Yasir Qadhi – The Nizam of Hyderabad and the Sultan of the Ottomans

			Today is going to be one of those interesting tidbit historical, hotter as as you're aware, I give a
variety of sometimes a talkative C or sometimes C or or sometimes Islamic stuff. And sometimes
Muslim ask stuff. This is one of those tidbits of Muslim history in Charlotte some benefit. Few days
ago, somebody passed away, who wasn't given much attention in global circles. Yet, when I read the
news, I must confess that I felt an immense sense of sadness of Islamic history, a nostalgia for a
past that once was, I didn't know the person, frankly, there's not much to know about him or to
genuinely respect in him per se. But the concept and the life story of this person represents
		

			something that I think is relevant to all of us. I refer here to the last Nawab of Hyderabad, me and
mukarram Jah, who died in Istanbul a few days ago, and was flown to Hyderabad to be buried close to
the graves of his ancestors that evolves of Hyderabad. Now, the irony of today's talk is that it's
not about that individual himself, frankly, there's not much to say, truth be told, he didn't have
that many contributions to the OMA and for the courses of Islam. And, frankly, when you read up
about his life, you know, the marriages and the settlements and the court cases, let's leave all of
that because we shouldn't go down this route of speaking about individuals who passed away, we're
		

			not really talking about him. We're talking about his story. We're talking about what he represents,
we're talking about a legacy and how short lived that legacy was, and how shortly removed we are
from this amazing amazing story, that the entire globe once upon a time was following. So let me
take a step back. Then his arms of Hyderabad then evolves of Hyderabad, all of you should Indians
are aware of the Nawab of Hyderabad, the Nevadas of Hyderabad, they go back to the time of orang
xiP. Orang Zayed was the one who instituted the first governorship of that region. And as is the
case, that person became very powerful. And he started a mini dynasty under the Mughals. He didn't
		

			break away. He was under the Mughals, but essentially, he's a king in his own way, he doesn't call
himself king. So the Navarre was of Hyderabad, they go back to 1700s. And they had an area of land
that was larger than all of England, all of Italy. They had a massive province in India, and this
province eventually became the richest province of India, and one of the richest regions of the
entire world. Our story begins with the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad, the grandfather of the one who
passed away the seven Azzam was the most famous one and the richest one and his name is Mira with
Smart Money Mira smart Le he came to power in 1911 100, roughly 100 years ago, Hyderabad was already
		

			wealthy, middle Swan Valley made Hyderabad one of the wealthiest regions of the world. And in the
process, he became the wealthiest person alive at the time, and one of the wealthiest people in all
of human history. It is said that he is in the top five people in all of human history in terms of
wealth. And when he was alive, he was number one in the entire world. This is mudras mana the the
grandfather of the one who passed away and one of the reasons for this wealth was because he
		

			he he increased the production of diamonds from a particular region. I can't remember right now
Golconda something that I forgot where it is, you guys know? Is that right? Golconda Yep, so he
banked on pun intended this region, he increased the production of diamonds and for a period of time
it became the number one diamond manufacturing plant in the world. And in fact, he had a paperweight
that was composed of a diamond that was itself worth like $50 million. Who would have it as a
paperweight. That's how wealthy this person was. When Queen Elizabeth the one that passed away when
Queen Elizabeth got married. This Navab gifted her a custom made necklace. This was the necklace you
		

			would always see her wearing in any public occasion. If you see any picture of Queen Elizabeth
there's this beautiful diamond necklace that necklace was made by this Navab of Hyderabad and gifted
to the Queen and the Queen loved it so much. It was the most expensive it is the most expensive she
wore it on every official occasion you will find it that's gifted by that that Nawab in 1937 Time
Magazine, which used to be far more prestigious than it is now all young people understand Time
Magazine once upon a time was extremely prestigious and these days, it's nobody cares. It was frank
here but Time Magazine, put Musement on the on the cover of the magazine. This is 1937 and it had
		

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			This man alive the richest man in the world. This was mute Usman Ali, we estimate we will never know
for sure we estimate he was worth more than a quarter of a trillion dollars wealthier than Bill
Gates and, you know, Steve to anybody that, you know, for the time he had the equivalent in our
times of a quarter of a trillion dollars and he had multiple palaces, multiple Rolls Royces, you
know, even though ironically, he himself dressed very frugally, and he would eat very simple on one
plate. So in his very personal life, he was very frugal, but he had a show of wealth, and he did
help his people. And his people loved him. He introduced electricity. He made for himself a number
		

			of universities. That was money a college, he built it in Hyderabad, he was a lover of overdue,
share shoddy, he introduced free education in the 1920s and 30s, mandatory free education upon all
of the children. And he even produced an English Journal of Islamic Studies, the first of its type,
an English International Journal of Islamic Studies. And he called what he thought was the premier
intellectual alive today who spoke English. You all know his name, Marvin do pitfall and he called
him to Hyderabad. And he financed him once upon a time they respected Obama under him anyway. So his
joke here, and he financed him and said, Hey, let's do what you want. And so for 15 years, Marmaduke
		

			pick all the British guy lived in India.
		

			And guess what project he did? Finance by the Navab. More we do crypto translation of the Quran for
the first time in the English language sponsored by and that's why he thanks the navabi. If you read
the introduction, if you go back to that book that you used to read back in the 80s, and 90s, nobody
reads that translation anymore. He actually thanks the the Bob for his sponsorship for helping him
out here. And then Bob was so powerful that he actually had his own currency. He did not use the
British Raj currency. The British Raj gave him semi autonomous powers like he had. He wasn't under
the Raj. He was semi independent. He had his own independent army, the only state under the Raj that
		

			has its own army. So definitely this person was a very, very interesting person now, we stopped the
story here quickly moved to another place in the world because the story is going to come together,
as you're already figuring out I hope, and in other parts of the world. Other developments are
taking place in the 1920s, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, yes, the two stories will emerge.
That's the whole point. The last little pawn of the Ottoman Empire Sultan Abdul Majeed, the second
is seeing the rise of a new force called the Young Turks. This is 100 years ago from right now
literally, literally 100 years ago from now, the last Earth Mani Khalifa is seeing a rising secular
		

			forced, that hates the religion that has no interest in helping Islam. Eventually, they become
powerful. Eventually, they took over the parliament. And then in 1924, they abolished the caliphate
198 years ago, basically, they abolished the caliphate, and they expel the lost soul bond. They come
they cause the Ottoman Khilafah to come to an end, they officially declare there is no more Khilafah
this all took place literally 100 years ago as we're speaking, and they sent Abdul Majeed out of the
country with his family with nothing in his person pocket only the clothes on his back. In fact, he
didn't even have a passport. And this gave him problems. This is so sad. He couldn't even find a
		

			country to go to because the king doesn't have a passport. The Khalifa doesn't have a passport. It
actually gave him problems to enter into countries. Finally, he settled in nice France, you know the
borders of France. And the Red Cross, the Christian organization gave him food stamps. For many
months, he was struggling for food, the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and his new spread the
Red Cross, the Christian organization published an advertisement to the Muslim world can you help
your Khalifa is so sad? Can you help your Khalifa because we're running out of funds? Well, they
didn't say Khalifa, but you know, we he needs help and whatnot. And this advertisement reached
		

			India. Now the store is about to merge. Now, in India at this timeframe, all of you who have studied
in India, Buxton should know of the Khilafat movement, right? Have you remember this back in your
high school days, the Khilafat movement? Can anybody mentioned some of the key figures of the
Khilafat movement?
		

			Shortcuts are the more Muhammad Ali Johar, all of these people, right? They were a part of the
Salafi movement. Okay.
		

			Abdul Majeed, Delia body as well.
		

			So there were a number of people part of the Philadelphia movement, right? They wanted to revive the
Khilafah and protect it. They come across this advertisement, and they go to our guy Navab sub,
okay, they go to the Navab of Hyderabad. And they say, do something. So then Alaba Hyderabad then
		

			decreed that for the rest of the salons life, he's gonna get a massive sum of 300 pounds a month. By
the way, that was a decent sum back then. Okay, but 300 pounds $300 That's literally worth $250
Right now, the dollar is more powerful than the pound right now. I think right? 270 $290 He said
$300 a month would be given back then it was a little bit more maybe I don't know. 3000 It wasn't a
massive but it was enough to live off of and this sold on last Earth money sold on he had only one
daughter, Princess daughter church door Russia her avadh door Russia var door Russia via the Turkish
pronunciation I'm not mistaken, and it will do the door Shahar Khadija, right? So she he she he only
		

			had one daughter, the Navab suggested to marry this daughter to his son.
		

			Okay, now you see where the story is heading. The goal being that if Islam has a royalty, this is it
here the most powerful and rich dynasty of the Muslims that of mankind is marrying into the Ottoman
Khilafah. This is now the bringing together the only time bringing together of these two extremely
historic, powerful, and the one side very wealthy, and the other side, the most powerful once upon a
time dynasties in marriage and in union. And he only had one daughter, the Shah of Iran, not the one
you know, his father, the Shah of Iran, not the one in seven days his father wanted her for these
shots of 1979. He wanted her for his son, the king of Egypt wanted her for his son. And the Nawab
		

			wanted her for his son. What a place to be in three Shahin shots and kings and DevOps, all asking
for your daughter's hand in marriage. Of course, who's going to win? Guys who are studying in
college, take note. Who wins?
		

			You know why? Okay, it's common sense this you have to think of strategy and whatnot. So, the Nawab
son obviously gets the NetAcad done, and the entire entourage from, from Hyderabad comes to France
in 1931. And a very famous historic hotel, which is still standing to this day, in Nice. It is
considered to be one of the ancient hotels of Europe, it becomes the shoddy grounds. And this became
a media spectacle. Can you imagine 1930s You have the Nevada's family. No offense of did not come.
The Nawabs family entourage, the wealthiest family in the world, dressed like maharajahs, hookah,
literally head to toe walking in the streets in Europe, right? The photographer's had a field trip
		

			1001 Nights, Arabian Prince, this and that the Muslim marriage. But here's the point. This marriage
was celebrated around the globe, all Muslims became happy at a time when there's very little joy
happening at a time when there's one misery after another. This marriage became a hope and a beacon
and an optimism. Do you understand why? Literally it was believed that from this union, a man The
like figure might emerge like literally somebody, I mean, not the math, you get my point. I mean,
somebody would come that would bring a sense of Iza and glory into the OMA. So from this marriage,
our Makara Misha was born. The point that I want to bring up here, this very person who passed away
		

			a few days ago. This is the person how short was this era? How briefly in the recent past, literally
one generation ago, this mukarram Shah mukarram Shah, who was born in the 1930s, I think 33 He was
born 1930. So he passed away. He's almost 90, right? So at nine years old, he passed away, and the
Navab was so overjoyed. And again, this is surreal. He was so optimistic that this grandson of mine
is going to bring about the result of Islam, that he announced publicly that the Navab ship would
pass over his son directly to his grandson. Skip the son the thought I'm not mentioning the Father's
name because he
		

			He's just a footnote in history, skip the son, and my grandson is going to become the Nawab after
me. That was the hopes pinned on this individual, that something's going to happen because he has
royal blood if we have a royalty, this is the closest we get to that royalty. The entire OMA is
like, you know, you do, harking for joy, harping for joy, wondering what's going to happen of this.
But her not even though I know, I could predict the future, because then of our belief to see his
own decline, just like the last soap on the last Ottoman Khalifa saw his decline, then evolve began
to see the talk of, you know, a partition, and the British are going to leave. And he was given the
		

			choice to join either of the two sides, and the Navab refused. And he goes, I'm not going to join
either of these two sides. And he demanded an independent kingdom, like the British were giving
independent kingdoms in Africa, Namibia, all of these little kingdoms. He goes, I deserve my own
kingdom. I'm not going to be subservient to anybody. It's the way I mean, again, people are like
this. And I mean, if anybody has the right to say that after his legacy and his wealth and whatnot,
he felt I'm not going to be subservient to anybody else. But Lord Mountbatten, the last viceroy of
India, you know, King, the Queen, refused, or the king at the time refused that we're not going to
		

			allow a mini state within India, he still refused to sign. And when the British left, he was
planning to go to war with India. And he had the troops lined up to go to war. But the Indian army
invaded in September of 1948. They marched into the streets of Hyderabad, and there was some
skirmishes and fighting until finally he was forced to basically acquiesce and give up. And you
don't have a senior friend of mine a very elderly person whom I love immensely. Friend of mine in
England, I will mention his name because he is also swaddled at 990 years old, his name was blocked
if and he told me that he was a child and Hyderabad. And he remembered seeing the troops march in,
		

			and the DevOps troops having to surrender. He remembers this and I remember he told me this 2030
years ago, and I was just in shock, like there's a person alive, who remembers this right. But
Subhanallah This is how quick this you know this, this, how recent all of this was. So in 1948, the
British left, the Nawab had to surrender, and he continued to live his life even though India took
the majority of his assets the majority of his savings, but they gave him enough to live a
comfortable life. So he remained in Hyderabad till he died in 1967. The last Ottoman Sultan Abdul
Majeed, the second died in Paris, and Turkey refused to allow him to be buried even his dead body
		

			was denied entry. So eventually the King of Saudi Arabia kingsroad had mercy and they allowed his
body to be buried in Medina. He's buried in buckler, he's buried in Medina and back there. So he
also passed away this person never mocha Ramadan is that grandson that brought both of these sides
together, he has royal blood of the Navab he has royal blood of the Ottomans, but haircut that Allah
in the 60s He then left India went to of all places Australia, settled in Australia for like 30
years in the outback not even in a major city wasn't connected much to the OMA went through his own
issues which no need to get into. And he then retired to Istanbul a few decades ago, like two and a
		

			half decades ago, lived a quiet life and then passed away. So the hotter is not about him. May Allah
have mercy, antipasto, brother and Islam. The point really was just a brief reminder of some events
that happened one generation ago, just one generation. And again, to me, this is just mind boggling.
As a person who loves history, the very person whom the entire globe was happy at the marriage and
happy at the birth and brought these families together. This isn't 1000s of years ago, he lived in
our times people met and interacted with him. There is video footage of him, and he just passed away
a few days ago. And one other lesson that really is an eye opener, how quickly power and fortune
		

			comes and goes how quickly from the richest man in the world to basically the grandson having almost
nothing literally like you know, because of all the things that happen in his life. I mean, Subhan
Allah and even he himself from the richest man to losing an empire, the Sultan Abdul Majeed, not
even being able to afford food. It has said that days would go by there's no food in his house until
the Red Cross gave him some food stamps in this regard. If this is not an illiberal for us, if this
is not a lesson for us, where the most powerful and the wealthiest people, their entire, you know,
privilege has changed overnight. If that's not
		

			Gonna bring us a lesson of humility then what will in any case, that's our heart that offer today a
brief lesson in recent Islamic history. May Allah subhanaw taala bless you all. Until next time,
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