Thanks of my Almighty Allah I am Perform Umrah .This is my amazing journey of my life.We start journey Dubai to Saudi Arabia by Road.We book tickets from Dubai and Start Travel from Deira Dubai with 3 Friends. Ameer Jamali , Ghulam Umer Jatoi and Shahid Magsi. we learn lot of new things about Islam during Umra.
Ghulam Umer Jatoi Sindhi Poet of Pakistan and Me
Mecca, also spelled Makkah, is a city in the Hejazi region of Saudi Arabia. The city is located 70 km (43 mi) inland from Jeddah, in a narrow valley 277 m (909 ft) above sea level and 340 kilometres (210 mi) south of Medina. Its population in 2012 was 2 million, although visitors more than triple this number every year during the Ḥajj ("Pilgrimage"), held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhūl-Ḥijjah.
It is the birthplace of Muhammad. A cave 3 km (2 mi) from Mecca was the site of Muhammad's first revelation of the Quran, and a pilgrimage to it, known as the Hajj, is obligatory for all able Muslims. 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 was long ruled by Muhammad's descendants, the sharifs, acting either as independent rulers or as vassals to larger polities. It was conquered by Ibn Saud in 1925; since then Mecca has seen a tremendous expansion in size and infrastructure, such as the Abraj Al Bait, also known as the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel, the world's fourth tallest building and the building with the third largest amount of floor area, and lost some historical structures and archaeological sites, such as the Ajyad Fortress. Non-Muslims are prohibited from entering the city.
The early history of Mecca is still largely disputed, as there are no unambiguous references to it in ancient literature prior to the rise of Islam.The Roman Empire took control of part of the Hejaz in 106 CE,[34] ruling cities such as Hegra (now known as Mada'in Saleh), located to the north of Mecca. Even though detailed descriptions were established of Western Arabia by Rome, such as by Procopius, there are no references of a pilgrimage and trading outpost such as Mecca.[35] Mecca is mentioned in the following early Quranic manuscripts:
Codex Is. 1615 I, folio 47v, radiocarbon dated to 591-643 CE.
Codex Ṣanʿāʾ DAM 01–29.1, folio 29a, radiocarbon dated between 633-665 CE.
Codex Arabe 331, folio 40 v, radiocarbon dated between 652-765 CE.
The first direct mention of Mecca in external literature occurs in 741 CE, in the Byzantine-Arab Chronicle, though here the author places it in Mesopotamia rather than the Hejaz.[35]
Given the inhospitable environment,and lack of historical references in Roman, Persian and Indian sources, historians including Patricia Crone and Tom Holland have cast doubt on the claim that Mecca was a major historical trading outpost. However, other scholars such as Glen W. Bowersock disagree and assert that Mecca was a major trading outpost.
Codex Is. 1615 I, folio 47v, radiocarbon dated to 591-643 CE.
Codex Ṣanʿāʾ DAM 01–29.1, folio 29a, radiocarbon dated between 633-665 CE.
Codex Arabe 331, folio 40 v, radiocarbon dated between 652-765 CE.
The first direct mention of Mecca in external literature occurs in 741 CE, in the Byzantine-Arab Chronicle, though here the author places it in Mesopotamia rather than the Hejaz.[35]
Given the inhospitable environment,and lack of historical references in Roman, Persian and Indian sources, historians including Patricia Crone and Tom Holland have cast doubt on the claim that Mecca was a major historical trading outpost. However, other scholars such as Glen W. Bowersock disagree and assert that Mecca was a major trading outpost.
This is Friend From Turkey we Meet on Jabal e Noor.Amazing monets
