Medina Things to Do

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It Is A Sunnah To Visit The Martyrs Of Uhud Which Is 5km From The City. The Prophet's Uncle Saidina Hamzah Received The Honor As Martydom When He Was Killed In The Battle Field Of Uhud. The Prophet s.a.w Used To Visit Uhud And Prayed For The Souls Of Those Who Were Buried there.

The Qiblatain Mosque Is One Of The Mosque To Visit As There Are History Behind The Name Of This Mosque. Before The Ka'abah In The Holy Mosque Of Mecca Become The Directions For Muslims To Pray, Muslims Used To Pray To The Direction Of Baitul Muqaddis In Jerusalem.The Direction Was Changed After The Order Came From Allah In The Holy Quran ( Al- Baqarah 2:144 )

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The Quba' Mosque Lies 3km From Madinah City. This Is The First Mosque Built In The Islamic History By The Prophet As Soon As He Step Foot In Quba' During His Migration From Mecca.The Name For Quba' Mosque Was Originally Taken From The Place Itself. It Is A Sunnah To Take Wudhu' (Ablution) Before Visiting The Mosque Of Quba' And Offer Prayers In It. The Prophet s.a.w Prayed There And Encouraged The Muslims To Do the Same.

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Everything about the inside is of the finest to show respect to God- the pillars, the lamps, the carpets. Even the Imam has a special timbre in his voice .
Unfortunately all the holy places of Islam are forbidden to non-believers, and photography is also prohibited, but with so many pilgrims [3.5 million in 2006/7], it is difficult to enforce the ban since mobile phones with inbuilt cameras are everywhere.

In 1861, an Egyptian army officer, Colonel Muhammad Sadiq stepped ashore at the little Red Sea port of al Wajh, on the coast of Hijaz and made a military survey of the pilgrim routes between Wajh, Madinah and Yanbu'; he carried with him the usual surveying equipment, but he also had a new apparatus to facilitate his work – a large and unwieldy wet-plate camera – with which he take be the first pictures ever taken there, of the Prophet's mosque and the Holy City of Madinah.

In 1880 he returned to the area with the Egyptian Mahmal and again brought a camera; he was able to take photographs of Makkah, Madinah, Muna area and other sites associated with the Pilgrimage, on this visit however he did not intend to use his camera for the secular purpose of a military survey; as a Muslim, his intention now was to make a holy record of one of the sacred duties of Islam – the Pilgrimage to Makkah – and he was not alone in his intention, although the motives of some of those who followed were possibly something other than holy.

Colonel Muhammad Sadiq was publicly recognized when he was awarded a certificate and gold medal at the Venice photographic fairs of 1876 and 1881.

Sadiq brought his camera to the Hijaz a mere twenty or so years after the invention of photography in Europe. However, the history of the camera itself has a close connection with the Arab world. It was the tenth century Arab physicist, Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham (c.965-c.1039 AD), who first described in detail an optical device to make an image: the "camera obscura", or "dark room". Al-Haytham, also known by the mediaeval Latin version of his name Alhazen, described in his treatise how, if a small hole was made in the shuttered window of a dark room, an inverted image of the outside world would be seen on the opposite wall. He also stressed the relationship between size of aperture and sharpness of image.

located on the outskirt of medina this is where people go before the umrah.
i love the mosque, it's beautiful and has a garden in the courtyard.
like always you can find some seller outside the mosque

in this mosque, you can find the grave of prophet muhammad.
this is the best mosque i have ever been, there's courtyard with automatic umbrella, beautiful and clean interior, and sliding dome.
you're not allow to bring camera inside.

outside the haram, after fajar or asr prayers, you can take a taxi to do ziyarah of all the holy places in and around medina. this will include masjid quba, masjid qiblatayn, jabl ohud and many others depending on the time and places that the taxi driver can take u
they charge 10 SR or 15 SR per person and it is usually done by share a taxi system or if you want your own private taxi they would take about 45 SR.