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Makkah and Madinah Channel 1.0
The Holy City of Makkah, which lies inland 73kilometers east of Jiddah, is the place where the Prophet Muhammad,peace be upon him, was born - the place where God's message wasfirst revealed to him and the city to which he returned after themigration to Madinah in 622 AD.Madinah, which lies 447 kilometers north of the Holy City ofMakkah, is the second holiest city in Islam. It was to Madinah thatthe Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and his followers, facedby the hostility and persecution of the Makkhan merchants, departedin 622 AD - and, when the citizens of Madinah asked the Prophet tolive amongst them and to arbitrate in their affairs (an invitationtaken to mean their rejection of polytheism and submission to thewill of the one God, Allah), it was in Madinah that the Islamic erabegan.
