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Anyone looking at civilization today will notice one fact.

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Western civilization is more advanced than others in science, culture, economics and even art.

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The world's most impressive cities are in the West.

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New developments in science and technology originate mostly in the West.

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Some people from other parts of the world envy Westerners,

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not just for their culture and civilization but also for their philosophy and faith.

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But were they aware of the historical facts, they would not be misled so easily.

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If we examine the history of the last 2000 years, the picture looks altogether different.

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Islam drove the greatest cultural and scientific advancements in human history.

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At the time when the West was lost in darkness,

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Islam founded the most sophisticated civilization in the world.

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Islam brought light to an otherwise dark world.

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Let us watch together.

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Fourteen centuries ago, a new religion was born on the Arabian Peninsula.

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The religion taught the violent, barbaric and ignorant Arab nation peace, reason and civilization.

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Many other nations besides the Arabs were enlightened by this new religion.

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culture, philosophy and the arts developed tremendously.

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This religion was Islam, God's religion sent as a guide for humankind.

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In the 7th century, Arabia was one of the most troubled areas of the world.

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It was home to a diverse range of tribal communities, each worshipping different idols.

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They would fight one another for the favor of their idols, shed blood and even kill their

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A perverse sense of morality ruled, hate prevailed instead of love and cruelty instead of compassion.

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But miraculously, in a matter of decades, this dark and bloody world was to change completely.

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This great miracle was the Koran that God sent to humanity as a guide.

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God revealed the Koran to the final Prophet, Muhammad.

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May God bless him and grant him peace.

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God's first revelation came to the Prophet when he was in a cave.

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Read in the name of your Lord who created, created man from a clinging substance.

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Read and your Lord is the most generous.

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He who taught by the pen, taught men what he did not know.

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With this commandment, the Arabs, caught in a vicious circle of utter ignorance and much

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violence, were for the first time invited to read and to think.

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This was also to be the beginning of the most remarkable cultural development in the history

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The Prophet Muhammad began to preach Islam in Mecca, the largest city in Arabia.

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The inhabitants of Mecca were the guardians of the Kaaba, the mosque built by Ibrahim for the worship of God,

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which had degenerated to the point where it had turned into a temple of idolatry.

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The hundreds of idols adorning the Kaaba were the symbol of the perverted religion of the local people, as well as their source of income.

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They would make offerings to these idols, dance around them and chant, hoping to win their favor by these rituals.

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But in reality, they were just being hopelessly irrational, worshipping these carved pieces of stone and wood they had made themselves.

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God addressed them in the Koran.

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Mankind, an example has been made, so listen to it carefully.

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Those whom you call upon besides God are not even able to create a single fly, even if they were to join together to do it.

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And if a fly steals something from them, they cannot get it back.

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How feeble are both the seeker and the sought.

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Mecca's elite turned their backs on this truth and developed an anger and hostility to the Prophet who had brought them this truth.

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They conspired first to force him off his path, then to intimidate him, and finally even to murder him.

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Many Muslims, believing in the Prophet, became the victims of vicious night-time raids on their homes, and most were martyred.

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Then, God showed the Muslim a way to safety.

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Thirteen years after the first revelation, at a time when the Muslims were subject to severe oppression,

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the leader of Yatrib, a town to the north of Mecca, invited the Muslims in.

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The Prophet obliged and migrated to this town.

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This town, later named Medina, was to become Islam's new capital.

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The Prophet signed an agreement with the Jews, Christians, and those Arabs who were not Muslims,

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establishing a just order by which all the different religious communities would live in peace with one another.

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In the following five years, three wars were fought between the Muslims of Medina and the idol worshippers of Mecca.

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The Pagans of Mecca attacked, intending to kill every single Muslim, hoping thus to erase Islam from the face of the earth.

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The Muslims, on the other hand, fought to save themselves and their religion, trusting only in God and seeking his pleasure.

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In all these wars, the Muslims took care not to inflict suffering on the innocent.

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They never wronged anyone, because God forbids this.

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Fight in the way of God against those who fight you, but do not go beyond the limits.

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God does not love those who go beyond the limits.

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According to Arab tradition, every prisoner of war had to be killed, but the Prophet, following God's commandment and the revelations,

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ordered the Muslims to treat them well and to give them to eat from their own food.

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The only thing that was asked of them was for the literate prisoners to teach the illiterate among the Muslims.

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Probably for the first time in thousands of years, compassion, forgiveness and civilization were seen on Arab soil.

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As the years passed, Islam's justice and high moral standards spread in waves around Arabia.

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The Muslims' fairness, integrity and determination impressed many Arab tribes and caused them to enter the Islamic faith.

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Islam's army became unstoppable and marched on Mecca in 630.

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The pagans of Mecca, because of all the cruelty they had inflicted on the Muslims, feared their retribution.

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They fled in terror at the site of the Islamic army.

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Arab tradition required the men of the defeated army to be put to the sword, and for the women and children to be enslaved.

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The pagans of Mecca were certain that this was to be their fate.

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But the Prophet's actions reflected God's infinite mercy.

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He proclaimed that no revenge would be taken, and that no one would be forced into accepting the Islamic faith.

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This great act of forgiveness and tolerance impressed Western historians.

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When Muhammad came into Mecca, and not only did not carry out a bloody revenge,

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but actually embraced the very Meccans who had fought him for three years and attempted to annihilate him,

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it was very shocking to the people in his milieu.

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So, within the very founding of a religion,

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one finds episodes of great generosity,

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often extraordinary acts of kindness and mercy.

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The Prophet had not come to punish the people of Mecca,

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but to free them from their false beliefs.

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The Muslim army, having taken the city, headed straight for the Kaaba.

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The Prophet entered the holy site and destroyed all the idols there one by one.

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With them, all the cruelty, injustice, barbarism, and violence committed in their name were destroyed too.

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With the spread of the values of the Qur'an in Arabia,

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all the injustices, oppression, and blood feuds from the times of ignorance disappeared.

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An order based on respect, love, compassion, and justice between people was established.

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This is why this era was later to be named the Blessed Period.

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Islam continued to rise after the death of the Prophet Muhammad.

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In just a few decades, it spread to all of Mesopotamia and North Africa, and in the East, it reached as far as India.

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The Arabs, who only a few decades before had been herdsmen in the deserts of Arabia, became the rulers of a huge empire due to the superior wisdom, culture and awareness they acquired thanks to Islam.

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In only a hundred years, their empire spread over an area greater than the Roman Empire,

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the Roman Empire.

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A diverse range of religious denominations was to be found living within that empire,

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especially Jews and Christians.

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The Muslims were very tolerant towards the different religious groupings in the lands they conquered.

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No one was forced to change their religion, and everyone's faith was respected.

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Synagogues and churches were protected at a time when forced change of religion was commonplace.

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The Muslims' tolerance was unique.

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One of the most remarkable examples of Islamic tolerance was experienced during the conquest of Jerusalem in 638

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the Muslims of Islam led by the Caliph Omar.

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The patriarch of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre feared that the Muslims would destroy the Church.

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Omar made a friendly visit to the Church and told them that they had nothing to fear.

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When the time for his prayer came, Omar took leave of the patriarch, left the Church and performed his prayers nearby.

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Later on, the El-Aqsa Mosque was to be built on the spot where Omar performed his first prayers in Jerusalem.

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The Muslims gave Jerusalem one of the world's most spectacular works of architecture.

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The Dome of the Rock was built on the rock from where it is believed that Muhammad ascended to the heavens.

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With its unique decorations and gold leaf dome, the Dome of the Rock was illustrative of Islam's sense of art and civilization.

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Europe, on the other hand, was ruled at that time by dogma and barbarism.

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The Catholic Church oppressed the Jews and even Christians belonging to the other churches.

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Forced change of religion, torture and execution in the name of religion were common practice in the West.

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The Muslims, on the other hand, always treated the people of the Book, that is, Jews and Christians, with tolerance and compassion as God commanded them in the Koran.

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The Church of St. John in Damascus in Syria is an example of this.

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The Muslims who conquered the area began to perform their Friday prayers at that church, but it still belonged to the Christians who attended Mass on Sundays.

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The members of the two religions shared the same place of worship in peace.

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As the number of Muslims increased in the city, the Muslim authorities bought the church with the consent of the Christian community.

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They built a mosque beside the church, and the decorations of its courtyard were enriched with Islamic motifs.

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Stunning examples of early Islamic art were built on the columns inherited from Byzantine.

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The Muslims' tolerance towards Jews and Christians continued throughout the history of Islam.

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Jews fleeing the tyranny of the tyranny of the Inquisition in Spain found refuge and tolerance in Ottoman lands.

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The source of Islam's tolerance towards Jews and Christians is the morality of the Koran.

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God commanded the Muslims to treat the people of the Book well.

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Only argue with the people of the Book in the kindest way, except in the case of those of them who do wrong, saying,

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We believe in what has been sent down to us and what was sent down to you.

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Our God and your God are one, and we submit to Him.

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One of the illuminating qualities brought to humanity by Islam was scientific thought.

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The pre-Islamic, Arab, and Middle Eastern societies were not concerned with questions about the universe,

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how nature came into existence, and how it worked.

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They learned to reflect on these questions and to seek their answers from the Koran.

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In the Koran, God commands humanity to explore how the heavens and earth came to be.

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This mindset powered the rise of science in Islamic civilization.

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This was a unique scientific development in the history of the world.

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Baghdad became the scientific capital of the Empire of Islam, as well as being its administrative capital.

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Scientists, philosophers, and researchers flocked to Baghdad from the four corners of the Islamic world

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and met in the famous House of Wisdom there in order to unravel the mysteries of the universe which God had created.

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This awareness of Muslim scientists, which derived from the Koran, gave rise to the greatest advancements of science, quite unlike anything seen before.

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Another quality taught to Muslims by the Koran is open-mindedness, which enabled them to examine other civilizations' scientific knowledge without prejudice.

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Muslim works contained a considerable amount of research, observation, experiments, and calculations.

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The decimal system used all over the world today was developed by Muslim mathematicians.

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Muslim scientists attached great importance to astronomical observation.

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Modern astronomy was to develop from their systems.

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Muslim scientists also calculated the moon's orbit around the Earth and recorded mathematical formulae.

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Muslim scientists also calculated the moon's orbit around the Earth and recorded mathematical formulae.

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Algebra and trigonometry are the inventions of Muslim mathematicians.

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The stunning works of architecture in the four corners of the Islamic world were made possible by the scientific infrastructure.

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Some of the most striking achievements of the Muslims were in the field of medicine,

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at a time when the Europeans considered illnesses to be caused by evil spirits.

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Treatment was not a word to be found in the vocabulary of the European mind.

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Muslim scientists, on the other hand, concluded after much research that illnesses were caused by creatures which were too small to be seen,

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and that patients must be treated in isolation from the healthy population.

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Thus, the world's first modern hospitals were founded.

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The patients were kept and treated by scientific methods in separate wards,

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according to the type of illnesses they suffered from.

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Patients suffering from mental illness received music therapy,

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at a time when in Europe the mentally ill were considered to be the servants of Satan and burned alive.

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Muslim physicians' observation of the human anatomy was so accurate as to lead them to be used as textbooks in European medical schools for over six centuries.

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A documentary about the world of Islam, prepared for the BBC by the commentator Terry Jones,

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says the following on the high scientific standards of Islam.

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One philosopher from the town of Haran, for example, had already correctly calculated the distance from the earth to the moon,

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while another had suggested that if you could divide the atom, you would release enough power to destroy a city the size of Baghdad.

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In this medical school built here in Damascus in 1154, doctors were already teaching anatomy, preventive medicine, hygiene, surgery,

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the circulation of the blood centuries before Harvard.

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Muslim physicians took the pulse of their patients when examining them, centuries before the Europeans knew about blood circulation.

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Women gave birth under the most hygienic conditions possible at that time.

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The era's source books picturing the implements used by Muslim surgeons show just how advanced their medical knowledge was.

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Women too were educated in the schools of science in the Islamic world, contributing their share to the advancement of science.

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Muslim scientists made some very significant discoveries in the field of optics and light.

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The first person to describe the anatomy of the eye in great detail was the optician Ibn El Haitham,

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whose acclaimed research on lenses opened up the way for the invention of the camera.

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Muslim physicians also discovered the causes of eyesight impairments and carried out successful cataract operations a thousand years before the Europeans.

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Europeans.

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The scientific heritage of Islam became the source of European enlightenment beginning

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in the 15th century.

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Christian scientists launched Europe's scientific development with knowledge acquired from their

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Muslim counterparts.

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Islam's light illuminated them too.

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One of the Muslims' distinguishing qualities rooted in Islam is their high sense of arts

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and aesthetics.

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The paradise pictured in the Koran is a place of the highest quality, finest taste and a

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simply stunning grandeur.

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Muslims carrying this sense of artistry in their hearts created fantastic works of art,

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and the lands they ruled became the most modern and advanced in the world.

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As Islam continued to proliferate in all directions from Arabia after the death of the Prophet,

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they brought with it development and wealth.

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Wherever they went, Muslims took civilization with them.

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For instance, in Tunisia they designed the genial water purification system to meet the city's

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drinking water needs.

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Two great basins linked to one another were built to still the water.

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The impurities, either sinking to the bottom or floating on the surface were removed and the water was channeled to the city through pipes.

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Muslim engineers built mills in order to carry water to the cities.

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The capital city, Baghdad, was the most stunning and modern city in the world.

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Its city plan and architecture were outstanding.

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One traveler who visited the city wrote of it,

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All the avenues of Baghdad are lined with gardens, parks, mansions, squares, impressive shopping arcades and Turkish baths.

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This beautiful city stretches out along the river for miles on both sides.

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Another important center of Islam was in Spain.

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The Muslim nation of Andalusia was the most modern country in Europe.

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The capital, Cordoba, was a splendid city with its architecture, orderly and well-lit streets, libraries, hospitals and palaces.

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In the same era, the greatest cities in Europe such as London and Paris were squalid, dark and disorderly.

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That is why Europeans visiting Cordoba were most impressed by the grandeur, culture and art they enjoyed in the city.

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The city of Cordoba in the 9th and 10th centuries was one of the biggest and most exciting in Europe.

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We have descriptions of it by people coming and saying, all these flowers everywhere, these open streets, this wonderful light coming down, northern cities were dark.

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Cordoba had running water, people lived in big houses, in contrast, in Paris, people lived in shacks by the side of the river.

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One of the few remaining splendid works of architecture is the catholic cathedral in the city center.

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This used to be a mosque and was later converted into a church.

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The interior of the mosque was aesthetically stunning and Christians coming to Cordoba were staggered by its beauty.

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In the 10th century, there was a Saxon nun with the unpronounceable name of Hrozwitha who called medieval Cordoba the ornament of the world.

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She was very, very taken with the place, and there you are, she's a Christian nun.

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One of the most splendid works of architecture in Andalusia was the Elhambra Palace, a magnificent example of Islam's art and aesthetics.

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In the sublime style of the palace, one could feel the high spirits awakened in people by Islam.

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The gardens of the Elhambra had sophisticated fountains made by making use of gravitational systems.

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The Muslim designers of the Elhambra were inspired by the Koran's descriptions of paradise.

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Besides architecture, the Muslims were also the most advanced people on the planet in terms of style and quality of the clothes they wore.

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The finest luxurious fabrics, the likes of which the world had never seen before, were woven on the Muslim looms.

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The Muslim looms were also the most advanced people in terms of style and quality of the clothes they wore.

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The finest luxurious fabrics, the likes of which the world had never seen before, were woven on the Muslim looms.

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Fabrics and clothes produced by the Muslims were status symbols among Europe's elite.

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And the Muslims dictated fashion to the world.

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The Europeans were even to learn to bathe and to use soap from the Muslims.

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The high culture, fine taste and deep thought, God taught humanity in the Koran, illuminated the whole world.

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In this first film, we have explored some very significant facts.

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We saw that Islam, from the very first moment of its revelation to the Prophet, lit the way to truth, reality and beauty.

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The Muslims, enlightened by the values of the Koran, took tolerance, reason, science, aesthetics, hygiene and wealth with them wherever they went.

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While Europe was floundering in the dark world of fundamentalism and barbarism, the world of Islam was the most advanced and modern civilization on earth.

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All the values and knowledge the Europeans had acquired from the Muslims played a very important role in the later development of European civilization.

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On the other hand, the subsequent stagnation experienced in the Muslim world was caused by leaving behind the reason, open-mindedness and honesty taught by the Koran.

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In the second film, we will continue to follow the light brought to the world by Islam and also to explore the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire and much more.

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We must never forget that Muslims were the representatives of a great religion which built one of the greatest civilizations in the world out of nothing.

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The source of this religion is the Koran.

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is the guiding principle which leads the people from darkness into light.

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As God said to His Messenger,

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This is a book we have sent down to you so that you can bring mankind from the darkness to the light,

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by the permission of their Lord, to the path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy.

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by the Emperor of throwing theéndole.

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It's great.