Inside Mecca
With unique access to Islam's holiest city, National Geographic's Inside Mecca follows three Muslims from very different backgrounds as they embark on an epic five-day reaffirmation of faith and quest for salvation Inside Mecca captures the look and feel, spiritual uplift, claustrophobia, grandeur and grit of the largest annual gathering of Muslims in the world.
"Inside Mecca focuses on the personal stories of the hajj," says Anisa Mehdi, producer and director of the film. "Through the various viewpoints and experiences of the participants, we follow not only their physical steps but the spiritual and emotional stages of this all-important voyage.
We want to show viewers around the world the remarkable experience of the hajj: that it is at once deeply personal and widely universal." One of the five pillars of Islam, the hajj is required of all who can manage it at least once in a lifetime.
Each year, Muslims from all over the world travel to Mecca to praise and give thanks to God, to ask pardon for their sins and to renew their spiritual commitment through an elaborate series of rites and rituals.
This MOVIE SUCKED!!!!! I'd rather cut my own balls and use them as earmuffs instead of watching this again.
Charlesovery: There is no such word as "eclyptic."
I kind of noticed that the pork subject seems to be a hot topic here. I might help give some insight as to why the rule is still in place in many religious groups today.
Ancients cultures were used to observe events and learn from
them so, in older times, pigs were usually fed garbage and allowed to wander about towns eating kitchen and harvest refuse and, worse still, human and animals waste. As a result, such diet made many of them carriers of diseases. Eventually, the ancients realized that eating pigs tended to cause sickness among their people so many Middle Eastern cultures at the time, regardless or religious background, learned quickly to avoid pigs as a source of protein. It became law in many towns and eventually such laws found their way into religious decrees in the Quran, Jewish Torah, Bible, and early Christian cultures. The same observations by the ancients are behind other such rules about storing raw milk and eggs with ready to eat foods, grains, or other protein to avoid cross-contamination. Likewise, rules about not using the left hand to eat were based on environmental needs. Desert tribes didn’t have exactly an abundance of water to wash often, so the best way to prevent the spread of diseases was to use the same hand to wipe yourself and make sure it didn’t go into the communal pot at meal time. Many of those rules were eventually included in religious books as a way for smart leaders in ancient tribes to force people to follow them. Throughout centuries, those ancient prevention measures have helped to stop and prevent the spread of gastrointestinal diseases in towns with no running water, no sewer or dirty water disposal, and no knowledge of what caused diseases. Hope this clarifies why eating pork is such a widespread rule in the Middle East and why it is still included in so many religious teachings in the region.
wow,what a beautiful and amazing video I'm only 12 years old and I'm planning inshallah to got to mecca one day! :) I'M PROUDE TO BE A MUSLIM!
I love being a Muslimah.
but still The GOAT/SHEEP slaughter is very UNACCEPTABLE
When I see people cowering and grovelling like this before a fairy tale creature, I can only think how miserly and cowardly and weak they are.
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peace be with you all
everyone you hav to kow the difference between ISLAM and MUSLIM, ISLAM is the divine and noble religion of god which aims to perfect good morals and character and than you have MUSLIMS now a muslim is what an individual makes of the religion and somethimes you get a few nut heads who twist the words of god to suit their own personal desires . thank youu for reading
peace be with you
obaid.
everybody has their own perspective on how they view their world and worshiping on what they believe. those kinds of symbolisms may can be think as a ridiculous act, but I believe people fear to something that they don't understand and make some bad judgement although perhaps maybe what we do also may ridiculous for else.
A very interesting documentary. I'm not a Muslim, I'm a Secular Humanist but I still found it very interesting. I believe that everyone has the right to believe in whatever outdated ancient myths that they choose to, provided that they don't try to force them on anybody else.
"They stone each other"? Kill sheep? Too many men with B.O. concentrated in one area. What's with that Irish/American "scientist" who decided to join religion that denigrates women? She sounds like a real piece of work. (I guess the Scientology Church wasn't taking applications that day).
I'll stick with Secular Humanism.
that was a refreshing view of islam
plz dont blame ISLAM if you see muslims make mistake or killing poor poeple just focuss on him and put your finger on him not the whole muslim or blaming Islam coz Islam is true faith
mashalla there people who are becoming muslims and doing well for them in order to go to jannat.
Muhammad had worms in his mouth
Muhammad had worms in his mouth.
why does every one start up with aisha and muhammad she was 9 so what marry was 13 when (according to christians) God boinked her (God forbid) and aisha's father (abu bakr) was not muhammad's brother.
Nobody is forcing u to join our religion go do whatever u want and let us do whatever we want.
just enjoy the documentary guys..every1 is a **king scholar these days
Islam is religion and religion can not be bad. There are paople who make it bad and they dont understand the real meaning of Islam. Islam is religion of peace !
For about 30 years I've witnessed a steady stream of documentaries or movies that portray Islam in glowing terms without a hint of criticism or allusion to its sinister practices.
This is not coincidental. I understand the royal family of S. Arabia finances an annual award scheme that recognizes Western film makers who create movies and documentaries designed to present Islam in the best possible light. The awards are prizes worth multiple millions of dollars.
There is no scheme like it for Christianity and most movies and documentaries on that subject are critical or hate inspiring-which is fine. Christianity can take it and turn the other cheek to take it again and not come undone.
Islam is a religion that accompanies Arab Imperialism and culture--which is crude, barbaric and barely evolved beyond the stone age.
But yet, here, we see another Saudi encouraged/financed documentary seeking to portray Islam as something it is not.
Islam is a religion of peace--but only for co-religionists. That statement and many others have been misapplied and dumped on the West.
I cannot help but feel motivated to speak-out like this as I have 6 daughters--thank God I don't live in an Islamic nation; I'd be forced to practically hate them and possibly myself and wife for procreating them.
it's a great video
i do not agree on the part which showed that there was racesem with black people.there every persom is equal
excuse me... I meant...
Can't we just get along?
Can't we all just get a long?
I am not a Muslim, will never be Muslim, but I did enjoy learning about the journey. My compliments to the people that created the video documentary.