Yasir Qadhi – The Battle of Manzikert – 1071 CE

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			one of the turning points of human history actually began in February of 1071, literally 950 years
ago. And this is the famous battle of man's secret, the Battle of man's secret. Now the actual
battle occurred, actually in August, but the preparation and the marches and everything began
February. So we are now 950 years basically, at the beginning of the famous one of the historic
battles of all of human civilization. What is this battle? And why is this so significant? in this
battle, for the first time, and for the only time in all of human history, a Roman emperor was taken
a prisoner and captive by the Muslim Sultan. Okay, that is significant, isn't it? Right? The Roman
		

			Emperor, the Emperor was taken captive as a prisoner of war by our so called Muslim Sultan. And
obviously, it changed the course of history and obviously a hot that is only a few minutes, but just
a few points and inshallah then you can look it up and benefit more. This battle took place between
the rise of a new superpower right now it wasn't a superpower. It's called the sell joke dynasty,
because of the Turkish serials. Everybody knows this subject ethnicity, okay. But the seljuk dynasty
was on the rise. And it's so foreign was at the time of porcelain, porcelain and Alper salon was the
one who began the expansion out of Central Asia into what is now called Turkey. Okay, after the
		

			attack after the Turks, when they invaded, it was in cold turkey because the Turks came there.
Obviously, this is called Anatolia, okay, so they entered Anatolia, and the Roman Emperor, his name
was Roman nos, the fourth Romanovs the fourth, the Roman Emperor thought, yeah, you can expel easy
no big deal. So he got there 50,000, you know, people, and our persona had probably around 25,000
half. And it's a very significant battle. So this is the battle in which the cell jokes will begin
their ascent and the victory of manzi could basically pave the way for the soldiers to become the
superpower. And eventually for the Ottoman Empire, to conquer which city,
		

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			1453 This is perhaps the most significant event in western civilization, and definitely one of the
most significant and Eastern but that's maybe another day we'll do that. 1453 Today we're doing the
Battle of massacre at 1071. So as part of salon has around 25,000 people that the battle is taking
place in a small city, a small village called manzi Kurt, which is still today in modern day Turkey,
you can actually visit the city and you can see the plains where this battle occurred 950 years ago,
long story short, I request salon was a military genius. And the strategy was so beautiful and yet
so simple. He stationed his troops in the form of a crescent, not because the crescent is an Islamic
		

			shape, because it is a military tactic. He knew he had fewer people. So it became like the moon, the
crescent, and the army of the Romans, the Byzantine army, they spread out to become a thin layer.
And long story short, the crescents kept on expanding, so the army kept on diluting, okay, so he's
making the crescent go larger and larger. And the Roman army is then diverting to fight the troops.
And then he basically takes a contingent and doubles down on the right flank. And then the left
flank, leaving the middle flank with the Emperor on guarded, right. So he destroys the right and the
left by, if you understand don't have a diagram here, but he's basically withdrawing backwards and
		

			making the crescent larger and larger, he's making the army thinner. And he already has in his mind,
the troops know that at a particular point in time, they're going to complete the maneuver, and
they're going to start surrounding in circles, two circles here and there. And the middle army has
basically left for the time being, those are getting gotten rid of, and now the middle which was the
most ferocious there was called them the Marines or the elite, which is where the Roman Emperor is
there was a special troops a special train troops in there, and eventually, obviously, the side
guard is gone. And now, all porcelain circles in and after a fierce fierce battle because these were
		

			warriors, these were the military might of the Roman Empire. He destroys them and an average the
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			Finally enters the 10th, the Royal 10th. And there is the Roman Emperor Romanovs the fourth, an
average private, the lowest labored level, he captures him and he brings him to alpar salon. The
only time in all of human civilization in history that a Roman Emperor is taken prisoner by the
Muslim soap on Alpert salon, you know, ordered him to be fed and spent the night in VIP tents and
whatnot. The next morning he called him this is a legendary conversation. And he said to the the
Roman Emperor, what would you have done? If I had been taken prisoner? If the situation were
reversed? What would you have done, and Romanovs angrily said, I would have cut you bit by bit
		

			killed you, executed you? And I will porcelain said, As for me, then, our Prophet Jesus has taught
us to be merciful and kind, is giving him our our profit meaning is also my profit. Our Prophet
Jesus has taught us to be merciful and kind. And as for me, I shall let you go and gift you and
return you to your kingdom. Although he did take a ransom that's also the case he took a ransom and
he took conditions as well. No more invasion, this unnatural. He got the treaty he needed, but he
did not harm a hair on his body. He actually gave him fine garments, fine clothes, gifted him and
sent him back to Constantinople, eventually significant instable sent him back to Constantinople.
		

			But that event was so demeaning to the Byzantines to the Romans, that they basically did a coup
d'etat, they got rid of him, they threw him in jail, they killed their own Roman Emperor, and then
you know, Civil War began amongst them. And of course, this paves the way eventually for 400 years
later for Istanbul to be conquered, because obviously the seljuks know how to base in what would
become Turkey. So this is the beginning of that series of conquests and we are now in the 900 and
50th year, beautiful point to learn and inshallah with this, we are done. Our Prophet sallallahu
alayhi wa sallam said, whoever humbles himself for the sake of Allah, Allah shall raise him up and
		

			lift him up our salon could without any problem have executed or done something. He's the prisoner,
and it's the way of the world nobody would have said anything but he is learning from the lack of
our profit system when he conquered Makkah. This is what exactly our Profit System did go and you
are free. And also Salah Idina up when he conquered beta lock this as well the same thing. So these
types of o'clock when you showed them at times of strength at times of power, Allah subhana wa tada
blesses, and that is exactly what happened that eventually this dynasty was the founder of a massive
dynasty that became one of the glories of Islam, inshallah, to Allah will continue under the halaqa
		

			was Solomonic warahmatullahi wabarakatuh