Al-Andalus: From Rise to Fall Part 1

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assalamu aleikum Jimmy I'm and Alamosa hand to al-andalus from rise to fall ok so we this is a brand-new series and shall love 12 lectures it should be what we're aiming to do bees nila is go through a complete overview of al-andalus from conquest to collapse

ok till it kind of collapses right at the end now it isn't going to be possible to really give an entire or even a very detailed comprehensive grasp of what happened in al-andalus which spans over 800 years eight centuries within just twelve lectures but what we do aim to do via vanilla is at least acquaint ourselves with some with some of the greatest events perhaps that took place familiarize ourselves with some of

the legends the dynasties the success and the tragedy that took place within this Iberian Peninsula right so that's just to kind of explain to us so we have an understanding of what's going on today what we will be doing by the way is looking into an introduction of what will be covered we'll go through just taking just a quick glance as some of the topics we'll be discussing things like the importance of history why is

history important because as I as I've kind of spoken to people about al-andalus surprisingly many people they turn back and they think well what is the point of this I know people some people perhaps not so are not so vocal with their with their opinions shall I say but this is what we what I am seeing okay what we all see there will be many people that will think or what's the point of going over history it's or something that's been in the past what's the point of al-andalus

is this just you know just glorifying something that was there once again just to boast of all you know we the Muslims had this we had we had we've done all these we've made all these achievements historically we were responsible for someone so is that just a almost as it's not just a distraction method to escape our present-day reality of how and where we are today so instead of looking at where we are today I'm feeling perhaps

embarrassed feeling let down by the current state of affairs what we do is say let's look at the past is that is this a distraction method is that what it is many people look at it like that many people look at history with the angle of is this just crying over spilt milk since are we just saying oh you know all and Allure Salon de yeah we're just wailing over in lamenting is that what we're doing and that's something I'd like to discuss today in some depth to go over what the importance of history

is in general what the importance of history is for Muslims that's more specific right and what the importance of history is for us okay Alice as in people living within especially within Europe today as Muslims what does this mean for us and perhaps people were everyday living I'm not restricting this to just Europe or I'm just saying what it means on a very individual basis as well right I'll also because we know the sum of al-andalus

pre-conquest so what was going on in Ellen de Lucia Orlando loose or what was it cooled who was ruling it before the arrival of the Muslim liberating armies so before thorak means the earth and all these people arrived on the scene what was taking place in al-andalus well we'll have a quick glance at that as well so bismillah Matala we begin we've got you see we have to remind ourselves and remind each

other of what has actually reached us of this message what they care for in a vikre temporal meaning and remind Allah says that this reminder will only benefit the believers with that in mind we're going to take a look and the objectives which have stated just to expand and go into them that why history

ok what is history people I reassure you when Muslims study here um first of all before we even go into that Muslim history yeah is so vast incredibly fast I'm talking about where's starting from the serie of the Prophet Elisha Salam moving on to the ha'la'tha Rashid own moving on to the beginning of and the beginning of the

Umayyad dynasty which is perhaps the most decisive dynasty that emerges because from it then emerge all these other dynasties perhaps some as reactions summers just new ventures but you see you've got your milliards which will last for almost 90 years then you've got when I passed the Abbasids in North Africa you have a bit of a horrid dynasty set up for a little while and then there's a Shia dynasty which sets up obey the yen and then you have the father mean and then also at the same

time the rise of al-andalus is taking place and so on and all this is going on and and centuries follow each other in succession and we're seeing dynasty being taken by another and people rising and you know civilizations collapsing all this is going on and that it has been going on for over 1400 years al-andalus is only a tiny fraction of Muslim history do not think this is and you know this is Islamic it this is a

portion but what we can do is we can take things by portions we can try and understand what happened in one particular part of the globe it will be inextricably tied in to all the other events that are occurring simultaneously in their time in other parts of the Muslim world and other parts of the world as well but we can also use this as an opportunity to a to to kind of Kindle this flame for learning for learning our

own history who will be who are we secondly to discover what was this all about okay so we can use this as an opportunity to do that like I said it is a small part of of Muslim history yet it is one it is a magnificent element it's something which spans 800 years of civilization and civilization which Muslims today boast so before the end of this course inshallah you would have some true realization of what actually

took place and what is this legacy of which people speak proudly and boast also one of the things I'll stay at this I'll say at this stage and I'll repeat this throughout the course is that people go away and do your own studies okay do not be restricted to what you are getting in one particular place do not think this if anything I just want to ignite that flame within you to go away and continue your own search and the evening loss of Hinata Allah will

enlighten you from his knowledge and may align likeness all arming so that is what we what we would like to be learning the oldest mention of al-andalus is really in in a rewire which comes from Earth Monroe de la langue where he speaks and quite ironically he's actually speaking of a la post antinea Constantinople because Constantinople and the liberation of Constantinople was something which the

professor Larsen prophesized and really encouraged people to it so many people since the time of the professor al-salam had Constantinople in the sight they wanted it they they were so I mean they had their not only their mind set on it but the utmost effort in trying to be that person who liberate Constantinople whereas mine really alone and is one of the first people who's who mentions that

he says set off the whole Costantini I mean table Angeles he says it will be conquered but from al-andalus meaning because people were failing attempt after attempt and many people went and you know there was sustained huge losses but every time no matter how close they got they were always met with failure because it was just too well fortified and so as mine really alone unprofitable

iteration of Costantini via al-andalus and that's one of the earliest mentions that we hear of so that it's so that's al-andalus we'll go into what the name actually means in a short while and we'll look into that's to do with pre-islamic and the loose and we'll take a look at that we'll also look at things like some a quick glance at some of the dynasties we'll look at things like some of the cities masajid quick brief mention on the libraries this is just today just as a glance that this is what

we will go through but today it's like a quick overview to prepare us to go through it and also one of the key themes is an identity in crisis because this is really what we're facing today and this is one of the reasons while Andaluz is important for us today especially us who live in the West today

first of all with regards to history I'd like to say that a significant portion of the Quran is is really history almost a third of the entire Quran is history Allah mentions photocell a salsa la isla home yet a own that narrate to them these incidents these events perhaps in the hope that they actually

reflect and ponder okay there is a huge portion we see the stories of the omen before us Allah is mentioning these he speaks right from the time before creation he speaks about how the world is being made and how allies set it about and and then the creation of Adam and the story that occurs the narrative between him and I please and the whole story of Jannah and and then being banished from Jannah Adam and how were and the whole thing since the story of

nor ELISA Lam the flood you have prophets in succession being mentioned we've got stories of towered Suleiman you've got stories of moosa aleihsalaam musa alehsalaam story and Pharaon is a repetitive story there is no Jews in the Quran except there is the mention of the of the story of Musa and Ferran we've got surah yousuf which is a tional Isis it's the best of narrations in the as Allah is presenting and it is almost

entirely a story so we've in fact it's very unique in that sense surah yousuf because no other surah actually focuses so much on a particular narrative even if it's for example surah Baqarah the longest surah in the Quran only a few verses which are committed to the incident of the baccarat of the incident of the cow and so on and the people of Israel and and the murder and so on it's only a few verses whether it's Ali Imran with a certain Nyssa whether it's any

surah it is not as committed to in particular it will have many things going through surah Yousuf almost the entire surah presents this narrative of what took place with use of Alisa Story upon story why people Allah is teaching us this is how human beings take heed this is how they understand things as the Arabic proverb says were bill method

yet other home and by examples do things become clear Allah is showing us examples of nations and civilizations that went before us stories that occurred so we can understand and think right okay this is what's happened it will also put people in their place because history I don't mean by this like in a symmetrical sense but history does repeat itself the rise of power the struggles the

courage discoveries the betrayal the fall the tragedy all of these things I'll be in different shapes and form but they repeat themselves and Allah says what he'll kill a yam and those days Nadal will have been a mess we rotate them between people so the is a lot to learn in response this is why I have mentioned that crying over spilt milk that's one angle the other as

was quoted by Cicero that to remain ignorant of things that happen before you were born is to remain a child people go through this world really just trying to you know everything we we as human beings are very egocentric very self-centered the world is just us and history shakes that for us what it does in its wake is it inspires people to achieve when you start realizing that those before you manage to go out and do these

magnificent things it makes people think that ok they were people I they're human I'm human what is actually stopping me from doing something this is one of the amazing merits of learning of learning about history it has been said that history is nothing but the biography or the biographies of great men or great people because what is history except

that people have gone out and done something and today we read of their legacy and I'm not saying it necessarily all everything in history that we have is accurate I'm not speaking on the accuracy perspective right now I'm just speaking about what it actually is and this is what this is why you have like frost up when he says he says her Allah Yaba if a genie be mythili him either JAMA at Nara Jerald Muhammad says these

are my forefathers Oh Jared he says so bring me somebody the like like onto them if you're ever given an opportunity to do so this is history it also shows us when we know where we have come from we have a better angle a better perspective of where we're going our trajectory it realigns our trajectory and don't think it doesn't it does people when they

start to realize certain things they realize achievements they realize also causes for failure the hadith of the Prophet Allah Salaam is aside is who the lucky the fortunate person is who man were either be hailey who receives a Mohnish who is admonished he takes lessons but from the mistakes of others he doesn't have to make them himself he takes them from the mistakes of others

even if al don't who was really a master of of not only sociology really in that sense but also historical analysis and he speaks of the Sunna if you like in that you find in the rise and fall of dynasties he says that they all have a particular type like like a Sunnah to them but they will rise in these particular things that you know

particular methods and then they will fall see and that is so net Allah feel healthy it is the son of Allah in his creation well entity Dallas unmethylated abdillah you will not find that Allah changes his Sunnah his laws of nature today we also have a big question within us you see the question is what is the Muslim we think about ourselves we have

this thing that Muslims we what it what does it actually mean to be Muslim we have a sense we have some picture of an identity something which goes on within our minds we understand that it is something which is a belief perhaps it carries as it reflects a certain character somebody with a particular type of perspective or an angle on life the hadith very simply when the professor Allison was asked to describe the Muslim he say he said money stock

availability now whosoever faced our Qibla was Salih Saleh Tana and he prayed our salah well iCalendar be hatun and he ate from our meat favela Cal Muslim he said that is the Muslim that is a Muslim but the problem with that is that it doesn't fit our reality today of what the Muslim actually is why is this such a big issue and how does it relate into al-andalus well it does because if we

don't have a true understanding of what the Muslim is we are left with an identity crisis studying history corroborates that understanding it clears for us that picture of what a Muslim should be because we will see we will and you will see this as we start to go through this course you'll start to see huge diversity people of all races and backgrounds and people of many tongues all coming to the faith all putting in their portion contributing

which results in a civilization that any other in its time on earth you will see these people from as weather is from the Slavs the Slavic background you'll see people coming from many the actual Spanish converts at the time you'll see the Berber as the Arabs you will see other people all mixing the mala dune the concept of those of mixed race and who these people weren't the whole thing will will be going through this and we'll be learning about this discovering these things and understanding that whoa everybody brings something to the table

and this learning that then makes us think okay where we are today and how we are going to bring something to the table another thing is that we go about when I said human beings we are very egocentric see we in and this is a natural thing in a way we go about we understand that we are in a way the center of the world that the world really only exists for us through our minds everything is interpreted interpreted for us through us so without

us how could the world possibly be you see that see this is a question which people have really struggled with for centuries before philosophers poets you name it scholars studying history what that does is it takes us from this macroscopic view see microscopy is perceiving things as they actually are a microscopic perspective is where everything were you looking at things which are tiny perhaps imperceptible to the naked eye

so we by looking at ourselves when we start to look into history what we realize is that there were so many legends that lived before us these great these giants of history all of a sudden we completely our existence almost dissipates and disappears he almost drowns really amongst these giants and legends ok amongst like what I said was our self

becomes so insignificant amidst this ocean of insurmountable legacies this so what that makes us think is that so we really in a way are just nothing because what have we what what have I actually done you see there is a hadith of the Prophet Allison that he said a hundred years shall not pass except nobody on the earth today shall be on it then

everybody around us today within a hundred years will be dead there will be nothing they will not be able to utter a word they will not be able to express an opinion they will not be able to make a difference that's all it is for many of us half that time but some of us perhaps a quarter of that time we will be no more this is it we have this portion of time we have to understand that yes in

life everybody gets by everybody will survive in one way or another WOM arminder button fill or be Allah Allah Allah I respond there is no creature on earth except Allah has already sustained its provisions what if any will be the legacy that we will either contribute to or leave behind I reassure you they have been millions of people who have come onto this earth and left without a trace today we have no idea who their names

were we are not interested in them we don't even know that they existed will this be the fate of many of us this is what we have to ask ourselves this is where we find some the quran constantly brings us back to this message the Sunnah is at all times teaching us to do something the seer of the Sahaba the Salaf the allama it is all the in front

of us and this is why history is so important it is important to understand what went before you in order to become a part of that which rewrites the future ahead of you kahiapo check we ham Sameer Johar Mehta mighty Calcutta the poet Neve said what would you respond to if people asked you that yes you came to this world but what

did you leave behind so this is it is not futile and I'm not saying that we are under the impression that it is but this is just to remind ourselves and to remind others now let's take a look at under us historically okay we've before this is really the backdrop of that which the conquest goes into so this is before the Muslims have actually arrived in al-andalus what is al-andalus and where does it actually get this name from and under loose people have said is

and there are many opinions but the general understanding is al-andalus is almost it's a deviation if you like from Vandellas Van de Lucia which was a state set up by the vandals or the vandals who had emerged from what was at the time perhaps Sweden that type of area today there were a few kingdoms that emerged after the collapse or after the weakening of the Roman Empire so between the 5th and 8th century we find a few different kingdoms emerging and they start heading towards the Iberian

Peninsula which is modern-day Spain and Portugal so this is what we refer to by the way as the Iberian Peninsula what is modern day Spain and Portugal and which includes Gibraltar and so on now in that at that time you had the Visigoths they merged they were like a tribe from around perhaps modern-day Germany that type of Central Europe you had the Sui B's or the soubise and you had the Vandals and these three they kind of emerge and come towards what is what is the Iberian Peninsula and amongst themselves they take certain kingdoms

and the Visigoths take what would be really perhaps the central region or two around Toledo you have the Vandals who rule a huge part of it and they refer to it as van de Lucia so that was before the Muslims arrived to al-andalus okay and in terms of religion they had they had a few different religions there was Christianity are in the peninsula in the Iberian Peninsula they had many of them Catholic they did have a few different really beliefs and sects amongst

themselves likewise of the Visigoths they did bring certain beliefs with them as well certain practices and rituals things like cremation cremating the body and doing stuff like that there was also huge disparity in the poverty levels which were present so you do if you look into history you will find that there was a great amount of concentrated wealth amongst the kings saw the palaces and stuff like this were there which demonstrated that wealth was there but at the same time you find that the

general classes within the country within the Iberian Peninsula suffered from huge grades of poverty or perhaps even starvation and they had issues with the agriculture lack of crops a lack of irrigation things like this this was the state of affair there was also quite a bit of corruption taking place and we'll look into that insha'Allah as we go into in which we'll be in more depth in the following lecture but we will speak about in detail about the conquest but just to mention today that there was there were

levels of corruption between the Kings and so on and a sense of injustice you see when you have an environment like that it becomes so receptive to the Dean or the true Dean of al-islam so with that said the Muslims had decided to spread the darkness or dawa across really across the sea into the Iberian Peninsula the question comes here why did the Muslims head towards towards Europe

why because I mean did I mean what is the question I mean what is what is the point of Muslims entering this territory think about it you've got what is Muslim rule which at the time was under Bonnie umeå Andalusia was conquered in 92 history and will obviously go into the conquest in much more detail in the following lecture but it was conquered in 92 history under the rule of well II didn't Abdul Malik one of the Omega kings now who ruled from 86 to 96 injury

it was actually the Umayyad dynasty was probably added you know at its peak almost in grandeur they were ruling huge parts of the Muslim world and just to just to clarify to us by the way under ohmae head rule under Umayyad rule the muslims spanned such territory which even today after almost 1300 years we are not so different from so perhaps the Muslim world then is almost like 80% of the

Muslim world today perhaps or perhaps 75% it's not so different meaning that within the first hundred years what took place didn't really change for the next thirteen hundred years it did on some places some fronts but not significantly that's what I'm saying so and if if Allah permits be is Neela I will will in the future also present a series on the history of money Omega because they are they have a huge role to play in Muslim

history and very few Muslims know or have a realistic picture of who the Umayyads actually were beginning with more area even a piece of yarn or the aloha on the companion going right on to the end of the Umayyad dynasty in 132 he tree and the rise of the Abbasids but what took place in charlotte perhaps in another place another time we can go through in great detail god-willing right coming back to where we are now why would the muslims interested in Europe or in Andalusia more specifically the answer is simple

Allah addresses us to when Muslims have got to a certain point that they should be dealing with a Lavina yeah Luna come those who follow you as in those who neighbor you yeah Luna come when Muslims had conquered know North Africa the next civilization which neighbored them and was the closest to them was the Iberian Peninsula the sea between what modern-day Morocco and Gibraltar and or Spain mainland Spain is not actually so far were the Muslims

after land is that what they wanted you see if Muslims if at the time the Muslims were interested in land then people we should know with certainty that the sub Saharan desert a huge span Central Africa was just was just so vast an incredible amount of land present and available to the Muslims if they would just have to land just space to kind of build things in to take buildings to do this they could have just they could

have expanded they reach into the Sahara Desert or into what surrounds that area but that's not what they were interested in they were interested in taking this message natura Dawa taking a message of Islam of enlightenment of liberating the injustice is that were taking place in the neighboring kingdoms okay it's as Robbie Abner army and this Allahu Akbar people this comes straight back Robbie Abner army we find this companion who when he goes to Rustom in the

Persian Empire and he asked him why have you come yeah what do you want he says to him that seriously you wanna mess with the Persian Empire do you understand who the Persian Empire who who we are kisara asks him he says what what what do you actually new people what do you want and he says to him that he says lapa devta and Allah says Allah has sent us Lenora July but mean I Burdett LA but Allahabad Billy but he says that Allah has sent us

to remove the creation from the worship of creation to the worship of the creator of creation he says one window real at yarn and from the oppression of these religions Allah adilyn Islam to the Justice of Islam warmbier petunia and from the narrowness of this world Allah started to narrow darker to the vastness of this world and the hereafter this was the message that the Muslims

were taking forth to the Iberian Peninsula people what we shall see in the unseen in the ensuing lessons will be how Muslims went ahead to liberate the conquest that took place this youth thought it happens the yet who people say was perhaps just 19 years of age or 18 and some have said perhaps 17 at the time he how he a Muslim rising from the barber sets forth to lead an army that

will liberate and set about a civilization which will rewrite history we will learn about that we will we will understand who was this governor musa a banana Sayed who watches over Torah Kipnis yet this the incident of the burning of the ships many a people have heard of this was this fact was a fiction this is something we were looking to the table of Solomon the discovery that Tariq means he ad makes was that a reality or just a myth

circulated by many people is something we were look into how is it that Islam almost reaches just something like 30 miles away from Paris modern-day Paris and then retrieved so suddenly how is it that Islam expands so rapidly within the Iberian Peninsula what is the incident or the event of Wadi burbot or shall I say the tragedy a battle an event which rivals that of the

Cardassia in our history or here MOOC which hardly any Muslims have perhaps heard of today whatever what what is it that follows why is it that people historian said that give and they lose another ten years and Islam would disappear and this is in the early stages after Tariq means he has conquered why is it a historian said towards something like 130 Hillary that if you give Islam another decade give another decade to the Iberian Peninsula not a trace of Islam will be found how is it that a lot and saves this

peninsula with the advent of my mind Abdul Rahman ignore mahalia a nun crown prince from the east who a few who we can say really a few years before could only could not have even dreamt of setting about what he does who is this man and what is this legacy of his that he sets foot on this peninsula single-handedly he lands on the peninsula on his own and he has his servant one Greek servant with him on his own and when he dies the Iberian

Peninsula Andaluz is left with an army a hundred thousand strong with buildings which have been set up in cities which have been made and he has laid way for a dynasty the Omega dynasty once again after its name has been obliterated litter ated from the face of the earth he sets his he once again cements it to take for another two three hundred years how does he do that that is something we will be if Mila take a look at and what is it that whilst this dynasty rises to

such grandeur that one person comes by the name of Abdul Rahman and Nasir who actually claims to be a leaf of the entire Muslim world how is it that the largest Masjid in the entire globe is not in Macau Medina Obrestad it is in Cordoba in Europe a must-read with a thousand pillars a Masjid which still stands today a third of which is a Cathedral and a third a museum how is it

that Muslims did from Spain from Europe rival the largest and most dynamic city the Muslims had in the East but that how is it that they did that how is it as such scholars and rows in this place people who were children of converts to Islam but leave namakkal it becomes one of the greatest of Furth of hadith to ever exist his books rivals that of Abu Dawood and Bihari and so on from the offspring of a convert how did this take place we will discover them how is it

that when a kingdom becomes so powerful then it crumbles allahu akbar in need the kurta with vikram are a patent much dental eden be a dinner about now the poet says I remember but remembrance is painful he says it's something which keeps me awake at nights he says I remember a glory that we had in our hands and how we lost it how is it that such a kingdom becomes 22 tiny little kingdoms all fighting

against each other known as upper wife that these people they all and they turn against each other they how is it that they set up covenants and agreements with the Christian kingdoms to fight against the Muslims how is it that the tragedy of per beshte takes place where up this forty thousand Muslims are massacred in a single day seven thousand Muslim girls are enslaved and sent off as a gift to the Byzantium Empire how is it all this happens in this dynasty how is it that the rise of these colors like

hypnotizing Alber G even abdill bar takes place with all this going on and how is it that despite all of this then Allah Akbar all it takes is the determination of people there's a saying that him metier Martha madadayo da that the determination of people is often accompanied by the help that from when the Muslims are almost at a state that they cannot believe they will ever rise to strength along comes a man by the

name of use of hypnotist Fein who sets foot on this peninsula from North Africa at the age of 70 Andrey conquers he rescues a kingdom from collapsing and sets forth he actually creates a dynasty which connects the two continents identity a rulership a kingdom which only few before him could only have dreamed of how does he do this how is it that many up to 15 countries layer

nations in his time from Africa enter the fold of Islam including modern-day Mali Nigeria countries like this how does this happen how is it in his time the likes then I mean who are the people in his time the likes of cardia bobert Caribbean are be the andalusi legend all the yob even a rushed all these people arising as Missouri who are these people we will be if Neil I discover a bit about their lives how is it that this kingdom then eventually not collapses

but is succeeded by the Mohideen what was it that made them fight against the murabba team but what is it that when they do succeed ya Salam yes Allah they take it to such Heights a third an entire third of the African continent is under the more hard rule the Masjid of HB Lea which is built by them which still remains today although not as a Masjid but it is still there today parts

of it you see how they set this how they changed history abou Jakub yusuf al-mansour Almohad ii who is a contemporary to salahuddin lau be he how him how he strikes such a success at the Battle of Eric what was the Battle of

Iraq he redefines history to come many of many and I don't multitude of thoughts and fortresses crumble at the hands of this Abu Yussef yeah poop and Mansour and more Haiti ok who was this person what were the issues he had with the thick his time you also has a theological intervention in his time we see the philosopher Abner rushed

and half heed the great Maliki legend who goes on to inspire and enlighten the rest of the European thinkers of a huge portion shall we say at least of the European thinkers including the likes his own student Maimonides the Jewish theologian is his student and he's amongst his students students are the likes of st. Thomas Aquinas these are things we will learn about and what was the Battle of it up Allahu Akbar which takes place in the time of the Maha

dynasty and Allahu Akbar and there's almost a play on words here where Cobb is not only the name of the place but a pub in Arabic also means punishment and as though we are witnessing a punishment or a tragedy take place in Muslim history an incident where Muslims almost double the entire number of the people who are against them and yet they face such crumbling and tragic losses Allah as though it is the Battle of her

name reminding us that history repeats itself what is it that took place why is it that after this battle Andalus is quite never the same again we will also look into who burn in a server or burn ill armor that when Islam starts to decrease rapidly and it is shrinking it's disappearing all of a sudden this family hold on to it and set set a stronghold a foothold with in southern

Spain which becomes or comes to be known as the Nasri dynasty it lasts for another 250 years approximately they build the Alhambra Palace which still stands today and during its time many Olimar flourish the likes of listen athena block even know how thieved the likes of shot to be the likes of even a Lube the likes of immature people who redefined Islamic thought and

how is it that this dynasty then comes to its final end how the Sun is finally clipped on the Iberian Peninsula how is it Allah how the poet Alba R&D laments he has this ERISA a eulogy what is read for a dead person he writes aretha for an endless he says li kulli shayin yattaman Oksana fella you are Ruby tib Elijah in son that everything when it is

complete can only go down so in San should never be deceived with a good life here omoroca Masha had to her to alone this is how things are that you have witnessed them that they go round man sera who's eminence at all as man the whosoever is pleased by a particular time is displeased and made upset by by another he says well javi hit a ruler to be Allah hadn't voila you do more Allah

Hal in La Hashanah that this this land this earth displaced is abode it does not leave anybody it will not let anybody just simply be a no state in it is eternal he says Kenema cerebellum you sallallaahu suburban yeoman wala Melek ad-dunya Suleiman he says as though when we look at the world today's as though certain things were never set in place it says those Solomon never ever rule this earth does it feel like that for us today do we think that Solomon actually ever

ruled this earth yeah ha feelin wallahu feet ah hurry more either turn in Kunta feasts in attempt Adaro yeah he says all he who is so neglectful yeah he has such a lesson in history if you are asleep then I reassure you that time remains awake he says a Indicom neighbor on men Ali and Alison the have you heard the story of the people of al-andalus four cuts Arab a hadith L owe me Rock

panel now that it's tale has surely gone out there he says limit Lee had a a tubal album in committee in carnival pulpy Islam what Iman Oh he says for this surely the heart shrinks it dissolves from pain and anguish if the heart contains an ounce of Islam or Eman this is what we will be taking a look at this is what we will be discovering this is what we will be

reconnecting with will this will this kind of just end in a sense of despair is there no hope are we just trying to say that well okay now that will this happened what do we do just sit and cry over it no we will learn as we go through these lectures the amazing legacy that was produced the legacy which has reached us today the the thought the books the history the civilization of the Muslims of al-andalus it is our duty to understand this to

convey this to people who come after us not only that we will also look at very briefly as we go into it perhaps some of the attempts that Muslims did do to survive things like the al-ahmad Oh which was really where Muslims even tried to change the script and change the everything they could anything to cling on to Islam and and the desperate for tower that were released in those desperate times we will take a look at all of this but also how Allah Akbar returning to the words of Allah what LLL kill a yam and those days no day will

have been an ass we will rotate them amongst the people how when the Sun begins to set on al-andalus Allahu Akbar it rises on Constantinople Constantinople is finally conquered almost after 800 years that what begins the fall of the Muslim civilization on one side of the globe is mirrored by the rise in the ottoman empire in the east another dynasty which rules the Muslim globe for centuries and sets about its

own legacies Sharla these are some of the things we will look and look forward to and go through and reconnect with be--if Neela do take your time to go over these things do try and research them do not restrict your learning to my to my lessons or to what I'm going through if anything I simply would like to Kindle the flame of of wanting to learn within anybody who this voice reaches to Nizam allahi wa salaamu alaikum warahmatullah to Allah or barakato