The Islamic Chronicles

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2023-04-21 13:09:52 On this day, 21 April 1938, noted Muslim thinker, philosopher, and celebrated Urdu and Farsi poet, Allama Muhammad Iqbal died in Lahore, British India.

Throughout his career, Iqbal wrote and delivered lectures on the political and spiritual revival of the Muslim community across the world, but specifically in the Indian subcontinent. The six lectures he delivered at Madras (now Chennai), Hyderabad, and Aligarh in 1928–29 were published as The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam in 1934 CE.

Iqbal had a great interest in Islamic studies, especially in Tasawwuf (Sufism). His thesis, The Development of Metaphysics in Persia, revealed some aspects of Islamic mysticism (Tasawwuf) formerly unknown in Europe.

Today, Iqbal is celebrated throughout the world, especially in Pakistan and India, for his outstanding contributions to Urdu and Persian poetry, philosophy, and Islamic thought.

Iqbal writes:

Ki Muhammad se wafa tu ne to ham tere hain
Ye jahan cheez hai kiya lauh-o-qalam tere hain

کی محمدﷺ سے وفا تو نے تو ہم تيرے ہيں
يہ جہاں چيز ہے کيا، لوح و قلم تيرے ہيں

Translation/Interpretation:
If you remain devoted/loyal to Prophet Muhammad, We are yours;
This universe is but nothing, you’re a writer of destinies.

You can learn more about his life by visiting: http://www.allamaiqbal.com/biography/en/index.php

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2023-04-17 12:30:39 On the 26th (or 25th) of Ramadan in 658 Hijri (September 3, 1260), the Mamluks of Egypt defeated the Ilkhanid (Mongol) forces of Hulagu Khan under Kitbuga at the Battle of Ain Jalut. Kitbuga was the lieutenant of Hulagu Khan who had assisted him during the Mongol invasion of the Middle East.

Shortly before the battle, Hulagu withdrew from the Levant and left Kitbuga there. The victory was sealed when Kitbuga was captured and executed by the Mamluks. This caused the remaining Mongols to retreat.

With their victory over the Ilkhanate, the Mamluks under the command of Sultan Saif al-Din Qutuz and Rukn al-Din Baibars halted the Mongol invasion. The Battle of Ain Jalut has been represented by numerous academic and popular historians as an epochal battle.

Previously in 1243, the Mongols had defeated the Seljuks of Rum and forced them to recognize the Mongol Great Han as suzerain. After a temporary retreat in 1252, the Mongol commander Hulagu returned to take Iraq, ravaging Baghdad and killing the last Abbasid caliph (1258) before going on into Syria.

The Mongols finally arrived at Aleppo in December 1259. On January 18, 1260, they started the Siege of Aleppo. The city surrendered on January 24, 1260, after only 6 days. The massacre of the Muslims and Jews in Aleppo lasted for six days. On March 1, 1260, Damascus also fell to the Mongols.

In response to the Mongol threat, Egypt fell under the Mamluk slave dynasty (1250-1517), which defeated Hulagu's garrisons at Ain Jalut (1260) and in Syria and Palestine, thus halting the high point of Mongol expansion but leaving them in control of the rest of the Middle East.

In 1308, the Seljuq Sultan Mesud II was murdered and thus the Seljuqs of Anatolia were overthrown by the Mongol Ilkhanate completely. But soon in 1335, the Ilkhanate was also disintegrated. After Ilkhanate's fall, several independent petty dynasties and principalities emerged to power in Iran and Anatolia.

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2023-04-17 12:30:37 Buka / Bagaimana

2023-04-05 13:45:49 Ibn Battuta narrates:

It is one of the laudable customs of the people of Damascus that not a man of them breaks his fast during the nights of Ramadan entirely alone. Those of the standing of amirs, qadis, and notables invite their friends and a number of faqirs to breakfast at their houses.

Merchants and substantial traders follow the same practice; the poor and the country folk for their part assemble each night in the house of one of their own number or in a mosque, each brings what he has, and they all breakfast together.

When I first came to Damascus, a friendship grew up between the Maliki Professor Nur al-Din as Sakhawi and me, and he urged me to breakfast at his house during the nights of Ramadan.

After I had visited him for four nights I had a stroke of fever and absented myself. He sent out in search of me, and although I excused myself on the ground of illness he would accept no excuse from me, so I went back to his house and spent the night there.

When I wished to take leave the next morning, he would not hear of it but said to me, 'Consider my house as your own, or as the house of your father or brother,' and gave orders to send for a doctor and to have prepared for my use in his own house everything that the doctor should prescribe in the way of medicine or diet.

I remained in his house in this condition until the day of the Feast of the Fast breaking (Eid), when I joined in the festival prayers at the musalla and God Most High healed me of what had befallen me. Meanwhile, all the money I had for my expenses was exhausted. Nur al-Din, learning this, hired camels for me and gave me traveling provisions, etc., and money in addition, saying to me, 'It will come in useful for anything of importance that you may be in need of' - may God reward him well!

Source: The Travels of Ibn Battuta


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