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مشاهدة النسخة كاملة : Leaders surrender to Hulagu


aammar
17-02-2013, 08:09 AM
The brave leaders came to renew the treaties with Hulagu, the friend:
Emir Badr Ad-Deen Lu’lu’ of Mawsil;
Both Kaykaus II and Kilij Arslan IV, the emirs of Anatolia, middle and west of Turkey;
Emir Al-Ashraf Al-Ayyoobi, of Homs;
And Emir An-Naasir Yoosuf, the grandson of Saladin, of Damascus and Aleppo.
Those emirs ruled most parts of northern Iraq, Shaam and Turkey. The problems of Hulagu were solved; the Muslim territories opened their gates to him without fighting.

However, one of the Ayyubid emirs refused to submit to Hulagu, or conclude a peace treaty with the Tatars, and instead decided to strive against the Tatars to the end. This Muslim emir who safeguarded his valor, dignity and faith was Al-Kaamil Muhammad Al-Ayyoobi, May Allaah Have mercy upon him, of Mayyafariqin, east of Turkey, to the west of Wan Lake. The armies of Al-Kaamil Muhammad, May Allaah Have mercy upon him, controlled the east of Turkey, Al-Jazeerah, and the area between the Tigris and Euphrates, to the north. This means that he took control of the north-west of Iraq, and the north-east of Syria. For this reason, it was necessary to subdue the emirate of Mayyafariqin by force.

Hulagu dispatched a huge army led by his son Ashmut to besiege Mayyafaraqin, and it came under tightened blockade. But Al-Kaamil and his people stood as Mujaahids, and were steadfast in their resistance. Although Al-Kaamil, May Allaah Have mercy upon him, sent to the Muslim emirs and governors seeking relief, no one among them responded to him. Moreover, some of them took part with Hulagu in fight against him.

The city remained for 18 months in struggle and Jihaad, after which it fell; and Ashmut, the slayer, killed all its inhabitants, burnt all its houses, and destroyed the entire city. But he kept alive Emir Al-Kaamil Muhammad, May Allaah Have mercy upon him, to intensify his torment, and brought him to his father Hulagu while he was besieging Aleppo.

Hulagu gathered his entire evil in revenge of the Ayyubid Emir, the hero Al-Kaamil Muhammad, May Allaah Have mercy upon him. He caught hold of him, tied him and went on cutting his limbs one by one while he was alive, and forced him to eat of his own flesh! He continued to torment him in this horrific way until his striving soul was permitted to rise to its Creator The Almighty.
A short time later, Aleppo fell, after a promise of false security granted by Hulagu to its inhabitants who, in turn, opened the gates. But he soon exterminated them all.

By the time Hulagu was getting ready to move towards Hama, a delegate of its eminent and notable men came to him and delivered to him the keys of the city without fighting, out of their own accord, and not at the request of Hulagu. Hulagu then accepted the keys and granted them security. But at this time, it was indeed real security, in order to encourage others to do the same.

Then, it was the turn of Damascus, which was governed by An-Naasir Yoosuf, the traitor, who declared Jihaad against the Tatars just when Hulagu requested him to surrender unconditionally. But, fearing for his own life, he declared Jihaad, although it was a false call from a man who was accustomed to betrayal rather than to carrying the sword. However, this false call ended with his flight once the army of Hulagu arrived, and the inhabitants of Damascus were put to great confusion as what to do.

The eminent and notable men of Damascus met and unanimously decided to do the same as those of Hama, i.e. to hand over the keys of the city to Hulagu, in return for security. No one disagreed with this opinion but a few of the Mujaahids who decided to hold fast to the castle of Damascus and defend the city to the end.
Hulagu was right in his assumption when he granted real security to those in Hama, which led the inhabitants of other large cities to do the same.
A delegate of the eminent people of Damascus went out to receive the army of Hulagu and hand over the keys of the city to him.

At that time, an incident took place which Hulagu did not expect, that is, the death of Mongke Khan. Once he received the news of the death of Mongke Khan before he arrived to Damascus, Hulagu decided to leave his army and return hastily to Karakorum, the Mongolian capital to take part in choosing the successor of Mongke Khan. He appointed in command Kitbuqa, his greatest Mongolian leader, who was one of the Christian Tatars.

On his way, and by the time he arrived in the region of Persia, Hulagu received the couriers coming from Karakorum telling him that his brother Kublai Khan was chosen as the new Tatarian Khagan. Although the dream of Hulagu was knocked down, as the choice was opposed to his expectations, as well as to the principles of rule stipulated by Genghis Khan, he accepted it quietly, and preferred to remain in the Middle East, given that he had seen its huge resources. But he did not return to Shaam once again. He went to Tabriz (presently in Iran) and made it the main centre of administering all those vast possessions.

In addition to its being impregnable and its moderate atmosphere, it was in the middle of all the large territories under Hulagu's sovereignty. His sovereignty extended from the territories of Khuwarizm including Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan, passing through the regions of Persia and Azerbaijan, ending with Iraq, Turkey and Shaam.

Kitbuqa decided to occupy Palestine. He sent a military detachment and occupied Nablus and then Gaza. But the Tatarian armies avoided the European Crusader emirates widespread in Palestine, just as they avoided the Crusader emirates in Syria and Lebanon. In this way, Palestine was divided between the Tatars and the Crusaders.
By the occupation of Palestine, the Tatars overthrew Iraq entirely, great parts of Turkey, the whole territory of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, within only two years.

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