In the name of God, the most gracious,

the most Merciful. God sent Muhammad

as a mercy to mankind.
From Muhammad, the Messenger of
God The Scholars and Historians of Islam -
The University of Al-Azhar in Cairo
to Heraclius, the emperor of The High Islamic Congress of the
Byzantium. Shiat in Lebanon
have approved the accuracy and
greetings to him who is the fidelity of this film.
follower of righteous guidance.
The makers of this film honour the
I bid you to hear the divine call. Islamic tradition
which holds that the Impersonation of
I am the messenger of God to the the Prophet
people; offends against the spirituality of his
message.
accept Islam for your salvation.
Therefore, the person of Mohammad
He speaks of a new prophet in Arabia. will not be shown.

Was it like this when John, the Baptist 600 years after Christ died,
came to king Herod
when Europe was sunk in the dark
out of the desert, crying about ages
salvation?
and everywhere the old
To Muqawqis, Patriarch of Alexandria. civilizations were falling,

Kisra, emperor of Persia. Muhammad was born

in Mecca, in Arabia.
Muhammad calls you with the call of
God. Mecca was then a rich trading
city, ruled by its merchants
Accept Islam for your salvation...
whose wealth was multiplied
embrace Islam. by a unique privilege...

You come out of the desert, they housed the gods.

smelling of camel and goat.
Every year, at the
To tell Persia where he should kneel? time of the great fair,

Muhammad, Messenger of God. the desert priests brought their idols

Who gave him this authority? and the images of their gods
into the custody of the Kaaba. Bread and water,
do the poets have in the Hakim's
Once, the most holy shrine of house?
Abraham,
Where verse and prose are
the Kaaba had now nightly put to slaughter.
become a house of idolotry
And...and the bread, I swear in there,
hosting no fewer than
360 different gods. is thinner than the water!

Mecca in 610 A.D. Oh...open the space, open the space,

you lovers of poetry,
Bilal!
to Abu Sufian, willing and which...
Have you had today's count Umaya?
patron of the arts.
Not yet...
When Abu Sofyan invites the poet in,
but this year the Gods are gold.
their joy is kit and love is kin.
When you put the Gods and Prophet
together, Where wines and cakes abound,
you sit very pretty between hmm?
the skills of Abu Sofyan.
And more gods to place in the Kaaba.
All revels and all songs begin,
Caravan from Syria.
when Abu Sofyan invites the poet in.
- Hmm...they must have been running.
- They'll be thirsty. From the silkworms of China, my
lady.
Put five more men on north wells.
A pleasure to the limb...
How many sheep shall
I have to kill for them? and as my lady can see,
a ravish to the eye.
70?
Yes, 7 lengths.
Give them a hundred.
20 dinars.
Mecca must keep her
name for hospitality. Abu Sofyan's wife?

And ten lambs for the leaders. 15.

Oh, gold! The gods of the and predicts our fate.
Kaaba have their needs,
To challenge the gods within earshot
their upkeeps. of the gods is dangerous.

Who is that man who stood there, Unreasonable.

who looked into my soul?
Rebellious, blasphemous.
Carry me away from here.
Yes, I'm afraid Muhammad
Why must Muhammad come down will harm himself.
here?
I am always sad
Why don't you stop him? when the great fair is over.

He is your nephew. I might not see the next one.

Maybe he will change. Abu Talib! Abu Talib!

Change? Catch your breath, Zaid!

He is 40 years old. Has Muhammad come down

from Mount Hira yet?
It's unnatural...
He's been up there three days.
with a rich wife, he could
afford the best of Mecca. No, no, I haven't seen him.

Yet he chooses to sit shivering in a Khadijah hoped he might have

cave. come to you on his way home.

It is unnatural! Then he's still up there.

For a man who dares to Three days.

risk the anger of Al-Uzza,
I'm afraid for him on the mountain,
who keeps our health.
because...
Manat, the god of our prosperity.
I don't know what it means.
Allat, the god of our
family and tribes. Men see the world too well
from a mountain.
and Hubal...
Muhammad! Read!
Hubal, who starts our caravans
In the name of thy Lord who created his head he saw him.
man from His sensitive drop of blood.
And Gabriel said to him again,
Who teaches man what he knows not.
I am Gabriel...
Read!
and you Muhammad,
He's still trembling under the blanket...
are the Messenger of God.
but he has spoken.
Who has he told about this?
Zaid! What happened to
my nephew on the mountain? His wife,

He was alone, in the cave. and Ali,

Suddenly, an angel came in to him. and, his friend Abu Bakr.

The angel said: Read! And you?

Muhammad replied: I can not read. I am his adopted son.

The angel commanded again: Read! Be careful to whom you talk.

In the name of thy Lord, Tell him his uncle who protected him
when he was a child, will protect him
who created man from still.
His sensitive drop of blood,
After all...
who teaches man what he knows not.
they say the God of Moses
Read!
spoke to him out of a burning bush.
Who knows if it was Gabriel?
If you do not restrain
It could have been a dream. your nephew then we will.

When Muhammad was coming from He's dividing the city,

the mountain, he saw Gabriel plainly. heart against house.

In the shape of a man He's dividing the generations

standing on the horizon. child against parent.

Wherever he looked, The young are listening to him.

upon every turn of He attracts the young.

 He said this to me:
We are Arabs,
we obey our fathers. Were they to put the sun in my
right hand and the moon in my left,
Our children cannot be our teachers.
I would not renounce my message,
How can we accept that the man
we met in the street yesterday which is from God.

can be some God's Prophet today? When I am dead,

you may do as you please,
Dead bones can live again, he says
but whilst I'm alive,
because He who created man you will obey your father!

can also make man return Why did you hurt our father?
from the dead, he says!
If I were drunk every day
The Gods might leave us and and played dice every night,
give their benefits to another city.
you'd call it high spirits!
Tell him...we will give him
authority, position, You will be more my
brother than you are now!
and keys to the Kaaba,
You are all my children.
and money, what money he wants.
I've given you everything I could,
Tell him, we will give
him anything he wants. but it seems not to be enough.

Muhammad, spare yourself Muhammad gives me more,

...and me.
he give all the world more.
Do not put a greater burden on
an old man that he can bear. Get him out of here, father!

In your childhood, you were in my It's not Waleed or me,

arms. it's our father.

I cannot now see you hurt. You tortured him.

If you refuse them... Wait Hudayfa, wait!

they will hurt you. How can they say

it's an invention, Musab,
when it isn't new? When the books are opened.

In Mecca, it's new. When the sky is torn away,

Yet, God has said it all before... then...

to Noah, Moses, Jesus every soul...

to all the Prophets,
will know what it has done.
but people changed it,
turned it, forgot it. Were you there, Jafar
when God gave him these words?
Now God said it to Muhammad
again... Dawn is coming up.

and it is new again. Ammar, you first,

What is it? then you Jaafar.

It's Jafar. Ammar!

What have you brought with you? You kept your mother awake
all night with worry.
The very word of God.
I'm sorry father.
When the sun is overthrown.
Where were you?
When the stars fall.
Have you been with Muhammad
When the mountains vanish. again?

When the camels big with What will happen now?

young are abandoned.
Forgive him, it was
When the wild beasts are herded my fault, I did it.
together.
That God has helped us all our lives.
When the seas rise.
But it fell...
When the souls are sorted.
it could not even help itself.
When the female infant
who is buried alive, What talk have you been listening to?

asks for what crime she was killed. The real god is unseen.
He's not made of clay. And you were nearly never born.

Ammar, we see the gods I was to be buried,

in the Kaaba every day.
like my two sisters,
I'm afraid for you.
but my father couldn't do it.
You're listening to people
who will hurt you. He couldn't do it the third time.

I'm listening to Muhammad, mother. When the second girl was being...

Muhammad is generous, yes. when my father was putting sand over

her,
He gives, he shares,
she took hold of his finger,
he'll pass no man without a smile, the way a baby does.

but he is spreading dangerous ideas. He told my mother afterwards,

Dangerous ideas, that it was a minute...

that no man should start?
before the tender little grip eased...
That the rich should not afloat the
poor? and he dared take away his hand.

The strong should not oppress the When I was born,

weak?
my father ran out of the house
Are these dangerous ideas?
screaming that he couldn't do it again,
Girls should not be forced into
marriage, that he could never do it again.

but be able to choose or refuse. Sumayyah, it is the custom.

By only tonight, he said; But it's wrong.

Stop the burial of new-born girls. The gods that let such
things be are no gods.
I was fortunate, always
fortunate with your mother. I promised to go to Muhammad's
house mama, we pray there.
Yes, but you know that you and I
nearly never met, Yasser. Yes! He is a good man.
 His eyes are shut
Yes... but his heart is open.
yes, you go.
You! Kick him for his cleverness.
Two men are following him.
There is no purpose in that.
Read? Muhammad can
neither write nor read. Doesn't Muhammad realize, we
live by giving housing to the gods?
But he can speak.
We own the Kaaba.
What did you say?
Every year, the tribes of
He can speak? Arabia come here to Mecca

Well, so can you so now, to pray and to buy from us.

you speak up young man.
Now, were we to replace
What does Muhammad say, umm? 300 Gods with just one?

They are God's words, not his. Whom we cannot even see, who is
supposed to be in Taif and Medina,
Which god's?
here in my house,
What words?
in Jerusalem, on the moon?
A speaking god?
Where would Mecca be then?
Your Muhammad
speaks only to himself. The gods are both our
worship and our revenue.
When God reveals His
message to Muhammad, You cannot buy and sell God.

he remembers every word Young man, you are

close to the whip.
then he tells it to those who can write...
Ammar, be sensible boy.
this is the Quran.
I have a question.
Muhammad has starved
himself into dreams. Muhammad teaches you,
a slave is equal to his master.
He hides under a blanket
with his eyes shut. This black Bilal, who I
paid money for...equal to me?
Yes Muhammad says... I bought your humanity Bilal
when I bought you.
before God, all men are as
equal as the teeth of a comb. You will be corrected!

This is a very pleasant idea One, one God.

to slaves and beggars.
There is only one God!
It gives them pretensions.
Who is stronger now?
Bilal!
Your master
Teach this man the difference or this one god of yours?
between the Lord of Mecca and a
slave. One God.

Take that whip. There is only one God.

Lash his face, to Bring the stones!

teach his mouth a lesson.
One God.
Whip him!
One...
Whip him!
...one God.
Cut him!
Crush him!
Whip him!
Break him!
Do it Bilal!
Have you finished with him?
Obey them!
There is only one God!
They will kill you!
One God!
See what anarchy they bring! - You could swear the slave was
preaching!
They've even infected our slaves!
One God!
If you're human enough - Lord Umaya!
to have gods...
Abu Bakr will pay a 100
...remember! dinars for this slave.

They are the gods of your owner! Wait now!

It's against our social order God has no partner!
to sell a slave during his correction.
We have come into light,
The offer is to Lord Umaya!
join us in the march to the Kaaba!
200!
Muhammad and his rebellion
If the price of slaves is raised, called Islam are coming out,

we shall have to bail to foul our gods

ourselves next year. and dethrone religion.

Take him! Don't let them reach the Kaaba!

He is no use to me anymore! Throw them back! Defend your gods!!

Kill him or take him, There is no god but God

I'm finished with him! and Muhammad is the messenger of
God.
We are declaring ourselves.
There is no god but God
God has told his messenger and Muhammad is the messenger of
to declare Islam to all men! God.

Open the windows! There is no god but God

and Muhammad is the messenger of
Let the world hear! God.

We are coming out of the darkness! Protect the prophet!

Hear well the word of God! There is no god but God

Hear well the messenger of God! and Muhammad is the messenger of
God.
There are no other gods but God
and Muhammad is his messenger. Guards!

There are no other gods but God God is great!

and Muhammad is his messenger.
This is blasphemy you idiot!
We have come into light,
God is great!
join us in the march to the Kaaba!
God is great!
God is most great,
God is most great! God is great!
There is no god but God Finish Muhammad!
and Muhammad is the messenger of
God. Protect the prophet!
Finish Muhammad!
Now's the time to break them,
there are only 30 of them. Protect the prophet!

No, we've done enough. Messenger of God,

back to the corner!
More will only create sympathy for
them. Hamza! Hamza!

God is great! You are brave.

Stand down! He is the bravest man in the desert...

God is great!
when he meets unarmed men.
God is great!
Muhammad is...is a liar!
In the name of God,
most gracious, most merciful. Liar?

Say: O you who reject faith, If you don't let him speak!

I worship not what you worship. Where's the lie and where's the truth...

Keep him out of the Kaaba! when it hasn't been spoken yet?
I worship not what you worship.
Muhammad is a fraud!
Keep him out of the Kaaba!
Stand up! Hit me back if you dare!
Lead them out!
I affirm my nephew's religion
Neither do you worship what i and I say what he says!
worship.
Lead them out! Whoever has the courage to fight,
fight with me!
Neither do you worship what i
worship. Muhammad, when I hunt the desert at
night...
Silence, you're a false prophet!
Neither do you worship what i I know God...
worship. is not kept in a house.

Silence, you're a false prophet! Who would have thought that Hamza,
 Say it!
Hamza above all,
Say Hubal is your God!
with his wine drinking, lion hunting...
Say it!
would come to join Muhammad?
There is only one God
The more we attack him,
more they seem to join him. and Muhammad is the messenger of
God!
Where does he find his words?
Oh my god!
I don't know.
Ammar!
How can an illiterate man
go up on a mountain Your father and mother
are the first martyrs of Islam!
and come down three days later,
blazing with poetry? You are promised paradise!

If it were just poetry... How much are you men prepared to

suffer?
he says it's God.
The Prophet has said we must leave
How do we fight someone whose Mecca.
strength we do not understand?
If you stay,
Muhammad promises heaven,
trees in the skies. they will kill you...

So naturally he's found an audience. one by one.

Then we must make that audience Muhammad says that in Abyssinia,

less eager to listen to him. there is a Christian King.

We will begin with the weaker ones. No man is wronged in his country.

Your turn! We must leave now, today.

Have mercy! Uthman!

Stretch her! God be praised!

Who is your God? Let us go.

Answer me!
We found their tracks
and followed them, I don't know where to begin.

but they just disappeared! You have our friendship,

They were there... begin there.

in the desert, under the vultures
Certain runaway slaves have escaped
and you let them escape you! from us into your kingdom.

Escape? They vanished! Slaves go back, as you no doubt

would returned our slaves to us.
If Muhammad has stayed,
then only the weakest have gone. There are however some
free men among them...
Weak or strong,
they'll blacken our name. rebels.

We're honest merchants, Rebels?

we buy and sell in good faith.
Disturbance in Arabia,
We cannot afford scandal. why am I not informed?

Abyssinia... They are rebels in religion.

Amr! At one time or another,

all religions were rebellions.
You are a friend of Annajashi, the
king? The bodies of slaves of the world
and beaten are disposal.
Yes.
But as Jesus Christ as our shepherd,
Can you use that friendship?
the souls of men are his sheep.
I think I can bring them back...
These are Arabs who have betrayed
yes. the religion of their fathers.

Abyssinia... They follow a lunatic

they call...a Prophet.
Rise up Amr.
But I cannot put souls into
Please, nothing you may ask chains without hearing them.
for that we will not give.
Good, they're stiff
Lion of Judah, I... next we'll hang them.
Do you not bow to yourself When we suffered persecution in
before your prophet? Mecca,

Muhammad is a man, Muhammad told us,

go to Abyssinia,
we kneel only to God.
the land of the righteous king,
Where are Muhammad's miracles, where no man is wronged!
Jafar?
What they call persecution
If he were a prophet, was fair punishment,
he'd light the sky with miracles
that is order, now...
Indeed, this is true.
Why did your prophet send you to me?
God has given his prophets
the signs of miracles Because you believe in the book
of the one God as we do.
that we may recognize them.
He sent us because in your heart,
The miracle of Muhammad God will protect us.
is the Holy Quran.
Talking with him is like
A book! A book! drawing water from a mirage.

Written by an illiterate, But they've now belay that duty on

attributed to God. me to listen to them, my friend.

I think the emperor has had enough! Go on!

I'm mindful of petty costs. For years, we worshiped

wood and stone,
When God set down tongues of fire
upon the heads of Christ's apostles, images of our own manufacture.

so they could speak the We lived in ignorance of God.

many languages of the world
We had few earthly laws
that they knew not before. and no heavenly laws.

But do such miracles happen in our The rich neglect the poor.
times?
And the natural pity of man,
I've heard enough!
You've made a poor case. whereby he lifts his brother
up when he has fallen...
is described by them as I agree that idolatry is not
upsetting social order! always fully understood.

To this inhumanity, Thank you.

has come a man...
Now let me bring him back to the
whom God chose... women.

and in that we believe. God made woman to be the

proper companion of man.
You've overcome, I beg
you to collect yourself. She is different but equal.

I speak of the messenger of God. Equal?!

Muhammad teaches us We buy them.

to worship one god,
Feed them, clothe them,
to speak truth,
use them, discard them...
to love our neighbors as ourselves,
women equal to us?
to give charity,
even a smile can be charity. God created man from
one male and one female.
To protect women from misuse,
Amr, you must respect in all
to shelter orphans... woman the womb that bore you.

and to turn away from Why are your 300

gods of wood and stone! guards so tongue-tied?

I cannot keep still and While this only guard is eloquent.

hear this blasphemy!
God has spoken to us before...
We are an ancient civilization...
through Abraham, Noah, Moses
to call our gods wood and stone and through Jesus Christ.
is to speak ignorantly of them.
Why should we be so surprised that
The idol...the form, God
is not what we worship, speaks to us now through Muhammad?

but the spirit that resides within the Who taught you those names?
form.
They are named in the Quran. In the name of God,
most gracious, most merciful.
I knew Muhammad when he
was an orphan minding sheep! Relate in the book, the story of Mary.

And we knew Christ as a carpenter. How she withdrew from her

family to a place in the east.
What Christ says
and what your Muhammad says How we sent to her our
angel, Gabriel, who said:
is like two raised from the same land.
''I am a messenger from your God"
They are lying to you,
they deny Christ. "to announce the birth
of a holy son to you."
You worship three gods, they say.
Father, Son and Holy Ghost, they say. She said: "How shall I, Mary, have a
son
What do you say of Christ? when no man has touched me?''

They say God cannot have a son. And Gabriel replied:

Christ is not the Son of God. "For your Lord says, it will happen."

Speak to me of Christ. We appoint him as a sign onto man...

We say of Christ what and a mercy from us.

our prophet has taught us...
It is a thing ordained.
that God cast his holy spirit into
the womb of a virgin named, Mary The difference between us and you,

and that she conceived is not bigger than this line.

Christ, the Apostle of God.
Not for a mountain of gold
The Apostle he says, will I give them up to you.
not the son, not the son!
You may live in Abyssinia, in peace,
What does your miracle, your Quran,
say of the birth of our dear Lord Jesus for as long as you wish.
Christ?
May God's blessings be upon you,
May I relate the words?
when you return.
Come closer to me.
lntolerable!
 his old Protector, died...
Mohamed disturbs even
our foreign alliances! with his last breath, Abu Talib,

Very well! tried again to reconcile

Mecca and Muhammad.
We will make a foreigner of him!
He never asked more from you...
Abu Talib,
...than one word.
has his arms around him.
One...
Very well!
one God.
We will throw uncle
and nephew out. If it were only a question of one word,
we would have given him ten words.
In one bundle, his whole family out.
But the word he wants,
We will expel them from ourselves. would dethrone all the gods.

No merchant may trade with them. You were afraid even to hear him.

No land remain to them. With the death of his uncle,

Muhammad has now lost all
No roof shelter them. protection.

No beggar beg for them. He was no longer safe in Mecca.

No woman marry them. Alone with Zaid, his adopted son,

he went to the hillside town of Taif.
Until they renounce, they can't.
He asked to be taken in,
These were the worst to be allowed to preach.
years of Muhammad's life.
But the children of
For three years they suffered the Taif were turned loose,
hunger,
thirst, cruelty of the open desert. to stone him back into the desert.

But the year of grief was still to come, What are you doing?!

when Khadija, Muhammad's Stop! Stop!

wife for 24 years, died.
Leave him alone! Go away!
When Abu Talib,
Muhammad called this, If we take it, there can
the bitterest day of his life.i> be no turning back...

Then miraculously, for Muhammad is indeed

the messenger of God,
when Muhammad's mission
seemed to have failed, foretold to us by
the Jews in our city.
his entire situation changed.
So if anyone has doubt
A deputation from the rich, in this pledge, go now.
but self-destroying city of Medina,
And if you have no doubts,
met him by night at then you do as I do.
the rocks of Aqaba,
I pledge myself to
asking him to come to them, the one and only God,

to stand between their factions, and to you Muhammad,

the messenger of God.
to mediate their continual
quarrels and civil wars. He is of us and we are of him.

Muhammad agreed... Let him bring his followers,

our brothers, to us, to Medina.
provided they gave him a pledge
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that they worship the one God only. Islam

Wait! This was a journey

that changed the world.
When we take this pledge we expel
ourselves from the rest of Arabia. The Hijra, or Flight to Medina.

So, wait! Only 70 people

War is in this pledge. split up into small groups,

We are to make walking 250 miles of desert.

enemies of brothers.
Yet, so profound were the
We are to make consequences,
firewood of our gods!
so lasting were the effects of this walk
That is the meaning of the pledge.
that from it the muslims
date their calendar. I should accept his call of course.

In this moment, Islam found it's future. Does he think I will

give him my birthright?
Muhammad himself stayed in
Mecca, in the greatest danger I will not.

until all his followers had left safely. Medina is worth the conversion.

Muhammad has become a nation, Hypocrisy.

he has received a city, Of course it's...a healthy hypocrisy.

entering into pledges and treaties King Salool,

and you, Salool, who claim wiping his face on the floor
to be king of Medina 5 times a day praying?

lost the kingdom last night I don't believe you.

while you were in bed!
He may not have to.
You should worry about
yourself, Abu Sufian. We'll do know what we
should have done before:
Every time you trade a
whiff of perfume out the city, kill Muhammad.

you must creep past Come, come and see.

that man in Medina.
They say that practice
He is across your leads to perfection.
mercantile throat so to speak.
7 young men each
And what do you intend to do? from a different family,

l intend to wait. my own son Ikrima is with them.

And how long will you wait? They will stab him together.

Till you and the rest of Arabia remove If the responsibility for his death
him, is shared, where lies the guilt?

to save your way of life. My idea.

And while you wait? I'm not sure I'm part of it.
Muhammad's body contains too They make the tracks, not I.
much...
Nomads? Travelling west?
his mind, his words...
I know my art.
But it is an ingenious solution.
They say that you can track
And a final one. a bird by smelling the air.

No! We go with them.

Ali, his cousin, laid there to die for He may be in that cave over there.
him?
Muhammad, if you come out,
Who are we fighting? we will take you to Mecca alive.

They cannot go far, all Muhammad, come out!

the tracks are watched.
They can't be in there,
He must take to the desert. this...this web is unbroken.

Bakkah will give And these pigeons,

100 camels to the man they would not build.

who brings back Muhammad... We were wrong to follow them

we should have gone north.
...or his head!
Let's move then.
Look for 3 of them:
We still have time to head them off.
Muhammad,
A few threads of a spider's web
Abu Bakr,
were all that was then between
and Uriqat, his Bedouin guide. Muhammad and murder.

What is it? But he was a man not to be killed.

They're not grazing camel. The Bedouin guide led him and his
companion, Abu Bakr, in their escape
Maybe two days, that from the city.
through untracked spaces of the desert
Why are you here? and the heat of the June days.

Medina is to the north. At Medina, his followers

waited with their welcome ready
 and where Quaswa sits, the Prophet
but in great fear for his journey. stays.

Anything? Clever man.

No, nothing. A choice made by a

camel can offend no one.
He himself says he is only a man.
Here we will build
No man can survive that heat. the house of the Prophet.

- There! I see them! And our first meeting

- Look! place, a prayer house!

Run and hide. The first mosque of Islam, here!

I may be obliged God is great! God is great!

to free you as a gesture.
What is the prophet of God doing?
Welcome to the city
of Medina, the blessed. Carrying bricks?

Your city, messenger of God. Give me that.

You will stay with me, Look, you are doing too much.
messenger of God.
Please, go and sit down
I have the best house in Medina. ...we'll do it.

You will give me the Look! He went for more.

honor of keeping you.
"Work is a worship" he says.
Stay with me!
He's 53 years old.
Please! Please! Please!
How old are you?
How can the Prophet choose
between so many welcomes? There is something missing.

Where God guides his camel to stop, Maybe a bell to call the people in.
there he will build his house.
- The Christians use a bell?
All agreed? - Mmm (yes).

We turn Quaswa, his camel loose What about a horn, like the Jews?
A drum? He has declared that loyalty to Islam
is more than loyalty to tribal family.
There's too much blood in a drum.
What?
Why not the human voice...
All muslims are next of kin to one-
as in Umar ibn Khattab's vision? another?

The Prophet agrees? Don't be mislead by that.

He means you, Bilal. They must change the

nature of the tribes before that.
Me?
The danger is here, equality:
You have a good voice, use it.
a man's neighbour is as good as
Climb up there. himself.

Brothers! The lunatic means it!

Today, a man of Medina, Jews and Christians have

equal rights with Muslims.
will embrace a man of Mecca.
The Jews who attach themselves to a
Each will share half and half. common wealth shall be protected.

Reach out, embrace your - Women have rights of inheritance?

neighbor and brother. - Rights.

I'm tired of the politics of Next, he'll be giving the camel rights.
kissing slaves, read this!
He has! The lunatic has!
The prophet should concern You can't overload them.
himself with the after-world.
He's remaking a city, my city!
How is my son?
Damn him!
Praying like a horse.
He's taken our sons from us,
Does it burn your hands? our future from us.

If it's not torn up, His rights... are wrongs!

it will burn down the house.
No more.
He's making laws like a king.
This time... it will
not be just his riffraff.
Go back to work.
We will take everything of
value they have left in Mecca. We have to defend ourselves.

Their rugs, their houses, their silver... You are the messenger of God.

and with it, a large of caravan to Yet, they mock...

Damascus.
abuse and plunder us
My friends, listen to me! and we do nothing.

I have news from Mecca! In the package of war, we are pathetic!

Everything you have left behind is But they are led by greed.
gone!
We are led by God
The thieves! ...and you.

Abu Bakr's shops, Now I...

the prophet's house... sold!
I know how you hate the sword,
Every cup or piece of cloth,
but we have to fight.
every rag or bone you ever
owned is thrown on the market. They have stolen our property.

You are a people of nothing. They are taking it to Damascus,

right past our own door.
Don't you even fight for what you
own? I say by God, get back!

Who talks of the fight? I'm sorry I'm carried away.

What other way is there, Hamza? It's the pounding in my head.

When the Prophet Please... fight them!

says fight, we fight.
But... look at the sun.
Now he says, peace.
It's not the time for prayer.
Exactly!
It is newly revealed
You are a peace loving people! by God to his messenger.

Up to your necks and fore-bearers. Fight, but fight in the way of God,
against those who fight against you. riched themselves with your
possessions!
Drive them out of the places
where they drove you out, Now, to the wells of Badr!

for persecution is worse than slaughter. News from Medina!

Fight them until persecution is no Arm... arm yourselves!

more Arm yourselves!

and religion is for God. Defend your wealth!

But if they stop, Muhammad has come out of Medina

to attack the great caravan!
let there be no more war...
- How many men?
for God never loves - Three hundred, two horses.
the starter of wars.
We man a 100 horses.
So, fight in the way of God How many camels?

against those who fight against you! - Seventy.

- We'll bring a hundred and seventy!
- God is great!
- God is great!! God is great!! And load twenty of my camels
with wine, we'll make a feast of it.
- God is great!
- God is great!! This is a war I'd like to fight,

These are the disciplines a war we cannot lose!

the Prophet puts upon you.
Ride to Abu Sofyan's caravan,
You may not harm a woman, tell him to turn towards Badr.
a child or any old person!
We will join our forces
You may not harm cripples! tomorrow at the wells of Badr.

You may not harm the The wells of Badr, here.

man that works in the field!
Muhammad's march, here.
You may not cut down trees!
My charge of the caravan, here.
Strike only at those who have expelled
you! One day's march...

Who have stolen your rights and meet them at the wells.
 If we fight, we will start
I don't like it. blood feuds between brothers.

There is too much of Mecca Between father and son, you mean.
in my caravan to be risked.
Hudayfa, your own son is with them,
Put out the fires! he should have been whipped.
Hold the camels!
Mecca is greater than your family!
We are turning west,
away from the wells. Waleed, your second son,
he is your true blood.
Away?
You can't! I say: fight!

You must meet them at Badr. We stand in the present

let the future look after itself.
We can drink them down like raw
eggs. Otba is not a coward.

If I run all night, I'll be out of We finish them tomorrow.

Muhammad's reach by morning.
- We fight!
Where is your honor, Abu Sofyan?! - We fight!!!

Honor? Are you finished?!

My honor is on the Form ranks, battle positions!

backs of my camels.
Each man to his own place!
Yes, I run...
Go back to your columns!
Muhammad has occupied the wells!
Move away... move back!
He has moved directly
into our line of march. So Muhammad's filled the wells.

Abu Sofyan has broken camp. Now everyone brought here

He's moving west, away from Badr. will have to fight, for theirs.

The caravan is safe. Good, we fight!

So, there is no need to fight. Brothers, we hold the wells.

Not fight? We stand in the name of

God and his messenger.
 Archers back!
We wait.
They are regrouping.
Send us your champions!
Forward!!
(BATTLE OF BADR)
Ready!
Who are you?!
Lancers!
We expect our peers
and our equals! God is great!

Come back! Archers!

My brother, Shaiba! God is great! God is great!

My son, Waleed! Umaya!

And myself! Umaya!

Not you. Bilal!

Ubaida and I... God is great!

and Ali. Onward to victory!

Are we your equals? God is great!

There is only one God The Prophet has seen you!

and Muhammad is His messenger. You are not to rope

or drag the prisoners!
Archers! Advance!
- They would've roped us!
Archers! - Cut them loose!

Hold... I said, cut them loose!

stretch! And give them water

Stretch! And share your food,

equal mouth-fulls.
Stretch!
And if they walk, walk beside them.
Archers!
Any prisoner who can teach
10 Muslims to read... will go free.
I forbit this wailing.
Why don't they go away? it cannot go on.

Because, they blame me Hind, What we should do, we will do.

for whatever reason, good or bad.
We will call in our allies,
I should have joined them and raise a new army against them.
drown at the wells of Badr with them...
This time, we will
but I saved the caravan prepare it and plan it.
and our future with it.
Hamza!
Why sing at me!
Come to prayer!
Why sing my father and
my brother as it's not me?! Come to prayer!

Do you think I Come to victory!

need you to remind me?
Come to victory!
Muhammad, Ali, Hamza!
God is great!
With my nails, Hamza,
There is no god, but God!
I will give you measure for
measure, with my nails... Is it a plague?

killer, cut throat, butcher! What kind of an upside down

town have we come in to?
Murdering beast!
You could fill your
You slaughtered my father! pockets very nicely here.

Hamza! No merchant is minding his shop.

I will hunt... a lion hunter! God is minding the shop.

I will make Hamza, - Where do you come from?

a running lion, my prey. - Yemen.

And when you are dead Hamza, Did you stop in Mecca?
I will cut your heart out,
It is on the road.
taste your blood,
cut you into pieces! You didn't answer my question,
 hundreds of horses.
did you stop in Mecca?
We beat them at Badr.
Long enough to rest my camels.
That was a year ago.
Camels rest better in Mecca
than anywhere in the world. They have come to revenge Badr.

Yes. Go home and get your swords.

What is the word on the desert? Soldiers of Mecca!

Oh... it is bad for you. Blood master blood!

They are gathering.. Avenge the dead of Badr!

every young man with a (BATTLE OF UHUD)

sword is on his way to Mecca.
There, Hamza, can you see him?
Our strength is here.
He is your fortune.
Do not underestimate them.
Ubada!
They are summoning up their courage.
Those horsemen on the flank out there,
In Mecca there is music in every
house. they're oddly placed.

An Abyssinian slave, watch him. - They are under Khalid.

He is good, he is vicious, watch him - Khalid?

I will free you, I often thought of that young man.

give you your weight in silver, Hamza!

and your height in silk, Yes?

for one throw like this. The Prophet asks if you

have noticed those horsemen?
So they have come at last.
Yes I have.
We'll know how many soon enough.
I don't like them.
It's a big army.
He's sending out 50
Three thousand men, archers to watch them.
No matter what happens, They're running away
the archers must hold off those from us, let's get the loot!
horsemen.
Stand where you are told to stand!
Zaid, tell the Prophet we are ready.
Come back to your positions!
What do you think, Hamza?
All of you, come back!
Well they outnumber us,
so I'd say it's a fair fight. It's a road!

We see them Our centre is gone!

and they see us.
We've lost the battle, Khalid!
What faces me has never frightened
me. Not yet.

- All praise be to Hubal! Hold on!

- Hubal!!
Where is the prophet?
When Muhammad gives the word...
Muhammad is dead,
we will go to them. I saw him fall!

Hamza! No, no! He's alive! Find him!

Weapons ready! Back, back to the mountains!

We march... now! Halt!

Attack!! I thought we were beaten!

They've killed Hamza! Now, victory is yours, Khalid.

On to them! We have no victory until

we have finished Muhammad.
You, take this! Fight back!
He is up in those rocks.
Where are you going?!
We have finished our business,
Fight! Fight! we have avenged Badr.

Fight back! But we can end him and Islam forever.

This is a moment of victory! Some of his fanatics are still with him.
They have the - They're mad.
advantage of the mountains, - I agree with you!

the risk is too high. They defy reason,

they are even happy they lost!
Muhammad, listen!
God sent their defeat they say,
A day for a day! to try them in their faith.

The day of Uhub Oh yes! They are

for the day of Badr! fighting with the sky.

Our dead have answered to your dead! They'll get what they want.

Our dead are in paradise, They want Mecca.

your dead are in hell fire!
They'll get Mecca.
Hamza... Hamza!
When we see the stars at noon...
Do you hear me, Hamza?
Don't underestimate them,
Do you know that I've learned that to my cost.
I am with you, I, Hind!
My friend, Mecca is
Do you remember anything, Hamza? more than their home.

How you killed my It's where God spoke to man.

father and my brother?!
Mecca is like a...
Now you too are dead! homesickness to the soul.

My heart is light! This year they're going as pilgrims.

Do you hear, Hamza? Light!
What?!
But I haven't finished with you!
Unarmed.
Death is too small.
Unarmed?
Wahshi, cut him open, cut him!
Abu Sofyan will slaughter
They lost a battle them in the desert.
and what do they do?
If you believe in God as they do,
They come home and
dig the ground harder. it might be possible
not to get slaughtered.
"Muhammad, the messenger of God?"
But I agree with you,
they probably will be. If I have thought you
were the messenger of God,
Be still!
I would not have fought you.
Do not let them provoke you,
that is what they want! Make it, "Muhammad, the son of
Abdullah
Stand firm! agrees with Suhayl, the son of Amr."

Peace be to you. That is more factual.

The Prophet says: All who love God Well, so I understand.

must renew their oaths to him. Good, that is better.

Under the tree! Now, it is agreed...

They've sent someone else. that you do not

continue your pilgrimage,
It's Suheil!
you must turn around and go home.
That means we might
come to an agreement. Mecca is home.

Muhammad, you have been However...

given conditions of truce
you may continue your
between yourself and Mecca. pilgrimage next year,

Have you agreed to them yet? and for 3 days only,

What is this? in and out.

In the name of God, the most We also agree to the

gracious... truce, for 10 years.

Who is this new God During that time,

they call, gracious?
you will not attack any tribe,
I do not know him,
strike him out. or ambush any caravan,

And I cannot agree with this... or any individual associated

with us and vice versa. A man goes to bed with his belly full,
while his neighbor is hungry...
If you injure any one
of us, the truce ends... ...he isn't a Muslim.

...and vice versa. The Ink of a scholar is holier

than the blood of a martyr.
Is that clear?
A man reading is handsome
Ten years, ten years of peace. in the sight of God.

We need that time. So, learn to read.

We will use that time. And when you have learned...

These letters, from Muhammad, ...teach!

messenger of God,
The people of the book,
to the rulers of the world...
the Jews with their Bible,
...call the world to Islam! the Christians with their testament,

To Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium, must be respected by you.

Kisra, Emperor of Persia, For their books likewise

came from God.
Muqawqis, Patriarch of Alexandria.
You must not think of
God go with you! Muhammad as more than a man.

God is great! God is great! God is He was collecting firewood one day.
great!
"Let me do it," I said.
There are no different races in Islam.
"Why?" he said.
An Arab is not superior to a foreigner.
"You are the prophet of God!"
Nor a white man superior to a black.
"You can't go around
All return equally to God. scratching for firewood."

Unless you desire for your neighbour, But he looked at me, mumbling,
what you desire for yourself...
"God does not like the man who
...you don't have faith. considers
himself above other men," he said.
 ...I will be the raised sword of God.
So, I laid back and watched him.
Ah, its all easy to God.
Suddenly, he stopped.
Just as he makes dying living,
He stood to his full he can make losing winning.
height and came to me.
Two years ago we thought we were
"Yes, I am the prophet of God," he beaten when we had to sign that truce.
said.
Look at us now.
"But even I do not know
what will become of me." Charging from victory to
victory in the hearts of men.
Amr, have you come to take me again?
What's that?
No.
Abu Sofyan is coming!
I have come to ask you to take me. Abu Sofyan!

I witness that there is only one God, Why am I insulted like this?

and that Muhammad is His messenger. I'm Abu Sofyan!

May God forgive me the times I expect some courtesy!

I have fought against you.
We are not at war,
Islam does away with we have a truce!
all that went before it.
I have come to speak to
I'm sorry, I came in here wearing... Muhammad, where is he?

Here are my jewels. He is in the mosque.

What they are worth... Muhammad, we did not break the

truce.
...I give to the poor.
I have come to reaffirm the truce.
- And may I offer you my...
- Yes. I speak for Mecca.

But you were the Muhammad, why do you turn from

bitterest sword against Islam. me?

Now by the will of God... Don't go.

Muhammad, don't go! Travel fast, or every man here
will be close behind you.
Bedouins broke the truce, not us!
It's you who have broken the truce.
The night was dark!
For tonight will be ten thousand,
I am here to testify, men from every tribe.
the night was dark!
Now we can fight them, you are back.
Barra, Barra this is your city!
We will close the streets,
Hudayfa, you are my kin, and defend from the houses.
aim to see for me!
It's no use.
I must be heard!
There are thousands of them,
I am Mecca! every hour they are joined by more.

I am the leader of Mecca! You coward!

Why am I insulted like this?! Hind, go home!

Because you keep no promise You coward!

and respect no pledge.
Are you the leader of Mecca?!
I have heard what
I never thought I'd hear: Look at yourself!

Abu Sofyan asking for pity. You are broke, they swallowed
you and spat you back!
To be outfought, outfought,
Did my father and brother die,
outmaneuvered by a one-time for my husband to run away?!
shepherd!
You go home! You!
You saw that shepherd's
religion grow from a speck. We can not resist! Mecca is taken.

Speck was in my eye... No, no!

I could see nothing. We are to camp here for the night.

Tell Mecca their gods are dead. I can see Mecca, even
through the mountains.
It is useless to resist God.
So many fires, I cannot count them.
 Isn't it time yet for you to
It's very beautiful. recognize who Muhammad is?

When we drove them out of Mecca, Muhammad, there is

still doubt in my heart.
I did not know they
carried Mecca with them. If I were to cut off your head,
it would remove all your doubts.
We can smell the bread they're baking.
Khalid,
Yes, it means they don't intend to
plunder, there's no compulsion in religion.

at least I hope that's what it means. A man may take many years
or only need minutes.
They don't want blood on
their own walls and doorsteps. It's God who decides the time.

I can bargain with that. So respect his doubts.

Take me to him. You're a black slave,

you are the best school.
So you are giving us the city?
I am only what God has given me.
You offer me no bread.
Yes.
I understand.
The gods that I worshipped,
You may decide to kill me.
they don't have any use.
Say what you have come to say.
It would have helped me.
I saw your fires,
I declare, under no compulsion:
the men around them,
there is one God,
and I know what power
you put into your men. and you are the messenger of God.

We can no longer resist Muhammad. Now, let me go.

Now if you'll agree. Get inside!

You dare to come here No doors may be broken down,

and ask for conditions? nothing plundered, nothing seized!
No one abused! No one may shed blood
or cut down a tree,
All behind closed doors are safe!
or kill a living thing in Mecca.
All in Abu Sofyan's house are safe!
Soon, all Arabia was converted.
All by the Kaaba are safe!
Not only to the new worship
At least he kept his word,
they haven't forced a door. but to the new laws, manners,
attitudes contained in Islam.
He's stolen hearts, not walls.
It's a permanent victory. The Prophet had lived
to see his work done,
I dread going out.
but now he began to
We must, we must at the end. feel the nearness of death.

Were we so wrong? One great act of his

prophethood remained,
The way we lived,
yes, that was wrong. the setting of it's seal.

We were trapped in our own faults. He called the people to him

Our gods were less than us. and he spoke for the last time
His message of surrender to God
Now there he is, making
his entrance to the Kaaba. and humanity to man.

In the name of God, ''Oh, mankind! Listen well!"

most gracious, most merciful.
"I may not be with you much longer."
God gave this house to
Abraham to be a sacred place. "The weak among you,
feed them on what you eat."
Worship no other gods but Him
and cleanse his house. "Dress them as you are dressed."

So it was. "You will meet your God,"

Muhammad took no "and He will call you to

revenge and allowed none. account for your actions."

He declared Mecca a holy place. "Let those who are present

warn those who are absent."
 the seal and termination,
"You are all are descendant from
Adam," not Muhammad's words,
but God's word:
"and the best among you
is he who most regards God." ''This day I have perfected
your religion for you"
"Think deeply about what I say."
"and completed my favour to you"
"Let all your feuds be abolished."
"and I've chosen for you
"You must know that every Muslim Islam as your religion.''
is the brother of every other Muslim."
On June the 8th, 632,
"And all Muslims are
brothers one of another." in his 63rd year,

"Between Muslims, there Muhammad died.

are no races and no tribes."
Many of his followers
"Nor must you take could not believe the fact.
anything from your brother,"
How can such a man die?
"except what is given freely."
But Abu Bakr, the Prophet's friend
"Do not oppress stood up in the mosque:
and do not be oppressed."
"If anyone worships Muhammad,"
"O my people,"
"let him know that Muhammad is
"I am but a man." dead."

"It may be that the angel "But he who worships God,"

of death will visit me soon,"
"let him know that God
"and death will overtake me." is alive and can not die.''

"But I have left you a book," They buried Muhammad

beside his mosque, in Medina.
"revealed by God, the Quran,"
But the religion he preached
"which is light and guidance." found it's place in the heart of man.

Now he repeated to the people It endured. It multiplied.

the final revelation of the Quran,
Still to Mecca they come, mankind.
The people of Islam
dressed in their pilgrim white.

All equal before God,

all united in this place of prayer.

Each individual soul joined

in a community of worship:

"ONE GOD"

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