Three Lessons

It’s been said that time repeats itself. If these three lessons are analyzed in the light of present day and how the Muslim Rulers doomed because of discrimination and the lust for collecting more and more money, benefitted the other nations. In the end, they lost the money which was the prime cause of their poor condition.

1        1. After conquering Baghdad, largest city in Iraq, Halaku Khan along with his companions made a plan to kill Mohtasim B’Allah. They all made a plan to kill him but the two so called muslims; Naseer ud din Tosi, Ibn e Aqalmi, who were present in that meeting suggested to Halaku/Halagu that he should not corrupt your sword with the blood of this guy instead we suggest you to kill him by strangulation. Halagu liked that suggestion and decided to allow Aqalmi to do the honors. Aqalmi was said to be the ex-governor of Mohtasim B’Allah. One day Aqalmi went to his master and wrapped him in the leather sack and tied him with the pillars. He started to kick his master until he died. He was so out of his mind that he asked Tartari’s to keep on kicking his dead body until it turn outs to be a piece of raw meat. 

2       2. When tartari’s were busy in misrepresenting Islam and harming the image of Islam & Muslims by killing them and spilling the blood of Muslims. At that time, Imam Bin Taimiyah convinced Muslims to fight for themselves (Jihad) against the Tartars. But many scholars and Muslim thinkers had opposite views about the issues that whether or not the engagement in the battle against the Tartars is lawful (Halal). This issue lead Muslims to nowhere, giving more freedom to the Tartars to harm the Muslims while Muslims were busy in keeping in line with their Religion.

3       3. The caliph of Baghdad had constructed so many underground hidden pools of jewels, coins and precious stones for himself. When Halagu Khan conquered the land of Baghdad and put the caliph in jail for life, he took all those jewels in his custody. Halagu ordered his men to serve the caliph with those jewels decorated in plate whenever he pleads for food or something to eat. Caliph tried to object on this cruelty and demanded bread instead of jewels but was shunt by Halaku’s statement which has a historical and moralistic position in the world;

If you cannot eat these jewels then why the heck you spent all of your life in storing them? Why didn’t you bothered to use all this money to save yourself and Muslims from Tartars? Why didn’t you offered all that money as a reward to your soldiers so that they could have fought with more bravery and motivation in the battlefield to save your ass?

References
Baghdad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad
Halaku/Halagu Khan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulagu_Khan
Halaku Khan ka Baghdad (column): http://www.urdu-columns.com/2010/07/halaku-khan-ka-baghdad-urdu-column-of.html
The story of Baghdad: http://www.albalagh.net/food_for_thought/baghdad.shtml