Salahuddin Al Ayyubi RA

hey [Music] many of them sided with the crusaders and they released a man who was the greatest arch enemy of islam a man called reginald soon as he mustered up an army he marched on makkah and when salahuddin heard this he dispatched an army under husam and osama bin took a navy he annihilated the army original and four years after this again when the muslims and the christians had a truce reginald attacked a muslim caravan traveling from egypt to syria and when salahuddin heard this he again took an oath that he would kill this man with his own hands and he was upon this occasion that salahuddin brought forth an army and this is the famous battle the battle of hitting he changed the landscape of history and imam saying something profound here he says this was the greatest victory for the muslims since inshallah since khalid bin walid defeated [Music] two days later he was in acre north then they took toran haifa arsuf beirut nebulous he would cry at the apathy of the muslim leaders we cry at the apathy of the muslim leaders today all those problems which existed in the time of salahu [Music] and that was liberation of the holy places the people loved salahuddin he won their heart he was a true leader he showed love and compassion to people he was a muhammadi he was a mukmin the only language that he understood was the language of the quran the only language that he understood was the language of islam and iman this was the kind of man salahuddin was he wasn't just a warrior he was a man of allah the good loved them the battle of them then muslims loved him the non-muslims loved everybody loved salahuddin and what did this king leave behind him the king of egypt king of syria lebanon yemen what did he leave behind him he left one dinar and 47 dirhams some armor and a horse this is only left behind him but i'll tell you what he left behind him he left a legacy behind him and on his tomb they wrote oh allah as his final victory open for him the gates and today i want to speak about a person you know by allah numbers never scared him europe threw everything that they had at him salahuddin fulfilled the rights of jihad salahuddin fulfilled the rights of this ummah salahuddin was ready to sacrifice everything for the sake of allah it was almost as though allah kept salahuddin back from the people of badr so he could deal with his enemies at a different place in a different time and the testimony to the greatness of this man is that every single person claimed him even his arch enemies claimed him when the news of his bravery and compassion reached europe they couldn't believe that a non-white non-christian man could be so brave and so compassionate and salahuddin he was occurred because they felt that it was their duty that they had to liberate their lands because they felt that they were an ummah and salahuddin was born in the fort of tikrit and his mother mentioned that when i was pregnant with [Applause] great men create other great men and this was the environment in which salahuddin it was a military environment there was never a day when the expulsion of the crusaders was not mentioned but it was not only a military environment it was a very religious spiritual environment and salahuddin from a very early age he became a habit of the quran he was a shafi infic and his greatest inspiration in life was to become a scholar he loved the scholar then he had the honor of being tutored by a man regarding the muslims never had a man who was as upright and caring and compassionate as nurudeen zinki rahmatullah [Music] realize the potential in salahuddin and this is why when in damascus crime became rife he made salahuddin at a very tender age in charge of the entire place of damascus and after a while the crusaders attacked egypt and what a deed the caliph in egypt did is that he cut the hair of his wife and he sent it to nurudeen and this meant that we can no longer look after our women assist us didn't want to assist them because see al hadid and the egyptians were fatimide but shiroku the uncle of salahuddin convinced him and salahuddin said when my uncle came to me to take me to egypt i didn't want to go one because his aspirations was to become a scholar but second he mentions you know i thought i was gonna die you know it is a possibility that you will dislike something but there's good in it for you and by allah it was good for history he changed the landscape of history and shirkle read egypt of the crusaders and shortly after this adidas remained the khalif became the second most powerful man in egypt he was only 32 at the time and salahuddin showed what a real leader should be the people loved salahuddin he won their heart he was a true leader he showed love and compassion to people salahuddin was in egypt and was in syria now after nurudeen passed away syria just fragmented and they began to side with the crusaders and many of them were giving annual tributes they were actually giving annual tributes to the crusaders and the people of syria were disgusted because they were used to a man like a powerful charismatic man and the people of syria they turned to salahuddin and this was the time that salahuddin started on his expeditions he spent longer fighting muslims than he did non-muslim he fought with muslims for over 10 years because he understood that if you are divided you are weak many of them sided with the crusaders and they released a man who was the greatest arch enemy of islam a man called reginald deshateland for 15 years this man had been in prison nurudeen had left him in the dungeons what this man do soon as he mustered up an army he marched on makkah and now he was saying when i reach makkah i will bring the kaaba to the ground and then now he said i will go to medina and i will take the camel herder from his grave speaking about the prophet sallam and i will bring him back to my palace in kerak and i will charge the muslims to view his body and the narrations mentioned when salahuddin heard this he took out his sword he lifted it to the skies and he said by allah i will kill reginald with my own hands because he had a deep love for the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and he dispatched an army under hussain and osama bin took a navy he annihilated the army of reginald and then he captured his men he took him to madina and he executed them in madina and four years after this again when the muslims and the christians had a truce reginald attacked a muslim caravan traveling from egypt to syria and when salahuddin heard this he again took an oath that he would kill this man with his own hands and he was upon this occasion that salahuddin brought forth an army and this is the famous battle the battle of hitting and the crusaders brought forth an army and when salahuddin consulted his men he said what shall we do shall we carry on attacking their forts and their castles or shall we have a head on confrontation and they said carry on attacking their thoughts and salahuddin said no he said we will take him head on because none of us knows how long he's gonna live and then he said oh my men fight to please your lord do not fight to please me amen and they marched on to the army of the crusaders the crusader army was considerably larger than the muslim army the crusader army was deeply entrenched and they had barricaded themselves he showed what a military genius he was what he did he went to a nearby fort and this fort had the women and the children of the soldiers there and he lay siege to it and then he put his back against the sea the christian charges were very strong the muslims had problems dealing with christian charges but tactically the muslims were far superior so what the christians thought was one charge and salahuddin will end up in the sea and this is exactly what salahuddin wanted them to think so the next morning they marched it was mid-summer with them they had the true cross the true cross was the most sacred relic in christendom it was believed that a part of this cross upon it islam was crucified [Music] and they believed that as long as they have this they could never lose a battle they'd actually believe that they had won the previous 20 battles because of the barakah of this cross [Music] he had put strategically he had put arches on the way and what he did he poisoned all the wells so when they began to march these arches began to shower arrows so many arrows that their movements became snail pace thousands of them had perished and they thought mind would bring them relief but the historians mentioned that men had encircled them in a manner that not even an ant could go through so from the muslim camp they were the cries of takbir and from the christian camp they were the cries of the dying and the wounded and next morning noticed that the brushwood was dry and the wind was blowing in the direction of the crusaders so it's mid-summer no water and they lit the brush and then now they began to choke on the smoke as well and it was here that the muslims attacked and they were reciting the verse and indeed it is a right upon us that we assist the believers and then salahuddin wanted to afflict the final psychological blow and that was to capture the true cross sent the entire regiment to capture it and when the regiment captured it this totally demoralized the christians and they fell by the wayside and only 150 of them remain standing around the king 150 knights and the muslims attacked and salahuddin was watching this and his brother was standing next to him and he said alhamdulillah we have defeated them said and then he attacked again and the christians went back and though his brother said alhamdulillah we have defeated them and said wait not yet when that tent falls the tent of the king then we have defeated them and when salahuddin was saying this the tent fell what does salahuddin do what did he do did he jump up and down he descended from his mount and he went into sajdah because he understood that victory and defeat is from allah and salahuddin wasn't just a warrior ibn mentions salahuddin for years never miss salah with jamaat he didn't live in a palace he lived on a tent in the battlefield he wasn't just a warrior he was a man of allah this was such a complete victory that when you looked at those who were dead it was impossible to believe that anybody could have lived and when you looked at those christian crusaders who were alive there were so many of them one could not believe that anyone often was dead he says this was the greatest victory for the muslims since inshallah since khalid bin walid defeated the romans at the battle of yarmouk that is a profound statement and salahuddin didn't ease up here two days later he was in acre north then they took turan haifa arsuf and a number of other places and then the reason he took all the ports but so the crusaders could not get any more reinforcements in and then salahuddin marched on his greatest aim in life and that was liberation of the holy places and somebody asked him you know you're the king of egypt syria yemen lebanon you'd very rarely smile he had [Music] i wonder what salahuddin would [Music] we have seen in the stars that if you try to take jerusalem you will lose your eye and salahuddin said you talking about me losing i i swear by allah i will take the holy lands even if it means i walk into jerusalem blind and for five days salahuddin went around jerusalem until on the 20th of rajab they found an ideal place to lay siege and for six days they pounded the city and on the 26th balian came out to ask for terms laudin said i offered you terms initially you didn't take them now the city is mine and then balian said if he do not offer us terms then we will kill the 5 000 muslims in the city and we will destroy the masjid and really this is a testimony to the greatness of salahuddin he could have easily said do it and when we take it you will see what we do to your men women and children he knew that these muslims had been at the front line for 88 years and he didn't want them to go through any more suffering he realized this and salahuddin gave valiant terms entered when he entered jerusalem on the very night that the prophet entered jerusalem salahuddin entered jerusalem on the 27th of rajab and can you imagine how the muslim must have felt when they entered can you imagine 88 years of persecution can you imagine when they saw the fortifying walls of jerusalem they must remember the stories of how living muslims were catapulted over the walls of jerusalem 88 years when they saw the christian women they must have remembered how every single muslim woman was violated 88 years ago when they entered and they saw the christian children they must remember the stories of how babies were snatched from their mother's breast and their heads were smashed against the walls when they entered into the masjid they remember to remember the stories of how 70 000 muslims were killed in the masjid in one day until their blood was running up to the knees of those who were doing the butchering all these memories must have come back to the muslims had a greater memory in the back of his mind which overrid all these memories and that was when the prophet salallahu they must have seen the place where bilal was dragged until his skin would peel from his body they must have seen that place where two young girls lubaina and onaisa were killed for what because they believed in la ilaha they must have seen the place where the entire family would be persecuted and in the heat of the moment as sahabi shouted out today is the day of bloodshed today is the day of retribution today is payback time and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam heard this and he said assad come here change that cry into allyomu today is the day of mercy today is the day of forgiveness and simile stanley lane poole mentioned in his classic that the muslim king showed the christians the meaning of compassion in this early battle only killed one man and 200 templars and that man was the after the battle of it who was it reginald de shattilon after the battle they erected a tent for salahuddin the king was brought to salahuddin and salahuddin gave him some water to drink with his lapping and then he drank the water and he gave it to reginald and salahuddin became angry he said you gave it to him i didn't give it to him because if you gave somebody water this was the indication you've given him protection and then walked up to reginald and he reminded them of his transgressions and he reminded him of what he said about the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam and reginald said this is what kings have always been doing and salahuddin offered him islam and he refused and then salahuddin said do you know who i am said i am the representative of the prophet and then he fulfilled his promise and then he put 200 other knights to the sword [Music] 88 years they are coming back into the third holiest place and when europe had heard that their holy lands had been taken from them europe went ablaze pope urban ii died out of grief and then the subsequent pope wrote a letter to all the kings that they should send every able person to fight just from germany frederick the king bought a million fighters alhamdulillah he drowned on the way and the army dispersed richard philip they bought six hundred thousand men and salahuddin was amazed at the zeal of christendom he wrote letters to all the muslim leaders nobody obliged he would mention in the letters that they are more christians that acre than there are waves in the sea he said every time we kill one they send another thousand and six hundred thousand crusaders camped that acre and what they did is that they made trenches around them and then they barricaded themselves in so salahuddin couldn't attack them from behind and for two years salahuddins remained in the field he would cry at the apathy of the muslim leaders we cry at the apathy of the muslim leaders today all those problems which existed in the time of salahuddin all exist today the only thing different is that there is no salahuddine to bring was like a mother who had lost its child but see this is why we remember salahuddin and this is why all the other leaders are forgotten in the time of salahuddin how many kings were there there were three khalifs in the time of salahuddin does anybody know the name of any one of those khalifs because they didn't care so history forgot them but history remembers because he cared when they lived in their palaces where did salahuddin live he lived in a tent when they slept on comfortable beds when others had big meals in their palaces for three days salahuddin ate nothing when others lived with their families in their palaces salahuddin was on the battlefield he was dodging arrows that one day the news came that salahuddin's brother had passed away then his nephew had passed away and he began to cry and we didn't know why he was crying but we began to cry with him he says on the battlefield and it was as though nothing had happened he was the same salahuddin and this is why history remembers finally the crusaders after two years the muslims in acre asked for terms richard gave them two terms and then after that he butchered every man woman and child in acres and he mentioned that day i was sitting next to salahuddin and he prayed the two rakats and then he began to cry and he was making dua he said oh allah all my own resources i have exhausted in assisting and the only thing i have left is that i turn to you and i hold on to your rope and i ask you for your father and your grace and if the shadow mentioned i saw salahu didn't cry until the beard became drenched and then the mat in front of him became wet that the next morning the news came that the crusaders had lifted their siege and richard had said his famous statement as long as a man like salahuddin is protecting jerusalem you will never take it and then it was richard who asked for the truth salah he never asked for a truth salahuddin didn't want a truce he would say that i fear that when i died the muslim armies would disperse and the europeans will become strong so the best that we can do is fight them he had this greater goal if the shadow mentioned that i was askalan and this was the first time i had seen the sea and the sea was pounding the waves and i remembered the opinion of some scholars that anybody who goes to see his testimony shouldn't be taken because he can't be mentally saved and he said when i saw the nature of the sea i understood the validity of this opinion and whilst i was thinking this salahuddin came to me and he said when we have cleansed the holy lands of the crusaders what i wish is that i go over this land and i spread the word of islam until not one kaafar is left on the face of this earth you are the pillar of this deen you are the protector of this deen what will happen if you die and salahuddin turned to him and he said what is the greatest of deaths and he said martyrdom and salahuddin said that is what i desire the truth took place and balian said in the aura of salahuddin he said you have achieved something in islam that nobody before you has achieved he said six hundred thousand crusaders came and only one in ten returned it was almost as though allah had kept salahuddin alive just for that period after the salahuddin went back to damascus and the narration mentioned that one went day he went to visit the hajjis when he came back it was cold as wet he became ill and every day his day got worse and ali mentioned i was with salahuddin when he was ill he said the weaker his body got the stronger his trust in allah became on the ninth day salahuddin became unconscious and sheikh jafar mentions that i was reciting the quran by his bed and when i reached the verses he it is allah and no lord besides him then knower of the unseen he says unconscious for a while and i heard a faint voice saying he had spoken the truth and he mentioned for three days i recited the quran by the bed of salahuddin and he said on the final day when he passed away i reached the verse there is no god but allah and upon him i trust and i saw salahuddin's face become radiant and he recited the shahadah and he left this dunya and ibn mentioned that this was the greatest calamity to before the muslims since the demise of the rashidun and abdullah the family physician says that he was moaned like a prophet because everybody loved him he passed away at the time of fajr and after they bought his body out and the narrations mentioned that people screamed and cried as though the whole dunya had just become one place and many people when they saw his dead body they couldn't believe it they became unconscious the liberator of the holy lands and what did this king leave behind him king of egypt king of syria lebanon yemen what did he leave behind him he left one dinar and 47 dirhams some armor and a horse this is only left behind him but i'll tell you what he left behind him he left a legacy behind him he left the legacy behind him and on his tomb they wrote oh allah as his final victory open for him the gates of open for him [Music] [Music] is

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Keywords: Crusaders, Romans, Battle Of Hittin, Salahuddin Al Ayyubi, Saladin, Warrior Of Islam, Syria, Sham, Al Quds, Baitu Makdis, Jerusalem, The Holy Lands, Palestine, Reginald De Chatillon, Ballion, King Of Egypt, Capture Damascus, Baldwin

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Length: 28min 59sec (1739 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 20 2014

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[u/khanartiste]

Lol @ the Mount and Blade artwork thumbnail

[u/14wa]

Also listen to the parallels between the apathy of the Muslim leaders of his time and the ones of the present.

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Fight and fight killing and killers.......zzZZ

[u/BeforeArms]

Doesnt RA go for sahaba