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Home is home and people have connections to their places of birth and their places of childhood for so many different reasons and sometimes

Others can't even understand it. It's the food. It's the memories. It's everything about it

And so how do a lot that's for people who still can connect to their homeland?

But when it comes to refugees people that are violently forced out of their homes and are not able to return

That connection to home is deep and that's why Allah's parents are even like and people being forced out of their homes to death and

Iqaturuh and Fusakum, Awikh Rujum in Diarrikum. It's the same thing as death for some people

Now for the Prophet's Salaam and some of those companions in Mecca all they knew was Mecca

The Prophet's Salaam only left Mecca twice on a trade route and for them to be forced out this way

Was very difficult upon them and Rasulullah Salaam would not only connect to Mecca in a deep way

But he empathized with those who were in a similar situation

Both those who were forced out of Mecca as well as those who would be made refugees until the very time that we live in now

Mecca is not a place that has any particular beautiful

beaches or oceans or any particular greenery and most people who have seen Medina and Mecca

In terms of just the nature of it would say Medina is far more beautiful than Mecca

But it was still home to the Prophet Salaam, it's all that he knew

And the Prophet Salaam now knows how special and blessed this place is

And so there's this heartbreaking moment where you see that the Prophet Salaam literally rises from a cave

As he is in the beginning of his hidra

And he looks back at Mecca and he talks to it for the last time before being run out of it

And he says to Mecca these famous words

of a place are you?

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