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− adhesive clot. Recite! And your Lord is the Noblest. Who taught by the pen. Taught man what he knew not. (96:2-6) The Holy Prophet was forty years old at the time of this first sa revelation which marks the beginning of his Prophethood. The night of first revelation occurred towards the end of the month of. When, Ramadan ± − he was called to Prophethood by Allah, he fully devoted his life to Allah's − − service and to the universal spread of Islam. The Holy Prophet asked the sa − people to give up idol worship, and return to the worship of One God and be kind and charitable to the poor. The Meccans, however, rejected the Prophet's message and displayed considerable hostility to him and his sa followers. They started to ill-treat the Holy Prophet and his followers. sa After enduring thirteen years of unimaginable suffering at the hand of the fledgling religion's enemies, the Holy Prophet left Mecca. Under Divine sa guidance he migrated to Medina, where the first Muslim community was established by some of his followers who had migrated earlier. When the Quraish realized that they could not stop the flow of conversion, they became furious and decided to assassinate the Holy Prophet himself. sa When the Holy Prophet learned of the evil intentions of the enemy, he in sa the company of Abu Bakr , quietly slipped out of Mecca in the secrecy of ra − night. They both took shelter in a nearby cave called ". For two Thaur" days and two nights, the Prophet and Abu Bakr hid in the cave. On the sa ra − third night, according to plan, the Holy Prophet continued his journey sa towards , where the people were eagerly awaiting his arrival. When Yathrib he reached , he decided to stop for a while in , a nearby Yathrib Quba’ − village. He stayed in for a few days and also laid down the Quba’ − foundation of the first mosque ever built by the Muslims. After building the mosque, Holy Prophet , finally arrived in Medina where he Quba’ sa − stayed at the home of Hadrat Abu Ayub Ansari. The Holy Prophet , first ra sa ± ± − − − − of all, bought a piece of land in Medina and laid the foundation of a mosque, called (The Prophet's mosque). It was a modest Masjid Nabawi sa − structure made of mud and bricks. The roof was made from leaves and trunks of date palms. The dimensions of the Prophet's mosque were as sa follows: Height, 10 feet; Length, 105 feet; Width, 90 feet. 185