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Short stories are a lot of fun to read, because they are short, they focus on important events and you can read them and read more of them in one sitting.
The short story focuses on a single event or perhaps a series of closely related incidents; and although they are short stories, they carry great meanings that we must benefit from.
The first story:
One of the most beautiful short stories that illustrates the damned role played by those known at the time as the storytellers in the catastrophe of the Muslims…
In one of the eras of Islamic history, a group of narrators of news emerged, and this group was completely different from the historians. This newly created group was known as the storytellers, and they established their own school known as the Israelite stories.
At first, the most famous pioneers of the Israelite school were “Ka’b al-Ahbar”, “Wahb ibn Munabbih” and “Ubaid ibn Sharik”. The pioneers of the school aimed to convey news of previous peoples and to convey their stories for the sake of admonition or for enjoyment and perhaps for entertainment. However, those who came after them desired fame and to attract people’s attention and interest, so they began to convey everything that was strange, even if it was false. Their main goal became excitement and suspense, and they did not hesitate to lie. In fact, they themselves were the people who lied the most.
Al-Suyuti mentioned in his book (Warning the Elite from the Lies of the Discarded) that he said: “Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, may God have mercy on him, said that the most lying people are storytellers and questioners.”
The evils of the storytellers were many. They accustomed the common people to lying, to not verifying things, to exaggerating in speech, and to false fantasies that had no basis. They played an extremely dangerous role throughout Islamic history, especially during periods of its weakness and frailty. They had a major role in many of the calamities of the Islamic nation. We will take an example of what the storytellers did before the Mongols came to Baghdad in the year 656 AH.
They spread among the people and began to tell them about the Mongols, and they greatly exaggerated in describing them and their strength, which had never been seen before. They used to tell people that the Mongols eat human flesh and drink their blood after tearing their bodies apart. They did not stop at describing the Mongols in this way, but they also described the beasts they ride as leaving nothing green or dry, digging the ground beneath them with their hooves, and because of their strength and size, the ground shakes beneath their feet. All of these exaggerations had a great effect on the people’s souls, spreading terror in their hearts and weakening their souls, so they surrendered completely to the Tatars and the Mongols to the point that they surrendered their necks to the swords of their enemies without brandishing even one sword in their faces!
As for the state of our Islamic nation today, it is not much different from yesterday. What the storytellers did to the Islamic nation is being done now by many who claim to be in the ranks of the nation and the ranks of truth. We do not find them doing anything for the nation except spreading lies among the people and transmitting news without verification. Rather, you find them deliberately exaggerating and exaggerating and spreading a spirit of division, despair and weakness among the ranks of the Islamic nation.
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The second story:
One of the most beautiful short stories ever, a story that reveals a very small part of our hidden history…
The story of (Ikhwan Ghazi) when Muslims replaced dozens of Crusader knights with the shoes of a Muslim woman!
(The Ghazi Brothers) were an armed Islamic group that existed during the Seljuk era. They were independent in terms of the group’s funding and decision-making. What was known about the group was that it included the best Muslim knights, and they lived on the borders of the Byzantine state. As for their main goal, it was to raid the borders of the Byzantine state and its emirates in revenge for the Byzantines and the heinous and ugly acts they committed against the weak of the Islamic nation. They would take revenge for those who were killed by the Byzantines unjustly and unfairly, and for those who were wronged as well.
This group would seize money, gold and prisoners, and then return to the village that the infidels had raided and return to its people the spoils they had seized, which were essentially their usurped rights. With their brave actions, their power grew and everyone began to fear them.
Any negotiations between the Seljuks and the Byzantines had to include the name of this group, and it became a fundamental party in any discussion. Their presence and influence on everyone around them made them a winning card of power and a pressure card for the Muslim negotiator. In every agreement, they had conditions, and the strange thing is that among these conditions they had some rare ones, including:
In one of the negotiations, this group forced the Prince of Antioch to apologize to the donkey of a poor Muslim, because the Prince's son had unjustly beaten the porter!
One of their anecdotes is that during one of the negotiations with the Byzantine Empire, there was an exchange of prisoners, and among these prisoners was a Muslim woman. While the Byzantine soldiers were bringing the prisoners to hand them over to the Ikhwan of Ghazi, one of the soldiers insulted this woman. Silence prevailed among the Ikhwan of Ghazi for a few days, and then they raided them and captured a group of their best knights!
Among the prisoners were great leaders, nobles and wealthy people from the elite. The leader of the Ikhwan Ghazi group sent them the shoe of the Muslim woman who was in their captivity and who had been insulted by the soldier. Then he stipulated that they hand over the woman’s shoe in exchange for their knights and the elite of their people, and that this shoe be carried on the chariot of their queen in a procession of knights from the governor’s palace himself. The Byzantine negotiator rejected the Ikhwan Ghazi group’s request, but immediately and at that moment he agreed to their condition under pressure from the captivity of the knights and nobles.
The Mujahideen of the Ghazi Brotherhood were masked, no one could see them or know their features, and they did not wear a uniform that they could identify themselves with, and most of their clothing was made of wool. They rejected fame and hated the councils of kings and princes and did not attend their meetings, and the only condition for joining the group was to memorize the Holy Quran, and then undergo tests of chivalry, fighting, and of course tests of loyalty.
They were true Muslims who hurt the oppressors, were revived, and departed without anyone knowing them! It is truly unfortunate that they were only mentioned very briefly in Islamic references. Do they remind you of people among us now?!
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