The Message Page #4

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with the death of his uncle, Muhammad has now

lost all protection

He was no longer safe in Mecca

Alone with Zaid, his adopted son,

he went to the hillside town of Taif

He asked to be taken in, to be allowed to preach

But the children of Taif were turned loose to stone him back into the desert

What are you doing?

Stop! Stop! Leave him alone! Wait!

Muhammad called this, the bitterest day of his life

Then miraculously, when Muhammad's mission

seemed to have failed, his entire situation changed

A deputation from the rich, but self-destroying

city of Medina met him by night at the Rock of Agaba

asking him to come to them to stand between their factions

to mediate their continual quarrels and civil wars

Muhammad agreed, provided they gave him a pledge

that they worship the one God only

Wait! When we take this pledge

we expel ourselves from the rest of Arabia.

So, wait!

War is in this pledge.

We'll make enemies of brothers

we'll make firewood of our gods

That is the meaning of the pledge

If we take it, there can be no turning back

for Muhammad is indeed the messenger of God

foretold to Jews in our city

So if anyone has doubt in this pledge, go now

and if you have no doubts then you do as I do

I pledge myself to the one and only God

and to you Muhammad, the messenger of God

He is of us and we are of him

Leave him bring his followers,

our brothers, to use, to Medina

It was a journey that changed the world

The Hijrah of flight to Medina

Only 70 people split up into small groups

walking 250 miles of desert

yet, so profound with the consequences

so lasting with the effects of this walk

that from it the muslims take their calendar

In this moment, Islam found its future

Muhammad himself stayed in Mecca

in the greatest danger until all his followers had left safely

Muhammad has become a nation,

he has received a city, entering into pledges and treaties

and you Salool who claim to be king of Medina

lost the kingdom last night while you were in bed

you should worry about yourself Abu Sufian

Every time you trade a whif of perfume of the city,

you must creep past that man in Medina

he is across your merchantile throats as we speak

And what do you intend to do?

l intend to wait

And how long will you wait?

Till you and the rest of Arabia remove him

to save your way of life

and while you wait?

I should accept his call of course

To think I will give him my birth-rite...

I will not..

Medina is worth the conversion

Hypocrisy

Of course, its the healthy hypocrisy

King Salool, why put your head on the floor

5 times a day praying? I don't believe you

He may not have to.

Well, we do know we should have done it before

kill Muhammad

Come!

Come and see

They say that practice leads to perfection

7 young men each from a different family,

my own son Ikrima is with them

they will stab him together

If the responsibility for his death

is shared, where lies the guilty? My idea

I'm not sure I'm part of it

Muhammad's body contains too much

his mind, his words

But it is an ingenious solution

And a final one

No

Ali, his cousin, laid there to die for him?

Who are we fighting?

They cannot go far, all the tracks are watched

We must take to the desert

Bakka will give 100 camels to the man

who brings back Muhammad

or his head

Look for 3 of them

Muhammad, Abu Bakr and Uriqat, the Bidune guide

What is it?

These are drains of camel

Maybe two days, that from the city

Why are you here?

Medina is to the north

They made the tracks, not I

Know much? Traveling West?

I know my art

They say that you can track a bird by smelling the air

we go with him

he may be in that cave over there

Muhammad, if you come out, we will

take you to Mecca alive

Muhammad, come out

they cannot be in there

This web is unbroken

And these pigeons

they would not build

we were wrong to follow them

we should have gone north

Let's move then

we still have time to head them off

A few threads of a spider's web

was all that was then

between Muhammad and murder

But he was a man not to be killed

The Bidune guide led him

and his companion Abu Bakr in their escape

through untracked spaces of the desert

and the heat of the June days

At Medina, his followers waited with their welcome ready

but in great fear for his journey

anything? No nothing

this shows that he is only a man

no man can survive that heat

There! I see them! Look!

Run and hide! I might be obliged

to free you as a gesture

Welcome to the city of Medina, the blessed,

your city, the messenger of god

You will stay with me, messenger of god,

I have the best house in Medina

you'll give me the honor of keeping you

Stay with me!

Please! Please! Please! How can the Prophet

choose between so many welcomes?

Where God guides his camel to stop,

there he will build his house

All agreed

We turn Quaswa, his camel loose

and where Quaswa sits, the Prophet stays

Clever man!

A choice made by camel

can offend no one

Here we will build the house of the Prophet

And our first meeting place,

a prayer house

the first mosque of Islam, here!

Repair and Synch by

komag

What's got the prophet to start doing it?

carrying bricks?

Give me that Look, you are doing too much,

please go and sit down we will do it

Look! He went for more

"Work is a worship" he says

he's 53 years old

How old are you?

There is something missing.

Maybe a bell to call people in

the Christians use a bell

what about a horn, like the Jews?

A drum?

There's too much blood in a drum

Why not the human voice

as in Omar bin Kattab's vision?

The Prophet agrees?

he means you, Bilal

me?

You have a good voice, use it!

climb up there!

Brothers, today a man of Medina

will embrace a man of Mecca

Each will share half and half,

reach out, embrace your neighbor and brother

I'm tired of the politics of kissing slaves

Read this

The prophet should concern himself with the after-world

What is my son?

Praying like a horse

does it burn your hands?

It's not upon us to burn down the house

he's making laws like a king.

He's declared that loyalty to Islam

is more than loyalty to tribal family

What?

All muslims are next of kin to one-another?

Don't be mislead by that...

They must change the nature of the tribes before that

The danger is here, the quality:

a man's neighbour is as good as himself

The Lunatic means it

Jews and Christians

have equal rights with Muslims,

the Jews who attach themselves to a common wealth

will be protected

Women have rights of inheritance... Rights

Next, he will be giving the camel rights

He has! the lunatic has!

You can't overload them

he's remaking a city, my city...

damn him..

He's taken our sons from us, he took the children, our future from us. His rights are wrongs

no more...

This time there will not be any regret

it will take everything of value they left in Mecca

their rugs, their houses, their silver

and with it, large of caravans to Damascus

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