History of Islamic Civilization in Europe

i watched this from youtube.com. its a very interesting documentary. what i learnt (indirectly) from the documentary:

1. the rulers of the west during the dark ages, went all out to ensure the poor remain poor and he rich remain rich. to the extent the poor were not even allowed to learn to read and write, to ensure that they cannot question any authority.
when they learnt that the everyone in the muslim community can read and write, its something unthinkable. to them its not possible to rule an intelligent community that can question authority.

2. during the western dark ages, the rich who has land, will make the poor work in their land, paying very small sums of money. this way, the poor will never be rich. the Muslims are the one who introduced the mudharabah concept, a much fair and non-oppresing concept. the rich lends their land to the poor, and they share the profit from the land according to an agreement.

3. the muslims learnt how to make paper from the chinese, yeah but Muslims were the one who invented ways to mass produce paper. and being an engineer, i know that its easier to invent something, but a lot of knowledge and intelligence are needed to put up a factory and mass produce the invention.

there are a lot more of things i learnt from the documentary, but as always, being biased towards islam, being the usual fundamentalist me, i came to a conclusion:
1. the western civilization is superior NOW, yeah i admit that.
2. the western become more civilized becuase they learnt from the muslim spain.
3. if the muslims hadn't conquered spain, then the western wouldn't have come out of the dark ages.
4. if there were no muslims, then we would all still be in the dark ages.

thus, everything that rasulullah did (with Allah's guidance, of course) to defend islam was for the greater good, was to save and revive the human civilization as a whole.

and without Rasulullah s.a.w's and his companions patience and sacrifice, we would all still be in the dark ages.

imagine, no TV, no mobile phone, no computers...


Masya Allah.