The Message Page #3

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
4,163 Views


Have mercy!

Left hand!

Who is your God? Answer me!

Say it! Say who is your God?

Say it!

There is only one God and

Muhammad is the messenger of God

Ammar!

Your father and mother are the first martyrs of Islam

You are promised Paradise

How much are you men prepared to suffer?

The Prophet has said we must leave Mecca

If we stay, they will kill you

One by one

Mohamed says in Abinisia, there is a Christian King

No man is wronged in his country

We must leave now, today

Usman!

Lord is great

Let us go

We found their tracks and followed them

But they just disappeared

They were there, in the desert, under the vultures

And you let them escape you

Escape? They vanished!

If Muhammed has stayed, then only the weakest are gone

Weak or strong, they blacken our name

We are honest merchants, we buy and sell in good faith

We cannot afford scandal

Amr!

You are a friend of Najjasi, the king?

Yes

can you use that friendship?

I think I can bring them back

Yes

Abisinia...

Rise up Amr

Please, nothing you may ask for that we will not give

Lion of Judah, I.. I don't know where to begin

you have our friendship, begin there

certain run-away slaves have escaped from us into your kingdom

Slaves go back

or you agree to return your slaves back to us

there are however some free men among them

Rebels

Rebels?

If there are disagreements in Arabia,

why am I not informed?

They are rebels in religion

at one time are another

all religions were rebellions

The bodies of slaves of the world

if bidden are in-disposed

But as Jesus Christ as a shepherd,

the souls of men are his sheep

These are Arabs who have betrayed

the religion of their fathers

they follow a lunatic they call.. Prophet

But I cannot put souls into chains

without hearing them

good, they'r stiff.

Next they will hang them

Do you not now yourself before your prophet?

Muhammad is a man,

We kneel only to God

Where are Muhammad's miracles, Jafar?

If he were a prophet,

he'd lit the sky with miracles

indeed, this is true.

God has given his prophets signs of miracles that we may recognize them

The miracle of Muhammad is the Holy Qur'an

A book! A book! Written by an illiterate

attributed to God

I think the emperor's heard enough

A mind full of pedicast

When God set down

tons of fire upon the heads of christ of puzzles

so that they can speak the many languages of the world

that they knew not before

But do such miracles happen in our time..

I've heard enough. You've made a poor case

When we suffered persecution in Mecca,

Muhammad told us go to Abyssinia

the land of the righteous king,

where no man is wronged

What they call persecution was fair punishment,

that is order...

Why did your prophet send you to me?

Because you believe in the book of the one God as we do.

He sent us because

in your heart God will protect us

Talking with him is like

drawing water from a mirage

But now, they'd let the judy on me listen to them, my friend.

Go on!

For years, we worshiped wood and stone,

images of our own manufacture

we lived in ignorance of God

we had some earthly laws

and no heavenly laws. The rich neglect the poor.

And the natural pity of man

thereby lifts up when his brother has fallen

This is described by them as upsetting

social order

To this inhumanity has come a man

whom god chose and in that we believe

You've overcome. I beg you to collect yourself.

I speak of the messenger of god. Muhammad teaches us to worship one god,

to speak truth

to love our neighbors as ourselves,

to give charity, even a smile can be charity

to protect women from misuse,

to shelter orphans

and to turn away from gods of Wood and stone

I cannot be still and hear this blasphemy

We are an ancient civilization,

to call our gods wood and stone

is to speak ignorantly of them

The idol we home is not what we worship,

but the spirit that resides within the form

I agree that idolatry is

not always fully understood Thank you

Now, let me bring him back to the women

God made woman to be the proper companion of man

she is different but equal

Equal? We buy them,

feed them, perl them,

use them, distorb them,

women equal to us?

God created man from one male and one female

Amr, you must respect the woman's womb that bore you

Why are you 300 guards so tongue-tied?

what is only god is rependent.

God has spoken to us before

through Abraham, Noah, Moses and through Jesus Christ.

Why should we so surprised when god speaks to us now through Muhammad?

Who taught you those names?

they are named in the Qur'an

I knew Muhammad when he was an orphan minding sheep

And you knew Christ as a carpenter

What Christ says and

what your Muhammad says

is like two raised from the same land

They'r lieing to you

They deny Christ You worship 3 gods they say, father son and holy ghost they'r saying

What do you say of Christ?

They say God can not have a son,

Christ is not the Son of God

speak to me of Christ

we say of Christ what our prophet has told us,

that god cast his holy spirit into

the womb of a virgin named Mary and that

she conceived Christ the Apostle of God

Apostol he says, not a son, not a son!

What does your miracle, your Qur'an,

say of the breadth, by the Lord Jesus Christ?

may I relate the words?

Come closer to me

In the name of God, most gracious, most merciful

relate in the book, the story of Mary.

how she was grew away from her family

to a place in the east.

How we sent her an angel called Gabriel who said:

''I am a messenger from your God

to announce the birth of a holy son to you"

she said:
How shall I Mary have a son when no man has touched me?''

And Gabriel replied: For your Lord says,

it will happen"

"We appoint him as a sign on to man"

and a mercy from us!

It is a thing or didn't"

The difference between us and you

is not bigger than this line

Not for a mountain of gold

will I give them up to you

you may live in Abyssinia in peace as long as you wish

May God's blessings be upon you when you return

lntolerable! Mohamed disturbs

even our foreign alliences

Very well! we will make him give up on him

Abu Talib has his arms around him

Very well! we will throw uncle and nephew out

In one bundle, his whole family out

we will expel them from ourselves

No merchant make trade with them,

no land remain to them

no roof shelter them,

no beggar pay for them

no woman marry them

until they renounce their trend.

These were the worst years of Muhammad's life

For 3 years they suffered the hunger, thirst,

cruelty of the open desert,

but the year of grief was still to come,

when Khatija, Muhammad's wife for 24 years died,

when Abu Talib his old Protector died

With his last breath Abu Talib tried again

to reconsile Mecca and Muhammad

He never asked more from you,

when one word,

one.. one God

If it was only a question of one word

I'd have given him 10 words,

but the word he wants would dethrown all the gods

You were afraid even to hear him

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