Hamzah Wald Maqbul – 18 Ramadn 1442 Late Night Majlis The Conversion of the Hordes New Orleans
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18th night of Ramadan.
And,
we're recording Majlis tonight from
New Orleans in Louisiana,
or Louisiana or however they say it over
here.
This
this place is a very interesting place,
and,
brought me here in order to
look for slaughtermen
to work at a halal plant so that
chicken supplies in
the 2 coasts and in the Midwest and
in the North don't get
disrupted. My children said, Baba, do you have
to go to Ramadan?
I said, yes. Who's gonna console all the
little children who,
you know, if the chicken supply gets cut
off, they're not gonna be able
to have, like, chicken nuggets at their favorite
halal restaurant.
And they thought about it for a moment.
They're like, yeah, that's very important, Baba. You
should go. So
if I,
if I, you seem to wander
or seem off the ball in tonight's it's
because I have not functionally slept for about
2 days now. And Allah
accept
and fulfill our
here and just like fixing
halal chicken supply,
logistical
issues, supply chain issues in the United States.
This is also a function of the.
There are other even more grand functions of
the Ummah that are right now dysfunctional and
need to be fixed. May Allah subhanahu wa
ta'ala raise the people to fix them as
well. And may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala give
them tawfeeq, and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
give them success, and may Allah make us
into them.
So we continue in Mawana Abu Hasan Ali
and Naduiz,
saviors of the Islamic spirit, describing the
the dysfunctionality
in the that led
to and that witnessed,
the sack
of the Muslim heartlands by the Mongol hordes.
Interestingly enough, the word horde is a Mongol
word,
that is a cognate of the word Urdu.
Urdu is a Mongol word. It means the
the combined armies,
of the tribes, and Urdu is,
basically becomes a word for Laskar in Persian
for it becomes the word for an army
later on. And, Urdu is called Urdu as
a language because it was,
basically the way that people would talk talk
to each other because you have these Persian
and Arab
and Turkic soldiers that are ruling India, and
so they have certain words of their own
that they bring, and then they have to
learn certain local words in order to buy,
sell, and trade.
And that's how how happened.
And just like, you know,
just like
that we made you into tribes and nations
so that you may know one another.
One of the meanings of which is to
marry one another,
just like the children of the unions of
many different nations are beautiful.
So so it turns out the language, and
it's not just sort of, Ottoman, Turkic, or
Uzbek, or whatever. There are other languages like
that. But the word horde,
is not necessarily just purely a negative,
not purely a negative word. But at any
rate,
Mullan Abu Hasan Ali Naderi read from his
book
under the subheading,
the sack of Bardad.
At last, in 656 Hijri, the myriads of
savages and heathens advanced towards Baghdad,
killing every man that came in their way,
setting fire to every habitation, and trampling into
dust whatever they could not possess.
The metropolis of Islam celebrated throughout the world
as the center of civilization, learning, and crafts
was reduced to ashes.
The sack of Baghdad is too harrowing and
lengthy to be detailed here. The accounts given
by the contemporary historians include some eyewitness accounts
of the carnage and atrocities committed by the
Mongols. Ibn al Athir, who we mentioned in
yesterday's majlis,
writes.
The horrors,
of * and slaughter lasted for 40 days,
And after the carnage was over, most of
the populace in the beautiful city,
and, of the world,
the beautiful city of the world was so
devastated that only a few people could be
seen here and there.
All the streets and markets were strewn with
dead bodies.
Heaps of corpses were found like small mounds
from place to place.
After the rains, the dead bodies began to
rot, giving out a disagreeable smell of the
putrid flesh, and then a deadly pestilence ravaged
the town,
which spread as far as the land of
Syria. Innumerable people died as a result of
this epidemic,
The ravages of a terrible famine and pestilence
and the rising, prices reigned over the city
thereafter.
Those people those people were the were the
people of Islam.
Those people were were the ones that carried
for all their vices and difficulties and and
and and problems that they had. They were
the ones who carried the tradition of Islam.
People forget, by the way, this is a
fun question growing up in America, because
now I, you know, I'm the we I
get to get the honor and the joy
of living in the world of books and
in the world of
ilm. And,
you know, it's a different world.
But, the kind of the world of, like,
MSA politics or Masjid politics when you don't
know
Arabic? What are the fun,
fun things that people bring up to say,
how well, how come the Arabs aren't Hanafis?
None of the Arabs are Hanafis.
You know, how come none of the Arabs
are Hanafis? This is just the Desi Islam
that you guys made up because you don't
speak Arabic and you don't know what you're
doing or whatever. Even though I'm not a
Hanafi, but still, like, this is stuff that
we would hear about the ulama as kids.
And, you wanna know where the Arab Hanafis
went? They were all bled into the ground
by by the Mongol hordes. Iraq was a
completely Hanafi country.
And, you can accuse Kaldhe Abu Yusuf of
many things. We can't accuse him of not
being an Arabi.
You can accuse Imam,
you can accuse Imam
Mohammed, many things, but he was Shaibani, who's
a tribal Arab lineage, which is most most
more than most contemporary Egyptians and Syrians,
and,
others can boast of nowadays.
They're people of tribal lineage,
and,
the people who are scattered in the countryside
and the people who are left here and
there, they're the ones who Allah chose to
carry the deen to the to the next
generation.
Otherwise, the people in the cities were completely
destroyed.
And this is,
you know, a beautiful,
gift also that the people of the Maghreb
had is that they never had to experience
this.
They did go through many difficulties, but this
type of complete desolation of their all of
their metropoli,
in the. I I I don't recall it
ever happened. The only place it happened was
somewhere like Andalus, and sadly, it was never
recovered. But,
but,
you know, what
we call Morocco nowadays, Algeria, Tunis.
They went through a lot of difficulties in
in French colonization, but they never went to
anything like this.
Mullan Abu Hassan Ali Nadi continues.
Tajadin ibnusubki,
gives his own account of the barbaric acts
of the Mongols.
Halakkur received the caliph and Mustasim
in a tent, while Ibnu, Al Kami invited
the doctors of religion and other notables,
of the city to be a witness of
the agreement between Halaqo and,
the caliph. So it's interesting in Urdu and
in in in,
Persian
and in Arabic, his name is written as
Halaku.
The name is actually Ulegu.
Ulegu is it's a Mongol name. And I
think that one of the reasons they write
Halaku maybe because there's not a goth in
Arabic, but I think one of the reasons
they write is this halaku is also a
play on words because the word halak in
in,
Arabic is
is to to to kill or to die.
That's what he was to them. He was
dead. And
when the Mongols destroyed the people of a
city, they did so quite derisively
and mockingly
and with a lot of arrogance. They said
that we are the Allah that you worship.
We are the ones that he sent to
destroy you because of your sins. It's a
very arrogant thing for a person to say
even if it is true even if it
is true,
in a sense. But, you know, when they
did it, they did it as a act
of disobedience,
and ultimately allows the compeller that makes the
disobedient,
allows them to be disobedient and allows the
the the the good person to be a
good person. So the Khalifa is and Ibnu
al Kami is a Shiite prime minister
that, Ibnu Al Kami invited the doctors, of
religion and other notables of the city to
be witness to the agreement between Halakku and
the caliph.
When they had repaired the man repaired to
the Mongol camp, all were passed under the
sword. They were all called 1 by 1
in a tent and beheaded until none of
the chiefs and counselors of the caliph remained
alive. It was commonly believed if the blood
of the caliph fell on the ground, some
calamity would overtake the world. Alaku was therefore
hesitant, but Nasiruddin Tusi,
intervened
to suggest that the problem could be easily
solved. The caliph should be killed. He suggested
in a way that his blood did not
fall on the ground. The caliph was accordingly
rolled into a carpet and then beaten to
death.
Isn't that special?
There's a footnote here. An Iranian historian confirms
the incident in his book,
which has been published by the Tehran University.
He says that
Toussi was,
at last successful in his endeavor to dismember
the caliphate. Nasiruddin Toussi was a great,
scholar and alim and thinker of the Shiite
tradition.
And,
he he was one of the first people
to go over to the Mongol side and
offered to be their guide in the destruction
and dismemberment of the the caliphate and the
Muslim world,
which is sadly not an aspersion to put
against all Shias, but
this sectarian animus does exist.
And, sadly, this era, which has wanted to
deny that, has seen it, come to pass
in places like Yemen and Syria.
And may Allah be our protection.
He said that Toussi was at last successful
in his endeavor to dismember the caliphate and
reduce the castle of the caliph to dust.
Halakuh had already been commissioned by his brother,
Khaqan Munki, to put an end to the
caliphate after destroying the,
after destroying the, the the assassins.
Hulagu sent,
messages of submission to Caliph, which however remained
unheeded.
Thereafter, Hulegu consulted his counselors onto whether or
not the stars were favorable for mounting attack,
a a Sunni astrologer,
which I don't know what that means, but
a Sunni astrologer,
Samadine,
by name advised Hulegu that the time was
most inappropriate for launching an attack on Baghdad,
and anyone who desired to harm the caliph
at that hour would be defeated and suffer
a grievous loss.
Some of Dean said that if Hulego persisted
in his attempt, there would be no rains,
torrents, and hurricanes,
will dev devastate the world.
What is more, the Hakan would be dead.
Halaku was dismayed, but he asked Dusi, what
would happen if I attacked about that? Nothing
replied Dusi, except the Khan will be monarch
and place the caliph. Thereupon, Hulegu, ordered, Toussiy
and his Samadhi to debate the issue in
front of him. 1000 of the companions of
the prophet were killed, argued Tusi, but nothing
happened.
Even if you, attribute any special piety and
charismatic power to the Abbasids,
Look at Tahir who killed Amin under the
orders of Mamun or who was thrown to
death by his own sons and slaves,
or us, Mus,
Montasir and,
Martavid
were,
done to death by their chiefs and guards.
Did calamity ever overtake the world?
Which is,
I mean, it's sad that's something that happened
that the Muslim world should own up to,
that there was. A large number of people
crossed over and aided the Mongols and their
sectarian animus to to destroy,
and kill,
literally 100 of 1000 of Muslims.
Mullane Abu Hassan al Din Naddawi continues with
the main text.
The general massacre continued in Baghdad for more
than a month. Only those
could save themselves
were able to find were those who were
able to find a hiding place.
Hulegu then, ordered, it is related to count
the dead, who numbered 1800,000.
Christians were asked to take bacon and wine
publicly.
Although it was the month of Ramadan,
and had never before undergone such a humiliation.
This is our misfortune that we get to
see it happen again.
In spite of all its vices and weaknesses,
Baghdad was the metropolis of Islam, a center
of learning, arts, and crafts,
as well as a city of mosques and
shrines, saints, and preachers.
Its destructions
its destruction made, the heart of every Muslim
bleed. The heart rending account of its ruin
was rendered by many poets into songs of
mourning.
Saadi Shirazi,
the canonical poet of the Persian language who
had lived in Baghdad during his student days
and had seen the city in its heyday
of glory, has described the fall of Baghdad
in a language that shows the depth of
misery.
For it has seen the kingdom of,
Mustasan destroyed. The heavens would be justified if
it shed
the,
rain,
in the rain tears of blood. If you
will rise on the day of judgment, oh,
Muhammad,
rise now to see the most severe affliction.
The blood of beauty slaughtered in the castle
overflows the gates of the palace, and our
tears,
stain our garments.
Beware of the turn of time and its
vicissitudes,
for who, knew the glorious would come to
such an abrupt end? Lo, you had seen
the glory of the house of Caliph,
where Caesars and Haqqans bowed low in, obeisance.
The blood of the progeny of Muhammad's uncle,
alayhisattu, salam,
is shed on the very earth where sultans
placed their heads.
Colored with blood, the water of Tigris will
turn, the ground red.
If it flows to irrigate,
the desert oasis of,
of the one
defaced by the calamity it has had to
suffer. Wrinkles of waves are seen in the
face of the Tigris. No elegy is really
befitting the elevated souls whose minimum reward is
the bliss of God in paradise. I am
shedding my tears only in sympathy.
For Muslims, they were, and I hold them
dear.
Mulana continues. From Baghdad, the Mongol hordes marched
to Halab Aleppo,
sacked the city, and then turned to Damascus.
They captured Damascus in Jamat Al Ula,
of 6 58 Hijri. The Christian inhabitants of
the city came out with presence to greet
the conquerors.
Ibn Kathir, who belonged to Damascus, had portrayed
the joy of the Christians and the helplessness
of the Muslims in these words. The Christians
came back by the gates of Tomah,
carrying the cross over their heads and shouting
slogans.
They're praising Christianity and opening,
openly disparaging Islam and Muslims. They had flasks
of wine from which they sprinkled liquor in
front of the mosques and on the faces
of Muslims that they happened to pass by,
ordering the Muslims to pay homage to their
emblem. Muslims could not restrain themselves for long
and gathered in large numbers and pushed them
back to the Cathedral of Mary, where Christian
clergy delivered a speech praising Christianity and then
denigrating Islam and its followers,
end quote. Thereafter, Ibn Kathir continues his description
on the authority of,
in,
in case the reign of Tartars continued for
some time more. The ulama, and other Muslim
notables repaired to the citadel,
of the Tatar governor,
Elsion,
to make complaint about the excesses of the
Christians, but they were turned out by him.
Elsion, however,
gave a hearing to the Christians,
verily unto god do we belong, and unto
him shall we return.
After the fall of Syria, the Mongols wanted
to carry their arms to Egypt,
which was the only Muslim country still out
of their reach. The Sultan of Egypt,
Al Malik al Muzaffar Sayfadin Qutuz
knew that his country would be the next
target of the Mongols.
Sayfodina Pottuz was, by the way, a Mamluk
slave king and a very incredible individual.
And also, that it would be difficult to
hold off, those savages if they were allowed
to make adequate preparations
for invading his lands. He therefore decided to
attack the Mongols in Syria before they're able
to consolidate their power. The forces of Egypt
accordingly met the Mongols at Ain Jalut, a
town,
below Nazareth in Palestine.
On the 25th of Ramadan,
658,
Hijri, under the command of who
was mentioned in the previous chapters as being,
one of the kings who
showed great,
love and favor to
Sultan and Olamaz ibn Abdus Salam.
He said that,
that they've,
the town below Nazareth and Palestine,
on the 25th of Ramadan,
in 658 Hijri, under the command of Bebers.
See,
some people have luck when they go out
in the path of Allah in the month
of Ramadan.
And Babers, who afterward became the sovereign of
Egypt.
Unlike previous battles, the Muslims met the Mongols
in a hotly contested battle and drove back
the
stream, of the savage hordes. The Egyptians pursued
the defeated Mongols,
slaughtering and capturing a large number of them
eastward
beyond the Euphrates.
Suyuti writes in Tarikhul Khalifa,
the Muslims were by the grace of God
victorious,
and they inflicted a grievous defeat
on the Tatars. A large number of Tatars
were put to the sword. The retreating Tatars
were so disheartened that people easily caught hold
of them and despoiled them of their possessions.
Sultan Babirs defeated the Tatars in, many a
fierce battle after Anjalut,
and thus disproved the proverb that the proverb
that the Tatars were invincible.
And Moana,
perhaps in his
class, he, he doesn't mention.
In,
you know,
the Mongol commander,
who was deputed by Halaqoo by Hulegu to,
lead the Mongol horde
while he was recalled to for
for their, like, big Mongol tribal pan tribal.
Not only did they defeat him, they they
basically routed the army. They decimated it. They
didn't none of it escaped or very little
of it escaped, and he sent
head to,
to as a as a gift on a
plate.
This is not prophetic conduct nor do I
know it to be jayes and the sharia,
but,
sometimes,
a person has to intimidate their enemies, especially
an enemy that is so savage as to
kill women and children.
And I say this not because I have
any animus against the Mongols. What did they
know? They came out of the steppe,
brutalized by the Chinese and by their intercessing
warfare. And so they were people who were
hardhearted
and who were accustomed to brutality,
as a way of life because nobody showed
them mercy ever.
And you'll see later on, they will the
next subheading is the conversion of the Mongols
to Islam,
that that that that they you know, every
every human being, you know, has a potential
to
be a real crazy customer and has the
potential to be someone beloved to Allah. And,
but sometimes you need to give a person
a shock in order to in order to
get them to calm down, otherwise, the the
bloodletting will
keep going until no end.
The conversion of the Mongols.
Islam was about to be submerged in the
whirlpool of Mongol ardor,
for slaughter and destruction as many Muslim writers
had then expressed the fear
of wiping it out of existence. But Islam
suddenly began to capture the hearts of the,
savage Tatars once
at once.
The preachers of Islam thus accomplished
a task
which the sword arms of the faith had
failed to perform
by carrying the message of Islam to the
barbaric hordes of the heathen Mongols.
Conversion of the Mongols to Islam was indeed
one of the few unpredictable events of history.
The Tataric wave of conquest, which had swept
away the entire Islamic east in within a
short period of 1 year, was in truth,
not so astounding as the Mongols' acceptance of
Islam during the zenith of their glory. For
the Muslims had, by the beginning of 7th
century,
of the Muslim era, imbibe all of those
vices that are not the natural outcome of
opulence, luxury, and fast living.
The Mongols were, on the other hand, a
wild and ferocious yet vigorous and sturdy race
who could have hardly been expected to submit
to the spiritual and cultural superiority of the
people so completely subdued by them and who
were,
also so looked down and despised by them.
The author of Preaching Islam, TW Arnold, had
also expressed his amazement over the achievement of
this unbelievable feat.
Quote, but Islam was to rise again from
the ashes of its former grandeur, and through
its preachers win over these savage conquerors to
the acceptance of faith. This was a task
for the missionary energies of Islam
that was rendered more difficult from the fact
that there are 2 powerful competitors in the
field.
The spectacle of Buddhism,
Christianity, and Islam,
emulously
striving to win the allegiance of the fierce
conquerors that had set their feet on the
necks of the adherents of these great missionary
religions is one that is without parallel in
the history of the world.
For Islam to enter into competition with such
powerful rivals as Buddhism and Christianity were at
the outset,
period,
outside of the period of Mongol rule,
must have appeared, well nigh hopeless,
as an undertaking.
For the Muslims had suffered more from the
storm of Mongol invasions than others.
Those cities that had hitherto
been the rallying point of spiritual organization and
learning for Islam in Asia
had been for the most part laid in
ashes.
The theologians and pious doctors of the faith
either slain or carried away into captivity.
Among the Mongol rulers, usually so tolerant toward
all religions,
there were some who exhibited
varying degrees of hatred toward the Muslim faith.
Chinggis Khan,
ordered all those who killed animals in the
Mohammedan fashion to be put to death,
and this ordinance was revived by Kublai,
who by offering
rewards to informers,
set on foot a sharp
persecution that lasted for 7 years as many
poor persons took advantage of this
ready means of gaining wealth, and slaves accused
their master,
accused their masters in order to gain their
freedom.
During the reign of Koyuk,
who left the conduct of affairs entirely to
his 2 Christian ministers and whose court was
filled with Christian monks, Mohammedans were made to
suffer great severities.
Arhun the 4th Il Khan
persecuted,
the Musalmans,
and took away from them all posts in
the departments of justice and finance, and forbid
them to appear at his court.
In spite of all difficulties, however, the Mongols
and the savage tribes that followed in their
wake were at length brought to submit to
the faith of those Muslim peoples
whom they had crushed beneath their feet.
Unbelievable
and far reaching
far reaching significance, although the conversion of the
Mongols to Islam had been. It is also
not less surprising that extremely few and scanty
records of this glorious achievement are to be
found in the annals of that time. The
names of only a few dedicated saviors of
Islam
who proselytized,
from the hordes are known to the world,
but their venture was no less daring, nor
the achievement less significant than the accomplishment for
they
had
in
reality,
for they had in reality,
performed a great service to the humanity in
general and the Muslims in particular by diffusing
the knowledge of faith among those barbarians, winning
them over to the service of 1 God,
and making them the standard barriers of the
apostle of peace.
After Genghis Khan,
his death, the great heritage of that Mongol
conqueror was divided into 4 dominions headed by,
the offspring of his sons. The message of
Islam had begun to spread amongst all of
these four sections of the Mongols who were
rapidly converted to the faith.
In regard to the conversion of the ruling
princess,
in the line of Batu, the son of
Genghis Khan's first born, Jochi,
who ruled in the western portion as Khan
of the Golden Horde, writes Arnold.
Quote, the first Mongol ruling prince who had
professed Islam was Baraka Khan. His Mongol name
was Berke, and he then he took the
Muslim name Baraka,
who was the chief of the Golden Horde
from 1256 till 1267.
According to,
Abu Ghazi, he was converted after he had
come to the throne. He has said one
day to have fallen in with a caravan
coming from Bukhara,
and taking 2 of the merchants aside to
have questioned them on the doctrines of Islam,
and they expounded to him their faith so
persuasively that he became converted in all sincerity.
He first revealed his change of faith to
his youngest brother, whom he induced to follow
his example, and then made open profession of
his new belief.
Baraka Khan entered into a close alliance with
the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt, Ruknuddin Beyburs, again,
a very robotic person.
Allah
have mercy on all of them and raise
their rank.
The initiative came from the latter,
who had given a hospitable reception to a
body of troops, 200 in number belonging to
the golden horde. These men observing the growing
enmity between
Der Khan and Hulego, the,
conqueror Baghdad.
So and and Hulego,
were kinda had some beef brewing, as well.
Observing the growing enmity between, Durkhan and Hulego,
the conqueror of Baghdad, in whose army,
they were serving.
They took flight to Syria,
once they were honorably conducted to Cairo in
the court of Baibars, who pervaded the persuaded
them to embrace
Islam. Baybars himself was at war with Hulegu,
whom he had recently defeated and driven out
of Syria.
He sent 2, of, the Mongol fugitives with
some other envoys to bear a letter to
Barakah Khan. On their return, these envoys reported
that each princess and emir at the court
of Barakah Khan had an imam and a
Mu'adhun, and the children were taught, the Quran
in the schools.
These friendly relations between Baibars and Barakah Khan
brought many,
of the Mongols,
of the Golden Horde to Egypt, where they
were prevailed upon to become the salmans, end
quote.
And,
this is also something history records that neighbors
married Barakah's
daughter.
Molana Abul Hasan Ali Nadawi continues,
Ulegu had founded the dynasty of the Ilkhan's
in Iran, to which he later added a
great part of Asia Minor.
Arnold relates the conversion of this branch of
Genghis Khan's progeny in these worlds. Quote, in
Persia, where Hulegu founded the dynasty of the
Ilkhan's,
the, progress of Islam amongst the Mongols was
much slower. In order to strengthen himself against
the attacks of Barakah Khan and the Sultan
of e the Sultan of Egypt, Hulegu had
accepted the alliance of the Christian powers of
the east, such as the king of Armenia
and the Crusaders.
His favorite wife was a Christian who favorably
disposed, the mind of her husband toward her
coreligioness,
and his son, Abaqa Khan,
married the daughter of the emperor of Constantinople.
His brother,
Takudar, who
succeeded him, was the first of the Ilkhan's
who embraced Islam.
He had been brought up as a Christian
for as a contemporary Christian writers tells us,
he was baptized when young and called by
the name of Nicholas.
But when he, had grown up through his,
communication with the Saracens,
of whom he was very fond, he became
a base Saracen renouncing the Christian faith and
wished to be called Mohammed Khan,
not to be confused with a number of
people of the same,
appellation in, on Diwan.
I wish to be called Mohammed Khan and
strove with all his might that the Tartar
should be converted to the faith and sect
of Mohammed sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And when they
proved obstinate,
not daring to force them, he brought about
their conversion by giving them honors and favors
and gifts So that in his time, many
Tatars were converted to the faith of the
Saracens.
This prince sent the news of his conversion
to the Sultan of Egypt in the following
letter by the power of God almighty, the
mandate of Ahmed,
to, the Sultan of Egypt.
God almighty, praise be his name, and by
his grace
preventing us and by the light of his
guidance have,
guided us in our early youth and vigor
into the true path of the knowledge of
his,
deity and the confession of his unity to
bear witness that Muhammad
is the messenger of Allah
and to the reverence,
of his saints and pious servants,
whom God shall please to guide the man's,
chest will open up to Islam. We cease
not to incline our hearts toward the promotion
of the faith and the improvement of the
condition of Islam and the Muslims
up to the time when
the success the succession of the empire
came to us from our illustrious father and
brother. God spread over us the glory of
his grace and kindness so that in the
abundance of his favors, our hopes were realized,
and he revealed to us the bride of
the kingdom, and she was brought forth to
us a noble spouse.
Kuraltire general assembly was convened,
wherein our brothers, our sons, great nobles, generals
of the army, and captains of the forces
met to hold counsel, and they were all
agreed on carrying out the order of our
elder brother,
to summon, here a vast levy of our
troops whose numbers would make the earth, despite
its vastness, appear too narrow,
whose fury and fierce onset would fill the
hearts of men with fear being animated with
a courage before which the mountain peaks would
bow down, and a firm purpose that makes
the hardest rocks grow soft. We reflected on
this the resolution which expressed the wish of
all, and we concluded that it ran counter
to the aim that we had in view
to promote the common,
welfare,
I I e, to strengthen the ordinance of
Islam,
never as far as lies in our power
to issue any order that will not tend
to prevent bloodshed, remove the ills of men,
and cause the breeze of peace and prosperity
to blow on the lands and the kings
of other countries to rest upon the couch
of, affection and benevolence,
whereby the commandment command of all of god
will be honored, and mercy will be shown
to the people of god. Herein, god inspired
us to quench this fire and put an
end to these terrible calamities and make known
to those who
advance this, proposal of a levee,
what it is that God had put into
our hearts to do, namely,
to employ all possible means
for the healing of all the sickness of
the world and putting off,
what should only be appealed to as a
last remedy.
For we desire not to hasten to appeal
to arms until we have first declared the
right path, and will permit it only after
setting forth the truth and establishing it with
proofs.
Our resolve to carry out whatever happens to
us good and advantageous has been strengthened by
the councils of the Sheikh of Islam.
The more the model of, the divines who
has given us much assistance in religious matters,
We have appointed our chief justice, Khutbuddin,
the Atabek Baha'uddeen,
both trustworthy persons of this flourishing kingdom, to
make known to you our course of action
and bear witness to our good intentions for
the commonwealth of the,
of the Muslims,
and to make it known that God has
enlightened us and that Islam annuls all that
has gone before it and that God almighty
has put in our hearts to follow the
truth And those who practice it, if
some convincing proof be required,
let men, observe our actions.
By the grace of God, we have raised
aloft the standards of faith and bore witness
to it in all our orders and our
practice
so that the ordinances,
of the law of Muhammad, sallallahu alaihi wasallam,
may be brought forth and firmly established
in accordance with principles of justice laid down
by Ahmed sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, whereby we
have filled the hearts of the people with
joy, have granted free pardon to all offenders
and shown them indulgences saying, may God pardon
the past. We have reformed all matters concerning
the pious endowments of Muslims given for mosques,
colleges,
charitable institutions, and the rebuilding of.
We have restored their incomes to those,
whom they were due according to the terms
laid down by their donors. We have ordered
the pilgrims to be treated respect with respect.
Provisions be made for their caravans and for
securing their safety on the pilgrim routes. We
have given perfect freedom to merchants traveling from
one country to another that they may go
wherever they please, and we have strictly prohibited
our soldiers and police from interfering with them
in their coming or going.
He seeks the alliance of the Sultan of
Egypt
so that these countries and cities may again
be populated,
these terrible calamities be put down, and the
sword be returned to the scabbard, and that
all people may dwell in peace and quietness,
and the necks of the Muslims be freed
from the ills of humiliation and disgrace.
That the hearts are between the two fingers
of Ar Rahman
of the Most Merciful,
and He turns them however He wishes.
Look at these people Allah
put this in their hearts, look at what
must have been the faith and the Ikhlas
of those who brought the message to them,
and what must have been the Ikhlas of
those people also
who, knowing that they had, basically a foot
against the neck of the entire world,
caused them to choose the path of righteousness
and,
to turn away from bloodshed.
Allah
bless
our hearts with such change,
and bless the hearts of our enemies also
their hearts with such change so that we
can benefit and they can benefit.
It's a hadith of the
prophet that one of the things that will
make Allah laugh on the day of judgment
is when 2 people meet each other in
Jannah, a killer and his victim.
The killer the victim will obviously be in
Jannah because he was killed in Zun,
and,
then he'll ask the killer, how did you
get here? He said, well, after you died,
you know, after I killed you, I thought
about stuff and I thought, you know,
fighting against the the deen and against the
Muslims and being, just a murderous barbarian is
kind of a bogus deal. So I should
probably change my life for the better and
try to, you know, do something good with
my life. And so I made Tawba, and
I made good on my Tawba, and look,
it brought me here.
Allah
is the only one who can heal such
rifts that otherwise
are
un healable. May Allah
give us from His grace and from His
father
such a healing that we should see these
types of miracles happen in front of our
eyes in great numbers
and that the brokenness of
the world, can be healed again through people's
peace and by through people's sincerity and through
people's humility
and through people's love of what's good rather
than their love of their own nafs and
their own indulgence.