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The city of Yathrib, known as Medina, is one of the most interesting cities in pre-Islamic Arabia,

even before the coming of Islam. Of course, with the coming of Islam, Yathrib was to become Medina

and Medina has a special place in all of our hearts. Every single person of Iman loves Medina.

And we love Medina because our professors have made a special dua to Allah that every Muslim

should love Medina. When the Sahaba migrated to Medina, they did not like it and they missed

Makkah. And so the professors have made a dua to Allah. Allahumma habbi ilayna il Medina.

O Allah, cause all of us to love Medina, kahubbina makkata awashad, like we used to love Makkah or

even more than we used to love Makkah. And Allah granted the professors some dua and that's why

every Muslim who enters Medina feels the love of Medina and they desire Medina and they miss Medina

because that special place exists in our heart for Medina. But what was Medina before the migration

of the Prophet ﷺ? It was the city of Yathrib and the city of Yathrib had many interesting,

unique characteristics. The city of Yathrib, when was it founded? We don't know for sure,

but we have remnants from the time of the Babylonian inscriptions that mention the name Yathriba

in 550 BC. And we also have the famous Geographer, the Greek Geographer, Talami, the most famous

Geographer of the Greeks. His name is Talami. He wrote a massive geography of Talami and in it,

he went over the cities of Arabia. This is hundreds of years before the coming of Jesus Christ.

And in it, he has the city of Yathriba. The city of Yathrib is mentioned by the famous Talami.

Even Abraha, the one who came into Makkah, the one of the elephants, Abraha had ventured into

Arabia before the incident of the field by two, three years. He had come in and he had gone north

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