Fact Check: The History and Legacy of Islamic Spain and Muslim Persecution

They would tell the Muslims, "Bite on pig meat." And they would have to bite. And then they would ask them to curse

Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wasallam. And they would have to do it. In India, you see all those

extremist Hindu mobs surrounding an elderly Muslim. They're slapping him. They're beating him. And they're saying

to him, "Say JJ Shirram or you die." So you have images of Muslims, men and women being rounded up, brought to a

fountain, being baptized by the Catholic priests. Alhamdulillah.

foram. Respected brothers and sisters, I am honored to be here today in Harlesfield

in this masjid masjid Iman. And the topic I have been given today is a very important, a very pressing topic,

a very relevant topic to our challenges today and at the same time a very emotionally

charged painful history to go through and you will see why what I mean by that.

The topic is when the minates when the minates went silent or when the minates became silent.

What does that actually mean? That means that there were aans being called from

multiple minitates in a place and that adan went quiet. It was no longer there. The sound of Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar,

Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar stopped coming from these minets. Nothing can be more painful for a Muslim

individually and even as a community. Nothing can be more painful for Muslims to not be able

to pray the salah, to not be able to hear the call to pray.

And this is exactly what happened in Alandalus. Alandaloo

today known as the Iberian Peninsula or Spain and Portugal put together. This territory was ruled by the Muslims

for more than 700 years. Muslims ruled the territory called Spain or parts of it for more than 700 years.

Never did the Muslims rule the entire Iberian Peninsula. There was always some part that was left

ungoverned or governed by Christians in the north. So how did this happen in the first

place? And why did the minerits in Alandaloo become silent? Why was the adan not heard anymore?

Why were the Muslims not praying anymore? Why were the Muslims not Muslims

anymore? So these are some of the lessons we will look into today. And I want you to brace

yourselves for a tour divorce through the history of Islamic Spain in a very short time. Books, volumes,

articles upon articles have been written on this very topic. It is another matter that most Muslims

unfortunately do not take much interest in their own history, let alone someone else's history. So we need to do some

introspection, some self assessment, looking inwardly. What are we actually doing as a

community to help our future or to nurture our future generations? What are we doing for them? If we're not

teaching them history, if we're not talking about history with them, then they don't know who the their heroes

are. They don't know who to look up to. They don't know what to admire. They don't know

what examples to follow. We start with the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and our love for him

which is absolutely necessary for iman. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam

said you will not believe you will not truly believe until I

belove more I become more beloved to you than your parents your children and all of mankind put together. So it is a

condition of Ian to love the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam. So much of our history starts with the

prophet and it ends with him. We don't teach our children what happened afterwards. What happened during the

Omayyad period? What did the Abbassads do for Islam? What happened during the Mughal period in India? What happened

after the Mughals? What is the history of Islam in the Indian subcontinent in the 19th

century? Most of us we come from the Indian subcontinent, right? majority of us here I'm assuming some may be from

the Arabian Peninsula others may be Kurdish some may be Persian some may be Egyptians who knows but respectively we

must teach the history of at least our regions to our children what how did Islam come to this region who brought

Islam to us how did we become Muslim because majority of us our ancestors were not Muslims someone brought Islam

to them. And how did Islam come to us? Who came knocking the door and someone in our line of ancestors

accepted Islam? And this is why you sit in the masid today. This is why Allah blessed you with the blessing of IM. The

greatest blessing, the greatest of Allah subhana tala upon a human being is im to to be able to believe in Allah

even that comes from Allah's permission. He knows best who deserves guidance. So how did this come to us?

We need to teach our children. If we don't, then

what goes around comes around. But if you don't know what goes around, how do you know what's coming around?

Malcolm X said, "If you want to use, abuse, and misuse a people, if you want to brutalize a people, if you want to

destroy a people, take away their history from them or take away their their awareness of their history from

them. And once you do that, you have control over them. You can feed them with anything and they will take it. A

man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. So he was right. Absolutely right. You

want to completely destroy your future, then take away the knowledge of the past

from your children. They will be nobodies. They will be nobodies. But if you teach

them history and you teach them correctly and you instill love for their

civilization in their hearts and minds, then they will replicate

all the virtues of the past and they will avoid all the vices of the past. They will be careful about their future

and they will realize how important it is to learn history. And today the Muslims

are facing so many challenges around the world. I believe one of the greatest challenges is ignorance of history. This

is why we are in the situation we are in today. We keep falling for the same traps.

And you will see when we when I go through the history of Alandalus, you will see how we are facing the same

challenges today right now. I mean we you will you will be crying about the Muslims Muslims of Alandaloo. Cry now

because it's happening right now. What happened in Alandaloos in Spain to Muslims is happening right now around

the world and we are not realizing because we live in relative harmony and peace in our little homes but on the

global scale when you have a bird's eye view of the world when you look downward from from from the top you see

you know when you when when a when a when a plane is flying right when you look down you see a bird's eye view of

the world. You see everything. You see the rivers, you see the forests, you see the mountains, you see the deserts,

right? But if you are in the desert, all you can see is sand because you don't have the view from the top. So that's

why you need to start looking at the world and at your history from the top and you

will see how what is happening today is exactly what happened in the past. That's why history is so important.

So our entire dean is based upon history. The Quran 30 to 40% is history.

Our sunnah is history. Hadith it means history. Okay?

Hadith these are all interchangeable words. Arden is history. If you don't know

history, you cannot be a good Muslim. Full stop. So, how about knowing the history of the world and the history of

your past, your own predecessors? So, how did the Muslims end up in Spain? Let's start with the topic. Having

explained how important history is for us to learn today so that we can see hopefully it's not being repeated. And

if it's being repeated, what do we do that our predecessors didn't do to stop catastrophes and oppression and stop the

minerets going silent? If we cannot spread the boundaries of Islam, if we if we're not doing dawa, if

we're not going out to spread Islam, at least don't lose territory. At least keep the territory you possess.

Don't lose it to your enemies. And this can mean ideological boundaries. This can mean theological

boundaries. This can mean geographical boundaries. This can mean anything. So sallahu alaihi wasallam was born in

the year 571. He preaches Islam when he was 40.

And for the next 23 years, Rasool Allah wasallam preached this message we know today as al-Islam, submission to Allah,

surrender to the creator. And the message came to him through the Quran which Allah the creator of the

heavens and the earth, God almighty who sent all the prophets sent this message to the prophet

sallallahu alaihi wasallam. Prophet Muhammad received the Quran and taught, preached, explained it to his followers.

Part of the message was the world has to benefit. If what I bring does not benefit the

world, if it doesn't bring peace and justice to the world, then what message?

Then what mercy? So Muhammad rasool Allah sallallah.aii wasallam came as a mercy for the words

and not only in word but in action. That was the point. If the Muslims today in the world do not manifest the mercy

of Islam in their actions in their behavior then you are not following the same Islam as followed by Muhammad

sallallahu alaihi wasallam and his followers. If

your existence, your presence does not bring benefit to people around you. If it doesn't make your environment

safer, if you are not the most intellectually sound

and the most educated people, the most civilized people, the most well- behaved people, then you are following a

different religion. Remember just coming to the masid, praying five times a day, fasting in the month of

Ramadan and going for Omrah every now and then is the is the basic.

These are the foundations as the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said, right?

Ramadan. These are the foundations and most Muslims are living in the foundations. Have you ever seen anyone

they start building a house, they dig the foundations and they sit in the foundations with the family?

Are you listening to me? Have you ever lived in foundations of the house? Where do you live? You live

in the rooms. You you you enjoy the living room. You enjoy the kitchen, right?

Right? This is the house because you have built upon foundations. The prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam said Islam is

based upon these five foundations. So these are the basics. You build on this. You don't live in this. This is the

basic. Most Muslims are living in foundations. They're not building. What does building mean? Building means start

doing extra extra ibada of Allah subhana wa ta'ala. Start adding to the foundations. Start

building the walls, put the roof, okay? Make a house on top of the foundations. Right? This is why you have to go beyond

and change the world around you by your presence, by your good behavior, by showing the world that Islam is the

solution for all our problems. Islam is the truth. Islam is the way to success. Islam is the way to happiness in this

world and in the hereafter and you must show that by your actions and this is why the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wasallam came. So when he preached his message he taught his companions that this is why I came.

Allah sent me as a mercy for the worlds and this mercy is not just for your homes and for your deserts. It needs to

go out. And what did the Sahaba do? They went out to take this mercy to the world. But what happens? They found the

Romans and the Persians standing on the way. They are blocking them. In the west, they had Romans. In the

east, they had Persians blocking them. They were the wall of major giant massive armies. They had the excuse to

turn around and say we have we are madur we have an excuse that we cannot deal with these people look at us we are only

10,000 and they are 150,000 what are we going to do so go back no they said we're going to go through them so they

defeated the Romans and the Persians simultaneously they defeated two superpowers of the world militarily the

Romans and the Persians were the largest were the most effective were the most trained armies in the world and they

have become even more battleh hardened than they were before because they now fought

each other before the rise of Islam. So the Sahaba fight them and defeat them. Why? Because they wanted to bring

the justice and the mercy of Islam to the people of these lands. So this is why when he had a dialogue with Rustam

the Persian general Imbari he narrates this in his almuk the history of Imabi he narrates this

dialogue asks who was a sahhabi why are you here what

do you want camels goats money take it and go he said No, it's not about that. Yes, we are poor. We come from the

desert. But it's about removing you from the way. We want to bring your people from the worship of man to the worship

of the creator. This is about this is about worshiping Allah. And you are blocking us from reaching your people.

So either you surrender or we go through you. And we know what happened. The rest is history. The battle of Kadia and we

know what happened. So likewise the Muslims took all this land and territory and when the

non-Muslims of these territories realized what these Muslims are doing in lands

they are conquering. They are giving peace and justice. They are offering terms to Christians. For example, what

happened to the Christians of Najan? what happened to the Christians of Jerusalem

and what happened to the Christians of um much of Iraq and Syria because there are treaties documented.

There are treaties documented. We have documented treaties whereby the Muslims offered terms of peace to the

Christians that you may live peacefully, keep your religion, keep your churches, keep your bishops. We're not going to

interfere in your religion. As long as you don't attack us and don't cause disturbance, we will rule. You pay jiza

and you have peace. This is a separate topic. I've actually written a book on this topic which will

be soon published inshallah. The second edition or the extended edition uh is coming out with a lot of evidence in

this regard. the treaties between the Muslims and the Christians and others and how these treaties were practiced

effectively and what was the outcome. I put it down to a golden chain of events. It's a formula easy to remember. There

are four locks in this chain. Number one is the Quran. Number two, the justice that came from

the Quran. Number three, peace that came from the justice. And number four is progress that comes

from peace. So go backwards with me. No progress without no peace without and no justice without

the Quran. In the Muslim context, this is what we believe in. You cannot have justice without the Quran. Full stop.

Period. We don't care what civilization or what system or what governing system we're discussing. We believe as Muslims,

you cannot have justice without the Quran. Full stop. Period. Whether it's a Muslim country or a

non-Muslim country, you want to live in the best way possible on this planet, then apply the Quran, adopt the Quran as

your system and you will see what happens. Okay? We have shown it through our history and I will explain this in

very uh in due course in a bit a bit more detail. So moving forward and you will see why I'm telling you all

this inshallah. So the treaties are done. Muslims promise peace and then they deliver this

peace. Christians testify that the Muslims they live with us peacefully. They allow us freedoms that we did not

have before even under the Romans and the Persians and we have absolute freedom.

Similarly, Muslims went on taking land in North Africa, moving westwards. They took what we today call Algeria and

Morocco and Muslims remained there for the next 50 years. And then in the year 92 Hijri to be

precise according to the Gregorian calendar 711 CE when Wed bin Abdul Mik was the kaiff in Damascus the Umayyad

Kiff. Wid bin Abd Malik who was the kaiff in Damascus who ruled from 86 hijri to 96 hijri 10 years during his

reign in the year 92 hijri that corresponds to 711 CE Muslim generals or Muslim armies landed

in three different parts of the world far apart from each other. So in the extreme west, Tariq bin Zad lands in

Alandalus at a place called what?

Gibralar, also known as Jablot Tarik, right? The word Gibralar is a corrupted version of

the Arabic term Jablaric, the mountain of Tarik. So that's why it came to be known Gibralar, which is today British

territory. Did you know that Gibraltar is British territory today? It's a rock where Darbik bin Zad landed with his

army. Same time Muhammad Kasim at Takafi. He landed in Sind current day Pakistan with an army and then we at

Kotabin Muslim in China. So we're going to leave China and Central Asia aside. We're going to leave India for now

aside. Inshallah for that you're going to have to invite me again. Pab inshallah. Yeah. Yeah. Part two.

Inshallah. We'll do Islam in India. Okay. and how this history is being repeated in India. We're going to we're

going to come to that as well inshallah very quickly. Right? So we're going to focus on Spain. So Tariq bin Zad takes

this territory and he goes on taking this territory for the next four years. His master Tarik bin Zad was a client of

a man called Musa bin Nuser who was again working for the kiff wed bin Abd Malik. Musa bin Nuser falls Tariq bin

Zad into Spain and together they conquer pretty much 80% of the Iberian Peninsula if not 90%. Most of it they conquer

within four four years they conquer all of what we know today Spain and Portugal uh except some northwestern parts

of the Aberian Peninsula what we call the Atorious mountains. So then followed a change of regime in

Damascus. Widbin Abd Malik died in 96. Hijri Solan comes to power his brother and he

changes the entire establishment. Unfortunately he calls back the generals and he dismantles them. He dismantles

the the entire campaign of conquest in all these territories. Why? Long story. It's a long story. I'm not going to go

into that cuz that's not the topic today. Okay. So, the conquests in Spain stopped and then followed a period of

chaos for the next 40 years to the extent that Islamic Spain as soon as it was taken it

was going to fall because the Muslims could not work with each other. They started to fight each other. And these

were not theological conflicts. These were not the conflicts between the burlvies and the Wahhabis and and the

and the Shia Sunni or anything like that. It wasn't it was anything like that. This conflict was tribal. It was

ethnic. It was raci racism. Basically the Arabs not willing to work under the authority of the Berbers and the Berbers

not willing to accept the Arabs and the Arabs within themselves. The Syrian clan and then the Yemeni. Long story short,

they started to conflict with each other. For 40 years, there is a conflict. There's like a civil war

period going on in Spain immediately after the Muslims took the land of Spain. So, it was a huge lesson for the

Muslims. And many Muslim intellectuals and sincere thinkers at that time, okay, like we have some today, they

started to look for the solutions. How do we stop this? We're going to lose all of this. We just got it. Allah blessed

us with this territory to put the flag of Islam there to bring tohed to this land so that people can bow to Allah on

this territory and now we are about to lose it because of this infighting and then something changes at the

center. There is another revolution that takes place in the Muslim world and this is

the Abbasid revolution. When Banu Abbas comes to power in the year 132 Hijri 132 Hijri. So the Abbasids they remove

the Omayyad from power. And now after they remove the Umayyads from power they know they cannot leave

any claimment to power alive. This is how things were unfortunately at that time. A dynasty has lost power. If

you leave any prince alive, that prince can become the next kaiff and launch another rebellion and fight us. So wipe

them out. That was the idea of the Abbassids. So the Abbassids went on a killing spree killing every single adult

male Umayad. And one of them was the grandson of one

of the Umayyad kiffs called Hisham bin Abdul Malik. Hisham bin Abdul Malik ruled from 105 Hij to 125 Hij. This is

when Imam Malik is alive. This is when Imam Abu Alan is alive. Right? So this is a very vibrant period in Islam. In

fact he was one of the most powerful um kaiffs. He dies in 125. 7 years later the omay are gone and then one of his

grandchildren known as Abdul Rahman why is he known as Abdman the first we

will see inshallah very quickly right so Abdman he runs for his life because the ambassad

prince who grew up in Damascus who grew up in the palace who who who who has tasted power who has seen power and he

is a threat to the Abassads. So the Abbassids are pursuing him like many other um princes. His mother came from

the Barbers. His mother was a barber from North Africa from Karand Morocco. So he makes

his way towards the Berbar people because [snorts] he knows they will protect him

eventually. Long story short, he's on the run for many, many months and he ends up in current day, Morocco.

I'm cutting the the long story short because there are books written on him by the way. Abdman Dah Abdman the first

his struggle. He's still very young. He's in his early 20s, right? Very young man, maybe 21, 22 years old. He's on the

run. And Allah subhana wa ta'ala saved him for a reason as we will see. Allah saved him to save Alandus from falling

from destruction. So he runs for his life and he finds refuge with the barbers. The abbasses come looking for

him and they cannot find him. Then the Muslims in in Alandaloo find out about him. They somehow from their

intelligence learned that right next to us in Morocco, current day Morocco, there is a there is an umad prince who

can potentially unite all of these divided factions. Why? Who is fighting in Alandaloo at this time? The Syrians

against Yemenes and the Yemenes and the Syrians against the Barbars. This is one man who

possesses the qualities that all clans or all factions will accept. Why? His mother is Berber. So

the Berbers will surrender to him. He is He's Kureshi. He is Kureshi. He is Umayyad. He's from

Banuaya. So he's Kureshi. Yemenes will accept him. And he came from Syria

because the Umayads ruled Syria. So the Syrians will accept him. So they approach him and they ask him to

come to Alandaloo and save us from this destruction. There is a civil war going on. We're going to lose Alandaloo. Okay.

So Abdahman who is already on the run. He wants refuge. He wants his own territory. He wants protection. So he

finds this opportunity. He thinks this is from Allah. So he makes his way to Alangus. Again, long

story short, okay, he unites the factions. They surrender to him. They accept him as the Amir. Okay, so he's

given this title, Amir Abdman, bin Muavia, bin Hasham, bin Abd Malik, bin Marwan, bin Hakam. So he goes back

all the way to the genus. So he's a he's a he's a bonafide um confirmed um so they surrender to his authority. So now

he becomes the Amir as a young man but then he spends the rest of his life consolidating Muslim power. He moves the

capital to Kaba and then he does what amazingly one of the first things he does is he

builds a masid in a ruined place where there was a church once upon a time. It's a ruined

church which has been abandoned. He takes the land. He buys it from the Christians. Okay? Because he cannot take

this land by force. You cannot build a masid, a house of Allah to worship Allah through haram means. So he satisfied the

Christians. He gave them money. He took this land and he built that masid called masjid Kartava. Guess what? That part

stands to this day. That very masid built by Abdman I in 780s almost

120 150 years after the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam almost 150 years after the prophet sallallahu

alaihi wasallam the masjid stands to this day that part stands to this day recently there was a fire in that masjid

in the roof Allah protected alhamdulillah so it has stood for the last 1,000 300 years and it is beyond my

I I cannot make sense how it's still standing. If you know the history of Alandalos, if you know what happened in

Spain in subsequent centuries and years, you will just look at the building and you will think how has this building

survived? How has how is this Islamic monument standing to this day 1,300 years later after all of that? After the

Catholics went on a genocide spree, they went killing Muslims, wiping out any trace of Islam and Muslims. Today,

you cannot find a Muslim grave in Spain. I have not seen one. I've been traveling to Spain for years.

Not one of a Muslim in Alandaloo and millions, not hundreds of thousands. I'm very

confident about this. Millions, tens of millions of Muslims are worried in Spain. Their blood, their sweat,

their flesh is part of that land. When you drive through Spain, Alanderus, southern territory, when we are in the

bus, we look at the mountains and the fields and I tell all the people who are touring with us that in these fields are

Muslims buried. I can guarantee you in these fields there is blood of the Muslims. The blood of the shada

but we don't find a trace. And that mashid is standing to this day. Those pillars, those horseshoe arches,

those palm tree arches are standing to this day. So Abdman, this is one of the first

things he did. And then he established a center of learning. He was an um prince. He was so nostalgic about Damascus, his

life in Damascus that he wrote poetry about it. He saw a lone palm tree in Spain somewhere. I don't know exactly

where. Um when he saw this lone palm tree, he said, "You are like me away from his home, longing to be with his

people, but we are like each other, you know. So he really loved Rousafa. Rousafa was a garden uh summer garden

made by his grandfather near Damascus. So he made another rosafa in Kava. The land is well known where it was built

but the remains don't exist anymore unfortunately. Even his cabar is not known. We don't know where he's buried

in Spain and his descendants. But what he has done for Islam still stands to this day. Allahbar that masid. So Abdman

he consolidates power. He establishes Islamic hold on what we call central and south central Spain through his capital

Kartaba. He moves the capital from Toledo uh to Kartaba and he rules from Kartaba

and then is established a dynasty called the Umayad dynasty of Spain. Then for the next 250 odd years his

descendants rule Spain. Okay. one after another. I don't have the time to go through the history of

every single one of those amirs and the deeds, but this was the golden age of Spain. This was the golden age of Islam

in Spain. This is when some of the greatest scholars of Islam were born. When Muslims came to Spain, they

established peace and justice and harmony between the Christians and the Jews and the Muslims. Of course, all of

these three faiths coexisted together under the protection under the rule of Islam. This territory was ruled by

Sharia, the law of the Quran. The Amirs applied the law of the Quran on Spain and that

brought brought so much peace that it gave rise to what the world has never seen before or after.

One of the German nuns, she visited Kartaba in the 10th century, 900s. She saw Spain, she saw Kartaba and she had

no other words than to call it the ornament of the world. She said there is nothing like it in this world because it

was such a spectacle. It was the largest city in the world with over a million people living in it

at that time. A million people in a city was a lot of people. a lot of people. It had water mills. It had a huge book

market, the largest in the world. Kartava became the magnet of all learned people in the

world, Europeans and Arabs and others. European men, men from Britain, from

England, and the rest of Britain were traveling to Spain to seek knowledge from Muslims

and non-Muslim Arabs, which is the Jews and the Christians, cuz they also spoke Arabic. Here in England, for 500 years,

you could not be considered an academic or a learned man if you did not know the Arabic language. Did you know this? Did

you know this? Know this today. In this country called the Great Britain

today for 500 years from 900,

the year 900 to 1200s, right? So let's say from the 9th or the 10th century to the 13th century within

these 500 years Englishmen and Scotsmen

and possibly some Welsh people Welsh scholars were traveling actively to the Muslim lands in

particular Spain to seek the knowledge formed the Arabs to learn the Arabic language. I will name people, people

like Adilad of Bath. There's a place called Bath near Bristol. Adel was from that city and he learned the Arabic

language. Then we had Robert of Ketton who translated the Quran from Arabic to Latin for the first time for the

Europeans. Then we had Michael Scott. Then we had Daniel of Morle. All of these men I just

mentioned are British men. You want to learn more about this particular aspect of British history and the English

history. How Britain in general and England in particular benefited from Arabs and Muslims directly. There is a

book titled the matter of Arabi in medieval England. It is authored by Dorothy Metslitzki.

She's a Jewish historian. She has written this book. She has documented this history in this book. The matter of

Arabi in medieval England. Google it and you will see the book and the details that will blow your mind

away. How these English men were traveling to Spain. What was happening in Spain? What was so special about

Spain? Why were they traveling this? Because all of this territory was the outback, the backward part of the world.

Britain, Germany, France. This was the most backward part of the world at the time.

This is where people lived in mud houses. When it would rain, their their ceilings

would be leaking. Their streets were completely full of mud and human excrement because they

didn't have any sewage system. So they would throw everything on the on the road. And this was happening up to the

18th century. By the way, this is not medieval. Europe only became organized and clean

and and uh sophisticated in the last two to 300 years, possibly more than that. Of course, I I have to be fair. I'm I'm

not going to you know renaissance started in Europe in the in the 15th century when European authors and

intellectuals they started to write and a lot of this knowledge came from uh Spain from the Arabs. When I say the

Arabs I mean the Jews, Christians and Muslims put together all of them. They were all Arabs. They were writing in the

Arabic language. They were working in the Arabic life. All of this was produced by the dominance of Islam in

Spain. This was the fruit of Islam. This was the fruit of the Quran. This what was the fruit of Muslim civilization.

Some people would come and say no no no Muslims are against science. Actually Muslim theologians were against

scientists and they were against uh this kind of advancement. But we can show examples where people

who were working on these things they were not only scientists they were also theologians. They were

they were fa they were muddin. I can give you just one name. We study his book today to this day. You

might even find that book here in this masid on the shelf. So he was not only a theologian, he was

also a philosopher and an intellectual who was right. Europeans took Aristotle from him.

Thomas Aquinus in the 13th century when he was writing commentaries on Aristotle he was taking knowledge from

all of this comes from Spain there are books written on this I advise you to get some of these books and I

hope while you're editing this video you can put the pictures of these books it's very simple Google the name of the book

the title you'll get the picture put it there on the screen so that everyone and see it. Pause it and see it and go and

read it. Hidden debt to the Islamic civilization. There's another book I strongly recommend, Hidden Debt to the

Islamic Civilization. Another book I strongly recommend is the legacy of Alandarus edited by Salma

Khadra Jusi. Then there is another book by the Muslim Spain by Anar Shahana. Okay, beautiful

books that document a lot of this history I'm discussing. Okay, and then also specifically looking at astronomy,

there is a book authored by um a Christian um historian George Siba. He is an Arab Christian and he has authored

this book, the Arabic origins of the European Renaissance. The Arabic origins of the European Renaissance. All of this

goes back to Alandaloo, Spain. These libraries, these books, these scholars, studies of science,

philosophy, theology, hadith, taps, poetry, you name it. Some of the best poets ever produced in the Jewish

history specifically were produced during this period. The Jews call period between 900 to

1200. They call it the golden age. They call it the golden age of the

Israelites. This is when they produce some of the best thinkers,

rabbis, philosophers, statesmen, even prime ministers. And I'm going to come to that very

quickly. So all of this was the fruit of Alandalus,

a land in Western Europe ruled by Islam and Muslims. And there were calls of prayer, calls to

prayer from the minits all over while all of this was taking place. The largest book collection anywhere in

the world was in Kartaba. Kaiff Hakam II, he had the largest book collection in

the world. Half a million books in his collection in Kartaba. There were 70 public libraries. There was no concept

of public libraries before this. There were 70 public libraries in Kartaba. The streets were paved. There were street

lamps in the 10th century in Kartaba before they came to London in the 17th century or maybe 18th century if I'm not

mistaken. So Kartava was far ahead of the rest of the world on every single level.

Culturally, educationally, intellectually, ideologically, militarily,

Kartaba was the most powerful, the most sophisticated, the most educated, the most clean, the most moral city on the

planet. That's why it's so important to study it. And this happened during the Umayat

period. So Abd Rahman ruled passed away passed on power to his

descendants who came to power. One of them was called Abd Rahman III

who ruled for a very long time from 912 to 9

I forgot the exact uh in the 970s. uh his reign went on until 970s. Abdman III he came to power in 912 as a

young man and in 929 CE he stood on the member in Masjid Kartaba and he declared himself to be the Khalifa. Previously

the rulers of Umayyad Spain were called Amir. They had the title Amirs. Now in 929 Abdman III declares himself to be

the Khalifa. He is now a kaiff. Why? Why did he do that? When we had an ambassador kaiff, albeit a puppet in

Baghdad, why did he do this? Because that kiff had lost his power. And there was another caliphate in Egypt called

the Shia Fatameid caliphate and they were already poking the Andurusian territory in North Africa. So to deal

with them, Abdman III needed a status, a level to claim authority with the Muslims.

He became the kaleiff himself. Now because the kaleiff in Baghdad is powerless. He's unable to do anything. I

will become the kiff. I am as per the hadith. So I am from quresh. His mother was

white and he himself was blonde. Right. And it is stated in the sources that he used to dye his hair black to look like

an Arab. Today people go blonde. Huh. Yeah. You go to the Arab world today. Yeah. You

see women walking around in blonde hair because they want to be blonde because the dominant

civilization today materially is the western civilization. Right. Yeah. You see people now go walking around in

suits, men, right? Because they think we look we look more slick. Yeah. You you look more uh presentable,

right? While in the middle ages it was the other way around. Europeans learned men used to wear turbans like

Muslims. They wanted to look like Muslims. There are European paintings painted during

the ren renaissance period where they are painting scholars with turbans and they are non-Muslims, Christian

scholars, Europeans. Why? Because they want to look learned. This is the attire of the learned people. So Abdman III he

felt because he was blonde he felt inferior among all these Arabs. So he start he used to dye his hair black to

look more Arab right and he was a very powerful figure. He took the territories of Alandaloo to the farthest corner of

the the Iberian Peninsula because he became the caiff. Now to fight for him is an Islamic obligation, right? Because

he's the kaleiff now. So he was successfully fighting the fatides in North Africa and in the north against

the Catholic powers or the Christian powers. So he kept them at bay and then he built this magnificent city called

Medina Zahara just to send shock waves through his opponents and his vessels. So this was an exercise to demonstrate

his power. It was a spectacle. So he built the city about five miles or 5 kilometers outside of the city of

Kartaba called Medina Zah. It was named after one of his favorite wives or concubines, right? Her name was Zah. So

he called the city after her, Madina Zah. And the remains still stand to this day. Even by looking at remains you

think Allah Akbar if these are the remains what would the city look like when he was alive when it was all

complete and standing right so there would be a line of guards standing for miles to welcome any ambassadors coming

from the north from the Christian nations from France from Germany from Britain if the ambassadors came to pay

homage to him to pay their taxes or to receive receive decrees from him. They would pass through this army of guards

guarding the road from miles before they get to the caiff. So before they get to the kaiff, they deal with the vazir

called Jaffur. Okay? And Jaffer would organize their lodging and then eventually they would meet the kaiff

from a distance. In this case of Dhman thei and Hakam II, his immediate successor.

And this was a spectacle created to be a spectacle to show the power and glory of not only

Islam but the Umayyad state in Alandarus. Again he because he was dealing with hostile enemies. He had to

do all this pomp and uh and power a display and show of power right unfortunately it didn't last very long.

within 80 years the city of Madina Zahara was sacked due to a civil war that occurred uh as a result of the fall

of the omead state in Alandulus. We're going to come to that very quickly inshallah. So this was the period of

Muslim power in Spain. Okay. So from 912 to 970s Abdman III and his son Hakam II ruled together.

Hakam the second was a scholar par excalance and I mentioned his library already earlier he had agents planted

all over the Muslim world just doing one thing collecting books for him right he didn't send them as ambassadors he had

them planted in every single Muslim capital from China to Cairo or Damascus every everywhere

Baghdad and collect books for me and they would collect special books for him and bring

them back to Alandaloo. And then he had an he had he had a team of women, ladies transcribing these books for him. These

were expert calligraphers sitting in his library transcribing books for him. Subhan Allah. This was Hakam II. So this

is how the situation was up to this point. And then after Hakam II died, his juvenile son was put uh on the throne

and he couldn't rule obviously. So for him came to rule another man called al-Mansour.

When Hakami dies Abdulman III he declared himself to be the kaiff and because of that he got a lot of uh

influence and potential that comes with the office of caliphate. So he used that to the maximum potential and he expanded

the territories of Islam uh in Alandaloo and in North Africa and he successfully averted the threat of the Fatameid

caliphate in Egypt right at that time. So uh he had consolidated his power. He even had a prime minister or finance

minister called Hazdai Ian Chaprut who was a Jewish man. So when today the Zionists, the propagandists tell us that

the Muslims are the enemies of the Jewish people by default. Muslims are by nature

anti-semitic. Muslims inherently hate the Jewish people. Therefore, we need the state of

Israel and we need nuclear weapons to protect ourselves against these bloodthirsty Arabs. But amazingly when

you study the history of the Muslim civilization, you will come to realize that the Jewish people survived only

because the Muslims protected them for over a thousand years. Over 90% of the Jewish people

in the world for 1,000 years lived under the protection of Islam in Muslim domains.

Whether that is the Middle East during the Abbasid period and the Umay period, whether that is Alandaloo, Spain

throughout the Muslim period, whether that was the Ottoman territory as late as the 20th century, the Jewish

people found a safe haven with the Muslims, the Jewish people, before the rise of Zionism, before the rise of

these terrorists and these These extremists called the Zionists, Muslims and Jews

lived peacefully for over a thousand years over a thousand after the rise of this terrorist entity called

the Zionist movement that committed acts of terrorism as we know historically the King David hotel bombing and all that

you know and the rest and it continues to this day it's happening the whole world ICJ case and all that you It's not

even uh uh a controversial statement to make anymore because everyone knows previously people were scared right

people were very terrified of talking about this because of the influence of this movement. Now their actions have

made it possible alhamdulillah that everyone's talking about it and soon this oppression and this terrorism will

end inshallah. So these people they claim that this is a lie. Muslims never protected the

Jewish people. Muslims never took care of the Jewish people. In fact, the Jewish people always suffered. This is

the Zionist narrative. By the way, it is quite recent. But if you look at the Jewish historians who are not Zionist or

who are writing before Zionism, you will see all of them unanimously called this period the period of

the golden age. I'll give you two examples very quickly. There is a German Jewish historian called Hinrich Ges

writing in the 19th century. He writes about this period and he calls it the best

period in Jewish history. The best time in Jewish history was Alandaloo Islamic SP Islamic Spain.

Then we have a recent Jewish historian called Zion Zohar an American Jewish historian. He writes in his book a

history of Safhadic and Mitsarah Jury on page 9 and 8. He calls it the period between 900 to 1200. He calls it the

Jewish golden age. Then Dean Philip Bell another Jewish historian from Chicago

from Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. He writes that this period is generally known as the golden age of

the Israelites. And this notion was only questioned recently due to the political events.

So this narrative, this propaganda is false that the Jewish people suffered. Of course, I'm not claiming utopia. I'm

not claiming perfection. I'm not claiming that Jewish people they were flying around like uh My Little Pony

cartoon, you know, like you you see the rainbows and stars and ponies flying around. I'm not claiming that. I'm

saying it wasn't as good as that my little pony land and it wasn't as bad as the Zionist

claim. It was a relatively good period for the Jewish people. That's why the Jewish

people chose Muslims over Christians. For 1,000 years, 90% of the Jewish people lived in the Muslim domains. And

not in one place by the way from Egypt to the Ottoman ter from Aubid Egypt to Ottoman Turkey and Jerusalem and and

other territories and Iraq and Alandalus during the Omayad period and beyond up to the fall of Granada.

So why I mention this because one of the the things we mention in this regard is

that Iban Shaput was a Jewish man who was a prime minister, finance minister dealing with the finances of the

caliphate. The califf had his finance minister as who a Jewish man

chap was also a physician. Ironically another slur we hear today that Orurange Zalangir in India the Mughal emperor he

was wiping out temples he was anti-Hindu he was destroying Hindus he was an enemy of Hindus therefore we're going to

remove his name for mystery the BJP currently the BJP government in India they want to wipe out any trace of

orangalangir from the history of India you know about this do you know about this can know about this inshallah from

from now on. Okay. And they don't stop there. The BJP establishment, anyone who writes any objective history of Orurange

Balangir, not in his favor, not against him, just objective history as found in the sources. Anyone who writes an

objective history of Orurange Balamir is a target for them. One history has been written recently

the life of Orurange Balamir by a lady an American historian called Odre Trashk and she faced immense backlash on

Twitter and online and offline. So on Twitter she had all these BJP Twitter accounts attacking her day and

night. You are this, you are that. Swearing at her, cursing her. You, how dare you write a history of Orang and

not curse him, not criticize. She's saying, I'm a historian. I'm a historian. I'm writing history.

What do you want me to do? No, no, no. We don't want history. We want you to curse him. So he sorry. She went to

lecture in India. She's such a brave lady having written this book. She went to lecture in India. She was being

heckled while she was lecturing by these extremist Hindus in India.

And ironically, historians tell us that the highest number of Hindus employed by any Mughal

emperor ever was done under the rule of Orang. 31% of his state

employment was in the hands of Hindus. His finance minister was Hindu. And you call him a bigot. You call him

an anti-Hindu bigot. And just because he was a Muslim, just because he really loved Islam, just because he patronized

fataw alamir al fatawal alamir or al fatal hindia, just because he patronized scholars, just because there was an

Islamic renaissance in India during his reign, you hate him for that. That's the reason. The reason is not his bigotry.

Likewise, you know, Hazan Shaput was a finance minister for an Islamic khif, an Islamic ruler

and he did a good job for the khif. That's why he stayed in power. That's why he was used for his credentials and

his abilities. So Akam the second his son succeeds his father and he doesn't live very long and

his juvenile son comes to power and then follows chaos again and

one of the prime ministers his name is Abi Amir and also known as al-Mansour the conqueror he took the

reigns of power into his own hands and he ruled Spain on behalf of the young kaleiff.

So in order to assert his authority, he invaded the north, the Christian territories repeatedly.

In fact, there was a legend that grew in medieval Spain that when you are in the battlefield against the Muslims, you

shout the slogan for St. James of Santiago. Santiago de Compastella. It is a place in northwestern Spain

which is the most visited shrine in the Catholic world today. Is that clear? It is the most popular shrine for the

Catholics in the world. It is in Spain. It's called Santiago de Compastella. Who is buried there? St. James.

James the disciple of Jesus Christ. Allegedly he's buried in Spain. We don't know what he was doing there and how he

got there because historical record tells us that he was killed in Jerusalem. He was thrown off the walls

of Jerusalem and this is documented by Ucius the church historian. So we don't know how James got to uh Santiago

Compastella and Muslims are mashallah you know they don't they don't want to be left behind as well. They also claim

the Sahaba are buried in China for example there is a place in Gongu right? So there is a claim that uh

is buried there. Has anyone been there? China. But do you know about it? Do you know about the claim? There is a claim

and people actually believe it that Abiwak the companion of is buried in China in Gongu

and there's a big shrine there right and what do the historians tell us? Islamic history sad radi he died in Medadina in

the year 55 hiji so either his body was carried all the way to China or he didn't go to China right so you

have to be very careful just because someone attributes a to someone doesn't become their

right and this is a big problem it's a big problem and I don't mean to criticize people and their beliefs and

you are free to believe what you want but have sense, right? How a lie can become so huge that that

it becomes more factual than facts. You know there is a place near Apabad in Pakistan called Kotakabar

right and I have grown up you know about this it's close to our it's close to our

village it's called Kotakar which literally means donkey grave and people actually go to this cabar to ask

for blessings and all sorts of things you know and they know it is a donkey buried

I'm [clears throat] not making this up. Go and check. There's a place between Ababad and Haripur.

Right there. These are two cities in the Hazara region of Pakistan about 70 to 80 kilometers from Islamabad, the capital.

There is a place there's a small village called Kotak Kabar, donkey grave. People know there's a donkey in this cabar. And

they go seeking blessings and they put all sorts of cloths. They tie cloths on the tree and you know

colored cloths and all sorts of things. You ask them why are you doing it? They say this donkey was a law

and you're you're laughing but this is real. We ask them why is this donkey a let's talk about it. Let's be rational

about it. Why is this donkey? They said this donkey belonged to a baker. This donkey was a special donkey. It

belonged to a baker rotalini on there right people who used to cook bread with. So this baker used

to make bread and used to load the donkey with the bread and donkey would go from door to door delivering bread

for the baker without being guided. So the donkey knew the routine. Every day this donkey was delivering bread to

houses. Therefore this this donkey was the value of Allah because of this characteristic this quality this

beautiful quality we value this donkey as a friend of Allah right so when this donkey died we made a

grave out of it this donkey and then we do all these things don't believe me go and check because I

grew up seeing it I grew up I've I know the place I've seen the the the sign board kabar going this way We're going

to we're going to come. You've seen it. >> Okay, you've seen it as well. I have a witness as well. Alhamdulillah. I have

two witnesses in the crowd now already. So why am I making this point? Santiago de Compastella,

St. James is buried in Spain in northwestern Spain. Okay, let's say it's true. No problem. Right. My question is

now so when the when u when the Spanish Christians started to fight the Muslims on battlefields they would shout this

slogan Santiago which is St. James Metamorus they would

call him the mur killer in other words the Muslim killer so the saint is a Muslim killer saint right so we shout

his name so al-Mansur when he came to power he said okay if your saint is a Muslim

killer I'm going to show you so he went and he attacked this city called Santiago de compastella he went all the

way to the north and he attacked the city and he conquered it and he dismantled the whole shrine and he asked

the Christians where is the saint Muslim killer here I am at his shrine right so he took the bells and he made the

Christian captives carry that those bells back to Cordoba right to make a point that you hate us

you use this slur against us this is our response to it so al- Mansour became uh a very huge threat for the northern

Christian states, the Catholic states, right? So that's why he was called al-Mansour and he did the last expansion

expansion to Masid Kartaba. Masjid Kartaba went through few expansions. If you visit the masid today, you will see

the oldest part built at the time of Drahan the first. Then you will see the next expansion that took place during

the reign of Abdman the second. Then the next expansion took place during the reign of Hakam II and the final

expansion took place during the reign of al-Manssour the reign of ibnu Abir there's a there's a very powerful story

I want to mention in very quickly that before we move forward inshallah because I know it's it's a very detailed detail

requiring topic and I don't want to go on for too long exhausting you with too many details but there is when he was

expanding the masjid Kartava there was a house that came uh in the way and this house belonged to a lady

and she was an old woman and she didn't want to sell her house so they tried to reason with her so this is for the

masjid take the payment and go and build a house somewhere else right she said I'm not selling my house so ibn ibn abi

was the de facto ruler he was the wazir but he was the de facto ruler he could easily wipe her out or clean the place.

But he didn't want to do that. He didn't want to take that land unless she agrees to it because this is about masid.

That's why Allah Akbar, you know, subhan Allah. I believe one of the reason that masjid stands to this day

as a testament of Islamic or Muslim presence in Spain is because of these these measures this these careful

measures that were taken into account. So if there was any haram or oppression involved in that place that masid

wouldn't be standing today Allah. So he didn't want to take this land from that woman. So they tried to reason Ola

went there people went to convince her and she wasn't listening and then they said what do you want she

said I love this palm tree in my house and I love the the I love my house this the way it looks they said if we do

exactly the same thing for you elsewhere will you be happy with that same place the palm tree and same house same design

she said yes if you make me the same house somewhere else I'll move to it They did it. They made the same house

for her somewhere else and then she moved out and they expanded the masid. Subhan Allah. Today if you go to the

masid, the largest expansion was done by Abi Amir al-Mansur. And when you look at the pillars from that time, the pillars

have the names of the the the workers carved on them to this day. You will see names like Mansour. You will see names

like uh if I'm not mistaken mas uh you'll see uh uh and then some pillars have the wordah inscribed on them

just for Allah. I don't want to put my name on it. Whether it was for payment or whether it was for remembrance they

didn't want to put their name on it. So the worker simply inscribed lilah on the pillar. You go to the masid today you

will see these things inshallah. Moving on. Al Mansur couldn't basically uh uh you know he couldn't take the authority

of the omayat kaiffs and claim it for himself although he tried to create his own dynasty and when he died his own son

was put in power but he could not hold on to power any longer in 1031 CE almost 250 years after the Umayad uh state was

established it was dismantled unfortunately it was dismantled and Muslim amama were very disturbed

including Innu Hazam who was alive at the time. Innu Hazam Alandalooi who was among many other scholars who were born

in Spain and they wrote their books on hadith. Some of the greatest hadith works were produced in Spain in Kartava.

The largest collection of hadith ever produced in the history of Islam. Do you know what it's called? Does anyone know?

>> Sorry. Hazam's al no anyone else.

>> Thank you very much. Allah bless you. Mashallah. Very good. One of our brothers know this. Mashallah. Must be a

Talib. Allah. Bless you. Okay. Baki bin Mak was a scholar of hadith who was a direct student of Imam Ahmed Humbul who

had come from Spain to Baghdad. And there is a story attributed to him and Imam Ahmed Hambo not so

authentically but it is documented in if I'm not mistaken in Su Alamah uh that Bakib Makl when he came to

Baghdad to take hadith from Imam Ahmed Hal from Spain from from Alandus Imam Ahmed was banned

from teaching at the time by the ambassad authorities because they were mazari at the time right so Imm Ahmed he

came to the door he said Yeah. When he came to Baghdad, he found out that Imam Ahmed cannot teach. So he went to the

house and he knocked the door. Imam Ahmed came to the door and he said, "Yeah, Imam, I've come from Spain,

Alandarus." And you know today, you know today you can take a flight from Dubai to Madrid.

How long does it take? 6 hours. At that time traveling from Kartaba to Baghdad, you know what it meant? It meant a

matter of life and death. It meant crossing deserts, seas, mountains, rivers, you name it. It meant traveling

on camel back, on horses, walking, fatigue, lack of food, disease, you name it. Everything was there.

Life was truly threatened. In those days when people used to go for Hajj, they would say salams to their families. If I

don't return, then please forgive me. And this is happening as late as the early 20th century from India. You know

when you know in India nowadays it's not a big deal but back in the day even when I was a child you know Sab. Yeah.