Pivotal Moments in Islamic History #04 The Effect of The Mongolian Nation – Class #02
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The speakers discuss the current state of Islam, including the rise of social media and potential political changes. They stress the importance of unity and pray together to achieve a unity. The history of the western world and the history of the Atlantic Ocean are also discussed, including the use of drugs and the spread of drugs through various groups. The history of the Middle East and the Islamic Republic are also discussed, highlighting the importance of understanding the situation and avoiding violence.Transcript ©
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All praise are due to Allah, our lord
of the worlds,
and peace and blessings
be constantly showered upon our beloved prophet Muhammad,
the master of the first and the last,
and his family, his companions, and all those
who call to his way and establish his
sunnah to the day of judgment.
As to what follows, my beloved brothers and
sisters,
Assalamu
Alaikum We again thank Allah
for another opportunity
to reflect upon
his mercy
and the ongoing
Qadar,
the will of Allah,
the destiny that he has defined
that would take place in the universe.
And we thank Allah
for the ability
to be pleased with it
and the ability to have patience
and to recognize that, ultimately,
everything will return
to Allah
This is a very important concept,
in the present
situation that Muslims find themselves in,
and that is that we are looking at
the destruction of Palestine,
which has been occupied by a Zionist entity
for decades, but now we see
something happening
that the world has not witnessed,
for years
and maybe with its rapidity.
They may not have seen this
actually for over a 100 years, not since
World War 2 have they seen anything to
this magnitude.
And Muslims, especially young people,
and those who are entering, in Islam
sometimes feel
very frustrated,
and it's it's it's difficult
to really
put the 2 together
because of the extent of the Muslim world
of power
in the Muslim world
and what is happening right in front of
our eyes.
We know that at this point, there are
over 40,000
Palestinians
who have been, killed,
in the recent,
onslaughts,
on their territories,
the majority being children and women.
We also know that the infrastructure
in,
Gaza itself
is just about flattened,
that there is environmental
damage,
that
a number of different
forms of genocide
have taken place.
You could even say that there's a type
of intellectual genocide
that has taken place because all of the
universities, all of the schools,
the libraries
destroyed.
The great monuments,
the famous masjids,
those historical points
in Gaza
almost completely flattened.
And the prospect of people being able to
return
and to live in a place like this
seems daunting. It seems almost impossible,
and it seems as though
that they will have to
emigrate
to flee persecution
and not be able to return to their
lands.
And so this is a very,
difficult thing
to take in,
especially since
the rise of social media.
We are not reading about this in a
history book,
but we are watching it take place in
real time.
So this is probably the first time in
history
that a genocide of this magnitude
has been watched
by people throughout the planet.
This has caused,
the nations of the world to rise up
together,
to disagree,
and to call for the end of the
genocide, to call for humanitarian,
aid to be given to the people. I
mean, what type of a world do we
live in? We're supposed to have a rules
based order.
This is not the ancient times,
but we have to recognize
that what happens today is not new.
It is a cycle that humanity has been
going through over and over
again.
And so the basis of the dilemma
comes from the fact of looking at the
Muslim world.
When we look at the Muslim world, we
see
great potential.
We see that many of the richest people
on earth
actually live in the Muslim world.
And right now, the Emirates and these areas,
they are considered to have the highest
incomes.
Muslim countries,
especially those that have mineral based economies,
are some of the richest in the world.
And so it's not about money.
It's not about,
our history
because we have a history of power and
respect, and
our nations have been known,
for 100 of years.
We actually,
you could say,
were the ones who
gave the impetus,
the ability to Europe to come out of
its dark ages
into the modern age.
And that's not a small thing.
This revolutionized
the whole planet.
On top on top of this history, what
is the past? The present,
we are still the fastest growing religion
on earth. And the shocking thing is that
even though we are watching a a genocide
take place,
the courageous stance of the Palestinian people
is actually causing
many individuals
who never thought about Islam and Muslims
to now investigate.
And from this group of growing 100 and
could possibly be in the 1,000,
they're embracing Islam.
Muslims also have a high rate of,
growth in terms of having babies.
And it is part of the legacy of
the prophet
who told us that you should have
get married and have big families because we
will be the largest,
the largest nation of Tawhid
on the day of resurrection.
And so the numbers are there.
Actually, it's it's we could say we're over
26%
of the world's population. We're over 2,000,000,000
people.
There's millions of Muslims in China,
millions in India,
millions in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia,
quiet as it's kept, is one of the
largest Muslim countries.
Africa,
as quiet as it's kept, is majority Muslim.
In Europe,
Muslims are growing by leaps and bounds. Even
though there is Islamophobia,
there is repression.
Muslims make up a large number in France.
In Paris and Marseille, the majority of people
under 25 years old
are Muslim.
Even in places like Belgium,
Holland,
in the hospitals, Muslims have the largest percentage
of babies
being born right in the middle of Europe.
In the Americas, Islam is still growing
by leaps and bounds. Hispanic people are now
coming in.
African Americans, you know, traditionally have been coming
in. White Americans and other nationalities are also
coming in.
So we we are still expanding.
And our countries,
along with this history and along with these
numbers,
we have amazing
mineral wealth.
And every day,
more minerals are being discovered.
You'll be surprised to know that off the
coast of Gaza,
of Palestine, there's actually oil and gas.
So that struggle is not just about land
or about,
a history.
No. It is an economic struggle,
as well. And so all of these factors
physically and economically, but yet they are
very poor,
physically and economically, but yet they are able
to cause a major impact
in the world's shipping zone
because their country, as poor as it is,
is right on the bottom of the Red
Sea.
So the straits that are going through Mediterranean
down,
into the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, this
lucrative
corridor is being cut off by a small
ragtag nation,
strategic position.
And this is in many parts,
of the world.
We also have huge standing armies. If you
look at the Turkish
armies and the drones and you look at
the armies of Egypt and
and Algeria and
many countries, you'll see 100 and thousands of
well trained men
standing in arms,
waiting.
This is an amazing potential.
The young people all over the place. So
we are a nation of the future.
We are a nation whose young people will
grow into the future. And because
we generally we we're not supposed to drink
alcohol and we're not supposed to take drugs,
Muslims tend to be amongst the youth, the
healthiest.
So university students,
high ranking
scholars, many of them are Muslims.
And so with all of this potential,
the question then comes,
how
can a world of believers who will all
pray
together and who will fast in Ramadan together,
who try to make Hajj
to Mecca. There's millions of people trying to
get in. We have a unity.
How can this onslaught on Palestine
take place?
And so this is a very serious question.
We need to have answers.
Part of the answers that we have
obviously will come from the Quran and will
come from the words of our beloved prophet
Muhammad.
But, also, answers will come from
the,
the the
records that we have,
the information that is coming to us.
So I want to share with you,
somewhat of a feeling because with this great
wealth,
there's also poverty.
Some of the poorest nations in the world
are Muslims.
With the large standing armies, there is frustration.
You'll find many of the scholars
debating with each other over trivia,
over minor so this is causing a massive
frustration.
It is leading to defeat.
This is a contradiction.
It's a contradiction.
And
our pivotal moments course
is to help us understand
that some of the contradictions that we see,
some of
the hard to believe events
have not happened for the first time.
It's happened in the past,
and there's been a solution.
So if we look to the past,
we can begin to,
understand where we are going.
Of course, we need to go back
to our prophet
to what he said, because we look at
his his sayings not just as something to
put on the wall or to have a
nice book of hadith,
but we look at these sayings as a
type of road map,
as a guide
to the future.
And in one tradition
reported by Doban, the
prophet was reported to have said,
He said the nations are about to
call one another
and descend upon you
just as those who are eating invite others
in sharing food. So it's like somebody who
set a table spread, and he sees his
friends and he says,
come now.
Enjoy this food with me.
Literally pounce on the Muslims.
So somebody there with the prophet
asked,
will we be small in number? Will that
be because we are few?
And the prophet
then answered and he said, no.
You will be numerous in numbers.
Look at the Muslim world now.
2,000,000,000
people,
strategic position.
The prophet has given us a look at
what will happen in our history. You will
be numerous in numbers.
You will be like the froth
and the the the foam on the torrents
carried to one side, carried to the other
side.
Like, you look at the foam on the
oceans, looks like a lot of foam, twigs,
sticks. But when the water goes to the
right, it goes to the right.
When the water goes to the left, it
goes to the left.
So it has no foundations. It has no
weight.
Then the prophet said, Allah will remove
the fear of you from the hearts of
your enemies,
and he will put a weakness
into your hearts.
Now
here, this Mahaba,
it is
not a negative fear. It it is a
it is a combination of things.
It is like respect,
like the lion, king of the jungle.
The lion doesn't have to be afraid of
of people,
doesn't have to be afraid of other animals
because the lion has.
The lion has power. It has might.
It has respect.
And so the prophet is saying, the time
will come when Allah will take this
fear
away from your enemies
so they will no longer fear this
from you.
And he will put a weakness into your
hearts.
And then they asked, what is this?
What is this weakness?
And he, sallallahu alaihi wa sallam answered,
You will love the life of this world,
and you will hate
to die.
You'll be afraid to make the transition.
And so this is
a piercing
look
at what is happening to us today.
Was on a sale
all over the world.
But something is wrong
with all that wealth, with all those numbers,
with all that potential.
Something on the inside is wrong,
and we need to try to understand this
concept.
And our history,
our
looks at history,
give us information,
living experiences
about what Muslims went through,
and then the results of the struggle and
the trials
that they went through, and how Allah,
brought them forward.
So we'll return again
to the 13th century of
the Christian era,
13th century, 1200
AD.
And at that time,
the Abbasid,
Khalafat,
this is the group of who are ruling
the Muslim world. Now remember, after the death
of the prophet
there was Khalifa al Rashidin.
Right? There was the 40 years, and there
was the the the rightly guided caliphs.
And,
following this, there was a kingdom.
And that kingdom, it was an empire.
It was called the Umayyad
dynasty, started by Mahawiya.
The Umayyad dynasty ruled for approximately a 100
years or so, and then the Abbasid
dynasty took over, Bennu Abbas.
And they took over. Again, it's
based on a family. It's like a bloodline,
but it had a lot of Islamic aspects
to it.
And Allah blessed these Khalafats with good rulers,
with tyrants as well.
But this is the the condition of human
beings.
But over a period of time, people tend
to forget.
They forget Allah's mercy.
They forget
Tawba,
repentance.
And
sometimes they can even reverse themselves
to be worse than they were in the
beginning.
And so by the 13th century,
the the Khalifa was only a shadow.
Very weak,
did not have
much force, only 12,000 soldiers,
protecting the Khalifa,
in his capital, Baghdad.
And the Muslim world itself was divided into
nation states.
Now as I go to this think about
today.
Organization of Islamic cooperation,
57
countries
57
countries
that consider themselves to be part of the
Islamic cooperation.
So if you have 15 57 countries cooperating
together,
whose military and and and whose wealth
all comes together. You have a mighty force,
in this world.
In those days,
Muslims were divided as well.
Poverty was widespread.
Although Baghdad
was wealthy,
one of the wealthiest places on earth,
there was great poverty in the land
to the point where it's there was even
famine,
in some places.
And
the people, especially the wealthy people,
were leaving their religion.
And from the great scholars, Ibn Alatih, Ibn
Kathia, may Allah have mercy on them, who
wrote their famous history,
books,
They recorded
that in the middle,
of
13th century,
Nobody had time
or had the taqwa
or had the understanding
in the area of Baghdad to make Hajj.
So think about the places of the world
where Muslims are clamoring
to get into Mecca. Nobody even had time
to go to Hajj.
That's how much remember,
You love the dunya.
So they were so possessed,
by the world.
They didn't have time to fulfill one of
the pillars of Islam,
one of the 5,
arkan
columns on which the edifice of Islam
rests.
They didn't have time for this.
The scholars, it who were some of the
greatest scholars in Islamic history living during this
period,
they were humiliated.
They were given pittance only enough for them
to survive with their families.
Whereas
the Khalifa and his family and his retinue,
even his slaves
who were not slaves with ball and chain,
his slaves were fabulously rich.
They
had a huge amount of wealth
in comparison to the great scholars of Islam.
So this is your contradiction.
Just like today, you have this contradiction
that is there. There's a contradiction.
So because of this contradiction,
something happens.
And Allah tells us,
Allah will not change the condition of a
people till they change that which is himself.
We learned in Surat Surat verse 11 that
our condition would not change
unless we change something in ourself.
So when the
comes in,
the conditions will change.
You go from high point
to a low point.
Similarly,
when the when we are at a low
point and we begin to deal with our
pride and our arrogance and our love of
the dunya,
our fear and hate of death, then we
rise,
and Allah changes our conditions.
And so it was
in 13th century.
Now when you look at this map,
you will see
in the middle, it says that the the
caliphate,
that's the area of Iraq, Tigris, and Euphrates.
Okay? That's where the Abbasids were. But look
at the Muslim world. This is not even
the whole of the Muslim world in this
map. But the huge states that are there,
you see the empire of
and who at that time was ruled by
Shah Mohammed the second.
This is in the in the middle
of 13th century.
Then you see the Ayyubids. Remember sultan Salahuddin
al Ayubi,
Rahim,
and we looked at him and how important
it was to respond to the crusaders.
But after his time, the next generations
did not necessarily follow, his example.
They were practicing Islam,
but they established their own sultanate.
And that sultanate sometimes was an opposition
to the Khalafat.
Also, you had in the north,
the sultanate of,
Rum.
This is the Seljuks.
Remember the great Seljuk Empire?
They work with the Khalifa, but sometimes not.
So, therefore,
these are big divisions,
but then these are all divided into smaller
areas as well.
And so if remember today, 57
states
in the organization of Islamic cooperation.
And so look at the parallels that are
there.
And so
at this point in time
and and this is where
rising up as we had learned
there in,
Asia,
and that is North,
East,
Asia
in the area of Mongolia,
a leader
united
the Mongol people.
Temerjin,
who was crowned to be amongst the Mongols,
Genghis Khan. So he is the lord, you
know, of the great sky.
He is the ultimate Khan,
the ultimate ruler.
He set out to conquer.
And but he first looked to China because
China was the closest to him,
and he had diplomatic relationships with other parts
of the world.
And so he began to conquer China.
But while he was involved in this,
a dispute developed on his western side, and
that is with Shah Mohammed the second.
Now this is arrogance.
The Mongols sent their delegations in, and
surprisingly enough, you may not be aware of
the fact that some of the delegations
of the Mongols were Muslims.
So all of the Mongol nation were not
just Mongols.
He united a lot of your nations nations
and brought them together,
underneath himself in the same way that you
will see secular powers today.
You remember the Gulf War and,
people coming into the Muslim world attacking it
the same way like somebody calling their friends
to eat food.
Amongst the Gulf War nation, there were Muslim
countries, so called,
Muslim countries.
And so
Shah Mohammed the second,
rose in power,
and that developed, unfortunately, a type of arrogance
and pride.
And so when the Mongols came to do
business
and sent their delegations in, some of them
are Muslims,
they were humiliated.
They were killed,
but Genghis Khan still did not want to
attack.
And so he sent high level people to
come to them.
And this high level delegation were killed. 1
was spared. His beard was shaved,
which is a sign of disgrace for a
Muslim
to be shaving your beard.
And so
they were sent back. He was sent back,
and that was it.
Genghis Khan then,
said there's only one son
in the heavens,
and there is only one Khan on this
earth.
And he said about
his conquest.
This was a major mistake
that this leader made.
So Genghis now invaded the Hawadism area
in 12/18.
He overran it. He distinguished it by 3
years.
And the leader, Shah Mohammed, and his son,
Jalaluddin,
you know, they had to flee.
And, you know, Jalal ended up they ended
up in the, you know, area way
over, you know, toward Russia and Europe, you
know, running and running and running and running
and running away.
That big empire
was conquered.
And Tengiz Khan now,
he mobilized
his people.
And
it is said
that he could bring into the field somewhere
between 90
to 200000
men.
And these were well trained.
They were armed.
They would ride with their horses sometimes, and
for their cavalry,
the cavalry man would have 2 horses.
So he would ride 1, you know, almost
to death, ride another one. They'd eat the
horse meat.
They would continue on.
They were moving forces,
and
they were highly organized.
And so it wasn't just
fear tactics.
They were organized. They had planning,
and they were able to
conquer then some of the large Muslim
states.
And this is, something which was
unheard of.
Muslims have become arrogant
just like in the time of the crusaders.
When they first saw the crusaders,
Europeans coming in.
And then,
one of the great writers,
you know, Ibn Shaddad,
believe it was, you know, the the this,
you know, doctor.
So he wrote to the Syrian, you know,
leaders, the Syrian writer. And and and so
then he writes, they're asking him about the
crusaders.
And he said,
they're animals
with good fighting spirit.
They're animals.
So in terms of lifestyle,
in terms of medicine, in terms of
cleanliness, in terms of organization,
they're animals,
but they have a good fighting spirit.
And so,
eventually, because of our weakness
and not necessarily because of what they did,
the Muslims were then, you know, conquered. And
we saw how,
Sultan Saladin,
had to come back and organize the Muslims.
So
in this way,
through organization and planning,
the Mongols were able to take down
some of the major cities in this what
is now central Asian area.
Cities like Bukhara,
Samarkand,
Jorjans.
These are major cities. These are not small
areas.
It is reported also that Genghis and his
youngest son, Tolui,
they laid waste to Khorasan.
That's a very important,
word in our history. The Khorasan area would
be,
Afghanistan,
parts of Azerbaijan, parts of Iran,
that whole mountainous area, very important part,
of, Islamic lands.
They laid waste to Khorasan.
They destroyed Herat,
which is now the western side of Afghanistan,
Nishapur,
and Merv.
Some of these cities, you don't even hear
the names anymore.
But these three cities at that time, Herat,
Nishapur, and Merv, they were 3 of the
largest cities in the world.
In the world.
That's how well off Muslims were doing.
But this
breeds
arrogance
and the love of the dunya.
And when this comes in,
there's a reaction.
Our conditions
changed.
And so the Mongols came in with a
fury.
And we have to ask ourselves,
when you're looking at these hordes coming in,
what is driving these people? And that is
the question that people ask themselves when they
look at Palestine and the occupiers.
What is driving them to do this?
Yes. There was a holocaust.
Yes. They suffered, but what
drives them
to kill people, babies, thousands of them, destroy
lands,
not to listen to to the whole world
talking to them?
What is the hatred? What is the blindness
and the fear
that can come in the hearts of people?
The Mongol nation at that time
was an angry nation.
They lived in the steppes,
and that is one of the most
unforgiving
areas
on the face of the planet Earth.
Not only in the Gobi Desert is a
terrible hot in the summer,
but it is terrible cold
in the winter.
And so
you don't have large areas. You don't have
mangoes and
bananas growing and
nice rain
and 30 degree temperatures most of the year
like you find in Malaysia and in many
parts of the Muslim world and the center
world. No.
Up there, harsh.
Everything is harsh. So the people become tough.
This harshness, unfortunately, sometimes has an impact on
the culture of the people.
And so we find in the Mongol nation,
this
anger
bursts out,
and it's it's almost like I'm gonna take
back.
You know, if this is what happened to
us, we'll do it to other people.
Also,
some reports say that they consider themselves to
be the scourge of god.
The the Genghis Khan considered himself to be
the the scourge of the Gokhtangri,
his
one god, his sky god,
that he would punish the people on earth
who were doing wrong. So he felt in
his twisted perverted way that he was actually,
liberating the world, and he was doing good.
And so when the Mongols came in, and
this is a depiction
that you find in certain texts.
According to an Iranian historian,
Rashid Ad Din,
okay,
That in this time period between
1247
and 13 18,
the Mongols killed, just to give you an
example of one of the areas,
the Mongols killed
more than
1,000,000
300,000
people in MERS.
More than 1,000,747,000
people in Neisha Port.
The total population of Persia
may have dropped from 2.5
2,500,000
to about
250,000.
Look at this.
Extermination.
This is genocide.
Famine.
And, of course, the genocide,
then the killing leads
to a famine.
But the Mongols are berserkers.
They have lost their sense. They have lost
their minds. And the lust for power
and the lust for killing. When this hits
a nation, this is one of the weaknesses
of human beings.
And even the angels in the beginning of
time, when Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala,
created Adam, they asked Allah,
you know, we are you gonna put a
creation that's gonna shed blood?
That's one of the real qualities. So angels
had some knowledge,
and they could sense in Adam and what
his descendants might be. And so human beings
have carried this out throughout the centuries.
The Mongols also use biological warfare.
Now I want you to compare with what's
happening
to the Palestinian people,
you know, and to the nations that have
been colonized
by the European colonialists for the past 500
years or so.
The plague
was spread in the areas of even Western
Europe, Africa,
Asia, the Middle East,
areas where Mongols couldn't even reach.
Plague was actually spreading from what they did.
Because what they would do, they would kill
so many different people.
And the bodies are lying, or they're not
gonna bury the bodies.
And they would actually,
catapult
the the dead bodies
over
the walls of cities, into the cities,
and the fleas that are on the bodies.
The disease coming from the bodies
actually cause viruses.
So they knew enough evil, enough
wrong
that they actually caused
many of the great viruses.
Some even say the black plague,
bubonic plague,
may have been initiated,
by the Mongols.
So biological
warfare,
they carried out.
They destroyed the infrastructure.
Just like in Gaza, you see the infrastructure
being destroyed.
The the date palm trees, the olives,
the water systems.
You know? It is now unlivable
in the area of the Mongols.
They would be known to burn farmlands.
And it's reported that when they went to
the Ganghwa
Island palaces,
in one of their invasions of Korea, because
they were all the way over in Korea
too, they
burnt
crops
in order to stop the populations.
So they were using,
this type of destruction
of infrastructure,
even diverting rivers
away from cities and towns.
So this is not new what is happening,
in Palestine. This is not new, which has
hit, you know, our countries, you know, in
this colonial period. And this is the last,
of the colonial experiment,
that was, you know, used to to to
conquer the so called third world and especially
the Muslim world.
You also find the Mongols
used drugs.
Now this is something not known by the
average,
reader.
But when the Mongols passed through India,
they ran into,
hemp, hashish.
And they found that from hashish
from the hemp, they were making hashish, the
drugs,
also the poppy plants.
And this went
they developed
opium. Opium was coming from the poppy.
And so this entered into China. They use
this
actually to to subjugate and control the population.
They also smoke some of the hashis themselves
so they could, you know, continue to go
on, and you have to be
high or crazy
to be doing some of the things that
they were doing. And so they were moving
along.
You could transport Hashish,
in your bags.
So they were moving from nation to nation,
killing people.
And those that are left, many of them,
they would,
get them addicted to their opium and hashish.
So you could say that the Mongols were
the 1st international
drug dealers
moving from nation to nation.
And so
it got so bad
that when the Mongols were now threatening to
come into Baghdad
and people were running from Baghdad into Syria.
And, one of the families was, of the
family of, Sheikh Islam,
Rahimullah, one of the great Islamic scholars. And,
he was forced to make a a serious
concerning drugs.
Those who
transport drugs, sell drugs.
He made the that
they should be executed, and they should not
be buried in a Muslim graveyard
even if they were Muslims.
That is serious.
You do not see fatwas being made. That
is the danger and the scourge of drugs.
And we see it in the colonial period.
We see today
what drugs are doing in our nations and
doing,
to much of the world.
And so
as they were moving
down into the Muslim world,
and they were threatening,
to go down to our sacred lands
and even to Egypt.
The ulama sat. At that time,
Cairo was one of the centers of,
Muslim scholarship.
As an interesting discussion that the scholars had,
because in in in the Hanafi school of
thought,
intoxicants,
they consider it to be that which is
wet
and that which flows.
So intoxicants
in the Hanafi school of thought
were like beer
and wine
and your whiskeys and your rum.
This because this flows. This is wet.
They did not consider anything else because that's
basically what they knew at the time.
And when the scholars debated this, they said,
okay. Hashish,
opium, these things did not wet.
They don't flow,
and they don't get you drunk, especially when
you're dealing with Hashish.
It doesn't get you drunk. It gives you
what they call.
What is what is the,
the the the beginning
of getting drunk? That's what what we call
today
high. So they get you high.
And the difference is that the drunk person,
you know, loses their balance. Their their body's
intoxicated.
The person who's high maybe can walk straight
and look you in the eye, but their
mind is befogged.
Their mind is somewhere else.
So the scholars now debated this.
And they said, how can we consider this
to be haram?
How can we, you you know, totally,
block this from our countries?
And some of the scholars brought the hadith
of,
where she reported to the prophet
in this in this tradition, she
said,
This is reported in Abu Dawood
that the prophet,
he prohibited
all narcotics.
He he he prohibited
all alcoholic
beverages
and narcotics.
So there's 2 things.
He prohibited,
and a
is that which gets you.
So that's your alcohol, your rum,
your gets you drunk.
So he prohibited that, she said.
And mufti.
What is the mufti?
The Mufti is a narcotic, and that is
defined
by the scholars as being that which gets
you high.
That's the beginning of getting drunk. He prohibited
that as well. So with this,
tradition of
they, you know, ended the discussion
and took on, you know, the the cleat
the the the complete,
you know, fatawa,
you know, to ban these drugs in, you
know, the Muslim countries. It was being used
by the Mongols.
Look at the Muslim world today.
Look at what has happened to the youth.
Look at what is going on, and you
see the spread of the drugs.
Now
interesting point because we noticed that, you know,
maybe
a a good 50%,
40, 50%, you know, being killed in,
Gaza is children.
Why would you bomb and you kill children?
Why even before this recent
onslaught,
were the occupying powers shooting the youth, especially
the young males, shooting them in their knees?
Okay? Destroying them.
Why would they imprison the youth? Why would
they take a young rebellious boy with a
slingshot
or just standing on a street corner
and arrest them and put them in jail?
Why would they move on the youth like
this?
This is a pattern
that was developed by
occupiers and oppressors
from ancient times.
Genghis Khan
was amongst the warlords
who would often employ
mass
in indiscriminate
murder of men and boys,
regardless of if they were soldiers,
civilians, or simply in the way. Think about
Gaza.
Massacre them all in the year 1202
after the Ong Khan
allied to conquer the Tatas.
Genghis Khan we ordered the execution of every
Tata man
and boy taller than a linchpin.
So if if you're tall, if you're, like,
taller than,
you know, 3 feet,
if you're taller than that, execute them.
What do you do with the women?
He enslaved the women for sexual purposes.
K? So
it is said that this order was done.
I mean, their argument was that it was
done as a collective punishment
for the fatal poisoning of Genghis Khan's father,
Yesogi,
of which they blamed the Tatas.
Okay? See the excuse?
The same way. Oh, self defense.
They they they blame, you know, an action.
And then, you know, after you've defended yourself
over and over again, now the slaughter, they
keep using that as a defense. It's the
same thing the Mongols did.
Destroy the youth. This goes back to the
time of pharaoh
in the time of Musa alaihis salam where
the
said that he will kill the youth and
he will
enslave the women.
Right? So get the boys,
destroy them,
and control the women.
It's the same pattern that the pharaoh set
at that time. So what is happening today
is part of a pattern
of which the Mongols
had probably
the clearest example, the most vicious example of
genocide
and murder may be ever witnessed
in history,
and one straight onslaught like this.
And
the pivotal point
that we are looking at,
we have to look at the Khalafat,
and that was based in Baghdad.
Now Baghdad and if you look at your
picture, you see that circular city.
Look at the water flowing around it.
This was considered to be one of the
wonders of the world
at that time.
Baghdad was founded in 762
by Al Mansur,
the second Khalifa of the Abbasids.
And,
they believed that they needed a capital city.
Okay? Because they wanted something did not want
to use Kufa
and Basra, and if they wanted a a
capital city,
something that was located away from potential threats,
and it was near to the power base.
So they wanna move more toward over Persia.
Okay? Strategic
move.
And so
they built this
unbelievable
city.
And,
because of the wealth that they was pouring
into the,
Abbasid lands at the time, then this became
one of the great cities of the whole
world.
It was the epicenter of the Islamic golden
age,
the city of Baghdad. Poets,
writers, scientists, philosophers,
everybody flocked to Baghdad.
And,
the house of wisdom, one of the caliphas,
Mamun,
he developed the house, Baitul Hikma, which is
the house of wisdom, where he brought scholars
of all religions together, and they made unbelievable
progress at that time.
Astronomical
observatories
were developed.
Technology of paper,
you know, was, you know, organized. It may
have started in China. It was in ancient
Egypt as well, papyrus. Right?
But they organized it
and were able to send that around
to many parts of the world. And so
it is said that Baghdad,
at that time,
was the intellectual
capital of the planet Earth,
was in this beautiful city of Baghdad.
And time 762,
and now you're dealing with
12
58.
So this is close to 500
years.
People tend to forget.
People think
that they're invincible,
and they forget Sunnatullah.
Remember what what Allah said. If you change
your condition in your heart,
if you take on
then something's gonna happen.
And so the fall of Baghdad,
1258.
Now the Mongols are moving in,
and they come to the area of Iraq,
this historic city of Baghdad.
And
their
astrologers
and magicians, they were very superstitious people.
And so they were afraid.
They were told, watch out when you're coming
for this city because you might get cursed.
I mean, this is the center of the
world in terms of science and term math
and and so many different things. But but
the army came under Hulagu Khan.
Okay? So this is one of of the
sons of Genghis Khan.
And the leader at the time was was
Al Mustaseh.
And, again, as we had mentioned, the Khalifa
was only a shadow
of what the Khalifa was supposed to be.
But Hulagu came in, and he first wanted
to negotiate
to see where the Muslims he'd rather peacefully
take over because they were superstitious.
And so
when the Mongols were coming through, they ran
into the assassins,
Hashashin.
And you remember them from the Fatimid times.
Let's go back in our pivotal moments.
The Hashashin,
the Ismaelis,
they ran into these people, Hassan al Sabah,
in these castles.
But the Mongols were
an almost invincible army at the time.
But they they were afraid.
So they sent notes to, Al Mustasem.
Why don't we together fight against the assassins?
Because
the Muslims were afraid of the assassins as
well.
Al Mustasem and his people around him became
very arrogant,
and they refused to do this.
And so this again, animosity started to come.
And Nasir ad Dinatoussi,
you know, one of the the wicked,
wazir's underneath the Khalifa,
started to negotiate with the Mongols.
So this now starts to bring the demise
of this
fabulous walled city.
And so the Mongols then started to move
into this area,
and
they started to attack the city.
And there was one report, which is it
it it shows you the level of
forgetfulness.
There's a report that is coming in,
and it's saying that the Khalifa was,
enjoying,
one of his belly dances.
He loved her the most.
And she was dancing and singing her poetry,
and an arrow came through the window and
it and it stabbed and killed her her
belly his belly dancer.
So the Khalifa was upset.
And instead of now being angry
okay. It's corruption, but this is his favorite,
belly dancer.
Instead of sending the armies out, uniting the
Muslim world, and defeating the Mongols,
he lays back, and he orders another belly
dancer to come.
What does that mean?
Think of the mindset of that individual.
He is in another where he's in a
bubble completely,
totally divorced from reality.
The love of this world
and the fear of death.
And so
the Mongols then
attacked the city from all sides.
Treacherous traitors
like Nasir Ad Din
opened up doors.
The Khalifa himself, he thought nothing would happen
to him,
so he made a truce. And he said,
you know, spare me and my family.
I'll let you in the city.
And so he came out to negotiate.
And,
Hulagu
then and his forces,
because the superstition said, don't spill the blood
of the Khalifa.
You can't cut him, so he bleeds because
then you're cursed.
So what they did was they grabbed the
Khalifa,
took him and his retinal, put him in
the beautiful Persian carpets,
and they rode over them with horses.
Look at this humiliation
that happened to the great Khilafat
and, you know, the gem of the whole
planet Earth.
This is the reaction.
This is the pivotal moment, the fall of
Baghdad.
Following this
is a destruction
that
writes, I wish my mother never gave birth
to me.
Think about this. I wish I was never
born
so I would not have to be the
one to write about this.
And so they slaughtered day after day.
They threw the books into the river. The
Tigris and Euphrates turned black with ink.
We lost thousands of our texts.
Then the bodies go in. The river runs
red with blood.
And so
some say that even more than a 1000000
people
destroyed. And after that,
the fallout, the pestilence,
the destruction that went on,
in the city, it is a pivotal moment,
and some even believe it was the end
of the Islamic golden age.
That from there,
we made some progress.
We did some good things,
but we never reached the heights that we
had,
before this,
especially in the millennium,
1,000 a year, 1,000, and just after that,
we were at our heights.
This was a pivotal moment,
in Islamic history,
and, it's something to think about.
And we are seeing something like this coming
out in front of our eyes.
Now it is the land of Palestine, marshal
Aqsa,
and we are seeing happening. But what is
different about this?
We're seeing it in real time.
In those days, remember,
nation states all divided up,
rich and the poor,
famine in the land,
not practicing your deen.
All the things that plague us today
has happened at that time to the Muslims,
and then you see the destruction that comes
upon them
because of this.
And so this is a pivotal moment
and,
but a reaction occurs. Allah
is so merciful
to us
that, our history, as Ibn Khaldun said in
his,
it's like a circle. We go from up,
down, and we come back around.
This is a low point
in Islamic history,
but following this, there's a rise.
Just like today,
Inshallah,
there can be a rise that happened in
the past.
There can be a rise back up,
but we need to study this, and we
need to understand
what happened to the Muslims. So don't think
that what's happening today
is something new. It has happened before. It
is horrible. We need to do something,
say something, write something,
you know, boycott something, do anything
in order to bring about the ceasefire and
humanitarian
aid and and and to help the the
the innocent children and women
and innocent people in in Gaza and Philistine,
to try to help. And also in the
Sudan,
where this this confusion,
man made confusion needs to be stopped.
In other areas,
of the Muslim world, now is the time,
for us to stand up and not to
become complacent.
So I want to end this point. This
is your pivotal moment. And next week, Inshallah,
we will then see
what is the response,
of the Muslims
to this terrible situation.
But before we end, I want to open
up the floor if there's any questions, that
anybody has,
concerning anything,
in this
session.
So the floor is open for any questions.
We don't have any questions right now,
but we do have a couple of comments.
Okay. The comments?
From Jason Werner.
Long time shoot. I love hearing from you
again. Mass
it up.
Marshall White
says, so sad that the OIC is just
a name. They recently concluded,
a summit in my country of in my
country, Gambia.
Unfortunately, the leaders were we have the OIC
are the leaders that can salvage this Omar.
The saddest thing is almost all those countries
are still having ties with Israel.
Yes. So so one of the students is
saying he's from Gambia, and that's where the
OIC just met.
And, they still have not been able to
come together.
Just like the Khalifa and Baghdad, it's like
a shadow
of what it actually supposed to be. Other
comments for people who are online? Yeah.
History repeats itself. You know, a lot of
protect the believers.
Lots of people.
Yes. We see history repeating itself,
you know, and I know that this class
is a shock to a lot of you.
So, you know, as the shock wears off,
write down your questions,
and next week, we will be looking at
that and the response,
of the Muslims
to the terrible onslaught
that happened to the Muslim world. I leave
to have mercy on me and you.
to have mercy on me and you.