Islam is the world's second-largest religion, with roughly 1.6 billion adherents, yet its footprint in today's scientific community is strikingly small. This film traces that gap back through history, looking at the centuries when Muslim scholars led the world in astronomy, medicine, and mathematics, and asking what changed. It moves from the golden age of translation houses and observatories to the slow fade that left modern Muslim-majority nations far behind in scientific output and Nobel-level recognition. Historians and commentators lay out competing explanations, from political fragmentation to shifts in religious institutions and education, without settling on a single villain. The film treats the rise and the decline as one continuous story rather than two separate eras, using the historical achievements as a baseline against which the present shortfall is measured. It closes on the same question it opens with: why a tradition that once drove scientific progress produces so little of it now.