Islamic History

How Islam Split Into The Sunni and Shia Branches

Sunni and Shia is not a schism, Sunni’s make up 90-85% of the Islamic population, the term Shia means those who split from the majority.

The issue of the Shia did not exist in the life time of the prophet Muhammad (saws) or his successors, so Shia have not lineage back to that time, their opinions on the matter are revisions of history to serve the politics of their leaders who wanted power. The Shia did not exist until well after the death of Ali and His Sons al Hassan wal Hussein at their hands, they are the one who betrayed and killed them then began a demented cult over their crimes the end of which will see the Dajjal/Antichrist rise from among them in Iran.

The Prophet of Allah (saws) did not appoint Ali (q) as successor, the Shia are all foreigners to Arab culture which appoints the elders as leaders, when the Prophet died Ali was too young to lead and inexperienced, anyone less than 40 years of age in Arab society is considered a youth. The most important fact in all of this is that Ali (q) was a young Man throughout the prophets mission, not mature enough to understand the depths of religion and the prophets words as the adults around him (q) like Aby Bakr (q) and Umar (q), this is all a natural part of human development and why Allah does not appoint prophethood until the age of 40, there are exceptions but they are rare, such was Isa (as).

After the Prophets (saws) death no looked at Ali (saws) as a serious choice precisely because He was too young!!!

The People of Madinah did not have the spiritual experience or authority to lead, none had attained with Allah what Abu Bakr (q) and Umar (q) had, their attempt was reaction not a thought out plan, the people of Madinah came into Islam in the second half of the prophets mission and thus could not lead, they missed out on half of Islam.

The story of Umar (q) and Fatima (q) is a fabrication, “The events that took place in the house have been the subject of dispute between various accounts, with the versions including violence primarily having Shia origins. Several early historical sources narrate that Fatimah’s child Muhsin had died in early childhood rather than being miscarried. Al-Baladhuri, along with Al-Ya’qubi and Al-Masudi, list Muhsin among the children of Fatimah, but without any mention of a miscarriage. Similarly, the Shia theologian Al-Shaykh Al-Mufid, when writing his Kitab al-Irshad, makes no mention of violence in relation to Muhsin’s death. The earliest known reference of the miscarriage during the altercation only appears in the 10th century, in Ibn Qulawayh Al-Qummi’s Kamil al-ziyarat”.

“Other sources also add that Fatimah and Abu Bakr had ultimately reconciled, and that she died of illness, with him attending and praying at her funeral.[33] Ali is also believed to have later willingly offered his oath of allegiance to Abu Bakr and gave a praise-filled oration during the latter’s funeral. Professor Coeli Fitzpatrick surmises that the story of the altercation reflects the political agendas of the period and should therefore be treated with caution”.

If the story was true Ali (q) would not have offered His (q) own daughter in marriage to Umar (q) afterwards, such are the lies of the Shia depraved of all reality and why the Antichrist/Dajjal will appear among them, they lie about the biggest things without hesitation, it is a punishment from Allah!!!

Even in the time of Uthman (q) Ali (q) was still too young, Allah chose others before Him (q) because of what they would do for Islam which no one person could had Ali (q) become the long term Khalif from youth, Uthman (q) is responsible for preserving the Quran for All time, a feat whose reward no one else will have.

Uthman (q) was just in His leadership but He belonged to the wealthy tribe in Islam that where the former rulers in pagan times and they persistently placed pressure on him, resorting to open blackmail in the end with threats of evil. Ali (q) had no better luck with them when He (q) came to power by that time they wanted all out rule of the Khalifate, in the end they set up the Umayyad Empire where before Islam’s rulers were all democratically voted into office.

The Shia came from the Army of Ali (q), after they abandoned Him they assassinated Him (q), they did not exist before this time.

Hassan (q) the son of Ali (q) ensured that democratic elections will be held after the reign of Muawiyah, but Muawiyah was a liar and evil and nothing but evil came from him.

Islamic Golden Age – Philosophy and Humanities

Islamic Golden Age – The Scientific Method

The rise of Islam was due to one thing, easily identifiable except in our time because the modern world has worked to largely destroy it, human rights. Islam stood at the cross road of two worlds, the old barbaric world and the modern world, it transitioned the entire world with the spread of human rights that had never been seen before. Its legal system developed to ensure the rights of individuals to degrees never heard of before the modern age, it impressed the west so much the foundations of America were built upon it, the inannihilable rights of man in their declaration of independence from Britain is the Islamic model, the axioms and maxims that all Islamic law revolved around. See our work The Islamic Utopia and The Founding Fathers of America and The Enlightenment Adopt The Maqasid (Legal Principles) Of Shariah.

The Islamic Golden Age (Arabic: العصر الذهبي للإسلام‎, romanized: al-‘asr al-dhahabi lil-islam), was a period of cultural, economic, and scientific flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century to the 14th century. This period is traditionally understood to have begun during the reign of the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid (786 to 809) with the inauguration of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, the world’s largest city by then, where Islamic scholars and polymaths from various parts of the world with different cultural backgrounds were mandated to gather and translate all of the known world’s classical knowledge into Syriac and Arabic.

The period is traditionally said to have ended with the collapse of the Abbasid caliphate due to Mongol invasions and the Siege of Baghdad in 1258, while several modern historians and scholars place the end of the Islamic Golden Age as late as the end of 15th to 16th centuries meeting with the Age of the Islamic Gunpower’s.

The Rise Of Islam: Largely due to human rights, a small portion due to sugar, and lastly tax breaks, call these the three golden rules of nation building.

One thing historians fall short of when discussing the discoveries of Islam is that they negate the prophets (saws) own words, He (saws) was the first Muslim, and He (saws) discussed scientific ideas well beyond the worlds capacity to understand up to the modern age. Among them are the circumambulation of the stars, the reality of the Sun and Moon, the nature of the subatomic world, what the Universe looked like and how it is constructed and much, much, more, it may surprise you but the Quran was the Prophets (saws) Book and it all occurred 1442 years ago before the year 632 AD.

The History Of Sugar

MAKSHUFA: ORIGINAL 13th Century RECIPE (From Kitab al-Tabikh) Trans. Charles Perry
The way to make it is to take equal parts sugar, almonds or pistachios, honey and sesame oil. Pound the sugar and almonds and mix them together. Take enough saffron to color it and add it with rose-water. Then throw the sesame oil in the dist so that it boils and boils up. Put the honey on it and stir it until foam appears, and throw the sugar and almonds on the honey. Stir continuously on a quiet fire until it is nearly thickened, and take it up.

INGREDIENTS
– 1 ⅓ cup (225g) Sugar
– 2 cups (225g) Pistachios or Almonds
– ⅔ cup (225g) Honey
– 1 cup (225g) Sesame Oil
– A pinch (10-15 threads) of saffron ground
– 3 Tablespoons Rosewater

METHOD
1. Grind the nuts into a powder then mix with the sugar. Add the saffron and rosewater and mix.
2. Set a large saucepan over medium heat and add the sesame oil. Once hot, lower the burner to low and stir in the honey. Allow it to heat for several minutes until a light layer of foam covers the top. Then add the nut and sugar mixture and stir in.
3. Stirring continuously, raise the heat to medium and let the candy cook until it starts to thicken; about 270°F/132°C. (Do not let it rise above 290°F/143°C or it will burn).
4. Remove the pot from the heat and, working quickly, either set dollops of the mixture onto a baking sheet lined with parchment or aluminum foil OR spread the full mixture onto the baking sheet. The latter will then be broken up like peanut brittle rather than being individual candies.
5. Allow to cool then serve. The candy will become very sticky at room temperature and will lose its sheen, so keep it in the refrigerator to minimize this.

Queen Elisabeth I, The Muslim States, Sugar for Arms and England the Supporters Of The Ottomans

“Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud was the Moorish ambassador to Elizabeth in 1600. Trade and diplomatic relations developed between England and the Barbary states during the rule of Elizabeth. England established a trading relationship with Morocco in opposition to Spain, selling armour, ammunition, timber, and metal in exchange for Moroccan sugar, in spite of a Papal ban. In 1600, Abd el-Ouahed ben Messaoud, the principal secretary to the Moroccan ruler Mulai Ahmad al-Mansur, visited England as an ambassador to the court of Queen Elizabeth I, to negotiate an Anglo-Moroccan alliance against Spain. Elizabeth “agreed to sell munitions supplies to Morocco, and she and Mulai Ahmad al-Mansur talked on and off about mounting a joint operation against the Spanish”. Discussions, however, remained inconclusive, and both rulers died within two years of the embassy”.

“Diplomatic relations were also established with the Ottoman Empire with the chartering of the Levant Company and the dispatch of the first English ambassador to the Porte, William Harborne, in 1578. For the first time, a Treaty of Commerce was signed in 1580. Numerous envoys were dispatched in both directions and epistolar exchanges occurred between Elizabeth and Sultan Murad III. In one correspondence, Murad entertained the notion that Islam and Protestantism had “much more in common than either did with Roman Catholicism, as both rejected the worship of idols”, and argued for an alliance between England and the Ottoman Empire. To the dismay of Catholic Europe, England exported tin and lead (for cannon-casting) and ammunitions to the Ottoman Empire, and Elizabeth seriously discussed joint military operations with Murad III during the outbreak of war with Spain in 1585, as Francis Walsingham was lobbying for a direct Ottoman military involvement against the common Spanish enemy”.

The History Of The Ottoman Empire – 1299 – 1922

The Ottoman Empire was the last empire in Islam the narration cannot refer to anyone else. The Ottoman Empire was founded circa 1299 by Osman I in northwestern Asia Minor, south of the Byzantine capital Constantinople. The Ottomans crossed into Europe in 1352, moving their capital to Adrianople in 1369. They expanded in Asia Minor by annexing many small Turkic beylics.

They conquered Constantinople in 1453, and then expanded deep into Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East. The Ottoman territory increased exponentially under Sultan Selim I, who assumed the Caliphate in 1517 as the Ottomans defeated the Mamluks of Egypt and annexed western Arabia, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Levant. Within the next few decades, much of the North African coast became part of the Ottoman realm. Slowly after many wars and internal problems, the Ottoman sultanate started to crumble.

The Ottomans only cared for kingship, they had no concept of prophetic Ihsan, just their delusions of it whose standards where low, which is what destroyed Islam as they became its face and reality for the Ummah. The Prophet (saws) said: The Prophet hood will remain amongst you for as long as Allah wills it to be. Then Allah will raise it when He wills to raise it (meaning the Prophet will die). Then there will be the Khalifah upon the Prophetic methodology. And it will last for as long as Allah wills it to last. Then Allah will raise it when He wills to raise it. Then there will be biting kingship, and it will remain for as long as Allah wills it to remain. Then Allah will raise it when He wills to raise it. Then there will be tyrannical (forceful) kingship (an era of dictators) and it will remain for as long as Allah wills it to remain. Then He will raise it when He wills to raise it. Then there will be a Khalifah upon the Prophetic methodology. Then he (the Prophet) was silent. (Musnad Imam Ahmad (v/273)

Corporal Hasan: The Last Ottoman Defender Of Al Aqsa

By Allah, He (q) did more than guard the Mosque, He (q) kept the reality of Islam from the time of the Prophet alive so it is passed onto us, that is his reward!!!

By Allah, I saw the Prophet Of Allah (saws) crying at the mention of His name!!!

History of Islam: The Murder Of Uthman (saws)

Uthman (q) was not as people saw Him (q), He was a highly educated man who looked at matters idealistically, in modern terms people can understand quickly He (q) was somewhat like Sheldon from the big bang theory, or a better version of Abdal Hakim Murad from Cambridge if you have heard him speak. Hence the decisions He made are seen one way by most peoples standards, but in reality by the standards of principled people like Uthman and Sheldon they follow a long list of principles they wished to uphold, had Uthman (saws) been what people said Allah would not have laid the foundations of preserving the Quran upon His (saws) shoulders, that is enough to silence everything.

Byzantine Empire Strikes Back – Battle of Nikiou

Muslim Africa The Legacy Of Amr (q)

“Amr ibn al-As al-Sahmi (Arabic: عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ‎, romanized: ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ al-Sahmī; c. 573 – 664) was the Arab commander who led the Muslim conquest of Egypt and served as its governor in 640–646 and 658–664. The son of a wealthy Qurayshite, Amr embraced Islam in c. 629 and was assigned important roles in the nascent Muslim community by the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The first caliph Abu Bakr (r. 632–634) appointed Amr as a commander of the conquest of Syria. He conquered most of Palestine, to which he was appointed governor, and led the Arabs to decisive victories over the Byzantines at the battles of Ajnadayn and Yarmouk in 634 and 636”.

“Amr launched the conquest of Egypt on his own initiative in late 639, defeating the Byzantines in a string of victories ending with the surrender of Alexandria in 641 or 642. It was the swiftest of the early Muslim conquests. This was followed by westward advances by Amr as far as Tripoli in present-day Libya. In a treaty signed with the Byzantine governor Cyrus, Amr guaranteed the security of Egypt’s population and imposed a poll tax on non-Muslim adult males. He maintained the Coptic-dominated bureaucracy and cordial ties with the Coptic patriarch Benjamin”.

“He founded Fustat as the provincial capital with the mosque later called after him at its center. Amr ruled relatively independently, acquired significant wealth, and upheld the interests of the Arab conquerors who formed Fustat’s garrison in relation to the central authorities in Medina. After gradually diluting Amr’s authority, Caliph Uthman (r. 644–656) dismissed him in 646 after accusations of incompetency from his successor Abd Allah ibn Abi Sarh”.

“After mutineers from Egypt assassinated Uthman, Amr distanced himself from their cause, despite previously instigating opposition against Uthman. In the ensuing First Muslim Civil War, Amr joined Mu’awiya ibn Abi Sufyan, against Caliph Ali (r. 656–661) due to promises of the governorship of Egypt and its taxes. Amr served as Mu’awiya’s representative in the abortive arbitration talks to end the war. Afterward, he wrested control of Egypt from Ali’s loyalists, killing its governor Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr, and assumed the governorship instead. Mu’awiya kept him in his post after establishing the Umayyad Caliphate in 661 and Amr ruled the province until his death”.

Amr (q) was the lead tactician of the Arabs, the one the Muslims feared the most before His (q) conversion to Islam, “He conquered most of Palestine, to which he was appointed governor, and led the Arabs to decisive victories over the Byzantines at the battles of Ajnadayn and Yarmouk in 634 and 636. Amr launched the conquest of Egypt on his own initiative in late 639”. Whenever it is said Islam stretched from the east to the west this is the doing of Amr (q) and His place with Allah, for 1400 years it has been the pride of Islam and Amr (q) the pride of Allah because of it, for Him is the reward of every Muslim in North Africa and Palestine. Amr (q) became a Muslim very late and sought to catch up to his companions, but the early Muslims placed a high standard upon him to which this reality had been new.

It is not obvious to history but when Amr (q) took Egypt on his own initiative the companions questioned if He was after wealth, hence mistrust was created, but Allah knows the hearts and History records Allah’s actions, Amr (q) singlehandedly defeating the massive Roman invasion of Egypt. Amr (q) conquered all of North Africa for Allah, but in doing so he placed himself in harm’s way the likes of which no would realize for another 1400 years, Amr entered the occult capital of the world, Egypt, and like the Romans, during war, they used the occult against their enemies. This is the darkness we saw finally envelope Amr late in his life and its source for which Allah forgave him in front of the companions and the Prophet Muhammad (saws), justice is on the scales and Amr (q) has the deeds to pay for what overtook Him (q).

Early Muslim Expansion – Khalid (saws), Yarmouk, al-Qadisiyyah

Anyone who knows history will be upset with this video, at the end it is a summary worth watching:

“The first wars against the Eastern Roman and Sassanid Empires, this video largely focuses on Khalid ibn al-Walid and his campaigns in Syria and Iraq, and the battles of the Chain, River, Wallaja, Ullais, Muzayyah, Firaz, Ajnadayn, Damascus, Maraj-al-Debaj, Pella, Emesa, Yarmouk, of the Bridges and al-Qadisiyyah”.

Every excuse against the Muslims reality is used despite the Muslim reality persisting well into the 17th century, it is a bitter video by a bitter people.