The Light Saber of the Muslims!
I attended the “Seerah: The Sheperd’s Path” course these past two weekends, from Al-Maghrib Instiute taught by Shaykh Abdul-Bary Yahya.
One of the best fun facts (I guess it could be a GEM (Genuinely Enlightening Moment)) that I’d learned this weekend deals with Star Wars.
In the battle of Badr, in the Seerah (life of the Prophet Muhammad salallahu ‘alayhi wasallam (upon him be peace)), there were about 300 Muslims against 1,000 of the Makkans that expelled them. The Muslims had two horses, while the non-Muslims had hundreds of them. The odds were obviously against the Muslims.
However, in these battles, Allah would send the angels to help, in the same numbers as the non-Muslims, so He sent 1,000 angels to help the Muslims. So, no matter what, the Muslims are never outnumbered (with the exception of Uhud). The angels fought, even though no one could see them. A Muslim man would raise his sword, and find the enemy already defeated, because the angel had already done it.
They even, after the battle, could tell who was killed by an angel, and who was killed by a human. The people killed by angels had a very, very clean cut, and a little burn mark left.
Years and years later, the Shaykh said he saw a documentary of the director of Star Wars. The director, when developing the concept of the movie, turned to many different religious sources for ideas (Buddhism, Scientology, Christianity, Islam, etc.). He read about these angels that aided the Muslims. And he decided that he wants to make a sword like the swords of these angels of Allah, the clean, clean cut sword that would sometimes burn people. Thus, the light saber was created.
(By the way, don’t take any of this out of context, there were reasons and causes of war during the Prophet’s time, do NOT take my post as a fully sound source, because it’s not. A recommended book to learn more about the Seerah is Ar-Raheeq al-Makhtum, The Sealed Nectar).
So, naturally I became interested. (When I hear that a feature film which has gone through so much success is getting ideas from Islam, I want to know more!)
Basically, I found a great article, written by a Muslim, that cites a lot of sources on the role of Islam in the movie. Even the Jedi’s lifestyle is very similar to Islam. (I mean, long beards and thawbs with hoods, what do you expect?).
SHOCKING EXCERPT:
…it was reported in a National Australian magazine that more than 70,000 Australians identified their religion as Jedi, Jedi-Knight, or Jedi-related in the country’s 2001 national census! Don’t these people realize that the “Jedi” are make-believe? There may be some truth in fiction, but instead of looking for the truth, people get caught up with the fiction. In this paper I hope to reveal where some of the truth of the “Jedi” and “Star Wars” comes from: Islam.
Click here to read the full article.
So, Islam is truly the best way of life, for all times, and all peoples. It’s all around us, even when we don’t know. So, when we learn more about Islam, we look at things in a different way, from an Islamic perspective. Alhamdulillah (All praise is due to Allah) for that.
For some more GEMs from this Seerah seminar taken, visit the thread on the Al-Maghrib Banu Noor Forums!
-a Muslim jedi, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong.
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