Epic Story of SALADIN & Crusades (All the Battles) || Salahuddin Al Ayyubi

saladin is a hero even amongst the non-muslims because of this act of generosity and this is what makes them magnanimous in the eyes of Europeans and the Crusaders that they're magnanimous when they're strong they never seek revenge they always forgive even the enemies and even the enemies can acknowledge their magnanimity and generosity which salad is certainly received not only his Muslim adversaries but also the Crusader Crusaders at the time [Music] [Music] most important battle that ever took place after the time of the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wa send them it is a battle that every Muslim should know every Muslim should be aware of especially in light of current political circumstances and that is the famous battle of head lien that took place in the year 583 Hydra corresponding to September 11 87 C II and of course the Battle of head lien is the famous battle where the greatest general after Holly the Blair Walid and that is Salah Athena that you be re conquered our city of Jerusalem from the invading Crusaders after it had been lat after it had been in Frankish hands in European hands for over 93 years Saladin captured Jerusalem in 1187 and he starts the struggling 1177 so Texan 10 years this is a long time but also the the the Kingdom Crusader kingdoms are very powerful because they're constantly getting help from Europe especially there are two orders one is called hospitalists the other one is called Knights templates the Knights Templars were the richest order in the Christian world they actually were organized throughout the Europe and the usually they enlisted rich Christians they poured money into Jerusalem and with that money came you know Knights as well and the Knights where the trained fighters usually very skilled Saladin was a very cautious commander he never attacked until unless he was sure of victory if he lost the battle now that was it sometimes you lost everything so you had to be very careful and one of those his principles is never enter into a battle unless you're sure of victory or create the conditions that would lead to a victory and Saladin forward followed this principle throughout his campaigns to great success later in his life there were a lot of because of this there were a lot of small encounters between 1182 211 86 and the new Crusaders had this massive fortified castles it looks like a massive mountain and it was very hard to get into so you had to pull them out into open battle eventually it happens in the Battle of it hurt him and the Battle of Dien was a final assault that Salah Hadean Anubha had been planning for many many years it was now in the 1180 s 1118 586 there was a truce between so Hadean a man who Raymond of Tripoli who was one of the head of the Crusaders but that truth was running out the truce between Raymond of Tripoli and salahuddin was coming to an end salahuddin he had good reason good reason not to renew the truth or for a few reasons there was a man called Reynald de Chatillon Reynald de Chatillon was the Prince of Carrick and in this time you know between those 1182 to 1186 Raynald of Chateau Lyon emerges as the arch nemesis of Saladin as well but this Raynald of Chateau Lyon he was you know the the guy fat orange in the movie of Kingdom of Heaven that's the guy there was a link between Carrick what he did is he he plundered a caravan on route and he took the possessions and he armed the men and it stole the money he actually attacks the trade caravans and the caravans of the pilgrims most of the time both Crusaders and Muslims if you attack Muslims tried cameras they could attack your trade Caravan so there was a bit of a convention between them but Raynald he did not listen to this and for this reason so that says I'm gonna execute him with my own hands and this was a violation of the truth a violation of the truth now we must be fair to say that the Crusaders in Jerusalem did not like rain on the shuttle and they didn't even agree with what he did but - but the fact was that he was one of their own he was still a crusader and they're all Crusaders and so then they needed to cover him up but salahuddin then because of what he did he had good reason not to renew the truth and in 1186 Saladin falls sick and this sickness goes two and a half months and his eldest son is called they even writing down his will and they're expecting him to die and this an illness they thought he was going to die everybody was worried of salahuddin gonna die because he had this major illness but he recovered from it and he's saying well I still haven't done pilgrimage I still haven't captured Jerusalem and he's kind of he sort of swears by God so if I survive this I'm going to capture Jerusalem and he does it in a year so that there was a very religious person and especially when he became the ruler of Egypt he kind of religious he'd pray five times a day no matter what he fasted all the time sometimes he couldn't fast because of you know the battle and conditions and so on and he had his Vizier or aides keep the number of days he wouldn't fast and then later they would tell him how many days and he would make it up he wanted he wanted to go to a pilgrimage but he could never go in his lifetime actually it was a common this was a very common thing that rulers could could not go to pilgrimage the reason is that if he go that you hold your whole state Empire is left to someone's attack and it was just waiting like a hawk and actually we do Ottomans none of the Ottoman Sultans mental image they just couldn't they actually got a fatwa for that or special fatwa that would apply to them out of necessity is why if this meta team dies she dies now one of the tactics used was to lure the Crusaders out of the cosmos and the idea let's set out for Tiberius we have much bigger army stronger army we're fit we're healthy and if they were to come to Tiberius they would have to travel from very far and it's very flat and they'll get very thirsty and they'll die on the way if they don't die on the way they get buried too tired to fight so what happens is that they all had for Tiberius and it does that to great success or it just kind of lose them out and and especially at that time the king is listening on guy the listening on was the King of Jerusalem and along with the kings of other principalities they decide to go out and face Saladin add in the battle in the open and they master twenty thousand strong army and twenty thousand for those times is very big but most of the times the battles are fought with one thousand two thousand people and saladin had an army of 30,000 and and they take with them what's called the true cross a true cross it wasn't a complete cross just remnant some woods but later it was put into a gold metal enclosure and that was they took with them the true cross as well like assuring victory these kind of amulets or signs of relics was quite often used by the Crusaders to get that excitement and the belief that God is on their side and Muslims are doing that or thinking that God is on their side as well not with relics but with words as well the battle Hatton is a strategic masterpiece on the part of Saladin sorry folks one of the first things that I Hadean does is he ignites fire scrubs fire scrubs because he knew that the westerly wind would blow in the direction of the Crusaders and so all around fire scrubs and the wind to smoke the ashes was blowing in the direction of the Crusaders but only are they so fatigued and so tired and so thirsty but now they kind of in this conundrum situation because the the fire scrubs salahuddin his army was very strong what ensued then was a battle in the air 1187 called the Battle of Hadean armies the kusudama slew doubt he cuts he surrounds them from the back and there's this skirmish is that all the time so the Army's slowed down the water the access to water is cut as well and they burn fires at night you know just close them then they start making the kid as well at night sister I'm gonna put fear in their heart and eventually there is a battle that takes place it's a decimation of the whole Crusader army in fact on the final day of the battle the soldiers spent most of the night praying taraweeh and tahajud most of the night they were praying tirar we enter had Jude asking Allah for victory because they realized that without drama without drop nothing would happen without a law being on their side there was no point in all of the army and the weapons that they had what happened in Saladin when when all that the prisoners were there the Guy de Lusignan is captured rhymin - Italian of Chateau Lunas captured Jerusalem Reynald de Chatillon Raymond of Tripoli all of these are there so uh Sardinia approaches the King of Jerusalem this is King and King you know King and King and he invites Dede listening on to Islam but he doesn't accept Islam in any case he gave him some water to drink you know after a hot day of fighting have the water to drink he drank from the water beside him was the Shaitaan you know rain or - aunt Alana he gives the cup of water to drink to rain on the shuttle and he says you know you have a sip of water and then he began to go up and open the water so the Hadean and speaks and says you know in our custom our custom the king doesn't kill the king we don't Kings don't kill kings and nor do we kill the one that we've just given water to because in our custom water is like an offering of hospitality and peace and protection we don't kill the one that we've given water to so him the king of Jerusalem he's a king and the King doesn't kill a king and I gave him water to drink I didn't give him water to drink you gave him the water you gave so he takes his scimitar and then he pushes him towards the others and they execute him and salad didn't actually execute some himself as he promised and he says to God it is not the want of Kings to kill Kings but that man had transgressed all bounds and therefore I did I treat him so he just says he was a war criminal basically what's left then Jerusalem but also the Crusader states salahuddin is left in this predicament what does he do first take try and take the coastline of sham or Jerusalem the heart is saying Jerusalem but in essence the mind would have been the Crusader States because if you don't take them you always leave an avenue open for the Crusaders to launch another attack against you in any case he went for Jerusalem now look at this what happened in Jerusalem Jerusalem has no King because the king now is captured and taken into exile and then then solidus swiftly moves to Jerusalem and assumes got no one really to defend the city and so it was in the final days of Ramadan that's all I had in LA you be won over build the Frankish kingdoms and he entered the city of Jerusalem then bailing of a baron le baron is the one who's in charge the only one left behind actually some negotiation takes place and in India and saladin there is an agreement that on the payment of a small ransom everyone will be set free to go on the condition that the city is turned over to cilenti now this was really unheard of at the time because the first thing what was expected was saladin to kill everybody because the first Crusaders did exactly like they were the whole inhabitants of the city Muslims and Jews particularly were killed when the after the first crusade and actually the whole city was empty and then migrants come in later to inhabit this whole city so the expectation was that salon didn't replace that but he doesn't when the Christians had entered Jerusalem ninety years ago they slaughtered every single man woman and child and the streets of Jerusalem were flowing with Muslim blood even a theorem Allah says when they took Jerusalem and in 1095 up to 70,000 Muslims were killed 70,000 Muslims were killed in a city one of the Christian chronicler output of Africa this is not Muslim propaganda this is a crusader saying this is writing in his German chronicler Albert Ibaka he says that we Crusaders he should take babies and swing them and smash their skulls on the walls we all know once that I had Dean entered the city the Christians were trembling thinking justly that's a lot how things should do as they did unto them as you do unto others that shall be done unto you an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth this is the law of humanity they believe Salah Hadean would do the same thing to them and Salah Hadean gave that famous response that the prophets of the law and he would send them taught us when he conquered Mecca to forgive and to turn the other cheek go for you are free today so slovak Idina that you be did not do as the Christians had done when they conquered Jerusalem and then began the process of creating tourism and so they would perfumed applause Nora Dean I will tell you this and I'm sorry for dragging on but no the deans angered him Allah before he died he made a member like this beautiful member beautiful member and he had like this ambition he says insha'Allah when we recaptured Jerusalem we will install this window in Utterson now he died in 1174 and this is now in heaven 87th way that's 30 years different Salah Hadean this was by the way in Aleppo they kept the minbar in Aleppo Aleppo he said go to Aleppo and bring the minbar of the Redeem and we will install in Madison and he guaranteed safe passage to every single person because you know mobs get angry troops get angry he had troops stationing to protect the Christians from the angry mobs Muslim monks from the angry troops that nobody is going to harm them and he let every single man woman and child the same people that have been fighting the Muslims even the soldiers were forgiven you are free to live in Jerusalem in peace and if you want to leave go back to your life I'll escort your people in my under my security or the my army to the coast and then you can go back to your hands this is our merciful so cancel our dinner you bitter body was and he even spared the king either loose in Europe he spilled it he's like let it go and that was a mistake he made he should not let it go let it go because he promised that I will never come back and fight other schools and same thing happened he came back and he continually fought the hostility caused a lot of trouble afterwards and this act of magnum magnanimity won the hearts of Europe so to this day Saladin is a hero even amongst the non-muslims because of this act of generosity and this is what makes them in the eyes of Europeans and the Crusaders and then the ransom was a very small amount of money in today's value a $50 so every person had to pay that much to gain to get their freedom and leave the city and often to the dismay of the Treasuries of Saladin he said poor men women and children free without even paying that the the baylin's two sons there's a this is depicted in Christian sources by the way they were so friendly that they would come and visit Saladin in his tent and two of his children would sit they narrate a story when the two children were sitting on his lap and Saladin starts to cry and they ask him why you're crying because today I inherit the city or tomorrow or someone else will so this world is just a transient he just reminded himself that at that point in time the stories like this I really impressed the Europeans and they were later told over and over again in books it was a really a gentle person I mean he had to fight wars and make sometimes tough decisions but in the end he's just a ordinary human being and and he was actually known to be a Sufi as well somewhat or spiritual person and he also allowed the Jews to come and enter the city and inhabit Jerusalem along with Muslims and then obviously capturing Jerusalem after 90 years was a great achievement and said all Muslims rejoiced naturally Christians lamented and and Saladin returns back to Damascus to hero's welcome you know people considered Saladin both a hero and also as Welli or a living Saint and that was it there was even a day reserved in Damascus for everyone to come and see him look at him the people just wanted to see him in person and but a few weeks later he gets ill and he does and in his death what he left behind was one Gold dinner and forty silver coins and nothing else you know where all these battles that salad therefore there's always disposal war he always distributed to his soldiers he never got anything himself and there wasn't enough money to cover for his funeral costs you know that's the man for you that's a leader and I think this is what makes leaders great that they're magnanimous when they're strong they never seek revenge they always figure even the enemies and even the enemies can acknowledge their magnanimity and generosity which salad is certainly received not only his Muslim adversaries but also the Crusader Crusaders at the time [Music] you

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Length: 23min 24sec (1404 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 11 2018