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revelation came down in Mecca in 610
Medina was the Hijra's destination
Jerusalem was the first qibla, not the start
Damascus was a later capital
revelation began in the cave of Hira in 610
622 is the Hijra, not the revelation
630 is the conquest, not revelation
632 is the passing year, not the start
thirteen years before the Hijra
three years was only the secret phase
ten years was the Medina period
twenty-three was the whole mission
they migrated to Yathrib, which became Medina
Taif he visited but did not settle
Abyssinia was an earlier partial migration
Syria was not his destination
he entered it nearly bloodlessly in 630
he did not besiege it but entered
it was a peaceful opening, not a battle
it was regained in 630
the rightly-guided caliphs, then Umayyads
sultan is a later title
caliphs, not emperors
caliphs led first, not kings
it stretched west to al-Andalus and east to India
it did not stop at Arabia
wider than Syria and Egypt
it did not reach all Europe
a call to God's oneness leaving idols
the opposite of his call
oneness, not three
God's oneness, not denial
from 610 to al-Andalus in about a hundred years
under a century, not five
a decade is too short for the spread
a thousand is far more
by it the state arose and the calendar began
a beginning, not the end
a founding, not just travel
it was open, not secret
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