1. "In the name of God,
the most gracious, the most Merciful.Copy !req
2. From Muhammad, the Messenger of GodCopy !req
3. to Heraclius, the emperor of Byzantium.Copy !req
4. greetings to him who is
the follower of righteous guidance.Copy !req
5. I bid you to hear the divine call.Copy !req
6. I am the messenger of God to the people.Copy !req
7. Accept Islam for your salvation."Copy !req
8. He speaks of a new prophet in Arabia.Copy !req
9. Was it like this when John the Baptist
came to king HerodCopy !req
10. out of the desert, crying about salvation?Copy !req
11. To Muqawqis, Patriarch of Alexandria.Copy !req
12. "Kisra, emperor of Persia.Copy !req
13. Muhammad calls you with the call of God.Copy !req
14. Accept Islam for your salvation.Copy !req
15. Embrace Islam."Copy !req
16. You come out of the desert,
smelling of camel and goat.Copy !req
17. To tell Persia where he should kneel?Copy !req
18. "Muhammad, Messenger of God."Copy !req
19. Who gave him this authority?Copy !req
20. God sent Muhammad as a mercy to mankind.Copy !req
21. 600 years after Christ died,Copy !req
22. when Europe was sunk in the dark agesCopy !req
23. and everywhere
the old civilizations were falling,Copy !req
24. Muhammad was born in Mecca, in Arabia.Copy !req
25. Mecca was then a rich trading city,
ruled by its merchantsCopy !req
26. whose wealth was multiplied by
a unique privilege,Copy !req
27. they housed the gods.Copy !req
28. Every year, at the time of the great fair,Copy !req
29. the desert priests brought their idolsCopy !req
30. and the images of their godsCopy !req
31. into the custody of the Kaaba.Copy !req
32. Once, the most holy shrine of Abraham,Copy !req
33. the Kaaba had now become
a house of idolatryCopy !req
34. boasting no fewer than 360 different gods.Copy !req
35. Mecca in 610 AD.Copy !req
36. Bilal!Copy !req
37. Have you had today's count, Umaya?Copy !req
38. Not yet, but this year the gods are gold.Copy !req
39. When you put the gods
and Prophet together,Copy !req
40. you sit very pretty between, hmm?Copy !req
41. And more gods to place in the Kaaba.Copy !req
42. Caravan from Syria.Copy !req
43. Hmm, they must have been running.Copy !req
44. They'll be thirsty.Copy !req
45. Put five more men on the north wells.Copy !req
46. How many sheep
shall I have to kill for them?Copy !req
47. - 70?
- Give them a hundred.Copy !req
48. Mecca must keep her name for hospitality.Copy !req
49. And 10 lambs for the leaders.Copy !req
50. Shh, shh, shh.Copy !req
51. Bread and water,Copy !req
52. do the poets have in Hakim's house?Copy !req
53. Where verse and prose are nightly
put to slaughter.Copy !req
54. And, and the bread, I swear in there,
is thinner than the water!Copy !req
55. Oh, open the space, open the space,Copy !req
56. you lovers of poetry,Copy !req
57. to Bu-sofyan, willing and richCopy !req
58. patron of the arts.Copy !req
59. When Bu-sofyan invites the poet in,Copy !req
60. their joy is kit and love is kin.Copy !req
61. Where wines and cakes abound,Copy !req
62. the skills of verse are found.Copy !req
63. All revels and all songs begin,Copy !req
64. when Bu-sofyan invites the poet in.Copy !req
65. From the silkworms of China, my lady.Copy !req
66. Pleasure to the limbs
and as my lady can see,Copy !req
67. a ravish to the eye.Copy !req
68. Yes, seven lengths.Copy !req
69. 20 dinar.Copy !req
70. For Bu-sofyan's wife?Copy !req
71. 15.Copy !req
72. Good, good!Copy !req
73. The gods of the Kaaba
have their needs, their upkeeps.Copy !req
74. Who is that man who stood there,Copy !req
75. who looked into my soul?Copy !req
76. Carry me away from here.Copy !req
77. Why must Muhammad come down here?Copy !req
78. Why don't you stop him?Copy !req
79. He is your nephew.Copy !req
80. - Maybe he'll change.
- Change?Copy !req
81. He's 40 years old.Copy !req
82. It's unnatural.Copy !req
83. With a rich wife,
he could afford the best of Mecca.Copy !req
84. Yet he chooses to sit shivering in a cave.Copy !req
85. It is unnatural!Copy !req
86. For a man who dares
to risk the anger of Al-Uzza,Copy !req
87. who keeps our health,Copy !req
88. Manat, the god of our prosperity,Copy !req
89. Allat, the god of our family and tribes,Copy !req
90. and Hubal, Hubal, who starts our caravansCopy !req
91. and predicts our fate.Copy !req
92. To challenge the gods within earshotCopy !req
93. of the gods is dangerous.Copy !req
94. - Unreasonable.
- Rebellious, blasphemous.Copy !req
95. Yes, I'm afraid Muhammad
will harm himself.Copy !req
96. I'm always sad
when the great fair is over.Copy !req
97. I might not see the next one.Copy !req
98. Abu Talib!Copy !req
99. Abu Talib!Copy !req
100. Catch your breath, Zaid!Copy !req
101. Has Muhammad come down
from Mount Hira yet?Copy !req
102. He's been up there three days.Copy !req
103. No, no, we haven't seen him.Copy !req
104. Khadijah hoped he might have
come to you on his way home.Copy !req
105. Then he's still up there.Copy !req
106. Three days.Copy !req
107. I'm afraid for him on the mountain,Copy !req
108. because I don't know what it means.Copy !req
109. Men see the world
too well from a mountain.Copy !req
110. Muhammad, read!Copy !req
111. In the name of thy Lord who createdCopy !req
112. man from a sensitive drop of blood.Copy !req
113. Who teaches man what he knows not.Copy !req
114. Read!Copy !req
115. He's still trembling under the blanketCopy !req
116. but he has spoken.Copy !req
117. Zaid!Copy !req
118. What happened to my nephew
on the mountain?Copy !req
119. He was alone, in the cave.Copy !req
120. Suddenly, an angel came into him.Copy !req
121. The angel said, "Read!"Copy !req
122. Muhammad replied, "I cannot read."Copy !req
123. The angel commanded again, "Read!Copy !req
124. In the name of thy Lord,
who created man fromCopy !req
125. a sensitive drop of blood,Copy !req
126. who teaches man what he knows not.Copy !req
127. Read!"Copy !req
128. Who knows if it was Gabriel?Copy !req
129. It could have been a dream.Copy !req
130. When Muhammad was
coming from the mountain,Copy !req
131. he saw Gabriel plainlyCopy !req
132. in the shape of a man
standing on the horizon.Copy !req
133. Wherever he looked,
upon every turn of his head he saw him.Copy !req
134. And Gabriel said to him again,Copy !req
135. "I am GabrielCopy !req
136. and you, Muhammad,Copy !req
137. are the Messenger of God."Copy !req
138. Who has he told about this?Copy !req
139. His wife, and Ali,Copy !req
140. and his friend Abu Bakr.Copy !req
141. And you?Copy !req
142. I am his adopted son.Copy !req
143. Be careful to whom you talk.Copy !req
144. Tell him his uncle who protected himCopy !req
145. when he was a child
will protect him still.Copy !req
146. After all,Copy !req
147. they say the God of MosesCopy !req
148. spoke to him out of a burning bush.Copy !req
149. If you do not restrain your nephew,
then we will.Copy !req
150. He's dividing the city,
hut against house.Copy !req
151. He's dividing the generations,
child against parent.Copy !req
152. The young are listening to him.Copy !req
153. He attracts the young.Copy !req
154. We are Arabs, we obey our fathers.Copy !req
155. Our children cannot be our teachers.Copy !req
156. How can we accept that a manCopy !req
157. we met in the street yesterdayCopy !req
158. can be some god's Prophet today?Copy !req
159. Dead bones can live again, he says,Copy !req
160. because He who created manCopy !req
161. can also make man return from the dead,
he says!Copy !req
162. The Gods might leave us and
give their benefits to another city.Copy !req
163. Tell him we will give him
authority, position,Copy !req
164. keys to the Kaaba,
and money, what money he wants.Copy !req
165. Tell him we will give him
anything he wants.Copy !req
166. Muhammad, spare yourself and me.Copy !req
167. Do not put a greater burden
on an old man than he can bear.Copy !req
168. In your childhood, you were in my arms.Copy !req
169. I cannot now see you hurt.Copy !req
170. If you refuse them, they will hurt you.Copy !req
171. He said this to me,Copy !req
172. "Were they to put the sun in my right handCopy !req
173. and the moon in my left,Copy !req
174. I would not renounce my message,
which is from God."Copy !req
175. When I am dead, you may do as you please,Copy !req
176. but whilst I'm alive,
you'll obey your father!Copy !req
177. Why do you hurt our father?Copy !req
178. If I were drunk every dayCopy !req
179. and played dice every night,Copy !req
180. you'd call it high spirits!Copy !req
181. You would be more my brother
than you are now!Copy !req
182. You—you are all my children.Copy !req
183. I've given you everything I could,Copy !req
184. but it seems not to be enough.Copy !req
185. Muhammad gives me more,Copy !req
186. he'll give all the world more.Copy !req
187. Get him out of here, Father!Copy !req
188. It's not Waleed or me, it's our father.Copy !req
189. You torture him.Copy !req
190. Wait Hudayfa, wait!Copy !req
191. How can they say it's an invention, Musab,Copy !req
192. when it isn't new?Copy !req
193. In Mecca, it's new.Copy !req
194. Yet, God has said it all beforeCopy !req
195. to Noah, Moses,
Jesus, to all the Prophets,Copy !req
196. but people changed it,
turned it, forgot it.Copy !req
197. Now God says it to Muhammad againCopy !req
198. and it is new again.Copy !req
199. What is it?Copy !req
200. It's Jaafar.Copy !req
201. What have you brought with you?Copy !req
202. The very word of God.Copy !req
203. "When the sun is overthrown,Copy !req
204. when the stars fall,Copy !req
205. when the mountains vanish,Copy !req
206. when the camels,
big with young, are abandoned,Copy !req
207. when the wild beasts are herded together,Copy !req
208. when the seas rise,Copy !req
209. when the souls are sorted,Copy !req
210. and the female infant
who is buried aliveCopy !req
211. asks for what crime she was killed,Copy !req
212. when the books are opened,Copy !req
213. when the sky is torn away,Copy !req
214. then every soulCopy !req
215. will know what it has done."Copy !req
216. Were you there, Jaafar,Copy !req
217. when God gave him these words?Copy !req
218. Dawn is coming up.Copy !req
219. Ammar, you first, then you, Jaafar.Copy !req
220. Ammar!Copy !req
221. You kept your mother
awake all night with worry.Copy !req
222. - I'm sorry, Father.
- Where were you?Copy !req
223. Have you been with Muhammad again?Copy !req
224. What will happen now?Copy !req
225. Forgive him, it was my fault, I did it.Copy !req
226. That God has helped us all our lives.Copy !req
227. But it fell,Copy !req
228. it could not even help itself.Copy !req
229. What talk have you been listening to?Copy !req
230. The real God is unseen.Copy !req
231. He's not made of clay.Copy !req
232. Ammar, we see the gods
in the Kaaba every day.Copy !req
233. I'm afraid for you.Copy !req
234. You're listening to people
who will hurt you.Copy !req
235. I'm listening to Muhammad, Mother.Copy !req
236. Muhammad is generous, yes.Copy !req
237. He gives, he shares,
he'll pass no man without a smile,Copy !req
238. but he is spreading dangerous ideas.Copy !req
239. Dangerous ideas,
that no man should starve?Copy !req
240. That the rich should not defraud the poor?Copy !req
241. The strong should not oppress the weak?Copy !req
242. Are these dangerous ideas?Copy !req
243. Girls should not be forced into marriage,Copy !req
244. but be able to choose or refuse.Copy !req
245. Why only tonight, he said,Copy !req
246. "Stop the burial of new-born girls."Copy !req
247. I was fortunate,
always fortunate with your mother.Copy !req
248. Yes, but you know that you and ICopy !req
249. nearly never met, Yasser.Copy !req
250. And you were nearly never born.Copy !req
251. I was to be buried, like my two sisters,Copy !req
252. but my father couldn't do it.Copy !req
253. He couldn't do it a third time.Copy !req
254. When the second girl was being...Copy !req
255. When my father was putting sand over her,Copy !req
256. she took hold of his finger,
the way a baby does.Copy !req
257. He told my mother afterwards,Copy !req
258. that it was a minute
before the tender little grip easedCopy !req
259. and he dared take away his hand.Copy !req
260. When I was born,Copy !req
261. my father ran out of the houseCopy !req
262. screaming that he couldn't do it again,Copy !req
263. that he could never do it again.Copy !req
264. Sumayyah, it is the custom.Copy !req
265. But it's wrong.Copy !req
266. The gods that let such things be
are no gods.Copy !req
267. I promise to go to Muhammad's house,
Mother, we pray there.Copy !req
268. Yes!Copy !req
269. He's a good man.Copy !req
270. Yes, yes, you go.Copy !req
271. Two men are following him.Copy !req
272. Read?Copy !req
273. Muhammad can neither write nor read.Copy !req
274. No, but he can speak.Copy !req
275. What did you say?Copy !req
276. He can speak?Copy !req
277. Well, so can you,
so now, you speak up, young man.Copy !req
278. What does Muhammad say, hm?Copy !req
279. They are God's words, not his.Copy !req
280. Which god's?Copy !req
281. What words?Copy !req
282. A speaking god?Copy !req
283. Your Muhammad speaks only to himself.Copy !req
284. When God reveals His message to Muhammad,Copy !req
285. he remembers every word,Copy !req
286. then he tells it to those who can write.Copy !req
287. This is the Quran.Copy !req
288. Muhammad has starved himself into dreams.Copy !req
289. He hides under a blanket
with his eyes shut.Copy !req
290. His eyes are shut but his heart is open.Copy !req
291. You!Copy !req
292. Kick him for his cleverness.Copy !req
293. There is no purpose in that.Copy !req
294. Doesn't Muhammad
realize we live by giving housingCopy !req
295. to the gods?Copy !req
296. We own the Kaaba.Copy !req
297. Every year, the tribes of Arabia
come here to MeccaCopy !req
298. to pray and to buy from us.Copy !req
299. Now, were we to replace
300 gods with just one,Copy !req
300. whom we cannot even see,
who is supposed to be in TaifCopy !req
301. and Medina, here in my house,Copy !req
302. in Jerusalem, on the moon?Copy !req
303. Where would Mecca be then?Copy !req
304. The gods are both our worship
and our revenue.Copy !req
305. You cannot buy and sell God.Copy !req
306. Young man, you are close to the whip.Copy !req
307. Ammar, be sensible boy.Copy !req
308. I have a question.Copy !req
309. Muhammad teaches
you a slave is equal to his master.Copy !req
310. Is Black Bilal,Copy !req
311. whom I paid money for, equal to me?Copy !req
312. Yes, Muhammad says,Copy !req
313. before God, all men are as equal
as the teeth of a comb.Copy !req
314. Oh. This is a very pleasant
idea to slaves and beggars.Copy !req
315. It gives them pretensions.Copy !req
316. Bilal!Copy !req
317. Teach this man the differenceCopy !req
318. between the Lord of Mecca and a slave.Copy !req
319. Take that whip.Copy !req
320. Lash his face,
to teach his mouth a lesson.Copy !req
321. Whip him!Copy !req
322. Whip him!Copy !req
323. Cut him!Copy !req
324. Whip him!Copy !req
325. Do it, Bilal!Copy !req
326. Obey them!Copy !req
327. They'll kill you!Copy !req
328. See what anarchy they bring!Copy !req
329. They've even infected our slaves!Copy !req
330. If you're human enough
to have gods, remember!Copy !req
331. They are the gods of your owner!Copy !req
332. I bought your humanity,
Bilal, when I bought you.Copy !req
333. You will be corrected!Copy !req
334. One... one God.Copy !req
335. There is only one God!Copy !req
336. Who's stronger now?Copy !req
337. Your master or this one god of yours?Copy !req
338. One God.Copy !req
339. There is only one God.Copy !req
340. Bring the stones!Copy !req
341. One God.Copy !req
342. One... one God.Copy !req
343. Crush him!Copy !req
344. Break him!Copy !req
345. Have you finished with him?Copy !req
346. There's only one God!Copy !req
347. - One...
- You could swear the slave was preaching!Copy !req
348. - One God.
- Lord Umaya!Copy !req
349. Abu Bakr will pay
a hundred dinar for this slave.Copy !req
350. Wait now!Copy !req
351. It's against our social orderCopy !req
352. to sell a slave during his correction.Copy !req
353. The offer is to Lord Umaya!Copy !req
354. 200!Copy !req
355. If the price of slaves is raised,Copy !req
356. we shall have to bathe ourselves
next year.Copy !req
357. Take him!Copy !req
358. He's no use to me anymore!Copy !req
359. Kill him or take him,
I'm finished with him!Copy !req
360. We are declaring ourselves.Copy !req
361. God has told his messengerCopy !req
362. to declare Islam to all men!Copy !req
363. Open the windows!Copy !req
364. Let the world hear!Copy !req
365. We are coming out of the darkness!Copy !req
366. Hear well the word of God!Copy !req
367. Hear well the messenger of God!Copy !req
368. There are no other gods but GodCopy !req
369. and Muhammad is his messenger.Copy !req
370. There are no other gods but GodCopy !req
371. and Muhammad is his messenger.Copy !req
372. We have come into light,Copy !req
373. join us in the march to the Kaaba!Copy !req
374. God is most great.Copy !req
375. God is most great!Copy !req
376. God has no partner!Copy !req
377. We have come into light,Copy !req
378. join us in the march to the Kaaba!Copy !req
379. Muhammad and his rebellionCopy !req
380. called Islam are coming out,Copy !req
381. to foul our gods and dethrone religion.Copy !req
382. Don't let them reach the Kaaba!Copy !req
383. Throw them back!Copy !req
384. Defend your gods!Copy !req
385. There is no god but GodCopy !req
386. and Muhammad is the messenger of God.Copy !req
387. There is no god but GodCopy !req
388. and Muhammad is the messenger of God.Copy !req
389. There is no god but GodCopy !req
390. and Muhammad is the messenger of God.Copy !req
391. Protect the prophet!Copy !req
392. There is no god but GodCopy !req
393. and Muhammad is the messenger of God.Copy !req
394. Guards!Copy !req
395. God is great!Copy !req
396. This is blasphemy, you idiots!Copy !req
397. God is great!Copy !req
398. God is great!Copy !req
399. God is great!Copy !req
400. There is no god but God!Copy !req
401. Now's the time to break them,Copy !req
402. there are only 30 of them.Copy !req
403. No, we've done enough.Copy !req
404. More will only create sympathy for them.Copy !req
405. God is great! God is great!Copy !req
406. - Stand down!
- God is great!Copy !req
407. God is great!Copy !req
408. God is great, God is great, God is great!Copy !req
409. God is great, God is great, God is great!Copy !req
410. In the name of God,Copy !req
411. most gracious, most merciful.Copy !req
412. Oh, you who reject faith,Copy !req
413. - I worship not what you worship.
- Keep him out of the Kaaba!Copy !req
414. - Neither do you worship what I worship.
- Lead them out!Copy !req
415. Silence, you're a false prophet!Copy !req
416. Finish Muhammad!Copy !req
417. Protect the prophet!Copy !req
418. Messenger of God, back to the corner!Copy !req
419. Hamza! Hamza!Copy !req
420. You are brave.Copy !req
421. He is the bravest man in the desertCopy !req
422. when he meets unarmed men.Copy !req
423. Muhammad is—is a liar!Copy !req
424. Liar?Copy !req
425. You don't let him speak!Copy !req
426. Where's the lie and where's the truthCopy !req
427. when it hasn't been spoken yet?Copy !req
428. Muhammad is a fraud!Copy !req
429. Stand up!Copy !req
430. Hit me back if you dare!Copy !req
431. I affirm my nephew's religion
and I say what he says!Copy !req
432. Whoever has the courage to fight,
fight with me!Copy !req
433. Muhammad, when I hunt the desert at night,Copy !req
434. I know God is not kept in a house.Copy !req
435. Who would have thought that Hamza,
Hamza above all,Copy !req
436. with his wine drinking, lion huntingCopy !req
437. would come to join Muhammad?Copy !req
438. The more we attack him,Copy !req
439. the more they seem to join him.Copy !req
440. Where does he find his words?Copy !req
441. I don't know.Copy !req
442. How can an illiterate man
go up on a mountainCopy !req
443. and come down three days later,
blazing with poetry?Copy !req
444. If it were just poetry...Copy !req
445. He says it's God.Copy !req
446. How do we fight someone
whose strength we do not understand?Copy !req
447. Muhammad promises heaven,
trees in the skies.Copy !req
448. So naturally he's found an audience.Copy !req
449. Then we must make that audienceCopy !req
450. less eager to listen to him.Copy !req
451. We will begin with the weaker ones.Copy !req
452. Your turn!Copy !req
453. - Have mercy!
- Stretch her!Copy !req
454. Mother!Copy !req
455. Please, let her go!Copy !req
456. Who is your God?Copy !req
457. Answer me!Copy !req
458. Say it!Copy !req
459. Say Hubal is your God!Copy !req
460. - Say it!
- There is...Copy !req
461. there is only one GodCopy !req
462. and Muhammad is the messenger of God!Copy !req
463. My God!Copy !req
464. Ammar!Copy !req
465. Your father and motherCopy !req
466. are the first martyrs of Islam!Copy !req
467. They are promised paradise!Copy !req
468. How much are you men prepared to suffer?Copy !req
469. The Prophet has said we must leave Mecca.Copy !req
470. If you stay,
they will kill youCopy !req
471. one by one.Copy !req
472. Muhammad says that in Abyssinia,Copy !req
473. there is a Christian King.Copy !req
474. No man is wronged in his country.Copy !req
475. We must leave now, today.Copy !req
476. Horsemen!Copy !req
477. God be praised!Copy !req
478. Let us go.Copy !req
479. We found their tracks and followed them,Copy !req
480. but they just disappeared!Copy !req
481. They were there in the desert,Copy !req
482. under the vultures and
you let them escape you!Copy !req
483. Escape? They vanished!Copy !req
484. Muhammad has stayed,
only the weakest have gone.Copy !req
485. Weak or strong, they'll blacken our name.Copy !req
486. We're honest merchants,
we buy and sell in good faith.Copy !req
487. We cannot afford scandal.Copy !req
488. Abyssinia.Copy !req
489. Amr!Copy !req
490. You are a friend of Annajashi, the king?Copy !req
491. Yes.Copy !req
492. Can you use that friendship?Copy !req
493. I think I can bring them back, yes.Copy !req
494. Abyssinia.Copy !req
495. Rise up, Amr.Copy !req
496. There is nothing you may ask for
that we will not give.Copy !req
497. Lion of Judah, I...Copy !req
498. I don't know where to begin.Copy !req
499. You have our friendship, begin there.Copy !req
500. Certain runaway slaves have escapedCopy !req
501. from us into your kingdom.Copy !req
502. Slaves go back, as you no doubt
would return our slaves to us.Copy !req
503. There are however some
free men among them, rebels.Copy !req
504. Rebels?Copy !req
505. If there's disturbance in Arabia,
why am I not informed?Copy !req
506. They are rebels in religion.Copy !req
507. At one time or another,Copy !req
508. all religions were rebellions.Copy !req
509. The bodies of slaves are of the worldCopy !req
510. and within our disposal.Copy !req
511. But as Jesus Christ is our shepherd,Copy !req
512. the souls of men are his sheep.Copy !req
513. These are Arabs who have betrayedCopy !req
514. the religion of their fathers.Copy !req
515. They follow a lunatic they call a Prophet.Copy !req
516. But I cannot put souls into chains
without hearing them.Copy !req
517. Good, their stiff necks will hang them.Copy !req
518. Do you not bow yourselves
before your prophet?Copy !req
519. Muhammad is a man, we kneel only to God.Copy !req
520. Where are Muhammad's miracles, Jaafar?Copy !req
521. If he were a prophet,Copy !req
522. he'd light the sky with miraclesCopy !req
523. Indeed, this is true.Copy !req
524. God has given his prophets
the sign of miraclesCopy !req
525. that we may recognize them.Copy !req
526. The miracle of Muhammad is the Holy Quran.Copy !req
527. A book, a book!Copy !req
528. Written by an illiterate,
attributed to God.Copy !req
529. I think the emperor has heard enough!Copy !req
530. I'm mindful of Pentacost.Copy !req
531. When God set down tongues of fireCopy !req
532. upon the heads of Christ's apostles,Copy !req
533. so they could speak
the many languages of the worldCopy !req
534. that they knew not before.Copy !req
535. But do such miracles happen in our times?Copy !req
536. I've heard enough!Copy !req
537. You've made a poor case.Copy !req
538. When we suffered persecution in Mecca,Copy !req
539. Muhammad told us, "Go to Abyssinia,Copy !req
540. the land of a righteous king,Copy !req
541. where no man is wronged!"Copy !req
542. What they call persecution
was fair punishment.Copy !req
543. Their disorder, their—Copy !req
544. Why did your prophet send you to me?Copy !req
545. Because you believe in the bookCopy !req
546. of the one God as we do.Copy !req
547. He sent us because in your heart,Copy !req
548. God will protect us.Copy !req
549. Talking with them is like
drawing water from a mirage.Copy !req
550. But they've now laid a duty on meCopy !req
551. to listen to them, my friend.Copy !req
552. Go on!Copy !req
553. For years, we worshiped wood and stone,Copy !req
554. images of our own manufacture.Copy !req
555. We lived in ignorance of God.Copy !req
556. We had few earthly laws
and no heavenly laws.Copy !req
557. The rich neglect the poor.Copy !req
558. And the natural pity of man,Copy !req
559. whereby he lifts
his brother up when he has fallenCopy !req
560. is described by them
as upsetting social order!Copy !req
561. To this inhumanity has come a manCopy !req
562. whom God choseCopy !req
563. and in that we believe.Copy !req
564. You're overcome,
I beg you to collect yourself.Copy !req
565. I speak of the messenger of God.Copy !req
566. Muhammad teaches us to worship one God,Copy !req
567. to speak truth,Copy !req
568. to love our neighbors as ourselves,Copy !req
569. to give charity,
even a smile can be charity.Copy !req
570. To protect women from misuse,Copy !req
571. to shelter orphansCopy !req
572. and to turn away from
gods of wood and stone!Copy !req
573. I cannot keep still
and hear this blasphemy!Copy !req
574. We are an ancient civilization,Copy !req
575. to call our gods wood and stoneCopy !req
576. is to speak ignorantly of them.Copy !req
577. The idol, the form,
is not what we worship,Copy !req
578. but the spirit
that resides within the form.Copy !req
579. I agree that idolatry is
not always fully understood.Copy !req
580. Thank you.Copy !req
581. Now let me bring him back to the women.Copy !req
582. God made woman to be
the proper companion of man.Copy !req
583. She is different but equal.Copy !req
584. Equal?Copy !req
585. We buy them.Copy !req
586. Feed them, clothe them,
use them, discard them.Copy !req
587. Women equal to us?Copy !req
588. God created man from
one male and one female.Copy !req
589. Amr, you must respect in all
woman the womb that bore you.Copy !req
590. Why are your 300 gods so tongue-tiedCopy !req
591. while his only god is eloquent?Copy !req
592. God has spoken to us before
through Abraham, Noah, Moses,Copy !req
593. and through Jesus Christ.Copy !req
594. Why should we be so surprised that GodCopy !req
595. speaks to us now through Muhammad?Copy !req
596. Who taught you those names?Copy !req
597. They are named in the Quran.Copy !req
598. I knew Muhammad when
he was an orphan minding sheep!Copy !req
599. And we knew Christ as a carpenter.Copy !req
600. What Christ says and
what your Muhammad saysCopy !req
601. is like two raised from the same land.Copy !req
602. They are lying to you, they deny Christ.Copy !req
603. You worship three gods, they say.Copy !req
604. Father, Son and Holy Ghost, they say.Copy !req
605. What do you say of Christ?Copy !req
606. They say God cannot have a son.Copy !req
607. Christ is not the Son of God.Copy !req
608. Speak to me of Christ.Copy !req
609. We say of Christ what
our prophet has taught us,Copy !req
610. that God cast his holy spirit intoCopy !req
611. the womb of a virgin named MaryCopy !req
612. and that she conceived Christ,
the Apostle of God.Copy !req
613. The Apostle he says,
not the son, not the son!Copy !req
614. What does your miracle, your Quran,Copy !req
615. say of the birth of
our dear Lord Jesus Christ?Copy !req
616. May I relate the words?Copy !req
617. Come closer to me.Copy !req
618. In the name of God,
most gracious, most merciful.Copy !req
619. Relate in the book the story of Mary.Copy !req
620. How she withdrew from
her family to a place in the east.Copy !req
621. How we sent to her
our angel, Gabriel, who said,Copy !req
622. "I am a messenger from your GodCopy !req
623. to announce
the birth of a holy son to you."Copy !req
624. She said, "How shall I, Mary, have a sonCopy !req
625. when no man has touched me?"Copy !req
626. And Gabriel replied,Copy !req
627. "For your Lord says it will happen."Copy !req
628. We appoint him as a sign unto manCopy !req
629. and a mercy from us.Copy !req
630. It is a thing ordained.Copy !req
631. The difference between us and you,Copy !req
632. is not bigger than this line.Copy !req
633. Not for a mountain of gold
will I give them up to you.Copy !req
634. You may live in Abyssinia, in peace,Copy !req
635. for as long as you wish.Copy !req
636. May God's blessings be upon you
when you return.Copy !req
637. Intolerable!Copy !req
638. Mohammad disturbs
even our foreign alliances!Copy !req
639. Very well!Copy !req
640. We will make a foreigner of him!Copy !req
641. Abu Talib has his arms around him.Copy !req
642. Very well!Copy !req
643. We will throw uncle and nephew out.Copy !req
644. In one bundle, his whole family out.Copy !req
645. We will expel them from ourselves.Copy !req
646. No merchant may trade with them.Copy !req
647. No land remain to them.Copy !req
648. No roof shelter them.Copy !req
649. No baker bake for them.Copy !req
650. No woman marry them.Copy !req
651. Until they renounce, recant!Copy !req
652. Get them out!Copy !req
653. These were the worst
years of Muhammad's life.Copy !req
654. For three years they suffered the hunger,Copy !req
655. thirst, cruelty of the open desert.Copy !req
656. But the year of grief was still to come,Copy !req
657. when Khadija,
Muhammad's wife for 24 years, died.Copy !req
658. When Abu Talib, his old protector, died.Copy !req
659. With his last breath,
Abu Talib, tried again to reconcileCopy !req
660. Mecca and Muhammad.Copy !req
661. He never asked more
from you than one word.Copy !req
662. One, one God.Copy !req
663. If it were only a question of one word,Copy !req
664. we would have given him 10 words.Copy !req
665. But the word he wants
would dethrone all the gods.Copy !req
666. You were afraid...Copy !req
667. even to hear him.Copy !req
668. With the death of his uncle,Copy !req
669. Muhammad had now lost all protection.Copy !req
670. He was no longer safe in Mecca.Copy !req
671. Alone with Zaid, his adopted son,Copy !req
672. he went to the hillside town of Taif.Copy !req
673. He asked to be taken in,
to be allowed to preach.Copy !req
674. But the children of Taif
were turned loose,Copy !req
675. to stone him back into the desert.Copy !req
676. What are you doing?Copy !req
677. Stop! Stop!Copy !req
678. Leave him alone, go away!Copy !req
679. Muhammad called this
the bitterest day of his life.Copy !req
680. Then miraculously, when Muhammad's missionCopy !req
681. seemed to have failed,
his entire situation changed.Copy !req
682. A deputation from the rich,
but self-destroying city of Medina,Copy !req
683. met him by night at the rocks of Aqaba,Copy !req
684. asking him to come to them,Copy !req
685. to stand between their factions,Copy !req
686. to mediate their continual quarrels
and civil wars.Copy !req
687. Muhammad agreed,
provided they gave him a pledgeCopy !req
688. that they worship the one God only.Copy !req
689. Wait!Copy !req
690. When we take this pledge we expelCopy !req
691. ourselves from the rest of Arabia.Copy !req
692. So, wait!Copy !req
693. War is in this pledge.Copy !req
694. We are to make enemies of brothers.Copy !req
695. We are to make firewood of our gods!Copy !req
696. That is the meaning of the pledge.Copy !req
697. If we take it,
there can be no turning backCopy !req
698. for Muhammad is indeed
the messenger of God,Copy !req
699. foretold to us by the Jews in our city.Copy !req
700. So if anyone has doubt
in this pledge, go now.Copy !req
701. And if you have no doubts,
then you do as I do.Copy !req
702. I pledge myself to the one and only God,Copy !req
703. and to you Muhammad, the messenger of God.Copy !req
704. He is of us and we are of him.Copy !req
705. Let him bring his followers,Copy !req
706. our brothers, to us, to Medina.Copy !req
707. This was a journey that changed the world.Copy !req
708. The Hegira, or Flight to Medina.Copy !req
709. Only 70 people,
split up into small groups,Copy !req
710. walking 250 miles of desert.Copy !req
711. Yet, so profound were the consequences,Copy !req
712. so lasting were the effects of this walkCopy !req
713. that from it
the Muslims date their calendar.Copy !req
714. In this moment, Islam found its future.Copy !req
715. Muhammad himself stayed in Mecca,
in the greatest danger,Copy !req
716. until all his followers had left safely.Copy !req
717. Muhammad has become a nation,
he has received a city,Copy !req
718. entered into pledges and treatiesCopy !req
719. and you, Salool,
who claim to be king of Medina,Copy !req
720. lost the kingdom last night
while you were in bed!Copy !req
721. You should worry about yourself,
Bu-sofyan.Copy !req
722. Every time you trade
a whiff of perfume up to Syria,Copy !req
723. you must creep past that man in Medina.Copy !req
724. He is across your mercantile throat
so to speak.Copy !req
725. And what do you intend to do?Copy !req
726. I intend to wait.Copy !req
727. And how long will you wait?Copy !req
728. Till you and the rest of Arabia
remove him,Copy !req
729. to save your way of life.Copy !req
730. And while you wait?Copy !req
731. I should accept his call of course.Copy !req
732. Does he think I will
give him my birthright?Copy !req
733. I will not.Copy !req
734. Medina is worth the conversion.Copy !req
735. Hypocrisy.Copy !req
736. Call it a healthy hypocrisy.Copy !req
737. King Salool, wiping his face on the floorCopy !req
738. five times a day praying.Copy !req
739. I don't believe it.Copy !req
740. He may not have to.Copy !req
741. We'll do now what
we should have done before:Copy !req
742. kill Muhammad.Copy !req
743. Come, come and see.Copy !req
744. They say that practice
leads to perfection.Copy !req
745. Seven young men,
each from a different family,Copy !req
746. my own son, Ikrima, is with them.Copy !req
747. They will stab him together.Copy !req
748. If the responsibility for his deathCopy !req
749. is shared, where lies the guilt?Copy !req
750. My idea.Copy !req
751. I'm not sure I'm part of it.Copy !req
752. Muhammad's body contains
too much, his mind, his words.Copy !req
753. But it is an ingenious solution.Copy !req
754. And a final one.Copy !req
755. No!Copy !req
756. Ali, his cousin,
laid there to die for him?Copy !req
757. Who are we fighting?Copy !req
758. He cannot go far,
all the tracks are watched.Copy !req
759. He must take to the desert.Copy !req
760. Mecca will give 100 camels to the manCopy !req
761. who brings back Muhammad or his head!Copy !req
762. Look for three of them:Copy !req
763. Muhammad, Abu Bakr,
and Uriqat, his Bedouin guide.Copy !req
764. What is it?Copy !req
765. They're not grazing camel.Copy !req
766. They've eaten dates,
they're from the city.Copy !req
767. Why are you here?Copy !req
768. Medina is to the north.Copy !req
769. They make the tracks, not I.Copy !req
770. Nomads, traveling west?Copy !req
771. I know my art.Copy !req
772. They say that you can
track a bird by smelling the air.Copy !req
773. We go with them.Copy !req
774. He may be in that cave over there.Copy !req
775. Muhammad, if you come out,Copy !req
776. we'll take you to Mecca alive.Copy !req
777. Muhammad, come out!Copy !req
778. They can't be in there,
this web is unbroken.Copy !req
779. And these pigeons, they would not build.Copy !req
780. We were wrong to follow them,
we should have gone north.Copy !req
781. Let's move then.Copy !req
782. We still have time to head them off.Copy !req
783. A few threads of a spider's webCopy !req
784. were all that was then
between Muhammad and murder.Copy !req
785. But he was a man not to be killed.Copy !req
786. The Bedouin guide led him
and his companion, Abu Bakr,Copy !req
787. in their escape through
untracked spaces of the desertCopy !req
788. and the heat of the June days.Copy !req
789. At Medina, his followers
waited with their welcome readyCopy !req
790. but in great fear for his journey.Copy !req
791. Anything?Copy !req
792. No, nothing.Copy !req
793. He himself says he's only a man.Copy !req
794. No man can survive that heat.Copy !req
795. There, I see them!Copy !req
796. Look!Copy !req
797. Run and hide.Copy !req
798. I may be obliged to free you as a gesture.Copy !req
799. Welcome to the city
of Medina, the blessed.Copy !req
800. Your city, messenger of God.Copy !req
801. You will stay with me, messenger of God.Copy !req
802. I have the best house in Medina.Copy !req
803. You will give me the honor of keeping you.Copy !req
804. Stay with me!Copy !req
805. Please, please, please!Copy !req
806. How can the Prophet
choose between so many welcomes?Copy !req
807. Where God guides his camel to stop,Copy !req
808. there he will build his house.Copy !req
809. All agreed?Copy !req
810. We turn Quaswa, his camel looseCopy !req
811. and where Quaswa sits, the Prophet stays.Copy !req
812. Clever man.Copy !req
813. A choice made by
a camel can offend no one.Copy !req
814. Here we will build
the house of the Prophet.Copy !req
815. And our first meeting place,
a prayer house!Copy !req
816. The first mosque of Islam, here!Copy !req
817. God is great, God is great!Copy !req
818. What is the prophet of God doing?Copy !req
819. Carrying bricks, huh?Copy !req
820. Give me that.Copy !req
821. Look, you are doing too much.Copy !req
822. Please, go and sit down, we'll do it.Copy !req
823. Look, he went for more.Copy !req
824. "Work is a worship," he says.Copy !req
825. He's 53 years old.Copy !req
826. How old are you?Copy !req
827. But there's something missing.Copy !req
828. Maybe a bell to call the people in.Copy !req
829. - The Christians use a bell?
- Mmm.Copy !req
830. What about a horn, like the Jews?Copy !req
831. A drum?Copy !req
832. There's too much blood in a drum.Copy !req
833. Why not the human voice,Copy !req
834. as in Umar ibn Khattab's vision?Copy !req
835. The Prophet agrees?Copy !req
836. He means you, Bilal.Copy !req
837. Me?Copy !req
838. You have a good voice, use it.Copy !req
839. Climb up there.Copy !req
840. Brothers!Copy !req
841. Today, a man of Medina
will embrace a man of Mecca.Copy !req
842. Each will share half and half.Copy !req
843. Reach out,
embrace your neighbor and brother.Copy !req
844. I'm tired of the politics
of kissing slaves, read this!Copy !req
845. The prophet should
concern himself with the after-world.Copy !req
846. How is my son?Copy !req
847. Praying like a horse.Copy !req
848. Does it burn your hands?Copy !req
849. If it's not torn up,
it will burn down the house.Copy !req
850. He's making laws like a king.Copy !req
851. He has declared that loyalty to IslamCopy !req
852. is more than loyalty to tribal family.Copy !req
853. What?Copy !req
854. All Muslims are next
of kin to one-another?Copy !req
855. Don't be misled by that.Copy !req
856. He must change
the nature of the tribes before that.Copy !req
857. The danger is here, equality,Copy !req
858. a man's neighbor is as good as himself.Copy !req
859. The lunatic means it!Copy !req
860. Jews and Christians
have equal rights with Muslims.Copy !req
861. The Jews who attach themselves
to a commonwealthCopy !req
862. shall be protected.Copy !req
863. Hah, women have rights of inheritance?Copy !req
864. Rights.Copy !req
865. Next, he'll be giving the camel rights.Copy !req
866. He has, the lunatic has!Copy !req
867. You can't overload them.Copy !req
868. He's remaking a city, my city!Copy !req
869. Damn him!Copy !req
870. He's taken our sons from us,
our future from us.Copy !req
871. His rights are our wrongs!Copy !req
872. No more.Copy !req
873. This time it will not
be just his riffraff.Copy !req
874. We will take everything of
value they have left in Mecca.Copy !req
875. Their rugs, their houses, their silver,Copy !req
876. and with it,
enlarge our caravan to Damascus.Copy !req
877. My friends, listen to me!Copy !req
878. I have news from Mecca!Copy !req
879. Everything you have left behind is gone!Copy !req
880. The thieves!Copy !req
881. Abu Bakr's shops,
the Prophet's house, sold!Copy !req
882. Every cup or piece of cloth,Copy !req
883. every rag or bone you ever owned
is thrown on the market.Copy !req
884. You are a people of nothing.Copy !req
885. Don't you even fight for what you own?Copy !req
886. Who talks of fight?Copy !req
887. What other way is there, Hamza?Copy !req
888. When the Prophet says fight, we fight.Copy !req
889. Now he says peace.Copy !req
890. Exactly!Copy !req
891. You're a peace-loving people!Copy !req
892. Up to your necks in forbearance.Copy !req
893. Go back to work.Copy !req
894. We have to defend ourselves.Copy !req
895. You are the messenger of God.Copy !req
896. Yet they mock, abuse and
plunder us and we do nothing.Copy !req
897. In the baggage of war, we are pathetic!Copy !req
898. But they are led by greed.Copy !req
899. We are led by God and you.Copy !req
900. Now I... I know how you hate the sword,Copy !req
901. but we have to fight.Copy !req
902. They have stolen our property.Copy !req
903. They are taking it to Damascus,Copy !req
904. right past our own door.Copy !req
905. I say by God, get it back!Copy !req
906. I'm sorry, I'm carried away.Copy !req
907. It's the pounding in my head.Copy !req
908. Please, fight them!Copy !req
909. But look at the sun.Copy !req
910. It's not the time for prayer.Copy !req
911. It is newly revealed
by God to his messenger.Copy !req
912. Fight, but fight in the way of God,Copy !req
913. against those who fight against you.Copy !req
914. Drive them out of the placesCopy !req
915. where they drove you out,Copy !req
916. for persecution is worse than slaughter.Copy !req
917. Fight them until persecution is no moreCopy !req
918. and religion is for God.Copy !req
919. But if they stop, let there be no more warCopy !req
920. for God never loves the starter of wars.Copy !req
921. So, fight in the way of GodCopy !req
922. against those who fight against you!Copy !req
923. God is great!Copy !req
924. God is great, God is great!Copy !req
925. God is great!Copy !req
926. God is great!Copy !req
927. These are the disciplines
the Prophet puts upon you.Copy !req
928. You may not harm a woman,
a child, or any old person!Copy !req
929. You may not harm cripples!Copy !req
930. You may not harm
the man that works in the field!Copy !req
931. You may not cut down trees!Copy !req
932. Strike only at those
who have expelled you!Copy !req
933. Who have stolen your rights
and enriched themselfCopy !req
934. with your possessions!Copy !req
935. Now, to the wells of Badr!Copy !req
936. News from Medina!Copy !req
937. Arm, arm yourselves!Copy !req
938. Arm yourselves!Copy !req
939. Defend your wealth!Copy !req
940. Muhammad has come out of Medina
to attack the great caravan!Copy !req
941. - How many men?
- 300, two horses.Copy !req
942. We'll mount 100 horses.Copy !req
943. - How many camels?
- 70.Copy !req
944. We'll bring 170!Copy !req
945. And load twenty of my camelsCopy !req
946. with wine, we'll make a feast of it.Copy !req
947. This is a war I'd like to fight,Copy !req
948. a war we cannot lose!Copy !req
949. Ride to Bu-sofyan's caravan,Copy !req
950. tell him to turn towards Badr.Copy !req
951. We will join our forcesCopy !req
952. tomorrow at the wells of Badr.Copy !req
953. The wells of Badr, here.Copy !req
954. Muhammad's march, here.Copy !req
955. My charge of the caravan, here.Copy !req
956. One day's march.Copy !req
957. Meet them at the wells.Copy !req
958. I don't like it.Copy !req
959. There is too much of Mecca
in my caravan to be risked.Copy !req
960. Put out the fires!Copy !req
961. Load the camels!Copy !req
962. We are turning west, away from the wells.Copy !req
963. Away?Copy !req
964. You can't!Copy !req
965. You must meet them at Badr.Copy !req
966. We can drink them down like raw eggs.Copy !req
967. If I run all night,Copy !req
968. I'll be out of Muhammad's reach
by morning.Copy !req
969. Where is your honor, Bu-sofyan?Copy !req
970. Honor?Copy !req
971. My honor is on the backs of my camels.Copy !req
972. Yes, I run.Copy !req
973. Muhammad has occupied the wells!Copy !req
974. He has moved directly
into our line of march.Copy !req
975. He's mad.Copy !req
976. Bu-sofyan has broken camp.Copy !req
977. He's moving west, away from Badr.Copy !req
978. The caravan is safe.Copy !req
979. So, there is no need to fight.Copy !req
980. Not fight?Copy !req
981. If we fight, we will start
blood feuds between brothers.Copy !req
982. Between father and son, you mean.Copy !req
983. Hudayfa, your own son is with them,Copy !req
984. he should have been whipped.Copy !req
985. Mecca is greater than your family!Copy !req
986. Waleed, your second son,
he is your true blood.Copy !req
987. I say, fight!Copy !req
988. We stand in the present,
let the future look after itself.Copy !req
989. Otba is not a coward.Copy !req
990. We finish them tomorrow.Copy !req
991. - We fight!
- We fight!Copy !req
992. Are you finished?Copy !req
993. Form ranks, battle positions!Copy !req
994. Each man to his own place!Copy !req
995. Go back to your columns!Copy !req
996. Move away, move back, back!Copy !req
997. So Muhammad's filled the wells.Copy !req
998. Now if we want water,
we'll have to fight for theirs.Copy !req
999. Good, we fight!Copy !req
1000. Brothers, we hold the wells.Copy !req
1001. We stand in the name
of God and his messenger.Copy !req
1002. We wait.Copy !req
1003. Send us your champions!Copy !req
1004. Who are you?Copy !req
1005. We expect our peers and our equals!Copy !req
1006. Come back!Copy !req
1007. My brother, Shaiba!Copy !req
1008. My son, Waleed!Copy !req
1009. And myself!Copy !req
1010. Not you.Copy !req
1011. Ubaida and I and Ali.Copy !req
1012. Are we your equals?Copy !req
1013. There is only one GodCopy !req
1014. and Muhammad is His messenger.Copy !req
1015. Ah!Copy !req
1016. Archers, advance!Copy !req
1017. Archers!Copy !req
1018. Hold!Copy !req
1019. Strike!Copy !req
1020. Strike!Copy !req
1021. Strike!Copy !req
1022. Archers!Copy !req
1023. Archers back!Copy !req
1024. They're regrouping.Copy !req
1025. Forward!Copy !req
1026. Ready!Copy !req
1027. Lancers!Copy !req
1028. Attack!Copy !req
1029. Umaya!Copy !req
1030. Umaya!Copy !req
1031. Bilal!Copy !req
1032. Onward to victory!Copy !req
1033. The Prophet has seen you!Copy !req
1034. You are not to rope or drag the prisoners!Copy !req
1035. Theyd've roped us!Copy !req
1036. Cut them loose!Copy !req
1037. I said, cut them loose!Copy !req
1038. And give them water.Copy !req
1039. And share your food, equal mouthfuls.Copy !req
1040. And if they walk, walk beside them.Copy !req
1041. Any prisoner who can teach
10 Muslims to readCopy !req
1042. will go free.Copy !req
1043. Why don't they go away?Copy !req
1044. Because they blame me, Hind,Copy !req
1045. for whatever reason, good or bad.Copy !req
1046. I should have joined them and
drowned at the wells of Badr with themCopy !req
1047. but I saved the caravan
and our future with it.Copy !req
1048. Why sing at me!Copy !req
1049. Why sing my father and my brother's
name at me?Copy !req
1050. Do you think I need you to remind me?Copy !req
1051. Muhammad, Ali, Hamza!Copy !req
1052. With my nails, Hamza,Copy !req
1053. I'll give you measure
for measure, with my nails,Copy !req
1054. killer, cutthroat, butcher!Copy !req
1055. Murdering beast!Copy !req
1056. You slaughtered my father!Copy !req
1057. Hamza.Copy !req
1058. I will hunt a lion hunter!Copy !req
1059. I will make Hamza a running lion, my prey.Copy !req
1060. And when you are dead, Hamza,Copy !req
1061. I will cut your heart out,Copy !req
1062. taste your blood,Copy !req
1063. cut you to pieces!Copy !req
1064. Hamza!Copy !req
1065. I forbid this wailing.Copy !req
1066. It cannot go on!Copy !req
1067. What we should do, we will do.Copy !req
1068. We will call in our allies,Copy !req
1069. raise a new army against them.Copy !req
1070. This time, we will prepare it and plan it.Copy !req
1071. Hamza!Copy !req
1072. Is it a plague?Copy !req
1073. What kind of an upside down town
have we come into?Copy !req
1074. You could fill your pockets
very nicely here.Copy !req
1075. No merchant is minding his shop.Copy !req
1076. God is minding the shop.Copy !req
1077. Where do you come from?Copy !req
1078. Yemen.Copy !req
1079. Did you stop in Mecca?Copy !req
1080. It is on the road.Copy !req
1081. You didn't answer my question,Copy !req
1082. did you stop in Mecca?Copy !req
1083. Long enough to rest my camels.Copy !req
1084. Camels rest better in MeccaCopy !req
1085. than anywhere in the world.Copy !req
1086. Yes.Copy !req
1087. What is the word on the desert?Copy !req
1088. Oh, it is bad for you.Copy !req
1089. They are gathering.Copy !req
1090. Every young man with a sword
is on his way to Mecca.Copy !req
1091. Our strength is here.Copy !req
1092. Do not underestimate them.Copy !req
1093. They are summoning up their courage.Copy !req
1094. In Mecca there is music in every house.Copy !req
1095. An Abyssinian slave, Wahshi.Copy !req
1096. He's good, he's vicious, watch him.Copy !req
1097. I will free you,Copy !req
1098. give you your weight in silver,Copy !req
1099. and your height in silk,Copy !req
1100. for one throw like this.Copy !req
1101. So they have come at last.Copy !req
1102. We'll know how many soon enough.Copy !req
1103. It's a big army.Copy !req
1104. 3,000 men, hundreds of horses.Copy !req
1105. We beat them at Badr.Copy !req
1106. That was a year ago.Copy !req
1107. They have come to revenge Badr.Copy !req
1108. Go home and get your swords.Copy !req
1109. Soldiers of Mecca!Copy !req
1110. Blood must have blood!Copy !req
1111. Avenge the dead of Badr!Copy !req
1112. There, Hamza, can you see him?Copy !req
1113. He is your fortune.Copy !req
1114. Ubada!Copy !req
1115. Those horsemen on the flank out there,Copy !req
1116. they're oddly placed.Copy !req
1117. - They are under Khalid.
- Khalid?Copy !req
1118. I've often thought of that young man.Copy !req
1119. - Hamza!
- Yes?Copy !req
1120. The Prophet asks if
you have noticed those horsemen.Copy !req
1121. Yes, I have.Copy !req
1122. I don't like them.Copy !req
1123. He's sending out 50 archers to watch them.Copy !req
1124. No matter what happens,Copy !req
1125. the archers must hold off those horsemen.Copy !req
1126. Zaid, tell the Prophet we are ready.Copy !req
1127. What do you think, Hamza?Copy !req
1128. Well, they outnumber us,
so I'd say it's a fair fight.Copy !req
1129. We see them and they see us.Copy !req
1130. What faces me has never frightened me.Copy !req
1131. Glory be to Hubal!Copy !req
1132. Hubal!Copy !req
1133. When Muhammad gives the word,Copy !req
1134. we will go to them.Copy !req
1135. Hamza!Copy !req
1136. Weapons ready!Copy !req
1137. We march now!Copy !req
1138. Attack!Copy !req
1139. Archers!Copy !req
1140. Strike!Copy !req
1141. Forward!Copy !req
1142. They've killed Hamza!
On to them!Copy !req
1143. Fight back, go back!Copy !req
1144. You, take this, fight back!Copy !req
1145. Where are you going?Copy !req
1146. Fight, fight, fight! Back!Copy !req
1147. This is a moment of victory!Copy !req
1148. They're running away from us,
let's get the loot!Copy !req
1149. Stand where you are told to stand!Copy !req
1150. Come back to your positions!
All of you, come back!Copy !req
1151. It's a rout!Copy !req
1152. Our center is gone!Copy !req
1153. We've lost the battle, Khalid!Copy !req
1154. Not yet.Copy !req
1155. Hold on!Copy !req
1156. Where is the prophet?Copy !req
1157. Muhammad is dead, I saw him fall!Copy !req
1158. No, no! He's alive!Copy !req
1159. Find him!Copy !req
1160. Back, back to the mountain!Copy !req
1161. Hold!Copy !req
1162. I thought we were beaten!Copy !req
1163. Now, victory is yours, Khalid.Copy !req
1164. We have no victory until
we have finished Muhammad.Copy !req
1165. He is up in those rocks.Copy !req
1166. We have finished our business,Copy !req
1167. we have avenged Badr.Copy !req
1168. But we can end him and Islam forever.Copy !req
1169. Some of his fanatics are still with him.Copy !req
1170. They have the advantage of the mountains,Copy !req
1171. the risk is too high.Copy !req
1172. Muhammad, listen!Copy !req
1173. A day for a day!Copy !req
1174. The day of Uhub for the day of Badr!Copy !req
1175. Our dead have answered to your dead!Copy !req
1176. Our dead are in paradise,Copy !req
1177. your dead are in hellfire!Copy !req
1178. Hamza!Copy !req
1179. Hamza!Copy !req
1180. Do you hear me, Hamza?Copy !req
1181. Do you know that I am with you? I, Hind!Copy !req
1182. Do you remember anything, Hamza?Copy !req
1183. How you killed my father and my brother?Copy !req
1184. Now you too are dead!Copy !req
1185. My heart is light!Copy !req
1186. Do you hear, Hamza?Copy !req
1187. Light!Copy !req
1188. But I haven't finished with you!Copy !req
1189. Death is too small.Copy !req
1190. Wahshi, cut him open. Cut him!Copy !req
1191. They lost a battle and what do they do?Copy !req
1192. They come home and dig the ground harder.Copy !req
1193. They're mad.Copy !req
1194. I agree with you!Copy !req
1195. They defy reason,
they are even happy they lost!Copy !req
1196. God sent their defeat they say,Copy !req
1197. to try them in their faith.Copy !req
1198. Oh, yes!Copy !req
1199. They are fighting with the sky.Copy !req
1200. They'll get what they want.Copy !req
1201. They want Mecca.Copy !req
1202. They'll get Mecca.Copy !req
1203. When we see the stars at noonCopy !req
1204. Don't underestimate them,Copy !req
1205. I've learned that to my cost.Copy !req
1206. My friend, Mecca is more than their home.Copy !req
1207. It's where God spoke to man.Copy !req
1208. Mecca is like
a homesickness of the soul to them.Copy !req
1209. This year they're going as pilgrims.Copy !req
1210. What?Copy !req
1211. Unarmed.Copy !req
1212. Unarmed?Copy !req
1213. Bu-sofyan will slaughter them
in the desert.Copy !req
1214. If you believe in God as they do,Copy !req
1215. it might be possible
not to get slaughtered.Copy !req
1216. But I agree with you,Copy !req
1217. they probably will be.Copy !req
1218. Be still! Do not let them provoke you,
that is what they want!Copy !req
1219. Stand firm!Copy !req
1220. Peace be to you.Copy !req
1221. The Prophet says, "All who love GodCopy !req
1222. must renew their oath to him."Copy !req
1223. Under the tree!Copy !req
1224. They've sent someone else.Copy !req
1225. It's Suhayl!Copy !req
1226. That means we might come to an agreement.Copy !req
1227. Muhammad, you have
been given conditions of truceCopy !req
1228. between yourself and Mecca.Copy !req
1229. Have you agreed to them yet?Copy !req
1230. What is this?Copy !req
1231. "In the name of God, the most gracious."Copy !req
1232. Who is this new god they call gracious?Copy !req
1233. I do not know him, strike him out.Copy !req
1234. And I cannot agree with this.Copy !req
1235. "Muhammad, the messenger of God"?Copy !req
1236. If I had thought you were
the messenger of God,Copy !req
1237. I would not have fought you.Copy !req
1238. Make it, "Muhammad, the son of Abdullah,Copy !req
1239. agrees with Suhayl, the son of Amr."Copy !req
1240. That is more factual.Copy !req
1241. Well, so I understand.Copy !req
1242. Good, that is better.Copy !req
1243. Now, it is agreedCopy !req
1244. that you do not continue your pilgrimage,Copy !req
1245. you must turn around and go home.Copy !req
1246. Mecca is home.Copy !req
1247. However, you may
continue your pilgrimage next year,Copy !req
1248. and for three days only, in and out.Copy !req
1249. We also agree to the truce for 10 years.Copy !req
1250. During that time,
you will not attack any tribe,Copy !req
1251. or ambush any caravan,
or any individual associatedCopy !req
1252. with us and vice versa.Copy !req
1253. If you injure any one of us,
the truce endsCopy !req
1254. and vice versa.Copy !req
1255. Is that clear?Copy !req
1256. 10 years, 10 years of peace.Copy !req
1257. We need that time.Copy !req
1258. We will use that time.Copy !req
1259. These letters, from Muhammad,
messenger of God,Copy !req
1260. to the rulers of the worldCopy !req
1261. call the world to Islam!Copy !req
1262. To Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium,Copy !req
1263. Kisra, Emperor of Persia,Copy !req
1264. Muqawqis, Patriarch of Alexandria.Copy !req
1265. God go with you!Copy !req
1266. God is great, God is great, God is great!Copy !req
1267. There are no different races in Islam.Copy !req
1268. An Arab is not superior to a foreigner.Copy !req
1269. Nor a white man superior to a Black.Copy !req
1270. All return equally to God.Copy !req
1271. Unless you desire for your neighbor,Copy !req
1272. what you desire for yourself,Copy !req
1273. you don't have faith.Copy !req
1274. A man who goes to bed with his belly fullCopy !req
1275. while his neighbor is hungry,
he isn't a Muslim.Copy !req
1276. The ink of a scholar is holierCopy !req
1277. than the blood of a martyr.Copy !req
1278. A man reading is handsome
in the sight of God.Copy !req
1279. So, learn to read.Copy !req
1280. And when you have learned, teach!Copy !req
1281. The people of the book,Copy !req
1282. the Jews with their Bible,Copy !req
1283. the Christians with their testament,Copy !req
1284. must be respected by you.Copy !req
1285. For their books likewise came from God.Copy !req
1286. You must not think of Muhammad
as more than a man.Copy !req
1287. He was collecting firewood one day.Copy !req
1288. "Let me do it," I said.Copy !req
1289. "Why?" he said.Copy !req
1290. "You are the prophet of God!Copy !req
1291. You can't go around
scratching for firewood."Copy !req
1292. But he looked at me, mumbling,Copy !req
1293. "God does not like the man who considersCopy !req
1294. himself above other men," he said.Copy !req
1295. So, I lay back and watched him.Copy !req
1296. Suddenly, he stopped.Copy !req
1297. He stood to his full height
and came to me.Copy !req
1298. "Yes, I am the prophet of God," he said.Copy !req
1299. "But even I do not know
what will become of me."Copy !req
1300. Amr, have you come to take me again?Copy !req
1301. No.Copy !req
1302. I have come to ask you to take me.Copy !req
1303. I witness that there is only one God,Copy !req
1304. and that Muhammad is His messenger.Copy !req
1305. May God forgive me
the times I have fought against you.Copy !req
1306. Islam does away
with all that went before it.Copy !req
1307. I'm sorry, I came in here wearing...Copy !req
1308. Here are my jewels.Copy !req
1309. What they are worth, I give to the poor.Copy !req
1310. - And may I offer you my—
- Yes.Copy !req
1311. But you were
the bitterest sword against Islam.Copy !req
1312. Now by the will of God,Copy !req
1313. I will be the raised sword of God.Copy !req
1314. Ah, it's all easy to God.Copy !req
1315. Just as he makes dying living,Copy !req
1316. he can make losing winning.Copy !req
1317. Two years ago we thought we wereCopy !req
1318. beaten when we had to sign that truce.Copy !req
1319. Look at us now.Copy !req
1320. Charging from victory to
victory in the hearts of men.Copy !req
1321. What's that?Copy !req
1322. Bu-sofyan is coming!Copy !req
1323. Bu-sofyan!Copy !req
1324. Why am I insulted like this?Copy !req
1325. I'm Bu-sofyan!Copy !req
1326. I expect some courtesy!Copy !req
1327. We are not at war, we have a truce!Copy !req
1328. I have come to speak
to Muhammad, where is he?Copy !req
1329. He is in the mosque.Copy !req
1330. Muhammad, we did not break the truce.Copy !req
1331. I have come to reaffirm the truce.Copy !req
1332. I speak for Mecca.Copy !req
1333. Muhammad, why do you turn from me?Copy !req
1334. Don't go.Copy !req
1335. Muhammad, don't go!Copy !req
1336. Bandits broke the truce, not us!Copy !req
1337. The night was dark!Copy !req
1338. I am here to testify, the night was dark!Copy !req
1339. Barra, Barra this is your city!Copy !req
1340. Hudayfa, you are my kin,
intercede for me!Copy !req
1341. I must be heard!Copy !req
1342. I am Mecca!Copy !req
1343. I am the leader of Mecca!Copy !req
1344. Why am I insulted like this?Copy !req
1345. Because you keep no promise
and respect no pledge.Copy !req
1346. I have heard what
I never thought I'd hear,Copy !req
1347. Bu-sofyan asking for pity.Copy !req
1348. To be outfought, outfought,Copy !req
1349. outmaneuvered by a one-time shepherd!Copy !req
1350. You saw that shepherd's religion
grow from a speck.Copy !req
1351. That speck was in my eye.Copy !req
1352. I could see nothing.Copy !req
1353. Tell Mecca their gods are dead.Copy !req
1354. It is useless to resist God.Copy !req
1355. Travel fast, or every man hereCopy !req
1356. will be close behind you.Copy !req
1357. It's you who have broken the truce.Copy !req
1358. For tonight, we'll be 10,000,
men from every tribe.Copy !req
1359. Now we can fight them, you are back.Copy !req
1360. We'll close the streets,
and defend from the houses.Copy !req
1361. It's no use.Copy !req
1362. There are thousands of them,Copy !req
1363. every hour they are joined by more.Copy !req
1364. You coward!Copy !req
1365. Hind, go home!Copy !req
1366. You coward!Copy !req
1367. Are you the leader of Mecca?Copy !req
1368. Look at yourself!Copy !req
1369. You are broke,
they swallowed you and spat you back!Copy !req
1370. Did my father and brother die,Copy !req
1371. for my husband to run away?Copy !req
1372. You go home! You!Copy !req
1373. We cannot resist!Copy !req
1374. Mecca is taken.Copy !req
1375. No, no, no!Copy !req
1376. We are to camp here for the night.Copy !req
1377. I can see Mecca,
even through the mountains.Copy !req
1378. So many fires, I cannot count them.Copy !req
1379. It's very beautiful.Copy !req
1380. When we drove them out of Mecca,Copy !req
1381. I did not know
they carried Mecca with them.Copy !req
1382. We can smell the bread they're baking.Copy !req
1383. Yes, it means
they don't intend to plunder,Copy !req
1384. at least I hope that's what it means.Copy !req
1385. They don't want blood on
their own walls and doorsteps.Copy !req
1386. I can bargain with that.Copy !req
1387. Take me to him.Copy !req
1388. So you're giving us the city?Copy !req
1389. You offer me no bread.Copy !req
1390. I understand.Copy !req
1391. You may decide to kill me.Copy !req
1392. Say what you've come to say.Copy !req
1393. I saw your fires, the men around them,Copy !req
1394. and I know what power
you put into your men.Copy !req
1395. We can no longer resist, Muhammad.Copy !req
1396. Now if you'll agree...Copy !req
1397. You dare to come here
and ask for conditions?Copy !req
1398. Isn't it time yet for you to
recognize who Muhammad is?Copy !req
1399. Muhammad, there is
still doubt in my heart.Copy !req
1400. If I were to cut off your head,Copy !req
1401. it would remove all your doubts.Copy !req
1402. Khalid, there's no compulsion in religion.Copy !req
1403. A man may take many years
or only need minutes.Copy !req
1404. It's God who decides the time.Copy !req
1405. So respect his doubts.Copy !req
1406. You Black slave,
you are the best school.Copy !req
1407. I am only what God has given me.Copy !req
1408. Yes.Copy !req
1409. If the gods that I worshipedCopy !req
1410. had been of any useCopy !req
1411. they would have helped me.Copy !req
1412. I declare,Copy !req
1413. under no compulsion...Copy !req
1414. there is one God,Copy !req
1415. and you are the messenger of God.Copy !req
1416. Now, let me go.Copy !req
1417. They're coming!
They're coming in from three sides!Copy !req
1418. Get inside! Get inside!Copy !req
1419. Guard your door!Copy !req
1420. No doors may be broken down,Copy !req
1421. nothing plundered, nothing seized!Copy !req
1422. No one abused!Copy !req
1423. All behind closed doors are safe!Copy !req
1424. All in Bu-sofyan's house are safe!Copy !req
1425. All by the Kaaba are safe!Copy !req
1426. At least he kept his word,
they haven't forced a door.Copy !req
1427. He storms hearts, not walls.Copy !req
1428. It's a permanent victory.Copy !req
1429. I dread going out.Copy !req
1430. We must, we must appear, Hind.Copy !req
1431. Were we so wrong?Copy !req
1432. The way we lived, yes, that was wrong.Copy !req
1433. We were trapped in our own faults.Copy !req
1434. Our gods were less than us.Copy !req
1435. Now there he is,
making his entrance to the Kaaba.Copy !req
1436. In the name of God,Copy !req
1437. most gracious, most merciful.Copy !req
1438. God gave this house to
Abraham to be a sacred place.Copy !req
1439. Worship no other gods but Him
and cleanse his house.Copy !req
1440. Truth has come! Falsehood has fled away!Copy !req
1441. So it was.Copy !req
1442. Muhammad took no revenge and allowed none.Copy !req
1443. He declared Mecca a holy place.Copy !req
1444. No one may shed blood or cut down a tree,Copy !req
1445. or kill a living thing in Mecca.Copy !req
1446. Soon, all Arabia was converted.Copy !req
1447. Not only to the new worship
but to the new laws, manners,Copy !req
1448. attitudes contained in Islam.Copy !req
1449. The Prophet had lived
to see his work done,Copy !req
1450. but now he began to feel
the nearness of death.Copy !req
1451. One great act of his prophethood remained,Copy !req
1452. the setting of its seal.Copy !req
1453. He called the people to him
and he spoke for the last timeCopy !req
1454. his message of surrender
to God and humanity to man.Copy !req
1455. "'Oh, mankind, listen well!Copy !req
1456. I may not be with you much longer.Copy !req
1457. The weak among you,
feed them on what you eat.Copy !req
1458. Dress them as you are dressed.Copy !req
1459. You will meet your God,Copy !req
1460. and He will call you
to account for your actions.Copy !req
1461. Let those who are present
warn those who are absent.Copy !req
1462. You are all are descended from Adam,Copy !req
1463. and the best among you
is he who most regards God.Copy !req
1464. Think deeply about what I say.Copy !req
1465. Let all your feuds be abolished.Copy !req
1466. You must know that every MuslimCopy !req
1467. is the brother of every other Muslim.Copy !req
1468. And all Muslims are brothers
one of another.Copy !req
1469. Between Muslims,
there are no races and no tribes.Copy !req
1470. Nor must you take anything
from your brother,Copy !req
1471. except what is given freely.Copy !req
1472. Do not oppress and do not be oppressed.Copy !req
1473. Oh, my people, I am but a man.Copy !req
1474. It may be that the angel
of death will visit me soon,Copy !req
1475. and death will overtake me.Copy !req
1476. But I have left you a book,Copy !req
1477. revealed by God, the Quran,Copy !req
1478. which is light and guidance."Copy !req
1479. Now he repeated to the peopleCopy !req
1480. the final revelation of the Quran,Copy !req
1481. the seal and termination,Copy !req
1482. not Muhammad's words, but God's word.Copy !req
1483. "This day I have perfected
your religion for youCopy !req
1484. and completed my favor to youCopy !req
1485. and I've chosen for you
Islam as your religion."Copy !req
1486. On June the eighth, 632,
in his 63rd year, Muhammad died.Copy !req
1487. Many of his followers
could not believe the fact.Copy !req
1488. How can such a man die?Copy !req
1489. But Abu Bakr, the Prophet's friend,
stood up in the mosque.Copy !req
1490. "If anyone worships Muhammad,Copy !req
1491. let him know that Muhammad is dead.Copy !req
1492. But he who worships God,
let him know that GodCopy !req
1493. is alive and cannot die."Copy !req
1494. They buried Muhammad
beside his mosque, in Medina.Copy !req
1495. But the religion he preachedCopy !req
1496. found its place in the heart of man.Copy !req
1497. It endured.Copy !req
1498. It multiplied.Copy !req
1499. Still to Mecca they come, mankind.Copy !req
1500. The people of Islam
dressed in their pilgrim white.Copy !req
1501. All equal before God,Copy !req
1502. all united in this place of prayer.Copy !req
1503. Each individual soul
joined in a community of worship:Copy !req
1504. One God.Copy !req