However, God enabled the Prophet (peace be upon him) and his followers to leave Makkah and join a new band of converts who had arisen among the tribes of a city to the north called Yathrib. Islam spread rapidly through the clans of Yathrib, and within a year Muslims became the city's majority.

Abu Bakr, too, constantly looked ahead to ensure that he had chosen the best way for the Prophet Muhammad s.a.w , and at the same time looked back to see no danger coming from behind in order to protect the Prophet s.a.w whilst on their journey to Yathrib.

For instance, US policy makers ought to know that twelve years after receiving his first revelations, Mohammed hastily emigrated north from Mecca to a town called Yathrib. (39) This event is known as the Hijra, and the year it occurred (622) marks the start of the Muslim calendar.

Mohamed was born as an orphan after his father Abdullah died on a trade journey to the city known then as Yathrib. This city was later renamed Al-Madina Al-Munawara, when the Prophet Mohamed emigrated there with his fellow Muslims to establish the first Islamic city in the world.

This document declares the existence of a community or people (umma) made up of Muhammad's followers, both those of Quraysh and those of Yathrib. To this community also belong the Jews, subject to the qualification that they follow their own religion.

It called for an end to the "Meccan period" in the Brotherhood's thinking--an allusion to the time when the Prophet Mohammed and his followers were persecuted by the tribes of Mecca, which Mohammed ended abruptly by immigrating to Yathrib. The article further suggested that the MB should react more aggressively to regime repression and follow Hamas's example.