[about
The Message (1976)] I did the film because it is a personal
thing for me. Besides its production values as a film, it has its
story, its intrigue, its drama. Beside all this I think there was
something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the West I felt
that it was my obligation, my duty, to tell the truth about Islam. It is
a religion that has a 700-million following, yet it's so little known
about it, which surprised me. I thought I should tell the story that
will bring this bridge, this gap to the West.