WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:04.019 In the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful. 00:00:04.019 --> 00:00:09.460 Mawaddah Association presents: 00:00:09.460 --> 00:00:12.460 "It Happened in Ramadan," 00:00:12.460 --> 00:00:16.850 by 'Abd al-Rahman Ra'fat al-Basha. 00:00:16.850 --> 00:00:21.449 "The Day of 'Ayn Jalut." 00:00:21.449 --> 00:00:26.449 “Say: If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your tribe, and the wealth ye have acquired, and merchandise for which ye fear that there will no sale, and dwellings ye desire are dearer to you than Allah and His messenger and striving in His way: then wait till Allah bringeth His command to pass. Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.” (9:24) 00:00:26.449 --> 00:00:31.449 ◁and your brothers, your spouses, your clan,▷ 00:00:31.449 --> 00:00:36.450 ◁and wealth which you have acquired,▷ 00:00:36.450 --> 00:00:40.450 ◁and trade wherein you fear decline,▷ 00:00:40.450 --> 00:00:44.450 ◁and trade wherein you fear decline,▷ 00:00:44.450 --> 00:00:46.450 ◁and dwellings which you please,▷ 00:00:46.450 --> 00:00:54.450 “Say: If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your tribe, and the wealth ye have acquired, and merchandise for which ye fear that there will no sale, and dwellings ye desire are dearer to you than Allah and His messenger and striving in His way: then wait till Allah bringeth His command to pass. Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.” (9:24) 00:00:54.450 --> 00:00:57.450 ◁and striving in His cause,▷ 00:00:57.450 --> 00:01:03.450 “Say: If your fathers, and your sons, and your brethren, and your wives, and your tribe, and the wealth ye have acquired, and merchandise for which ye fear that there will no sale, and dwellings ye desire are dearer to you than Allah and His messenger and striving in His way: then wait till Allah bringeth His command to pass. Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk.” (9:24) 00:01:03.450 --> 00:01:07.450 ◁And Allah does not guide the defiantly disobedient people.▷ 00:01:07.450 --> 00:01:11.739 In the year 658 AH, 00:01:11.739 --> 00:01:15.739 the Islamic world witnessed one of the monumental days of Allah, 00:01:15.739 --> 00:01:18.739 in which Allah elevated the Muslims from humiliation to honor, 00:01:18.739 --> 00:01:20.739 strengthened them from weakness, 00:01:20.739 --> 00:01:22.739 granted them security from fear, 00:01:22.739 --> 00:01:26.930 and granted them victory over an enemy that surpassed them in arms and equipment, 00:01:26.930 --> 00:01:31.090 and vastly outnumbered them many times over. 00:01:31.090 --> 00:01:35.090 The hero of this day was a young man who grew up in obedience to Allah, 00:01:35.090 --> 00:01:37.090 dedicated himself sincerely to Allah, 00:01:37.090 --> 00:01:40.090 and resolved firmly to champion His religion. 00:01:40.090 --> 00:01:42.090 Allah accepted his intention, 00:01:42.090 --> 00:01:45.090 reinforced his resolve, elevated his renown, 00:01:45.090 --> 00:01:49.500 and honored him with a momentous day among the days of Allah. 00:01:49.500 --> 00:01:51.500 As for that momentous day, 00:01:51.500 --> 00:01:53.500 it was the Day of 'Ayn Jalut; 00:01:53.500 --> 00:01:55.500 and as for the hero of this day, 00:01:55.500 --> 00:01:57.500 he was al-Malik al-Muzaffar 00:01:57.500 --> 00:01:59.500 Sayf al-Din Qutuz. 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:01.540 This glorious day, 00:02:01.540 --> 00:02:03.540 and its great hero, 00:02:03.540 --> 00:02:06.540 hold one of the most magnificent tales of valor. 00:02:06.540 --> 00:02:09.889 At the dawn of the seventh century of the Hijrah, 00:02:09.889 --> 00:02:12.889 an unruly, savage people surged forth from the outer fringes of China, 00:02:12.889 --> 00:02:14.889 too numerous to count, 00:02:14.889 --> 00:02:16.889 and impossible to reckon. 00:02:16.889 --> 00:02:19.889 They swept over mankind like a devastating hurricane, 00:02:19.889 --> 00:02:22.949 overrunning realms, toppling states, 00:02:22.949 --> 00:02:26.949 annihilating armies, and destroying crops and cattle. 00:02:26.949 --> 00:02:29.949 Within a remarkably short span of time, 00:02:29.949 --> 00:02:32.949 they succeeded in subjugating China and Korea, 00:02:32.949 --> 00:02:34.949 while sweeping in another direction 00:02:34.949 --> 00:02:36.949 across Bulgaria and Russia, 00:02:36.949 --> 00:02:38.949 Hungary and Poland; 00:02:38.949 --> 00:02:40.949 and in a third direction, bringing under their heel 00:02:40.949 --> 00:02:43.949 Turkestan, Samarqand, and Bukhara. 00:02:43.949 --> 00:02:45.949 Beyond all that, they swallowed up 00:02:45.949 --> 00:02:48.949 Rayy, Hamadan, and the mountainous lands of Jibal, 00:02:48.949 --> 00:02:51.949 devouring Sijistan, Kirman, Ghazna, 00:02:51.949 --> 00:02:54.949 and the neighboring lands of India, 00:02:54.949 --> 00:02:57.949 until there remained not a single nation on the face of the earth 00:02:57.949 --> 00:03:00.949 whose heart did not tremble with sheer terror before them, 00:03:00.949 --> 00:03:04.949 awaiting its impending doom at their hands. 00:03:04.949 --> 00:03:07.080 That was the nation of the Tatars, 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:09.080 or rather, the nation of total ruin. 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:13.430 Yet this nation brought upon the lands of the Muslims such destruction 00:03:13.430 --> 00:03:16.430 as it had visited upon no other land, 00:03:16.430 --> 00:03:18.430 and unleashed upon them horrors 00:03:18.430 --> 00:03:21.430 that made the skins of historians crawl, 00:03:21.430 --> 00:03:24.430 and their pens tremble as they wrote. 00:03:24.430 --> 00:03:27.430 Sir Thomas Arnold described 00:03:27.430 --> 00:03:31.430 what they committed during their invasion of the Islamic lands, 00:03:31.430 --> 00:03:34.430 stating that the history of Islam— 00:03:34.430 --> 00:03:37.430 despite the countless calamities that befell it— 00:03:37.430 --> 00:03:40.430 had never known a catastrophe more harrowing than the Tatar invasions. 00:03:40.430 --> 00:03:43.430 The hordes of Genghis Khan poured 00:03:43.430 --> 00:03:47.430 into the Muslim lands like avalanches cascading from mountain peaks, 00:03:47.430 --> 00:03:50.430 sweeping away the great Islamic metropolises in their path, 00:03:50.430 --> 00:03:54.430 obliterating all the civilization and culture they contained, 00:03:54.430 --> 00:03:57.430 and leaving behind throughout those lands 00:03:57.430 --> 00:04:00.430 nothing but ruins and desolation. 00:04:00.430 --> 00:04:02.460 He went on to say 00:04:02.460 --> 00:04:05.460 that the day they swept through the flourishing city of Herat, 00:04:05.460 --> 00:04:08.460 they reduced it to a leveled, barren plain; 00:04:08.460 --> 00:04:10.460 and when they finally withdrew from it, 00:04:10.460 --> 00:04:15.460 no more than forty men of its original inhabitants crawled out from their hideouts. 00:04:15.460 --> 00:04:18.459 These wretched few 00:04:18.459 --> 00:04:21.459 were the sole remnants of a population 00:04:21.459 --> 00:04:25.459 that had once numbered well over one hundred thousand souls. 00:04:25.459 --> 00:04:27.660 And in the city of Bukhara, 00:04:27.660 --> 00:04:30.660 the sanctuary of scholars, the pious, and the righteous, 00:04:30.660 --> 00:04:32.660 the Tatars tore apart copies of the Qur'an, 00:04:32.660 --> 00:04:35.660 spreading them under the hooves of their horses in the stables 00:04:35.660 --> 00:04:37.660 to serve as litter, 00:04:37.660 --> 00:04:41.660 after slaughtering the men, enslaving the women, 00:04:41.660 --> 00:04:45.660 and reducing that ancient city to a mere trace of its former self. 00:04:45.660 --> 00:04:50.750 Yet the supreme catastrophe and greatest calamity struck Baghdad. 00:04:50.750 --> 00:04:52.750 In the month of Safar, 00:04:52.750 --> 00:04:55.750 in the year 656 AH, 00:04:55.750 --> 00:04:59.750 the capital of the world fell into the clutches of the Tatars— 00:04:59.750 --> 00:05:02.750 the seat of civilization, the sanctuary of the Caliphate, 00:05:02.750 --> 00:05:06.750 the city of al-Mansur, al-Rashid, and al-Mu'tasim. 00:05:06.750 --> 00:05:08.750 They brought down upon its magnificent quarters 00:05:08.750 --> 00:05:11.750 horrors that would turn newborn babes gray-haired, 00:05:11.750 --> 00:05:16.750 pillaging the ancient metropolis for forty consecutive days and nights. 00:05:16.750 --> 00:05:19.750 Throughout this rampage, they demolished palaces and mansions, 00:05:19.750 --> 00:05:21.750 blew up mosques and grand Friday prayer-halls, 00:05:21.750 --> 00:05:24.750 burned libraries and academies, 00:05:24.750 --> 00:05:27.750 destroyed hospitals and sufi hospices, 00:05:27.750 --> 00:05:29.750 and put their swords to necks 00:05:29.750 --> 00:05:33.750 until blood flowed through the alleyways like rivers. 00:05:33.750 --> 00:05:37.750 None were spared among its inhabitants save the Jews and Christians, 00:05:37.750 --> 00:05:42.910 whom they granted immunity for their lives and property to the exclusion of all others. 00:05:42.910 --> 00:05:47.910 They would summon a man from among the nobles and scholars of Baghdad, 00:05:47.910 --> 00:05:51.910 and he would emerge bringing his wife, sons, and daughters; 00:05:51.910 --> 00:05:56.910 then they would lay him on his brow and slaughter him like a sheep, 00:05:56.910 --> 00:06:01.910 enslaving whichever of his daughters they chose and slaughtering the rest. 00:06:01.910 --> 00:06:06.910 Among those they murdered was al-Musta'sim, the Caliph of the Muslims; 00:06:06.910 --> 00:06:10.910 they killed his two sons alongside him and took captive his three daughters: 00:06:10.910 --> 00:06:14.139 Fatimah, Khadijah, and Maryam. 00:06:14.139 --> 00:06:17.139 When those forty black days drew to a close, 00:06:17.139 --> 00:06:20.139 Baghdad had become a leveled, barren waste: 00:06:20.139 --> 00:06:23.139 no adhan was called from its minarets, 00:06:23.139 --> 00:06:26.139 no Qur'an was recited in its mosques, 00:06:26.139 --> 00:06:29.139 no Friday congregation was held in its grand sanctuaries, 00:06:29.139 --> 00:06:32.139 and no light of learning radiated from its academies. 00:06:32.139 --> 00:06:36.139 Historians differed regarding the number of its slain: 00:06:36.139 --> 00:06:40.139 one group estimated the dead at one million, 00:06:40.139 --> 00:06:45.139 while another held that they were a million or even more. 00:06:45.139 --> 00:06:48.259 When that decreed catastrophe had run its course, 00:06:48.259 --> 00:06:53.259 the corpses of the slain littered the roads like mounds. 00:06:53.259 --> 00:06:56.259 Soon afterward, rain fell upon them, 00:06:56.259 --> 00:06:59.259 disfiguring their forms and causing their rotting corpses to reek, 00:06:59.259 --> 00:07:03.259 which polluted the air and gave rise to a virulent plague. 00:07:03.259 --> 00:07:06.259 It spread from there to the lands of the Levant, 00:07:06.259 --> 00:07:09.259 and countless multitudes perished as a result. 00:07:09.259 --> 00:07:12.329 When a truce and safety were finally proclaimed in Baghdad, 00:07:12.329 --> 00:07:15.329 those who had been hiding beneath the earth emerged 00:07:15.329 --> 00:07:18.329 from pits, conduits, and tombs, 00:07:18.329 --> 00:07:20.329 appearing just like the dead. 00:07:20.329 --> 00:07:22.329 They failed to recognize one another, 00:07:22.329 --> 00:07:25.329 to the extent that a father did not know his own son, 00:07:25.329 --> 00:07:28.329 and a brother could not be certain of his brother. 00:07:28.329 --> 00:07:31.329 Yet before long, the plague harvested them too, 00:07:31.329 --> 00:07:34.329 and they joined those who had preceded them to the graves. 00:07:34.329 --> 00:07:38.459 Then the Tatars pushed their armies toward the Levant, 00:07:38.459 --> 00:07:41.459 and cities fell beneath their feet 00:07:41.459 --> 00:07:45.459 like autumn leaves falling from trees. 00:07:45.459 --> 00:07:49.459 Sheer terror marched before them, 00:07:49.459 --> 00:07:52.459 paralyzing the inhabitants and opening the gates of cities, 00:07:52.459 --> 00:07:54.459 which tempted them to invade Egypt, 00:07:54.459 --> 00:07:57.459 Allah's quiver on His earth, 00:07:57.459 --> 00:08:00.459 and to eliminate its ruler, Sayf al-Din Qutuz, 00:08:00.459 --> 00:08:03.459 the hero of the Battle of 'Ayn Jalut. 00:08:03.459 --> 00:08:06.779 So let us trace the life story of this commander— 00:08:06.779 --> 00:08:09.779 this singular warrior—from its very beginning. 00:08:09.779 --> 00:08:12.779 The young man, Mahmud Qutuz, 00:08:12.779 --> 00:08:15.779 traced his noble lineage back to the Khwarazmian kings. 00:08:15.779 --> 00:08:19.779 The Tatars had waged a devastating war against them, 00:08:19.779 --> 00:08:22.779 seizing their lands, widowing their women, 00:08:22.779 --> 00:08:24.779 and enslaving their children. 00:08:24.779 --> 00:08:26.779 Among those who were captured and enslaved 00:08:26.779 --> 00:08:28.779 was Mahmud Qutuz. 00:08:28.779 --> 00:08:31.779 He then passed through the hands of slave dealers, 00:08:31.779 --> 00:08:34.779 until he was bought by a prominent nobleman of Damascus, 00:08:34.779 --> 00:08:36.779 renowned for piety and righteousness, 00:08:36.779 --> 00:08:39.779 and known for his deep concern for the affairs of the Muslims, 00:08:39.779 --> 00:08:41.779 grieving over their misfortunes 00:08:41.779 --> 00:08:44.779 and caring for whatever troubled them. 00:08:44.779 --> 00:08:47.779 The young youth grew up under the care of this master, 00:08:47.779 --> 00:08:50.779 enjoying a noble, virtuous upbringing, 00:08:50.779 --> 00:08:53.779 combining brilliance of heart and nobility of spirit 00:08:53.779 --> 00:08:57.779 with sincerity of faith and the exalted guidance of Islam. 00:08:57.970 --> 00:09:01.970 He used to frequent the assemblies of the great scholar of Damascus, 00:09:01.970 --> 00:09:04.970 its venerable guide and practicing savant: 00:09:04.970 --> 00:09:07.970 'Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam, 00:09:07.970 --> 00:09:11.970 finding with him beneficial knowledge and sound admonition. 00:09:11.970 --> 00:09:14.970 He would listen eagerly to his discourses, 00:09:14.970 --> 00:09:17.970 which were ablaze with incitement to jihad, 00:09:17.970 --> 00:09:19.970 encouragement toward martyrdom, 00:09:19.970 --> 00:09:22.970 and censure of corrupt Muslim rulers. 00:09:23.970 --> 00:09:27.129 At that time, the lands of the Muslims 00:09:27.129 --> 00:09:30.129 were exposed to two massive, imminent invasions: 00:09:30.129 --> 00:09:33.129 an invasion coming from the West 00:09:33.129 --> 00:09:36.129 at the hands of the fanatical Crusaders, 00:09:36.129 --> 00:09:39.129 and an invasion coming from the East 00:09:39.129 --> 00:09:42.190 at the hands of the pagan Tatars. 00:09:42.190 --> 00:09:45.190 The Sheikh's sermons on jihad 00:09:45.190 --> 00:09:48.190 and martyrdom took complete hold of the youth, 00:09:48.190 --> 00:09:51.320 awakening his heart and intellect so profoundly 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:55.320 that he saw the Messenger, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, in a dream. 00:09:55.320 --> 00:09:59.320 He approached him amidst a troop of horsemen, 00:09:59.320 --> 00:10:03.320 with hair hanging down past his earlobes; 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.320 as soon as he reached him, he dismounted from his horse, 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:10.320 drew close to him, raised him firmly to his feet, 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:13.320 struck him upon the chest, and said to him: 00:10:13.320 --> 00:10:17.320 "Rise, O Mahmud, and take this path to Egypt, 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:20.450 for you will rule it and defeat the Tatars." 00:10:20.450 --> 00:10:25.450 Mahmud related his vision to his master, 'Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam, 00:10:25.450 --> 00:10:27.450 who rejoiced at it and prayed: 00:10:27.450 --> 00:10:30.450 "O Allah, fulfill the vision of Your servant Mahmud, 00:10:30.450 --> 00:10:36.669 just as You fulfilled the vision of Your servant and truthful Messenger, peace and blessings be upon him." 00:10:36.669 --> 00:10:38.669 From that day forth, 00:10:38.669 --> 00:10:41.669 Mahmud's soul yearned to travel to Egypt. 00:10:41.669 --> 00:10:44.669 His attachment to it grew all the stronger 00:10:44.669 --> 00:10:46.669 when his master departed for it; 00:10:46.669 --> 00:10:49.769 for al-Malik al-Salih Isma'il 00:10:49.769 --> 00:10:51.769 grew thoroughly weary of the shaykh, 00:10:51.769 --> 00:10:55.769 because he was inciting the people against him for abandoning jihad 00:10:55.769 --> 00:10:59.769 and for colluding with Allah's enemies among the Crusaders; 00:10:59.769 --> 00:11:01.769 so he banished him from the lands of the Levant, 00:11:01.769 --> 00:11:04.769 forcing him to depart for Egypt. 00:11:04.769 --> 00:11:10.149 Mahmud sought permission from his master to travel to the land of Egypt, 00:11:10.149 --> 00:11:12.149 to rejoin his shaykh. 00:11:12.149 --> 00:11:15.149 His master granted him leave, bid him farewell, and said: 00:11:15.149 --> 00:11:18.149 "Do not forget the vision you saw, O Mahmud; 00:11:18.149 --> 00:11:22.149 for whoever sees the Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) in a dream 00:11:22.149 --> 00:11:24.149 has indeed seen him in truth." 00:11:24.149 --> 00:11:27.179 Mahmud entered the service of Egypt's rulers, 00:11:27.179 --> 00:11:30.179 where he began to display such diverse forms of valor 00:11:30.179 --> 00:11:33.179 and exhibit such varieties of wisdom and shrewdness 00:11:33.179 --> 00:11:35.179 as paved the way before him 00:11:35.179 --> 00:11:39.179 to become a major commander among the army's leaders, 00:11:39.179 --> 00:11:41.179 then the Sultan's deputy, 00:11:41.179 --> 00:11:43.179 and ultimately the King of Egypt, 00:11:43.179 --> 00:11:45.179 receiving the royal title al-Malik al-Muzaffar 00:11:45.179 --> 00:11:47.179 Sayf al-Din Qutuz. 00:11:47.179 --> 00:11:51.440 Barely had al-Malik al-Muzaffar established himself upon the throne of the land 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:55.440 when Hulagu, the king of the Tatars, sent to him 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:59.440 an epistle carried by five of his men, which read: 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:02.440 "From the King of Kings of the East and the West, 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:04.440 the Supreme Commander, 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:06.440 to al-Malik al-Muzaffar 00:12:06.440 --> 00:12:10.440 and all the emirs of his realm in the Egyptian lands: 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:13.440 Truly, you have an admonition in the fate of other lands, 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:15.440 and a deterrent against resisting our resolve. 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:18.440 Take heed, therefore, by the example of others, 00:12:18.440 --> 00:12:20.440 and surrender your affairs unto us. 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:23.440 You have surely heard that we have conquered the lands 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:26.440 and purged the earth of corruption; 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.440 so flight is your only recourse, 00:12:28.440 --> 00:12:30.440 while relentless pursuit is ours. 00:12:30.440 --> 00:12:32.440 For our steeds are fleet of foot, 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:34.440 our arrows pierce through all, 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:36.440 our swords strike like thunderbolts, 00:12:36.440 --> 00:12:38.440 our hearts are unyielding as mountains, 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:40.440 and our numbers are vast as the sands." 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:43.440 Al-Malik al-Muzaffar gathered his emirs 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:45.440 and consulted them regarding the matter, 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:48.440 and their consensus was to meet the enemy in battle. 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.570 He then ordered the execution of Hulagu's five emissaries, 00:12:51.570 --> 00:12:54.570 hung their heads upon the gate of Bab Zuwayla, 00:12:54.570 --> 00:12:58.570 and set about preparing for war with utmost vigor. 00:12:58.570 --> 00:13:02.600 Yet he observed the terror gripping the people regarding the Tatars 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:05.600 and their dread that they and their cities would suffer 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:07.600 the very same fate as Baghdad. 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:09.600 So he hastened to address the matter 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:12.600 by rekindling the flame of faith within their souls 00:13:12.600 --> 00:13:14.600 and turning the people back toward Allah. 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:17.600 He established a bureau for jihad, 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:20.600 entrusting its supervision to his teacher and the venerable shaykh of the Muslims, 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:23.600 'Izz al-Din Ibn 'Abd al-Salam. 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:26.820 'Izz al-Din Ibn 'Abd al-Salam relied upon the mosque 00:13:26.820 --> 00:13:29.820 to awaken slumbering hearts 00:13:29.820 --> 00:13:31.820 and invigorate their flagging resolve. 00:13:31.820 --> 00:13:33.820 He assembled the mosque preachers, 00:13:33.820 --> 00:13:37.820 instructed them on what they ought to deliver from the pulpits, 00:13:37.820 --> 00:13:40.820 and urged them to summon the people to jihad 00:13:40.820 --> 00:13:43.820 and inspire them with the desire for martyrdom. 00:13:43.820 --> 00:13:47.919 He refused to license any of those preachers 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:49.919 until they had committed Surat al-Anfal 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:52.919 and Surat al-Tawbah entirely to memory. 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:54.919 As a result of this, 00:13:54.919 --> 00:13:57.919 the pulpits, homes, and marketplaces 00:13:57.919 --> 00:13:59.919 became vibrant with the recitation of the verses of battle, 00:13:59.919 --> 00:14:03.919 to the point that ordinary men, women, and children 00:14:03.919 --> 00:14:06.919 almost knew them entirely by heart. 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.139 A profound religious fervor washed over 00:14:09.139 --> 00:14:11.139 the souls of all, 00:14:11.139 --> 00:14:13.139 encompassing every segment of society: 00:14:13.139 --> 00:14:16.139 the transgressive ceased committing sins, 00:14:16.139 --> 00:14:19.139 addicts abstained from drinking wine, 00:14:19.139 --> 00:14:21.139 the people turned back in penitence to Allah, 00:14:21.139 --> 00:14:24.139 the mosques overflowed with those bowing and prostrating, 00:14:24.139 --> 00:14:27.139 and the people had no talk left to occupy them 00:14:27.139 --> 00:14:30.139 except speaking of meeting the enemy of Allah and their enemy. 00:14:30.139 --> 00:14:35.460 Barely had al-Malik al-Muzaffar completed his military preparations 00:14:35.460 --> 00:14:37.460 when intelligence reached him 00:14:37.460 --> 00:14:40.460 of the Tatars advancing toward his lands 00:14:40.460 --> 00:14:43.460 to exact vengeance upon him for what he had done 00:14:43.460 --> 00:14:47.460 and to sack his realm as they had sacked Baghdad before. 00:14:47.460 --> 00:14:50.460 He rallied the people to jihad, 00:14:50.460 --> 00:14:53.460 and they answered his call, light and heavy, 00:14:53.460 --> 00:14:55.460 the elders and the youth, 00:14:55.460 --> 00:14:59.460 having pledged to themselves to attain one of the two best outcomes: 00:14:59.460 --> 00:15:01.460 victory or martyrdom. 00:15:01.460 --> 00:15:03.779 On Friday morning, 00:15:03.779 --> 00:15:06.779 five days remaining in Ramadan, 00:15:06.779 --> 00:15:09.779 in the year six hundred and fifty-eight, 00:15:09.779 --> 00:15:12.779 the two hosts met at 'Ayn Jalut, 00:15:12.779 --> 00:15:15.779 located between Baysan and Nablus. 00:15:15.779 --> 00:15:20.909 The Tatars' arrows began pouring relentlessly upon the heads of the Muslims, 00:15:20.909 --> 00:15:22.909 sundering their ranks, 00:15:22.909 --> 00:15:24.909 scattering their formations, 00:15:24.909 --> 00:15:26.909 and paralyzing their movement. 00:15:26.909 --> 00:15:28.980 When the distress grew severe upon them, 00:15:28.980 --> 00:15:33.980 the Sultan ordered them to charge the enemy of Allah and their enemy. 00:15:33.980 --> 00:15:36.980 Swords clashed violently against swords, 00:15:36.980 --> 00:15:39.980 spears became hopelessly entangled with spears, 00:15:39.980 --> 00:15:42.980 fierce slaughter broke out between both sides, 00:15:42.980 --> 00:15:45.980 and each fought with the utmost gallantry. 00:15:45.980 --> 00:15:50.009 When al-Malik al-Muzaffar beheld the sheer might of his enemy 00:15:50.009 --> 00:15:53.009 and their immense manpower and boundless equipment, 00:15:53.009 --> 00:15:55.009 he threw off his helmet from his head, 00:15:55.009 --> 00:15:57.009 cast it to the ground, 00:15:57.009 --> 00:16:00.009 and cried out in his roaring voice, proclaiming: 00:16:00.009 --> 00:16:03.009 "O Islam! O Islam!" 00:16:03.009 --> 00:16:06.009 Thus he inflamed his soldiers' hearts with the fire of faith 00:16:06.009 --> 00:16:10.009 and ignited their souls with zealous devotion for Islam. 00:16:10.009 --> 00:16:13.009 They swooped down upon their enemy like falling meteors, 00:16:13.009 --> 00:16:15.009 continuing to fight them with fierce resolve 00:16:15.009 --> 00:16:18.009 until they breached their dense battle lines 00:16:18.009 --> 00:16:21.009 and penetrated deep into their packed multitudes. 00:16:21.009 --> 00:16:24.009 Thereupon, Allah cast feebleness into the souls of the Tatars 00:16:24.009 --> 00:16:27.009 and struck dread into their hearts. 00:16:27.009 --> 00:16:30.009 Within an hour or so, 00:16:30.009 --> 00:16:33.009 the enemy began to fall back, 00:16:33.009 --> 00:16:35.009 then started to retreat in disarray, 00:16:35.009 --> 00:16:37.009 and ultimately turned their backs in full flight. 00:16:37.009 --> 00:16:39.009 The Muslims rode hard on their heels, 00:16:39.009 --> 00:16:42.009 putting their necks to the sword 00:16:42.009 --> 00:16:45.009 and routing them utterly. 00:16:45.009 --> 00:16:46.169 To conclude: 00:16:46.169 --> 00:16:48.169 the day of 'Ayn Jalut was indeed 00:16:48.169 --> 00:16:51.169 the first day the invincible conquerors were defeated 00:16:51.169 --> 00:16:54.169 and the subjugators themselves were overcome; 00:16:54.169 --> 00:16:57.169 after that day, they never stood tall again. 00:16:58.169 --> 00:17:00.169 And that Mamluk, 00:17:00.169 --> 00:17:02.169 Sayf al-Din Qutuz, 00:17:02.169 --> 00:17:05.170 was the first man to humiliate the tyrant Hulagu. 00:17:05.170 --> 00:17:08.170 Islam was, and remains, 00:17:08.170 --> 00:17:10.170 the wellspring of victory for the Muslims 00:17:10.170 --> 00:17:13.170 and the path of honor for the believers. 00:17:13.170 --> 00:17:16.170 True indeed are the words of Allah the Almighty when He says: 00:17:16.170 --> 00:17:20.170 "Say, 'O Allah, Owner of All Sovereignty, 00:17:20.170 --> 00:17:23.170 “Say: O Allah! Owner of Sovereignty! Thou givest sovereignty unto whom Thou wilt, and Thou withdrawest sovereignty from whom Thou wilt. Thou exaltest whom Thou wilt, and Thou abasest whom Thou wilt. In Thy hand is the good. Lo! Thou art Able to do all things.” (3:26) 00:17:23.170 --> 00:17:26.170 and You take away sovereignty 00:17:26.170 --> 00:17:29.170 from whom You will. 00:17:29.170 --> 00:17:33.170 You honor whom You will, 00:17:33.170 --> 00:17:37.170 and You humble whom You will. 00:17:37.170 --> 00:17:40.170 In Your hand is all good. 00:17:40.170 --> 00:17:44.170 Indeed, You are over all things competent.'"