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Mahatma Gandhi was immensely impressed with Hazrat Umar who was a great companion of Prophet Muhammad and after Hazrat Abu Bakr he became the second Khalifa (Caliph) of Islam. Mahatma Gandhi says about the justice and generosity of Caliph Umar1: “As I pictured him (Umar) before my mental eye walking to Jerusalem upbraiding some of …
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Edward Gibbon is regarded as the greatest historian of the Enlightenment period and is often also regarded s the “first” modern historian. Edward Gibbon in his immortal work “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” (1890 ed., Vol. V., p. 400) heaps praise on Hazrat Umar bin Khttaab, the second Caliph of Islam. He talks …
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During the rule of Khalifa Hazrat Umar (Caliph) a trade caravan arrived in Madina, and they set up camp at the place where the Muslims performed the Eid salaah. Caliph Umar asked Hazrat Abdur Rahmaan bin Auf whether he was prepared to accompany him to guard the camp against theft that night. Hazrat Abdur Rahmaan …
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Sultan Alauddin Khilji, one of the greatest Muslim rulers of India, was a great admirer of Sufi Saint, Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia. On several occasions, he sought the Saint’s blessings for his difficult military campaigns in Southern India and every time his armies came out with flying colours. On the conquest of Warangal,the Sultan sent a …
The Indo-Pakistan sub-continent ruled for about a thousand years by the Muslims has witnessed many vicissitudes. Great empires have risen and fallen, pompous emperors and mighty conquerors have appeared on the Indian soil and have gone. Their mortal remains enshrined in magnificent tombs scattered all over the sub-continent have become relics of the past. The …
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The Mughals, led by Prince Aurangzeb were engaged in a fierce battle against the tough Uzbek horsemen, led by Abdul Aziz. The battle which was fought near Balkh in 1647 raged all day long and the Mughals made repeated charges which were successfully repelled by the gallant Uzbeks. Aurangzeb who was leading the attack suddenly …
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On his arrival in Shiraz the great Tamerlane, who had conquered a substantial part of the known world, sent for Hafiz Shirazi, and enquired from him: “Have you composed this couplet?” “If my beloved could conquer my heart I would bestow Samarkand and Bukhara for her mole”. “Yes,” replied Hafiz. “Do you know that I …
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The main thoroughfare of Tabriz was thronged with her populace. The inhabitants of the metropolis of Mongol conqueror Hulaku Khan had come out of their homes and lined both sides of the main road to witness the imperial procession which was passing along it. The procession was attended by all the Ministers, Courtiers and high …
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Muslim Spain has produced some of the greatest intellectual giants and scientists of the medieval times, including Ibn-Rushd (Averroes), Ibn Khaldun, Ibn-Zuhr, Ibn-Baitar, Ibn-Khatib, Dinawari and Abul Qasim Al-Zahrawi, whose works, when translated into European languages, brought about the Western Renaissance as well as provided the firm ground on which the imposing edifice of European …
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Observation and experiment are the two sources for acquiring scientific knowledge. Aristotle, the father of Greek sciences, made imperishable contributions to physics, astronomy, biology, meteorology and other sciences. It may be noted that The Greek method of obtaining scientific knowledge was mainly speculative hence science as such could make little headway in Greece. Muslims Gave …