The Message

Synopsis: In the 7th century, Mohammed, Peace Be Upon Him, is visited by Angel Gabriel who urges him to lead the people of Mecca and worship God. But they're exiled in Medina before returning to Mecca to take up arms against their oppressors and liberate their city in the name of God (Allah).
Director(s): Moustapha Akkad
Production: Anchor Bay Entertainment
 
IMDB:
8.2
PG
Year:
1976
177 min
4,209 Views


In the name of God, the most gracious, the most Merciful

From Muhammad, the Messenger of God

to Heraclius,

the emperor of Byzantium, greetings to him

who is the follower of righteous guys

I bid you to hear the divine call

I am the messenger of God to the people,

accept Islam for yourself

He speaks of the new prophet in Arabia

Was it like this when John, the Baptist

came to king Hsrul out of the desert crying of salvation

To Mephocus, Patriarch of Alexandria

Kisra, emperor of Persia

Muhammad calls you with the call of God

accept Islam for your salvation

Embrace Islam

You come out of the desert, smelling of camel and goat

You stand as Persia kneel?

Muhammad, Messenger of God

Who gave him this authority?

God sent Muhammad as

a message to mankind

The Scholars and Historians of Islam -

The University of Al-Azhar in Cairo,

The High Islamic Congress of the Shiat in Lebanon

Have approved the accuracy and fidelity of this film

The makers of this film honour the Islamic Tradition

which holds that the Impersonation of the Prophet

offends againts the spirituality of his message

Therefore, the person of Muhammad

will not be shown

600 years after Christ died,

when Europe was sunk in the dark ages

and everywhere

the old civilizations were falling,

Muhammad was born in Mecca in Arabia

Mecca was then a rich trading city

ruled by its merchants

whose wealth was multiplied by a

unique privilege They housed the gods

Every year, at the time of the great fair,

the desert priests brought their idols

and the images of their gods into the custody of Kabbaah

Months, the most holyish reign of Abraham,

the Kabbaah has now

become a house of idology hosting

no fewer than 360 different gods

Mecca in 610 AD

Bilal!

Have the other days counted Umaya?

Not yet But this year the Gods are gold

When you put the Gods and Prophet together,

its a pretty bit deal

Oh, more Gods in the place of Kabbaah

Caravans from Syria

mm They must be in running Very thirsty

Put 5 more men in North Wells

How many sheeps will I have to kill for them? 70?

Give them a 100

Macca should keep her name

for hospitality

And 10 lambs for the leaders

Bread and water, do the poets have in the Hakim's house

Where verse and prose are nightly

put to slaughter

And and the bread, I swear in there,

is thinner than the water

Oh, open the space Open the space,

you lovers of poetry

to Abu Sufian, willing and which

patron of the art

When Abu Sufian invites the poet in, there joy is

kids and love is kin

where wines and cakes abound

the skills of Abu Sufian

All revels and all songs begin

when Abu Sufian invites the poet in

Roman silk, worms of China, my lady,

a pleasure to the lin, and as my lady can see,

ravish to the eyes

Yes 7 lengths

20 dinars

Abu Sufian's wife? 15!

Oh, gold!

the gods of the Kabbaah have their needs

They are Acives

Who is that man who stood there,

who looked into my soul?

Cut me away from here

Why did Muhammad come down here?

Why don't you stop him?

He is your nephew

Maybe he will change!

Change?

He is 40 years old

Its unnatural, with a rich wife he could afford the best of Mecca

If he chooses to sit shivering in a cave,

it is unnatural

For a man who dares to risk the anger of

Lath-Uzza, who keeps our health,

Mannat, the god of our prosperity,

Allot, the god of our family and tribes

and Hubar,

Hubar, who starts our caravans

and predicts our fate

To challenge the gods within a year

sort of the gods is dangerous

Unreasonable

Rebellious, blasphemous

Yes, I'm afraid Muhammad will harm himself

I am always sad

when the great fair is over

I might not see the next one

Abu Talib! Abu Talib!

Catch your breath, Zaid!

Has Muhammad come down from the mountain yet?

He's been there for 3 days

No No, I haven't seen him

Khadija hoped he might have come to you

on his way home

Maybe he's still up there

3 days

I'm afraid for him on the mountain

because I don't know what it means

Men see the world too well from a mountain

Muhammad! Read!

In the name of the Lord who created

man from his sensitive drop of blood

teaches man what he knows not

Read!

He's still trembling under the blanket, but he has spoken

Zaid! What happened to my nephew on the mountain?

He was alone in the cave

Suddenly an angel came on to him,

The angel said:
Read!

Muhammad replied: I can not read

The angle commanded again: Read!

In the name of our Lord

who created man from his sensitive drop of blood

who teaches man what he knows not: Read!

Who knows if it was Gabriel!

It could have been a dream

When Muhammad was coming from the mountain

He saw Gabriel cleanly

in the shape of a man

standing on the horizon

Wherever he looked, upon every turn of his head

he saw him

Gabriel said to him again: I am Gabriel and

you Muhammad are the Messenger of God

Who has he told about this?

His Wife

and Ali

And his friend Abu Bakr

And you?

I am his adopted son

Be careful to whom you talk

Tell him his uncle who protected him

when he was a child will protect him still

After all, they say the God of Moses

spoke to him under the burning bush

If you do not restrain your nephew, then we will

He's dividing the city, heart against hopes

He's dividing the generations,

child against parent

The young are listening to him, he attract the yound

We are Arabs We obey our fathers

Our children cannot be our teachers

How can we accept that

the man we met in the street yesterday

can be some God's Prophet today?

Dead ones can live again, he says

because he who created man

can also make man return from the dead, he says

The Gods might leave us and

give their benefits to another city

Tell him we will give him authority, position,

and key to the Kabbaah,

and money what money he wants

Tell him we will give him anything he wants

Muhammad, spare yourself and me

Do not put a great burden on

an old man who can't bear

In your childhood, you were in my arms,

I cannot see you hurt

If you refuse them, they will hurt you

He said this to me:

Were they to put sun in my right hand

and the moon in my left

I would not renounce my message

which is from God

When I am dead, you may do as you please

but last time in your life,

you will believe your father

Why did you hurt your father?

If I'd be drunk every day and played dice

every night, you'd call it high spirits

You'll be more my brother than you are now

You are all my children

I give you everything I could, but it seems

not to be enough

Muhammad gives me more, he give all the world more

Get him out of here father!

Its not worth it He's our father

You torture him

Wait Hudaifa, wait

How can they say its an invention, Musab

when it isn't new?

In Mecca it's new

If God has said it all before, to Noah, Moses, Jesus, to all of Prophets,

but people changed it, turned it, forgot it

Now God said it to Muhammad again,

and it is new again

What is it?

It Jafar

What have you brought with you?

The very word of God

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