WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.000 Anyone looking at civilization today will notice one fact. 00:05.000 --> 00:12.000 Western civilization is more advanced than others in science, culture, economics and even art. 00:12.000 --> 00:16.000 The world's most impressive cities are in the West. 00:16.000 --> 00:21.000 New developments in science and technology originate mostly in the West. 00:21.000 --> 00:25.000 Some people from other parts of the world envy Westerners, 00:25.000 --> 00:31.000 not just for their culture and civilization but also for their philosophy and faith. 00:31.000 --> 00:37.000 But were they aware of the historical facts, they would not be misled so easily. 00:37.000 --> 00:44.000 If we examine the history of the last 2000 years, the picture looks altogether different. 00:44.000 --> 00:50.000 Islam drove the greatest cultural and scientific advancements in human history. 00:50.000 --> 00:53.000 At the time when the West was lost in darkness, 00:53.000 --> 00:57.000 Islam founded the most sophisticated civilization in the world. 00:57.000 --> 01:01.000 Islam brought light to an otherwise dark world. 01:01.000 --> 01:03.000 Let us watch together. 01:09.000 --> 01:15.000 Fourteen centuries ago, a new religion was born on the Arabian Peninsula. 01:20.000 --> 01:30.000 The religion taught the violent, barbaric and ignorant Arab nation peace, reason and civilization. 01:36.000 --> 01:41.000 Many other nations besides the Arabs were enlightened by this new religion. 01:41.000 --> 01:59.000 culture, philosophy and the arts developed tremendously. 01:59.000 --> 02:23.000 This religion was Islam, God's religion sent as a guide for humankind. 02:23.000 --> 02:24.000 be quite good. 02:24.000 --> 02:38.000 에 hu 02:38.000 --> 02:49.000 Ten海 02:49.000 --> 03:13.120 In the 7th century, Arabia was one of the most troubled areas of the world. 03:13.120 --> 03:31.620 It was home to a diverse range of tribal communities, each worshipping different idols. 03:31.620 --> 03:36.460 They would fight one another for the favor of their idols, shed blood and even kill their 03:36.460 --> 03:45.540 children. 03:45.540 --> 03:52.460 A perverse sense of morality ruled, hate prevailed instead of love and cruelty instead of compassion. 04:06.460 --> 04:17.020 But miraculously, in a matter of decades, this dark and bloody world was to change completely. 04:17.020 --> 04:30.160 This great miracle was the Koran that God sent to humanity as a guide. 04:30.160 --> 04:33.880 God revealed the Koran to the final Prophet, Muhammad. 04:33.880 --> 04:38.000 May God bless him and grant him peace. 04:38.000 --> 04:47.800 God's first revelation came to the Prophet when he was in a cave. 04:47.800 --> 04:53.680 Read in the name of your Lord who created, created man from a clinging substance. 04:53.680 --> 04:57.280 Read and your Lord is the most generous. 04:57.280 --> 05:11.840 He who taught by the pen, taught men what he did not know. 05:11.840 --> 05:17.080 With this commandment, the Arabs, caught in a vicious circle of utter ignorance and much 05:17.080 --> 05:26.900 violence, were for the first time invited to read and to think. 05:26.900 --> 05:30.900 This was also to be the beginning of the most remarkable cultural development in the history 05:30.900 --> 05:31.900 of humanity. 05:31.900 --> 05:34.380 Many others 05:34.380 --> 05:36.220 Apple graduates 05:36.220 --> 05:38.580 Theemers 05:38.580 --> 05:46.780 The Simple 05:46.780 --> 05:51.380 Yeah. 05:51.380 --> 05:53.380 You 05:53.380 --> 05:56.560 The 05:56.560 --> 06:10.220 The Prophet Muhammad began to preach Islam in Mecca, the largest city in Arabia. 06:13.680 --> 06:20.540 The inhabitants of Mecca were the guardians of the Kaaba, the mosque built by Ibrahim for the worship of God, 06:21.020 --> 06:25.500 which had degenerated to the point where it had turned into a temple of idolatry. 06:25.500 --> 06:34.260 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. 06:42.080 --> 06:48.940 They would make offerings to these idols, dance around them and chant, hoping to win their favor by these rituals. 06:48.940 --> 06:59.140 But in reality, they were just being hopelessly irrational, worshipping these carved pieces of stone and wood they had made themselves. 06:59.900 --> 07:01.440 God addressed them in the Koran. 07:01.440 --> 07:09.380 Mankind, an example has been made, so listen to it carefully. 07:10.160 --> 07:18.360 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. 07:18.360 --> 07:25.780 And if a fly steals something from them, they cannot get it back. 07:26.720 --> 07:29.180 How feeble are both the seeker and the sought. 07:29.180 --> 07:47.480 Mecca's elite turned their backs on this truth and developed an anger and hostility to the Prophet who had brought them this truth. 07:47.480 --> 07:59.900 They conspired first to force him off his path, then to intimidate him, and finally even to murder him. 07:59.900 --> 08:18.660 Many Muslims, believing in the Prophet, became the victims of vicious night-time raids on their homes, and most were martyred. 08:18.660 --> 08:32.500 Then, God showed the Muslim a way to safety. 08:34.420 --> 08:40.340 Thirteen years after the first revelation, at a time when the Muslims were subject to severe oppression, 08:41.020 --> 08:46.220 the leader of Yatrib, a town to the north of Mecca, invited the Muslims in. 08:46.220 --> 08:50.200 The Prophet obliged and migrated to this town. 08:56.860 --> 09:01.880 This town, later named Medina, was to become Islam's new capital. 09:04.020 --> 09:09.940 The Prophet signed an agreement with the Jews, Christians, and those Arabs who were not Muslims, 09:10.440 --> 09:15.980 establishing a just order by which all the different religious communities would live in peace with one another. 09:16.220 --> 09:35.340 In the following five years, three wars were fought between the Muslims of Medina and the idol worshippers of Mecca. 09:35.340 --> 09:45.200 The Pagans of Mecca attacked, intending to kill every single Muslim, hoping thus to erase Islam from the face of the earth. 09:45.200 --> 10:02.980 The Muslims, on the other hand, fought to save themselves and their religion, trusting only in God and seeking his pleasure. 10:02.980 --> 10:24.980 In all these wars, the Muslims took care not to inflict suffering on the innocent. 10:24.980 --> 10:30.360 They never wronged anyone, because God forbids this. 10:30.360 --> 10:42.400 Fight in the way of God against those who fight you, but do not go beyond the limits. 10:43.400 --> 10:46.180 God does not love those who go beyond the limits. 10:46.180 --> 11:00.060 According to Arab tradition, every prisoner of war had to be killed, but the Prophet, following God's commandment and the revelations, 11:00.560 --> 11:04.640 ordered the Muslims to treat them well and to give them to eat from their own food. 11:04.640 --> 11:12.040 The only thing that was asked of them was for the literate prisoners to teach the illiterate among the Muslims. 11:14.340 --> 11:20.880 Probably for the first time in thousands of years, compassion, forgiveness and civilization were seen on Arab soil. 11:20.880 --> 11:35.780 As the years passed, Islam's justice and high moral standards spread in waves around Arabia. 11:37.480 --> 11:45.220 The Muslims' fairness, integrity and determination impressed many Arab tribes and caused them to enter the Islamic faith. 11:45.220 --> 11:51.880 Islam's army became unstoppable and marched on Mecca in 630. 11:58.780 --> 12:04.760 The pagans of Mecca, because of all the cruelty they had inflicted on the Muslims, feared their retribution. 12:07.700 --> 12:10.720 They fled in terror at the site of the Islamic army. 12:15.220 --> 12:25.340 Arab tradition required the men of the defeated army to be put to the sword, and for the women and children to be enslaved. 12:30.680 --> 12:34.700 The pagans of Mecca were certain that this was to be their fate. 12:45.220 --> 12:58.460 But the Prophet's actions reflected God's infinite mercy. 13:00.860 --> 13:07.060 He proclaimed that no revenge would be taken, and that no one would be forced into accepting the Islamic faith. 13:07.060 --> 13:15.440 This great act of forgiveness and tolerance impressed Western historians. 13:16.940 --> 13:22.220 When Muhammad came into Mecca, and not only did not carry out a bloody revenge, 13:22.700 --> 13:29.400 but actually embraced the very Meccans who had fought him for three years and attempted to annihilate him, 13:29.400 --> 13:36.160 it was very shocking to the people in his milieu. 13:37.800 --> 13:41.380 So, within the very founding of a religion, 13:42.120 --> 13:44.960 one finds episodes of great generosity, 13:46.240 --> 13:51.500 often extraordinary acts of kindness and mercy. 13:51.500 --> 13:56.920 The Prophet had not come to punish the people of Mecca, 13:57.420 --> 13:59.520 but to free them from their false beliefs. 14:02.320 --> 14:07.180 The Muslim army, having taken the city, headed straight for the Kaaba. 14:07.840 --> 14:12.600 The Prophet entered the holy site and destroyed all the idols there one by one. 14:12.600 --> 14:34.540 With them, all the cruelty, injustice, barbarism, and violence committed in their name were destroyed too. 14:34.540 --> 14:53.480 With the spread of the values of the Qur'an in Arabia, 14:54.000 --> 14:59.020 all the injustices, oppression, and blood feuds from the times of ignorance disappeared. 14:59.020 --> 15:10.260 An order based on respect, love, compassion, and justice between people was established. 15:19.380 --> 15:24.220 This is why this era was later to be named the Blessed Period. 15:29.020 --> 15:56.360 This is who you 15:56.360 --> 16:26.340 Transcription by CastingWords 16:26.360 --> 16:53.860 Islam continued to rise after the death of the Prophet Muhammad. 16:56.360 --> 17:11.020 In just a few decades, it spread to all of Mesopotamia and North Africa, and in the East, it reached as far as India. 17:11.020 --> 17:27.260 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. 17:27.260 --> 17:57.260 In only a hundred years, their empire spread over an area greater than the Roman Empire, 17:57.260 --> 17:59.260 the Roman Empire. 17:59.260 --> 18:03.260 A diverse range of religious denominations was to be found living within that empire, 18:03.260 --> 18:10.260 especially Jews and Christians. 18:10.260 --> 18:17.260 The Muslims were very tolerant towards the different religious groupings in the lands they conquered. 18:17.260 --> 18:25.260 No one was forced to change their religion, and everyone's faith was respected. 18:25.260 --> 18:31.260 Synagogues and churches were protected at a time when forced change of religion was commonplace. 18:31.260 --> 18:38.260 The Muslims' tolerance was unique. 18:38.260 --> 19:08.260 One of the most remarkable examples of Islamic tolerance was experienced during the conquest of Jerusalem in 638 19:08.260 --> 19:19.260 the Muslims of Islam led by the Caliph Omar. 19:19.260 --> 19:26.260 The patriarch of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre feared that the Muslims would destroy the Church. 19:26.260 --> 19:35.260 Omar made a friendly visit to the Church and told them that they had nothing to fear. 19:35.260 --> 19:44.260 When the time for his prayer came, Omar took leave of the patriarch, left the Church and performed his prayers nearby. 19:48.260 --> 19:56.260 Later on, the El-Aqsa Mosque was to be built on the spot where Omar performed his first prayers in Jerusalem. 19:57.260 --> 20:02.260 The Muslims gave Jerusalem one of the world's most spectacular works of architecture. 20:05.260 --> 20:15.260 The Dome of the Rock was built on the rock from where it is believed that Muhammad ascended to the heavens. 20:20.260 --> 20:28.260 With its unique decorations and gold leaf dome, the Dome of the Rock was illustrative of Islam's sense of art and civilization. 20:28.260 --> 20:41.260 Europe, on the other hand, was ruled at that time by dogma and barbarism. 20:41.260 --> 20:53.260 The Catholic Church oppressed the Jews and even Christians belonging to the other churches. 20:53.260 --> 21:08.260 Forced change of religion, torture and execution in the name of religion were common practice in the West. 21:08.260 --> 21:29.260 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. 21:29.260 --> 21:36.260 The Church of St. John in Damascus in Syria is an example of this. 21:36.260 --> 21:48.260 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. 21:48.260 --> 22:01.260 The members of the two religions shared the same place of worship in peace. 22:06.260 --> 22:13.260 As the number of Muslims increased in the city, the Muslim authorities bought the church with the consent of the Christian community. 22:13.260 --> 22:22.260 They built a mosque beside the church, and the decorations of its courtyard were enriched with Islamic motifs. 22:23.260 --> 22:29.260 Stunning examples of early Islamic art were built on the columns inherited from Byzantine. 22:29.260 --> 22:46.260 The Muslims' tolerance towards Jews and Christians continued throughout the history of Islam. 22:46.260 --> 23:02.260 Jews fleeing the tyranny of the tyranny of the Inquisition in Spain found refuge and tolerance in Ottoman lands. 23:02.260 --> 23:15.260 The source of Islam's tolerance towards Jews and Christians is the morality of the Koran. 23:19.260 --> 23:23.260 God commanded the Muslims to treat the people of the Book well. 23:23.260 --> 23:44.260 Only argue with the people of the Book in the kindest way, except in the case of those of them who do wrong, saying, 23:44.260 --> 23:49.260 We believe in what has been sent down to us and what was sent down to you. 23:50.260 --> 23:54.260 Our God and your God are one, and we submit to Him. 24:14.260 --> 24:19.260 One of the illuminating qualities brought to humanity by Islam was scientific thought. 24:20.260 --> 24:25.260 The pre-Islamic, Arab, and Middle Eastern societies were not concerned with questions about the universe, 24:25.260 --> 24:28.260 how nature came into existence, and how it worked. 24:29.260 --> 24:33.260 They learned to reflect on these questions and to seek their answers from the Koran. 24:34.260 --> 24:39.260 In the Koran, God commands humanity to explore how the heavens and earth came to be. 24:39.260 --> 24:44.260 This mindset powered the rise of science in Islamic civilization. 24:44.260 --> 24:48.260 This was a unique scientific development in the history of the world. 24:56.260 --> 25:02.260 Baghdad became the scientific capital of the Empire of Islam, as well as being its administrative capital. 25:09.260 --> 25:15.260 Scientists, philosophers, and researchers flocked to Baghdad from the four corners of the Islamic world 25:16.260 --> 25:22.260 and met in the famous House of Wisdom there in order to unravel the mysteries of the universe which God had created. 25:22.260 --> 25:40.260 This awareness of Muslim scientists, which derived from the Koran, gave rise to the greatest advancements of science, quite unlike anything seen before. 25:40.260 --> 25:53.260 Another quality taught to Muslims by the Koran is open-mindedness, which enabled them to examine other civilizations' scientific knowledge without prejudice. 25:53.260 --> 26:13.260 Muslim works contained a considerable amount of research, observation, experiments, and calculations. 26:13.260 --> 26:33.260 The decimal system used all over the world today was developed by Muslim mathematicians. 26:33.260 --> 26:43.260 Muslim scientists attached great importance to astronomical observation. 26:43.260 --> 26:48.260 Modern astronomy was to develop from their systems. 26:48.260 --> 26:58.260 Muslim scientists also calculated the moon's orbit around the Earth and recorded mathematical formulae. 26:58.260 --> 27:07.260 Muslim scientists also calculated the moon's orbit around the Earth and recorded mathematical formulae. 27:07.260 --> 27:17.260 Algebra and trigonometry are the inventions of Muslim mathematicians. 27:17.260 --> 27:24.260 The stunning works of architecture in the four corners of the Islamic world were made possible by the scientific infrastructure. 27:31.260 --> 27:35.260 Some of the most striking achievements of the Muslims were in the field of medicine, 27:36.260 --> 27:41.260 at a time when the Europeans considered illnesses to be caused by evil spirits. 27:41.260 --> 27:50.260 Treatment was not a word to be found in the vocabulary of the European mind. 27:50.260 --> 28:00.260 Muslim scientists, on the other hand, concluded after much research that illnesses were caused by creatures which were too small to be seen, 28:00.260 --> 28:05.260 and that patients must be treated in isolation from the healthy population. 28:05.260 --> 28:09.260 Thus, the world's first modern hospitals were founded. 28:09.260 --> 28:22.260 The patients were kept and treated by scientific methods in separate wards, 28:22.260 --> 28:25.260 according to the type of illnesses they suffered from. 28:25.260 --> 28:31.260 Patients suffering from mental illness received music therapy, 28:31.260 --> 28:37.260 at a time when in Europe the mentally ill were considered to be the servants of Satan and burned alive. 28:37.260 --> 28:56.260 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. 28:56.260 --> 29:15.260 A documentary about the world of Islam, prepared for the BBC by the commentator Terry Jones, 29:15.260 --> 29:30.260 says the following on the high scientific standards of Islam. 29:34.260 --> 29:40.260 One philosopher from the town of Haran, for example, had already correctly calculated the distance from the earth to the moon, 29:40.260 --> 29:47.260 while another had suggested that if you could divide the atom, you would release enough power to destroy a city the size of Baghdad. 29:47.260 --> 29:56.260 In this medical school built here in Damascus in 1154, doctors were already teaching anatomy, preventive medicine, hygiene, surgery, 29:56.260 --> 29:59.260 the circulation of the blood centuries before Harvard. 29:59.260 --> 30:14.260 Muslim physicians took the pulse of their patients when examining them, centuries before the Europeans knew about blood circulation. 30:19.260 --> 30:23.260 Women gave birth under the most hygienic conditions possible at that time. 30:23.260 --> 30:35.260 The era's source books picturing the implements used by Muslim surgeons show just how advanced their medical knowledge was. 30:45.260 --> 30:52.260 Women too were educated in the schools of science in the Islamic world, contributing their share to the advancement of science. 30:52.260 --> 31:02.260 Muslim scientists made some very significant discoveries in the field of optics and light. 31:03.260 --> 31:10.260 The first person to describe the anatomy of the eye in great detail was the optician Ibn El Haitham, 31:11.260 --> 31:16.260 whose acclaimed research on lenses opened up the way for the invention of the camera. 31:16.260 --> 31:31.260 Muslim physicians also discovered the causes of eyesight impairments and carried out successful cataract operations a thousand years before the Europeans. 31:31.260 --> 31:40.640 Europeans. 31:40.640 --> 31:45.180 The scientific heritage of Islam became the source of European enlightenment beginning 31:45.180 --> 31:51.480 in the 15th century. 31:51.480 --> 31:56.180 Christian scientists launched Europe's scientific development with knowledge acquired from their 31:56.180 --> 31:58.540 Muslim counterparts. 31:58.540 --> 32:26.260 Islam's light illuminated them too. 32:26.260 --> 32:31.180 One of the Muslims' distinguishing qualities rooted in Islam is their high sense of arts 32:31.180 --> 32:32.640 and aesthetics. 32:32.640 --> 32:37.980 The paradise pictured in the Koran is a place of the highest quality, finest taste and a 32:37.980 --> 32:40.880 simply stunning grandeur. 32:40.880 --> 32:45.800 Muslims carrying this sense of artistry in their hearts created fantastic works of art, 32:45.800 --> 32:57.920 and the lands they ruled became the most modern and advanced in the world. 32:57.920 --> 33:03.320 As Islam continued to proliferate in all directions from Arabia after the death of the Prophet, 33:03.320 --> 33:10.500 they brought with it development and wealth. 33:10.500 --> 33:18.320 Wherever they went, Muslims took civilization with them. 33:18.320 --> 33:24.400 For instance, in Tunisia they designed the genial water purification system to meet the city's 33:24.400 --> 33:26.620 drinking water needs. 33:26.620 --> 33:31.540 Two great basins linked to one another were built to still the water. 33:31.540 --> 33:38.540 The impurities, either sinking to the bottom or floating on the surface were removed and the water was channeled to the city through pipes. 33:38.540 --> 33:53.540 Muslim engineers built mills in order to carry water to the cities. 33:53.540 --> 34:14.180 The capital city, Baghdad, was the most stunning and modern city in the world. 34:14.180 --> 34:21.380 Its city plan and architecture were outstanding. 34:21.380 --> 34:25.300 One traveler who visited the city wrote of it, 34:25.300 --> 34:36.060 All the avenues of Baghdad are lined with gardens, parks, mansions, squares, impressive shopping arcades and Turkish baths. 34:36.060 --> 34:51.100 This beautiful city stretches out along the river for miles on both sides. 34:51.100 --> 35:00.420 Another important center of Islam was in Spain. 35:00.420 --> 35:05.520 The Muslim nation of Andalusia was the most modern country in Europe. 35:05.520 --> 35:18.100 The capital, Cordoba, was a splendid city with its architecture, orderly and well-lit streets, libraries, hospitals and palaces. 35:18.100 --> 35:28.420 In the same era, the greatest cities in Europe such as London and Paris were squalid, dark and disorderly. 35:28.420 --> 35:36.420 That is why Europeans visiting Cordoba were most impressed by the grandeur, culture and art they enjoyed in the city. 35:36.420 --> 35:45.740 The city of Cordoba in the 9th and 10th centuries was one of the biggest and most exciting in Europe. 35:45.740 --> 35:55.740 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. 35:55.740 --> 36:05.740 Cordoba had running water, people lived in big houses, in contrast, in Paris, people lived in shacks by the side of the river. 36:05.740 --> 36:17.740 One of the few remaining splendid works of architecture is the catholic cathedral in the city center. 36:17.740 --> 36:31.740 This used to be a mosque and was later converted into a church. 36:31.740 --> 36:45.740 The interior of the mosque was aesthetically stunning and Christians coming to Cordoba were staggered by its beauty. 36:45.740 --> 37:13.740 angic pioneers 37:13.740 --> 37:25.100 In the 10th century, there was a Saxon nun with the unpronounceable name of Hrozwitha who called medieval Cordoba the ornament of the world. 37:25.360 --> 37:29.860 She was very, very taken with the place, and there you are, she's a Christian nun. 37:31.320 --> 37:41.140 One of the most splendid works of architecture in Andalusia was the Elhambra Palace, a magnificent example of Islam's art and aesthetics. 37:43.740 --> 38:00.020 In the sublime style of the palace, one could feel the high spirits awakened in people by Islam. 38:00.020 --> 38:19.020 The gardens of the Elhambra had sophisticated fountains made by making use of gravitational systems. 38:19.020 --> 38:26.020 The Muslim designers of the Elhambra were inspired by the Koran's descriptions of paradise. 38:26.020 --> 38:31.020 Besides architecture, the Muslims were also the most advanced people on the planet in terms of style and quality of the clothes they wore. 38:31.020 --> 38:38.020 The finest luxurious fabrics, the likes of which the world had never seen before, were woven on the Muslim looms. 38:38.020 --> 38:45.020 The Muslim looms were also the most advanced people in terms of style and quality of the clothes they wore. 38:45.020 --> 38:53.020 The finest luxurious fabrics, the likes of which the world had never seen before, were woven on the Muslim looms. 38:53.020 --> 39:12.020 Fabrics and clothes produced by the Muslims were status symbols among Europe's elite. 39:12.020 --> 39:19.020 And the Muslims dictated fashion to the world. 39:19.020 --> 39:31.020 The Europeans were even to learn to bathe and to use soap from the Muslims. 39:31.020 --> 39:43.020 The high culture, fine taste and deep thought, God taught humanity in the Koran, illuminated the whole world. 39:43.020 --> 40:12.020 In this first film, we have explored some very significant facts. 40:12.020 --> 40:21.020 We saw that Islam, from the very first moment of its revelation to the Prophet, lit the way to truth, reality and beauty. 40:21.020 --> 40:31.020 The Muslims, enlightened by the values of the Koran, took tolerance, reason, science, aesthetics, hygiene and wealth with them wherever they went. 40:31.020 --> 40:41.020 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. 40:41.020 --> 40:50.020 All the values and knowledge the Europeans had acquired from the Muslims played a very important role in the later development of European civilization. 40:50.020 --> 41:01.020 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. 41:01.020 --> 41:12.020 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. 41:12.020 --> 41:21.020 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. 41:21.020 --> 41:24.020 The source of this religion is the Koran. 41:24.020 --> 41:29.020 is the guiding principle which leads the people from darkness into light. 41:29.020 --> 41:33.020 As God said to His Messenger, 41:33.020 --> 41:42.020 This is a book we have sent down to you so that you can bring mankind from the darkness to the light, 41:42.020 --> 41:47.020 by the permission of their Lord, to the path of the Almighty, the Praiseworthy. 41:47.020 --> 41:54.840 This is staff 41:57.020 --> 42:00.020 by the Emperor of throwing theéndole. 42:01.020 --> 42:11.020 It's great.