their security īlāfihim repeated for emphasis; it is a verbal noun from the verb ālafa for the journey of winter to Yemen and the journey of summer to Syria every year they made use of these two journeys to provide for their trade at the station of Abraham in Mecca in order to attend to the House of God which was their source of pride; they Quraysh were the descendants of al-Nadr b. Kināna;
