Moulay Ismail & The Army Of Bukhari [Strength In Stories] | Mufti Abu Layth

what are we talking about what is this so you can take a look right there you've got you've got the you've got the map and on the left hand side we've got a picture of suleiman because he is also somebody that emerges in the story and then moles mile again and that's the city of macnas the flag of the sardine and a map of the kingdom under malay ismail and how far it managed to advance

so what is this all about who were the army of bukhari what do they have to do with sahil bukhari and what does maule ismail got to do with all of this and warren what do the turks have to do with it interesting people interesting for this we have to time travel allah and people say i don't take them on journeys i don't i don't take them on trips i don't do a trip sitting sitting trip setting

right so i'm taking you on a trip through time itself allahu akbar going back to the 17th century people right so this is a fascinating era by the way this is the era which they call in europe the the kind of the rise of enlightenment people will say it's the era of descartes of spinoza of leibniz that's what's going on you could shift right to the east

it's the the king it's the era of great opulence under the the mughals it's when shah jahan has built the taj mahal allahu akbar for his his beloved and you've got all of that going on muslims are at the height you've got the in europe enlightenment is kind of once again is emerging itself the hearing stories of the east the hearing of these the great peacock

throne indeed people and they're getting curious you're having some the kind of uh the companies are being also set up that are setting off and trying to become independent um investment entities and we spoke about that in our podcast on money and you can watch that it's on youtube and what's happening in northwest africa is you have the kingdom of the saudi okay so just pause there all of this is going on

let's backtrack a bit further another step allah let's go slightly back into the 16th century there you have on the left hand side top left hand corner that is the great ottoman solomon the magnificent ottoman empire is at its it's already reached its peak they are ruling over several parts they are eastern europe central asia middle east

northeast africa and they want to expand their kingdom further so they set their eyes on north west africa al-maghrib today often synonymous with morocco but that whole region not just modern-day morocco it would be modern-day tunis algeria morocco mauritania that whole the maghreb they set their eyes on it they're like

and you see people it's this you know in the past or not even just the past whenever we study histories there is not really a it's difficult understanding right and wrong rights and wrongs everything's just muddled up no one person often often is the epitome of good or the epitome of bad there's always mixed

emotions about them look how great the ottomans were one could say that what you know the opul the kind of heights of success that they reached but truly to the other people may admire them but they don't want them ruling them it's like imagine you people want their autonomy they don't want to be controlled and especially by foreigners it doesn't matter even if they're muslim if i said to you that you know your

household from now on will meet here meet this person mr abdullah he from tomorrow will tell you how to run your house you'd be like what i said but don't worry he's muslim and be like that's irrelevant whether he's muslim or not people are not comfortable understandably so with being a next to a particular empire so anyway the ottomans

have invaded they they invade tunis they secure some territory they want to expand further west to go into morocco they they take control of parts of algeria some places in north uh in the maghrib start affiliating themselves with the ottomans so you get some places especially from the banil dynasty some of them they stop in the jummah saying suleiman his name so whilst this is happening you have

somebody known as okay now he's from this ruling thing he says i've had enough this is not happening or turks and he said these turks are a fitnah they don't belong in this part of the world as in you see this is not about racism this is about they don't belong as rulers in this part of the world not as tourists he didn't have a problem with the turkish ethnicity

but he said that this is not this is not turkey or this is not their territory that what are they doing trying to rule north west africa so and you have to remember the sardine had a dynasty of their own so he sets up this he rallies an army and they go and have a face-off with the turks solemn sends his army and something which soleiman was magnificent for was his his his naval uh endeavors and enterprises so his his navy was quite spectacular so they send the boats and they come and they kind of

embark on these ships and you've got these armies that have come to fight standoff against abu abdullah asadi and he proves to be an admirable adversary far beyond the expectation of the ottomans there's a great battle that takes place i believe while the 11 but he defeats they defeat the ottomans so the ottomans are like whoa ah who's this a new kid on the block so what happens is they do another attempt

if at first you don't succeed don't worry man they also they have the element of torque each side has but you see so they send these reinforcements they think you know what we're going to have a spectacular standoff showdown it's going down people and the ottomans were had huge resources you know that it was something which you couldn't really you couldn't question their power they come once again

he takes he kind of rallies a cry he has all these people these tribes that kind of always affiliate themselves with him true kind of rated as a warrior of his age he goes he not only faces them but they crush the ottomans and these guys take over they take back all of that that part of the maghrib they take it under their control the ottomans have to flee they have to they've got no choice they're out of the gone so right

now what to do man what to do huh so what happens is suleiman kanuni and solomon sees solomon the magnificent in his own right he has spectacular you know efforts and and and accomplishments and feat that he has that he has achieved in his lifetime including even from the islamic perspective he had introduced um this is why they called him he had introduced

he had done ichthy hard with the hadood as well that the punishments changed with the day and age so he had changed them in accordance to hanafi in his day and age obviously later on maybe the hanafi's disowned that element he he says look his reply check his reply out style he was a man of few words

he says he writes to uh whoever he's writing back he has to send the message back he says tell and he never used to call him the king and whatever and often he wouldn't even call him you know people would say he would call him sultana carib is like a boat a small boat and he would call him sultan the the sultan of this of the boats that's what it called him he said in his message tell sultana that

i won't write a reply to him i will come to egypt and when they i will voice my reply to the sultan of the boats and he can see it in person oh you know the clash of the titans you know confidence is super confidence on one hand you've got emanuel kanuni been battered have been chucked out still writing a letter saying you know what uh so you're going to

accept me as king confidence level and then he write your reply why write your reply when i can come to egypt and take over egypt and tell you my reply in person this is this is the you know there's that scene in andas and salman khan are on the coach and they're blagging to each other they're saying there's a cha i says uh he says where did you get that cap from he's like i

got it from paris oh i got it from that cha cha cha maybe pengu yebi pengu says i i blagg and he's a blagger as well so no but these guys were to be fair these were people of whether they had egos but they were people of accomplishment they weren't just kind of hearty so what happens is he was a wise man as well and he he thinks he yeah not always might is right you know this one see it's not always strategic sometimes you try force and force doesn't always work

you need to be skillful yeah so he takes advice from people what say he huh what say you to his counsel they say to him that yeah there's no point fighting him this guy's a legend in his own and it doesn't matter what army we take to that part of the world those people and those tribes are their people so even if we take 50 000 people you've got you know that they live in millions so we can't out fight them in that part of the world in morocco

he says that in such circumstances when you can't out fight the person you sneakily attack them man you have to resort to sneak attacks he says have him assassinated of course whenever in doubt assassinate so he says yeah point point point we should assassinate him so what he does is he sends 12 people 12 turks and he gives sets them a high price and

they like major they like assassins so they plot they turn up to his they eventually arrive to the sardine kingdom and they seek refuge asylum they say we are seeking refuge we we've fled the ottomans like we're kind of renegades and we've had obviously issues we've kind of defected and we seek refuge from the king so abu abdullah he says uh cool he says uh bring him in so he brings them in and and these guys are people that have that charm to them you know that style and

and no sooner had he kind of met them he took a liking to them yeah they were kind of like yeah man you know guys guy kind of thing so he starts liking them and they come to him often and they kiss his hand always and they always do the awesome so he thinks yeah i like these guys so he gives them swords and he gives them weapons and you know gives them a horse and gives them you know he starts i'm a king after all you know take take take so what happens is because they start frequenting his chambers

one of the nights when they they go to kind of just just chill the guards are not there they assassinate abu abdullah obviously that they are assassins traders trained assassins they assassinate him and they not only assassinate him decapitate him bloody yell talk about getting graphic and then steal his head yes

right so and they take it back they sneak out under the darkness of the night and make their way back to constantin constantinople where suleiman is and there they put present his head on a platter to suleiman who rewards them with thousands of gold pieces and then has his head hung on the constantinople tower as a sign of his own power and authority

see we often forget that the real reason to rule is to serve people allah but we become these demigods in and of ourselves this is the ego so whilst that's happening people they obviously realize has been assassinated they place his son in charge whose name is abdullah they call him

let me just bring up the charming fella right there as you can see the top left major one you know they had those huge turbans that was the kind of ottoman style he thinks now it will be a piece of cake to conquer the maghrib he sends his naval forces they go the navy land thousands of troops they are surprised to to find not i mean they're not surprised to find a a replacement they expected that but they're surprised to find that like father like son

abu muhammad al-khalib was a legend of a leader and he was somebody that not only people rallied around but he was in his own right and these because you see the the the maghreb a lot of people there especially these people they had come from um kind of like barbara origins and and that kind of very rough desert kind of lifestyle and they were very rough and tough people so abu muhammad al-ghalib they not only stand their ground but they vanquish and decimate the ottoman army and

embarrassingly so what happens is the ottomans retreat with great shame they go back and at this point suleimano kanuni finally realizes that i need to own my destiny and realize that that is not going to happen i'm not going to conquer that so he finally lets go of this vision that let's conquer the maghrib so the maghrib is now flourishing in its own way

and this the saddin continue they have their kings and so this was with we had to go to the prequel to set the stage people setting the stage now you fast forward slight slightly there is a new king he emerges here his name is ismail is

he is known to many as molar or mole they call him ismail that's how he's famous us he emerges as a young man in his mid-20s he becomes king very strategic person during his time europe have started making some attacks on northern maghrib so britain has taken over certain parts spain have taken over certain parts so cities like or towns like punjab

tangiers had been taken over araesh had been taken over asila had been taken over a few different places have already been there under spanish and british control so he rises he thinks you know what we need to rise in strength so one of the things he does is he was very familiar with the town of macnas which is a neighboring town to fez it's a twin kind of city but he realizes that the people affairs don't seem to like him that much and he

knew macnas pretty well so he moves his capital to magnus once again it's in the north you can see the northern threat from the europeans so he thinks i need to work on an army so he starts getting certain tribes and trying to rally a cry but he realizes it's not working here he finds his ins his inspiration in who people and you got it in the old enemies the turks the ottomans you see the ottomans were incredibly

successful in their own way he realizes the ottomans had something known as the what in english they call the janissaries or the janissaries and in arabic is called the inkishariya they had a special military force that was dedicated to the sultan and this military it was made up of slaves and they had it for centuries in fact it becomes a nightmare for them but they had so their army were all

slaves that they had bought and that were just dedicated to the crown the crown is your your father the crown is your world the crown is your everything you live and die for the crown so he thinks yeah i i like it man i like it in the philosophy you know so he says i like this he says

i want an inkishadia but how can i get one so what he does is he starts buying a bunch of slaves he gets slaves he gets different things he puts them together but they're not enough you know it's not like a solid solid massive arm so he realizes okay hmm first of all he says that let me incentivize people to sell their slaves to me so people sell slaves he starts training them he starts setting up certain military academies

and he himself obviously was from a long chain of kind of warriors and so he starts to kind of battle and he starts to he sets his eyes on the europeans first he thinks right we need to two things we need to secure our territory against the ottomans and we need to get rid of the europeans so he marches and he gets into these bloody battles with the europeans and and he allies himself with france against the british and the spanish and he manages to successfully remove the spanish and the british so people are kind of liking him

what he realized at the same time is that i can't have any uprisings from my own people who will take me over so i have to learn from my lessons okay this one own your destiny huh so what he does is he de-weaponizes the maghrib he says people are not allowed to own weapons anymore unless you belong to the army which is his army he does make an exception for a few select tribes of the reef in the countryside where the uh the kind of

arabs were and he does that for a reason because one they're so strongly loyal to him but two has to ward off the threat from neighboring territories so they always have weapons but the people of the maghrib he demilitarizes them de-arms them you're not allowed to bear arms or have swords and stuff like this so he says that people have to give this up during this time he's also setting up just to give you a little flavor about him he's setting up his royalties he is one in addition to military having an eye for military accomplishments he also has an

eye for the the finer sex shall we say he naturally takes as many wives as he can but he has a keen he's a connoisseur one might say for the concubines and he has hundreds and hundreds some say a minimum 500 concubines he blesses his harem with he says yeah what kind of a king am i if i don't have a harem

we have to deal with priorities first and they say from most of his concubines he has children so he had over a thousand children and he was somebody that he absolutely um loved women in that sense one could say in that sense so if he had an opportunity to add to his his collection it is no time to waste you know this one one must be very dutiful so so he like if people would often he like a good gift for him if you're

going to see him would be to offer him a slave girl concubine you know this one is on i like it you know this thinking this guy so that's how he often was and what's interesting is in recent times some european there's been some european research i believe it was from vienna some viennese university i believe or a research team analyzed that how much truth was the looking at the dna structure that could it be possible that he

actually birthed over a thousand children and they realized they did research and found it to be most likely uh true that he did so because some people were skeptical that this can't be true that he had over a thousand kids and how would you even know that they're your kids i mean if you've got over a thousand then you might as well just say the whole country might as well just start calling me [Laughter] just just to be on the safe side everyone just call me

so here is mola ismail and you know he was very in addition to having so many women he was incredibly insecure about his women if he found out that any of his soldiers or men even looked at any one of his any one of his right hand possesses possessions he would have them immediately executed he was like zero tolerance man this one is full insecurity okay so

and on several occasions he he had this thing as well that he didn't want anybody making eye contact with him which was what is it wasn't that the yeah what's her name the yeah what's the the the singer the one they made the documentary on her dad's got her under control what's her name bloody hell uh didn't she have that uh the whole that you can't make eye contact let me see somebody's gonna no the

i can't believe it's anyway so yeah there's so many but but i mean the the current you know the documentary she's restricted from britney spears wasn't it britney spears had this thing of you can't make eye contact none of her workers could make eye contact with her so anyway he had that same britney spear effect going on but several centuries ago if any of his workers made eye contact with him especi i mean it's different if he had asked them to but if he was just walking and they were looking at him he was ridiculous he would either have them beaten so bad or he would on some

occasion occasions he had them executed i mean i don't know what kind of a power trip this guy was on what kind of goddamn you know stuff and the thing is that you see the feelings around him are so mixed because on one hand during his reign he rules morocco for perhaps the longest any king or dynast has ruled maghrib i said morocco but sorry maghrib and that's like i think 55 years he ruled and his rule is a time of prosperity for the state because as you

can see the map here that that's pretty huge for as far as the maghrib goes because that is descending quite south into places like senegal it's taken mauritania it's taken other parts which timbuktu and other things which were not really part of the maghrib he's expanded he's removed the europeans he's got rid of them and the public are seeing this he's building certain policies and he's doing things so on one hand he is seen as providing

stability to a region so people do like that on the other he's seen as somebody who will shed blood over anything if if you got on the wrong side of him he is the archetype of that kind of um that benevolent tyrant of a king that if he's on the good side he will just shower you with gifts and if he you look at him wrong or he's just not in the right mood he will immediately execute you and he would not miss an opportunity to embark on a new adventure this on a new sexual adventure

so he was a man of definitely very very virile shall we say in his uh happy keen on spreading the dna and he was absolute people would that they say that absolutely addicted to sex so now a powerful king in his might as you can imagine so yeah i mean in some ways one could say the motherbee version of tamur maybe mola now and you see what he did is he brought up because he wanted people to love him as

well because he like all kings they want people to hold them in all not just because you have to but really so he really bolstered and promoted this angle that i'm from the bloodline of the prophet so he claims to be from the the shari he claims to be sharif from the alawi uh um bloodline and this is the beginning of the alawi dynasty even though it's it's following on but he starts promoting this line that we're from the bloodline of the prophet and they say aloey because it's

going back ultimately to say ali but it's not through hussain it's through hassan it's through hassan so and through muhammad saqqiyah so so there's mixed feelings about him now during this time to strengthen his kingdom he gets a one of the scholars one of the judges maliki judges i mean they were all maliki by the way

one of them um is abu labas he gives him the fatwa or the opinion sorry the suggestion and i suppose fatwa as well that look why don't you nationalize all slaves

they say if the head is dead so basically and this this idea mole ismail likes it he says i like it yeah he makes a royal decree all slaves that belong to anyone whoever they are now belong to the state meaning they belong to abuji which is

ismail and the problem is here he's also he has this idea some people say people told him or he had it himself he says not just all slaves all former slaves what they called hertani and the plural and sometimes people don't know what the word means and they think it's because it's on the arabic scale of so people think it's like is the word for something meaning

something but it's not it's just a pluralized form it's a plural of the word hortani which hortani is actually a colloquial rendition of the word which means free and thani so a lot of the moroccan dialect um and certain other arab dialects for instead of a tha sometimes say so they might say something is katie or something is instead of kathir so they would say somebody is her he's a free person but he's a second class he's like a second

class citizen so you used to be a slave or your parents were a slave so you're not a slave but you're a but you're a hero you're herbert of a second grade be great you're a bree be great free person so this horthani they would call hortani and the plural is so this former slaves who were not slaves anymore they were often people who were not always but may have especially in that part of the world may have been black so

now and some weren't but especially in that part of the world a lot of the slaves may have been of black origin african origin whereas in the eastern part of the world they may have been of other mixed origins european origins as well and eastern european origin slavic and other things so here they people that were known in society so let's say you've lived your whole life as a free person you are a free person even in the even though your parents may have been slaves who were freed you now are forced into slavery you are

um effective immediately by fiat and royal decree deemed a slave and property of the state this was an abominable of epic proportions utterly unacceptable utterly unacceptable

to the utmost an nth degree to literally do that to people turn them into slaves in an instant and he did and whether you like it or not no person could own a slave in morocco now that has a nice side to it but he wasn't doing it from the nice side he wasn't doing it for liberty and freedoms he was doing it no person can own a slave because all slaves are now the property

of the king so and any person who has had slavery in his lifetime or in his parents lifetime for example is now also a slave effective immediately property of the king this caused such a stir and it sent shivers down the spine of the mariby the maghrib people

they were disgusted by this that how dare you just overnight people with families people with just declare them and remember this is he's doing this and this is not like a war scenario this is not like well you've come and you've been captured as this is normal people living just normal lives as muslims in what is a muslim territory

here several ulama rose in objection to him several amongst them amongst them sheikh muhammad miyara the great scholar that people read his commentary on um and other things he's the student of ibn aashir and another great scholarship um [Music]

um these were some at the forefront they were from fez they strongly protested and said this is utterly haram it says against the against the citizens and the subjects of what is a muslim territory this is against the quran this is against the teaching of islam

ismail however was like i'm sorry do i look bothered he was like i'm sorry did you think you were the authority uh the only authority here is me the king so he did he tried to justify first of all he engaged in some uh he had some kind of debate set up discussions oh by the way the the people were immediately taken in

there was no delay on if you were a slave or a second class freed person you were immediately a slave and brought to the kingdom you were brought to the king and you were admitted into a military academy and they started training you to become soldiers and he did he did do things like provide them a salary he did uh even upon graduation from the military provide he gave them a home and a wife and he made sure these things did happen but it was against their will i'm sure many people probably did it willfully and and as you can imagine

many didn't now so this is happening but when these people were rounded up the slaves mauler ismail turned up for the royal audience and he what he did is he brought a copy of sahil bukhari and he said to these people he had them kind of assemble like hundreds of them and thousands of them or thousands of them and he gave this speech and he said you and me

are all slaves humble talk you know when you have politicians this is politician speak he said you and me we are all abhid we are all slaves slaves to allah and his messenger and he said and we are slaves to the messenger of allah in what he has said and instructed in this book sahil bukhari so he said all of you will pledge an allegiance based and you will pledge

your allegiance on this book so he didn't do an allegiance on the quran he did an allegiance on buhari he said that you have to declare your oath to me on this book on the teachings of the prophet sallallahu alaihi which is in in sahih al-bukhari and that's what they had to do and what would happen is in when they would go out on military expeditions and armies would go he would have sahil bukhari all adorned and it would be in a kind of a carriage of its own that had decorations and it would be at the

vanguard of the army at the front of the army and this and it would bring kind of uh motivation to the army that this is sahih al-bukhari and this is why his army became known as the army of bukhari so if you have a search in arabic jaish-al-bukhari or jaish abidul

it is about the army the military of um and he and they were very successful in their military campaigns so what he did is he had these slaves just devote themselves to him and he did reward them he gave them money he gave them made sure they were fed and looked after but they had to there was 100 loyalty to him they have no other life they are the property of him and yes so he he thrives and he's building more places and he's gaining more

wealth and acquisition and women and all kinds of things whilst this is happening the scholars really raised their voice against him and i mentioned that group of the malikiah and what mola ismail does is he has them engage with some other scholars in debate he he has them invited to the royal palace to debate him not debate to have a discussion and there's certain scholars there i believe there's a scholar abu abbas

who is very pro that you can it is legitimate for the sultan to enslave the he says it's it's it's halal in islam so and he justifies it by saying look the country is in in danger and you know the europeans to the north the ottomans could attack from from the east we lack soldiers we lack loyalty and these are people who have had slavery anyway in their history so here

he very clearly says look he says you have not got an ounce to stand on you don't have a shred this is haram haram you cannot enslave people and this goes on he's called he makes a few royal attendances and they're not budging now on one occasion molar ismail gets up to walk off so sheikh abdul salam ibn jazees grabs his he has this kind of cloak he grabs his cloak and he says to him sit

and listen to the words of your grandfather the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam because you see moala ismail is always trying to promote i'm from the bloodline of the prophet i'm the great great great great grandson of the prophet so he says sit and listen to the words of your grandfather the prophet sallallahu alaihi that this bukhari that you're going on about this bukhari that you are carrying at the front of the army this bukhari that you are doing this this your actions are absolutely against the sunnah of islam and against the teaching of the quran so

here moala ismail is utterly offended when he says that to him then he grabs his cloak and says listen to the words of your grandfather it's obviously insulted this is in his palace so he says that he says that you know what you've crossed the rubicon this is the line has been crossed he says to his his guards that i want you to make an example out of this guy they first of all they do things like beat him then mola ismail says i want you to persecute him he says

seize his property any wealth he has any assets sees it his family mo this sheikh uh abdul salaam ibn jazees family are declared homeless they seize his house his home they seize any kind even his books books because he was a great scholar they take his books they take everything and he's kept and what they would do is embarrass him by they would have him tied up and dragged behind some kind of animal and they would then ask people to donate in charity to free him so people would you know people with their hearts they would see that and the

injustice and they would give some money and then they would kind of eventually when they've received a certain amount they would not free him but take him off there and then put him back in the cell and they kept him in a cell for almost a year they tortured him and it is interesting you know this ties in with the theme of what we're speaking about that own your destiny not all destiny is you see owning your destiny is not necessarily about glory but it's about your legacy

his legacy was to stand for justice and he knew that this is a very it's it's a very dangerous path and you know there's no light at the end of this tunnel but sometimes for some reason people they take that stance and allah says in the quran

allah allah had not enabled or allowed it that people would stand then in opposition to other people if it wasn't for this that people would resist and oppose that places of worship would be destroyed and it's interesting allah doesn't begin with masada it begins with churches monasteries and synagogues and temples and masjids would be destroyed youth karuphi is not like athena allah's name is glorified in all of them that's the verse of the quran i mean

that's not me saying it that's the verse of the quran so he stood his ground and he's persecuted and eventually moala ismail has him strangled to death almost a year later he gives the instruction that have him executed but strangle him he says to death and they do and they say that sheikh abdul salam ibn jasooz curses maul ismail his endeavor and

people say allahu alam that perhaps that dua and we've spoken of this in the past that that mind-heart coherence that when words leave your tongue but they leave it with that emotion allah says there is nothing there is no veil between that dua and god and although he sacrificed his life to say that these people are free people see he was living a a good life i mean a reasonably good he was a renowned prestigious kind of scholar in fez

but he sacrificed it for the freedom of others in saying this is wrong this is this is haram this is you know you can't just rob the freedom of people and enslave them it's not just about an action being haram you see because people do many harams but it's the the the ramifications of this action that you can just declare people slaves and and he knew what lies at the end of the tunnel and he is prepared to lay his life down

and he does and may allah bless his afterlife but he leaves a glowing lesson for people and in his wake he leaves people say the this his words this dua that he that that this is a thulman injustice that by the vicissitudes and twists of fate these these very slaves that become this military elite because uh molay ismail rules for 55 years the longest reigning monarch and

dynast of the maghrib and a powerful one and the military academy i think was like seven years or something so during this so many of these are produced and they become these elite and so powerful that within just say one or two kings after him in fact just one king after him as soon as he passes away these become de facto the rulers that they place the king and you know depose the king as they please and they remove they execute they

do as they they become this ridiculous source of power within the mahdi which it takes a good few generations for somebody to say what on earth is going on here and what's are so ironic is when mole ismail began this he looked at the turks and the ottomans and the inkishariya the janissaries who were slaves and they had been so for you know this military elite of slaves that lasted for three four hundred years but that was exactly what was happening in them

the moment they rose to a certain position they were dictating who the next sultan would be and nobody none of the sultans could dare question them i think is it till murad ii or something but it's still always i think mahmoud the second is it right it's so much later hundreds and hundreds of years later that they just about then with so much struggle get rid of the janissaries these inkishadi this slave elite the slave military elite and that's exactly people say it happened here and his own family somali ismail's own family to

come are then persecuted at the hands of these and one of the people that they persecute when they rise to power after molay smith is that one uh sigil massey scholar the one that kind of official judge that was saying no justifying that it was right to turn them into slaves because the state is in need and so on he's one of the people that gets uh quite badly persecuted uh later in life by the harati this is just such a um it's i mean there's so much mixed

emotion in this whole legacy of mola ismail the army of bukhari the har rating the scholars that rose to to to to oppose the oppression amongst them see mohammed siddhi uh you had see the sheikh abdul salam all of these great legends rising opposing that and all this but at the same time it was a and um it was a dynasty that for once got rid of foreign invasion like the spanish and the british from

tangiers and other places and got rid of the ottoman threat and brought some stability to the region so so much mixed emotions going on with and set in force a new dynasty known as the alawi dynasty which is still today the the moroccan king is still from that uh dynasty the alois which continues till today so just such a nuanced and information rich part of history wow i just had to share that with you guys so i hope uh it's it's been interesting

and there's so many lessons to just take away from that people god bless you all let's take a look