Makka and Madina

 💖Makka and Madina💖

 Mecca is home to the Kaaba, one of Islam's holiest sites and the direction of Muslim prayer, and thus Mecca is regarded as the holiest city in Islam.

Mecca Makkah (مَكَّةُ) Bakkah (بَكَّةُ) Makkah al-Mukarramah (مَكَّةُ ٱلْمُكَرَّمَةُ) Umm al-Qurā (أُمُّ ٱلْقُرَىٰ, "Mother of all Settlements")

 Medina, also transliterated as Madīnah (Hejazi pronunciation: [almaˈdiːna]), is the capital of the Al-Madinah Region in Saudi Arabia. At the city's heart is al-Masjid an-Nabawi ('The Prophet's Mosque'), which is the burial place of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. Medina is one of the three holiest cities in Islam, the other two being Mecca and Jerusalem. 

 

       Medina was Muhammad destination in his Hijrah (migration) from Makkah, and became the capital of a rapidly increasing Muslim Empire, under Muhammad's leadership, serving as the power base of Islam, and where Muhammad's Ummah (Community), composed of both locals and immigrants from Muhammad's original home of Mecca, developed. Medina is home to three prominent mosques, namely al-Masjid an-Nabawi, Quba Mosque, and Masjid al-Qiblatayn ('The mosque of the two Qiblas'). Muslims believe that the chronologically final surahs of the 💓Quran💓 were revealed to Muhammad in Medina, and are called Medinan surahs in contrast to the earlier Meccan surahs.

 

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