Madina Munawara

     
      The protector of good, all prophets seek answers at your door
              
                   The Shah of Medina, the Shah of Medina.

In  Arabic ’’MADINA’’ means ’’CITY’’. So,  its  full  name  is ’’Madina-al-Munawara’’ which  means, The City of  Lights.It is also called ’’Madina-e-Tayba’’ which means ’’The City of Purity’’

Its water had bitter taste.It is the second holiest city in Islam after Mecca and the burial place of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. Medina is critically significant in Islamic History for being whereMuhammad's final religious base was established after the Hijrah and where he died in 632 AD/11 AH. Medina was the power base of Islam in its first century, being where the early Muslim community (ummah) developed under the Prophet's leadership, then under the leadership of the first four caliphs of Islam:Abu Bakr,Omar,Othman and Ali.

Madina is home to the three oldest mosques in Islam, namely Al-Masjid an-Nabawi (The Prophet's Mosque), Quba Mosque (the first mosque in Islam's history),[2] and Masjid al-Qiblatain (The Mosque of the Two Qiblahs - the mosque where the direction of Muslim prayer, or qiblah, was switched from Jerusalem to Makkah).

Muslims believe that the final chapters (surahs) of the Qur'an chronologically were revealed to the Prophet in Madina and are called Madinan surahs in contrast to earlier Makkah surahs.[6][7]