The first followers of Muhammad s.a.w
MOVIE TRAILER
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AFTER THE DEATH OF OUR PROPHET MUHAMMAD s.a.w. THE FIRST CALIPHA WAS ABU BAKR AS-SIDDIQ r.a. WHICH LASTED UP UNTIL HIS DEATH 2YRS AFTER THE PROPHET s.a.w.. THEN CAME THE ERA OF UMAR IBN KHATTAB r.a.. BEFORE HIS OWN ACCEPTANCE OF ISLAM, HE (UMAR) FOLLOWED THE TRADITIONS OF THEIR FOREFATHERS IN IDOL WORSHIP ALTHOUGH "ALLAH" WAS KNOWN & REGARDED THE MAIN GOD OF THE KABAH...THE TRIBES IN THEIR WORSHIP OF IDOLS ALL GATHERED WITHIN & AROUND THE KABBAH.
ON ONE OCCASION WHILE TRAVELING AFTER THEN BEING MUSLIM, HE RECALLS BECOMING HUNGRY ON HIS JOURNEY AND STOPS AND EATS THE IDOL HE HAD MADE OUT OF DATES...HE CHUCKLES TO HIMSELF AFTER PONDERING HOW IGNORANT THEY WERE IN PRAYING TO SUCH THINGS THAT THEY'RE OWN HANDS HAD MADE. THIS WAS A FAR CRY FROM WHAT IBRAHIM A.S. AND HIS SON ISHMAEL A.S. WHOM THE ARABS DESCEND ESTABLISHED IN THIS BARREN LAND. BOTH PROPHETS/MESSENGERS OF ALLAH SATAN WAS ABLE TO DILUTE THEIR TEACHINGS AND LATER GENERATIONS WITH THE INFLUENCE OF TRADERS FROM THE BYZANTINE CONQUERORED LANDS TO THE NORTH TOOK TO IGNORANT PRACTICES AND A REFLECTION OF ONLY THIS WORLD (LIFE)... IDOLS STILL EXIST TODAY, FROM STATUES, TO THINGS SUCH AS CELEBRITY, MONEY/FAME, POWER, CREATION (I.E. ANIMALS, TREES, SUN, MOON, STARS), AND DEIFIED PEOPLE... THE SERIES TRANSPORTS THE VIEWER BACK TO THEIR ERA AND GIVES US A VERY ACCURATE FEELING OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE ON THE GROUND FOR THE FIRST FOLLOWERS OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD s.a.w.NOT ONLY IN ARABIA, BUT IN THE SURROUNDING LANDS THAT WE BEING EXPOSED TO THE TYRANNY OF THE BYZANTINE & PERSIAN EMPIRES HISTORY LIKES TO PORTRAY ISLAM AS A RELIGION THAT SPREAD BY "THE SWORD"...BE IT AS IT MAY..OF COURSE THOSE WHO WOLD LOSE THE GAINS OF INJUSTICE WOULD SEE AT AS SUCH WHILE THE MAJORITY OF THE OPPRESSED SAW IT AS IT WAS..."A LIBERATION" FROM SUBJUGATION, .BUT ISLAM HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CALL OF EVERY NABI TO "OPEN" LANDS FROM TYRANNY TO A JUST RULE UNDER ALLAH'S LAW WHICH GAVE MANKIND A FREEDOM IN THE LAND. UN-RECOGNIZING OF LAND BOUNDARIES, SERVITUDE OF THE MANY TOWARDS THE FEW, INEQUALITY, UNFAIR BUSINESS, STOPPING OPEN PUBLIC SINS & CORRUPTION, MISTREATMENT OF THE LAND, SEA, ANIMALS INCLUDING THE CREATION OR SUPERIORITY OF RACE TO NAME A FEW...ISLAM SPREAD BECAUSE IT ALLOWED PEOPLE TO FLOURISH UNDER ITS UMBRELLA, WHICH THE WORLD DID... LIKE TODAY, IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THOSE WHO STAND TO LOSE THE MOST WHO REJECT AND FIGHT AGAINST ISLAM'S JUSTICE, BUT NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY FIGHT, ITS THE PROMISE OF ALLAH TOLD TO ALL PROPHETS (salaam alaYhum) THAT HIS JUSTICE WOULD PREVAIL AGAIN IN THE EARTH. PAINTED AND NARRATED FROM SO MANY ANGLES TODAY, THE TRUTH STILL SHINES FORTH FOR THOSE WHO TRULY SEEK IT. |