Praying together is a good thing. It cements the idea of belonging to a movement, to a religion, to an organization, to a community. The result is something very, very powerful, even to watch, even for a non-believer or someone from another religion....
For Muhammad's followers, leaving the place of their ancestors, their families and tribes was the ultimate test of devotion. In doing so, they began a new community, a new tribe. For the first time, they were bound together not by blood, but by faith...
To the non-believers, the divine reckoning Muhammad invoked wasnt average. His dismantling of their heritage and customs deeply unset them. It was a threat, a threat in several ways, to their social order, to their age-old traditions, and an economic...
Rather than a physical image of God or of Muhammad, it is the beauty of the Koran itself that is celebrated in Islam. Islam developed in this context where pictures were not favored. The Koran, as it was revealed, was Gods representation on earth, an...
Muhammad's following began to grow. They called themselves Muslims for those who surrendered to God. They set out to preserve the message Muhammad had brought. This was the beginning of the Koran. The Koran was revealed orally, but very soon people r...
And that is the beginning of the prophetic career of Muhammad. The months to come would bring more revelations, powerful words of a lyrical quality, more beautiful than the most exquisite Arabic poetry. Above all, Muhammad was to bear one message to...
She was so taken with Muhammad, she proposed marriage. Ah, Hadijia, well I think she was a mentor as well as a wife, a very strong lady who had her own business, and Muhammad was helping her out, so it was a wonderful partnership and I'm sure he lear...
Each clan had its own separate gods and totems to water and wind, fire and night. They were kept in the caravan town of Mecca, in a shrine of wood, stone and cloth. It was called, the Kaaba, the Arabic word for Cube. Pre-Islamic-Arabs worshiped a num...
Muhammads clan, like Arabs all across the Arabian Peninsula, would share the stories that had been told and retold for generations. Pre-Islamic-Arabian civilization was largely an oral culture, and with tremendous respect for and admiration for peopl...
To Muslims, the life of Muhammad is a story revered in its mysteries as much as its certainties that our beliefs held sacred. Whatever we can tell about the prophet, of course, is screened through the filter of what has been preserved over the centur...
In Cairo, a muezzin calls faithful Muslims to prayer. Its the same call that sounds five times a day every day in cities across the world. Nearly a quarter of the people on earth respond to it, bound together by the enduring spirit of Islam. ''God is...
I got on top of the washer to get a good angle, kneeled a bit and took one of the best pictures circulating in the world, I'm told. That evening, Felix meets with the top brass of the Bolivian army. One of the generals is concerned people may not bel...
Colonel Zantano returns to La Higuera. Felix talks to him about reversing the order. There are orders from your commander to eliminate this prisoner. The order from my government is to try to give him a life at all cost. We have helicopters and mobil...
October 8th, 1967, after 11 months on the run, Che Guevaras dreams of revolution have come to a bloody end in the Bolivian jungles. We knew Che have been taken prisoner, we planned an escape to get out and report what had occurred, the truth about Bo...
He could hardly walk. Che wants to link up with the group to make their way towards the Andes for their final escape. Only days apart, both groups begin to move separately towards the Rio Grande. On August 31, Joaquin's column gets there first. And t...
