before Meccan surahs.
Like Mecca, non-Muslims are illegal from entering the sacrosanct center of Medina (however not the whole city) or the downtown area by the national government.
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additionally transliterated as Madīnah, is a city in the Hejaz, and the capital of the Al Madinah Region of Saudi Arabia. The city contains al-Masjid a Nabawi ("the Prophet's Mosque"), which is the entombment spot of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and is the second-holiest city in Islam after Mecca.
Medina was Muhammad's destination after his Hijrah from Mecca, and turned into the capital of a quickly expanding Muslim Empire, first under Muhammad's administration, and afterward under the initial four Rashidun caliphs, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali. It served as the force base of Islam in its first century where the early Muslim people group created. Medina is home to the three most seasoned mosques, specifically the Quba Mosque, al-Masjid a Nabawi, and Masjid al-Qiblatayn ("the mosque of the two qiblas"). Muslims trust that the sequentially last surahs of the Quran were uncovered to Muhammad in Medina, and are called Medinan surahs as opposed to the before Meccan surahs.
Like Mecca, non-Muslims are illegal from entering the sacrosanct center of Medina (however not the whole city) or the downtown area by the national government.
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