Omar Suleiman – Al-Aqsa #08 Salahuddin The Legend Who Liberated Jerusalem

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			Asalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh, Audhu billahi
		
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			min ash-shaytani r-rajim, bismillah ar-Rahman
		
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			ar-Rahim Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, wa la ilaha
		
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			illa a'la al-dhalimeen, wa la aqeebatu
		
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			lil-muttaqeen Allahumma salli wa sallim wa baraka
		
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			ala abdika wa rasulika Muhammadin salallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam wa ala alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim
		
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			tasliman kathira I want to welcome you all
		
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			back inshaAllah to our I think 8th session
		
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			now on the history of Masjid al-Aqsa
		
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			bismillah ta'ala tonight we're going to be
		
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			speaking about the most legendary associated figure with
		
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			Masjid al-Aqsa and that is the liberator
		
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			of al-Aqsa Salahuddin al-Ayubi rahimahullah ta
		
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			'ala, the great Sultan and I'm going to
		
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			preface the lecture tonight with a few things
		
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			Number one, Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen, we actually just
		
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			recorded an extensive series on Salahuddin with Dr.
		
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			Hassan Alwan hafidahullah ta'ala and that inshaAllah
		
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			ta'ala will be released after Ramadan on
		
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			Yaqeen's YouTube channel and it is an extensive
		
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			biography with beautiful maps and relics and representations
		
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			and reflections bismillah ta'ala that truly is
		
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			gem filled and so tonight is by no
		
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			means meant to be the entire biography of
		
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			Salahuddin al-Ayubi rahimahullah ta'ala and as
		
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			I said inshaAllah ta'ala once I complete
		
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			this series my goal is to turn this
		
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			into a book and in that book we
		
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			will have a lot more of the smaller
		
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			details because many names and maps and regions
		
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			can get lost in the capacity of a
		
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			talk like this the second thing is that
		
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			I want to dig into a question before
		
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			we start with Salahuddin and it's always been
		
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			interesting to me that when we talk about
		
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			Salahuddin rahimahullah ta'ala and we talk about
		
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			the regaining of Al-Quds the regaining of
		
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			Jerusalem there's a question that is often not
		
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			asked and that question is how did we
		
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			lose Jerusalem in the first place you see
		
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			subhanAllah you have the glorious entrance of Sayyidina
		
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			Umar rahimahullah ta'ala and then somehow 400
		
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			-500 years of history just disappears into thin
		
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			air and we immediately start talking about the
		
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			hero once again opening Jerusalem it was understandable
		
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			with Umar bin al-Khattab rahimahullah ta'ala
		
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			entering into Jerusalem in the glorious way that
		
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			he did that Islam had dawned with the
		
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			Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam and this was a
		
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			natural extension of the da'wah of the
		
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			Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam and a glorious prophecy
		
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			fulfilled with the best of the companions of
		
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			the Prophet salAllahu alayhi wasalam but what about
		
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			Salahuddin and so I actually want to spend
		
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			some time just talking about the few hundred
		
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			years between Umar rahimahullah ta'ala opening Jerusalem
		
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			for the first time and then the reopening
		
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			of Jerusalem by Salahuddin al-Ayub rahimahullah ta
		
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			'ala and it's almost a perfect set of
		
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			events between 639 and 1039 and so you
		
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			talk about these four centuries where significant things
		
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			will happen that make Jerusalem that make al
		
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			-Quds open to the vulnerability that allowed the
		
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			crusaders to sack it for the first time
		
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			and so we come to the very beginning
		
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			of Umar rahimahullah ta'ala once again opening
		
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			Jerusalem he establishes the Umari pact that gives
		
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			all sorts of assurances to religious communities that
		
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			guards religious relics, the sahaba relocate to Jerusalem
		
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			many of them relocate to the areas of
		
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			Palestine, some of them will die there al
		
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			-Quds becomes a hub of Islamic learning, it
		
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			becomes a place where Muslims around the world
		
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			come as pilgrims and what makes Umar rahimahullah
		
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			ta'ala and his pact so significant is
		
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			that the system that he put into place
		
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			in the 600s remains intact all the way
		
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			until the crusaders come and rupture it which
		
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			shows you the beauty of it, the coherence
		
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			of it, the consistency of it and the
		
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			way that the Muslims for the most part
		
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			upheld what Umar rahimahullah ta'ala had set
		
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			into motion so the ihsan of Umar rahimahullah
		
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			ta'ala, the excellence of Umar rahimahullah ta
		
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			'ala still breathes through the city of Jerusalem
		
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			we come into the 700s and as Islam
		
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			is spreading throughout the world you have of
		
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			course Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan building some
		
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			of the most beautiful and prolific sites in
		
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			the area of al-Aqsa the dome of
		
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			the rock, al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik
		
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			expands some of what his father did in
		
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			the courtyard of al-Bayt al-Maqdis and
		
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			as Jerusalem, as Palestine is becoming this bustling
		
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			center of Islamic scholarship something happens politically which
		
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			is important and it's often underestimated the Umayyad
		
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			Caliphate was based in al-Sham because the
		
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			Umayyad Caliphate is based in al-Sham there
		
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			is naturally more emphasis on the architecture on
		
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			the establishment, on the infrastructure of the place
		
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			that the Caliphate is in and so when
		
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			the Abbasid Caliphate takes over the Abbasid Caliphate
		
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			moves to al-Iraq and when it moves
		
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			the center of Islamic power to al-Iraq
		
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			and by the way this isn't about right
		
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			or wrong, I'm just talking about natural consequences
		
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			of infrastructure and emphasis from a political perspective,
		
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			from an architectural perspective when the Khilafah moves
		
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			away from al-Sham there is naturally less
		
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			emphasis that's going to be placed on some
		
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			of the development of those areas you come
		
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			to the 900s and something extremely significant happens
		
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			about a thousand years before the Crusaders are
		
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			able to penetrate and to wreak the havoc
		
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			that is historically documented the Dawla of al
		
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			-Fatimiyya, the Fatimids the Dawla of al-Fatimiyya
		
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			take over Jerusalem and al-Dawla al-Fatimiyya
		
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			is an interesting establishment that many times we
		
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			kind of gloss over in the history of
		
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			Salah al-Din they are an extreme sect
		
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			that emerges out of Shi'ism but even
		
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			to mainstream Shi'as they are extreme they
		
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			are going further away than what the majority
		
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			of Shi'a would consider as orthodoxy within
		
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			their school of thought and they are the
		
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			makings of what would become the Ismaili school
		
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			in terms of their creed so if you
		
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			study the Ismaili school then you can see
		
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			the way that the creed itself is very
		
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			different from the creed of what we know
		
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			within al-Islam and with that expansion of
		
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			this Dawla so you still have the Abbasid
		
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			Khilafah but you have a split, you have
		
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			junctures with their taking over Jerusalem they start
		
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			to implement things that are foreign to the
		
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			Muslim population foreign to the people themselves and
		
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			they quickly become a hated form of governance
		
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			there in al-Bayt al-Muqtas and they
		
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			start to chip away at some of the
		
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			holy sites especially to Ahl al-Sunnah because
		
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			the idea is to direct things to a
		
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			new doctrine, to a new creed and so
		
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			they are very difficult to deal with and
		
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			Jerusalem naturally starts to feel, al-Quds starts
		
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			to feel some of the pressure of that
		
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			leadership you come into the year 1009 and
		
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			particularly you have a man by the name
		
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			of al-Hakim bi-Amrillah who becomes the
		
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			leader of that dynasty, the Fatimid dynasty and
		
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			he is known as the crazy ruler, literally
		
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			the Majnoon, a madman he was a kid
		
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			when he assumed leadership, very erratic, crazy would
		
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			gradually start to make more claims of divinity
		
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			and subhanAllah you almost start to see a
		
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			complex where he pushes the boundaries every single
		
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			year now why is he important to the
		
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			story of the crusaders?
		
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			he does something that Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala
		
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			Anhu did not do and naturally Umar radiyaAllahu
		
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			Anhu is not looked at favorably by him
		
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			in the first place he is a hated
		
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			figure and so the legacy of Umar is
		
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			all over al-Quds the legacy of Umar
		
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			radiyaAllahu Anhu is all over Jerusalem he desecrates
		
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			the holy sepulcher which Umar radiyaAllahu ta'ala
		
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			Anhu had of course maintained as a symbol
		
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			of respect and that was deeply rupturing to
		
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			the relationship between the Muslims and the Byzantines
		
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			at this time and sends shockwaves through Europe
		
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			but he doesn't just desecrate Christian sites, he
		
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			also bans Hajj because they see the Kaaba
		
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			as not so sacred, they see what is
		
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			happening in Mecca and Medina as taking away
		
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			from their creed so he also bans Hajj,
		
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			so he is desecrating holy sites, he bans
		
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			Hajj at some point he even calls himself
		
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			al-Hakim bi-Amri so instead of the
		
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			one who commands by the will of God,
		
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			he is the one who commands by his
		
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			own will signifying a deification of himself and
		
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			at some point he disappears so he disappears
		
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			from not just rule, but he disappears period
		
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			so his death and the circumstance of his
		
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			death are very mysterious he is deified by
		
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			some sects, so you'll see for example in
		
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			some strains of the Druze, he is deified
		
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			by them he is looked at as a
		
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			saintly figure, an interesting human being to say
		
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			the least the year 1039 after he disappears,
		
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			the church is reconstructed so that part of
		
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			any type of rupture between the Muslims and
		
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			the Christians or Islam and Christendom is made
		
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			peaceful for the moment at least there isn't
		
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			a desecration of the site at least the
		
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			site is maintained as Umar radiAllahu ta'ala
		
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			Anhu had guaranteed now what happens to the
		
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			crusaders or how do the crusaders start and
		
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			this is in fact one of the most
		
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			important contexts to understand as to how we
		
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			lost Jerusalem in the first place Europe is
		
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			plunging into full on economic despair so they
		
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			have massive resource deficits they have famines and
		
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			plagues they have population issues there is much
		
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			corruption with the elite class so there is
		
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			a full on corruption of the way that
		
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			wealth is distributed so Europe is falling into
		
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			all sorts of economic despair partly because of
		
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			the corruption that is present within Europe and
		
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			in suffering that famine and that drought and
		
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			the population is dwindling and resources are dwindling
		
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			and you have mass corruption and bad distribution
		
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			you needed to find a way to turn
		
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			this into a religious conflict to turn this
		
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			into some sort of holy war or righteous
		
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			war on the Muslim world to justify what
		
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			really was an attempt to rescue Europe from
		
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			its economic despair and many historians will say
		
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			the same that the true nature of the
		
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			crusades was more economic than it was religious
		
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			so it was as much about Antioch and
		
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			Edessa as it was about Jerusalem and in
		
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			fact when you read about the fourth crusade
		
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			it completely removes Jerusalem from the equation or
		
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			it focuses entirely on the richest Muslim cities
		
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			so it focuses on Constantinople, Istanbul today because
		
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			the idea is to gain as much treasure
		
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			and to gain the most accessible port in
		
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			the Muslim world possible to where you can
		
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			transfer riches back to the crusader kingdom and
		
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			so Venice and the Italian districts wanted the
		
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			ports of Asham other European states were focused
		
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			on China and India and the silk routes
		
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			and the spices and the different ways that
		
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			they could access the east and access Asia
		
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			and access pathways to Africa and they felt
		
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			cut off by the Muslim world and so
		
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			Europe needs to pillage the Muslim world under
		
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			a religious call in order to bring back
		
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			prosperity to the failing crusader kingdom everything that
		
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			you see back then has a parallel today
		
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			just read about the gas off of the
		
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			coast in Gaza there are going to be
		
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			nefarious parties, malicious motives even more malicious than
		
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			the obvious malicious motives that will push certain
		
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			parties to the table and so the drums
		
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			of war are being beaten in Europe against
		
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			the Muslim ummah to pillage the Muslim world
		
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			and it is not because tensions have boiled
		
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			to a point to where it's just become
		
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			untenable between the two between the Muslims and
		
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			the Christians and therefore we have to escalate
		
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			this war it's because Europe has economic woes
		
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			primarily secondly, the Muslim ummah is in complete
		
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			shambles we always get in our own way
		
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			and subhanallah you think of the hadith of
		
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			the prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam da'awtu rabbi
		
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			thalat I made dua to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala for three things li thalat I
		
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			made dua that Allah would protect us from
		
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			famine this ummah would not be wiped out
		
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			by famine Allah answered that I made dua
		
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			that this ummah would not be wiped out
		
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			by an external enemy Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala guaranteed us that that as an ummah
		
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			we won't be wiped out by anything external
		
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			but the third one that there is no
		
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			misfortune or that their misfortune does not come
		
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			at their own hands due to their own
		
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			disunity Allah azawajal did not give the prophet
		
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			salallahu alayhi wasalam that because the ummah is
		
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			responsible to maintain its own unity its own
		
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			cohesion because Allah has already given us his
		
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			habal he's given us his rope that's your
		
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			covenant hold on to the rope of Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala it's been extended to
		
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			you as an ummah when you hold on
		
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			to it together you're guaranteed greatness the Muslim
		
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			world was completely fractured and as a result
		
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			of it being fractured impotence you have the
		
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			Abbasid Khilafah in one place which is becoming
		
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			a complete non-player in global Muslim politics
		
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			you have al-Fatimiyya, Daul al-Fatimiyya which
		
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			is heretical to a point that it does
		
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			not represent at all anymore what the spirit
		
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			of Islam was supposed to be you have
		
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			the Seljuks in Iraq you have so many
		
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			different places where different empires and different players
		
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			are at play and this offers an opportunity
		
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			for the crusaders to come in and to
		
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			penetrate a divided weakened Muslim world that is
		
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			busy with its internal feuds and its internal
		
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			disputes those are the two major factors that
		
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			lead to making a place like Jerusalem so
		
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			vulnerable so I'm going to give you the
		
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			names of some important figures I want you
		
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			to put yourself in Europe right now the
		
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			year is 1095 we're 400 years or so
		
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			after Omar ibn al-Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala
		
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			anhu enters into Jerusalem a man by the
		
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			name of Pope Urban II gives his famous
		
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			speech at Clermont and you can look this
		
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			speech up by the way, it's his most
		
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			famous address Pope Urban II stands to initiate
		
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			the crusades and as he initiates the crusades
		
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			against the Muslim world he describes the Muslims
		
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			as the following, he describes them as a
		
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			vile race, number one number two, a cursive
		
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			and alien to God number three, a generation
		
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			wholly given to the service of demons, number
		
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			four take arms against the barbarians, not your
		
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			brothers and so you think about like all
		
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			the marks of dehumanization that precede some of
		
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			the most disgusting genocides in history, just look
		
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			at the man's speech, this is the Pope
		
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			speaking, so you think about the religious justification
		
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			and cover that's going to be given to
		
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			the crusaders to wreak the havoc that we
		
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			know on the Muslim world they are looking
		
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			at us as a vile race a cursive,
		
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			foreign to God alien and barbarians that should
		
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			be fought instead of their brothers, on top
		
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			of that we're in the service of demons
		
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			and so a satanic, pagan race now think
		
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			about propaganda, I mean back then how many
		
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			people in Europe had interacted with Muslims in
		
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			their daily lives, like you think about now
		
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			how dehumanization becomes possible without interaction, think about
		
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			that world and the way that peoples were
		
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			separate and how when you portray a people
		
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			like that you give license to kill in
		
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			an entirely different way, on top of that
		
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			he calls on robbers to become knights meaning
		
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			we will release our prisoners and our most
		
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			brutal people and send them out into battle,
		
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			he calls on robbers to become knights he
		
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			offers full amnesty for any crime that's been
		
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			committed so long as you go to the
		
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			Muslim world and you fight against the Muslims
		
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			and you serve in these crusades he offers
		
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			debt relief in response open spoils of war,
		
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			whatever you can collect in the battlefield, collect
		
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			it, it is yours and the last thing
		
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			the icing on the cake full redemption of
		
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			sin when you kill the pagans and so
		
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			whatever sins you have committed before will be
		
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			gone when you enter into the Muslim world
		
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			and when you serve in this holy war
		
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			against the Muslim world by the way, when
		
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			I say it's relevant and this precedes what
		
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			will happen in Jerusalem just read the papers
		
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			of Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft and the
		
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			Bush administration and the orders they were giving
		
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			to the military before the invasion of Iraq
		
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			it was crusader language invoking specific references from
		
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			the crusades and that's how you portray a
		
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			people and that's how you dehumanize them and
		
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			become inhumane yourself what does that lead to
		
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			and translate into?
		
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			what is the introduction of the crusaders to
		
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			the Muslim world before Jerusalem?
		
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			the most significant one is what is known
		
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			as the massacre of Ma'arrah the massacre
		
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			of Ma'arrah this takes place in December
		
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			of 1098 and it's around modern day Idlib,
		
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			subhanAllah when you think about all that Idlib
		
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			has been through may Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala see forth the entire liberation of our
		
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			brothers and sisters and completion of their victory
		
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			in Syria, Allahumma ameen, what they've been through
		
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			so the massacre of Ma'arrah is particularly
		
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			as Ibn Al-Athir says the most shocking
		
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			incident of the crusaders entering into the Muslim
		
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			world and really put on display their immorality
		
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			like it became a legend the way that
		
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			they acted in Ma'arrah became legendary in
		
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			the sense of evil it sent shockwaves that
		
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			a people could do this, now keep in
		
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			mind this precedes the Mongols right, we're not
		
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			even talking about the Tatar and what would
		
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			come from them yet, not the hands of
		
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			the Tatar so this was really really new
		
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			to see the way that a people would
		
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			behave especially while carrying crosses right, they're coming
		
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			in the name of religion plunging into the
		
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			Muslim world with the flags of crosses sanctioned
		
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			by the Pope and what do they do
		
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			in Ma'arrah Ibn Al-Athir says they
		
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			massacred 30,000 civilians in cold blood 30
		
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			,000 Muslims they put them to the sword
		
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			in cold blood if you look up there
		
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			are chapters in books called when the crusaders
		
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			became cannibals when the crusaders became cannibals because
		
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			subhanallah at this point what they unleashed of
		
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			themselves in that process, you know we look
		
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			at what the Zionists do in Gaza and
		
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			we think how crazy are these people like
		
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			how do they not see how beastly they
		
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			have become in the process of making us
		
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			into animals how crazy and beastly have they
		
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			become you have to think about what the
		
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			crusaders had in their mind about the Muslim
		
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			world that was taught to them before they
		
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			came to the Muslim world and how that
		
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			sanctioned beastly behavior that maybe was foreign to
		
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			them before and so Albert of the Franks
		
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			this is from their side he writes that
		
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			in Ma'arrah our troops boiled pagan adults
		
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			in cooking pots we boiled them in cooking
		
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			pots and we devoured grilled children on skewers
		
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			they ate the people they cooked and they
		
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			ate the people and this was supposed to
		
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			be a sign of their * over the
		
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			Muslim world but in the process they had
		
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			unlocked the evil, the true evil that was
		
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			present inside of them and what they planned
		
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			to do with the rest of the Muslim
		
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			world as for the exploitation of women as
		
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			for what was done beyond murder, our imagination
		
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			can go to the worst of places because
		
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			clearly they had no limits and what they
		
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			were willing to do to the Muslim world
		
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			as they came into Asham as they started
		
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			to pillage the area and then you come
		
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			to Jerusalem the sad thing about Jerusalem is
		
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			that when you move to July 15, 1099
		
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			July 15, 1099 it only took them 5
		
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			weeks to take Al-Quds 5 weeks, a
		
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			little over a month and that's a sign
		
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			of how weakened the Muslim world had become,
		
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			how much we had relinquished the grip of
		
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			glory that we had from the time of
		
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			Sayyidina Umar radiAllahu ta'ala and the barbarians
		
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			of Ma'arrah who were actually the crusaders
		
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			enter into Jerusalem and you can imagine what
		
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			they did and by the way it wouldn't
		
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			just be against the Muslims, the Jews this
		
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			time, whose side do you think they were
		
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			on?
		
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			Umar radiAllahu ta'ala was the one who
		
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			brought them back after, remember the conflict that
		
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			they had with Heraclius Umar radiAllahu ta'ala
		
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			settled their communities the Jews were on the
		
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			Muslim side the Eastern Christians, historic Christian communities
		
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			that were not under the Catholic Church were
		
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			also alongside the Muslims and whatever they were
		
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			able to put up with in terms of
		
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			a fight was insignificant in the face of
		
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			these people and so for the most part
		
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			people retreated to their holy places and the
		
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			crusaders went into Al-Aqsa and they killed
		
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			up to 70,000 Muslims as they entered
		
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			into Jerusalem, they burned the Jews alive in
		
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			their synagogues and they even set fire to
		
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			the Eastern Orthodox churches, so they burned alive
		
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			people and murdered anywhere up to 100,000
		
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			people as they took Jerusalem on that dark
		
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			day of July 15th 1099, Reynald of Aguileras
		
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			so this is not the famous Reynald that
		
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			we would talk about but he's one of
		
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			the crusaders, he said, he writes about it
		
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			he says, in the temple and Solomon's porch,
		
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			men rode in blood up to their knees
		
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			and up to their horse's reins they flooded
		
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			the streets with blood they destroyed the masajid
		
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			they destroyed everything that was holy to anybody
		
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			else and they beat back the Muslims whatever
		
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			existed of the Muslims to different regions, at
		
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			that time Imaduddin Zengi, rahimahullah ta'ala of
		
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			the Seljuks he fights back in Iraq with
		
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			whatever he can but he has limited success
		
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			against the crusaders before he himself is going
		
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			to be assassinated and his second son Nuruddin
		
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			Zengi, rahimahullah ta'ala, will take command of
		
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			the Zengid dynasty, and this is where we
		
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			come to the story of Salahuddin you cannot
		
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			talk about the story of Salahuddin Al Ayyubi,
		
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			rahimahullah without talking about Nuruddin Zengi, rahimahullah ta
		
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			'ala, who was the Mujadid before the Mujadid
		
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			the warrior before the warrior the leader before
		
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			the leader the mentor of one of the
		
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			greatest human beings this Ummah has ever seen,
		
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			you cannot talk about Salahuddin without understanding Nuruddin
		
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			Zengi, rahimahullah ta'ala, Imaduddin Al Ayyubi, rahimahullah
		
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			ta'ala, says that there has not been
		
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			a man that this Ummah has seen since
		
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			Khulafa al Rashidin like Nuruddin, rahimahullah ta'ala
		
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			not a more competent and great leader that
		
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			this Ummah has seen since Khulafa al Rashidin
		
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			like Nuruddin rahimahullah ta'ala Nuruddin establishes his
		
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			rule in Halab, in Syria so his brother
		
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			takes what's left over of Iraq from his
		
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			father and Nuruddin takes Syria he establishes himself
		
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			in Syria and Nuruddin is someone who fights
		
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			back the crusaders valiantly and is able to
		
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			beat them back from major strongholds and is
		
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			able to establish multiple sneak attacks on different
		
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			crusader strongholds and quickly becomes a boogeyman of
		
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			sorts to the crusaders as he is rebuilding
		
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			his rule in Syria and beating back the
		
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			crusaders from certain regions he also establishes over
		
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			40 madaris 40 schools, scholarly hubs of learning
		
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			because he sees that the revival of ilm
		
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			the revival of the Qur'an is central
		
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			to the revival of the Ummah and so
		
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			he mandates his warriors to go through religious
		
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			training the generals in the army of Nuruddin
		
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			are all hufadh of Qur'an he mandates
		
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			that they learn once again and he also
		
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			wants to spread the sunnah in the face
		
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			of what had happened under Al-Dawla Al
		
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			-Fatimiyah, so he's taking through different routes to
		
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			beat back the crusaders and to beat back
		
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			some of the influences that had weakened the
		
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			Ummah from within so he's a righteous man
		
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			an incredible human being and SubhanAllah an entire
		
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			lecture should be and could be dedicated to
		
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			him but tonight we will not be able
		
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			to do him justice because we want to
		
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			focus on Palestine and his role in Palestine
		
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			suffice it to say as Ibn Al-Athir
		
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			Rahimahullah says Nuruddin Rahimahullah Ta'ala commissioned the
		
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			construction of the minbar that would be placed
		
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			in Masjid Al-Aqsa once Masjid Al-Aqsa
		
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			was retaken from the crusaders and it took
		
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			a couple of years and you can imagine
		
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			the psychological impact on the people that Nuruddin
		
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			the leader is already constructing the minbar of
		
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			Al-Aqsa when we take it back this
		
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			is the minbar that we will place back
		
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			in Masjid Al-Aqsa and the way that
		
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			he's trying to instigate the emotions of the
		
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			believers so that they can understand that what
		
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			has been taken from them is not going
		
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			to be considered insignificant nor will it be
		
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			forgotten amongst the ummah and this impacts Salahuddin
		
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			Rahimahullah Ta'ala growing up imagine growing up
		
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			in that shape where you know that your
		
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			predecessor has already built the minbar that one
		
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			day you know today when we hold the
		
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			keys of Palestine from the Nakba you say
		
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			one day you will open your home one
		
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			day we will return to our lands even
		
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			when it seems impossible we're taking this from
		
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			our Turah we're taking this from our tradition
		
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			you know like SubhanAllah one of my teachers
		
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			he said something very profound once he said
		
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			what dress have you prepared for the day
		
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			of Fatihah Baitul Maqdis what are you going
		
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			to wear the day that it's opened that
		
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			there are some that would put aside even
		
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			their relics that the day that Jerusalem is
		
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			opened Bi'idhnillahi Ta'ala this is what
		
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			we will enter in with Bi'idhnillahi Ta
		
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			'ala so it's part of the psychological and
		
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			spiritual growth of the believers so Nuruddin Rahimahullah
		
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			Ta'ala has this minbar built and it
		
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			would not be installed in Al-Aqsa until
		
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			two decades after he's already passed away and
		
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			that's not the point right, the point is
		
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			is that he's generating something special in the
		
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			hearts of young people around him he is
		
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			reigniting the Ummah towards something that is special
		
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			and so Nuruddin and the Zengid Empire are
		
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			embedding the idea of Baitul Maqdis in the
		
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			hearts of young people, they're putting that back
		
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			in the hearts of the Ummah and they're
		
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			right there in Al-Sham at the gates
		
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			of Jerusalem which is the most fortified city
		
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			right now that represents crusader * over the
		
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			Muslim world and there's an important lesson here
		
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			that you might say that Nuruddin failed if
		
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			you're looking particularly at or specifically at his
		
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			political endeavors that Nuruddin was never able to
		
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			take back Jerusalem in his lifetime and he
		
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			certainly tried but sometimes it's not the individual
		
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			or the group that tries to do it
		
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			the first time sometimes the credit should go
		
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			to those who didn't relinquish the idea even
		
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			if their efforts fell short because they placed
		
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			the fruit in the hearts and in the
		
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			minds of those who will come after them
		
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			and have the same sincerity as them and
		
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			will see the effort through by the permission
		
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			of Allah and Allah rewards everyone in the
		
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			process of that everyone that was a part
		
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			of that process and so if you're just
		
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			going to clip out Nuruddin's chapter and this
		
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			is extremely important right now, if you were
		
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			going to clip out Nuruddin's chapter you might
		
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			deem him a political failure without looking at
		
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			what came after him or what he put
		
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			into Salahuddin because you'll say he wasn't able
		
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			to do it the odds were against him,
		
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			he built that minbar but what did he
		
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			actually achieve when he lived and when he
		
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			died his entire life, Jerusalem was under the
		
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			crusaders, it's not the point this is an
		
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			ummah where transition and transmission comes through the
		
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			hearts that light is transmitted from generation to
		
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			generation and Allah knows what everyone has put
		
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			into that process so this is Nuruddin Zengi
		
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			rahimahullah ta'ala and we'll talk a little
		
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			bit more about him inshallah ta'ala as
		
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			we start to introduce Salahuddin in this process
		
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			and focus on some of these lessons, so
		
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			Salahuddin is born in 1137 where was he
		
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			born?
		
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			in Tikrit, in Iraq and he wasn't an
		
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			Arab, he was a Kurd Nuruddin also was
		
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			not an Arab which shows you subhanAllah that
		
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			the connection to Al-Aqsa has to transcend
		
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			Arabism has to transcend that it has to
		
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			be a cause of the ummah Imaduddin was
		
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			not an Arab, Nuruddin was not an Arab,
		
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			Salahuddin was not an Arab and subhanAllah there
		
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			are some who even tried to connect Salahuddin
		
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			to an Arab ancestor to make him Arab
		
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			it didn't matter and it doesn't matter what
		
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			you can find in his lineage or if
		
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			you can try to connect him to an
		
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			Arab ancestor this is a cause that's greater
		
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			than the Arab, this is the cause of
		
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			Islam and the Muslims, this is the cause
		
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			of every single person and the one who
		
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			connects their hearts and efforts to it is
		
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			just as connected to it as anyone else
		
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			because Allah subhanAllah makes sacred links through what
		
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			physical links cannot make and so there are
		
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			different claims that are made to Salahuddin by
		
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			the way, funny enough even after the glorious
		
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			chapter of Salahuddin will close some of the
		
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			Europeans will try to justify in their minds
		
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			how such a great man rose amongst the
		
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			Muslims who they had portrayed as barbarians and
		
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			as lowly people all this time, how did
		
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			the greatest general of their time arise from
		
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			them and their conclusion in some of their
		
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			books was that he had a European mother
		
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			and so he had to come from something
		
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			else because it doesn't make sense otherwise for
		
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			him to be this person and I want
		
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			to say about Salahuddin before we continue that
		
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			this is a man who subhanAllah, when you
		
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			talk about acceptance in the hearts of the
		
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			believers has been given a status in the
		
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			Ummah that is unparalleled I want you to
		
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			think about the amount of time that has
		
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			passed from his time to our time and
		
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			the way that his name has been invoked
		
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			generation after generation generation after generation that is
		
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			enough to tell you what a special person
		
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			he is in the sight of Allah subhanahu
		
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			wa ta'ala that he has been in
		
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			the hearts of believers for over an entire
		
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			millennium it's unprecedented it's unheard of for someone
		
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			that comes that far after the sahaba to
		
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			have that type of a status amongst the
		
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			believers and when you read about him, he
		
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			deserves it he deserves every bit of that
		
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			praise that he receives in the Ummah he
		
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			deserves every bit of that acceptance because this
		
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			was a man who was born and bred
		
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			and who lived and died with the Ummah
		
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			in his heart a selfless human being subhanAllah
		
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			who had vision who had sincerity that is
		
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			unparalleled in his time and I also want
		
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			you to appreciate the circumstances that he was
		
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			born in and how close he actually was
		
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			to the time of the Prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wasalam I was trying to reflect on this
		
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			context, the time between us and Salahuddin is
		
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			a thousand years the time between the context
		
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			of Salahuddin, not necessarily the birth of Salahuddin,
		
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			the context of Salahuddin and the death of
		
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			the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam is 400 years
		
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			that means that the effect of that generation
		
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			of the Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and the
		
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			generation that immediately followed and immediately followed is
		
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			very much so still present like I think
		
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			about this in an American context they talk
		
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			about slavery being 400 years old the effects
		
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			are still very present, there are easy ways
		
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			to trace your lineage, you know who your
		
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			great great great grandfather was if you look
		
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			hard enough, you can trace the development of
		
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			villages and cities, you can see the same
		
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			structures, that's how close it is to the
		
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			Prophet salallahu alayhi wasalam and so that should
		
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			help you appreciate that there is something very
		
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			special that's still in the air to be
		
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			salvaged and that makes the destruction of a
		
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			place like Jerusalem and the pillaging of the
		
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			Muslim world that much sadder in his time
		
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			and so you have this man rahimahullah ta
		
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			'ala, that's a Khalid ibn al-warid like
		
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			figure the greatest general in this ummah after
		
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			Khalid radiallahu ta'ala anhu, who we would
		
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			have the great victories on his hand what
		
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			is his actual name?
		
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			what is his actual name?
		
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			does anyone know?
		
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			his actual name is Yusuf his actual name
		
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			is Yusuf and Salahuddin is the honorific that
		
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			is given to him rahimahullah ta'ala and
		
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			this is deeply profound because it will factor
		
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			into the way that he lives his life
		
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			rahimahullah ta'ala his father was a general
		
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			under Imaduddin whose name was Najmuddin his father
		
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			Najmuddin was a general under Imaduddin remember Imaduddin
		
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			is the father in Iraq and when he
		
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			dies his son Nuruddin his second son assumes
		
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			the rulership of the dynasty based out of
		
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			Syria based primarily out of Syria so he's
		
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			a general under Imaduddin al-Zengi rahimahullah ta
		
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			'ala and before Salahuddin was born his mother
		
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			had an interesting dream about him that she
		
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			went to the dream interpreters she said I
		
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			saw a dream that in my stomach was
		
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			a sword and so subhanallah you talk about
		
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			a ru'ya and a prophecy that Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala will bring out of
		
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			this man his mother saw him as a
		
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			sword in her stomach before she actually gave
		
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			birth to him rahimahullah ta'ala and subhanallah
		
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			what happens on the very day that he's
		
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			born is that his father his mother who
		
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			just gives birth to him have to flee
		
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			from Tikrit because of an attack so you
		
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			can imagine the day of his birth he's
		
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			a refugee, he's on the move on the
		
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			day of his birth his father is expelled
		
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			the day of his birth and as they
		
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			are on the run one of the generals
		
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			says to his father Najmuddin that this baby
		
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			of yours must be bad luck it's gotta
		
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			be bad fortune the day of his birth
		
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			you're expelled and you're on the run from
		
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			Tikrit to Mosul in Iraq both in Iraq,
		
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			so this baby must be of bad fortune
		
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			and he responded and he said rather it
		
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			may be that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			has planned through him a good fortune that
		
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			we can't comprehend there might be something in
		
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			his qadr that is way beyond anything that
		
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			we can perceive and so I think about
		
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			those children that are born in Gaza that
		
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			were born while their parents were on the
		
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			run and perhaps babies that were born subhanallah
		
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			that will never know their parents, babies that
		
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			showed up in the makeshift hospitals and their
		
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			parents had been killed in the same bombing
		
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			Allah azawajal knows what may come out of
		
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			this generation of genocide may Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala give izzah to this generation Allahumma
		
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			ameen and so they're fleeing to Mosul where
		
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			Imaduddin, the father is Imaduddin Zangi rahimahullah ta
		
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			'ala and he takes in the soldiers who
		
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			fled including his general Najmuddin Al-Ayubi, the
		
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			father of Salahuddin rahimahullah ta'ala eventually as
		
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			we said Imaduddin will pass away and Nuruddin
		
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			assumes the rule in Syria, so Salahuddin rahimahullah
		
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			ta'ala is going to grow up in
		
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			which city?
		
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			In Damascus in Damascus and as he grows
		
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			up, to give you the context of Salahuddin
		
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			rahimahullah ta'ala the sentiments around him, everything
		
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			was anti crusader everything is anti crusader everything
		
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			from the culture to the poetry to the
		
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			stories and so that's one very important context
		
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			to have that he's born in the devastation
		
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			of the crusaders and the crusaders have Jerusalem
		
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			and he's born in the shadow of Nuruddin
		
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			Zangi rahimahullah ta'ala who will become his
		
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			greatest mentor, that's number one, number two there's
		
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			a defeatist atmosphere that the muslims will not
		
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			be able to fight back this monster of
		
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			the crusaders and I think about our day
		
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			and age, you know you think about the
		
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			climates and the different poetry and the different
		
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			songs that children are nurtured with and it's
		
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			important for them to not just have those
		
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			songs and to have that poetry and to
		
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			have that connection but to also believe that
		
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			that connection will eventually manifest in victory, that
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala has promised us
		
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			that these songs will not stay in our
		
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			ears alone that this poetry will not merely
		
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			be recited on our tongues as we are
		
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			distant that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala will
		
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			see us through, so he grows up in
		
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			an anti crusader climate but a defeatist climate
		
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			as well he also grows up in the
		
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			masjid that became a focal point subhanallah in
		
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			the last few weeks the umawi masjid, he
		
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			grows up in that masjid, that's the masjid
		
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			that he memorized the quran in, that's the
		
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			masjid that he learned the fiqh of the
		
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			imam al-shafi'i in and became a
		
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			master of the shafi'i madhab, that is
		
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			the masjid that he grew up playing in,
		
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			that he grew up practicing his military arts
		
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			in salahuddin rahimahullah ta'ala grows up as
		
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			a student of knowledge, simultaneously he grows up
		
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			as a warrior he learns everything from religion
		
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			to astronomy, to greek philosophy to diplomacy to
		
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			the arts, to everything about military skill and
		
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			subhanallah he takes a deep interest to the
		
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			legend of nuruddin rahimahullah ta'ala even more
		
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			so than his immediate relatives to the legend
		
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			of nuruddin as well as the scholars that
		
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			are around him, so he loves the ulama
		
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			and he grows up in the shade of
		
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			the scholars and he praises the scholars, so
		
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			he could grow up to either be a
		
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			scholar or a warrior or both but he
		
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			looks at nuruddin rahimahullah ta'ala as an
		
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			absolute hero and nuruddin rahimahullah ta'ala sees
		
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			in salahuddin a very special kid and spends
		
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			time investing in salahuddin rahimahullah ta'ala and
		
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			mentoring him as well and so it's only
		
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			at the age of 14 that he becomes
		
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			an official soldier in the Zengi dynasty directly
		
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			under the command of his uncle Asaduddin you'll
		
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			notice a lot of uddins, uddins, uddins I'm
		
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			sorry, inshallah ta'ala you'll be able to
		
00:41:04 --> 00:41:07
			capture that, so his father is Najmuddin, his
		
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			uncle is Asaduddin, his mentor and the leader
		
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			is nuruddin, there we go hopefully you all
		
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			memorized it by now inshallah ta'ala I
		
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			won't take you further than that so he
		
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			becomes a commissioned soldier in the Zengi dynasty
		
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			under his uncle Asaduddin who in western literature
		
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			is also shirkuh and as he grows and
		
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			flourishes under him he's quickly ascending ascending the
		
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			ranks of the military now by the way,
		
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			this is an important point salahuddin rahimahullah ta
		
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			'ala in terms of physical stature actually was
		
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			not very big he actually didn't have a
		
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			dominant physical stature and so it was easy
		
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			to overlook him in the ranks of the
		
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			military but his haybah his awe inspiring presence
		
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			in what he was able to do pushed
		
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			him through in ways that he was gaining
		
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			the attention of everyone within the ranks of
		
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			the military, nuruddin is receiving the reports of
		
00:42:02 --> 00:42:05
			this growth of his his father until he
		
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			passes away is seeing salahuddin, his uncle is
		
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			seeing him and so eventually the year 1164
		
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			comes and salahuddin rahimahullah ta'ala is appointed
		
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			as a commander of a battalion to engage
		
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			egypt egypt is under al-dawla al-fatimiyya
		
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			is under the fatimid dynasty, which at that
		
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			point is the largest super power in the
		
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			muslim world the abbasi khilafah is really a
		
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			small khilafah, it's more symbolic than anything else
		
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			at that point, so it's the most dominant
		
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			force in the muslim world and this is
		
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			where subhanallah you start to see the wit
		
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			of salahuddin rahimahullah ta'ala salahuddin is a
		
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			sunni scholar and warrior, he represents a sunni
		
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			dynasty, right and we're talking about a dynasty
		
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			that again is further than even mainstream shiaism,
		
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			so we're talking about ideologically two different powers
		
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			but he's patient salahuddin rahimahullah sees an opportunity
		
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			to build from within egypt and so he
		
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			goes into egypt and through negotiations, his uncle
		
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			becomes a wazir initially, his uncle becomes a
		
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			minister under the fatimid dynasty under al-dawla
		
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			al-fatimiyya, despite everything that is happening there
		
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			and eventually his uncle passes away and salahuddin
		
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			rahimahullah ta'ala is appointed as a wazir,
		
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			appointed as a minister under the fatimid dynasty
		
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			in egypt so there he not only trains
		
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			battalions and develops an army he consolidates all
		
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			sorts of power, for one he builds universities
		
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			and madaris all throughout egypt in the same
		
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			mold that nuruddin did in syria so he
		
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			starts to build madaris throughout, madaris of hifadh
		
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			quran and learning creed and learning jurisprudence and
		
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			to grow the scholars he increases, this is
		
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			really interesting, but he saw that it was
		
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			important to increase the wage of the teachers,
		
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			if you want to look at how a
		
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			society values education, look at the way that
		
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			it pays its teachers and so it tells
		
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			you a lot about how islamic scholars can
		
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			be valued and how imams can be valued
		
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			and how teachers, those that teach your children
		
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			can be valued, it's important for a society
		
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			to be uplifted in that way and to
		
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			have education prioritized and so he increases the
		
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			office of the educators, if you will, he
		
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			builds these glorious madaris all across, and in
		
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			the process he also becomes a noted orator,
		
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			so he's giving khutbah in egypt, he's a
		
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			general in egypt he's building madaris in egypt
		
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			his popularity is growing he survives multiple assassination
		
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			attempts subhanallah it's remarkable how many times this
		
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			man was almost killed now one time in
		
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			egypt he's literally stabbed in his helmet, in
		
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			his head and he doesn't die rahimahullah ta
		
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			'ala, so he survives multiple assassination attempts because
		
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			some people are wary of his power he
		
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			slowly starts to change things the adhan was
		
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			altered to hayy ala khayr al anam come
		
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			to the best of deeds, so he slowly
		
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			starts to bring things back to hayy ala
		
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			salah hayy ala filah, bringing them back to
		
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			the deen, growing with the people, and then
		
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			he finds an opportunity, he's still technically paying
		
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			allegiance to the fatimid leader within the dynasty
		
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			as he gives his khutbah, he makes dua
		
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			for him but he finds an opportunity to
		
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			suddenly push the boundaries and he omits the
		
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			name of the ruler of the fatimids in
		
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			his khutbah the leader of the fatimids passes
		
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			away salah ad-din rahimahullah ta'ala assumes
		
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			a greater role of power as a natural
		
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			leader amongst the people he changes the allegiance
		
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			in the official sense symbolically to ad-daulah
		
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			al-abbasiya to the abbasid khilafah and he
		
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			continues to now consolidate his power and I'm
		
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			omitting a lot of details because of time
		
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			he continues to grow and consolidate his power
		
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			throughout the region so the madaris that he
		
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			built are systematically upon what he has put
		
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			as well as older madaris like al-azhar
		
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			is changed to fit a coordinated curriculum that
		
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			grows the people in the deen across the
		
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			board and again fits the mold of what
		
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			nur ad-din rahimahullah put into motion and
		
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			so subhanallah you can imagine the religious transformation
		
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			of Egypt the psychological transformation of Egypt under
		
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			salah ad-din rahimahullah ta'ala he then
		
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			secures the hajj routes because remember the crusaders
		
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			would attack the hajj routes and even the
		
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			fatimids at least under al-hakim they banned
		
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			the hajj so he secures the hajj routes
		
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			from Egypt and Sudan and this makes him
		
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			extremely popular with the people and so he
		
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			becomes known as the defender of the hajj
		
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			because he secures the route of the pilgrims
		
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			he then captures Yemen so if you think
		
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			of a mind map of what salah ad
		
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			-din is doing he takes Egypt and then
		
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			he captures Yemen and by capturing Yemen he
		
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			gains control over the ports over the red
		
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			sea and by having control over the red
		
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			sea he's able to import and export using
		
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			the ports and enrich the economy under his
		
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			rule in Egypt as well as Yemen and
		
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			so his power is quickly growing and by
		
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			the way this is all happening within a
		
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			matter of three years this isn't taking decades
		
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			this is unfolding rapidly now what happens and
		
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			subhanallah this is the case of fitna always
		
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			that there are efforts to pit salah ad
		
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			-din now in Egypt and Yemen against nur
		
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			ad-din his teacher in Syria and so
		
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			the suspicion is growing, the fitna is growing
		
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			and of course the crusaders could want nothing
		
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			more than to see these colossal leaders go
		
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			at it, nur ad-din and salah ad
		
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			-din and just as that fitna is starting
		
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			to grow nur ad-din dies a natural
		
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			death in the year 1174 by the mercy
		
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			of Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala without them
		
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			ever having actually fought which is an incredible
		
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			mercy from Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala because
		
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			the forces were being put into motion to
		
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			pit these two powers against each other and
		
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			to have the familiar internal turmoil within the
		
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			Muslim world but Allah azawajal spared nur ad
		
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			-din from that and spared salah ad-din
		
00:48:46 --> 00:48:47
			of that as well and spared the ummah
		
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			as a whole of that as well, in
		
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			the process salah ad-din rahim Allah ta
		
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			'ala wants to continue to unify the ranks
		
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			and so he now takes the Zengid empire
		
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			and he absorbs it into the Ayyubid dynasty
		
00:49:05 --> 00:49:07
			if you're looking at it from historical terms
		
00:49:07 --> 00:49:09
			but under his power he now starts to
		
00:49:09 --> 00:49:12
			bring Syria under his power as well, he
		
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			takes Damascus he takes Halab and subhanAllah he
		
00:49:20 --> 00:49:22
			does things in a very diplomatic way, at
		
00:49:22 --> 00:49:23
			the end of the day he's trying to
		
00:49:23 --> 00:49:24
			soften the hearts too, so wherever he can
		
00:49:24 --> 00:49:27
			spare bloodshed and consolidating power in the Muslim
		
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			world, he does so and so the son
		
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			of nur ad-din rahim Allah ta'ala
		
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			was too young and quickly passes on and
		
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			the widow of nur ad-din is now
		
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			technically in charge of the throne and salah
		
00:49:42 --> 00:49:44
			ad-din marries the widow of nur ad
		
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			-din and this helps consolidate power as well
		
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			so he marries the widow of his teacher
		
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			and this helps bring power as well into
		
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			his ranks and so he becomes the first
		
00:49:55 --> 00:50:02
			sultan of Egypt and Syria over time subhanAllah
		
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			he will gain Syria, Egypt Yemen, the Hijaz
		
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			parts of Libya and beyond, so he consolidates
		
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			beyond and Iraq as well he's given legitimacy,
		
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			in Baghdad he's given legitimacy as well, so
		
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			this is a man subhanAllah who consolidates power
		
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			and who sees the importance of unifying the
		
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			Muslim ummah before you can take on a
		
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			monster like the crusaders and that is perhaps
		
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			one of the most important lessons in studying
		
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			salah ad-din, that even a man as
		
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			brilliant and remarkable as him knew that it
		
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			was important to solidify everything around as well
		
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			that Jerusalem has to be the central focus
		
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			but Jerusalem cannot be the exclusive focus of
		
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			reformation of restoration of the ummah that it
		
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			was important to unify the ranks and solidify
		
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			the ranks as he gained focus and he
		
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			started to focus the Muslim world on what
		
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			was happening in Jerusalem and subhanAllah of his
		
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			greatest qualities, this is a remarkably patient man
		
00:51:00 --> 00:51:03
			it took him one decade to do this,
		
00:51:03 --> 00:51:05
			for two years he was operating in Egypt
		
00:51:05 --> 00:51:09
			under a dawla that was completely foreign to
		
00:51:09 --> 00:51:12
			him and within ten years he survives over
		
00:51:12 --> 00:51:15
			twenty assassination attempts and you know when Ibn
		
00:51:15 --> 00:51:20
			Abbas says about the ayah لما صبروا وكانوا
		
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			بآياتنا يوقنون that Allah made them imams when
		
00:51:23 --> 00:51:25
			they were patient and when they had certainty
		
00:51:25 --> 00:51:29
			in our ways subhanAllah look at the man's
		
00:51:29 --> 00:51:34
			patience he's always optimistic he's always determined, he's
		
00:51:34 --> 00:51:37
			always resilient, he operates at a pace of
		
00:51:37 --> 00:51:41
			his own where he's not hasty he's very
		
00:51:41 --> 00:51:43
			wise about everything he's doing he's very calculated
		
00:51:43 --> 00:51:45
			about everything he's doing but at the same
		
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			time he always sees that important moment where
		
00:51:50 --> 00:51:52
			he can take that next step now you
		
00:51:52 --> 00:51:54
			have to think about the crusader perspective the
		
00:51:54 --> 00:51:58
			Muslims are coming together therefore Jerusalem is at
		
00:51:58 --> 00:52:01
			risk of falling to the Muslims once again,
		
00:52:02 --> 00:52:04
			Nur ad-Din's protege is growing in power
		
00:52:04 --> 00:52:08
			we suddenly can't keep them fractured and you
		
00:52:08 --> 00:52:11
			have to understand that our enemies always want
		
00:52:11 --> 00:52:14
			to weaken us from within through the tactic
		
00:52:14 --> 00:52:18
			of division, the Romans were thrilled with the
		
00:52:18 --> 00:52:20
			wars amongst the sahaba because that gave them
		
00:52:20 --> 00:52:22
			a chance to breathe with everything that was
		
00:52:22 --> 00:52:25
			happening prior to that and here they are
		
00:52:25 --> 00:52:27
			thrilled, the crusaders were thrilled with all the
		
00:52:27 --> 00:52:31
			internal turmoil and dynasties that were at competition
		
00:52:32 --> 00:52:34
			in the Muslim world so that they could
		
00:52:34 --> 00:52:35
			continue to just take more and more and
		
00:52:35 --> 00:52:38
			more and exploit it without finding any real
		
00:52:38 --> 00:52:42
			competition so Amalric Amalric of the crusaders tries
		
00:52:42 --> 00:52:48
			to exploit the division but he dies then
		
00:52:48 --> 00:52:51
			from the crusader side, Baldwin IV who is
		
00:52:51 --> 00:52:54
			a young man with leprosy and who's very
		
00:52:54 --> 00:52:59
			ill, takes charge and because of that, they're
		
00:52:59 --> 00:53:03
			a weakened empire as Baldwin IV assumes charge
		
00:53:03 --> 00:53:06
			Salah ad-Din Rahim Allah Ta'ala sees
		
00:53:06 --> 00:53:10
			that they are weakening and he tries to
		
00:53:10 --> 00:53:12
			take advantage of a moment and subhanallah this
		
00:53:12 --> 00:53:15
			is so important because just as much as
		
00:53:15 --> 00:53:17
			you cover his victory, you have to also
		
00:53:17 --> 00:53:20
			cover the times that he fell short in
		
00:53:20 --> 00:53:23
			the year 1177 Salah ad-Din Rahim Allah
		
00:53:23 --> 00:53:25
			Ta'ala makes an attempt on Jerusalem, he
		
00:53:25 --> 00:53:26
			thinks that he has a pathway to Al
		
00:53:26 --> 00:53:31
			-Quds he takes his path he tries to
		
00:53:31 --> 00:53:34
			stage an attack on Al-Quds to retake
		
00:53:34 --> 00:53:38
			Jerusalem not only is his army defeated but
		
00:53:38 --> 00:53:39
			they're cut off from the back and Salah
		
00:53:39 --> 00:53:41
			ad-Din Rahim Allah Ta'ala is almost
		
00:53:41 --> 00:53:45
			killed in that process and it is just
		
00:53:45 --> 00:53:47
			as important to cover that defeat as it
		
00:53:47 --> 00:53:48
			is to cover the fath that will come
		
00:53:48 --> 00:53:51
			later because even though he was quote unquote
		
00:53:51 --> 00:53:53
			defeated he wasn't deterred and that's actually part
		
00:53:53 --> 00:53:55
			of the point as well, you know when
		
00:53:55 --> 00:53:56
			you think of Salah ad-Din, you think
		
00:53:56 --> 00:53:58
			of alright, guy is born he's just a
		
00:53:58 --> 00:54:00
			master of everything, just goes to the gates
		
00:54:00 --> 00:54:01
			of Jerusalem, says I'm here, read some Quran
		
00:54:01 --> 00:54:04
			and then takes it there's a process here
		
00:54:04 --> 00:54:07
			that's unfolding where he's defeated but he's not
		
00:54:07 --> 00:54:11
			deterred, he's not demoralized, so he goes back
		
00:54:11 --> 00:54:14
			and he rearranges himself continues to try to
		
00:54:14 --> 00:54:17
			consolidate power, and subhanAllah there's a narration that's
		
00:54:17 --> 00:54:20
			even said to him because he's a sultan
		
00:54:20 --> 00:54:22
			and they're thinking about power and territory, look
		
00:54:22 --> 00:54:26
			you have Egypt, you have Syria, you have
		
00:54:26 --> 00:54:31
			Yemen you have the Hijaz how come you're
		
00:54:31 --> 00:54:35
			not smiling, why aren't you content and he
		
00:54:35 --> 00:54:36
			said how could I smile when Bayt al
		
00:54:36 --> 00:54:40
			-Maqdis is under crusader occupation all of this
		
00:54:41 --> 00:54:43
			is irrelevant to me if it doesn't manifest
		
00:54:43 --> 00:54:46
			in the retaking of Jerusalem I'm not doing
		
00:54:46 --> 00:54:48
			this for power I'm doing this so that
		
00:54:48 --> 00:54:50
			we can retake Al-Quds, so that we
		
00:54:50 --> 00:54:55
			can retake Jerusalem and it's even narrated that
		
00:54:55 --> 00:54:58
			some said to him that we saw in
		
00:54:58 --> 00:55:01
			astrology that the astrologers have said that if
		
00:55:01 --> 00:55:03
			you try to retake Jerusalem you'll lose an
		
00:55:03 --> 00:55:05
			eye, he said I'll lose both of my
		
00:55:05 --> 00:55:07
			eyes, I don't care that doesn't matter to
		
00:55:07 --> 00:55:10
			me he's focused on Al-Quds he goes
		
00:55:10 --> 00:55:13
			back, he regroups and he thinks about how
		
00:55:13 --> 00:55:15
			to retake it once again, two years later
		
00:55:16 --> 00:55:20
			April of 1179 Salah ad-Din Rahim Allah
		
00:55:20 --> 00:55:24
			Ta'ala meets one of the largest armies
		
00:55:24 --> 00:55:27
			of the crusaders at the Golan Heights and
		
00:55:27 --> 00:55:30
			he has up to 40,000 men with
		
00:55:30 --> 00:55:32
			him and he defeats the crusaders in the
		
00:55:32 --> 00:55:36
			area of the Golan Heights, the Druze in
		
00:55:36 --> 00:55:38
			the area actually pledge allegiance to him and
		
00:55:38 --> 00:55:40
			so he consolidates power in that area as
		
00:55:40 --> 00:55:46
			well Baldwin, from the crusaders secures a truce
		
00:55:46 --> 00:55:48
			with Salah ad-Din so they go into,
		
00:55:48 --> 00:55:51
			they enter into a two year truce why
		
00:55:51 --> 00:55:53
			would Salah ad-Din enter into a truce
		
00:55:53 --> 00:55:54
			with the crusaders?
		
00:55:54 --> 00:55:57
			because he sees that it's an opportunity to
		
00:55:57 --> 00:56:00
			consolidate more strength and power from the Muslim
		
00:56:00 --> 00:56:02
			world when the time comes again so Salah
		
00:56:02 --> 00:56:05
			ad-Din takes the truce as an opportunity
		
00:56:05 --> 00:56:08
			to continue to unify and bring the Muslim
		
00:56:08 --> 00:56:14
			world under a singular power structure the year
		
00:56:14 --> 00:56:16
			1183 comes, Salah ad-Din Rahim Allah Ta
		
00:56:16 --> 00:56:19
			'ala has everything from Halab to the Hijaz,
		
00:56:20 --> 00:56:24
			Mosul is still an issue for him and
		
00:56:25 --> 00:56:28
			the truce is violated by a man by
		
00:56:28 --> 00:56:31
			the name of Raynald de Chatillon Raynald de
		
00:56:31 --> 00:56:36
			Chatillon this man, subhanallah is one of the
		
00:56:36 --> 00:56:38
			greatest enemies that Islam has ever seen in
		
00:56:38 --> 00:56:40
			its history, the Firaun of his time, truly
		
00:56:40 --> 00:56:42
			if there was to be one is Raynald,
		
00:56:42 --> 00:56:46
			also known as Reginald Raynald de Chatillon if
		
00:56:46 --> 00:56:48
			you look at a map right now and
		
00:56:48 --> 00:56:51
			you were to draw from Damascus all the
		
00:56:51 --> 00:56:55
			way down to Mecca to Al Hajj, you'll
		
00:56:55 --> 00:56:58
			see right in between there is Karak in
		
00:56:58 --> 00:56:59
			Jordan, I'm not talking about the T the
		
00:56:59 --> 00:57:05
			famous city and you have the palace, Raynald
		
00:57:05 --> 00:57:09
			is a crusader general who is situated right
		
00:57:09 --> 00:57:10
			there, and it's right on the route from
		
00:57:10 --> 00:57:14
			Syria to Hajj and despite claims by Baldwin
		
00:57:14 --> 00:57:17
			that he has instructions not to attack the
		
00:57:17 --> 00:57:19
			Muslims on the way to Hajj, he just
		
00:57:19 --> 00:57:22
			can't help himself the man constantly attacks the
		
00:57:22 --> 00:57:24
			Hijaz and attacks the Muslims on their way
		
00:57:24 --> 00:57:28
			from Syria to Al Hijaz, he cannot restrain
		
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			himself, he captures them, he kills them, he
		
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			steals from them, he does everything the truce
		
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			entails that he's not supposed to do, Baldwin
		
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			claims that this is Raynald acting on his
		
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			own but this causes a disruption in the
		
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			truce and then eventually Baldwin seeks another truce
		
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			this time with Salahuddin Rahimullah Ta'ala for
		
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			four years for four years a four year
		
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			truce SubhanAllah how these things start to sound
		
00:57:58 --> 00:58:02
			so relevant to our times Salahuddin Rahimullah Ta
		
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			'ala agrees to it, they even have discussions
		
00:58:05 --> 00:58:07
			about how Muslims will be able to visit
		
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			Jerusalem and to at least rebuild what has
		
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			been destroyed and some security guarantees of Christians
		
00:58:14 --> 00:58:18
			that come into the territories of the Muslims
		
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			at that point so there are negotiations that
		
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			are ongoing during that time as that happens
		
00:58:25 --> 00:58:30
			Baldwin IV dies Baldwin V his son takes
		
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			over as a child ruler, doesn't last long
		
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			because he's also a very sickly child his
		
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			sister takes the throne and then appoints her
		
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			husband Guy of Lusinian as the king of
		
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			Jerusalem if you read in the English literature
		
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			by the way it's spelled as Guy, his
		
00:58:46 --> 00:58:49
			name is not Guy Guy of Lusinian is
		
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			appointed as the king of Jerusalem so there's
		
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			a new ruler to deal with a new
		
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			power structure to deal with from the Crusaders,
		
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			so Salahuddin Rahimullah Ta'ala is upholding the
		
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			truce but as we said this man is
		
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			an incredibly evil human being and I want
		
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			to give you a little bit of context
		
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			of this man Reynald de Chatillon and what
		
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			he tried to do and how they tried
		
00:59:08 --> 00:59:10
			to psychologically demoralize the Muslims and if you
		
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			were a Muslim living at that time what
		
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			type of shaking and what type of doubt
		
00:59:15 --> 00:59:16
			could be instilled in your faith?
		
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			Al-Aqsa is taken, Reynald says I am
		
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			going to take the Kaaba and destroy it
		
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			and then I'm going to go and pull
		
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			the body and he uses a derogatory word
		
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			about our prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam which I
		
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			will not repeat but I'll go pull his
		
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			body out from Medina and crucify his body
		
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			to make a display out of him so
		
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			his goal was we took Jerusalem, I also
		
00:59:41 --> 00:59:43
			want to demolish the Kaaba and I want
		
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			to steal the body of the prophet Sallallahu
		
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			Alaihi Wasallam Nooruddin Zengi Rahim Allah Ta'ala
		
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			when he was still alive he had a
		
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			dream of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam in
		
00:59:52 --> 00:59:55
			Medina looking disturbed and the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
00:59:55 --> 01:00:00
			Wasallam pointed to two men when Nooruddin woke
		
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			up he immediately sent to Al-Medina and
		
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			he identified the exact looks of those two
		
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			men and he said find these two men
		
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			and Subhanallah these two same men were crusader
		
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			agents that had penetrated into Medina they posed
		
01:00:15 --> 01:00:17
			to be tullab ilm, they posed to be
		
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			students of knowledge and they were digging a
		
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			tunnel in Al-Medina to the body of
		
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			the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam to try to
		
01:00:25 --> 01:00:27
			confiscate the body of the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi
		
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			Wasallam and Nooruddin Rahim Allah foiled their plot
		
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			this was at the commissioning of Raynal Deshatian,
		
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			so Raynal tried to steal the body of
		
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			the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam used to regularly
		
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			attack the hajjaj wants to flatten the Kaaba
		
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			in his own expression, Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam hates
		
01:00:44 --> 01:00:47
			this man so within this four year truce
		
01:00:47 --> 01:00:50
			because he can't help himself here they are
		
01:00:50 --> 01:00:53
			again passing through Qara and Raynal attacks the
		
01:00:53 --> 01:00:57
			hajjaj again he kills some of them, he
		
01:00:57 --> 01:00:59
			takes some of them as hostages, he steals
		
01:00:59 --> 01:01:02
			all of their belongings Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam Rahim
		
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			Allah Ta'ala in upholding the covenant he
		
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			offers an opportunity to distance themselves from what
		
01:01:10 --> 01:01:12
			Raynal has done, give the hostages back, compensate
		
01:01:12 --> 01:01:14
			for all the harm that you've done, Raynal
		
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			insists that he's not going to do it,
		
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			he insists that this is his right and
		
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			he's going to continue to attack the hajjaj
		
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			anytime they cross through Qara Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			swears by Allah that he will kill Raynal
		
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			by his own hand that Raynal Deshatian will
		
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			be killed by his own hand and Subhanallah
		
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			go back to the prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
		
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			Hudaybiyyah was supposed to be a 10 year
		
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			truce the Meccans violated Hudaybiyyah which led to
		
01:01:40 --> 01:01:46
			Fath Mecca here Raynal in historical Christian sources
		
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			is blamed as the guy that gave up
		
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			Jerusalem because it was because of his actions
		
01:01:51 --> 01:01:55
			that Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam basically acted upon the
		
01:01:55 --> 01:01:58
			broken truce and decided to carry forth with
		
01:01:58 --> 01:02:01
			his offense against the crusaders and to retake
		
01:02:01 --> 01:02:05
			Jerusalem, so they they accredit him for the
		
01:02:05 --> 01:02:08
			fall of Jerusalem as Salahuddin Rahim Allah Ta
		
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			'ala now had an opening to go into
		
01:02:09 --> 01:02:11
			Jerusalem and to take it back and to
		
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			continue the war against the crusaders so Salahuddin
		
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			Rahim Allah Ta'ala intercepts Raynal's troops with
		
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			a fleet that he sends under Husamuddin and
		
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			as this happens this will lead up to
		
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			the famous battle of Hattin which is the
		
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			gate of Al-Quds, the famous battle of
		
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			Al-Hattin Raynal had taken Nablus he'd taken
		
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			Beirut he'd taken all sorts of other towns
		
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			around and they were basically guarding Jerusalem from
		
01:02:53 --> 01:02:54
			different fronts and so the fights between the
		
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			Muslims and the crusaders are in full effect
		
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			and as he's entrenching or as the crusaders
		
01:03:02 --> 01:03:06
			are entrenching themselves to guard Jerusalem Salahuddin Rahim
		
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			Allah Ta'ala takes a different strategy just
		
01:03:09 --> 01:03:13
			as he patiently unified the Muslim world under
		
01:03:13 --> 01:03:16
			a central power, Salahuddin Rahim Allah Ta'ala
		
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			made it a point to capture all the
		
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			unsuspecting forts and so he starts to clean
		
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			up around Jerusalem so he takes back Haifa
		
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			he takes back Beirut he takes back Nablus,
		
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			he takes Akka he takes all of these
		
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			different places he captures the forts and then
		
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			he patiently surrounds the main army the main
		
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			fort of the crusaders and in the process
		
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			he uses his military genius so like Khalid
		
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			Ibn Walid if you read about Khalid his
		
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			main tactic was deflection so he creates these
		
01:03:48 --> 01:03:52
			bogeymen these deflections in different places that take
		
01:03:52 --> 01:03:54
			the army by surprise and then he's able
		
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			to move in deeper.
		
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			He poisons wells along the way he attacks
		
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			with small groups of archers these crusader bases
		
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			and so imagine when you're trying to sleep
		
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			at night but then from far away a
		
01:04:09 --> 01:04:11
			few arrows rain down on you and so
		
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			what that does is it creates a paranoia
		
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			amongst the crusaders wherever they are that at
		
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			any point these archers might rain down upon
		
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			us and so they have sleep deprivation they
		
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			have all sorts of paranoia and panic amongst
		
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			them.
		
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			They never know as they're in those areas
		
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			where Salahuddin has commissioned some of his men
		
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			so he's using small battalions to demoralize and
		
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			deprive them of any type of morale that
		
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			they're building around Jerusalem, that they're building around
		
01:04:38 --> 01:04:42
			Palestine and then comes the battle of Hattin
		
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			now Subhanallah as Salahuddin arrives as we know
		
01:04:49 --> 01:04:52
			the story Subhanallah that Salahuddin is checking the
		
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			tents of the Muslims to make sure what?
		
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			Not that they are militarily equipped to make
		
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			sure that their tents are lit up at
		
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			night and that they're praying Qiyam al-layn
		
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			and Ibn Shaddad who will talk about his
		
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			biographer he mentions that Salahuddin would not miss
		
01:05:09 --> 01:05:11
			a night of tahajjud that this was a
		
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			man no matter how busy, no matter how
		
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			tired, no matter how engulfed he was in
		
01:05:16 --> 01:05:19
			the battle always found his time to turn
		
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			on the lights in his tent and to
		
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			pray to Allah at night for victory and
		
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			this was one of the most crucial ingredients
		
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			of his success so Salahuddin is making sure
		
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			that his soldiers are praying and that his
		
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			soldiers are ready under the king of Jerusalem
		
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			you have 1,300 of the most skilled
		
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			knights that will come out to fight the
		
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			Muslims their headquarters had been Masjid al-Aqsa
		
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			the destroyed Masjid al-Aqsa had been the
		
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			headquarters of the knights of the crusaders he
		
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			sends his most skilled knights and he sends
		
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			15,000 troops Salahuddin amasses an army of
		
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			about 20,000 people and they meet for
		
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			the battle of Hattin just like the battle
		
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			of Badr the use of archery gives the
		
01:06:14 --> 01:06:17
			Muslims a strategic advantage and so as the
		
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			battle begins the Muslims rain down so many
		
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			arrows that the army cannot advance in any
		
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			way to the point that they say that
		
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			even an ant would be hit precise with
		
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			their arrows striking them and beating them back
		
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			as they seek to come forth and they
		
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			rain arrows throughout the day and the night
		
01:06:37 --> 01:06:41
			as that's happening Salahuddin is gathering intelligence from
		
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			within as to what their weaknesses are.
		
01:06:43 --> 01:06:45
			He comes to find out that they're short
		
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			on water they're short on water so what
		
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			does he do?
		
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			He sees the direction that the wind is
		
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			blowing and he sets the grass on fire
		
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			and the wind blows the fire onto them
		
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			and they don't have water amongst themselves to
		
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			put that fire out and so their army
		
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			is demoralized on top of that remember the
		
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			true cross that the Persians had stolen from
		
01:07:12 --> 01:07:16
			the Christians and that Haraqib had hoisted on
		
01:07:16 --> 01:07:18
			his back and put back in the sepulcher
		
01:07:18 --> 01:07:21
			and was guaranteed safety by Umar al-Khattab
		
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			radiAllahu ta'ala anhu they came carrying that
		
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			true cross because they thought that if they
		
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			carried the true cross they could not lose
		
01:07:30 --> 01:07:33
			Salahuddin rahim Allah ta'ala was able to
		
01:07:33 --> 01:07:35
			acquire the true cross from them and this
		
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			completely psychologically demoralized the Crusaders because they knew
		
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			that they were done at this point and
		
01:07:42 --> 01:07:44
			so the Muslims would come back to Salahuddin
		
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			rahim Allah ta'ala and they would say
		
01:07:45 --> 01:07:47
			al-Nasr we won he would say not
		
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			yet and he would say until you've captured
		
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			every single battalion and until you've struck at
		
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			the tent we've won we've won we've won
		
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			and he made sure that they had complete
		
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			victory and then he came down and he
		
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			did sajda to shukr rahim Allah ta'ala
		
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			and it was at this point by the
		
01:08:05 --> 01:08:09
			way that Raynald the Shatian Salahuddin rahim Allah
		
01:08:09 --> 01:08:10
			ta'ala would kill him with his own
		
01:08:10 --> 01:08:13
			hands as he had promised as he intercepted
		
01:08:13 --> 01:08:17
			him before the fall of Jerusalem and as
		
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			I said I'm skipping a lot because I
		
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			want to focus on the lessons the 20th
		
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			of Rajab and you can look at the
		
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			date right now on your phone by the
		
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			way the 20th of Rajab which correlates to
		
01:08:29 --> 01:08:36
			the 2nd of October 1187 Salahuddin rahim Allah
		
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			ta'ala begins his front on Jerusalem and
		
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			he lays siege for 6 days and then
		
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			it would be on the 27th of Rajab
		
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			that he would enter into Al-Quds and
		
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			if you remember when we covered al-Isra'
		
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			ul-Mi'raj that is the date that
		
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			many scholars hold would have been the night
		
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			of al-Isra' ul-Mi'raj the night
		
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			that the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam led all
		
01:09:00 --> 01:09:03
			of the Prophets the Anbiya in prayer on
		
01:09:03 --> 01:09:07
			that miraculous journey and as Salahuddin rahim Allah
		
01:09:07 --> 01:09:12
			ta'ala enters into Jerusalem you can imagine
		
01:09:12 --> 01:09:15
			the emotions of the Muslims that have been
		
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			subjected to all sorts of horrific crimes before
		
01:09:17 --> 01:09:21
			that point, you can imagine the spirit of
		
01:09:21 --> 01:09:27
			rightful vengeance these people beat our children against
		
01:09:27 --> 01:09:29
			walls, grilled them and ate them off of
		
01:09:29 --> 01:09:34
			skewers these people exploited and violated our women
		
01:09:34 --> 01:09:37
			in the worst of ways these people burnt
		
01:09:37 --> 01:09:41
			down Masjid Al-Aqsa desecrated everything that was
		
01:09:41 --> 01:09:44
			holy to us in Jerusalem and we've been
		
01:09:44 --> 01:09:46
			banned, there was no Adhan in Al-Aqsa
		
01:09:46 --> 01:09:51
			for almost 90 years can you imagine almost
		
01:09:51 --> 01:09:53
			an entire century so when you tell me
		
01:09:53 --> 01:09:55
			Palestine is over the Qadiyah is over, it's
		
01:09:55 --> 01:09:59
			not over almost 90 years not an Adhan
		
01:09:59 --> 01:10:02
			in Masjid Al-Aqsa but Salahuddin rahim Allah
		
01:10:02 --> 01:10:04
			ta'ala lives up to his legendary name
		
01:10:05 --> 01:10:10
			Yusuf and he offers terms to the Crusaders,
		
01:10:10 --> 01:10:14
			he offers safe passage women shaved their heads
		
01:10:14 --> 01:10:16
			and desecrated themselves because they were afraid that
		
01:10:16 --> 01:10:17
			the Muslims would do to them what the
		
01:10:17 --> 01:10:19
			Crusaders did to the women of the Muslims,
		
01:10:19 --> 01:10:21
			we're not like them, we can't be like
		
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			them, people protected their wealth that they thought
		
01:10:24 --> 01:10:26
			would be looted Salahuddin rahim Allah ta'ala
		
01:10:26 --> 01:10:28
			offers safe passage and safety and on top
		
01:10:28 --> 01:10:32
			of that as they desecrated our sites, he
		
01:10:32 --> 01:10:35
			restored their sites and guaranteed their places of
		
01:10:35 --> 01:10:38
			worship just as Umar rahim Allah ta'ala
		
01:10:38 --> 01:10:42
			when he entered into Jerusalem now as the
		
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			time goes on, I want you to imagine
		
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			the emotion then when he brings forth the
		
01:10:47 --> 01:10:50
			Minbar that was built by Nuruddin rahim Allah
		
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			ta'ala and installs that Minbar in Masjid
		
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			Al-Aqsa, may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			protect it, Allahumma ameen and I also want
		
01:10:58 --> 01:11:02
			you to appreciate that this war did not
		
01:11:02 --> 01:11:06
			stop Salahuddin showed every form of Ihsan that
		
01:11:06 --> 01:11:09
			you could possibly show, but you know what
		
01:11:09 --> 01:11:12
			the Crusaders launched the third Crusade and they
		
01:11:12 --> 01:11:16
			came back and Salahuddin rahim Allah ta'ala
		
01:11:16 --> 01:11:19
			stayed the course and he kept on protecting
		
01:11:19 --> 01:11:21
			it and this is important that you don't
		
01:11:21 --> 01:11:22
			get caught up in a moment of euphoria
		
01:11:22 --> 01:11:24
			and victory and think that it's all over
		
01:11:25 --> 01:11:26
			because it's often then when you put your
		
01:11:26 --> 01:11:30
			guard down that you're struck Salahuddin rahim Allah
		
01:11:30 --> 01:11:33
			ta'ala guarded the fort, the Crusaders gathered
		
01:11:33 --> 01:11:36
			some of the largest armies up to 600
		
01:11:36 --> 01:11:39
			,000 some historians even say under Frederick up
		
01:11:39 --> 01:11:42
			to a million soldiers to come and fight
		
01:11:43 --> 01:11:47
			and to retake Jerusalem Frederick drowned Salahuddin rahim
		
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			Allah ta'ala rose and he continued to
		
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			protect and yes at times he lost some
		
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			of the towns around Al-Aqsa he lost
		
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			some of the towns around Jerusalem but he
		
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			continued to guard the forts of the Muslims
		
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			and it was Richard who said that as
		
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			long as Salahuddin is in Jerusalem it will
		
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			never be taken and indeed it was not
		
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			taken while Salahuddin rahim Allah ta'ala was
		
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			amongst us as we come to his death
		
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			I want to mention the man the name
		
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			of the man who chronicled his life up
		
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			close and personal you keep hearing me say
		
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			Ibn Shaddad and this man his name was
		
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			Bahauddin Ibn Tamim from Mosul in Iraq, he
		
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			was a scholar he was a wise man,
		
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			he was a poet a qadi and the
		
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			reason why he's called Ibn Shaddad is because
		
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			his maternal uncles are from Banu Shaddad and
		
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			he was raised amongst them so his famous
		
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			nickname is Ibn Shaddad and there are other
		
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			Ibn Shaddad's in history and he gained such
		
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			prominence chronicling the Muslim world that Salahuddin rahim
		
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			Allah summoned him from Hajj to come to
		
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			him and then Salahuddin rahim Allah took him
		
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			as a close confidant and a close friend
		
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			and ultimately he became one of Salahuddin's closest
		
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			generals and field commanders but also his biographer
		
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			writing about some of the things that were
		
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			happening behind the scenes with Salahuddin he says
		
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			I swear by Allah that Salahuddin did not
		
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			miss Salah in congregation even in the battlefield
		
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			in his tent that he established his Salah
		
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			in congregation and that when the nights would
		
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			become darkest and the people would retreat to
		
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			their beds, Salahuddin rahim Allah would retreat to
		
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			his Qiyam even in the fiercest of battles
		
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			this is a man who lived in the
		
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			battlefield who never had a moment of respite
		
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			and always turned back to Allah subhanahu wa
		
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			ta'ala and I want you to think
		
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			about this he never actually reaches the threshold
		
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			of Zakah because he would spend what came
		
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			to him and so he doesn't steal the
		
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			money of the Muslims which was common as
		
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			leaders would enrich themselves on the backs of
		
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			the Muslims Salahuddin's goodwill to the Muslims was
		
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			evident in the way that he carried out
		
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			his life and one of the most shocking
		
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			things that I always think about the man
		
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			never made Hajj Salahuddin never had the opportunity
		
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			to do Hajj his whole life was spent
		
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			in battle he never got a break to
		
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			even go and to do Hajj but look
		
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			at the status that Allah subhanahu wa ta
		
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			'ala has given to him amongst the Muslims
		
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			he says that I remember times that it
		
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			would be three days and he wouldn't have
		
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			a morsel of food in his body a
		
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			true warrior in the battlefield with his people
		
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			three days he wouldn't have a morsel of
		
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			food in his body and he would often
		
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			bemoan the lack of response from the rest
		
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			of the Muslims and he would wonder when
		
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			would the Ummah wake up and meet the
		
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			challenge, rise to the great challenge that they
		
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			had and he didn't want to be seen
		
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			as the singular saviour of the Muslim world
		
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			but he wanted to see the Muslim world
		
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			as saving itself by attaching itself to Allah
		
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			subhanahu wa ta'ala and what Allah azawajal
		
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			had made sacred Ibn Shaddad recounts these moments
		
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			sitting with Salahuddin in Asqalan the shores of
		
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			Gaza and Salahuddin looking out at the water
		
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			and talking about his desire to spread Islam
		
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			throughout the world and hoping that the Muslims
		
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			would continue on his legacy and hoping that
		
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			Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala would give him
		
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			the ability to spread Islam far beyond what
		
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			he had done in those moments that he
		
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			had and then Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala
		
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			tested him with a fever he's back in
		
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			Syria in Damascus and for two weeks this
		
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			intense fever takes him over and he's only
		
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			55 or 56 years old but it becomes
		
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			clear that the greatest general perhaps in the
		
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			history of Islam after Khalid Ibn Walid was
		
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			going to die in his bed the same
		
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			way that Khalid Ibn Walid died in his
		
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			bed despite surviving 20 assassination attempts despite living
		
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			in the battlefield like Khalid radiallahu anhu pulled
		
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			up his sleeves and showed his body to
		
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			his companions and said every single part of
		
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			me is struck how is it that I'm
		
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			dying in a bed Salahuddin mahimullah ta'ala
		
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			would die in his bed and the Qur
		
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			'an reciter would continue to recite by him
		
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			and he would as he started to phase
		
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			into an unconscious state he would react to
		
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			certain ayat of the Qur'an as the
		
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			reciter came to that there has come
		
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			a messenger amongst you that there has come
		
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			a messenger amongst you he cares so deeply
		
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			about you it greatly pains him what pains
		
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			you he is compassionate over you Salahuddin mahimullah
		
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			ta'ala would nod he would say you've
		
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			told the truth and then when we came
		
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			to Salahuddin mahimullah ta'ala suddenly started to
		
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			engage intensely with those ayat repeating after the
		
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			reciter his face
		
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			beamed as he took his last breaths affirming
		
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			that Allah azawajal is the king of all
		
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			kings and affirming his tawheed and he breathes
		
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			his last at the age of 56 years
		
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			old in his bed in Damascus to be
		
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			buried right next to the masjid that he
		
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			grew up in masjid al umawi when he
		
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			passes away people could not believe that he
		
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			passed away there is a mythology that was
		
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			developing around him how could Salahuddin die rahimahullah
		
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			ta'ala as often happens with great men
		
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			and the reciters had to remind the people
		
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			in the streets of Damascus that were wailing
		
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			in tears and in disbelief and wanted to
		
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			see his body for themselves the same ayah
		
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			that was recited when the prophet salallahu alayhi
		
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			wa sallam died that Muhammad salallahu alayhi wa
		
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			sallam is but a messenger and messengers have
		
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			come and gone before him and when he
		
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			passes away they look into his estate and
		
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			they found that he only possessed 47 dirhams
		
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			of silver one dinar of gold which wasn't
		
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			enough to even pay for his janazah greatest
		
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			leader of the Muslim world that we know
		
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			couldn't even pay for his own janazah at
		
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			the time of his death and it had
		
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			to be taken from his family the streets
		
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			flooded as they came out for the janazah
		
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			of Salahuddin rahimuhullah ta'ala and it's narrated
		
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			that the people said at his grave site,
		
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			oh Allah as his final victory as you
		
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			opened for him the doors of Jerusalem opened
		
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			for him the doors of Jannah Allahumma kama
		
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			fatahta lahu abwaba bayt al maqdis faftah lahu
		
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			abwaba al jannah oh Allah as you opened
		
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			for him the doors of Jerusalem opened for
		
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			him the gates of Jannah something along the
		
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			effect to say that he was granted victory
		
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			here and he did his job here so
		
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			grant him oh Allah what you have promised
		
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			him there and they buried next to him
		
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			in his grave what?
		
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			his sword and they said to him you
		
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			will lean on this into Jannah use this
		
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			as you enter into Jannah born in his
		
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			mother's tummy as a sword and buried with
		
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			the sword right next to him where he
		
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			was the great defender of the Muslims and
		
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			he was buried next to who?
		
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			Nooruddin Zengi rahimuhullah ta'ala I want to
		
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			end with this thought my father was sharing
		
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			this with me subhanAllah and I looked it
		
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			up that the French colonialist Henri Gouraud Henri
		
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			Gouraud in the French mandate of Syria in
		
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			the year 1920 famously walks up to the
		
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			grave of Salahuddin rahimuhullah and he kicks it
		
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			and he says wake up Salahuddin I'm here
		
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			wake up Salahuddin I'm here the taunting of
		
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			the Muslim world the taunting of our heroes
		
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			it's not the first and the last time
		
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			that we will see it and they will
		
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			seek to provoke and incite and awaken the
		
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			sentiments of the ummah and in the poetry
		
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			of my mother may Allah have mercy on
		
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			her with the addition and with the consultation
		
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			of my father may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa
		
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			Ta-A'la preserve him that as the
		
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			Bosnians were being genocided by the Serbs Oh
		
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			Salahuddin stand up because the journey is not
		
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			over the Serbs and in this case the
		
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			Zionists have filled the earth with corruption and
		
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			so who will stand and avenge their crimes
		
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			the invoking of the name of Salahuddin is
		
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			not the invoking of a god, it's not
		
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			the invoking of a saint, it's not calling
		
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			upon a mere mortal to stand up it's
		
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			the invoking of our own generations to say
		
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			that who exists amongst us that will take
		
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			up that call with the same passion that
		
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			he had rahimuhullah Ta-A'la and through
		
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			that passion and sincerity be granted incredible tawfiq
		
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			from Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la
		
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			incredible success miraculous victory from Allah Subh'anaHu
		
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			Wa Ta-A'la and miraculous victory does
		
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			not come except through sincere exertion Salahuddin is
		
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			not someone who woke up and had Jerusalem
		
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			handed to him, he's not someone who woke
		
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			up and had greatness handed to him work's
		
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			work and so as we celebrate these moments
		
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			of respite for the people of Gaza and
		
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			the people of Palestine we ask Allah Subh
		
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			'anaHu Wa Ta-A'la that just as
		
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			he rose from this Ummah Salahuddin that he
		
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			rise from amongst us the likes of Salahuddin
		
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			and that he include us amongst the likes
		
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			of Nuruddin and Salahuddin the righteous mothers that
		
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			carried the Salahuddins the righteous men and women
		
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			on the front lines the righteous scholars that
		
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			taught in the Masajid the righteous Hufadh of
		
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			Quran that passed on the torch of this
		
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			Deen, may Allah Subh'anaHu Wa Ta-A
		
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			'la count us amongst them, Allahumma Ameen BarakAllahu
		
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			Fikum, Assalamu Alaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh