The Blessed Tree
History and Heritage • Documentary, 01-Jan-2010
An archaeological detective story of the meeting of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and a Christian monk Bahira, that happened in the shade of a tree. Fourteen hundred years later, that same tree was discovered still alive in the Northern deserts of Jordan; the only tree alive in hundreds of square miles of emptiness - a link to the life of the Prophet and a place of pilgrimage today.
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