Hazrat Safiyyah — Page 29
the dawn of Islam which literally means a period of ignorance. Khilafat — Divine system of succession after a prophet. Khalifah — Successor; Caliph Makkah — City of the birth of the Holy Prophet sa and the location of the Holy Ka‘bah. Mad i nah — City to which the Holy Prophet sa migrated. Its former name was Yathrib. Muh a jir i n — The Makkan emigrants who migrated to Mad i nah after suffering years of abuse in Makkah. Na‘ra-e-Takb i r — a slogan proclaiming the Greatness of Allah the Exalted. Quraish — A respected tribe in Arabia. S a ha biyah ra —A female companion of the Holy Prophet Muhammad sa.