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The European Empire of Spain is a civil war, with the rise of um rights of the um rights of the European Empire of Spain, the rise of the um rights of the Muslim Empire of Spain, and the use of h Napats for transportation and large bodies of people to build buildings. The conflict between the two sides is a conflict between the two sides, with the United States leading the war and the Muslim world leading the war. The conflict is a conflict between the two sides, with the United States leading the war and the Muslim world leading the war. The news of the new ruler of Delhi and the first ruler of Central Asia is also discussed.Transcript ©
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My beloved brothers and sisters
I hope you're all well. Ameen.
So we spoke quite a bit on the
highs and the lows of
Islam or the Ummah over in the series.
We know that we are going through a
bad dark period at the moment. We're seeing
a genocide unfold before our eyes. We have
no Khalifa. We are disunited.
And there's many of us who might think,
are we at the
worst point, the lowest point? Perhaps if there
was ever a time
that would take the cake as being the
lowest point in our ummah, it will be
what we'll discuss tonight. In a span of
less than 50 years, the ummah would be
pushed into such a cataclysmic
shock
from east to the west that many of
the ulama believed that this was the end.
This was indeed qiyama.
We mentioned at the end of the
the end of 12th century, Jerusalem was liberated.
The Muslims
won a battle
in Spain and secured them to live to
fight another day,
and
the the continent of India was opened up.
Things were looking good. But as is the
decree of Allah, things change very quickly.
We move first to Andalusia,
and this would be the defining battle that
will finally
push the Muslims over the edge, the Battle
of Las Navas del Tolosa,
where
the Christians called once again for a massive
crusade
to push forward the Reconquista, to capture
those lands of Andalus that had eluded them.
For 200 years, they were supposed to have
pushed the Muslims over the edge, but because
of the intervention
of the North African Berbers, the Al Murabitun
and the Almohads has kept the and the
Lucians, the the Castilians at bay. Now,
as is the case and the story repeats
itself again and again, there's a civil war
within the Almohads.
The Almohad
ruler of Al Andalus
is fighting with the Almohad ruler of North
Africa.
And so
the prince of the Almohad ruler, the Berber,
the North African ruler of Andalus, he takes
his army and he moves south to go
back to Africa to fight his cousin to
become the Amir.
The Amir in Africa,
seeing this, he allies with the Christians
in Al Andalus to invade Al Andalus
against his cousin.
And
so
the
there's a huge battle
between the Christians
and the Muslims, and we'll recall the battle
of Novus
Tullaza
where and it's pointless going into the details
of the battle. The Muslims
basically,
on the day of the battle, they have
a huge army. They outnumber the Christians.
And after seeming to win and and gain
success, the Khalifa is attacked, the so called
Khalifa, and he flees off the battlefield. And
when he flees, the entire army disintegrates,
and that is opens the doorway for the
conquest of of of Andalusia.
And within a span of about 20 years,
those cities which have held out for 500
years are gonna fall 1 by 1. They,
the the the Castilians or the armies
of Alfonso, they march
south
into,
lands and castles that were once, you know,
held by the Muslims, and, basically, the population
have no other option but to surrender 1
by 1. 1st, we find,
as we said, that that never in the
history was there such a quick, a sweep.
Within 20
years, the, city of,
the all of Portugal disappears
to to the to the to the Christians.
And then we have
Al Qasas and all these cities by by
name that we, you know, we don't mention
up until the magnificent city of Cordoba,
the grand city, the capital of Al Andalusia
falls.
And if when the Palestinians, when the Christians
enter Cordoba, they were amazed at what they
saw. As we said, this was the first
city in the world with a 100% literacy.
This was the first city in the world
which had public lighting,
a city far in Europe. Think about it.
In Europe, the biggest Masjid in the world,
subhanahu, there's a time when the biggest Masjid
in the world was not in Mecca, Medina,
or Baghdad. It was in Europe. And if
you look at the Masjid now, the Masjid
of Kurtuva,
we show the picture of the Masjid of
Kurtaba. If you look at it, what do
you think when you see it? And we
can just show the slide of the Grand
Mosque of Kurtaba. When you look at that,
this is almost a 1000 years old. What
does it look like?
Like Madinah. The Madinah and Masjid now, the
kharam of Madinah is modeled after the mosque
of Kurtuwa.
SubhanAllah.
The The karam of today that they built,
King Fahad,
modeled it after the grand mosque of Qurtuba
almost a 1000 years ago. And so when
they entered the city, they marveled at what
they saw, that they
didn't tear the mosque down, but they built
a cathedral
smack bang in the middle of this Masjid.
And then they moved on to the capital
Seville, and they conquered Seville as well without
much resistance, without much, anyone there to defend
the people of of of Al Andalusia.
And even the, the Christians themselves
shifted their capital from Castile to Seville because
it was such a beautiful,
place. And then, of course, what happened to
the Muslims?
The they gave them 1 month. Pack up
your things. You have one choice. Convert
or leave.
And the majority tens of thousands of Muslims
packed up
after centuries of living centuries of people who
lived there, they spoke the language, they were
Spanish. These are not North Africans. They had
lived there for 500 years. They packed up,
and there was only one last little kingdom
deep in the mountains south called Granada,
which remained the last Muslim state, the state
of Granada, and the state would survive,
on the fall for another couple of 100
years, subhanAllah. It would it would hold out,
fight to the for another 200 years. And
so the last emirate of Granada would remain,
and the Muslims would move to Granada. And
so when Cordoba falls in in,
1238 to 12 30 6. This was a
shock for the Ummah, and civil fell. So
you can think the whole Ummah, like we're
making dua for Gaza. This is what, subhanAllah,
our brothers and sisters in Spain have basically
been expelled.
But what is happening in Spain
would pale, would be
like a paradise of what's going to happen
in the rest of the Muslim world.
Around the same time,
the 12/2012/21,
the Mongolians and we should know where Mongolia
is. Mongolia is this massive land.
On the one side, you have China. On
the other side, you have the Stans, Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan. All these countries are Muslim.
All these are Muslim countries. Mongolia is this
massive country in between these two civilizations. Between
the Muslim civilization and the Chinese civilization,
you have these hordes of nomadic people. They
don't have cities. They just roam from place
to place, grazing, and they were fighting each
other for centuries. And a man, which we
all know, Genghis Khan, is able through brutality,
through force, is able to unite his entire
country. And this is a country, as we
said, they don't have cities. They move all
in a into one massive force, an entire
country of basically warriors. Even the ladies, they
spend more time on the saddle, on the
horse than on the ground.
He unites this entire force into a massive
army, and this would be the the rise
of the Mongolians. And what they're going to
do is they would raise siege to the
whole world, China,
Russia, Europe, and, of course, most brutally to
the Muslim world.
1st, they invade China,
and,
chronicler mentions after they had,
pillaged many of the cities of China, some
of the Muslim ambassadors went to go to
meet the Chinese dignitaries, and they saw they
saw these massive mountains. They said, wow, it's
summer, but these these mountains of snow. When
they came there, it was a mountain of
bones.
And the earth, they said, what is the
slick yellow
fat of humans?
The entire
devastation of the cities of China. And so
Genghis
Khan, after uniting his people, he now looked
westwards.
And, subhanallah, our historians mentioned, initially, he had
no intention of invading the Muslim world.
He had sent a caravan with gifts
to the Amir. Now there is a kingdom
called the Hawarismi Kingdom. As I said, even
though the Muslim Ummah spans from Spain all
the way to basically China, each region had
its own sort of law, sultan. The Khalifa
was in Baghdad. He was the nominal ruler.
Everyone looked up to him. Everybody mentioned his
name from the from the the member mentioned
his name, but he and he recognized you.
You are the sultan of that area, and
you are the sultan of that area. The
kingdom of Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan,
Afghanistan, this area is called Hawarism
Hawarism. They gave us algebra.
Al Hawarismi is the man that basically from
this kingdom invented or came up with algebra
and so many
great inventions. This is a land of great
civilization.
And so
Genghis Khan sends a a caravan
to the to a governor in Hawa Islam
for trade. He sends a caravan for trade.
And the governor, for whatever reason, whether he
was greedy, whether Allahu Alam, what his reason
was, he sieged the caravan. He took it,
and he killed everybody in the caravan, this
Muslim governor.
Genghis Khan sends him 3 ambassadors to say
what you did was an affront. I'm sending
3 of my ambassadors. He send it now
talk to the governor, to the shah of
Khwarezm, the sultan of Khwarezm. He said, look,
your governor has killed my my caravan. I
demand you return my goods, and you send
me that governor so I can punish him.
The sultan, in his arrogance, he said, you
dog, they send me a letter like this.
He executed because one of the one of
the ambassadors is Muslim. He killed the Muslim
ambassador. He shaved the beards of the other
2. He sent send your head back to
your Genghis Khan. Who is
he? And so the man said this crosses
all
bounds. Now we're going to invade.
And he sends his army,
his entire kingdom is on the move. 100
and 100 of 1000 of Mongolian
men and women riding on their horses. They
cross over.
And even in the trick, it's amazing that
there was only one way to get from
Mongolia to Khawaresmiya to pass through deep, heavy
mountain passes. And the Amir had blocked all
of them, except there was one way which
is almost impossible for horses to cross over.
But these were the best horsemen in the
world. They lived on the saddle, and they
were able to cross over ice mountains with
their horses. And they come into,
Hawa'irism from a place which the Amir would
not had not anticipated,
and now they sack city after city after
city. After city. They first get to Utar.
That city doesn't exist anymore. Why does it
exist? Because the Mongolians came there. They find
the man who had this is where the
governor was.
And they besieged the city, and eventually, the
city is forced to to to surrender.
They take that governor out that had done
this.
They pour molten silver in his eyes and
his ears, and then they slaughter
every man, woman, and child in the city
and they burn it to the ground.
They then move to Bukhara, the same Bukhara
where Imam Bukhari was reading his Sahih, that
same Bukhara.
They enter Bukhara.
And this Bukhara wasn't well fortified. It wasn't
a city that was,
you know, had an army, and so they
basically ride in and they kill 300,000
people in one go.
A library of 45,000 books, one of the
biggest in the world is destroyed, and they
burn the entire city to the ground.
In,
Bukhara or rather in,
Genghis Khan, he he he he gives a
speech.
He walks into the mosque
with his horse. He rides into the mosque
with his horse. He looks at this massive
masjid, and he says, is this the palace
of your king? They said, no. This is
the house of God.
He gets off his horse, and he says
that
you people have committed great sins.
Telling them, you people created great sins. And
it is because of your great ones, your
kings and your rich people, they have done
this since.
And if you ask me, how do I
know that you are evil sinful people? How
do I know that? Because Allah sent me
against you. I am the adab that Allah
has placed on your people, and I've come
to punish you. And so then he once
again burns al Buhara to the ground. He
moved to Samarkand, the capital of Hawarism,
and they fight. They try their best,
and, unfortunately,
no they use the the captives of Bukhara
as human shields
to invade Samarkand.
There was a massive mote moat, you know,
this ditch between the city. They fill it
with bodies of the people of Bukhara. They
push them in there so they can scale
the walls.
The the the the chronicler said, this was
like a swarm of locusts. Wherever you look,
it was just these people. There's nothing we
could do to fight, and then they destroyed.
They move on. 1 1 month, Bukhara. By
March, they end Samarkand. Destroy Samarkand, and they
move on. There's another the the the city
of Urgenj, again, doesn't exist anymore. This is
where the the he tracked down where did
this this the money of my caravan, where
did it go? It ended up in a
city called Urgenc. He said, now we're going
to teach the city a lesson. The city
basically was on the side of the river.
They broke the dam and had everybody drowned
to death in that city city wiped out.
They move on to Persia,
Merv,
and once again, another huge city.
700,000 people, they kill in one go and
then to Neishapur. And perhaps Neishapur is the
worst of all of their destruction. Neishapur, this
is the same city where Nizam al Mulk
was born, the same city Al Ghazali,
a city of Ullama. They enter Neishapur, and
Nishapur put up a fight. Nishapur didn't surrender.
And in that fight, 1 of Genghis Khan's
grandsons was killed
or the his his daughter's husband was killed.
And he said to her, what should I
do?
Invaded the city, he killed every man, woman,
child, donkey, cat, dog. Every living thing in
Nezhaapur was killed, and he stacked the bones
up into a pyramid.
And as we said, this is,
infants, children. The chroniclers mention
1 between 501,000,000
people killed in 10 days.
What he would do is he would take
his army. He said, we've got a 100
soldiers or a 100000 soldiers. Each of you
need to kill 10 people. That's a1000000. Go.
And that's how
they would do it. They had no books,
no learning. They destroyed every time they come
to a they had a a a a
dislike for books.
They believed that it is some kind of
witchcraft that you could put someone's thoughts and
mind in a in a book so they
would burn books and libraries. Civilizations, a 1000
years of civilization
is reduced to ash in in moments.
And the Mongolians invaded the Muslim lands twice.
The first was this stage by Genghis Khan.
He invades Khwarezm,
and once he completely eradicates, wipes Khwarezm off
the map. He chases the Amir all the
way throughout the world. He sends assassins. His
whole family
Amir alone in the middle of it dies
on an island in the Caspian Sea, completely
broken, the,
Khalifa or the shah of Khwarezm.
Genghis Khan does not go further into the
Muslim lands. He doesn't go into Baghdad in
Syria and Damascus. He says this is enough,
and he returns back to his land in
Mongolia.
But his grandson would want to pick up
the conquest. So 30 years later, his grandson
would want to finish the job. And he
sends the armies once again westwards,
this time into the heartland. This is into
to Baghdad,
the capital of the Muslim world, where the
objective from Baghdad
to North Africa, we are going to end
this religion.
So Hulagu, this is the grandson of Genghis
Khan,
he
he initially asked the Sultan of Baghdad, the
Khalifa, the Khalifa of Baghdad who who had
been the, you know, Khalifa for 500 years,
that
he should be a vessel. You should obey
me and be my ally. And the Khalifa
initially said, okay. So he said, send me
your troops. If you are my ally, send
me your troops. And the Khalifa didn't send
the troops. So he said, clearly, you're not
a mutual friend. So if you're not gonna
come to me, I'm going to come to
you. And so he writes a letter, and
he says to him, you renounce your Khalifaship.
You
renounce your your,
so he writes a letter. He says
he writes a letter to the Khalifa. He
says, destroy your
your your walls, your your defenses,
and and fill your moat up and entrust
the rule to your son. You make your
son the Khalifa, and you come to me
in person. Should you not wish to come
yourself,
then you can send your
land, your army, and your people. If you
do punish you, and you shall retain your
land, your army, and your people.
If you do not heed my advice
and intend to oppose and resist us, then
ready your army and choose any battle field,
for we are prepared, to grind out grind
you out through battle.
When I lead my army against Baghdad in
fury, whether you hide in the heavens or
on the earth, I will bring you down
from whatever sphere you are, and I'll toss
you in the air and devour you like
a lion. I will leave no one alive
in your entire
realm, your entire kingdom. I will burn your
city and I'll burn your lands. Come now.
What are you doing with the Khalifa?
What do you do as the Khalifa?
Khalifa
he continues. If you wish to spare yourself
and your your family and your wealth, then
you need to then do what I tell
you to do. If you do not, we'll
see how God will punish you. The Khalifa
writes back that I won't I reject your
offer. I'm not going to break my city.
I'm not gonna send you my army. And
so
the Mongolians
reach Baghdad
and they besiege Baghdad for a number of
of of weeks.
The army of Baghdad comes out. They try
to to defeat. I mean, Baghdad is around
is surrounded by the rivers, Euphrates Rivers and
Tigris Rivers, between 2 rivers. They block the
rivers to make sure no one can escape.
They didn't want anybody to leave the city.
And
the army of Baghdad goes and meets them.
All of them are massacred,
you know, dispatched quickly by the Mongolian horde.
And finally,
the defenders. It's also mentioned in the books
that with Baghdad, you had this group, and
we don't pick on anyone, but you had
a Christian group and you had a Shia
group, which openly collaborated with the Mongolians. And
it was a Shia
who was a the the vizier, the grand
minister
of the Khalifa who basically allowed the Mongolians
to enter.
And when they entered the city,
they called the royal family out,
and they had the royal family, and they
would have this way of mocking them. They
would sit them up, and they would say,
you know, you're the kings. We need to
honor you. They asked him, are you a
god? Your people say that you are something
special. So he says, no. I'm the son
of the prophet, the grand great great grandson
of the prophet. I'm not god, but I'm
a slave of god. So he says, okay.
Then we need to honor you. And he
puts him on a pavilion, and he says,
let's bring your subject out, and they have
the whole city brought out. This is the
biggest city in the world, the biggest city
on earth. And as they're done in Nezhaapur
or in the other cities,
they start
massacring
the population.
Some say 1 week. Some say 40 days
of continuous
massacre, killing the people. Finally and they're and
they're making the Khalifa
watch this. They then take him to his
treasure room.
There's 2 accounts of how he was killed.
The account is they put him in the
vault, and they said, look at all your
wealth.
You can eat this now, and he starves
to death in his treasure room. The other
one is when they wanted to kill him,
the Shia group that supported,
you know, the the Mongolians,
they said, no. You know what? His blood
is of the blood of the prophet. We
don't want his blood to be on the
earth. He might bring an adab of Allah.
So the Mongolians said, no problem. We don't
have to shed his blood. They wrapped him
and his family up in a carpet, and
they rode over him and his family with
horses trampled him to death.
So this is the end of and then,
of
course, the great disaster. It was not the
killing of the king of people who are
sad. It was bad. But they destroyed the
greatest libraries in the world. The house of
knowledge,
where we talk about,
Aristotle, Al Kinda,
all these great scientists who had made all
the great discoveries was the University of Nizam
Al Mulk, the biggest university in the world,
all of it destroyed.
And those books, you'll find many times we'll
say that Imam Shafi or Imam Ghazali or
whoever the scholars were, they wrote 50 books,
but we only have 20. What happened to
the 30?
The manuscripts were here destroyed, thrown in the
Tigris River. They mentioned that for months,
the river was black with the ink of
the books, that at some point, you could
ride over the river because of a bridge
that was made by the books, destroyed. Never
lost forever.
A 1000 years of knowledge lost forever. The
ulama
believed this was kiyama. Many of the scholars
wrote, this is kiyama. This is.
We cannot fight them. We cannot do anything
against them. Once, Quran said, this is worse
than Dajjal because at least Dajjal will spare
some people. These people leave no one alive.
They now
move west. Remember, their objective was the total
destruction
of the Muslim lands. So Baghdad is gone.
They now move into Syria.
They conquer
Aleppo. They also enter into an alliance with
the Crusaders. The Crusaders are still in town.
They enter an alliance with the Crusaders. You
attack from the one side, We'll attack from
the other side. They,
attack Damascus and Aleppo.
Mosul tries to resist. They fight back for
a bit.
And finally, when they, overpower him, overpower Mosul,
they call the amir, the the the sultan
or the the governor who tried to fight
back and, again, a brutal way. And their
tactic was, we'll teach you never able to
resist us. They bring out the governor who
resist him. They tie him up in a
sheepskin, and they leave him out for a
month to let the rats and the insects
eat him eat him alive.
That's what they did. So you you had
this option. If you resist,
we will destroy you completely.
If you surrender, we'll just take what we
want, and we'll leave your city intact. So
everybody
had this
fear of the Mongolians. We said, this was
can you imagine as a katib,
you're making dua
month after month? Oh, Allah, our people in
Neishapur,
our brothers
in Sar Makan, in Bukhara, Baghdad. Remember the
Khalifa? He believed he's the Khalifa of the
Ummah. He called out, where's the Ummah? Help
me. Save me. Not a single army came
to help him. And, subhanAllah, as we said,
this was perhaps the darkest moment in our
history, that ulama believed this was kiyama, that
this would be the end of Islam.
Historian, he says, I didn't write this chapter.
I was hesitant because who wants to write
about the end of Islam? Who wants to
be there to write about kyama? They really
believed this was the end. Now
that Baghdad is gone, Jerusalem is gone, Aleppo
is gone, Mosul is gone. Now it's only
Jerusalem,
Mecca, Medina, and Egypt. There was
the only remaining
kind of a kingdom was the kingdom of
Salahuddin, the Ayyubid dynasty, which ruled Jerusalem
and
and Egypt.
They write a letter to the rulers of
of Egypt.
Surrender
or the same would happen to you.
We'll talk about that tomorrow. Insha'Allah.
Yeah.
Right. So we asked, last question. Who was
the first ruler of the newly formed sultanate
in Delhi? His name was Qutubdin Qutubdin
Aibak. Qutubadin
Abak. It's a interesting side note, the ruler
of this man was a slave who became
the ruler of Delhi.
Just keep it in mind for tomorrow.
Inshallah. Hafsa Arifdin?
Hafsa,
yeah?
Hafsa Matia?
No? Okay.
Oh, anti Farida. Sorry. Anti
Farida. Anti Farida. Anti Farida. Anti Farida. Anti
Farida. Anti Farida. Anti Farida. Anti Farida. Oh,
anti Farida. Sorry. Anti Farida. Anti Farida. Anti
Farida. Oh, anti Farida. Sorry. Anti Farida. Anti
Farida. Anti Farida. Anti Farida. Anti Farida. Anti
Farida. Anti Farida.
Yeah. Mikhail Adams?
Yes.
He just left. Oh, okay.
Adam Kassim?
Yeah. Adam?
Tonight's question, who was the Mongolian ruler when
the Khwarezm empire in Central Asia was invaded?
What was his name? Jindis Khan, Tullio Khan,
Easy one.
Easy one.