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Bintul-Khattaab
04/17/02 at 10:06:23
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Qadi abu Sa'ad al-Harawi was a judge who held court in Damascus at the time
when the Crusaders occupied Palestine (as the Jews today occupy those
lands). The Crusaders, just like the Israelis today, immediately set about
terrorising the Muslims. The Muslims' homes were stolen, their blood
drenched, the land and their women were dishonored.

Qadi Abu Sa'ad did not suggest to the Muslim leaders that they sign for
peace with the Crusaders, Instead, he immediately sped to Baghdad, to the
court of the then Khalifah, al-Mastazhir Billah, who was busy tending his
flowers. He addressed the leader of the Musllims thus:

"How dare you slumber in the shade of complacent safety leading lives as
frivolous as garden flowers, while your brothers in Syria (of which
Palestine was a part) have no dwelling place save the bellies of vultures?
Blood has been spilled! Beautiful young girls have been shamed, and must
now hide their sweet faces in their hands! Shall the valorous Arabs resign
themselves to insults, and the valiant Persians accept dishonour?"

The eloquence of the Qadi's discourse and the devastation of this
shattering news led the Khalifah and his courtiers to weep. Qadi abu
Sa'ad's reply was a message of anger which can just as easily be directed
to those who today just shed tears or make fanciful rhetoric about the
situation of Muslims in Palestine, or are merely satisfied with giving a
few pence to a Palestinian charity:

"Mans' meanest weapon is to shed tears when rapiers stir the coals of
war... never have Muslims been so humiliated, never have their lands been
so savagely devastated."

Muslim armies number hundreds of thousands, our arsenals are full of modern
weaponry... as ever it is our leaders who are cowards. They are the ones
who ask for summits in response to mass killing. Qadi Abu Sa'ad's plea went
almost unheard, until Salahideen unified the Muslims and fought the
Crusaders one hundred years later.

Enough said....

[wlm]


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