Pivotal Moments in Islamic History #03 Class #06

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Salam alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh Alhamdulillah we have another opportunity to delve into Islamic history, to try to find Ibra to try to find lessons, knowledge, beneficial knowledge, ellowyne Natvia that will help us in this life and also lead us to a positive end in the Hereafter. And that experience those causes those stories that Allah subhanaw taala has spoken about in the Quran, telling us from Surah to use of verse 111. Look at canovee Casa see him Alberto Newland, Al Bab, that in their narrations, there is great wisdom and lessons for those who would reflect. So the object of this session

is to reflect we are finding ourselves in a very critical situation in the Muslim world. Today. We're finding the Muslim countries over 57 so called countries with great potential with great armies with leadership with wealth with youth with strategic position. But yet we are suffering with what are the most

strange which one of the strangest events because the suffering, not just the famine, and not just the killing. But the the crisis is happening in real time. And so we are hearing the cries of the children, we are seeing it in the past things have hit the Muslim world over the centuries. But if you were not in the specific area of the happening, you wouldn't really know what went on.

Unless there's a historian or some writer who traveled there, and who gave you a narration

this is totally different because we have developed the ability to take the actual event, the sounds, the sights, and to transport it. So that somebody could be there as though they are actually witnessing and experiencing the pain and the suffering. And so, we are in desperate need of hope,

desperate need of the guidance from Allah azza wa jal and so we are looking at pivotal moments in Islamic history. And in this the seventh

series, we are looking at our response to the Crusades. Now the Muslim world went through a number of traumatic changes. And we have seen right from the beginning, that the Prophet SAW Salem was under great stress and events happened. People rose up. And Allah subhanaw taala was merciful to the OMA and we were able to come out of it had to turn over a new leaf following his time as companions were also traumatized. Because the shaytaan is real. Well, yeah, the biller and the forces of evil are dedicated to try to destroy Islam, and to bring down our leadership. And so Allah azza wa jal raised up in the hole of Russia Dean and say that Abu Bakr Siddiq and say that Omar Al Farrokh, say

that arithmetic the offend and say that earlier but not be tolerated by the long run home.

Pivots is the examples of how change could come through an individual.

We are now looking at

Post Sahaba period, when Muslims spreading rapidly throughout the world, were faced with other major challenges. And we learned

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around the 11th century, when Muslims were expanding now, and going to the east, the North East, into the lands of the Chinese and what is now known as Central Asia.

When Muslims were spreading into this area, a clash happened between the empires of China and the Islamic world. And we have to recognize that in the world at the time, and in the few 100 years, just before the time of the Prophet SAW Selim, one of the great Persian intellectuals and philosophers they many, and this takes you back to the third fourth century, that many said that at that time, there were four great powers.

Rome, Persia,

Ethiopia, meaning the aksumite, and three kingdoms in China. So he pointed toward China itself. So this was one of the four great powers on the face of the earth.

Muslims came in direct confrontation, higher this mountainous region. They're in now what is now Kyrgyzstan, which you see on your map, which is within the circle of Kazakhstan. And this is the area of the Turkish people.

The Turkish nations are part of the proto Mongolian nation, you see Mongolia just to the right of Kazakhstan, to the North would be what we know as Siberia. And it's from that northern region.

migrated, this is over 10,000 years ago, crossed the Bering Straits into the north of Canada, United States. They settled throughout the Americas. And so this was very important place. People were very strong and very hardy, little bit south of Siberia, you got Mongolia. And next to them, you have the Altai Mountains, right in the middle between Mongolia and Kazakhstan. This is the area where the Turkish nations who are cousins of the Mongols started to rise up and take their place in the world stage. And we found that the opposite our rulers who were the leaders of the Muslim world, at the time, in spreading to the east, they came in contact or in confrontation with the Chinese. And it

was in the Battle of TELUS that the Turkish people showed themselves to be a decisive force. They change sights from the Chinese, to the Muslims. And it was the decider of the victory. The ambassador's realized that these were strong hearty people who grew up in an area, which is very difficult to live in. They also grew up in an area where horses were part of the society were being strong, and being skilled warriors was a natural thing for the people. And so they became the shock troops, the front lines, and even the mercenaries who were working in the Muslim world at that time.

Amongst the Turkish Nations was the Seljuks. And we found out that the Seljuks, who were moving west, the Mongols were now rising up and organizing and attacking. So the Seljuks started to move west. And they encountered Persian culture and an Arab culture. And they sort of integrated these two great cultures with their Islamic understanding, and the Turkish base, to come out with a very interesting society that had the code as its base. It had Persian culture as well, and and had the strong Turkish foundation in terms of how they struggle and how they set up their society to sell jokes

that you could call a Turco Persian Sunni Muslim empire. They grasp on to the Sunnah, they originated from the kinik branch of logos. The Logos is the base root of Turkish nations that we find. And this is the symbol of the Seljuks and they became a powerful empire. And we found out that they were founded in 1080.

Seven by toggle. Toggle Bay they say and chocolaty, chocolaty Bay, okay, and then they moved into Persia and then eventually into Baghdad.

A very decisive event took place in 1068. And that was the Battle of men secret. Were the great assault on our salon of the Seljuks. Defeated Byzantine wrong. Now this is the great empire of Rome. They were defeated. And it opened up Anatolia, which is now present day Turkey. Yeah, this was a decisive victory. It was a pivot, really in history. And it had far reaching consequences. Because under the success of El Arsalan, the Celtics were able to expand in different directions. And they were to take in lands all the way to the borders of China. And then they were taking the Byzantine lands, and they

developed a hierarchy system, so tones, and then they had wuzzy is, so the concept of was zero. It's like a chief minister comes in and two famous was here with rizoma, milk and Tanger look. Okay, so they move their capital from Ray and this is up in Persia, Azerbaijan to Isfahan. So it was a Persian base. But you have to realize that at that time,

Persia was the home of the Sunda

the great Imams of Hadith. You'll see that Muslim and Ted Amelie and Nyssa, Anissa heap and imager. They're all coming from this area. bajada, of course, remarkable hottie very close Muslim, it's all in that area. So this was a stronghold of the Sunnah. And the Celtic Empire reached great extent, this is a map to show you the extent of their empire, and their reach. And they even minted gold coins in their name. And their culture began to spread. One of the most important actions that the Seljuks did was not military, it was educational. And the Zama look developed a university system called Nizar Mia. And this system, you could, you could say was

the Muslim world. And it was one of the most important educational institutions on earth at the time. And it produced great astronomers like omocha yam and great scholars like Imam Al Ghazali. And it was an amazing university system. It based itself in the Arabic language and you know, Persian as well.

People would come from all over the Muslim world to study in this Muslim year. Now, what was central for us and part of the pivot. And we had learned of the great fitna the trial and tribulation that had come in with the extreme Shiite organizations and movements that developed, the most famous of them were the fatty meats, who developed in North Africa and Tunisia and then moved to Egypt. Now, these were the Shia that are considered even by the mainstream here to be outside.

And they develop themselves based upon their own environment that stopped that seven.

Much of their teachings were based upon cultish type of teachings, the occult, and but they were good organizers, builders, they had military and they took over Cairo. And they were the ones that built the buildings of Al Azhar University, and many of the great mustards and forts that you see in Cairo up until today, but their beliefs were extreme Imam Al Ghazali, or he will hold up, he exposed them.

The fact that they believed in a dual nature God,

that there's a great Imam for each age and he's infallible, cannot make mistakes. They denied in some cases, the hereafter.

They were unrestricted, licentiousness, like immorality was out of control.

They actually took people away from Quran and Sunnah into hidden knowledge. Okay, and they felt that the Kaaba is Prophet Muhammad and Ali is the door to the Prophet and dangerous teachings. Okay, so this is

What was going on at the time. And so the Celtics provided that pivot. And we were looking at the great incidents

that could help us today in the world where we're still plagued with very strange beliefs. Now, the next great threat that was facing the Muslim world, and if you look at your map, you'll see in the green color is the Seljuk

Sultanate. So tonsil toilet of Rome, they called Rome being Byzantine Rome in the north. And you'll see and read the center of the Byzantine Empire. So this is the Eastern Roman Empire, it's not the Western Roman Empire.

They were threatened

by the Celtics, because the land that the soldiers were controlling, after the Battle of man's occurred without Arsalan, it went into the hands of the Muslims. And so the Muslims were literally moving on their capital, which was called Constantinople, today, Istanbul, but Constantinople, that center place and you see the world, this part of the world at the time, it was a central point, linking Europe to Asia, linking the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, it is still a very key strategic place on earth, for trade, for the military, for culture, or something for so many different aspects of life. And so

the emperor of the Byzantines Alexios, Komnenos, he was afraid. And he requested military aid from what was left of the Roman Empire. Now, militarily, the Romans had gone down. But spiritually, they still maintained a pope. And they still maintained the Catholic teachings. And so at a council meeting, peons, this was a, that they had the eastern side,

they made a plea. Now, if you look at your map, you'll see the brown color here. That's the world of Islam. And I'm just I'm including the Fatimids, and the Sunnah, and everybody all together.

That's the world of Islam. And you can see

the Roman Empire in the pink and the Byzantine in the red. And then you'll see other Christian dominated societies that's in the green. So the Muslim world is now encroaching. And this is the Mediterranean basin. Now, you'll see that the Muslims have taken all the Byzantine holdings right across up into Spain, because at that time, called the bar and these areas was was still Andalus, although the Christians were moving, taking back to territories there. Now,

the move to take these territories, this is what is called the Crusades. Okay, and there were different major crusades that went on, there was a crusade that happened in the western side. And that was to try to take the lens of an Andalus. Right, Spain and Portugal. And there was a crusade on the eastern side.

And so the crystal crusade on the eastern side, really kicks in around 1090 C 96. AD, or see, and this is a major trauma for the Muslim world,

the concept of a crusade, really, it goes back to the concept of the cross. And so it was a belief

of the Roman church, that the True Cross of Christ was still there, in Jerusalem, and in that area. It was a belief that they should be the ones who control that area. And so

using this pretense, and also the fact that from back in the fourth century, one of the theologians called Augustine,

he developed a Christian type of just war. So he developed the concept of a war that is justified. So no matter what happens, as long as it's done in the name of the church, then it is justified. And this is an important concept to understand. It didn't just come about today, where we see the onslaught of the Zionist there in Palestine. This is a concept used by other nations as well. And what is interesting is that today there are a

Christian evangelists who are actually struggling with designs to control that region, they have different intentions. The Christian evangelists are waiting for the return of Christ. Right desireless and others amongst them are waiting for the coming of the Messiah, who they believe will be the promised one who will give them that leadership to take over the world.

So they're really not friends, they're not total allies, because the Christians blame the Jews for killing Christ, or what they call killing Christ. And of course, the yahood they don't accept easily Islam and feel that his teachings when away from the Torah,

especially when the Trinity and the other pagan concepts were introduced, but still they are united in this just war.

Okay, so this is the concept that

Augustine developed in the fourth century. And this was taken on

by Pope Urban the Second now, we have to realize that Alexius, you had the Byzantine Roman Empire, which was the eastern side, and then you had the western side, which was the Roman Empire was based in Rome. And it was there in Europe. And now the east of the other Chris Christendom is calling for help from the west.

And to respond to this Pope Urban the Second,

the Pope of the Roman church, and this is a statue supposed to be in November 1095, and a place called Clermont, in central France. The pope made a massive proposal to the people.

He may never have understood

the effects that this proposal would have upon history, but he said whoever for devotion alone, but not to gain honor or money, goes to Jerusalem to liberate the Church of God can substitute this journey for all pennants. Now what he added on to it was not just a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, it was not just fighting to protect Christian lands. But what he added on to this is that if you go to fight in this just war, it would be Toba what we call Toba. It is repentance. It is a penance of Farah, Kala cafardo. It is a complete expiation of sins. So the person who goes there and dies straight to heaven. The person who goes on a crusade and lives comes back like a newborn child with

all of his or her sins, forgiven.

So this was a very serious plea that he made. And again, he was probably not aware of the impact that it will have, but it's spread rapidly across Christendom.

And it was taken on, especially by another a French monk, whose name was Peter, the hermit.

And Peter the Hermit, taking this concept of the penance, put it out to the masses of the people. Because Peter the Hermit was not the type of

monk who stayed hidden away in monasteries, he moved around amongst the masses of the people. And so his message would get to the mainstream people on the ground. So, Peter, the hermit, made the call to the people, and they started to respond. Now, what we have to recognize, is that the essence of the crusade because you will read in different texts, how it is a holy war, you're whatnot. This is all a pretense This is not reality. This is this honesty and distortion history. Because Christians were living in Muslim lands, Jews were living in Muslim lands.

The Church of the Nativity, you have to realize the church has a nativity that Christians consider to be the holiest place in the whole of Christendom. This was preserved under Islamic rule.

And it is recorded that the Khalifa or libel had Tom Brady along when he was asked by the Bishop of Jerusalem to come for the surrender

and it was time to make

A lot, a lot of hassle. And so the bishop said you can pray in the Church of the Nativity. Home I said no, because if I pray in this area, the Muslims will convert this to a masjid. So he prayed on the ground outside. If you go there now to Bethlehem, you will see the Church of the Nativity and Masjid OMA site.

The rights of the church were protected.

The key to the Church of Nativity, was given by the bishop to show part of the submission, but cooperation with Omar gave him the key, and the key was given to a specific Palestinian family. And again, I'm going to emphasize Palestinian family. And that family controls the key up until today. So if you want to go into the Christian Church of the Nativity, it's a must have that opens it up.

So the rights of the Christians were protected, the rights of the Jews were protected. The real reason for the Crusades was economic. It was cultural. It was political for domination, because to control that area

is like a middle zone between Asia and Europe, Africa.

To control it, also, you would be controlling the end of the Silk Road, which Marco Polo the European travel have found.

When he went to China, they realized China's one of the four powers of the Earth, great merchants from ancient times, the Silk Road, Chinese develop silk and other things. Okay, so

to control the Silk Road, economics. Also within the Muslim world, there were great riches, by God may be one of the greatest cities on earth at the time,

the wealth of the Muslim world was unparalleled. And so too, it was literally a land grab. Europe at that time was suffering. The average European lived in a hovel, with a hole in the ceiling for the smoke to come out. They threw all their wastes all their garbage right onto the street. They was a suffering people at that time disease was spreading, plagues was spreading around amongst the people. And so they were looking for a way out. So all of this combined with the fact that if you go on this crusade, all of your sins are forgiven. So you can you can see the impetus for this crusade. And so Peter then took the message of Pope Urban, and with the forces of Walter center where they

went forward, poor people started to join them everywhere they went to was 1000s and 1000s of people, poor people, not soldiers, who are marching on this crusade. So it's more like a pilgrimage. In a sense, it's more like a chance to get forgiveness of your sins, as opposed to a military venture. And so this peasant army went forward.

They were destroying everything in sight. They were eating all the food of the people who they came across. If they found any Jewish people, by the way, they would destroy them. Because at that time, there was no unity. Between the Christians and the Jews, the Jews were considered killers of Christ. So anytime they found Jewish people, they would put them to death. So they were coming across now imagine this ragtag group of people moving by 1000s across and then coming into the lands of the Celtics, the Celtics saw them.

They didn't know what it was, maybe it was a diversion for the army.

And they prepared themselves. And they totally decimated

this peasant crusade at the Battle of savory tart. This is Northwest Anatolia. So the peasant army never really made it down into the Levant, way up and a total Anatolia.

They were they were they were totally defeated. And so

the word came back

to Europe. Because of that now, the second phase of the First Crusade came about this phase was not just a pilgrimage for the forgiveness he has since this was military. And it wasn't this phase, that five major years

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came together. And they were also supported by a French army northern French army of Robert Kratos code Stephen. The second law, Robert, the second Flanders and their numbers, may have been something like 100,000 people, including their non combatants, a huge army now. And this was not peasants. This was a major army, with soldiers covered with chainmail. and with horsemen, the Knights that were there, it was a powerful army that was moving them into the Muslim world. And this caught the Muslims by surprise. And I want to emphasize this.

Because sometimes people get so caught up in their own personal issues.

They don't take a look at the greater picture of things. And so the problem of the Muslim world as these people start coming to Crusaders, and again, they would wear this cross, right. So this this is the concept that's developed.

Despite the fact that Muslims had large numbers, equipment, they had Baghdad, they had wealth, they had strategic locations, they had the Seljuks. They had Kurdish they had Arabs, they had some North Africans, they had so many Muslims who were prepared to struggle, but they would dis unite it. And that is one of the great lessons that we learn.

Totally disunited. One Amir fighting the other Amir

Christians who are coming.

Moving on them. They don't care about that. They care more about their own brother, who they're who they're struggling against, for the pettiness, petty power that they were struggling for. And then the Christian forces came in,

into Anatolia, they came by boats, onto the shores of the Levant and we say, the Levant, we're talking about the area of greatest Syria, which would now include

Lebanon, Syria, southern Turkey, Syria, Palestine, all of those areas there, Jordan, this is like the 11th. So that's the terminology that's being used. And so greed.

Tribal is

and so Muslims are not even aware, cognizant of what is going on. This huge armies coming in.

This is why today you you look at the Muslim world, and you'll see that some people, parts of the Muslim world, they're more interested in football scores, soccer scores, who was winning the Asian Cup.

Oh, they're more interested in the Riyadh celebrations than the festivals and TDD rap singers. And you know that the pop singers who are coming into their countries were interested in dancing around and partying in or maybe fighting each other. You'll see certain Muslim countries where he has a villa, where one faction is fighting another faction. And this is this is unfortunately a widespread phenomenon. look at Libya.

Look at the Sudan. terrible situation there. Look at Pakistan now.

Okay, a great country, with nuclear weapons, capable of being a leader of the Muslim world, but yet they are at odds with each other. And they are almost useless

for the children who are crying out in Philistine and for those who are crying out of poverty in different parts of the Muslim world. And so, the Muslim world is shattered that point.

This is your lesson for today. This is the fitna. This is the trial, this is the tribulation that is going on and this needs a response. What will happen as this crusade is coming down further and further, and it ends up going down. And this is the first crusade to the point where they laid siege to Jerusalem itself. And this siege lasted for one month and eight days. It was from June 1099 to July 15 1099. And finally when the Christians took over the city was was a Fatimata. were controlling Jerusalem at that time and they were not really strong and united, their schismatic group, by the way, so they did not have the support

More of the rest of the Muslim world. And when faced with an army like this, they fell apart.

And so the innocent people there 1000s of Muslims, and a small number of Jews as well who were there, even some local Christians, who the other Christians probably thought were Muslims because they dress in eastern clothes and maybe spoke a little Arabic. So all of them are being slaughtered. They slaughtered them to the point where it is described by Christian chroniclers that in some places, their horses were, you know, up to their knees in blood.

It was a terrible situation. It is reported that the group that the Jews were put into the synagogue, and that it was lit on fire, and they're all burnt.

women raped, children slaughtered, wealth planted. This is supposed to be a holy city.

You see, so this is this pennants. This is what you do for your parents.

But interesting,

because that shows you the level of depravity that people can go through. And we see it today we have people who are actually feeling that they're serving their state by killing the Palestinian people.

By destroying children, destroying infrastructure, and still feeling that they're doing something positive. See, it's a mental condition. It's a problem and that is developed from ancient times. So the siege of Jerusalem

a terrible spot on our history. And it is said that they went into martial Aqsa, and the Dome of the Rock as you see here, they use these places, stables, they put pigs inside of the Masjid. No other than was going to be made in there over 70 years are in this area. So this is a calamity. This is a crisis that has hit the Muslim world. Now, if you look at this map, you will see what develops out of the First Crusade, there are a number of Crusader States that develop there is the county of Odessa

and Odessa, that capital now is in Turkey, it's called orphan. You'll see if you look on the map, you won't see the name at Essence orphan in torchia. Now, but at that time, that was a big area, call a DESA. And then there was the Principality of Antioch, and takia, which is in Turkey as well. And then there was the county of Tripoli, this is like Lebanon, okay, and then down further, that whole area is the Kingdom of Jerusalem. So these

Crusader States, you could call these, this was the base. Again, they were always close to the sea, because then they could escape, then they could get help coming from the sea, they weren't able to go that far inland. Because now you'd come across the Seljuk empire. And then you'd come across, you know, the other Muslims who were there. So this is the extent of the First Crusade. Now, it's a calamity. It's a curse is a crisis, pivot.

This is the pivotal moment.

Allah subhanaw taala raised up from the Turkish people from the ogos tribe of the Turks. He raised up from a tribe zenkit Clan, imagine Dean zaggy.

Now, the Turks were different tribes, different groupings. Seljuk was just the major Empire, but they let in a number of different Turkish clans and groups. And this group was more down to the area of Mosul. This is Iraq. So this wasn't the Persian area and Anatolia like Seljuks it was more toward the Iraqi area. And Allah azza wa jal raised up this individual imagine Dean zaggy and I want to emphasize his name as a pivotal moment in Islamic history. And if you're able to look him up and to study him because many books even sometimes Islamic histories, they don't deal with email the Dean Sankey

what was different between Mr. Dean sangee and the other Turkish atta banks, so they would call their their rulers was that the airbags for the most part lived for the dunya. They plundered they stole they they took over properties, some of their even drink

Wine and until they went into a stupor by the dean's and he was totally different. Allah inspired him.

And he lived for jihad. And we say the word jihad, we're talking about resistance struggle. His whole struggle was to defeat the Crusaders

to take back these lands for the Muslim world, ultimately to go to Jerusalem, take it back, bring the dignity and honor of Islam back. And so, but he made the deen does. He's developed a movement, he becomes the Atterberg of Mosul and 1127. And then a series of lightning victories, going across what is now Iraq and then Syria and lightning victories, until he succeeds in taking back ADESA. Now, if we go back to our map here, you will see that ADESA is one of the largest of the principalities and it's more inland, it's very strategic, because it's really like a dagger going into the Muslim world. Seljuq lands and it's getting close to Baghdad as well. The other

principalities are on the coast. Okay, so this is a very strategic move, that embeds a dean sangee made, and he succeeded and taken it back. And he is the one who needs to be remembered for this movement, that he developed a pivotal moment in the history of Islam.

In his life, a very important part of his life, when he was young, just struggling, you know, to be an atom bank. He was against corruption. So he had this feeling you wanted to call to the good and forbid evil, and even the Khalifa at the time, had become corrupted. So he was struggling against the Khalifa struggling against that the the negative, corrupt, atta bakes. And so, it is reported that the amount of Dean was fleeing after a battle. His back was was against the wall in the sense that he was Was he went right down to the to the Tigris Euphrates, so he was by the river, and in front of him was a huge army coming in. And that should have been the end of him. But across the

river, crossed Tigris there was Najmuddin a tube, who was a Kurdish leader, and a fortress was there and he sent across a boat, and he saved him out of the Sankey. So what this did was it forged an unbreakable bond between the two families. This is very important because up until today to because it was a unity between the Turkish and Kurdish and there is unity. There are Kurdish people in the Turkish parliament. And the cultures are very much intertwined. But unfortunately, because of a nationalist struggle of Kurdistan, and socialists and communists coming in, in the name of

Kurdish liberation, there is fighting that is going on between Turkey and Kurt. But this is important to understand a great pivot of Islam. It is not Arabic speaking people. It is not Kurdish, right. These are these are the Kurdish people, a mighty nation, living in that area. They're their country borders, in Turkey. It's in Iran, it's in Iraq. You know, all this area is is a very important group of people. A bond develops between the two families. And this bond becomes extremely important for the future of Islam.

So imagine the Dean continues in his movement, had an 1146

He was overtaken he was assassinated in his sleep. And his son Nora, Dean sangee, then went to his body took a signet ring and put it on, and he took control of the movement.

When the Christians heard of Amanda Dean's death, they seized ADESA they tried to come back again. But not a dean, retrieved the honor and dignity of the Zen gets in the Muslim world. Lightning fast. He was able to go to ADESA to defeat the Crusaders take back over that land, consolidate the territory and the whole of the Muslim world was enjoy because the spirit of Mr. Dean Sankey was now found in a son noted in sangee Rahim Allah, Allah have mercy upon them.

For this movement that they developed, and so they consolidated the territory, and Nora Dean, he was able to unite all of area.

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is influenced even reached up into Egypt. And it is said that that Nora Dean was a special individual. And he's considered to be one of the great leaders in Islamic history. This is part of the pivot, right? The Zen this, this movement that has developed resistance, you know, to the evil resistance to the occupation, resistance to the negativity, humanity's zanghi is a great warrior, a pious person in the zone, but Noridian Sanghi is an amazing character. He spends time reading parchments, he is strong on his prayers. He is very,

very tight with his own wealth. He does not spend a lot of wealth on himself.

He is a strong soldier. He leads from the front. It is said that he had the strength of two or three of his own soldiers. So he would lead by example. And even the Christians recognize that Nora deen is pious that Allah answers nor D. So they were frightened of nurudeen. And he was able to unite Muslims and so this spirit of unity starting to spread.

The movement is starting to spread around Muslims are getting the idea now. It's not just one Amir against another Amir one Attabad against another had to beg but it is the Muslim world. Come together. unite yourselves depend upon Allah subhanaw taala

don't fall for the false front of the Crusaders.

When Christian crusaders heard about this, they were they panicked. And Amalric, one of their leaders began for major invasions. And so they started to invade the Levant, especially they wanted Egypt now. So they wanted to take it further than the Kingdom of Jerusalem. They wanted to go all the way over to Egypt itself. And nurudeen, Rahim Allah took the lead for the Muslim world to defend the Muslims against this. And this movement continues. And this is the pivot that we are looking at this week.

In the face of these overwhelming odds, because Muslims are disunited, Allah raised up individuals who dedicate their life to the unity of the Muslims to resistance to come out of this, and that is what is needed today. 57 countries that we have, we are in need of the spirit of humanity's envy, the spirit of nurudeen sangee you need to have that that piousness not extravagance, to to first work on yourself before you work on other people as well. To see all of these lands, as the lands of Islam, Kurdish people are not from this area, especially Egypt. That's Africa. Kurdish people are from the highlands. But yet he was concerned with Egypt, because with Cairo, especially what is

happening down there, he is very much concerned. And this is the pivot, the Zen gets. Remember that name. And remember the movement that they started, which pivoted the whole of Islamic history now, and took us from darkness of disunity.

Darkness of invasion, into the light of unity and into the light of Islam.

So I want to open up the floor. Now for any questions or comments that anybody may have. In looking at this pivot, that happened at a very critical time, we're dealing with crusades now. And remember how important the Crusades are. There are a number of crusades that come after this. But these this is the most important one. The first Crusade is really

the one that initiated things, especially the military part of the First Crusade. This is the key point that needed a pivot. In the same way that we today when looking at the suffering of the Palestinians, people it's reached that point method doesn't lock. When will the help of Allah come? We need a pivot to come together, you know, to to come out of this confusion. So I want to open up the floor for any questions that anybody may have concerning

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for us is that many people, when they look at this time period, they focus on Sultan Salahuddin Allah up. But what you got to realize is that Selaginella UB did not come out of a vacuum. He was part of a movement. He didn't just suddenly fly down on a white horse. No, he is a student, and he is a inheritor of the of the movement of imagine sangee and nurudeen Sankey, and we will look at that pivot inshallah next week, which becomes a major one of the Sultan Salahuddin, but never forget where it starts. Because without a base, without a foundation, you can't have the fruit, the fruits come out of a tree that has roots. And when the roots are in the earth, and when the soil is, is

nourishing, then the fruits are bigger fruits. So in this sense that the nourishment for that tree is the same gets. It is that spirit of resistance, that spirit of you know, living in this world, but not controlled by the world. And so that is a major, important point. And it is a lesson for us today. As we look at the confusion, the Muslim world is in.

We look at the suffering of the Palestinian people, and hope, you know, pray to Allah, that, you know, there could be, you know, a lift of the siege, that the the this occupation can be lifted, that the people can at least come out of the suffering that are under that there would be a a ceasefire, a permanent ceasefire, that, you know, the food and water can be restored and that people can live their lives and the children and the hospitals can be restored. That's the least that can happen in this situation. But you know that leadership is not in a vacuum.

And we need to recognize that with our own children, with our own masjids communities that we need to develop leadership to develop struggle to combine dunya and akhira. Right the life of the of this world and the next word. We have to have that consciousness in order to develop the mother Dean's Yankees, Nordine Yankees, who can set the stage for the great assault on Salahuddin and it will be redeemable. So, I leave you with these thoughts this week. And inshallah next week we will go on to the Great Salt on to see another major pivot, which is of great importance to us today. In this world, I leave you with these thoughts are politically Helga Rostock, por la li Walakum wa salaamu

alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh