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All yearning and striving is memory of a time when man existed in perfect union; without a separate identity or self-consciousness. The autogenesis that characterizes creation, and continues to re-invigorate endless cycles of nature, was an exchange between the primordial essence of man and his creator. That instance of perfect divine love is accessible in every moment - in the example of our Prophets.
The love of our Prophets is the principle of spiritual ascent regardless of the religion. For millions of Muslims across the ages and around the world, the noble Muhammad sits at the throne of love. A historic reality whose times and message is known in great detail, whose character is not a myth, who was supremely successful at the spiritual and the temporal domains - is the “Perfect Man”.
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The idea of Prophethood is central and common to all well-developed religions. The memory of Prophethood has been reduced to empty ritual and culture. Only myths and astral imagery remain of most religious traditions. Modern enlightenment and pseudo science have increasingly characterized faith as a primitive psychological mechanism no longer needed. Scientific scholarship has long since assumed that monotheism had an evolutionary history and developed from pantheism and totemic worship. The worshippers of nature, pseudo scientists of their day, the Chaldean astrologers and the priest of Amun, must be separated from the prophets and sages to understand the history of divine inspiration and intercession.
Any characterization of faith and history of religion is incomplete without studying the only historically accessible and relevant example of Prophethood. The only living, universal example of faith as an organizing principle is Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The Quran and the tradition of Muhammad (PBUH) have not been subjected to the craftiness of centralized clergy, esoteric speculators or those who claim divine right to rule.
Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images; the founder of twenty terrestrial empires and of one spiritual empire, that is Muhammad. As regards all standards by which human greatness may be measured, we may well ask, is there any man greater than he?
[Lamartine, HISTOIRE DE LA TURQUIE, Paris, 1854, Vol. II, pp. 276-277.]
If the latent meaning in ritual as in the acts of the Prophet (PBUH), the concept of the perfect man and the centrality of Divine love is illustrated, the prophetic tradition of mankind is truly its highest aspiration and finest form. All human knowledge emanated from divine inspiration. This is an attempt to provide complex Islamic mystic cosmology in a condensed, poetic and dramatic way. The documentary provides an intimate/personal experience of the two holiest sites of Islam. It aims to inspire the audience by the universality of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The love of our Prophets is the principle of spiritual ascent regardless of the religion.
A series of 10 short documentaries, ranging from 15-30 minutes each, will follow “Divine Nostalgia” describing History of Religion, Mythology, Astrology and Gnosticism over the last 13,000 years; to synthesize a history of divine inspiration that separates our Prophets and sages from occult speculators, astrologers and tyrant divine-kings; to differentiate the worship of nature from the veneration of “Al Haqq”, the Real; who is beyond and unlike any of its creations.
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