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The fall of the Caliphate is a major event that will shape political issues and lead to war. Germany is modernizing their religion, history, and language, while Turkey is trying to modernize their religion, history, and language. The world is going into war because of the Austrians, Russians, and Austria, and the British plan to invade Turkey and fight the Ottoman Empire. The war is complex and is causing deaths and starving, and the shots are being used to prevent war. The British and the Ottoman Empire have agreed to divide and rule, but each region has its own governor. The British have successfully divided the Ottoman Empire, but the Ottoman Empire is now facing a situation where Russia pulls out, causing division within the Ottoman Empire. The war is causing deaths and starving, and the shots are being used to prevent war.AI Generated Transcript ©
Alhamdulillah. Allah has blessed us to reach the
27th night of Ramadan.
And as we mentioned before, the prophet
seeked out a special night, the night of
Laylatul Qadr. And in the first in the
hadith, he first
exerted himself in the first 10 nights, and
Jibreel told him, not in these 10 nights.
Keep going. And then he after he spent
the next 20 nights, the next 10 nights
to get to the 21st night, Jibiryu said,
no. What you're looking for is in the
last 10 nights.
And the prophet
said, Laylatul Qadr most likely happens in the
last 10 nights of Ramadan, most likely in
the odd nights.
But it could happen in any of those,
any night of the of the of the
last 10 nights.
And the scholars over the years, every year
there are signs, Jesus is labeled to Qadr,
not labeled to Qadr. And it appears that
the number that comes up the most is
the 20 7th night of Ramadan.
And it so is that, of course, the
whole ummah. If you look at all over
this city today, tonight, all the masajid are
full. And so if you were going to
exert yourself, if you were going to push
yourself,
this is that night.
This is that night that we hope is
greater than a 1000 months, where all the
sins are forgiven, where Jibreel descends, where Allah
makes the decrees known.
Think about last year where you were at
the end of Ramadan, how your life has
changed. Everything that happened to you this past
year was decreed on the night of Laylatul
Qadr. And we don't know what Allah has
installed for us in the year to come,
but our duas carry weight. Our duas can
impact those decrees. So may Allah grant us
the strength, the tawfiq,
to push through
the few hours that we have left of
this evening and to make the most of
it and keep all of us in your
Duasam.
Tonight, we begin
the,
the fall of the caliphate.
The chapter, the starting, the part 1. There's
a bit of history in here, a lot
of history European history, but this is really
this moment
shapes the world that we live in. What
would happen here
would shape all the political issues we have,
whether it is the genocide in Kosovo,
the problems that we have in Gaza, Kashmir,
all of the world's issues can be traced
back to this moment in time.
And,
I'd like to give an acknowledgment. People ask,
where do you get the facts and stuff?
There's a site called the historyofislam.com,
and this particular
presentation is taken from an article, by professor
doctor Nazir Ahmed, who was a PhD holder.
And I I, encourage you to visit the
website. There's a lot of excellent material on
there. So I want you to keep track.
There's a bit of European politics
here. Keep track. There's a lot of alliances
and backstabbing that's gonna go on this evening
that will lead to the fall of the
caliphate, so you need to keep, your wits
about you. So we start off in Europe.
There was something called the triple intent,
the triple alliance, basically,
between
Germany between England, France, and Russia. The 3
of them came together to ally with one
another. Why? Why is England and France and
Russia on the same side? Because Germany is
rising up. So so far we spoke about
French colonialism, Spanish colonialism, Russia, England. We do
speak about Germany. Germany was very late to
the
game, but Germany was going through a massive,
industrialization.
And sort of towards the end of 18th
18 100, 19th century, she became the most
powerful country on mainland Europe. England is still
the most powerful country, but in mainland Europe,
Germany is becoming a monster.
And France is really worried
that Germany is gonna start to want to
get in on the colonial game. So
England and France and Russia agree that if
Germany does anything, we will tackle from both
sides. So they enter this alliance. If one
of us gets attacked by Germany, we all
3 jump in.
Germany is, of course, now trying to
find colonies, and that's why very late they
have a colony here in Namibia. And Germany
is actually the most open of all the
colonial powers with the Ottoman Empire. The sultan
and Germany had a very good relationship. There
was a train line that they ran from,
Munich all the way to Istanbul, the Orient
Express. So the, the the Kaiser of Germany
and the Sultan of the Ottomans had a
bit of a a a a good understanding.
Meanwhile, the Ottoman Empire, as we had seen
now for the last few evenings, is on
her last legs. She's losing war after war.
Her territories are being invaded,
And this was really highlighted when the caucuses
that we spoke about Tahisan last night. When
when when the Ottomans were unable to defend
the caucuses from the Russians, the Russians were
literally on the doorstep of Turkey, of mainland
Turkey.
And the empire at this point in time
was so deep in debt that 80% of
the budget was to repay other European powers.
The Ottoman Empire was completely bankrupt at this
point in time. And
so many calls internally to securize
time, to reform, to change, and many of
these voices were
Turkish
born sons but studied in other parts of
Europe. They studied in Paris. They studied in
England. And now they come back
to to Turkey, to Istanbul, and they are
saying that we need to modernize. By modernize,
we need to get rid of the Sharia.
We need to get rid of our backward
Islamic heritage, and we need to become a
European nation. We must become colonial. We need
to become more European.
And,
so as the century turns, the the Ottomans
are really struggling to keep up. She's now
called the sick man of the Ottomans are
called the sick man of Europe, really a
shadow of itself.
And
countries
are looking to invade, and the Libyans,
the the the Italians invade Libya.
And so in 1911,
Libya, which, of course, is a a Muslim
country in North Africa, gets invaded by Italy.
The Ottoman sultan sends their 2 best generals,
Enver Bey and Mustafa Kemal. Now remember these
two names. Enver Bey and Mustafa Kemal are
sent to Libya to fight and defend the
Libyan, you you know, colony against against the
the army is sent to Libya to defend
against the Italians. And when this happens,
Turkey is now committed to one front,
and another part of the empire will begin
to fall apart. And this area that we're
gonna talk about is a bit complicated, but
this is what we call the powder keg
of the world.
This is the spark that's gonna bring the
entire world into war. This tiny region is
gonna cause the whole world to go to
war, and this is the Balkans. The Balkans
is what we know about Bosnia,
Chechnya, Serbia. This little area between Turkey and
Western Europe,
smallish area, but it is a area with
lots of different ethnic groups, lots of different
religions,
all under they were all controlled by the
Ottomans. The Ottomans for 500 years kept this
area in check. The Ottoman Empire ruled this
this region. And the map that you see,
that's the Balkans. If you look at the
next map, the map will show you,
the different colors. So the purple color, those
are
Orthodox Christians. They are Orthodox Christians,
and the head of the Orthodox Church is
in Russia.
The yellow group, the Croatians,
they are Catholic Christians, and they are very
much aligned to Austria. And the little patches
of green are Muslims.
So you have lots of different ethnic groups
living side by side, a lot of different
religions living side by side. The Ottomans kept
this area in check by ruling it. But
once its army
themselves the Muslims first first, they kick the
Muslims out. The the Orthodox Christians backed by
Russia
and the Catholics backed by the Austrians,
they join up and they kick the Muslims
out. The Ottomans have no option but to
see this entire territory. They they they leave
their armies and they leave the entire Balkans,
and that's why we still have, until recently,
until 19 nineties, a genocide, the law the
the genocide in Europe to the Muslims in
that land because they were at the mercy
of these two groups.
After the Ottomans leave and the Muslims are
being persecuted and massacred,
the two parties,
the Catholics
and the Orthodox Christians, are not happy. What
now? Now they go at it against each
other. They go at it against each other.
So the the the Orthodox Church, the Christian
the Serbs, backed by the Russians,
fight against the Croatians, backed by the Austrians,
and this area falls into extreme chaos and
anarchy.
To try and solve the problem,
to try and solve so, for example, if
you look at the number of people, the
army is collectively in this region, 700 1,000
people pour in, fighting different countries, fighting each
other. The Ottoman army is alone. It's 100,000.
It decides to pull out. We can't defend
this land, and so they basically leave it.
So the Ottomans lose control.
Now you have a war between the Catholics
and the Orthodoxes
in the Balkans.
And
to try and solve this,
the Austrian Empire so there's a there's a
there's a there's a empire called the Austrian
Empire.
They send the crown prince to try and
solve this problem. The Austrian Catholic Empire goes
and send the crown prince to solve this
problem, and he's assassinated by a Serbian terrorist.
He's he's assassinated, the crown prince of the
Austrian empire.
And this is a chain reaction that's gonna
give the whole world into bring the world
into war. So if you look at the
next slide, how the world goes to war,
you must keep keep mind of these different
alliances.
The Serbs
are allied
with
the the the the Serbs are allied with
Russia.
And the Serbs killed the Austrian Empire, the
the crown prince of the Austrian Empire. So
Austria declares war on Serbia. Right? Obviously, makes
sense. You killed our crown prince. We declare
war anew.
But because Serbia is aligned with Russia, Russia
declares war on Austria.
Now Austria and Germany are united, so Germany
declares war on Russia. But remember the triple
intent,
If one gets declared war so because Germany
declared war on Russia, England and France has
to declare war on Germany.
And, obviously, it's not just one country. These
are colonies.
These are colonies. So, again, just just to
recap quickly, just so you keep the alliances
right. The Austrian Hungarian Empire, they send their
crown prince to Serbia to try and solve
this problem between the Orthodox Christians and the
Catholics. He gets assassinated by a single terrorist.
Terrorist. Austria, the Austro Hungarian Empire holds Serbia
accountable for that. They declare war on Serbia.
Because of that, Russia declares war on Austria,
and then Germany declares war on Russia, and
then England and France declares war on Germany.
Now the entire all of Europe is going
into war. The Ottomans actually did not need
to get into this war. They were already
out of the Balkans,
and the sultan was not keen on going
to war. The Ottomans were in no position
to go to war.
They didn't have their army was exhausted. They
were in a huge debt crisis,
But the young Turks and also the,
the minister of defense, Enver Bey, who they
spoke about, they committed
secretly behind the Sultan's back that we will
go to war, and our closest ally in
in Europe
are the Germans. The Germans are the one
group that was still open to the the
Ottomans. And what tipped the scales finally, the
Germans said, fine. We'll pay off your debt.
If you join on our side, Ottoman Empire,
we will pay off your debt. And they
paid something like, what, 2,000,000,000
that is, but it basically pays off the
entire Ottoman debt. The Kaiser of Germany said,
we'll pay you this. And when he gave
that commitment, the Ottomans went to war, and
they declared war on Russia.
And because they declared war on Russia, England
and France declared war on the Ottoman Empire,
and so now the entire world is going
to war. And if you look at, let's
say, the world on on one side, you
have Germany, Austria, and the Ottomans. On the
other side, you have England, Russia, and France.
So,
initially, the war in Europe becomes a very,
very stagnant, static war. The Germans invade France,
but they make no progress. It becomes a
bogged down trench warfare. The amount of people
that die, we're talking about 70,000,000 people fighting
at the same time. 70,000,000.
No. This is the first time we also
have industrial machinery, planes and tanks. We are
killing people at the industrials because millions are
dying all the time. And this war still
is the the the the deadliest war in
human history. Even though there'll be nuclear bombs
in World War 2, World War 1 is
still the most devastating war in human history.
So the the the war on the between
France and Germany, there's no progress. There's no
progress between Russia. So they the allies decide
the weak
guy in the alliance is Turkey.
If we can bring Turkey down from there,
we can attack Germany.
And so the first,
invasion that they plan is to invade
Turkey. You would know that Constantinople is on
a on the on the Bosphorus, on the
the Sea of Marmara. If you can invade
Constantinople
and you can capture this very strategic channel,
then you have an access to the Mediterranean
Sea. And so the the the British and
the French and, of course, the British by
her colonies, Australia, New Zealand New Zealand troops
are brought all the way to Turkey, and
they invade,
Istanbul. It's mentioned by, by doctor Nasir. He
says 1,000,000 troops of the allies land in
Turkey to try and invade Turkey, and this
is called the Battle of, Gallipoli.
And in this point, the the Ottomans are
fighting on home soil, something which had not
happened in centuries,
fighting for survival. And at this moment,
that general, Tamal Mustafa, would become Ataturk,
he leads a massive resistance,
and he's able to actually push out the
English and the French. The one victory that
they had was this victory. They were able
to secure Constantinople from being captured by the
allies, and on both sides, a 100,000 people
die on both sides of this campaign. For
9 months, they're fighting to get control of
Constantinople
and but they were unable to capture it.
So the Ottomans were able to keep Turkey
safe. So then Britain went to its second
tactic, and they are the masters of this
divide and rule. Don't fight head on. Why
not cause the entire
Ottoman Empire to crumble within? They've done that
to India. They took a handful of people,
a
a continent of people by by allying and
allying and backstabbing and all of this. And
so their plan was, let us divide and
rule. We speak to the Arabs. We'll speak
to the Saudis. We'll speak to the Yemenis.
We'll speak to everyone and tell them to
break free from the Ottoman Empire.
And so the British go to work by
calling for the Arabs to rebel against the
Ottomans.
Mecca is ruled by someone called the person
in all of this is ruled by the
Ottomans officially, but each region had its own
governor. And the governor of Makkah is called
Sharif Hussein. Sharif means the family of the
prophet. For a 1000 years, the Sharif family,
the family of Ahlulbayt,
they were in charge of Makkah and Madina.
This was something out of respect for them.
So every time I knew,
Khalifa came, governor came, they realized, look, we
just leave Makkah and Madina under the family
of the prophet. So the British went to
this man, Sharif Hussein. They said, listen.
We will make you the new Khalifa,
and it will be an Arab Khalifa.
Side with us.
Rebel against the Ottoman Sultan, the Khalifa, and
we'll make you the new Khalifa.
And Sharif
Hussein believed the the British
and he declared a jihad against the Ottomans.
SubhanAllah.
At the same
time, while he is declaring jihad and asking
all the all the Arabs in Syria, in
Iraq, in in Saudi to rebel against the
Ottomans. The British are dealing with the Saudis
to have their own, the Wahhabi revolution within
mainland Saudi Arabia.
They also have a third agreement
with the Zionists to tell them at the
end of this war, we'll give you a
state in Palestine. Side with us, and we'll
give you Palestine as your own independent. They're
having 3 agreements
with a master agreement that is very, very
secret between Russia. So there's 3 agreements with
different groups, but they have a master agreement
with France called the Sykes Picot Agreement.
England and France already decided at the beginning
of the war, when we win, how are
we gonna deal up cut up this empire?
There was a master plan. You are gonna
get Syria
and Lebanon, France, Iraq and Saudi and Palestine.
Jordan is gonna go to England, and and
and Russia will take Turkey. This agreement was
in place.
So the the British were able to
successfully, by implanting their agents, Lawrence of Arabia,
the kind of this person,
caused division
within the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was
one of the few empires
called Lebanon. It was each ethnic group had
their own,
what do you call them, millah, their own
group, their own leadership, and the Ottomans recognized
all of them. Now the British are telling
them each one of you can get a
country of your own. This is the opportunity.
Rebel against the Ottomans.
And so the Middle East unravels bit by
bit, and the Ottomans are unable to keep
control. And every division we have today,
every faction you find, Syrian civil war,
the
genocide in Kosovo, the Muslim Hindu fight in
Kashmir, it's because of the British.
They made sure that people who lived side
by side for 1,000 or 100 of years,
there was such deep hatred against one another,
neighbors killing one another so that they could
go to war, and you come in and
you divide and conquer. This was the master
plan of the British, which, of course, worked.
And so
2 other big events that would turn the
that would basically bring the war to to
to its conclusion. In the midst of all
this war, Russia pulls out. Russia pulls out
of the war
because she goes through a revolution, the communist
revolution.
During this fighting, Russia is losing millions and
millions of troops. The people are dying and
starving, and the people rebel against the kaiser
of or or the czar of Russia, and
they massacre the entire royal family. And the
communists take over and they say, we want
nothing to do with this war. They pull
out of the war and they actually publish
the the communists publish all the agreements that
the British and the Russians and the French
had. They made it known, and that's why
we know of the Sykes Picot Agreement.
The Sykes Picot was was extremely secretive between
these three governments because they're all lying to
everybody else. But between the 3 of us,
we are we are together. So the communists
made this known. And how silly the Sharifah
Hussain,
even after this was public, the British told
him, don't worry. That's just keep we we
gonna keep our word to you. And he
continued believing that the British are going to
honor the agreement and make him the Khalifa.
So the Russians pull out, and perhaps it
looked for a time that maybe Germany was
gonna win and the Ottomans were gonna win.
But then, of course,
uncle Sam steps in. Mighty USA. America who
has been out of all this war, now
America enters the fray on the side of
England,
deciding that it was better in their interest
to support England and France. And with American
might and American muscle,
the the tide turns. And
slowly but surely,
Germany,
Austria, the Ottomans are exhausted, unable to fight,
and the British forces have opened the road
to invade the Ottoman lands. And,
the British march on
and look at in succession. Baghdad, the capital
of the Muslim world of the of of
the caliphate, the seat of the caliphate for,
you know, the oh, we spoke about how
amazing Baghdad was. It falls to the British
Empire 1917. The Ottoman flag is brought down,
and the British flag is put up. A
few months later, on Christmas,
the British Army enters Jerusalem, kick
the Ottoman soldiers out, and,
they conquer Jerusalem. The first time since Salahuddin
that a occupying non Muslim occupying force conquers,
Jerusalem. Then a few months later, they conquer
Damascus, the Umayyad caliphate. This was the seat
of the Umayyad power.
And then at the end of the
year, the Ottoman surrender and the British and
French enter Constantinople.
This must have been the lowest point in
our history.
Our our all the capitals of Islam besides
for Madinah
was occupied the first time in our history
was occupied by a foreign power.
Every single major Muslim city is now the
British flag is flying over it from India
all the way to Constantinople.
And the Khalifa is still there, but he
is, of course, completely at the mercy. This
is perhaps, as we said, the lowest point
that Umma has been since the Mongolian
invasion. And we said perhaps out of his
wisdom saying that Ali shifted the capital away
from Medina. Otherwise, it would have been British
troops in Medina and Mecca.
And so with this
with with Germany surrendering
and the Ottoman surrendering, the
the the Ottomans have no option but to
now accept a very terrible,
disgraceful, humiliating
treaty, which would put them completely under the
control of the British.
All the enemies of the Ottomans over the
years, the Armenians, the Greeks, they would all
line up to take their share. And to
now,
different armies are about to invade mainland Turkey.
Even Constantinople is gonna be divided up. And,
basically, the Turks are waiting to be completely
invaded
by outside forces, and we'll talk about that
tomorrow.
Last night, we asked,
Imam Shamil
of Northern Caucasus what was his nickname? He's,
of course, the lion of Daghestan,
the lion of
Daghestan.
Adam Qasim Qasim?
Adam Qasim? Oh, back.
And
let's see.
New area.
Ediana
Adams.
Okay.
Okay. She's easier? Seems like that. Okay. Tonight's
question, how much gold did Germany send to
Istanbul? How much gold did they send to
Istanbul?
We continue our program.
And,
just a reminder about whenever Eid is, whether
it is gonna be Wednesday or Thursday, we
encourage you to please join us for our
mass Eid salah in in, the Iqal. Shukran
much.
much.