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It was a Ramadan special that took 3 years to make. It is a seera that is most focused on Umar's ra perspective. This gives them the chance to cover after the Prophet's scw death and the conquests of Sham, Persia, and Alexandria. It is really good quality and enjoyable to watch. Having watched the whole series 30 parts of about 45 mins long, I would give them a 'B' grade for being a first of it's kind.
My criticisms is some of the protrayals of Sahabi's, like Abu Sufyan, who they took liberties in his post-Islam, which is a grave sin in my eyes, for in it they gave him some of his Jahili traits and made him say things that I have never heard it be narrated him saying, and this is libel in my eyes. They also had a lot innacuracies that I noticed. Some of them being Abu sufyan's conversion, him loosing his eye in the siege of Taif, in the movie he looses it in Yarmouk, but in Yarmouk he looses his second eye. The muslims capture Damascus, but give it up to join their armies at Yarmouk, then capture Damascus again. Also, it makes it seem like forces were already concentrated in Yarmouk before Khalid came from Iraq, which is false. These are some of the freshest inaccuracies in my mind.
My biggest criticisms are the changes of the seerah to fit a need for dramatization that is used for movies and stories. The Seerah is a very sacred knowledge, it does not befit it to be at the whim of directors and story writers to play to modern movie goers audiences.
I also want to give a warning to some of the more conservative members on here, the Khalifahs are depicted in this series unlike The Messenger, this is a controversial issue between some of the Ulema, and Al Azhar which supported The Messenger doesn't support this series. Also, I just want to mention that the makng of The messenger was a very controversial issue of its day, so much so that funding was pulled during the making of it and it only continued because of financial support from Muammar Ghadaffi.
