Thowr Mountain

Thowr Mountain outside Mecca shelters the cave where the Prophet Muhammad and Abu Bakr hid in 622 CE, three days into their flight from a Quraysh manhunt with a hundred-camel bounty on Muhammad's head. This guide follows them up rough basalt slopes to a hollow barely wide enough to crawl into, and to the moment trackers reached the cave mouth close enough for Abu Bakr to see their feet. You'll hear the exchange between the two men that Islamic tradition says was later fixed into the Quran itself. Listen from the cave mouth to feel how close the hiding place truly was.