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sang in the streets. There were
great celebrations and everyone
was happy, for the Prophet of Allah
had arrived.
From that day onward Yathrib
became known as,
Madinat an-
Nabi
, which means ‘The City of the
Prophet', or simply Madinah.
As for the journey to Madinah, it is
known as the
Hijrah
, or migration.
This event is most important, for
Muslims all over the world. Muslims
mark that time as the very begin-
ning of their calendar, the first day
of the first year of Islam.
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