What is the Hijrah? Why does the Islamic calendar start there?
In 622 CE, the Prophet ﷺ emigrated from Makkah to Madinah. The Muslim calendar begins not from his birth, not from the first revelation, but from that journey — because that is when the Muslim community became a people with a home.
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