Friday, November 11, 2005
This was in an email sent to my dad:
Mustafa Al-Aqqad died today in Amman at Al-Arabi Medical Center after he
had several surgeries to treat his injuries from the terrorist attack on
his hotel. His daughter died in the blast at age 33.
Al-Aqqad is a movie producer who produced Hollywood quality Islamic movies
in Arabic and English. He is Syrian. His famous three movies in both
languages are:
The Message (Anthony Quinn), Ar-Risalah (Abdullah Gaith),
Lion of the Desert (Anthony Quinn), Asad As-Sahraa
Salah Ad-Din.
This man as I said in one of my MCA Khutbas, made more Dawah to islam than
most contemporary scholars even though he had no mustache or beard. He
knew the way to people in the West and used it well to produce quality
movies that are shown often on PBS.
The strange thing is that they needed a long campaign and modification
when they came out till he got Al-Azhar approval. Of course, he was not
stupid to seek approval from Saudi scholars. His whole movie making is
Haram according to such school of Fiq since all pciture making and image
processing is banned.
May Allah bless his soul and make him among those who enter Jannah.
Many names come to mind that made Dawah more than so many scholars like
Maurice Buccaile and Rojeh Jarudi. People may not consider them strong
Muslims but they made so many people enter Islam.
Salam,
Hussein
So true.
- Naiema
Mustafa Al-Aqqad died today in Amman at Al-Arabi Medical Center after he
had several surgeries to treat his injuries from the terrorist attack on
his hotel. His daughter died in the blast at age 33.
Al-Aqqad is a movie producer who produced Hollywood quality Islamic movies
in Arabic and English. He is Syrian. His famous three movies in both
languages are:
The Message (Anthony Quinn), Ar-Risalah (Abdullah Gaith),
Lion of the Desert (Anthony Quinn), Asad As-Sahraa
Salah Ad-Din.
This man as I said in one of my MCA Khutbas, made more Dawah to islam than
most contemporary scholars even though he had no mustache or beard. He
knew the way to people in the West and used it well to produce quality
movies that are shown often on PBS.
The strange thing is that they needed a long campaign and modification
when they came out till he got Al-Azhar approval. Of course, he was not
stupid to seek approval from Saudi scholars. His whole movie making is
Haram according to such school of Fiq since all pciture making and image
processing is banned.
May Allah bless his soul and make him among those who enter Jannah.
Many names come to mind that made Dawah more than so many scholars like
Maurice Buccaile and Rojeh Jarudi. People may not consider them strong
Muslims but they made so many people enter Islam.
Salam,
Hussein
So true.
- Naiema
# posted by StudyHopper @ 9:56 AM 
